cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identification and characterisation of Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells in the renal tract
Creators: name: Riding, Alexandra Mary
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Innate lymphoid cells
Urinary tract infection
Bladder
Renal tract
Innate immunology

description: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) bear similarities to T-helper (Th) cells, but lack T cell receptors. The three groups mirror the effector functions of Th1, Th2 and Th17 cells and share the same transcription factors and cytokine profiles. This project focussed on type 3 ILCs (ILC3s) found primarily at mucosal surfaces with roles in immune defence, tolerance and homeostasis. The key aims were to identify ILC3s within the renal tract (bladder, ureter and kidneys) and characterise their role in urinary tract infection (UTI). UTI is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for some cases of end stage renal failure. The commonest cause of uncomplicated UTI is Uropathogenic Escherichia coli and we used this organism in murine models to interrogate the role of ILC3s within this setting. The project focussed on three vital components of effective defence: the epithelium, mononuclear phagocytes (MNPs) and ILC3s. Key findings and conclusions Numbers of ILC3s and MNPs in the renal tract increased during UTI, as did their key products, interleukin 17 (IL-17a), IL-22 and granulocyte macrophage – colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). By using Rag2 knockout mice (lacking T and B lymphocytes), we demonstrated that IL-17 was further decreased by ILC-depletion. Furthermore, we showed reciprocal loss of MNP recruitment, indicating pathways of ILC3-MNP crosstalk during UTI. Demonstrating a mechanism for ILC3 activation by MNPs through IL-23a and IL-1β production proved challenging, indicating the complexity of the system and requirements for co-stimulation. Similarly, mechanisms of IL-22-induced epithelial repair through production of antimicrobial peptides and induction of cell cycle genes proved multifactorial in origin, but carried particular importance within the bladder. This project also described ILC3s within the human renal tract by utilising tissues from transplant donors and genomic investigation of tissue-resident cells within the bladder was performed. This novel data will form an invaluable research resource.
description: Evelyn Trust/NIHR Clinical Fellowship Wellcome Trust Clinicians PhD Fellowship
Fabrication of Designable and Suspended Microfibres via Low Voltage Electrospinning Patterning towards Replicating Extracellular Matrix Cues for Tissue Assembly
Creators: name: Gill, Elisabeth Lauren
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: electrospinning
biofabrication
3d printing
3d cell culture
suspended fibre patterning
low voltage

description: Lab-grown tissues have tremendous potential to accelerate drug discovery and identify some of the underlying mechanisms behind diseases. The native extracellular matrix (ECM) of tissues is a complex, hierarchical fibrous protein structure with delicate mechanical properties that guides tissue assembly and regeneration. Existing biomaterial fabrication techniques struggle to simultaneously attain: micro/nano-scale fibril feature resolution, low bulk stiffness and the 3D organisation crucially provided by the ECM without comprising cell motility. This work utilises 3D printing and low voltage electrospinning patterning synergistically to address these conflicting engineering challenges and act as a minimalist guide for 3D cell growth. A version of low voltage electrospinning patterning was adapted as a sequential process on a modified 3D printer. Applied voltage and 3D printed geometry can modulate the suspended behaviour of electrospun fibres that span between 3D printed support pillars, a parametric study characterised threshold conditions and established a predictive model for patterning suspended fibres. The accuracy with which suspended fibres followed the in-plane tool path was also assessed. Scanning Electron Microscopy imaging measured fibre diameters 1-5 μm and mechanical testing examines the properties for a given layer of dry fibres. The configuration demonstrated unique patterning of stacked suspended fibre layers in multiple orientations. Tissue scaffolding applications were explored in 2D and 3D. In 2D, gelatin fibres were patterned as a topographic cue to direct mesenchymal stem cells towards the osteogenic lineage. For 3D cell culture, the use of suspended fibre devices was investigated to improve the efficiency of cerebral organoid assembly. Pursuing these applications led to further refinement of the fibre fabrication technique and the development of targeted cell seeding strategies on suspended fibre structures. Glioblastoma cell aggregates were cultured on suspended fibre devices. Fibres guided the outgrowth of cancer cells from the aggregates, mimicking the topography of white matter tracts that assist migration in vivo. Cells assemble into dense (~200 μm depth) tissue structures with necrotic cores, that can remodel the fibre network yet are guided by the underlying fibre organisation. This novel method of patterning suspended microfibres from solution offers several avenues of inquiry to mimic ECM topography and complex material functionality.
description: WD Armstrong Trust the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, EP/M018989/1) European Research Council (ERC-StG, 758865)
title: 01_2258
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
COMPARATIVE PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENT DURING PRE AND POST LIBERATION PERIOD IN BANGLADESH TEA INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Gazi, M. S.
name: Saha, J. K.
name: Gazi, M. S.
name: Saha, J. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The yield of Bangladesh tea during post liberation period increased significantly from 746 kg/ha in 1974 to 1057 kg/ha in 1993 with an average linear rate of 1.15 percent per annum as against 0.04 percent in pre-liberation period. The rate of increase in yield during post-liberation period is significantly higher than that in pre-liberation period. Inspite of significantly lower growth rate of area under tea in post-liberation period compared to pre-liberation period the annual production in post-liberation period increased from 32.16 mkg in 1974 to 50.60 mkg in 1993 with an average linear rate of 2.16 percent per annum as against 1.90 percent in pre-liberation period. Higher rate of growth in tea industry in post-liberation period might be due to technological revolution in tea culture in the form of adoption and introduction of high yielding vegetative clones, intensive cultivation of tea, higher efficiency of management and increase in technical knowledge of planters, etc. which imparted a fresh momentum to the growth of tea plantation in Bangladesh.
ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples
Creators: name: Wu, Renzhi
name: Chaba, Sanya
name: Sawlani, Saurabh
name: Chu, Xu
name: Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Entity resolution (ER) refers to the problem of matching records in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. While supervised machine learning (ML) approaches achieve the state-of-the-art results, they require a large amount of labeled examples that are expensive to obtain and often times infeasible. We investigate an important problem that vexes practitioners: is it possible to design an effective algorithm for ER that requires Zero labeled examples, yet can achieve performance comparable to supervised approaches? In this paper, we answer in the affirmative through our proposed approach dubbed ZeroER. Our approach is based on a simple observation -- the similarity vectors for matches should look different from that of unmatches. Operationalizing this insight requires a number of technical innovations. First, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model based on Gaussian Mixture Models for learning the match and unmatch distributions. Second, we propose an adaptive regularization technique customized for ER that ameliorates the issue of feature overfitting. Finally, we incorporate the transitivity property into the generative model in a novel way resulting in improved accuracy. On five benchmark ER datasets, we show that ZeroER greatly outperforms existing unsupervised approaches and achieves comparable performance to supervised approaches.
description: Published at 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Measurement of Arcminute Scale Anisotropy with the BIMA Array
Creators: name: Dawson, K. S.
name: Holzapfel, W. L.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: LaRoque, S. J.
name: Miller, A.
name: Nagai, D.
name: Joy, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of our continued study of arcminute scale anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array. The survey consists of ten independent fields selected for low infrared dust emission and lack of bright radio point sources. With observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) at 4.8 GHz, we have identified point sources which could act as contaminants in estimates of the CMB power spectrum and removed them in the analysis. Modeling the observed power spectrum with a single flat band power with average multipole of \ell_{eff}=6864, we find dT=14.2^{+4.8}_{-6.0} μK at 68% confidence. The signal in the visibility data exceeds the expected contribution from instrumental noise with 96.5% confidence. We have also divided the data into two bins corresponding to different spatial resolutions in the power spectrum. We find dT_1=16.6^{+5.3}_{-5.9} μK at 68% confidence for CMB flat band power described by an average multipole of \ell_{eff}=5237 and dT_2<26.5 μK at 95% confidence for \ell_{eff}=8748.
description: Revised to match version accepted by ApJ
Sciodrepoides watsoni subsp. watsoni watsoni (Spence 1815
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Sciodrepoides
Sciodrepoides watsoni
Sciodrepoides watsoni watsoni (spence, 1815)

description: Sciodrepoides watsoni watsoni (Spence, 1815)
 Literature records. Sassari prov.: Golfo Aranci (Zoia & Latella 2006); Cossoine, Grotta Sa Ucca ‘e Mammuscone (180 Sa/SS) (Giachino et al. 2006; Zoia & Latella 2006).
 Distribution. The species, treated in the wider sense of Perreau (2000), is spread in North America, Europe and Asia. In Italy the species, with the subspecies watsoni, is spread in the whole mainland and in Sicily. It normally lives in the most superficial layers of the litter and at the entrance of caves.
Chorotype. Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 298
Observation of magnetic solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Farolfi, A.
name: Trypogeorgos, D.
name: Mordini, C.
name: Lamporesi, G.
name: Ferrari, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate the dynamics of spin solitary waves (magnetic solitons) in a harmonically trapped, binary superfluid mixture. We measure the in-situ density of each pseudospin component and their relative local phase via an interferometric technique we developed, and as such, fully characterise the magnetic solitons while they undergo oscillatory motion in the trap. Magnetic solitons exhibit non-dispersive, dissipationless long-time dynamics. By imprinting multiple magnetic solitons in our ultracold gas sample, we engineer binary collisions between solitons of either same or opposite magnetisation and map out their trajectories.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Evaluation of Compressive Strength of Manganese Oxidized Ore Briquettes: Effects of Compaction Pressure, Curing Time, and Percentage of Binder
Creators: name: de Melo Silva Cheloni, Letícia Maria
name: Cota, Tiany Guedes
name: Reis, Érica Linhares
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Agglomeration is a common process to safely recycle wastes from the mining and metallurgical sectors. In this process, the mineralogical and chemical characteristics of manganese ores exert a significant influence on the reduction reactions within the electric furnace. Therefore, a systematic work has been done to evaluate the compressive strength of briquettes composed of manganese oxidized ore fines, ferromanganese dust, charcoal fines, and three different binders, bentonite, pregelatinized starch, and slaked lime + molasses. A response surface methodology was used to evaluate the effects of compaction pressure, curing time, and % binder, whose response was measured in terms of compressive strength. The results were assessed by Analysis of Variance and a regression model was generated. The study showed that briquettes with bentonite demonstrated an optimized compressive strength of 2.54 MPa with a compaction pressure of 52.5 MPa, 11 days of curing time, and 11.5% bentonite content. Briquettes with slaked lime + molasses achieved a compressive strength of 3.70 MPa with a compaction pressure of 62.12 MPa, a curing time of 24 days, and an addition of 16.2% slaked lime + molasses. For briquettes produced with pre-gelatinized starch, the design of the proposed variables resulted in a lack of fit to the model. Optimization studies revealed that briquettes made with bentonite and slaked lime + molasses are viable alternatives to replace oxidized lump ore in electric furnaces.
How to make money: Distributive justice, finance, and monetary constitutions
Creators: name: Van 'T Klooster, Johannes Maria
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Distributive justice
Finance
Money
Democracy

description: A capitalist society has two defining features. The first is well-known. A capitalist economy leaves coordination of exchange and production largely to private authority. The dissertation investigates a second feature. In a capitalist economy, individuals and firms coordinate exchange through contracts that involve obligations to pay money. Financial contracts allow individuals to defer payment and save money for expenditures at a later point in time. My dissertation assigns a crucial role to the structure of institutions and to the rules that create and define the authority over money. I refer to such a structure as a monetary constitution. In existing capitalist societies, money is not entirely under public control, as proponents of socialism or full reserve banking require. Nor is it entirely in private hands as libertarian free bankers would ideally have it. Instead, the supply of money to the economy takes place through a hierarchical order of money creation. Money issued by the central bank stands at the top of the hierarchy. Below it, private financial institutions issue different forms of credit money. In this sense, the monetary constitution is a hybrid of both public and private authority over money. Political philosophy has said virtually nothing about the authority over money. I aim to persuade the reader that this is a grave neglect. The three main claims of the dissertation are: 1. Money and finance are central to any account of distributive justice that is adequate for a capitalist society. 2. There are five objections to unregulated private money creation. 3. Existing monetary constitutions need fundamental reform. In support of the first claim, I argue that money is a crucial metric for any theory of distributive justice that is adequate for a capitalist society. I also put forward a new account of the crucial role of credit and saving in realising a fair intertemporal distribution. Finally, the second and third claims support the first claim where it concerns the authority over money. In support of the second claim, I argue that unregulated private money creation leads to (1) financial instability, (2) macroeconomic instability, (3) unsustainable use of natural resources, (4) an unfair distribution of economic means, and (5) an undemocratic concentration of political power. I also put forward a new account of why financial instability matters from the perspective of distributive justice. In support of the third claim, I argue for the incremental abolition of private money creation. Although the delegation of public money creation to an independent central bank is not objectionable in principle, I go on to argue that existing mandates are insufficiently democratic and need reform.
Renormalization of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Equations in the Case of a Zero Range Pairing Interaction
Creators: name: Bulgac, Aurel
name: Yu, Yongle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a natural and simple to implement renormalization scheme of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations for the case of zero range pairing interaction. This renormalization scheme proves to be equivalent to a simple energy cut-off with a position dependent running coupling constant.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. The text has changed somewhat, replaced the figure with a different one, however initial assumptions and conclusions remained unchanged
Growth of spinel oxide thin films for high efficiency room temperature spin filtering
Creators: name: Mesoraca, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Spintronics
Superconductivity
Thin Films

description: In this thesis, the potential of all-spinel oxide tunnel junctions in the field of spintronics has been investigated. In particular, the suitability of the metallic and superconducting LiTi2O4 as non-magnetic electrode in an almost defect-free CoFe2O4-based spin-filter tunnel junction has been explored. For this purpose, high-quality spinel LiTi2O4 and CoFe2O4 thin films have been deposited by pulsed laser deposition on MgAl2O4 substrates. Both films were extensively characterised in terms of structural, surface, magnetic and transport properties. The LiTi2O4 showed metallic and superconducting properties, and the CoFe2O4 had insulating and ferromagnetic properties. A careful tuning of the different growth conditions of these oxides followed in order to grow CoFe2O4/LiTi2O4 bilayers in which LiTi2O4 maintains its metallic and superconducting properties and CoFe2O4 its insulating ferromagnetic characteristics. Transport measurements at low temperature have been carried out to explore details of the tunnelling in symmetric tunnel junctions of the form LiTi2O4/CoFe2O4/LiTi2O4. The measured current–voltage characteristics of these junctions revealed clear Josephson junction behaviour due to superconductivity of the LiTi2O4 electrodes. This conclusive evidence of the tunnel nature of these junctions proves that LiTi2O4 can be used as bottom electrode in all-spinel oxide tunnel junctions.
Roles for Computing in Social Change
Creators: name: Abebe, Rediet
name: Barocas, Solon
name: Kleinberg, Jon
name: Levy, Karen
name: Raghavan, Manish
name: Robinson, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A recent normative turn in computer science has brought concerns about fairness, bias, and accountability to the core of the field. Yet recent scholarship has warned that much of this technical work treats problematic features of the status quo as fixed, and fails to address deeper patterns of injustice and inequality. While acknowledging these critiques, we posit that computational research has valuable roles to play in addressing social problems -- roles whose value can be recognized even from a perspective that aspires toward fundamental social change. In this paper, we articulate four such roles, through an analysis that considers the opportunities as well as the significant risks inherent in such work. Computing research can serve as a diagnostic, helping us to understand and measure social problems with precision and clarity. As a formalizer, computing shapes how social problems are explicitly defined --- changing how those problems, and possible responses to them, are understood. Computing serves as rebuttal when it illuminates the boundaries of what is possible through technical means. And computing acts as synecdoche when it makes long-standing social problems newly salient in the public eye. We offer these paths forward as modalities that leverage the particular strengths of computational work in the service of social change, without overclaiming computing's capacity to solve social problems on its own.
Triangular color codes on trivalent graphs with flag qubits
Creators: name: Chamberland, Christopher
name: Kubica, Aleksander
name: Yoder, Theodore J.
name: Zhu, Guanyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The color code is a topological quantum error-correcting code supporting a variety of valuable fault-tolerant logical gates. Its two-dimensional version, the triangular color code, may soon be realized with currently available superconducting hardware despite constrained qubit connectivity. To guide this experimental effort, we study the storage threshold of the triangular color code against circuit-level depolarizing noise. First, we adapt the Restriction Decoder to the setting of the triangular color code and to phenomenological noise. Then, we propose a fault-tolerant implementation of the stabilizer measurement circuits, which incorporates flag qubits. We show how information from flag qubits can be used with the Restriction Decoder to maintain the effective distance of the code. We numerically estimate the threshold of the triangular color code to be 0.2%, which is competitive with the thresholds of other topological quantum codes. We also prove that 1-flag stabilizer measurement circuits are sufficient to preserve the full code distance, which may be used to find simpler syndrome extraction circuits of the color code.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures, Comments welcome! v2 fixes a typo in Fig. 3 and conforms to journal specifications. v3 fixes an issue with the distance scaling of the Restriction Decoder
Additional file 1: of Is preterm birth associated with asthma among children from birth to 17 years old? -A study based on 2011-2012 US National Survey of Childrenâ s Health
Creators: name: Zhang, Jie
name: Ma, Chenchao
name: Yang, Aimin
name: Zhang, Rongqiang
name: Gong, Jiannan
name: Mo, Fengfeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Variables, Original Survey Questions, and Recoded factors Used in analyses of 2011-2012 data from NSCH. Table S2. Correlations among preterm birth and other covariates. (DOCX 23 kb)
Aspects of the thermal phase transition of QCD with small chemical potential
Creators: name: Ejiri, S.
name: Allton, C. R.
name: Hands, S. J.
name: Kaczmarek, O.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Scorzato, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method to investigate the thermal properties of QCD with a small chemical potential $(μ)$. The derivatives of the phase transition point with respect to $μ$ are computed for 2 flavors of p4-improved staggered fermions. We moreover comment on the complex phase of the fermion determinant in finite-density QCD.
description: Lattice2001(hightemp), 3pages, 3figures
Additional file 1 of LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio is associated with new-onset NAFLD in Chinese non-obese people with normal lipids: a 5-year longitudinal cohort study
Creators: name: Zou, Yang
name: Zhong, Ling
name: Hu, Chong
name: Zhong, Mingchun
name: Peng, Nan
name: Sheng, Guotai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The description of missing data. Table S2. Collinearity diagnostics steps. Table S3. Results of multivariate linear regression among original data and post-imputation data. Table S4. Results of multivariate linear regression among original data and post-imputation data. Table S5. Results of multivariate linear regression among original data and post-imputation data. Table S6. Stratified associations between LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio and NAFLD by sex, age, and FPG.
OPTIMUM LAND USE PATTERN AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A GROWING ECONOMY: A CLOSED MODEL APPROACH
Creators: name: Alam, M. S.
name: Elias, S. M.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Alam, M. S.
name: Elias, S. M.
name: Rahman, M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The paper examines land use pattern for the small farmers at the farming systems research site, Jessore and attempts at developing optimum land use pattern considering available resources. Linear programming was used for optimizing resources. The results revealed a considerable divergence between the existing and optimum plans under both limited and borrowed capital situations. The resources were not found optimally allocated and after optimization, gross margin and employment of labour could be increased. Tractor/power tiller utilization increased under borrowed capital situation, while labour employment and tractor/power tiller utilization decreased under limited capital situation. This suggests that capital acted as a severe constraint. Cereal based cropping patterns showed dominance in both the existing and optimum plans. The optimum plans affected tenurial groups differently because of inter-tenurial variation in resource endowment and management. It is suggested that strengthening of the extension services and market network, besides a strong financial support, would go a long way in improving the prospects of the small farmers of the study area.
A model of glueballs
Creators: name: Buniy, Roman V.
name: Kephart, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the observed glueball mass spectrum in terms of energies for tightly knotted and linked QCD flux tubes. The data is fit well with one parameter. We predict additional glueball masses.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; minor changes, comments added, typos corrected
Ovobathysciola grafittii Rampini & Sbordoni 1980
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Ovobathysciola
Ovobathysciola grafittii

description: Ovobathysciola grafittii Rampini & Sbordoni, 1980
 Literature records. Sassari prov.: Pozzomaggiore, Badde, Grotta Badde or Su Guanu (143 Sa/SS) (Rampini & Sbordoni 1980; Sbordoni et al. 1982; Prota 1986; Grafitti 1987; Casale 1991, 1992; Grafitti 1996b, 2001a, 2002a; Mucedda et al. 2002; Pisano et al. 2003; De Waele & Grafitti 2004; Zoia & Latella 2006).
Distribution. North-West Sardinia, known only from the type locality.
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean (Sardinian endemic).
Remarks. For unclear reasons, given the unchanged conditions, this species has not been collected in the Grotta Badde cave in recent years (A. Casale, G. Grafitti and P. Marcia, several observations). On the other hand, some specimens were recently collected (13.VII.2007) in deep soil from oak and laurel woodlands outside the cave (P. Magrini pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 299
DL-PDE: Deep-learning based data-driven discovery of partial differential equations from discrete and noisy data
Creators: name: Xu, Hao
name: Chang, Haibin
name: Zhang, Dongxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, data-driven methods have been developed to learn dynamical systems and partial differential equations (PDE). The goal of such work is discovering unknown physics and the corresponding equations. However, prior to achieving this goal, major challenges remain to be resolved, including learning PDE under noisy data and limited discrete data. To overcome these challenges, in this work, a deep-learning based data-driven method, called DL-PDE, is developed to discover the governing PDEs of underlying physical processes. The DL-PDE method combines deep learning via neural networks and data-driven discovery of PDE via sparse regressions. In the DL-PDE, a neural network is first trained, and then a large amount of meta-data is generated, and the required derivatives are calculated by automatic differentiation. Finally, the form of PDE is discovered by sparse regression. The proposed method is tested with physical processes, governed by groundwater flow equation, convection-diffusion equation, Burgers equation and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, for proof-of-concept and applications in real-world engineering settings. The proposed method achieves satisfactory results when data are noisy and limited.
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPINION LEADERS AND NON LEADERS IN DIFFERENTIALLY DEVELOPED VILLAGES OF BANGLADESH.
Creators: name: Hossain, Shah M. Alamgir
name: Hossain, Shah M. Alamgir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This study examines the factors differentiating opinion leaders from non-leaders in a relatively progressive and less progressive village employing discriminant analysis technique. Data for this study were gathered using pre-tested personal interview schedule from 109 and 108 respondents respectively in the progressive and less progressive villages of Muktagacha Union in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. Characteristics differentiating opinion leaders from non-leaders varied from relative progressiveness of the villages in Bangladesh. In the progressive village both noneconomic and economic set of variables were equally efficient in differentating opinion leaders from non-leaders. To the contrary, non-economic set of variables is more able to discriminate opinion leaders from non-leaders than the economic set. Determining such characteristics differentiating opinion leaders from non-leaders would help extension workers to work with them rather than working with the individuals not largely accepted in the group.
Power-Law Time Distribution of Large Earthquakes
Creators: name: Mega, Mirko S.
name: Allegrini, Paolo
name: Grigolini, Paolo
name: Latora, Vito
name: Palatella, Luigi
name: Rapisarda, Andrea
name: Vinciguerra, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistical properties of time distribution of seimicity in California by means of a new method of analysis, the Diffusion Entropy. We find that the distribution of time intervals between a large earthquake (the main shock of a given seismic sequence) and the next one does not obey Poisson statistics, as assumed by the current models. We prove that this distribution is an inverse power law with an exponent $μ=2.06 \pm 0.01$. We propose the Long-Range model, reproducing the main properties of the diffusion entropy and describing the seismic triggering mechanisms induced by large earthquakes.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Revised version accepted for publication. Typos corrected, more detailed discussion on the method used, refs added. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2003) in press
MOESM1 of Association of Japan Coma Scale score on hospital arrival with in-hospital mortality among trauma patients
Creators: name: Yumoto, Tetsuya
name: Naito, Hiromichi
name: Yorifuji, Takashi
name: Aokage, Toshiyuki
name: Noritomo Fujisaki
name: Nakao, Atsunori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Japan Coma Scale scoring.
An Energy-Optimal Framework for Assignment and Trajectory Generation in Teams of Autonomous Agents
Creators: name: Beaver, Logan E.
name: Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we present an approach for solving the problem of moving $N$ homogeneous agents into $M \geq N$ goal locations along energy-minimizing trajectories. We propose a decentralized framework that only requires knowledge of the goal locations and partial observations of the global state by each agent. The framework includes guarantees on safety through dynamic constraints, and a method to impose a dynamic, global priority ordering on the agents. A solution to the goal assignment and trajectory generation problems are derived in the form of a binary program and a nonlinear system of equations. Then, we present the conditions for optimality and characterize the conditions under which our algorithm is guaranteed to converge to a unique assignment of agents to goals. We also solve the fully constrained decentralized trajectory generation problem considering the state, control, and safety constraints. Finally, we validate the efficacy of our approach through a numerical simulation in MATLAB.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Removing 1/f noise stripes in cosmic microwave background anisotropy observations
Creators: name: Maino, D.
name: Burigana, C.
name: Gorski, K. M.
name: Mandolesi, N.
name: Bersanelli, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Removal of systematic effects is crucial in present and future CMB experiments mapping large fraction of the sky. Accurate CMB measurements ask for multi-feed array instruments observing the sky with a redundant scanning strategy covering the same region of the sky on different time scales and with different detectors for a better control of systematic effects. We investigate here the capability to suppress 1/f noise features in Time Ordered Data (TOD) by using the destriping technique described in Maino et al. (1999), under realistic assumptions for crossing condition between different scan circles and sky signal fluctuations on small angular scales. We consider as working case, Planck-LFI simulated observations with few arminutes pixel size convolved with LFI beam resolutions. We also extend the analysis to high values of the knee-frequency and found a residual additional noise rms ~31% larger than the pure white noise rms at fk=1 Hz which could be a critical issue in the extraction of the CMB angular power spectrum. Furthermore we verified that destriping quality does not significantly depend on the receiver sensitivity whereas it improves proportionally to the improvement of sampling rate. Therefore given a noise level, the higher the sampling rate, the better the destriping quality.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication on A&A
OFF-FARM LABOUR DECISIONS BY FARMERS IN NORTHWEST SELANGOR INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (IADP) IN MALAYSIA
Creators: name: Radam, Alias
name: AbdLatif, Ismail
name: Radam, Alias
name: AbdLatif, Ismail
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Farmers are constantly faced with employment decisions off the farm. To work off farm would definitely increase their incomes but this will affect their farming jobs. This study analyses the farm labour decision making process of farmers in an IADP in Selangor, Malaysia. Results indicate the consistency of labour allocation decisions as in other past studies. Farmers do response rationally to favourable economic stimuli off the farm with respect to the labour supply decision making process.
MOESM1 of Associations between mental health competence and indicators of physical health and cognitive development in eleven year olds: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Creators: name: Hope, Steven
name: Rougeaux, Emeline
name: Deighton, Jessica
name: Law, Catherine
name: Pearce, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Analyses with complete cases samples (Tables S1-S4); Mental Health Competence Latent Class Analyses (Tables S5-S7); additional analyses with multiple imputation samples (Tables S8 and S9).
Ovobathysciola Casale & Grafitti & Latella 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Ovobathysciola

description: Ovobathysciola sp. nov. Casale, in litteris
Literature records. Oristano prov.: caves near Asuni (Grafitti 1996b; Caccone & Sbordoni 2001; Grafitti 2001a; De Waele & Grafitti 2004; Magrini & Fancello 2005).
Distribution. Central Sardinia.
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean (Sardinian endemic).
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 301
Development of Alternative Wheat and Corn Price Forecasting Models
Creators: name: O'Brien, Daniel
name: Wisner, Robert
name: O'Brien, Daniel
name: Wisner, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Models of U.S. corn and wheat prices are estimated for the purpose of making forecasts of futures and average cash prices. The supply-demand based price models developed are based on economic theory with attention given to the econometric properties of both the models and the data series involved in their estimation. Forecast results for these models during 1994-1996 are comparable to that of associated corn and wheat futures contracts. These price forecast models may provide valuable information to forecasters regarding future price direction and the responsiveness of corn and wheat prices to potential changes in supply-demand factors.
Supplementary Matrial from Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species
Creators: name: Curran, Emma V.
name: Scott, Matilda S.
name: Olofsson, Jill K.
name: Nyirenda, Florence
name: Sotelo, Graciela
name: Bianconi, Matheus E.
name: Manzi, Sophie
name: Besnard, Guillaume
name: Pereira, Lara
name: Christin, Pascal-Antoine
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Combined pdf containing nine supplementary figures and three supplementary tables
Critical site percolation in high dimension
Creators: name: Heydenreich, Markus
name: Matzke, Kilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 82B43

description: We use the lace expansion to prove an infra-red bound for site percolation on the hypercubic lattice in high dimension. This implies the triangle condition and allows us to derive several critical exponents that characterize mean-field behavior in high dimensions.
description: 30 pages. Presentation revised
Physics of Antiproton Nuclear Interactions near Threshold
Creators: name: Gal, Avraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antiproton-nucleus optical potentials fitted to $\bar p$-atom level shifts and widths are used to calculate the recently reported very low energy ($p_{L}<100$ MeV/c) $\bar p$ cross sections for annihilation on light nuclei. The apparent suppression of annihilation upon increasing the atomic charge $Z$ and mass number $A$ is resolved as due to the strong effective repulsion produced by the very absorptive optical potential which keeps the $\bar p$-nucleus wavefunction substantially outside the nuclear surface, so that the resulting reaction cross section saturates as function of the strength of Im $V_{\rm opt}$. This feature, for $E >0$, parallels the recent prediction, for $E < 0$, that the level widths of $\bar p$ atoms saturate and, hence, that $\bar p$ deeply bound atomic states are relatively narrow. Predictions are made for $\bar p$ annihilation cross sections over the entire periodic table at these very low energies and the systematics of the calculated cross sections as function of $A$, $Z$ and $E$ are discussed and explained in terms of a Coulomb-modified strong-absorption model. Finally, optical potentials which fit simultaneously low-energy $\bar p - ^4$He observables for $E < 0$ as well as for $E > 0$ are used to assess the reliability of extracting Coulomb modified $\bar p$ nuclear scattering lengths directly from the data.
description: 8 pages including 4 figures; invited talk at the Third International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, Trieste, May 2001. To be published in Nucl. Phys. A
Digital breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography) for breast cancer screening and for assessment of screen-recalled findings: review of the evidence
Creators: name: Li, Tong
name: Marinovich, Michael Luke
name: Houssami, Nehmat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Introduction: Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) addresses some of the limitations of digital mammography (DM) by reducing the effect of overlapping tissue. Emerging data have shown that DBT increases breast cancer (BC) detection and reduces recall in BC screening programs. Studies have also suggested that DBT improves assessment of screen-recalled findings. Areas covered: Studies of DBT for population BC screening and those for assessment of screen-detected findings were reviewed to provide an up-to-date summary of the evidence on DBT in the screening setting. A systematic literature search was conducted for each of the topics; study-specific information and/or quantitative data on detection or accuracy were extracted and collated in tables. Expert commentary: The evidence on DBT for BC screening reinforces that DBT integrated with DM increases cancer detection rates compared to DM alone, although the extent of improved detection varied between studies. The effect of DBT on recall rates was heterogeneous with substantial reductions evident noticeably in retrospective comparative studies. The evidence on DBT for workup was sparse and those studies had limitations related to design and methods. Even though the majority showed improved specificity using DBT compared with conventional imaging, there was little evidence on how DBT impacts assessment outcomes.
Long-distance dissipation-assisted transport of entangled states via a chiral waveguide
Creators: name: Mok, Wai-Keong
name: Aghamalyan, Davit
name: You, Jia-Bin
name: Haug, Tobias
name: Zhang, Wenzu
name: Png, Ching Eng
name: Kwek, Leong-Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum networks provide a prominent platform for realizing quantum information processing and quantum communication, with entanglement being a key resource in such applications. Here, we describe the dissipative transport protocol for entangled states, where entanglement stored in the first node of quantum network can be transported with high fidelity to the second node via a 1D chiral waveguide. In particular, we exploit the directional asymmetry in chirally-coupled single-mode ring resonators to transport entangled states. For the fully chiral waveguide, Bell states, multipartite $W$-states and and Dicke states can be transported with fidelity as high as $0.954$, despite the fact that the communication channel is noisy. Our proposal can be utilized for long-distance distribution of multipartite entangled states between the quantum nodes of the open quantum network.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures