cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An African Ancestry-Specific Allele of CTLA4 Confers Protection against Rheumatoid Arthritis in African Americans
Creators: name: Padilla, Miguel A.
name: Tiwari, Hemant K.
name: Bridges, S. Louis
name: Jonas, Beth L.
name: Conn, Doyt L.
name: Alarcón, Graciela S.
name: Smith, Edwin A.
name: Callahan, Leigh F.
name: Faggard, Jeffrey D.
name: Kimberly, Robert P.
name: Westfall, Andrew O.
name: Crawford, Monica H.
name: Danila, Maria I.
name: Hughes, Laura B.
name: Edberg, Jeffrey C.
name: Kelley, James M.
name: Edberg, Yuanqing
name: Allison, David B.
name: Brasington, Richard D.
name: Moreland, Larry W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4) is a negative regulator of T-cell proliferation. Polymorphisms in CTLA4 have been inconsistently associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of European ancestry but have not been examined in African Americans. The prevalence of RA in most populations of European and Asian ancestry is ∼1.0%; RA is purportedly less common in black Africans, with little known about its prevalence in African Americans. We sought to determine if CTLA4 polymorphisms are associated with RA in African Americans. We performed a 2-stage analysis of 12 haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across CTLA4 in a total of 505 African American RA patients and 712 African American controls using Illumina and TaqMan platforms. The minor allele (G) of the rs231778 SNP was 0.054 in RA patients, compared to 0.209 in controls (4.462×10−26, Fisher's exact). The presence of the G allele was associated with a substantially reduced odds ratio (OR) of having RA (AG+GG genotypes vs. AA genotype, OR 0.19, 95% CI: 0.13–0.26, p = 2.4×10−28, Fisher's exact), suggesting a protective effect. This SNP is polymorphic in the African population (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.09 in the Yoruba population), but is very rare in other groups (MAF = 0.002 in 530 Caucasians genotyped for this study). Markers associated with RA in populations of European ancestry (rs3087243 [+60C/T] and rs231775 [+49A/G]) were not replicated in African Americans. We found no confounding of association for rs231778 after stratifying for the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope, presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, or degree of admixture from the European population. An African ancestry-specific genetic variant of CTLA4 appears to be associated with protection from RA in African Americans. This finding may explain, in part, the relatively low prevalence of RA in black African populations.
Soil Culturable Bacteria Increase the Water-Soluble Fluoride Content in the Soil
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Wuliji, Nashun
name: Jiao, Yan
name: Sa, Gala
name: Dai, Gang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To evaluate the effects of soil bacteria on the contents of water-soluble fluoride in the soil in high fluoride area, a total of 225 isolates were firstly obtained from the soil collected from Xianghuangqi County in Inner Mongolia, an typical high fluoride area in China. These isolates were grouped into 10 operational taxonomic units according to their 16SrRNA gene sequences using 97% sequence identity threshold. An isolate was randomly selected from each group as the representative strain to study their mineral weathering potentials, calcium precipitating potentials, and their effect on the content of water-soluble fluoride in the soil. Most of the representative strains showed the silicate mineral weathering capacities and all showed the calcium precipitating capacities. The results of the soil column experiment showed the concentration of water-soluble fluoride in majority of the bacteria-inoculated soils (8 out of 10) increased compared to abiotic control after two weeks’ incubation. The increases in the fluoride content were closely correlated with a reduction of water-soluble calcium contents and/or an increase of pH, suggesting that calcium precipitation by these bacteria could be an important factor to elevate the content of water-soluble fluoride content in soil. This work would deepen our understanding of the microbial contribution to the formation of high fluoride groundwater.
Correction: Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution
Creators: name: Timpson, Nicholas J.
name: Scheet, Paul
name: Thorleifsson, Gudmar
name: Speliotes, Elizabeth K.
name: Lim, Noha
name: Almgren, Peter
name: Lamina, Claudia
name: Randall, Joshua C.
name: Bergman, Richard N.
name: Qi, Lu
name: Zhao, Jing Hua
name: Drong, Alexander
name: Bandinelli, Stefania
name: Lyon, Helen N.
name: Bonnycastle, Lori L.
name: Heid, Iris M.
name: Bennett, Amanda J.
name: Willer, Cristen J.
name: Soranzo, Nicole
name: Amin, Najaf
name: Aulchenko, Yurii S.
name: Zillikens, M. Carola
name: Luan, Jian'an
name: Rivadeneira, Fernando
name: Sanna, Serena
name: Chanock, Stephen J.
name: Bumpstead, Suzannah J.
name: Jackson, Anne U.
name: Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur
name: Herrera, Blanca M.
name: Chambers, John C.
name: Lindgren, Cecilia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To identify genetic loci influencing central obesity and fat distribution, we performed a meta-analysis of 16 genome-wide association studies (GWAS, N = 38,580) informative for adult waist circumference (WC) and waist–hip ratio (WHR). We selected 26 SNPs for follow-up, for which the evidence of association with measures of central adiposity (WC and/or WHR) was strong and disproportionate to that for overall adiposity or height. Follow-up studies in a maximum of 70,689 individuals identified two loci strongly associated with measures of central adiposity; these map near TFAP2B (WC, P = 1.9×10−11) and MSRA (WC, P = 8.9×10−9). A third locus, near LYPLAL1, was associated with WHR in women only (P = 2.6×10−8). The variants near TFAP2B appear to influence central adiposity through an effect on overall obesity/fat-mass, whereas LYPLAL1 displays a strong female-only association with fat distribution. By focusing on anthropometric measures of central obesity and fat distribution, we have identified three loci implicated in the regulation of human adiposity.
Implementing the three-particle quantization condition including higher partial waves
Creators: name: Blanton, Tyler D.
name: Romero-López, Fernando
name: Sharpe, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an implementation of the relativistic three-particle quantization condition including both $s$- and $d$-wave two-particle channels. For this, we develop a systematic expansion about threshold of the three-particle divergence-free K matrix, $\mathcal{K}_{\mathrm{df,3}}$, which is a generalization of the effective range expansion of the two-particle K matrix, $\mathcal{K}_2$. Relativistic invariance plays an important role in this expansion. We find that $d$-wave two-particle channels enter first at quadratic order. We explain how to implement the resulting multichannel quantization condition, and present several examples of its application. We derive the leading dependence of the threshold three-particle state on the two-particle $d$-wave scattering amplitude, and use this to test our implementation. We show how strong two-particle $d$-wave interactions can lead to significant effects on the finite-volume three-particle spectrum, including the possibility of a generalized three-particle Efimov-like bound state. We also explore the application to the $3π^+$ system, which is accessible to lattice QCD simulations, where we study the sensitivity of the spectrum to the components of $\mathcal{K}_{\mathrm{df,3}}$. Finally, we investigate the circumstances under which the quantization condition has unphysical solutions.
description: 57 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables (v2: Made minor clarifications, updated a reference, fixed typos)
Additional file 1 of 5-EPIFAT trial protocol: a multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the efficacy of pharmacotherapy for fatigue using methylphenidate, bupropion, ginseng, and amantadine in advanced cancer patients on active treatment
Creators: name: Miladinia, Mojtaba
name: Jahangiri, Mina
name: White, Sharon Jackson
name: Karimpourian, Hossein
name: Inno, Alessandro
name: Chan, Sally Wai-Chi
name: Ganji, Reza
name: Maniati, Mahmood
name: Zarea, Kourosh
name: Ghalamkari, Marziyeh
name: Farahat, Ali
name: Fagerström, Cecilia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Gerris paludum subsp. palmonii Wagner 1954
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Kolínová, Zdislava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Gerris
Gerris paludum
Gerris paludum palmonii wagner, 1954

description: Gerris paludum palmonii Wagner, 1954
 Gerris paludum palmonii Wagner, 1954: 205–207, Figs 1–3 (upper row), 4, 6, 8, 10, 13 (original description).
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC:
PARATYPE (J brach.): ‘Tabgha 24.8.42 / (Genezareth Sea) [hw] / Palestina / J. Houška lg. [p] // Gerris (Aquarius) / [hw] 19[p]51 paludum Fab. [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] J [hw] // PARATYPOID [p] / G. paludum / palmonii n. sbsp. [hw] / F. Wagner det. [p, pink label]’.
PARATYPE (♀ brach.): ‘Tabgha 24.8.42 / (Genezareth sea) [hw] / Palestina / J. Houška lg. [p] // Gerris (Aquarius) / [hw] 19[p]51 paludum Fab. [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] ♀ [hw] // PARATYPOID [p] / G. paludum / palmonii n. sbsp. [hw] / F. Wagner det. [p, pink label]’.
 Current status. Junior synonym of Aquarius paludum paludum (Fabricius, 1794) (see POISSON 1965b; KANYUKOVA 1982; ANDERSEN 1990, 1995a,b; DAMGAARD et al. in press).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 863, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731
The Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice: linear spin-wave theory
Creators: name: Merino, J.
name: McKenzie, Ross H.
name: Marston, J. B.
name: Chung, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of quantum spin fluctuations on the ground state properties of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice using linear spin-wave theory. This model should describe the magnetic properties of the insulating phase of the kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_2 X family of superconducting molecular crystals. The ground state energy, the staggered magnetization, magnon excitation spectra and spin-wave velocities are computed as a function of the ratio between the second and first neighbours, J2/J1. We find that near J2/J1 = 0.5, i.e., in the region where the classical spin configuration changes from a Neel ordered phase to a spiral phase, the staggered magnetization vanishes, suggesting the possibility of a quantum disordered state. In this region, the quantum correction to the magnetization is large but finite. This is in contrast to the frustrated Heisenberg model on a square lattice, for which the quantum correction diverges logarithmically at the transition from the Neel to the collinear phase. For large J2/J1, the model becomes a set of chains with frustrated interchain coupling. For J2 > 4 J1, the quantum correction to the magnetization, within LSW, becomes comparable to the classical magnetization, suggesting the possibility of a quantum disordered state. We show that, in this regime, quantum fluctuations are much larger than for a set of weakly coupled chains with non-frustated interchain coupling.
description: 10 pages, RevTeX + epsf, 5 figures Replaced with published version. Comparison to series expansions energies included
Co-delivery of Bmi1 small interfering RNA with ursolic acid by folate receptor-targeted cationic liposomes enhances anti-tumor activity of ursolic acid in vitro and in vivo
Creators: name: Li, Weijie
name: Yan, Ruicong
name: Liu, Yong
name: He, Chuanchuan
name: Zhang, Xiaojuan
name: Lu, Yao
name: Khan, Muhammad Waseem
name: Xu, Chuanrui
name: Yang, Tan
name: Xiang, Guangya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Overexpression of Bmi1 gene is an important feature of cancer stem cell in various human tumors. Therefore, Bmi1 gene can be a potential target for small interfering RNA (siRNA) mediated cancer therapy. Ursolic acid (UA) as a natural product plays a pivotal role in anti-tumor field, although its performance is limited by low bioavailability and poor hydrophilicity. A folate receptor-targeted cationic liposome system was designed for the purpose of investigating the relationship between Bmil siRNA and UA. The folate receptor-targeted cationic liposomes co-delivering UA and Bmi1 siRNA (FA-UA/siRNA-L) were fabricated by electrostatic interaction between folate UA liposome (FA-UA-L) and Bmi1 siRNA. Tumor growth is inhibited by FA-UA/siRNA-L in vitro and in vivo and this inhibition is contributed by a synergistic anti-tumor effect of UA and Bmi1 siRNA. The western blot measurement of apoptosis-protein and cancer stem cell (CSC) marked-protein demonstrated that UA led to activation-induced tumor cell death and Bmi1 siRNA resulted in inhibition of cancer stem cells. Overall, these results indicate that Bmi1 as a regulating gene for cancer stem cell is an effective target for cancer treatment using siRNA and co-delivery of UA and Bmi1 siRNA using folate-targeted liposomes is a promising strategy for improved anti-tumor effect.
Correction: Genome-Wide Association Study Implicates Chromosome 9q21.31 as a Susceptibility Locus for Asthma in Mexican Children
Creators: name: Willis-Owen, Saffron A. G.
name: Eng, Celeste
name: Chapela, Rocio
name: London, Stephanie J.
name: del Rio-Navarro, Blanca Estela
name: Li, Huiling
name: Tang, Hua
name: Romieu, Isabelle
name: Raby, Benjamin A.
name: Wu, Hao
name: Burchard, Esteban G.
name: Sienra-Monge, Juan-Jose
name: Gao, Hong
name: Weiss, Scott T.
name: Shi, Min
name: Chiu, Grace Y.
name: Sullivan, Patrick F.
name: Hancock, Dana B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Many candidate genes have been studied for asthma, but replication has varied. Novel candidate genes have been identified for various complex diseases using genome-wide association studies (GWASs). We conducted a GWAS in 492 Mexican children with asthma, predominantly atopic by skin prick test, and their parents using the Illumina HumanHap 550 K BeadChip to identify novel genetic variation for childhood asthma. The 520,767 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) passing quality control were tested for association with childhood asthma using log-linear regression with a log-additive risk model. Eleven of the most significantly associated GWAS SNPs were tested for replication in an independent study of 177 Mexican case–parent trios with childhood-onset asthma and atopy using log-linear analysis. The chromosome 9q21.31 SNP rs2378383 (p = 7.10×10−6 in the GWAS), located upstream of transducin-like enhancer of split 4 (TLE4), gave a p-value of 0.03 and the same direction and magnitude of association in the replication study (combined p = 6.79×10−7). Ancestry analysis on chromosome 9q supported an inverse association between the rs2378383 minor allele (G) and childhood asthma. This work identifies chromosome 9q21.31 as a novel susceptibility locus for childhood asthma in Mexicans. Further, analysis of genome-wide expression data in 51 human tissues from the Novartis Research Foundation showed that median GWAS significance levels for SNPs in genes expressed in the lung differed most significantly from genes not expressed in the lung when compared to 50 other tissues, supporting the biological plausibility of our overall GWAS findings and the multigenic etiology of childhood asthma.
