cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MOESM6 of Alterations of mental defeat and cognitive flexibility during cognitive behavioral therapy in patients with major depressive disorder: a single-arm pilot study
Creators: name: Murata, Tomokazu
name: Hiramatsu, Yoichi
name: Fuminori Yamada
name: Seki, Yoichi
name: Nagata, Shinobu
name: Shibuya, Takayuki
name: Yokoo, Mizue
name: Noguchi, Remi
name: Tanaka, Mari
name: Oshiro, Keiko
name: Matsuzawa, Daisuke
name: Hirano, Yoshiyuki
name: Shimizu, Eiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. CONSORT 2010 checklist.
Rice-prawn Farming System: Impacts on Soil Quality and Land Productivity of Modern Variety Paddy Production in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Kondo, Takumi
name: Osanami, Fumio
name: Barmon, Basanta Kumar
name: Yamaguchi, Junichi
name: Kondo, Takumi
name: Osanami, Fumio
name: Barmon, Basanta Kumar
name: Yamaguchi, Junichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Productivity Analysis

description: The rice-prawn gher (RPG) farming system, locally known as the White Revolution, is an advanced, indigenous agricultural technology solely developed by local farmers in southwestern Bangladesh in the mid-1980s. This paper examined the impact of RPG farming on soil quality and land productivity of paddy production of modern varieties (MV) in Bangladesh. Two contrasting farming systems — RPG and year-round modern varieties (YRMV) — were considered. A total of 40 farmers (20 farmers from RPG and 20 from YRMV paddy farming) were randomly selected. Each of the sampled 20 RPG and 20 YRMV paddy farmers owned 30 farm plots. Soil sample collection procedures were conducted in two phases — at the beginning of paddy transplanting and during harvesting — in both farming systems. RPG farming has significant impacts on soil quality and land productivity in Bangladesh. The findings indicate that the leftover feeds of prawn production provide a significant amount of soil nutrients, such as nitrogen, soil organic matter, phosphorus, potassium, to soils in fields for paddy production under the RPG farming system. As a result, RPG farmers use comparatively less chemical fertilizers per unit of MV paddy production compared to YRMV farmers. Moreover, per unit yield of MV paddy was higher in RPG farming than in YRMV paddy farming.
The role of transcription factors in somatic cell nuclear reprogramming by eggs and oocytes
Creators: name: Wen, Ming-Hsuan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Transcription factors
Oocyte factors
Somatic cell nuclear reprogramming
Cell types
Gene activation
Gene resistance

description: Somatic cell nuclear reprogramming (SCNR) by eggs is a way to forcibly transform the nuclei of terminally differentiated somatic cells to an embryonic state and gain totipotency (Gurdon et al., 1958). Additionally, induced pluripotency is applied to transform identities of somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells by overexpression of combinatorial Yamanaka factors (iPS, Takahashi et al., 2006). Although both approaches aim to derive cells with highest plasticity, the mechanisms and differences between these procedures are not yet clear. In my thesis, I used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) and RNAseq plus 5-bromouridine 5’-triphosphate (BrUTP) pulldown to evaluate the transcriptional reprogramming by maternal factors and overexpressed transcription factors during SCNR by Xenopus oocytes, which are inactive in DNA replication and cell division. QPCR measures changes in the steady-state levels of transcripts within 2 days of nuclear transfer to Xenopus oocytes (Oocyte-NT). Three pairs of Yamanaka factor homologs were tested by QPCR and Yamanaka factor homologues regulated similar sets of pluripotency genes in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs). Pioneer factor mFoxA1 could not up-regulate most pluripotency genes and their binding targets of neurogenic genes in MEFs while pioneer factors are proposed to bind to their targets even if they may reside in inaccessible chromatin. This shows that the existence of other factors is needed at specified developmental stages. Hence, gene activation by transcription factors in the Oocyte-NT system requires not only corresponding binding on regulatory elements of linked genes but transcription cooperators to exert effective gene activation. Additionally, RNA-seq plus BrUTP pulldown measures the extent to which oocytes change the transcriptional activity of nuclei transplanted to oocytes. Through RNA-seq plus BrUTP pulldown, I compared the reprogrammed transcriptomes of embryonic and somatic cells, including mouse embryonic stem cells, mouse embryonic fibroblasts and mouse myoblasts, to demonstrate the effects of maternal factors and overexpression of transcription factors on gene activities during SCNR by oocytes. Importantly, I find that maternal factors of oocytes and the overexpression of transcription factors exert different strategies to reprogram somatic cells. Oocyte factors reprogram the donor cell nuclei to an oocyte-steady state except for the SCNR resistance genes and xklf2-HA overexpression enhances expression of reprogrammable genes and activates SCNR resistance genes.
description: Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
MILLIY XUSUSIYATLARNI TARJIMA QILISHNING LINGVISTIK MUAMMOLARI
Creators: name: Karimova, Mahliyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada milliy xususiyatlarni tarjima qilishdagi lingvistik va madaniy muammolar tahlil qilinadi. Muallif badiiy tarjimada realia, frazeologizmlar, stilistik va pragmatik tafovutlar, shuningdek lakunar birliklar orqali yuzaga keladigan tarjima muammolarini ko‘rsatadi. Tarjima strategiyalari sifatida izohli tarjima, ekvivalent almashtirish, moslashtirish va dinamik ekvivalentlik kabi yondashuvlar taklif qilinadi. Misollar sifatida “Pride and Prejudice”, “Dunyoning Ishlari” kabi asarlar tahlil qilinadi. Maqola madaniyatlararo kompetensiyaning tarjimadagi ahamiyatini yoritadi.
Harmonic Centricity and Paths Towards Integrating Different Soundworlds
Creators: name: Roche, David John
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: contemporary
classical
composition

description: Many current schools of compositional thought evidence an interest in the integration and collision of different methods of harmonic organisation. Creating strategies that aid composers in incorporating many dramatically different methods of harmonic organisation in individual compositions will help lead to new, exciting music and ideas – the methods leading to the generation of such strategies are a central concern of this thesis. Composers can create pieces of music that engender dramatically different states of being and relate seemingly unrelated musical ideas – the manipulation of many methods of technical organisation will lead to the successful implementation of such shifts, the thesis also addresses this. A major difficulty in the furtherance of new music relates to how composers can make use of more unusual compositional techniques in contexts where performance practicalities could inhibit the realisation of a piece – working closely with soloists and ensembles lends a crucial insight into appropriate instrumental and vocal writing, a third important aspect of this thesis. In conclusion, this thesis evidences that it is absolutely possible to relate seemingly distant musical ideas in individual compositions in service of an effective, practical composition. There is a tremendous, exciting wealth of powerful musical ideas to draw upon; such ideas can be found in the collision and integration of dramatically different musics.
Global Sustainability Regulation and Coffee Supply Chains in Lampung Province, Indonesia
Creators: name: Arifin, Bustanul
name: Arifin, Bustanul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the global sustainability regulation in agricultural trade by conducting an in-depth assessment of the economics of coffee-producing regions in Lampung Province, Indonesia. A negative campaign blaming illegal coffee producers for the loss of tigers in the Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBS) National Park in the province further complicates the issue, as the current coffee supply chain could not guarantee the workability of price transparency and asymmetric structures of coffee markets, to name a few. In this region, community initiatives have been developed to foster forest conservation by adopting coffee multi-strata practices under the agroforestry system and community-based forestry management in the buffer zone outside the BBS National Park. Based on research findings, buyer-driven regulation of environmental practices in the coffee industry, which characterize most global initiatives, have somehow restructured the supply chain in producing regions. Recent global sustainability standards require adequate organizational capacity of coffee-farmer groups and rural cooperatives involved in the supply chain. The paper recommends policy integration between bottom-up initiatives at farm level or institutional changes at supply-chain organizations, and top-down sustainability standards set by the private sector and non-government organizations.
St Albans Abbey and the Law, c. 1327–1396
Creators: name: Currie, Jacob Maren Rutledge
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: medieval history
legal history
English history
monastic orders

description: To see law’s social effects, one needs to understand both the operation of law and the relationships in which law was invoked. Few actors from fourteenth-century England are sufficiently well documented for this to be possible: the Benedictine monastery of St Albans is a major exception. This dissertation therefore looks at the legal relationships of St Albans in four spheres: church, realm, town and manor. In each of these spheres, it investigates in detail the role played by legal concepts and remedies in a series of well-evidenced interactions. This approach is novel in several ways. This is the first work to study the legal interactions of an actor in every legal system. This is possible only for an ecclesiastical institution and is not how such institutions have hitherto been studied. It is the first to study these several legal systems together in search not of comparison, evidence for borrowing, or the like, but of their combined contribution to social structure. And it is the first attempt at a complete legal biography of a medieval (corporate and fictive) person. The chapter on the church studies the abbey’s legal interactions within the Benedictine order, within its archdeaconry, with its diocesan, and with the pope. That on the realm discusses the protection, acquisition and exploitation of the monks’ estates. That on the town studies the revolts of 1327 and 1381 and the abbey’s relationship with the townsmen. That on the manor offers a new assessment of the St Albans court books and discusses the manor courts’ function as a land registry, the management of the manor, and the settlement of disputes. This dissertation concludes that previous descriptions of the social function of law in fourteenth-century England do not accurately reflect the evidence for legal interactions that survives. It argues that in the world of the monks of St Albans, law was more than a matter of governance, power and rights. It was more importantly a manner of thinking, of rationalising their place in society and of making sense of a complex social world.
Indirect exchange in GaMnAs bilayers via spin-polarized inhomogeneous hole gas: Monte Carlo simulation
Creators: name: Boselli, M. A.
name: Lima, I. C. da Cunha
name: Ghazali, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic order resulting from an indirect exchange between magnetic moments provided by spin-polarized hole gas in the metallic phase of a GaMnAs double layer structure is studied via Monte Carlo simulation. The coupling mechanism involves a perturbative calculation in second order of the interaction between the magnetic moments and carriers (holes). We take into account a possible polarization of the hole gas due to the existence of an average magnetization in the magnetic layers, establishing, in this way, a self-consistency between the magnetic order and the electronic structure. That interaction leads to an internal ferromagnetic order inside each layer, and a parallel arrangement between their magnetizations, even in the case of thin layers. This fact is analyzed in terms of the inter- and intra-layer interactions.
description: 17 pages and 14 figures
Remarks on the large-$N$ ${\mathbb C}P^{N-1}$ model
Creators: name: Flachi, Antonino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the ${\mathbb C}P^{N-1}$ model confined to an interval of finite size at finite temperature and chemical potential. We obtain, in the large-N approximation, a mixed-gradient expansion of the one-loop effective action of the order parameter associated with the effective mass of the quantum fluctuations. This expansion gives an expression for the thermodynamic potential density as a functional of the order parameter, generalizing previous calculations to arbitrarily large order and to the case of finite chemical potential and allows one to discuss some generic features of the ground state of the model. The technique used here relies on analytic regularization and provides an efficient scheme to extract the coefficients of the expansion. Once a solution for the ground state is known, these coefficients can be used to deduce some generic properties of the ground state as a function of external conditions. We also show that there can be no transition to a massless phase for any value of the external conditions considered and clarify a seemingly important point regarding the regularization of the effective action connected to the appearance of logarithmic divergences and the Mermin-Wagner-Hoenberg-Coleman (MWHC) theorem.
description: 16 pages; 1 figure. Version to appear in PRD, conclusions partially revised
The first detection of weak gravitational shear in infrared observations: Abell 1689
Creators: name: King, L. J.
name: Clowe, D. I.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Schneider, P.
name: Erben, T.
name: Kneib, J. -P.
name: Meylan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first detection of weak gravitational shear at infrared wavelengths, using observations of the lensing cluster Abell 1689, taken with the SofI camera on the ESO-NTT telescope. The imprint of cluster lenses on the shapes of the background galaxy population has previously been harnessed at optical wavelengths, and this gravitational shear signal enables cluster mass distributions to be probed, independent of whether the matter is luminous or dark. At near-infrared wavelengths, the spectrophotometric properties of galaxies facilitate a clean selection of background objects for use in the lensing analysis. A finite-field mass reconstruction and application of the aperture mass (Map) statistic are presented. The probability that the peak of the Map detection S/N~5, arises from a chance alignment of background sources is only ~4.5*10^-7. The velocity dispersion of the best-fit singular isothermal sphere model for the cluster is sigma_1D=1030^{+70}_{-80} km/s, and we find a K-band mass-to-light ratio of ~40 M_solar/L_solar inside a 0.44 Mpc radius.
description: Submitted to A&A letters. 5 pages, 3 figures
Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life with Non-Equilibrium Respiration
Creators: name: Tirandaz, Arash
name: Naeij, Hamid Reza
name: Shafiee, Afshin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we have proposed a method based on non-equilibrium effects to generate the superposition of macroscopically distinguishable quantum states, known as Schrodinger cat states, by using a Mach-Zehnder interferometry type experiment. Interaction of the input number state with a Kerr medium in the presence of a couple of heat baths in different temperatures in interaction picture and without imposing Markov assumption is considered. We have shown that the study of dynamics of the cat states under non-equilibrium condition open a way for the robustness of quantum features against the destructive role of the environment even at high temperature limit. It is verified that mutual influence of the environments, far from equilibrium, on the open system, makes it possible to revive quantum beats for longer time intervals. Moreover, we have probed how the traits of the environment, like its temperature and the Ohmic, super-Ohmic or sub-Ohmic functionality of the spectral density, may affect the pattern of the oscillation between alive or dead states of the cat.
Market Integration and Price Causality in the Myanmar Rice Market
Creators: name: Myint, Theingi
name: Bauer, Siegfried
name: Myint, Theingi
name: Bauer, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
International Relations/Trade

description: In Myanmar, rice is an invaluable commodity both as a staple food and a source of high foreign exchange earnings through export. The country’s agricultural economy has been transitioning from a planned economy to a market system since the late 1980s; however, the government has yet to engage in full-scale rice export deregulation. Therefore, Myanmar’s rice marketing system works within the boundaries and limitations of a halfway-liberalized economy, inevitably eliciting questions about its performance. Using the Engle and Granger two-step co-integration method and the restructured Ravallion model of unrestricted vector auto-regression (VAR) error correction form, three surplus markets, three deficit markets, and Thai rice price series were tested to determine market integration and price causality. All price series were monthly data in both nominal and real values from 2001 to 2004. Results revealed that in the domestic market, integration was weak in real value of rice price, and the supply side eventually depended on the demand side. Price co-integration did not exist between Myanmar and Thai rice prices in real value, reflecting market segmentation. Consequently, accurate price information from international rice market price over time was unavailable for Myanmar rice price movement. Looking at the direction of rice price causality, deficit market prices were driving the consumer price index (CPI), and the CPI was forcing the surplus rice market price. Hence, deficit markets are the prime movers in rice price changes in Myanmar. Market integration suggests that the government should focus on managing inflationary pressure instead of being directly involved in the rice marketing sector in order to control the domestic rice price stability in the long run. Government monopoly in rice export has caused segmentation between domestic and international markets. If private rice export was permitted via trade policies, the marketing system would be able to transfer correct price signals from the world market to the producers, consumers, market participants, and finally, the government. Only then will Myanmar’s rice market not be isolated from the international market and get the right price co-integration that may push the efficient market-oriented economy to move faster.
Genetic dissection of circuits underlying the modular structure of the Superior Colliculus
Creators: name: Masullo, Laura
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: superior colliculus
Pitx2
motor control
head movement
orienting behaviour
neurogenetics
RNAseq
viral tracing
optogenetics

description: In order to successfully interact with the environment, animals need to produce accurate movements towards specific positions in space. A crucial region of the brain that guides such goal-oriented movements is the superior colliculus (SC), an evolutionary conserved structure of the midbrain. While several lines of research in different model organisms have confirmed that the SC contributes to the initiation of orienting movements, how functionally distinct neuronal groups within the SC are organized to support the production of such motor outputs is poorly understood. One of the reasons why the intrinsic circuit organization of the SC remains elusive is the lack of genetic characterization of the neuronal populations of the motor SC. Here, we performed RNAseq to screen for genetic markers for neuronal subpopulations in the motor SC. We identified a transcription factor, Pitx2, which is exclusively expressed in a subpopulation of glutamatergic neurons in the motor domain of the SC. Strikingly, this population of neurons displays a non-homogenous distribution within the motor layer of the SC, being organised in clusters along the mediolateral and anteroposterior axis. We mapped the pre-synaptic network and the post-synaptic targets of Pitx2ON neurons, unveiling that this modular population receives direct inputs from motor and sensory cortical regions, as well as several midbrain nuclei involved in movement control, and sends projection along the cephalomotor pathway. We then asked whether these modules may act as functional units, each integrating multimodal sensory information and encoding a specific feature of head movement, the main ethologically relevant orienting behaviour in rodents. Optogenetic activation of this modular population in freely moving animals produced a stereotyped, robust head motion characterised by a pronounced quantal nature; furthermore, the amplitude of the elicited head movement varied based on the modular unit activated. Our results suggest that distinct clusters of genetically defined neurons produce head displacement along a characteristic vector. In conclusion, we found that a population of premotor neurons in the SC is organised in a modular conformation and we suggest that such modularity may represent a physical implementation of a discontinuous motor map for orienting movements encoded in the mouse SC. Our work complements previous observations of periodicity in SC circuitry, as well as its afferent and efferent systems. Exploiting the genetic toolkit available in the mouse, our work begins to address the functional relevance of this modularity and paves the way for future experiments to investigate principles of sensorimotor integration in SC circuits.
description: MRC
Estimation of Technical Efficiency for Rice Farms in Central Thailand Using Stochastic Frontier Approach
Creators: name: Taraka, Kallika
name: Latif, Ismail Abd.
name: Shamsudin, Mad Nasir
name: Sidique, Shaufique Bin Ahmad
name: Taraka, Kallika
name: Latif, Ismail Abd.
name: Shamsudin, Mad Nasir
name: Sidique, Shaufique Bin Ahmad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: technical efficiency
subject: stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
subject: rice farms
subject: Thailand

description: As one of Thailand’s economic crops, rice plays an important role in generating national income and creating domestic employment for the country. Its production has been increasing because of the expansion of areas planted to rice and not due to increases in productivity. The national average yield is considerably low compared with that of other rice-producing countries. This study measured the technical efficiency of rice farmers in the central region of Thailand and identified the factors causing technical inefficiency using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach specified as a translog production function. Cross-sectional data were randomly collected from 384 sampled farmers from nine provinces of central Thailand who generally operated their farms using pre-germinated broadcasting method in the major rice crop year 2009/2010. Results reveal that technical efficiency ranged from 49.69 to 97.17 percent, with a mean of 85.35 percent. Gender, farming experience, good agricultural practices (GAP), and cropping intensity were found to contribute positively toward farm technical efficiency. Farmers should be provided knowledge of GAP and should adopt GAP in their farms’ activities. Agricultural extension officers should organize knowledge and experience exchange between successful farmers and other farmers, and promote the use of certified seeds to improve farm efficiency and farmers’ income.
On the resolved radio emission from AG Draconis: evidence for jet ejection?
Creators: name: Mikolajewska, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent detection of resolved radio emission from AG Dra by MERLIN reported by Ogley et al. is discussed in the context of the wind environment and the physical parameters and geometry of this symbiotic binary system. In particular, it is shown that the two radio components are closely aligned with the binary axis, and their separation suggests their origin in jets ejected from AG Dra during the recent 1995--98 series of oubtbursts.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, to appear in MNRAS
MOESM5 of Heritabilities for the puppy weight at birth in Labrador retrievers
Creators: name: Schelling, Claude
name: Gaillard, Claude
name: Russenberger, Jane
name: Moseley, Lou
name: Dolf, Gaudenz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 5. Descriptive statistics of variables.
INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY IN LANDHOLDING DISTRIBUTION OF RURAL BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Huq, Molla Md. Rashidul
name: Rahman, Pk. Md. Motiur
name: Huq, Molla Md. Rashidul
name: Rahman, Pk. Md. Motiur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The main concern of this paper was to examine the changes in the distributional pattern of landholding over the last three generations. The Markov chain model of order one has been used for our study and then test of hypothesis was performed to examine whether the observed process is a realization of Markov chain of order one along with the test for stationarity of the landholding distribution. In order to predict the landownership sizes after one, two, or more generations, transition probability matrix was estimated. From the estimated limiting behavior of the transition probabilities of landownership size classes between the generations the stationarity condition was examined and at what generation there will be no changes in landholding distribution was determined.
Tenagomysis chiltoni Tattersall 1923
Creators: name: Jocque, M.
name: Blom, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Mysida
Mysidae
Tenagomysis
Tenagomysis chiltoni

description: 8. Tenagomysis chiltoni Tattersall, 1923
 Tenagomysis chiltoni Tattersall W.M. 1923, 92–93, pl. II, figs 2–8; Hodge 1964, 387–395, figs. 2 a–h, 3 a–h; Fukuoka & Bruce 2005, 15.
 Type material: NHML, reference 1925.7.9.782–784, from “Terra Nova” expedition.
 Distribution: New Zealand
 Distribution in New Zealand: Tidal inlet Parakai (Tattersall W.M. 1923); Lake Oturi, Waverley (Hodge 1964); Avon-Heathcote estuary, Christchurch (Jones et al. 1989), Lake Waihola (Wilhelm et al. 2002).
 Remarks: Type material was not collected on the Terra Nova expedition, the species was described from New Zealand material sent to Tattersall W.M.
 Ecology: Freshwater, estuarine (Hodge 1964).
description: Published as part of Jocque, M. & Blom, W., 2009, Mysidae (Mysida) of New Zealand; a checklist, identification key to species and an overview of material in New Zealand collections, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2304 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2304.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304897
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF THE HATCHERY OPERATORS IN FISH SEED PRODUCTION FARMS IN TWO SELECTED AREAS OF BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Khan, Md. Akhtaruzzaman
name: Alam, Md. Ferdous
name: Khan, Md. Akhtaruzzaman
name: Alam, Md. Ferdous
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Production Economics

description: This study is concerned with the estimation of technical efficiency of the hatchery operators producing fish seeds. Using 50 samples comprising 25 each from Jessore and Mymensingh districts, the study has used the Frontier 4.1 package to estimate the technical efficiency of the hatchery operators. A Cobb-Douglas production function with six quantitative variables namely, water area, human labour, feed, fertilizer, number of brood fish and proportion of hormone dose given to female brood and a regional dummy for the stochastic frontier and a linear technical inefficiency function with 4 variables: education, experience, number of training received and salary of the operators were jointly estimated. Several hypotheses tests were performed using Log-Likelihood Ratio Test. Some policy suggestions were also provided. The mean technical efficiency of the hatchery operators was 61 percent. Technical efficiencies were not found to be skewed towards higher or lower scores, rather concentrated on the 20'h, 30`h, 80`h , and 90`h percentiles. Hypothesis of no existence of inefficiency effect was rejected establishing that significant inefficiency exists. More than one-third of the seed production potential remains unutilized. Utilizing the unexploited production potential of the fish seed producers rather than establishing new farms and hatcheries appears to be the pertinent policy. Training of the farm/hatchery operators can help achieve the unexploited potential.
ERKIN IQTISODIY HUDUDLARDAGI TADBIRKORLIK SUBYEKTLARI INTEGRATSIYALASHUVINING IQTISODIY SAMARADORLIKKA TAʼSIRI
Creators: name: Nazarov, Nazar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur maqolada O‘zbekiston Respublikasi erkin iqtisodiy hududlarida tadbirkorlik subyektlarining o‘zaro integratsiyalashuvi va uning iqtisodiy samaradorlikka ta’sirini o‘rganishga bag‘ishlangan. Tadqiqotda Navoiy, Jizzax va Angren erkin iqtisodiy hududlari misolida integratsiya jarayonlarining iqtisodiy natijalarga ijobiy ta’siri tahlil qilinadi. Natijalar tadbirkorlik subyektlari o‘rtasidagi kooperatsiya aloqalarini mustahkamlash hamda innovatsion faoliyatni rag‘batlantirishning iqtisodiy samaradorlikni oshirishdagi muhim ahamiyatini ko‘rsatadi. Maqola yakunida erkin iqtisodiy hududlarning samaradorligini oshirish bo‘yicha xulosalar keltirilgan.
Delta I = 2 staggering in rotational bands of diatomic molecules as a manifestation of interband interactions
Creators: name: Bonatsos, D.
name: Daskaloyannis, C.
name: Drenska, S. B.
name: Karoussos, N.
name: Maruani, J.
name: Minkov, N.
name: Raychev, P. P.
name: Roussev, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the recently observed Delta I = 2 staggering seen in superdeformed nuclear bands is also occurring in certain electronically excited rotational bands of diatomic molecules. In the case of diatomic molecules the effect is attributed to interband interactions (bandcrossings).
description: LaTeX, 9 pages plus 24 figures given in separate .ps files
Automated detection of oral pre-cancerous tongue lesions using deep learning for early diagnosis of oral cavity cancer
Creators: name: Shamim, Mohammed Zubair M.
name: Syed, Sadatullah
name: Shiblee, Mohammad
name: Usman, Mohammed
name: Ali, Syed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Txx

description: Discovering oral cavity cancer (OCC) at an early stage is an effective way to increase patient survival rate. However, current initial screening process is done manually and is expensive for the average individual, especially in developing countries worldwide. This problem is further compounded due to the lack of specialists in such areas. Automating the initial screening process using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect pre-cancerous lesions can prove to be an effective and inexpensive technique that would allow patients to be triaged accordingly to receive appropriate clinical management. In this study, we have applied and evaluated the efficacy of six deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models using transfer learning, for identifying pre-cancerous tongue lesions directly using a small data set of clinically annotated photographic images to diagnose early signs of OCC. DCNN model based on Vgg19 architecture was able to differentiate between benign and pre-cancerous tongue lesions with a mean classification accuracy of 0.98, sensitivity 0.89 and specificity 0.97. Additionally, the ResNet50 DCNN model was able to distinguish between five types of tongue lesions i.e. hairy tongue, fissured tongue, geographic tongue, strawberry tongue and oral hairy leukoplakia with a mean classification accuracy of 0.97. Preliminary results using an (AI+Physician) ensemble model demonstrate that an automated initial screening process of tongue lesions using DCNNs can achieve near-human level classification performance for diagnosing early signs of OCC in patients.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
UOW Library: In-Step with Our Academic Community
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Samantha
name: Salopek, Christina
name: Jones, Susan
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2024

description: This case study demonstrates how the University of Wollongong (UOW) librarians advocate for the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) to the academic teaching and learning community. We take a strengths-based approach to showcasing their value, impact, and benefits in enhancing accessibility and enriching the broader suite of resources available to support teaching, learning and research needs.
MOESM2 of Loss-of-function phenotype of a PKCθT219A knockin mouse strain
Creators: name: Thuille, Nikolaus
name: Siegmund, Kerstin
name: Klepsch, Victoria
name: Schörgenhuber, Jacqueline
name: Danklmaier, Sarah
name: Leitges, Michael
name: Baier, Gottfried
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Examination of thymic positive selection via Flow cytometry reveals a normal thymocyte maturation in PKCθT219A mice. A, FACS analysis of TCRβ/CD24 profile on CD4 and CD8 SP thymocytes showed no defect in thymocyte maturation in the T219A knockin mice. Graphs summarizing three experiments are shown. B, Further examination of the thymic positive selection process via analysis of the CD5 marker was also showing no differences in pre- and post-positive selection populations between knockin and wild-type control mice. The different populations can be distinguished by a specific distribution (rearrangement) of both the TCRβ and CD5 marker: TCRβloCD5lo (pre-positive selection population), TCRβloCD5int (cells initiating positive selection), TCRβintCD5hi (cells undergoing positive selection process) and TCRβhiCD5hi (post-positive selection population). Representative FACS dot blots are shown. C, Expression of CD69 on ex vivo stimulated thymocytes (via anti-CD3 cross linking over night) was comparable between the knockin mice and the wild-type controls. Data are shown as mean fluorescence intensities ± SEM (n = 3). Statistical analyses were performed using students t-test.
Moonlighting in Rural America
Creators: name: Whitener, Leslie A.
name: Bokemeier, Janet
name: Whitener, Leslie A.
name: Bokemeier, Janet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: About 1.4 million nonmetro married couples had a moonlighting (working more than one job) spouse in May 1985. Compared with other rural couples, moonlighting couples were more likely to have children under 18 living at home, a college-educated spouse, higher income, farm affiliation, and work schedules that facilitated a spouse's taking a second job. The types of opportunities and economic needs associated with moonlighting differed by educational level.
Exploring mutational signatures in human cancers using human cell line models
Creators: name: Koh, Ching Chiek
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: mutational signatures
DNA repair
CRISPR-Cas9
human iPSC
mismatch repair
microsatellite instability
whole-genome sequencing
homologous recombination deficiency

description: A cancer genome carries the historic mutagenic activity that has occurred throughout the development of a tumour. While driver mutations were the main focus of cancer research for a long time, passenger mutational signatures – the imprints of DNA damage and DNA repair processes that have been operative during tumourigenesis – are also biologically informative. Since the inception of the field, many mutational signatures have been uncovered from the analysis of primary tumours. However, the causes and the mechanisms underlying many of these signatures are not fully understood nor have they been established with experimental evidence. Several pioneering experimental studies have shown that mutational signatures are not just mathematical abstraction; they can be recreated in vitro using isogenic experimental model systems. In this dissertation, I build on these pioneering efforts to demonstrate the concept of mutational signatures by engineering gene knockouts in various isogenic human cell line models (i.e. HAP-1 cells and human-induced pluripotent stem cells) and using whole-genome sequencing as readouts to study their associated mutational patterns. In doing so, I have successfully validated some of the most widely-applied signatures, including those that are associated with deficiencies in homologous recombination-based repair and mismatch repair. During this process, I have also identified key issues in designing and performing such mutational signature studies, and hence devised a set of guidelines for future experiments and analyses. The work described in this dissertation paves the way for future investigations aiming to understand the relationships between DNA repair and the causes of somatic mutations in human cancers. The experimental evidence established for some of the mutational signatures here may hopefully support their clinical applications henceforth.
description: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 4-year PhD studentship
Quantum Poker A game for quantum computers suitable for benchmarking error mitigation techniques on NISQ devices
Creators: name: Fuchs, Franz G.
name: Falch, Vemund
name: Johnsen, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers are on the verge of becoming a commercially available reality. They represent a paradigm shift in computing, with a steep learning gradient. The creation of games is a way to ease the transition for beginners. We present a game similar to the Poker variant Texas hold 'em with the intention to serve as an engaging pedagogical tool to learn the basics rules of quantum computing. The concepts of quantum states, quantum operations and measurement can be learned in a playful manner. The difference to the classical variant is that the community cards are replaced by a quantum register that is "randomly" initialized, and the cards for each player are replaced by quantum gates, randomly drawn from a set of available gates. Each player can create a quantum circuit with their cards, with the aim to maximize the number of $1$'s that are measured in the computational basis. The basic concepts of superposition, entanglement and quantum gates are employed. We provide a proof-of-concept implementation using Qiskit. A comparison of the results for the created circuits using a simulator and IBM machines is conducted, showing that error rates on contemporary quantum computers are still very high. For the success of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computers, improvements on the error rates and error mitigation techniques are necessary, even for simple circuits. We show that quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques can be used to improve expectation values of observables on real quantum devices.
description: accepted for publication at The European Physical Journal Plus
Glycation of Extracellular Matrix: A Solid-State NMR Study
Creators: name: Li, Rui
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Glycation
Extracellular Matrix
Solid-State NMR

description: The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the glycation products, especially glycation intermediate products, generated in the glycation reaction model in vitro extracellular matrix (ECM) and ribose-5-phosphate using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) spectroscopy. The background and motivations of this project are outlined in chapter 1. Chapter 2 reviews the current understanding of the composition and organisation of the ECM, the structure of collagen and the critical roles collagen plays in the ECM. Chapter 3 introduces the glycation reaction and summarises the glycation products identified to date, with a discussion of the most widely-used characterisation techniques and in vitro model systems for studying the glycation reaction and glycation products. Chapter 4 covers the basic theory of SSNMR spectroscopy, which is the major analytical technique used in this thesis, and the principles behind the SSNMR experiments used in this project. Above three chapters provide the essential background knowledge for studying the glycation reaction chemistry and the glycation products in in vitro collagenous ECM model using SSNMR spectroscopy. Protocols for preparing, glycating and characterising in vitro ECM samples as well as all relevant experimental details are included in chapter 5, which is followed by a discussion in chapter 6 on the development of a method to extract collagen from in vitro ECM. In chapters 7 and 8, glycation products identified in different in vitro glycation models using SSNMR are outlined, where chapter 7 focuses on glycation products derived from the glycation reaction between non-isotope-enriched collagenous materials and 13C-enriched glycating agents, while chapter 8 concentrates on the effects of glycation on lysine and arginine residues in collagenous samples using 13C, 15N-enriched collagenous materials and 13C-enriched glycating agents. Chapter 9 discusses the development of a protocol to extract cellular metabolites, specifically carbonyl metabolites, and estimate their glycation potential, in order to understand the contribution that cell necrosis may have on glycation in patients. Conclusion and future work are outlined in chapter 10.
A constrained TAP approach for disordered spin models: application to the mixed spherical case
Creators: name: Barbier, Damien
name: Cugliandolo, Leticia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the metastability properties of the mixed p-spin spherical disordered models. Firstly, using known methods, we show that there is temperature chaos in a broad range of temperatures. Secondly, we modify the definition of the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer free energy density by including constraints that enforce a chosen overlap between the searched metastable states and another reference state, that could be a characteristic one of a different temperature. We argue that this refined analysis provides clues to understand the weird behaviour of the low temperature relaxation dynamics of these models, and suggests ways to improve the treatment of the initial conditions to overcome the difficulties encountered so far.
MICROFINANCE : SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS-DRIVEN CAPITALISM?
Creators: name: Elahi, Khandakar Qudrat-I
name: Islam, M. Zahirul
name: Elahi, Khandakar Qudrat-I
name: Islam, M. Zahirul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Microfinance, a recently coined vocabulary in rural finance literature, refers to small-loan commercial banking facilities created specifically for meeting the financial needs of the poor. This financing program is different from the traditional microcredit program in that the former has profit motives, while the latter being non-profit NGOs, do not. Because of this commercial feature, microfinance programs are susceptible to criticism. To undermine the severity of this criticism, suggestions are being made to treat them as social-consciousness-driven capitalist ventures and their owners as social entrepreneurs. This paper investigated this overwhelming proposition, particularly in the light of Adam Smith's moral and economic theories. The analysis seems to suggest that the proposition has difficulties both from theoretical and policy-making perspectives.
MOESM1 of Loss-of-function phenotype of a PKCθT219A knockin mouse strain
Creators: name: Thuille, Nikolaus
name: Siegmund, Kerstin
name: Klepsch, Victoria
name: Schörgenhuber, Jacqueline
name: Danklmaier, Sarah
name: Leitges, Michael
name: Baier, Gottfried
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. A, FACS dot plots depicting the gating strategy used for analyzing the thymic subsets shown in Fig. 2a. B, Representative FACS dot blots showing thymocyte subsets of all three genotypes (wild-type, PKCθT219A knockin and PKCθ knockout mice).
Top and Higgs Physics at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Savard, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a summary of our experimental understanding of the top quark and discuss the significant improvements expected in Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We also discuss prospects for a Higgs boson discovery at the Tevatron.
description: Invited talk at the XXII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC02), Stanford, Ca, USA, June 2002, 11 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figures, PSN SABT05
Algorithm for Linear Response Functions at Finite Temperatures: Application to ESR spectrum of s=1/2 Antiferromagnet Cu benzoate
Creators: name: Iitaka, Toshiaki
name: Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an efficient and numerically stable method for calculating linear response functions $χ(\vec{q},ω)$ of quantum systems at finite temperatures. The method is a combination of numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, random vector representation of trace, and Chebyshev polynomial expansion of Boltzmann operator. This method should be very useful for a wide range of strongly correlated quantum systems at finite temperatures. We present an application to the ESR spectrum of s=1/2 antiferromagnet Cu benzoate.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures