cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Sustainability of Community Seed Banks in Nicaragua: A Duration Analysis Approach
Creators: name: DeYoung, David J.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: DeYoung, David J.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Development
subject: Community Seed Banks
subject: Seed Systems
subject: Improved Variety Seed Adoption

description: Access by small holder producers to seeds of improved bean varieties remains a constraint in many parts of the world. In response to this development challenge, this study examines the salient features of the Community Seed Bank (CSB) models implemented in Nicaragua from 2010 to 2014, through support from the Bean Technology Dissemination (BTD) project and analyzes the determinant factors contributing to their sustainability. CSB level data were collected from 154 CSBs through a survey and from project reports. Using the duration analysis technique, several determinants of sustainability mentioned in the available body of literature are confirmed. Namely, the CSBs that produce quality seed, recover seed production costs, have experienced leadership, operate formally as a group by documenting decisions, and have access to productive assets operate longer than CSBs that lack these characteristics. This study also confirms the importance of not only building seed production capacities of the CSBs but also seed marketing and administrative capacities. Seed marketing training was found to reduce the failure rate of CSBs that reported low seed yield in their first year of operation. Intensity of CSB operation was positively associated with increased risk of failure. Of the three types of CSBs implemented, individual seed banks failed 30% faster than CSBs administered collectively by community members. While the size of CSB membership did not impact time to failure, the CSBs that were more representative of the community did have lower failure rates. The study identifies important characteristics that should be considered in future promotions of community based or decentralized models of seed production of staple food crops such as beans.
title: Dynamische Elektronische Bücher. Untersuchungen zur Modellierung wissenschaftlicher Lehrwerke als elektronische Publikationen am Beispiel eines Lehrbuchs der Experimentalphysik
Creators: name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: elektronische Bücher elektronisches Publizieren Multimedia digitale Biblioken Hypermedia Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Web Services service-oriented architecture
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: H.3.7
subject: I.7.4
subject: H.3.5
subject: H.5.1
subject: H.5.2

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich im Rahmen des Gegenstandsbereichs elektronisches Publizieren mit der Entwicklung dynamischer elektronischer Bücher. Unter dynamischen elektronischen Büchern versteht man Hypermedia-Informationsbestände und die mit ihnen verbundenen Softwaresysteme, die interaktive Komponenten enthalten und durch Informationsdienste dynamisch ergänzt werden können. Dieses Konzept unterscheidet sich vom state-of-the-art elektronischer Bücher als digitalen Entsprechungen gedruckter Werke in drei Punkten: 1. Die Inhalte des elektronischen Buchs werden mit Hilfe von Standards auf der Basis der Extensible Markup Language (XML) ausgezeichnet. Dabei erfolgt eine Unterscheidung verschiedener Beschreibungsebenen (Struktur, Inhalte, Metadaten). 2. Dynamische elektronische Bücher enthalten interaktive multimediale Komponenten wie Animationen und Simulationen, die zusätzliche Nutzungsformen und Lernstrategien ermöglichen. 3. An ein dynamisches elektronisches Buch können Dienste angeknüpft sein. Durch sie werden die textuellen und multimedialen Inhalte des Buchs dynamisch erweitert, d. h. dem Benutzer stehen durch Zuordnung von Diensten an die deklarativ repräsentierten Inhalte des Buchs zusätzliche Informationsquellen und Weiterverarbeitungsmöglichkeiten zur Verfügung. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die Frage, wie dynamische elektronische Bücher aus einer leserorientierten Perspektive zu gestalten sind. Aufgrund der Heterogenität des Gegenstands wird ein holistischer Ansatz verfolgt, der einerseits einen Überblick über verfügbare Technologien (Standards, Implementierungswerkzeuge etc.) gibt und andererseits versucht, ein Modell dynamischer elektronischer Bücher anhand eines Prototypen umzusetzen. Die Arbeit entstand im Umfeld des Forschungsprojektes Multimediales Physikalisches Praktikum, das im Rahmen des Verbundvorhabens Weiterentwicklung des wissenschaftlich-technischen Lehrbuchs zur multimedialen Wissensrepräsentation des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Fohrschung und Technologie (BMB+F, betreut vom Projektträger Fachinformation (PTF), Förderkennzeichen 08C5837 0 (Leipzig) bzw. 08C5832 0 (Stuttgart/Oldenburg).) in den Jahren 1997-1999 in Kooperation mit der Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften der Universität Leipzig (Prof. GESCHKE), dem Oldenburger Kuratorium OFFIS e. V. (Prof. APPELRATH) und dem B. G. Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart und Leipzig.
description: Habilitationsschrift, Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Informatik, angenommen am 12. Oktober 2000
Remembering Winter Was Coming: Character-Oriented Video Summaries of TV Series
Creators: name: Bost, Xavier
name: Gueye, Serigne
name: Labatut, Vincent
name: Larson, Martha
name: Linarès, Georges
name: Malinas, Damien
name: Roth, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today's popular TV series tend to develop continuous, complex plots spanning several seasons, but are often viewed in controlled and discontinuous conditions. Consequently, most viewers need to be re-immersed in the story before watching a new season. Although discussions with friends and family can help, we observe that most viewers make extensive use of summaries to re-engage with the plot. Automatic generation of video summaries of TV series' complex stories requires, first, modeling the dynamics of the plot and, second, extracting relevant sequences. In this paper, we tackle plot modeling by considering the social network of interactions between the characters involved in the narrative: substantial, durable changes in a major character's social environment suggest a new development relevant for the summary. Once identified, these major stages in each character's storyline can be used as a basis for completing the summary with related sequences. Our algorithm combines such social network analysis with filmmaking grammar to automatically generate character-oriented video summaries of TV series from partially annotated data. We carry out evaluation with a user study in a real-world scenario: a large sample of viewers were asked to rank video summaries centered on five characters of the popular TV series Game of Thrones, a few weeks before the new, sixth season was released. Our results reveal the ability of character-oriented summaries to re-engage viewers in television series and confirm the contributions of modeling the plot content and exploiting stylistic patterns to identify salient sequences.
MOESM1 of Assessment of mercury pollution sources in beach sand and coastal soil by speciation analysis
Creators: name: Gallego, José
name: López-Antón, Maria
name: Rosa, Deva
name: Rodríguez-Valdés, Eduardo
name: García-González, Nerea
name: Rodríguez, Elena
name: Martínez-Tarazona, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. X-ray diffraction patterns of sand samples (A1 and A2) and soil sample (S1).
How Do Nuclear and Extended-Family Households Differ in Labor Allocation Decisions due to Agricultural Technology Adoption? Evidence from Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Ouedraogo, Aissatou
name: Dillon, Andrew
name: Porter, Maria
name: Ouedraogo, Aissatou
name: Dillon, Andrew
name: Porter, Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Household Structure
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: Microdosing
subject: Labor Allocation

