cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Celebrity Endorsement: A Qualitative Study of Chain Tutoring Centres in the Hong Kong Shadow Education Sector
Creators: name: Lai, Chi Kin
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Celebrity endorsement plays a key role in modern marketing, which is widely employed by companies and studied by researchers. Past studies in the literature on celebrity endorsement have concentrated on consumer assessment to identify the factors that influence the selection of celebrity endorsers for helping promotion and impacting consumer purchase intention. Studies on celebrity endorsement and the marketisation of education have under-examined the phenomenon of celebrity tutors in the Hong Kong shadow education sector. Through a qualitative approach, this thesis aims to explore how and why the chain tutoring centres in Hong Kong create and maintain celebrity tutors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a variety of practitioners from the main chain tutoring centres and then thematic data analysis was undertaken. The celebrity tutors are found to be a human brand established through celebrification. The performance of celebrity tutors was associated with a multiplicity of role-practices such as being entertainers, educators, entrepreneurs and specifically idols (Tutor Kings and Queens), and their relationship with the media to fulfil these. Although a hyperbolic emphasis is placed on the tutors’ physical attractiveness and credibility as key features for their success, both established and emerging celebrity tutors have been developing autonomous practices and performances in creating and maintaining their celebrity status and symbolic meanings. The performance of celebrity tutors reflects the celebritisation of shadow education as the industry norm through the idolisation of tutoring and fan culture. The participants themselves drew parallels between celebrity tutors and branded goods, showing that they acknowledge shadow education within a market logic. This explains the swift marketisation of shadow, rather than tertiary, education in an Asian context. There are co-branding and endorsement between celebrity tutors, chain tutoring centres and drinks/toiletries, which are worthy of further study.
Matter Effects in Upward-Going Muons and Sterile Neutrino Oscillations
Creators: name: The MACRO Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular distribution of upward-going muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos in the rock below the MACRO detector show anomalies in good agreement with two flavor neutrino-mu ==> neutrino-tau oscillations with maximum mixing and Delta m**2 around 0.0024 eV**2. Exploiting the dependence of magnitude of the matter effect on oscillation channel, and using a set of 809 upward-going muons observed in MACRO, we show that the two flavor neutrino-mu ==> neutrino-sterile oscillation is disfavored with 99% C.L. with respect to neutrino-mu ==> neutrino-tau.
description: 7 pages 4 figures Submitted to Physics Letters B
Additional file 7: of Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment in non–small cell lung carcinomas as determined by multiplex immunofluorescence and image analysis approaches
Creators: name: Parra, Edwin
name: Villalobos, Pamela
name: Behrens, Carmen
name: Jiang, Mei
name: Pataer, Apar
name: Swisher, Stephen
name: William, William
name: Zhang, Jiexin
name: Lee, Jack
name: Cascone, Tina
name: Heymach, John
name: Forget, Marie-Andrée
name: Haymaker, Cara
name: Bernatchez, Chantale
name: Kalhor, Neda
name: Weissferdt, Annikka
name: Moran, Cesar
name: Zhang, Jianjun
name: Vaporciyan, Ara
name: Gibbons, Don
name: Sepesi, Boris
name: Wistuba, Ignacio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
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: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S2. Median densities of tumor-associated immune cells in NSCLCs from patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) or did not receive NCT (non-NCT), by tumor compartment and histology (N = 112). (DOCX 23 kb)
The Collaborative Process in Directing A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Creators: name: Culverhouse, Jared L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: With this thesis I will explore the many challenges that confront a leader on a creative project, the difficulties that prevent open communication, and the discoveries that I will use to serve myself on future projects. Through diligent notes during the multiple months that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof took to produce, I was able to re-create what my experience was and how it benefitted me moving forward.
This thesis will document the entire process from play selection, through the final product including the response from the audience. Through this document I will try and highlight, how my own skills were tested, expanded, and seasoned throughout the process. In addition to the study of my own learning, this thesis will highlight the valuable advice that I received from instructors, as well as documenting the implementation of said advice in this university setting. In addition to looking at myself, I also will identify some things that I will be on the lookout for in future creative ventures, both from fellow collaborators, and from institutions.
Eventually when this process was in the books, I looked back on the experience fondly, and with a sense of pride. I was able to reflect in the post-mortem phase of the production, and identify room for growth, but above and beyond that identify where growth had occurred during the work, not only in this process, but also in my three-year journey at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Productivity growth of dairy farms having conventional vs. automatic milking system
Creators: name: Heikkilä, Anna-Maija
name: Myyrä, Sami
name: Heikkilä, Anna-Maija
name: Myyrä, Sami
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: milk production
subject: technology
subject: productivity growth

description: The aim of this study was to determine whether the switch from conventional milking systems (CMS) to automatic milking systems (AMS) has positive effects on the productivity growth. Production function analysis was implemented over a rotating panel data of 323 Finnish dairy farms during the period of 2000–2011. The total factor productivity growth was 1.7% per year on farms that stayed in CMS and 3.1% per year on farms that had switched to AMS. The improvement was linked to overall reforms in production technology and an expansion in herd size but the adoption of AMS intensified the positive development.
Rigid elastic solids in relativity
Creators: name: Natário, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 74B05, 74J05, 83A05

description: After briefly reviewing the theory of relativistic elasticity, we expand a general elastic Lagrangian to quadratic order and compute the main parameters for the linear elasticity of relativistic solids: the longitudinal and transverse speeds of sound, the Poisson ratio, and the bulk, shear and Young moduli. Using these, we discuss which Lagrangian is the best choice to model a relativistic rigid elastic solid.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor editing to increase clarity
A Structural Average of Labeled Merge Trees for Uncertainty Visualization
Creators: name: Yan, Lin
name: Wang, Yusu
name: Munch, Elizabeth
name: Gasparovic, Ellen
name: Wang, Bei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: H.5.2; I.3.5; I.3.6; I.4.10; E.1

description: Physical phenomena in science and engineering are frequently modeled using scalar fields. In scalar field topology, graph-based topological descriptors such as merge trees, contour trees, and Reeb graphs are commonly used to characterize topological changes in the (sub)level sets of scalar fields. One of the biggest challenges and opportunities to advance topology-based visualization is to understand and incorporate uncertainty into such topological descriptors to effectively reason about their underlying data. In this paper, we study a structural average of a set of labeled merge trees and use it to encode uncertainty in data. Specifically, we compute a 1-center tree that minimizes its maximum distance to any other tree in the set under a well-defined metric called the interleaving distance. We provide heuristic strategies that compute structural averages of merge trees whose labels do not fully agree. We further provide an interactive visualization system that resembles a numerical calculator that takes as input a set of merge trees and outputs a tree as their structural average. We also highlight structural similarities between the input and the average and incorporate uncertainty information for visual exploration. We develop a novel measure of uncertainty, referred to as consistency, via a metric-space view of the input trees. Finally, we demonstrate an application of our framework through merge trees that arise from ensembles of scalar fields. Our work is the first to employ interleaving distances and consistency to study a global, mathematically rigorous, structural average of merge trees in the context of uncertainty visualization.
description: IEEE VIS (SciVis) 2019 ACM 2012 CCS - Human-centered computing, Visualization, Visualization design and evaluation methods
Constraining Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Olive, Keith
name: Santoso, Yudi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review constraints on the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) coming from direct searches at accelerators such as LEP, indirect measurements such as b -> s gamma decay and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The recently corrected sign of pole light-by-light scattering contributions to the latter is taken into account. We combine these constraints with those due to the cosmological density of stable supersymmetric relic particles. The possible indications on the supersymmetric mass scale provided by fine-tuning arguments are reviewed critically. We discuss briefly the prospects for future accelerator searches for supersymmetry.
description: 21 LaTeX pages, 9 eps figures, Invited Contribution to the New Journal of Physics Focus Issue on Supersymmetry
Urban Agriculture and Ecosystem Services: A Typology and Toolkit for Planners
Creators: name: Doherty, Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis makes the connection between urban agriculture and a specific suite of ecosystem services and lays out a typology and toolkit for planners to take advantage of these ecosystem services. The services investigated here are: food production, water management, soil health, biodiversity, climate mitigation, and community development benefits. Research from a variety of fields was aggregated and synthesized to prove that urban agriculture can be beneficial for human as well as environmental health.
A set of urban agriculture typologies was generated to illustrate best practices to maximize a particular set of ecosystem services. The typologies are: production farm, stormwater garden, soil-building garden, habitat garden, climate mitigation farm, cultural/educational garden, and ecosystem garden. Each typology was paired with a precedent study to demonstrate how that typology might be realized in the real world.
Finally, a toolkit for planners was assembled to demonstrate some tools and techniques that planners might use to implement urban agriculture as a strategy for providing ecosystem services. Planners can utilize the toolkit to insert themselves into the urban ecosystem at multiple scales in a creative way to apply best practices and urban agriculture typologies in order to take advantage of the multiple benefits of urban agriculture.
