cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discovering new mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance in endemic Australian Nicotiana species
Creators: name: O'Brien, Richard A.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Global climate change is predicted to cause more frequent extreme weather events over the next century. These events will exacerbate various abiotic stresses, including drought and high temperatures, each of which can inhibit growth and threaten survival of natural and managed plant systems. This study postulates that wild Australian relatives of Nicotiana from very arid sites might reveal unique characteristics that confer tolerance of hot environments. This may serve high implications in managing agricultural systems and understanding plant species that are sensitive to increased heat. A multi-disciplinary approach investigated heat tolerance at plant, leaf, cell and gene levels. Physiological analysis including growth analysis and gas exchange, suggested that N. megalosiphon and N. tabacum L. tolerated heat stress best among the five species tested. However, solute leakage from leaves of N. megalosiphon did not reveal superior cell membrane integrity under heat stress. A preliminary molecular analysis of a gene known to be vulnerable to heat-stress, Rubisco activase (RCA), revealed some putative amino acid changes between N. tabacum L. and N. benthamiana. This could imply divergent evolution between these two species, particularly in N. tabacum L. which has been highly selected for hot environments under cultivation.
Puzzling evidence for surface superconductivity in the layered dichalcogenide Cu$_{10\%}$TiSe$_2$
Creators: name: Levy-Bertrand, F.
name: Michon, B.
name: Marcus, J.
name: Marcenat, C.
name: Kačmarčík, J.
name: Klein, T.
name: Cercellier, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on specific heat and magnetotransport measurements performed on superconducting Cu$_{10\%}$TiSe$_2$ single crystals. We show that superconductivity persists in transport measurements up to magnetic fields $H_R$ well above the upper critical field $H_{c2}$ deduced from the calorimetric measurements. Surprisingly this "surface" superconductivity is present for all magnetic field orientations, either parallel or perpendicular to the layers. For $H\|ab$, the temperature dependence of the $H_R/H_{c2}$ ratio can be well reproduced by solving the Ginzburg-Landau equations in presence of a surface layer with reduced superconducting properties. Unexpectedly this temperature dependence does not depend on the field orientation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Changes in Fathers' Parental Brain During The Postpartum Period: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Sobral, Mónica
name: Pacheco, Ana
name: Ganho-Ávila, Ana
name: Guiomar, Raquel
name: Mesquita, Ana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Mental and Social Health

description: This registration contains the protocol for a scoping review of changes in fathers' parental brain during the postpartum period. The detailed protocol is attached as a supplemental file.
The autophagy-related proteins FvAtg4 and FvAtg8 are involved in virulence and fumonisin biosynthesis in Fusarium verticillioides
Creators: name: Wang, Yuejie
name: Liu, Xin
name: Xu, Yujiao
name: Gu, Yiying
name: Zhang, Xinyue
name: Zhang, Mengxuan
name: Wen, Wen
name: Lee, Yin-Won
name: Shi, Jianrong
name: Mohamed, Sherif Ramzy
name: Goda, Amira A.
name: Wu, Huijun
name: Gao, Xuewen
name: Gu, Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Autophagy is the main intracellular degradation system by which cytoplasmic materials are transported to and degraded in the vacuole/lysosome of eukaryotic cells, and it also controls cellular differentiation and virulence in a variety of filamentous fungi. However, the contribution of the autophagic pathway to fungal development and pathogenicity in the important maize pathogen and mycotoxigenic fungus Fusarium verticillioides is still unknown. In this study, we characterized two autophagy-related proteins, FvAtg4 and FvAtg8. The F. verticillioides deletion mutants ΔFvAtg4 and ΔFvAtg8 were impaired in autophagosome formation, aerial hyphal formation, sexual growth, lipid turnover, pigmentation and fungal virulence. Interestingly, ΔFvAtg4 and ΔFvAtg8 were defective in fumonisin B1 (FB1) synthesis, which may have resulted from decreased intracellular levels of alanine in the mutants. Our results indicate that FvAtg4 and FvAtg8 contribute to F. verticillioides pathogenicity by regulating the autophagic pathway to control lipid turnover, fumonisin biosynthesis, and pigmentation during its infectious cycle.
Named entity extraction in historical Australian newspaper text
Creators: name: Quamruzzaman, A. H. M.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: A Named Entity Recognition (NER) objective is to extract and to classify atomic entities in text such as proper names (Names and locations), temporal expressions and other specific notation identification. In this project, we will apply NER methods to historical newspaper text taken from the Trove archive in the National Library of Australia. We will present an evaluation of various available NER systems on a hand-annotated sample of newspaper text. We will then present the result of applying the system to the whole corpus of text. Even when the occurrence of a given name is known across a large data set, there may be many individuals who share that name; this is particularly evident in the Trove corpus since it spans a long time period (1803-1959). In the second part of this project we will develop methods to try to classify different individuals with the same name. In particular, we will classify names as either Politician, Entertainer or other based on the documents that they occur in.
Additional file 1: of Frequent attenders in late life in primary care: a systematic review of European studies
Creators: name: Welzel, Franziska
name: Stein, Janine
name: AndrĂŠ Hajek
name: Hans-Helmut KĂśnig
name: Riedel-Heller, Steffi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Search Strategy. (DOCX 14 kb)
Eclipse, transit and occultation geometry of planetary systems at exo-syzygy
Creators: name: Veras, Dimitri
name: Breedt, Elme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although conjunctions and oppositions frequently occur in planetary systems, eclipse-related phenomena are usually described from an Earth-centric perspective. Space missions to different parts of the Solar system, as well as the mounting number of known exo-planets in habitable zones and the possibility of sending featherweight robot spacecraft to them, prompt broader considerations. Here, we derive the geometry of eclipses, transits and occultations from a primarily exo-Earth viewpoint, and apply the formulation to the Solar system and three types of three-body extrasolar planetary systems: with 1 star and 2 planets (Case I), with 2 stars and 1 planet (Case II), and with 1 planet, 1 star and 1 moon (Case III). We derive the general conditions for total, partial and annular eclipses to occur at exo-syzygy, and implement them in each case in concert with stability criteria. We then apply the formalism to the TRAPPIST-1, Kepler-444 and Kepler-77 systems -- the first of which contains multiple potentially habitable planets -- and provide reference tables of both Solar system and TRAPPIST-1 syzygy properties. We conclude by detailing a basic algebraic algorithm which can be used to quickly characterize eclipse properties in any three-body system.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MPEC 2024-G157 : 2016 GS220
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 1: of Concordance between modification of diet in renal disease, chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration and Cockcroft-Gault equations in patients with chronic kidney disease at St. Paulâ s hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Hunduma Dinsa
name: Teshome Nedi
name: Alemseged Berha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Annex I. Questionnaires. Annex II: Data abstraction format. (DOCX 32 kb)
Delivery, structure, and function of bacterial genotoxins
Creators: name: Du, Liaoqi
name: Song, Jeongmin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Bacterial genotoxins are peptide or protein virulence factors produced by several pathogens, which make single-strand breaks (SSBs) and/or double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) in the target host cells. If host DNA inflictions are not resolved on time, host cell apoptosis, cell senescence, and/or even bacterial pathogen-related cancer may occur. Two multi-protein AB toxins, cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) produced by over 30 bacterial pathogens and typhoid toxin from Salmonella Typhi, as well as small polyketide-peptides named colibactin that causes the DNA interstrand cross-linking and subsequent DSBs is the most well-characterized bacterial genotoxins. Using these three examples, this review discusses the mechanisms by which these toxins deliver themselves into the nucleus of the target host cells and exert their genotoxic functions at the structural and functional levels.
EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF DIETARY PATTERNS ON STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE: BASIS FOR STUDENT  NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM
Creators: name: Aquino, Christian
name: Ballon, Jack Denver
name: Colico, Regine
name: Mobo, Frances Daphne
name: Villarias, Irish Allyson
name: De Vera, Kevin
Publisher: name: The APO
Year: 2025
Subjects: Dietary Pattern
Healthy Eating Habits
Academic Performance
Nutritional Program
Hospitality Students
Tourism Students

description: This research study aims to examine the effects of dietary patterns on students' performance, serving as a basis for a nutritional program at Gordon College. Food consumption is often regarded as a safeguard against various illnesses; however, an imbalanced diet can have negative effects on cognitive function. The study utilized a quantitative research design, specifically descriptive research. Data collection was carried out using a survey questionnaire divided into two parts: the first part consisted of a self-made questionnaire, and the second part featured an adapted questionnaire. A total of 200 respondents participated in the study, comprising third-year BSHM and BSTM students at Gordon College. Data analysis was conducted using various statistical and logical methods. The study found no significant difference between the academic performance of respondents and their demographic profiles. Additionally, it helps the institution understand the correlation between students' academic performance and their dietary patterns, allowing for the development of programs that address these issues. This study is beneficial for future researchers interested in conducting surveys on this topic and for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of the subject matter. The researchers recommend that college students pay attention to their dietary habits, as healthy eating is crucial for academic success. Notably, the study found a significant relationship between breakfast consumption and students' academic performance. Therefore, the researchers strongly advocate that college students make breakfast a regular part of their daily routine to enhance their academic performance.
The hero's journey in narrative media: the female model
Creators: name: Kobacker, Sophia Riley
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis has two parts: a treatise proposing a narrative model for the Female Hero's Journey; and an original film script written in accordance with this new narrative structure. The exegesis elucidates how this new narrative model, devised through my research, was overlaid upon my original feature-length screenplay, 'Little Bit Long Way', to tell the story of an authentic Female Hero's Journey. This methodological approach to research-enabled screenwriting practice produces two outcomes. First, it builds a new narrative structure that can be applied to feature-length narrative screenplays. Second, it creates a feature-length screenplay that demonstrates the new narrative model while showcasing a Female Hero as protagonist. There is ample evidence that numerous blockbuster films have made use of Joseph Campbell's mythological Hero's Journey narrative model. My research is significant in that it illuminates previously-obscured mythological elements of the new Female Hero's Journey. It also demonstrates, through its original creative component, a fresh narrative structure that, following Campbell's model, has the potential to support the box office success of female-protagonist-led films. My doctoral research fills a gap in the existing literature relating to the Female Hero's Journey narrative model. It contributes to the field of creative practice screenwriting research, within the research field of narrative structure in fictional media narrative. It does so by creating a socially constructive, culturally resonant narrative model for the contemporary, mythologically-based Female Hero's Journey in screen narrative. As has been demonstrated through my original creative artefact/screenplay, this innovative narrative model for the Female Hero's Journey can be directly applied to narrative screen texts, not just in feature film, but in a variety of genres and screen formats, including long-form series storytelling, transmedia and television narrative, and game design -- summary.
Hydrodynamic-type systems describing 2-dimensional polynomially integrable geodesic flows
Creators: name: Manno, Gianni
name: Pavlov, Maxim V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Starting from a homogeneous polynomial in momenta of arbitrary order we extract multi-component hydrodynamic-type systems which describe 2-dimensional geodesic flows admitting the initial polynomial as integral. All these hydrodynamic-type systems are semi-Hamiltonian, thus implying that they are integrable according to the generalized hodograph method. Moreover, they are integrable in a constructive sense as polynomial first integrals allow to construct generating equations of conservation laws. According to the multiplicity of the roots of the polynomial integral, we separate integrable particular cases.
Structural instability of large-scale functional networks
Creators: name: Mizutaka, Shogo
name: Yakubo, Kousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study how large functional networks can grow stably under possible cascading overload failures and evaluated the maximum stable network size above which even a small-scale failure would cause a fatal breakdown of the network. Employing a model of cascading failures induced by temporally fluctuating loads, the maximum stable size $n_{\text{max}}$ has been calculated as a function of the load reduction parameter $r$ that characterizes how quickly the total load is reduced during the cascade. If we reduce the total load sufficiently fast ($r\ge r_{\text{c}}$), the network can grow infinitely. Otherwise, $n_{\text{max}}$ is finite and increases with $r$. For a fixed $r\,(
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
The U.S. Agricultural Trade Book
Creators: name: Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department Of Agriculture
name: Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department Of Agriculture
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Report Introduction: The United States ranks among the world's largest agricultural exporters and importers—making it a critically important trading partner for nations around the globe. Foreign buyers rely on the United States to supply over three-fifths of the soybeans and feed grains, one-third of the wheat and cotton, and nearly one-fifth of the rice moving in world trade. U.S. agricultural exports are just as important to the U.S. economy as they are to the rest of the world. Because the domestic market for food and fiber is characterized by slow population growth and stable consumption levels, the world market represents the most vibrant growth sector for the U.S. food and agricultural industry. U.S. inflation rates, levels of unemployment, and the ex- change value of the U.S. dollar relative to foreign currencies are all linked to the exchange of agricultural products between the United States and other nations. The chapters that follow highlight the importance of agricultural trade to the average American and to U.S. farmers.
Additional file 1: of Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate
Creators: name: CĂŠdric Aria
name: Jean-Bernard Caron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional text including list of material, modifications of the phylogenetic matrix and comments on Sanctacaris uncata Briggs and Collins. (PDF 113 kb)
Phytochemical analysis of non-polar solvent extracts of the Wisteria sinensis leaves
Creators: name: Rokosz, Paulina
name: Stachowicz, Karolina
name: Kwiecień, Halina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A comparative study on the phytochemical composition of the n-hexane and chloroform extracts from Wisteria sinensis leaves collected in June and October is described. Continuous extraction in Soxhlet apparatus, as well as ultrasound-assisted technique, was used for the preparation of the extracts. All the extracts were analysed by GC/MS method. As a result, α-tocopherol was identified as the main component (56%) of the extracts from October leaves, whereas, β-sitosterol was identified as the main compound (47%) in the extracts from the June leaves. Additionally, pure α-tocopherol was isolated from n-hexane extract of the October leaves using column chromatography. A total of 6.25 mg of α-tocopherol was isolated from 1 g of dried leaves. The presence of the vitamin E in extracts from W. sinensis leaves is described here for the first time.
Mode-Division Multiplexing for Silicon Photonic Network-on-chip
Creators: name: Wu, Xinru
name: Huang, Chaoran
name: Xu, Ke
name: Shu, Chester
name: Tsang, Hon Ki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optical interconnect is a potential solution to attain the large bandwidth on-chip communications needed in high performance computers in a low power and low cost manner. Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is an emerging technology that scales the capacity of a single wavelength carrier by the number of modes in a multimode waveguide, and is attractive as a cost-effective means for high bandwidth density on-chip communications. Advanced modulation formats with high spectral efficiency in MDM networks can further improve the data rates of the optical link. Here, we demonstrate an intra-chip MDM communications link employing advanced modulation formats with two waveguide modes. We demonstrate a compact single wavelength carrier link that is expected to support 2x100 Gb/s mode multiplexed capacity. The network comprised integrated microring modulators at the transmitter, mode multiplexers, multimode waveguide interconnect, mode demultiplexers and integrated germanium on silicon photodetectors. Each of the mode channels achieves 100 Gb/s line rate with 84 Gb/s net payload data rate at 7% overhead for hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) in the OFDM/16-QAM signal transmission.
Analysis of pricing financial derivatives under regime-switching economy
Creators: name: Fard, Farzad Alavi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis we argue that regime-switching models can significantly improve the pricing models for financial derivatives. We use three examples to analyse the valuation of derivative contracts under the Markovian regime-switching framework, namely, 1) a European call option, 2) a Ruin Contingent Life Annuity, and 3) a participating product. Such a regime-switching framework unveils a potent class of models. Throughout the modulation of the model parameters by a Markov chain, they can simultaneously explain the asymmetic leptokurtic features of the returns' distribution, as well as the volatility smile and the volatility clustering effect. The intuition behind regime-switching models is to capture the appealing idea that the macro-economy is subjected to regular, yet unpredictable in time, states, which in turn affects the prices of financial securities. The market considered in this thesis is incomplete in general due to additional sources of uncertainty, particularly the regime-switching risk. Under these market conditions, a perfectly replicating trading strategy does not exist and there is more than one equivalent martingale measure. As a result, a perfect hedge for derivative contracts is impossible and the holder of the financial derivative needs to impose some testable restrictions to price the residual risk. In this study, we argue that a condition that minimizes the elative entropy between the risk-neutral and the historical probability measures is very suitable. Such condition, determines a price for the derivative contract that maximizes an exponential utility function for the holder. For doing so, we either use the Minimum Entropy Martingale Measure or Esscher Transform to choose the equivalent martingale measure. Due to the complexity of the pricing models, stemmed from either the modeling assumptions or the path-dependency of the payoff of the derivatives products, there is no known analytical solution to our problems. We employ different numerical methods in each chapter, depending on the respective modeling framework, to approximate the solutions. We also examine numerically the performance of simple hedging strategies by investigating the terminal distribution of hedging errors and the associated risk measures such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall. The impacts of the frequency of re-balancing the hedging portfolio and the transition probabilities of the modulating Markov chain on the quality of hedging are also discussed.
Kaurenoic acid extracted from Sphagneticola trilobata reduces acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity through inhibition of oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in mice
Creators: name: Marcondes-Alves, Leandro
name: Fattori, Victor
name: Borghi, Sergio M.
name: Lourenco-Gonzalez, Yuri
name: Bussmann, Allan J.C.
name: Hirooka, Elisa Y.
name: Rubia Casagrande
name: Waldiceu A. Verri Jr.
name: Nilton S. Arakawa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is a widely used analgesic and antipyretic drug that is safe at therapeutic doses. However, acetaminophen overdose can be fatal. Currently, the only treatment available is the N-acetyl cysteine. The diterpene kaurenoic acid (ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid, KA) is the major constituent of Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski. KA presents anti-inflammatory, anti-nociceptive and antioxidant properties. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of KA in a model of acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity. KA increased, in a dose-dependent manner, the survival rate after acetaminophen overdose. KA reduced acetaminophen-induced hepatic necrosis and ALT and AST levels. KA decreased acetaminophen-induced neutrophil and macrophage recruitment, oxidative stress and the production of IL-33, TNF-α and IL-1β, alongside with normalisation of IL-10 levels in the liver. Therefore, KA showed preclinical efficacy in acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity and lethality.
Mass, Density, and Formation Constraints in the Compact, Sub-Earth Kepler-444 System including Two Mars-Mass Planets
Creators: name: Mills, Sean M.
name: Fabrycky, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kepler-444 is a five planet system around a host-star approximately 11 billion years old. The five transiting planets all have sub-Earth radii and are in a compact configuration with orbital periods between 3 and 10 days. Here we present a transit-timing analysis of the system using the full Kepler data set in order to determine the masses of the planets. Two planets, Kepler-444 d ($M_\mathrm{d}=0.036^{+0.065}_{-0.020}M_\oplus$) and Kepler-444 e ($M_\mathrm{e}=0.034^{+0.059}_{-0.019}M_\oplus $), have confidently detected masses due to their proximity to resonance which creates transit timing variations. The mass ratio of these planets combined with the magnitude of possible star-planet tidal effects suggests that smooth disk migration over a significant distance is unlikely to have brought the system to its currently observed orbital architecture without significant post-formation perturbations.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
PLANTAS ALIMENTÍCIAS NÃO CONVENCIONAIS: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A POSSIBILIDADE DE INSERÇÃO NA MERENDA ESCOLAR
Creators: name: Nascimento, Shirley Grazieli Da Silva
name: Almansa, Karina De Souza
name: Nascimento, Shirley Grazieli Da Silva
name: Hanke, Daniel
name: De Ávila, Mariana Rockenbach
name: Maia, Joélio Farias
name: Maia, Joélio Farias
name: Da Silva, Fernanda Novo
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2020

description: O trabalho verificou a possibilidade de inserção das Panc’s na merenda escolar no município de Dom Pedrito, RS. Buscou-se compreender como ocorre a articulação do PNAE em relação as estratégias de segurança alimentar e nutricional dos alunos. Participaram deste estudo dois gestores municipais e quatro servidores de duas escolas. Foram realizadas entrevistas nos meses de março e abril de dois mil e dezenove. Os resultados foram avaliados a luz da análise textual de discurso. Os resultados apresentam o desconhecimento dos servidores em relação às Panc’s e sua importância como elemento para assegurar segurança alimentar e nutricional, enfatizam a preocupação pela adoção de hábitos alimentares saudáveis, verificou-se o distanciamento entre a participação dos pais para com as atividades realizadas dentro da escola, sinalizando à necessidade da promoção de ações em torno da segurança alimentar, envolvendo todos os atores envolvidos no processo da alimentação na escola.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, Vol. 42 No. 4 (2019)
An experimental rig to study fluid structure flow interactions in biological flows
Creators: name: Aldhafeeri, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Design is surely a talent in the engineering field and every day it is developing more. Designing an experimental rig to test different human non-rigid body models is a new idea aimed at achieving more accurate results. Here, we design an experimental rig to test the flow structure interactions for several models. In this project, we want to make sure that the complete rig is able to run different models. The aim of this thesis is to design the experiments, including the components we need to attach. A linear actuator system will be designed for this rig and will be programmed to act on the model to apply a dynamic wall motion on the model. Also, designing moulds and casting models is part of this thesis and many techniques will be used to achieve that. In the following chapters, each part of the required tasks will be explained in detail.
Alteration of cerebrovascular haemodynamic patterns due to atrial fibrillation: an in silico investigation
Creators: name: Scarsoglio, Stefania
name: Saglietto, Andrea
name: Anselmino, Matteo
name: Gaita, Fiorenzo
name: Ridolfi, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: There has recently been growing evidence that atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, is independently associated with the risk of dementia. This represents a very recent frontier with high social impact for the number of individuals involved and for the expected increase in AF incidence in the next 40 years. Although a number of potential haemodynamic processes, such as microembolisms, altered cerebral blood flow, hypoperfusion and microbleeds, arise as connecting links between the two pathologies, the causal mechanisms are far from clear. An in silico approach is proposed that combines in sequence two lumped-parameter schemes, for the cardiovascular system and the cerebral circulation. The systemic arterial pressure is obtained from the cardiovascular system and used as the input for the cerebral circulation, with the aim of studying the role of AF on the cerebral haemodynamics with respect to normal sinus rhythm (NSR), over a 5000 beat recording. In particular, the alteration of the haemodynamic (pressure and flowrate) patterns in the microcirculation during AF is analysed by means of different statistical tools, from correlation coefficients to autocorrelation functions, crossing times, extreme values analysis and multivariate linear regression models. A remarkable signal alteration, such as a reduction in signal correlation (NSR, about 3 s; AF, less than 1 s) and increased probability (up to three to four times higher in AF than in NSR) of extreme value events, emerges for the peripheral brain circulation. The described scenario offers a number of plausible cause-effect mechanisms that might explain the occurrence of critical events and the haemodynamic links relating to AF and dementia.
description: 13 pages, 9 Figures, 3 Tables
PA-X protein of H1N1 subtype influenza virus disables the nasal mucosal dendritic cells for strengthening virulence
Creators: name: Qin, Tao
name: Chen, Yulian
name: Huangfu, Dandan
name: Yin, Yinyan
name: Miao, Xinyu
name: Yin, Yuncong
name: Chen, Sujuan
name: Peng, Daxin
name: Liu, Xiufan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: PA-X protein arises from a ribosomal frameshift in the PA of influenza A virus (IAV). However, the immune regulatory effect of the PA-X protein of H1N1 viruses on the nasal mucosal system remains unclear. Here, a PA-X deficient H1N1 rPR8 viral strain (rPR8-△PAX) was generated and its pathogenicity was determined. The results showed that PA-X was a pro-virulence factor in mice. Furthermore, it reduced the ability of H1N1 viruses to infect dendritic cells (DCs), the regulator of the mucosal immune system, but not non-immune cells (DF-1 and Calu-3). Following intranasal infection of mice, CCL20, a chemokine that monitors the recruitment of submucosal DCs, was downregulated by PA-X, resulting in an inhibition of the recruitment of CD11b+ DCs to submucosa. It also attenuated the migration of CCR7+ DCs to cervical lymph nodes and inhibited DC maturation with low MHC II and CD40 expression. Moreover, PA-X suppressed the maturation of phenotypic markers (CD80, CD86, CD40, and MHC II) and the levels of secreted pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) while enhancing endocytosis and levels of anti-inflammatory IL-10 in vitro, suggesting an impaired maturation of DCs that the key step for the activation of downstream immune responses. These findings suggested that the PA-X protein played a critical role in escaping the immune response of nasal mucosal DCs for increasing the virulence of H1N1 viruses.
PA-X Protein of H1N1 Subtype Influenza Virus Disables the Nasal Mucosal Dendritic Cells for Strengthening Virulence
Creators: name: Qin, Tao
name: Chen, Yulian
name: Huangfu, Dandan
name: Yin, Yinyan
name: Miao, Xinyu
name: Yin, Yuncong
name: Chen, Sujuan
name: Peng, Daxin
name: Liu, Xiufan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: PA-X protein arises from a ribosomal frameshift in the PA of influenza A virus (IAV). However, the immune regulatory effect of the PA-X protein of H1N1 viruses on the nasal mucosal system remains unclear. Here, a PA-X deficient H1N1 rPR8 viral strain (rPR8-△PAX) was generated and its pathogenicity was determined. The results showed that PA-X was a pro-virulence factor in mice. Furthermore, it reduced the ability of H1N1 viruses to infect dendritic cells (DCs), the regulator of the mucosal immune system, but not non-immune cells (DF-1 and Calu-3). Following intranasal infection of mice, CCL20, a chemokine that monitors the recruitment of submucosal DCs, was downregulated by PA-X, resulting in an inhibition of the recruitment of CD11b+ DCs to submucosa. It also attenuated the migration of CCR7+ DCs to cervical lymph nodes and inhibited DC maturation with low MHC II and CD40 expression. Moreover, PA-X suppressed the maturation of phenotypic markers (CD80, CD86, CD40, and MHC II) and the levels of secreted pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α) while enhancing endocytosis and levels of anti-inflammatory IL-10 in vitro, suggesting an impaired maturation of DCs that the key step for the activation of downstream immune responses. These findings suggested the PA-X protein played a critical role in escaping the immune response of nasal mucosal DCs for increasing the virulence of H1N1 viruses.
Hydrostatic pressure effects on the static magnetism in Eu(Fe$_{0.925}$Co$_{0.075}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$
Creators: name: Jin, W. T.
name: Sun, J. -P.
name: Ye, G. Z.
name: Xiao, Y.
name: Su, Y.
name: Schmalzl, K.
name: Nandi, S.
name: Bukowski, Z.
name: Guguchia, Z.
name: Feng, E.
name: Fu, Z.
name: Cheng, J. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of hydrostatic pressure on the static magnetism in Eu(Fe$_{0.925}$Co$_{0.075}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ are investigated by complementary electrical resistivity, ac magnetic susceptibility and single-crystal neutron diffraction measurements. A specific pressure-temperature phase diagram of Eu(Fe$_{0.925}$Co$_{0.075}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ is established. The structural phase transition, as well as the spin-density-wave order of Fe sublattice, is suppressed gradually with increasing pressure and disappears completely above 2.0 GPa. In contrast, the magnetic order of Eu sublattice persists over the whole investigated pressure range up to 14 GPa, yet displaying a non-monotonic variation with pressure. With the increase of the hydrostatic pressure, the magnetic state of Eu evolves from the canted antiferromagnetic structure in the ground state, via a pure ferromagnetic structure under the intermediate pressure, finally to a possible "novel" antiferromagnetic structure under the high pressure. The strong ferromagnetism of Eu coexists with the pressure-induced superconductivity around 2 GPa. The change of the magnetic state of Eu in Eu(Fe$_{0.925}$Co$_{0.075}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ upon the application of hydrostatic pressure probably arises from the modification of the indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between the Eu$^{2+}$ moments tuned by external pressure.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Three new polyketides from fruiting bodies of the endophytic ascomycete Xylaria polymorpha
Creators: name: Brown, Carla E.
name: Liscombe, David K.
name: McNulty, James
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The isolation of three new secondary metabolites from the fruiting body of Xylaria polymorpha is described. The new compounds are of mixed biosynthetic origin consisting of a polyketide starter, extended with a methyl orsellinate unit and terminated hydrolytically or with an amine-containing terminal unit.
The RIT binary black hole simulations catalog
Creators: name: Healy, James
name: Lousto, Carlos O.
name: Zlochower, Yosef
name: Campanelli, Manuela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The RIT numerical relativity group is releasing a public catalog of black-hole-binary waveforms. The initial release of the catalog consists of 126 recent simulations that include precessing and non precessing systems with mass ratios $q=m_1/m_2$ in the range $1/6\leq q\leq1$. The catalog contains information about the initial data of the simulation, the waveforms extrapolated to infinity, as well as information about the peak luminosity and final remnant black hole properties. These waveforms can be used to independently interpret gravitational wave signals from laser interferometric detectors and
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Identification of degranulation inhibitors from rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) tea in rat basophilic leukaemia cells
Creators: name: Morishita, Yuta
name: Ikeda, Kaoru
name: Matsuno, Hiroaki
name: Ito, Hideyuki
name: Tai, Akihiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Quercetin, luteolin and chrysoeriol were identified from rooibos tea as degranulation inhibitors in rat basophilic leukaemia cells. The degranulation inhibitory activity of chrysoeriol was first discovered in the present study. When quercetin, luteolin and chrysoeriol were mixed in the ratio that occurs in rooibos tea extract, the mixture inhibited antigen- and calcium ionophore-stimulated degranulation to the same degree as that by the whole rooibos tea extract. These findings indicate that these three flavonoids are the key factors underlying the degranulation inhibitory activity of rooibos tea.
Automatic Cloud Resource Scaling Algorithm based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network
Creators: name: Shahin, Ashraf A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scalability is an important characteristic of cloud computing. With scalability, cost is minimized by provisioning and releasing resources according to demand. Most of current Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers deliver threshold-based auto-scaling techniques. However, setting up thresholds with right values that minimize cost and achieve Service Level Agreement is not an easy task, especially with variant and sudden workload changes. This paper has proposed dynamic threshold based auto-scaling algorithms that predict required resources using Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network and auto-scale virtual resources based on predicted values. The proposed algorithms have been evaluated and compared with some of existing algorithms. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms outperform other algorithms.
title: Development of an Optimization Framework for the Comparative Evaluation of the Ecoimpact of Powertrain Concepts
Creators: name: Eßer, Arved
name: Schleiffer, J.-E.
name: Eichenlaub, Tobias
name: Rinderknecht, Stephan
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: The state of the art in the evaluation of the ecological impact of various powertrain concepts is based on the evaluation of characteristics of existing vehicles on the market. However, these vehicles were developed with different objectives and are operated with various usage profiles. The potential of the powertrain concepts, if they were optimally designed for a given parameter set of a scenario to be investigated, remains unclear. But the knowledge of these optimal parametrizations of the powertrain concepts is necessary to enable an unbiased comparison of the technologies, especially if future scenarios are considered in which significant deviations from current parameter sets are possible. This work is based on results of the publicly funded FahrKLang project, in which an optimization framework for the comparative assessment of the "Real Ecological Impact" (REI) of various powertrain concepts has been developed. For each investigated scenario, optimal powertrain parametrizations of the various concepts to minimize the REI and a customized operational strategy are identified, thereby creating an equal evaluation basis. Representative driving cycles enable an efficient evaluation of the concepts based on real fleet driving data within the optimization environment.
Additional file 2 of The frequency of early age-related macular degeneration and its relationship with dietary pattern in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lin, Yanhui
name: Peng, Ting
name: Li, Ying
name: Liu, Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table 2-1. Multiple collinearity analysis of independent variables on the associations of early AMD with biochemical characteristics of 43,672 participants of ≥50 years old who underwent health examination during 2017-2019. Table 2-2. Multiple collinearity analysis of independent variables exclude the variable Cholesterol (VIF＞10).
Exploring Programmable Corpora: Introducing Network Analysis
Creators: name: Beine, Julia Jennifer
Publisher: name: CLS INFRA
Year: 2024

description: The first part of the session is an introduction to dramatic network analysis. First, it outlines the theoretical background of dramatic network analysis. Second, it presents a range of network measures relevant to the analysis of networks in dramatic literature. Third, it discusses the potential of dramatic network analysis in the field of literary studies.
Additional file 1 of The frequency of early age-related macular degeneration and its relationship with dietary pattern in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lin, Yanhui
name: Peng, Ting
name: Li, Ying
name: Liu, Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Cohen's kappa comparing food intake at baseline with a repeat questionnaire within 1-2 years (n =1675).
Generalized Monge gauge
Creators: name: Mazharimousavi, S. Habib
name: Forghani, S. Danial
name: Abtahi, S. Niloufar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monge gauge in differential geometry is generalized. The original Monge gauge is based on a surface defined as a height function $h(x,y)$ above a flat reference plane. The total curvature and the Gaussian curvature are found in terms of the height function. Getting benefits from our mathematical knowledge of general relativity, we shall extend the Monge gauge toward more complicated surfaces. Here in this study we consider the height function above a curved surface namely a sphere of radius $R$. The proposed height function is a function of $θ$ and $φ$ on a closed interval. We find the first, second fundamental forms and the total and Gaussian curvatures in terms of the new height function. Some specific limits are discussed and two illustrative examples are given.
description: 8 pages and 3 figures. Final version published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics