cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dark matter halos around elliptical galaxies: how reliable is the stellar kinematical evidence ?
Creators: name: Baes, Maarten
name: Dejonghe, Herwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hierarchical models of galaxy formation and various observational evidence suggest that elliptical galaxies are, like disk galaxies, embedded in massive dark matter halos. Stellar kinematics are considered the most important tracer for this dark halo at a few effective radii. Using detailed modeling techniques, several authors have recently presented stellar kinematical evidence of a dark halo for a number of elliptical galaxies. In these modeling techniques, dust attenuation (absorption and scattering of starlight by dust grains) has not been taken into account. Nevertheless, elliptical galaxies contain a significant amount of interstellar dust, which affects all observable quantities, including the observed kinematics. We constructed a set of dynamical models for elliptical galaxies, in which dust attenuation is included through a Monte Carlo technique. We find that a dust component, shallower than the stellar distribution and with an optical depth of order unity, affects the observed kinematics significantly, in the way that it mimics the presence of a dark halo. If such dust distributions are realistic in elliptical galaxies, we are faced with a new mass-dust degeneracy. Taking dust into account in dynamical modeling procedures will hence reduce or may even eliminate the need for a dark matter halo at a few effective radii.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Uses emulateapj5.sty. Typos are corrected
Five Aspects of ViFE
Creators: name: Albrecht-Hohmaier, Martin
name: Capelle, Irmlind
name: Herold, Kristin
name: Kepper, Johannes
name: Münzmay, Andreas
name: Obert, Salome
name: Richts-Matthaei, Kristina
name: Saccomano, Mark
name: Ried, Dennis
Publisher: name: NFDI4Culture
Year: 2025
Subjects: Virtueller Forschungsverbund Edirom
edirom
Universität Paderborn
ZenMEM
Beethovens Werkstatt
NFDI4Culture
Henze Digital
Weber Gesamtausgabe

description: The Virtual Research Group Edirom (Virtueller Forschungsverbund Edirom, ViFE) is an association of current and former staff of the Detmold/Paderborn Department of Musicology involved in projects advancing digital methods in musicology. With more than 25 researchers currently involved in around a dozen different projects, ViFE is a major player in musicological Digital Humanities.A Knowledge Sharing GroupThe fundamental idea of ViFE is to be a group of experts in constant collaboration. Together, the expertise of ViFE members adds up to over 100 years of experience in digital music editions, ranging from computer science to philology and music history, from project management to Digital Humanities and information science – shared through weekly meetings and regular workshops within our group.Research ProjectsViFE is named after the Edirom project, funded from 2006 to 2012. ViFE is involved in long-term projects, including Carl Maria von Weber Gesamtausgabe and Beethovens Werkstatt, but also has completed, or currently works on, several short-term projects and is constantly developing new project proposals.StandardsViFE has been deeply involved in both the TEI and MEI communities for many years. We continue to actively connect our research with others and apply our findings to the development of these encoding standards.Education and TrainingSince 2010, ViFE has organized the annual Edirom Summer School, one of the most important venues for learning MEI. Members of ViFE are also involved in Master’s programs on Digital Music Philology and on Digital Humanities at Paderborn University and supervise doctoral dissertations.CooperationOur group is a vital part of NFDI4Culture and partners with many other institutions, such as Mainz Academy of Science and Literature, cemfi, CDMD, RISM, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, SLUB Dresden, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, BSB Munich, University of Oxford e-Research Centre, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, and several German universities.
Hierarchical Transformed Scale Mixtures for Flexible Modeling of Spatial Extremes on Datasets with Many Locations
Creators: name: Zhang, Likun
name: Shaby, Benjamin A.
name: Wadsworth, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Flexible spatial models that allow transitions between tail dependence classes have recently appeared in the literature. However, inference for these models is computationally prohibitive, even in moderate dimensions, due to the necessity of repeatedly evaluating the multivariate Gaussian distribution function. In this work, we attempt to achieve truly high-dimensional inference for extremes of spatial processes, while retaining the desirable flexibility in the tail dependence structure, by modifying an established class of models based on scale mixtures Gaussian processes. We show that the desired extremal dependence properties from the original models are preserved under the modification, and demonstrate that the corresponding Bayesian hierarchical model does not involve the expensive computation of the multivariate Gaussian distribution function. We fit our model to exceedances of a high threshold, and perform coverage analyses and cross-model checks to validate its ability to capture different types of tail characteristics. We use a standard adaptive Metropolis algorithm for model fitting, and further accelerate the computation via parallelization and Rcpp. Lastly, we apply the model to a dataset of a fire threat index on the Great Plains region of the US, which is vulnerable to massively destructive wildfires. We find that the joint tail of the fire threat index exhibits a decaying dependence structure that cannot be captured by limiting extreme value models.
Additional file 5 of Coordinated changes in gene expression kinetics underlie both mouse and human erythroid maturation
Creators: name: Barile, Melania
name: Imaz-Rosshandler, Ivan
name: Inzani, Isabella
name: Ghazanfar, Shila
name: Nichols, Jennifer
name: Marioni, John C.
name: Guibentif, Carolina
name: Göttgens, Berthold
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Note. Mathematical modelling of spliced and unspliced counts with changing transcriptional parameters (transcription, splicing, degradation) over latent time.
UVES Be observations of early-G dwarfs in old clusters
Creators: name: Randich, Sofia
name: Primas, Francesca
name: Pasquini, Luca
name: Pallavicini, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained the first beryllium measurements of late F/early G-type stars in the old open cluster M67 (4.5 Gyr) and in the intermediate age cluster IC 4651 (1.7 Gyr). One member of the young cluster IC 2391 (~50 Myr) was also observed. Our sample stars have effective temperatures within a range of +30 - +380 K from the solar temperature. All our sample stars, including the Sun and the young cluster star have, within the errors, the same Be abundance. This result implies that late F/early G-type stars undergo very little (if any) Be depletion during their main-sequence life-time. Since these stars have undergone some Li depletion, our finding is indicative of shallow mixing, i.e. of a mixing process that can transport surface material deep enough for Li burning to occur, but not deep enough for Be burning. As shown in previous studies, the Li vs. Be diagram is a powerful diagnostic of stellar interiors. In this context, we do not find any evidence of correlated Li and Be depletion; furthermore, a comparison with various models shows that the Be pattern of our sample stars is compatible only with models including gravity waves. This class of models, however, cannot reproduce the Li observations of M 67.
description: to appear in A&A
The diffuse radio emission from the Coma cluster at 2.675 GHz and 4.85 GHz
Creators: name: Thierbach, M.
name: Klein, U.
name: Wielebinski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new measurements of the diffuse radio halo emission from the Coma cluster of galaxies at 2.675 GHz and 4.85 GHz using the Effelsberg 100--m telescope. After correction for the contribution from point sources we derive the integrated flux densities for the halo source (Coma C), $S_{2.675 GHz}=(107\pm 28)mJy$ and $S_{4.85 GHz}=(26\pm 12)mJy$. These values verify the strong steepening of the radio spectrum of Coma C at high frequencies. Its extent strongly depends on frequency, at 4.85 GHz it is only marginally visible. The measurement at 4.85 GHz is the first flux density determination for Coma C at this high frequency. In order to quantify the spectral steepening we compare the expectations for the spectrum of Coma C with the observations, resorting to basic models for radio halo formation. The in--situ acceleration model provides the best fit to the data. From equipartition assumptions we estimate a magnetic field strength $B_{eq}=0.57 (1+k)^{0.26}μG$ in the intracluster medium of Coma, where k is the energy ratio of the positively and negatively charged particles. As a by--product of the 2.675 GHz observation we present a new flux density for the diffuse emission of the extended source 1253+275 ($S_{2.675GHz}=112\pm 10$). This measurement provides a smaller error range for the power--law fit to the spectrum ($α=1.18\pm 0.02$) compared to previous investigations and yields an equipartition magnetic field strength of $B_{eq}=0.56 (1+k)^{0.24}μG$.
description: 10 pages with 9 PostScript figures. Accepted for publication in A&A, latest revision includes minor changes at page proof correction stage
Präferenz bei der Maskenwahl, Tragepraxis und häufige Anwendungsfehler während der COVID-19-Pandemie im Sommer 2020
Creators: name: Neuwirth, Meike Maria
name: Neuwirth, Martin
name: Montilva Ludewig, Maria Veronica
name: Wendel, Andreas Friedrich
name: Marche, Benedikt
name: Mattner, Frauke
name: Otchwemah, Robin
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Mund-Nasen-Bedeckung
subject: Coronaschutzverordnung
subject: Infektionsschutzmaßnahmen
subject: Maskenpflicht
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Die vorgestellte Arbeit untersuchte anhand einer Feldbeobachtung und einer Onlineumfrage die Hypothese, dass die Motivation der Bevölkerung zur Einhaltung der Mund-Nasen-Bedeckungspflicht unmittelbar nach ihrer Einführung höher war als in den folgenden Wochen. Darüber hinaus wurde untersucht, warum Perso¬nen sich für das Tragen eines bestimmten Masken-typs entschieden und wie hoch die Fehlerquote beim Tragen der jeweiligen Maskentypen waren. Erfragt wurden außerdem persönliche Einstellungen ge¬genüber dem Maskentragen sowie den generellen COVID-19-Infektionsschutzmaßnahmen.
title: The Couple CARE for Parents Program: Enhancing Couple Relationships Across the Transition to Parenthood
Creators: name: Petch, JF
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Cognitive Sciences
subject: 1701
subject: 1702
subject: Parenthood
subject: relationship satisfaction
subject: negative parent-child relationships
subject: flexible delivery psycho-education program

description: Most couples eagerly anticipate the birth of their first child. However, the transition to parenthood is also associated with significant lifestyle changes and approximately 50% of couples report a moderate to severe decline in relationship satisfaction and quality. Low relationship satisfaction is associated with increased couple conflict, individual psychological distress, negative parent-child relationships and poor child outcomes. Despite our increasing knowledge of the factors that predict enhanced couple adjustment, few evidence-based programs are available to assist couples' adjustment to parenthood. In this first randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a flexible delivery psycho-education program, entitled 'Couple CARE for Parents', 71 pregnant couples were assessed on self-report and observational measures of couple relationship and individual functioning and then randomized into either the Couple CARE for Parents program (n = 35) or a comparison program (n = 36). Couple CARE for Parents was a six unit program, comprising of an antenatal workshop, two home visits and three telephone support calls, and included skill-training in key relationship processes that are predictive of couple relationship quality, with the addition of parenting and baby care information. Among intervention couples the typical decline in female relationship satisfaction was prevented, with only 13% of intervention females reporting a decline in relationship satisfaction from pregnancy to 5 months postpartum, compared to 42% of females in the comparison program. Observed couple communication also improved as a result of the intervention, with Couple CARE for Parents couples showing reliably lower rates of negative speaker and listener skills at post-intervention relative to comparison couples. Couples were highly engaged in Couple CARE for Parents and there was a low drop out rate across the 7 month intervention period. These findings are promising and add to the early intervention studies showing positive effects of couple-focused psycho-education during the transition to parenthood by demonstrating that flexible delivery programs are feasible and attractive to couples. Providing cost-effective couple relationship education to expectant and new parent couples opens another window of opportunity for health professionals and governments to minimize the rates of relationship distress and divorce and their associated negative effects on individual, couple and family functioning.
Quantum rifling: protecting a qubit from measurement back-action
Creators: name: Szombati, Daniel
name: Frieiro, Alejandro Gomez
name: Müller, Clemens
name: Jones, Tyler
name: Jerger, Markus
name: Fedorov, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanics postulates that measuring the qubit's wave function results in its collapse, with the recorded discrete outcome designating the particular eigenstate that the qubit collapsed into. We show that this picture breaks down when the qubit is strongly driven during measurement. More specifically, for a fast evolving qubit the measurement returns the time-averaged expectation value of the measurement operator, erasing information about the initial state of the qubit, while completely suppressing the measurement back-action. We call this regime `quantum rifling', as the fast spinning of the Bloch vector protects it from deflection into either of its eigenstates. We study this phenomenon with two superconducting qubits coupled to the same probe field and demonstrate that quantum rifling allows us to measure either one of the qubits on demand while protecting the state of the other from measurement back-action. Our results allow for the implementation of selective read out multiplexing of several qubits, contributing to the efficient scaling up of quantum processors for future quantum technologies.
Medon fusculus
Creators: name: Anlaş, S.
name: A. F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Medon
Medon fusculus

description: Medon fusculus (MANNERHEIM 1830)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Tehran: Central province, 2 exs., 12.V.2008, leg. E. Sürmen.
C o m m e n t s: The species is here reported from Iran for the first time.
description: Published as part of Anlaş, S. & A. F, 2010, Distributional checklist of the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of Iran, with new and additional records, pp. 335-388 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1) on page 339, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5331927
A photometric study of the two poorly known northern open clusters NGC 133 and NGC 1348
Creators: name: Carraro, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present CCD UBVI observations obtained in the field of the previously unstudied northern open clusters NGC 133 and NGC 1348. We argue that NGC 133 is a heavily contaminated cluster, for which we identify 13 candidate members down to $V$=14.50 mag on the basis of the position in the two-color Diagram . Membership has been checked against proper motions from Tycho~2, whenever available. The cluster turns out to have a reddening E$(B-V)=0.60\pm0.10$ mag, to be $630\pm150$ pc distant from the Sun, and to have an age less than 10 Myrs. NGC 1348 is a more reddened cluster (E$(B-V)=0.85\pm0.15$ mag) for which we isolate 20 members. The cluster lies at a distance of $1.9\pm0.5$ kpc away from the Sun, and has an age greater than 50 Myrs.
description: 9 pages, 13 eps figures, in press in A&A
Differential roles of YTHDF1 and YTHDF3 in embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte differentiation
Creators: name: Wang, Shen
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Wu, Xiang
name: Lin, Xianrong
name: Liu, Xiao-Min
name: Zhou, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: N6-methyladenosine (m6A) has emerged as a crucial epitranscriptomic mark which regulates a broad spectrum of physiological processes including stem cell differentiation. m6A-binding YTHDF proteins have recently been proposed to mediate differentiation of leukemia cell in a redundant manner. However, whether these proteins play semblable roles in pluripotent stem cell remain largely unknown. Here, we showed the differential functions of YTHDF1 and YTHDF3 in controlling the differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Depletion of YTHDF3 in ESCs resulted in loss of pluripotency with accelerated expressions of marker genes involved in formation of three germ layers. Phenotypic and transcriptomic analyses revealed that loss of YTHDF1 led to dramatic impairment of cardiomyocytes (CMs) differentiation, accompanied by downregulated CM-specific genes. While, knockdown of YTHDF3 accelerated differentiation through facilitating the expressions of CM-specific gene. Notably, YTHDF3 appears to modulate cellular differentiation partially through suppression of YTHDF1, supporting the distinguishable but interrelated roles of YTHDF1 and YTHDF3 in cell fate determination.
Selfish Mining in Proof-of-Work Blockchain with Multiple Miners: An Empirical Evaluation
Creators: name: Leelavimolsilp, Tin
name: Tran-Thanh, Long
name: Stein, Sebastian
name: Nguyen, Viet Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Proof-of-Work blockchain, despite its numerous benefits, is still not an entirely secure technology due to the existence of Selfish Mining (SM) strategies that can disrupt the system and its mining economy. While the effect of SM has been studied mostly in a two-miners scenario, it has not been investigated in a more practical context where there are multiple malicious miners individually performing SM. To fill this gap, we carry out an empirical study that separately accounts for different numbers of SM miners (who always perform SM) and strategic miners (who choose either SM or Nakamoto's mining protocol depending on which maximises their individual mining reward). Our result shows that SM is generally more effective as the number of SM miners increases, however its effectiveness does not vary in the presence of a large number of strategic miners. Under specific mining power distributions, we also demonstrate that multiple miners can perform SM and simultaneously gain higher mining rewards than they should. Surprisingly, we also show that the more strategic miners there are, the more robust the systems become. Since blockchain miners should naturally be seen as self-interested strategic miners, our findings encourage blockchain system developers and engineers to attract as many miners as possible to prevent SM and similar behaviour.
description: Accepted in PRIMA2019
title: Spirituality and Form: The Conversation Between China and the West
Creators: name: Yang, Qing
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chinese traditional garden paintings
subject: cathedral paintings
subject: spirituality
subject: form

description: This research explores form and the painting traditions in both Western and Chinese cultures. It uses the motifs of the Chinese garden and the Western cathedral to examine the possibilities of integrating contrasting approaches and theories. Form in the Chinese context refers to transformation, whereas form in the Western context emphasises composition or arrangement. The great paintings in China focus on the generation of an invisible breath-energy, vitality, and dynamism by means of the transformation of two polarities of yin and yang. While in the Western context the understanding of form, especially the dominant modernism formalism, the focus is on the autonomous aesthetic values on a surface plane, reflected in colour, composition and the arrangement of different pictorial elements. In the West the direct connection with emotion and arousing spirituality is often achieved through departing from external references to the world. This research presents the possibilities of integrating Western practices with Chinese traditions to create artworks that are sensitive to Chinese and Western theories and concepts of form. This practice-led research is also concerned with how form can evoke the spiritual. Through the depiction of traditional Chinese gardens and Western cathedrals, and drawing upon Chinese and Western theories, the project values the autonomous aesthetic properties that are closely and better connected to spirituality. This project reflects upon how form and the use of colour, composition and perspective can create a sense of the spiritual.
Gravitational Waves Probe the Coalescence Rate of Massive Black Hole Binaries
Creators: name: Jaffe, Andrew H.
name: Backer, Donald C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the expected nHz--$μ$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a future Pulsar Timing Array. The spectrum depends on the merger rate of massive galaxies, the demographics of MBHs at low and high redshift, and the dynamics of MBH binaries. We apply recent theoretical and observational work on all of these fronts. The spectrum has a characteristic strain $h_c(f)~10^{-15} (f/yr^{-1})^{-2/3}$, just below the detection limit from recent analysis of precision pulsar timing measurements. However, the amplitude of the spectrum is still very uncertain owing to approximations in the theoretical formulation of the model, to our lack of knowledge of the merger rate and MBH population at high redshift, and to the dynamical problem of removing enough angular momentum from the MBH binary to reach a GW-dominated regime.
description: 31 Pages, 8 Figures, small changes to match the published version
AEROBIC DANCE TRAINING'S IMPACT ON COLLEGE MEN'S PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY INDEX
Creators: name: P. Raja* & Dr. S. Udhayashankar**
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of aerobic dance training on physical efficiency index among college men. To achieve the purpose of the present study, sixty college men from Salem, Tamilnadu, India were chosen as the subjects was selected as subjects at random and their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre-test and post-test. The subjects (N=60) were randomly assigned to three equal groups of twenty college men each. The group I underwent aerobic dance training with medium frequency, group II underwent aerobic dance training with high frequency and duration and group III acted as a control group.

The two experimental groups were participated the training for a period of twelve weeks to find out the outcome of the training packages and the control group did not participated in any training programme. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied. Whenever the adjusted post-test means were found significant, the scheffe’s post-hoc test was administer to find out the paired means difference. To test the obtained results on variables, level of significance 0.05 was chosen and considered as sufficient for the study. It was observed that the aerobic dance training with high frequency and duration group showed significant changes only on physical efficiency index than the aerobic dance training with medium frequency and duration group.
Resolving the 47 Tucanae Distance Problem
Creators: name: Percival, Susan M.
name: Salaris, Maurizio
name: van Wyk, Francois
name: Kilkenny, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new B, V and I-band photometry for a sample of 43 local subdwarfs with HIPPARCOS parallax errors < 13%, in the metallicity range -1.0 < [Fe/H] < -0.3, which we use to perform main sequence (MS) fitting to the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc. This sample is many times larger than those used in previous MS-fitting studies and also enables us to fit in two colour planes, V/(B-V) and V/(V-I). With this enlarged subdwarf sample we investigate whether the current discrepancy in empirical distance estimates for 47 Tuc, arising from recent MS-fitting and white dwarf fitting results, is due to inaccuracies in the MS-fitting method. Comparison of published photometries for 47 Tuc has revealed systematic offsets which mean that the $(B-V)$ main-line used in previous studies may be too blue by ~ 0.02 mag. We have derived main-lines in V/(B-V) and V/(V-I) from the data of Kaluzny et al. (1998), which we have recalibrated from the `secondary' standards in 47 Tuc of Stetson (2000). Using an assumed cluster reddening of E(B-V)=0.04, our best-fit apparent distance modulus is (m-M)V=13.37 (+0.10)(-0.11) in both colour planes, which implies a cluster age of 11.0 +/-1.4 Gyr and leads to a dereddened distance modulus of (m-M)0=13.25 (+0.06)(-0.07). Comparison with previous work shows that our apparent distance modulus is ~0.2 mag smaller than those derived in previous MS-fitting studies. The difference is accounted for by our preferred cluster reddening and the recalibration of the cluster photometry, which has made the main-line redder by an average of 0.02 mag in (B-V). Independent support for our MS-fitting distance comes from consideration of the Red Clump in the cluster, from which we derive a dereddened distance modulus of (m-M)0=13.31 +/-0.05, which is in agreement with the MS-fitting result. (Abridged)
description: 23 pages, including 2 tables and 4 figures. ApJ accepted
title: Gene Expression Analysis in Human Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Gabrovska, Plamena N.
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast cancer
subject: Gene expression
subject: Estrogen receptor (ER) status
subject: Chemotherapy

description: Breast Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, with more than 1.2 million women diagnosed annually worldwide. It is also a frequently fatal disease and remains difficult to treat, despite advances in all facets of cancer management. While a number of genetic mutations have been identified in human breast cancers, he specific combinations of the mutations required in concert for formation of a breast carcinoma remains unknown, making precise detection or prognostic predictions impossible. Although estrogen receptor (ER) status is predictive of response to hormonal treatments, there are currently no clinically useful predictive markers of a patient’s response to chemotherapy. This results in all patients who are eligible for chemotherapy receiving the same treatment even though de novo drug resistance will result in the treatment failing in about 80% of cases. Developing improved diagnostic tools to cluster different breast cancers into groups based on genetic parameters has the potential to revolutionise individualised treatment options and subsequent efficacy. This in turn will improve quality of life for patients undergoing therapy who will no longer suffer the consequences of unnecessary treatments and more importantly, a subsequent improved survival rate.
Additional file 5 of Sex-based clinical and immunological differences in COVID-19
Creators: name: Huang, Bin
name: Cai, Yun
name: Li, Ning
name: Li, Kening
name: Wang, Zhihua
name: Li, Lu
name: Wu, Lingxiang
name: Zhu, Mengyan
name: Li, Jie
name: Wang, Ziyu
name: Wu, Min
name: Li, Wanlin
name: Wu, Wei
name: Zhang, Lishen
name: Xia, Xinyi
name: Wang, Shukui
name: Chen, Hongshan
name: Wang, Qianghu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Figure S5. The dynamic changes of IgM levels.
Modeling echo chambers and polarization dynamics in social networks
Creators: name: Baumann, Fabian
name: Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp
name: Sokolov, Igor M.
name: Starnini, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical contexts and across different social media, raise concerns on their potential impact on the spread of misinformation and on openness of debates. Despite increasing efforts, the dynamics leading to the emergence of these phenomena stay unclear. We propose a model that introduces the dynamics of radicalization, as a reinforcing mechanism driving the evolution to extreme opinions from moderate initial conditions. Inspired by empirical findings on social interaction dynamics, we consider agents characterized by heterogeneous activities and homophily. We show that the transition between a global consensus and emerging radicalized states is mostly governed by social influence and by the controversialness of the topic discussed. Compared with empirical data of polarized debates on Twitter, the model qualitatively reproduces the observed relation between users' engagement and opinions, as well as opinion segregation in the interaction network. Our findings shed light on the mechanisms that may lie at the core of the emergence of echo chambers and polarization in social media.
title: Shifting Ideals, Violent Ordeals: Pakistan's Ideological Shift and its Effects on Sectarian Violence
Creators: name: Raza, Fatima
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pakistan
subject: Sectarianism
subject: Islam
subject: Sunni Islam

description: The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was initially conceived as a secular state by its founding fathers. Over time, the state has experienced a shift from secularism to a political ideology based on a Sunni manifestation of Islam, resulting in the exacerbation of sectarian violence. Sectarianism has now become one of the key problems plaguing Pakistan’s political stability and viability. This thesis seeks to understand how this shift occurred. It will analyse the problem of sectarian violence in Pakistan in relation to the global and national emergence of Islam with a particular political orientation. This manifestation of Islam will be referred to as Islamism. This thesis will argue that it was within the climate of a global resurgence of Islam that a conservative Sunni Islam infiltrated the political and social structures of Pakistan and this provided the conditions for sectarianism to worsen. In demonstrating this argument, the thesis employs a four-part framework, analysing the legal, educational, political and geo-political factors underlying the Islamisation of Pakistan. By using a qualitative methodology based on a single case study approach, this thesis analyses the ideological shift of Pakistan from secularism towards Islamism and the resultant effects on sectarian violence. This shift in Pakistan from its initial secular conception to one steeped in a conservative Sunni Islamist ideology and the effects of the shift on sectarianism has not been adequately addressed within the academic literature regarding Pakistan. This thesis aims to bridge this gap, holding important insights and implications for academics, policy makers and students of Pakistan. By providing an analysis of the ideological shift of the state and its effects on sectarian violence this thesis will present a novel approach to understanding Pakistan and its internal problems.
The VST telescope control software in the ESO VLT environment
Creators: name: Schipani, P.
name: Brescia, M.
name: Mancini, D.
name: Marty, L.
name: Spirito, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The VST (VLT Survey Telescope) is a 2.6 m Alt-Az telescope to be installed at Mount Paranal in Chile, in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site. The VST is a wide-field imaging facility planned to supply databases for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) science and carry out stand-alone observations in the UV to I spectral range. This paper will focus mainly on control software aspects, describing the VST software architecture in the context of the whole ESO VLT control concept. The general architecture and the main components of the control software will be described.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, ICALEPCS 2001 Conference, PSN#THAP051
Additional file 1 of Subsequent shock deliveries are associated with increased favorable neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest patients who had initially non-shockable rhythms
Creators: name: Kitamura, Nobuya
name: Nakada, Taka-aki
name: Shinozaki, Koichiro
name: Tahara, Yoshio
name: Sakurai, Atsushi
name: Yonemoto, Naohiro
name: Nagao, Ken
name: Yaguchi, Arino
name: Morimura, Naoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

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Geodromicus kunzei
Creators: name: Zanetti, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Geodromicus
Geodromicus kunzei

description: Geodromicus kunzei (HEER 1839)
 Geobius kunzei HEER 1839
 Anthophagus lituratus KRAATZ 1857 synonymy confirmed. Lectotype male (here designated) labelled Kahr. / Tyrol / lituratus mihi / coll. Kraatz / DEI Eberswalde / Syntypus (red) / Geodromicus lituratus Kraatz / coll. DEI Müncheberg / Geodromicus kunzei (Heer) det. Bordoni 1989 / Lectotypus Geodromicus lituratus Kraatz des. Zanetti, 2008 (red) / Geodromicus kunzei (Heer) det. Zanetti 2008 (DEI); 1 paralectotype male with the same data (DEI).
 C o m m e n t s: Anthophagus lituratus KRAATZ 1857 was described as a new species based on specimens from Tyrol. It was considered an aberration of Geodromicus globulicollis (MANNERHEIM 1830) by LUZE (1903). LOHSE (1964) considered it a variety of kunzei with longer elytra. BORDONI (1984) regarded it as a valid species again, without examination of the typical series. ASSING & SCHÜLKE (2007) reported it as a valid species. The typical series confirms the synonymy of G. lituratus with G. kunzei, which was already recognized (but not published) by Bordoni, who examined the syntypes in 1989. The specimen interpreted as G. lituratus by BORDONI (1984) belongs to a completely different species. According to LOHSE (1964), the "var." lituratus is characterized by longer elytra. In fact the length of the elytra of the type of G. lituratus is within the variability range of the typical G. kunzei.
description: Published as part of Zanetti, A., 2008, Synonymies in the European Omaliinae, with notes on distribution (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 979-992 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 985, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5429978
Atarphia quadrimaculata Reitter 1884
Creators: name: Jelínek, Josef
name: Jia, Fenglong
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nitidulidae
Atarphia
Atarphia quadrimaculata

description: Atarphia quadrimaculata Reitter, 1884
 (Figs. 3, 9–10) Material examined. RUSSIA: MARITIME PROVINCE: Vladivostok, 1919, Dr. Jureček leg., 2 JJ. JAPAN: HONSHU: Kyoto, Kurama-yama, 27.iii.2005, Lackner leg., 1 J 1 ♀. SHIKOKU: Ehime pref., Omogo, 1.vi.1941, Y. Asikawa leg., 1 ♀ (all NMPC).
description: Published as part of Jelínek, Josef, Jia, Fenglong & Hájek, Jiří, 2012, A new species of the genus Atarphia (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from China, pp. 467-474 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 473, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332016
Eolates Sorbini 1970
Creators: name: Otero, Olga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Latidae
Eolates

description: GENUS † EOLATES SORBINI, 1970
 1828 – Lates Cuvier & Valenciennes, p. 88.
 1970 – † Eolates Sorbini, p. 11.
 Type species: † Lates gracilis (Agassiz, 1843).
 Emended diagnosis: A polyphyletic genus and latid stem group, it unites latid species that are plesiomorphic when compared with Lates + Psammoperca: there are three epurals, no apophysis on the haemal spine of the preural vertebra 2 and five free and autogenous hypurals. Moreover, their predorsal formula (/0/0+0/II/I+I/; 0/0/0+II/I+I/) often varies from that of Recent latids; they have more than three small spines on the posterior border of the cleithrum; one row of lateral line scales on the caudal fin (as in Lates); VC = 10/ 11+13/15(4); epineurals developed on the first six or seven vertebrae; D = VIII/IX+I-(9)10/12; gap between the dorsal fins reduced in size when compared with Recent species; A = II/III+7/8, C = I-8: 7-I; stegural and uroneural present; caudal fin with posterior bor- der rounded. A caudal spur is present on the first procurrent ventral ray of † Eolates (observed in † E. gracilis).
 The three † Eolates species differ from each other in the combination of several characters. They all are Palaeogene Tethyan species.
description: Published as part of Otero, Olga, 2004, Anatomy, systematics and phylogeny of both Recent and fossil latid fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes, Latidae), pp. 81-133 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00111.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5429432
title: Studies on Magnetically Actuated Droplets for Digital Microfluidic
Creators: name: Khaw, Mei Kum
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Digital microfluidic
subject: Liquid handling technique
subject: Magnetically actuated droplets
subject: Marangoni propulsion
subject: Magnetic actuation
subject: Magnetic particles

description: Digital microfluidic is an emerging liquid handling technique where discrete droplets are manipulated on a substrate. For the past decades, conventional microfluidic applications are based on continuous flow concept. They require complicated networks of channels, pumps and valves to manage the flow of droplets in microchannels. In digital microfluidics, droplets are moved individually on an open surface. The droplets have the flexibility to move in various directions, making a single device flexible for diverse reaction designs and applications. The manipulation of discrete droplets allows reduction in sample size, faster heat transfer and reaction rates and easier collection of samples. The droplets can be manipulated via electrostatic force, magnetic force, gravitational force, pressure gradient, pH change, surfactant concentration, temperature change, Marangoni propulsion and light-induced surface tension gradient. Magnetic actuation is an excellent candidate for digital microfluidic applications because of the simplicity of using external magnetic field for a non-contact and non-invasive control over magnetised droplets. The magnetic field can penetrate through substrates and biological materials. There is also a wide variety of available magnetic particles and it is easy to control the amount of magnetic particles loaded into the carrier liquid. Some magnetic particles can absorb nucleic acids and other biomolecules making it possible for biomolecular separation. Magnetic manipulation is not affected by factors such as surface charges, pH and ion concentration. In most cases, magnetic manipulation does not induce heating.
Supermassive Black Hole Masses of AGNs with Elliptical Hosts
Creators: name: Wu, Xue-Bing
name: Liu, F. K.
name: Zhang, T. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently discovered tight correlation between supermassive black hole mass and central velocity dispersion suggests a possibility to estimate the SMBH mass from the measured central velocity dispersion. However, for most AGNs it is difficult to measure the central velocity dispersions of their host galaxies directly. In this paper we adopt the fundamental plane for ellipticals to estimate the central velocity dispersion and SMBH mass for a number of AGNs with morphology parameters of their elliptical host galaxies obtained by the HST imaging observations. The estimated SMBH masses of 63 BL Lac objects, 10 radio galaxies, 10 radio-loud quasars and 9 radio-quiet quasars are mostly in the range of $10^{7.5} M_\odot$ to $10^{9} M_\odot$. No significant difference in black hole mass is found for high-frequency peaked BL Lacs and low-frequency peaked BL Lacs, as well as for radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars. The Eddington ratios of radio galaxies are substantially smaller than those of quasars. This suggests that the different observational features of radio-loud AGNs may be mainly dominated by accretion rate rather than by the black hole mass, which is in agreement with some evolutionary scenarios recently proposed for radio-loud AGNs. Different from some previous claims, we found that the derived mean SMBH mass for radio-loud quasars is only slightly larger than that of radio-quiet quasars. Though their SMBH mass distributions are statistically different, their Eddington ratio distributions are probably from the same population. In addition, we noted that the relation between black hole mass and host galaxy luminosity obtained using the fundamental plane provides further arguments for a nonlinear scaling law between SMBH and galactic bulge mass.
description: 9 pages, A&A accepted
Intensive Land Use and New Urbanization Measurement and Coupling Coordination —— A Case Study of 31 Provinces (Cities or Regions) in Mainland China
Creators: name: JIAO, Jianjie
name: ZHANG, Rongxin
name: LI, Xuetao
name: JIAO, Jianjie
name: ZHANG, Rongxin
name: LI, Xuetao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Intensive land use, New urbanization, Spatial differentiation, Coupling coordination, Mainland China

description: From the perspectives of ecology, population, economy and society, this paper established an intensive land use system. From the aspects of land input, output and sustainable development, it built a new urbanization system. Besides, using the entropy weighting method, it measured the level of intensive land use and new urbanization of 31 provinces (cities or regions). Based on the coupling degree and coordinated development model, and in combination with GIS, it discussed the spatial differentiation pattern. It reached the following research results, (i) The new urbanization in the eastern region is ahead of the intensive land use, and they are relatively balanced in the western region; the new urbanization in the central and northeast regions lags behind the intensive land use; the intensive land use and the development of new urbanization in the eastern region are both stronger than that in central region, while the northeastern and western regions are weaker. (ii) The effect of sustainable land use in mainland China is remarkable, and the potential advantage of land output benefit in the eastern region is huge, the land input and sustainable development in the central region rank second, and the land output in the western region is the weakest. (iii) The development of new urbanization in mainland China is concentrated on economic and social urbanization; the eastern region has high economic urbanization benefits, while the western region is weak in both the ecological and population urbanization. (iv) There is significant unbalance of the spatial differentiation pattern in the intensive land use and new urbanization, showing a trend of high in east and low in west. (v) Most provinces (cities or regions) stay at a high level of antagonistic coupling, but there are “virtual high-level coupling” in regions such as Ningxia and Gansu; at present, the eastern, central and northeastern are moderately disordered, the western is highly disordered, and most provinces (cities or regions) are moderately disordered. Regions with high coordination level are concentrated in the eastern part of Guangdong and Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai, Henan, and Hebei; the coordination level of western regions such as Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Tibet, Guizhou and Yunnan badly needs to be upgraded.
A STUDY ON CULTURAL STATUS OF MIGRANT PLANTATION LABOURS: A CASE STUDY OF DALITS IN MALNAD REGION
Creators: name: Dr. Saravana K
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Plantation industry is in India one of the oldest industries, and today it enjoys the status of one of the most organized industries in the nation. It plays an integral role in the economy of India being a farming sector vigorized especially with the advent of Colonization. The plantation sector mainly consists of Tea, Coffee, Rubber and Cardamom. The cultivation and consumption of beverage roots back to 2737 B.C. it took advancement during the British period in India. In India, plantation cultivations are largely operated in West Bengal, North East, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka. The plantation division of India is exposed to an increased international contest. Competitiveness of a product is not only important from an export point of view; it is similarly significant to stay alive in the domestic market, The present study is to know the cultural status of dalit plantation in Karnataka. For the present study researcher used qualitative study by adopting case study method. For the purpose of the study researcher used case study method to full fill the need of the study. it was observed that these migrant labours do not have any identity cards. Social security cards, medical benefits enjoyed with the permanent employees.