cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Xanthones from the herb of Swertia elata and their anti-TMV activity
Creators: name: Jiang, Wei
name: Zhu, Dong-Lai
name: Wang, Ming-Feng
name: Yang, Qing-Song
name: Zuo, Ma-Yi
name: Zeng, Liang
name: Li, Gan-Peng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Two new xanthones (1–2), together with four known ones (3–6), were isolated from whole herb of Swertia elata. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods including extensive 1D- and 2D-NMR techniques. Their anti-tobacco mosaic virus (anti-TMV) activity test revealed that 1–6 showed weak anti-TMV activities with inhibition rate in the range of 15.2–28.8% at the concentration of 20 μM.
Regulating next generation broadband: lessons from Australia
Creators: name: Kelso, Ross
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper illuminates the field of telecommunications access regulation as it has applied to infrastructure capable of delivering next generation broadband services. It concludes with some lessons that can be learned when attempting to regulate the new government-sponsored National Broadband Network. Copyright 2008 Ross Kelso. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
title: Protective and risk factors of suicide among Indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Publisher: name: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Health sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Rates of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have increased by 20–24% over the past decade. Understanding how protective and risk factors contribute to suicide is an important step to improve suicide prevention for Indigenous Australians.

There are many protective and risk factors that may contribute towards, or protect against, suicidal behaviour. Most of these factors are common to all Australians, but some are unique to Indigenous Australians. Although our understanding of suicide has been increasing, there is yet to be a comprehensive review of recent evidence of the contribution of protective and risk factors for suicide among Indigenous Australians.

This report outlines protective and risk factors that contribute to suicide among Indigenous Australians and the existing data collections and methods used for measuring protective and risk factors for suicide. It is important to use available data to explore the intersectional relationships between protective and risk factors that contribute to suicide among Indigenous Australians. Using data to understand why suicide prevalence varies by location and over time supports the ability for governments and communities to work together to implement evidence-based policies, interventions, and suicide prevention programs.
Development of an anti-microbial peptide-mediated liposomal delivery system: a novel approach towards pH-responsive anti-microbial peptides
Creators: name: Zhang, Qianyu
name: Tang, Jie
name: Ran, Rui
name: Liu, Yayuan
name: Zhang, Zhirong
name: Gao, Huile
name: He, Qin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: On one hand, the application of anti-microbial peptides (AMPs) in the construction of AMPs-mediated drug delivery system has not yet been fully exploited; on the other hand, its non-selectivity in vivo has also limited its clinical application. In this work, we chose one pH-responsive peptide, [D]-H6L9, and functionalized it onto the surface of liposomes (D-Lip). The protonation of histidines in the sequence of [D]-H6L9 under pH 6.3 could switch the surface charge of D-Lip from negative (under pH 7.4) to positive (under pH 6.3), and the cellular uptake and tumor spheroids uptake were increased accordingly. Lysosome co-localization assay suggested that there was only little overlap of D-Lip with lysosomes in 12 h, which indicated that D-Lip could escape lysosomes effectively. In vivo biodistribution assay on C26 tumor-bearing BALB/C mice showed that DiR-labeled D-Lip could reach tumors as much as PEG-Lip, and both tumor slices and quantitative measurement of dispersed cells of in vivo tumors by flow cytometry demonstrated that D-Lip could be taken up by tumors more efficiently. Therefore, we have established an anti-microbial peptide-mediated liposomal delivery system for tumor delivery.
ON THE FEATURES OF EXPRESSING EXCLAMATIONS IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE (BASED ON MONOSYLLABIC WORDS)
Creators: name: Nasimova, Dilbar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes the features of expressing exclamations and imperative sentences in the French language based on monosyllabic words. The article, considering modern approaches in linguistics, examines the communicative functions of exclamations and imperative sentences, as well as their semantic and pragmatic characteristics. It demonstrates how monosyllabic words, their intonation, and pronunciation are used in the French language to express emotions and give commands. Furthermore, the article analyzes interjections, their meanings, and how they are used in everyday speech, along with their role and significance from a pragmatic perspective.
Minding the gap(s) in Australian spectrum law
Creators: name: Freyens, Benoit Pierre
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Achieving efficient spectrum management in the pursuit of the public interest was a key aspect of the legislative reforms enacted through the Radiocommunications Act 1992. However, the Act is unclear about the precise nature of the efficiencies to achieve and choices between different efficiency objectives are often dictated by the nature of the services, bands and market considered. This article argues that efficient spectrum policy can be furthered by crafting additional licensing regimes or expanding the possibilities of existing regimes. Despite successes in moving towards this goal, some legal rules still feed a pool of licensing gaps that detract from the public interest they are meant to serve. The article discusses remedies to these gaps. Copyright 2010 Benoit Pierre Freyens. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
A Ph-Sensitive Drug Carrier Based on Maleic Acid-Substituted Cyclotriphosphazene
Creators: name: Wang, Yu
name: Liu, Yuanyuan
name: Zhang, Min
name: Qiu, Jinjun
name: Wu, Zhangxin
name: Liu, Chengmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
The Melbourne telephone network plan [1944]
Creators: name: Prosser, C. J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper was originally published in Telecommunication Journal of Australia, Volume 5, No. 1, 1944.This paper describes the evolution and planning for the future of the Melbourne telephone network. Copyright 2010 Australian Computer Society. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Evaluating Procedures for Establishing Generative Adversarial Network-based Stochastic Image Models in Medical Imaging
Creators: name: Kelkar, Varun A.
name: Gotsis, Dimitrios S.
name: Brooks, Frank J.
name: Myers, Kyle J.
name: KC, Prabhat
name: Zeng, Rongping
name: Anastasio, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), hold tremendous promise for several areas of medical imaging, such as unconditional medical image synthesis, image restoration, reconstruction and translation, and optimization of imaging systems. However, procedures for establishing stochastic image models (SIMs) using GANs remain generic and do not address specific issues relevant to medical imaging. In this work, canonical SIMs that simulate realistic vessels in angiography images are employed to evaluate procedures for establishing SIMs using GANs. The GAN-based SIM is compared to the canonical SIM based on its ability to reproduce those statistics that are meaningful to the particular medically realistic SIM considered. It is shown that evaluating GANs using classical metrics and medically relevant metrics may lead to different conclusions about the fidelity of the trained GANs. This work highlights the need for the development of objective metrics for evaluating GANs.
description: Published in SPIE Medical Imaging 2022: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment
Australia's National Broadband Network: how it came to be and where it might be heading
Creators: name: Corner, Stuart
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian Government has committed to build a fibre-to-the-premises network serving 90 percent of Australian homes at an estimated cost of $43b. This article looks at how it came to abandon an earlier plan for fibre-to-the-node network at a fraction of the cost, at how the technical development and rollout plans for the project are progressing, at the political hurdles it must still surmount and at what the Federal Opposition might do should an election derail the Government's plan. The article also examines legislation the government is trying to push through that would drastically restructure Telstra and which it is using this to try and negotiate Telstra's participation in the new network. Copyright 2010 Stuart Corner. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Nomadicity and the evolution of applications, networks and policy
Creators: name: Williamson, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A number of behavioural observations point to a preference and willingness to pay for communications technologies that support mobile and nomadic use. This paper considers these observations and the implications for the evolution of mobile and fixed networks. It then considers whether there are wider external social benefits and the possible implications for public policy.Mobile and fixed are both substitutes and complements. Consumers with low bandwidth and, in particular, low capacity (gigabytes per month) requirements may opt for mobile broadband only. Consumers with low bandwidth and high capacity requirements might choose to meet their need for capacity with copper, complemented by wireless. Demand for fibre may be more limited. To meet demand for mobile bandwidth and capacity, fibre can be run to mobile base stations, but this only requires a network of around 1/2000th the density in terms of points of connection of a fibre to the home network. Demand for fibre to the home is limited to those who are willing to pay for high bandwidth and capacity.Some key questions addressed in this paper include whether external social benefits arise from mobile and fixed network access, whether the incremental external social gains from a move from current to next generation networks are material and whether they are likely to differ between mobile and fixed networks. We conclude that such gains are likely to be significantly larger for mobile than for fixed networks since wide area coverage and smart mobile devices can support applications that fixed cannot, mobile is likely to contribute more to getting the final third of the population online and spectrum reallocation would result in gains from trade that are not privately appropriable since spectrum utilised for broadcasting is generally non-tradable. These questions have a direct implication for policy decisions: priority should be given to spectrum reallocation for mobile use (including public expenditure as required) and removal of barriers to commercial investment in fibre, including possible regulatory barriers to copper network retirement and price differentiation for wholesale fibre access. Copyright 2010 Brian Williamson. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Meet Mike Quigley: CEO of NBN Co Limited: network architect and designer
Creators: name: Fell, Liz
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mike Quigley was appointed by the Federal government in July 2009 as Executive Chairman of the National Broadband Network Company Ltd (NBNCo), the Government Business Enterprise set up to design, build and operate a national broadband network.Freelance journalist Liz Fell interviewed Quigley in late January for the TJA. This is an edited transcript. Copyright 2010 Liz Fell. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Long distance telephone and telegraph installations in Australia during the war [1946]
Creators: name: Newton, G. O.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper was originally published in Telecommunication Journal of Australia, Volume 5, No. 5, 1946.This paper describes the most outstanding and important works associated with long distance telecommunications carried out during the 19391945 period.These installations, together with a large number of smaller works, resulted in an increase of about 25,000 miles of wire for trunk telephone and telegraph use in the Commonwealth for the period 1939-1945. The carrier channel mileage increased over two and a half times and over seven times for trunk telephone and telegraph facilities, respectively. Copyright 2010 G. O. Newtwon. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Life Course Socioeconomic Status and DNA Methylation in Genes Related to Stress Reactivity and Inflammation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: A. Smith, Jennifer
name: Zhao, Wei
name: Wang, Xu
name: Mukherjee, Bhramar
name: L. R. Kardia, Sharon
name: Seeman, Teresa E.
name: Liu, Yongmei
name: L. Needham, Belinda
name: A. Shively, Carol
name: V. Diez Roux, Ava
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: ABSTRACTEpigenetic changes, such as DNA methylation, have been hypothesized to provide a link between the social environment and disease development. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between life course measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and DNA methylation (DNAm) in 18 genes related to stress reactivity and inflammation using a multi-level modeling approach that treats DNAm measurements as repeat measures within an individual. DNAm and gene expression were assessed in purified monocytes for a random subsample of 1,264 non-Hispanic white, African-American, and Hispanic participants aged 55-94 from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). After correction for multiple testing, we found that low childhood SES was associated with DNAm in three stress-related genes (AVP, FKBP5, OXTR) and two inflammation-related genes (CCL1, CD1D), low adult SES was associated with DNAm in one stress-related gene (AVP) and five inflammation-related genes (CD1D, F8, KLRG1, NLRP12, TLR3), and social mobility was associated with DNAm in three stress-related genes (AVP, FKBP5, OXTR) and seven inflammation-related genes (CCL1, CD1D, F8, KLRG1, NLRP12, PYDC1, TLR3). In general, low SES was associated with increased DNAm. Expression data was available for seven genes that showed a significant relationship between SES and DNAm. In five of these seven genes (CD1D, F8, FKBP5, KLRG1, NLRP12), DNAm was associated with gene expression for at least one transcript, providing evidence of the potential functional consequences of alterations in DNAm related to SES. The results of this study reflect the biological complexity of epigenetic data and underscore the need for multi-disciplinary approaches to study how DNAm may contribute to the social patterning of disease.
Fighting the monopoly bogeyman: the mythical basis for structural separation
Creators: name: Warren, Tony
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Structural separation is a tool available to regulators when it is apparent access regulation and competition policy are failing. In Australia there is prolific competition, but because of ACCC pricing policies, that competition is clustered in high-value suburban areas, and is still reliant on access to Telstras local loops. Competitors have failed to move up the ladder of investment because lower rungs have been under-priced. That is history. We now need massive investment in next generation networks. Out with the ladder, and in with a high-cost escalator! An FTTN investor not only takes on a much higher risk, without sufficient demand signals, confidence in a commercial return, and a stable regulatory environment, there won't be an FTTN investment. Structural separation not only increases the commercial risk, it decreases the chances of the investment ever taking place by separating the demand and supply sides of a company Copyright 2008 Tony Warren. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Service provider quality: The need for research:
Creators: name: Havyatt, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The telecommunications industrys reputation for poor customer service has been much commented on but little analysed. This study seeks to assist in the three-party engagement between providers, consumers and regulators to improve industry performance. Building on a workshop conducted in 2006 by the Consumer Council of ACIF, a small pilot survey was conducted to assess the adequacy of a description of a quality service provider and the performance of service providers against it. The survey suggests the need and a pathway for further public research, along the lines of research undertaken by providers for themselves. Copyright 2010 David Havyatt. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Telecommunication [1935]
Creators: name: Witt, S. H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This was the first paper ever published in Telecommunication Journal of Australia, Volume 1, No. 1, 1935, and gives some background to the decision to commence publishing a journal to provide a forum specific to Australia. Copyright 2010 Australian Computer SocietyAustralian Computer Society. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Emotional Speech Recognition with Pre-trained Deep Visual Models
Creators: name: Ragheb, Waleed
name: Mirzapour, Mehdi
name: Delfardi, Ali
name: Jacquenet, Hélène
name: Carbon, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose a new methodology for emotional speech recognition using visual deep neural network models. We employ the transfer learning capabilities of the pre-trained computer vision deep models to have a mandate for the emotion recognition in speech task. In order to achieve that, we propose to use a composite set of acoustic features and a procedure to convert them into images. Besides, we present a training paradigm for these models taking into consideration the different characteristics between acoustic-based images and regular ones. In our experiments, we use the pre-trained VGG-16 model and test the overall methodology on the Berlin EMO-DB dataset for speaker-independent emotion recognition. We evaluate the proposed model on the full list of the seven emotions and the results set a new state-of-the-art.
[Enveloppe d'un courrier adressé à Yolanda Huerga Cedeño-07]
Creators: name: Manuel, Vázquez Portal
name: Vázquez Portal, Manuel
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: Prison de Aguadores

description: Destinataire : Huerga Cedeño, Yolanda
description: Notes : Absence dans le fonds d'archives de la lettre de Vázquez Portal à son épouse correspondante à cette enveloppe. Courrier expédié depuis la Prison de Aguadores, 'Celda n° 15'. Chiffre 29 encerclé à gauche du timbre au recto. Trois cachets au verso, dont deux comportent les dates 07-10-2003 et 08-10-2003, le troisième est illisible. Adresse figurant sur l'enveloppe : 'Edificio 979 apto 14 – Zona 24. Alamar – Habana del Este – Ciudad de la Habana – Cuba'.
description: Source: Cote : MVP-B-2003-10-08b
description: Source: Localisation du document : États-Unis, Miami (Floride)
description: created: 2003-10-07/2003-10-08
Anticholinesterases and antioxidant alkamides from Piper nigrum fruits
Creators: name: Tu, Yanbei
name: Zhong, Yujiao
name: Du, Hongjian
name: Luo, Wei
name: Wen, Yaya
name: Li, Qin
name: Zhu, Chao
name: Li, Yanfang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The anticholinesterase and antioxidant effects of five different extracts of Piper nigrum were evaluated. Twenty-one known alkamides were isolated from active ethyl acetate extract and investigated for their cholinesterase inhibitory and antioxidant effects. Among them, piperine (2), piperettine (5) and piperettyline (20) exhibited dual inhibition against AChE and BChE, and feruperine (18) was the most potent selective inhibitor of BChE. Molecular docking simulation was performed to get insight into the binding interactions of the ligands and enzymes. In addition, N-trans-feruloyltyramine (3) contributed to the strongest DPPH radical-scavenging activity. The self-induced Aβ aggregation inhibition of 2, 5 and 18 was further evaluated. Results indicated that some alkamides could be multifunctional lead candidates for Alzheimer’s disease therapy.
Biodiversity of oligotrich ciliates in the South China Sea: description of three new Strombidium species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia) with phylogenetic analyses
Creators: name: Song, Wen
name: Zhao, Xiaolu
name: Liu, Weiwei
name: Hu, Xiaozhong
name: A. Al-Farraj, Saleh
name: A. S. Al-Rasheid, Khaled
name: Song, Weibo
name: Warren, Alan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: The morphology and small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene sequences of three new species of ciliates in the genus Strombidium are recorded: S. paracapitatum sp. nov., S. cuneiforme sp. nov., and S. caudispina sp. nov. Strombidium paracapitatum sp. nov. is characterized by having a prominent and transparent apical protrusion and two types of extrusomes. Strombidium cuneiforme sp. nov. differs from its congeners in the combination of its long conical body shape, eyespot and elongated tail. Strombidium caudispina sp. nov. is recognized by its posterior spine and short ventral kinety. In SSU rRNA gene trees, all members of the genus Strombidium cluster into three separate groups. The first group is composed of nine Strombidium species including S. cuneiforme sp. nov., plus Williophrya maedai. The second group consists of S. paracapitatum sp. nov., S. caudispina sp. nov. and three congeners. The third group comprises S. conicum and S. chlorophilum.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:25871A6B-772A-4D26-9940-ACE2B5F1EA07
Biodiversity of oligotrich ciliates in the South China Sea: description of three new Strombidium species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia) with phylogenetic analyses
Creators: name: Song, Wen
name: Zhao, Xiaolu
name: Liu, Weiwei
name: Hu, Xiaozhong
name: A. Al-Farraj, Saleh
name: A. S. Al-Rasheid, Khaled
name: Song, Weibo
name: Warren, Alan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: The morphology and small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene sequences of three new species of ciliates in the genus Strombidium are recorded: S. paracapitatum sp. nov., S. cuneiforme sp. nov., and S. caudispina sp. nov. Strombidium paracapitatum sp. nov. is characterized by having a prominent and transparent apical protrusion and two types of extrusomes. Strombidium cuneiforme sp. nov. differs from its congeners in the combination of its long conical body shape, eyespot and elongated tail. Strombidium caudispina sp. nov. is recognized by its posterior spine and short ventral kinety. In SSU rRNA gene trees, all members of the genus Strombidium cluster into three separate groups. The first group is composed of nine Strombidium species including S. cuneiforme sp. nov., plus Williophrya maedai. The second group consists of S. paracapitatum sp. nov., S. caudispina sp. nov. and three congeners. The third group comprises S. conicum and S. chlorophilum.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:25871A6B-772A-4D26-9940-ACE2B5F1EA07
Measured Variables
Creators: name: Schneider, Kristin
name: Mumby, Patricia
name: Kumar, Esha Rani
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2021

description: Demographic information: age, gender, and race/ethnicity. Information extracted from transplant records.

Clinical data: medical diagnosis, transplant type, date of transplant, date of death (if applicable), and date of last follow-up. Data extracted from transplant records.

Longevity: Calculated as an exact number in months (i.e., not rounded to whole numbers). Length of survival in months, up to 42 months post-transplant. Date of death was recorded based on transplant records and then used to calculate longevity in months based on each participant’s transplant date.

Perceived social support: Using the Brief Chronic Illness Resource Survey (CIRS), a 29-item questionnaire that measures perceived social support (e.g., instrumental, emotional, informational, and appraisal) broadly across seven domains, or subscales, including doctor and health care team, family and friends, personal, neighborhood, community, media and policy, community organizations, and work. Participants rated the amount of support they received over the last three months in each of the seven domains on a 5-point Likert scale. We will calculate CIRS scores in two ways: 1) Calculating the mean score for each subscale without including the importance rating, and then averaging the subscale means; 2) Weighting each subscale score by the corresponding importance rating. Higher scores indicate greater self-reported social support while lower scores indicate less support.

Self-reported treatment adherence: Using the Medical Outcomes Study of Patient Adherence (MOS) is a five-item questionnaire that measures general adherence to treatment recommendations. Participants rated how true each of the five items was for them over the last four weeks on a 6-point Likert scale. To score the MOS, items 1 and 3 will be reverse scored, and then all five items in the MOS will be averaged together for the treatment adherence score. Higher scores indicate greater self-reported treatment adherence, while lower scores indicate less treatment adherence.
Reliability of the Ginzburg-Landau Theory in the BCS-BEC Crossover by Including Gaussian Fluctuations for 3D Attractive Fermions
Creators: name: Pascucci, F.
name: Perali, A.
name: Salasnich, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the parameters of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation of a three-dimensional attractive Fermi gas around the superfluid critical temperature. We compare different levels of approximation throughout the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) regime. We show that the inclusion of Gaussian fluctuations strongly modifies the values of the Ginzburg-Landau parameters approaching the BEC regime of the crossover. We investigate the reliability of the Ginzburg-Landau theory, with fluctuations, studying the behavior of the coherence length and of the critical rotational frequencies throughout the BCS-BEC crossover. The effect of the Gaussian fluctuations gives qualitative correct trends of the considered physical quantities from the BCS regime up to the unitary limit of the BCS-BEC crossover. Approaching the BEC regime, the Ginzburg-Landau equation with the inclusion of Gaussian fluctuations turns out to be unreliable.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, published in Condensed Matter
Measuring the Research Capacity of a University: Use of Web of Science and Scopus
Creators: name: Kotsemir, Maxim
name: Shashnov, Sergey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 140204 Economics of Education
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Education

description: Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2662423

This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of the use of publication databases such as Web of Science and Scopus to determine the research capabilities and prospective areas of research and development of universities. It also analyses major problems related with the analysis of universities’ publication activities in Scopus and Web of Science databases such as author surname variations, identification of author profile among authors with the same surname, author and organization profile merging, identification of author affiliation etc.

This paper proposes a list of bibliometric indicators for the analysis of publication activities of individual researchers, university departments and universities as a whole. Furthermore, it describes the methodological approaches for interpreting these indicators.

Finally, the paper reviews the possibilities of VOSviewer software for analysis of different aspect of publication activities at individual and department level such as international collaboration networks, detection of the hot topics of research activity and co-citation networks.

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2662423

2nd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences & Arts SGEM 2015. Conference Proceedings. Book 1, Vol. II, pp. 621-628
Global polarization and spin alignment measurements
Creators: name: Niida, Takafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental results on global polarization of hyperons and spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions are reviewed, especially in context of the energy dependence and particle species dependence. New results on local polarization along the beam direction at the LHC are discussed with previous measurements at RHIC. Future outlook of these measurements and possible future directions for better understanding of local vorticity field are briefly discussed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings for the 19th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2021)
Efficient, Iron-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole Through S-Arylation/Heterocyclization of 2-Haloaniline with Potassium Xanthate
Creators: name: Gao, Min
name: Zhu, Ning
name: Suo, Quanling
name: Han, Limin
name: Hong, Hailong
name: Lou, Chunqing
name: Qin, Weijing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A mild and practical method for the synthesis of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole has been developed by using iron as an efficient catalyst. The present tandem reaction process allows access to a wide range of 2-mercaptobenzothiazoles in good to excellent yields by the reaction of 2-haloaniline with potassium O-ethyl dithiocarbonate in the presence of FeF3 as a catalyst and 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthyl as a ligand under an atmosphere of argon.
Building an Innovation-Driven Economy – The Case of BRIC and GCC Countries
Creators: name: Kotsemir, Maxim
name: Meissner, Dirk
name: Gackstatter, Steffen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Foresight, Vol. 16, Iss. 4, pp. 293-308 (2014) Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2491488

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the attempts of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) countries to catch up in their national development to build an innovation-driven economy on which to base future growth and wealth. We conducted an analysis of GCC and BRIC countries to show the different strategies leaders have taken to try and achieve this aspiration. This paper analyses the various aspects of national innovation systems of BRIC and GCC countries, highlights similar and different approaches and attempts to quantify their success. For example, GCC countries spend extensively on research and development (R&D), but have so far achieved less than meaningful results. Brazil, China and India are catching up to the acknowledged world leaders in innovation, but Russia is lagging.

Design/Methodology/Approach – Our comparison was based mostly on secondary data from sources and institutions that use statistical data to build country rankings, such as the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) produced by the World Economic Forum. BRIC and GCC countries were analyzed over 1996-2011 because most of the indicators data are only available from 1996. Data related to intellectual property rights have been collected since 1999 or 2000. The data available for the number of researchers proved problematic for both BRIC and GCC countries. For instance, some data for the GCC countries was missing. To not leave a gap, we extrapolated in line with the overall trend; using the least squares method to approximate a straight line for the missing data based on what had already been reported.

Findings – Counter-intuitively, we will argue that the push toward an innovation-based economy is actually not dependent on total expenditure on R&D, but rather relies on the efficient allocation of investments and the rigorous implementation of innovation strategy. And, we will demonstrate this by showing our ideas in relation to both BRIC and GCC countries. This analysis raises fascinating points of discussion for those looking to build an innovation economy in other countries and has practical implications for policy-makers and policy implementers in all countries.

Originality/Value – First analysis of the correlation of gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) with gross domestic product (GDP) growth and Straits Times Index (STI) policy measures.

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2491488
On the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe
Creators: name: Manousakis, Efstratios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to investigate the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe, we adopt a theoretical framework where the standard model emerges as a Poincaré invariant field theory localized at a domain-antidomain wall (DW-aDW) brane pair of a theory which lives on a higher dimensional bulk. We argue that such a system of a parallel DW-aDW pair could have been created at a very early epoch of the cosmological evolution when the Universe was still of microscopic size because its creation is topologically possible as compared to a single DW creation when the perpendicular extra dimension is compact. The conservation laws, such as of charge and chirality, are not violated in vacuum fluctuations of the combined DW-aDW system, but as we show their simultaneous conservation for each wall separately may not be favorable in certain processes. In particular, as expansion of spacetime occurs in the higher dimensional bulk, the distance d between the DW and the aDW increases as a function of time. We show that during the early stages of the cosmological evolution, when d was of microscopic size, the leading mechanism for pair-creation from fluctuations of the gauge-field with polarization perpendicular to the DWs (i.e., polarization along the extra dimension) was one in which the particle and the antiparticle were created on the opposite domain-walls hosting opposite chirality fermions. This mechanism allows for a matter-antimatter asymmetry to appear separately in the DW and the aDW, while in the combined DW-aDW system no such asymmetry was allowed. In this scenario, at a later and the present stage of the cosmological evolution, where d is macroscopically large, the probability to violate these conservation laws on a single DW, as a function of the inter-wall distance, is exponentially suppressed.
Misalignments in NGC 1068
Creators: name: Vermot, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 1068 is a nearby Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of type 2, meaning that its accretion disk is hidden behind a large amount of foreground extinction. Observations at several wavelengths have revealed various disk-like structures around the nucleus, all possibly part of the putative torus responsible for the obscuration of the AGN. The paper presents results based on GRAVITY/VLTI interferometric observations in the near-infrared, which provide very high angular resolution, and gives insights into the geometry of the innermost region of the torus. The 3D orientation of the structure is surprising in several aspects, as it is misaligned with other disks present around the nucleus, and leaves a clear line of sight toward the central source.
Security Aspects of Quantum Machine Learning: Opportunities, Threats and Defenses
Creators: name: Kundu, Satwik
name: Ghosh, Swaroop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last few years, quantum computing has experienced a growth spurt. One exciting avenue of quantum computing is quantum machine learning (QML) which can exploit the high dimensional Hilbert space to learn richer representations from limited data and thus can efficiently solve complex learning tasks. Despite the increased interest in QML, there have not been many studies that discuss the security aspects of QML. In this work, we explored the possible future applications of QML in the hardware security domain. We also expose the security vulnerabilities of QML and emerging attack models, and corresponding countermeasures.
description: 6 pages, GLSVLSI'22 Special Session
A Comparison of Frequentist and Bayesian Model Based Approaches for Missing Data Analysis: Case Study with a Schizophrenia Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Frank Liu, G.
name: Han, Baoguang
name: Zhao, Xin
name: Lin, Qun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Missing data are common in clinical trials and could lead to biased estimation of treatment effects. The National Research Council (NRC) report suggests that sensitivity analysis on missing data mechanism should be a mandatory component of the primary reporting of findings from clinical trials, and regulatory agencies are requesting more thorough sensitivity analyses from sponsors. However, recent literature research showed that missing data were almost always inadequately handled. This is partially due to the lack of standard software packages and straightforward implementation platform. With recent availability of flexible Bayesian software packages such as WinBUGS, SAS Proc MCMC, and Stan, it is relatively simple to develop Bayesian methods to address complex missing data problems while incorporating the uncertainty. In this article, we present a case study from the DIA Bayesian Scientific Working Group (BSWG) on Bayesian approaches for missing data analysis. We illustrate how to use Bayesian approaches to fit a few commonly used frequentist missing data models. The properties, advantage, and flexibility of the Bayesian analysis methods will be discussed using a case study based on a schizophrenia clinical trial. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
A Comparison of Frequentist and Bayesian Model Based Approaches for Missing Data Analysis: Case Study with a Schizophrenia Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Zhao, Xin
name: Frank Liu, G.
name: Han, Baoguang
name: Lin, Qun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology

description: Missing data is common in clinical trials and could lead to biased estimation of treatment effects. The National Research Council (NRC) report suggests that sensitivity analysis on missing data mechanism should be a mandatory component of the primary reporting of findings from clinical trials, and regulatory agencies are requesting more thorough sensitivity analyses from sponsors. However, recent literature research showed that missing data were almost always inadequately handled (Sterne et al, 2009). This is partially due to the lack of standard software packages and straightforward implementation platform. With recent availability of flexible Bayesian software packages such as WinBUGS, SAS Proc MCMC, and Stan, it is relatively simple to develop Bayesian methods to address complex missing data problems while incorporating the uncertainty. In this paper, we present a case study from the DIA Bayesian Scientific Working Group (BSWG) on Bayesian approaches for missing data analysis. We illustrate how to use Bayesian approaches to fit a few commonly used frequentist missing data models. The properties, advantage and flexibility of the Bayesian analysis methods will be discussed using a case study based on a schizophrenia clinical trial.
UV Absorption by Silicate Cloud Precursors in Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b
Creators: name: Lothringer, Joshua D.
name: Sing, David K.
name: Rustamkulov, Zafar
name: Wakeford, Hannah R.
name: Stevenson, Kevin B.
name: Nikolov, Nikolay
name: Lavvas, Panayotis
name: Spake, Jessica J.
name: Winch, Autumn T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aerosols have been found to be nearly ubiquitous in substellar atmospheres. The precise temperature at which these aerosols begin to form in exoplanets has yet to be observationally constrained. Theoretical models and observations of muted spectral features suggest that silicate clouds play an important role in exoplanets between at least 950 and 2,100 K. However, some giant planets are thought to be hot enough to avoid condensation altogether. Here, we present the near-UV transmission spectrum of an ultra-hot Jupiter, WASP-178b ($\sim$2,450~K), that exhibits significant NUV absorption. This short-wavelength absorption is among the largest spectral features ever observed in an exoplanet in terms of atmospheric scale heights. Bayesian retrievals indicate the presence of gaseous refractory species containing silicon and magnesium, which are the precursors to condensate clouds at lower temperatures. SiO in particular has not been detected in exoplanets before, but the presence of SiO in WASP-178b is consistent with theoretical expectation as the dominant Si-bearing species at high temperatures. These observations allow us to re-interpret previous observations of HAT-P-41b and WASP-121b that did not consider SiO to suggest that silicate cloud formation begins on exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures between 1,950 and 2,450~K.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, published in Nature
Surface Strategies and Constructive Line: Preferential Planes, Contour, Phenomenal Body in the Work of Bacon, Chalayan, Kawakubo
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Literature

description: The paper investigates Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discussion of body and space and Gilles Deleuze's reading of Francis Bacon's work, in order to derive a renegotiated interrelation between habitual body, phenomenal space, preferential plane and constructive line. The resulting system is applied as a filter to understand the sartorial fashion of Rei Kawakubo and Hussein Chalayan and their potential as a spatial prosthesis: the operative third skin. If the evolutionary nature of culture demands a constant change, how does the surface of a third skin, which embodies the generative of stable/unstable, respond to changes of context?