cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EvoAAA: An evolutionary methodology for automated \neural autoencoder architecture search
Creators: name: Charte, Francisco
name: Rivera, Antonio J.
name: Martínez, Francisco
name: del Jesus, María J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning models work better when curated features are provided to them. Feature engineering methods have been usually used as a preprocessing step to obtain or build a proper feature set. In late years, autoencoders (a specific type of symmetrical neural network) have been widely used to perform representation learning, proving their competitiveness against classical feature engineering algorithms. The main obstacle in the use of autoencoders is finding a good architecture, a process that most experts confront manually. An automated autoencoder architecture search procedure, based on evolutionary methods, is proposed in this paper. The methodology is tested against nine heterogeneous data sets. The obtained results show the ability of this approach to find better architectures, able to concentrate most of the useful information in a minimized coding, in a reduced time.
description: Paper submited to Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Additional file 2 of Signatures of local adaptation to current and future climate in phenology-related genes in natural populations of Quercus robur
Creators: name: Meger, Joanna
name: Ulaszewski, Bartosz
name: Chmura, Daniel J.
name: Burczyk, Jarosław
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Εκτίμηση κύκλου ζωής για ένα ολοκληρωμένο σύστημα αυτοματισμού αστικής κηπουρικής (CityVeg)
Creators: name: Ευαγγέλου, Φώτης
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Αστικοποίηση
subject: Γεωργία
subject: Σπατάλη τροφίμων
subject: Αστική γεωργία
subject: Γεωργία ακριβείας
subject: CityVeg
subject: Εκτίμηση κύκλου ζωής

description: Η αστικοποίηση, οι εφαρμοζόμενες πρακτικές στην γεωργία, η απώλεια και η σπατάλη τροφίμων επιδρούν αρνητικά στο περιβάλλον και υποβαθμίζουν την ποιότητα ζωής στις σύγχρονες πόλεις. Στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας ήταν η εκτίμηση των πιθανών περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων του CityVeg, ενός ολοκληρωμένου συστήματος αυτοματισμού αστικής κηπουρικής, το οποίο αξιοποιώντας σύγχρονες τεχνολογίες και υιοθετώντας τις αρχές της γεωργίας ακριβείας προωθεί την αστική γεωργία και φιλοδοξεί να συμβάλλει στην βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη. Για το σκοπό αυτό εφαρμόστηκε η μεθοδολογία της Εκτίμησης Κύκλου Ζωής για το CityVeg, την παροχή μαρουλιού καλλιεργούμενου με την χρήση του CityVeg και την σύγκρισή της με αυτές της παροχής μαρουλιού καλλιεργούμενου τόσο υπαίθρια όσο και σε θερμαινόμενο θερμοκήπιο. Τα αποτελέσματα των σχετικών μελετών ανέδειξαν ως κύρια αιτία των πιθανών περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων από τον κύκλο ζωής του CityVeg την παραγωγή του σφυρήλατου κράματος αλουμινίου, το οποίο χρησιμοποιείται για την κατασκευή βασικών εξαρτημάτων, ενώ η παροχή μαρουλιού καλλιεργούμενου με την χρήση του CityVeg εμφανίζει μικρότερες πιθανές περιβαλλοντικές επιπτώσεις έναντι τόσο της παροχής μαρουλιού καλλιεργούμενου υπαίθρια όσο και της παροχής καλλιεργούμενου σε θερμαινόμενο θερμοκήπιο. Ωστόσο κρίνεται σκόπιμο, καθώς η καλλιέργεια μαρουλιού με την χρήση CityVeg είναι σε πειραματικό στάδιο, να συλλεχθούν συστηματικά σχετικά δεδομένα σε μεταγενέστερο, πιο ώριμο στάδιο. Παράλληλα, η αξιοπιστία των αποτελεσμάτων της συγκριτικής μελέτης μπορεί να βελτιωθεί σε περίπτωση πρόσβασης σε δεδομένα υπαίθριας και θερμοκηπιακής καλλιέργειας από την Ελλάδα.
Immune Imprinting Drives Human Norovirus Potential for Global Spread
Creators: name: Boshier, Florencia A. T.
name: May, Samantha R.
name: Beard, Stuart
name: Allen, David J.
name: Brewer-Jensen, Paul D.
name: Williams, Rachel
name: Breuer, Judith
name: Costantini, Veronica
name: Conrad, Helen
name: Baric, Ralph S.
name: Becker Dreps, Sylvia
name: Tutill, Helena J.
name: Mallory, Michael L.
name: Roy, Sunando
name: Vinjé, Jan
name: Kelly, Daniel
name: Bucardo, Filemón
name: Lindesmith, Lisa C.
name: O'Reilly, Kathleen M.
name: Zweigart, Mark
name: Goldstein, Richard A.
