cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Patterns of water table dynamics and runoff generation in a watershed with preferential flow networks
Creators: name: Anderson, Axel Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Our understanding of subsurface flow depends on assumptions of how event characteristics and spatial scale affect the relationships between subsurface water velocity, discharge, water table dynamics, and runoff response. In this thesis, three chapters explore some of these patterns for a hillslope and small watershed in coastal British Columbia. In the first chapter, tracers were applied under natural and steady state conditions to determine the relationship between lateral tracer velocities and various hillslope and event characteristics; such as hillslope subsurface flow, rainfall intensity, water table level, hillslope length, and antecedent condition. The results showed that preferential flow made up a large percentage of the subsurface flow from the gauged hillslope. Flow velocities as measured by tracers were affected by slope length and boundary conditions. The flow velocity was most closely related to the rainfall intensity, and changes in flow velocity were large compared to the changes in the water table. In the second chapter, the preferential flow features that transmitted water during steady state were investigated by staining the soil with a food dye solution and excavating the soil. These data were used to explore the link between the topographical factors (slope and contributing area), the network of preferential features and soil properties. The contributing area appeared to be an indicator of the size of the preferential features and their connectivity. In the final manuscript chapter, water table level and stream discharge measurements were used to determine if areas within a watershed with runoff dominated by preferential flow could be grouped based on the observable physical information such as slope, contributing area, distance to stream, and vegetation. Preferential flow made the water table responses dynamic and thus, distinct zones could not be identified. Models of the water table – runoff were not able to predict the water table response for other sites with similar physical characteristics. Even though there was high variability in the results, the patterns and relationships revealed in this thesis conform to existing conceptual models of hillslope subsurface preferential flow. These patterns and relationships may be useful in developing or validating numerical models.
Теорія та методика обраного виду спорту для студентів 2 курсу спеціалізації баскетбол.
Creators: name: Пащенко, Наталія
name: Помещикова, Ірина
name: Чуча, Юрій
name: Чуча, Наталія
name: Ширяєва, Ірина
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: баскетбол
ТМОВС
Теорія та методика обраного виду спорту

description: Навчальний посібник розроблено згідно до програми з дисципліни «Теорія та методика обраного виду спорту (баскетбол)» для студентів 2 курсу вищого навчального закладу у сфері фізичного виховання і спорту. В навчальному посібнику розглядаються загальні основи методики спортивного тренування, основ фізичної підготовки баскетболістів, тестування та контролю в підготовці та аналіз техніки баскетболу з методикою навчання.
DoubleML -- An Object-Oriented Implementation of Double Machine Learning in R
Creators: name: Bach, Philipp
name: Chernozhukov, Victor
name: Kurz, Malte S.
name: Spindler, Martin
name: Klaassen, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 62-04

