cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
Creators: name: Kukurudziak, Sabina
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Domestic Terrorism
subject: Ideologically motivated extremism
subject: gender-based violence
subject: Gendered Discourse
subject: toxic Technoculture
subject: Incel
subject: involuntary celibate
subject: online forum
subject: popular misogyny
subject: poststructuralist feminist theory
subject: Misogynistic Violent Extremism
subject: Mass Communications
subject: Speech Communication

description: Incel is a short term used to reference involuntary celibates, a group once created to afford lonely people a place to exist without judgement, but now, co-opted into an ideologically motivated extremist community, existing under a misogynistic belief system (Ging 2019; Kelly and Aunspach 2020). While this community operates primarily within the online realm, their impact through discursive means has proved to be destructive, promoting a violent anti-feminist view through a multitude of open access forums. This thesis explores the content collected from the forum incels.is, utilizing a critical discourse analysis to help identify trends within the acquired data set to explore how users on this site operate as a gendered discursive online community. Disclosed themes throughout the analysis concern the topics of: (1) Gender Essentialism, (2) “Fuel” as an Idealized Masculine Emotional Response, (3) Ambiguous Discourse x Anonymity, and (4) “Saint Elliot”, an incel hero. Through a feminist lens, and informed through existing literature surrounding popular misogyny, platform affordances, and the “manosphere”, I argue that incels.is manipulates their ability to grow and influence the opinions of others, specifically in extremist fashions, by using media platforms and discursive tactics to their advantage (Gotell and Dutton 2016; Massanari 2017; Banet-Weiser 2018).
Additional file 1 of An attacin antimicrobial peptide, Hill_BB_C10074, from Hermetia illucens with anti-Pseudomonas aeruginosa activity
Creators: name: Fahmy, Leila
name: Ali, Youssif M.
name: Seilly, David
name: McCoy, Reece
name: Owens, Róisín M.
name: Pipan, Miha
name: Christie, Graham
name: Grant, Andrew J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Full length gels and blot images. Uncropped raw images of the gels and blots shown in Fig. 3. Cropped regions of the images are boxed with the dashed line.
Additional file 6: of Downregulation of miR-133a-3p promotes prostate cancer bone metastasis via activating PI3K/AKT signaling
Creators: name: Tang, Yubo
name: Pan, Jincheng
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Peng, Xinsheng
name: Zou, Xuenong
name: Luo, Yongxiang
name: Ren, Dong
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Ronggang
name: He, Peiheng
name: Wa, Qingde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S1. miR-133a-3p is downregulated in PCa tissues. (A) miR-133a-3p expression levels was decreased in 26 paired PCa tissues compared with that in the matching ANT by analyzing the miRNA sequencing dataset of PCa from GSE76260. (B) miR-133a-3p expression levels was decreased in 32 individual PCa tissues compared with that in 32 ANT by analyzing the miRNA sequencing dataset of PCa from GSE76260. (C) miR-133a-3p expression levels was decreased in PCa tissues compared with that in benign prostate lesion tissues by analyzing the miRNA sequencing dataset of PCa from GSE36802 (Benign, n = 21; PCa, n = 21). (PDF 91 kb)
Correlations in optically-controlled quantum emitters
Creators: name: Susa, Cristian E.
name: Reina, John H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of optically controlling and quantifying the dissipative dynamics of quantum and classical correlations in a set-up of individual quantum emitters under external laser excitation. We show that both types of correlations, the former measured by the quantum discord, are present in the system's evolution even though the emitters may exhibit an early stage disentanglement. In the absence of external laser pumping,we demonstrate analytically, for a set of suitable initial states, that there is an entropy bound for which quantum discord and entanglement of the emitters are always greater than classical correlations, thus disproving an early conjecture that classical correlations are greater than quantum correlations. Furthermore, we show that quantum correlations can also be greater than classical correlations when the system is driven by a laser field. For scenarios where the emitters' quantum correlations are below their classical counterparts, an optimization of the evolution of the quantum correlations can be carried out by appropriately tailoring the amplitude of the laser field and the emitters' dipole-dipole interaction. We stress the importance of using the entanglement of formation, rather than the concurrence, as the entanglement measure, since the latter can grow beyond the total correlations and thus give incorrect results on the actual system's degree of entanglement.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, this version contains minor modifications; to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Additional file 1 of Meta-analysis of the role of zinc in coordinating absorption of mineral elements in wheat seedlings
Creators: name: Guo, Xiaolong
name: Ma, Xiangyu
name: Zhang, Jialiang
name: Zhu, Jinghuan
name: Lu, Tian
name: Wang, Qifei
name: Wang, Xiaoming
name: Hua, Wei
name: Xu, Shengbao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The concentration of each element in the control group under different treatment time. Figure S2. The unit fresh weight absorption values of Mg, Ca, Mn and Zn in two wheat cultivars after 60h treatment. Figure S3. Zn absorption values of seven cultivars treated with different Zn concentrations (1 μM and 10 μM). Figure S4. Effects of low Zn concentration (0–0.1 μM) on the absorption of mineral elements in wheat containing the Rhts allele.
Farm Family Effect of Improved Sorghum Varieties in Mali: A Multivalued Treatment Approach
Creators: name: Smale, Melinda
name: Amidou Assima
name: Kergna, Alpha
name: Thériault, Véronique
name: Weltzien, Eva
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Farm Family Effect of Improved Sorghum Varieties in Mali: A Multivalued Treatment Approach
Analysis of a Key Distribution Scheme in Secure Multicasting
Creators: name: Gerard, Maze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 11T55, 94A60, 68P30

description: This article presents an analysis of the secure key broadcasting scheme proposed by Wu, Ruan, Lai and Tseng. The study of the parameters of the system is based on a connection with a special type of symmetric equations over finite fields. We present two different attacks against the system, whose efficiency depends on the choice of the parameters. In particular, a time-memory tradeoff attack is described, effective when a parameter of the scheme is chosen without care. In such a situation, more than one third of the cases can be broken with a time and space complexity in the range of the square root of the complexity of the best attack suggested by Wu et al. against their system. This leads to a feasible attack in a realistic scenario.
Two-Dimensional Suborbital Slosh Experiment
Creators: name: Lokhande, Monish Mahesh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of the project is to collect empirical data on contact line motion in vibrating tanks under zero-gravity (zero-g) conditions. This study is particularly focused on the behavior of current green propellants, which have a high contact angle compared to traditional stores like water. As a result, the non-linear contact line and angle is expected to have a significant impact on zero-g behavior. The thesis focuses on the dynamic experiment of developing an experimental payload designed to fly on Blue Origin\textquotesingle s New Shepherd suborbital flight. The data collected from this experiment will provide a benchmark case for developers of zero-g fluid dynamics simulations to compare or improve their simulation results. The results will also be useful for testing non-linear hysteresis contact line simulations.
 The design of the experiment mainly focuses on conducting oscillatory motion in zero gravity to observe the contact line at varying speeds. Two different liquids are intended to be tested on the same payload. The liquid is to be filled so that the free surface has a height of 1 inch, and the vibration amplitude is to be 0.1 inches. The liquid chosen closely simulates the current green propellants under development or other poorly-wetting liquids. The purpose of each of the components used in the experiment is justified with respect to the given flight design constraints, along with how the constraints impacted the experiment. The experiment is designed to sustain the forces in case of hard landing during the flight and autonomous control of motion. The experiment is staged to be ready for flight on the New Shepherd, and any future works are mentioned.
 To meet these constraints, the experimental payload is designed with a variety of components, each chosen for its ability to perform under the given conditions. The payload includes a custom-built system, which generates the oscillatory motion necessary to observe the contact line behavior. The system is designed to be compact and lightweight, yet robust enough to withstand the forces of launch and landing. In addition, the payload includes a custom-built tank designed to hold the liquids being tested. The study of contact line motion in vibrating tanks under zero-g conditions is important in understanding the behavior of liquids in space. This study will provide crucial data that will help in the development of more accurate fluid dynamic simulations for future space missions.
Diskoseismology and QPOs Confront Black Hole Spin
Creators: name: Wagoner, Robert V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the determinations of the angular momentum of stellar mass black holes via the continuum and line methods with those from diskoseismology. The assumption being tested is that one of the QPOs (quasi-periodic oscillations) in each binary X-ray source is produced by the fundamental g-mode. This should be the most robust and visible normal mode of oscillation of the accretion disk, and therefore its absence should rule out diskoseismology as the origin of QPOs. The comparisons are consistent with the second highest frequency QPO being produced by this g-mode, but are not consistent with models in which one QPO frequency is that of the innermost stable circular orbit.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters; 9 pages, references added and typos corrected
Shaping the children's literature canon : an analysis of editorials from The Horn Book Magazine, 1924 - 2009
Creators: name: Weisman, Kathryn Jean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This study analyzes The Horn Book Magazine editorials, published between 1924 and 2009, to ascertain the editors’ promotion of the library canon of children’s literature. The editorials concerned with Horn Book’s communities of readers are considered using Benedict Anderson’s critical lens of imagined communities; the review- and critically-themed editorials are examined using the theories of K. T. Horning, Deborah Stevenson, and Lillian H. Smith; the editorials related to the image of childhood are investigated utilizing the frameworks of childhood outlined by Andrew Stables; and the editorials involving social and political themes are explored using the critical assumptions of Gail Schmunk Murray. The analysis concludes, overall, that the Horn Book editors celebrate creators and promoters of canonical children’s literature; esteem high literary quality over popularity or pedagogical utility; view the image of childhood from a mostly Romantic perspective; and have shifted perspectives over time regarding comments about social and political events from a mostly neutral, non-committal stance to one of increasingly open views, especially with regard to censorship, multiculturalism, and current events.
Additional file 1 of The effect of comprehensive rehabilitation on post-COVID-19 syndrome
Creators: name: Kesikburun, Bilge
name: Ata, Ayşe Merve
name: Borman, Pınar
name: Özdemir, Elif Esen
name: Becenen, Elif
name: Metin, Nurdan
name: Alemdaroğlu, Ebru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
The importance of random galilean transformation invariance in modelling dispersed particle flows
Creators: name: Reeks, Michael W
name: McKee, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The principle of Random Galilean Transformation (RGT) Invariance is applied to the random motion of particles in a turbulent gas to construct a kinetic equation for the transport of the particle phase space probability where \mathbf{v} and \mathbf{x} are the velocity and position of a particle at time t. The essential problem is to find closed expressions for the phase space dispersion current \left\langle \boldsymbol{f}W\right\rangle , where \boldsymbol{f} is the fluctuating aerodynamic force at \mathbf{v} and \mathbf{x} at time t. The simplest form consistent with RGT invariance, the correct equation of state ancl form for the inter-phase momentum transfer tern is shown to be \left\langle \boldsymbol{f}W\right\rangle =-\left(\boldsymbolμ\cdot\frac{\partial}{\partial\mathbf{v}}+\boldsymbolλ\cdot\frac{\partial}{\partial\mathbf{x}}\right)\left\langle W\right\rangle in which \text{\textbf{\ensuremath{\boldsymbol{\,μ}}}\ensuremath{=<\boldsymbol{f}(t)\mathbf{v}(t)>}} and \boldsymbolλ=<\boldsymbol{f}(t)\boldsymbol{\mathbf{x}}(t)>.This approach to modeling gas-solid flows is currently being used to investigate the behavior of radioactive aerosols inside gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
description: 5 pages, ASME FED Gas Solid Flows, 1991
An AI-Based Human-Centered Approach to Support Multidisciplinary Requirements Engineering
Creators: name: Salmani, Ali
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: Multidisciplinary teams are often a necessity for software projects as they provide the required expertise to effectively solve complex problems. However, efficient collaboration between teams with different disciplines is challenging due to several factors including gaps of knowledge areas, establishing a process, and different requirements from various groups of stakeholders. Agile methodologies such as scrum provide a powerful approach to effectively manage software projects through tools and approaches to properly address change which is often more common in multidisciplinary teams. In this study, we will leverage process evaluation tools and techniques to analyze the efficiency of our software development process. We have evaluated this approach based on the project data recorded in Jira and GitHub. This approach is applied to a case study of a virtual healthcare intervention system to measure the team's productivity. Several deficiencies have been identified and discussed based on the results. We conclude that the enumerated deficiencies are related to the requirements engineering (RE) process. To improve the RE process, a set of solutions have been analyzed to determine their feasibility. Automating the requirements engineering process can be an efficient approach to address the aforementioned issues. The main objectives of this thesis is to devise an automated approach to 1) identify the system requirements including the new features and bugs from the users' speech and break them down into tasks, 2) find similar Jira tickets that are already implemented, and 3) estimate the amount of effort needed for the new task. By providing smart and automated support for requirements analysis and elicitation, this solution seamlessly integrates with scrum and is expected to considerably improve the efficiency of the software development process for the virtual intervention system that is used as the case study of this thesis. As part of this thesis, we aim to implement a model to determine whether tasks are similar and a model to estimate the effort required to complete each new task, which is the second and third objectives. For finding the similarities between tasks that relate to objectives 2 and 3 of the thesis, S-BERT, one of the most powerful transformer-based machine learning techniques, was utilized and trained with a dataset that was collected, pre-processed, and normalized. For estimating the required effort of the tasks, we have used an approach that converts original commit instances into a high-dimensional feature space using Kernel-based Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) along with Adversarial Learning (AL). Based on the results, the trained model has improved its ability for topic segmentation and finding similarities between requirements. As well, our model has an accuracy of 86\% when it comes to estimating the required effort.
SSN: Stockwell Scattering Network for SAR Image Change Detection
Creators: name: Chen, Gong
name: Zhao, Yanan
name: Wang, Yi
name: Yap, Kim-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.1
subject: 53-04

description: Recently, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection has become an interesting yet challenging direction due to the presence of speckle noise. Although both traditional and modern learning-driven methods attempted to overcome this challenge, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs)-based methods are still hindered by the lack of interpretability and the requirement of large computation power. To overcome this drawback, wavelet scattering network (WSN) and Fourier scattering network (FSN) are proposed. Combining respective merits of WSN and FSN, we propose Stockwell scattering network (SSN) based on Stockwell transform which is widely applied against noisy signals and shows advantageous characteristics in speckle reduction. The proposed SSN provides noise-resilient feature representation and obtains state-of-art performance in SAR image change detection as well as high computational efficiency. Experimental results on three real SAR image datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Surface Spectral Function of Momentum-dependent Pairing Potentials in a Topological Insulator: Application to Cu$_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$
Creators: name: Chen, Liang
name: Wan, Shaolong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose three possible momentum-dependent pairing potentials for candidate of topological superconductor (for example Cu$_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$), and calculate the surface spectral function and surface density of state with these pairing potentials. We find that the first two can give the same spectral functions as the fully-gapped and node-contacted pairing potentials given in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 097001], and that the third one can obtain topological non-trivial case which exists flat Andreev bound state and preserves the $C_3$ rotation symmetry. We hope our proposals and results be judged by future experiment.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Tondomiris puguis Yasunaga & Chérot & Schwartz 2021, new species
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Chérot, Frédéric
name: Schwartz, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Tondomiris
Tondomiris puguis

description: Tondomiris puguis, new species (Figs. 9 E−J, 10A–C, 11A–I, 12) Type material. Holotype: male, PHILIPPINES: North Luzon, Mountain Prov., Mt. Puguis, 1,800–2,000 m alt., 17°03′N 121°03′E, M. Sakai, 18 July 1985 (AMNH _ PBI 00380681) (NSMT). Diagnosis. Recognised by the characters mentioned in generic diagnosis (see above) and key (see below). Description. Male. COLOURATION: As in generic description. Body widely dark reddish brown (Fig. 10A); lateral and ventral surface widely yellowish brown. Head shiny dark brown dorsally, with pale brown below level of antennal insertions (Fig. 10C); vertex about as wide as an eye in dorsal view; frons and clypeus partly suffused with red; eye in lateral view occupying of head height. Antenna reddish brown; segment I yellowish brown, speckled with dark spots, slightly thicker than II; basal ¼ of segment II grayish yellow, with an obscure ring subbasally. Labium pale grayish brown; apical half of segment IV darkened. Pronotum shiny dark reddish brown, with creamy yellow collar, anterior median part, and posterior to lateral margins; pleura widely yellowish brown, weakly shining; mesepisternum reddish brown; dorsal margin of propleuron and posterior margin of mesepimeron suffused with red (Fig. 10C); scent efferent system yellow; scutellum shiny reddish brown, bulbous at anterior ⅔, with yellow apex. Hemelytron dark reddish brown; base and apex of cuneus yellowish brown, partly tinged with red; membrane including veins and areolar cells pale smoky brown, with pale, semitransparent border to inner margin of cuneus. Coxae and legs pale brown, except for reddish basal half of metacoxa; pro- and mesofemora with obscure spots apically; metafemur with dark base and two apical bands; all tibiae with dark annulations or spots; all tarsi pale brown, with darkened apical halves of distal tarsomeres. Abdomen pale brown, with reddish brown stripes ventrolaterally and darkened genital segment. Surface, vestiture and structure as in generic description. Measurements. See Table 1. Etymology. Named for the type locality, Mt. Puguis in Luzon; a noun in apposition. Distribution. Only known from holotype taken in Philippines (northern highlands of Luzon) (Fig. 12). Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, Chérot, Frédéric & Schwartz, Michael D., 2021, New genera and species of the Oriental mirine plant bugs from Southeast Asia, with six new combinations (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini), pp. 137-155 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69 on page 153, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/5351998
Queer Counselling Professionals' Understandings ofSocially Just Counselling Practice with Queer Clients: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
Creators: name: Chondros, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Counselling
subject: Sexuality
subject: Queer
subject: Social Justice
subject: Hermeneutics
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Despite several positive developments regarding the status of queer people in society, the literature still abounds in references to the poor mental health outcomes of this population. Furthermore, an increasing consensus in the mental health field attributes queer people’s mental health concerns to experiences of injustice related to societal oppression and discriminatory practices. For their part, the professions of counselling and counselling psychology have been trying to increase counselling professionals’ knowledge, awareness, and skills with respect to helping queer clients address experiences of oppression related to injustice. Additionally, recent trends in counselling scholarship in general, and in counselling focused on queer clients in particular, have highlighted the need for counsellors and counselling psychologists to develop competence in social justice advocacy to help address the systemic roots of queer people’s concerns. Given how little is known about practicing social justice with queer clients in community practice contexts, I interviewed eight queer-identified counselling practitioners. Using Gadamerian hermeneutics as the methodological foundation for this study, I answered the following question: “How might we understand the meaning of socially just counselling practice for queer counselling professionals working with queer clients?” The findings of this study include interpretations supported by participant quotes and relevant literature, offering an understanding of socially just counselling practice with queer clients that has implications for counselling and psychological education, research, and practice.
Additional file 1 of Neural correlates of social exclusion and overinclusion in patients with borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study
Creators: name: Látalová, Adéla
name: Radimecká, Monika
name: Lamoš, Martin
name: Jáni, Martin
name: Damborská, Alena
name: Theiner, Pavel
name: Bartečková, Eliška
name: Bartys, Patrik
name: Vlčková, Helena
name: Školiaková, Katarína
name: Kašpárek, Tomáš
name: Linhartová, Pavla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Distribution of Cohen’s d calculated voxel-wise in an exclusion vs. inclusion condition for each contrast: healthy controls (A), patients with BPD (B) and comparison between the groups (HC vs. BPD; C).
Dietary Manipulation at Pre-Conception and During Development Influence Metabolism and Gut Microbiota in Rats
Creators: name: Chleilat, Fatima
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nutrition
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Metabolism
subject: Gut Microbiota
subject: Epigenetics
subject: Obesity
subject: Human Milk Oligosaccharides
subject: Paternal Programming
subject: Biological Sciences

description: Background. Obesity is a complex disease, modulated by a plethora of factors, including gut microbiota, early post-natal nutrition, parental diet and epigenetics. Objective. This dissertation examines how dietary manipulation during the early post-natal period and during pre-conception alters metabolic, microbial and epigenetic outcomes in rats. Specifically, the objectives were to determine: 1) the impact of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) supplementation on health status in weanling rats; 2) the impact of a paternal high protein (HP) diet on offspring metabolic health; 3) whether supplementation of a methyl donor cocktail (HF/S+M) before conception attenuates the deleterious metabolic and epigenetic effects of a paternal high fat/ sucrose diet intergenerationally; 4) the impact of paternal prebiotic consumption on microbial and metabolic outcomes in fathers and offspring. Methods. 1) Weanling male and female rats consumed 2’Fucosyllactose and 3’Sialylactose HMO-fortified diet for 8 weeks. Fathers consumed 2) a diet high in protein, 3) a high fat/ sucrose diet fortified with a methyl donor cocktail of betaine, choline, folic acid and vitamin B12, or 4) a high prebiotic fiber diet. All three paternal studies underwent their dietary intervention for 9 weeks. Offspring consumed a control diet for 13 weeks. Anthropometric, glucocentric and gut microbiota outcomes were measured in all four studies. Results. The primary findings include: HMO supplementation improved intestinal permeability, gut barrier function, and gut microbial composition in females while reducing weight gain and inflammatory cytokines in males; 2) Paternal HP diet reduced adiposity and altered epigenetic markers intergenerationally. Offspring had improved insulin sensitivity; 3) Paternal HF/S+M intake improved paternal reproductive outcomes and intergenerational gut microbial, epigenetic and metabolic outcomes; 4) Paternal prebiotic intake improved paternal gut microbiota with lesser effects in offspring. Conclusion. Our results provide evidence of early post-natal HMO supplementation and paternal HP, HF/S+M and prebiotic intake, as important modulators of gut microbial, epigenetic and metabolic outcomes.
Perturbation analysis of chance-constrained programs under variation of all constraint data
Creators: name: Henrion, René
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: probabilistic constraints
subject: chance constraints
subject: stability
subject: stochastic optimization
subject: 90C15
subject: 90C31

description: We consider stability of solutions to optimization problems with probabilistic constraints under perturbations of all constraint data (probability level, probability measure, deterministic constraints, random set mapping). Constraint qualifications ensuring stability are derived for each of the single parameters. Examples illustrating the necessity of the stated conditions as well as the limitations of the given results are provided.
Phenomenological study of light (anti)nuclei, (anti)hypertriton and di-Lambda production at RHIC
Creators: name: Xue, L.
name: Ma, Y. G.
name: Chen, J. H.
name: Zhang, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the production of light (anti)nuclei, (anti)hypertriton and di-Lambda based on coalescence model in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200GeV$. The invariant yields of \He(\Hebar), \hypert(\hypertbar), \Hee(\Heebar) obtained is found to be consistent with the STAR measurements. The $p_{T}$ integrated yields for di-Lambda $dN_{ΛΛ}/dy \sim 2.23\times10^{-5}$, and is not strongly dependent on the parameter employed for coalescence process. Relative particle ratios of light anti(nuclei) and (anti)hypertriton are explored, and agree with experimental data and thermal model predictions quite well. An exponential reducion behavior is presented for the differential invariant yields with increased baryon number. The production rate reduces by a factor of 1692 (1285) for each additional antinucleon (nucleon) added to antinuclei (nuclei), and the production rate of \Libar is predicted to be $10^{-16}$ which is consistent with STAR result.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures parallel talk delivered by L. Xue at the 14th national conference on nuclear structure, April 12nd - 16th, 2012, Huzhou, China
Additional file 12: of Genome-wide analysis of genes encoding core components of the ubiquitin system in soybean (Glycine max) reveals a potential role for ubiquitination in host immunity against soybean cyst nematode
Creators: name: Zhang, Chunyu
name: Song, Li
name: Choudhary, Mani
name: Zhou, Bangjun
name: Sun, Guangchao
name: Broderick, Kyle
name: Giesler, Loren
name: Zeng, Lirong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S9. Phylogenetic analysis of soybean F-box domain-containing proteins. (PDF 118 kb)
Magnetic-field tuned anisotropy in superconducting Rb(x)Fe(2-y)Se(2)
Creators: name: Bosma, S.
name: Puzniak, R.
name: Krzton-Maziopa, A.
name: Bendele, M.
name: Pomjakushina, E.
name: Conder, K.
name: Keller, H.
name: Weyeneth, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropic superconducting properties of a Rb(x)Fe(2-y)Se(2) single crystal with transition temperature 32 K were investigated by means of SQUID and torque magnetometry, probing the effective magnetic penetration depth and the magnetic penetration depth anisotropy. Interestingly, the anisotropy is found to be temperature independent in the superconducting state, but strongly field dependent. This unusual anisotropic behavior, together with a large zero-temperature effective magnetic penetration depth is possibly related to a superconducting state heavily biased by the coexisting antiferromagnetic phase.
description: 6 pages, accepted in Physical Review B
Cough Event Recognition Using Signal-Processing Based Feature Sets and Machine Learning, with Tri-Axial Accelerometer Sensor Worn at Multiple Body Points
Creators: name: Doddabasappla Basavarajappa, Kruthi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning
subject: Convolution Neural Network
subject: Accelerometer
subject: Cough
subject: Human Activity Recognition
subject: Sensor
subject: Signal processing
subject: Frequency spectrum
subject: Wearable technology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Computer Science

description: Human activity recognition (HAR) from time-series accelerometer and gyroscope sensor data has seen tremendous progress in recent years. Laying, standing, sitting, walking, walking down, and walking upstairs are the daily human activities that are commonly classified using sensor data. Cough is a common human activity and is also a symptom of various diseases including the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Cough detection and classification are well investigated in recent literature to varying levels of success. But, in most of the studies, sensor data for cough activity is collected during still conditions such as sitting or standing and from a specific location such as chest and neck only. The body position of data recording considerably impacts the data, significantly affecting the classification accuracy. In our study, we place tri-axial accelerometer sensors at different spots on the human body where a smartphone or wearable device such as earphones or headphones are commonly worn. We studied the data with statistical and machine learning (ML) based signal processing methods to find the best accelerometer sensor position to detect coughing events accurately on the human body. Our study finds the most suitable sensor position for cough recognition considering the noise introduced by walking and considering different human heights. The proposed multi-band frequency-domain features such as Spectral Summation, Spectral Maximum, and Spectral Spread of acceleration signal offer higher classification accuracy for cough activity.
Additional file 4: of Toward the precision breast cancer survival prediction utilizing combined whole genome-wide expression and somatic mutation analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Yifan
name: Yang, William
name: Li, Dan
name: Yang, Jack
name: Guan, Renchu
name: Yang, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: The comparison of mutation rates for top mutated genes and 14 pathway genes. The mutation rates for 15 different gene sets, including one top-35-mutated gene set and 14 pathway-based gene sets. The genes in each set were ordered by their mutation rates. (PDF 36Â kb)
The Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays with applications to Floodlight Illumination
Creators: name: Alegría, Carlos
name: Mantas, Ioannis
name: Papadopoulou, Evanthia
name: Savić, Marko
name: Seara, Carlos
name: Suderland, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the Voronoi Diagram of Rotating Rays, a Voronoi structure where the input sites are rays and the distance function between a point and a site/ray, is the counterclockwise angular distance. This novel Voronoi diagram is motivated by illumination or coverage problems, where a domain must be covered by floodlights/wedges of uniform angle, and the goal is to find the minimum angle necessary to cover the domain. We study the diagram in the plane, and we present structural properties, combinatorial complexity bounds, and a construction algorithm. If the rays are induced by a convex polygon, we show how to construct the Voronoi diagram within this polygon in linear time. Using this information, we can find in optimal linear time the Brocard angle, the minimum angle required to illuminate a convex polygon with floodlights of uniform angle.
Additional file 1 of IL-4/IL-4 Ab complex enhances the accumulation of both antigen-specific and bystander CD8 T cells in mouse lungs infected with influenza A virus
Creators: name: Park, Hi Jung
name: Choi, Eun Ah
name: Choi, Sung Min
name: Choi, Young-Ki
name: Lee, Jae Il
name: Jung, Kyeong Cheon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figure S1. Cells were isolated from peribronchial lymph nodes (LNs) and spleens on day 5 after influenza infection. CD8 T cells from each organ were stained with H-2Db/NP366–374 and H-2Db/PA224–233 pentamers (H-2Db/NP&PA) and analyzed via flow cytometry. Representative dot plots of virus-specific CD8 T cells are shown. The numbers in the dot plots are pentamer+ cell percentages.
Insights into the Interplay between Nanoparticle Interfacial Interactions and Bulk Properties of Complex Systems via Colloidal Probe AFM
Creators: name: Ganjeh Anzabi, Pejman
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nanotechnology
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: Nanomaterials
subject: Interfacial Interactions
subject: Atomic Force Microscopy
subject: Engineering--Materials Science

description: The addition of a nanosized particle to materials is now a well-established method for engineering their properties. Despite the significant progress in the realm of nanoscience and nanotechnology, commercially available so-called “nanofilled”materials have a relatively small share of the market. This is the result of the challenging and tedious task of designing, processing, and mass-producing these materials for a specific application of interest. A tremendous amount of research hasconfirmed that quantifying nanoparticle (NP) interfacial interactions and correlating them to the macroscopic properties facilitate the design of nanofilled materials. Therefore, this dissertation is evolved around the fundamental task of quantifying interactions and correlating it to the dispersion of NP in a host matrix. To address the former, colloidal probe atomic force microscopy (CP-AFM) is utilized to develop a method for measuring the surface free energy (SFE) of NPs. The effect of roughness on the measurements is included by employing Persson’s model. The method is validated on several systems including polystyrene, glass, hydrophobicglass, graphene oxide (GO), and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Interfacial energy values of GO with selected organic solvents are later calculated to predict GO’s solubility in different solvents using a proposed mean-field lattice model. The modelcan successfully predict the experimentally observed solubility trend and be deployed as a decision-making tool for choosing solvents for rGO. As the final contribution, a model based on the concept of Boltzmann distribution is proposed to predict the uneven distribution of NPs in immiscible biphasic systems such as emulsions and polymer blends. This model demonstrates that factors such as NP’s size and shape, temperature, the possibility of it forming a chemical bond with the molecules of host matrix, and finally entropic contributions can be as important as the wetting coefficient in determining NP's localization. As there has been no systematic investigation of the factors mentioned above on the selective localization of NP, the model paves the road for implementing new strategies to control the localization of NPs in biphasic systems.
Statistics of resonances in one-dimensional disordered systems
Creators: name: Gurevich, Evgeni
name: Shapiro, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper is devoted to the problem of resonances in one-dimensional disordered systems. Some of the previous results are reviewed and a number of new ones is presented. These results pertain to different models (continuous as well as lattice) and various regimes of disorder and coupling strength. In particular, a close connection between resonances and the Wigner delay time is pointed out and used to obtain information on the resonance statistics.
description: Submitted to the special issue, in memory of Y. Levinson, of the Lithuanian Journal of Physics
The egg steamer paradox
Creators: name: Flach, S.
name: Parnovsky, S.
name: Varlamov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Why do we need to pour less water in an egg steamer to prepare more eggs to the same degree of doneness? We discuss the physical processes at work in the electric egg steamer and resolve this seeming paradox. We demonstrate that the main heat transfer mechanism from steam to egg is due to latent heat through condensation. This not only explains the paradox, but also allows us to estimate the amount of water reduction. Comparing the preparation time to the one for traditional boiling, we estimate the eggshell temperature during steaming. We also describe the device design and provide further theoretical estimates and experimental kitchen measurement data for this appealing kitchen experiment that can be easily accomplished at home.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Geographic Differences in the Risk of Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Hansen, Tawnya
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences--Medicine and Surgery

description: Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), collectively known as the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), are chronic immune mediated conditions. The pathophysiology of these disease is not well understood but genetic predisposition, dietary and microbiome-related factors, and environment exposures have been previously implicated. These diseases have traditionally been thought of as diseases of Caucasians living in the Western world: North America, Europe, and Oceania. However, the incidence of these diseases has been increasing in newly industrialized countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In the Western world, a large proportion of healthcare spending related to IBD management has been on biologic agents.These biologic agents are very costly and are thought to decrease the risk of surgery. The risks of surgery among patients with IBD in the Western world is well described. However, the risks of IBD surgery in Asian countries has not been well assessed. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to determine the risk of IBD surgery among persons in Asia compared to persons living in Western countries.A systematic review was conducted to identify all population-based studies reportingrisk of IBD surgery for Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis among inception cohorts diagnosed in the year 1999 or later. A meta-analysis was performed to pool the risk of surgery for Western and Asian countries. Choropleth maps were generated to highlight regional differences in surgery risk (https://arcg.is/5r48K).
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and associated factors of foot deformity among adult diabetic patients on follow-up at Debre Markos comprehensive specialized hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022, cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Adebabay, Aderajew Agmass
name: Worede, Amanuel Girma
name: Sume, Bickes Wube
name: Mihiret, Getachew Tilaye
name: Shimelash, Rahel Asres
name: Goshu, Bahiru Tenaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Minimum Profile Hellinger Distance Estimation for Semiparametric Simple Linear Regression Model
Creators: name: Li, Jiang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Regression model
subject: Minimum hellinger distance
subject: Information Science

description: The simple linear regression model is essential for analyzing the relation between a response variable and a covariate variable, and the importance of simple linear regression model for statistical analysis of data is well documented. This thesis focuses on the semiparametric simple linear regression model where the distribution of the error term is assumed symmetric but otherwise completely unspecified. Under this model, we constructed a robust estimator of the regression coefficient parameters using the minimum Hellinger distance technique. Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation (MHDE) was first introduced by Beran (1977) for fully parametric models that has been shown to have good efficiency and robustness properties. In the past decade, the MHDE has been extended to semiparametric models. Furthermore, Wu and Karunamuni (2015) introduced the Minimum Profile Hellinger Distance Estimation (MPHDE) for semeparametric models which retains good efficiency and robustness properties of MHDE in parametric models. In this thesis, I constructed an MPHDE for the semiparametric simple linear regression model. We established in theory the consistency of the proposed MPHDE. Finite-sample performance of the proposed estimator was examined via simulation studies and real data applications. Our numerical results showed that the proposed MPHDE has good efficiency and simultaneously is very robust against outlying observations.