cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating the nature of IGR J17454-2919 using X-ray and Near-Infrared observations
Creators: name: Paizis, A.
name: Nowak, M. A.
name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Segreto, A.
name: Chaty, S.
name: Rau, A.
name: Chenevez, J.
name: Del Santo, M.
name: Greiner, J.
name: Schmidl, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IGR J17454-2919 is a hard X-ray transient discovered by INTEGRAL on 2014 September 27. We report on our 20ks Chandra observation of the source, performed about five weeks after the discovery, as well as on INTEGRAL and Swift monitoring long-term observations. X-ray broad-band spectra of the source are compatible with an absorbed power-law, $Γ\sim$1.6-1.8, ${\rm N_H}\sim$(10-12)$\times 10^{22}\,{\rm cm}^{-2}$, with no trace of a cut-off in the data up to about 100keV, and with an average absorbed 0.5-100keV flux of about (7.1-9.7)${\times 10^{-10}~erg~cm^{-2}~s^{-1}}$. With Chandra, we determine the most accurate X-ray position of IGR J17454-2919, $α_{J2000}$=17$^{h}$ 45$^{m}$ 27$^{s}$.69, $δ_{J2000}$= $-$29$^{\circ}$ 19$^{\prime}$ 53$^{\prime \prime}$.8 (90% uncertainty of 0$^{\prime\prime}$.6), consistent with the NIR source 2MASS J17452768-2919534. We also include NIR investigations from our observations of the source field on 2014 October 6 with GROND. With the multi-wavelength information at hand, we discuss the possible nature of IGR J17454-2919.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Valutazione dell’urban sprawl e ruolo delle infrastrutture. Caso di studio nell’area centrale della Calabria
Creators: name: Massimo, Domenico
name: Musolino, Mariangela
name: Barbalace, Antonino
name: Massimo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2011

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIX Incontro di Studio (Milano)
A new high throughput sequencing assay for characterising the diversity of natural Vibrio communities and its application to a Pacific oyster mortality event - data analysis workflow
Creators: name: King, William
name: Siboni, Nachshon
name: Kahlke, Tim
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: A new high throughput sequencing approach targeting the heat shock protein (hsp60) as a phylogenetic marker was developed to more precisely discriminate members of the Vibrio genus in environmental samples. There is a need for an accurate high throughput assay for defining Vibrio community composition in natural samples and this Vibrio-centric hsp60 sequencing assay offers the potential for precise high throughput characterisation of Vibrio diversity, providing an enhanced platform for dissecting Vibrio dynamics in the environment. Associated publication DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02907
Path-dependent Entropy Production
Creators: name: Kwon, Chulan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rigorous derivation of nonequilibrium entropy production via the path-integral formalism is presented. Entropy production is defined as the entropy change piled in a heat reservoir as a result of a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. It is a central quantity by which various forms of the fluctuation theorem are obtained. The two kinds of the stochastic dynamics are investigated: the Langevin dynamics for an even-parity state and the Brownian motion of a single particle. Mathematical ambiguities in deriving the functional form of the entropy production, which depends on path in state space, are clarified by using a rigorous quantum mechanical approach.
Contrastive Example-Based Control
Creators: name: Hatch, Kyle
name: Eysenbach, Benjamin
name: Rafailov, Rafael
name: Yu, Tianhe
name: Salakhutdinov, Ruslan
name: Levine, Sergey
name: Finn, Chelsea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While many real-world problems that might benefit from reinforcement learning, these problems rarely fit into the MDP mold: interacting with the environment is often expensive and specifying reward functions is challenging. Motivated by these challenges, prior work has developed data-driven approaches that learn entirely from samples from the transition dynamics and examples of high-return states. These methods typically learn a reward function from high-return states, use that reward function to label the transitions, and then apply an offline RL algorithm to these transitions. While these methods can achieve good results on many tasks, they can be complex, often requiring regularization and temporal difference updates. In this paper, we propose a method for offline, example-based control that learns an implicit model of multi-step transitions, rather than a reward function. We show that this implicit model can represent the Q-values for the example-based control problem. Across a range of state-based and image-based offline control tasks, our method outperforms baselines that use learned reward functions; additional experiments demonstrate improved robustness and scaling with dataset size.
description: This is an updated version of a manuscript that originally appeared at L4DC 2023. The project website is here https://sites.google.com/view/laeo-rl
Entropy production of entirely diffusional Laplacian transfer and the possible role of fragmentation of the boundaries
Creators: name: Karamanos, K.
name: Mistakidis, S. I.
name: Massart, T. J.
name: Mistakidis, I. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy production and the variational functional of a Laplacian diffusional field around the first four fractal iterations of a linear self-similar tree (von Koch curve) is studied analytically and detailed predictions are stated. In a next stage, these predictions are confronted with results from numerical resolution of the Laplace equation by means of Finite Elements computations. After a brief review of the existing results, the range of distances near the geometric irregularity, the so-called "Near Field", a situation never studied in the past, is treated exhaustively. We notice here that in the Near Field, the usual notion of the active zone approximation introduced by Sapoval et al. is strictly inapplicable. The basic new result is that the validity of the active-zone approximation based on irreversible thermodynamics is confirmed in this limit, and this implies a new interpretation of this notion for Laplacian diffusional fields.
description: 21 pages, 12 Figures
Software development in startup companies: A systematic mapping study
Creators: name: Paternoster, Nicolò
name: Giardino, Carmine
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Gorschek, Tony
name: Abrahamsson, Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: Software startups are newly created companies with no operating history and fast in producing cutting-edge technologies. These companies develop software under highly uncertain conditions, tackling fast-growing markets under severe lack of resources. Therefore, software startups present an unique combination of characteristics which pose several challenges to software development activities. Objective: This study aims to structure and analyze the literature on software development in startup companies, determining thereby the potential for technology transfer and identifying software development work practices reported by practitioners and researchers. Method: We conducted a systematic mapping study, developing a classification schema, ranking the selected primary studies according their rigor and relevance, and analyzing reported software development work practices in startups. Results: A total of 43 primary studies were identified and mapped, synthesizing the available evidence on software development in startups. Only 16 studies are entirely dedicated to software development in startups, of which 10 result in a weak contribution (advice and implications (6); lesson learned (3); tool (1)). Nineteen studies focus on managerial and organizational factors. Moreover, only 9 studies exhibit high scientific rigor and relevance. From the reviewed primary studies, 213 software engineering work practices were extracted, categorized and analyzed. Conclusion: This mapping study provides the first systematic exploration of the state-of-art on software startup research. The existing body of knowledge is limited to a few high quality studies. Furthermore, the results indicate that software engineering work practices are chosen opportunistically, adapted and configured to provide value under the constrains imposed by the startup context.
Table_S1.xlsx
Creators: name: Grünberger, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Table S1 of the manuscript titled Uncovering the temporal dynamics and regulatory networks of thermal stress response in a hyperthermophile using transcriptomics and proteomics.Summary of key findings for all experimental conditions, including fold changes, p-values, gene and protein annotations, mean protein and transcript per million (TPM), sequence features, and clusters.
E-S-QUAL: A multiple-item scale for assessing electronic service quality
Creators: name: Parasuraman, A.
name: Malhotra, Arvind
name: Zeithaml, Valarie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Using the means-end framework as a theoretical foundation, this article conceptualizes, constructs, refines, and tests a multiple-item scale (E-S-QUAL) for measuring the service quality delivered by Web sites on which customers shop online. Two stages of empirical data collection revealed that two different scales were necessary for capturing electronic service quality. The basic E-S-QUAL scale developed in the research is a 22-item scale of four dimensions: efficiency, fulfillment, system availability, and privacy. The second scale, E-RecS-QUAL, is salient only to customers who had nonroutine encounters with the sites and contains 11 items in three dimensions: responsiveness, compensation, and contact. Both scales demonstrate good psychometric properties based on findings from a variety of reliability and validity tests and build on the research already conducted on the topic. Directions for further research on electronic service quality are offered. Managerial implications stemming from the empirical findings about E-S-QUAL are also discussed.
L’allocazione spaziale del beneficio turistico-ricreativo del bosco
Creators: name: Bernetti, Iacopo
name: Marinelli, Augusto
name: Riccioli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2011

description: It is important to identify the monetary value of the different functions of a forest in order to estimate the environmental diseases or in order to plan and take decisions. The aim of this paper is to test a new methodology that focuses on the spatialization of the monetary values of benefits (services) that are offered by a forest. This methodology is based on the “Benefit transfer” approach and empirical indexes used in non-monetary evaluations. The result demonstrates the analysis of tourist-recreational function of the forest in the Tuscany Region.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 59 (2011)
Wahrgenommene Zeit
Creators: name: Wagner, Pascale
name: Piotrowska, Agnieszka
name: Reber, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Probanden sollen versuchen herauszufinden, ob ein Oddball (abweichender Stimulus) länger oder kürzer dargeboten wird, als ein Standardstimulus. Die Stimuli werden in Form von Gabor Patches dargeboten.
A systematic study of longitudinal and transverse helicity amplidutes in the hypercentral Constituent Quark Model
Creators: name: Santopinto, E.
name: Giannini, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report in a systematic way the predictions of the non-relativistic hypercentral Constituent Quark model for the electromagnetic excitations of baryon resonances. The longitudinal and transverse helicity amplitudes are calculated with no free parameters for fourteen resonances, both for proton and neutron. The calculations lead to an overall fair description of data, specially in the medium $Q^2$ range, where quark degrees of freedom are expected to dominate.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1501.03722
Explaining Math Word Problem Solvers
Creators: name: Newcomb, Abby
name: Kalita, Jugal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated math word problem solvers based on neural networks have successfully managed to obtain 70-80\% accuracy in solving arithmetic word problems. However, it has been shown that these solvers may rely on superficial patterns to obtain their equations. In order to determine what information math word problem solvers use to generate solutions, we remove parts of the input and measure the model's performance on the perturbed dataset. Our results show that the model is not sensitive to the removal of many words from the input and can still manage to find a correct answer when given a nonsense question. This indicates that automatic solvers do not follow the semantic logic of math word problems, and may be overfitting to the presence of specific words.
Table_S2.xlsx
Creators: name: Grünberger, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Table S2 of the manuscript titled Uncovering the temporal dynamics and regulatory networks of thermal stress response in a hyperthermophile using transcriptomics and proteomics.Summary of key findings for all experimental conditions, including fold changes, p-values, gene and protein annotations, mean protein and transcript per million (TPM), sequence features, and clusters.
Sulla qualità (alimentare) come regola conformativa della destinazione d’uso del suolo
Creators: name: Masini, Stefano
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2011

description: A plan of sustainable development of territory needs that it has overcome the town planning marginalization and assured the quality of life in towns too, as depending on the services which country can offer. The reappraisal of productive power of the soil have to take the law analysis into account, coming back to consider the importance of linking production with territory to have a different treatment that is justified by the adjustment to the primary needs of society about health and environmental protection. The modern relation between geographical areas and economic flows brings, in fact, a full valorisation of multifunctional role of farm and propose new ways to set products on the market, especially in big towns, towards short chains of supply and direct sale to consumers. Realizing quality actions within planning, it must not undervalue the need of a correct regulation of rural areas considering the impact of renewable energies too.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 59 (2011)
Stability and phase transition of localized modes in Bose-Einstein condensates with both two- and three-body interactions
Creators: name: Bai, Xiao-Dong
name: Ai, Qing
name: Zhang, Mei
name: Xiong, Jun
name: Yang, Guo-Jian
name: Deng, Fu-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability and phase transition of localized modes in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) in an optical lattice with the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger model by considering both two- and three-body interactions. We find that there are three types of localized modes, bright discrete breather (DB), discrete kink (DK), and multi-breather (MUB). Moreover, both two- and three-body on-site repulsive interactions can stabilize DB, while on-site attractive three-body interactions destabilize it. There is a critical value for the three-body interaction with which both DK and MUB become the most stable ones. We give analytically the energy thresholds for the destabilization of localized states and find that they are unstable (stable) when the total energy of the system is higher (lower) than the thresholds. The stability and dynamics characters of DB and MUB are general for extended lattice systems. Our result is useful for the blocking, filtering, and transfer of the norm in nonlinear lattices for BECs with both two- and three-body interactions.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Estimo e Project Management: l’orientamento disciplinare italiano
Creators: name: Fregonara, Elena
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2011

description: Project Management is a transverse subject that embraces several disciplinary approaches. The methodological basis in Italy is somewhat out of line with other contexts, especially of English-speaking nations. But there is still room for its further potentialisation in professional and academic environment. Through the recent literature we seek the reasons for the current resistance to change. An account will given of the ways to strengthen the position of Project Management in Faculty of Architecture curricula, especially in courses of Appraisal and Economic Evaluation of Projects. A step is the construction of a cohesive reference pattern representative of the actual situation starting from project’s life cycle, and its comparison with the “managerial” interpretation.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 59 (2011)
Size scaling of failure strength at high disorder
Creators: name: Danku, Zsuzsa
name: Pál, Gergő
name: Kun, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how the macroscopic response and the size scaling of the ultimate strength of materials change when their local strength is sampled from a fat-tailed distribution and the degree of disorder is varied in a broad range. Using equal and localized load sharing in a fiber bundle model, we demonstrate that a transition occurs from a perfectly brittle to a quasi-brittle behaviour as the amount of disorder is gradually increased. When the load sharing is localized the high load concentration around failed regions make the system more prone to failure so that a higher degree of disorder is required for stabilization. Increasing the system size at a fixed degree of disorder an astonishing size effect is obtained: at small sizes the ultimate strength of the system increases with its size, the usual decreasing behaviour sets on only beyond a characteristic system size. The increasing regime of the size effect prevails even for localized load sharing, however, above the characteristic system size the load concentration results in a substantial strength reduction compared to equal load sharing. We show that an adequate explanation of the results can be obtained based on the extreme order statistics of fibers' strength.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
ACC/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Angiography. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Coronary Angiography)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: "The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines herein revises and updates the original “Guidelines for Coronary Angiography,” published in 1987 (1). The frequent and still-growing use of coronary angiography, its relatively high costs, its inherent risks and the ongoing evolution of its indications have given this revision urgency and priority. The expert committee appointed included private practitioners and academicians. Committee members were selected to represent both experts in coronary angiography and senior clinician consultants. Representatives from the family practice and internal medicine professions were also included on the committee. The English-language medical literature was searched for the 10 years preceding development of the guidelines. The searches yielded >1,600 references that the committee reviewed for relevance. Evidence relative to the use of coronary angiography was compiled and evaluated by the committee. Whereas randomized trials are often available for reference in the development of treatment guidelines, randomized trials regarding the use of diagnostic procedures such as coronary angiography are rarely available (2). For development of these guidelines, when coronary angiography was a necessary procedure in describing a clinical subset or in choosing a course of treatment and that therapy was shown to have an advantage for the patient, especially in the context of a randomized trial, then the indication for angiography was given greater consideration than indications cited in less-rigorous evaluations of data."
Quantized Fusion Rules for Energy-Based Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Nurellari, Edmond
name: Aldalahmeh, Sami
name: Ghogho, Mounir
name: McLernon, Des
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of soft decision fusion in a bandwidth-constrained wireless sensor network (WSN). The WSN is tasked with the detection of an intruder transmitting an unknown signal over a fading channel. A binary hypothesis testing is performed using the soft decision of the sensor nodes (SNs). Using the likelihood ratio test, the optimal soft fusion rule at the fusion center (FC) has been shown to be the weighted distance from the soft decision mean under the null hypothesis. But as the optimal rule requires a-priori knowledge that is difficult to attain in practice, suboptimal fusion rules are proposed that are realizable in practice. We show how the effect of quantizing the test statistic can be mitigated by increasing the number of SN samples, i.e., bandwidth can be traded off against increased latency. The optimal power and bit allocation for the WSN is also derived. Simulation results show that SNs with good channels are allocated more bits, while SNs with poor channels are censored.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Proceeding SSPD 2014, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Sensor Signal Processing for Defence, SSPD, 2014
Cosmic-ray positrons from millisecond pulsars
Creators: name: Venter, C.
name: Kopp, A.
name: Harding, A. K.
name: Gonthier, P. L.
name: Büsching, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations by the Fermi Large Area Telescope of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar light curves imply copious pair production in their magnetospheres, and not exclusively in those of younger pulsars. Such pair cascades may be a primary source of Galactic electrons and positrons, contributing to the observed enhancement in positron flux above ~10 GeV. Fermi has also uncovered many new millisecond pulsars, impacting Galactic stellar population models. We investigate the contribution of Galactic millisecond pulsars to the flux of terrestrial cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. Our population synthesis code predicts the source properties of present-day millisecond pulsars. We simulate their pair spectra invoking an offset-dipole magnetic field. We also consider positrons and electrons that have been further accelerated to energies of several TeV by strong intrabinary shocks in black widow and redback systems. Since millisecond pulsars are not surrounded by pulsar wind nebulae or supernova shells, we assume that the pairs freely escape and undergo losses only in the intergalactic medium. We compute the transported pair spectra at Earth, following their diffusion and energy loss through the Galaxy. The predicted particle flux increases for non-zero offsets of the magnetic polar caps. Pair cascades from the magnetospheres of millisecond pulsars are only modest contributors around a few tens of GeV to the lepton fluxes measured by AMS-02, PAMELA, and Fermi, after which this component cuts off. The contribution by black widows and redbacks may, however, reach levels of a few tens of percent at tens of TeV, depending on model parameters.
description: 71 pages, 22 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Eastern Poland: a belt of poor regions
Creators: name: Ratazjac, Waldemar
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2012

description: Eastern Poland is an area of five voivodeships that form a belt of the poorest regions in Poland and the European Union. There have been multi-directional steps, taken both before Poland's accession to the EU and after it, intended to boost the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the region. Poland's EU membership has opened up financial means and enabled operational programmes that offer grounds for optimism as to the levelling out of the existing disparities in the living conditions of the communities inhabiting this part of the country. This paper presents both the socio-economic situation of Eastern Poland and the strategic documents that stimulate growth processes.
description: Aestimum, Atti del XL incontro di studio (Napoli)
Experimental assessment of the speed of light perturbation in free-fall absolute gravimeters
Creators: name: Baumann, H.
name: Pythoud, F.
name: Blas, D.
name: Sibiryakov, S.
name: Eichenberger, A.
name: Klingele, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision absolute gravity measurements are growing in importance, especially in the context of the new definition of the kilogram. For the case of free-fall absolute gravimeters with a Michelson-type interferometer tracking the position of a free falling body, one of the effects that needs to be taken into account is the speed of light perturbation due to the finite speed of propagation of light. This effect has been extensively discussed in the past, and there is at present a disagreement between different studies. In this work, we present the analysis of new data and confirm the result expected from the theoretical analysis applied nowadays in free-fall gravimeters. We also review the standard derivations of this effect (by using phase shift or Doppler effect arguments) and show their equivalence.
Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement -- A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Gorschek, Tony
name: Islam, A. K. M. Moinul
name: Cheng, Chow Kian
name: Permadi, Rahadian Bayu
name: Feldt, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: BACKGROUND: Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a software development organization and to enhance software products. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to identify and characterize evaluation strategies and measurements used to assess the impact of different SPI initiatives. METHOD: The systematic literature review includes 148 papers published between 1991 and 2008. The selected papers were classified according to SPI initiative, applied evaluation strategies, and measurement perspectives. Potential confounding factors interfering with the evaluation of the improvement effort were assessed. RESULTS: Seven distinct evaluation strategies were identified, wherein the most common one, "Pre-Post Comparison" was applied in 49 percent of the inspected papers. Quality was the most measured attribute (62 percent), followed by Cost (41 percent), and Schedule (18 percent). Looking at measurement perspectives, "Project" represents the majority with 66 percent. CONCLUSION: The evaluation validity of SPI initiatives is challenged by the scarce consideration of potential confounding factors, particularly given that "Pre-Post Comparison" was identified as the most common evaluation strategy, and the inaccurate descriptions of the evaluation context. Measurements to assess the short and mid-term impact of SPI initiatives prevail, whereas long-term measurements in terms of customer satisfaction and return on investment tend to be less used.
Table_S3.xlsx
Creators: name: Grünberger, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Table S3 of the manuscript titled Uncovering the temporal dynamics and regulatory networks of thermal stress response in a hyperthermophile using transcriptomics and proteomics.Summary of key findings for all experimental conditions, including fold changes, p-values, gene and protein annotations, mean protein and transcript per million (TPM), sequence features, and clusters.
Assessment of cardiovascular risk by use of multiple-risk-factor assessment equations: A statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: The past decade has witnessed major strides in the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) through modification of its causes. The most dramatic advance has been the demonstration that aggressive medical therapy will substantially reduce the likelihood of recurrent major coronary syndromes in patients with established CHD (secondary prevention). The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) have published joint recommendations for medical intervention in patients with CHD and other forms of atherosclerotic disease 1. A similar potential exists for risk reduction in patients without established CHD (primary prevention). However, the risk status of persons without CHD varies greatly, and this variability mandates a range in the intensity of interventions. Effective primary prevention thus requires an assessment of risk to categorize patients for selection of appropriate interventions. The present statement is being published jointly by the AHA and ACC to outline current issues and approaches to global risk assessment for primary prevention. The approaches described in this statement can be used for guidance at several levels of primary prevention; however, the statement does not attempt to specifically link risk assessment to treatment guidelines for particular risk factors. Nonetheless, it provides critical background information that can be used in the development of new treatment guidelines.
A performance study of an electron-tracking Compton camera with a compact system for environmental gamma-ray observation
Creators: name: Mizumoto, Tetsuya
name: Tomono, Dai
name: Takada, Atsushi
name: Tanimori, Toru
name: Komura, Shotaro
name: Kubo, Hidetoshi
name: Matsuoka, Yoshihiro
name: Mizumura, Yoshitaka
name: Nakamura, Kiseki
name: Nakamura, Shogo
name: Oda, Makoto
name: Parker, Joseph D.
name: Sawano, Tatsuya
name: Bando, Naoto
name: Nabetani, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) is a detector that can determine the arrival direction and energy of incident sub-MeV/MeV gamma-ray events on an event-by-event basis. It is a hybrid detector consisting of a gaseous time projection chamber (TPC), that is the Compton-scattering target and the tracker of recoil electrons, and a position-sensitive scintillation camera that absorbs of the scattered gamma rays, to measure gamma rays in the environment from contaminated soil. To measure of environmental gamma rays from soil contaminated with radioactive cesium (Cs), we developed a portable battery-powered ETCC system with a compact readout circuit and data-acquisition system for the SMILE-II experiment. We checked the gamma-ray imaging ability and ETCC performance in the laboratory by using several gamma-ray point sources. The performance test indicates that the field of view (FoV) of the detector is about 1$\;$sr and that the detection efficiency and angular resolution for 662$\;$keV gamma rays from the center of the FoV is $(9.31 \pm 0.95) \times 10^{^-5}$ and $5.9^{\circ} \pm 0.6^{\circ}$, respectively. Furthermore, the ETCC can detect 0.15$\;μ\rm{Sv/h}$ from a $^{137}$Cs gamma-ray source with a significance of 5$σ$ in 13 min in the laboratory. In this paper, we report the specifications of the ETCC and the results of the performance tests. Furthermore, we discuss its potential use for environmental gamma-ray measurements.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD10)
Table_S4.xlsx
Creators: name: Grünberger, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Table S4 of the manuscript titled Uncovering the temporal dynamics and regulatory networks of thermal stress response in a hyperthermophile using transcriptomics and proteomics.Summary of key findings for all experimental conditions, including fold changes, p-values, gene and protein annotations, mean protein and transcript per million (TPM), sequence features, and clusters.
Consequences of Disorder on the Stability of Amorphous Solids
Creators: name: Dailidonis, Vladimir
name: Ilyin, Valery
name: Mishra, Pankaj
name: Procaccia, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly acurate numerical simulations are employed to highlight the subtle but important differences in the mechanical stability of perfect crystalline solids versus amorphous solids. We stress the difference between strain values at which the shear modulus vanishes and strain values at which a plastic instability insues. The temperature dependence of the yield strain is computed for the two types of solids, showing different scaling laws: $γ_{_{Y}}\simeq γ_{_{Y}}^{0}-C_1 T^{1/3}$ for crystals versus $γ_{_{Y}}\simeq γ_{_{Y}}^{0}- C_2 T^{2/3}$ for amorphous solids.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures, submitted to PRB
Applicazioni della Valutazione ambientale strategica ai piani/programmi regionali e locali. Note metodologiche sulla realtà pugliese
Creators: name: Torre, Carmelo M.
name: Di Bitonto, Stefano
name: Selicato, Marco
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2012

description: -
description: Aestimum, Atti del XL incontro di studio (Napoli)
HasTEE: Programming Trusted Execution Environments with Haskell
Creators: name: Sarkar, Abhiroop
name: Krook, Robert
name: Russo, Alejandro
name: Claessen, Koen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.4

description: Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are hardware-enforced memory isolation units, emerging as a pivotal security solution for security-critical applications. TEEs, like Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, allow the isolation of confidential code and data within an untrusted host environment, such as the cloud and IoT. Despite strong security guarantees, TEE adoption has been hindered by an awkward programming model. This model requires manual application partitioning and the use of error-prone, memory-unsafe, and potentially information-leaking low-level C/C++ libraries. We address the above with \textit{HasTEE}, a domain-specific language (DSL) embedded in Haskell for programming TEE applications. HasTEE includes a port of the GHC runtime for the Intel-SGX TEE. HasTEE uses Haskell's type system to automatically partition an application and to enforce \textit{Information Flow Control} on confidential data. The DSL, being embedded in Haskell, allows for the usage of higher-order functions, monads, and a restricted set of I/O operations to write any standard Haskell application. Contrary to previous work, HasTEE is lightweight, simple, and is provided as a \emph{simple security library}; thus avoiding any GHC modifications. We show the applicability of HasTEE by implementing case studies on federated learning, an encrypted password wallet, and a differentially-private data clean room.
description: To appear in Haskell Symposium 2023
Genetic variance in contrasting environments
Creators: name: So, Cameron
name: Sibolibane, Mia
name: Weis, Arthur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: heritability
evolvability
genetic variance
greenhouse experiment
field experiment
Brassica rapa

description: The evolutionary response of a trait to directional selection depends upon the level of additive genetic variance. It has been long argued that sustained selection will tend to deplete additive genetic variance as favoured alleles approach fixation. Non-additive genetic variance, due to interactions among alleles within and between loci, does not immediately contribute to an evolutionary response, although shifts in the allele frequencies within and between interacting loci may convert interaction variance into additive variance. Here we consider the possibility that an environmental shift may alter allelic interactions in ways that convert nonadditive into additive genetic variance. Specifically, we performed experiments that used a Bayesian implementation of the animal model to estimate the additive, dominance, and maternal components of variance for a pedigreed population of Brassica rapa. One experiment was performed in a field that mimicked agricultural conditions from which the base population was drawn, while the other was performed in the benign conditions of a greenhouse. Although the additive genetic variance was elevated in the greenhouse condition, no consistent pattens emerged that would indicate a conversion of dominance variance. The unusually low genetic variance and broad confidence intervals for the variance estimates obtained through this analysis preclude definitive interpretations. Thus, we promote further investigation to determine if between-environment changes in additive genetic variance can be traced to conversion of nonadditive variance.
description: Usage notes are detailed in the README files (separate files for data and R scripts). Funding provided by: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000038
Award Number: RGPIN-2016-06540
Data sheet
Creators: name: Jiang, Chenghui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300914
subject: Veterinary virology

description: Supplementary Material Rapid Molecular Detection of Senecavirus A Based on Reverse Transcription Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) and CRISPR/Cas12a
Characterization of a naturally occurring breast cancer subset enriched in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and stem cell characteristics
Creators: name: Agarwal, Roshan
name: Perou, Charles
name: Lluch, Ana
name: Fridlyand, Jane
name: Baggerly, Keith
name: Joy, Corwin
name: Liu, Wenbin
name: Valero, Vicente
name: Palazzo, Juan
name: Stemke-Hale, Katherine
name: Mills, Gordon B.
name: Fan, Cheng
name: Carey, Mark
name: Sahin, Aysegul
name: Gilcrease, Michael Z.
name: Nolden, Laura K.
name: Monteagudo, Carlos
name: Stivers, David
name: Hennessy, Brian T.
name: Gray, Joe W.
name: Weigman, Victor J
name: Wang, Nicholas J.
name: Lee, Ju-Seog
name: He, Xiaping
name: Gonzalez-Angulo, Ana-Maria
name: Krishnamurthy, Savitri
name: Hortobagyi, Gabriel N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Metaplastic breast cancers (MBC) are aggressive, chemoresistant tumors characterized by lineage plasticity. To advance understanding of their pathogenesis and relatedness to other breast cancer subtypes, 28 MBCs were compared with common breast cancers using comparative genomic hybridization, transcriptional profiling, and reverse-phase protein arrays and by sequencing for common breast cancer mutations. MBCs showed unique DNA copy number aberrations compared with common breast cancers. PIK3CA mutations were detected in 9 of 19 MBCs (47.4%) versus 80 of 232 hormone receptor–positive cancers (34.5%; P = 0.32), 17 of 75 HER-2–positive samples (22.7%; P = 0.04), 20 of 240 basal-like cancers (8.3%; P less than 0.0001), and 0 of 14 claudin-low tumors (P = 0.004). Of 7 phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/AKT pathway phosphorylation sites, 6 were more highly phosphorylated in MBCs than in other breast tumor subtypes. The majority of MBCs displayed mRNA profiles different from those of the most common, including basal-like cancers. By transcriptional profiling, MBCs and the recently identified claudin-low breast cancer subset constitute related receptor-negative subgroups characterized by low expression of GATA3-regulated genes and of genes responsible for cell-cell adhesion with enrichment for markers linked to stem cell function and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In contrast to other breast cancers, claudin-low tumors and most MBCs showed a significant similarity to a “tumorigenic” signature defined using CD44+/CD24− breast tumor–initiating stem cell–like cells. MBCs and claudin-low tumors are thus enriched in EMT and stem cell–like features, and may arise from an earlier, more chemoresistant breast epithelial precursor than basal-like or luminal cancers. PIK3CA mutations, EMT, and stem cell-like characteristics likely contribute to the poor outcomes of MBC and suggest novel therapeutic targets. [Cancer Res 2009;69(10):4116–24]
Valutazione a criteri multipli di alternative di trasporto per fronteggiare lo sprawl
Creators: name: Massimo, Domenico
name: Barbalace, Antonino
name: Massimo, Antonio
name: Cefalà, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2012

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description: Aestimum, Atti del XL incontro di studio (Napoli)
HSCS_Pfu_supplementary_figures.pdf
Creators: name: Grünberger, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Figures of the manuscript titled Uncovering the temporal dynamics and regulatory networks of thermal stress response in a hyperthermophile using transcriptomics and proteomics.
Isolated dSph galaxy KKs3 in the local Hubble flow
Creators: name: Karachentsev, I. D.
name: Kniazev, A. Yu.
name: Sharina, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the SALT spectroscopy of a globular cluster in the center of the nearby isolated dSph galaxy KKs3 situated at a distance of 2.12 Mpc. Its heliocentric radial velocity is 316+-7 km/s that corresponds to V_{LG} = 112 km/s in the Local Group (LG) reference frame. We use its distance and velocity along with the data on other 35 field galaxies in the proximity of the LG to trace the local Hubble flow. Some basic properties of the local field galaxies: their morphology, absolute magnitudes, average surface brightnesses, specific star formation rates, and hydrogen mass-to-stellar mass ratios are briefly discussed. Surprisingly, the sample of the neighboring isolated galaxies displays no signs of compression under the influence of the expanding Local Void.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted in the Astronomische Nachrichten
Evolution of Star-formation Properties of High-redshift Cluster Galaxies since $z = 2$
Creators: name: Lee, Seong-Kook
name: Im, Myungshin
name: Kim, Jae-Woo
name: Lotz, Jennifer
name: McPartland, Conor
name: Peth, Michael
name: Koekemoer, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a stellar mass limited sample of $\sim 46,600$ galaxies ($M_* > 10^{9.1}\,M_{\odot}$) at $0.5 < z < 2$, we show that the tellar mass, rather than the environment, is the main parameter controlling quenching of star formation in galaxies with $M_* > 10^{10}\,M_{\odot}$ out to $z=2$. On the other hand, the environmental quenching becomes efficient at $z < 1$ regardless of galaxy mass, and it serves as a main star formation quenching mechanism for lower mass galaxies. Our result is based on deep optical and near-infrared imaging data over 2800 arcmin$^2$, enabling us to negate cosmic variance and identify 46 galaxy cluster candidates with $M \sim 10^{14}\,M_{\odot}$. From $M_* \sim 10^{9.5}$ to $10^{10.5}\,M_{\odot}$, the fraction of quiescent galaxies increases by a factor of $\sim 10$ over the entire redshift range, but the difference between cluster and field environment is negligible. Rapid evolution in the quiescent fraction is seen from $z=2$ to $z=1.3$ for massive galaxies suggesting a build-up of massive quiescent galaxies at $z > 1.3$. For galaxies with $M_* < 10^{10}\,M_{\odot}$ at $z < 1.0$, the quiescent fraction is found to be as much as a factor of 2 larger in clusters than in field, showing the importance of environmental quenching in low mass galaxies at low redshift. Most high mass galaxies are already quenched at $z > 1$, therefore environmental quenching does not play a significant role for them, although the environmental quenching efficiency is nearly identical between high and low mass galaxies.
description: 18 pages, 22 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Sofia 2008: Globalization and the Management of Information Resources
Creators: name: Solis, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Sofia 2008: Globalization and the Management of Information Resources conference, held in Sofia, Bulgaria in November 2008.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper gives an outline of the issues, content, speakers, participants, social networking and location of this conference.
Findings – The Sofia 2008 conference offered an excellent balance of informative presentations and social opportunities to meet other attendees and to discuss current topics in libraries, information management, and LIS education.
Originality/value – The paper provides a report of the biennial international conference of value to international information and library professionals and LIS educators.