Common Genetic Variants and Modification of Penetrance of BRCA2-Associated Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Segrè, Ayellet V.
name: Rookus, Matti A.
name: McGuffog, Lesley
name: GEMO Study Collaborators, Frans B. L.
name: Guiducci, Candace
name: Green, Todd
name: Collée, J. Margriet
name: Blank, Stephanie V.
name: Sinilnikova, Olga M.
name: Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique
name: Longy, Michel
name: Piedmonte, Marion
name: Korn, Joshua M.
name: Gaudet, Mia M.
name: Nerenstone, Stacy
name: Gauthier-Villars, Marion
name: Mazoyer, Sylvie
name: Kartsonaki, Christiana
name: van Roozendaal, Kees E. P.
name: Rubinstein, Wendy
name: Morrison, Jonathan
name: McGee, Kate
name: Van Le, Linda
name: Hoogerbrugge, Nicoline
name: Frenay, Marc
name: Kirchhoff, Tomas
name: de la Hoya, Miguel
name: Caldés, Trinidad
name: Nevanlinna, Heli
name: Vijai, Joseph
name: Sobol, Hagay
name: Healey, Sue
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The considerable uncertainty regarding cancer risks associated with inherited mutations of BRCA2 is due to unknown factors. To investigate whether common genetic variants modify penetrance for BRCA2 mutation carriers, we undertook a two-staged genome-wide association study in BRCA2 mutation carriers. In stage 1 using the Affymetrix 6.0 platform, 592,163 filtered SNPs genotyped were available on 899 young (<40 years) affected and 804 unaffected carriers of European ancestry. Associations were evaluated using a survival-based score test adjusted for familial correlations and stratified by country of the study and BRCA2*6174delT mutation status. The genomic inflation factor (λ) was 1.011. The stage 1 association analysis revealed multiple variants associated with breast cancer risk: 3 SNPs had p-values<10−5 and 39 SNPs had p-values<10−4. These variants included several previously associated with sporadic breast cancer risk and two novel loci on chromosome 20 (rs311499) and chromosome 10 (rs16917302). The chromosome 10 locus was in ZNF365, which contains another variant that has recently been associated with breast cancer in an independent study of unselected cases. In stage 2, the top 85 loci from stage 1 were genotyped in 1,264 cases and 1,222 controls. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for stage 1 and 2 were combined and estimated using a retrospective likelihood approach, stratified by country of residence and the most common mutation, BRCA2*6174delT. The combined per allele HR of the minor allele for the novel loci rs16917302 was 0.75 (95% CI 0.66–0.86, ) and for rs311499 was 0.72 (95% CI 0.61–0.85, ). FGFR2 rs2981575 had the strongest association with breast cancer risk (per allele HR = 1.28, 95% CI 1.18–1.39, ). These results indicate that SNPs that modify BRCA2 penetrance identified by an agnostic approach thus far are limited to variants that also modify risk of sporadic BRCA2 wild-type breast cancer.
5,6-dehydrokawain from the rhizome of Alpinia mutica Roxb. induced proangiogenic tumour-derived VEGF of HT-29 colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Malami, Ibrahim
name: Aliyu Muhammad
name: Abubakar, Ibrahim B.
name: Imaobong C. Etti
name: Waziri, Peter M.
name: Abubakar, Ramadan M.
name: Halilu E. Mshelia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a glycoprotein vital to the regulation of vascular endothelial cells proliferation, migration and angiogenesis. The expression of VEGF is required for the formation of new blood vessels critical in supplying oxygen and nutrition in the course of tumorigenesis. The present study investigated the effect of 5,6-dehydrokawain isolated from the rhizomes of Alpinia mutica on VEGF expression in vitro using HT-29 cell line. The results revealed that 5,6-dehydrokawain induced the expression of proangiogenic tumour-derived VEGF of HT-29 cells, which may explain the inability of 5,6-dehydrokawain in suppressing cancer cells proliferation.
Stochastic boundary conditions in the deterministic Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic model
Creators: name: Cheybani, S.
name: Kertesz, J.
name: Schreckenberg, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider open systems where cars move according to the deterministic Nagel-Schreckenberg rules and with maximum velocity ${v}_{max} > 1$, what is an extension of the Asymmetric Exclusion Process (ASEP). It turns out that the behaviour of the system is dominated by two features: a) the competition between the left and the right boundary b) the development of so-called "buffers" due to the hindrance an injected car feels from the front car at the beginning of the system. As a consequence, there is a first-order phase transition between the free flow and the congested phase accompanied by the collapse of the buffers and the phase diagram essentially differs from that of ${v}_{max} = 1$ (ASEP).
description: 29 pages, 26 figures
Effect of disorder on quantum phase transitions in anisotropic XY spin chains in a transverse field
Creators: name: Bunder, J. E.
name: McKenzie, Ross H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some exact results for the effect of disorder on the critical properties of an anisotropic XY spin chain in a transverse field. The continuum limit of the corresponding fermion model is taken and in various cases results in a Dirac equation with a random mass. Exact analytic techniques can then be used to evaluate the density of states and the localization length. In the presence of disorder the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic or Ising transition of the model is in the same universality class as the random transverse field Ising model solved by Fisher using a real space renormalization group decimation technique (RSRGDT). If there is only randomness in the anisotropy of the magnetic exchange then the anisotropy transition (from a ferromagnet in the $x$ direction to a ferromagnet in the $y$ direction) is also in this universality class. However, if there is randomness in the isotropic part of the exchange or in the transverse field then in a non-zero transverse field the anisotropy transition is destroyed by the disorder. We show that in the Griffiths' phase near the Ising transition that the ground state energy has an essential singularity. The results obtained for the dynamical critical exponent, the typical correlation length, and the temperature dependence of the specific heat near the Ising transition agree with the results of the RSRGDT and numerical work.
description: 22 pages, RevTeX + epsf, 4 figures
Homogenization of a stationary periodic Maxwell system in a bounded domain in the case of constant magnetic permeability
Creators: name: Suslina, Tatiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B27

description: In a bounded domain $\mathcal{O}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ of class $C^{1,1}$, we consider a stationary Maxwell system with the boundary conditions of perfect conductivity. It is assumed that the magnetic permeability is given by a constant positive $(3\times 3)$-matrix $μ_0$ and the dielectric permittivity is of the form $η({\mathbf x}/ \varepsilon)$, where $η({\mathbf x})$ is a $(3 \times 3)$-matrix-valued function with real entries, periodic with respect to some lattice, bounded and positive definite. Here $\varepsilon >0$ is the small parameter. Suppose that the equation involving the curl of the magnetic field intensity is homogeneous, and the right-hand side $\mathbf r$ of the second equation is a divergence-free vector-valued function of class $L_2$. It is known that, as $\varepsilon \to 0$, the solutions of the Maxwell system, namely, the electric field intensity ${\mathbf u}_\varepsilon$, the electric displacement vector ${\mathbf w}_\varepsilon$, the magnetic field intensity ${\mathbf v}_\varepsilon$, and the magnetic displacement vector ${\mathbf z}_\varepsilon$ weakly converge in $L_2$ to the corresponding homogenized fields ${\mathbf u}_0$, ${\mathbf w}_0$, ${\mathbf v}_0$, ${\mathbf z}_0$ (the solutions of the homogenized Maxwell system with effective coefficients). We improve the classical results. It is shown that ${\mathbf v}_\varepsilon$ and ${\mathbf z}_\varepsilon$ converge to ${\mathbf v}_0$ and ${\mathbf z}_0$, respectively, in the $L_2$-norm, the error terms do not exceed $C \varepsilon \| {\mathbf r}\|_{L_2}$. We also find approximations for ${\mathbf v}_\varepsilon$ and ${\mathbf z}_\varepsilon$ in the energy norm with error $C\sqrt{\varepsilon} \|{\mathbf r}\|_{L_2}$. For ${\mathbf u}_\varepsilon$ and ${\mathbf w}_\varepsilon$ we obtain approximations in the $L_2$-norm with error $C\sqrt{\varepsilon} \| {\mathbf r}\|_{L_2}$.
description: 28 pages
Additional file 1 of Migrant female sex workers working at the Sino-Vietnamese border for a short time have a higher risk of HIV transmission: a consecutive cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu
name: Liang, Bingyu
name: Liu, Deping
name: Wei, Guangwu
name: Mo, Shide
name: Nong, Aidan
name: Ning, Chuanyi
name: Liao, Yanyan
name: Jiang, Junjun
name: Pan, PeiJiang
name: Yang, Yuan
name: Zang, Ning
name: Vanphu, Dinh
name: Van, Nguyen
name: Ye, Li
name: Liang, Hao
name: Huang, Jiegang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. HIV-related behavior and access to preventive intervention services between the ST FSWs and LT FSWs. Table S2. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with low-level of HIV-related knowledge. Table S3. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with inconsistent condom use in the past month and lifetime illicit drug use. Table S4. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with male clients > 30 in the past month, no regular male clients in the past month and having a history of male clients used aphrodisiacs. Table S5. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with access to preventive intervention services.
The excitation spectrum of mesoscopic proximity structures
Creators: name: Pilgram, S.
name: Belzig, W.
name: Bruder, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate one aspect of the proximity effect, viz., the local density of states of a superconductor-normal metal sandwich. In contrast to earlier work, we allow for the presence of an arbitrary concentration of impurities in the structure. The superconductor induces a gap in the normal metal spectrum that is proportional to the inverse of the elastic mean free path l_N for rather clean systems. For a mean free path much shorter than the thickness of the normal metal, we find a gap size proportional to l_N that approaches the behavior predicted by the Usadel equation (diffusive limit). We also discuss the influence of interface and surface roughness, the consequences of a non-ideal transmittivity of the interface, and the dependence of our results on the choice of the model of impurity scattering.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures (included), submitted to PRB
Black hole mechanics and thermodynamics in the light of Weyl transformations
Creators: name: Hammad, Fayçal
name: Massé, Étienne
name: Labelle, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fate of black hole thermodynamics under Weyl transformations is investigated by going back to the laws of black hole mechanics. It is shown that the transformed surface gravity, that one would identify with the black hole temperature in the conformal frame, as well as the black hole entropy, that one would identify with the horizon area, cannot be invariant. It is also shown that the conformally invariant surface gravity, attributed to the so-called "conformal Killing horizon", cannot represent the black hole temperature in the conformal frame. Finally, using familiar thought experiments, we find that the effect a Weyl transformation should have on black hole thermodynamics becomes even subtler than what is suggested by the laws of black hole mechanics
description: 12 pages
Additional file 4 of Improving prediction performance of colon cancer prognosis based on the integration of clinical and multi-omics data
Creators: name: Tong, Danyang
name: Tian, Yu
name: Zhou, Tianshu
name: Ye, Qiancheng
name: Li, Jun
name: Ding, Kefeng
name: Li, Jingsong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. KM-curve of the dataset based on the covariate T stage. KM-curve of the dataset based on the covariate T stage.
Limnogonus (Limnogonus) buxtoni subsp. fijiensis Andersen 1975
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Kolínová, Zdislava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Limnogonus
Limnogonus buxtoni
Limnogonus (limnogonus) buxtoni fijiensis andersen, 1975

description: Limnogonus (Limnogonus) buxtoni fijiensis Andersen, 1975
 Limnogonus (Limnogonus) buxtoni fijiensis Andersen, 1975: 29–30, 38, 49, 56–59, Figs 128–129, 164–165, 167, 178–179 (original description, key).
One paratype is deposited in NMPC:
PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘Vitilevu / Fiji [p] // Vatuthere, Nr. / Nandarivatu [p] / IX.8-38 2200′ [hw] // Stream [p] // ECZimmerman / Collector [p] // J [hw, yellow label] // PARATYPE / Limnogonus / buxtoni Esaki ssp. / fijiensis Andersen [p] / J [hw] 19[p]70[hw] / Det. N. Møller Andersen [p]’.
 Current status. Valid subspecies (see ANDERSEN 1995b, DAMGAARD et al. in press).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 864, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731
Additional file of A sequence-based genetic linkage map as a reference for Brassica rapa pseudochromosome assembly
Creators: name: Wang, Yan
name: Sun, Silong
name: Liu, Bo
name: Wang, Hui
name: Deng, Jie
name: Liao, Yongcui
name: Wang, Qian
name: Cheng, Feng
name: Wang, Xiaowu
name: Wu, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of A sequence-based genetic linkage map as a reference for Brassica rapa pseudochromosome assembly
The nondeterministic Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic model with open boundary conditions
Creators: name: Cheybani, S.
name: Kertesz, J.
name: Schreckenberg, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phases of the Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic model with open boundary conditions as a function of the randomization probability p > 0 and the maximum velocity ${v}_{max} > 1$. Due to the existence of "buffer sites" which enhance the free flow region, the behaviour is much richer than that of the related asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP, {v}_{max} = 1$). Such sites exist for ${v}_{max} \ge 3$ and p < ${p}_{c}$ where the phase diagram is qualitatively similar to the p = 0 case: there is a free flow and a jamming phase separated by a line of first-order phase transitions. For p > ${p}_{c}$ an additional maximum current phase occurs like for the ASEP. The density profile decays in the maximum current phase algebraically with an exponent $γ\approx 2/3$ for all ${v}_{max} \ge 2$ indicating that these models belong to another universality class than the ASEP where $γ= 1/2$.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures; Phys. Rev. E
Limnogonus (Limnogonus) hungerfordi Andersen 1975
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Kolínová, Zdislava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Limnogonus
Limnogonus hungerfordi

description: Limnogonus (Limnogonus) hungerfordi Andersen, 1975
 Limnogonus (Limnogonus) hungerfordi Andersen, 1975: 28–30, 44–47, Figs 115, 120–122 (original description, key).
One paratype is deposited in NMPC:
PARATYPE (J macr.): ‘E.DUTCH NEW GUINEA: / Jutefa Bay.Pim. / Sealevel- 100 ft. ii.1936. / L.E.Cheesman. / B.M.1936-271. [p] // PARATYPE / Limnogonus / hungerfordi Andersen [p] / J [hw] 19[p]70[hw] / Det. N. Møller Andersen [p]’.
 Current status. Valid species (see ANDERSEN 1995 b, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004, CHEN et al. 2005, DAMGAARD et al. in press).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 864, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731
Distinguishing a Kerr-like black hole and a naked singularity in perfect fluid dark matter via precession frequencies
Creators: name: Rizwan, Muhammad
name: Jamil, Mubasher
name: Jusufi, Kimet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Kerr-like black hole and naked singularity in perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM). The critical value of spin parameter $a_c$ is presented to differentiate the black hole from naked singularity. It is seen that for any fixed value of dark matter parameter $α$ the rotating object is black hole if $a\leq a_c$ and naked singularity if $a>a_c$. Also for $-2\leqα<2/3$ the size of the black hole horizons decrease whereas for $2/3
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. Version published in Physical Review D
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and prevalence of molecular markers of anti-malarial drug resistance in children in Togo in 2021
Creators: name: Dorkenoo, Ameyo Monique
name: Warsame, Marian
name: Ataba, Essoham
name: Hemou, Manani
name: Yakpa, Kossi
name: Sossou, Efoe
name: Mitigmsagou, M’badi
name: Teou, Carmel Diwaba
name: Caspar, Emmanuelle
name: Ma, Laurence
name: Djadou, Koffi Edem
name: Atcha-Oubou, Tinah
name: Rasmussen, Charlotte
name: Menard, Didier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Raw data of msp-1, msp-2, glurp and poly α polymorphisms (band size in bp) detected on day0 and day of recurrence (dayX) in isolates from recurrent infections, Togo, 2021-2022.
Weakly-coupled Hubbard chains at half-filling and Confinement
Creators: name: Hur, Karyn Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study two (very) weakly-coupled Hubbard chains in the half-filled case, and especially the situation where the intrachain Mott scale $m$ is much larger than the bare single-electron interchain hopping $t_{\perp}$. First, we find that the divergence of the intrachain Umklapp channel at the Mott transition results in the complete vanishing of the single-electron interchain hopping: This is significant of a strong confinement of coherence along the chains. Excitations are usual charge fermionic solitons and spinon pairs of the Heisenberg chain. Then, we show rigorously how the tunneling of spinon-pairs produces a magnetic interchain exchange $J_{\perp}={t_{\perp}}^2/m>0$. The result is an insulating state with spin-gapped excitations as in the delocalized limit (i.e. for rather large interchain hoppings), where the two-leg ladder is in the well-known D-Mott phase. Unlike for Bechgaard salts, the confinement/deconfinement transition at absolute zero is here a simple crossover: no metallic phase is found in undoped two-leg ladders. This statement might be generalized for N-leg ladders with N=3,4... (but not too large).
description: 12 pages, Part on (spinon) pair-hopping amplitude extended in Appendix A; To appear in PRB
The Potential for Enhancing the Power of Genetic Association Studies in African Americans through the Reuse of Existing Genotype Data
Creators: name: Ziegler, Regina G.
name: Bernstein, Leslie
name: Bandera, Elisa V.
name: John, Esther M.
name: Henderson, Brian E.
name: Hu, Jennifer J.
name: Chanock, Stephen J.
name: Zheng, Wei
name: Haiman, Christopher A.
name: Chen, Gary K.
name: Stram, Daniel O.
name: Millikan, Robert C.
name: Ambrosone, Christine B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We consider the feasibility of reusing existing control data obtained in genetic association studies in order to reduce costs for new studies. We discuss controlling for the population differences between cases and controls that are implicit in studies utilizing external control data. We give theoretical calculations of the statistical power of a test due to Bourgain et al (Am J Human Genet 2003), applied to the problem of dealing with case-control differences in genetic ancestry related to population isolation or population admixture. Theoretical results show that there may exist bounds for the non-centrality parameter for a test of association that places limits on study power even if sample sizes can grow arbitrarily large. We apply this method to data from a multi-center, geographically-diverse, genome-wide association study of breast cancer in African-American women. Our analysis of these data shows that admixture proportions differ by center with the average fraction of European admixture ranging from approximately 20% for participants from study sites in the Eastern United States to 25% for participants from West Coast sites. However, these differences in average admixture fraction between sites are largely counterbalanced by considerable diversity in individual admixture proportion within each study site. Our results suggest that statistical correction for admixture differences is feasible for future studies of African-Americans, utilizing the existing controls from the African-American Breast Cancer study, even if case ascertainment for the future studies is not balanced over the same centers or regions that supplied the controls for the current study.
Object Recognition under Multifarious Conditions: A Reliability Analysis and A Feature Similarity-based Performance Estimation
Creators: name: Temel, Dogancan
name: Lee, Jinsol
name: AlRegib, Ghassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2; I.4; I.5

description: In this paper, we investigate the reliability of online recognition platforms, Amazon Rekognition and Microsoft Azure, with respect to changes in background, acquisition device, and object orientation. We focus on platforms that are commonly used by the public to better understand their real-world performances. To assess the variation in recognition performance, we perform a controlled experiment by changing the acquisition conditions one at a time. We use three smartphones, one DSLR, and one webcam to capture side views and overhead views of objects in a living room, an office, and photo studio setups. Moreover, we introduce a framework to estimate the recognition performance with respect to backgrounds and orientations. In this framework, we utilize both handcrafted features based on color, texture, and shape characteristics and data-driven features obtained from deep neural networks. Experimental results show that deep learning-based image representations can estimate the recognition performance variation with a Spearman's rank-order correlation of 0.94 under multifarious acquisition conditions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Anomalous Roughness in Dimer-Type Surface Growth
Creators: name: Noh, Jae Dong
name: Park, Hyunggyu
name: Nijs, Marcel den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out how geometric features affect the scaling properties of non-equilibrium dynamic processes, by a model for surface growth where particles can deposit and evaporate only in dimer form, but dissociate on the surface. Pinning valleys (hill tops) develop spontaneously and the surface facets for all growth (evaporation) biases. More intriguingly, the scaling properties of the rough one dimensional equilibrium surface are anomalous. Its width, $W\sim L^α$, diverges with system size $L$, as $α={1/3}$ instead of the conventional universal value $α={1/2}$. This originates from a topological non-local evenness constraint on the surface configurations.
description: Published version in PRL
Oxygenation and hydrologic controls on iron and manganese mass budgets in a drinking-water reservoir
Creators: name: Munger, Zackary W.
name: Cayelan C. Carey
name: Gerling, Alexandra B.
name: Doubek, Jonathan P.
name: Hamre, Kathleen D.
name: McClure, Ryan P.
name: Schreiber, Madeline E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Munger ZW, Carey CC, Gerling AB, Doubek JP, Hamre KD, McClure RP, Schreiber ME. 2018. Oxygenation and hydrologic controls on iron and manganese mass budgets in a drinking-water reservoir. Lake Reserv Manage. XX:XXX–XXX. In seasonally stratified lakes and reservoirs, fluctuating hypolimnetic oxygen and hydrologic conditions in the watershed can influence the retention of metals and their exchange between the sediments and water column. In particular, iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) cycling at the sediment–water interface can be dynamic in response to variability in the watershed and within the waterbody, which has substantial implications for drinking water quality. We calculated a mass budget for Fe and Mn in a shallow drinking-water reservoir over a 2-year period in which we manipulated the tributary inflow rate and dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in the hypolimnion at the reservoir scale. We found that the net Fe and Mn release from the sediments into the water column was suppressed during oxygenation; however, both metals continued to be released from the sediments, even during well-oxygenated conditions. Oxygenation in the hypolimnion had no effect on the net export of metals from the reservoir to downstream. Instead, the overall net export of Fe and Mn during the stratified period was influenced by hydrologic inflows. In summary, we found that manipulating hypolimnetic oxygenation had an important effect on the cycling of Fe and Mn within the hypolimnion, but that the net retention of metals in the reservoir was driven primarily by hydrology.
Tenagogonus madagascariensis Hoberlandt 1947
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Kolínová, Zdislava
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Tenagogonus
Tenagogonus madagascariensis

description: Tenagogonus madagascariensis f. fusca Hoberlandt, 1947
 Tenagogonus madagascariensis forma fusca Hoberlandt, 1947: 108 (original description).
Seventeen syntypes are deposited in NMPC:
SYNTYPE (J apter.): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar [p] // TYPUS [p, red label with black frame submarginally] // Tenag. mad. [hw] / 19[p]46[hw] / f. fusca n. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1414 [hw, orange label]’.
SYNTYPES (8 JJ apter.): ‘ Madagascar / Inv. č. [p] // TYPUS [p, red label with black frame submarginally] // Tenag. mad. [hw] / 19[p]46[hw] / f. fusca n. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1405, 1406, 1407, 1409, 1411, 1413, 1416, 1418 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.
SYNTYPES (8JJ apter.):‘ Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // TYPUS [p, red label with black frame submarginally] // Tenag. mad. [hw] / 19[p]46[hw] / f. fusca n. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 1408, 1410, 1412, 1415, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1421 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.
 Current status. Unavailable name. It is clear from the original description that Hoberlandt (1947) proposed this name merely for the colour variant occurring sympatrically with the typical form and therefore there is no doubt he meant an infraspecific entity within Tenagogonus madagascariensis Hoberlandt, 1947.
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 821-890 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on page 866, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740731