cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An optimized methanol assimilation pathway relying on promiscuous formaldehyde-condensing aldolases in E. coli
Creators: name: He, Hai
name: Höper, Rune
name: Dodenhöft, Moritz
name: Marlière, Philippe
name: Bar-Even, Arren
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Engineering biotechnological microorganisms to use methanol as a feedstock for bioproduction is a major goal for the synthetic metabolism community. Here, we aim to redesign the natural serine cycle for implementation in E. coli. We propose the homoserine cycle, relying on two promiscuous formaldehyde aldolase reactions, as a superior pathway design. The homoserine cycle is expected to outperform the serine cycle and its variants with respect to biomass yield, thermodynamic favorability, and integration with host endogenous metabolism. Even as compared to the RuMP cycle, the most efficient naturally occurring methanol assimilation route, the homoserine cycle is expected to support higher yields of a wide array of products. We test the in vivo feasibility of the homoserine cycle by constructing several E. coli gene deletion strains whose growth is coupled to the activity of different pathway segments. Using this approach, we demonstrate that all required promiscuous enzymes are active enough to enable growth of the auxotrophic strains. Our findings thus identify a novel metabolic solution that opens the way to an optimized methylotrophic platform.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 997
Twigitecture: Coco Homes.
Creators: name: Dr Bheemaiah, Anil Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: MFA II
MaC
Twigitecture
coco homes

description: Twigitecture: Coco Homes introduces a groundbreaking approach to sustainable design by utilizing the natural properties of dehusked coconut shells, optimally designed by nature for structural integrity and ecological harmony. Drawing from the MFA II school of design, the concept integrates the principles of MaC (Manifold as Code) and mereotopology, creating multifunctional, geodesic, and stress-optimized architectures. The unique shape of the coconut, with its natural void and biomimetic qualities, forms the foundation of Coco Homes, representing a convergence of organic material use and advanced design theory. The coconut shell, with its egg-like form, aligns with the metaphysical principles of microcosm-macrocosm relationships, providing an ideal structure for energy-efficient, eco-friendly homes. This paper explores how Coco Homes combine traditional wisdom with modern computational design methods, enabling the creation of resilient and sustainable living spaces.

Keywords:

Twigitecture, Coco Homes, coconut shell, sustainable design, MaC (Manifold as Code), MFA II school of design, mereotopology, geodesic design, multifunctional architecture, stress tensor theory, biomimicry, ecological architecture, microcosm-macrocosm relationship.
2020: Escape room: Proper RDM is the only way out
Creators: name: VU Amsterdam, Leiden University, and the Eindhoven University of Technology
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 2020: Escape room: Proper RDM is the only way out

In 2020 the VU Amsterdam, Leiden University, and the Eindhoven University of Technology created an online data horror escape room; a game where a team of players has to solve a set of puzzles to “escape” the room in which they are “locked”.  The room they created consists of six tasks related to: FAIR data, personal data, data archiving, data transfer, persistent identifiers, and metadata. For more details, see this blog post.
Cribraria zonatispora Lado, Mosquera & Beltran-Tej., Mycologia
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Cribrariales
Cribrariaceae
Cribraria
Cribraria zonatispora

description: Cribraria zonatispora Lado, Mosquera & Beltrán-Tej., Mycologia 91(1):157 (1999)
 Paratypus: SPAIN. Canary Islands, Tenerife, Arafo, 28º21’N 16º25’W, 650 m, on inner woody tissue of decayed Opuntia ficus-indica cladodial, 29 Nov 1997, leg. J. Mosquera, TFC Mic 8197, DWM 5691 [two boxes + one slide, K-M001435104], (Figs. 3D‒E).
Notes. This material is a duplicate of one of the collections mentioned in “specimenes examined” but the collection date is different (12.4.97) and we think it comes from another sample also examined with the number TFC Mic 8024.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2024, The type material in the David W. Mitchell myxomycete collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, pp. 135-158 in Phytotaxa 649 (2) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13215967
Rapid hydrofracture of icy moon shells: insights from glaciology
Creators: name: Law, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Europa's surface exhibits many regions of complex topography termed 'chaos terrains'. One set of hypotheses for chaos terrain formation requires upward migration of liquid water from perched water bodies within the icy shell formed by convection and tidal heating. However, consideration of the behavior of terrestrial ice sheets suggests the upwards movement of water from englacial water bodies is uncommon. Instead, rapid downwards hydrofracture from supraglacial lakes - unbounded given a sufficient volume of water - can occur in relatively low tensile stress states given a sufficiently deep initial fracture due to the negative relative buoyancy of water. I suggest that downwards, not upwards, fracture may be more reasonable for perched water bodies but show that full hydrofracture is unlikely if the perched water body is located beneath a mechanically strong icy lid. However, full hydrofracture is possible in the event of lid break up over a perched water body and likely in the event of a meteor impact that generates sufficient meltwater and a tensile shock. This provides a possible mechanism for the transfer of biologically important nutrients to the subsurface ocean and the formation of chaos terrains.
Didymium atrichum Henney & Alexop.
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Didymium
Didymium atrichum

description: Didymium atrichum Henney & Alexop., in Henney, Alexopoulos & Scheetz, Mycotaxon 11(1):161 (1980)
 Cultotype: USA. Texas, Houston, from mass spore sowing on autoclaved leaf of Bauhinia sp. tree, Dec 1979, leg. C.J. Alexopoulos, exUTMC, DWM 3618 [two boxes + one slide, K-M001435090], (Fig. 3G).
 Notes. In his notebook, Mitchell wrote that the sample was sent by C.J.Alexopoulos, and is “from mass spore sowing on autoclaved leaf of Bauhinia sp. from monosporous culture on corn meal agar with Enterobacter ascogenus. Sporulated in Houston, Texas, Dec 1979 ”. This cultotype is probably from Holotypus UTMC 1681 kept for more than 30 subcultures over 16 years (Henney et al. 1980: 161). The holotype UTMC 1681 is in BPI 749236, and other cultotypes were sent to NY 00834430, ATCC, K 53672, University of Helsinki (Finland), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, La Plata (Argentina); and private collections of D.T. Kowalski, N.E. Nannenga-Bremekamp, and D.W. Mitchell, as above.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2024, The type material in the David W. Mitchell myxomycete collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, pp. 135-158 in Phytotaxa 649 (2) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13215967
Didymium synsporon T. E. Brooks & H. W. Keller 1973
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Didymium
Didymium synsporon

description: Didymium synsporon T.E. Brooks & H.W. Keller, in Keller & Brooks, Mycologia 65(2):287 (1973)
 Paratypus: USA. Kentucky, Cumberland Co., on bark of living Juniperus virginiana, 30 Aug 1970, T.E. Brooks 3758, DWM 5851 [one box + one slide, K-M001435091], (Fig. 3L).
Notes. Keller & Brooks (1973: 288) mention this material under “Collections examined”, so it is a paratype. The holotype (“TEB 2743”) is in BPI 805632.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2024, The type material in the David W. Mitchell myxomycete collection at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, pp. 135-158 in Phytotaxa 649 (2) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13215967
Salvina undefined-1 Melichar 1926
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa
name: Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz
name: Paladini, Andressa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Salvina
Salvina undefined-1

description: Key to Salvina species
1 Head and pronotum with large red maculae (Fig. 1A).................................. S. distinctissima comb. nov.
1’ Head and pronotum without red maculae (Fig. 1A, C)........................................................ 2
2 Pronotum with large median dark macula (Fig. 1B); male pygofer with dorsal process (Kramer, 1964; fig. 62); aedeagus with shaft wide in basal two-thirds and strongly narrowed in apical third (Kramer, 1964; fig. 63)............... S. dorsisignata
2’ Pronotum without macula (Fig. 1D, F); male pygofer without dorsal process (Fig. 2E, F); aedeagus with shaft narrow, gradually tapered towards apex (Fig. 2K)......................................................... S. undata comb. nov.
description: Published as part of Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa, Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz & Paladini, Andressa, 2025, A synopsis of the genus Salvina Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Neocoelidiinae) with two new combinations, key to males, and list of host plants for the subfamily, pp. 339-350 in Zootaxa 5588 (2) on page 345, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14896564
ENGIE D 1.4 International best practice report on teaching STEM
Creators: name: Giuliani, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: geology
engineering
STEM

description: This report presents the results of the review aimed at identifying best practices and success stories relative to STEM teaching in Europe and worldwide, in the framework of WP1 “Programming”, tasks 1.3 and 1.4.
The Impact of liver disease on mortality in Cystic Fibrosis- A systematic review protocol-data
Creators: name: Sasame, Ao
name: Connolly, Lucy
name: Fitzpatrick, Emer
name: Stokes, Diarmuid
name: Bourke, Billy
name: Rowland, Marion
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cystic Fibrosis
Liver Disease
Mortality
Outcome
Children
Adults
Protocol
Prisma P Checklist

description: The data set to accompany a protocol for a systematic review entitled The impact of liver disease on mortality in cystic fibrosis Prisma P checklist (2015) Summary of Evidence table Risk of bias proforma
Das Konzept von Brennstoffemissionen im nationalen Emissionshandel
Creators: name: Ludig, Sylvie
name: Jörß, Wolfram
name: Emele, Lukas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: nationaler Emissionshandel
subject: nEHS
subject: Brennstoffemissionen
subject: BEHG
subject: Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Mit dem 2019 verabschiedeten Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz (BEHG) wurde in Deutschland ein nationales Emissionshandelssystem (nEHS) eingeführt, welches seit 2021 Emissionen des Treibhausgases Kohlendioxid (CO2) aus der Verbrennung von Heiz- und Kraftstoffen erfasst, mit einem Preis belegt und begrenzt. In den Jahren 2021 und 2022 (Startphase) betrifft dies die Brennstoffe Benzin, Flugbenzin, Gasöl (Diesel und Heizöl EL), Heizöl Schwer, Flüssiggas und Erdgas. Ab dem Jahr 2023 werden weitere Brennstoffe wie z.B. Kohle hinzukommen. Der vorliegende Bericht konzentriert sich in diesem Zusammenhang auf Fragen der Definition von im nEHS erfassten Emissionen, erläutert dazu das im BEHG niedergelegte Konzept der 'Brennstoffemissionen' sowie die Abgrenzung des nEHS vom Europäischen Emissionshandelssystem (EU-ETS) und liefert eine quantitative Abschätzung und Einordnung der vom nEHS erfassten Emissionen. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG) passed in 2019 introduced a national emissions trading system (nEHS) in Germany, which has been pricing and limiting emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the combustion of heating and motor fuels since 2021. Those fuels are in 2021 and 2022 (start-up phase): petrol, aviation fuel, gas oil (diesel and EL heating oil), heavy fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas; from 2023 onwards, other fuels such as coal will be added. In this context, this report focuses on questions of the definition of emissions covered by the nEHS, explains the concept of 'fuel emissions' laid down in the BEHG and the demarcation of the nEHS from the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), and provides a quantitative estimate and classification of the emissions covered by the nEHS. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Mit dem 2019 verabschiedeten Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz wurde in Deutschland ein nationales Emissionshandelssystem (nEHS) eingeführt, welches seit 2021 Emissionen des Treibhausgases Kohlendioxid aus der Verbrennung von Heiz- und Kraftstoffen erfasst, mit einem Preis belegt und begrenzt. Der Bericht konzentriert sich in diesem Zusammenhang auf Fragen der Definition von im nEHS erfassten Emissionen, erläutert dazu das im BEHG niedergelegte Konzept der ‚Brennstoffemissionen‘ sowie die Abgrenzung des nEHS vom Europäischen Emissionshandelssystem und liefert eine quantitative Abschätzung und Einordnung der vom nEHS erfassten Emissionen.
Studies in the decolourising abilities of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus and the involvement of laccase
Creators: name: Schliephake, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis addresses the decolourisation of coloured compounds by an Australian isolate of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus. The study investigated the involvement of the extracellular fungal enzyme, laccase, in colour removal from liquid solutions.
This thesis identified the lignin degrading fungus, P. cinnabarinus, as a potentially useful organism to decolourise wastewaters containing complex aromatic compounds. The principle extracellular enzyme, laccase, was shown to be involved in the destruction of chromophoric material.
Correspondence, Daniel Rybb's Summer Music Festival Contract, April 1955
Creators: name: Minuse, T. Bayles
name: Rybb, Daniel
name: Simon Jr., Robert T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concerts
Correspondence
Contracts

description: These records related to Mr. Daniel Rybb's contract with the Stony Brook Community Fund include two letters between Robert Simon Jr. of Carnegie Hall and T. Bayles Minuse, both written in April 1955.
Melanophore metachrosis response in amphibian tadpoles: effect of background colour, light and temperature
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Eduardo José
name: Beltrán, Juan Francisco
name: Márquez, Rafael
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The developmental and biochemical mechanisms of colour change through chromatophore metachrosis in amphibian tadpoles are relatively well studied, but the environmental factors driving colour change remain unclear. A cryptic response to background colour in order to reduce predation is an intuitively valid explanation, however, other hypotheses need to be explored. In this study, we aimed to investigate the environmental factors driving the melanophore metachrosis process in Alytes dickhilleni tadpoles. First, we tested the response to two backgrounds with clearly distinct reflectance: black and white. The proportion of dark tadpoles became significantly higher when they were located on the black background, and pale tadpole proportion was dominant on the white background, as expected from the crypsis hypothesis. Secondly, we added two new factors, temperature and photoperiod, maintaining the background variation. Our results suggest that lower temperatures, and short photoperiods were significantly driving a change to dark colouration in tadpoles, possibly allowing a more efficient thermoregulation, and in consequence, development and growth. Next we tested whether dark and pale tadpoles selected backgrounds that matched their colouration (black and white background), and found no evidence for behavioral selection. The apparent response in colour change to background appears to be mediated by the background reflectance of light, that there does not seem to be behavioral selection of matching background by the tadpoles, and therefore it suggests that color change is more likely to be a physiological response with thermoregulatory implications.
Eighth Annual Story Brook Music Festival Program, 1962
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concert halls
Concerts
Amphitheaters
Programs
Music festivals
Tickets
Orchestras
Musicians

description: This is the Eight Annual Stony Brook Music Festival 1962 program. The back shows directions to Stony Brook as well as a form for ordering tickets. Located inside is the schedule for the music festival concerts. Of Note: This programs incredibly small in size, and is missing the advertisements present on earlier festival programs. It has more in common with the brochure seen in B40. Schedule is as follows: July 7 - Tony Bennet and the Columbia Recording Orchestra, July 14 - Percy Faith and the 50-piece Columbia Recording Orchestra, July 21 - "Great American Jazz", Host: Ed Joyce of CBS, July 28 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, Special Program in 25t Anniversary in Memory of George Gershwin, August 4- Benny Goodman and the Great Goodman Band, and August 11 - "Pop Concert", Paul Taubman Conducting the Outstanding Stony Brook Music Festival Orchestra.
The association between monitoring in executive functions and metacognition
Creators: name: Roebers, Claudia M
name: Ger, Ebru
name: Buehler, Florian Jonas
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024

description: This project examines whether monitoring processes within executive functions and metacognition may be associated in 6- to 8-year-old children. The publication deriving from this project can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101514
LRSPPP: lightweight R-LWE-based secure and privacy-preserving scheme for prosumer side network in smart grid
Creators: name: Agarkar, Aarti Amod
name: Agrawal, Himanshu
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In recent years, researchers have made tremendous progress to address an important question of how to provide security and privacy in Internet of Things systems. Privacy protection refers to safeguarding leakage of private information of the customers. In the context of Smart Grid, majority of the studies are based on addressing consumer side privacy. A recent research work has revealed that consumer side network has evolved into prosumer side network. Prosumer refers to consumer and producer, which means a dual role of a customer in the smart grid network. In this paper, we attempt to address the security and privacy issues at the prosumer side of smart grid network. Our work is different from the previous works in two ways. The paper proposes a lightweight encryption based privacy preservation scheme; Lightweight R-LWE-based Secure and Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Prosumer side network (LRSPPP). In LRSPPP, a new messaging scheme is defined which effectively minimizes the number of messages thus making it lightweight. Furthermore, the proposed privacy preservation scheme is using Learning With Errors over Rings (R-LWE) lattice cryptography. There is no previous evidence of use of R-LWE based encryption for prosumer's privacy protection in smart grid. The security and performance analysis shows that the LRSPPP is superior compared to three other existing schemes.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) in ambient air and deposition in the German background
Creators: name: Dreyer, Annekatrin
name: Minkos, Andrea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Außenluft

description: PCDD/Fs (17 congeners and E-tetra -to octachloro homologues) and 209 PCBs were investigated in monthly samples of ambient air (gas + particle phase) and atmospheric deposition at two background monitoring sites in Germany in 2018/19. In atmospheric deposition samples, PCDD/F congeners as well as certain PCBs were frequently below the method quantification limits whereas values for PCDD/F homologue groups could be quantified more often. Annual deposition averages for individual PCDD/Fs were between <0.1 Mikrog/m2d and 6.7 Mikrog/m2d. Averages for E-TeCDD/F to OCDD/F homologue totals in deposition were about 11 pg/m2d and 19 pg/m2d. Total PCB deposition rates were about 1900 pg/m2d and 1550 pg/m2d. PCDD/F + PCB-deposition rates were below 1 pg WHO2005-TEQ/m2d on average. In ambient air, both substance groups were frequently observed. Annual concentration averages for individual PCDD/F were between 0.1 fg/m3 and 50 fg/m3. Average values for E-TeCDD/F to OCDD/F homologue totals in ambient air were 283 fg/m3 and 162 fg/m3. Total PCB concentrations were about 50 pg/m3 at both sites. PCDD/F + PCB-TEQ values were lower than 5 fg WHO2005-TEQ/m3 on average. Besides the frequently studied dioxin-like PCBs and six indicator PCBs, the analysis of the 209 PCBs (166 separated PCB-peaks) enabled the identification and evaluation of additional PCBs that might be of environmental concern. Of 166 PCBs or PCB-coelutions, up to 144 were quantified in air samples and up to 94 in atmospheric deposition samples. In ambient air, some of these PCBs were observed at levels similar to or exceeding those of the six indicator PCBs. Important additional PCBs in ambient air were PCB 5 + 8, PCB 11, PCB 17, PCB 18, PCB 20 + 33, PCB 31, PCB 43 + 49, PCB 44, PCB 47 + 48 + 65 + 75, PCB 93 + 95 + 98 + 102, PCB 139 + 149, and PCB 151. The presence of these PCBs in atmospheric samples implies that by analysing only selected PCBs potentially important contaminants are overlooked. © 2022 The Authors
title: Agricultural Development and Land Use Change in India: A Scenario Analysis of Trade‐Offs Between UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Creators: name: Hinz, Roman
name: Sulser, Timothy B.
name: Hüfner, Rebekka
name: Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
name: Dunston, Shahnila
name: Nautiyal, Sunil
name: Ringler, Claudia
name: Schüngel, Jan
name: Tikhile, Pavan
name: Wimmer, Florian
name: Schaldach, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SDGs
subject: land use change
subject: India
subject: biodiversity
subject: carbon sequestration
subject: agricultural development
subject: 630
subject: Indien
subject: Ernährungssicherung
subject: Politisches Programm
subject: Landnutzung
subject: Nutzungsänderung
subject: Biodiversität
subject: Sequestrierung
subject: Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
subject: Klimaänderung