description: Abstract: Households adopting new agricultural technologies often face labor constraints influencing the extent to which such technologies are productive and profitable. Such labor constraints differ for nuclear and extended-family households. In a randomized control trial, we estimate the heterogeneous treatment effect of an efficacious fertilization technique called microdosing by differences in household structure. The encouragement design which allocated starter packs and microdosing training to assigned households induced extended family households to reduce labor to agricultural activities, while nuclear households increased such labor activities. These differentiated effects are dominated by households who had previously used fertilizer. Thus, microdosing does not completely relieve the binding labor constraint for extended households who previously used broadcast fertilizer methods. Although nontrivial labor allocation is necessary for both broadcast and microdosing, for extended households, microdosing lowers total person-days to agricultural production by 18% relative to mean labor allocation at baseline, whereas nuclear households increase labor allocation to agricultural production by 36%.
Automatic Discovery and Aggregation of Compound Names for the Use in Knowledge Representations
Creators: name: Biemann, Christian
name: Böhm, Karsten
name: Quasthoff, Uwe
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: corpora, knowledge management, named entity extraction, semantic relations, text mining, topic maps
subject: 400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: H.3.3
subject: H.5.3
subject: I.2.6

description: Automatic acquisition of information structures like Topic Maps or semantic networks from large document collections is an important issue in knowledge management. An inherent problem with automatic approaches is the treatment of multiword terms as single semantic entities. Taking company names as an example, we present a method for learning multiword terms from large text corpora exploiting their internal structure. Through the iteration of a search step and a verification step the single words typically forming company names are learnt. These name elements are used for recognizing compounds in order to use them for further processing. We give some evaluation of experiments on company name extraction and discuss some applications.
description: Proc. I-Know03, Graz, Juli 2003
Large mass splittings between charged and neutral Higgs bosons in the MSSM
Creators: name: Akeroyd, A. G.
name: Baek, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that large ($> 100$ GeV) mass splittings between the charged Higgs boson ($H^\pm$) and the neutral Higgs bosons ($H^0$ and $A^0$) are possible in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Such splittings occur when the $μ$ parameter is considerably larger than the common SUSY scale, $M_{SUSY}$, and have significant consequences for MSSM Higgs searches at future colliders.
description: 11 pages, LaTex, 5 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Acrostomus magellanicus Kuschel 1958
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Acrostomus
Acrostomus magellanicus

description: Acrostomus magellanicus Kuschel, 1958
 Acrostomus magellanicus Kuschel, 1958: 233 (type locality: Chile: Magallanes, Cerro Castillo, Cerro Cazador, 800 m; type material: H: BMNH and P: 1 BMNH, 13 NZAC, and 1 USNM).
 Host plants. Azorella trifurcata (Gaertner) Pers., Bolax gummifera (Lam.) Spreng., and Mulinum spinosum (Cav.) Pers. (Apiaceae) (Morrone, 1994b).
 Distribution. Southern Chile (Morrone, 1994b).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Complicações nos primeiros 30 dias pós-transplante hepático - Instrumento para avaliação no âmbito do Sistema Estadual de Transplantes do Paraná.
Creators: name: SILVEIRA, FABIO
name: Silveira, Cassia Regina Sbrissia
name: Fábio Porto Silveira
name: Saucedo, Nestor Saucedo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Artigo publicado no Jornal Brasileiro de Transplantes.JBT J Bras Transpl.2018;20(2):13-18
Vol. 21- Número 2 - ABTO
MOESM1 of Using a marine microalga as a chassis for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) degradation
Creators: name: Moog, Daniel
name: Schmitt, Johanna
name: Senger, Jana
name: Zarzycki, Jan
name: Karl-Heinz Rexer
name: Linne, Uwe
name: Erb, Tobias
name: Maier, Uwe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Secretion analysis of PETase-GFP in P. tricornutum cultures. Figure S2. Coomassie-staining and mass spectrometry analysis of secreted PETase-FLAG in P. tricornutum cultures. Figure S3. Western Blot of a PNGase F treated protein sample (18 µl) of the total precipitated medium fraction. Figure S4. Expression and secretion efficiency analysis of AP_SP-PETaseR280A-FLAG using Western Blot. Figure S5. Scanning electron microscopic analysis of PET bottle film degradation by AP_SP-PETase-FLAG clone 1 (AP_1) secreted from P. tricornutum on a f/2 agar plate for 5 weeks. Figure S6. Scanning electron microscopic image of a P. tricornutum clone AP_SP-PETase-FLAG_1 (AP_1) cell imprint on PET bottle film incubated on a f/2 agar plate for 5 weeks. Figure S7. Scanning electron microscopic analysis of amorphous PETG film degradation by PETase-FLAG tag secreted from P. tricornutum. Figure S8. Scanning electron microscopy and UHPLC analysis of amorphous PETG film treated with 1 ml supernatant of a 500 ml culture of a P. tricornutum clone expressing AP_SP-PETase-FLAG (clone 2). Figure S9. Scanning electron microscopy and UHPLC analysis of PET (bottle) film treated with 1 ml supernatant of a 500 ml culture of a P. tricornutum clone expressing AP_SP-PETase-FLAG (clone 2). Figure S10. UHPLC with 1 ml supernatant of a 500 ml culture of a P. tricornutum clone expressing AP_SP-PETase-FLAG_2 and standard measurements. Figure S11. PET degradation experiment (UHPLC) using shredded PET as a substrate and clone AP_SP-PETase-FLAG_1. Figure S12. Predicted N-glycosylation pattern for AP_SP-PETase-FLAG by NetNGlyc 1.0.
Stability Equation and Two-Component Eigenmode for Domain Walls in a Scalar Potential Model
Creators: name: Dias, G. S.
name: Graça, E. L.
name: Rodrigues, R. de Lima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between the supersymmetric quantum mechanics involving two-component eigenfunctions and the stability equation associated with two classical configurations is investigated, and a matrix superpotential is deduced. The issue of stability is ensured for the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) states on two domain walls in a scalar potential model containing up to fourth-order powers in the fields, which is explicit demonstrated using the intertwining operators in terms of 2x2-matrix superpotential in the algebraic framework of supersymmetry in quantum mechanics. Also, a non-BPS state is found to be non-stable via fluctuation hessian matrix.
description: Revised version. Revtex, 4 figures, 22 pages, to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 21 (2006)
Electroencephalogram (EEG) for Delineating Objective Measure of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Extended Version)
Creators: name: Jayawardana, Yasith
name: Jaime, Mark
name: Thapaliya, Sashi
name: Jayarathna, Sampath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that often impairs a child's normal development of the brain. According to CDC, it is estimated that 1 in 6 children in the US suffer from development disorders, and 1 in 68 children in the US suffer from ASD. This condition has a negative impact on a person's ability to hear, socialize and communicate. Overall, ASD has a broad range of symptoms and severity; hence the term spectrum is used. One of the main contributors to ASD is known to be genetics. Up to date, no suitable cure for ASD has been found. Early diagnosis is crucial for the long-term treatment of ASD, but this is challenging due to the lack of a proper objective measures. Subjective measures often take more time, resources, and have false positives or false negatives. There is a need for efficient objective measures that can help in diagnosing this disease early as possible with less effort. EEG measures the electric signals of the brain via electrodes placed on various places on the scalp. These signals can be used to study complex neuropsychiatric issues. Studies have shown that EEG has the potential to be used as a biomarker for various neurological conditions including ASD. This chapter will outline the usage of EEG measurement for the classification of ASD using machine learning algorithms.
Additional file 8 of Identifying genes with conserved splicing structure and orthologous isoforms in human, mouse and dog
Creators: name: Guillaudeux, Nicolas
name: Belleannée, Catherine
name: Blanquart, Samuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8 Figure of the gene ontology matches for the 253 human genes. The additional file is at the PDF format.
Boltzmann entropy for quantum field systems
Creators: name: Yoshida, Kyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A way to construct Boltzmann entropy, i.e., the entropy as a function of a microscopic pure state, for quantum field systems is proposed. Operators that shift the field in wavevector space are used in the construction. By employing an assumption, it is shown that, for almost all states in the ensemble of pure states corresponding to a thermodynamic state, the value of the proposed Boltzmann entropy coincides with that of the thermodynamic entropy for the thermodynamic state. For general self-interacting fields, the Boltzmann entropy evolves with time under Hamiltonian dynamics, so that it is capable of characterizing the thermalization of isolated quantum field systems.
Public and Private Agricultural R&D Investment and Research Productivity of in China
Creators: name: Jin, Yanhong
name: Hu, Yahong
name: Pray, Carl
name: Hu, Ruifa
name: Jin, Yanhong
name: Hu, Yahong
name: Pray, Carl
name: Hu, Ruifa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development Investment
subject: Agricultural Research Productivity
subject: Public R&D
subject: Private R&D

