cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Informed Adaptive Sensing
Creators: name: Morssy, A
name: Frean, Marcus
name: Teal, Paul
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4603
subject: Computer vision and multimedia computation
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4611
subject: Machine learning

description: For many inverse problems, the data on which the solution is based is acquired sequentially. We present an approach to the solution of such inverse problems where a sensor can be directed (or otherwise reconfigured on the fly) to acquire a particular measurement. An example problem is magnetic resonance image reconstruction. We use an estimate of mutual information derived from an empirical conditional distribution provided by a generative model to guide our measurement acquisition given measurements acquired so far. The conditionally generated data is a set of samples which are representative of the plausible solutions that satisfy the acquired measurements. We present experiments on toy and real world data sets. We focus on image data but we demonstrate that the method is applicable to a broader class of problems. We also show how a learned model such as a deep neural network can be leveraged to allow generalisation to unseen data. Our informed adaptive sensing method outperforms random sampling, variance based sampling, sparsity based methods, and compressed sensing.
Additional file 14 of Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Creators: name: Torres-Oliva, Montserrat
name: Buchberger, Elisa
name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Kittelmann, Maike
name: Guerrero, Genoveva
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Gaspar, Pedro
name: Bullinger, Georg C.
name: Jimenez, Javier Figueras
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Arif, Saad
name: Posnien, Nico
name: Nunes, Maria D. S.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Almudi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14: Fig. S8. Topological Domain Associated with otd locus in D. melanogaster from http://chorogenome.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/.
Additional file 1 of Cost effectiveness of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate for the treatment of hyperkalaemia in patients with CKD in Norway and Sweden
Creators: name: Kim, Kun
name: Fagerström, Josefine
name: Chen, Gengshi
name: Lagunova, Zoya
name: Furuland, Hans
name: McEwan, Phil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mixed effects model parameters to characterise base case serum K+ trajectory in SZC and usual care arms. Table S2. Mixed effects model parameters to characterise scenario serum K+ trajectory in SZC and usual care arms. Table S3. Annual probabilities of treatment-related adverse events. Table S4. Unit costs for health state by CKD stage and clinical events. Table S5. RAASi discontinuation and down-titration. Table S6. Treatment related adverse event costs per event. Table S7. Health state utilities and events disutilities per cycle (28 days). Table S8. Variables and distributions sampled in the PSA. Table S9. Disaggregated results of cost effectiveness of scenario with serum potassium treatment threshold ≥5.1 mmol/L. Table S10. Disaggregated results of cost effectiveness of scenario with patients initiating in the model at CKD stage 3a or stage 4. Table S11. Disaggregated results of cost effectiveness of scenario with patients permitted to progress to renal replacement therapy.
Majorana Quasi-Particles Protected by $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Angular Momentum Conservation
Creators: name: Iemini, F.
name: Mazza, L.
name: Fallani, L.
name: Zoller, P.
name: Fazio, R.
name: Dalmonte, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how angular momentum conservation can stabilise a symmetry-protected quasi-topological phase of matter supporting Majorana quasi-particles as edge modes in one-dimensional cold atom gases. We investigate a number-conserving four-species Hubbard model in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. The latter reduces the global spin symmetry to an angular momentum parity symmetry, which provides an extremely robust protection mechanism that does not rely on any coupling to additional reservoirs. The emergence of Majorana edge modes is elucidated using field theory techniques, and corroborated by density-matrix-renormalization-group simulations. Our results pave the way toward the observation of Majorana edge modes with alkaline-earth-like fermions in optical lattices, where all basic ingredients for our recipe - spin-orbit coupling and strong inter-orbital interactions - have been experimentally realized over the last two years.
description: 12 pages (6 + 6 supplementary material)
Predictive Modelling Approach to Data-Driven Computational Preventive Medicine
Creators: name: Aldraimli, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2023

description: This thesis contributes novel predictive modelling approaches to data-driven computational preventive medicine and offers an alternative framework to statistical analysis in preventive medicine research. In the early parts of this research, this thesis presents research by proposing a synergy of machine learning methods for detecting patterns and developing inexpensive predictive models from healthcare data to classify the potential occurrence of adverse health events. In particular, the data-driven methodology is founded upon a heuristic-systematic assessment of several machine-learning methods, data preprocessing techniques, models’ training estimation and optimisation, and performance evaluation, yielding a novel computational data-driven framework, Octopus.

Midway through this research, this thesis advances research in preventive medicine and data mining by proposing several new extensions in data preparation and preprocessing. It offers new recommendations for data quality assessment checks, a novel multimethod imputation (MMI) process for missing data mitigation, a novel imbalanced resampling approach, and minority pattern reconstruction (MPR) led by information theory. This thesis also extends the area of model performance evaluation with a novel classification performance ranking metric called XDistance.

In particular, the experimental results show that building predictive models with the methods guided by our new framework (Octopus) yields domain experts' approval of the new reliable models’ performance. Also, performing the data quality checks and applying the MMI process led healthcare practitioners to outweigh predictive reliability over interpretability. The application of MPR and its hybrid resampling strategies led to better performances in line with experts' success criteria than the traditional imbalanced data resampling techniques. Finally, the use of the XDistance performance ranking metric was found to be more effective in ranking several classifiers' performances while offering an indication of class bias, unlike existing performance metrics

The overall contributions of this thesis can be summarised as follow. First, several data mining techniques were thoroughly assessed to formulate the new Octopus framework to produce new reliable classifiers. In addition, we offer a further understanding of the impact of newly engineered features, the physical activity index (PAI) and biological effective dose (BED). Second, the newly developed methods within the new framework. Finally, the newly accepted developed predictive models help detect adverse health events, namely, visceral fat-associated diseases and advanced breast cancer radiotherapy toxicity side effects. These contributions could be used to guide future theories, experiments and healthcare interventions in preventive medicine and data mining.
Integrated Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS for selecting the best color removal process using carbon-based adsorbent materials: multi-criteria decision making vs. systematic review approaches and modeling of textile wastewater treatment in real conditions
Creators: name: Azari, Ali
name: Nabizadeh, Ramin
name: Mahvi, Amir Hossein
name: Nasseri, Simin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Here, Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS methodology proposed for selecting the best colour treatment process using carbon-based adsorbent materials. Cost, safety, accessibility, reuse and adsorption capacity were identiﬁed as the main criteria for decision making. The priority of the criteria based on the experts’ opinions ordered as accessibility, reuse, adsorption capacity, environment safety, human safety, material cost, equipment cost with BNP = 0.250, 0.217, 0.172, 0.144, 0.105, 0.070 and 0.049, respectively. The consistency ratio was found 0.7% (less than 10%), which was acceptable to prioritise the criteria results. Fuzzy TOPSIS decision matrix with respect to criteria for evaluating the performance of eight carbon-based adsorbent materials in colour removal was formed and adsorbents ranked according to the NCCi as powder activated carbon>granular activated carbon >carbon nano tube >graphene oxide > graphene >reduced graphene oxide >graphite>coal. Finally, the effect of key factors in the treatment of real textile wastewater using PAC was investigated and optimised with RSM-CCF modelling. The optimal value of the parameters for the best productivity (81.60%) were as follows: pH: 3, PAC dose: 9.99 g L−1 and contact time: 83.19 min, respectively. The adsorption equilibrium and kinetic data were fitted with the Langmuir monolayer isotherm model (qmax: 127.431 ADMI/g, R2: 0.999) and Pseudo-first-order kinetics (R2: 0.998). Thermodynamic parameters, i.e. R2 > 0.995, ΔH°> 0, ΔS°> 0 and ΔG°< 0 also indicated colour adsorption are feasible, spontaneous and endothermic in nature.
Additional file 1 of Covid-19 transmission in fitness centers in Norway - a randomized trial
Creators: name: Helsingen, Lise M.
name: Løberg, Magnus
name: Refsum, Erle
name: Gjøstein, Dagrun Kyte
name: Wieszczy, Paulina
name: Olsvik, Ørjan
name: Juul, Frederik E.
name: Barua, Ishita
name: Jodal, Henriette C.
name: Herfindal, Magnhild
name: Mori, Yuichi
name: Jore, Solveig
name: Lund-Johansen, Fridtjof
name: Fretheim, Atle
name: Bretthauer, Michael
name: Kalager, Mette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. A Randomized Trial of Covid-19 Transmission in Fitness centers
Analysis of Wigner's Set Theoretical Proof for Bell-type inequalities
Creators: name: Hess, Karl
name: De Raedt, Hans
name: Michielsen, Kristel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the set theoretical proof of Wigner for Bell type inequalities with the following result. Wigner introduced a crucial assumption that is not related to Einstein's local realism, but instead, without justification, to the existence of certain joint probability measures for possible and actual measurement outcomes of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiments. His conclusions about Einstein's local realism are, therefore, not applicable to EPR experiments and the contradiction of the experimental outcomes to Wigner's results has no bearing on the validity of Einstein's local realism.
description: Revised Table 1 (after publication)
Variations on Debris Disks IV. An Improved Analytical Model for Collisional Cascades
Creators: name: Kenyon, Scott J.
name: Bromley, Benjamin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a new analytical model for the evolution of a collisional cascade in a thin annulus around a single central star. In this model, $r_{max}~$ the size of the largest object declines with time (t); $r_{max} \propto t^{-γ}$, with $γ$ = 0.1-0.2. Compared to standard models where $r_{max}~$ is constant in time, this evolution results in a more rapid decline of $M_d$, the total mass of solids in the annulus and $L_d$, the luminosity of small particles in the annulus: $M_d \propto t^{-(γ+ 1)}~$ and $L_d \propto t^{-(γ/2 + 1)}~~$. We demonstrate that the analytical model provides an excellent match to a comprehensive suite of numerical coagulation simulations for annuli at 1 AU and at 25 AU. If the evolution of real debris disks follows the predictions of the analytical or numerical models, the observed luminosities for evolved stars require up to a factor of two more mass than predicted by previous analytical models.
description: ApJ, in press, 22 pages of text and 14 figures
Direct solar production of medium temperature hot air for industrial applications in linear concentrating solar collectors using an open Brayton cycle. Viability analysis.
Creators: name: Famiglietti, Antonio
name: Lecuona, Antonio
name: Nogueira, Josè
name: Rahjoo, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: solar energy
concentrating solar collector
solar heat for industrial processes
hot air

description: Medium temperature heat required by industrial processes worldwide is mostly provided consuming fossil fuels. Among renewable energy alternatives, concentrating solar collectors can provide medium temperature heat at decreasing costs, either for medium and small scale applications. Several high energy-demanding processes need hot air in the range 150–400 °C (drying, curing, dehydration, thermal treatments). For such applications, the direct air heating inside linear concentrating solar collectors is investigated in this work. Although is not a common practice, direct heating reduces installation costs and maintenance, eliminating the need for heat transfer fluid and heat exchanger. The theoretical analysis developed indicates its feasibility despite the high pumping power consumption. An innovative system using Brayton cycle is proposed and analyzed. An automotive turbocharger is used to compress inlet air, with a compression ratio from 1.5 to 4, before solar heating up to the technology limit of 600 °C, thus reducing and even avoiding pumping power consumption. Hot air expands through the turbine recovering the compressing power, holding at the outlet suitable temperature for industrial usages in the range of 300–400 °C. No mechanical power at the shaft is expected; instead, turbocharger freewheeling enables to drive air through the collectors without auxiliary energy consumption, configuring a compact solar installation. Numerical results provided support the viability, showing the performances and critical parameters.
Additional file 16 of Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Creators: name: Torres-Oliva, Montserrat
name: Buchberger, Elisa
name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Kittelmann, Maike
name: Guerrero, Genoveva
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Gaspar, Pedro
name: Bullinger, Georg C.
name: Jimenez, Javier Figueras
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Arif, Saad
name: Posnien, Nico
name: Nunes, Maria D. S.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Almudi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 16: Fig. S9. Activity of tested APREs in the otd locus of D. simulans and D. mauritiana. L3 instar eye-antenna imaginal discs from D. melanogaster lines containing D. mauritiana-APRE4-GAL4, D. mauritiana-APRE6-GAL4, D. mauritiana-APRE7-8-GAL4, D. simulans-APRE11-GAL4, D. mauritiana-APRE13-14-GAL4, D. mauritiana-APRE16-17-GAL4, D. mauritiana-APRE19-GAL4 crossed to UAS-GFP and stained with DAPI (grey). Scale bar = 50μm.
Correlated primordial spectra in effective theory of inflation
Creators: name: Gong, Jinn-Ouk
name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a direct correlation between the power spectrum and bispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation in terms of the Goldstone mode based on the effective field theory approach to inflation. We show examples of correlated bispectra for the parametrized feature models presented by the Planck collaboration. We also discuss the consistency relation and the validity of our explicit correlation between the power spectrum and bispectrum.
description: (v1) 14 pages, 1 figure; (v2) 15 pages, minor revision including more references and a footnote, to appear in Physical Review D
Solid-phase arsenic speciation using XANES: preservation of arsenic species for reliable and accurate environmental risk assessment
Creators: name: Cho, Hana
name: Dasari, Kishore B.
name: Cui, Sheng
name: Choi, Sun Hee
name: Yim, Yong-Hyeon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The toxicity, bioavailability, and mobility of the toxic element arsenic (As) vary with oxidation state and the chemical environment. Determining the precise fraction of individual As species as well as the total As content in various matrices is essential for evaluating the potential risk of As contamination. We present a synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopic study to characterise As species in a total of 14 different matrix certified reference materials (CRMs) and candidate materials of Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) include sediments, ash, ore tailings, seafood, commodity plastics, and cosmetic products. The validity of the method was evaluated by comparison with the results obtained using routinely applied extraction-based sample preparation and ion chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for speciation analysis. Our study of the As K-edge fine structure with linear combination fitting revealed details of both the composition and distribution of As species in intact solid samples. The key advantage of the present method is its capability to selectively and non-destructively probe As species with minimal risk of species transformation, thus complementary to more popular extraction-based analytical methods. Depending on the sample matrices and origins the investigated CRMs showed distinct As species compositions, the spatial distribution of which was also investigated. This study proposes that X-ray absorption measurement has the potential to determine the native fractions of individual elemental species.
Population splitting of rodlike swimmers in Couette flow
Creators: name: Nili, Hossein
name: Kheyri, Masoud
name: Abazari, Javad
name: Fahimniya, Ali
name: Naji, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative analysis on the response of a dilute active suspension of self-propelled rods (swimmers) in a planar channel subjected to an imposed shear flow. To best capture the salient features of shear-induced effects, we consider the case of an imposed Couette flow, providing a constant shear rate across the channel. We argue that the steady-state behavior of swimmers can be understood in the light of a population splitting phenomenon, occurring as the shear rate exceeds a certain threshold, initiating the reversal of swimming direction for a finite fraction of swimmers from down- to upstream or vice versa, depending on swimmer position within the channel. Swimmers thus split into two distinct, statistically significant and oppositely swimming majority and minority populations. The onset of population splitting translates into a transition from a self-propulsion-dominated regime to a shear-dominated regime, corresponding to a unimodal-to-bimodal change in the probability distribution function of the swimmer orientation. We present a phase diagram in terms of the swim and flow Peclet numbers showing the separation of these two regimes by a discontinuous transition line. Our results shed further light on the behavior of swimmers in a shear flow and provide an explanation for the previously reported non-monotonic behavior of the mean, near-wall, parallel-to-flow orientation of swimmers with increasing shear strength.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 18 of Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Creators: name: Torres-Oliva, Montserrat
name: Buchberger, Elisa
name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Kittelmann, Maike
name: Guerrero, Genoveva
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Gaspar, Pedro
name: Bullinger, Georg C.
name: Jimenez, Javier Figueras
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Arif, Saad
name: Posnien, Nico
name: Nunes, Maria D. S.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Almudi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 18: Fig. S10. D. melanogaster, D. simulans and D. mauritiana otd-APRE7-8 enhancer activity in 3rd instar larvae eye imaginal discs. (a) D. melanogaster, D. simulans and D. mauritiana otd-APRE7-8 3rd instar larvae eye imaginal discs immunostained with anti-Elav antibody to visualise the progression of ommatidia maturation as proxy for the developmental time. (b) Plot showing the number of GFP-positive ommatidia rows (x-axis) activated by otd-APRE7-8 at different developmental time points (y-axis, developmental points inferred by number of ommatidia rows) for both species. (c) Violin plots showing the distance between MF and the first row of otd-APRE7-8 activity. D. mauritiana otd-APRE7-8 is active earlier during the differentiation of ommatidia.
Health impacts and burden of disease attributed to long-term exposure to atmospheric PM10/PM2.5 in Karaj, Iran: effect of meteorological factors
Creators: name: kermani, Majid
name: Arfaeinia, Hossein
name: Masroor, Kazhal
name: Abdolahnejad, Ali
name: Fanaei, Farzad
name: Shahsavani, Abbas
name: Tahmasbizadeh, Masoumeh
name: Vahidi, Mohammad Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: There are sporadic researches on evaluating the health endpoints and burden of disease resulted from long-term exposure to atmospheric PM10/PM2.5by AirQ+ model in the world. Therefore, the aim of the current work was to evaluate the effect of PM10/PM2.5on health of residents in Karaj city, Iran using AirQ+. To this end, data on population, the baseline incidence rates of health outcomes in Karaj’s inhabitants, meteorological parameters and PM10/PM2.5concentrations (from 2012 to 2016) were obtained from governmental organisations.The correlation between the PM10/PM2.5levels and meteorological parameters in the research period were evaluated by statistical analysis using SPSS® 22 and R software. Finally, the health endpointsanddisease burden was estimated using WHO-approved AirQ+ software. The results of statistical correlation analysis indicated that PM2.5/PM10 are positively correlated with relative humidity and temperature (P < 0.05), but the negativelycorrelatedwithother two parameters (precipitation and wind speed) (P > 0.05). The quantitative risk assessment conducted by AirQ+ showed that all-cause deaths, the deaths from cerebrovascular disease (stroke), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), lung cancer (LC), ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in periods of time 2012–2016wereestimated 3894, 1834, 124, 139, 2410 and 21 cases, respectively. On the other hand, PM10-attributable mortality from 2012 to 2016 were estimated 1619 cases. The findings obtained from of the regression correlation analysis relationship between PM2.5 concentrations and the number of mortality revealed that by increasing 1 µg/m3in PM2.5concentrations, about 14 cases will be added to the total deaths of Karaj city.
Synthesis and characterisation of new hybrid sorbent, 2,2’- dipyridyl ketone functionalised SBA 15 and its application in solid-phase extraction of Pb(II) & Cd(II) from environmental samples
Creators: name: Kumar, N. Sathish
name: Imran, K.
name: Harinath, Y.
name: Seshaiah, K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The mesoporous silica (SBA-15) was successfully functionalised with 2,2ʹ- dipyridyl ketone by post grafting method. The mesoporous structure and functionalization with organic moiety were examined using different physicochemical techniques such as Low angle X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), 13C NMR Spectroscopy, 29Si NMR Spectroscopy, N2 adsorption/desorption studies and TGA studies. The application of the hybrid material as sorbent in solid-phase extraction of Pb(II) and Cd(II) from environmental samples prior to determination by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy was studied. The analytical parameters such as pH, eluent type and its volume, sorbent dosage, flow rates, sample volume and effect of co-existing ions were studied and optimised. The prepared sorbent showed the preconcentration factor of 160 for both the metal ions with Limits of Detection of 0.20 µgL−1 and 0.27 µg L−1 and Limits of Quantification of 0.67 µg L−1 and 0.90 µg L−1 for Pb(II) and Cd(II) respectively. The adsorption capacity of the prepared sorbent found as 185.49 mg g−1 and 103.41 mg g−1 for Pb(II) and Cd(II), respectively. The proposed method was validated using a certified reference material NIST SRM-1640a with good agreement values. The proposed solid-phase extraction method was successfully applied to environmental water samples.
Terrestrial planet formation: Dynamical shake-up and the low mass of Mars
Creators: name: Bromley, Benjamin C.
name: Kenyon, Scott J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a dynamical shake-up model to explain the low mass of Mars and the lack of planets in the asteroid belt. In our scenario, a secular resonance with Jupiter sweeps through the inner solar system as the solar nebula depletes, pitting resonant excitation against collisional damping in the Sun's protoplanetary disk. We report the outcome of extensive numerical calculations of planet formation from planetesimals in the terrestrial zone, with and without dynamical shake-up. If the Sun's gas disk within the terrestrial zone depletes in roughly a million years, then the sweeping resonance inhibits planet formation in the asteroid belt and substantially limits the size of Mars. This phenomenon likely occurs around other stars with long-period massive planets, suggesting that asteroid belt analogs are common.
description: AJ, in press; 49 pages, 8 figures
Synthesis of modificated lanthanide nanoperovskites for photocatalytic removal of azo dyes under visible light irradiation
Creators: name: Panahi, Parvaneh Nakhostin
name: Rasoulifard, Mohammad Hossein
name: Gholami, Zohre
name: Mohajer, Shiva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The LaNiO3, LaMnO3, and LaCoO3 nanoperovskites and also modificated LaCoO3 (LaCo0.8Ni0.2O3 and LaCoO2.9N0.1) were synthesised by a sol–gel method. The as-prepared samples were systematically characterised by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller and UV–vis diffuse spectroscopy. The XRD spectra confirmed the information of perovskite-type structure for all the prepared samples and according to SEM images; the perovskites have spherical shape with particles size less than 50 nm. The photocatalytic activity of the nanoperovskites was evaluated for removal of congo red and direct red 23 under the irradiation of visible light. The doping Ni and N in the LaCoO3 had a great effect upon its photocatalytic activity and the LaCo0.8Ni0.2O3 and LaCoO2.9N0.1 were exhibited higher photocatalytic efficiency than parent LaCoO3 due to narrower band gap, oxygen vacancies, and less agglomeration. The nanoperovskites also were stable during the photocatalytic and recycling processes.
Additional file 19 of Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Creators: name: Torres-Oliva, Montserrat
name: Buchberger, Elisa
name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Kittelmann, Maike
name: Guerrero, Genoveva
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Gaspar, Pedro
name: Bullinger, Georg C.
name: Jimenez, Javier Figueras
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Arif, Saad
name: Posnien, Nico
name: Nunes, Maria D. S.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Almudi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 19: Dataset S1. Clustal Omega alignment of the 2.5 kb APRE7-8 region from selected strains of D. mauritiana, D. simulans and D. melanogaster including the sequences used in enhancer reporter constructs for each species (otd-APRE7-8).
Towards generic cosmological evolution without singularity and fundamental symmetry of space-time
Creators: name: Hrycyna, Orest
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate cosmological model with non-minimally coupled scalar field. Existence of an asymptotically unstable de Sitter state distinguishes values of the non-minimal coupling constant parameter $\frac{3}{16}\leξ
description: 4 pages , 1 fig; Presented at the 3rd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity, Krak\'ow, Poland, September 25--29, 2016
Additional file 1 of Breakfast in the Philippines: food and diet quality as analyzed from the 2018 Expanded National Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Angeles-Agdeppa, Imelda
name: Custodio, Ma. Rosel S.
name: Toledo, Marvin B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Age- and sex- specific reference daily values for young age group used for the calculation of NRF 9.3. Table S2. Age- and sex- specific reference daily values for adult age group used for the calculation of NRF 9.3.
Japanese materials scientists’ English for research publication purposes: an elaborated error analysis
Creators: name: McDowell, Leigh Andrew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470401
subject: Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

description: For scientists in the twenty-first century, the mastery of a sophisticated form of written English for publication in international journals is fundamental to professional success. For many Japanese scientists, this can be a source of frustration, as they are often aware that when writing in English, they may use language that can be perceived by editors, reviewers, or readers as errors, which may detract from the impact of their research and authority of their work. This PhD thesis-by-publication addresses this issue with an in-depth investigation of language errors in the research writing of Japanese materials scientists.
Within the broad field of Applied Linguistics, this investigation draws on and contributes to five relevant fields of study. Firstly, in the field of English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP), the research examines the target population’s experiences in the publication of their research in English-language journals, subsequently illuminating the socially situated, complex picture of ERPP in the Japanese context. In the field of Corpus Linguistics (CL), the research documents the development of a specialised corpus of research writing and demonstrates its application in facilitating direct empirical insight into the frequency of language errors. In the fields of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the research explores an elaborated framework for error analysis informed by the functional descriptions of SFL, and in the process uncovers the dominance of two major error patterns involving articles, plural-s, and the preposition-of. In the field of Error Analysis (EA), the research details a simple but robust procedure for error analysis that can be applied by language teaching professionals to reliably quantify language errors and induce errors patterning. Finally and ultimately, this error analysis procedure is employed with a corpus-assisted approach to derive an empirical profile of the most frequent language errors in the research writing Japanese materials scientists.
Combined, this work aims to help Japanese scientists, who as one of the largest producers of scientific publications worldwide, wrestle daily with the challenges of employing English as a professional language. Addressing these challenges through a detailed investigation of their language errors, this thesis-by-publication offers valuable insight towards better understanding and supporting this community in their research writing practices.
Additional file 20 of Heterochrony in orthodenticle expression is associated with ommatidial size variation between Drosophila species
Creators: name: Torres-Oliva, Montserrat
name: Buchberger, Elisa
name: Buffry, Alexandra D.
name: Kittelmann, Maike
name: Guerrero, Genoveva
name: Sumner-Rooney, Lauren
name: Gaspar, Pedro
name: Bullinger, Georg C.
name: Jimenez, Javier Figueras
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Arif, Saad
name: Posnien, Nico
name: Nunes, Maria D. S.
name: McGregor, Alistair P.
name: Almudi, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 20: Fig. S11. Schematic showing the position of the 2.5 kb APRE7-8 within the otd locus on the X chromosome of D. melanogaster. A 1.5 kb region shown to drive similar expression to the 2.5 kb region is indicated by a purple bar (37). Below is shown the ATAC-seq profile for this region and the positions of potential fixed mutations specific to D. mauritiana (arrows indicate SNPs and rectangles indicate short indels) with predicted binding sites for Otd, So and Cut in D. melanogaster indicated by arrows. Binding sites indicated with an asterisk contain mutations in D. mauritiana.
Entanglement isn't just for spin
Creators: name: Schroeder, Daniel V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement occurs not just in discrete systems such as spins, but also in the spatial wave functions of systems with more than one degree of freedom. It is easy to introduce students to entangled wave functions at an early stage, in any course that discusses wave functions. Doing so not only prepares students to learn about Bell's theorem and quantum information science, but can also provide a deeper understanding of the principles of quantum mechanics and help fight against some common misconceptions. Here I introduce several pictorial examples of entangled wave functions that depend on just two spatial variables. I also show how such wave functions can arise dynamically, and describe how to quantify their entanglement.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to the American Journal of Physics
Additional file 2 of Breakfast in the Philippines: food and diet quality as analyzed from the 2018 Expanded National Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Angeles-Agdeppa, Imelda
name: Custodio, Ma. Rosel S.
name: Toledo, Marvin B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S3. Food Group Classification.
Measurement of the prompt $J/ψ$ pair production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of two prompt $J/ψ$ mesons, each with transverse momenta $p_{\mathrm{T}}>8.5$ GeV and rapidity $|y| < 2.1$, is studied using a sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 11.4 fb$^{-1}$ collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The differential cross-section, assuming unpolarised $J/ψ$ production, is measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the lower-$p_{\mathrm{T}}$ $J/ψ$ meson, di-$J/ψ$ $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ and mass, the difference in rapidity between the two $J/ψ$ mesons, and the azimuthal angle between the two $J/ψ$ mesons. The fraction of prompt pair events due to double parton scattering is determined by studying kinematic correlations between the two $J/ψ$ mesons. The total and double parton scattering cross-sections are compared with predictions. The effective cross-section of double parton scattering is measured to be $σ_{\mathrm{eff}} = 6.3 \pm 1.6 \mathrm{(stat)} \pm 1.0 \mathrm{(syst)}$ mb.
description: 53 pages in total, author list starting page 37, 15 figures, 4 tables, published version, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/BPHY-2015-02/
title: MINT-Vermittlung: Hands-on, inklusiv und interdisziplinär
Creators: name: Zelisko, Angelika
name: Wukovits-Zethner, Anna
name: Heigl, Florian
name: Dörler, Daniel
name: Völkl, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Applied Arts Vienna
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05yjy4360
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: STEM
STEAM
outreach
prototype
knowledge transfer
knowledge valorization

description: Zentrales Anliegen des Projekts „MINT-Vermittlung: Interdisziplinär, Hands-on und inklusiv“ war die niederschwellige Wissenschaftsvermittlung im MINT-Bereich. Das Projekt demonstrierte in vier Arbeitspaketen modellhaft, wie Wissenschaftsvermittlung mit MINT-Schwerpunkt erfolgreich umgesetzt werden und MINT-Disziplinen mittels  innovativer Herangehensweise als potentielle Berufswahl zugänglich gemacht werden können.
Klassische Wissenschaftsvermittlung, beispielsweise in Form von Podcasts, Publikationen oder Vorträgen, richtet sich in der Regel an ein wissenschaftsaffines Publikum. Im Gegensatz dazu zielt das Projekt „MINT-Vermittlung: Interdisziplinär, Hands-on und inklusiv“ auf die Einbindung sogenannter „Hard-to-reach-Groups“ ab, wie Jugendliche in Randbezirken, Arbeitssuchende und Migrant*innen.
Dieses Ziel wurde mittels interdisziplinärer Konzeption, zielgruppenspezifischer Herangehensweise, der Verwendung geeigneter (wissenschaftlicher) Sprache sowie aktiver Einbindung von Institutionen, die mit wissenschaftsfernen Zielgruppen arbeiten, erreicht. Dabei wurden die Bedürfnisse der jeweiligen Zielgruppen berücksichtigt.
Im Teilprojekt „Das 1x1 der IT“ der Ferdinand Porsche FERNFH wurde mit Personas gearbeitet, die verschiedene Zielgruppen repräsentieren. Das Teilprojekt „Citizen Science vermitteln“ der BOKU University kooperierte mit Organisationen, die selbst Erfahrung im Umgang mit bildungsfernen Zielgruppen haben. Im „Art&Science Hub“ der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien und der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien wurden die teilnehmenden Forschenden und Künstler*innen durch Workshops auf die Arbeit mit Jugendlichen vorbereitet. Im Teilprojekt “Weiterentwicklung und Umsetzung von MINT-Vermittlungsprototypen” der FH Technikum Wien nahmen Schülerinnen an Workshops zu Quantenverschlüsselung, Programmierung und Mikrokosmosforschung teil und lernten über den Nutzen von Bepflanzungen und über die Herausforderungen sowie Möglichkeiten der Gewinnung erneuerbarer Energien im urbanen Umfeld.
Mit dieser umfassenden und zielgerichteten Herangehensweise leistet das Projekt „MINT-Vermittlung: Interdisziplinär, Hands-on und inklusiv“ einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur inklusiven Wissenschaftsvermittlung und zeigt, wie Barrieren abgebaut und diverse Zielgruppen erfolgreich für MINT-Themen begeistert werden können.
title: Committee Deliberation and Gender Differences in Influences
Creators: name: Radbruch, Jonas
name: Schiprowski, Amelie
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2023

description: This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give individual recommendations before deliberating on a collective hiring decision. We find that committees’ final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of women than with those of men, even though women and men are equally qualified and experienced. This disparity in influence is strongest when recommendations exhibit high disagreement and when a single woman deliberates with two men. The estimated distribution of influence reveals that almost all men are more influential than the median woman. We offer suggestive evidence that these findings have implications for the effectiveness of gender quotas.
The Sirius System and its Astrophysical Puzzles: Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Astrometry
Creators: name: Bond, Howard E.
name: Schaefer, Gail H.
name: Gilliland, Ronald L.
name: Holberg, Jay B.
name: Mason, Brian D.
name: Lindenblad, Irving W.
name: Seitz-McLeese, Miranda
name: Arnett, W. David
name: Demarque, Pierre
name: Spada, Federico
name: Young, Patrick A.
name: Barstow, Martin A.
name: Burleigh, Matthew R.
name: Gudehus, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sirius, the seventh-nearest stellar system, is a visual binary containing the metallic-line A1 V star Sirius A, brightest star in the sky, orbited in a 50.13-year period by Sirius B, the brightest and nearest white dwarf (WD). Using images obtained over nearly two decades with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), along with photographic observations covering almost 20 years, and nearly 2300 historical measurements dating back to the 19th century, we determine precise orbital elements for the visual binary. Combined with the parallax and the motion of the A component, these elements yield dynamical masses of 2.063+/-0.023 Msun and 1.018+/-0.011 Msun for Sirius A and B, respectively. Our precise HST astrometry rules out third bodies orbiting either star in the system, down to masses of ~15-25 Mjup. The location of Sirius B in the H-R diagram is in excellent agreement with theoretical cooling tracks for WDs of its dynamical mass, and implies a cooling age of ~126 Myr. The position of Sirius B in the mass-radius plane is also consistent with WD theory, assuming a carbon-oxygen core. Including the pre-WD evolutionary timescale of the assumed progenitor, the total age of Sirius B is about 228+/-10 Myr. We calculated evolutionary tracks for stars with the dynamical mass of Sirius A, using two independent codes. We find it necessary to assume a slightly sub-solar metallicity, of about 0.85 Zsun, to fit its location in the luminosity-radius plane. The age of Sirius A based on these models is about 237-247 Myr, with uncertainties of +/-15 Myr, consistent with that of the WD companion. We discuss astrophysical puzzles presented by the Sirius system, including the probability that the two stars must have interacted in the past, even though there is no direct evidence for this, and the orbital eccentricity remains high.
description: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal