cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal time estimation and the clock uncertainty relation for stochastic processes
Creators: name: Prech, Kacper
name: Landi, Gabriel T.
name: Meier, Florian
name: Nurgalieva, Nuriya
name: Potts, Patrick P.
name: Silva, Ralph
name: Mitchison, Mark T.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time estimation is a fundamental task that underpins precision measurement, global navigation systems, financial markets, and the organisation of everyday life. Many biological processes also depend on time estimation by nanoscale clocks, whose performance can be significantly impacted by random fluctuations. In this work, we formulate the problem of optimal time estimation for Markovian stochastic processes, and present its general solution in the asymptotic (long-time) limit. Specifically, we obtain a tight upper bound on the precision of any time estimate constructed from sustained observations of a classical, Markovian jump process. This bound is controlled by the mean residual time, i.e. the expected wait before the first jump is observed. As a consequence, we obtain a universal bound on the signal-to-noise ratio of arbitrary currents and counting observables in the steady state. This bound is similar in spirit to the kinetic uncertainty relation but provably tighter, and we explicitly construct the counting observables that saturate it. Our results establish ultimate precision limits for an important class of observables in non-equilibrium systems, and demonstrate that the mean residual time, not the dynamical activity, is the measure of freneticity that tightly constrains fluctuations far from equilibrium.
description: arXiv
A network of precision gravimeters as a detector of matter with feeble nongravitational coupling
Creators: name: Hu, Wenxiang
name: Lawson, Matthew
name: Budker, Dmitry
name: Figueroa, Nataniel L.
name: Kimball, Derek F. Jackson
name: Mills, Allen P.
name: Voigt, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hidden matter that interacts only gravitationally would oscillate at characteristic frequencies when trapped inside of Earth. For small oscillations near the center of the Earth, these frequencies are around 300 $μ$Hz. Additionally, signatures at higher harmonics would appear because of the non-uniformity of Earth's density. In this work, we use data from a global network of gravimeters of the International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS) to look for these hypothetical trapped objects. We find no evidence for such objects with masses on the order of 10$^{14}$ kg or greater with an oscillation amplitude of 0.1 $r_e$. It may be possible to improve the sensitivity of the search by several orders of magnitude via better understanding of the terrestrial noise sources and more advanced data analysis.
New information, new interests? Impact of an occupation finder on the occupational choices of dual vocational education and training students
Creators: name: Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2025
Subjects: Occupational choice
Information interventions
Dual vocational education and training (VET)
Regression discontinuity design (RDD)
Career guidance

description: CES Working Paper Series, 23
Plagiodontes Doering 1877
Creators: name: Pizá, Julia
name: Cazzaniga, Néstor J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Odontostomidae
Plagiodontes

description: Genus Plagiodontes Doering, 1877
Shell rimate, oblong, with 6.5 to 8 whorls compactly coiled, the protoconch having axial striae slightly decussated by minor spiral lines, last whorl large. Aperture subvertical, ovate, obstructed by three major lamellae, 0 to 5 small folds and a transverse barrier behind the lower palatal folds. Endemic from Uruguay and Argentina.
 Type species: Helix dentata Wood, 1828 from Montevideo, Uruguay [subsequent designation by Pilsbry, 1898].
description: Published as part of Pizá, Julia & Cazzaniga, Néstor J., 2009, A new species of Plagiodontes from Argentina, and new data on the anatomy of four other species in the genus (Gastropoda: Orthalicidae, Odontostominae), pp. 1437-1471 in Journal of Natural History 43 (23 - 24) on page 1443, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902903244, http://zenodo.org/record/5216490
Intramuscular High-Density Micro-Electrode Arrays Enable High-Precision Decoding and Mapping of Spinal Motor Neurons to Reveal Hand Control
Creators: name: Grison, Agnese
name: Ibanez Pereda, Jaime
name: Muceli, Silvia
name: Kundu, Aritra
name: Baracat, Farah
name: Indiveri, Giacomo
name: Donati, Elisa
name: Farina, Dario
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: Motor neuron
Motor unit
Intramuscular EMG
Myoelectric control

description: Decoding nervous system activity is a key challenge in neuroscience and neural interfacing. In this study, we propose a novel neural decoding system that enables unprecedented large-scale sampling of muscle activity. Using micro-electrode arrays with more than 100 channels embedded within the forearm muscles, we recorded high-density signals that captured multi-unit motor neuron activity. This extensive sampling was complemented by advanced methods for neural decomposition, analysis, and classification, allowing us to accurately detect and interpret the spiking activity of spinal motor neurons that innervate hand muscles. We evaluated this system in two healthy participants, each implanted with three electromyogram (EMG) micro-electrode arrays (comprising 40 electrodes each) in the forearm. These arrays recorded muscle activity during both single- and multi-digit isometric contractions. For the first time under controlled conditions, we demonstrate that multi-digit tasks elicit unique patterns of motor neuron recruitment specific to each task, rather than employing combinations of recruitment patterns from single-digit tasks. This observation led us to hypothesize that hand tasks could be classified with high precision based on the decoded neural activity. We achieved perfect classification accuracy (100%) across 12 distinct single- and multi-digit tasks, and consistently high accuracy (>96\%) across all conditions and subjects, for up to 16 task classes. These results significantly outperformed conventional EMG classification methods. The exceptional performance of this system paves the way for developing advanced neural interfaces based on invasive high-density EMG technology. This innovation could greatly enhance human-computer interaction and lead to substantial improvements in assistive technologies, offering new possibilities for restoring motor function in clinical applications.
description: arXiv
How shall i count the ways? A method for quantifying the qualitative aspects of unscripted movement with Laban Movement Analysis
Creators: name: Tsachor, Rachelle
name: T Shafir
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There is significant clinical evidence showing that creative and expressive movement processes involved in dance/movement therapy (DMT) enhance psycho-social well-being. Yet, because movement is a complex phenomenon, statistically validating which aspects of movement change during interventions or lead to significant positive therapeutic outcomes is challenging because movement has multiple, overlapping variables appearing in unique patterns in different individuals and situations. One factor contributing to the therapeutic effects of DMT is movement's effect on clients' emotional states. Our previous study identified sets of movement variables which, when executed, enhanced specific emotions. In this paper, we describe how we selected movement variables for statistical analysis in that study, using a multi-stage methodology to identify, reduce, code, and quantify the multitude of variables present in unscripted movement. We suggest a set of procedures for using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)-described movement variables as research data. Our study used LMA, an internationally accepted comprehensive system for movement analysis, and a primary DMT clinical assessment tool for describing movement. We began with Davis's (1970) three-stepped protocol for analyzing movement patterns and identifying the most important variables: (1) We repeatedly observed video samples of validated (Atkinson et al., 2004) emotional expressions to identify prevalent movement variables, eliminating variables appearing minimally or absent. (2) We use the criteria repetition, frequency, duration and emphasis to eliminate additional variables. (3) For each emotion, we analyzed motor expression variations to discover how variables cluster: first, by observing ten movement samples of each emotion to identify variables common to all samples; second, by qualitative analysis of the two best-recognized samples to determine if phrasing, duration or relationship among variables was significant. We added three new steps to this protocol: (4) we created Motifs (LMA symbols) combining movement variables extracted in steps 1-3; (5) we asked participants in the pilot study to move these combinations and quantify their emotional experience. Based on the results of the pilot study, we eliminated more variables; (6) we quantified the remaining variables' prevalence in each Motif for statistical analysis that examined which variables enhanced each emotion. We posit that our method successfully quantified unscripted movement data for statistical analysis.
Modifications of the Page Curve from correlations within Hawking radiation
Creators: name: Alvi, Mishkat Al
name: Majumdar, Mahbub
name: Matin, Md. Abdul
name: Rahat, Moinul Hossain
name: Roy, Avik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate quantum correlations between successive steps of black hole evaporation and investigate whether they might resolve the black hole information paradox. 'Small' corrections in various models were shown to be unable to restore unitarity. We study a toy qubit model of evaporation that allows small quantum correlations between successive steps and reaffirm previous results. Then, we relax the 'smallness' condition and find a nontrivial upper and lower bound on the entanglement entropy change during the evaporation process. This gives a quantitative measure of the size of the correction needed to restore unitarity. We find that these entanglement entropy bounds lead to a significant deviation from the expected Page curve.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure, some overlap with arXiv:1312.3176 by the same authors; but substantially new conclusions, calculations and exposition
Inflation: flow, fixed points and observables to arbitrary order in slow roll
Creators: name: Kinney, William H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I generalize the inflationary flow equations of Hoffman and Turner to arbitrary order in slow roll. This makes it possible to study the predictions of slow roll inflation in the full observable parameter space of tensor/scalar ratio $r$, spectral index $n$, and running $d n / d \ln k$. It also becomes possible to identify exact fixed points in the parameter flow. I numerically evaluate the flow equations to fifth order in slow roll for a set of randomly chosen initial conditions and find that the models cluster strongly in the observable parameter space, indicating a ``generic'' set of predictions for slow roll inflation. I comment briefly on the the interesting proposed correspondence between flow in inflationary parameter space and renormalization group flow in a boundary conformal field theory.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. LaTeX. V4: Fixed important error in numerical constant in the second-order slow roll expressions for the observables r, n, and dn/dlog(k). See footnote after Eq. (48). New figures, minor changes to conclusions. Supersedes version published in Phys. Rev. D
Phase structure of the 1+1 dimensional Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with isospin
Creators: name: Thies, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of the two-dimensional Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with isospin is explored in the large Nc limit with semiclassical methods. We consider finite temperature and include chemical potentials for all conserved charges. In the chiral limit, a full analytical solution is presented, expressed in terms of known results for the single-flavor Gross-Neveu and Nambu--Jona-Lasinio models. A novel crystalline structure appears and is shown explicitly to be thermodynamically more stable than the homogeneous phase at zero temperature. If we include a bare fermion mass, the problem reduces again to solved problems in one-flavor models provided that either the fermionic or the isospin chemical potentials vanish. In the general case, a stability analysis is used to construct the perturbative phase boundary between homogeneous and inhomogeneous phases. This is sufficient to get a good overview of the complete phase diagram. Missing non-perturbative phase boundaries requiring a full numerical Hartree-Fock calculation will be presented in future work.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; v2: references added, typos corrected
Hardware architecture and routing-aware training for optimal memory usage: a case study
Creators: name: Weber, Jimmy
name: Ballet, Theo
name: Payvand, Melika
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: HW-aware training
Dynamic architecture search
Non-differentiable constraints optimization
Routing

description: Efficient deployment of neural networks on resource-constrained hardware demands optimal use of on-chip memory. In event-based processors, this is particularly critical for routing architectures, where substantial memory is dedicated to managing network connectivity. While prior work has focused on optimizing event routing during hardware design, optimizing memory utilization for routing during network training remains underexplored. Key challenges include: (i) integrating routing into the loss function, which often introduces non-differentiability, and (ii) computational expense in evaluating network mappability to hardware. We propose a hardware-algorithm co-design approach to train routing-aware neural networks. To address challenge (i), we extend the DeepR training algorithm, leveraging dynamic pruning and random re-assignment to optimize memory use. For challenge (ii), we introduce a proxy-based approximation of the mapping function to incorporate placement and routing constraints efficiently. We demonstrate our approach by optimizing a network for the Spiking Heidelberg Digits (SHD) dataset using a small-world connectivity-based hardware architecture as a case study. The resulting network, trained with our routing-aware methodology, is fully mappable to the hardware, achieving 5% more accuracy using the same number of parameters, and iso-accuracy with 10x less memory usage, compared to non-routing-aware training methods. This work highlights the critical role of co-optimizing algorithms and hardware to enable efficient and scalable solutions for constrained environments.
description: arXiv
A neuromorphic electronic artist for robotic painting
Creators: name: Schürmann, Lioba
name: D'Angelo, Giulia
name: Indiveri, Giacomo
name: Bartolozzi, Chiara
name: Grayver, Liat
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have led to a surge of interest in the field of AI-generated art, including digital image creation and robot-assisted painting. Traditional painting machines rely on static images and offline processing to incorporate visual feedback into their painting process. However, this approach does not consider the dynamic nature of painting and fails to decompose complex overlapping patterns into individual strokes. As an alternative to frame-based RGB cameras, neuromorphic cameras capture changes in light intensity within a scene via asynchronous event streams, promising to overcome some of the inherent limitations of traditional computer vision techniques. In this project, a robotic system for physical painting is presented which utilizes event-based visual input from a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) camera. To take advantage of the camera's ultra-low latency and sparse encoding, the proposed system also employs event-based information processing, implemented with spiking neural networks on the neuromorphic DynapSE-1 processor. The robotic system receives DVS sensory data which represents the trajectory of a brush stroke and computes the required joint velocities to recreate the stroke with a 6-DOF robotic arm in a closed-loop manner. The controller additionally integrates tactile feedback from a force-torque sensor to dynamically adjust the end-effector’s distance towards the canvas depending on the brush’s deformation. Within the scope of the project, it was further demonstrated how speed information about a perceived brush stroke can be extracted from DVS data. The system was tested in a real-world setting and successfully generated a collection of physical brush strokes. The proposed network is a first step towards a fully spiking robotic controller with the ability to seamlessly incorporate event-based sensory feedback, providing ultra-low latency responsiveness. Beyond its utility in robot-assisted painting, the developed network is applicable to any robotic task requiring real-time adaptive control.
description: Research Square
description: ISSN:2693-5015
Additional file 1 of Tibial fracture surgery in elderly mice caused postoperative neurocognitive disorder via SOX2OT lncRNA in the hippocampus
Creators: name: Xiao, Zhibin
name: Zhang, Xiajing
name: Li, Guangyao
name: Sun, Li
name: Li, Jiangjing
name: Jing, Ziwei
name: Qiu, Qingya
name: He, Guangxiang
name: Gao, Changjun
name: Sun, Xude
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Drp1 promoter sequence.
Swimbladder filling in herring larvae: effects of food oil on the water surface
Creators: name: Folkvord, Arild
name: Lakso, Essi
name: Laupsa, Marita
name: Sonnich Meier
name: Musialak, Luciana Alves
name: Sundby, Svein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: There has been a recent interest in exploring the possibility of oil and gas production in the Lofoten-Vesterålen area along the Norwegian coast. Since this is an important drift area for offspring of several important commercial fish species, such an activity could potentially have adverse effects on fish early life survival. A potential surface oil spill could coincide in time with swimbladder filling in herring larvae originating from major spawning grounds in Møre, upstream of Lofoten-Vesterålen. A laboratory experiment was carried out to determine possible effects on growth and survival of herring larvae by adding an oil slick to the water surface. The presence of food oil on the water surface over a two-week period significantly affected swimbladder filling in two-month-old herring larvae (18% vs 85% filled in exposed vs control group larvae). However, overall larval size-at-age and survival were not affected by the prevention of swimbladder filling per se, neither did otolith microstructure analysis indicate any short-term reductions in growth. Overall survival during the three-month experiment was high and averaged 74%. The relative condition of food oil-exposed larvae was higher than among control group larvae. Analysis of the larval samples and food oil documented the incorporation of specific fatty acids (e.g. 18:1 n-9, 18:2 n-6) from the food oil into the larvae. Since an oil slick represents a physical barrier and a source of bioaccumulation, further experiments should be undertaken to evaluate the toxic effects of incorporated mineral oil compounds during swimbladder filling in herring larvae.
Familiarity of an environment prevents song suppression in isolated zebra finches
Creators: name: Zai, Anja T.
name: Rodrigues, Diana I.
name: Stepien, Anna E.
name: Lorenz, Corinna
name: Giret, Nicolas
name: Adam, Iris
name: Hahnloser, Richard H.R.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: Despite the wide use of zebra finches as an animal model to study vocal learning and production, little is known about impacts on their welfare caused by routine experimental manipulations such as changing their social context. Here we conduct a post-hoc analysis of singing rate, an indicator of positive welfare, to gain insights into stress caused by social isolation, a common experimental manipulation. We find that isolation in an unfamiliar environment reduces singing rate for several days, indicating the presence of an acute stressor. However, we find no such decrease when social isolation is caused by either removal of a social companion or by transfer to a familiar environment. Furthermore, during repeated brief periods of isolation, singing rate remains high when isolation is induced by removal of social companions, but it fails to recover from a suppressed state when isolation is induced by recurrent transfer to an unknown environment. These findings suggest that stress from social isolation is negligible compared to stress caused by environmental changes and that frequent short visits of an unfamiliar environment are detrimental rather than beneficial. Together, these insights can serve to refine experimental studies and design paradigms maximizing the birds’ wellbeing and vocal output.
description: bioRxiv
The Radio : X-ray Correlation of Cygnus X-3 and other Galactic Microquasars
Creators: name: Choudhury, M.
name: Rao, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cygnus X-3, among the Galactic X-ray binaries, is one of the brightest radio sources. Radio image as well as spectral analysis shows the presence of outflow in the form of jets. The SED in the X-ray band shows a complicated structure and evolution. Here we review some recent results of the correlation of the long-term radio and X-ray emission, in the various states of the source, with emphasis on the low (hard) state. We compare the results with those of other common Galactic microquasars, and attempt to provide a consistent picture of the accretion-ejection mechanism in these types of binaries.
description: To appear in RevMexAA(SC) Conference Series, Proc. of IAU Colloquium 194, Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond, La Paz, Mexico, 17-21 Nov., 2003
Additional file 4 of Chemotherapy and targeted therapy for advanced biliary tract cancers: an umbrella review
Creators: name: Wang, Yaoqun
name: Wen, Ningyuan
name: Wang, Shaofeng
name: Nie, Guilin
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Lu, Jiong
name: Li, Bei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
MOESM2 of Circadian sleep/wake-associated cells show dipeptide repeat protein aggregates in C9orf72-related ALS and FTLD cases
Creators: name: Lieselot Dedeene
name: Schoor, Evelien Van
name: Vandenberghe, Rik
name: Damme, Philip Van
name: Poesen, Koen
name: Thal, Dietmar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Poly(GA) pathology in the pineal gland of C9orf72 and nonC9orf72 ALS and FTLD cases. Figure S2. VIP-immunostaining of the SCN-related neurons in C9orf72 and nonC9orf72 ALS and FTLD cases.
Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control for Dexterous Manipulation on a Biomimetic Tendon-Driven Hand
Creators: name: Hess, Adrian
name: Kübler, Alexander
name: Forrai, Benedek
name: Dogar, Mehmet
name: Katzschmann, Robert K.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)
FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Biomimetic and compliant robotic hands offer the potential for human-like dexterity, but controlling them is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex contact interactions, and uncertainties in state estimation. Sampling-based model predictive control (MPC), using a physics simulator as the dynamics model, is a promising approach for generating contact-rich behavior. However, sampling-based MPC has yet to be evaluated on physical (non-simulated) robotic hands, particularly on compliant hands with state uncertainties. We present the first successful demonstration of in-hand manipulation on a physical biomimetic tendon-driven robot hand using sampling-based MPC. While sampling-based MPC does not require lengthy training cycles like reinforcement learning approaches, it still necessitates adapting the task-specific objective function to ensure robust behavior execution on physical hardware. To adapt the objective function, we integrate a visual language model (VLM) with a real-time optimizer (MuJoCo MPC). We provide the VLM with a high-level human language description of the task, and a video of the hand's current behavior. The VLM iteratively adapts the objective function, enabling effective behavior generation. In our experiments, the hand achieves an average ball rolling speed of 0.35 rad/s, successful ball flips, and catching with a 67\% success rate. Our results demonstrate that sampling-based MPC is a promising approach for generating dexterous manipulation skills on biomimetic hands without extensive training cycles.
description: arXiv
Induced Gravity on RS Branes
Creators: name: Kiritsis, E.
name: Tetradis, N.
name: Tomaras, T. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a localized four-dimensional Einstein term, induced by quantum corrections, modifies significantly the law of gravity in a Randall-Sundrum brane world. In particular, the short-distance behavior of gravity changes from five- to four-dimensional, while, depending on the values of parameters, there can be an intermediate range where gravity behaves as in five dimensions. The spectrum of graviton fluctuations around the brane, their relative importance for the gravitational force, and the relevance of their emission in the bulk for the brane cosmology are analysed. Finally, constraints on parameters are derived from energy loss in astrophysical and particle physics processes.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure, JHEP.cls
MOESM2 of Analysis of reporting completeness in exercise cancer trials: a systematic review
Creators: name: Meneses-Echavez, Jose
name: Rodriguez-Prieto, Indira
name: Elkins, Mark
name: MartÃ­Nez-Torres, Javier
name: Nguyen, Lien
name: Bidonde, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Search strategy. This file presents the search strategies used to identify the individual studies
On the equivalence between quantum and random walks on finite graphs
Creators: name: Andrade, Matheus G.
name: Marquezino, Franklin
name: Figueiredo, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks on graphs are ubiquitous in quantum computing finding a myriad of applications. Likewise, random walks on graphs are a fundamental building block for a large number of algorithms with diverse applications. While the relationship between quantum and random walks has been recently discussed in specific scenarios, this work establishes a formal equivalence between the processes on arbitrary finite graphs and general conditions for shift and coin operators. It requires empowering random walks with time heterogeneity, where the transition probability of the walker is non-uniform and time dependent. The equivalence is obtained by equating the probability of measuring the quantum walk on a given node of the graph and the probability that the random walk is at that same node, for all nodes and time steps. The result is given by the construction procedure of a matrix sequence for the random walk that yields the exact same vertex probability distribution sequence of any given quantum walk, including the scenario with multiple interfering walkers. Interestingly, these matrices allows for a different simulation approach for quantum walks where node samples respect neighbor locality and convergence is guaranteed by the law of large numbers, enabling efficient (polynomial) sampling of quantum graph trajectories (paths). Furthermore, the complexity of constructing this sequence of matrices is discussed in the general case.
description: 15 pages; same results as before; rephrase some sentences from sections 1, 4 and 5; change phrasing of Theorems 1 and 2 to a clearer form; move discussion of Rejection Sampling to Appendix A; move discussion of Grover walk on Torus to Appendix B
ATTRIBUTE NON-ATTENDANCE IN FOOD CHOICE EXPERIMENTS UNDER VARYING INFORMATION LOAD
Creators: name: Shen, Meng
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Schroeder, Ted
name: Shen, Meng
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Schroeder, Ted
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Discrete Choice experiments
subject: Attribute Non-Attendance
subject: Latent Class Model
subject: Simple Heuristics
subject: Willingness-to-pay

description: It is increasingly recognized that respondents use simple heuristics such as attribute non-attendance to make decisions in the discrete choice experiments. This paper use the latent class model to investigate different choice strategies and explore robust welfare estimates under varying attribute information load. We find that respondents are more likely to rely on simple heuristics to make choices when information load increases. Reinforcing previous findings, we also observe that willingness-to-pay estimates decrease, with and without accounting for attribute non-attendance.
RoCK and ROI: Single-cell transcriptomics with multiplexed enrichment of selected transcripts and region-specific sequencing
Creators: name: Moro, Giulia
name: Mallona, Izaskun
name: Maillard, Joël
name: Brügger, Michael David
name: Fazilaty, Hassan
name: Szabo, Quentin
name: Valenta, Tomas
name: Handler, Kristina
name: Kerlin, Fiona
name: Moor, Andreas
name: Zinzen, Robert
name: Robinson, Mark D.
name: Brunner, Erich
name: Basler, Konrad
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: Various tools have been developed to reliably identify, trace and analyze single cells in complex tissues. In recent years, these technologies have been combined with transcriptomic profiling approaches to explore molecular mechanisms that drive development, health, and disease. However, current methods still fall short of profiling single cell transcriptomes comprehensively, with one major challenge being high non-detection rates of specific transcripts and transcript regions. Such information is often crucial to understanding the biology of cells or tissues and includes lowly expressed transcripts, sequence variations and exon junctions. Here, we developed a scRNAseq workflow, RoCK and ROI (Robust Capture of Key transcripts and Regions Of Interest), that tackles these limitations. RoCKseq uses targeted capture to enrich for key transcripts, thereby supporting the detection and identification of cell types and complex phenotypes in scRNAseq experiments. ROIseq directs a subset of reads to a specific region of interest via selective priming to ensure detection. Importantly, RoCK and ROI guarantees efficient retrieval of specific sequence information without compromising overall single cell transcriptome information and our workflow is supported by a novel bioinformatics pipeline to analyze the multimodal information. RoCK and ROI represents a significant enhancement over non-targeted single cell sequencing, particularly when cell categorization depends on transcripts that are missed in standard scRNAseq experiments. In addition, it also allows exploration of biological questions that require assessment of specific sequence elements along the targets to be addressed.
description: bioRxiv
Long distance quantum teleportation of qubits from photons at 1300 nm to photons at 1550 nm wavelength
Creators: name: Marcikic, I.
name: de Riedmatten, H.
name: Tittel, W.
name: Zbinden, H.
name: Gisin, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elementary 2-dimensional quantum states (qubits) encoded in 1300 nm wavelength photons are teleported onto 1550 nm photons. The use of telecommunication wavelengths enables to take advantage of standard optical fibre and permits to teleport from one lab to a distant one, 55 m away, connected by 2 km of fibre. A teleportation fidelity of 81.2 % is reported. This is large enough to demonstrate the principles of quantum teleportation, in particular that entanglement is exploited. This experiment constitutes a first step towards a quantum repeater.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Extended version of Nature letter
Plagiodontes patagonicus
Creators: name: Pizá, Julia
name: Cazzaniga, Néstor J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Odontostomidae
Plagiodontes
Plagiodontes patagonicus

description: Plagiodontes patagonicus (d’Orbigny, 1835)
The pallial complex (Figure 19A,B) was briefly described by Hylton-Scott (1952), so we add only some additional details.
It is about 30 mm long. The kidney is triangular and occupies less than 20% of the lung length. Although Hylton-Scott (1952) described the secondary ureter as closed, we determined that it is open, being the ureteric pore located at the level of the lower third of the kidney length. The conspicuous pulmonary vein branches in the afferent marginal vein that occupies 60–70% of its length. The vascularization in the ad-rectal area and in the area between the veins is conspicuous. The marginal vein, branching from the last portion of the pulmonary vein and bordering the pallial border, is branched in minor veins. The pallial border has a brown spongy area, the pallial gland.
Anatomy of the genital system and its morphometric variations were already described by Hylton-Scott (1952), Cazzaniga and Fernández-Canigia (1985) and Cazzaniga et al. (2005), but the inner anatomy of the penis and vagina has not been analysed until now. Figure 20A,B shows the general aspect of the genital system.
Internally, the penis bears a simple penial papilla or verge (Figure 18A,B), proximally rounded and swollen, with transverse slits bordering its opening; it is distally triangular, elongated and smooth. The penis inner wall has voluminous and undulated pilasters with only a few anastomoses. While the area surrounded by the penial sheath and the genital atrium has multiple straight, thin folds, the area below the penial papilla is smooth.
 The transition between penis and epiphallus is constricted, the epiphallus being proximally swollen and distally cylindrical. This cylindrical portion has five to seven straight thin folds (Figure 21C). It is separated from the swollen part by the same structure found in the remaining Plagiodontes species. The flagellum, cylindrical and shorter than the epiphallus, has a straight fold in its inner wall. There is a noticeable change of diameter between the epiphallus and the flagellum. The vagina, shorter than the penis and twice as long as it is wide, has its inner surface longitudinally folded, with minor anastomoses that give it a reticulate aspect (Figure 21D,E). The bursa copulatrix duct is distally swollen and has internal longitudinal straight folds (Figure 21D,E).
description: Published as part of Pizá, Julia & Cazzaniga, Néstor J., 2009, A new species of Plagiodontes from Argentina, and new data on the anatomy of four other species in the genus (Gastropoda: Orthalicidae, Odontostominae), pp. 1437-1471 in Journal of Natural History 43 (23 - 24) on page 1461, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902903244, http://zenodo.org/record/5216490
Additional file 3 of Chemotherapy and targeted therapy for advanced biliary tract cancers: an umbrella review
Creators: name: Wang, Yaoqun
name: Wen, Ningyuan
name: Wang, Shaofeng
name: Nie, Guilin
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Lu, Jiong
name: Li, Bei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
MOESM1 of Analysis of reporting completeness in exercise cancer trials: a systematic review
Creators: name: Meneses-Echavez, Jose
name: Rodriguez-Prieto, Indira
name: Elkins, Mark
name: MartÃ­Nez-Torres, Javier
name: Nguyen, Lien
name: Bidonde, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Amendments to the protocol. This file contains the amendments made to the study protocol
MOESM5 of Assessing the impact of the addition of pyriproxyfen on the durability of permethrin-treated bed nets in Burkina Faso: a compound-randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Kobié Toé
name: Mechan, Frank
name: Julie-Anne Tangena
name: Morris, Marion
name: Solino, Joanna
name: Tchicaya, Emile
name: Traoré, Alphonse
name: Hanafy Ismail
name: Maas, James
name: Lissenden, Natalie
name: Pinder, Margaret
name: Lindsay, Steve
name: Tiono, Alfred
name: Ranson, Hilary
name: N’Falé Sagnon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5. Adjusted knockdown of susceptible An. gambiae (Kisumu strain) mosquitoes exposed in cone bioassays to PPF-permethrin nets and LLINs.
Supersymmetry and the collider Dark Matter picture
Creators: name: Lorenz, Jeanette Miriam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the key questions in particle physics and astrophysics is the nature of dark matter, which existence has been confirmed in many astrophysical and cosmological observations. Besides direct and indirect detection experiments, collider searches for dark matter offer the unique possibility to not only detect dark matter particles but in case of discovery to also study their properties by making statements about the potential underlying theory. The search program for dark matter at the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is comprehensive, and includes both supersymmetric dark matter candidates and other alternatives. This review presents the latest status in these searches, with special focus on supersymmetric dark matter particles.
description: Preprint of an article submitted for consideration in Modern Physics Letters A \c{opyright} 2019 copyright World Scientific Publishing Company
DemoTape: Computational demultiplexing of targeted single-cell sequencing data
Creators: name: Borgsmüller, Nico
name: Kuipers, Jack
name: Gawron, Johannes
name: Roncador, Marco
name: Pohly, Marcel
name: Acar, Erkin
name: Do, Thi Huong Lan
name: Reisenauer, Stefanie
name: Feldkamp, Mirjam Judith
name: Beisel, Christian
name: Zenz, Thorsten
name: Moor, Andreas
name: Beerenwinkel, Niko
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024
Subjects: Targeted single-cell DNA sequencing
Single-cell DNA panel sequencing
Genotype-based demultiplexing
Distance-based demultiplexing
Tapestri platform
Intratumor heterogeneity

description: Background Single-cell sequencing can provide novel insights into the understanding and treatment of diseases. In cancer, for example, intratumor heterogeneity is a major cause of treatment resistance and relapse. Although technological progress has substantially increased the throughput of sequenced cells, single-cell sequencing remains cost and labor-intensive. Multiplexing, i.e., the pooling and subsequent joint preparation and sequencing of samples, followed by a demultiplexing step, is a common practice to reduce expenses and confounding batch effects, especially in single-cell RNA sequencing.

Results Here, we introduce demoTape, a computational demultiplexing method for targeted single-cell DNA sequencing (scDNA-seq) data based on a distance metric between individual cells at single-nucleotide polymorphisms loci. To validate demoTape, we sequence three B-cell lymphoma patients separately and multiplexed on the Tapestri platform. We find similar genotypes, clones, and evolutionary histories in all three samples when comparing the individual with the demultiplexed samples. Using the three individually sequenced samples, we simulate multiplexed ground truth data and show that demoTape outperforms state-of-the-art demultiplexing methods designed for RNA sequencing data. Additionally, we demonstrate through downsampling that the inferred clonal composition remained largely stable for samples with fewer cells despite the inevitable loss in resolution of low-frequency clones.

Conclusions Multiplexing and subsequent genotype-based demultiplexing of scDNA-seq will reduce costs and workload, eventually allowing the sequencing of more samples. This will open new possibilities and accelerate the investigation of biological questions where cellular heterogeneity on the genomic level plays a crucial role.
description: bioRxiv
Determinants of Child Malnutrition in Tanzania: a Quantile Regression Approach
Creators: name: Shiratori, Sakiko
name: Shiratori, Sakiko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Anemia
subject: Child Nutrition
subject: Intervention
subject: Malnutrition
subject: Quantile Regression
subject: Stunting
subject: Tanzania

description: Reducing child malnutrition is one of the most important development goals. This study adopts a quantile regression approach to estimate the socioeconomic determinants of a child’s nutritional status and to explore for whom policy intervention matter the most. Using the data of children under five in Tanzania, the effects of several variables on child’s height-for-age z-score (HAZ) and hemoglobin level are examined. HAZ is influenced by age, sex, preceding birth interval, mother’s height and body-mass-index (BMI), and wealth, among others. The results from quantile regressions suggest that the intervention to improve mother’s education, especially higher than primary school, is effective to reduce the child’s malnutrition at the lower end of distribution. The interventions to upgrade drinking water or toilet facilities may not be sufficient in raising malnourished child’s nutritional status. Hemoglobin level is influenced by age, sex, mother’s hemoglobin level, parental education, and household size, among others. Conditional distributions make little difference with regard to hemoglobin level. Since common interventions of deworming or sleeping under the net are not significant, other interventions such as nutritional ones might be more effective for reducing anemia. 3 Large effects of mother’s nutritional status on child’s nutritional status imply that malnutrition is handed down from one generation to another, which could keep children trapped in the cycle of poverty. It would be effective to carefully integrate applicable interventions according to the objective and target population in order for wellbeing of individuals and for the development of the country.
Meladema coriacea Laporte 1835
Creators: name: Darilmaz, Mustafa C.
name: Kiyak, Suat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dytiscidae
Meladema
Meladema coriacea

description: Meladema coriacea Laporte, 1835
 Distribution in Turkey
 I zmir (Guéorguiev 1981).
description: Published as part of Darilmaz, Mustafa C. & Kiyak, Suat, 2009, Checklist of Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Dytiscidae of Turkey (Coleoptera: Adephaga), pp. 1585-1636 in Journal of Natural History 43 (25 - 26) on page 1602, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993682, http://zenodo.org/record/5216613
MOESM1 of Assesment and interpretation of negative forelimb allometry in the evolution of non-avian Theropoda
Creators: name: Liberona, José Palma
name: Soto-Acuña, Sergio
name: Mendez, Marco
name: Vargas, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Methods, Tables and Figures
The WISSH quasars project VI. Fraction and properties of BAL quasars in the hyper-luminosity regime
Creators: name: Bruni, G.
name: Piconcelli, E.
name: Misawa, T.
name: Zappacosta, L.
name: Saturni, F. G.
name: Vietri, G.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Bongiorno, A.
name: Duras, F.
name: Feruglio, C.
name: Tombesi, F.
name: Fiore, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The WISSH quasars project aims at studying the nuclear and host galaxy properties of the most luminous quasars ($L_{bol}>10^{47}$ erg/s, $1.8
description: Accepted for publication on A&A