cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe Wattenmeer
Creators: name: Schmäing, Till
name: Grotjohann, Norbert
Publisher: name: Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht.
Year: 2022

description: Ein Kennzeichen der deutschen Nordseeküste ist das Wattenmeer. Dieses Ökosystem wird vor allem aufgrund seiner zahlreichen zoologischen, botanischen sowie geologischen Besonderheiten und der damit einhergehenden Relevanz nicht nur seit den Achtzigerjahren in Deutschland im Rahmen von drei Nationalparks geschützt, sondern wurde im Jahr 2009 darüber hinaus von der UNESCO zum Weltnaturerbe ernannt. Trotz der internationalen Bedeutung dieses Lebensraums liegen wenige unterrichtspraktische Materialien für eine Thematisierung im schulischen Kontext vor. Dieser Beitrag bietet die Möglichkeit einer ausführlichen Erarbeitung des Wattenmeers im Schulunterricht der höheren Jahrgänge der Sekundarstufe I. Dabei können ausgewählte Inhalte des Themengebiets mit Hilfe einer Stationsarbeit in den Unterricht transferiert werden. So wird unter anderem auf die globale Relevanz des Wattenmeers, den Wattboden, charakteristische Tier- und Pflanzenarten, die Salzwiese als Lebensraum sowie die verschiedenartigen Gefährdungen des Ökosystems fokussiert. Einige der vorgestellten Materialien können in Abhängigkeit von den vorhandenen Möglichkeiten der Lehrenden optional mit originalen Objekten (z.B. Präparaten von Strandkrabben oder Muschelschalen) oder mit leicht umsetzbaren Experimenten unterstützt werden. Im Allgemeinen werden mit den verschiedenen Modifizierungen der Arbeitsblätter durchgängig zahlreiche Differenzierungsmöglichkeiten gegeben.
description: Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht., Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2022): Die Materialwerkstatt – Ausgabe 4
Additional file 1 of A super-spreader of SARS-CoV-2 in incubation period among health-care workers
Creators: name: Chaojie Wei
name: Yufeng Yuan
name: Zhenshun Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of patient A1 and health care workers with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.
title: Nahverkehrsplanung für ältere Menschen
title: Handlungsansätze – Akzeptanz – Hemmnisse
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kasper, Birgit
name: Scheiner, Joachim
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: ältere Menschen
subject: Haushaltsbefragung
subject: Expertenbefragung
subject: Verkehrsverhalten
subject: ÖPNV
subject: 710
subject: Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr
subject: Älterer Mensch <60-80 Jahre>
subject: Verkehrsverhalten
subject: Expertenbefragung

description: Auf der Basis einer Expertenbefragung zum Thema "Ältere Menschen im ÖPNV" wird die Realisierung seniorenfreundlicher Maßnahmen im öffentlichen Nahverkehr untersucht. Des Weiteren wird die Einschätzung der befragten Experten zur Akzeptanz der Maßnahmen, ggf. Gründe für geringe Akzeptanz und Realisierungshemmnisse untersucht.
description: Based on an expert survey on "Senior citizens in public transport", the realisation of senior oriented measures in public transport is investigated. Additionally, the experts' appraisal of the acceptance of measures, the reasons for low acceptance, and restraints for realisation are studied.
description: Arbeitspapiere des Fachgebiets Verkehrswesen und Verkehrsplanung;5
Detecting light long-lived particle produced by cosmic ray
Creators: name: Yin, Peng-fei
name: Zhu, Shou-hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility of detecting light long-lived particle (LLP) produced by high energy cosmic ray colliding with atmosphere. The LLP may penetrate the atmosphere and decay into a pair of muons near/in the neutrino telescope. Such muons can be treated as the detectable signal for neutrino telescope. This study is motivated by recent cosmic electron/positron observations which suggest the existence of $O(TeV)$ dark matter and new light $O(GeV)$ particle. It indicates that dark sector may be complicated, and there may exist more than one light particles, for example the dark gauge boson $A'$ and associated dark Higgs boson $h'$. In this work, we discuss the scenario with $A'$ heavier than $h'$ and $h'$ is treated as LLP. Based on our numerical estimation, we find that the large volume neutrino telescope IceCube has the capacity to observe several tens of di-muon events for favorable parameters if the decay length of LLP can be comparable with the depth of atmosphere. The challenge here is how to suppress the muon backgrounds induced by cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrinos.
description: 7pages, 5figures;V2:discussions added
Unveiling the pandemic's impact on visits to Madrid’s parks: insights from mobile phone data analysis
Creators: name: Talavera-Garcia, Ruben
name: Perez-Campaña, Rocio
name: Cara-Santana, Yeray
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Changes in human mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic have particularly impacted urban parks, altering their use patterns. The use of Big Data sources enables the quantification and tracking of changes, although few studies delve into their spatial representation and the socio-demographic characterisation of park users. In this research, we use anonymised cellular network-based data with associated user profile information to quantify and map the changes operated in trips to Madrid’s urban parks in a week of reference before and after the pandemic. Our results show a general decrease in trips to urban parks, especially by males in all age ranges. We also observe a marked decrease in trips by the high-income population. Finally, we have nicely presented some of these results in a composition of several maps that provide visual insight into the main changes.
Economic Appraisal of Freezing Methods
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Clyde L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1968
Subjects: Production Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Contents: Requirements of the Raw Material --- Freezing Methods --- Freezing Costs --- Product Quality Requirements --- Selling Prices of the Frozen Product --- Losses in the Process --- Effect of Freezing Methods on Other Steps --- Applications Unique to Freezing of Fish --- Freezing Methods of the Future. Tables included: Table 1.—Comparison of Freezing Times for Small Fruits and Vegetables --- Table 2.—Cost Comparison of Air-Blast and Liquid-Nitrogen Freezing --- Table 3.—Comparison of Freezing Costs for the First Year.
description: Presented at the Food and Agriculture Organization Technical Conference on the Freezing and Irradiation of Fish, Madrid, Spain, September 6, 1967.
ACE2-Variants Indicate Potential SARS-CoV-2-Susceptibility in Animals: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Creators: name: Pach, Szymon
name: Nguyen, Trung Ngoc
name: Trimpert, Jakob
name: Kunec, Dusan
name: Osterrieder, Nikolaus
name: Wolber, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ACE2
subject: Molecular dynamics
subject: Molecular modeling
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Spike
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to be a global threat, causing millions of deaths worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus with spike (S) glycoproteins conferring binding to the host cell‘s angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is critical for cellular entry. The host range of the virus extends well beyond humans and non-human primates. Natural and experimental infections have confirmed the high susceptibility of cats, ferrets, and Syrian hamsters, whereas dogs, mice, rats, pigs, and chickens are refractory to SARS-CoV-2 infection. To investigate the underlying reason for the variable susceptibility observed in different species, we have developed molecular descriptors to efficiently analyse dynamic simulation models of complexes between SARS-CoV-2 S and ACE2. Our extensive analyses represent the first systematic structure-based approach that allows predictions of species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Effect of monounsaturated fat in the diet on the serum carotenoid levels
Creators: name: Ahuja, KDK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Epidemiological data suggest that populations with higher serum/ tissue levels of carotenoids have a lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), possibly due to the antioxidant capacity. Lycopene, a carotenoid mainly found in tomatoes, has been suggested to have the greatest antioxidant capacity of the carotenoids found in fruits and vegetables. Carotenoids are fat-soluble compounds and their absorption from the diet into the body may depend on the amount of dietary fat ingested. For years there has been debate about what energy source should replace the saturated fat in the diet, to give the optimum serum lipid profile to reduce CHD risk. Studies have compared monounsaturated fat rich diets with high carbohydrate, low fat diets and have found that both diets decrease serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. Results for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and triglycerides have been inconsistent. However, it is of interest to study the effects of different diets on lipid oxidation, as this may also influence CHD risk. Studies have investigated the effect of different amounts of total fat on the serum levels of carotenoids especially beta-carotene and lutein, but to our knowledge no study has looked at the effect of different amounts of fats on the serum lycopene levels, and whether this could subsequently affect the oxidation of LDL in vitro. XIV Two separate randomised crossover dietary intervention studies were conducted; one in healthy men and the other in healthy women aged 20 to 70 years. The aim was to compare the effects of monounsaturated fat rich (MUFA) diet (38% of energy from fat) and high carbohydrate low fat (HCLF) diet (15% energy from fat) with controlled lycopene content, on serum lycopene levels. Main sources of lycopene in the diets were canned tomatoes and tomato soup for the study in women (lycopene content -15.9 mg/day) and tomato paste and tomato soup for the study in men (lycopene content - 20.2 mg/day). Serum lipids and lipoproteins levels and in vitro oxidation of LDL particles were also measured. Compared to the baseline levels there was a significant increase in the serum trans lycopene and total lycopene levels after MUFA diet for the study in women. Comparing the levels at the end of the two diets no difference was observed. In the study in men serum trans, cis and total lycopene levels increased after the MUFA and HCLF diet periods. There was no significant difference in trans; cis and total lycopene levels at the end of two diets. Thus, high levels of monounsaturated fat in the diet do not appear to increase lycopene absorption and serum levels compared to very low fat diet. There was however a better serum lipid profile after MUFA diet compared to HCLF diet. Lag phase for the in vitro oxidation of LDL particles was also longer on the MUFA diet. The lack of difference in antioxidant levels would indicate that this was due to the different fatty acid component of the diet.