Dynamic profit inefficiency: a DEA application to Belgian dairy farms
Creators: name: Ang, Frederic
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons
name: Ang, Frederic
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: distance function
subject: dynamic efficiency
subject: dairy sector

description: Using a nonparametric framework, we analyze dynamic profit inefficiency for a sample of Belgian, specialized dairy farms from 1996–2008. Profit inefficiency is decomposed into contributions of output, input, and investment. Moreover, we identify the contributions of technical and allocative inefficiency in each input and output. The results suggest substantial profit inefficiency under the current dairy-quota system, mainly driven by an average underproduction of approximately 50 percent and an average underuse of variable inputs of approximately 60 percent, due to allocative inefficiency. Consequently, abolishing the dairy-quota system in 2015 may considerably increase demand for variable inputs and supply of output.
Beyond the exoplanet mass-radius relation
Creators: name: Ulmer-Moll, S.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Figueira, P.
name: Brinchmann, J.
name: Faria, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mass and radius are two fundamental properties for characterising exoplanets, but only for a relatively small fraction of exoplanets are they both available. Mass is often derived from radial velocity measurements, while the radius is almost always measured using the transit method. For a large number of exoplanets, either the radius or the mass is unknown, while the host star has been characterised. Several mass-radius relations that are dependent on the planet's type have been published that often allow us to predict the radius. Our goal is to derive the radius of exoplanets using only observables extracted from spectra used primarily to determine radial velocities and spectral parameters. Our objective is to obtain a mass-radius relation independent of the planet's type. We worked with a database of confirmed exoplanets with known radii and masses, as well as the planets from our Solar System. Using random forests, a machine learning algorithm, we computed the radius of exoplanets and compared the results to the published radii. Our code, Bem, is available online. The estimated radii reproduces the spread in radius found for high mass planets better than previous mass-radius relations. The average radius error is 1.8 $R_{\oplus}$ across the whole range of radii from 1-22 $R_{\oplus}$. We find that a random forest algorithm is able to derive reliable radii, especially for planets between 4 $R_{\oplus}$ and 20 $R_{\oplus}$ for which the error is under 25$\%$. The algorithm has a low bias yet a high variance, which could be reduced by limiting the growth of the forest, or adding more data. The random forest algorithm is a promising method for deriving exoplanet properties. We show that the exoplanet's mass and equilibrium temperature are the relevant properties that constrain the radius, and do so with higher accuracy than the previous methods.
description: Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, the code BEM used to predict exoplanet radii is available online, see https://github.com/soleneulmer/bem
A hidden hierarchy of neutrino masses
Creators: name: Jezabek, M.
name: Urban, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dirac masses of neutrinos can exhibit a strong hierarchy even if the Majorana masses of the right-handed neutrinos are degenerate and the hierarchy of the mass scales governing the oscillations of solar and atmospheric neutrinos is rather small. This phenomenon results from the see-saw mechanism and the algebraic structure of the effective mass operator for the active neutrinos. The large hierarchy of the Dirac masses is drastically modified by a symmetric unitary matrix $R$ acting in the flavor space. A realistic pattern of neutrino masses and mixing is obtained. Maximal mixing for atmospheric neutrinos is attributed to the charged lepton sector. Large mixing in solar neutrino oscillations is due to the neutrino sector. Small $U_{e3}$ is a natural consequence of the model. The masses of the active neutrinos are given by $μ_3\approx\sqrt{Δm_{@}^2}$ and $μ_1/μ_2\approx \tan^2θ_\odot$.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures; added: a remark by the referee of PLB and new relevant references
Acalitus intertexus Manson 1984
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Acalitus
Acalitus intertexus

description: Acalitus intertexus Manson, 1984
 Acalitus intertexus Manson, 1984b: 13–14.
 Material examined. 32 females, from Coprosma lucida (Rubiaceae), Opanuku pipeline track, Waitakere Range, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 September 1999, coll. N.A. Martin; 3 females, from Coprosma rotundifolia (Rubiaceae), Bethunes Gully, Dunedin, New Zealand, 12 December 2007, coll. D. O’Connell. Specimens deposited in NZAC.
 Additional Coprosma lucida plants with leaf domatia galls were found and deposited in NZAC by N.A. Martin: Okura Walkway, North East Auckland, New Zealand, 16 December 2000; Opanuku Pipeline Track, Waitakere Ranges, Auckland, New Zealand, 22 June 1997; Hinewai Reserve, Banks Peninsula, Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand, 21 August 2001; Parau track, Waitakere Ranges, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 December 1998; Fletcher track, Waitakere Ranges, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 April 1999.
 Host. Coprosma lucida, C. rotundifolia, C. intertexta (Rubiaceae).
 Relation to host. Domatia galls in leaves of Coprosma lucida. It is not certain if the galls on Coprosma acerosa and C. Intertexta are associated with domatia. Leaf domatia galls with eriophyid mites have been found in leaves of Coprosma grandifolia, C. macrocarpa and C. robusta.
 Distribution. Auckland (Opanuku pipeline track), Dunedin (Bethunes Gully), Mid-Canterbury (Banks Peninsula and Cass).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2008, New Zealand Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata): an update with descriptions of one new genus and six new species, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 1962 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1962.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241647
Design and Implementation of a High Performance Network Processor with Dynamic Workload Management
Creators: name: Duggisetty, Padmaja
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Internet plays a crucial part in today's world. Be it personal communication, business transactions or social networking, internet is used everywhere and hence the speed of the communication infrastructure plays an important role. As the number of users increase the network usage increases i.e., the network data rates ramped up from a few Mb/s to Gb/s in less than a decade. Hence the network infrastructure needed a major upgrade to be able to support such high data rates. Technological advancements have enabled the communication links like optical fibres to support these high bandwidths, but the processing speed at the nodes remained constant. This created a need for specialised devices for packet processing in order to match the increasing line rates which led to emergence of network processors. Network processors were both programmable and flexible. To support the growing number of internet applications, a single core network processor has transformed into a multi/many core network processor with multiple cores on a single chip rather than just one core. This improved the packet processing speeds and hence the performance of a network node. Multi-core network processors catered to the needs of a high bandwidth networks by exploiting the inherent packet-level parallelism in a network. But these processors still had intrinsic challenges like load balancing. In order to maximise throughput of these multi-core network processors, it is important to distribute the traffic evenly across all the cores. This thesis describes a multi-core network processor with dynamic workload management. A multi-core network processor, which performs multiple applications is designed to act as a test bed for an effective workload management algorithm. An effective workload management algorithm is designed in order to distribute the workload evenly across all the available cores and hence maximise the performance of the network processor. Runtime statistics of all the cores were collected and updated at run time to aid in deciding the application to be performed on a core to to enable even distribution of workload among the cores. Hence, when an overloading of a core is detected, the applications to be performed on the cores are re-assigned. For testing purposes, we built a flexible and a reusable platform on NetFPGA 10G board which uses a FPGA-based approach to prototyping network devices. The performance of the designed workload management algorithm is tested by measuring the throughput of the system for varying workloads.
The lncRNA OIP5-AS1/miR-4500 axis targeting ARG2 modulates oxidative stress-induced premature senescence in endothelial cells: implications for vascular aging
Creators: name: Wang, Yajun
name: Li, Yang
name: Li, Yirong
name: Cui, Yue
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Shi, Wenzhen
name: Wang, Jiangxia
name: Wu, Xiaopeng
name: Liang, Rongrong
name: Wang, Xin
name: Zheng, Adi
name: Yu, Yi
name: Xiong, Yuyan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Endothelial senescence due to increased age or oxidative stress can cause endothelial dysfunction, which is strongly associated with the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was used to induced human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) senescence model. Cell senescence and cell proliferation were assessed by SA-β-gal staining and PCNA staining. Nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels were detected by DAF-2 DA and DCFH-DA. Inflammatory indicators were quantified by qPCR. Meanwhile, western blot was used to examine the ARG2 protein. Finally, an aging mice model induced by H2O2 was established to confirm the role of OIP5-AS1/miR-4500/ARG2 in endothelial dysfunction in vivo. ARG2 was upregulated and miR-4500 was reduced in H2O2-induced HUVECs. MiR-4500 negatively regulates ARG2 expression, meanwhile ameliorating H2O2-induced ECs senescence and dysfunction. Targeted interactions among OIP5-AS1, miR-4500, and ARG2 were confirmed by dual-luciferase reporter assays. OIP5-AS1 as miR4500 sponge negatively mediates miR-4500 expression, and is upregulated upon H2O2 stimulation in HUVECs. OIP5-AS1 depletion shows the protective effects on H2O2-induced ECs senescence, dysfunction, and SASP. In vivo, a higher expression of OIP5-AS1 and ARG2 in the aortas of aged mice. We disclosed a regulatory mechanism for OIP5-AS1/miR-4500/ARG2 in the regulation of oxidative stress-related ECs senescence and vascular aging.
Elastoviscoplastic rheology and ageing in a simplified soft glassy constitutive model
Creators: name: Fielding, Suzanne M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Yield stress fluids display a rich rheological phenomenology. Beyond the defining existence of a yield stress in the steady state flow curve, this includes in many materials rather flat viscoelastic spectra over many decades of frequency in small amplitude oscillatory shear; slow stress relaxation following the sudden imposition of a small shear strain; stress overshoot in shear startup; logarithmic or sublinear power law creep following the imposition of a shear stress below the yield stress; creep followed by yielding after the imposition of a shear stress above the yield stress; richly featured Lissajous-Bowditch curves in large amplitude oscillatory shear; a Bauschinger effect, in which a material's effective yield strain is lowered under straining in one direction, following a preceding strain in the opposite direction; hysteresis in up-down shear rate sweeps; and (in some materials) thixotropy and/or rheological ageing. A key challenge is to develop a constitutive model that contains enough underlying mesoscopic physics to have meaningful predictive power for the full gamut of rheological behaviour just described, with only a small number of model parameters, and yet is simple enough for use in computational fluid dynamics to predict flows in complicated geometries, or complicated flows that arise due to spontaneous symmetry breaking instabilities even in simple geometries. Here we introduce such a model, motivated by the widely used soft glassy rheology model, and show that it captures all the above rheological features.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures; version accepted, Journal of Rheology
published paper named "农牧交错带典型样区DEM分辨率对高程梯度的影响"
Creators: name: Shi, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geography

description: published paper named "农牧交错带典型样区DEM分辨率对高程梯度的影响"
Scaling and duality in the superconducting phase transition
Creators: name: Nogueira, F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field theoretical approach to duality in the superconducting phase transition is reviewed. Emphasis is given to the scaling behavior, and recent results are discussed.
description: ws LaTex, 9 pages, 1 figure; published in "Fluctuating Paths and Fields", Festschrift dedicated to Hagen Kleinert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Edited by W. Janke et al. (World Scientific, Singapore, 2001)
Deblending and Classifying Astronomical Sources with Mask R-CNN Deep Learning
Creators: name: Burke, Colin J.
name: Aleo, Patrick D.
name: Chen, Yu-Ching
name: Liu, Xin
name: Peterson, John R.
name: Sembroski, Glenn H.
name: Lin, Joshua Yao-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a new deep learning technique to detect, classify, and deblend sources in multi-band astronomical images. We train and evaluate the performance of an artificial neural network built on the Mask R-CNN image processing framework, a general code for efficient object detection, classification, and instance segmentation. After evaluating the performance of our network against simulated ground truth images for star and galaxy classes, we find a precision of 92% at 80% recall for stars and a precision of 98% at 80% recall for galaxies in a typical field with $\sim30$ galaxies/arcmin$^2$. We investigate the deblending capability of our code, and find that clean deblends are handled robustly during object masking, even for significantly blended sources. This technique, or extensions using similar network architectures, may be applied to current and future deep imaging surveys such as LSST and WFIRST. Our code, Astro R-CNN, is publicly available at https://github.com/burke86/astro_rcnn.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Using the information about dairy herd’s genetic level and milk quality in explaining the technical efficiency of Estonian dairy farms: a two-stage (DEA and Tobit) approach
Creators: name: Luik, Helis
name: Viira, Ants-Hannes
name: Värnik, Rando
name: Luik, Helis
name: Viira, Ants-Hannes
name: Värnik, Rando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: technical efficiency
subject: dairy farms
subject: breeding values
subject: milk quality
subject: DEA

description: This paper investigates the effects of dairy herd’s genetic level and milk quality on the technical efficiency (TE) of Estonian dairy farms in 2012. A two-stage approach was used that combined data envelopment analysis (DEA), for finding the TE scores, and Tobit regression, for estimating the effects of the chosen variables on farm TE. Our results indicate that relative breeding value for milk production, which is a measure of herd’s genetic level, has a positive effect on farm TE. Milk quality affects TE also positively: higher somatic cell counts decreased and higher content of milk solids increased farm TE.
Additional file 3: of RNA sequencing-based longitudinal transcriptomic profiling gives novel insights into the disease mechanism of generalized pustular psoriasis
Creators: name: Wang, Lingyan
name: Yu, Xiaoling
name: Wu, Chao
name: Zhu, Teng
name: Wang, Wenming
name: Zheng, Xiaofeng
name: Jin, Hongzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S3. The top 50 upregulated and downregulated DEGs in the T2 versus T0 dataset. (DOCX 16Â kb)
title: Lettre de Peter Drotman à Jacques Leibowitch
Creators: name: Drotman, Peter
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: En-tête : Public Health Service, Centers for Diseases Control (Atlanta).
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111132347738
Improved numerical stability of stationary black hole evolution calculations
Creators: name: Yo, Hwei-Jang
name: Baumgarte, Thomas W.
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experiment with modifications of the BSSN form of the Einstein field equations (a reformulation of the ADM equations) and demonstrate how these modifications affect the stability of numerical black hole evolution calculations. We use excision to evolve both non-rotating and rotating Kerr-Schild black holes in octant and equatorial symmetry, and without any symmetry assumptions, and obtain accurate and stable simulations for specific angular momenta J/M of up to about 0.9M.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, 1 typo in Eq. (20) corrected
Serum chemokine IL-8 acts as a biomarker for identifying COVID-19-associated persistent severe acute kidney injury
Creators: name: He, Zhi
name: Liu, Jing-jing
name: Ma, Shao-lei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Persistent severe acute kidney injury (PS-AKI) is associated with poor clinical outcomes. Our study attempted to evaluate the diagnostic value of chemokines for early-stage PS-AKI prediction. According to the KDIGO criteria, 115 COVID-19 patients diagnosed with stage 2/3 AKI were recruited from the intensive care unit between December 2022 and February 2023. Primary clinical outcomes included detecting PS-AKI in the first week (≥ KDIGO stage 2 ≥ 72 h). Cytometric Bead Array was used to detect patient plasma levels (interleukin-8 (IL-8), C-C chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5), chemokine (C-X-C Motif) ligand 9 (CXCL9), and interferon-inducible protein 10 (IP-10)) of chemokines within 24 h of enrollment. Of the 115 COVID-19 patients with stage 2/3 AKI, 27 were diagnosed with PS-AKI. Among the four measured chemokines, only the IL-8 level was significantly elevated in the PS-AKI group than in the Non-PS-AKI group. IL-8 was more effective as a biomarker while predicting PS-AKI with an area under the curve of 0.769 (0.675-0.863). This was superior to other biomarkers related to AKI, including serum creatinine. Moreover, plasma IL-8 levels of >32.2 pg/ml on admission could predict PS-AKI risk (sensitivity = 92.6%, specificity = 51.1%). Additionally, the IL-8 level was associated with total protein and IL-6 levels. Plasma IL-8 is a promising marker for the early identification of PS-AKI among COVID-19 patients. These findings should be validated in further studies with a larger sample size.
Multi-modal Deep Analysis for Multimedia
Creators: name: Zhu, Wenwu
name: Wang, Xin
name: Li, Hongzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapid development of Internet and multimedia services in the past decade, a huge amount of user-generated and service provider-generated multimedia data become available. These data are heterogeneous and multi-modal in nature, imposing great challenges for processing and analyzing them. Multi-modal data consist of a mixture of various types of data from different modalities such as texts, images, videos, audios etc. In this article, we present a deep and comprehensive overview for multi-modal analysis in multimedia. We introduce two scientific research problems, data-driven correlational representation and knowledge-guided fusion for multimedia analysis. To address the two scientific problems, we investigate them from the following aspects: 1) multi-modal correlational representation: multi-modal fusion of data across different modalities, and 2) multi-modal data and knowledge fusion: multi-modal fusion of data with domain knowledge. More specifically, on data-driven correlational representation, we highlight three important categories of methods, such as multi-modal deep representation, multi-modal transfer learning, and multi-modal hashing. On knowledge-guided fusion, we discuss the approaches for fusing knowledge with data and four exemplar applications that require various kinds of domain knowledge, including multi-modal visual question answering, multi-modal video summarization, multi-modal visual pattern mining and multi-modal recommendation. Finally, we bring forward our insights and future research directions.
description: 25 pages, 39 figures, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Additional file 2 of Specific exposure of ICU staff to SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity: a wide seroprevalence study in a French city-center hospital
Creators: name: Vivier, Emmanuel
name: Pariset, Caroline
name: Stephane Rio
name: Armand, Sophie
name: Doroszewski, Fanny
name: Richard, Delphine
name: Chardon, Marc
name: Romero, Georges
name: Metral, Pierre
name: Pecquet, Matthieu
name: Didelot, Adrien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Enrollment of study participants.
RNAi Validation of Resistance Genes and Their Interactions in the Highly DDT-Resistant 91-R Strain of Drosophila Melanogaster
Creators: name: Gellatly, Kyle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: 4,4’-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) has been re-recommended by the World Health Organization for malaria mosquito control. Previous DDT use has resulted in resistance, and with continued use resistance will increase in terms of level and extent. Drosophila melanogaster is a model dipteran that has many available genetic tools, numerous studies done on insecticide resistance mechanisms, and is related to malaria mosquitoes allowing for extrapolation. The 91-R strain of D. melanogaster is highly resistant to DDT (>1500-fold), however, there is no mechanistic scheme that accounts for this level of resistance. Recently, reduced penetration, increased detoxification, and direct excretion have been identified as resistance mechanisms in the 91-R strain. Their interactions, however, remain unclear. Use of UAS-RNAi transgenic lines of D. melanogaster allowed for the targeted knockdown of genes putatively involved in DDT resistance and has validated the role of several cuticular proteins (Cyp4g1 and Lcp1), cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (Cyp6g1 and Cyp12d1), and ATP binding cassette transporters (Mdr50, Mdr65, and Mrp1) involved in DDT resistance.
Neutralino spectrum in top-down models of UHECR
Creators: name: Ibarra, Alejandro
name: Toldra, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the cosmic ray spectrum of ultra high energy neutralinos that one should expect provided that the observed ultra high energy cosmic rays are produced by the decay of superheavy particles X, M_X>10^{12} GeV, in supersymmetric models. Our calculation uses an extended DGLAP formalism. Forthcoming cosmic ray observatories should be able to detect these neutralinos.
description: 10 pages, revtex, 3 eps figures. Difference between the present work and Montecarlo simulations clarified
Examining the Mid- Brunhes Event in the Terrestrial Arctic: an Organic Geochemical Record from Lake El’gygytgyn, Russia
Creators: name: Habicht, Mary Helen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: The characteristic glacial and interglacial cycles of the Pleistocene underwent a climatic transition at ~430 ka known as the Mid- Brunhes Event (MBE). Many studies, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere have noted that after this transition, the amplitude of the climatic cycles increased. Despite the indication of an MBE signal in many globally distributed paleoclimate records, the geographic extent of the climatic transition remains unknown and its presence in northern hemisphere and terrestrial records is debated. Lake El’gygytgyn is located in the far- east Russian Arctic and provides the longest, most continuous record of Arctic climate (3.6 Ma). This study examines organic biomarkers in the Lake El’gygytgyn sediment core to determine if the MBE is expressed in the terrestrial Arctic. The paleoclimate reconstruction spans the interval of 340- 730 ka at a resolution of ~3 ka. Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are utilized to reconstruct temperature and plant leaf wax n-alkanes are used to examine vegetation changes. Statistical analysis of this, and other existing proxy data, indicates that a signal of the MBE is preserved in the Lake El’gygytgyn sediment record. BrGDGT temperature reconstructions suggest the terrestrial Arctic experienced both the warmest interglacials and coldest glacial periods after the MBE climatic transition. Arid glacial intervals and wetter interglacials are recorded by changes in the average chain length of n- alkanes, with wetter interglacials predominating after the MBE.
Willingness to contribute to the management of recreational quality on private lands in Finland
Creators: name: Lankia, Tuija
name: Neuvonen, Marjo
name: Pouta, Eija
name: Sievänen, Tuija
name: Lankia, Tuija
name: Neuvonen, Marjo
name: Pouta, Eija
name: Sievänen, Tuija
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Payments for ecosystem services
subject: Recreation
subject: Willingness to pay
subject: Willingness to contribute labor
subject: Contingent valuatio

description: In Finland, privately owned nature areas are widely used for recreation due to open public access. However, since landowners are not obligated to take everyman’s rights into consideration when making management decisions, the recreational quality of nature areas is not guaranteed for users. We examined whether individual recreationists on private lands would be willing purchase management actions from landowners that influence recreational quality. In addition to willingness to pay, we assessed willingness to con-tribute labor to such actions. The results demonstrated that about half of the recreationists who participated in our survey were willing to contribute labor and about 10% were willing to pay to direct the management of their typical recreation site on private lands. The mean willingness to pay was 92 euros per year and the mean willingness to contribute labor 3.5 days per year. A latent class regression model revealed that recreationists were not, however, completely homogeneous in their preferences for the actions or in their preferred contribution forms. On the basis of the results, there is moderate demand from recreationists for management to improve recreational quality and the potential for local landscape management arrangements that allow individual recreationists to contribute labor.
Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from HAWC observations of gamma rays above 100 TeV
Creators: name: HAWC Collaboration
name: Albert, A.
name: Alfaro, R.
name: Alvarez, C.
name: Camacho, J. R. Angeles
name: Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C.
name: Arunbabu, K. P.
name: Rojas, D. Avila
name: Solares, H. A. Ayala
name: Baghmanyan, V.
name: Belmont-Moreno, E.
name: BenZvi, S. Y.
name: Brisbois, C.
name: Caballero-Mora, K. S.
name: Capistrán, T.
name: Carramiñana, A.
name: Casanova, S.
name: Cotti, U.
name: Cotzomi, J.
name: de León, S. Coutiño
name: De la Fuente, E.
name: de León, C.
name: Dingus, B. L.
name: DuVernois, M. A.
name: Díaz-Vélez, J. C.
name: Ellsworth, R. W.
name: Engel, K.
name: Espinoza, C.
name: Fleischhack, H.
name: Fraija, N.
name: Galván-Gámez, A.
name: Garcia, D.
name: García-González, J. A.
name: Garfias, F.
name: González, M. M.
name: Goodman, J. A.
name: Harding, J. P.
name: Hernandez, S.
name: Hona, B.
name: Huang, D.
name: Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F.
name: Hüntemeyer, P.
name: Iriarte, A.
name: Joshi, V.
name: Lara, A.
name: Lee, W. H.
name: Vargas, H. León
name: Linnemann, J. T.
name: Longinotti, A. L.
name: Luis-Raya, G.
name: Lundeen, J.
name: López-Coto, R.
name: Malone, K.
name: Marinelli, S. S.
name: Martinez-Castellanos, I.
name: Martínez-Castro, J.
name: Martínez-Huerta, H.
name: Matthews, J. A.
name: Miranda-Romagnoli, P.
name: Morales-Soto, J. A.
name: Moreno, E.
name: Nayerhoda, A.
name: Nellen, L.
name: Newbold, M.
name: Nisa, M. U.
name: Noriega-Papaqui, R.
name: Omodei, N.
name: Peisker, A.
name: Pérez-Pérez, E. G.
name: Rho, C. D.
name: Rivière, C.
name: Rosa-González, D.
name: Rosenberg, M.
name: Ruiz-Velasco, E.
name: Salazar, H.
name: Greus, F. Salesa
name: Sandoval, A.
name: Schneider, M.
name: Schoorlemmer, H.
name: Sinnis, G.
name: Smith, A. J.
name: Springer, R. W.
name: Surajbali, P.
name: Tabachnick, E.
name: Tanner, M.
name: Tibolla, O.
name: Tollefson, K.
name: Torres, I.
name: Torres-Escobedo, R.
name: Weisgarber, T.
name: Yodh, G.
name: Zepeda, A.
name: Zhou, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the high energies and long distances to the sources, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). Superluminal LIV enables the decay of photons at high energy. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is among the most sensitive gamma-ray instruments currently operating above 10 TeV. HAWC finds evidence of 100 TeV photon emission from at least four astrophysical sources. These observations exclude, for the strongest of the limits set, the LIV energy scale to $2.2\times10^{31}$ eV, over 1800 times the Planck energy and an improvement of 1 to 2 orders of magnitude over previous limits.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Studying Nanoparticle/cell and Nanoparticle/biosurface Interaction with Mass Spectrometry
Creators: name: Hou, Singyuk
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Nanoparticles (NPs) have been used widely in various fields ranging from biomedical applications to life science due to their highly tunable properties. It is essential to understanding how NPs interact with biological systems of interest, therefore, analytical platforms to efficiently track NPs from cell to animal level are essential. In this thesis, laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS) and inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been developed and applied to quantify NP/cell and NP/biological surface interactions. These two methods provide fast, label-free and quantitative analysis. New capability of LDI-MS to differentiate cell surface-bound and internalized NPs were established and ICP-MS coupled with a library of surface- functionalized AuNPs were used to probe the affinity between NPs and human hair surface. NPs interacting with biological surfaces and plasma membrane were quantified and the interactions were controlled by the chemical properties of the interface between NP and biological systems.