cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Triple-Ring Nebula around SN1987A: Fingerprint of a binary merger
Creators: name: Morris, T.
name: Podsiadlowski, Ph.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supernova 1987A, the first naked-eye supernova observed since Kepler's supernova in 1604, defies a number of theoretical expectations. Its anomalies have long been attributed to a merger between two massive stars that occurred some 20,000 years before the explosion, but so far there has been no conclusive proof that this merger took place. Here, we present three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the mass ejection associated with such a merger and the subsequent evolution of the ejecta, and we show that this accurately reproduces the properties of the triple-ring nebula surrounding the supernova.
description: 16 pages (including 7 pages of supplementary material), 2 figures (reduced in size), appeared in Science on 23rd February 2007. Animations available at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5815/1103/DC1 or http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~tsm/scipaper/index.html
Trust in interdependent and task-oriented human-computer cooperation
Creators: name: Kulms, Philipp
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 000

description: This thesis presents a new paradigm for the modeling of cooperative human–computer interaction in order to evaluate the antecedents, formation, and regulation of human–computer trust. Human–computer trust is the degree to which human users trust computers to help them achieve their goals, and functions as powerful psychological variable that governs user behavior. The modeling framework presented in this thesis aims to extend predominant methods for the study of trust and cooperation by building on competent problemsolving and equal goal contributions by users and computers. Specifically, the framework permits users to participate in interactive and interdependent decision-making games with autonomous computer agents. The main task is to solve a two-dimensional puzzle, similar to the popular game Tetris. The games derived from this framework include cooperative interaction factors known from interpersonal cooperation: the duality of competence and selfishness, anthropomorphism, task advice, and social blame. One validation study (68 participants) and four experiments (318 participants) investigate how these cooperative interaction factors influence human–computer trust. In particular, the results show how trust in computers is mediated by warmth as universal dimension of social cognition, how anthropomorphism of computers influences trust formation over time, and how expressive anthropomorphic cues can be used to regulate trust. We explain how these findings can be applied to design trustworthy computer agents for successful cooperation.
การศึกษาพฤติกรรมการใช้ความเร็วของรถยนต์นั่งส่วนบุคคลเมื่อขับขี่ผ่านเนินชะลอความเร็ว
Creators: name: ทัศวรรณ ผาเจริญ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: เนินชะลอความเร็ว, เนินกระแทก, กราฟหน้าตัดความเร็ว

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Sustainability of Water Resources for the Poor
Creators: name: Abulencia, James Patrick
name: Gallardo, Susan
name: Abraham, Nithin
name: Carracio, Anne
name: Ruffini, Nicholas
name: McDonnell, Kevin
name: Tañala, Francis
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The quality of water resources for drinking water is a significant concern in many rural communities around the world. These contaminated resources directly affect natives by causing adverse health effects such as diarrhea and other gastrointestinal diseases. Potential solutions such as sand filtration, chlorination, and solar disinfection are effective technologies to purify drinking water. Another method includes reverse osmosis which is the main method for water filtration in the Philippines. However, these technologies are not feasible applications for poor communities mostly due to energy and cost concerns. To address this need for sustainable water resources, in particular for a town named Nagcarlan in the Philippines, a service learning program is proposed to employ the knowledge of engineering students to use their technical skills to serve society and thus result in personal growth. Students involved in this program have formulated a solution involving the development of a personal water filter to remove contaminants such as heavy metals using activated carbon derived from natural resources that are biodegradable and the product of recycling waste products. Sustainability of water resources is further achieved through a community outreach program with the poor communities. A successful outcome may further motivate a replication of the proposed solution to other impoverished towns within the Philippines, as well as other nations in order to service those without potable drinking water.
description: Consilience, No 4 (2010): Issue Four: 2010
Effect of silver doping on the electrical properties of a-Sb$_2$Se$_3$
Creators: name: Gautam, Sanjeev
name: Thakur, Anup
name: Tripathi, S. K.
name: Goyal, Navdeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports the effect of Ag-doping on electrical properties of a-Sb2Se3 in the temperature range 240-340 K and frequency range 5 Hz to 100 kHz. The variation of transport properties with thermal doping has been studied. Ag-doping produced two homogeneous phases in the sample and which are found to be voltage dependent in the temperature range studied and frequency dependent in lower frequency region (0.1 - 10 kHz). Activation energy Eg and C' [=$σ_0$ exp ($γ$/k), where $γ$, is the temperature coefficient of the band gap] calculated from dc conductivity has been found to vary from 0.42 eV to 0.26 eV and 41.08x10$^-6$ to 2.902x10-6 $\ohm^{-1}$cm$^{-1}$ respectively. Ag-doping can be used to make the sample more useful in device applications.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, Conference ISNOG 2006, IISc Bangalore(India)
A DG-IMEX method for two-moment neutrino transport: Nonlinear solvers for neutrino-matter coupling
Creators: name: Laiu, M. Paul
name: Endeve, Eirik
name: Chu, Ran
name: Harris, J. Austin
name: Messer, O. E. Bronson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino-matter interactions play an important role in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions as they contribute to both lepton number and/or four-momentum exchange between neutrinos and matter, and thus act as the agent for neutrino-driven explosions. Due to the multiscale nature of neutrino transport in CCSN simulations, an implicit treatment of neutrino-matter interactions is desired, which requires solutions of coupled nonlinear systems in each step of the time integration scheme. In this paper we design and compare nonlinear iterative solvers for implicit systems with energy coupling neutrino-matter interactions commonly used in CCSN simulations. Specifically, we consider electron neutrinos and antineutrinos, which interact with static matter configurations through the Bruenn~85 opacity set. The implicit systems arise from the discretization of a non-relativistic two-moment model for neutrino transport, which employs the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for phase-space discretization and an implicit-explicit (IMEX) time integration scheme. In the context of this DG-IMEX scheme, we propose two approaches to formulate the nonlinear systems -- a coupled approach and a nested approach. For each approach, the resulting systems are solved with Anderson-accelerated fixed-point iteration and Newton's method. The performance of these four iterative solvers has been compared on relaxation problems with various degree of collisionality, as well as proto-neutron star deleptonization problems with several matter profiles adopted from spherically symmetric CCSN simulations. Numerical results suggest that the nested Anderson-accelerated fixed-point solver is more efficient than other tested solvers for solving implicit nonlinear systems with energy coupling neutrino-matter interactions.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in ApJS
Gabor frames without inequalities
Creators: name: Gröchenig, Karlheinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C15, 22E25

description: We prove fourteen equivalent conditions for a set of timefrequency shifts on a lattice to be a frame for L^2. Remarkably, several of these conditions can be formulated without an inequality. In particular, instead of checking the invertibility of the frame operator on L^2 it suffices to verify that it is one-to-one on a certain subspace of tempered distributions.
description: 16 pages
Additional file 2 of Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data
Creators: name: Wenham, Clare
name: Wouters, Olivier
name: Jones, Catherine
name: Juma, Pamela A.
name: Mijumbi-Deve, Rhona M.
name: Sobngwi-Tambekou, Joëlle L.
name: Parkhurst, Justin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Bibliometric data. Table S2. Clinical trial infrastructures and intellectual property rights. Table S3. R&D personnel. Table S4. R&D expenditure. Table S5. Regulatory capacities. Table S6. Funding. Table S7. Regression summary for gross domestic product and number of publications. Figure S1. The relationship between gross domestic product and publications. Figure S2. The relationship between gross domestic product per capita and publications per capita. Table S8. Regression summary for gross domestic product per capita and the number of publications per capita. Figure S3. The relationship between gross domestic product and patent applications. Table S9. Regression summary for gross domestic product and patent applications. Figure S4. The relationship between gross domestic product per capita and patent applications per capita. Table S10. Regression summary for gross domestic product per capita and patent applications per capita. Figure S5. The relationship between gross domestic product and GERD. Table S11. Regression summary for gross domestic product and GERD. Figure S6. The relationship between gross domestic product per capita and GERD per capita. Table S12. Regression summary for gross domestic product per capita and GERD per capita. Figure S7. The relationship between gross domestic product and universities. Table S13. Regression summary for gross domestic product and universities. Figure S8. The relationship between gross domestic product per capita and universities per capita. Table S14. Regression summary for gross domestic product per capita and universities per capita. Figure S9. The relationship between gross domestic product and clinical trials. Table S15. Regression summary for gross domestic product and clinical trials. Figure S10. The relationship between gross domestic product per capita and clinical trials per capita. Table S16. Regression summary for gross domestic product per capita and clinical trials per capita.
A CONFERÊNCIA DE BERLIM: DISCURSOS HEGEMÓNICOS CIRCULANTES E AS FRONTEIRAS DE ANGOLA.
Creators: name: Kandjo, João
name: CAHILA, WALDMAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: RESUMO

O texto tem como objectivo demonstrar os discursos hegemónicos circulantes dos países europeus na Conferência de Berlim que demarcaram as fronteiras de Angola.  Discursos firmados através de acordos e convenções entre Portugal, Alemanha, França, Inglaterra e Bélgica. A metodologia consistiu numa revisão bibliográfica, embora a temática fosse amplamente debatida no sistema de ensino do Huambo. Além disso, a pespectiva que se assenta neste texto veio de dois Professores que lecionam a História da África e  de Angola no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação do Huambo, Angola.

Palavras-chaves: Discursos, negociações, partilha.
Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation: A Critical Review
Creators: name: Hufty, Marc
name: Haakenstad, Annie
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: “Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation” (REDD) is emerging as a major new climate change mechanism that could deeply impact the financial, social and institutional dynamics of deforestation, conservation, and development in many developing countries. It has the potential to influence global forest governance in a socially acceptable way. The mechanism as it stands needs much improvement to avoid the pitfalls of earlier forest governance mechanisms. The research, at this stage, is not sufficient to improve it. Most of the literature is fairly slanted towards technical issues and the prospective design of the scheme or normative opposition to it. Despite this copious amounts of scholarly and advocacy work, there is too little attention focused on the social and governance dimensions of the proposals.
description: Consilience, No 5 (2011): Issue Five: 2011
Additional file 1 of GATA6-AS1 suppresses epithelial–mesenchymal transition of pancreatic cancer under hypoxia through regulating SNAI1 mRNA stability
Creators: name: Zhou, Yunhui
name: Zhou, Xinyi
name: Ben, Qiwen
name: Liu, Ningning
name: Wang, Jiahui
name: Zhai, Yongpeng
name: Bao, Yichen
name: Zhou, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. shRNA targeting sequence.Table S2. The sequences of the primers included in this manuscript. Figure S1. Biological characterization of GATA6-AS1. Figure S2. GATA6-AS1 overexpression inhibits EMT process in subcutaneous xenografts from mouse. Figure S3. Association of GATA6-AS1 expression and epithelial–mesenchymal transition markers in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissues. Figure S4. GATA6-AS1 knockdown enhances PDAC cells malignant behaviors and EMT.Figure S5. GATA6-AS1 knockdown enhances tumor growth and lung metastasis of PDAC cells. Figure S6. Hypoxia represses GATA6-AS1 expression in PDAC through ETS1. Figure S7. SNAI1 facilitates malignant behaviors and EMT of PDAC cells. Figure S8. FTO is positively correlated with EMT markers in the TCGA-PAAD database. Figure S9. FTO expression in PDAC. Figure S10. YTHDF2 silencing reverses malignant behaviors induced by GATA6-AS1 knockdown in PDAC cells.
การตากมันสำปะหลังเส้นด้วยพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์
Creators: name: อรรถวิทย์ สังฆะมณี
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: มันสำปะหลังเส้น, พลังงานแสงอาทิตย์, การอบแห้ง, การเตรียมวัสดุ

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Omurano Field Materials
Creators: name: Inuma Macusi, Rafael
name: Inuma Manizari, Simón
name: Inuma Vela, Teolinda
name: Macusi Nuribe, Jorge
name: Macusi Nuribe, José Manuel
name: Macusi Nuribe, Juan
name: Murayari Macusi, Francisco
name: Valencia Paima, Catalino
name: O'Hagan, Zachary
name: Berjón Martínez, Manuel
name: Cadenas Cardo, Miguel Ángel
name: Caritimari Huansi, Sonia
name: Yuyarima Tapullima, Gilter
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016

description: Audio recordings, scanned field notes, and photographs that derive from interviews and elicitation sessions concerning the Omurano language the regional history of the Urituyacu river basin
Does the geographic proximity effect on knowledge spillovers vary across research fields?
Creators: name: Abramo, Giovanni
name: D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea
name: Di Costa, Flavia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Policy makers are interested in the influence of geographic distance on knowledge flows, however these can be expected to vary across research fields. The effects of geographic distance on flows are analyzed by means of citations to scientific literature. The field of observation consists of the 2010-2012 Italian publications and relevant citations up to the close of 2017. The geographic proximity effect is analyzed at national, continental, and intercontinental level in 244 fields, and results as evident at national level and in some cases at continental level, but not at intercontinental level. For flows between Italian municipalities, citations decrease with distance in all fields. At continental level, four fields are identified having knowledge flows that grow with distance; at intercontinental level, this occurs in 26 fields. The influence of distance is more limited in the fields of Humanities and Social sciences, much more significant in the Sciences, mainly in the Natural sciences.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.00742, arXiv:2103.13819
Optical circuits based on Polariton Neurons in Semiconductor Microcavities
Creators: name: Liew, T. C. H.
name: Shelykh, I. A.
name: Kavokin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By exploiting the polarization multistability of polaritons, we show that polarized signals can be conducted in the plane of a semiconductor microcavity along controlled channels or "neurons". Furthermore due to the interaction of polaritons with opposite spins it is possible to realize binary logic gates operating on the polarization degree of freedom. Multiple gates can be integrated together to form an optical circuit contained in a single semiconductor microcavity.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Social Motorics - a predictive processing model for efficient embodied communication
Creators: name: Kahl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Human communication often seems effortless. We tend to quickly have an idea of our interaction partner’s intentions that enable us to predict their future behavior. How is such efficient communication possible which, despite uncertainty, allows us to quickly attribute beliefs to one another? Also, when and how are beliefs corrected if necessary? By investigating how action and perception influence and are influenced by prior beliefs during non-verbal communication, this work tackles the question of how and when the two subnetworks of the social brain interact. A computational modeling approach is proposed, based on principles of predictive processing and active inference. The model’s hierarchy consists of sensorimotor- and mentalizing levels. Their processes influence each other in a way that allows their embodied representations to be used efficiently. It is explored how uncertainty is handled in human communication, before examining the neuroscientific details of social cognition. Both inform the assumptions underlying the proposed model, which is evaluated in a number of simulations. These test the model’s abilities to minimize uncertainty during action and perception, to differentiate between its own and other’s actions, and also its ability to coordinate beliefs between multiple agents in a non-verbal communication game. The simulations not only show that the proposed mechanisms quickly infer action intentions, able to influence future perception and action. Simulations also highlight the importance of weighting new evidence against prior beliefs, so that it is able to detect false beliefs and repair them during social interaction. The proposed computational model demonstrates a mechanistic account of the interplay within the social brain that allows for efficient non-verbal communication between similar agents, with implications for the notion of subjective direct access to other’s minds.
Collecting large-scale publication data at the level of individual researchers: A practical proposal for author name disambiguation
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea
name: van Eck, Nees Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The disambiguation of author names is an important and challenging task in bibliometrics. We propose an approach that relies on an external source of information for selecting and validating clusters of publications identified through an unsupervised author name disambiguation method. The application of the proposed approach to a random sample of Italian scholars shows encouraging results, with an overall precision, recall, and F-Measure of over 96%. The proposed approach can serve as a starting point for large-scale census of publication portfolios for bibliometric analyses at the level of individual researchers.
Goma: Centers for Internally Displaced Persons
Creators: name: Wright, Katherine Fairfax
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed an estimated 5 million lives—it is the deadliest conflict since World War II. Despite a 2003 peace accord, fighting continues and according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre over hundreds of thousands of people are now displaced, the majority of whom are within the eastern providence of North Kivu. In response to this crisis, UNICEF and partnering agencies have set up centers for the displaced population—providing them with, among other things, shelter, food, water, and schooling.
description: Consilience, No 4 (2010): Issue Four: 2010
FSR1735 -- A new globular cluster candidate in the inner Galaxy
Creators: name: Froebrich, D.
name: Meusinger, H.
name: Scholz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a large program to classify newly discovered star clusters from Froebrich et al. (2006) in the inner Galaxy. Here, we present a first analysis of a new high-priority globular cluster candidate, FSR1735 at l=339.1879; b=-1.8534, based on new deep near infrared observations from Sofi at the NTT. A significant peak in the K-band luminosity function is found, which is interpreted as the clump of post-He-flash stars. The distance and the reddening of the cluster are determined to 9.1kpc and A_K=0.5mag, respectively, the metallicity is estimated to [M/H]=-0.8. Radial star density profiles are used to measure the core radius and the tidal radius of the cluster. The lack of signs for on-going star formation and the position in the Galaxy pose strong arguments against the interpretation of this object as a young or old open cluster. All the observational evidence is in agreement with the interpretation that FSR1735 is a so far unknown globular cluster in the inner Galaxy.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication by MNRAS letters
On V_ud determination from kaon decays
Creators: name: Chizhov, Mihail V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion beta decay pi^+ -> pi^0 e^+ nu proceeds through pure weak vector hadronic currents and, therefore, the theoretical prediction for it is more reliable than for the processes with axial-vector current contribution. For example, recently the pion beta decay has been used for V_ud determination. The main aim of this letter is to point that kaon beta decay K^0 -> K^+(pi^+ pi^0) e^- nu-bar analogously can be used for this purpose.
description: 3 pages, no figures, one reference added
Additional file 3 of Clinical efficacy of Tailin formulation combined with continuous low-dose antimicrobial therapy for recurrent urinary tract infection: study protocol for a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial
Creators: name: Li, Tonglu
name: Xu, Yingru
name: Gong, Xuezhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Funding documentation.
Universality classes in Burgers turbulence
Creators: name: Menon, Govind
name: Pego, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the shock statistics to approach self-similar form in Burgers turbulence with Lévy process initial data. The proof relies upon an elegant closure theorem of Bertoin and Carraro and Duchon that reduces the study of shock statistics to Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with additive kernel, and upon our previous characterization of the domains of attraction of self-similar solutions for this equation.
Eastern Cham Field Materials
Creators: name: Thanh, Binh
name: Thek Va Chao, Abdullah
name: Thien, Mohammad
name: Van Phu, Mai
name: Baclawski, Kenneth
name: Ligaih, Hamu
name: Samoun, Yasya
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016

description: Audio recordings of lexical and grammatical elicitation sessions, sociolinguistic surveys, narratives, and songs
Public-Private Dichotomy in Utilization of Health Care Services in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Chandan
name: Prakash, Ravi
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper attempts to highlight the differences in utilization of health care services provided by the public and private sectors in India. In addition, it also explores a marked regional pattern in utilization of health services. Using the large-scale national survey data (DLHS RCH-II, 2002-04 and 60th round National Sample Survey, 2004), the authors have selected socio-economic as well as demographic factors determining health treatment seeking behavior, in terms of availing services from public or private sources, which have been addressed with objectivity. Furthermore, selected states of India have been ranked on the basis of extent of inequality (in terms of economic status) in utilization of health services from public and private sources. The paper, in its totality, advocates for economically affordable and better quality health care services for the masses.
description: Consilience, No 5 (2011): Issue Five: 2011
Enhanced Optical Cooling of Ion Beams for LHC
Creators: name: Bessonov, E. G.
name: Gorbunkov, M. V.
name: Mikhailichenko, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of the enhanced optical cooling (EOC) of Lead ions in LHC is investigated. Non-exponential feature of cooling and requirements to the ring lattice, optical and laser systems are discussed. Comparison with optical stochastic cooling (OSC) is represented.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 4 of Clinical efficacy of Tailin formulation combined with continuous low-dose antimicrobial therapy for recurrent urinary tract infection: study protocol for a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial
Creators: name: Li, Tonglu
name: Xu, Yingru
name: Gong, Xuezhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. The informed consent document.
Nose to brain delivery of naringin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles for potential use in oxaliplatin-induced chemobrain in rats: impact on oxidative stress, cGAS/STING and HMGB1/RAGE/TLR2/MYD88 inflammatory axes
Creators: name: Hanna, Diana M.F.
name: Youshia, John
name: Fahmy, Sarah Farid
name: George, Mina Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Oxaliplatin induces chemobrain in cancer patients/survivors. Nutraceutical naringin has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties with low oral bioavailability. Our aim was to formulate naringin in chitosan nanoparticles for nose to brain delivery and assess its neuroprotective effect against oxaliplatin-induced chemobrain in rats. Naringin chitosan nanoparticles were prepared by ionic gelation. Rats were administered oral naringin (80 mg/kg), intranasal naringin (0.3 mg/kg) or intranasal naringin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles (0.3 mg/kg). Naringin’s neuroprotective efficacy was assessed based on behavioral tests, histopathology, and measuring oxidative stress and inflammatory markers. Selected nanoparticles formulation showed drug loading of 5%, size of 150 nm and were cationic. Intranasal naringin administration enhanced memory function, inhibited hippocampal acetylcholinesterase activity, and corrected oxaliplatin-induced histological changes. Moreover, it reduced malondialdehyde and elevated reduced glutathione hippocampal levels. Furthermore, it decreased levels of inflammatory markers: NF-kB and TNF-α by 1.25-fold. Upstream to this inflammatory status, intranasal naringin downregulated the hippocampal protein levels of two pathways: cGAS/STING and HMGB1/RAGE/TLR2/MYD88. Intranasal naringin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles showed superior amelioration of oxaliplatin-induced chemobrain in rats at a dose 267-fold lower to that administered orally. The potential involvement of cGAS/STING and HMGB1/RAGE/TLR2/MYD88 pathways in the mechanistic process of either oxaliplatin-induced chemobrain or naringin-mediated neuroprotection was evidenced.
On the quantification of discretization uncertainty: comparison of two paradigms
Creators: name: Bect, Julien
name: Zio, Souleymane
name: Perrin, Guillaume
name: Cannamela, Claire
name: Vazquez, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Numerical models based on partial differential equations (PDE), or integro-differential equations, are ubiquitous in engineering and science, making it possible to understand or design systems for which physical experiments would be expensive-sometimes impossible-to carry out. Such models usually construct an approximate solution of the underlying continuous equations, using discretization methods such as finite differences or the finite elements method. The resulting discretization error introduces a form of uncertainty on the exact but unknown value of any quantity of interest (QoI), which affects the predictions of the numerical model alongside other sources of uncertainty such as parametric uncertainty or model inadequacy. The present article deals with the quantification of this discretization uncertainty.A first approach to this problem, now standard in the V\&V (Verification and Validation) literature, uses the grid convergence index (GCI) originally proposed by P. Roache in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which is based on the Richardson extrapolation technique. Another approach, based on Bayesian inference with Gaussian process models, was more recently introduced in the statistical literature. In this work we present and compare these two paradigms for the quantification of discretization uncertainty, which have been developped in different scientific communities, and assess the potential of the-younger-Bayesian approach to provide a replacement for the well-established GCI-based approach, with better probabilistic foundations. The methods are illustrated and evaluated on two standard test cases from the literature (lid-driven cavity and Timoshenko beam).
Interactions and dynamics in Li + Li_2 ultracold collisions
Creators: name: Cvitas, Marko T.
name: Soldan, Pavel
name: Hutson, Jeremy M.
name: Honvault, Pascal
name: Launay, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A potential energy surface for the lowest quartet electronic state of lithium trimer is developed and used to study spin-polarized Li + Li_2 collisions at ultralow kinetic energies. The potential energy surface allows barrierless atom exchange reactions. Elastic and inelastic cross sections are calculated for collisions involving a variety of rovibrational states of Li_2. Inelastic collisions are responsible for trap loss in molecule production experiments. Isotope effects and the sensitivity of the results to details of the potential energy surface are investigated. It is found that for vibrationally excited states the cross sections are only quite weakly dependent on details of the potential energy surface.
description: 21 pages, 27 figures. Version 2 is final version as accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys
Musk ketone solubility in binary systems ethyl acetate with methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol: preferential solvation according to the inverse Kirkwood–Buff integrals method
Creators: name: Noubigh, Adel
name: Abderrabba, Manef
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Three co-solvent mixtures {methanol (1) + ethyl acetate (2), ethanol (1) + ethyl acetate (2), and isopropanol (1) + ethyl acetate} were used to calculate the preferred solvation parameters (δx1,3) of musk ketone (MK) (2). In all co-solvent mixes, δx1,3 values vary non-linearly with the percentage of co-solvent (1). According to the study, δx1,3values are negative in mixes rich in alcohol but positive in those high in ethyl acetate. The mixtures {methanol (1) + ethyl acetate (2)} and {ethanol (1) + ethyl acetate (2)} show the most favoured solvation of MK by ethyl acetate at 298.15 K and 293.15 K, respectively. When {isopropanol (1) + ethyl acetate (2)} is combined; it is maximum at 298.15 K. Since the δx1,3 values are positive, MK preferentially solvates with ethyl acetate. The most significant values for x1 = 0.18–0.40 are obtained towards the non-polar regions of MK for the three co-solvent mixes.
Growth of Interior spruce seedlings on forest floor materials
Creators: name: Heineman, Jeanette Lynne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: On a site with a high water table and thick forest floor near Smithers, B.C., two year-old Interior spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss X Picea engelmanni Parry) container seedlings were outplanted onto mineral soil, H-layer material, F-layer material, and rotten wood. Large and small screef sizes were utilized. Temperature and volumetric water contents of the various substrates were monitored over the 1989 growing season, and fertilization with NH₄NO₃ was carried out at the beginning of the 1990 growing season. Destructive sampling of the seedling population took place in August 1989 and August 1990 in order to determine height, root collar diameter, root mass, shoot mass, total seedling mass, and shoot to root ratio. Foliar N concentrations were also determined in late August 1990. Differences in height and diameter for the seven screef size/substrate treatments were not significant, but the organic substrates produced seedlings of greater root, shoot, and total seedling mass than did mineral soil. Greater seedling mass was correlated most strongly with higher substrate temperature, and to a lesser extent with lower soil moisture content, as well as with higher foliar N concentration. There were no significant differences in survival between the treatments. Seedlings growing in the organic substrates had higher foliar N levels, and fertilization improved growth for all parameters. It is concluded that on sites such as this, better growth results can be achieved by planting Interior spruce seedlings high above the water table in F-layer material, where conditions are warmer and drier, than by making deep screefs down to more traditionally acceptable planting substrates such as mineral soil or even the well decomposed H-layer material.
The Origin of Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Break Junctions
Creators: name: Burton, J. D.
name: Sabirianov, R. F.
name: Velev, J. P.
name: Mryasov, O. N.
name: Tsymbal, E. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles calculations of electron tunneling transport in Ni and Co break junctions reveal strong dependence of the conductance on the magnetization direction, an effect known as tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR). The origin of this phenomenon stems from resonant states localized in the electrodes near the junction break. The energy and broadening of these states is strongly affected by the magnetization orientation due to spin-orbit coupling, causing TAMR to be sensitive to bias voltage on a scale of a few mV. Our results bear a resemblance to recent experimental data and suggest that TAMR driven by resonant states is a general phenomenon typical for magnetic broken contacts and other experimental geometries where a magnetic tip is used to probe electron transport.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
An Analysis of Economic Growth and Industrial Wastewater Pollution Relations in China
Creators: name: Yang, Hong
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Abbaspour, Karim C
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper investigates the relationship between the income growth and the trend in industrial wastewater discharge in China during the period 1981-2007. For the data encompassing all the provinces over the entire period considered, both an inverted U-shaped EKC and an N-shaped EKC are statistically significant. An analysis dividing provinces into rich and poor groups reveals that the EKC relations are mainly governed by the rich province group. The EKC relations for the poor province group are either not found or are statistically weak. A further analysis based on dividing the data into before and after the year 2000 is in favour of the quadratic EKC model. The results of this study show that the relationships between a given pollutant and income are temporal and spatial specific depending on the driving forces behind. This implies that results derived from one study for certain regions/countries and for a specific time period may not be generalized for other regions/countries and extrapolated to other periods.
description: Consilience, No 4 (2010): Issue Four: 2010
Helvetia galianoae Gustavo R. S. Ruiz & Antonio D. Brescovit 2008, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Helvetia
Helvetia galianoae

description: Helvetia galianoae sp. nov. Figs 15-16 Helvetia albovittata; Galiano, 1965: 47, figs 7-8 (only the male allotype, mismatched). Type. Male holotype from San Javier, Misiones, Argentina, XI.1948, Birabén leg., deposited in MACN 5744. Etymology. The species is named in honour of the Argentine arachnologist María Elena Galiano. Diagnosis. Males of this species are very similar to those of H. riojanensis by the shape of the RTA (see GALIANO 1965, fig. 3), from which they can be distinguished by having a more slender cymbium seen in ventral view (Fig. 15) and shorter RTA branches (Fig. 16). Description. Male (holotype). Total length: 4.75. Carapace dark brown, 2.00 long, 1.25 wide, 0.90 high, with a narrow marginal stripe of white scales. Cephalic region black. Ocular quadrangle 0.90 long. Anterior eye row 0.95 wide and posterior 0.95 wide. Chelicera reddish brown. Endite, labium and sternum dark brown. Palp as in Figs 15 and 16. Legs 1432, light brown, with longitudinal black stripes on the tibiae and metatarsi II-IV. Length of femur: I 1.05, II 0.75, III 0.80, IV 1.10; patella + tibia: I 1.70, II 0.95, III 0.95, IV 1.35; metatarsus + tarsus: I 0.90, II 0.60, III 0.90, IV 1.05. Spination. Femur I, II, III, IV d1- 1; tibia I 0, II v1 pr, III v1 di, IV v2 di; metatarsus I, II v2-2, III v1 di, p1, r1, IV v2 di, p1, r1. Abdomen dark brown, with two transverse white marks. Anterior and posterior spinnerets brown. Female. Unknown. Additional material examined. None. Distribution. Known only from Misiones, Argentina.
description: Published as part of Gustavo R. S. Ruiz & Antonio D. Brescovit, 2008, Revision of Helvetia (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae), pp. 139-147 in Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25 (1) on pages 142-143, DOI: 10.1590/S0101-81752008000100018, http://zenodo.org/record/3678502
description: {"references": ["GALIANO, M. E. 1965. Descripcion de Helvetia riojanensis sp. n. y del alotipo \u2642 de H. al bovittata Simon (A raneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Socieda d Entomologica Argentina 27: 47 - 50."]}
Intra-cellular transport by single-headed kinesin KIF1A: effects of single-motor mechano-chemistry and steric interactions
Creators: name: Greulich, Philip
name: Garai, Ashok
name: Nishinari, Katsuhiro
name: Schadschneider, Andreas
name: Chowdhury, Debashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In eukaryotic cells, many motor proteins can move simultaneously on a single microtubule track. This leads to interesting collective phenomena like jamming. Recently we reported ({\it Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 95}, 118101 (2005)}) a lattice-gas model which describes traffic of unconventional (single-headed) kinesins KIF1A. Here we generalize this model, introducing a novel interaction parameter $c$, to account for an interesting mechano-chemical process which has not been considered in any earlier model. We have been able to extract all the parameters of the model, except $c$, from experimentally measured quantities. In contrast to earlier models of intra-cellular molecular motor traffic, our model assigns distinct ``chemical'' (or, conformational) states to each kinesin to account for the hydrolysis of ATP, the chemical fuel of the motor. Our model makes experimentally testable theoretical predictions. We determine the phase diagram of the model in planes spanned by experimentally controllable parameters, namely, the concentrations of kinesins and ATP. Furthermore, the phase-separated regime is studied in some detail using analytical methods and simulations to determine e.g. the position of shocks. Comparison of our theoretical predictions with experimental results is expected to elucidate the nature of the mechano-chemical process captured by the parameter $c$.
description: 17 pages including 14 embedded EPS figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Unstable modes of non-axisymmetric gaseous discs
Creators: name: Asghari, Naser M.
name: Jalali, Mir Abbas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a perturbation theory for studying the instabilities of non-axisymmetric gaseous discs. We perturb the dynamical equations of self-gravitating fluids in the vicinity of a non-axisymmetric equilibrium, and expand the perturbed physical quantities in terms of a complete basis set and a small non-axisymmetry parameter $ε$. We then derive a linear eigenvalue problem in matrix form, and determine the pattern speed, growth rate and mode shapes of the first three unstable modes. In non-axisymmetric discs the amplitude and phase angle of travelling waves are functions of both the radius $R$ and the azimuthal angle $ϕ$. This is due to the interaction of different wave components in the response spectrum. We demonstrate that wave interaction in unstable discs with small initial asymmetries, can develop dense clumps during the phase of exponential growth. Local clumps, which occur on the major spiral arms, can constitute seeds of gas giant planets in accretion discs.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sustaining Culture with Sustainable Stoves: The Role of Tradition in Providing Clean-Burning Stoves to Developing Countries
Creators: name: Victor, Britta
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The focus of climate change mitigation is on greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, but there is another form of carbon that contributes greatly to climate change and that, if cleaned up, seems to be a quick and easy way to slow climate change. This is black carbon, or soot, and the majority of the world’s black carbon comes from the basic cooking stoves of poor people in developing countries. These same stoves also pose significant health risks to their users, and many researchers and philanthropists are working to put cleaner stoves in their kitchens. This quick fix is not so easy, though. In the quest for the perfect stove, a key detail is left out: the cooks do not want to give up their old stoves. This study juxtaposes the research of stove engineers with ethnographies of rural communities, writings on women’s rights, and theories of imperialism, to explore the complex cultural obstacles to the success of clean stove programs in developing countries.
description: Consilience, No 5 (2011): Issue Five: 2011
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
Creators: name: Traag, Vincent Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Causal inference
Journal
Citations
Bayesian hierarchical model

description: Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are somehow more “citable”? Or are they cited more often simply because they are published in a high-impact journal? Although some evidence suggests the latter the causal relationship is not clear. We here compare citations of preprints to citations of the published version to uncover the causal mechanism. We build on an earlier model of citation dynamics to infer the causal effect of journals on citations. We find that high-impact journals select articles that tend to attract more citations. At the same time, we find that high-impact journals augment the citation rate of published articles. Our results yield a deeper understanding of the role of journals in the research system. The use of journal metrics in research evaluation has been increasingly criticized in recent years and article-level citations are sometimes suggested as an alternative. Our results show that removing impact factors from evaluation does not negate the influence of journals. This insight has important implications for changing practices of research evaluation.
description: Presented at Complexity Science Hub Vienna, 5 February 2021