cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 6 of Trends in incidence, survival and initial treatments of gynecological sarcoma: a retrospective analysis of the United States subpopulation
Creators: name: He, Xi
name: Dong, Qiang
name: Weng, Changfang
name: Gu, Jianfen
name: Yang, Qiao
name: Yang, Guangrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Table S3 Trends in incidence-based mortality of gynecologic sarcoma by primary tumor sites.
He moana pukepuke: navigating gender and ethnic inequality in early career academics’ conference attendance
Creators: name: Timperley, Claire
name: Sutherland, Kathryn
name: Wilson, Marc
name: Hall, Meegan
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Drawing on data collected in a cross-disciplinary survey of early-career academics (ECAs) in New Zealand, this article explores the factors influencing ECA conference attendance. Our conceptual framework uses conference attendance as the dependent variable and measures gender, ethnicity, family responsibilities and workload. Three key features affect conference attendance: demographic characteristics (background features and prior experiences that affect an academic’s willingness and ability to attend), accessibility (constraints to attending, such as financing, family responsibilities, institutional support or teaching commitments) and purpose (the value placed on attending conferences by the individual, the institution, or the discipline). In particular, we identify differences for women, Indigenous people, and those born overseas with respect to their ability to navigate and their inclination to attend national and international conferences.
Quality Metric Guided Portrait Line Drawing Generation from Unpaired Training Data
Creators: name: Yi, Ran
name: Liu, Yong-Jin
name: Lai, Yu-Kun
name: Rosin, Paul L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Face portrait line drawing is a unique style of art which is highly abstract and expressive. However, due to its high semantic constraints, many existing methods learn to generate portrait drawings using paired training data, which is costly and time-consuming to obtain. In this paper, we propose a novel method to automatically transform face photos to portrait drawings using unpaired training data with two new features; i.e., our method can (1) learn to generate high quality portrait drawings in multiple styles using a single network and (2) generate portrait drawings in a "new style" unseen in the training data. To achieve these benefits, we (1) propose a novel quality metric for portrait drawings which is learned from human perception, and (2) introduce a quality loss to guide the network toward generating better looking portrait drawings. We observe that existing unpaired translation methods such as CycleGAN tend to embed invisible reconstruction information indiscriminately in the whole drawings due to significant information imbalance between the photo and portrait drawing domains, which leads to important facial features missing. To address this problem, we propose a novel asymmetric cycle mapping that enforces the reconstruction information to be visible and only embedded in the selected facial regions. Along with localized discriminators for important facial regions, our method well preserves all important facial features in the generated drawings. Generator dissection further explains that our model learns to incorporate face semantic information during drawing generation. Extensive experiments including a user study show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3147570, code: https://github.com/yiranran/QMUPD
Roeboides descalvadensis Fowler 1932
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Characidae
Roeboides
Roeboides descalvadensis

description: Roeboides descalvadensis Fowler, 1932 Fig. 9 Body deep; greatest depth contained 2.2 to 2.7 and caudal peduncle depth 12.3 to 13.1 times in SL; head length 4.0 to 4.2, predorsal distance 1.9 to 2.0 and caudal peduncle length 12.8 to 13.5 in SL; snout length 3.6 to 4.4, horizontal orbital diameter 2.6 to 3.7 and least interorbital width 3.1 to 4.0 in HL. Mouth terminal; inner row of premaxilla with 6 teeth, outer with 4-6, inner row of dentary with 12-14, outer with 4-6 and maxilla with 9-11 teeth. Lateral line complete, with 66-71 pored scales; transverse series above lateral line with 13-16 scale rows and below with 8-10 scale rows. Dorsal fin with 10 or 11, pectoral fin with 11 or 12, pelvic fin with 9 or 10, anal fin with 50-55, and caudal fin with 19 rays. Ground color whitish; silvery longitudinal band on flank (brown or grey in preserved specimens), from humeral spot to caudal peduncle; black diffuse and oval, vertically elongated, humeral spot; one black spot on caudal peduncle, slightly forwarded prolonged. Yellowish fins (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Maximum standard length. 100.0 mm (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Distribution. Paraná-Paraguay system and Amazon basin. Remarks. Roeboides descalvadensis was identified as R. paranensis by Graça, Pavanelli (2007). Lucena (2007) in a revisionary study of the Roeboides affinis (Günther, 1868) species-group, proposed the new synonym. Roeboides descalvadensis is a non-native species from the upper rio Paraná, and its occurrence can be associated with the filling of the Itaipu Reservoir and the consequent inundation of the Sete Quedas Falls (Júlio Júnior et al., 2009).
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
description: {"references": ["Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64.", "Lucena CAS. Revisao taxonomica das especies do genero Roeboides grupo- affinis (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae). Iheringia Ser Zool. 2007; 97 (2): 117 - 36.", "Julio Junior HF, Dei Tos C, Agostinho AA, Pavanelli CS. A massive invasion of fish species after eliminating a natural barrier in the upper rio Parana basin. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2009; 7 (4): 709 - 18."]}
Additional file 14 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14: Table S9. Spearman correlations significance (P-value) between ASVs and testicular genes in the FMT experiment.
CyberOps: Situational Awareness in Cybersecurity Operations
Creators: name: Onwubiko, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cybersecurity operations, CyberOps, is the use and application of cybersecurity capabilities to a domain, department, organisation or nation. It is fundamentally to protect digital investments, contribute to national economic wellbeing by providing a safe, secure and conducive environment to conduct business and to protect national critical national infrastructures and citizens welfare. In this paper, we investigate operational factors that influence situational awareness of CyberOps, specifically, the features that deals with understanding and comprehension of operational and human factors aspects and that helps with insights on human operator decision making such as cognition, teamwork, knowledge, skills and abilities. The operational factors discussed in this paper range from tools, techniques, integration, architecture to automation, cognition, people, policy, process and procedures.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2202.02537
Young adult cyber violence : an investigation of the associations with vulnerable experiences, attachment patterns, problematic internet use, limerence, and internalizing symptoms
Creators: name: Baitz, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Background: Young adulthood is often characterized as a time of rapid individuation away from family relationships toward more adult romantic partner relationships. In the current technological climate, young adult relationships begin, grow, and develop both in-person and online in a seamless fashion. Unfortunately, problems that have always plagued young adult relationships, such as dating violence, also occur via electronic mediums. Given that technological factors that relate to relationships are still emerging, little is known about how a variety of experiences across the childhood and adolescent trajectory relate to the emergence of cyber dating violence in young adulthood. Objectives: The current research seeks to understand how early childhood traumatic experiences predict cyber dating violence, and whether this relationship is mediated by insecure attachment, and moderated by problematic internet use, internalizing symptoms, limerence, cyberbullying perpetration and victimization, and limerence. Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, 1354 adults aged 18 to 51 were recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to answer a questionnaire about their experiences with cyber dating violence victimization and perpetration, as well as their experiences with cyberbullying and victimization, internalizing symptoms, problematic internet use, attachment styles, and limerence. Results: Results indicated partial mediations for higher scores on measures of insecure attachment (anxious, avoidant) on the relationship between traumatic experiences recalled from early in life and cyber dating violence victimization and perpetration in young adulthood. Moderation results indicated that cyberbullying, cyber victimization, and problematic internet use moderated the influence of traumatic experiences recalled from early life on cyber dating violence experiences in young adulthood. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated several predictors of limerence, such as anxious attachment, internalizing symptoms, and vulnerable experiences. Discussion: Findings from the current work move the body of literature forward by illustrating important links between early experiences, attachment styles, cyberbullying, cybervictimization, internalizing symptoms, problematic internet use, limerence, and cyber dating violence perpetration and victimization.
Additional file 17 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 17: Table S12. Difference in physiological indices of gut microbiota between the Con and F-LD groups, Con and F-SD groups, Ab and F-LD groups, and Ab and F-SD groups in the FMT experiment.
The Semiotic Construction of Evaluative Meaning in Videogames: Explicating the Portrayal of Values
Creators: name: Lowien, Nathan
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: appraisal
values
linguistics
social semiotics
videogames

description: Videogames have evolved into a ubiquitous form of entertainment that requires player engagement. Popular press and research literature are scattered with concerns over the values represented in videogames that have traditionally been designed for male audiences such as action-adventure videogames like Batman Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady, 2016) and Watch Dogs (Ubisoft, 2014). Given the increasing importance of the study of multimodal texts in school education, as evidenced in the Australian Curriculum: English and both the Australian Curriculum the Arts: Media Arts and the Australian Curriculum Technology: Digital Technology, the concerns over the values represented in videogames and their use for learning in schools are potentially problematic for educators. Therefore, a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach to understanding how values are conveyed in videogames could offer educators insights into addressing the pedagogical use of action-adventure videogames. The thesis investigated how action-adventure videogames convey values by communicating evaluative meanings about game characters. The thesis drew on Systemic Functional Semiotic (SFS) theory and the conceptual semiotic tools of attitude, focalisation and ludic gameplay operations. A critical multimodal discourse analysis methodology was utilised to analyse the represented evaluative meanings and inferred values conveyed by the characters’ dialogue and accompanying images in the games. Findings revealed that the two selected videogames convey values of morality such as collaboration and friendship and social and political values such as justice, accountability and a commitment to the rule of law. The findings of the thesis offer theoretical, conceptual and methodological knowledge contributions resulting from SFS accounts of attitudinal meaning conveyed by language and image as action-adventure videogames. Empirical implications resulting from the study suggest the establishment of a critical interpretive play pedagogy, which could be used by teachers to develop a critical interpretive appreciation of how action-adventure videogames convey values to their students. The implementation of such a pedagogical approach would require further research.
A scoping review of oncosexology policy and practice tools focused on adolescents and young adults (AYA)
Creators: name: Grzeskowiak, Luke
name: Lazarakis, Smaro
name: Kexin Sun
name: Lewin, Jeremy
name: Nhu, Dinh Thao
name: Bailey, Eliza
name: Hussainy, Safeera Yasmeen
name: Mariano, Chiara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Oncology
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: policy and practice
subject: sexual health
subject: sexuality
subject: oncology

description: A scoping narrative review was chosen as they are a valuable evidence synthesis methodology. To the best of our knowledge, no one has mapped the evidence related to sexual and reproductive health information needs and cancer from patient and provider perspectives. This will allow examination of local and international practice, methods (interviews, surveys), policy (guidelines), gaps and where (and how) future research could be undertaken.
Türkiye'de fıkıh düşüncesi temsilcisi Hayrettin Karaman (D. 1934- )
Creators: name: Şentürk, Recep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hayrettin Karaman
Hayatı ve Eserleri

description: Erzurum'dan göçen bir ailenin çocuğu olarak 1934 yılında Çorum'da doğan Karaman, ilkokulu burada bitirdikten sonra, özel olarak Arapça ve İslami ilimler tahsil etmiştir. İlk İmam Hatip okullarından biri olan Konya İmam Hatip Okuluna girmiş ve ikinci dönem mezunları arasında yer almıştır (1959). Bu esnada Konya Musalla ve Hoca Fakılı camilerinde imam-hatip olarak görev yapmıştır. Mevlana konusunda liseler arası kompozisyon yarışmasında Konya birincisi, meşhur ve büyük Kapı Camii'nde Cuma'dan önce örnek vaaz veren ilk İmam Hatip öğrencisi olmuştur.
Probing a dissipative phase transition with a trapped ion through reservoir engineering
Creators: name: Cai, M. -L.
name: Liu, Z. -D.
name: Jiang, Y.
name: Wu, Y. -K.
name: Mei, Q. -X.
name: Zhao, W. -D.
name: He, L.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Zhou, Z. -C.
name: Duan, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipation is often considered as a detrimental effect in quantum systems for unitary quantum operations. However, it has been shown that suitable dissipation can be useful resources both in quantum information and quantum simulation. Here, we propose and experimentally simulate a dissipative phase transition (DPT) model using a single trapped ion with an engineered reservoir. We show that the ion's spatial oscillation mode reaches a steady state after the alternating application of unitary evolution under a quantum Rabi model Hamiltonian and sideband cooling of the oscillator. The average phonon number of the oscillation mode is used as the order parameter to provide evidence for the DPT. Our work highlights the suitability of trapped ions for simulating open quantum systems and shall facilitate further investigations of DPT with various dissipation terms.
Challenges towards Building an effective Cyber Security Operations Centre
Creators: name: Onwubiko, Cyril
name: Ouazzane, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasing dependency of modern society on IT systems and infrastructures for essential services (e.g. internet banking, vehicular network, health-IT, etc.) coupled with the growing number of cyber incidents and security vulnerabilities have made Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) undoubtedly vital. As such security operations monitoring is now an integral part of most business operations. SOCs (used interchangeably as CSOCs) are responsible for continuously and protectively monitoring business services, IT systems and infrastructures to identify vulnerabilities, detect cyber-attacks, security breaches, policy violations, and to respond to cyber incidents swiftly. They must also ensure that security events and alerts are triaged and analysed, while coordinating and managing cyber incidents to resolution. Because SOCs are vital, it is also necessary that SOCs are effective. But unfortunately, the effectiveness of SOCs are a widespread concern and a focus of boundless debate. In this paper, we identify and discuss some of the pertinent challenges to building an effective SOC. We investigate some of the factors contributing to the inefficiencies in SOCs and explain some of the challenges they face. Further, we provide and prioritise recommendations to addressing the identified issues.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Odontostilbe avanhandava Chuctaya, Buhrnheim, Malabarba 2018
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Characidae
Odontostilbe
Odontostilbe avanhandava

description:  Odontostilbe avanhandava Chuctaya, Bührnheim, Malabarba, 2018 Fig. 10 Body elongated; greatest body depth contained 3.5 to 4.1 and caudal peduncle depth 8.7 to 11.7 times in SL; head length 3.4 to 4.4, predorsal distance 1.8 to 2.1 and caudal peduncle length 9.0 to 12.0 in SL; snout length 3.3 to 4.3, horizontal orbital diameter 2.2 to 2.6 and least interorbital width 2.7 to 3.8 in HL. Mouth terminal; premaxilla with 5, dentary with 7-10 teeth (narrow, with central cusp much longer than lateral ones), and maxilla with 2 teeth. Lateral line complete, with 26-30 pored scales; transverse series above lateral line with 4½-5 and below with 3-3½ scale rows. Dorsal fin with 10-11, pectoral fin with 11-12, pelvic fin with 8-9, anal fin with 20- 22 and caudal fin with 19 rays. Ground color whitish; silvery longitudinal band (dark-brown in preserved specimens), from pseduotympanum to caudal peduncle; black rounded blotch on posterior portion of caudal peduncle and caudal-fin base. Fins hyaline to yellowish (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Maximum standard length. 50.0 mm (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Distribution. Upper rio Paraná basin. Coments. Odontostilbe avanhandava was identified as Odontostilbe sp. by Graça, Pavanelli (2007). Chuctaya et al. (2018) described the new species.
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 36, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
description: {"references": ["Chuctaya J, Buhrnheim CM, Malabarba LR. Two new species of Odontostilbe historically hidden under O. microcephala (Characiformes: Cheirodontinae). Neotrop Ichthyol [serial on the internet]. 2018 Mar 26 [cited 03 Apr 2018]; 16 (1): e 170047. Available from: http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / 1982 - 0224 - 20170047", "Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64."]}
Additional file 15 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 15: Table S10. Spearman correlations of aggressive behavior with hormones and genes in the photoperiod experiment.
Libraries required for compile GCAM5.4 model
Creators: name: Wang, Jiachen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Libraries for compiling

description: 1.unzip this file 2.copy and paste to {GCAM_home} folder 3.run {GCAM_home}/cvs/objects/build/vc10/objects.vcxproj (with visual studio 2019) Detailed instructions can be found at http://jgcri.github.io/gcam-doc/gcam-build.html
Serrapinnus Malabarba 1998
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Characidae
Serrapinnus

description: Serrapinnus 1. Lateral line completely pored....................... S. heterodon 1’. Lateral line incompletely pored..................................... 2 2. Dorsal and anal fins with black pigmentation................. 3 2’. Dorsal and anal fins hyaline........................................... 4 3. Longest unbranched ray and proximal portion of remaining dorsal-fin rays black; unbranched anal-fin rays dusky................................................................. S. notomelas 3’. Distal portion of dorsal fin and anal-fin lobe with a round, black blotch.................................... Serrapinnus sp. 2 4. Dentary teeth wide, with 7-9 cusps gradually decreasing in size.................................................................. S. calliurus 4’. Dentary teeth slender, with 3-5 cusps of different size and central cusp longer than the lateral ones........................................................................................ Serrapinnus sp. 1
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
Development of advanced denoising and analysis algorithms for applications in hybrid PET/MRI brain imaging
Creators: name: Bevington, Connor William James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Hybrid PET/MRI scanners are becoming more common in research and clinical settings, in particular for their ability to simultaneously acquire unique functional and structural information to probe the healthy and diseased brain. Data from both modalities need to be thoroughly processed to enhance signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), and the development and optimization of analysis algorithms is required to extract meaningful physiological quantities for medical research applications. This work provides significant contributions to these fields through the development, testing, and validation of four algorithms. PET data are intrinsically noisy due to the Poisson nature of positron emission events and the relatively low fraction of events detected by scanners, so we first improve upon an existing PET denoising algorithm to overcome limitations in quantitative accuracy in precision. This proves important in task-based PET imaging, where tasks presented to a subject during scanning result in a small temporal signal change that is difficult to distinguish from noise. The developed PET denoising algorithm is thus coupled with an advanced PET detection algorithm which provides a significant improvement in the detection sensitivity of task-induced signal changes. Motivated by the success of existing PET denoising algorithms, we then develop an MRI denoising algorithm for low SNR functional MRI data, which demonstrates significant improvements in quantitative accuracy and precision of downstream modeling metrics. Finally, we propose a pattern analysis extension of an existing joint PET/MRI analysis algorithm to identify disease-related alterations to simultaneously acquired multimodal data. We identify immediate applications of each algorithm in novel medical research studies, and proof-of-concept testing on human data is performed when available.
Additional file 5 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Differences in diversity and composition of microbiota between the control groups and the FMT groups.
The pedagogical opportunities of PhET Interactive Simulations in secondary science education in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Toma, Mohosina Jabin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Science education in Bangladesh is losing its appeal among students at an alarming rate due to the lack of laboratory equipment, high teacher-student ratios, and outdated pedagogies. A research-based, freely available Physics Education Technology (PhET) suite of computer simulations can help teachers address these challenges. Despite their educational potential, PhET simulations are rarely used in Bangladesh. This study explores the challenges Bangladeshi teachers face in learning to implement PhET-enhanced pedagogies and examines teachers’ views of the pedagogical opportunities for PhET simulations in secondary schools. Seven PhET workshops were conducted in Dhaka city for 129 in-service and pre-service teachers before exploring their views and challenges. This study followed an explanatory mixed-method approach that included pre-and post-workshop surveys and five semi-structured interviews with teachers who participated in the workshops voluntarily. The challenges teachers faced were identified from two online questionnaires (pre- and post-workshop), observations during the workshop, and one-on-one interviews. The results suggest that teachers encountered several challenges when implementing PhET simulations. Challenges included difficulty using new technology, time constraints, particularly within the content-dense, exam-oriented, and teacher-centered education system, and a lack of pedagogical skills and sound content knowledge to take full advantage of PhET. Despite these challenges, the teachers believed that PhET simulations could enhance student learning and increase student interest and engagement in STEM Education. The teachers recognized PhET simulations’ potential as a supplement to hands-on activities for Bangladeshi secondary science education. This study suggests options to mitigate some of the challenges identified by participants. Solutions range from booklets and Bengali YouTube instructional videos to a flipped classroom approach, which requires students to access the simulations from home. Additional teacher professional development was also identified as a key strategy to support technology integration and the development of pedagogical skills needed to integrate PhET simulations into practice. Participants believed that as more curriculum-relevant simulations are developed, this technology will revolutionize Bangladeshi science education. Further study is needed to examine how building a professional learning community focused on the use of PhET-enhanced pedagogies might alleviate teachers’ challenges in incorporating this technology to engage students in inquiry-based science learning.
Additional file 6 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Information on gene primers of Brandt's voles.
A two-step approach to leverage contextual data: speech recognition in air-traffic communications
Creators: name: Nigmatulina, Iuliia
name: Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan
name: Prasad, Amrutha
name: Sarfjoo, Seyyed Saeed
name: Motlicek, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead to a lower number of incidents caused by misunderstanding and improve air traffic management (ATM) efficiency. Evidently, high accuracy predictions, especially, of key information, i.e., callsigns and commands, are required to minimize the risk of errors. We prove that combining the benefits of ASR and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to make use of surveillance data (i.e. additional modality) helps to considerably improve the recognition of callsigns (named entity). In this paper, we investigate a two-step callsign boosting approach: (1) at the 1 step (ASR), weights of probable callsign n-grams are reduced in G.fst and/or in the decoding FST (lattices), (2) at the 2 step (NLP), callsigns extracted from the improved recognition outputs with Named Entity Recognition (NER) are correlated with the surveillance data to select the most suitable one. Boosting callsign n-grams with the combination of ASR and NLP methods eventually leads up to 53.7% of an absolute, or 60.4% of a relative, improvement in callsign recognition.
description: 20XX IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.12156
Additional file 1 of Trends in incidence, survival and initial treatments of gynecological sarcoma: a retrospective analysis of the United States subpopulation
Creators: name: He, Xi
name: Dong, Qiang
name: Weng, Changfang
name: Gu, Jianfen
name: Yang, Qiao
name: Yang, Guangrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1 Trends in incidence of gynecologic sarcoma.
Nicho e dieta de serpentes em ambientes de altitude de Roraima
Creators: name: Farias, Raimundo Erasmo Souza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Comunidades de serpentes (cobras) apresentam diversos padrões de estruturação e funcionamento, com indivíduos atuando de diferentes formas entre si, o que reflete no conjunto de espécies como um todo. Estas adaptações que influenciam as espécies constituem seus nichos ecológicos, informação fundamental sobre a ecologia das espécies.
The Weights can be Harmful: Pareto Search versus Weighted Search in Multi-Objective Search-Based Software Engineering
Creators: name: Chen, Tao
name: Li, Miqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In presence of multiple objectives to be optimized in Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), Pareto search has been commonly adopted. It searches for a good approximation of the problem's Pareto optimal solutions, from which the stakeholders choose the most preferred solution according to their preferences. However, when clear preferences of the stakeholders (e.g., a set of weights which reflect relative importance between objectives) are available prior to the search, weighted search is believed to be the first choice since it simplifies the search via converting the original multi-objective problem into a single-objective one and enable the search to focus on what only the stakeholders are interested in. This paper questions such a "weighted search first" belief. We show that the weights can, in fact, be harmful to the search process even in the presence of clear preferences. Specifically, we conduct a large scale empirical study which consists of 38 systems/projects from three representative SBSE problems, together with two types of search budget and nine sets of weights, leading to 604 cases of comparisons. Our key finding is that weighted search reaches a certain level of solution quality by consuming relatively less resources at the early stage of the search; however, Pareto search is at the majority of the time (up to 77% of the cases) significantly better than its weighted counterpart, as long as we allow a sufficient, but not unrealistic search budget. This, together with other findings and actionable suggestions in the paper, allows us to codify pragmatic and comprehensive guidance on choosing weighted and Pareto search for SBSE under the circumstance that clear preferences are available. All code and data can be accessed at: https://github.com/ideas-labo/pareto-vs-weight-for-sbse.
description: This paper has been accepted by the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM); DOI: 10.1145/3514233
Additional file 1 of Upregulated expression of Notch1/4 - JAG-1/DLL-1 detected in allergic rhinitis
Creators: name: Hjalmarsson, Eric
name: Petro, Marianne
name: Georén, Susanna Kumlien
name: Winqvist, Ola
name: Cardell, Lars Olaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
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: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Figures and Tables
Profiling and Integrated Analysis of the ERCC6-regulated circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Network in Lens Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Wang, Ying
name: Zhang, Guowei
name: Li, Pengfei
name: Kang, Lihua
name: Qin, Bai
name: Cao, Yu
name: Luo, Jiawei
name: Chen, Xiaojuan
name: Qin, Miaomiao
name: Guan, Huaijin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Purpose: To explore the regulatory role of ERCC6 in the circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network using a cellular ERCC6 overexpression model (OE-ERCC6) in lens epithelial cells. Methods: The expression profiles of circRNAs, miRNAs and mRNAs were determined by RNA-seq, and a regulatory circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network was constructed via bioinformatics. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analyses were used for the functional annotation of circRNA host genes, differentially expressed (DE) genes, and miRNA targets. Results: The DE molecules between the OE-ERCC6 and control groups included 269 circRNAs, 241 miRNAs and 3500 mRNAs. We validated 5 selected DE reads of circRNAs (hsa_circ_0001009, hsa_circ_0002024, hsa_circ_0004592, hsa_circ_0001900 and hsa_circ_0001017). Subsequent bioinformatics analysis revealed that the DE circRNAs are mainly involved in oxidative stress- and cell death-related signaling pathways. Finally, a circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network focusing on DNA damage and cell death, which involved 5 circRNAs, 13 miRNAs and 107 mRNAs, was constructed. Conclusion: We constructed a circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network that is regulated by ERCC6. DE circRNAs have the potential to become therapeutic targets related to the lens lesions observed in ARC. The establishment of related in vivo and in vitro models could be a future direction to confirm these hypotheses.
Effect of an External Electric Field on the Propagation Velocity of Premixed Flames
Creators: name: Sanz, Mario Sanchez
name: Murphy, Daniel C.
name: Pello, C. Fernandez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been many experimental investigations into the ability of electric fields to enhance combustion by acting upon ion species present in flames [1]. In this work, we examine this phenomenon using a one-dimensional model of a lean premixed flame under the influence of a longitudinal electric field. We expand upon prior two-step chain-branching reaction laminar models with reactions to model the creation and consumption of both a positively-charged radical species and free electrons. Also included are the electromotive force in the conservation equation for ion species and the electrostatic form of the Maxwell equations in order to resolve ion transport by externally applied and internally induced electric fields. The numerical solution of these equations allows us to compute changes in flame speed due to electric fields. Further, the variation of key kinetic and transport parameters modifies the electrical sensitivity of the flame. From changes in flame speed and reactant profiles we are able to gain novel, valuable insight into how and why combustion can be controlled by electric fields.
A Survey of Breast Cancer Screening Techniques: Thermography and Electrical Impedance Tomography
Creators: name: Zuluaga-Gomez, Juan
name: Zerhouni, N.
name: Masry, Z. Al
name: Devalland, C.
name: Varnier, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Breast cancer is a disease that threatens many women's life, thus, early and accurate detection plays a key role in reducing the mortality rate. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast cancer screening; nevertheless, many countries still lack access to mammograms due to economic, social, and cultural issues. Last advances in computational tools, infrared cameras, and devices for bio-impedance quantification allowed the development of parallel techniques like thermography, infrared imaging, and electrical impedance tomography, these being faster, reliable and cheaper. In the last decades, these have been considered as complement procedures for breast cancer diagnosis, where many studies concluded that false positive and false negative rates are greatly reduced. This work aims to review the last breakthroughs about the three above-mentioned techniques describing the benefits of mixing several computational skills to obtain a better global performance. In addition, we provide a comparison between several machine learning techniques applied to breast cancer diagnosis going from logistic regression, decision trees, and random forest to artificial, deep, and convolutional neural networks. Finally, it is mentioned several recommendations for 3D breast simulations, pre-processing techniques, biomedical devices in the research field, prediction of tumor location and size.
description: Article published at: Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology (Volume 43, 2019 - Issue 5)
Additional file 1 of An experimental porcine model of invasive candidiasis
Creators: name: Krifors, Anders
name: Lignell, Anders
name: Lipcsey, Miklós
name: Sjölin, Jan
name: Castegren, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Physiological parameters and laboratory results for Pig 11–Pig 17.
Regimes of boundary layer ignition by heat release from a localized energy source
Creators: name: Sanz, Mario Sanchez
name: Tarrazo, Eduardo Fernandez
name: Sanchez, Antonio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the initiation of a deflagration in a premixed boundary-layer stream by continuous heat deposition from a line energy source placed perpendicular to the flow on the wall surface, a planar flow configuration relevant for small-scale combustion applications, including portable rotary engines. Ignition is investigated in the constant density approximation with a one-step irreversible reaction with large activation energy adopted for the chemistry description. The ratio of the characteristic strain time, given by the inverse of the wall velocity gradient, to the characteristic deflagration residence time defines the relevant controlling Damköhler number $D$. The time-dependent evolution following the activation of the heat source is obtained by numerical integration of the energy and fuel conservation equations. For sufficiently small values of $D$, the solution is seen to evolve towards a steady flow in which the chemical reaction remains confined to a finite near-source reactive kernel. This becomes increasingly slender for increasing values of $D$, corresponding to smaller near-wall velocities, until a critical value $D_{c1}$ is reached at which the confined kernel is replaced by a steady anchored deflagration, assisted by the source heating rate, which develops indefinitely downstream. As the boundary-layer velocity gradient is further decreased, a second critical Damköhler number $D_{c2}>D_{c1}$ is reached at which the energy deposition results in a flashback deflagration propagating upstream against the incoming flow along the base of the boundary layer. The computations are extended to investigate the dependence of $D_{c1}$ and $D_{c2}$ on the fuel diffusivity as well as the additional dependence of $D_{c1}$ on the source heating rate, thereby delineating the boundaries that define the relevant regime diagram for these combustion systems.
Additional file 2 of Gut microbiota is associated with the effect of photoperiod on seasonal breeding in male Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanyi
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. FMT alters reproductive genes, genital organs, and bacterial diversity and composition of Brandt’s voles.
Quantitative investigations on uncertainties in permanent breast seed implant brachytherapy
Creators: name: Zhang, Claire
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Permanent breast seed implant (PBSI) brachytherapy is a single-session partial breast irradiation technique for early-stage breast cancer patients who have previously undergone lumpectomy. Despite excellent clinical outcomes and high patient satisfaction rates, this technique has not been widely adopted in clinical practice due to challenges in standardizing and optimizing the planning and delivery of the technique. The goal of this thesis is to quantitatively investigate the uncertainties in PBSI and develop methods and technologies to improve the accuracy and robustness of this technique. I investigated the uncertainties arising from varying lumpectomy surgical margins in our PBSI patient cohort. I compared the currently used safety margin in PBSI planning to Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie-European Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (GEC ESTRO) recommended margin. Our results showed that the current PBSI clinical safety margin provides satisfactory coverage on the GEC ESTRO recommended target. However, implementing GEC ESTRO recommendations in PBSI planning has dosimetric advantages in reducing dose of organs at risk. I also quantified PBSI seed displacement, as well as seed stability in breast tissue during the first month post implantation. We evaluated the dosimetric impact of seed displacement and movement and demonstrated that PBSI post-implant dosimetry remains within clinical goals even with local seed displacement and movement. Furthermore, we developed a simulation framework to evaluate PBSI plan robustness to seed displacement, which will be a useful tool for evaluating and improving planning methods. To address the challenges in target visualization and implant imaging guidance in PBSI mentioned in previous studies, I continued the development and implementation of 3D ultrasound technologies in PBSI. I characterized an encoded 3D ultrasound systems developed for PBSI, and further developed a new system with improved clinical usability. Our commissioning and testing results showed good feasibility to implement 3D ultrasound in PBSI and great potential to improve visualization and guidance of PBSI. In conclusion, our quantitative evaluation of some of the current uncertainties in the PBSI technique and the development of tools to improve its accuracy and user-dependence will facilitate the standardization and optimization of PBSI and promote the clinical adoption of this technique.