description: The R package DoubleML implements the double/debiased machine learning framework of Chernozhukov et al. (2018). It provides functionalities to estimate parameters in causal models based on machine learning methods. The double machine learning framework consist of three key ingredients: Neyman orthogonality, high-quality machine learning estimation and sample splitting. Estimation of nuisance components can be performed by various state-of-the-art machine learning methods that are available in the mlr3 ecosystem. DoubleML makes it possible to perform inference in a variety of causal models, including partially linear and interactive regression models and their extensions to instrumental variable estimation. The object-oriented implementation of DoubleML enables a high flexibility for the model specification and makes it easily extendable. This paper serves as an introduction to the double machine learning framework and the R package DoubleML. In reproducible code examples with simulated and real data sets, we demonstrate how DoubleML users can perform valid inference based on machine learning methods.
description: 56 pages, 8 Figures, 1 Table; Updated version for DoubleML 1.0.0; Updated version due to changes in R package paradox (for parameter tuning with mlr3)
ApoB, non-HDL-C, and LDL-C Are More Prominent in Retinal Artery Occlusion Compared to Retinal Vein Occlusion
Creators: name: Chen, Ting
name: Li, Ying
name: Wang, Yuedan
name: Li, Xuejie
name: Wan, Yuwei
name: Xiao, Xuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: To evaluate and compare the blood lipid profile in retinal artery occlusion (RAO) and retinal vein occlusion (RVO). We included 82 RAO patients and 95 RVO patients in this retrospective case–control study. Controls were matched to RAO or RVO patients at a 1:1 ratio, respectively. Associated lipid variates were analyzed in multivariable logistic regression models. LDL-C (OR = 1.69), non-HDL-C (OR = 1.87), and ApoB (OR = 11.72) individually significantly increased the risk of RAO. ApoA1 was associated with RVO (OR = 0.02), and with 75.8% sensitivity and 67.4% specificity. TG (OR = 1.61), LDL-C (OR = 1.69), non-HDL-C (OR = 1.91), and ApoB (OR = 12.12) each significantly increased the risk of RAO when compared with RVO. ApoB, non-HDL-C, and LDL-C may be potential biomarkers in RAO patients. Low ApoA1 is an independent risk factor for the development of RVO.
Additional file 1: of The high frequency of GJB2 gene mutation c.313_326del14 suggests its possible origin in ancestors of Lithuanian population
Creators: name: Mikstiene, Violeta
name: Audrone Jakaitiene
name: Byckova, Jekaterina
name: Gradauskiene, Egle
name: Preiksaitiene, Egle
name: Birute Burnyte
name: Birute Tumiene
name: Ausra Matuleviciene
name: Ambrozaityte, Laima
name: Uktveryte, Ingrida
name: Domarkiene, Ingrida
name: Rancelis, Tautvydas
name: Cimbalistiene, Loreta
name: Lesinskas, Eugenijus
name: Kucinskas, Vaidutis
name: Utkus, Algirdas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The conditions for PCR amplification of GJB2 and GJB6 genes coding sequences (primer sequences, annealing temperature, lengths of the amplicons). (PDF 8Â kb)
Photinus nigridorsis Gorham 1881
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus nigridorsis

description: Photinus nigridorsis Gorham, 1881
MEXICO: GR, OA Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Rational singularities of nested Hilbert schemes
Creators: name: Ramkumar, Ritvik
name: Sammartano, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 13D02, 13P10, 14B05, 14C05, Secondary: 05E40, 13A50, 13C40, 13D10, 13F55, 14M15, 20G05

description: The Hilbert scheme of points $\mathrm{Hilb}^n(S)$ of a smooth surface $S$ is a well-studied parameter space, lying at the interface of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, representation theory, combinatorics, and mathematical physics. The foundational result is a classical theorem of Fogarty, stating that $\mathrm{Hilb}^n(S)$ is a smooth variety of dimension $2n$. In recent years there has been growing interest in a natural generalization of $\mathrm{Hilb}^n(S)$, the nested Hilbert scheme $\mathrm{Hilb}^{(n_1,n_2)}(S)$, which parametrizes nested pairs of zero-dimensional subschemes $Z_1 \supseteq Z_2$ of $S$ with $\mathrm{deg} (Z_i)=n_i$. In contrast to Fogarty's theorem, $\mathrm{Hilb}^{(n_1,n_2)}(S)$ is almost always singular, and very little is known about its singularities. In this paper we aim to advance the knowledge of the geometry of these nested Hilbert schemes. Work by Fogarty in the 70's shows that $\mathrm{Hilb}^{(n,1)}(S)$ is a normal Cohen-Macaulay variety, and Song more recently proved that it has rational singularities. In our main result, we prove that the nested Hilbert scheme $\mathrm{Hilb}^{(n,2)}(S)$ has rational singularities. We employ an array of tools from commutative algebra to prove this theorem. Using Gröbner bases, we establish a connection between $\mathrm{Hilb}^{(n,2)}(S)$ and a certain variety of matrices with an action of the general linear group. This variety of matrices plays a central role in our work, and we analyze it by various algebraic techniques, including square-free Gröbner degenerations, the Stanley-Reisner correspondence, and the Kempf-Lascoux-Weyman technique of calculating syzygies. Along the way, we also obtain results on classes of irreducible and reducible nested Hilbert schemes, dimension of singular loci, and $F$-singularities in positive characteristic.
description: 37 pages. Final version; to appear on International Mathematics Research Notices
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Variation in use of targeted therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Results from a Dutch population-based registry
Creators: name: S. De Groot
name: S. Sleijfer
name: W. Redekop
name: E. Oosterwijk
name: J. Haanen
name: L. Kiemeney
name: C. Uyl-De Groot
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Patient enrolment. Table S1. Patient and disease characteristics (observed and imputed) 2008â  2010 Cohort and 2011â  2013 Cohort. (DOCX 57Â kb)
A Literature Review of Computing Education in Africa and a Catalogue of Contextualised Learning Materials: Survey Questions
Creators: name: Hamouda, Sally
name: Marshall, Linda
name: Sanders, Kathryn
name: Tshukudu, Ethel
name: Adelakun-Adeyemo, Oluwatoyin
name: Becker, Brett
name: Dodoo, Emma
name: Korash, Ayorkor
name: Sandani, Luvhengo
name: Ola, Kemi
name: Parkinson, Jack
name: Sanusi, Ismaila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is a set of survey questions used to evaluate contextualised materials for teaching CS in Africa. This work is not yet published.
Self-force effects in post-Minkowskian scattering
Creators: name: Gralla, Samuel E.
name: Lobo, Kunal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the old problem of the self-force on a particle moving in a weak-field spacetime in the context of renewed interest in two-body gravitational scattering. We analytically calculate the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational self-force on a particle moving on a straight-line trajectory at a large distance from a Newtonian star, and use these results to find the associated correction to its motion. In the gravitational case we must also include the matter-mediated force, which acts at the same perturbative order as the gravitational self-force. We further augment the gravitational results with geodesic calculations at second order in the central body mass to determine the full, explicit solution to the two-body gravitational scattering problem at second post-Minkowskian order (2PM). We calculate the momentum transfer (which reproduces Westpfahl's old result), the change in mechanical angular momentum (which matches the radiative flux recently computed by Damour), and the change in mechanical mass moment (the time-space components of the angular momentum tensor), which has not previously appeared. Besides the new 2PM results of explicit trajectories and all conserved quantities, this work clarifies the role of gravitational self-force in PM scattering theory and provides a foundation for higher-order calculations.
description: 34 pages, 1 figure, corrected some equations from the previous version
Open Lateral Canal Inventory: Salt River Project, Maricopa County, Arizona, Lower Colorado Region
Creators: name: Gifford, David J.
Publisher: name: USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Maricopa (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3900/maricopa-county
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79515/arizona-state-territory
subject: Lower Colorado Region
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83227/lower-colorado-region
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Agricultural or Herding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/273/agricultural-or-herding
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Salt River Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/139554/salt-river-project
subject: Inventory
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/533/inventory
subject: SRP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147417/srp
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking

description: The Salt River Project (SRP) is a U. S. Bureau of Reclamation owned project operated under a long term agreement with the Salt River Valley Water Users Association, known today as SRP. The 100 year old historic water delivery system consisting of dams, canals and distribution laterals are continually updated and modernized to facilitate on-going water deliveries to the Salt River Valley (Valley). Operations and Maintenance (O&M) as well as rapid growth in the Valley will continue to have impacts on the historic system constructed in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The following inventory was completed as a component of the 2001 SRP Programmatic Agreement (PA) (Advisory Council for Historic Preservation 2001). The PA was initiated in 2000 in consultation with Reclamation, SRP, the Arizona SHPO and the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation to preserve and /or mitigate portions of the historic lateral distribution system. After 10 years in existence the PA is being revised and updated. This inventory is part of the process to identify significant historical elements of the lateral canal system that should be preserved for the future. 

This is a revised report.
Comparative Analysis of Merge Trees using Local Tree Edit Distance
Creators: name: Sridharamurthy, Raghavendra
name: Natarajan, Vijay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Comparative analysis of scalar fields is an important problem with various applications including feature-directed visualization and feature tracking in time-varying data. Comparing topological structures that are abstract and succinct representations of the scalar fields lead to faster and meaningful comparison. While there are many distance or similarity measures to compare topological structures in a global context, there are no known measures for comparing topological structures locally. While the global measures have many applications, they do not directly lend themselves to fine-grained analysis across multiple scales. We define a local variant of the tree edit distance and apply it towards local comparative analysis of merge trees with support for finer analysis. We also present experimental results on time-varying scalar fields, 3D cryo-electron microscopy data, and other synthetic data sets to show the utility of this approach in applications like symmetry detection and feature tracking.
Photinus noguerai Zaragoza-Caballero 1996
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus noguerai

description: Photinus noguerai Zaragoza-Caballero, 1996
MEXICO: VE Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Colonization of Lagrangian Space: A Path to Survival Beyond Earth
Creators: name: Rajasekaran, Ekambaram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Title: Colonization of Lagrangian Space: A Path to Survival Beyond Earth

Abstract:As Earth's environmental conditions continue to deteriorate, humanity must explore alternative strategies for survival. This paper investigates the feasibility of colonizing Lagrangian points in space and presents a transformative approach to overcoming the limitations of human biology. By merging human consciousness with advanced robotic systems, this vision ensures the preservation of human essence while addressing the challenges of extraterrestrial survival. The study outlines key aspects of consciousness transfer, energy systems, robotic adaptability, and ethical implications. This work redefines human existence in a sustainable robotic form, paving the way for thriving beyond Earth's confines.

Keywords:Lagrangian points, space colonization, consciousness transfer, robotics, extraterrestrial survival, advanced energy systems, solar power, artificial intelligence.

Authors and Affiliations:

E. Rajasekaran, Department of S&H, V.S.B. Engineering College, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India.

R. Indupriya, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences, Port Blair, India.

R. Devprakash, AI Computing and Multimedia, Lincoln University College, Malaysia.

Funding:No funding sources were used for this study.

Conflict of Interest Statement:The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

License:Choose CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) to maximize visibility and reuse potential.
Finite groups isospectral to simple groups
Creators: name: Grechkoseeva, Maria A.
name: Mazurov, Victor D.
name: Shi, Wujie
name: Vasil'ev, Andrey V.
name: Yang, Nanying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D05, 20D60

description: The spectrum of a finite group is the set of element orders of this group. The main goal of this paper is to survey results concerning recognition of finite simple groups by spectrum, in particular, to list all finite simple groups for which the recognition problem is solved.
description: Numbering of theorems, lemmas and other assertions has been changed to match that of the version published in Commun. Math. Stat
Photinus ojiviformis Zaragoza-Caballero & Rodriguez-Miron 2020
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus ojiviformis

description: Photinus ojiviformis Zaragoza-Caballero & Rodríguez-Mirón, 2020.
MEXICO: PU Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Electromagnetic Scoot
Creators: name: Gralla, Samuel E.
name: Lobo, Kunal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work on scattering of massive bodies in general relativity has revealed that the mechanical center of mass of the system (or, more precisely, its relativistic mass moment) undergoes a shift during the scattering process. We show that the same phenomenon occurs in classical scattering of charged particles in flat spacetime and study the effect in detail. Working to leading order in the interaction, we derive formulas for the initial and final values of the mechanical and electromagnetic energy, momentum, angular momentum, and mass moment. We demonstrate that the change in mechanical mass moment is balanced by an opposite change in the mass moment stored in the electromagnetic field. This is a non-radiative exchange between particles and field, analogous to exchange of kinetic and potential energy. A simple mechanical analogy is a person scooting forward on the floor, who exchanges mass moment with the floor. We therefore say that electromagnetic scattering results in an electromagnetic scoot.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, matches published version plus a note added
Photinus ovatus Gorham 1881
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus ovatus

description: Photinus ovatus Gorham, 1881
MEXICO: OA Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Photinus palaciosi
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus palaciosi

description: Photinus palaciosi (Zaragoza-Caballero, 2012)
MEXICO: TL Endemic
= Macrolampis palaciosi Zaragoza-Caballero, 2012
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Dixa inextricata
Creators: name: Moulton, John K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dixidae
Dixa
Dixa inextricata

description: Key to males of D. inextricata group
1 Cercus acute apically, its length subequal to or greater than proctiger lateral width (Figs 10, 15, 17). Ventral margin of gonostylus bulbous (Fig. 10). Basal gonocoxal lobe rectangular in ventral view (Fig. 16), its apex strongly falcate in lateral view (Figs 10, 15). Apical gonocoxal lobe blunt, rounded in lateral view, not digitiform (Figs 10, 15)............ calciphilum sp. nov.
- Cercus blunt apically, its length ca. one-half that of proctiger lateral width (Figs 9, 11, 12, 18). Ventral margin of gonostylus not strongly bulbous convex (Figs 9, 11, 12, 18). Basal gonocoxal lobe digitiform in ventral view (Figs 13, 19), its apex in lateral view subovoid-round, not strongly falcate (Figs 9, 11, 12, 18). Apical gonocoxal lobe digitiform (Figs 9, 11, 12, 18).... 2
2 Gonostylus less than 1.5X longer than greatest width in lateral view, with ventral margin slightly convex (Figs 9, 12). Basal gonocoxal lobe oval-round, directed dorsally............................................. appalachiensis sp. nov.
- Gonostylus 2X longer than greatest width in lateral view, with ventral margin straight or slightly concave (Figs 11, 18). Basal gonocoxal lobe subovoid, directed posterodorsally, its distal margin indented slightly........................ inextricata
description: Published as part of Moulton, John K., 2016, The Dixa inextricata Dyar & Shannon (Diptera: Dixidae) species group, with two new cryptic species from the eastern Nearctic Region, pp. 458-472 in Zootaxa 4121 (4) on pages 470-471, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/265286
Quality of Life Outcomes Among Patients Being Screened for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Thailand
Creators: name: Kumar, Anika
name: Ausayakhun, Somsanguan
name: Ausayakhun, Sakarin
name: Apivatthakakul, Atitaya
name: Liu, Yingna
name: Snyder, Blake M.
name: Margolis, Todd P.
name: Keenan, Jeremy D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis can have debilitating impacts on quality of life (QOL), but few contemporary studies have characterized these ramifications. This study assessed the impact of CMV retinitis on vision-related QOL for those living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand. QOL was assessed as part of a prospective interventional cohort study of patients referred to a tertiary hospital in Thailand for CMV retinitis screening. A validated vision-related QOL questionnaire was administered at the baseline screening visit and at the 6-month study visit. Multivariable linear regression models were performed to determine the effect of CMV retinitis diagnosis on QOL score. A total of 152 participants completed the QOL questionnaire at their initial clinic visit. At baseline, a diagnosis of CMV retinitis diagnosis was significantly associated with decreased QOL score: unilateral retinitis was associated with a 0.11 (95% CI: −0.26–0.03) decrement in QOL, and bilateral retinitis was associated with a 0.33 (95% CI: −0.51–0.16) decrement (joint P-value = 0.0009). For the 78 participants with a 6-month visit, changes in QOL from baseline were small and not significant. A diagnosis of CMV retinitis was still associated with decreased QOL score at 6 months (joint P-value = 0.03). This study found that vision-related QOL was lower in those with CMV retinitis, especially with bilateral involvement, and did not improve after treatment among those with follow-up. These findings reinforce the debilitating clinical manifestations of this disease, and support efforts for earlier screening to detect CMV retinitis before impacts on QOL have occurred.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Differences in medical schoolsâ   regional retention of physicians by school type and year of establishment: effect of new schools built under government policy
Creators: name: Kamitani, Satoru
name: Nakamura, Fumiaki
name: Itoh, Mitsuko
name: Sugiyama, Takehiro
name: Toyokawa, Satoshi
name: Kobayashi, Yasuki
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Number of physician per 100,000 population by prefecture in 2012. (DOCX 17Â kb)
Photinus paracongruus Zaragoza-Caballero 1996
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus paracongruus

description: Photinus paracongruus Zaragoza-Caballero, 1996
MEXICO: VE Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers
Creators: name: Job, Christiane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The history of women’s basketball in Canada has been influenced by key individuals who have challenged systemic barriers and social mores demanding appropriate female behaviors and activities. In this study I examine the sporting contributions of Vancouverite Ruth Wilson, whose involvements in the sport of women’s basketball from the mid 1930s through the 1960s was significant. Though several studies have highlighted the importance of women’s basketball in a North American context (Hall, 2002; Cahn, 1994; Kidd, 1996; Hult and Trekell, 1991), to date there has not been a significant examination of the development of basketball for women and its early advocates in western Canada. Celebrating heroines of sport is not a straightforward matter. The concept of the heroic, as Hargreaves points out, must be examined through an analysis of the struggles and achievements of many women whose stories have been excluded or forgotten from previous accounts of women’s sports and female heroism (Hargreaves, 2000). Thus my account of Ruth Wilson’s contributions provides a unique case study of one womans persistent and wide ranging efforts to change the ways in which girls and women participated in a sport which brought them freedom to compete, professional opportunities and in some cases, national status. This study employs several methodological techniques. Data was collected through primary and secondary document analysis in conjunction with semi-structured open ended interviews. Ruth Wilson’s contributions have been highlighted through the narratives of female sportswomen whom she mentored, assisted, befriended and coached and who are still living today to provide their memories about her role in changing the landscape of women’s basketball in Canada.
Surface Vision Transformers: Attention-Based Modelling applied to Cortical Analysis
Creators: name: Dahan, Simon
name: Fawaz, Abdulah
name: Williams, Logan Z. J.
name: Yang, Chunhui
name: Coalson, Timothy S.
name: Glasser, Matthew F.
name: Edwards, A. David
name: Rueckert, Daniel
name: Robinson, Emma C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range associations, as the generalisation of convolutions to irregular surfaces is non-trivial. Motivated by the success of attention-modelling in computer vision, we translate convolution-free vision transformer approaches to surface data, to introduce a domain-agnostic architecture to study any surface data projected onto a spherical manifold. Here, surface patching is achieved by representing spherical data as a sequence of triangular patches, extracted from a subdivided icosphere. A transformer model encodes the sequence of patches via successive multi-head self-attention layers while preserving the sequence resolution. We validate the performance of the proposed Surface Vision Transformer (SiT) on the task of phenotype regression from cortical surface metrics derived from the Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP). Experiments show that the SiT generally outperforms surface CNNs, while performing comparably on registered and unregistered data. Analysis of transformer attention maps offers strong potential to characterise subtle cognitive developmental patterns.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to MIDL 2022, OpenReview link https://openreview.net/forum?id=mpp843Bsf-
Photinus pararuficollis Zaragoza-Caballero 2000
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus pararuficollis

description: Photinus pararuficollis Zaragoza-Caballero, 2000
MEXICO: CX, MO Endemic
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Quality of Life Outcomes Among Patients Being Screened for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Thailand
Creators: name: Kumar, Anika
name: Ausayakhun, Somsanguan
name: Ausayakhun, Sakarin
name: Apivatthakakul, Atitaya
name: Liu, Yingna
name: Snyder, Blake M
name: Margolis, Todd P
name: Keenan, Jeremy D
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis can have debilitating impacts on quality of life (QOL), but few contemporary studies have characterized these ramifications. This study assessed the impact of CMV retinitis on vision-related QOL for those living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand. QOL was assessed as part of a prospective interventional cohort study of patients referred to a tertiary hospital in Thailand for CMV retinitis screening. A validated vision-related QOL questionnaire was administered at the baseline screening visit and at the 6-month study visit. Multivariable linear regression models were performed to determine the effect of CMV retinitis diagnosis on QOL score. A total of 152 participants completed the QOL questionnaire at their initial clinic visit. At baseline, a diagnosis of CMV retinitis diagnosis was significantly associated with decreased QOL score: unilateral retinitis was associated with a 0.11 (95% CI: −0.26–0.03) decrement in QOL, and bilateral retinitis was associated with a 0.33 (95% CI: −0.51–0.16) decrement (joint P-value = 0.0009). For the 78 participants with a 6-month visit, changes in QOL from baseline were small and not significant. A diagnosis of CMV retinitis was still associated with decreased QOL score at 6 months (joint P-value = 0.03). This study found that vision-related QOL was lower in those with CMV retinitis, especially with bilateral involvement, and did not improve after treatment among those with follow-up. These findings reinforce the debilitating clinical manifestations of this disease, and support efforts for earlier screening to detect CMV retinitis before impacts on QOL have occurred.
Additional file 2: of The high frequency of GJB2 gene mutation c.313_326del14 suggests its possible origin in ancestors of Lithuanian population
Creators: name: Mikstiene, Violeta
name: Audrone Jakaitiene
name: Byckova, Jekaterina
name: Gradauskiene, Egle
name: Preiksaitiene, Egle
name: Birute Burnyte
name: Birute Tumiene
name: Ausra Matuleviciene
name: Ambrozaityte, Laima
name: Uktveryte, Ingrida
name: Domarkiene, Ingrida
name: Rancelis, Tautvydas
name: Cimbalistiene, Loreta
name: Lesinskas, Eugenijus
name: Kucinskas, Vaidutis
name: Utkus, Algirdas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Dataset of the group of affected individuals (DEAFGEN project). (PDF 191Â kb)
From $t$-SNE to UMAP with contrastive learning
Creators: name: Damrich, Sebastian
name: Böhm, Jan Niklas
name: Hamprecht, Fred A.
name: Kobak, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neighbor embedding methods $t$-SNE and UMAP are the de facto standard for visualizing high-dimensional datasets. Motivated from entirely different viewpoints, their loss functions appear to be unrelated. In practice, they yield strongly differing embeddings and can suggest conflicting interpretations of the same data. The fundamental reasons for this and, more generally, the exact relationship between $t$-SNE and UMAP have remained unclear. In this work, we uncover their conceptual connection via a new insight into contrastive learning methods. Noise-contrastive estimation can be used to optimize $t$-SNE, while UMAP relies on negative sampling, another contrastive method. We find the precise relationship between these two contrastive methods and provide a mathematical characterization of the distortion introduced by negative sampling. Visually, this distortion results in UMAP generating more compact embeddings with tighter clusters compared to $t$-SNE. We exploit this new conceptual connection to propose and implement a generalization of negative sampling, allowing us to interpolate between (and even extrapolate beyond) $t$-SNE and UMAP and their respective embeddings. Moving along this spectrum of embeddings leads to a trade-off between discrete / local and continuous / global structures, mitigating the risk of over-interpreting ostensible features of any single embedding. We provide a PyTorch implementation.
description: ICLR 2023. 44 pages, 19 figures. Code at https://github.com/hci-unihd/cl-tsne-umap and https://github.com/berenslab/contrastive-ne
Corticosteroids Decrease the Incidence and Activity of Choroidal Neovascularization in Patients with Punctuate Inner Choroidopathy or Multifocal Choroiditis
Creators: name: Vienne-Jumeau, Aliénor
name: Brézin, Antoine P.
name: Seminel, Marie
name: Ribeaudeau-Saindelle, Florence
name: Bousquet, Elodie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess the effect of corticosteroids (CS) on choroidal neovascularization (CNV) occurrence and recurrence of activity over 2 years in patients with punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) or multifocal choroiditis (MFC). Retrospective longitudinal study. Previous use of CS was analyzed between group without CNV and group with CNV occurrence and recurrence. Thirty-six patients were included. Patients with CNV were less likely to have received CS in the 6 months following PIC or MFC diagnosis (17% versus 65%, p-value = 0.01). Patients with CNV who had a recurrence of neovascular activity were less likely to have received a previous CS therapy (20% versus 78%; odds ratio = 0.08, p-value = 0.005). This study suggests that patients with PIC and MFC should be treated by CS to prevent CNV development and decrease CNV recurrences.
Additional file 9: of Runs of homozygosity reveal signatures of positive selection for reproduction traits in breed and non-breed horses
Creators: name: Metzger, Julia
name: Karwath, Matthias
name: Tonda, Raul
name: Beltran, Sergi
name: Águeda, Lídia
name: Gut, Marta
name: Gut, Ivo
name: Distl, Ottmar
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Mutations with high or moderate effects in ROHs (50-SNP windows) of the four Hanoverians. The ROH position and size (EquCab2.70), the position of SNPs, their mutant allele, potential impact and type are shown. Impact estimations are derived from SNPEff predictions. (DOCX 15 kb)
Photinus parvulus Gorham 1881
Creators: name: Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X.
name: Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago
name: Romo-Galicia, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Photinus
Photinus parvulus

description: Photinus parvulus Gorham, 1881
MEXICO: VE; Guatemala
description: Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil X., Zaragoza-Caballero, Santiago & Romo-Galicia, Alberto, 2022, Updated checklist of the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of Mexico, pp. 291-317 in Zootaxa 5092 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5881269
Dynamic Ranking and Translation Synchronization
Creators: name: Araya, Ernesto
name: Karlé, Eglantine
name: Tyagi, Hemant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many applications, such as sport tournaments or recommendation systems, we have at our disposal data consisting of pairwise comparisons between a set of $n$ items (or players). The objective is to use this data to infer the latent strength of each item and/or their ranking. Existing results for this problem predominantly focus on the setting consisting of a single comparison graph $G$. However, there exist scenarios (e.g., sports tournaments) where the the pairwise comparison data evolves with time. Theoretical results for this dynamic setting are relatively limited and is the focus of this paper.
 We study an extension of the \emph{translation synchronization} problem, to the dynamic setting. In this setup, we are given a sequence of comparison graphs $(G_t)_{t\in \mathcal{T}}$, where $\mathcal{T} \subset [0,1]$ is a grid representing the time domain, and for each item $i$ and time $t\in \mathcal{T}$ there is an associated unknown strength parameter $z^*_{t,i}\in \mathbb{R}$. We aim to recover, for $t\in\mathcal{T}$, the strength vector $z^*_t=(z^*_{t,1},\dots,z^*_{t,n})$ from noisy measurements of $z^*_{t,i}-z^*_{t,j}$, where $\{i,j\}$ is an edge in $G_t$. Assuming that $z^*_t$ evolves smoothly in $t$, we propose two estimators -- one based on a smoothness-penalized least squares approach and the other based on projection onto the low frequency eigenspace of a suitable smoothness operator. For both estimators, we provide finite sample bounds for the $\ell_2$ estimation error under the assumption that $G_t$ is connected for all $t\in \mathcal{T}$, thus proving the consistency of the proposed methods in terms of the grid size $|\mathcal{T}|$. We complement our theoretical findings with experiments on synthetic and real data.
description: 39 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Post publication version. Corrected minor typos in the proofs of Lemmas 2,8,9 and Proposition 1. The term ||L||_2 now appears in statement of Theorem 5
Additional file 3: of The high frequency of GJB2 gene mutation c.313_326del14 suggests its possible origin in ancestors of Lithuanian population
Creators: name: Mikstiene, Violeta
name: Audrone Jakaitiene
name: Byckova, Jekaterina
name: Gradauskiene, Egle
name: Preiksaitiene, Egle
name: Birute Burnyte
name: Birute Tumiene
name: Ausra Matuleviciene
name: Ambrozaityte, Laima
name: Uktveryte, Ingrida
name: Domarkiene, Ingrida
name: Rancelis, Tautvydas
name: Cimbalistiene, Loreta
name: Lesinskas, Eugenijus
name: Kucinskas, Vaidutis
name: Utkus, Algirdas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Dataset of the group of ethnic Lithuanian population (LITGEN project). (PDF 138Â kb)
The effect of neuropathic pain treatments on pain interference following spinal cord injury: A systematic review
Creators: name: Allison, David J.
name: Ahrens, Jessica
name: Mirkowski, Magdalena
name: Mehta, Swati
name: Loh, Eldon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Neuropathic pain is a common and debilitating condition following SCI. While treatments for neuropathic pain intensity have been reviewed, the impact on pain interference has not been summarized. To systematically review the effect of neuropathic pain interventions on pain interference in individuals with spinal cord injury. This systematic review included randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental (non-randomized) studies which assessed the impact of an intervention on pain interference in individuals with spinal cord injury and neuropathic pain. Articles were identified by searching MEDLINE (1996 to April 11, 2022), EMBASE (1996 to April 11, 2022), PsycInfo (1987 to April, week 2, 2022). Studies were assessed for methodologic quality using a modified GRADE approach and were given quality of evidence (QOE) scores on a 4-point scale ranging from very low to high. Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. These studies fell into the following categories: anticonvulsants (n = 2), antidepressants (n = 1), analgesics (n = 1), antispasmodics (n = 1), acupuncture (n = 2), transcranial direct current stimulation (n = 1), active cranial electrotherapy stimulation (n = 2), transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (n = 2), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (n = 1), functional electrical stimulation (n = 1), meditation and imagery (n = 1), self-hypnosis and biofeedback (n = 1), and interdisciplinary pain programs (n = 4). When considering studies of moderate to high quality, pregabalin, gabapentin, intrathecal baclofen, transcranial direct current stimulation, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (in 1 of 2 studies) were shown to have beneficial effects on pain interference. However, due to the low number of high-quality studies further research is required to confirm the efficacy of these interventions prior to recommending their use to reduce pain interference.