description: Employing the count data analysis based on survey data of 1355 firms in China’s 29 provinces collected in 2007, this study analyzes the impact of public and private agricultural R&D investments on research productivity measured by the number of patents granted to agricultural firms. We find that private R&D investments and having an own R&D research center increase the number of patents granted. However, the public R&D investments do not have a statistically significant effects on the number of patents granted. We also find that the number of research staff, especially of doctoral research staff, has a positive and statistically significant effect on the number of patents granted. Multi-national firms and firms located in central China have fewer patents than their counterparts. The main findings suggest that it is more efficient for Chinese government to improve research productivity if it encourages private agricultural R&D investments and helps agricultural firms to build their own R&D centers. Chinese government may also need to strengthen the legal framework and institutional resources for the protection and enforcement of intellectual properties to encourage domestic and international firms patent their new technologies.
A Comparison of Stated and Revealed Risk Preferences using Safety-First
Creators: name: Sharma, Sankalp
name: Schoengold, Karina
name: Sharma, Sankalp
name: Schoengold, Karina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk analysis
subject: risk aversion
subject: farm decision-making

description: In this paper we determine the risk preferences of crop producers using the safety-first method. Our methodology is unique, since it utilizes both price and yield risk in the producer’s optimization problem. We then compare the derived preferences with the stated preferences of the producers. The stated preferences are obtained from a lottery-style game designed to elicit producers’ risk preferences. The study is conducted with data from producers in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota and the results indicate that there is in fact a relationship between the preferences derived from our structural model and the ones stated by the producers in the game. This is an important result from a policy-making perspective, as it validates the use of behavior elicitation surveys about risk preferences. Such surveys are often easier to administer and less expensive than collecting information on revealed preferences.
description: Our dataset is confidential and the resulting analysis cannot be shared without the permission of USDA-NASS. We are awaiting the completion of their internal review of our work and then the results will be shared.
Acrostomus mordor Morrone 1994
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Acrostomus
Acrostomus mordor

description: Acrostomus mordor Morrone, 1994
 Acrostomus mordor Morrone, 1994b: 409 (type locality: Argentina: Neuquén; type material: H: MACN and P: 2 AMNH, 5 MACN, and 2 MZFC).
 Distribution. Southern Argentina (Morrone, 1994b).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging of White Matter Degeneration in Glaucoma
Creators: name: Nucci, Carlo
name: Garaci, Francesco
name: Altobelli, Simone
name: Di Ciò, Francesco
name: Martucci, Alessio
name: Aiello, Francesco
name: Lanzafame, Simona
name: Di Giuliano, Francesca
name: Picchi, Eliseo
name: Minosse, Silvia
name: Cesareo, Massimo
name: Guerrisi, Maria Giovanna
name: Floris, Roberto
name: Passamonti, Luca
name: Toschi, Nicola
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: primary open angle glaucoma
diffusional kurtosis imaging
diffusion tensor imaging
magnetic resonance imaging

description: Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy characterized by death of retinal ganglion cells and loss of their axons, progressively leading to blindness. Recently, glaucoma has been conceptualized as a more diffuse neurodegenerative disorder involving the optic nerve and also the entire brain. Consistently, previous studies have used a variety of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and described widespread changes in the grey and white matter of patients. Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) provides additional information as compared with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and consistently provides higher sensitivity to early microstructural white matter modification. In this study, we employ DKI to evaluate differences among healthy controls and a mixed population of primary open angle glaucoma patients ranging from stage I to V according to Hodapp−Parrish−Anderson visual field impairment classification. To this end, a cohort of patients affected by primary open angle glaucoma (n = 23) and a group of healthy volunteers (n = 15) were prospectively enrolled and underwent an ophthalmological evaluation followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a 3T MR scanner. After estimating both DTI indices, whole-brain, voxel-wise statistical comparisons were performed in white matter using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS). We found widespread differences in several white matter tracts in patients with glaucoma relative to controls in several metrics (mean kurtosis, kurtosis anisotropy, radial kurtosis, and fractional anisotropy) which involved localization well beyond the visual pathways, and involved cognitive, motor, face recognition, and orientation functions amongst others. Our findings lend further support to a causal brain involvement in glaucoma and offer alternative explanations for a number of multidomain impairments often observed in glaucoma patients.
The Poisson Collocation Measure and its Applications
Creators: name: Quasthoff, Uwe
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: collocations, corpus linguistics, poisson distribution, statistical analysis, text mining
subject: 400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: I.2.7
subject: I.5.1
subject: I.5.4

description: In this paper we introduce a measure for calculating statistically significant collocation sets that is related to the Poisson distribution. We show that results calculated using this measure are comparable to well-known measures like the log-likelihood measure. Additionally, we discuss asymptotic behaviour and additivity as general properties of the measure which may be applied to the analysis of multi-word collocations as well and can be used for defining a relative collocation measure as well. Finally, we give a brief overview of various possibilities of postprocessing collocation sets.
MOESM1 of Graphene Oxide in a Composite with Silver Nanoparticles Reduces the Fibroblast and Endothelial Cell Cytotoxicity of an Antibacterial Nanoplatform
Creators: name: Wierzbicki, Mateusz
name: Sławomir Jaworski
name: Sawosz, Ewa
name: Jung, Anna
name: Gielerak, Grzegorz
name: Jaremek, Henryk
name: Łojkowski, Witold
name: Woźniak, Bartosz
name: Stobiński, Leszek
name: Małolepszy, Artur
name: Chwalibog, André
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Antibody array map.
Activity-dependent compensation of cell size is vulnerable to targeted deletion of ion channels
Creators: name: Gorur-Shandilya, Srinivas
name: Marder, Eve
name: O’Leary, Timothy
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/57
/631/80
/631/114
/631/136
/631/378
/631/443
article

description: Abstract: In many species, excitable cells preserve their physiological properties despite significant variation in physical size across time and in a population. For example, neurons in crustacean central pattern generators generate similar firing patterns despite several-fold increases in size between juveniles and adults. This presents a biophysical problem because the electrical properties of cells are highly sensitive to membrane area and channel density. It is not known whether specific mechanisms exist to sense membrane area and adjust channel expression to keep a consistent channel density, or whether regulation mechanisms that sense activity alone are capable of compensating cell size. We show that destabilising effects of growth can be specifically compensated by feedback mechanism that senses average calcium influx and jointly regulate multiple conductances. However, we further show that this class of growth-compensating regulation schemes is necessarily sensitive to perturbations that alter the expression of subsets of ion channel types. Targeted perturbations of specific ion channels can trigger a pathological response of the regulation mechanism and a failure of homeostasis. Our findings suggest that physiological regulation mechanisms that confer robustness to growth may be specifically vulnerable to deletions or mutations that affect subsets of ion channels.
Additional file 7 of Identifying genes with conserved splicing structure and orthologous isoforms in human, mouse and dog
Creators: name: Guillaudeux, Nicolas
name: Belleannée, Catherine
name: Blanquart, Samuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7 Relational diagram of the transcript_Ortho SQL database. The additional file is at the PDF format.
The bimodal [Mg/Fe] versus [Fe/H] bulge sequence as revealed by APOGEE DR14
Creators: name: Rojas-Arriagada, A.
name: Zoccali, M.
name: Schultheis, M.
name: Recio-Blanco, A.
name: Zasowski, G.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Jönsson, H.
name: Cohen, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galactic bulge has a bimodal metallicity distribution function: different kinematic, spatial, and, potentially, age distributions characterize the metal-poor and metal-rich components. Despite this observed dichotomy, which argues for different formation channels for those stars, the distribution of bulge stars in the $α$-abundance versus metallicity plane has been found so far to be a rather smooth single sequence. We use data from the fourteenth data release of the APOGEE spectroscopic survey (DR14) to investigate the distribution in the Mg abundance (as tracer of the $α$-elements)-versus-metallicity plane of a sample of stars selected to be in the inner region of the bulge. A clean sample has been selected from the DR14 using a set of data- and pipeline-flags to ensure the quality of their fundamental parameters and elemental abundances. An additional selection made use of computed spectro-photometric distances to select a sample of likely bulge stars as those with ${\rm R_{GC}\leq 3.5~kpc}$. We adopt magnesium abundance as an $α$-abundance proxy for our clean sample as it has been proven to be the most accurate $α$-element as determined by ASPCAP, the pipeline for data products from APOGEE spectra. From the distribution of our bulge sample in the [Mg/Fe]-versus-[Fe/H] plane, we found that the sequence is bimodal. This bimodality is given by the presence of a low-Mg sequence of stars parallel to the main high-Mg sequence over a range of $\sim 0.5$~dex around solar metallicity. The two sequences merge above ${\rm [Fe/H]\sim0.15~ dex}$ into a single sequence whose dispersion in [Mg/Fe] is larger than either of the two sequences visible at lower metallicity. This result is confirmed when we consider stars in our sample that are inside the bulge region according to trustworthy Gaia DR2 distances.
description: accepted for publication in A&A. 11 pages, 8 figures
Fluctuation of the background sky in the Hubble Extremely Deep Field (XDF) and its origin
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Toshio
name: Tsumura, Kohji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a fluctuation analysis of the Hubble Extremely Deep Field (XDF) at four optical wavelength bands and found large fluctuations that are significantly brighter than those expected for ordinary galaxies. Good cross-correlations with flat spectra are found down to 0.2 arcsec, indicating the existence of a spatial structure even at the 0.2 arcsec scale. The detected auto and cross-correlations provide a lower limit of 24 nW m$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ for the absolute sky brightness at 700-900 nm, which is consistent with previous observations. We searched for candidate objects to explain the detected large fluctuation using the catalog of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), and found that the surface number density of faint compact objects (FCOs) rapidly increases toward the faint end. Radial profiles of FCOs are indistinguishable from the PSF, and the effective radius based on de Vaucouleur's law is estimated to be smaller than 0.02 arcsec. The SEDs of FCOs follow a power law at optical wavelengths, but show greater emission and structure at $λ$ > 1 $μ$m. Assuming that the FCOs are the cause of the excess brightness and fluctuations, the faint magnitude limit is 34.9 mag for the F775W band, and the surface number density reaches $2.6 \times 10^3$ (arcsec)$^{-2}$. Recent gamma-ray observations require that the redshift of FCOs must be less than 0.1, if FCOs are the origin of the excess optical and infrared background. Assuming that FCOs consist of missing baryons, the mass and luminosity of a single FCO range from $10^{2}$ to 1$0^{3}$ solar units, and mass-to-luminosity ratio is significantly lower than 1.0 solar unit. The maximum effective radius of an FCO is 4.7 pc. These results and the good correlation between near-infrared and X-ray background indicate that FCOs could be powered by the gravitational energy associated with black holes.
description: 37 pages, 21 figures, accepted to PASJ
Medienanalyse und Visualisierung: Auswertung von Online-Pressetexten durch Text Mining
Creators: name: Quasthoff, Uwe
name: Richter, Matthias
name: Wolff, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Medienanalyse; Visualisierung; Text Mining; Corpuslinguistik
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
subject: 400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
subject: 004 Informatik
subject: H.3.1
subject: H.4.3
subject: H.5.1

description: Obwohl sich die Medienwissenschaft als inter- oder transdisziplinäres Arbeitsfeld versteht, haben methodische Ansätze aus der angewandten Informatik bisher kaum Eingang in das Methodeninventar der Medienwissenschaft gefunden (vgl. Rusch 2002b: 70f). Die so genannten „Neuen Medien“ finden sich zwar als Subjekt medienwissenschaftlicher Betrachtungen wieder (vgl. Ludes 1998: 51ff, 129), es besteht aber ein Defizit hinsichtlich der Modernisierung geeigneter Methoden für die Medienanalyse, die bisher von qualitativen und an einzelnen Publikationen bzw. Medienereignissen orientierten Verfahren geprägt ist (vgl. Posner 2001, Andringa 2002, Schreier 2002). Dieser Beitrag versucht aufzuzeigen, wie Text Mining-Verfahren für die inhaltliche Auswertung von Pressetexten genutzt werden können und so als „angewandte Medieninformatik“ einen interdisziplinären Beitrag zur Medienanalyse leisten können. Es wird ein im World Wide Web verfügbarer Informationsdienst vorgestellt, der tagesaktuell überregionale Online-Medien auswertet und begriffsbasiert die jeweils als relevant erkannten Konzepte als „Wörter des Tages“ präsentiert. Dabei kommen sowohl Darstellungen relevanter Begriffe, die einem einfachen Kategoriensystem zugeordnet sind zum Zuge, als auch Visualisierungen von aktuellen Begriffsassoziationen und Visualisierungen des Aktualitätsverlaufs einzelner Konzepte.
The effect of Brazilian corn and soybean crop expansion on price and volatility transmission
Creators: name: Cruz, Jose Cesar
name: Silveira, Rodrigo L. F.
name: Capitani, Daniel H. D.
name: Urso, Fabiana S. P.
name: Martines, Joao G. Filho
name: Cruz, Jose Cesar
name: Silveira, Rodrigo L. F.
name: Capitani, Daniel H. D.
name: Urso, Fabiana S. P.
name: Martines, Joao G. Filho
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: corn
subject: soybeans
subject: price
subject: volatility

description: This study aims to examine if the most recent changes in the Brazilian corn and soybean production have caused significant changes in prices and volatility transmission between Brazilian and U.S. markets. In addition to using econometric time-series methods tests to analyze price transmission among grain and oilseeds markets, we investigated the volatility spillover across U.S. and Brazil markets using causality in variance tests. Since structural break tests indicated the presence of one breakpoint, the sample was split in two periods: 1996-2006 and 2007-2014. Results suggest that the level of market integration has increased during the second period (2007-2014) with higher sensibility to price changes compared to the first period (1996-2006).
Acrostomus vianai Kuschel 1958
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Acrostomus
Acrostomus vianai

description: Acrostomus vianai Kuschel, 1958
 Acrostomus vianai Kuschel, 1958: 233 (type locality: Argentina: Neuquén; type material: H: BMNH and P: 1 BMNH, 8 NZAC, and 1 USNM).
 Host plants. Azorella trifurcata (Gaertner) Pers. and Mulinum spinosum (Cav.) Pers. (Apiaceae) (Morrone, 1994b).
 Distribution. Southern Argentina and southern Chile (Morrone, 1994b).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
ZNF281 is recruited on DNA breaks to facilitate DNA repair by non-homologous end joining
Creators: name: Nicolai, Sara
name: Mahen, Robert
name: Raschellà, Giuseppe
name: Marini, Alberto
name: Pieraccioli, Marco
name: Malewicz, Michal
name: Venkitaraman, Ashok R.
name: Melino, Gerry
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/67/1059
/631/337/1427/2191
/14/35
/13/1
/13/31
/13/89
/13/109
/38/77
/14
/14/63
article

description: Abstract: Efficient repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is of critical importance for cell survival. Although non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is the most used DSBs repair pathway in the cells, how NHEJ factors are sequentially recruited to damaged chromatin remains unclear. Here, we identify a novel role for the zinc-finger protein ZNF281 in participating in the ordered recruitment of the NHEJ repair factor XRCC4 at damage sites. ZNF281 is recruited to DNA lesions within seconds after DNA damage through a mechanism dependent on its DNA binding domain and, at least in part, on poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) activity. ZNF281 binds XRCC4 through its zinc-finger domain and facilitates its recruitment to damaged sites. Consequently, depletion of ZNF281 impairs the efficiency of the NHEJ repair pathway and decreases cell viability upon DNA damage. Survival analyses from datasets of commonly occurring human cancers show that higher levels of ZNF281 correlate with poor prognosis of patients treated with DNA-damaging therapies. Thus, our results define a late ZNF281-dependent regulatory step of NHEJ complex assembly at DNA lesions and suggest additional possibilities for cancer patients’ stratification and for the development of personalised therapeutic strategies.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with visible light
Creators: name: Lindner, Chiara
name: Wolf, Sebastian
name: Kießling, Jens
name: Kühnemann, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear interferometers allow spectroscopy in the mid-infrared range by detecting correlated visible light, for which non-cooled detectors with higher specific detectivity and lower dark count rates are available. We present a new approach for the registration of spectral information, which combines a nonlinear interferometer using non-degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) with a Fourier-transform spectroscopy concept. In order to increase the spectral coverage, we use broadband non-collinear SPDC in periodically poled LiNbO$_3$. Without the need for spectrally selective detection, continuous spectra with a spectral bandwidth of more than 100$\,$cm$^{-1}$ are achieved. We demonstrate transmission spectra of a polypropylene sample measured with ~ 6$\,$cm$^{-1}$ resolution in the spectral range between 3.2$\,μ$m to 3.9$\,μ$m.
Mammographic density change in a cohort of premenopausal women receiving tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention over 5 years
Creators: name: Brentnall, Adam R.
name: Warren, Ruth
name: Harkness, Elaine F.
name: Astley, Susan M.
name: Wiseman, Julia
name: Fox, Jill
name: Fox, Lynne
name: Eriksson, Mikael
name: Hall, Per
name: Cuzick, Jack
name: Evans, D. Gareth
name: Howell, Anthony
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Tamoxifen
Prevention
Mammographic density
Breast density change

description: Abstract: Background: A decrease in breast density due to tamoxifen preventive therapy might indicate greater benefit from the drug. It is not known whether mammographic density continues to decline after 1 year of therapy, or whether measures of breast density change are sufficiently stable for personalised recommendations. Methods: Mammographic density was measured annually over up to 5 years in premenopausal women with no previous diagnosis of breast cancer but at increased risk of breast cancer attending a family-history clinic in Manchester, UK (baseline 2010-2013). Tamoxifen (20 mg/day) for prevention was prescribed for up to 5 years in one group; the other group did not receive tamoxifen and were matched by age. Fully automatic methods were used on mammograms over the 5-year follow-up: three area-based measures (NN-VAS, Stratus, Densitas) and one volumetric (Volpara). Additionally, percentage breast density at baseline and first follow-up mammograms was measured visually. The size of density declines at the first follow-up mammogram and thereafter was estimated using a linear mixed model adjusted for age and body mass index. The stability of density change at 1 year was assessed by evaluating mean squared error loss from predictions based on individual or mean density change at 1 year. Results: Analysis used mammograms from 126 healthy premenopausal women before and as they received tamoxifen for prevention (median age 42 years) and 172 matched controls (median age 41 years), with median 3 years follow-up. There was a strong correlation between percentage density measures used on the same mammogram in both the tamoxifen and no tamoxifen groups (all correlation coeficients > 0.8). Tamoxifen reduced mean breast density in year 1 by approximately 17–25% of the inter-quartile range of four automated percentage density measures at baseline, and from year 2, it decreased further by approximately 2–7% per year. Predicting change at 2 years using individual change at 1 year was approximately 60–300% worse than using mean change at 1year. Conclusions: All measures showed a consistent and large average tamoxifen-induced change in density over the first year, and a continued decline thereafter. However, these measures of density change at 1 year were not stable on an individual basis.
Precision Optical Measurements and Fundamental Physical Constants
Creators: name: Karshenboim, Savely G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief overview is given on precision determinations of values of the fundamental physical constants and the search for their variation with time by means of precision spectroscopy in the optical domain.
A multi-agent system approach in evaluating human spatio-temporal vulnerability to seismic risk using social attachment
Creators: name: Bañgate, Julius
name: Dugdale, Julie
name: Beck, Elise
name: Adam, Carole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social attachment theory states that individuals seek the proximity of attachment figures (e.g. family members, friends, colleagues, familiar places or objects) when faced with threat. During disasters, this means that family members may seek each other before evacuating, gather personal property before heading to familiar exits and places, or follow groups/crowds, etc. This hard-wired human tendency should be considered in the assessment of risk and the creation of disaster management plans. Doing so may result in more realistic evacuation procedures and may minimise the number of casualties and injuries. In this context, a dynamic spatio-temporal analysis of seismic risk is presented using SOLACE, a multi-agent model of pedestrian behaviour based on social attachment theory implemented using the Belief-Desire-Intention approach. The model focuses on the influence of human, social, physical and temporal factors on successful evacuation. Human factors considered include perception and mobility defined by age. Social factors are defined by attachment bonds, social groups, population distribution, and cultural norms. Physical factors refer to the location of the epicentre of the earthquake, spatial distribution/layout and attributes of environmental objects such as buildings, roads, barriers (cars), placement of safe areas, evacuation routes, and the resulting debris/damage from the earthquake. Experiments tested the influence of time of the day, presence of disabled persons and earthquake intensity. Initial results show that factors that influence arrivals in safe areas include (a) human factors (age, disability, speed), (b) pre-evacuation behaviours, (c) perception distance (social attachment, time of day), (d) social interaction during evacuation, and (e) physical and spatial aspects, such as limitations imposed by debris (damage), and the distance to safe areas. To validate the results, scenarios will be designed with stakeholders, who will also take part in the definition of a serious game. The recommendation of this research is that both social and physical aspects should be considered when defining vulnerability in the analysis of risk.