Flavour Violation in Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
name: Hiller, G.
name: Jones, D. R. T.
name: Slavich, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study squark flavour violation in the anomaly mediated supersymmetry broken (AMSB) minimal supersymmetric standard model. Analytical expressions for the three-generational squark mass matrices are derived. We show that the anomaly-induced soft breaking terms have a decreasing amount of squark flavour violation when running from the GUT to the weak scale. Taking into account inter-generational squark mixing, we work out non-trivial constraints from B -> Xs gamma and Bs -> mu mu, which complement each other, as well as B -> tau nu decays. We further identify a region of parameter space where the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the B -> Xs gamma branching ratio are simultaneously accommodated. Since anomaly mediation is of the minimal flavour-violating type, the generic flavour predictions for this class of models apply, including a CKM-induced (and hence small) Bs-Bsbar-mixing phase.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor clarifications, reference added, to appear in JHEP
Holographic Non-Fermi Liquid in a Background Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Basu, Pallab
name: He, JianYang
name: Mukherjee, Anindya
name: Shieh, Hsien-Hang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of a non-zero magnetic field on a class of 2+1 dim non-Fermi liquids, recently found in 0903.2477 by considering properties of a fermionic probe in an extremal AdS^4 black hole background. Introducing a similar fermionic probe in a dyonic AdS^4 black hole geometry, we find that the effect of a magnetic field could be incorporated in a rescaling of the probe fermion's charge. From this simple fact, we observe interesting effects like gradual disappearance of the Fermi surface and quasi particle peaks at large magnetic fields and changes in other properties of the system. We also find Landau level like structures and oscillatory phenomena similar to the de Haas-van Alphen effect.
description: 20 pages, latex, 6 figures
UAV and field survey observations on the November 26th 2022 Celario flowslide, Ischia Island (Southern Italy)
Creators: name: De Falco, Melania
name: Forte, Giovanni
name: Marino, Ermanno
name: Massaro, Luigi
name: Santo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: On 26th November 2022, a heavy cloudburst affected Ischia Island (Southern Italy) causing a flash flood and triggering several flowslides. The most affected municipality was Casamicciola Terme, where this event produced 12 casualties, more than 200 people evacuated and several damages to the buildings and the road network. The largest flowslide involved Celario watershed, which started as a small slide (around 10 m3) on the top of Mt. Epomeo at 703 m a.s.l. of height and impacted downward at 645 m a.s.l., successively channelising in the catchment. This study summarises the geological and geomorphological evidence collected during the field investigation of the Celario flowslide and analyses the remotely sensed UAV data to reconstruct the occurred scenario. Finally, some considerations on the relationships between the occurred damage and the flowslide impact are discussed.
Development of a fully integrated equation of state compositional hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator
Creators: name: Zheng, Shuang, 1994-
name: 0000-0002-7816-1176
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational geomechanics
Hydraulic fracturing modeling
Numerical reservoir simulation
Improved oil recovery
Geothermal energy
Underground storage

description: Numerical modeling plays a key role in assessing, developing, and managing energy resources (such as oil, gas and heat) from subsurface formations. Fluids are injected into wellbores during hydraulic fracturing, water flooding, parent well pre-loading, and improved oil recovery. Oil, gas and water are produced back to the surface during flowback, primary/secondary/tertiary production, and geothermal operations. Results from modeling these subsurface energy resources assist engineers and geologists in the decision-making process. Geomechanics, fluid/solid flow, and heat transport are coupled in the reservoir, fracture, and wellbore domains. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop integrated hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator that can accurately model multi-component, multi-phase fluid flow, geomechanics, fracture propagation and thermal processes in the reservoir, fracture and wellbore domains. In this dissertation, fully coupled reservoir, fracture, and wellbore domains are modeled. Geomechanics, fluid flow, and heat transport are modeled in an integrated manner in each domain and between each domain. Thermo-poro-elasticity, fracture opening/closing, and fracture propagation are modeled based on the stresses and strains computed in the domain. Four flow types including single-phase flow, multi-phase black-oil flow, multi-phase compositional flow, and water-steam two-phase flow are developed for different applications. Temperature and enthalpy formulations are developed to model the energy balance within the fully coupled system. A novel proppant transport model formulation which couples fracture opening/closing has also been developed. The governing equations are discretized in space using the finite volume/area methods. Multiple fully implicit Newton solvers have been developed to solve different sets of nonlinear systems of equations. A fully distributed memory parallelization workflow is constructed. The simulator is also coupled with simpler (analytical and DDM) fracturing models to achieve shorter run times. The modeling capability of the simulator has been demonstrated in the dissertation through many example applications. Typical applications of the simulator include multi-stage, multi-cluster, hydraulic fracture propagation, proppant settling and fracture closure analysis, mini-frac analysis, parent-child well interference, fracture monitoring, reservoir cooling and induced fracture propagation from water injectors, production analysis, gas huff-n-puff injection, improved oil recovery, geothermal reservoir production, and enhanced geothermal system analysis. These applications demonstrate the wide variety of problems that our simulator can be used to model.
Geomorphology of the upper sector of the Roncovetro active landslide (Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy)
Creators: name: Dotta, Giulia
name: Fornaciai, Alessandro
name: Bertolini, Giovanni
name: Isola, Iaria
name: Nannipieri, Luca
name: Favalli, Massimiliano
name: Burrato, Pierfrancesco
name: Devoti, Roberto
name: Gigli, Giovanni
name: Mucchi, Lorenzo
name: Intrieri, Emanuele
name: Pizziolo, Marco
name: Gracchi, Teresa
name: Casagli, Nicola
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We present the geomorphological map of the upper sector of the Roncovetro active landslide (Enza Valley, Emilia-Romagna, Italy). The 1:1500 scale map provides an accurate picture of the landslide in October 2014. The map is mainly based on the data collected during an airborne LiDAR survey. The capability of LiDAR to ‘penetrate’ the vegetation cover makes these data the most complete and accurate topographic dataset of this landslide. The map shows that the upper sector of the Roncovetro landslide consists of gravity- and water runoff-related forms. Gravitational features are linked to sliding and flowing movements that characterize the short- and long-term behaviour of the landslide. By comparing the 2014 LiDAR-Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with the 1973 DEM provided by the Emilia-Romagna Region, we calculated that 6.2 ± 0.8 × 105 m3 of material has moved from the top of the Roncovetro landslide in about 40 years.
Experimental demonstration of associative memory with memristive neural networks
Creators: name: Pershin, Yuriy V.
name: Di Ventra, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When someone mentions the name of a known person we immediately recall her face and possibly many other traits. This is because we possess the so-called associative memory, that is the ability to correlate different memories to the same fact or event. Associative memory is such a fundamental and encompassing human ability (and not just human) that the network of neurons in our brain must perform it quite easily. The question is then whether electronic neural networks (electronic schemes that act somewhat similarly to human brains) can be built to perform this type of function. Although the field of neural networks has developed for many years, a key element, namely the synapses between adjacent neurons, has been lacking a satisfactory electronic representation. The reason for this is that a passive circuit element able to reproduce the synapse behaviour needs to remember its past dynamical history, store a continuous set of states, and be "plastic" according to the pre-synaptic and post-synaptic neuronal activity. Here we show that all this can be accomplished by a memory-resistor (memristor for short). In particular, by using simple and inexpensive off-the-shelf components we have built a memristor emulator which realizes all required synaptic properties. Most importantly, we have demonstrated experimentally the formation of associative memory in a simple neural network consisting of three electronic neurons connected by two memristor-emulator synapses. This experimental demonstration opens up new possibilities in the understanding of neural processes using memory devices, an important step forward to reproduce complex learning, adaptive and spontaneous behaviour with electronic neural networks.
Additional file 1 of Texture analysis of iodine maps and conventional images for k-nearest neighbor classification of benign and metastatic lung nodules
Creators: name: Lennartz, Simon
name: Mager, Alina
name: Hokamp, Nils Große
name: Schäfer, Sebastian
name: Zopfs, David
name: Maintz, David
name: Reinhardt, Hans Christian
name: Thomas, Roman K.
name: Caldeira, Liliana
name: Persigehl, Thorsten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplemental Table 1. Calculation of first order texture features. Xi = signal intensity of a voxel; N = number of voxels in the region of interest (ROI). pj = probability of intensity range j in the ROI; Ng = the number of discretized intensity values in the ROI. Supplemental Table 2. Calculation of mutual information (MI), F1-score, diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.
Greenhouse economics: the Australian Government mobilises the numbers in the lead up to Kyoto
Creators: name: Duncan, Ronlyn
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Australian Government has not always opposed the setting of targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, in 1992 it was one of only three countries to support the then Toronoto target to stablise emissions by 2000 and reduce them by 20 percent by 2005. This thesis surveys the Australian government's policy and rhetoric on climate change since the endorsement of the Toronto target and in the lead up to the meeting in Kyoto. Using sociology of science theory, the thesis analyses how the environmental reality constructed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was overshadowed in Australia by an economic reality constructed by the Australian Bureau of Resource Economics with its macro-economic model MEGABARE. The thesis documents how the outputs of this model were translated both domestically and internationally and how efforts to tackle climate change that were deemed to have inevitable negative economic implications for the resource sector were effectively avoided.
Additional file 1 of Acceptance of smoking cessation support and quitting behaviours of women attending Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Services for antenatal care
Creators: name: Daly, Justine B.
name: Dowe, Sarah
name: Tully, Belinda
name: Tzelepis, Flora
name: Lecathelinais, Christophe
name: Gillham, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Performance of the CMS Level-1 Trigger during Commissioning with Cosmic Ray Muons
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CMS Level-1 trigger was used to select cosmic ray muons and LHC beam events during data-taking runs in 2008, and to estimate the level of detector noise. This paper describes the trigger components used, the algorithms that were executed, and the trigger synchronisation. Using data from extended cosmic ray runs, the muon, electron/photon, and jet triggers have been validated, and their performance evaluated. Efficiencies were found to be high, resolutions were found to be good, and rates as expected.
Additional file 1 of PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews
Creators: name: Rethlefsen, Melissa L.
name: Kirtley, Shona
name: Waffenschmidt, Siw
name: Ayala, Ana Patricia
name: Moher, David
name: Page, Matthew J.
name: Koffel, Jonathan B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Flowmapper.org: a web-based framework for designing origin–destination flow maps
Creators: name: Koylu, Caglar
name: Tian, Geng
name: Windsor, Mary
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: FlowMapper.org is a web-based framework for automated production and design of origin-destination flow maps. FlowMapper has four major features that contribute to the advancement of existing flow mapping systems. First, users can upload and process their own data to design and share customized flow maps. The ability to save data, cartographic design and map elements in a project file allows users to easily share their data and/or cartographic design with others. Second, users can generate customized flow symbols to support different flow map reading tasks such as comparing flow magnitudes and directions and identifying flow and location clusters that are strongly connected with each other. Third, FlowMapper supports supplementary layers such as node symbols, choropleth, and base maps to contextualize flow patterns with location references and characteristics. Finally, the web-based architecture of FlowMapper supports server-side computational capabilities to process and normalize large flow data and reveal natural patterns of flows.
Relation between relief and Badland spatial distribution in the Paleogene Pazin Basin, Croatia
Creators: name: Bostjančić, Iris
name: Gulam, Vlatko
name: Frangen, Tihomir
name: Hećej, Nina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Badlands are specific landforms characterized by intense denudation processes. Their occurrence is mainly associated with clay-like materials and semi-arid and Mediterranean climates. This study presents the badland inventory for the Paleogene Pazin Basin located on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. A total of 5,381 badland polygons, with a total area of 10.25 km2, were manually outlined, based on the visual interpretation of orthophotos at a scale of 1:5,000. The badlands in Istria are represented as small and isolated landforms and are exclusively associated with flysch and flysch-like materials, which cover a significant part of the study area (46%). The analysis of badland inventory shows that badlands are spatially not equally distributed but that their abundance is increasing from NW to SE part of the analyzed area. Additionally, the results of the spatial analysis indicate the positive relationship between badland occurrence and relative relief, which is presented via the relief-badland index.
Reassessment of the NuTeV determination of the Weinberg angle
Creators: name: Bentz, W.
name: Cloet, I. C.
name: Londergan, J. T.
name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In light of the recent discovery of the importance of the isovector EMC effect for the interpretation of the NuTeV determination of sin^2 theta_W, it seems timely to reassess the central value and the errors on this fundamental Standard Model parameter derived from the NuTeV data. We also include earlier work on charge symmetry violation and the recent limits on a possible asymmetry between s and \bar{s} quarks. With these corrections we find a revised NuTeV result of sin^2 theta_W = 0.2232 \pm 0.0013(stat) \pm 0.0024(syst), which is in excellent agreement with the running of sin^2 theta_W predicted by the Standard Model.
