cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improved algorithm for neuronal ensemble inference by Monte Carlo method
Creators: name: Kimura, Shun
name: Takeda, Koujin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neuronal ensemble inference is one of the significant problems in the study of biological neural networks. Various methods have been proposed for ensemble inference from their activity data taken experimentally. Here we focus on Bayesian inference approach for ensembles with generative model, which was proposed in recent work. However, this method requires large computational cost, and the result sometimes gets stuck in bad local maximum solution of Bayesian inference. In this work, we give improved Bayesian inference algorithm for these problems. We modify ensemble generation rule in Markov chain Monte Carlo method, and introduce the idea of simulated annealing for hyperparameter control. We also compare the performance of ensemble inference between our algorithm and the original one.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Origins and Effects of Populism
Creators: name: Enyedi, Zsolt
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Democratic Virtues; Populism; Party Organizations; Real-Existing Democracy; Social Movements

description: A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
Influence of quenched dilution on the quasi-long-range ordered phase of the 2d XY model
Creators: name: Berche, B.
name: Sanchez, A. I. Farinas
name: Holovatch, Yu.
name: Paredes, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of non magnetic impurities in the 2d XY model is investigated through Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The general picture of the transition is fully understood from the Harris criterion which predicts that the universality class is unchanged, and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless description of the topological transition remains valid. We nevertheless address here the question about the influence of dilution on the quasi-long-range order at low temperatures. In particular, we study the asymptotic of the pair correlation function and report the MC estimates for the critical exponent $η$ at different dilutions. In the weak dilution region, our MC calculations are further supported by simple spin-wave-like calculations.
description: 8 pages, 7 eps figures
The Circadian Clock, the Immune System, and Viral Infections: The Intricate Relationship Between Biological Time and Host-Virus Interaction
Creators: name: Mazzoccoli, Gianluigi
name: Vinciguerra, Manlio
name: Carbone, Annalucia
name: Relógio, Angela
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: clock
subject: circadian rhythms
subject: virus
subject: host
subject: immune system
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Living beings spend their lives and carry out their daily activities interacting with environmental situations that present space-time variations and that involve contact with other life forms, which may behave as commensals or as invaders and/or parasites. The characteristics of the environment, as well as the processes that support the maintenance of life and that characterize the execution of activities of daily life generally present periodic variations, which are mostly synchronized with the light-dark cycle determined by Earth's rotation on its axis. These rhythms with 24-h periodicity, defined as circadian, influence events linked to the interaction between hosts and hosted microorganisms and can dramatically determine the outcome of this interplay. As for the various pathological conditions resulting from host-microorganism interactions, a particularly interesting scenario concerns infections by viruses. When a viral agent enters the body, it alters the biological processes of the infected cells in order to favour its replication and to spread to various tissues. Though our knowledge concerning the mutual influence between the biological clock and viruses is still limited, recent studies start to unravel interesting aspects of the clock-virus molecular interplay. Three different aspects of this interplay are addressed in this mini-review and include the circadian regulation of both innate and adaptive immune systems, the impact of the biological clock on viral infection itself, and finally the putative perturbations that the virus may confer to the clock leading to its deregulation.
Online Supplemental File 1 _ Study Protocol
Creators: name: Salajan, Andreea
name: Tsolova, Svetla
name: Ciotti, Massimo
name: Suk, Jonathan E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material - To what extent does evidence support decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review
Unraveling the role of ectopic thymic tissue in patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis
Creators: name: Li, Feng
name: Tao, Ya
name: Bauer, Gero
name: Elsner, Aron
name: Li, Zhongmin
name: Swierzy, Marc
name: Englisch, Julianna
name: Meisel, Andreas
name: Ismail, Mahmoud
name: Rückert, Jens-C.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Myasthenia gravis (MG)
subject: ectopic thymic tissue
subject: thymectomy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Extended thymectomy has been considered the goal of surgery for myasthenia gravis (MG) mainly due to the existence of ectopic thymic tissue. Recently, ectopic thymic tissue has attracted increasing attention in patients with MG following thymectomy. However, the specific role of ectopic thymic tissue in patients with MG is still under debate. A systematic search of the literature was performed on PubMed and Medline according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISM) statement. Studies evaluating the rate of ectopic thymic tissue in patients with MG with or without thymoma were included. Extraction was performed for all eligible studies and the rate of ectopic thymic tissue at common locations was calculated. Eighteen out of fifty-nine studies were eligible for inclusion, of which ten studies reported the common locations of ectopic thymic tissue in mediastinal fat. Of these ten studies, the presence of ectopic thymic tissue was investigated in different anatomical locations in 882 patients, of whom, 509 patients (58%) have at least one positive location with the most common ones being anterior mediastinal fat, pericardiophrenic angles, aortopulmonary window, cervical region (pretracheal fat) and lateral to phrenic nerves. On the other hand, nine studies analyzed the influence of the presence of ectopic thymic tissue on the clinical outcomes of MG patients. Of these, six found that the presence of ectopic thymic tissue in MG patients is a significant predictor of poor outcome after thymectomy, however, the other three did not find a significance. Altogether, ectopic thymic tissue is likely to present in more than a half of patients undergoing thymectomy for MG. Besides, MG patients who have ectopic thymic tissue after thymectomy do not seem to have as good outcome as those who have not.
Nucleosynthesis in Black-Hole-Forming Supernovae and Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
Creators: name: Nomoto, K.
name: Maeda, K.
name: Umeda, H.
name: Tominaga, N.
name: Ohkubo, T.
name: Deng, J.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars more massive than $\sim$ 20 - 25 \ms form a black hole at the end of their evolution. Stars with non-rotating black holes are likely to collapse "quietly" ejecting a small amount of heavy elements (Faint supernovae). In contrast, stars with rotating black holes are likely to give rise to very energetic supernovae (Hypernovae). We present distinct nucleosynthesis features of these two types of "black-hole-forming" supernovae. Nucleosynthesis in Hypernovae is characterized by larger abundance ratios (Zn,Co,V,Ti)/Fe and smaller (Mn,Cr)/Fe than normal supernovae, which can explain the observed trend of these ratios in extremely metal-poor stars. Nucleosynthesis in Faint supernovae is characterized by a large amount of fall-back. We show that the abundance pattern of the recently discovered most Fe-poor star, HE0107-5240, and other extremely metal-poor carbon-rich stars are in good accord with those of black-hole-forming supernovae, but not pair-instability supernovae. This suggests that black-hole-forming supernovae made important contributions to the early Galactic (and cosmic) chemical evolution. Finally we discuss the nature of First (Pop III) Stars.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures. To appear in "Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 4: Origin and Evolution of the Elements, 2003, eds. A. McWilliam and M. Rauch (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories)
On Populism. A Comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay
Creators: name: Holmes, Stephen
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Democratic Virtues; Populism; Party Organizations; Real-Existing Democracy; Social Movements

description: A comment on Philippe Schmitter's essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019).
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Populisms and Gender Equality
Creators: name: Lefkofridi, Zoe
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Democratic Virtues; Populism; Party Organizations; Real-Existing Democracy; Social Movements

description: A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
Comment on: "Theory of the evaporation/condensation transition of equilibrium droplets in finite volumes"
Creators: name: Biskup, Marek
name: Chayes, Lincoln
name: Kotecky, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine some aspects of the recent results by K. Binder. The equilibrium formation/dissolution of droplets in finite systems is discussed in the context of the canonical and the grand canonical distributions.
description: Latex + 3 elsart style files
On Populism, Planets, and Why Concepts Should Precede Definitions and Theory-Seeking
Creators: name: Pappas, Takis S.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Populism; Democratic Illiberalism; Minimal Definition; Re-Conceptualization; Planetary System; Theory-Building

description: Despite its remarkable growth in recent years, the study of populism has long suffered from the lack of a comprehensive theory about its causes, development, and outcomes. Yet, no such theory can be arrived at before previously having resolved what "populism" really is (and what it is not). Good definitions, therefore, require a prior conceptualization of the phenomena we classify as populist, and want explained. Like planets, which are hard to define but easier to conceptualize as the component parts of our solar system, modern populism is better understood as a novel political system that maintains electoral democracy while also working against the principles of political liberalism. Based on such a conceptualization, we may define populism simply as "democratic illiberalism," which opens the door for new empirical research and worthwhile theory-building.
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
Additional file 7 of Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wong, Valerie Wing Yu
name: Huang, Ying
name: Wei, Wan In
name: Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
name: Kwok, Kin On
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Risk of bias assessment for randomized trials using Cochrane risk-of-bias tool.
Microscopic black hole detection in UHECR: the double bang signature
Creators: name: Cardoso, V.
name: Santo, M. C. Espirito
name: Paulos, M.
name: Pimenta, M.
name: Tome, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to recent conjectures on the existence of large extra dimensions in our universe, black holes may be produced during the interaction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with the atmosphere. However, and so far, the proposed signatures are based on statistical effects, not allowing identification on an event by event basis, and may lead to large uncertainties. In this note, events with a double bang topology, where the production and instantaneous decay of a microscopic black hole (first bang) is followed, at a measurable distance, by the decay of an energetic tau lepton (second bang) are proposed as an almost background free signature. The characteristics of these events and the capability of large cosmic ray experiments to detect them are discussed.
description: revised version, 5 figures
Superconductivity induced by Mg deficiency in non-centrosymmetric phosphide Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P
Creators: name: Iyo, Akira
name: Hase, Izumi
name: Fujihisa, Hiroshi
name: Gotoh, Yoshito
name: Takeshita, Nao
name: Ishida, Shigeyuki
name: Ninomiya, Hiroki
name: Yoshida, Yoshiyuki
name: Eisaki, Hiroshi
name: Kawashima, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for non-centrosymmetric superconductors that may exhibit unusual physical properties and unconventional superconductivity has yielded the synthesis of a non-centrosymmetric phosphide Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P with an Al$_2$Mo$_3$C-type structure. Although stoichiometric Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P does not exhibit superconductivity at temperatures above 2 K, we found that an Mg deficiency of approximately 5 at.% in the Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P induced superconductivity at 3.9 K. Physical properties such as the lattice parameter a = 0.70881 nm, Sommerfeld constant $γ_n$ = 5.36 mJ mol$^{-1}$ K$^{-2}$, specific heat jump $Δ$C$_{el}$/$γ_n$Tc = 0.72, electron-phonon coupling constant $λ$$_{e-p}$ = 0.58, upper critical field H$_{c2}$(0) = 24.3 kOe, and pressure effect dTc/dP = -0.34 K/GPa were measured for the superconducting Mg$_{2-δ}$Rh$_3$P ($δ$ $\sim$ 0.1). Band-structure calculations indicate that exotic fermions, which are not present in high-energy physics, exist in Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P. Since Mg, Rh, and P are the first elements used at each crystal site of Al$_2$Mo$_3$C-type compounds, the discovery of Mg$_2$Rh$_3$P may guide the search for new related materials.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.03093 by other authors
Pseudosinella tyrrhena Gama & Dallai 1978
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Pseudosinella
Pseudosinella tyrrhena

description: Pseudosinella tyrrhena Gama & Dallai, 1978
Pseudosinella tyrrhena Gama & Dallai, 1978: 269.
DISTRIBUTION. — Corse. Forêt de Valdoniello et à Scala près de Regina (Gama & Dallai 1978).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 393, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Supplemental material - To what extent does evidence support decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review
Creators: name: Salajan, Andreea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material - To what extent does evidence support decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review
Riboflavin: The Health Benefits of a Forgotten Natural Vitamin
Creators: name: Suwannasom, Nittiya
name: Kao, Ijad
name: Pruß, Axel
name: Georgieva, Radostina
name: Bäumler, Hans
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: riboflavin
subject: vitamin B2
subject: complementary medicine
subject: functional food
subject: oxidative stress
subject: cancer
subject: neurodegeneration
subject: muscular degeneration
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Riboflavin (RF) is a water-soluble member of the B-vitamin family. Sufficient dietary and supplemental RF intake appears to have a protective effect on various medical conditions such as sepsis, ischemia etc., while it also contributes to the reduction in the risk of some forms of cancer in humans. These biological effects of RF have been widely studied for their anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-nociceptive and anti-cancer properties. Moreover, the combination of RF and other compounds or drugs can have a wide variety of effects and protective properties, and diminish the toxic effect of drugs in several treatments. Research has been done in order to review the latest findings about the link between RF and different clinical aberrations. Since further studies have been published in this field, it is appropriate to consider a re-evaluation of the importance of RF in terms of its beneficial properties.
Sivers function in a spectator model with axial-vector diquarks
Creators: name: Bacchetta, Alessandro
name: Schaefer, Andreas
name: Yang, Jian-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a calculation of the Sivers function in a spectator model of the nucleon, with scalar and axial-vector diquarks. We make use of gluon rescattering to produce the nontrivial phases necessary to generate the Sivers function. The inclusion of axial-vector diquarks enables us to obtain a nonzero Sivers function for down quarks. Using the results of our model, we discuss the phenomenology of transvere single spin asymmetries in pi+, pi-, and pi0 production, which are currently analysed by the HERMES and COMPASS collaborations. We find that the inclusion of axial-vector diquarks substantially reduces the asymmetries.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, uses RevTex, added calculation of h1^perp, final version accepted for publication in PLB
On finite temperature Casimir effect for Dirac lattices
Creators: name: Pirozhenko, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider polarizable sheets modeled by a lattice of delta function potentials. The Casimir interaction of two such lattices is calculated at nonzero temperature. The heat kernel expansion for periodic singular background is discussed in relation with the high temperature asymptote of the free energy.
description: 4 pages, a talk presented at the 4th Symposium on the Casimir effect, to be published in Modern Physics Letters A
Times of Sociology. Eviatar Zerubavel in Conversation with Lorenzo Sabetta
Creators: name: Sabetta, Lorenzo
name: Zerubavel, Eviatar
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social Theorizing; Taken-for-grantedness; Sociotemporal Order; Erving Goffman; The Social Construction of What?; Rutgers School; Concept-Driven Sociology.

description: This interview offers a historical reconstruction of Eviatar Zerubavel’s work, from his pioneering studies of time to his not-yet-published analysis of “concept-driven sociology”, running the gamut of Zerubavel’s career and embracing a period of more than forty years of sociological research. The interview encompasses several major topics: the beginnings of Zerubavel’s own intellectual path and his move from Israel to the United States; the nuts and bolts of sociology of time and cognitive sociology; the underlying theoretical framework of a transcontextual and comparative mode of social inquiry; an in-depth analysis of the last books which Zerubavel has devoted to the study of phenomena such as backgroundness and taken-for-grantedness; the range of his academic and intellectual relationships (especially the one with his mentor Goffman, but also his rapport with Peter Berger, Lewis Coser, Renée Fox, and Murray Davis, among others); the polymorphic connection between sociological theory and politics; the development of the so-called “Rutgers School of Sociology”; the issue of “public sociology”; the future of sociology and academic research.
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
Introduction
Creators: name: Esposito, Elena
name: Squazzoni, Flaminio
name: Stark, David
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2019

description: In the previous issue of Sociologica, 13(1), 2019, we published a provocative essay by Philippe Schmitter, "Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’." As part of our commitment to sociological debate, we invited comments by five leading scholars in the field.
description: Sociologica, Vol 13, No 2 (2019)
Cheumatopsyche bardiana Malicky 1997
Creators: name: Oláh, János
name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
name: Barnard, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Cheumatopsyche
Cheumatopsyche bardiana

description: Cheumatopsyche bardiana Malicky, 1997
 Cheumatopsyche bardiana Malicky, 1997: 1020.
 Type locality: Laos PDR.
description: Published as part of Oláh, János, Johanson, Kjell Arne & Barnard, Peter C., 2008, Revision of the Oriental and Afrotropical species of Cheumatopsyche Wallengren (Hydropsychidae, Trichoptera), pp. 1-171 in Zootaxa 1738 on page 86
Pseudosinella vandeli subsp. vandeli vandeli Denis 1923
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Pseudosinella
Pseudosinella vandeli
Pseudosinella vandeli vandeli denis, 1923

description: Pseudosinella vandeli vandeli Denis, 1923 *
Pseudosinella vandeli vandeli Denis, 1923b: 56.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ain. Grotte de Saint-Julien sur Cerdon (Gisin 1953, 1964b). — Grottesde Hautecour, de Saint-Julien, deLa Tière, des Voleurs et du Pissoir (Gisin 1963). — Grotte de Hautecourt (Thibaud 1977).
Ardèche. Grotte du Baumas près de Larnas (Stomp et al. 1982, Ps. vandeli relicta Gisin, 1954). — Grotte de Meysset à Rompon (Gama 1991).
Bouches-du-Rhône. Gouffre du Maramoye, massif du Siou Blanc (Vedovini 1968, Ps. monoculata).
Doubs. Grottesdes Faux-Monnayeurs, de Maillot, de La Beaumedu Montà Reugney etdel’Osselle prèsde Besançon (Denis 1924c,d). — Gisin 1964b (Ps. v. meridionalis). — Grottesde Gonsans à Gonsans près de Roulans, du Sibiot à Oubney-Douvot près de Roulans, de Chenecey à Chenecey-Buillon, des Faux-Monnayeurs à Mouthier- Hautepierre, du Mont à Reugney près d’Amancey, de Gondenans- Montby à Gondenans-Montby près de Rougemont, des Orcières à Montvernace prèsde Baume-les-Dames, de Foubanne à Fourbanne, sources Bergeretà Arcierprèsde Besançon-nord, de Beure à Beure près de Besançon-sud, du Maillot à Beure, de Saint-Léonard supérieure à Besançon-sud, de Sainte-Catherine à Laval près de Russeye, de Mémont à Mémont près de Russey et de Grange à Mathieu (Gisin & Gama 1970a; Gama 1976).
Haute-Saône. Grottede Beaume (Denis 1923b, 1924c, d). — Gisin 1964b (Ps. v. meridionalis). — Grottes de Gonvillars à Gonvillars prèsd’Héricourt, de Cerre-les-Noroyà Cerre-les-Noroyetdes Equevillons à Montcey près de Vesoul (Gisin & Gama 1970a). — Gama 1976. — Grottesde Combel’Épineà Calmoutiers, de Combela Botte à Colombotte, du Trou dela Borne à Colombe-les-Vesoul, de la Baumeà Echenoz-la-Médine, du Petit-Frais-Puitsà Calmoutierset au Trou de la Cottelotte à Dampvalley-les-Colombe (Gama 1991).
Rhône. Galerie souterraine du Robia à Poleymieux (Gama 1991). Territoire de Belfort. Grotte de Cravanche à Cravance (Gisin & Gama 1970a).
TAXONOMIE. — Denis 1924c, d (redescription); Gisin 1964b (redescription); Stomp etal. 1982 (redescription).
PHYSIOLOGIE. — Thibaud 1977 (mue, température, mortalité).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on pages 393-394, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
An automatic deep learning-based workflow for glioblastoma survival prediction using pre-operative multimodal MR images
Creators: name: Fu, Jie
name: Singhrao, Kamal
name: Zhong, Xinran
name: Gao, Yu
name: Qi, Sharon
name: Yang, Yingli
name: Ruan, Dan
name: Lewis, John H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We proposed a fully automatic workflow for glioblastoma (GBM) survival prediction using deep learning (DL) methods. 285 glioma (210 GBM, 75 low-grade glioma) patients were included. 163 of the GBM patients had overall survival (OS) data. Every patient had four pre-operative MR scans and manually drawn tumor contours. For automatic tumor segmentation, a 3D convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained and validated using 122 glioma patients. The trained model was applied to the remaining 163 GBM patients to generate tumor contours. The handcrafted and DL-based radiomic features were extracted from auto-contours using explicitly designed algorithms and a pre-trained CNN respectively. 163 GBM patients were randomly split into training (n=122) and testing (n=41) sets for survival analysis. Cox regression models with regularization techniques were trained to construct the handcrafted and DL-based signatures. The prognostic power of the two signatures was evaluated and compared. The 3D CNN achieved an average Dice coefficient of 0.85 across 163 GBM patients for tumor segmentation. The handcrafted signature achieved a C-index of 0.64 (95% CI: 0.55-0.73), while the DL-based signature achieved a C-index of 0.67 (95% CI: 0.57-0.77). Unlike the handcrafted signature, the DL-based signature successfully stratified testing patients into two prognostically distinct groups (p-value<0.01, HR=2.80, 95% CI: 1.26-6.24). The proposed 3D CNN generated accurate GBM tumor contours from four MR images. The DL-based signature resulted in better GBM survival prediction, in terms of higher C-index and significant patient stratification, than the handcrafted signature. The proposed automatic radiomic workflow demonstrated the potential of improving patient stratification and survival prediction in GBM patients.
BDNF Expression in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons
Creators: name: Barreda Tomás, Federico José
name: Turko, Paul
name: Heilmann, Heike
name: Trimbuch, Thorsten
name: Yanagawa, Yuchio
name: Vida, Imre
name: Münster-Wandowski, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: BDNF
subject: hippocampus
subject: neocortex
subject: GABAergic interneurons
subject: laser capture microdissection
subject: RT-qPCR
subject: FACS
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a major neuronal growth factor that is widely expressed in the central nervous system. It is synthesized as a glycosylated precursor protein, (pro)BDNF and post-translationally converted to the mature form, (m)BDNF. BDNF is known to be produced and secreted by cortical glutamatergic principal cells (PCs); however, it remains a question whether it can also be synthesized by other neuron types, in particular, GABAergic interneurons (INs). Therefore, we utilized immunocytochemical labeling and reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) to investigate the cellular distribution of proBDNF and its RNA in glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons of the mouse cortex. Immunofluorescence labeling revealed that mBDNF, as well as proBDNF, localized to both the neuronal populations in the hippocampus. The precursor proBDNF protein showed a perinuclear distribution pattern, overlapping with the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the site of protein synthesis. RT-qPCR of samples obtained using laser capture microdissection (LCM) or fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) of hippocampal and cortical neurons further demonstrated the abundance of BDNF transcripts in both glutamatergic and GABAergic cells. Thus, our data provide compelling evidence that BDNF can be synthesized by both principal cells and INs of the cortex.
Pseudosinella vertamicoriensis Gisin 1963
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Pseudosinella
Pseudosinella vertamicoriensis

description: Pseudosinella vertamicoriensis Gisin, 1963
Pseudosinella vertamicoriensis Gisin, 1963: 282.
DISTRIBUTION. — Isère. Grottes du Pré-Martin à Choranche, de Balme-Etrangeà Chorange, de Coufin à Chorange et du Trou-Noir en aval de Grenoble (Gisin 1963).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 394, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Study protocol - To what extent does evidence support decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review
Creators: name: Salajan, Andreea
name: Suk, Jonathan E.
name: Tsolova, Svetla
name: Ciotti, Massimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material - To what extent does evidence support decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review
Cheumatopsyche brevis
Creators: name: Oláh, János
name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
name: Barnard, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Cheumatopsyche
Cheumatopsyche brevis

description: Cheumatopsyche brevis (Ulmer, 1930)
 Hydropsychodes brevis Ulmer, 1930b: 450.
 Cheumatopsyche brevis (Ulmer, 1930); Kimmins 1963: 130.
 Type locality: Indonesia (Java).
description: Published as part of Oláh, János, Johanson, Kjell Arne & Barnard, Peter C., 2008, Revision of the Oriental and Afrotropical species of Cheumatopsyche Wallengren (Hydropsychidae, Trichoptera), pp. 1-171 in Zootaxa 1738 on page 86
The Reduced Proper Motion selected halo: methods and description of the catalogue
Creators: name: Koppelman, Helmer H.
name: Helmi, Amina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gaia mission has provided the largest ever astrometric chart of the Milky Way. Using it to map the Galactic halo is helpful for disentangling its merger history. The identification of halo stars in Gaia DR2 with reliable distance estimates requires special methods because such stars are typically farther away and scarce. We apply the reduced proper motion (RPM) method to identify halo main sequence stars on the basis of Gaia photometry and proper motions. Using the colour-absolute-magnitude relation for this type of stars, we calculate photometric distances. Our selection results in a set of $\sim10^7$ tentative main sequence halo stars with typical distance uncertainties of $7\%$ and with median velocity errors of 20 km/s. The median distance of our sample is $\sim 4.4$ kpc, with the faintest stars located at $\sim 16$ kpc. The spatial distribution of the stars in our sample is centrally concentrated. Visual inspection of the mean velocities of stars on the sky reveals large-scale patterns as well as clear imprints of the GD-1 stream and tentative hints of the Jhelum and Leiptr streams. Incompleteness and selection effects limit our ability to interpret the patterns reliably as well as to identify new substructures. We define a pseudo-velocity space by setting to zero the line-of-sight velocities of our sample stars. In this space, we recover several known structures such as the footprint of Gaia-Enceladus (i.e. the Gaia-Sausage) as well as the Helmi streams and some other retrograde substructures (Sequoia, Thamnos). We show that the two-point velocity correlation function reveals significant clustering on scales smaller than 100 km/s, of similar amplitude as found for the 6D Gaia halo sample. This clustering indicates the presence of nearby streams that are predominantly phase-mixed.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, accepted; final version
Pseudosinella virei Absolon 1901
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Pseudosinella
Pseudosinella virei

description: Pseudosinella virei Absolon, 1901 *
Pseudosinella virei Absolon, 1901a: 109.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ariège. Grottesdela Cigalèreà Seintein, de Paysa à Salsein etde Gouillou (Gisin & Gama 1970a). — Grottede Paysa prèsde Salsein (Thibaud 1977). — Milieu souterrain superficiel, ravin dela Tir, 1110 m, près Illartein (Gers & Najt 1983).
Haute-Garonne. Grottesde Gouillou à Aspet etde l’Homme Mort à La Henne Morte (Gisin & Gama 1970a; Gama 1976).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Grottesde Bas Nistos à Haut-et-Bas-Nistos près de Saint-Laurent-de-Neste, de la Litte à Saint-Pé de Bigorre, de la Palle à Saint-Pé de Bigorre, de Castel-Mouly à Bagnères-de-Bigorre et de Labastide à Labastide près de La-Barthe-de-Neste, grottes de Castel-Mouly à Bagnères-de-Bigorre, grande grotte de Labastide à Labastide (Gisin & Gama 1970a; Gama 1976).
Pyrénées Atlantiques. Grottede Bétharram (Viré 1901). — Grottes de Bétharram à Arthez-et-Asson, d’Istaürdy à Aussurucq près de Mauléon, de Harts silua à Lecumberry près de Saint-Jean-Pied-de- Port, des Eaux Chautesaux Eaux-Chaudes, d’Akerlecia à Larrau, de Malarodeà Arudyetde Balaires (Gisin & Gama 1970a; Gama 1976).
TAXONOMIE. — Gisin & Gama 1970a (redescription).
PHYSIOLOGIE. — Thibaud 1977 (mue, température, mortalité).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 394, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
title: Die Progression des abdomienllen Aortenaneurysmas
title: molekulare Prozesse der Gefäßwand im Rahmen der Aneurysmaprogression und Identifikation neuer diagnostischer und therapeutischer Ziele
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gäbel, Gabor
Publisher: name: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Aortenaneurysma, Genexpression, Mausmodelle, Angiogenese, Fibrose
subject: 600
subject: 610
subject: FOS: Medical and Health Sciences

description: In dieser kumulativen Arbeit werden grundlegende neue Erkenntnisse zu den pathophysiologischen Mechanismen des Aneurysmawachstums bis hin zur Ruptur dargestellt. Des Weiteren werden die aktuell verfuegbaren Mausmodelle kritisch hinsichtlich ihrer Aussagekraft untersucht. Neue Ansaetze zur besseren Diagnostik von ruturgefaehrdeten Aneurysmen und moegliche neue Therapiewege werden aufgezeigt.
D-term inflation without cosmic strings
Creators: name: Urrestilla, J.
name: Achucarro, A.
name: Davis, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a superstring-inspired version of D-term inflation which does not lead to cosmic string formation and appears to satisfy the current CMB constraints. It differs from minimal D-term inflation by a second pair of charged superfields which makes the strings non-topological (semilocal). The strings are also BPS, so the scenario is expected to survive supergravity corrections. The second pair of charged superfields arises naturally in several brane and conifold scenarios, but its effect on cosmic string formation had not been noticed so far.
description: 10 pages, uses REVTEX 4; minor typos corrected, references added, version to be published
Lamb-dips and Lamb-peaks in the saturation spectrum of HD
Creators: name: Diouf, M. L.
name: Cozijn, F. M. J.
name: Darquié, B.
name: Salumbides, E. J.
name: Ubachs, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The saturation spectrum of the R(1) transition in the (2-0) band in HD is found to exhibit a composite line shape, involving a Lamb-dip and a Lamb-peak. We propose an explanation for such behavior based on the effects of cross-over resonances in the hyperfine substructure, which is made quantitative in a density-matrix calculation. This resolves an outstanding discrepancy on the rovibrational R(1) transition frequency, which is now determined at 217 105 181 901 (50) kHz and in agreement with current theoretical calculations.
Differential Signaling Profiles of MC4R Mutations with Three Different Ligands
Creators: name: Paisdzior, Sarah
name: Dimitriou, Ioanna Maria
name: Schöpe, Paul Curtis
name: Annibale, Paolo
name: Scheerer, Patrick
name: Krude, Heiko
name: Lohse, Martin J.
name: Biebermann, Heike
name: Kühnen, Peter
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R)
subject: Melanocyte stimulating hormones MSH
subject: G protein coupled receptor (GPCR)
subject: biased signaling
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) is a key player in hypothalamic weight regulation and energy expenditure as part of the leptin-melanocortin pathway. Mutations in this G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) are the most common cause for monogenetic obesity, which appears to be mediated by changes in the anorectic action of MC4R via GS-dependent cyclic adenosine-monophosphate (cAMP) signaling as well as other signaling pathways. To study potential bias in the effects of MC4R mutations between the different signaling pathways, we investigated three major MC4R mutations: a GS loss-of-function (S127L) and a GS gain-of-function mutant (H158R), as well as the most common European single nucleotide polymorphism (V103I). We tested signaling of all four major G protein families plus extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation and β-arrestin2 recruitment, using the two endogenous agonists, α- and β-melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), along with a synthetic peptide agonist (NDP-α-MSH). The S127L mutation led to a full loss-of-function in all investigated pathways, whereas V103I and H158R were clearly biased towards the Gq/11 pathway when challenged with the endogenous ligands. These results show that MC4R mutations can cause vastly different changes in the various MC4R signaling pathways and highlight the importance of a comprehensive characterization of receptor mutations.
Compact Groups in the UZC galaxy sample: II. Connections between morphology, luminosity and large-scale density
Creators: name: Birgit, Kelm
name: Paola, Focardi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of Compact Groups (CGs) is investigated by comparing the luminosities and morphologies of CG galaxies, CG Neighbours and Isolated galaxies. CGs turn out to include more early type galaxies than Isolated galaxies and fewer low-luminosity galaxies. The 33 CGs with a dominant E/S0 and the 30 CGs with a dominant spiral have similar LF parameters. Spiral dominated CGs have fewer galaxies at high and low luminosity in comparison with their Neighbours, while E-S0 dominated CGs seem to lack only faint galaxies when compared to their Neighbours. Ellipticals which are the dominant galaxy of a CG are also brighter than all their Neighbours, while this holds true for only half of the dominant spirals and S0s. Relations linking the number of Neighbours of dominant E-S0s to the luminosity of E-S0s and to the difference between the first and the second ranked CG members do suggest a link between the formation of bright early-type galaxies and the presence of a group-like potential. No similar relations are found for dominant spirals. These tentative results are compatible with the assumption that CG dominant Ellipticals are anomalous galaxies whose formation might have been a secondary outcome during the process of groups formation.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, A&A, accepted
Collectivity of the electromagnetic transitions in near-threshold resonances
Creators: name: Płoszajczak, M.
name: Okołowicz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mixing of the shell model (SM) eigenstates due to the coupling via the common decay channel leads in many cases to the formation of a collective eigenstate which carries many features of the nearby decay channel. This generic mechanism in open quantum systems explains the phenomenological Ikeda diagram and generalizes it for various clusters/correlations in the vicinity of the respective cluster decay thresholds. The near-threshold collectivization of the SM states may also influence their electromagnetic decays. We discuss this phenomenon on the example of B(EL) decays of near-threshold 2+ states in 14C.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, Invited talk at INPC2019
Characterization of ionization injection in gas mixtures irradiated by sub-petawatt class laser pulses
Creators: name: Zhidkov, A.
name: Pathak, N.
name: Koga, J.
name: Huang, K.
name: Kando, M.
name: Hosokai, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of ionization injection in low and high Z gas mixtures for the laser wake field acceleration of electrons are analyzed with the use of balance equations and particle-in-cell simulations via test probe particle trajectories in realistic plasma fields and direct simulations of charge loading during the ionization process. It is shown that electrons appearing at the maximum of laser pulse field after optical ionization are trapped in the first bucket of the laser pulse wake. Electrons, which are produced by optical field ionization at the front of laser pulse, propagate backwards; some of them are trapped in the second bucket, third bucket and so on. The efficiency of ionization injection is not high, several pC/mm/bucket. This injection becomes competitive with wave breaking injection at lower plasma density and over a rather narrow range of laser pulse intensity.
description: 12 figures
A comparative analysis of indigenous bilingual education policy and practice in Australia and Peru
Creators: name: Lattimore, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: comparative
bilingual education
language policy
indigenous
Peru
Australia
Spolsky
linguistics
institutionalisation
institutionalization
literacy
new media
legitimation
lengua indígena
educación bilingüe
Perú
lingüística
política

description: Australia and Peru are both signatories of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which asserts that indigenous peoples have a right to an education in their own languages, and that States have an obligation to ensure this is possible. Nevertheless, despite similarities in the early histories of indigenous education and the emergence of bilingual programs in the 1970s, the current language policy situations differ greatly between the two countries. This thesis seeks to explain the different outcomes of bilingual education policies using the framework of language policy developed by Spolsky, which conceptualises language policy as a three-component system that operates within multiple domains and functions in an ecological relationship with an array of linguistic and non-linguistic factors. As such, it will examine several areas of language management, ideology, and practices, as well as the ecological context and the domains in which these components of language policy take place. In doing so, the thesis identifies areas in which the Australian policy situation must change if it is to support bilingual education for indigenous students in the future.
Ability of Markovian Master Equations to Model Quantum Computers and Other Systems Under Broadband Control
Creators: name: McCauley, Gavin
name: Cruikshank, Benjamin
name: Santra, Siddhartha
name: Jacobs, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most future quantum devices, including quantum computers, require control that is broadband, meaning that the rate of change of the time-dependent Hamiltonian is as fast or faster than the dynamics it generates. In many areas of quantum physics, including quantum technology, one must include dissipation and decoherence induced by the environment. While Markovian master equations provide the only really efficient way to model these effects, these master equations are derived for constant Hamiltonians (or those with a discrete set of well-defined frequencies). In 2006, Alicky, Lidar, and Zanardi [Phys. Rev. A 73, 052311 (2006)] provided detailed qualitative arguments that Markovian master equations could not describe systems under broadband control. Despite apparently broad acceptance of these arguments, such master equations are routinely used to model precisely these systems. This odd state of affairs is likely due to a lack of quantitative results. Here we perform exact simulations of two- and three-level systems coupled to an oscillator bath to obtain quantitative results. Although we confirm that in general Markovian master equations cannot predict the effects of damping under broadband control, we find that there is a widely applicable regime in which they can. Master equations are accurate for weak damping if both the Rabi frequencies and bandwidth of the control are significantly smaller than the system's transition frequencies. They also remain accurate if the bandwidth of control is as large as the frequency of the driven transition so long as this bandwidth does not overlap other transitions. Master equations are thus able to provide accurate descriptions of many quantum information processing protocols for atomic systems.
description: 11 pages, 9 png figures. Revtex 4-1
Nilpotent commuting varieties of reductive Lie algebras
Creators: name: Premet, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the nilpotent commuting variety of a reductive Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of good characteristic is equidimensional. In characteristic zero, this confirms a conjecture of Vladimir Baranovsky. As a by-product, we obtain tat the punctual (local) Hilbert scheme parametrising the ideals of colength $n$ in $k[[X,Y]]$ is irreducible over any algebraically closed field $k$.
description: 25 pages