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Women in the 2019 hepatitis C cascade of care: findings from the British Columbia Hepatitis Testers cohort study
Creators: name: Pearce, Margo
name: Bartlett, Sofia
name: Yu, Amanda
name: Lamb, Jess
name: Reitz, Cheryl
name: Wong, Stanley
name: Álvarez María
name: Binka, Mawuena
name: Velásquez Garcia, Héctor Alexander
name: Jeong, Dahn
name: Clementi, Emilia
name: Adu, Prince A.
name: Samji, Hasina
name: Wong, Jason
name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Yoshida, Eric
name: Elwood, Chelsea
name: Sauvé, J. Laura
name: Pick, Neora
name: Krajden, Mel
name: Janjua, Naveed Z.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Women living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are rarely addressed in research and may be overrepresented within key populations requiring additional support to access HCV care and treatment. We constructed the HCV care cascade among people diagnosed with HCV in British Columbia, Canada, as of 2019 to compare progress in care and treatment and to assess sex/gender gaps in HCV treatment access. Methods The BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort includes 1.7 million people who tested for HCV, HIV, reported cases of hepatitis B, and active tuberculosis in BC from 2000 to 2019. Test results were linked to medical visits, hospitalizations, cancers, prescription drugs, and mortality data. Six HCV care cascade stages were identified: (1) antibody diagnosed; (2) RNA tested; (3) RNA positive; (4) genotyped; (5) initiated treatment; and (6) achieved sustained virologic response (SVR). HCV care cascade results were assessed for women, and an ‘inverse’ cascade was created to assess gaps, including not being RNA tested, genotyped, or treatment initiated, stratified by sex. Results In 2019, 52,638 people with known sex were anti-HCV positive in BC; 37% (19,522) were women. Confirmatory RNA tests were received by 86% (16,797/19,522) of anti-HCV positive women and 83% (27,353/33,116) of men. Among people who had been genotyped, 68% (6756/10,008) of women and 67% (12,640/18,828) of men initiated treatment, with 94% (5023/5364) of women and 92% (9147/9897) of men achieving SVR. Among the 3252 women and 6188 men not yet treated, higher proportions of women compared to men were born after 1975 (30% vs. 21%), had a mental health diagnosis (42% vs. 34%) and had used injection drugs (50% vs. 45%). Among 1619 women and 2780 men who had used injection drugs and were not yet treated, higher proportions of women than men used stimulants (64% vs. 57%), and opiates (67% vs. 60%). Conclusions Women and men appear to be equally engaged into the HCV care cascade; however, women with concurrent social and health conditions are being left behind. Treatment access may be improved with approaches that meet the needs of younger women, those with mental health diagnoses, and women who use drugs.
Task-Oriented Hybrid Beamforming for OFDM-DFRC Systems with Flexibly Controlled Space-Frequency Spectra
Creators: name: Xu, Lingyun
name: Wang, Bowen
name: Cheng, Ziyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper investigates the issues of the hybrid beamforming design for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system in multiple task scenarios involving the radar scanning and detection task and the target tracking task. To meet different task requirements of the DFRC system, we introduce two novel radar beampattern metrics, the average integrated sidelobe to minimum mainlobe ratio (AISMMR) and average peak sidelobe to integrated mainlobe ratio (APSIMR), to characterize the space-frequency spectra in different scenarios. Then, two HBF design problems are formulated for two task scenarios by minimizing the AISMMR and APSIMR respectively subject to the constraints of communication quality-of-service (QoS), power budget, and hardware. Due to the non-linearity and close coupling between the analog and digital beamformers in both the objective functions and QoS constraint, the resultant formulated problems are challenging to solve. Towards that end, a unified optimization algorithm based on a consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (CADMM) is proposed to solve these two problems. Moreover, under the unified CADMM framework, the closed-form solutions of primal variables in the original two problems are obtained with low complexity. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Online Marketplace: A Benchmark for Data Management in Microservices
Creators: name: Laigner, Rodrigo
name: Zhang, Zhexiang
name: Liu, Yijian
name: Gomes, Leonardo Freitas
name: Zhou, Yongluan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microservice architectures have become a popular approach for designing scalable distributed applications. Despite their extensive use in industrial settings for over a decade, there is limited understanding of the data management challenges that arise in these applications. Consequently, it has been difficult to advance data system technologies that effectively support microservice applications. To fill this gap, we present Online Marketplace, a microservice benchmark that highlights core data management challenges that existing benchmarks fail to address. These challenges include transaction processing, query processing, event processing, constraint enforcement, and data replication. We have defined criteria for various data management issues to enable proper comparison across data systems and platforms.
 Through case studies with state-of-the-art data platforms, we discuss the issues encountered while implementing and meeting Online Marketplace's criteria. By capturing the overhead of meeting the key data management requirements that are overlooked by existing benchmarks, we gain actionable insights into the experimental platforms. This highlights the significance of Online Marketplace in advancing future data systems to meet the needs of microservice practitioners.
description: Version accepted at SIGMOD'25
Young Planet Population Predictions from Protoplanetary Disk Gaps
Creators: name: Zhang, Shangjia
name: Zhu, Zhaohuan
name: Kang, Mingon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: planet formation
protoplanetary disks
machine learning
Convolutional Neutral Networks
exoplanet statistics

description: Detecting young planets in protoplanetary disks is essential to infer where and when planets form and how massive they are, putting stringent constraints on planet formation theory. Despite thousands of exoplanets having been discovered, only a few of them are around young stars within 10 million years old. Substructures induced by young planets in protoplanetary disks can be used to infer the potential young planets’ properties. Hydrodynamical simulations have been used to study the relationships between the planet’s properties and these disk features. One approach is to azimuthally average simulation results to derive some linear relationships between the gap width/depth and the planet mass, but this loses information on asymmetric features. To preserve 2D information, we develop convolutional neural networks (CNNs) PGNets to rapidly and directly infer the planet mass from radio dust continuum images. We use these tools to study the young planet population.
Correction to: Genome-wide sequencing as a first-tier screening test for short tandem repeat expansions
Creators: name: Rajan-Babu, Indhu-Shree
name: Peng, Junran J.
name: Chiu, Readman
name: IMAGINE Study
name: CAUSES Study
name: Li, Chenkai
name: Mohajeri, Arezoo
name: Dolzhenko, Egor
name: Eberle, Michael A.
name: Birol, Inanc
name: Friedman, J. M. (Jan Marshall), 1947-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

Abstract
title: Solution‐Processed, Insoluble Thin Films through In Situ Chemical Polymerization of Semiconducting Native Polythiophene
Creators: name: Lebert, Jenny
name: Kratzer, Eva M.
name: Herzig, Eva M.
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 530

description: The use of multilayer, solution‐processed organic thin film devices can benefit strongly from the controlled deposition of insoluble thin films. Here, a solution‐based in situ polymerization technique for semiconducting polythiophene thin films based on nonchlorinated solvents forming a range of large‐scale structured or homogeneous, insoluble thin films is systematically developed. The high‐quality nature of the resulting polythiophene thin films is demonstrated by successfully implementing the films in the active layer of bilayer heterojunction solar cells. It is possible to transfer this protocol to large‐scale processing without additional changes to the material system.
On Integrable Nets in General and Concordant Chebyshev Nets in Particular
Creators: name: Marvan, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K10, 53A05, 53A55, 53A60

description: We consider general integrable curve nets in Euclidean space as a particular integrable geometry invariant with respect to rigid motions and net-preserving reparameterisations. For the purpose of their description, we first give an overview of the most important second-order invariants and relations among them. As a particular integrable example, we reinterpret the result of I.S. Krasil'shchik and M. Marvan (see Section 2, Case 2 in [Acta Appl. Math. 56 (1999), 217-230]) as a curve net satisfying an $\mathbb R$-linear relation between the Schief curvature of the net and the Gauss curvature of the supporting surface. In the special case when the curvatures are proportional (concordant nets), we find a correspondence to pairs of pseudospherical surfaces of equal negative constant Gaussian curvatures. Conversely, we also show that two generic pseudospherical surfaces of equal negative constant Gaussian curvatures induce a concordant Chebyshev net. The construction generalises the well-known correspondence between pairs of curves and translation surfaces.
Geotechnical Properties of Iron and Steel Making Slag Aggregates Stabilised with Binders for Pavement Base/Subbase Applications
Creators: name: Maghool, Farshid
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this research, the geotechnical and environmental characteristics of iron and steel making slag aggregates have been evaluated to be used as a construction material in unbound, cement-stabilised as well as geopolymer-stabilised pavement applications. Traditional stabilisation methods such as cement stabilisation are not entirely sustainable options, hence liquid alkaline activator along with low carbon pozzolanic binders, namely fly ash and slag, were used for geopolymerisation study. The usage of slag aggregates as construction material in roadwork applications would bring about a practical end-of-life alternative for their sustainable reuse and possibly divert large amount of these waste materials from landfills.
THE NEED TO DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN FUTURE PEDAGOGUES BASED ON A CREATIVE-PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Creators: name: Abdurakhmanov, Dilmurod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of developing professional competence in future pedagogues based on a creative-pedagogical approach, the technological system of developing professional competence in future pedagogues based on a creative-pedagogical approach, and the effectiveness of developing professional competence in future pedagogues based on a creative-pedagogical approach. Also, components of professional competence development in future pedagogues based on the creative-pedagogical approach were analyzed.
Protein association of ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine in Triticum aestivum via irrigation
Creators: name: Contardo-Jara, Valeska
name: Schwanemann, Torsten
name: Esterhuizen-Londt, Maranda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biomagnifikation
Blaualgen

description: Bioaccumulation of several cyanotoxins has been observed in numerous food webs. More recently, the neurotoxic, non-proteinogenic amino acid Î2-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) was shown to biomagnify in marine food webs. It was thus necessary to assess whether a human exposure risk via a terrestrial food source could exist. As shown for other cyanotoxins, spray irrigation of crop plants with cyanobacterial bloom-contaminated surface water poses the risk of toxin transfer into edible plant parts. Therefore, in the present study, we evaluated a possible transfer of BMAA via spray irrigation into the seeds of one of the worldâ€Ìs most widely cultivated crop plants, Triticum aestivum. Wheat plants were irrigated with water containing 10 Ìg Lâ Ì1 BMAA until they reached maturity and seed-bearing stage (205 days). Several morphological characteristics, such as germination rate, number of roots per seedling, length of primary root and cotyledon, and diameter of the stems were evaluated to assess the effects of chronic exposure. After 205 days, BMAA bioaccumulation was quantified in roots, shoots, and mature seeds of T. aestivum. No adverse morphology effects were observed and no free intracellular BMAA was detected in any of the exposed plants. However, in mature seeds, protein-associated BMAA was detected at 217 Ì 150 ng g FWâ Ì1; significantly more than in roots and shoots. This result demonstrates the unexpected bioaccumulation of a hydrophilic compound and highlights the demand to specify in addition to limit values for drinking water, tolerable daily intake rates for the cyanobacterial-neurotoxin BMAA. Quelle: https://www.tandfonline.com
Andrew D Mitchell, "Hometown Heroes: Onshoring, Promoting Local Content & WTO Law" (2004) 25(4) Journal of World Investment & Trade 481
Creators: name: Mitchell, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 480310
subject: Public international law

description: This article examines the complexities and challenges associated with onshoring manufacturing through local content requirements within the context of World Trade Organization (WTO) law. Governments have intensified efforts to relocate production within their territories, leveraging local content requirements and incentives. This shift is primarily justified by the need for supply chain resilience, public health, and national security, aiming to mitigate risks associated with reliance on foreign suppliers during crises. However, these strategies may conflict with WTO obligations, particularly those concerning trade-related investment measures and subsidies. Using pharmaceuticals as a case study, this article explores the rationale, scope, and implications of WTO rules on local content policies. The analysis provides insights into how nations navigate the delicate balance between enhancing domestic capabilities and adhering to international trade laws.
The Unheimlich Manoeuvre: Literature and the 21st-Century Uncanny
Creators: name: Lilley, Andrew William
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This work outlines the emergence of a distinctively 21st-century literature and demonstrates how it engages with the anxieties and aporias of contemporary life. Reading the late fiction of Don DeLillo, Roberto Bolaño, and Cormac McCarthy, it outlines a shift away from the postmodern and towards the 21st-century uncanny. Heightened uncanniness—as developed by Freud and Lacan—accounts for contemporary symptoms such as social fragmentation, subjective indistinctness, the waning of symbolic authority, and intensified anxiety. This thesis examines how contemporary novelists find ways to employ, reveal, and combat this uncanniness in a literature that signals a renewed attentiveness to ethical responsibility.
Le formelle del palazzo ducale di Urbino: nuove interpretazioni
Creators: name: Molari, Luisa
name: Molari, Pier Gabriele
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2022
Subjects: ICAR/18 Storia dell'architettura

description: Viene giustificata la scelta del numero 72 delle formelle come ricordo della scomparsa di Battista Sforza, di Battista Alberti e Giovanni Bessarione avvenuta nel 1472. Il confronto fra il contenuto delle formelle ed i primi 53 disegni del codice della B.A.V. Urb. Lat. 1377 permette di considerare due distinte fasi della composizione del fregio. Una prima stesura del fregio (con notevoli differenze stilistiche), viene identificata in continuità con l’idea dell’Alberti, esposta sugli zoccoli dei pilastri, dove sono esposti scudi romani con lance incrociate. In queste formelle Federico, come riconosciuto dal Bianchini, che l’ornamento più proprio di una tal fabbrica fossero gl’istromenti medesimi delle di lui vittorie, e del suo ingrandimento, ha la sua gente armata sulla quale si basa (sulla quale conta), rappresentata attraverso le loro armi, come se i suoi fossero pronti ad indossarle per seguirlo, come fossero quelle ben lucidate e lubrificate che si dice «sostassero» all’interno del portico del palazzo. Ci sono rappresentati, come direbbe Machiavelli : i fanti con lo scudo, i fanti con la picca, i capidiedi colla picca, i capidiedi con lo scudo, i veliti ordinari, i veliti straordinari, i centurioni, i centurioni delle battaglie, il capo del battaglione, il capitano generale, il suono, la bandiera, gli uomini d’arme, i cavalli leggeri, l’artiglieria. Accostando le idee neoplatoniche alla colta corte urbinate, si scoprono le sequenze evolutive del pensiero materializzate nella evoluzione delle macchine e si portano argomenti per comprendere lo studiatissimo disordine proprio della stesura di questa così pioneristica opera d’arte.
title: The mismatch between rhetoric and action - A study into the Commonwealth's role in redressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational inequity
Creators: name: Sainsbury, Claire
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: Educational issues are almost always represented as the failings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families and communities, with insufficient attention given to the dominant ideologies that underpin educational policy and practice. This research endeavours to bring a fresh perspective to the understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational inequity, in relation to the role of the Commonwealth in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. In doing so, it illuminates how discourses, narratives and ideologies are mutually reinforced across multiple layers of social organisation, permeating all levels of education from policy to practice. It also highlights the simplistic behavioural framing of educational problems and dominant narratives that attribute educational underachievement to deficits in the sociocultural background of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This understanding of educational issues creates the perception that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's educational predicament is one of misfortune rather than the direct result of the previous and ongoing actions of the state. I argue that centring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in education, acknowledging the power of language in shaping educational issues and embedding counternarratives that challenge dominant ideologies and assumptions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners would vastly improve the educational experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and thus contribute to enhanced conditions to support improvements in educational outcomes. To bring about fundamental change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, this research presents a roadmap for the Commonwealth to begin to make steps towards redressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational inequity. I advance a framework for contesting and replacing dominant ideologies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education through the articulation of a theory of change. I also develop a blueprint for future Commonwealth investment to reframe the current approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. There is a need for an overarching national vision, led by the Commonwealth, to mobilise support and drive systemic and structural reform in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, in order to progress this important agenda.
International student mobility from China and India – the influence of Australian immigration policy, and institutional and family factors on postgraduation destination outcomes
Creators: name: Arora, Pankaj
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The main purpose of this research is to examine the main factors influencing Chinese and Indian students in selecting Australia as the destination for their study and the intentions post-graduation. It addresses the literature gap of the influence of meso-level factors, for example parents on such student migration, as well as the difference in impact of micro, macro and meso factors on various student nationalities, and aims to understand their decisions from the lens of migration theories.
Solving Combinatorial Pricing Problems using Embedded Dynamic Programming Models
Creators: name: Bui, Quang Minh
name: Carvalho, Margarida
name: Neto, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90C46, 90C27, 90C39

description: The combinatorial pricing problem (CPP) is a bilevel problem in which the leader maximizes their revenue by imposing tolls on certain items that they can control. Based on the tolls set by the leader, the follower selects a subset of items corresponding to an optimal solution of a combinatorial optimization problem. To accomplish the leader's goal, the tolls need to be sufficiently low to discourage the follower from choosing the items offered by the competitors. In this paper, we derive a single-level reformulation for the CPP by rewriting the follower's problem as a longest path problem using a dynamic programming model, and then taking its dual and applying strong duality. We proceed to solve the reformulation in a dynamic fashion with a cutting plane method. We apply this methodology to two distinct dynamic programming models, namely, a novel formulation designated as selection diagram and the well-known decision diagram. We also produce numerical results to evaluate their performances across three different specializations of the CPP and a closely related problem that is the knapsack interdiction problem. Our results showcase the potential of the two proposed reformulations over the natural value function approach, expanding the set of tools to solve combinatorial bilevel programs.
Regularized Maximum Likelihood Techniques for ALMA Protoplanetary Disk Imaging
Creators: name: Zawadzki, Brianna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: protoplanetary disks
ALMA
imaging

description: The application of Regularized Maximum Likelihood (RML) imaging techniques to sub-mm interferometric observations can achieve higher angular resolution and superior image fidelity compared to traditional imaging methods like CLEAN, as shown in the analysis of the recent Event Horizon Telescope images of M87. We use the GPU-accelerated open source Python package MPoL to explore the behavior of various RML prior distributions (maximum entropy, sparsity, total variation, and total squared variation) on ALMA observations in order to understand how each prior impacts the final image and in which imaging cases certain priors work best, both individually and in combination with each other. We focus our exploration on protoplanetary disk morphologies and identify which prior choices are likely to be suitable for certain types of features, such as sharply defined rings or diffuse emission. Using RML methods to improve the resolution of protoplanetary disk observations (both future and archival) will open the door for the detection of deviations in disk structure caused by embedded planets. In order to obtain a final image product with the best possible angular resolution and image fidelity, we also develop and distill recommendations for incorporating the image validation procedure cross-validation (CV) into the RML workflow, and provide a comparison of RML and CLEAN images for the protoplanetary disk HD 143006.