cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Waist Circumference Trajectories in Relation to Blood Pressure and the Risk of Hypertension in Chinese Adults
Creators: name: Wang, H.
name: Song, X.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Du, W.
name: Su, C.
name: Du, S.
name: Wang, Q.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Zhang, X.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Central obesity is associated with a higher risk of hypertension. This study aimed to analyze waist circumference (WC) trajectories and discover their association with blood pressure and the risk of hypertension. The data were obtained from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), with a sample of 11,885 adults aged 18 or older. Trajectory groups of WC were identified by group-based trajectory modeling. Three trajectory groups were identified in males: “normal-stable group” (group 1), “normal-increase to central obesity group” (group 2), and “central obesity-slight decrease group” (group 3). There were also three identified in females: “normal-increase to central obesity group” (group 1), “normal-stable group” (group 2), and “central obesity-increase group” (group 3). For males, compared with group 1, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) increased by 2.47 mmHg and 2.13 mmHg, respectively, in group 2, and by 3.07 mmHg and 2.54 mmHg, respectively, in group 3. The adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of hypertension in groups 2 and 3 were 1.16 (1.06–1.28) and 1.29 (1.10–1.50), respectively. For females, compared with group 2, SBP and DBP increased by 1.69 mmHg and 1.68 mmHg, respectively, in group 1, and by 4.96 mmHg and 2.77 mmHg, respectively, in group 3. The HR and 95% CI of hypertension in groups 2 and 3 were 1.21 (1.07–1.36) and 1.52(1.17–1.99), respectively. We found that the WC trajectory was a risk factor for hypertension and elevated blood pressure independent of basal WC. Increased risk of hypertension was nonlinearly associated with annual WC increase.
Cosmological Analysis of Pilgrim Dark Energy in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Jawad, Abdul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposal of pilgrim dark energy is based on speculation that phantom-like dark energy (with strong enough resistive force) can prevent black hole formation in the universe. We explore this phenomenon in loop quantum cosmology framework by taking Hubble horizon as an infra-red cutoff in pilgrim dark energy. We evaluate the cosmological parameters such as Hubble, equation of state parameter, squared speed of sound and also cosmological planes like $ω_{\vartheta}-ω'_{\vartheta}$ and $r-s$ on the basis of pilgrim dark energy parameter ($u$) and interacting parameter ($d^2$). It is found that values of Hubble parameter lies in the range $74^{+0.005}_{-0.005}$. It is mentioned here that equation state parameter lies within the ranges $-1\mp0.00005$ for $u=2, 1$ and $(-1.12,-1), (-5,-1)$ for $u=-1,-2$, respectively. Also, $ω_{\vartheta}-ω'_{\vartheta}$ planes provide $Λ$CDM limit, freezing and thawing regions for all cases of $u$. It is also interesting to mention here that $ω_{\vartheta}-ω'_{\vartheta}$ planes lie in the range ($ω_{\vartheta}=-1.13^{+0.24}_{-0.25}, ω'_{\vartheta}<1.32$). In addition, $r-s$ planes also corresponds to $Λ$CDM for all cases of $u$. Finally, it is remarked that all the above constraints of cosmological parameters shows consistency with different observational data like Planck, WP, BAO, $H_0$ and SNLS.
description: 22 pages, 20 Figures
SCOAP³ – Towards a second phase
Creators: name: Kutz, Angelika
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : IOS Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: SCOAP3
subject: Gold Open Access
subject: High Energy Physics
subject: flipping model
subject: CC-BY
subject: no costs for authors
subject: text- and datamining
subject: CERN
subject: TIB Hannover
subject: 530

description: The global partnership SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) has reached the conversion of high-quality subscription journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access through redirection of existing subscription funds by installing the SCOAP3 Gold Open Access Repository providing free access to scientific articles in the field of High Energy Physics. This article describes the steps taken to enable a second phase (2017–2019) of this international project based on an output-based (fair share) financing model.
Additional file 2 of Collision of herbal medicine and nanotechnology: a bibliometric analysis of herbal nanoparticles from 2004 to 2023
Creators: name: Ai, Sinan
name: Li, Yake
name: Zheng, Huijuan
name: Zhang, Meiling
name: Tao, Jiayin
name: Liu, Weijing
name: Peng, Liang
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Wang, Yaoxian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Keywords clusters information by Vosviewer.
Comparison of robot-assisted thoracic surgery versus video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies
Creators: name: HUANG, SHIBO
name: Liang, WeiMing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321104
subject: Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy)

description: Backgroud: There is still controversy about whether robot-assisted thoracic surgery(RATS) is better between than video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in the treatment of patients with lung cancer. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of RATS with VATS for lung cancer.Methods:The four databases(PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Cochrane Library)were comprehensively searched for prospective studies comparing the outcomes of RATS and VATS in the treatment of lung cancer from inception to 22 July 2023.Meta-analyses of operative time, estimated blood loss,conversion, the number of dissected lymph nodes and stations, length of hospital stay, postoperative duration of drainage,postoperative complications,30-day mortality,30-day readmission were performed.
SARS-CoV-2 Environmental contamination in hospital rooms is uncommon using viral culture techniques
Creators: name: Graves, Amanda
name: Addison, Bechtler
name: Smith, Becky A
name: Lewis, Sarah
name: Anderson, Deverick J
name: Weber, David J
name: CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
name: Warren, Bobby G
name: Sickbert-Bennett, Emily E
name: Barrett, Aaron
name: Gray, Gregory
name: Binder, Raquel
name: Nelson, Alicia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: We assessed environmental contamination of inpatient rooms housing COVID-19 patients in a dedicated COVID-19 unit. Contamination with SARS-CoV-2 was found on 5.5% (19/347) of surfaces via RT-PCR and 0.3% (1/347) of surfaces via cell culture. Environmental contamination is uncommon in hospitals rooms; RNA presence is not a specific indicator of infectious virus.
Small Field Size for Secure Network Coding
Creators: name: Guang, Xuan
name: Lu, Jiyong
name: Fu, Fang-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In network coding, information transmission often encounters wiretapping attacks. Secure network coding is introduced to prevent information from being leaked to adversaries. For secure linear network codes (SLNCs), the required field size is a very important index, because it largely determines the computational and space complexities of a SLNC, and it is also very important for the process of secure network coding from theoretical research to practical application. In this letter, we further discuss the required field size of SLNCs, and obtain a new lower bound. This bound shows that the field size of SLNCs can be reduced further, and much smaller than the known results for almost all cases.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters. One column,10 pages
Deformation induced structural evolution in bulk metallic glasses
Creators: name: Wang, Gang
name: Mattern, Norbert
name: Bednarčí, Jozef
name: Xia, Lei
name: Zhai, QiJie
name: Dong, YuanDa
name: Eckert, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Bulk metallic glasses
subject: high energy X-ray diffraction
subject: deformation
subject: structural evolution
subject: 620

description: The structural behavior of binary Cu50Zr50 and ternary Cu50Zr45Ti5 bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) under applied stress was investigated by means of in-situ high energy X-ray synchrotron diffraction. The components of the strain tensors were determined from the shifts of the maxima of the atomic pair correlation functions (PDF) in real space. The anisotropic atomic reorientation in the first-nearest-neighbor shell versus stress suggests structural rearrangements in short-range order. Within the plastic deformation range the overall strain of the metallic glass is equal to the yield strain. After unloading, the atomic structure returns to the stress-free state, and the short-range order is identical to that of the undeformed state. Plastic deformation, however, leads to localized shear bands whose contribution to the volume averaged diffraction pattern is too weak to be detected. A concordant region evidenced by the anisotropic component is activated to counterbalance the stress change due to the atomic bond reorientation in the first-nearest-neighbor shell. The size of the concordant region is an important factor dominating the yield strength and the plastic strain ability of the BMGs.
Additional file 1 of Blood leukocytes as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for thyroid nodules: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Wang, Feihang
name: Zhao, Danyang
name: Xu, Wang-yang
name: Liu, Yiying
name: Sun, Huiyi
name: Lu, Shanshan
name: Ji, Yuan
name: Jiang, Jingjing
name: Chen, Yi
name: He, Qiye
name: Gong, Chengxiang
name: Liu, Rui
name: Su, Zhixi
name: Dong, Yi
name: Yan, Zhiping
name: Liu, Lingxiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flow chart of AI model establishment. Figure S2. Epigenetic alterations identified in the discovery cohort. Figure S3. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) between MTNs (n = 59) and BTNs (n = 49). Figure S4. KEGG pathways significantly enriched for MHBs. Figure S5. A heatmap displaying 60 MHB markers involved in the model, with clinicopathological details presented on the right side. Figure S6. Performance of the BLDM model in classifying MTN and BTN samples in ACR TI-RADS category 4 and 5. Figure S7. Performance of the BLDM model in classifying MTN and BTN samples in both non-micronodules and micronodules within the independent test cohort. Figure S8. Association of clinical features and methylation scores in the independent test cohort. Table S1. Comparison of clinicopathological characteristics between benign and malignant nodules. Table S2. The role of 60 MHB markers involved in the BLDM model. Table S3. Clinicopathological characteristics of non-micronodules and micronodules in the study cohort.
Boundary Aware U-Net for Glacier Segmentation
Creators: name: Aryal, Bibek
name: Miles, Katie E.
name: Zesati, Sergio A. Vargas
name: Fuentes, Olac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale study of glaciers improves our understanding of global glacier change and is imperative for monitoring the ecological environment, preventing disasters, and studying the effects of global climate change. Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are particularly interesting as the HKH is one of the world's most sensitive regions for climate change. In this work, we: (1) propose a modified version of the U-Net for large-scale, spatially non-overlapping, clean glacial ice, and debris-covered glacial ice segmentation; (2) introduce a novel self-learning boundary-aware loss to improve debris-covered glacial ice segmentation performance; and (3) propose a feature-wise saliency score to understand the contribution of each feature in the multispectral Landsat 7 imagery for glacier mapping. Our results show that the debris-covered glacial ice segmentation model trained using self-learning boundary-aware loss outperformed the model trained using dice loss. Furthermore, we conclude that red, shortwave infrared, and near-infrared bands have the highest contribution toward debris-covered glacial ice segmentation from Landsat 7 images.
description: Vol. 4 (2023): Proceedings of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop 2023
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 environmental contamination in hospital rooms is uncommon using viral culture techniques
Creators: name: Graves, Amanda
name: Warren, Bobby G.
name: Binder, Raquel
name: Anderson, Deverick J.
name: Nelson, Alicia
name: CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
name: Smith, Becky A.
name: Weber, David J.
name: Sickbert-Bennett, Emily E.
name: Gray, Gregory
name: Barrett, Aaron
name: Lewis, Sarah
name: Addison, Bechtler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: We assessed environmental contamination of inpatient rooms housing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in a dedicated COVID-19 unit. Contamination with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 was found on 5.5% (19/347) of surfaces via reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and 0.3% (1/347) of surfaces via cell culture. Environmental contamination is uncommon in hospitals rooms; RNA presence is not a specific indicator of infectious virus.
Exploring Human Vision Driven Features for Pedestrian Detection
Creators: name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Bauckhage, Christian
name: Klein, Dominik A.
name: Cremers, Armin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by the center-surround mechanism in the human visual attention system, we propose to use average contrast maps for the challenge of pedestrian detection in street scenes due to the observation that pedestrians indeed exhibit discriminative contrast texture. Our main contributions are first to design a local, statistical multi-channel descriptorin order to incorporate both color and gradient information. Second, we introduce a multi-direction and multi-scale contrast scheme based on grid-cells in order to integrate expressive local variations. Contributing to the issue of selecting most discriminative features for assessing and classification, we perform extensive comparisons w.r.t. statistical descriptors, contrast measurements, and scale structures. This way, we obtain reasonable results under various configurations. Empirical findings from applying our optimized detector on the INRIA and Caltech pedestrian datasets show that our features yield state-of-the-art performance in pedestrian detection.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
Infinite product expansions from Euler's Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Euler
subject: History of Science
subject: History of Mathematics
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Calculus

description: Here we show some of the infinite product expansions that we can find in Leonhard Euler's book entitled Introductio in analysin infinitorum, 1797. It is a book that can be read with comparative ease by contemporary scholars. Then, only some small changes in notation are required to propose the formulas.
Pronounced ductility in CuZrAl ternary bulk metallic glass composites with optimized microstructure through melt adjustment
Creators: name: Liu, Zengqian
name: Li, Ran
name: Liu, Gang
name: Song, Kaikai
name: Pauly, Simon
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Eckert, Jürgen
Publisher: name: New York : American Institute of Physics
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Linear continuous time circuits
subject: Macromolecular spectra
subject: All optical networks
subject: Delocalization processes
subject: Conservation of momentum
subject: Optical fiber testing
subject: Francium
subject: Conformal symmetries
subject: 620

description: Microstructures and mechanical properties of as-cast Cu47.5Zr47.5Al5 bulk metallic glass composites are optimized by appropriate remelting treatment of master alloys. With increasing remelting time, the alloys exhibit homogenized size and distribution of in situ formed B2 CuZr crystals. Pronounced tensile ductility of ∼13.6% and work-hardening ability are obtained for the composite with optimized microstructure. The effect of remelting treatment is attributed to the suppressed heterogeneous nucleation and growth of the crystalline phase from undercooled liquid, which may originate from the dissolution of oxides and nitrides as well as from the micro-scale homogenization of the melt.
Gate controllable spin pumping in graphene via rotating magnetization
Creators: name: Rahimi, Mojtaba A.
name: Moghaddam, Ali G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate pure spin pumping in graphene by imposing a ferromagnet (F) with rotating magnetization on top of it. Using the generalized scattering approach for adiabatic spin pumping, we obtain the spin current pumped through magnetic graphene to a neighboring normal (N) region. The spin current can be easily controlled by gate voltages and under certain conditions, becomes sufficiently large to be measurable in current experimental setups. In fact it reaches a maximum value when one of the spins are completely filtered due to the vanishing density of states of the corresponding spin species in the ferromagnetic part. Considering an N|F|N structure with a finite ferromagnetic region, it is found that in contrast to the metallic ferromagnetic materials the transverse spin coherence length can be comparable to the length of F denoted by $L$. Subsequently, due to the quantum interferences, the spin current becomes oscillatory function of $JL/\hbar v_F$ in which $J$ is the spin splitting inside F. Finally we show, originated from the controllability of pumped spin into two different normal sides, a profound spin battery effect can be seen in the hybrid N|F|N device.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °c and 2 °c global warming
Creators: name: Döll, Petra
name: Trautmann, Tim
name: Gerten, Dieter
name: Müller Schmied, Hannes
name: Ostberg, Sebastian
name: Saaed, Fahad
name: Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publishing
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Climate change
subject: global warming level
subject: global water resources
subject: hazard
subject: risk
subject: 500

description: To support implementation of the Paris Agreement, the new HAPPI ensemble of 20 bias-corrected simulations of four climate models was used to drive two global hydrological models, WaterGAP and LPJmL, for assessing freshwater-related hazards and risks in worlds approximately 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial. Quasi-stationary HAPPI simulations are better suited than transient CMIP-like simulations for assessing hazards at the two targeted long-term global warming (GW) levels. We analyzed seven hydrological hazard indicators that characterize freshwater-related hazards for humans, freshwater biota and vegetation. Using a strict definition for significant differences, we identified for all but one indicator that areas with either significantly wetter or drier conditions (calculated as percent changes from 2006–2015) are smaller in the 1.5 °C world. For example, 7 day high flow is projected to increase significantly on 11% and 21% of the global land area at 1.5 °C and 2 °C, respectively. However, differences between hydrological hazards at the two GW levels are significant on less than 12% of the area. GW affects a larger area and more people by increases—rather than by decreases—of mean annual and 1-in-10 dry year streamflow, 7 day high flow, and groundwater recharge. The opposite is true for 7 day low flow, maximum snow storage, and soil moisture in the driest month of the growing period. Mean annual streamflow shows the lowest projected percent changes of all indicators. Among country groups, low income countries and lower middle income countries are most affected by decreased low flows and increased high flows, respectively, while high income countries are least affected by such changes. The incremental impact between 1.5 °C and 2 °C on high flows would be felt most by low income and lower middle income countries, the effect on soil moisture and low flows most by high income countries.
“(It) Shouldn’t Be Funny But You Can’t Help But Laugh”: Black Twitter, #TweetLikeThe1600s, and Black Humor Online
Creators: name: Taylor, Zari
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: In May 2014, comedian Leslie Jones faced backlash after making a joke about slavery during an episode of Saturday Night Live. During the ?Weekend Update? sketch of the show, Jones, a Black woman, emphasized that although she was single now, she would have been a hot commodity during slavery. She added that after being hooked up with ?the best brother on the plantation? by her massa, she would be popping out ?superbabies? every 9 months. Although the show is known for testing the limits of comedy and poking fun at everything, Jones was criticized for making light of such a serious topic. In early 2018, however, Black Twitter picked up right where Jones left off and slavery became a topic of amusement online. Using words, gifs, memes, and videos, users reimagined the lives of enslaved African Americans during the 1600s in a comical manner. This online exchange was marked by the #TweetLikeThe1600s hashtag and went in a series of directions. In what follows, I locate the hashtag in a longer tradition of Black humor as well as analyze subsequent discussions about who is allowed in on the joke. Beyond the jokes themselves, these smaller and supplementary discourses inform my engagement with the subject.
“He Will Not Leave Us Alone and I Need the Courts to Help”: Defendants’ Use of Nonphysical Violence in Domestic Violence Protective Order Cases
Creators: name: Barrington, C.L.
name: Redding, E.M.
name: Corbo, A.M.
name: Moracco, K.E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: District court judges who make final determinations in domestic violence protective order (DVPO) cases in North Carolina indicate often using heuristics, such as the presence of visible injury, to guide their assessment of violence severity. This approach is concerning as it minimizes nonphysical intimate partner violence. We conducted a thematic analysis of DVPO plaintiff complaints to identify the types of nonphysical vioence described and its effects on plaintiff health outcomes. Most case files included descriptions of nonphysical violence and plaintiffs described fear as a significant mental health outcome. Findings highlight the potentially deleterious impact of nonphysical violence on the well-being of DVPO plaintiffs.
Windkanaluntersuchungen an einem frei gelüfteten Milchviehstall
Creators: name: Fiedler, Merike
name: Schröter, Knut
name: Reinhardt, Andreas
name: Saha, Chayan
name: Loebsin, Christiane
name: Berg, Werner
name: Amon, Thomas
Publisher: name: Darmstadt : KTBL
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Lüftung
subject: Windkanal
subject: Luftströmung
subject: Stallklima
subject: Ventilation
subject: wind tunnel
subject: air flow
subject: barn climate
subject: 630

description: Die Luftdurchströmung von frei gelüfteten Ställen und der sich daraus ergebende Luftwechsel bestimmen das Stallklima und die Emissionsraten von Schadstoffen. In der Praxis sind diese Kenngrößen aufgrund der zeitlichen wie räumlichen Variabilität der vorherrschenden Prozesse nur schwer zu erfassen. Laborexperimente im Windkanal können unter kontrollierten Bedingungen statistisch repräsentative Daten erzeugen und damit Praxismessungen sinnvoll ergänzen. Windkanalmessungen der horizontalen Windgeschwindigkeitskomponenten wurden an einem Modell eines frei gelüfteten Milchviehstalles durchgeführt. Die Messungen erfolgten unter einer turbulenzarmen Anströmung, um den Einfluss der Einbauten im Stallmodell auf die Luftströmung erfassen zu können. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Einbauten und der Futtertisch die gemessenen Strömungsgrößen beeinflussen.
description: The air exchange rate regulating the climate inside of natural ventilated livestock buildings is hard to determine in the field due to the variability of time and space of the dominant processes. Experiments in a wind tunnel laboratory can produce sound statistical and representative data obtained under controlled boundary conditions to complete data sets from the field. In this study, measurements of the horizontal wind components within a model of a natural ventilated barn were performed in the wind tunnel. The approach flow was chosen with low turbulence in order to gain knowledge on the influence of the installed equipment on the air flow. In fact, the measured profiles were influenced by the installed equipment and the feeding alley.
Multi-limb Split Learning for Tumor Classification on Vertically Distributed Data
Creators: name: Ads, Omar S.
name: Alfares, Mayar M.
name: Salem, Mohammed A. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Brain tumors are one of the life-threatening forms of cancer. Previous studies have classified brain tumors using deep neural networks. In this paper, we perform the later task using a collaborative deep learning technique, more specifically split learning. Split learning allows collaborative learning via neural networks splitting into two (or more) parts, a client-side network and a server-side network. The client-side is trained to a certain layer called the cut layer. Then, the rest of the training is resumed on the server-side network. Vertical distribution, a method for distributing data among organizations, was implemented where several hospitals hold different attributes of information for the same set of patients. To the best of our knowledge this paper will be the first paper to implement both split learning and vertical distribution for brain tumor classification. Using both techniques, we were able to achieve train and test accuracy greater than 90\% and 70\%, respectively.
Investigation of the impact of point mutations on the binding kinetics of ScpA-hC5a pair
Creators: name: Jain, Monica
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Insight into the mode of interaction of an enzyme with its substrate can help us to design and target drugs or inhibitor efficiently. This thesis explores the role of charged residues present at enzyme-substrate (ScpA-hC5a) interface in the binding kinetics. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for the ScpA-hC5a complex were measured by surface plasmon resonance (SPR). These studies showed that C5a was bound with high affinity (33.7 nM) to ScpA and that the majority of interactions were provided by hC5acore.The mutation of positively charged residues; R37, R40 and R46 of hC5a destabilise mutated complexes due to a decrease in the rate of association combined with a more substantial increase in the rate of dissociation. This indicated that these residues might be involved initially in long-range interactions which form the initial encounter complex and then in short range interactions involved in the formation of a high affinity complex. The effect on binding upon replacement of negatively charged residues; E864, D889 and D783 in the Fn2 domain of ScpA were also investigated. Mutation of E864 and D889 to alanine in ScpA showed similar binding parameters as the wild-type interaction. However, substitution of D783 with alanine reduced the binding affinity significantly impacting significantly on the rate of dissociation. Therefore D783 could be an important residue at the binding interface and predominantly involved in short-range interactions. Double mutant cycle experimets revealed that E864 of interacted favourably with R37 and R46 while D889 interacted favourably with R37, R40 and R46 of hC5a. D783 has favourable coupling with R40 (KD = 1400 nM) and R46 (KD = 539.3 nM) of hC5a. This indicated the interactions between these distantly located residues might be mediated by solvent or counter residues. Increased ionic strength had significant impact only on the association rate indicating that electrostatic steering significantly contributes to the binding.The proposed 4-step model showed parental and mutated ScpA(S512A) has decreased preference for mutated hC5a. The slow dissociation of the product (k4) (hC5acore) from ScpA could be the rate-limiting step and could lead to product inhibition. Fast dissociation (k4) was observed for ScpA(S512A)D783A indicating that k4 might not be rate limiting step in this case and faster product clearance could lead to higher catalytic efficiency. The map of important exosite residues which has significant impact on the enzyme-substrate binding can help us to design more effective drugs which can target the exosite along with the active site.
title: Средства выражения оценки в отзывах о товаре (на материале немецкого журнала «Test»)
Creators: name: Бирр-Цуркан, Лилия
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: В основу статьи положены результаты исследования средств выражения оценки в отзывах о товаре на материале 205 текстовых извлечений из специальных статей журнала «Test» о продуктах питания, косметики и техники, издаваемого профессиональным сообществом «Stiftung Warentest». Автор анализирует лексические
и синтаксические средства выражения разного типа оценки: положительной и отрицательной, абсолютной и сравнительной, общей и частной – и вносит свой вклад в изучение аксиологического аспекта высказывания, делая вывод о существенном преобладании конструкций с положительным оценочным значением, важной роли
частной и сравнительной оценки в исследуемом материале, а также активном использовании экспрессивных синтаксических конструкций для усиления оценочного значения, заключенного в лексике.
The carcinogenic effect of various multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) after intraperitoneal injection in rats
Creators: name: Rittinghausen, Susanne
name: Hackbarth, Anja
name: Creutzenberg, Otto
name: Ernst, Heinrich
name: Heinrich, Uwe
name: Leonhardt, Albrecht
name: Schaudien, Dirk
Publisher: name: London : BioMed Central
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Carbon nanotubes
subject: Carcinogenicity
subject: Intraperitoneal injection
subject: Mesothelioma
subject: Nanotoxicology
subject: Rats
subject: MWCNT
subject: 620

description: Background: Biological effects of tailor-made multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) without functionalization were investigated in vivo in a two-year carcinogenicity study. In the past, intraperitoneal carcinogenicity studies in rats using biopersistent granular dusts had always been negative, whereas a number of such studies with different asbestos fibers had shown tumor induction. The aim of this study was to identify possible carcinogenic effects of MWCNTs. We compared induced tumors with asbestos-induced mesotheliomas and evaluated their relevance for humans by immunohistochemical methods. Methods: A total of 500 male Wistar rats (50 per group) were treated once by intraperitoneal injection with 109 or 5 ï¿½ 109 WHO carbon nanotubes of one of four different MWCNTs suspended in artificial lung medium, which was also used as negative control. Amosite asbestos (108 WHO fibers) served as positive control. Morbid rats were sacrificed and necropsy comprising all organs was performed. Histopathological classification of tumors and, additionally, immunohistochemistry were conducted for podoplanin, pan-cytokeratin, and vimentin to compare induced tumors with malignant mesotheliomas occurring in humans. Results: Treatments induced tumors in all dose groups, but incidences and times to tumor differed between groups. Most tumors were histologically and immunohistochemically classified as malignant mesotheliomas, revealing a predominantly superficial spread on the serosal surface of the abdominal cavity. Furthermore, most tumors showed invasion of peritoneal organs, especially the diaphragm. All tested MWCNT types caused mesotheliomas. We observed highest frequencies and earliest appearances after treatment with the rather straight MWCNT types A and B. In the MWCNT C groups, first appearances of morbid mesothelioma-bearing rats were only slightly later. Later during the two-year study, we found mesotheliomas also in rats treated with MWCNT D - the most curved type of nanotubes. Malignant mesotheliomas induced by intraperitoneal injection of different MWCNTs and of asbestos were histopathologically and immunohistochemically similar, also compared with mesotheliomas in man, suggesting similar pathogenesis. Conclusion: We showed a carcinogenic effect for all tested MWCNTs. Besides aspect ratio, curvature seems to be an important parameter influencing the carcinogenicity of MWCNTs.
Reducing the nucleation barrier in magnetocaloric Heusler alloys by nanoindentation
Creators: name: Niemann, R.
name: Hahn, S.
name: Diestel, A.
name: Backen, A.
name: Schultz, L.
name: Nielsch, K.
name: Wagner, M.F.-X.
name: Fähler, S.
Publisher: name: New York : American Institute of Physics
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Twin boundaries
subject: Magnetic hysteresis
subject: Nucleation
subject: Martensitic phase transitions
subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: Hardness
subject: Shape memory effect
subject: Epitaxy
subject: Thin film structure
subject: 530

description: Magnetocaloric materials are promising as solid state refrigerants for more efficient and environmentally friendly cooling devices. The highest effects have been observed in materials that exhibit a first-order phase transition. These transformations proceed by nucleation and growth which lead to a hysteresis. Such irreversible processes are undesired since they heat up the material and reduce the efficiency of any cooling application. In this article, we demonstrate an approach to decrease the hysteresis by locally changing the nucleation barrier. We created artificial nucleation sites and analyzed the nucleation and growth processes in their proximity. We use Ni-Mn-Ga, a shape memory alloy that exhibits a martensitic transformation. Epitaxial films serve as a model system, but their high surface-to-volume ratio also allows for a fast heat transfer which is beneficial for a magnetocaloric regenerator geometry. Nanoindentation is used to create a well-defined defect. We quantify the austenite phase fraction in its proximity as a function of temperature which allows us to determine the influence of the defect on the transformation.
The effect of gender in the publication patterns in mathematics
Creators: name: Mihaljević-Brandt, Helena
name: Santamaría, Lucía
name: Tullney, Marco
Publisher: name: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Careers
subject: Mathematicians
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Applied mathematics
subject: Careers in research
subject: Mathematical physics
subject: Number theory
subject: Universities
subject: 510

description: Despite the increasing number of women graduating in mathematics, a systemic gender imbalance persists and is signified by a pronounced gender gap in the distribution of active researchers and professors. Especially at the level of university faculty, women mathematicians continue being drastically underrepresented, decades after the first affirmative action measures have been put into place. A solid publication record is of paramount importance for securing permanent positions. Thus, the question arises whether the publication patterns of men and women mathematicians differ in a significant way. Making use of the zbMATH database, one of the most comprehensive metadata sources on mathematical publications, we analyze the scholarly output of ∼150,000 mathematicians from the past four decades whose gender we algorithmically inferred. We focus on development over time, collaboration through coautorships, presumed journal quality and distribution of research topics—factors known to have a strong impact on job perspectives. We report significant differences between genders which may put women at a disadvantage when pursuing an academic career in mathematics.
Additional file 1 of Nesprin proteins: bridging nuclear envelope dynamics to muscular dysfunction
Creators: name: Zi-yi, Zhou
name: Qin, Qin
name: Fei, Zhou
name: Cun-Yu, Cao
name: Lin, Teng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
CELLOIDS: towards cell-inspired autonomous microrobots
Creators: name: Bianciardi, Francesco
name: Cecchi, Dario
name: De Remigis, Eugenia
name: Gómez Bernal, Hilda
name: Petrocelli, Elisa Linda
name: Petrucci, Gaia
name: Roberti, Elisa
name: Sharma, Jyoti
name: Palagi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: microrobots
medical robotics

description: Poster presented by Stefano Palagi at the ICRA 2023 conference, Workshop on Shrinking the Cutting Edge: Making Small-Scale Medical Robots for Humans, held in London, UK, on May 29, 2023.
Virtual Black Holes, Remnants and the Information Paradox
Creators: name: Calmet, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the question of the contributions of Planckian quantum black holes in general and of remnants in particular to low energy physics observables. As long as quantum gravity preserves the symmetries of the low energy effective field theory, we find that the bounds on the number of quantum black holes or remnants are very weak. Typically we rule out using data on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon that there are more than $10^{32}$ quantum black holes coupled to the standard model particles gravitationally. Remnants thus remain a viable option as a solution to the information paradox of black holes.
description: 8 pages
“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
Creators: name: Ravenelle, A.J.
name: Kowalski, K.C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek more fulfilling careers. Whereas most workers initially perceived free time in terms of opportunity costs, they later reconceived this time as enabling an investment in personal growth, moving from ?spending time? making money to ?investing time? in themselves. This shift in temporal experience is expressed through the adoption of a ?work passion? logic and ?pandemic epiphanies? that motivated respondents to seek self-affirming and potentially more lucrative work opportunities.
Nb-modified Ce/Ti oxide catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 at low temperature
Creators: name: Mosrati, Jawaher
name: Atia, Hanan
name: Eckelt, Reinhard
name: Lund, Henrik
name: Agostini, Giovanni
name: Bentrup, Ursula
name: Rockstroh, Nils
name: Keller, Sonja
name: Armbruster, Udo
name: Mhamdi, Mourad
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Low-temperature SCR
subject: Ceria-based catalysts
subject: Niobia
subject: sol-gel method
subject: 540

description: Recently, great attention has been paid to Ceria-based materials for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with NH3 owing to their unique redox, oxygen storage, and acid-base properties. Two series of bimetallic catalysts issued from Titania modified by Ce and Nb were prepared by the one-step sol-gel method (SG) and by the sol-gel route followed by impregnation (WI). The resulting core-shell and bulk catalysts were tested in NH3-SCR of NOx. The impregnated Nb5/Ce40/Ti100 (WI) catalyst displayed 95% NOx conversion at 200 °C (GHSV = 60,000 mL·g−1·h−1, 1000 ppm NOx, 1000 ppm NH3, 5% O2/He) without forming N2O. The catalysts were characterized by various methods including ICP-OES, N2-physisorption, XRD, Raman, NH3-TPD, DRIFTS, XPS, and H2-TPR. The results showed that the introduction of Nb decreases the surface area and strengthens the surface acidity. This behavior can be explained by the strong interaction between Ceria and Titania which generates Ce-O-Ti units, as well as a high concentration of amorphous or highly dispersed Niobia. This should be the reason for the excellent performance of the catalyst prepared by the sol-gel method followed by impregnation. Furthermore, Nb5/Ce40/Ti100 (WI) has the largest NH3 adsorption capacity, which is helpful to promote the NH3-SCR reaction. The long-term stability and the effect of H2O on the catalysts were also evaluated.
Additional file 1 of B-1 derived anti-Thy-1 B cells in old aged mice develop lymphoma/leukemia with high expression of CD11b and Hamp2 that different from TCL1 transgenic mice
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Kyoko
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Shinton, Susan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Summary. In age, ATA B increased in PBL and CD5 can decrease, and increase of CD11b in ATA B, aMyIIA, and aPtC. V8-12 generation in MZ B cell.
“Mtoto Wa Nyoka Ni Nyoka,” The Child of a Snake is a Snake: A Narrative Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Perpetration of Interpersonal Violence Among Men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Creators: name: Kajula, L.
name: Shanahan, M.
name: Martin, S.
name: Moracco, B.
name: Maman, S.
name: Zietz, S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Childhood exposure to adversity, including abuse and neglect, is consistently found to be a predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) and peer violence (PV) perpetration in adulthood. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively examine factors that may facilitate or impede the use of violence among those who have been exposed to adversity early in life. We are particularly interested in protective experiences or environments for these participants. The qualitative data were analyzed through thematic coding and narrative analysis of participant life histories.We found three salient themes: (a) parental acceptance and early attachment is protective for coping with stress with intimate partners in adulthood; (b) certain key life turning points can provide a protective context against violent behavior in adulthood; and (c) poverty in adulthood compromises one?s ability to cope with stress and anger in adulthood.Our findings contextualize the different factors that may affect the behavior of perpetration of interpersonal violence among high-risk men in Dar es Salaam who have been exposed to adversity in childhood. These findings provide important information on the risk and protective factors for interpersonal violence spanning from childhood to adulthood. This study highlights the importance of child development interventions in this situation, both for the primary prevention of child adversity and for promoting resilience and mitigating the effects of childhood adversity that put men at risk for perpetration of interpersonal violence in adulthood.
Undistorted embeddings of metabelian groups of finite Prüfer rank
Creators: name: Cleary, Sean
name: Martínez-Pérez, Conchita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F

description: General arguments of Baumslag and Bieri guarantee that any metabelian group of finite Prüfer rank can be embedded in a metabelian constructible group. Here, we consider the metric behavior of a rich class of examples and analyze the distortions of specific embeddings.
title: Opfer als Bildagenten? Zur visuellen Selbstrepräsentation von KZ-Überlebenden
Creators: name: Starke, Sandra
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Visual History
Year: 2020

description: Zur Transformation von Häftlingen in Überlebende gehörte schon 1945 eine spezifische Visualität als KZ-Überlebende: Ihre Berichte gewannen mit den Fotografien und Zeichnungen an Glaubwürdigkeit und letztlich Bedeutung. Welche Motive und Sujets gehörten zu dieser Identitätssuche der Überlebenden? Meistens nutzten ehemalige Häftlinge die Bilder der alliierten Befreier, die eine spezifische Auffinde-Situation der Lager bei Kriegsende zeigten.
On the Morse-Novikov number for 2-knots
Creators: name: Endo, Hisaaki
name: Pajitnov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q45, 57M25, 57R35, 57R70, 57R45

description: Let $K\subset S^4$ be a 2-knot, that is, a smoothly embedded 2-sphere in $S^4$. The Morse-Novikov number $\mathcal M\mathcal N(K)$ is the minimal possible number of critical points of a Morse map $S^4\setminus K\to S^1$ belonging to the canonical class in $H^1(S^4\setminus K)$. We prove that for a classical knot $K\subset S^3$ the Morse-Novikov number of the spun knot $S(K)$ is $\leq 2\mathcal M\mathcal N(K)$. This enables us to compute $\mathcal M\mathcal N(S(K))$ for every classical knot $K$ with tunnel number 1.
description: Latex, 14 pages
Additional file 2 of B-1 derived anti-Thy-1 B cells in old aged mice develop lymphoma/leukemia with high expression of CD11b and Hamp2 that different from TCL1 transgenic mice
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Kyoko
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Shinton, Susan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. 2 mo wild time (WT) B1a cells versus ATAµκ Tg ATA B tumor.