cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of High-throughput microarray reveals the epitranscriptome-wide landscape of m6A-modified circRNA in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhao, Wei
name: Liu, Jingwen
name: Wu, Jie
name: Ma, Xiaozhou
name: Wang, Xi
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: Han, Zhe
name: Yang, Jianming
name: Cui, Yameng
name: Hu, Xin
name: Deng, Jiayin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Kinematics of Ten Early-Type Galaxies from HST and Ground-Based Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Pinkney, Jason
name: Gebhardt, Karl
name: Bender, Ralf
name: Bower, Gary
name: Dressler, Alan
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Green, Richard
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Kormendy, John
name: Lauer, Tod
name: Magorrian, John
name: Richstone, Douglas
name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present stellar kinematics for a sample of 10 early-type galaxies observed using the STIS aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Modular Spectrograph on the MDM Observatory 2.4-m telescope. The spectra are used to derive line-of-sight velocity distributions (LOSVDs) of the stars using a Maximum Penalized Likelihood method. We use Gauss-Hermite polynomials to parameterize the LOSVDs and find predominantly negative h4 values (boxy distributions) in the central regions of our galaxies. One galaxy, NGC 4697, has significantly positive central h4 (high tail weight). The majority of galaxies have a central velocity dispersion excess in the STIS kinematics over ground-based velocity dispersions. The galaxies with the strongest rotational support, as quantified with v_MAX/sigma_STIS, have the smallest dispersion excess at STIS resolution. The best-fitting, general, axisymmetric dynamical models (described in a companion paper) require black holes in all cases, with masses ranging from 10^6.5 to 10^9.3 Msun. We replot these updated masses on the BH/sigma relation, and show that the fit to only these 10 galaxies has a slope consistent with the fits to larger samples. The greatest outlier is NGC 2778, a dwarf elliptical with relatively poorly constrained black hole mass. The two best candidates for pseudobulges, NGC 3384 and 7457, do not deviate significantly from the established relation between black hole and sigma. Neither do the three galaxies which show the most evidence of a recent merger, NGC 3608, 4473, and 4697.
description: 43 pages, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, high resolution version found at http://hoku.as.utexas.edu/~gebhardt/pinkney.ps
Probing the Evolution of the Galaxy Interaction/Merger Rate Using Collisional Ring Galaxies
Creators: name: Lavery, R. J.
name: Remijan, A.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Hayes, R. D.
name: Ring, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from our program to determine the evolution of the galaxy interaction/merger rate with redshift using the unique star-forming characteristics of collisional ring galaxies. We have identified 25 distant collisional ring galaxy candidates (CRGCs) in a total of 162 deep Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera-2 images obtained from the HST Archives. Based on measured and estimated redshifts, these 25 CRGCs all lie in the redshift interval of 0.1 < z < 1. Using the local collisional ring galaxy volume density and the new ``standard'' cosmology, we find that in order to account for the number of identified CRGCs in our surveyed fields, the galaxy interaction/merger rate, parameterized as (1 + z)^m, must increase steeply with redshift.We determine a minimum value of m = 5.2 $\pm$ 0.7, though m could be as high as 7 or 8. We can rule out a non-evolving (m = 0) and weakly evolving (m = 1-2) galaxy interaction/merger rate at greater than the 4 sigma level of confidence.
description: Accepted in the Astrophysical Journal (11 pages, 4 figures). Higher resolution version of the figures is available at http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~vassilis/papers/
Diffractive oblique plane microscopy
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Maximilian
name: Judkewitz, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics
subject: Microscopy
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics::530 Physics::530 Physics
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics::570 Life sciences::570 Life sciences
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Imaging of neuronal activity with fluorescent indicators is an important technique in neuroscience. However, it remains challenging to record volumetric image data at fast frame rates and good resolution. One promising technique to achieve this goal is light sheet microscopy (LSM), but the right angle configuration of the excitation and imaging system limits its application. Oblique plane microscopy (OPM), a variant of LSM, circumvents this limitation by exciting oblique planes and detecting the image through the same microscope objective lens. So far, these techniques have relied on the use of high numerical aperture (NA) detection objective lenses, which limits their field of view. Here we present an OPM technique that allows for the use of low NA objective lenses by redirecting the light with the help of a diffraction grating. The microscope maintains a micrometer-scale lateral resolution over a large addressable imaging volume of 3.3×3.0×1.0 mm3. We demonstrate its practicality by imaging the whole brain of larval and juvenile zebrafish.
Figures S1 - S3 and Table S1 from Social learning of acoustic anti-predator cues occurs between wild bird species
Creators: name: Keen, Sara C.
name: Cole, Ella F.
name: Sheehan, Michael J.
name: Sheldon, Ben C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figure S1: Diagram of outdoor aviary in which experiments took place. Labels refer to (a) box in which model sparrowhawk was positioned between training playbacks, (b) feeder station equipped with PIT tag reader, (c) zipline across which model sparrowhawk was flown, (d) booth with opaque walls in which the experimenter sat during playbacks, (e) cameras, (f), speaker, (g) adjacent buildings, (h) empty adjacent outdoor passageway.;Figure S2: Spectrograms of sounds used for control and treatment playbacks plotted with Raven Pro 1.5 (www.birds.cornell.edu/raven) with 4095 point FFTs, Hann window, and 50% overlap. Sounds were downloaded from xeno-canto.org and amplitude-normalized and edited to 8 s duration. a) Northern Cardinal, b) Eastern Whip-poor-will.; Figure S3: Histograms of separately z-transformed counts of number of alarm calls and latency to resume foraging for blue tit and great tit observers in five minutes following playbacks. Colors indicate distributions of counts for a) blue tit observers (dark blue) and great tit observers (light blue), b) alarm calls (light blue) and latency (dark blue), c) responses to control playbacks (light blue) and treatment playbacks (dark blue).; Table S1: Order of playback stimuli and observer testing for the 8 replicate groups. In the first four replicates, recordings of and Eastern Whip-poor-will and Norther Cardinal were used as the treatment and control sounds, respectively; in the second four replicates this was reversed.
Local stationarity of exponential last passage percolation
Creators: name: Balázs, Márton
name: Busani, Ofer
name: Seppäläinen, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 60K37

description: We consider point to point last passage times to every vertex in a neighbourhood of size $δN^{\frac{2}{3}}$, distance $N$ away from the starting point. The increments of these last passage times in this neighbourhood are shown to be jointly equal to their stationary versions with high probability that depends on $δ$ only. With the help of this result we show that 1) the $\text{Airy}_2$ process is locally close to a Brownian motion in total variation; 2) the tree of point to point geodesics starting from every vertex in a box of side length $δN^{\frac{2}{3}}$ going to a point at distance $N$ agree inside the box with the tree of infinite geodesics going in the same direction; 3) two geodesics starting from $N^{\frac{2}{3}}$ away from each other, to a point at distance $N$ will not coalesce too close to either endpoints on the macroscopic scale. Our main results rely on probabilistic methods only.
description: 40 pages, 8 figures. A result about the regularity of the Airy_2 process was added
Sminthurinus signatus Krausbauer 1902
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Sminthurinus
Sminthurinus signatus

description: Sminthurinus signatus Krausbauer, 1902 *
Sminthurinus signatus Krausbauer, 1902: 284.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ariège. Cassagne etal. 2004. — Forêtde Bethmale (Cassagne etal. 2006). — Forêtde Freychinède, 1350 m (Lek-Ang etal. 2007). — Prèsducirquede Campuls, valléede Bethmale (Luque etal. 2011).
Aude. Ussonet Carcanet (Bonnet etal. 1979).
Essonne. Parcdu Laboratoiredu MNHNà Brunoy (Vannier 1970; Chauvat & Ponge 2002). — Forêtde Sénart (Vannier 1978; Ponge 1980, 1993; Salmon & Ponge 1999). — Maresde Sénart (Pichard etal. 1989).
Haute-Garonne. Ruisseaux de La Maure et de Ruau (Lek-Ang & Deharveng 2002). — Gar-Cagire près de Saint-Gaudens (Salmon etal. 2010).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Piaud’Engaly (Bonnet etal. 1979). — Haute valléedel’Aureetmassif du Néouvielle (Lauga-Reyrel & Lauga 1995). — Montagne d’Arize (Deharveng 1996). — Pyrénées centrales (Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004).
Hauts-de-Seine. Maresde Clamart (Pichard etal. 1989).
Indre. Parc régional de la Brenne (Ponge et al. 2008).
Loiret. Forêtd’Orléans (Ponge & Prat 1982; Poursin & Ponge 1984; Ponge etal. 1993).
Nièvre. Parcrégionaldu Morvan (Ponge etal. 2003).
Nord. Bois des Asturies près d’Auby (Gillet & Ponge 2004).
Seine-et-Marne. Forêtde Foljuif (Massoud etal. 1984).
Tarn. Sidobre (Izarra 1969). — Montsde Lacaune (Cassagne etal. 2003).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Vannier 1970 (eau, sol), 1978 (feu, litière); Bonnet etal. 1979 (déboisement, reboisement); Ponge 1980, 1993; Ponge & Prat 1982 (humidification); Massoud etal. 1984 (piétinement); Pichard etal. 1989; Ponge etal. 1993 (écologie expérimentale, litière), 2003 (bioindicateur), 2008 (test perturbation environnement); Deharveng 1996 (déboisement, reboisement); Salmon & Ponge 1999; Chauvat & Ponge 2002 (métaux lourds); Lek-Ang & Deharveng 2002 (zone humide); Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004, 2006; Gillet & Ponge 2004 (pollution, sol); Lek-Ang etal. 2007; Salmon etal. 2010 (diversité, peuplement, endémisme); Luque etal. 2011.
REMARQUE
Krausbauer (1898) décrit Sminthurus signatus. Cetteespèce est ensuite placée dans le genre Sminthurides par Börner (1900). Actuellement, sontcitées S minthurides signatus et Sminthurinus signatus, sans que l’identité de chaque espèce soit clairement établie. Bretfeld (1999) mentionne Sminthurides signatus, mais pas Sminthurinus signatus, espèce pourtant abdondamment citée dansla littérature. Krausbauer (1902) n’a pu être vérifiée.
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on pages 405-406, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Bank Account Ownership and Access Among In-Patients in Psychiatric Care in Berlin, Germany-A Cross-Sectional Patient Survey
Creators: name: Schreiter, Stefanie
name: Bermpohl, Felix
name: Schouler-Ocak, Meryam
name: Krausz, Michael R.
name: Rössler, Wulf
name: Heinz, Andreas
name: Gutwinski, Stefan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: bank account
subject: financial exclusion
subject: mental health
subject: psychiatric in-patients
subject: social exclusion
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Access to a bank account is critical for overall participation in social life and an indicator for social integration. Worldwide about 1.7 billion people remain with no access to banking facilities as a form of financial exclusion which represents 31% of the world's general population. In contrast, in Western countries like Germany, 99% of the general population use bank accounts. Methods: We conducted an exploratory cross-sectional survey on bank account ownership and bank account access among psychiatric in-patients in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Out of 540 participants who were reached for an interview, 486 shared information about bank account ownership and 469 on access. Results: Out of 486 participants 49 (10.1%) did not own a bank account. Among the remaining 420 participants owning a bank account, 36 (8.3%) did not have direct access to their bank account, but only, e.g., their legal guardian. Regression results found psychosis, intellectual disabilities, a longer treatment duration, as well as being of male gender and a more instable housing status to be significantly associated with a missing bank account or a missing access to one's bank account. Conclusions: The lack of bank account ownership and access among this population of psychiatric patients is concerning. The interrelationship between factors of financial exclusion and mental health should be further explored in longitudinal studies. More attention is needed to support people with severe mental illness to be able to access resources associated with financial inclusion.
Closed strings in Ramond-Ramond backgrounds
Creators: name: Sahakian, Vatche
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We write the IIB Green-Schwarz action in certain general classes of curved backgrounds threaded with Ramond-Ramond fluxes. The fixing of the kappa symmetry in the light-cone gauge and the use of supergravity Bianchi identities simplify the task. We find an expression that truncates to quartic order in the spacetime spinors and relays interesting information about the vacuum structure of the worldsheet theory. The results are particularly useful in exploring integrable string dynamics in the context of the holographic duality.
description: 24 pages; this is a significant revision to hep-th/0112063 with new results added, and including comparison with recent literature; v2: minor typos corrected, citations added
Cheumatopsyche albomaculata
Creators: name: Oláh, János
name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
name: Barnard, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Cheumatopsyche
Cheumatopsyche albomaculata

description: Cheumatopsyche albomaculata (Ulmer, 1905)
Fig. 206
 Hydropsychodes albomaculata Ulmer, 1905a: 34.
 Cheumatopsyche albomaculata (Ulmer, 1905); Kimmins 1963: 130.
 Type locality: Zaire.
 New records: CONGO: Kindaba, Meya, 11.xi.1963, light [J. Balogh & A. Zicsi] — 1 male (HNHM, in alcohol); CONGO: Sibiti, 25.xi.1963, light [J. Balogh & A. Zicsi] — 1 female (HNHM, in alcohol); CONGO: Loudima, 6.xii.1963, light [S. Endrödy] — 6 males, 9 females (HNHM, in alcohol); CONGO: Brazzaville, 25.x.1963, light [S. Endrödy] — 2 males, 1 female (OPC, in alcohol); GHANA: Bui Camp, 6– 10.xi.1965, light [S. Endrödy] — 2 females (HNHM, in alcohol); GHANA: Kumasi, 6.vii.1967, light [S. Endrödy] _ 1 female (HNHM, in alcohol); GHANA: Kwadoso, 9.vi.1969, light [S. Endrödy] — 3 males (HNHM, in alcohol); GHANA: Kwadoso, 5.v.1969, light [S. Endrödy] — 4 males (OPC, in alcohol).
 Remark: the species was re-drawn by Kimmins (1963).
description: Published as part of Oláh, János, Johanson, Kjell Arne & Barnard, Peter C., 2008, Revision of the Oriental and Afrotropical species of Cheumatopsyche Wallengren (Hydropsychidae, Trichoptera), pp. 1-171 in Zootaxa 1738 on pages 146-147
Approaching the Automation of Cyber Security Testing of Connected Vehicles
Creators: name: Marksteiner, Stefan
name: Ma, Zhendong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The advancing digitalization of vehicles and automotive systems bears many advantages for creating and enhancing comfort and safety-related systems ranging from drive-by-wire, inclusion of advanced displays, entertainment systems up to sophisticated driving assistance and autonomous driving. It, however, also contains the inherent risk of being used for purposes that are not intended for, raging from small non-authorized customizations to the possibility of full-scale cyberattacks that affect several vehicles to whole fleets and vital systems such as steering and engine control. To prevent such conditions and mitigate cybersecurity risks from affecting the safety of road traffic, testing cybersecurity must be adopted into automotive testing at a large scale. Currently, the manual penetration testing processes cannot uphold the increasing demand due to time and cost to test complex systems. We propose an approach for an architecture that (semi-)automates automotive cybersecurity test, allowing for more economic testing and therefore keeping up to the rising demand induced by new vehicle functions as well as the development towards connected and autonomous vehicles.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, Central European Cybersecurity Conference 2019 (CECC2019), Munich
Crumpling of a stiff tethered membrane
Creators: name: Astrom, J. A.
name: Timonen, J.
name: Karttunen, Mikko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: first-principles numerical simulation model for crumpling of a stiff tethered membrane is introduced. In our model membranes, wrinkles, ridge formation, ridge collapse, as well as the initiation of stiffness divergence, are observed. The ratio of the amplitude and wave length of the wrinkles, and the scaling exponent of the stiffness divergence, are consistent with both theory and experiment. We observe that close to the stiffness divergence there appears a crossover beyond which the elastic behavior of a tethered membrane becomes similar to that of dry granular media. This suggests that ridge formation in membranes and force-chain network formation in granular packings are different manifestations of a single phenomenon.
description: For full resolution figures, please send us an email
Oltre il Rurale
Creators: name: Secchi, Marialessandra
name: Voltini, Marco
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: Since the word ‘rural’ embraces a widespread of meanings, it is useful to map its boundaries, that is, to consider the term in the light of those questions that require further clarifications for the comprehension of it. This general undertaking will be tackled by assuming the territorial section between the southern shore of Lake Garda and the river Po as a case study. The aim is to go beyond a phenomenological narrative supporting the opposition or, on the contrary, the assimilation between urban and rural territories. Rather, we propose a shift in the description of rural space that instates the territorial project at the centre, delving on a closer reading of the conflicts generated by recent transformations. Since territories, characterised by a strong presence of primary production, are today at the centre of relevant changes and rearrangements in space and society, the present paper wants to answer two questions: can we unhinge the generic galaxy of the ‘rural’ through more careful observation of the phenomena? Is it possible to use the project to explore territories that are still partly unknown while being so familiar?
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Sminthurinus trinotatus Axelson, 1905 sensu Gisin 1963
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Sminthurinus
Sminthurinus trinotatus

description: Sminthurinus trinotatus Axelson, 1905 sensu Gisin 1963
Sminthurinus igniceps var. trinotatus Axelson, 1905b: 794.
Sminthurinus trinotatus – Stach 1955: 184. — Gisin 1963: 84.
DISTRIBUTION. — Gers. Jardin à Fleurance (Cassagnau 1962a).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 406, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
A Review of Evaluation, Optimization and Synthesis of Energy Systems: Methodology and Application to Thermal Power Plants
Creators: name: Wang, Ligang
name: Yang, Zhiping
name: Sharma, Shivom
name: Mian, Alberto
name: Lin, Tzu-En
name: Tsatsaronis, George
name: Maréchal, François
name: Yang, Yongping
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: advanced exergy-based analysis
subject: superstructure-based
subject: superstructure-free
subject: mathematical programming
subject: flowsheet synthesis
subject: multi-objective optimization
subject: thermal power plants

description: To reach optimal/better conceptual designs of energy systems, key design variables should be optimized/adapted with system layouts, which may contribute significantly to system improvement. Layout improvement can be proposed by combining system analysis with engineers’ judgments; however, optimal flowsheet synthesis is not trivial and can be best addressed by mathematical programming. In addition, multiple objectives are always involved for decision makers. Therefore, this paper reviews progressively the methodologies of system evaluation, optimization, and synthesis for the conceptual design of energy systems, and highlights the applications to thermal power plants, which are still supposed to play a significant role in the near future. For system evaluation, both conventional and advanced exergy-based analysis methods, including (advanced) exergoeconomics are deeply discussed and compared methodologically with recent developments. The advanced analysis is highlighted for further revealing the source, avoidability, and interactions among exergy destruction or cost of different components. For optimization and layout synthesis, after a general description of typical optimization problems and the solving methods, the superstructure-based and -free concepts are introduced and intensively compared by emphasizing the automatic generation and identification of structural alternatives. The theoretical basis of the most commonly-used multi-objective techniques and recent developments are given to offer high-quality Pareto front for decision makers, with an emphasis on evolutionary algorithms. Finally, the selected analysis and synthesis methods for layout improvement are compared and future perspectives are concluded with the emphasis on considering additional constraints for real-world designs and retrofits, possible methodology development for evaluation and synthesis, and the importance of good modeling practice.
Replication in the Mononuclear Phagocyte System (MPS) as a Determinant of Hantavirus Pathogenicity
Creators: name: Raftery, Martin J.
name: Lalwani, Pritesh
name: Lütteke, Nina
name: Kobak, Lidija
name: Giese, Thomas
name: Ulrich, Rainer G.
name: Radosa, Lukas
name: Krüger, Detlev H.
name: Schönrich, Günther
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hantavirus
subject: viral pathogenesis
subject: monocytes
subject: dendritic cells
subject: hantaviral entry
subject: inflammatory DCs
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Members of different virus families including Hantaviridae cause viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs). The decisive determinants of hantavirus-associated pathogenicity are still enigmatic. Pathogenic hantavirus species, such as Puumala virus (PUUV), Hantaan virus (HTNV), Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV), and Sin Nombre virus (SNV), are associated with significant case fatality rates. In contrast, Tula virus (TULV) only sporadically causes mild disease in immunocompetent humans and Prospect Hill virus (PHV) so far has not been associated with any symptoms. They are thus defined here as low pathogenic/apathogenic hantavirus species. We found that productive infection of cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS), such as monocytes and dendritic cells (DCs), correlated well with the pathogenicity of hantavirus species tested. HTNV (intermediate case fatality rates) replicated more efficiently than PUUV (low case fatality rates) in myeloid cells, whereas low pathogenic/apathogenic hantavirus species did not produce any detectable virus titers. Analysis of PHPUV, a reassortant hantavirus derived from a pathogenic (PUUV) and an apathogenic (PHV) hantavirus species, indicated that the viral glycoproteins are not decisive for replication in MPS cells. Moreover, blocking acidification of endosomes with chloroquine decreased the number of TULV genomes in myeloid cells suggesting a post-entry block for low pathogenic/apathogenic hantavirus species in myeloid cells. Intriguingly, pathogenic but not low pathogenic/apathogenic hantavirus species induced conversion of monocytes into inflammatory DCs. The proinflammatory programming of MPS cells by pathogenic hantavirus species required integrin signaling and viral replication. Our findings indicate that the capacity to replicate in MPS cells is a prominent feature of hantaviral pathogenicity.
Association of COVID-19 vaccination before conception with maternal liver function during early pregnancy: a cohort study of 7745 Chinese pregnant women
Creators: name: Zhao, Yan
name: Zhao, Yongbo
name: Li, Mengyuan
name: Zhou, Yicheng
name: Zhang, Yijun
name: Su, Xin
name: Zhang, Ziyi
name: Jin, Liping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Multicenter case series has reported patients with hepatic injury following COVID-19 vaccination, which raised concern for the possibility of vaccine-induced liver dysfunction. We aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on liver function of pregnant women, who may be uniquely susceptible to vaccine-induced liver dysfunction. We conducted a retrospective cohort study at a tertiary hospital in Shanghai, China. Vaccine administration was obtained from the electronic vaccination record. Serum levels of alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), total bile acid (TBA) and total bilirubin (TBIL) in early pregnancy were determined by enzymatic methods. Among the 7745 included pregnant women, 3832 (49.5%) received at least two doses of an inactivated vaccine. COVID-19 vaccination was significantly associated with higher levels of maternal serum TBA. Compared with unvaccinated pregnant women, the mean TBA levels increased by 0.17 μmol/L (β = 0.17, 95% CI, 0.04, 0.31) for women who had been vaccinated within 3 months before the date of conception. Moreover, COVID-19 vaccination was significantly associated with an increased risk of maternal hyperbileacidemia. The risk of hyperbileacidemia increased by 113% (RR = 2.13; 95% CI, 1.17-3.87) for pregnant women who had been vaccinated within 3 months before conception compared with unvaccinated pregnant women. However, when the interval from complete vaccination to conception was prolonged to more than 3 months, COVID-19 vaccination was not associated with serum TBA levels or maternal hyperbileacidemia. Our findings suggest that vaccination with inactivated COVID-19 vaccines more than 3 months before conception have no detrimental effects on maternal liver function in early pregnancy.
Business Intelligence from Web Usage Mining
Creators: name: Abraham, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 1.2.0

description: The rapid e-commerce growth has made both business community and customers face a new situation. Due to intense competition on one hand and the customer's option to choose from several alternatives business community has realized the necessity of intelligent marketing strategies and relationship management. Web usage mining attempts to discover useful knowledge from the secondary data obtained from the interactions of the users with the Web. Web usage mining has become very critical for effective Web site management, creating adaptive Web sites, business and support services, personalization, network traffic flow analysis and so on. In this paper, we present the important concepts of Web usage mining and its various practical applications. We further present a novel approach 'intelligent-miner' (i-Miner) to optimize the concurrent architecture of a fuzzy clustering algorithm (to discover web data clusters) and a fuzzy inference system to analyze the Web site visitor trends. A hybrid evolutionary fuzzy clustering algorithm is proposed in this paper to optimally segregate similar user interests. The clustered data is then used to analyze the trends using a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference system learned using a combination of evolutionary algorithm and neural network learning. Proposed approach is compared with self-organizing maps (to discover patterns) and several function approximation techniques like neural networks, linear genetic programming and Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference system (to analyze the clusters). The results are graphically illustrated and the practical significance is discussed in detail. Empirical results clearly show that the proposed Web usage-mining framework is efficient.
Role of Curvature-Matter Coupling on Anisotropic Strange Stars
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Waseem, Arfa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the physical characteristics of anisotropic spherically symmetric quark star candidates for $R+2σT$ gravity model, where $R$, $σ$ and $T$ depict scalar curvature, coupling parameter, and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. In order to analyze the structure formation of quark stars, we consider the Heintzmann solution and assume that strange quark matter is characterized by MIT bag model equation of state. We evaluate the unknown parameters through matching conditions and obtain the values of radii of strange quark stars using modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation with observed values of masses and bag constant. The feasibility of our considered solution is analyzed by graphical analysis of matter variables, energy bounds, causality condition and adiabatic index. It is found that the strange quark stars show stable structure corresponding to Heintzmann solution and their physical viability enhances with increasing values of the model parameter $σ$.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Rural areas as actors in the project of regional systems
Creators: name: Colavitti, Anna Maria
name: Ilovan, Oana-Ramona
name: Mutică, Paul
name: Serra, Sergio
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: The paper deals with the topic of rural areas sustainable transformation and development comparing two different contexts, Sardinia inland (Italy) and the North-West Development Region of Romania. First, it focuses on the general knowledge for the recognition of rural areas, highlighting the main features that define the territorial identity, the environmental and historical structure. The conditions of economic disadvantage and depopulation of inner areas affect the territorial structures and relationships between urban and rural spaces, unbalancing the historical equilibrium through new dynamics of settlement related to processes of redefining the economic and productive system. The case study analysis provides the opportunity to reflect on possible solutions and perspectives to create new sustainable and lost-lasting development for rural areas, enhancing the polycentric character of settlements and redefining the relationships between urban and rural production and consumption. In particular, the bioregionalist model is used as a reference for the design of new alliance pacts between city and countryside, focusing on the role of the agricultural sector in the definition of new positive connections between urban and rural areas.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Bounds on Generic High-Energy Physics Modifications to the Primordial Power Spectrum from Back-Reaction on the Metric
Creators: name: Porrati, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modifications to the primordial power spectrum of inflationary density perturbations have been studied recently using a boundary effective field theory approach. In the approximation of a fluctuating quantum field on a fixed background, the generic effect of new physics is encoded in parameters of order H/M. Here, we point out that the back-reaction on the metric can be neglected only when these parameters obey certain bounds that may put them beyond the reach of observation.
description: 6 pages, Latex. References added, misprints corrected. To appear in Phys. Lett. B
Territori rurali oltre una visione urbanocentrica
Creators: name: Nifosì, Chiara
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: For a long time, the materiality of the rural territory was hidden by the prevalence of sectoral and intangible policies, administrative boundaries, aphysical plans and projects, without real beneficiaries, by strategic actions that were never spatialized. Rural space, which also determines the GDP of many places and represents a very large portion of territory or inhabitants, has been the great absentee in the processes of territorial transformation, a space that is out of focus with respect to urban issues and continually compromised by the urban. The intervention on ordinary rural territory in a transformative sense leads us to consider several factors: the limitation of consumption and fragmentation of agricultural soils due to the advance of the urban; the repair and strengthening of ecosystem services and green infrastructures in the intertwining of natural-artificial and in relation to ongoing climate changes; the reuse of the abandoned in new forms; the reconstruction of practices and relations through the mobilization of beneficiaries and through new forms of cooperation between inhabitants-producers; the response to different types of needs in urban-rural areas between tourism and immigration; the role of agri- food resources in the construction of bio-districts and circular economies, related to waste processing, energy and water; the coexistence of proximity production chain together with those of long distance. The Hyblean territory is a very stimulating terrain where we can compose hypotheses on the existing spatial resources in rural areas. Through an attitude aimed at maintain, repair, reorganize, enhance, it is perhaps possible to imagine a reconstruction of the sense of rural spaces.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Health App Use and Its Correlates Among Individuals With and Without Type 2 Diabetes: Nationwide Population-Based Survey
Creators: name: Stühmann, Lena Mareike
name: Paprott, Rebecca
name: Heidemann, Christin
name: Baumert, Jens
name: Hansen, Sylvia
name: Zahn, Daniela
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
name: Gellert, Paul
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: mobile app
subject: smartphone
subject: diabetes mellitus
subject: type 2 diabetes
subject: risk factors
subject: health-related behavior
subject: health promotion
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Evidence suggests that mobile health app use is beneficial for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its associated complications; however, population-based research on specific determinants of health app use in people with and without T2D is scarce. Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to provide population-based evidence on rates and determinants of health app use among adults with and without T2D, thereby covering a prevention perspective and a diabetes management perspective, respectively. Methods: The study population included 2327 adults without a known diabetes diagnosis and 1149 adults with known T2D from a nationwide telephone survey in Germany conducted in 2017. Rates of smartphone ownership and health app use were estimated based on weighted sample proportions. Among smartphone owners, determinants of health app use were identified for both groups separately in multivariable logistic regression models. Sociodemographic factors, diabetes-related factors or indicators, psychological and health-related factors, and physician-provided information were selected as potential determinants. Results: Among participants without known diabetes, 74.72% (1690/2327) were smartphone owners. Of those, 49.27% (717/1690) used health apps, most often to improve regular physical activity. Among participants with T2D, 42.26% (481/1149) were smartphone owners. Of those, 41.1% (171/481) used health apps, most commonly to target a healthy diet. Among people without known diabetes, determinants significantly (all P values
Exchange and correlation as a functional of the local density of states
Creators: name: Soler, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A functional $E_{xc}[ρ(\r,ε)]$ is presented, in which the exchange and correlation energy of an electron gas depends on the local density of occupied states. A simple local parametrization scheme is proposed, entirely from first principles, based on the decomposition of the exchange-correlation hole in scattering states of different relative energies. In its practical Kohn-Sham-like form, the single-electron orbitals become the independent variables, and an explicit formula for the functional derivative is obtained.
description: 5 pages. Expanded version. Will appear in Phys. Rev. B
Effect of daptomycin and vancomycin on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms: An in vitro assessment using fluorescence in situ hybridization
Creators: name: Sutrave, Smita
name: Kikhney, Judith
name: Schmidt, Julia
name: Petrich, A.
name: Wiessner, Alexandra
name: Kursawe, Laura
name: Gebhardt, M.
name: Kertzscher, Ulrich
name: Gabel, Grischa
name: Goubergrits, Leonid
name: Affeld, Klaus
name: Moter, Annette
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: biofilm
subject: staphylococcus epidermidis
subject: FISH
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Colonization of in-dwelling catheters by microbial biofilms is a major concern in patient health eventually leading to catheter-related blood stream infections. Biofilms are less susceptible to standard antibiotic therapies that are effective against planktonic bacteria. Standard procedure for the detection of microorganisms on the catheter tip is culture. However, viable but non-culturable cells (VBNCs) may be missed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) as an indicator to visualize and quantify the effect of the antibiotics daptomycin and vancomycin on biofilms in situ. We established an in vitro catheter biofilm model of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms on polyurethane catheters. Biofilm activity was measured by FISH and correlated to colony forming units (CFU) data. Digital image analysis was used for quantification of total biofilm mass and the area of the FISH positive biofilm cells. FISH showed a pronounced effect of both antibiotics on the biofilms, with daptomycin having a significantly stronger effect in terms of both reduction of biofilm mass and number of FISH-positive cells. This supports the anti-biofilm capacity of daptomycin. Interestingly, neither antibiotic was able to eradicate all of the FISH-positive cells. In summary, FISH succeeded in visualization, quantification, and localization of antibiotic activity on biofilms. This technique adds a new tool to the arsenal of test systems for anti-biofilm compounds. FISH is a valuable complementary technique to CFU since it can be highly standardized and provides information on biofilm architecture and quantity and localization of survivor cells.
Faint High-Latitude Carbon Stars Discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: An Initial Catalog
Creators: name: Downes, Ronald A.
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Harris, Hugh C.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Schroeder, Josh
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: York, Donald. G.
name: Pier, Jeffery R.
name: Brinkman, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search of more than 3,000 square degrees of high latitude sky by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has yielded 251 faint high-latitude carbon stars (FHLCs), the large majority previously uncataloged. We present homogeneous spectroscopy, photometry, and astrometry for the sample. The objects lie in the 15.6 < r < 20.8 range, and exhibit a wide variety of apparent photospheric temperatures, ranging from spectral types near M to as early as F. Proper motion measurements for 222 of the objects show that at least 50%, and quite probably more than 60%, of these objects are actually low luminosity dwarf carbon (dC) stars, in agreement with a variety of recent, more limited investigations which show that such objects are the numerically dominant type of star with C_2 in the spectrum. This SDSS homogeneous sample of ~110 dC stars now constitutes 90% of all known carbon dwarfs, and will grow by another factor of 2-3 by the completion of the Survey. As the spectra of the dC and the faint halo giant C stars are very similar (at least at spectral resolution of 1,000) despite a difference of 10 mag in luminosity, it is imperative that simple luminosity discriminants other than proper motion be developed. We use our enlarged sample of FHLCs to examine a variety of possible luminosity criteria, including many previously suggested, and find that, with certain important caveats, JHK photometry may segregate dwarfs and giants.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 127, May 2004, 37 pages, 12 figures
Stigmatophora palmata
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Huang, Si-Yao
name: Dubatolov, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Stigmatophora
Stigmatophora palmata

description: The S. palmata species-group
 Diagnosis. Species of the species-group are characterized by the pale or deep yellow ground colour of wings with the black forewing pattern consisting of interrupted transverse lines and long and wide black longitudinal streaks between the veins in the postmedial and subterminal areas. The male genitalia are characterized by the small or reduced ampulla, the valva slightly tapered distally and the relatively short distal saccular process not reaching the tip of the valva. The female genitalia of the species-group have no significant differences from those of other species-groups of the genus.
 Description. External morphology of adults (Figs 1–23). Forewing length 13–18 mm in both sexes. Antennae of both sexes ciliate. Body yellow, thorax with black spots. Forewing elongate with rounded apex. Forewing ground colour yellow, darker terminally. Forewing pattern black. Subbasal line as spot. Ante- and postmedial line interrupted to series of spots. Postmedial and subterminal areas with elongate longitudinal streaks between veins. Hindwing pale yellow, with diffuse blackish spots between veins subapically. Male genitalia (Figs 24 –31). Uncus narrow, laterally flattened, somewhat dilated subapically, apically pointed. Scaphium thin, weakly sclerotized. Tegumen relatively narrow, as long as vinculum. Vinculum elongate, with narrowly U-shaped or pointed V-shaped tip. Juxta shield-like, moderately sclerotized. Valva elongate, with slightly sinuous costal margin. Ampulla small or reduced, positioned subbasally. In certain species, clasper with short triangular process directed ventrally. Sacculus moderately wide, with relatively short distal process not reaching tip of valva. Aedeagus elongate and narrow, somewhat S-like curved. Vesica globular, with two or three short conical diverticula and two clusters of varioussized short but robust triangular cornuti. Female genitalia (Figs 32–37). Papillae anales trapezoid with rounded corners. Apophyses elongate and thin, of more or less equal length. Ductus bursae strongly elongate, dorso-ventrally flattened, moderately sclerotized medially and weakly sclerotized laterally. Corpus bursae globular or elliptical, strongly spinulose scobinated. Appendix bursae strongly elongate, conical distally, scobinated basally and distally, directed posteriorly.
 Distribution. Species of the species-group are widely distributed in Himalaya, south-western, southern and south-eastern China, and northern and central Indochina.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., Huang, Si-Yao & Dubatolov, Vladimir V., 2021, A review of the Stigmatophora palmata (Moore, 1878) species-group (Lepidoptera Erebidae: Arctiinae) with description of a new species from China, pp. 243-257 in Zootaxa 4999 (3) on pages 244-245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5119012
Stenognathellus denisi Cassagnau 1953
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Stenognathellus
Stenognathellus denisi

description: Stenognathellus denisi Cassagnau, 1953 **
Stenognathellus denisi Cassagnau, 1953b: 227.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ardèche. Puitssupérieur dela Bastide-sous-Sampzon près de Grospierres (Thibaud & Stomp 1978).
Bouches-du-Rhône. Forêtde Cadarache (Rougon & Rougon 1970). — Camargue (Poinsot 1973, 1979). — Cadarache (Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d). — Sansouireà Salinde Badon, Camargue (Bigot & Poinsot-Balaguer 1978). — Plateaudu Petit Arbois (Cortet & Poinsot-Balaguer 1998).
Corse. Poinsot-Balaguer 1978.
Haute-Garonne. Bois de Saint-Jean-de-l’Unionet forêtde Bouconne (Cassagnau 1953b). — Boisde Preissac (Betsch & Cassagnau 1966).
Loiret. Forêtd’Orléans (Ponge & Prat 1982).
Plainedela Garonne. Cassagnau 1961.
Pyrénées-Orientales. Forêt de hêtres dela Massane, 630 m, près de Banyuls-sur-Mer (Izarra 1980). — Cassagnau 1961.
Tarn, Aude. Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1965).
Tarn. Forêtde Sivens (Cassagnau 1953b). — Sidobre (Izarra 1969; Bonnet etal. 1972).
Var. Massif des Maures (Poinsot-Balaguer & Kabakibi 1987).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Cassagnau 1965 (écologie, sol); Rougon & Rougon 1970; Bonnet etal. 1972 (écologie, muscicoles); Poinsot 1973, 1979; Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d (irradiation); Ponge & Prat 1982 (humidification); Poinsot-Balaguer & Kabakibi 1987; Cortet & Poinsot-Balaguer 1998 (décompositiondelitières).
Famille SMINTHURIDAE Lubbock, 1862
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 406, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272