name: Celma, Cristina C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Understanding the complex interactions between virus and host that drive new strain evolution is key to predicting the emergence potential of variants and informing vaccine development. Under our hypothesis, future dominant human norovirus GII.4 variants with critical antigenic properties that allow them to spread are currently circulating undetected, having diverged years earlier. Through large-scale sequencing of GII.4 surveillance samples, we identified two variants with extensive divergence within domains that mediate neutralizing antibody binding. Subsequent serological characterization of these strains using temporally resolved adult and child sera suggests that neither candidate could spread globally in adults with multiple GII.4 exposures, yet young children with minimal GII.4 exposure appear susceptible. Antigenic cartography of surveillance and outbreak sera indicates that continued population exposure to GII.4 Sydney 2012 and antigenically related variants over a 6-year period resulted in a broadening of immunity to heterogeneous GII.4 variants, including those identified here. We show that the strongest antibody responses in adults exposed to GII.4 Sydney 2012 are directed to previously circulating GII.4 viruses. Our data suggest that the broadening of antibody responses compromises establishment of strong GII.4 Sydney 2012 immunity, thereby allowing the continued persistence of GII.4 Sydney 2012 and modulating the cycle of norovirus GII.4 variant replacement. Our results indicate a cycle of norovirus GII.4 variant replacement dependent upon population immunity. Young children are susceptible to divergent variants; therefore, emergence of these strains worldwide is driven proximally by changes in adult serological immunity and distally by viral evolution that confers fitness in the context of immunity.
CATEGORISING VIRTUAL REALITY CONTENT
Creators: name: Gras, Ricard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 190205 Interactive Media
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 200212 Screen and Media Culture
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 190203 Electronic Media Art
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 190299 Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified

description: Book chapter, first published in ‘Extended Reality - XR in Times of Crisis“ (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics) by Springer Nature”, 2022. Reproduced with permission from Springer Nature.
Muschalek, Georg, Libertad y certeza en la fe. Col. «Quaestiones disputatae», n. 9. Ed. Herder. Vol. de 110 ps. 140x217. Barcelona 1971
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 2 (1974)
Efficiency of the SQUID Ratchet Driven by External Current
Creators: name: Spiechowicz, J.
name: Łuczka, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the efficiency of an asymmetric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) which is constructed as a loop with three capacitively and resistively shunted Josephson junctions. Two junctions are placed in series in one arm and the remaining one is located in the other arm. The SQUID is threaded by an external magnetic flux and driven by an external current of both constant (dc) and time periodic (ac) components. This system acts as a nonequilibrium ratchet for the dc voltage across the SQUID with the external current as a source of energy. We analyze the power delivered by the external current and find that it strongly depends on thermal noise and the external magnetic flux. We explore a space of the system parameters to reveal a set for which the SQUID efficiency is globally maximal. We detect the intriguing feature of the thermal noise enhanced efficiency and show how the efficiency of the device can be tuned by tailoring the external magnetic flux.
description: accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics
Bis(1-methyl-ortho-carboranyl)borane.
Creators: name: Akram, Manjur
name: Tidwell, John
name: Dutton, Jason
name: Martin, Caleb
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The Lewis superacid, bis(1-methyl-ortho-carboranyl)borane, is rapidly accessed in two steps. It is a very effective hydroboration reagent capable of B−H addition to alkenes, alkynes, and cyclopropanes. To date, this is the first identified Lewis superacidic secondary borane and most reactive neutral hydroboration reagent.
PHENIX Beam Use Proposal Run-11 and Run-12
Creators: name: Jacak, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: rhic
phenix
bup
daq
daq2010
fvtx
vtx
p+p
au+au
u+u
fcal
hbd
run11
run12

description: The PHENIX Collaboration proposes a scientific program of precision measurements to pursue key goals in the study of heavy ion collisions and the spin of the proton at RHIC in 2011-2012.
Latourelle, René, Cristo y la Iglesia signos de Salvación. Ed. Sígueme. Col. «Verdad e imagen», n. 14. Vol. de 374 ps. 120x190. Salamanca 1971
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 2 (1974)
Belief Hidden Markov Model for speech recognition
Creators: name: Jendoubi, Siwar
name: Yaghlane, Boutheina Ben
name: Martin, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech Recognition searches to predict the spoken words automatically. These systems are known to be very expensive because of using several pre-recorded hours of speech. Hence, building a model that minimizes the cost of the recognizer will be very interesting. In this paper, we present a new approach for recognizing speech based on belief HMMs instead of proba-bilistic HMMs. Experiments shows that our belief recognizer is insensitive to the lack of the data and it can be trained using only one exemplary of each acoustic unit and it gives a good recognition rates. Consequently, using the belief HMM recognizer can greatly minimize the cost of these systems.
Association between pregnancy and pregnancy loss with COPD in Chinese women: The China Kadoorie Biobank study
Creators: name: Hee, Jia Yi
name: Zou, Siyu
name: Gongye, Ruofan
name: Tang, Kun
name: Zhang, Yuxun Oswald
name: Huang, Sha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disease characterized by airflow blockage. Pregnancy and pregnancy loss may be related to an elevated risk of COPD, although studies have yet to report on this association. Hence, this study aims to investigate the association between pregnancy and pregnancy loss with the risk of COPD among Chinese women. Methods Data on 302,510 female participants from the China Kadoorie Biobank were utilized for this study. Multivariable logistic regression, stratified by sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, was employed to obtain the odds ratio (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between pregnancy and pregnancy loss with COPD. Results Pregnancy loss was significantly associated with increased risk of COPD (OR 1.19, 95% CI 1.13–1.25), specifically, spontaneous (OR 1.19, 95% CI 1.11–1.29) and induced abortion (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.12–1.25). Stillbirth, however, was not significantly associated with the risk of COPD (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.99–1.20). Increasing number of pregnancy losses was associated with increasing risk of COPD (one pregnancy loss: OR 1.14, 95% CI 1.07–1.21, two or more pregnancy loss: OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.17–1.32, and each additional pregnancy loss: OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.03–1.09). A single pregnancy was significantly associated with reduced risk of COPD (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.59–0.97), although each additional pregnancy was significantly associated with increased risk of COPD (OR 1.03, 95% CI 1.01–1.04). Conclusion Pregnancy loss, in particular, spontaneous and induced abortions are associated with increased risk of COPD among Chinese women. A single pregnancy, however, demonstrated protective effects.
Additional file 1 of Circulating mitochondria promoted endothelial cGAS-derived neuroinflammation in subfornical organ to aggravate sympathetic overdrive in heart failure mice
Creators: name: Zhang, Shutian
name: Zhao, Dajun
name: Yang, Zhaohua
name: Wang, Fanshun
name: Yang, Shouguo
name: Wang, Chunsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The expression of mitochondrial respiratory complexes (A), mitochondrial outer membrane protein TOM20, inner membrane protein TIM50, and matrix protein Hsp60 (B) were detected by immunoblotting in order to verify that the isolated microparticles were C-Mito. n = 8. Figure S2. Immunofluorescent staining was conducted to detect the co-localization of C-Mito and neurons (A, B), astroglia (C, D), and microglia (E, F). n = 8. ANOVA LSD test. Figure S3. Immunofluorescent staining was conducted to detect the co-localization of cGAS and neurons (A, B), astroglia (C, D), and microglia (E, F). n = 8. ANOVA LSD test. Figure S4. pre-treated with Terflunomide on C-MitoHF mitigated the cGAS-upregulating effect of C-MitoHF in ECs of the SFO in HF mice in vivo. n = 8, P < 0.05, t test. Figure S5. Verification of endothelial cGAS KD in the SFO of mice by AAV9-TIE-shRNA (cGAS) injection. A. The co-localization of AAV9 virus and ECs in the SFO of mice. Scale bar = 200 μm. B, C. Immunofluorescent staining showed successful endothelial cGAS KD in the SFO of mice. Scale bar = 100 μm. D. Neither the SFO-specific knockout of endothelial cGAS by injection of AAV9-TIE-shRNA (cGAS) into the SFO of mice nor the empty virus vector promoted neuroinflammation in the SFO. E. Neither the SFO-specific knockout of endothelial cGAS by injection of AAV9-TIE-shRNA (cGAS) into the SFO of mice nor the empty virus vector promoted sympathetic activation. n = 8, P < 0.05, ANOVA LSD test. Figure S6. Plasmic NE level was measured in mice. n = 8, P < 0.05, ANOVA LSD test. Figure S7. Heart rate and mean artery pressure were measured in mice. n = 8. ANOVA LSD test.
Deconstructing Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich - Gravitational Lensing Cross-Correlations: Implications for the Intracluster Medium
Creators: name: Battaglia, N.
name: Hill, J. C.
name: Murray, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent first detections of the cross-correlation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal in Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps with gravitational lensing maps inferred from the Planck CMB data and the CFHTLenS galaxy survey provide new probes of the relationship between baryons and dark matter. Using cosmological hydrodynamics simulations, we show that these cross-correlation signals are dominated by contributions from hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM), rather than diffuse, unbound gas located beyond the virial radius (the "missing baryons"). Thus, these cross-correlations offer a tool with which to study the ICM over a wide range of halo masses and redshifts. In particular, we show that the tSZ - CMB lensing cross-correlation is more sensitive to gas in lower-mass, higher-redshift halos and gas at larger cluster-centric radii than the tSZ - galaxy lensing cross-correlation. Combining these measurements with primary CMB data will constrain feedback models through their signatures in the ICM pressure profile. We forecast the ability of ongoing and future experiments to constrain such ICM parameters, including the mean amplitude of the pressure - mass relation, the redshift evolution of this amplitude, and the mean outer logarithmic slope of the pressure profile. The results are promising, with $\approx 5-20$% precision constraints achievable with upcoming experiments, even after marginalizing over cosmological parameters.
description: 16 pages, 8 Figures, submitted to ApJ, comments welcome
Did the sweetness of beverages change with the Chilean Food Labeling and Marketing Law? A before and after study
Creators: name: Rebolledo, Natalia
name: Bercholz, Maxime
name: Taillie, Lindsey Smith
name: Ng, Shu Wen
name: Corvalán, Camila
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: There has been a rapid proliferation of policies around the globe to reduce sugar consumption, yet there is little understanding as to whether these policies have led to changes in the overall sweetness of products, which is essential for understanding long-term effects on food preferences and intake. For example, the implementation of Chile’s Law on Food Labeling and Advertising led to decreases in the sugar content of non-alcoholic packaged beverages and increases in non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) use in these beverages. Given that NNS have greater sweetness intensity than sugars, it is unclear what was the net effect of these changes on the sweetness of purchased beverages. Using longitudinal household purchase data (n > 2,000 households), we measured the changes in the sweetness of beverage purchases after implementing the first phase of the Chilean law and examine if there were differences by key family sociodemographic variables. We developed three sweetness indices: (1) NNS sweetness, including the sweetness of the six NNS most consumed by Chileans; (2) total sugars sweetness, including the sweetness from total sugars; and (3) total sweetness, combining the sweetness from NNS and sugars. Using fixed-effects models, we compared the observed post-law purchases to a counterfactual based on pre-law trends. We found that NNS sweetness increased relative to the counterfactual, while total sugars sweetness decreased after the law. However, the absolute changes in NNS sweetness were almost entirely offset by the decreases in total sugar sweetness, leading to no change in the total sweetness of beverage purchases. Additionally, there were no differences in the sweetness changes by family sociodemographics. Our findings indicate that Chilean consumers are exposed to similar sweetness levels in their beverages after the law. Future research should explore whether sweetness also remained consistent in dietary intake.
Additional file 1 of Unraveling the complexity of STAT3 in cancer: molecular understanding and drug discovery
Creators: name: Hu, Yamei
name: Dong, Zigang
name: Liu, Kangdong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Virology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Larrabe, José Luís, EI matrimónio cristiano y la família. Col. BAC (ed. normal). La Editorial Católica, S.A. Vol. de XXV4-356 ps. 125x195. Madrid 1973
Creators: name: Gonçalves, J.
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 2 (1974)
Critical Properties of the Superfluid - Bose Glass Transition in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Zúñiga, Juan Pablo Álvarez
name: Luitz, David J.
name: Lemarié, Gabriel
name: Laflorencie, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the superfluid (SF) to Bose glass (BG) quantum phase transition using extensive quantum Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional hard-core bosons in a random box potential. $T=0$ critical properties are studied by thorough finite-size scaling of condensate and SF densities, both vanishing at the same critical disorder $W_c=4.80(5)$. Our results give the following estimates for the critical exponents: $z=1.85(15)$, $ν=1.20(12)$, $η=-0.40(15)$. Furthermore, the probability distribution of the SF response $P(\lnρ_{\rm sf})$ displays striking differences across the transition: while it narrows with increasing system sizes $L$ in the SF phase, it broadens in the BG regime, indicating an absence of self-averaging, and at the critical point $P(\lnρ_{\rm sf}+z \ln L)$ is scale invariant. Finally, high-precision measurements of the local density rule out a percolation picture for the SF-BG transition.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures + supplementary material
Fan Responses of Sponsored Environmental Sustainability Initiatives
Creators: name: Casper, Jonathan C.
name: McCullough, Brian P.
name: Kushner Smith, Danielle M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The sport sector is advancing its efforts to be environmentally friendly. These efforts now include corporate sponsored environmental initiatives, yet fans’ responsiveness to such efforts remains unexamined. Specifically, in this study, the corporate-sponsored environmental initiatives of a college athletic department with an established history of environmental commitments were examined to evaluate the influence of a point of attachment, sport brand-sustainability fit, and receptivity to messaging on the sport organization’s desired outcomes of the campaign (i.e., sustainability behavioral, support for environmental initiative corporate partner). Data were collected from college football fans of an institution in the United States Midwest region using an internet-based survey after the 2019 football season (N = 548). We found that most of our hypotheses were supported. Specifically, attachment to athletics, athletics/sustainability fit, and ascription of responsibility to athletics explained 52.7% of the variance of receptivity to messaging from athletics. In turn, receptivity to sustainable messaging and behaviors explained 45.0% of the support for corporate partners. Our results show that sport practitioners should evaluate the ascription of responsibility their fans place on the sport organization to be environmentally responsible, increasing the receptivity of environmental messages and desired outcomes from such efforts. In addition, this study shows the versatility and applicability of the model to actual sponsored environmental sustainability campaigns of a sport organization.
A constraint on a varying proton--electron mass ratio 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang
Creators: name: Bagdonaite, J.
name: Ubachs, W.
name: Murphy, M. T.
name: Whitmore, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A molecular hydrogen absorber at a lookback time of 12.4 billion years, corresponding to 10$\%$ of the age of the universe today, is analyzed to put a constraint on a varying proton--electron mass ratio, $μ$. A high resolution spectrum of the J1443$+$2724 quasar, which was observed with the Very Large Telescope, is used to create an accurate model of 89 Lyman and Werner band transitions whose relative frequencies are sensitive to $μ$, yielding a limit on the relative deviation from the current laboratory value of $Δμ/μ=(-9.5\pm5.4_{\textrm{stat}} \pm 5.3_{\textrm{sys}})\times 10^{-6}$.
description: Accepted for publication in PRL. Includes supplemental material
List of the retracted studies in nursing science journals.docx
Creators: name: Zuhair-Al-Ghareeb, Amal
name: Gray, Richard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This is a list of the retrcated studies in nursing scneince journlas. Total of 29 studies have beem removed from the scientific literature.
A Summary of One Research Team’s Contributions to Understanding Physical Activity Behavior in Children and Youth
Creators: name: Porter, Dwayne E.
name: Pfeiffer, Karin A.
name: McIver, Kerry L.
name: Dowda, Marsha
name: Saunders, Ruth P.
name: Dishman, Rod K.
name: Ward, Dianne S.
name: Pate, Russell R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Schools are well-positioned to provide physical activity opportunities to help youth achieve the recommended 60 or more daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. The Children’s Physical Activity Research Group (CPARG) at the University of South Carolina has focused on understanding physical activity in school-aged youth for 30+ years. The purpose of this article was to critically review (CPARG) contributions to the field in school settings and school-age youth. We reviewed 127 published CPARG articles from six research projects conducted between 1993–2019. The review was guided by questions in five categories: measurement of physical activity and its determinants, characteristics of physical activity behavior, correlates/determinants of physical activity, physical activity interventions, and race/ethnicity and physical activity. Results were summarized by question and synthesized across categories. CPARG contributions included assessing physical activity levels, patterns, forms, and contexts; identifying and measuring physical activity correlates/determinants; and conducting school-based physical activity interventions. Identifying multiple domains of physical activity determinants enables researchers and practitioners to select/design age-appropriate, valid, and reliable instruments to assess determinants. Focusing on determinants enables them to create effective physical activity interventions, environments, programs, and policies in schools. These efforts must address race/ethnicity differences, ensuring that measurement instruments and intervention strategies are culturally appropriate.
PIK3CA Mutations in Breast Cancer Subtypes Other Than HR-Positive/HER2-Negative
Creators: name: Zagami, Paola
name: Crimini, Edoardo
name: Curigliano, Giuseppe
name: Criscitiello, Carmen
name: Ascione, Liliana
name: Nicolò, Eleonora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway plays a key role in cancer, influencing growth, proliferation, and survival of tumor cells. PIK3CA mutations are generally oncogenic and responsible for uncontrolled cellular growth. PI3K inhibitors (PI3Ki) can inhibit the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, although burdened by not easily manageable toxicity. Among PI3Ki, alpelisib, a selective p110α inhibitor, is approved for the treatment of hormone receptor (HR)+/HER2- PIK3CA mutant metastatic breast cancer (BC) that has progressed to a first line endocrine therapy. PIK3CA mutations are also present in triple negative BC (TNBC) and HER2+ BC, although the role of PI3K inhibition is not well established in these subtypes. In this review, we go through the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, describing most common mutations found in PI3K genes and how they can be detected. We describe the available biological and clinical evidence of PIK3CA mutations in breast cancers other than HR+/HER2-, summarizing clinical trials investigating PI3Ki in these subtypes.
Six-month humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccine among people living with HIV
Creators: name: Wu, Mengmeng
name: Zou, Shi
name: Ming, Fangzhao
name: Liang, Ke
name: Tan, Yuting
name: Wu, Songjie
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Guo, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Longitudinal humoral immune response to inactivated COVID-19 vaccines among people living with HIV (PLWH) have not yet been systematically investigated. We conducted a 6-month longitudinal study among vaccinated PLWH and HIV-Negative Controls (HNC) to determine whether the humoral immune response effects of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine are different between the two groups of people. Totally, 46 PLWH and 38 HNC who received the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine on days 0 and 28 were enrolled. The SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and total specific IgM and IgG antibodies were examined on Day 0-Day190. The level and positive seroconversion rate of nAbs peaked on Day 42 in HNC while peaked on Day 70 in PLWH, then decreased gradually with the extension of the vaccination period after the peaks. The peak level of nAbs in PLWH on Day 70, (GMC 8.07 BAU/mL, 95% CI 5.67-11.48) was significantly lower than in HNC on Day 42 (GMC 18.28 BAU/mL, 95% CI 10.33-32.33, P =0.03). The decrease in the geometric mean concentrations (GMCs) of nAbs was observed as 42.9% in PLWH after peak level, which decreased from 8.07 BAU/mL [95% CI: 5.67-11.48] on Day 70 to 4.61 BAU/mL [95% CI: 3.35-6.34] on Day 190 (p = 0.02). On Day 190, only seven (18%, [95% CI: 6-40]) HNC and five (11%, [95% CI: 4-25]) PLWH maintained positive nAbs response respectively. The geometric mean ELISA units (GMEUs) and positive seroconversion rate of IgG in PLWH dropped significantly from Day 70 (GMEUs, 0.20 EU/mL, [95% CI: 0.13-0.34]; seroconversion, 52%, [95% CI: 34-69]) to Day 190 (GMEUs, 0.05 EU/mL, [95% CI: 0.03-0.08], P<0.001; seroconversion, 18%, [95% CI: 8-33], P<0.001). There was no significant difference in levels and seroconversion rates of nAbs and IgG between the two groups on Day 190. The peak immunogenicity of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine was delayed and inferior in PLWH compared to HNC, while no significant difference was found in six-month immunogenicity between the two groups.
Description and Optimization of Abstract Machines in a Dialect of Prolog
Creators: name: Morales, Jose F.
name: Carro, Manuel
name: Hermenegildo, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.6; D.3.3; D.3.4

description: In order to achieve competitive performance, abstract machines for Prolog and related languages end up being large and intricate, and incorporate sophisticated optimizations, both at the design and at the implementation levels. At the same time, efficiency considerations make it necessary to use low-level languages in their implementation. This makes them laborious to code, optimize, and, especially, maintain and extend. Writing the abstract machine (and ancillary code) in a higher-level language can help tame this inherent complexity. We show how the semantics of most basic components of an efficient virtual machine for Prolog can be described using (a variant of) Prolog. These descriptions are then compiled to C and assembled to build a complete bytecode emulator. Thanks to the high level of the language used and its closeness to Prolog, the abstract machine description can be manipulated using standard Prolog compilation and optimization techniques with relative ease. We also show how, by applying program transformations selectively, we obtain abstract machine implementations whose performance can match and even exceed that of state-of-the-art, highly-tuned, hand-crafted emulators.
description: 56 pages, 46 figures, 5 tables, To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)
Replicating the benefits of closed timelike curves without breaking causality
Creators: name: Yuan, Xiao
name: Assad, Syed M.
name: Thompson, Jayne
name: Haw, Jing Yan
name: Vedral, Vlatko
name: Ralph, Timothy C.
name: Lam, Ping Koy
name: Weedbrook, Christian
name: Gu, Mile
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In general relativity, closed timelike curves can break causality with remarkable and unsettling consequences. At the classical level, they induce causal paradoxes disturbing enough to motivate conjectures that explicitly prevent their existence. At the quantum level, resolving such paradoxes induce radical benefits - from cloning unknown quantum states to solving problems intractable to quantum computers. Instinctively, one expects these benefits to vanish if causality is respected. Here we show that in harnessing entanglement, we can efficiently solve NP-complete problems and clone arbitrary quantum states - even when all time-travelling systems are completely isolated from the past. Thus, the many defining benefits of closed timelike curves can still be harnessed, even when causality is preserved. Our results unveil the subtle interplay between entanglement and general relativity, and significantly improve the potential of probing the radical effects that may exist at the interface between relativity and quantum theory.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Comments most welcome
Cullmann, Oscar, Del evangelio a la formación de la teologia cristiana. Ed. Sígueme. Col. «Verdad e imagen», n. 31. Vol. de 288 ps. 120x190. Salamanca 1972
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 2 (1974)
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 19 (31)]
Creators: name: Cabrius
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1308
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Der 3. Juli 1308 war kein Dienstag, wie in der Datierung angegeben, sondern ein Mittwoch.
Quality improvement for bedrest practice following outpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterization using manual pressure sheath removal
Creators: name: Tuozzo, Kristin Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: The American College of Cardiology 2012 cardiac catheterization guidelines recommend bedrest for one to two hours for 4 to 5-French sheaths and two to four hours for 6 to 8-French sheaths. Research supports that raising the head of bed (HOB) to 60 degrees after one hour and ambulation after two hours of bedrest is safe for transfemoral diagnostic cardiac catheterizations with manual sheath removal. In winter 2018, an academic medical center piloted a quality improvement project to reflect this practice guideline. Methodology: A 2017 database was used to retrospectively obtain control findings on the prior bedrest practice involving four-hours bedrest and HOB no greater than 15 degrees. The intervention group was a convenience sample and collected information on groin complications, discharge times, and patient satisfaction for all patients who met the reduced bedrest protocol criteria. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, Kruskal-Wallis, and chi-square statistical tests were used to analyze the data. Results: The control group had 2 hematomas and intervention group had no groin complications, χ(1) = 2.53, p = .11. The length of stay in minutes was significantly different for the control group (M = 283, SD = 55.3) and intervention group (M = 184, SD = 57); t(285) = 15.3, p < .01. There were statistically significant increases in patient experience related to pain (t(27) = -2.45, p = 0.02) and procedural delay (t(27) = -2.73, p = .01). Implications for Practice: This cardiac catheterization department optimized its utilization of recovery space and procedural costs while improving patient satisfaction and maintaining safe outcomes. Future research will identify best practices for bedrest following closure devices and percutaneous coronary interventions.
Production of trilobite Rydberg molecule dimers with thousand-Debye permanent electric dipole moments
Creators: name: Booth, Donald
name: Rittenhouse, Seth
name: Yang, Jin
name: Sadeghpour, Hossein
name: Shaffer, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe that when an ultracold ground state cesium (Cs) atom becomes bound within the electronic cloud of an extended Cs electronic orbit, ultralong-range molecules with giant (kilo-Debye) permanent electric dipole moments form. Large molecular permanent electric dipole moments are challenging to experimentally realize. Meeting this challenge has garnered significant interest because permanent electric dipole moments are important for understanding symmetry breaking in molecular physics, control of chemical reactions and realization of strongly correlated many-body quantum systems. These new hybrid class of `trilobite' molecules are predominated with degenerate Rydberg manifolds, making them difficult to produce with conventional optical association. Their behavior is quantitatively reproduced with detailed coupled-channel calculations.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Science on 2014-09-03; v2: "One-sentence summary" removed from title
Congar, Y.-M. J., Situación y tareas de la teologia hoy. Ed. Sígueme. Col. «Verdad e imagen», n. 11. Vol. de 192 ps. 120x190. Salamanca 1970
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1974

description: Theologica, v. 9 n. 2 (1974)
Broad-line region in NGC 4151 monitored by two decades of reverberation mapping campaigns. I. Evolution of structure and kinematics
Creators: name: Chen, Yong-Jie
name: Bao, Dong-Wei
name: Zhai, Shuo
name: Fang, Feng-Na
name: Hu, Chen
name: Du, Pu
name: Yang, Sen
name: Yao, Zhu-Heng
name: Li, Yan-Rong
name: Brotherton, Michael S.
name: McLane, Jacob N.
name: Zastrocky, T. E.
name: Olson, Kianna A.
name: Bon, Edi
name: Bai, Hua-Rui
name: Fu, Yi-Xin
name: Liu, Jun-Rong
name: Wang, Yi-Lin
name: Maithil, Jaya
name: Kobulnicky, H. A.
name: Dale, D. A.
name: Adelman, C.
name: Caradonna, M. J.
name: Carter, Z.
name: Favro, J.
name: Ferguson, A. J.
name: Gonzalez, I. M.
name: Hadding, L. M.
name: Hagler, H. D.
name: Murphree, G.
name: Oeur, M.
name: Rogers, C. J.
name: Roth, T.
name: Schonsberg, S.
name: Stack, T. R.
name: Wang, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of long-term reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns of the nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) NGC 4151, spanning from 1994 to 2022, based on archived observations of the FAST Spectrograph Publicly Archived Programs and our new observations with the 2.3m telescope at the Wyoming Infrared Observatory. We reduce and calibrate all the spectra in a consistent way, and derive light curves of the broad H$β$ line and 5100\,Å continuum. Continuum light curves are also constructed using public archival photometric data to increase sampling cadences. We subtract the host galaxy contamination using {\it HST} imaging to correct fluxes of the calibrated light curves. Utilizing the long-term archival photometric data, we complete the absolute flux-calibration of the AGN continuum. We find that the H$β$ time delays are correlated with the 5100\,Å luminosities as $τ_{\rm Hβ}\propto L_{5100}^{0.46\pm0.16}$. This is remarkably consistent with Bentz et al. (2013)'s global size-luminosity relationship of AGNs. Moreover, the data sets for five of the seasons allow us to obtain the velocity-resolved delays of the H$β$ line, showing diverse structures (outflows, inflows and disks). Combining our results with previous independent measurements, we find the measured dynamics of the H$β$ broad-line region (BLR) are possibly related to the long-term trend of the luminosity. There is also a possible additional $\sim$1.86 years time lag between the variation in BLR radius and luminosity. These results suggest that dynamical changes in the BLR may be driven by the effects of radiation pressure.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; comments welcome!
Five steps in the evolution from protoplanetary to debris disk
Creators: name: Wyatt, Mark C.
name: Panic, Olja
name: Kennedy, Grant M.
name: Matra, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The protoplanetary disks of Herbig Ae stars eventually dissipate leaving a tenuous debris disk comprised of planetesimals and dust, as well as possibly gas and planets. This paper uses the properties of 10-20Myr A star debris disks to consider the protoplanetary to debris disk transition. The physical distinction between these two classes is argued to rest on the presence of primordial gas in sufficient quantities to dominate the motion of small dust grains (not the secondary nature of the dust or its level of stirring). This motivates an observational classification based on the dust spectrum, empirically defined so that A star debris disks require fractional excesses <3 at 12um and <2000 at 70um. We also propose a hypothesis to test, that the main sequence planet/planetesimal structures are already in place (but obscured) during the protoplanetary disk phase. This may be only weakly true if planetary architectures change until frozen during disk dispersal, or completely false if planets and planetesimals form during disk dispersal. Five steps in the transition are discussed: (i) carving an inner hole to form a transition disk; (ii) depletion of mm-sized dust in outer disk, noting the importance of determining whether this mass ends up in planetesimals or is collisionally depleted; (iii) final clearing of inner regions, noting that many mechanisms replenish moderate hot dust levels at later phases, and likely also operate in protoplanetary disks; (iv) disappearence of gas, noting recent discoveries of primordial and secondary gas in debris disks that highlight our ignorance and its impending enlightenment by ALMA; (v) formation of ring-like planetesimal structures, noting these are shaped by interactions with planets, and that the location of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks may be unrelated to the dust concentrations therein that are set by gas interactions.
description: 23 pages. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
Electron mean free path from angle-dependent photoelectron spectroscopy of aerosol particles
Creators: name: Goldmann, Maximilian
name: Miguel-Sánchez, Javier
name: West, Adam H. C.
name: Yoder, Bruce L.
name: Signorell, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of aerosol particles as an alternative way to determine the electron mean free path of low energy electrons in solid and liquid materials. The mean free path is obtained from fits of simulated photoemission images to experimental ones over a broad range of different aerosol particle sizes. The principal advantage of the aerosol approach is twofold. Firstly, aerosol photoemission studies can be performed for many different materials, including liquids. Secondly, the size-dependent anisotropy of the photoelectrons can be exploited in addition to size-dependent changes in their kinetic energy. These finite size effects depend in different ways on the mean free path and thus provide more information on the mean free path than corresponding liquid jet, thin film, or bulk data. The present contribution is a proof of principle employing a simple model for the photoemission of electrons and preliminary experimental data for potassium chloride aerosol particles.
Non-stationary quantum mechanics in hybrid non-Hermitian interaction representation
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A reformulation of quantum mechanics called ``hybrid interaction picture'' (HIP) is proposed. In contrast to its current non-Hermitian-interaction-picture (NIP) predecessor the new formalism combines a simplification of the NIP Hilbert-space metric with an innovative preconditioning of the observables of interest. Via an illustrative example it is shown that the idea might open new ways towards optimal model-building strategies in quantum theory of unitary systems.
description: 20 pp
Dynamical flavor origin of $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetries
Creators: name: Sierra, D. Aristizabal
name: Dhen, Mikael
name: Fong, Chee Sheng
name: Vicente, Avelino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrete Abelian symmetries ($\mathbb{Z}_N$) are a common "artifact" of beyond the standard model physics models. They provide different avenues for constructing consistent scenarios for lepton and quark mixing patterns, radiative neutrino mass generation as well as dark matter stabilization. We argue that these symmetries can arise from the spontaneous breaking of the Abelian $U(1)$ factors contained in the global flavor symmetry transformations of the gauge invariant kinetic Lagrangian. This will be the case provided the ultra-violet completion responsible for the Yukawa structure involves scalar fields carrying non-trivial $U(1)$ charges. Guided by minimality criteria, we demonstrate the viability of this approach with two examples: first, we derive the "scotogenic" model Lagrangian, and second, we construct a setup where the spontaneous symmetry breaking pattern leads to a $\mathbb{Z}_3$ symmetry which enables dark matter stability as well as neutrino mass generation at the 2-loop order. This generic approach can be used to derive many other models, with residual $\mathbb{Z}_N$ or $\mathbb{Z}_{N_1}\times \cdots \times \mathbb{Z}_{N_k}$ symmetries, establishing an intriguing link between flavor symmetries, neutrino masses and dark matter.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (40)]
Creators: name: , Ambrosius
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1218
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Ambrosius, praepositus und iconimus der Kirche St. Cataldi in Cremona, verkauft im Namen der genannten Kirche dem Albertonus Retenarius ein Stück Land in Starodhanum.
Additional file 1 of Determinants of employees’ creativity: modeling the mediating role of organizational motivation to innovate
Creators: name: Yesuf, Yohannes Mekonnen
name: Getahun, Demis Alamirew
name: Debas, Asemamaw Tilahun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Survey questions.