cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A novel image reconstruction method applied to deep Hubble Space Telescope Images
Creators: name: Fruchter, Andrew
name: Hook, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a method for the linear reconstruction of an image from undersampled, dithered data, which has been used to create the distributed, combined Hubble Deep Field images -- the deepest optical images yet taken of the universe. The algorithm, known as Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction (or informally as "drizzling"), preserves photometry and resolution, can weight input images according to the statistical significance of each pixel, and removes the effects of geometric distortion both on image shape and photometry. In this paper, the algorithm and its implementation are described, and measurements of the photometric accuracy and image fidelity are presented. In addition, we describe the use of drizzling to combine dithered images in the presence of cosmic rays.
description: Invited paper, to appear in Applications of Digital Image Processing XX, ed. A. Tescher, Proc. S.P.I.E. vol. 3164, in press; 6 pages, 4 included figures, SPIE LaTex style file included
Supplementary document for Detection of Biomarkers Using Terahertz Metasurface Sensors and Machine Learning - 6207434.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, Shangjun
name: Chen, Jie
name: Liu, Wentao
name: Peng, Zhenyun
name: Chen, Zhencheng
name: HU, Fangrong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
The Dearth of Difference between Central and Satellite Galaxies I. Perspectives on star formation quenching and AGN activities
Creators: name: Wang, Enci
name: Wang, Huiyuan
name: Mo, Houjun
name: Lim, S. H.
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Kong, Xu
name: Wang, Lixin
name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Chen, Sihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quenching properties of central and satellite galaxies, utilizing the halo masses and central-satellite identifications from the SDSS galaxy group catalog of Yang et al. We find that the quenched fractions of centrals and satellites of similar stellar masses have similar dependence on host halo mass. The similarity of the two populations is also found in terms of specific star formation rate and 4000 Å break. The quenched fractions of centrals and satellites of similar masses show similar dependencies on bulge-to-total light ratio, central velocity dispersion and halo-centric distance in halos of given halo masses. The prevalence of optical/radio-loud AGNs is found to be similar for centrals and satellites at given stellar masses. All these findings strongly suggest that centrals and satellites of similar masses experience similar quenching processes in their host halos. We discuss implications of our results for the understanding of galaxy quenching.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1: of Human tissue-specific MSCs demonstrate differential mitochondria transfer abilities that may determine their regenerative abilities
Creators: name: Paliwal, Swati
name: Rituparna Chaudhuri
name: Anurag Agrawal
name: Mohanty, Sujata
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Age and Gender Details of Tissue-Specific MCSs used in this study. (DOCX 14 kb)
Additional file 1 of Potential distribution of Leptotrombidium scutellare in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, China, and its association with mite-borne disease transmission
Creators: name: Song, Wen-Yu
name: Lv, Yan
name: Yin, Peng-Wu
name: Yang, Yi-Yu
name: Guo, Xian-Guo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Marginal effect curves of the 11 environmental variablesover 100 boosted regression treemodels. Red lines indicate the average effect curves and the gray zone marks the predicted 95% confidence interval. Figure S2. Binarizing distribution range of L. scutellare in the near-current period. Figure S3. Binarizing distribution range of L. scutellare in the future periods. a Moderate greenhouse effect in 2050; b high greenhouse effect in 2050, c moderate greenhouse effect in 2090, d high greenhouse effect in 2090. Table S1. Average occurrence probability of L. scutellare in the cities of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces, and the numbers of case reports of HFRS and Scrub typhus in Yunnan.
The Origin of the High-Energy Activity at the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Yusef-Zadeh, F.
name: Purcell, W.
name: Gotthelf, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent X-ray and gamma-ray observations of the Galactic center region by the ASCA and CGRO/EGRET instruments show evidence of 2--10 keV and $>1$ GeV continuum emission as well as 6.7 and 6.4 keV line emission from the inner $0.2^\circ$ of the Galactic center. This region is also known to host a bright nonthermal radio continuum source Sgr A East and a dense molecular cloud M--0.02--0.07 known as the 50 km s$^{-1}$ cloud. The oval-shaped nonthermal Sgr A East is physically interacting with M--0.02--0.07 at the Galactic center. A comparison between the distribution of ionized, synchrotron and neutral gas suggests a self-consistent interpretation of the high-energy activity at the Galactic center. Our preliminary analysis of the data suggest a shock model of cosmic ray acceleration at the site of the interaction to explain the enhanced GeV $γ$-ray emission. We also address a number of issues related to the spatial correlation of the diffuse radio and X-ray emitting gas as well as to the origin of the fluorescent 6.4 and 6.7 keV emission at the Galactic center.
description: 5 pages of text, the ps file including two figures can be obtained via the following URL: http://www.astro.nwu.edu/astro/faculty/farhad/papers.html To be published in the Proceedings of the Fourth Compton Symposium on Gamma-Ray Astronomy and Astrophysics, ed: C. Dermer and J. Kurfess
GeoDesc: Learning Local Descriptors by Integrating Geometry Constraints
Creators: name: Luo, Zixin
name: Shen, Tianwei
name: Zhou, Lei
name: Zhu, Siyu
name: Zhang, Runze
name: Yao, Yao
name: Fang, Tian
name: Quan, Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learned local descriptors based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant improvements on patch-based benchmarks, whereas not having demonstrated strong generalization ability on recent benchmarks of image-based 3D reconstruction. In this paper, we mitigate this limitation by proposing a novel local descriptor learning approach that integrates geometry constraints from multi-view reconstructions, which benefits the learning process in terms of data generation, data sampling and loss computation. We refer to the proposed descriptor as GeoDesc, and demonstrate its superior performance on various large-scale benchmarks, and in particular show its great success on challenging reconstruction tasks. Moreover, we provide guidelines towards practical integration of learned descriptors in Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines, showing the good trade-off that GeoDesc delivers to 3D reconstruction tasks between accuracy and efficiency.
description: Accepted to ECCV'18
Dynamical mass generation of a two-component fermion in Maxwell-Chern-Simons QED_3: The lowest ladder approximation
Creators: name: Matsuyama, Toyoki
name: Nagahiro, Hideko
name: Uchida, Satoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical mass generation of a two-component fermion in $QED_3$ with a Chern-Simons term is investigated by solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation formulated in the lowest ladder approximation. Dependence of the dynamical fermion mass on a gauge-fixing parameter, a gauge coupling constant, and a topological mass is examined by approximated analytical and also numerical methods. The inclusion of the Chern-Simons term makes impossible to choose a peculiar gauge in which a wave function renormalization is absent. The numerical evaluation shows that the wave function renormalization is fairly close to 1 in the Landau gauge. It means that this gauge is still a specific gauge where the Ward-Takahashi identity is satisfied approximately. We also find that the dynamical mass is almost constant if the topological mass is larger than the coupling constant, while it decreases when the topological mass is comparable to or smaller than the coupling constant and tends to the value in $QED_3$ without the Chern-Simons term.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
ЎПКАНИ СУРУНКАЛИ ОБСТРУКТИВ КАСАЛЛИГИ БИЛАН ХАСТАЛАНГАН БЕМОРЛАРДА ТИББИЙ-ИЖТИМОИЙ ОМИЛЛАРНИНГ АХАМИЯТИ
Creators: name: Салаева, Муборак
name: Бобоқулов, Мухаммад
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ўпкани сурункали обструктив  касаллиги (ЎСОК) билан хасталанган 34 ёшдан 79 ёшгача бўлган 200 нафар беморларда тиббий-ижтимоий омилларининг тахлили саволнома асосида ўрганилди. Ўпкани сурункали обструктив  касаллиги билан оғриган беморларнинг ўртача ёши 54,2±0,77 йилни (эркаклар ўртача ёши – 55,4±1,08 йил, аёлларники – 52,5±1,31 йил) ташкил этди. Улардан 122 (61,0±4,4%) нафар эркакларни ва 78 (39,0±5,5%) нафар бемор аёлларни ташкил этди. ЎСОК беморларининг фақат 10,7% пулмонолог кузатувида рўйхатда турган. 57,1% беморлар эса касаллик қўэиш даврида яллиғланишга қарши базис терапияни олишмаган. ЎСОК беморлари оилада 5 кишидан кўп яшайдиганлар сони беморларида 43,6%  гача, хизматчилар – 43,5% ни ташкил этди. Алоҳида яшовчи беморлар юқори кўрсаткични ташкил этсада, фақат 25,7% беморлар яшаш шароитини яхши деб баҳолашди. 51,4% ЎСОК беморлар фаол чекувчилар эканлиги аниқланди. Ўртача чекиш давомийлиги ЎСОК беморларида 28,2±0,98 йилни ташкил этди.
M Subdwarf Secondaries: A Test of the Metallicity Scale
Creators: name: Gizis, John E.
name: Reid, I. Neill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectra of three M subdwarfs which are common proper motion companions to F or G subdwarfs of known metallicity. The assumption that the companions have the same composition allows us to test the Gizis (1997, AJ, 113, 806) M subdwarf classification system and its correspondence to metallicity. The results are in excellent agreement with the Gizis (1997) scale, thereby showing that the Allard & Hauschildt (1995, ApJ, 445, 433) Extended model atmospheres agree well in the 6200 -- 7400 Angstrom region for cool metal-poor stars. We also show that the results are consistent with the main sequences of globular clusters using the Reid (1997, AJ, 114, 161) distance scale.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, AASTeX, to appear in the November 1997 PASP
ERICC Working Paper _ Mapping of Education data systems in Lebanon
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Brun, Cathrine
name: Maalouf, Maria
name: Hammoud, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy

description: This report undertakes a mapping and analysis of Lebanon’s education data systems, focusing on understanding and documenting what data are collected on access, quality and continuity, particularly in contexts of conflict and protracted crisis. Emphasising the pivotal role of data systems in governance and policy decisions, the study utilises a methodology involving a desk review and conversations with primary data sources. The report provides an overview of Lebanon's existing data systems, including key issues such as data types, key stakeholders, data collection frequency, data-sharing and identified data gaps. Our findings highlight gaps in Lebanon’s education data systems, particularly concerning data on accessibility and enrolment for students with disabilities, and reveal a lack of coherent numbers distinguishing between refugees and nationals, limited financial and budget information and the need for more comprehensive data on school dropout and loss of learning.
Winding Number Correlation Functions and Cosmic String Formation
Creators: name: Bettencourt, L. M. A.
name: Evans, T. S.
name: Rivers, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop winding number correlation functions that allow us to assess the role of field fluctuations on vortex formation in an Abelian gauge theory. We compute the behavior of these correlation functions in simple circumstances and show how fluctuations are important in the vicinity of the phase transition. We further show that, in our approximation, the emerging population of long/infinite string is produced by the classical dynamics of the fields alone, being essentially unaffected by field fluctuations.
description: Latex file, 27 pages. 8 figures, available in compressed form by anonymous ftp from ftp://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/papers/94-5_39.fig Latex and postscript versions also available at http://euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Papers/index.html
An inverse Compton scattering (ICS) model of pulsar emission
Creators: name: Qiao, G. J.
name: Lin, W. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Core and conal emission beams of radio pulsars have been identified observationally (Rankin 1983,1993; Lyne and Manchester 1988), In the inner gap model (Ruderman and Sutherland 1975, hereafter RS75), the gap continually breaks down (sparking) by forming electron-positron pairs on a time scale of a few microseconds (RS75). This makes a large amplitude low frequency wave to be produced and which would be scattered by relativistic particles moving out from the gap. Under this assumption, Qiao (1988a,1992) presented an Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model for both core and conal emissions. This paper presented a development of the model. Retardation and aberration effects due to different radiation components emitted from different heights are considered. The luminosity of pulsar radio emission via the ICS process is discussed. Coherent emission by bunches of particles is adopted and which is adequate to explain pulsar radiation. The theoretical results are in agreement with observations very well.
description: Latex, 9 pages, 9 figures, use l-aa style, Accepted for publication in the Astronomy and Astrophysics main Journal
2D Yang-Mills Theory as a Matrix String Theory
Creators: name: Billo', M.
name: Caselle, M.
name: D'Adda, A.
name: Provero, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantization of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory on a torus in the gauge where the field strength is diagonal leads to twisted sectors that are completely analogous to the ones that originate long string states in Matrix String Theory. If these sectors are taken into account the partition function is different from the standard one found in the literature and the invariance of the theory under modular transformations of the torus appears to hold in a stronger sense. The twisted sectors are in one-to-one correspondence with the coverings of the torus without branch points, so they define by themselves a string theory. A possible duality between this string theory and the Gross-Taylor string is discussed, and the problems that one encounters in generalizing this approach to interacting strings are pointed out. This talk is based on a previous paper by the same authors, but it contains some new results and a better interpretation of the results already obtained.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures included with epsf. Talk presented at the 2nd Conference on Quantum aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification, Corfu, Greece, 21-26 September 1996
Phenomenology of Pseudo Dirac Neutrinos
Creators: name: Joshipura, Anjan S.
name: Rindani, Saurabh D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate general conditions on $3\times 3$ neutrino mass matrices under which a degenerate pair of neutrinos at a high scale would split at low scale by radiative corrections involving only the standard model fields. This generalizes the original observations of Wolfenstein on pseudo Dirac neutrinos to three generations. A specific model involving partially broken discrete symmetry and solving the solar and atmospheric anomalies is proposed. The symmetry pattern of the model naturally generates two large angles one of which can account for the large angle MSW solution to the solar neutrino problem.
description: 15 pages LATEX
Trace anomalies and the string-inspired definition of quantum-mechanical path integrals in curved space
Creators: name: Schalm, K.
name: van Nieuwenhuizen, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum-mechanical path integrals for non-linear sigma models on a circle defined by the string-inspired method of Strassler, where one considers periodic quantum fluctuations about a center-of-mass coordinate. In this approach one finds incorrect answers for the local trace anomalies of the corresponding $n$-dimensional field theories in curved space. The quantum field theory approach to the quantum-mechanical path-integral, where quantum fluctuations are not periodic but vanish at the endpoints, yields the correct answers. We explain these results by a detailed analysis of general coordinate invariance in both methods. Both approaches can be derived from the same operator expression and the integrated trace anomalies in both schemes agree. In the string-inspired method the integrands are not invariant under general coordinate transformations and one is therefore not permitted to use Riemann normal coordinates.
description: LaTeX, 12 pages, 17 figures
ERICC Working Paper _ Mapping of Education data systems in Lebanon
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Brun, Cathrine
name: Maalouf, Maria
name: Hammoud, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy

description: This report undertakes a mapping and analysis of Lebanon’s education data systems, focusing on understanding and documenting what data are collected on access, quality and continuity, particularly in contexts of conflict and protracted crisis. Emphasising the pivotal role of data systems in governance and policy decisions, the study utilises a methodology involving a desk review and conversations with primary data sources. The report provides an overview of Lebanon's existing data systems, including key issues such as data types, key stakeholders, data collection frequency, data-sharing and identified data gaps. Our findings highlight gaps in Lebanon’s education data systems, particularly concerning data on accessibility and enrolment for students with disabilities, and reveal a lack of coherent numbers distinguishing between refugees and nationals, limited financial and budget information and the need for more comprehensive data on school dropout and loss of learning.
Perturbation evolution in cosmologies with a decaying cosmological constant
Creators: name: Viana, Pedro T P
name: Liddle, Andrew R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structure formation models with a cosmological constant are successful in explaining large-scale structure data, but are threatened by the magnitude-redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae. This has led to discussion of models where the cosmological `constant' decays with time, which might anyway be better motivated in a particle physics context. The simplest such models are based on scalar fields, and general covariance demands that a time-evolving scalar field also supports spatial perturbations. We consider the effect of such perturbations on the growth of adiabatic energy density perturbations in a cold dark matter component. We study two types of model, one based on an exponential potential for the scalar field and the other on a pseudo-Nambu Goldstone boson. For each potential, we study two different scenarios, one where the scalar field presently behaves as a decaying cosmological constant and one where it behaves as dust. The initial scalar field perturbations are fixed by the adiabatic condition, as expected from the inflationary cosmology, though in fact we show that the choice of initial condition is of little importance. Calculations are carried out in both the zero-shear (conformal newtonian) and uniform-curvature gauges. We find that both potentials allow models which can provide a successful alternative to cosmological constant models.
description: 14 pages RevTeX file with three figures incorporated (uses RevTeX and epsf). Also available by e-mailing ARL, or by WWW at http://star-www.maps.susx.ac.uk/papers/lsstru_papers.html Revised version corrects an error in Eq10; results unchanged
Endoscopic navigation in the absence of CT imaging
Creators: name: Sinha, Ayushi
name: Liu, Xingtong
name: Reiter, Austin
name: Ishii, Masaru
name: Hager, Gregory D.
name: Taylor, Russell H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; I.4.m; J.3

description: Clinical examinations that involve endoscopic exploration of the nasal cavity and sinuses often do not have a reference image to provide structural context to the clinician. In this paper, we present a system for navigation during clinical endoscopic exploration in the absence of computed tomography (CT) scans by making use of shape statistics from past CT scans. Using a deformable registration algorithm along with dense reconstructions from video, we show that we are able to achieve submillimeter registrations in in-vivo clinical data and are able to assign confidence to these registrations using confidence criteria established using simulated data.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, MICCAI 2018
Anomalies and Analytic Torsion on Hyperbolic Manifolds
Creators: name: Bytsenko, A. A.
name: Goncalves, A. E.
name: Simoes, M.
name: Williams, F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The global additive and multiplicative properties of the Laplacian on j-forms and related zeta functions are analyzed. The explicit form of zeta functions on a product of closed oriented hyperbolic manifolds Γ\backslash{\Bbb H}^d and of the multiplicative anomaly are derived. We also calculate in an explicit form the analytic torsion associated with a connected sum of such manifolds.
description: AMSTeX file, 20 pages
Exchange bias effect in cylindrical nanowires with ferromagnetic core and polycrystalline antiferromagnetic shell
Creators: name: Patsopoulos, A.
name: Kechrakos, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the exchange bias effect in thin cylindrical nanowires composed of a ferromagnetic core and an antiferromagnetic shell implementing a classical spin Hamiltonian and Monte Carlo simulations. We address systematically the effect of shell polycrystallinity on the characteristic fields of the isothermal hysteresis loop (coercivity, exchange-bias) and their angular dependence upon the direction of the applied / cooling field. We relate the observed trends to modifications of the underlying magnetization reversal mechanism. We fit our simulation results to an extended Stoner-Wohlfarth model with effective off-axis unidirectional anisotropy and demonstrate that shell polycrystallinity could lead to maximum exchange bias effect in an off-axis direction. Our results are in qualitative agreement with recent experimental studies of Co/CoO nanowires.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures
MOESM1 of Characterization and monitoring of deltamethrin-resistance in Anopheles culicifacies in the presence of a long-lasting insecticide-treated net intervention
Creators: name: Madhavinadha Kona
name: Raghavendra Kamaraju
name: Donnelly, Martin
name: Bhatt, Rajendra
name: Nanda, Nutan
name: Mehul Chourasia
name: Swain, Dipak
name: Shrity Suman
name: Sreehari Uragayala
name: Kleinschmidt, Immo
name: Pandey, Veena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of An. culicifacies sibling species from Keshal sub district, Chhattisgarh. Table S2. An. culicifacies sibling species response (% mortality/% knockdown) against insecticides malathion and deltamethrin at the end of 1Â h exposure.
РАЗРАБОТКА ТЕХНОЛОГИИ И СТАНДАРТИЗАЦИЯ МЫЛА С ЭКТРАКТОМ АЛОЭ ВЕРА
Creators: name: Елекен, Гульнур
name: Жәлел, Аружан
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Исследование посвящено разработке технологии производства мыла с использованием экстракта алоэ вера и установлению стандартов качества этого продукта. Акцент делается на создании эффективного уходового средства, способного удовлетворить потребности различных типов кожи, соблюдая высокие стандарты.
Prospective Cohort Study of Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activation Receptor and Cardiovascular Events in Patients With CKD
Creators: name: Sommerer, Claudia
name: Müller-Krebs, Sandra
name: Nadal, Jennifer
name: Schultheiss, Ulla T.
name: Friedrich, Nele
name: Nauck, Matthias
name: Schmid, Matthias
name: Nußhag, Christian
name: Reiser, Jochen
name: Eckardt, Kai-Uwe
name: Zeier, Martin
name: Hayek, Salim S.
name: Oefner, Peter J.
name: Gronwald, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: biomarkers, cardiovascular outcomes, cohort, eGFR, suPAR, uACR
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Introduction: 
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activation receptor (suPAR) is an immune-derived pathogenic factor for kidney and atherosclerotic disease. Whether the association between suPAR and cardiovascular (CV) outcomes is dependent on the severity of underlying kidney disease is unclear.
Methods: 
We measured serum suPAR levels in 4994 participants (mean age 60 years; 60% men; 36% with diabetes mellitus; mean estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) 49 ml/min per 1.73 m2 , SD 18) of the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) cohort and examined its association with all-cause death, CV death, and major CV events (MACE) across the range of eGFR and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR).
Results: 
The median suPAR level was 1771 pg/ml (interquartile range [IQR] 1447–2254 pg/ml). SuPAR levels were positively and independently correlated with age, eGFR, UACR, and parathyroid hormone levels. There were 573 deaths, including 190 CV deaths and 683 MACE events at a follow-up time of 6.5 years. In multivariable analyses, suPAR levels (log2) were associated with all-cause death (hazard ratio [HR] 1.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.21–1.53), CV death (HR 1.27, 95% CI 1.03–1.57), and MACE (HR 1.13, 95% CI 1.00–1.28), and were not found to differ according to diabetes mellitus status, baseline eGFR, UACR, or parathyroid hormone levels. In mediation analysis, suPAR’s direct effect on all-cause death, CV death, and MACE accounted for 77%, 67%, and 60% of the total effect, respectively; whereas the effect mediated through eGFR accounted for 23%, 34%, and 40%, respectively.
Conclusion: 
In a large cohort of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), suPAR levels were associated with mortality and CV outcomes independently of indices of kidney function, consistent with its independent role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.
PHEGAS: a phase-space generator for automatic cross-section computation
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Costas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phase-space generation algorithm, capable to efficiently integrate the squared amplitude of any scattering process, is presented. The algorithm has been implemented in a Monte Carlo program, PHEGAS, which, using HELAC, a helicity amplitude computational package,can be used for automatic cross-section computation and event generation. Results for several scattering processes with four, five and six particles in the final state are briefly presented.
description: 12 pages
The discovery of a giant debris arc in the Coma Cluster
Creators: name: Trentham, Neil
name: Mobasher, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery a giant low surface-brightness arc, of length luminous matrix with surface-brightness mu_B < 26.5 mag arcsec^{-2} and a number of embedded condensations. It is not associated with any giant galaxy in Coma in particular; neither does it have the properties of a gravitational arc. We argue that a fast interaction between the nearby barred S0 galaxy IC 4026 and either IC 4041 or RB 110 is the most natural explanation for the origin of the arc.
description: 13 pages, 5 figs (4 jpeg, 1 ps), 2 tabs, TeX, MNRAS in press. email: trentham@ast.cam.ac.uk, b.mobasher@ic.ac.uk
title: Regression software for ship manoeuvring models: sub report 3. Regstatx 4.0: theoretical background
Creators: name: Delefortrie, Guillaume
name: Eloot, Katrien
name: Peeters, Patrik
name: Mostaert, Frank
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics Research
Year: 2017

description: This report provides a theoretical background for the in house developed software package Regstatx 4.0. Emphasis is put on the test selection process, the relationship with ODRPack 5.0 and the formulation of the 6 DOF tabular open water manoeuvring mathematical models, including assumptions, from towing tank to ship manoeuvring simulator.
description: Title : FHR reports. Flanders Hydraulics Research: Antwerp
Volume : 15_075_3
Issue :
Pagination : XII, 36
$R_b$ in supersymmetric models
Creators: name: Wang, X.
name: Lopez, J.
name: Nanopoulos, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the supersymmetric contribution to $R_{b}\equiv Γ(Z\to b{\bar b})/Γ(Z\to {\rm hadrons})$ in a variety of supersymmetric models. In the context of supergravity models with universal soft-supersymmetry-breaking and radiative electroweak breaking we find $R^{\rm susy}_b\lsim0.0004$, which does not shift significantly the Standard Model prediction ($R^{\rm SM}_b=0.2157$ for $m_t=175\GeV$; $R^{\rm exp}_b=0.2204\pm0.0020$). We also compute $R_b$ in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), and delineate the region of parameter space which yields interestingly large values of $R_b$. This region entails light charginos and top-squarks, but is {\em strongly} restricted by the {\em combined} constraints from $B(b\to sγ)$ and a not-too-large invisible top-quark branching ratio: only a few percent of the points with $R^{\rm susy}_b>0.0020\,(1σ)$ are allowed.
description: 20 pages (LaTeX), 10 figures (included)
Additional file 1: of A comprehensive characterization of aggravated aging-related changes in T lymphocytes and monocytes in end-stage renal disease: the iESRD study
Creators: name: Yen-Ling Chiu
name: Kai-Hsiang Shu
name: Feng-Jung Yang
name: Chou, Tzu-Ying
name: Ping-Min Chen
name: Fang-Yun Lay
name: Szu-Yu Pan
name: Cheng-Jui Lin
name: Litjens, Nicolle
name: Betjes, Michiel
name: Bermudez, Selma
name: Kung-Chi Kao
name: Jean-San Chia
name: Wang, George
name: Peng, Yu-Sen
name: Chuang, Yi-Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Relationships between dialysis vintage and immune cell subsets using tertiles of dialysis vintage, least squares regression and robust regression. Table S2. Numbers of age-related immune cells correlate with cardiovascular risk factors and systemic inflammation in ESRD patients. Table S3. Comparisons of circulatory T cell and monocyte subset cell numbers between ESRD patients with and without diabetes. Table S4. End-stage renal disease patients with concurrent coronary artery disease or cardiovascular disease display more immunosenescence. Table S5. Logistic regression model for coronary artery disease and cardiovascular disease using subset percentage to characterize the combinatorial immunophenotype. Figure S1. Representative staining of lymphocytes and monocytes. Figure S2. Correlogram of immune cell subsets among healthy donors and ESRD patients. (DOCX 1447 kb)
U-Duality of Born-Infeld on the Noncommutative Two-Torus
Creators: name: Hofman, C.
name: Verlinde, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss Born-Infeld on the noncommutative two-torus as a description of compactified string theory. We show that the resulting theory, including the fluctuations, is manifestly invariant under the T-duality group SO(2,2;Z). The BPS mass even has a full SL(3,Z)xSL(2,Z) U-duality symmetry. The direct identification of the noncommutative parameter θwith the B-field modulus however seems to be problematic at finite volume.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX. Reference and discussion on small volume added, errors corrected
ERICC Working Paper _ Evidence review and ERICC research agenda for Lebanon
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Brun, Cathrine
name: Al Samhoury, Ola
name: Maalouf, Maria
name: Saliba, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy

description: Based on an evidence review, the Centre for Lebanese Studies formulated a research agenda for education in the context of conflict and protracted crises in Lebanon. The research agenda is summarised in this working paper as part of the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) programme. Based on a review of existing evidence and knowledge as well as consultations with stakeholders in the education sector, the paper focuses on micro and macro levels of educational processes by engaging with pre-existing conditions, drivers of learning and development, and outcomes. The paper first introduces the context of education in conflict and protracted crises in Lebanon and describes the process of formulating a general research agenda with a particular emphasis on identification of research gaps and the participatory approach used for national-level consultations. The paper then introduces and describes the eight themes of the research agenda: Governance and financial management; Teachers; Crisis monitoring; Private Sector; Non-formal education; Vocational education; Knowledge production; Crisis in Southern Lebanon. The research projects will broadly focus on Governance, Teachers, and Crisis Monitoring.
Black Holes in Magnetic Monopoles with a Dark Halo
Creators: name: Lugo, A.
name: Ipiña, J. M. Pérez
name: Schaposnik, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a spontaneously broken Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs model coupled via a Higgs portal to an uncharged scalar $χ$. We present a phase diagram of self-gravitating solutions showing that, depending on the choice of parameters of the $χ$ scalar potential and the Higgs portal coupling constant $ γ$, one can identify different regions: If $γ$ is sufficiently small a $χ$ halo is created around the monopole core which in turn surrounds a black-hole. For larger values of $γ$ no halo exists and the solution is just a black hole-monopole one. When the horizon radius grows and becomes larger than the monopole radius solely a black hole solution exists. Because of the presence of the $χ$ scalar a bound for the Higgs potential coupling constant exists and when it is not satisfied, the vacuum is unstable and no non-trivial solution exists. We briefly comment on a possible connection of our results with those found in recent dark matter axion models.
description: 11 pages, updated figures
Identification and validation of an autophagy-related signature for predicting survival in lower-grade glioma
Creators: name: Feng, Shaobin
name: Liu, Huiling
name: Dong, Xushuai
name: Du, Peng
name: Guo, Hua
name: Pang, Qi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Abnormal levels of autophagy have been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple diseases, including cancer. However, little is known about the role of autophagy-related genes (ARGs) in low-grade gliomas (LGG). Accordingly, the aims of this study were to assess the prognostic values of ARGs and to establish a genetic signature for LGG prognosis. Expression profile data from patients with and without primary LGG were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Genome Tissue Expression databases, respectively, and consensus clustering was used to identify clusters of patients with distinct prognoses. Nineteen differentially expressed ARGs were selected with threshold values of FDR < 0.05 and |log2 fold change (FC)| ≥ 2, and functional analysis revealed that these genes were associated with autophagy processes as expected. An autophagy-related signature was established using a Cox regression model of six ARGs that separated patients from TCGA training cohort into high- and low-risk groups. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that the signature-based risk score was an independent prognostic factor. The signature was successfully validated using the TCGA testing, TCGA entire, and Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas cohorts. Stratified analyses demonstrated that the signature was associated with clinical features and prognosis, and gene set enrichment analysis revealed that autophagy- and cancer-related pathways were more enriched in high-risk patients than in low-risk patients. The prognostic value and expression of the six signature-related genes were also investigated. Thus, the present study constructed and validated an autophagy-related prognostic signature that could optimize individualized survival prediction in LGG patients.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0192r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0192r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0192r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
ERICC Working Paper _ Evidence review and ERICC research agenda for Lebanon
Creators: name: ERICC Consortium
name: Brun, Cathrine
name: Al Samhoury, Ola
name: Maalouf, Maria
name: Saliba, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy

description: Based on an evidence review, the Centre for Lebanese Studies formulated a research agenda for education in the context of conflict and protracted crises in Lebanon. The research agenda is summarised in this working paper as part of the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) programme. Based on a review of existing evidence and knowledge as well as consultations with stakeholders in the education sector, the paper focuses on micro and macro levels of educational processes by engaging with pre-existing conditions, drivers of learning and development, and outcomes. The paper first introduces the context of education in conflict and protracted crises in Lebanon and describes the process of formulating a general research agenda with a particular emphasis on identification of research gaps and the participatory approach used for national-level consultations. The paper then introduces and describes the eight themes of the research agenda: Governance and financial management; Teachers; Crisis monitoring; Private Sector; Non-formal education; Vocational education; Knowledge production; Crisis in Southern Lebanon. The research projects will broadly focus on Governance, Teachers, and Crisis Monitoring.
Additional file 1: of Nicotine promotes neuron survival and partially protects from Parkinsonâ s disease by suppressing SIRT6
Creators: name: Nicholatos, Justin
name: Francisco, Adam
name: Bender, Carolyn
name: Yeh, Tiffany
name: Fraz Lugay
name: Salazar, Jairo
name: Glorioso, Christin
name: Libert, Sergiy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Human brain tissue analysis by SDS-PAGE. Figure S2. Cigarette smoke extract apparatus, nicotine blots, and proteasome activity. Figure S3. Transgenic mice and brain expression. Figure S4. SIRT6 OX neurons secrete more TNFÎą than WT. Figure S5. Primary neuronal culture composition. Figure S6. Nicotine does not rescue MPTP-induced rotarod motor performance in SIRT6 brain-specific knockout mice. (DOCX 2045 kb)
Copeptin, Natriuretic Peptides, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With CKD: The German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) Study
Creators: name: Schneider, Markus P.
name: Schmid, Matthias
name: Nadal, Jennifer
name: Krane, Vera
name: Saritas, Turgay
name: Busch, Martin
name: Schultheiss, Ulla T.
name: Meiselbach, Heike
name: Friedrich, Nele
name: Nauck, Matthias
name: Floege, Jürgen
name: Kronenberg, Florian
name: Wanner, Christoph
name: Eckardt, Kai-Uwe
name: Oefner, Peter J.
name: Gronwald, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: chronic kidney disease, kidney diseases, cardiac diseases, biomarkers, heart failure, Copeptin, MR-pro-ANP, NT-pro-BNP
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Copeptin and Midrange pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (MR-pro-ANP) are associated with outcomes independently of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) in patients with heart failure (HF). The value of these markers in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been studied.
The Super D9-Brane and its Truncations
Creators: name: Bergshoeff, Eric
name: de Roo, Mees
name: Janssen, Bert
name: Ortin, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two inequivalent truncations of the super D9--brane: the ``Heterotic'' and the ``Type I'' truncation. Both of them lead to an N=1 nonlinear supersymmetrization of the D=10 cosmological constant. The propagating degrees of freedom in the Heterotic and Type I truncation are given by the components of a D=10 vector multiplet and a single Majorana-Weyl spinor, respectively. As a by-product we find that, after the Type I truncation, the Ramond-Ramond super ten-form provides an interesting reformulation of the Volkov-Akulov action. These results can be extended to all dimensions in which spacetime filling D-branes exist, i.e. D=3,4,6 and 10.
description: 18 pages, no figures, version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
Optical Lattice with Torus Topology
Creators: name: Kim, Hwanmun
name: Zhu, Guanyu
name: Porto, J. V.
name: Hafezi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an experimental scheme to construct an optical lattice where the atoms are confined to the surface of a torus. This construction can be realized with spatially shaped laser beams which could be realized with recently developed high resolution imaging techniques. We numerically study the feasibility of this proposal by calculating the tunneling strengths for atoms in the torus lattice. To illustrate the non-trivial role of topology in atomic dynamics on the torus, we study the quantized superfluid currents and fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on such a structure. For FQH states, we numerically investigate the robustness of the topological degeneracy and propose an experimental way to detect such a degeneracy. Our scheme for torus construction can be generalized to Riemann surfaces with higher genus for exploration of richer topological physics.
description: 5+8 pages, 4+5 figures
Influence of Prior Acquaintance on the Shared VR Experience
Creators: name: K. Tütüncü, Esen
name: Oliva, Ramon
name: Slater, Mel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Poster presented by Esen Küçüktütüncü, project partner from the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona, during the 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, held in Orlando (Florida, United States) between March 16th-21st, 2024.
Squark Loop Correction to W^{+-} H^{-+} Associated Hadroproduction
Creators: name: Bendezu, A. A. Barrientos
name: Kniehl, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the squark loop correction to W^{+-} H^{-+} associated hadroproduction via gluon-gluon fusion within the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. We list full analytic results and quantitatively analyze the resulting shift in the cross section at the CERN Large Hadron Collider assuming a supergravity-inspired scenario.
description: 13 pages (Latex), 5 figures (Postscript)