cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Digitalization in the Service of Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Metropolitan Library of Zagreb’s Archbishopric, Croatia
Creators: name: Domazet, Emilia
name: Vržina, Goran
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: Metropolitan Library of Zagreb’s Archbishopric is a jewel among Croatian libraries with its valuables. The Library presents a treasure of the written word and is highly cherished in our cultural and national history. Development and prevalence of ICT in all segments of everyday life resulted in progress of social sciences and production of new knowledge platforms. The digitalization enables access, preservation and possibility of multiple uses of materials by libraries, archives and museums. In the Library there are many manuscripts (codices), incunabula, books printed from 16th to 20th century and occasional publications. Valvasor’s graphic collection is a part of a corpus that provides insight into graphic production from late 15th until 17th century. Digitalization of the collection improves permanent protection and online availability of digital content. The aim of this paper is to introduce this valuable Metropolitan Library collection to the entire professional community by applying new technologies. This paper will highlight the cooperation between institutions and experts of different profiles, depending on the type of material that is situated in the Library itself. Its unique goal is the preservation of cultural heritage which represents national identity. Certain number of units has been digitized with the non-invasive Low Light digitization, which will also be presented in this paper. Using the non-invasive Low Light digitalization, the criterion how to carry out any digitalization has been elevated to higher standards, and it simplified the creation of quality documentation consistent with library, archival and especially museum informational standards. This system was created with an idea that it should uncompromisingly preserve historical original from any physical and chemical degradation. That makes the system extremely suitable for any type of digitalization, especially digitalization of originals before restoration. Using this system, it is possible to preserve important yet interesting “part” of the original before restoration
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Slag Activated with Sodium Silicate
Creators: name: Caron, Richard
name: Dehn, Frank
Publisher: name: ISEC Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: Activation
Kinetics
Compressive strength
Structural applications

description: The study focuses on developing a detailed understanding of microstructure and mechanical behaviour of alkali-activated slag with sodium silicate. The slag used in this study was provided by Ecocem (Netherlands) and consists of 38.8 % CaO, 36.3 % SiO$_2$, 12.8 % Al$_2$O$_3$ and 8.0 % MgO. It was activated with two sodium silicate solutions. The two mixes were studied on a paste level. They have the same water/slag ratio w/s = 0.4 kg/kg and the same sodium content n = 5.0 g Na$_2$O / 100 g slag. Two silicate ratios were investigated: Ms = 0.5 and Ms = 2.2 moles of SiO$_2$ / moles of Na$_2$O. Early-age mechanisms and reaction products of the activation of the slag were analysed with isothermal calorimetry, SEM images and chemical characterization. In addition, compressive and flexural strength were determined. Despite different reaction steps in comparison to ordinary Portland cement, the obtained mechanical properties seem to be sufficient for structural application.
(2212) John Cliffe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Turn up the volume: Listening to phase transitions in hot dark sectors
Creators: name: Ertas, Fatih
name: Kahlhoefer, Felix
name: Tasillo, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stochastic gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from first-order phase transitions are an exciting target for future GW observatories and may enable us to study dark sectors with very weak couplings to the Standard Model. In this work we show that such signals may be significantly enhanced for hot dark sectors with a temperature larger than the one of the SM thermal bath. The need to transfer the entropy from the dark sector to the SM after the phase transition can however lead to a substantial dilution of the GW signal. We study this dilution in detail, including the effect of number-changing processes in the dark sector (so-called cannibalism), and show that in large regions of parameter space a net enhancement remains. We apply our findings to a specific example of a dark sector containing a dark Higgs boson and a dark photon and find excellent detection prospects for LISA and the Einstein telescope.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures + appendices. Comments welcome. v2: Updated eq. (2.16), added TransitionListener URL, minor corrections to text and figures after publication in JCAP
Explicit Estimate on Primes Between Consecutive Cubes
Creators: name: Cheng, Yuan You F.U.Rui
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We give an explicit form of Ingham's Theorem on primes in the short intervals, and show that there is at least one prime between every two consecutive cubes $x\sp{3}$ and $(x+1)\sp{3}$ if $\log\log x\ge 15$.
Corporate Email Management Policy: How to Improve Digital Communication
Creators: name: Castro, Joaquim
name: Terra, Ana Lúcia
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this paper is to explain the specifics of email as corporate mail and to underline some of the main transformations that it has allowed to organizational communication and the challenges to information management in professional contexts. The need to create an email management policy defining usage rules, in order to overcome some administrative, ethical, legal and economic problems or the loss of organizational memory will be emphasized. A set of documents produced by five archival national agencies, from Brazil, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, and USA, will be analysed in order to define the main topics that should be considered in any corporate email management policy. The five documents will be presented comparatively using an analysis grid. As an output of the content analysis from these national documents on email management policies, a set of recommendations about the main topics to be included in a corporate email management policy will be presented.
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
Onstein_et_al_methods_tables_figures_ESM_R2 from To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change.
Creators: name: Onstein, Renske E.
name: Baker, William J.
name: Couvreur, Thomas L. P.
name: Faurby, Søren
name: Herrera-Alsina, Leonel
name: Jens-Christian Svenning
name: W. Daniel Kissling
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supplementary methods, tables and figures
(2213) Harriet Chapman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bulgarian Projects in the Field of the Digital Transformation of Education and Their Role in Building Digital Literacy in the Children in Primary School
Creators: name: Parijkova, Lubomira
name: Simeonov, Kristiyan
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: In the recent decades the digital transformation has been radically changing every aspect of our social life on both global and national level. Following the development of the new ICT technologies, there has been a growing need for rapid adaptation to the new professional, educational and recreational possibilities. In 2020 was developed a strategic document outlining the national guidelines for the digital transformation of Bulgaria for the 2020-2030 period. It contains the essential principles of digital transformation and aims to facilitate the development of innovative models in a number of areas, such as scientific research, digital education etc. The contemporary education requires the development and implementation of flexible platforms and appropriate electronic content suitable for all age groups. This calls for modern ICT equipment and software as well as trained educators that can provide appropriate digital education and relevant learning content. The article examines the Bulgarian projects for digital transformation in education and their key role in ensuring the learning process (improving the learning conditions) for primary school children in the current situation of a global pandemic as well as their prospects in the context of the evolving modern information environment. The good practices and projects in Bulgarian education and the challenges they are facing in the implementation of a successful digital transformation are described.
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
ReadMe from To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change
Creators: name: Onstein, Renske E.
name: Baker, William J.
name: Couvreur, Thomas L. P.
name: Faurby, Søren
name: Herrera-Alsina, Leonel
name: Jens-Christian Svenning
name: W. Daniel Kissling
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Program and R scripts to perform simulations in R
(2210) Lucy G Stanley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Academic Libraries in The Digital Transformation: The Case of the Library of the Faculty of Economics of Porto
Creators: name: Ferreira, Mariana
name: Preto, Paulina
name: Braga, Inês
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: different means, for the training of students. This work aims to show how a university library - that of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP) - meets the needs of students, namely in terms of information literacy (IL) and digital literacy (DL), using for this the new technologies which enable the referred digital transformation and new ways of teaching and learning. Due to the current importance of the librarian's role as a trainer, the authors - the trainee of the degree in Documentation and Information Sciences and Technologies (LCTDI) of the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP), the FEP librarian and the internship advisor - designed a set of training sessions for IL within the scope of the curricular internship of said course in the academic year 2019-20. This project had as main objectives: (1) to provide distance learning; (2) to reduce the on-site training provided by the library; (3) to allow any member of the FEP community to have access to information that is relevant to them, whenever and wherever they want; (4) to offer training to the entire educational community, including Erasmus students, with the production of materials in Portuguese and English. The methodology adopted consisted of a review of the literature on the subject and a practical part carried out in the library involving the production of videos based on the observation of training sessions. From a theoretical point of view, the themes of IL and DL in AL are addressed, the role of the librarian in the development of such skills in students, the exploration of new digital tools used for training, more specifically, the production of tutorial videos, as well as distance learning. In the practical component of this project, eight video tutorials were produced on the search and location of information using the online catalog, the subject of one of the training activities given by the FEP library, and which addresses the most basic resources of the library, which is an essential resource for students. In conclusion, the creation of support materials that will soon be made available on the institution's website will surely contribute to the development of IL skills of a greater number of students. In addition, the new format of these contents will serve as a complement and / or substitute for face-to- face training sessions, responding to a problem detected by the institution itself - that the training for IL is not sufficient nor the most diversified among the academic community. Finally, the sharing and availability of information designed with a specific target audience in mind and disseminated through the right communication channels, is crucial for a profitable use, leading to the consequent satisfaction of users.
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
A Look at Digital Transformation: Can Society Be Persuaded To a New Authentication Method – Behavioral Biometrics?
Creators: name: Krzysztoń, Emanuel
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: The 21st century brings many technological novelties and modifications to existing solutions. The digital transformation that we undergo in every aspect of life often affects us against our will, with varying results. Thousands of years ago, when a human rubbed two stones together, he caused a spark that started a chemical phenomenon, but above all - a revolution. Today, lighting a bonfire does not arouse great emotions, we are faced with many other technological novelties aimed at making our lives easier. In the past, when human didn’t need the fire, he had a choice. The present shows that we are becoming strongly dependent on technology and our choice becomes very limited or impossible. As a result, we agree to the terms offered. It is worth to investigate whether we take a bold decision overnight? What guides us in making such key decisions in our lives? The main goal of this paper is to take a look at safeguards used to protect our goods, in information technology. Until now, the security measures used to authenticate the user were in the form of i.a. login and passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), universal 2nd Factor (U2F), biometrics. Each of these solutions has its advantages and disadvantages. It would seem that these are the best solutions, and using them together would provide a multi-layer security. However, does it not become a significant obstacle in everyday use? Then behavioral biometrics comes to the rescue, which aims to learn our behaviour using machine learning and to clearly confirm in real time whether the person using the service or device is the owner. Using this method, many doubts and concerns arise about the technology itself. Based on the available research, literature and other sources, I will look for answers to the question „Can the public be persuaded to use this method of authentication?”. Justifying the reply, I will analyse the available tools and refer to the document of General Data Protection Regulation.
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
Perceptions of door-to-door HIV counselling and testing in Botswana
Creators: name: Beyleveld, Vanessa
name: Roels, Thierry H.
name: Kilmarx, Peter H.
name: Chilume, Kentsenao Busang
name: Kroeger, Karen
name: Fleming, Douglas T.
name: Alwano, Mary Grace
name: Smith, Dawn K.
name: Taylor, Allan
name: Kejelepula, Mabel Tebogo
name: Marlow, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Prevalence of HIV infection in Botswana is among the highest in the world, at 23.9% of 15 - 49-year-olds. Most HIV testing is conducted in voluntary counselling and testing centres or medical settings. Improved access to testing is urgently needed. This qualitative study assessed and documented community perceptions about the concept of door-to-door HIV counselling and rapid testing in two of the highest-prevalence districts of Botswana.   Community members associated many positive benefits with home-based, door-to-door HIV testing, including convenience, confidentiality, capacity to increase the number of people tested, and opportunities to increase knowledge of HIV transmission, prevention and care through provision of correct information to households. Community members also saw the intervention as increasing opportunities to engage and influence family members and to role model positive behaviours. Participants also perceived social risks and dangers associated with home-based testing including the potential for conflict, coercion, stigma, and psychological distress within households. Community members emphasised the need for individual and community preparation, including procedures to protect confidentiality, provisions for psychological and social support, and links to appropriate services for HIV-positive persons.
A General Assessment Upon Postgraduate and Phd Theses Prepared Related to Digital Transformation in Turkey
Creators: name: Altay, Bartin
name: Zan, Burcu Umut
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, mainly in information and communication technologies, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, internet of things, big data, advanced robotics, etc. developments in technologies have revealed the concept of digital transformation. In other words, digital transformation is a transformation process that occurs when the internet, communication, informatics, sensor, automation, artificial intelligence - machine learning and robotic technologies significantly affect and change all social structures and systems. It is observed that this process deeply affects all social, cultural and economic institutions and structures in the world. In short, an intense digital transformation is taking place in every field where people and society take part. It is not possible for the scientific world to remain irrelevant to the issue of digital transformation, which has such a great impact. Indeed, when the literature related to digital conversion is assessed, it is seen that there were many academic works published in as papers, articles, books, projects, thesis and etc. in different branches of science both in the World and in Turkey. In these studies, it is seen that each discipline examines "digital transformation" from its own perspective. In this research graduate theses, which were prepared between the years 2013-2020, digital transformation was examined. Purposeful sampling method was used in this study, which was conducted in the documentary scanning model. The sample of the study consists of 43 theses archived by the Higher Education Council's Publication Documentation Department. "Thesis Evaluation Form" was prepared by the researchers to analyse thesis. 43 theses within the scope of the research are classified according to their types, subjects; distribution according to publishing years; distribution according to affiliated institutes and branches of science; distribution according to research methods used; distribution according to measurement tools and distribution according to sample groups were collected with using evaluation form. The findings obtained in the research were interpreted based on percentage and frequency values which were shown on tables and graphs. According to the results of the research, it has been determined that there has been a huge increase in the number of theses prepared on digital transformation since 2018, that there are more master’s degree theses than doctoral theses on this subject, and that quantitative research methods are used the most in theses and scales are used as measurement tools. In addition, it has been determined that the areas that mainly focus on public institutions, businesses and universities are discussed in the theses.
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
Supplementary Information from Parsimony, not Bayesian analysis, recovers more stratigraphically congruent phylogenetic trees.
Creators: name: Sansom, Robert S.
name: Choate, Peter G.
name: Keating, Joseph N.
name: Randle, Emma
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supplementary Methods and Figures
Additional file 1 of Levothyroxine dosages during pregnancy among hypothyroid women. An experience from a tertiary care center of Karachi, Pakistan, based on data from Maternal Hypothyroidism on Pregnancy Outcomes Study (MHPO-5)
Creators: name: Kiran, Zareen
name: Khalid, Wardah
name: Sheikh, Aisha
name: Islam, Najmul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure. S1 Schematic diagram of final number of hypothyroid pregnant women selected as study participants
(2207) Harriet Shaw
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Preface
Creators: name: Terra, Ana Lúcia
name: Carvalho, Milena
name: Todorova, Tania
name: Rodríguez López, María Carmen
Publisher: name: Bobcatsss
Year: 2023

description: This Conference Proceedings provides an overview of all selected papers, that were presented at BOBCATSSS 2021 Virtual Conference, 21st-22nd January 2021, on the main theme "Digital Transformation" (https://bobcatsss2021.sciencesconf.org/). The conference was jointly organized by the Porto Accounting and Business School - Porto Polytechnic (ISCAP), Portugal, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT), Sofia, Bulgaria and University of Leon, Spain. BOBCATSSS is an international annual symposium which addresses hot topics for librarians and information professionals in a fast-changing environment. It is created by and for students, teachers, researchers and professionals in the information field. BOBCATSSS is held under the auspices of BOBCATSSS Association (https://bobcatsss.info/, former EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). It is a tradition which has been passed on from one European country to another since 1993, providing a rich professional conference, accompanied by numerous opportunities for networking, personal exchanges, discussions, and learning. The 29th conference of BOBCATSSS was a virtual edition, due to the COVID-19 worldwide crisis. “DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION” was chosen as the theme for BOBCATSSS 2021. Information and communication technologies have a great impact on society, namely concerning the immediacy of access to information, the constant increase in the available information volume, the automation of services, the dematerialization of processes, the change in supports and formats, the attention to the client and changes in the behaviour of individuals. These impacts are also felt in the way people interact with information, in professional, academic, personal and playful terms. [...]
description: Bobcatsss, Bobcatsss 2021: Digital Transformation
Onstein_et_al_methods_tables_figures_ESM_R2 from To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change
Creators: name: Onstein, Renske E.
name: Baker, William J.
name: Couvreur, Thomas L. P.
name: Faurby, Søren
name: Herrera-Alsina, Leonel
name: Jens-Christian Svenning
name: W. Daniel Kissling
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supplementary methods, tables and figures
Reconciling animal and human data in a cancer risk assessment of acrylonitrile
Creators: name: Hertz-Picciotto, I.
name: Todd, L.
name: Ball, L. M.
name: Schulz, M. R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: OBJECTIVES: Bioassays of rats exposed to acrylonitrile have consistently detected an elevated incidence of central nervous system (CNS) cancer. In contrast, epidemiologic studies have not found a statistically stable increase in CNS cancer mortality. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not CNS cancers predicted from the most appropriate inhalation bioassay in rats are consistent with CNS cancers observed in 3 recent, large epidemiologic studies.

METHODS: A linearized multistage model was fit to dose-response data from a rat inhalation bioassay to estimate carcinogenic potency. This potency was applied to epidemiologic studies of acrylonitrile-exposed workers. After adjustment for less than complete lifetime follow-up in the epidemiologic studies, consistency was examined between CNS cancers predicted by the model fit to the animal data for the exposure levels and sample sizes of the epidemiologicy studies and the CNS cancers observed in the epidemiologic studies.

RESULTS: The model predicted totals of 17.7, 3.6, and 7.6 CNS cancer deaths for the studies. These predictions were not far from the observed CNS cancer deaths (12, 6, and 6) and were well within their 95% confidence intervals of 6.9-22.3, 2.2-13.1, and 2.2-13.1, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: The CNS cancer potency estimated from the best available inhalation bioassay was consistent with the observed deaths in the epidemiologic studies as long as continuous lifetime exposure was chosen as the exposure metric. The lack of observed excess in CNS cancer among the studied workers may have been due to low exposures, insufficient follow-up times, or both.
(2208) Emma Maria Shaw
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Metabolic alteration in tumorigenesis
Creators: name: Yang, Hui
name: Xiong, Yue
name: Guan, Kun Liang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Altered metabolism in cancer was first discovered by Otto Warburg early last century. Although the Warburg Effect has been widely used in tumor detection, relatively little progress had been made in mechanistic understanding of cancer metabolism in the subsequent eight decades. Genetic studies have recently identified mutations in human cancer targeting multiple enzymes involved in intermediate metabolism. One emerging mechanism common to these mutant enzymes is the accumulation of a metabolite that alters the epigenetic control.
Elliptic curves with torsion group $\Z /6\Z $
Creators: name: Dujella, A.
name: Peral, J. C.
name: Tadić, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We exhibit several families of elliptic curves with torsion group isomorphic to $ \Z/6\Z$ and generic rank at least $3$. Families of this kind have been constructed previously by several authors: Lecacheux, Kihara, Eroshkin and Woo. We mention the details of some of them and we add other examples developed more recently by Dujella and Peral, and MacLeod. Then we apply an algorithm of Gusić and Tadić and we find the exact rank over $\Q(t)$ to be 3 and we also determine free generators of the Mordell-Weil group for each family. By suitable specializations, we obtain the known and new examples of curves over $\Q$ with torsion $ \Z/6\Z$ and rank $8$, which is the current record.
Single universal curve for Alpha decay derived from semi-microscopic calculations
Creators: name: Ismail, M.
name: Seif, W. M.
name: Ellithi, A. Y.
name: Abdurrahman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The universal curve is one of the simple ways to get preliminary information about the Alpha-decay half-life times of heavy nuclei. We try to find parameterization for the universal curve of Alpha decay based on semi-microscopic calculations, starting from the realistic M3Y-Reid nucleon-nucleon interaction. Within the deformed density-dependent cluster model, the penetration probability and the assault frequency are calculated using the WKB penetration probability. The deformations of daughter nuclei and the ground-state spin and parity of the involved nuclei are considered. We found that it is accurate enough to express the assault frequency, for all studied decays, either as a function of the mass number of the parent nuclei or as a constant average value. The average preformation probability of the Alpha cluster inside four groups of 166 even(Z)-even(N), 117 odd-even, 141 even-odd, and 72 odd-odd Alpha-emitters are obtained, individually. The effect of participating unpaired nucleons in the involved nuclei, as well as the influence of any differences in their ground-state spin and/or parity, appears in the obtained average values of the preformation probability. Based on the calculated WKB penetration probability, we suggested a single universal curve for Alpha decay, with only one parameter. This parameter varies according to the classified four groups. It includes the preformation probability and the average assault frequency, in addition to the pairing contribution.
description: 14 pages, 5 Figures, Accepted to be published in Phys. Rev. C
Autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood: Long-term outcomes and relevant issues for treatment and research
Creators: name: Mesibov, Gary B.
name: Ratto, Allison B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The advances in research and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) over the past three decades have focused largely on early childhood and school-age years. Although ASD is a lifelong condition, there has been relatively little attention paid to ASD during the adolescent and adulthood periods. As the population of those with ASD continues to rise and age, the need to provide research and treatment for this group has become increasingly evident. This paper reviews the current literature available on symptoms, functioning, and treatment of adolescents and adults with ASD, as well as the unique issues that arise for individuals with ASD after childhood. Adulthood outcomes for ASD are generally poor, even for those with average to above average cognitive ability. Further research and additional clinical resources are needed for this rapidly increasing group.
Semiclassical equations of motion for disordered conductors: extrinsic interband velocity, corrected collision integral and spin-orbit torques
Creators: name: Atencia, Rhonald Burgos
name: Niu, Qian
name: Culcer, Dimitrie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semiclassical equations of motion are widely used to describe carrier transport in conducting materials. Nevertheless, the substantial challenge of incorporating disorder systematically into the semiclassical model persists, leading to quantitative inaccuracies and occasionally erroneous predictions for the expectation values of physical observables. In the present work we provide a general prescription for reformulating the semiclassical equations of motion for carriers in disordered conductors by taking the quantum mechanical density matrix as the starting point. We focus on external electric fields, without magnetic fields, and spin-independent disorder. The density matrix approach allows averaging over impurity configurations, and the trace of the velocity operator with the disorder-averaged density matrix can be reinterpreted as the semiclassical velocity weighted by the Boltzmann distribution function. Through this rationale the well-known intrinsic group and anomalous velocities are trivially recovered, while we demonstrate the existence of an extrinsic interband velocity, namely a disorder correction to the semiclassical velocity of Bloch electrons, mediated by the interband matrix elements of the Berry connection. A similar correction is present in the non-equilibrium expectation value of the spin operator, contributing to spin-orbit torques. To obtain agreement with diagrammatic approaches the scattering term in the Boltzmann equation is corrected to first order in the electric field, and the Boltzmann equation is solved up to sub-leading order in the disorder potential. Our prescription ensures all vertex corrections present in diagrammatic treatments are taken into account, and to illustrate this we discuss model cases in topological insulators, including the anomalous Hall effect as well as spin-orbit torques.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Characterizing and Mitigating Work Time Inflation in Task Parallel Programs
Creators: name: Prins, Jan F.
name: Schulz, Martin
name: Olivier, Stephen L.
name: De Supinski, Bronis R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Task parallelism raises the level of abstraction in shared memory parallel programming to simplify the development of complex applications. However, task parallel applications can exhibit poor performance due to thread idleness, scheduling overheads, and work time inflation – additional time spent by threads in a multithreaded computation beyond the time required to perform the same work in a sequential computation. We identify the contributions of each factor to lost efficiency in various task parallel OpenMP applications and diagnose the causes of work time inflation in those applications. Increased data access latency can cause significant work time inflation in NUMA systems. Our locality framework for task parallel OpenMP programs mitigates this cause of work time inflation. Our extensions to the Qthreads library demonstrate that locality-aware scheduling can improve performance up to 3X compared to the Intel OpenMP task scheduler.
title: New Ethnicities and Language Use: Cultures of Hybridity in a Group of Adolescents of Mainly South Asian Descent in a London School in the Late 1990s
Creators: name: Harris, Roxy W.
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2004

description: This thesis draws on anti-essentialist theorisations of ethnicity developed out of the British Cultural Studies tradition by authors such as Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and others. Of particular interest are the notions of `new ethnicities', `cultures of hybridity' and `diaspora'. These concepts are used as the basis for an empirical study attempting to show how they might be realised at the level of ordinary everyday life. The research informants are a group of 30 male and female adolescents (The Blackhill youth) of mainly South Asian descent in a secondary school in the western suburbs of London. The thesis, using a variety of methods including a survey questionnaire, written accounts, informant-made audio recordings and individual conversational interviews, elicits their representations of their patterns of language use. These facilitate discussion and analysis of a complex tapestry of ethnicities which embrace not only language use, but also religion and popular culture. This investigation also demonstrates that if the study of ethnicity shifts its focus from a dependence on the visual (what people look like), to the aural (what they sound like), there is a basis for new understandings of how `new ethnicities' might develop. The thesis suggests that rather than looking for a binary distinction between old and new ethnicities it might be more productive to look for a synthesis of residual, dominant and emergent elements in culture. This leads to a conclusion that the most important element in the `cultures of hybridity' of the Blackhill youth is their Britishness which is integrated in intricate ways with both traditional and contemporary modes of being South Asian. Thereby, the emergence of distinctive Brasian identities is signalled.
Instability of point defects in a two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal model
Creators: name: Ignat, Radu
name: Nguyen, Luc
name: Slastikov, Valeriy
name: Zarnescu, Arghir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a class of symmetric critical points in a variational $2D$ Landau - de Gennes model where the state of nematic liquid crystals is described by symmetric traceless $3\times 3$ matrices. These critical points play the role of topological point defects carrying a degree $\frac k 2$ for a nonzero integer $k$. We prove existence and study the qualitative behavior of these symmetric solutions. Our main result is the instability of critical points when $k\neq \pm 1, 0$.
Genomic Analyses across Six Cancer Types Identify Basal-like Breast Cancer as a Unique Molecular Entity
Creators: name: Cajal, Santiago Ramony
name: Adamo, Barbara
name: Prat, Aleix
name: Vivancos, Ana
name: Dawood, Shaheenah
name: Vidal, Maria
name: Galván, Patricia
name: Palmer, Héctor G.
name: Tabernero, Josep
name: Nuciforo, Paolo
name: Peg, Vicente
name: Fan, Cheng
name: Campo, Josep Maria Del
name: Cortés, Javier
name: Felip, Enriqueta
name: Rodón, Jordi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To improve our understanding of the biological relationships among different types of cancer, we have characterized variation in gene expression patterns in a set of 1,707 samples representing 6 human cancer types (breast, ovarian, brain, colorectal, lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell lung cancer). In the unified dataset, breast tumors of the Basal-like subtype were found to represent a unique molecular entity as any other cancer type, including the rest of breast tumors, while showing striking similarities with squamous cell lung cancers. Moreover, gene signatures tracking various cancer- and stromal-related biological processes such as proliferation, hypoxia and immune activation were found expressed similarly in different proportions of tumors across the various cancer types. These data suggest that clinical trials focusing on tumors with common profiles and/or biomarker expression rather than their tissue of origin are warranted with a special focus on Basal-like breast cancer and squamous cell lung carcinoma.
(2209) Henry Greenwood Shaw
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Information from Parsimony, not Bayesian analysis, recovers more stratigraphically congruent phylogenetic trees
Creators: name: Sansom, Robert S.
name: Choate, Peter G.
name: Keating, Joseph N.
name: Randle, Emma
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Supplementary Methods and Figures
(2211) Hannah Greenwood
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Patient’s awareness on COPD is the strongest predictor of persistence and adherence in treatment-naïve patients in real life: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: López-Pintor, Elsa
name: Grau, Justo
name: Lumbreras, Blanca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. Fig. S1: Questionnaire to collect patients’ sociodemographic and clinical variables at the entry of the study before the initiation of the treatment. Table S1: Description of the study patients and the relationship between the sociodemographic and activity variables with adherence and persistence to inhalers (as a continuous variables). Table S2: Description of the study patients and the relationship between the clinical variables with adherence and persistence to inhalers (as a continuous variables).
Omicron-associated changes in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) symptoms in the United Kingdom.
Creators: name: Vihta, Karina-Doris
name: Pouwels, Koen B
name: Peto, Tim EA
name: Pritchard, Emma
name: House, Thomas
name: Studley, Ruth
name: Rourke, Emma
name: Cook, Duncan
name: Diamond, Ian
name: Crook, Derrick
name: Clifton, David A
name: Matthews, Philippa C
name: Stoesser, Nicole
name: Eyre, David W
name: Walkerand, Ann Sarah
name: team, COVID-19 Infection Survey
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: BACKGROUND: The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant has been replaced by the highly transmissible Omicron BA.1 variant, and subsequently by Omicron BA.2. It is important to understand how these changes in dominant variants affect reported symptoms, while also accounting for symptoms arising from other co-circulating respiratory viruses. METHODS: In a nationally representative UK community study, the COVID-19 Infection Survey, we investigated symptoms in PCR-positive infection episodes vs. PCR-negative study visits over calendar time, by age and vaccination status, comparing periods when the Delta, Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants were dominant. RESULTS: Between October-2020 and April-2022, 120,995 SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive episodes occurred in 115,886 participants, with 70,683 (58%) reporting symptoms. The comparator comprised 4,766,366 PCR-negative study visits (483,894 participants); 203,422 (4%) reporting symptoms. Symptom reporting in PCR-positives varied over time, with a marked reduction in loss of taste/smell as Omicron BA.1 dominated, maintained with BA.2 (44%/45% 17 October 2021, 16%/13% 2 January 2022, 15%/12% 27 March 2022). Cough, fever, shortness of breath, myalgia, fatigue/weakness and headache also decreased after Omicron BA.1 dominated, but sore throat increased, the latter to a greater degree than concurrent increases in PCR-negatives. Fatigue/weakness increased again after BA.2 dominated, although to a similar degree to concurrent increases in PCR-negatives. Symptoms were consistently more common in adults aged 18-65 years than in children or older adults. CONCLUSIONS: Increases in sore throat (also common in the general community), and a marked reduction in loss of taste/smell, make Omicron harder to detect with symptom-based testing algorithms, with implications for institutional and national testing policies.