description: 4 pages, one figure
title: Μελέτη σύστασης, παραγωγής και ποιοτικών χαρακτηριστικών ζύθων με βότανα και φρούτα
title: Study of the composition,production and quality characteristics of beers with herbs and fruits
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Θεοδωράκης, Ιωάννης
name: Αναγνωστοπούλου, Μαργαρίτα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Μπύρα
Βότανα
Φρούτα
Ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά ζύθων
Αντιοξειδωτική Ικανότητα

description: Μέσα από τα παραγόμενα κυρίως αλκοολούχα ποτά τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και σε άλλες χώρες ανήκει μεταξύ άλλων και η μπύρα. Η παραγωγή της έχει φτάσει να πραγματοποιείται τόσο καλά σε βιομηχανική κλίμακα όσο και σε ικανοποιητικό βαθμό ως παραγωγή σπιτικής μπύρας. Η μπύρα σχετικά με ποσοστό 4%-6% αλκοόλ που περιέχει συνήθως βρίσκει ευρεία κατανάλωση σε όλο τον κόσμο και παρασκευάζεται από νερό, βύνη, μαγιά και λυκίσκο και επιπλέον ανήκει στην κατηγορία εκείνων των αλκοολούχων ποτών με χαμηλή συγκέντρωση αλκοόλ [1]. Ωστόσο εκτός της κλασικής παραγωγής της μπύρας με λυκίσκο διάφορα είναι εκείνα τα πρόσθετα που μπορούν να συμβάλουν στην τελική διαμόρφωση της όπως η προσθήκη βοτάνων ή φρούτων αλλά ακόμα και λουλουδιών δημιουργώντας έτσι νέες συνταγές για μπύρα. Στην εργασία αυτή πραγματοποιήθηκε θεωρητική μελέτη για την παραγωγή της μπύρας με την προσθήκη βοτάνων, αλλά ακόμα και άλλων πρόσθετων όπως χρήση φρούτων και των λουλουδιών. Οι διάφορες μπύρες με πρόσθετα που συλλέχτηκαν εξετάζοντας τα ποιοτικά τους χαρακτηριστικά είναι μπύρες με ιβίσκο, τζίντζερ, κράνα, λωτό, Goji Berry, μπανάνα, μάνγκο και λεμόνι και από τα κύρια χαρακτηριστικά τους που ξεχώρισαν ανήκει η αντιοξειδωτική ικανότητα, το χρώμα, οι γεύσεις και τα αρωματικά χαρακτηριστικά. Ακόμα η δημιουργία ενός ερωτηματολογίου ήταν απαραίτητη για τα διάφορα πρόσθετα στην μπύρα απευθυνόμενο σε ενήλικα άτομα της Ελλάδας, εξετάζοντας έτσι τις τάσεις που δημιουργούνται από το καταναλωτικό κοινό για τέτοιου είδους μπύρες. Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν πως το μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό του κοινού έχει προτιμήσεις πάνω στη δοκιμή τέτοιων ειδών μπύρας και επομένως θα προέβαιναν στη δοκιμή έστω και μιας τέτοιας μπύρας.
Spectroscopy of high-energy states of lanthanide ions
Creators: name: Reid, Michael F.
name: Hu, Liusen
name: Frank, Sebastian
name: Duan, Chang-Kui
name: Xia, Shangda
name: Yin, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss recent progress and future prospects for the analysis of the 4f${N-1}$5d excited states of lanthanide ions in host materials. Ab-initio calculations for Ce$^{3+}$ in LiYF$_4$ are used to estimate crystal-field and spin-orbit parameters for the 4f$^1$ and 5d$^1$ configurations. We discuss the possibility of using excited-state absorption to probe the electronic and geometric structure of the 4f$^{N-1}$5d excited states in more detail and we illustrate these ideas with calculations for Yb$^{2+}$ ions in SrCl$_2$.
High-order semi-Lagrangian kinetic scheme for compressible turbulence
Creators: name: Wilde, Dominik
name: Krämer, Andreas
name: Reith, Dirk
name: Foysi, Holger
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Compressible flows
subject: Kinetic theory
subject: Turbulence
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: Turbulent compressible flows are traditionally simulated using explicit time integrators applied to discretized versions of the Navier-Stokes equations. However, the associated Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition severely restricts the maximum time-step size. Exploiting the Lagrangian nature of the Boltzmann equation's material derivative, we now introduce a feasible three-dimensional semi-Lagrangian lattice Boltzmann method (SLLBM), which circumvents this restriction. While many lattice Boltzmann methods for compressible flows were restricted to two dimensions due to the enormous number of discrete velocities in three dimensions, the SLLBM uses only 45 discrete velocities. Based on compressible Taylor-Green vortex simulations we show that the new method accurately captures shocks or shocklets as well as turbulence in 3D without utilizing additional filtering or stabilizing techniques other than the filtering introduced by the interpolation, even when the time-step sizes are up to two orders of magnitude larger compared to simulations in the literature. Our new method therefore enables researchers to study compressible turbulent flows by a fully explicit scheme, whose range of admissible time-step sizes is dictated by physics rather than spatial discretization.
The Ar-Hötöl surface rupture along the Khovd fault (Mongolian Altay)
Creators: name: Davaasambuu, Battogtokh
name: Ferry, Matthieu
name: Ritz, Jean-Francois
name: Munkhuu, Ulziibat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We present a 1:200,000 scale map of the Ar-Hötöl surface rupture along the Khovd fault (Mongolian Altay), presumed to be the expression of the 1761 CE Mw ∼ 7.8 Great Mongol earthquake. The detailed mapping combines airborne and terrestrial imaging and topographic techniques (Sentinel-2, Pleiades, TanDEM-X, UAV and TLS) to quantify right-lateral and vertical offsets ranging from ∼ 1 m to ∼ 4 km over a length of 238 km. The smaller offsets document the deformation associated with the last surface-rupturing earthquake that affects several Bronze to Iron Age burial mounds. Their analysis yields a robust segmentation model comprising 6 segments of 20 to 51 km in length, a maximum co-seismic slip value of 4.8 m ± 0.5 m located near the center of the rupture. Our observations precise the varying kinematics along strike, bring new evidence of repeated faulting and confirm a Mw of 7.8 ± 0.3.
Antitumor and antiangiogenic activity of the novel chimeric inhibitor animacroxam in testicular germ cell cancer
Creators: name: Steinemann, Gustav
name: Dittmer, Alexandra
name: Schmidt, Jacob
name: Josuttis, David
name: Fähling, Michael
name: Biersack, Bernhard
name: Beindorff, Nicola
name: Koziolek, Eva Jolante
name: Schobert, Rainer
name: Brenner, Winfried
name: Müller, Thomas
name: Nitzsche, Bianca
name: Höpfner, Michael
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: cancer therapy
subject: chick chorioallantoic membrane
subject: HDAC inhibitors
subject: PET/MR imaging
subject: tumor angiogenesis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Chimeric inhibitors, which merge two drug pharmacophores in a single molecule have become a prominent approach for the design of novel anticancer compounds. Here, we examined animacroxam, which combines histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory and cytoskeleton-interfering pharmacophores, in testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT). The effectiveness of animacroxam was compared to that of the commonly applied chemotherapeutic cisplatin as well as the clinically approved HDAC inhibitor vorinostat. The antineoplastic and antiangiogenic effects of animacroxam on TGCT in vivo were assessed through exploratory animal studies and a modified chorioallantoic membrane assay, revealing that animacroxam has significant antitumor activity in TGCT. A novel positron emission tomography/MR-imaging approach was applied to determine tumor volume and glucose [2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG)] uptake in TGCT tumors, revealing reduced glucose uptake in animacroxam-treated TGCTs and showing a dose-dependent suppression of glycolytic enzymes, which led to a breakdown in glycolytic energy production. Furthermore, the observed antiangiogenic effects of animacroxam were related to its ability to inhibit endothelial cell-cell communication, as the expression of gap junction-forming connexin 43 was strongly suppressed, and gap-junctional intercellular mass transport was reduced. Our data suggest that the chimeric HDAC inhibitor animacroxam may become a promising candidate for the treatment of solid cancers and may serve as an interesting alternative to platinum-based therapies.
Implementation of on-site velocity boundary conditions for D3Q19 lattice Boltzmann
Creators: name: Hecht, Martin
name: Harting, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On-site boundary conditions are often desired for lattice Boltzmann simulations of fluid flow in complex geometries such as porous media or microfluidic devices. The possibility to specify the exact position of the boundary, independent of other simulation parameters, simplifies the analysis of the system. For practical applications it should allow to freely specify the direction of the flux, and it should be straight forward to implement in three dimensions. Furthermore, especially for parallelized solvers it is of great advantage if the boundary condition can be applied locally, involving only information available on the current lattice site. We meet this need by describing in detail how to transfer the approach suggested by Zou and He to a D3Q19 lattice. The boundary condition acts locally, is independent of the details of the relaxation process during collision and contains no artificial slip. In particular, the case of an on-site no-slip boundary condition is naturally included. We test the boundary condition in several setups and confirm that it is capable to accurately model the velocity field up to second order and does not contain any numerical slip.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, revised version
A rare presentation of ectopic thyroid tissue in the submandibular region: a case report
Creators: name: Obermueller, Theresa
name: Bernstorff, Maximilian Von
name: Sinn, Bruno Valentin
name: Saadoun, Rakan
name: Gebhardt, Bastian
name: Hofmann, Veit Maria
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ectopic thyroid tissue
subject: submandibular mass
subject: thyroid goiter
subject: case report
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Ectopic thyroid tissue in the lateral neck is a rare finding, especially in the submandibular region. This case report presents a 38-year-old female patient with swelling in the lateral cervical neck. Due to a thyroid goitre, right hemithyroidectomy was performed in the past. However, a persistent high thyroglobulin level was detected after surgery. Regarding the suspected tumour in the submental region, a cervical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed, which revealed a suspicious looking mass. The patient underwent complete surgical excision and the histopathological report concluded that the tumour was ectopic thyroid tissue. Her thyroglobulin level decreased back to a normal level after excision of the submandibular mass. These results show that ectopic thyroid tissue must be considered a differential diagnosis for patients with unclear swelling in the submental region.
Additional file 15 of Comprehensive analysis of metabolome and transcriptome reveals the mechanism of color formation in different leave of Loropetalum Chinense var. Rubrum
Creators: name: Zhang, Xia
name: Zhang, Li
name: Zhang, Damao
name: Su, Dingding
name: Li, Weidong
name: Wang, Xiangfei
name: Chen, Qianru
name: Cai, Wenqi
name: Xu, Lu
name: Cao, Fuxiang
name: Zhang, Dongling
name: Yu, Xiaoying
name: Li, Yanlin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 15: Table S12. List of primers used in this study
Targetable Multi-Drug Nanoparticles for Treatment of Glioblastoma with Neuroimaging Assessment
Creators: name: Smiley, Shelby B.
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cancer
Nanoparticle
Glioblastoma
Theranostic
Cancer Stem Cell
Targeted

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a deadly, malignant brain tumor with a poor long-term prognosis. The current median survival is approximately fifteen to seventeen months with the standard of care therapy which includes surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. An important factor contributing to recurrence of GBM is high resistance of GBM cancer stem cells (CSCs), for which a systemically delivered single drug approach will be unlikely to produce a viable cure. Therefore, multi-drug therapies are needed. Currently, only temozolomide (TMZ), which is a DNA alkylator, affects overall survival in GBM patients. CSCs regenerate rapidly and over-express a methyl transferase which overrides the DNA-alkylating mechanism of TMZ, leading to drug resistance. Idasanutlin (RG7388, R05503781) is a potent, selective MDM2 antagonist that additively kills GBM CSCs when combined with TMZ. By harnessing the strengths of nanotechnology, therapy can be combined with diagnostics in a truly theranostic manner for enhancing personalized medicine against GBM. The goal of this thesis was to develop a multi-drug therapy using multi-functional nanoparticles (NPs) that preferentially target the GBM CSC subpopulation and provide in vivo preclinical imaging capability. Polymer-micellar NPs composed of poly(styrene-b-ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PEO) and poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) were developed investigating both single and double emulsion fabrication techniques as well as combinations of TMZ and RG7388. The NPs were covalently bound to a 15 base-pair CD133 aptamer in order to target a specific epitope on the CD133 antigen expressed on the surface of GBM CSC subpopulation. For theranostic functionality, the NPs were also labelled with a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer, zirconium-89 (89Zr). The NPs maintained a small size of less than 100 nm, a relatively neutral charge and exhibited the ability to produce a cytotoxic effect on CSCs. There was a slight increase in killing with the aptamer-bound NPs compared to those without a targeting agent. This work has provided a potentially therapeutic option for GBM specific for CSC targeting and future in vivo biodistribution studies.
Additional file 1 of Limitation of life-sustaining therapies in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a descriptive epidemiological investigation from the COVID-ICU study
Creators: name: Giabicani, Mikhael
name: Le Terrier, Christophe
name: Poncet, Antoine
name: Guidet, Bertrand
name: Rigaud, Jean-Philippe
name: Quenot, Jean-Pierre
name: Mamzer, Marie-France
name: Pugin, Jérôme
name: Weiss, Emmanuel
name: Bourcier, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Data collection. Epidemiological data used for ICU load calculation. Definitions of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies (LST). Statistical analysis: multivariable model and list of the variables included in the model. Table E1. Modalities of LST withholding and withdrawal in the study population. Table E2. Modalities of LST withholding according to a further (or not) LST withdrawal decision. Table E3. Centre characteristics at the patient level. Table E4. Adjunct measures during ICU stay according to LST limitation status. Table E5. Time to LST decision from ICU admission according to ICU load category. Figure E1. (A) Cumulative incidence plot of time from ICU admission to first LST limitation decision, and (B) Survival probability after LST withholding or withdrawing decisions within 14 days after ICU admission involving only patients with complete data (3051 patients). Figure E2. Distribution of ICU load at the patient level. Figure E3. ICU load (%) according to LST categories. Subgroup analysis by centre size, and in patients aged ≥75 years. Table E6. Expected prevalences estimated by the multivariate model according to the number of patients in the centre. Table E7. Prevalence of decisions of LST limitations in patients aged ≥ 75 years. Figure E4. Forest plot of prevalences of decisions of LST limitations in the 15 centres with ≥ 10 patients aged ≥75 years.
Additional file 1 of Preoperative risk factors including serum levels of potassium, sodium, and creatinine for early mortality after open abdominal surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Ebrahim, Mohamed
name: Larsen, Pia Bükmann
name: Damoun Hannani
name: Liest, Sara
name: Jørgensen, Lars Nannestad
name: Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Type of surgery performed.