cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aerodynamic Risk Assessment using Parametric, Three-Dimensional Unstructured, High-Fidelity CFD and Adaptive Sampling
Creators: name: Ji, Runda
name: Wang, Qiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We demonstrate an adaptive sampling approach for computing the probability of a rare event for a set of three-dimensional airplane geometries under various flight conditions. We develop a fully automated method to generate parameterized airplanes geometries and create volumetric mesh for viscous CFD solution. With the automatic geometry and meshing, we perform the adaptive sampling procedure to compute the probability of the rare event. We show that the computational cost of our adaptive sampling approach is hundreds of times lower than a brute-force Monte Carlo method.
Multi-Branch Deep Radial Basis Function Networks for Facial Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Hernández-Luquin, Fernanda
name: Escalante, Hugo Jair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emotion recognition (ER) from facial images is one of the landmark tasks in affective computing with major developments in the last decade. Initial efforts on ER relied on handcrafted features that were used to characterize facial images and then feed to standard predictive models. Recent methodologies comprise end-to-end trainable deep learning methods that simultaneously learn both, features and predictive model. Perhaps the most successful models are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While these models have excelled at this task, they still fail at capturing local patterns that could emerge in the learning process. We hypothesize these patterns could be captured by variants based on locally weighted learning. Specifically, in this paper we propose a CNN based architecture enhanced with multiple branches formed by radial basis function (RBF) units that aims at exploiting local information at the final stage of the learning process. Intuitively, these RBF units capture local patterns shared by similar instances using an intermediate representation, then the outputs of the RBFs are feed to a softmax layer that exploits this information to improve the predictive performance of the model. This feature could be particularly advantageous in ER as cultural / ethnicity differences may be identified by the local units. We evaluate the proposed method in several ER datasets and show the proposed methodology achieves state-of-the-art in some of them, even when we adopt a pre-trained VGG-Face model as backbone. We show it is the incorporation of local information what makes the proposed model competitive.
description: Neural Comput & Applic (2021)
NODES_Tincare_D9: Report on platform requirements
Creators: name: Piovesan, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
TINCARE Project
Digital care innovation
ECS00000036

description: This report explores the integration of gamification and neuroaesthetic principles in developing an engaging cognitive rehabilitation platform for elderly frail people. Grounded in recent research, we propose a therapeutic platform that combines game elements and aesthetically pleasing stimuli to enhance motivation, learning, and patient adherence. The approach focuses on ecological validity, ensuring the exercises mirror real-life scenarios, thus allowing patients to practice daily activities in a safe, controlled environment. We also address the usability of technology for elderly users, emphasizing accessible and familiar devices. In collaboration with a digital cognitive rehabilitation platform, we aim to refine features through user feedback and data analysis, improving engagement, personalizing therapeutic plans, and expanding ecological exercises to better serve patients' real-world needs.
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title: Robotic process assembly and assembly module with the ability to input commands from a human operator
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name: ÐÐµÐ´ÑÐ½ÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹, ÐÐ¸ÐºÑÐ¾Ñ
name: ÐÑÑÑÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¾, CÐµÑÐ³ÐµÐ¹
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Publisher: name: ÐÐÐÐÐ¢ÐÐ¥-ÐÐ ÐÐ¡Ð¡
Year: 2024
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technological assembly line
assembly and component robotic module
technological flexibility
human-operator operability

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description: The paper considers an assembly and component robotic module with a transport and distribution system of rotary-circular type and presents a scheme of its operation. It is noted that it is possible to increase the technological flexibility of the considered robotic module by periodic introduction of commands from a human operator into its control system. The results of the research have shown that in order to reduce the probability of errors on the part of the human operator, it is necessary to take into account his working capacity during the working shift. Due to the use of the proposed approach the productivity of the circular transportation and distribution system is increased.
Discovery of a Wind-Blown Bubble Associated with the Supernova Remnant G346.6-0.2: A Hint for the Origin of Recombining Plasma
Creators: name: Sano, H.
name: Suzuki, H.
name: Nobukawa, K. K.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: Fukui, Y.
name: Moriya, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on CO and HI studies of the mixed-morphology supernova remnant (SNR) G346.6$-$0.2. We find a wind-blown bubble along the radio continuum shell with an expansion velocity of $\sim10$ km s$^{-1}$, which was likely formed by strong stellar winds from the high-mass progenitor of the SNR. The radial velocities of the CO/HI bubbles at $V_\mathrm{LSR} = -82$-$-59$ km s$^{-1}$ are also consistent with those of shock-excited 1720 MHz OH masers. The molecular cloud in the northeastern shell shows a high-kinetic temperature of $\sim60$ K, suggesting that shock-heating occurred. The HI absorption studies imply that G346.6$-$0.2 is located on the far side of the Galactic center from us, and the kinematic distance of the SNR is derived to be $11.1_{-0.3}^{+0.5}$ kpc. We find that the CO line intensity has no specific correlation with the electron temperature of recombining plasma, implying that the recombining plasma in G346.6$-$0.2 was likely produced by adiabatic cooling. With our estimates of the interstellar proton density 280 cm$^{-3}$ and gamma-ray luminosity $< 5.8 \times 10^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$, the total energy of accelerated cosmic rays $W_{\rm p} < 9.3 \times 10^{47}$ erg is obtained. A comparison of the age-$W_{\rm p}$ relation to other SNRs suggests that most of the accelerated cosmic rays in G346.6$-$0.2 have been escaped from the SNR shell.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Additional file 1 of Association of cardiovascular health at old age with all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study in China
Creators: name: Chen, Shimin
name: Li, Haowei
name: Wang, Shengshu
name: Yang, Shanshan
name: Liu, Shaohua
name: Song, Yang
name: Li, Xuehang
name: Li, Rongrong
name: Wang, Jianhua
name: Liu, Miao
name: He, Yao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure 1. Participants enrolled and follow-up from September, 2009 to September, 2021 in BECHCS. Supplemental Figure 2. Restricted cubic spline for the association of CVH score with all-cause mortality. Supplemental Figure 3. Subgroup analysis for the association of CVH with all-cause mortality. Supplemental Table 1. Definition of 6 ideal cardiovascular health metrics according to American Heart Association*.
Market microstructure and option pricing: probabilistic and pathwise approaches
Creators: name: Bellani, Claudio
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: In Chapter I, I will give an introduction to order-driven markets and Hawkes processes. The description of order-driven markets is enhanced by the implementation of a simulator of limit order books. In Chapter II, I will present my investigation on price impact in order-driven markets. I will describe a non-average detection of the distorsion of prices during large trade executions. Such a detection will hinge on a granular model of limit order books based on state-dependent Hawkes processes. The measurement of price impact will be a function of the stochastic processes that govern the arrival of orders. Demonstrations will be given on empirical data from NASDAQ. In Chapter III, I will present my investigation on mathematical models of optimal trading execution strategies. I will define the concept of good trade execution, and I will construct explicit adapted good trade execution strategies in the framework of linear temporary price impact. I will describe how good trade execution strategies minimise trading costs in a pathwise sense, a point of view not yet considered in the literature, and the consequent model robustness. In Chapter IV, I will present my investigation on the classical models of option pricing through the lenses of a Rough Path-inspired analysis. I will describe the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives refraining from the use of probability, and I will give pathwise presentations of the fundamental equations of Mathematical Finance.
Quantum Walk to Train a Classical Artificial Neural Network
Creators: name: de Souza, Luciano S.
name: de Carvalho, Jonathan H. A.
name: Ferreira, Tiago A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work proposes a computational procedure that uses a quantum walk in a complete graph to train classical artificial neural networks. The idea is to apply the quantum walk to search the weight set values. However, it is necessary to simulate a quantum machine to execute the quantum walk. In this way, to minimize the computational cost, the methodology employed to train the neural network will adjust the synaptic weights of the output layer, not altering the weights of the hidden layer, inspired in the method of Extreme Learning Machine. The quantum walk algorithm as a search algorithm is quadratically faster than its classic analog. The quantum walk variance is $O(t)$ while the variance of its classic analog is $O(\sqrt{t})$, where $t$ is the time or iteration. In addition to computational gain, another advantage of the proposed procedure is to be possible to know \textit{a priori} the number of iterations required to obtain the solutions, unlike the classical training algorithms based on gradient descendent.
description: 10 Pages, 4 Figures
Heat capacity anomaly near magnetic phase transition in GaFeO$_3$
Creators: name: Biernacka, Maria
name: Szafrański, Marek
name: Rećko, Katarzyna
name: Olszewski, Wojciech
name: Satuła, Dariusz
name: Szymański, Krzysztof R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A heat capacity anomaly in the vicinity of magnetic transition was observed in single crystal GaFeO3 for the first time. The crystals grown along the expected electric polarization direction were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer and magnetic measurements. Two separate data analyses of heat capacity showed similar results within the experimental accuracy. Critical exponent, α=-0.2(1), and amplitude ratios of positive and negative reduced temperatures near the critical point, A_+/A_-=1.2(1), are consistent with behavior of a 3-D Heisenberg ferromagnet.
End-to-End Supermask Pruning: Learning to Prune Image Captioning Models
Creators: name: Tan, Jia Huei
name: Chan, Chee Seng
name: Chuah, Joon Huang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advancement of deep models, research work on image captioning has led to a remarkable gain in raw performance over the last decade, along with increasing model complexity and computational cost. However, surprisingly works on compression of deep networks for image captioning task has received little to no attention. For the first time in image captioning research, we provide an extensive comparison of various unstructured weight pruning methods on three different popular image captioning architectures, namely Soft-Attention, Up-Down and Object Relation Transformer. Following this, we propose a novel end-to-end weight pruning method that performs gradual sparsification based on weight sensitivity to the training loss. The pruning schemes are then extended with encoder pruning, where we show that conducting both decoder pruning and training simultaneously prior to the encoder pruning provides good overall performance. Empirically, we show that an 80% to 95% sparse network (up to 75% reduction in model size) can either match or outperform its dense counterpart. The code and pre-trained models for Up-Down and Object Relation Transformer that are capable of achieving CIDEr scores >120 on the MS-COCO dataset but with only 8.7 MB and 14.5 MB in model size (size reduction of 96% and 94% respectively against dense versions) are publicly available at https://github.com/jiahuei/sparse-image-captioning.
description: Pattern Recognition; In Press
SoMIAP: Social media images analysis and prediction framework
Creators: name: Shi, Yonghao
name: Bendiab, Gueltoum
name: Shiaeles, Stavros
name: Savage, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The personal photos captured and submitted by users on social networks can provide several interesting insights about the location of the user, which is a key indicator of their daily activities. This information is invaluable for security organisations, especially for security monitoring and tracking criminal activities. Hence, we propose in this paper a novel approach for location prediction based on the image analysis of the photos posted on social media. Our approach combines two main methods to perform the image analysis, place and face recognition. The first method is used to determine the location area in the analysed image. The second is used to identify people in the analysed image, by locating a face in the image and comparing it with a dataset of images that have been collected from different social platforms. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through performance analysis and experimental results.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Additional file 1 of CircRNA AFF4 induced by KDM1A promotes osteogenic differentiation through FNDC5/Irisin pathway
Creators: name: Liu, Ansong
name: Chen, Yong
name: Zhong, Da
name: Wang, Chenggong
name: Yu, Mi
name: Liu, Chao
name: Yang, Zhijun
name: Chen, Wenkang
name: Yin, Ke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Systematically Measuring Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). II. Expanded Survey Description and the Stripe 82 Catalog
Creators: name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Donnerstein, Richard
name: Karunakaran, Ananthan
name: Barbosa, Carlos E.
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Kadowaki, Jennifer
name: Spekkens, Kristine
name: Zhang, Huanian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 226 large ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates ($r_e > 5.3$\arcsec, $μ_{0,g} > 24$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$) in the SDSS Stripe 82 region recovered using our improved procedure developed in anticipation of processing the entire Legacy Surveys footprint. The advancements include less constrained structural parameter fitting, expanded wavelet filtering criteria, consideration of Galactic dust, estimates of parameter uncertainties and completeness based on simulated sources, and refinements of our automated candidate classification. We have a sensitivity $\sim$1 mag fainter in $μ_{0,g}$ than the largest published catalog of this region. Using our completeness-corrected sample, we find that (1) there is no significant decline in the number of UDG candidates as a function of $μ_{0,g}$ to the limit of our survey ($\sim$ 26.5 mag arcsec$^{-2}$); (2) bluer candidates have smaller Sérsic $n$; (3) most blue ($g-r < 0.45$ mag) candidates have $μ_{0,g} \lesssim 25$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$ and will fade to populate the UDG red sequence we observe to $\sim 26.5$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$; (4) any red UDGs that exist significantly below our $μ_{0,g}$ sensitivity limit are not descended from blue UDGs in our sample; and (5) candidates with lower $μ_{0,g}$ tend to smaller $n$. We anticipate that the final SMUDGes sample will contain $\sim$ 30$\times$ as many candidates.
description: 26 pages, accepted for publication in ApJS
Additional file 2 of CircRNA AFF4 induced by KDM1A promotes osteogenic differentiation through FNDC5/Irisin pathway
Creators: name: Liu, Ansong
name: Chen, Yong
name: Zhong, Da
name: Wang, Chenggong
name: Yu, Mi
name: Liu, Chao
name: Yang, Zhijun
name: Chen, Wenkang
name: Yin, Ke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Semi- and fully synthetic carbohydrate vaccines against pathogenic bacteria: recent developments
Creators: name: Zasłona, Magdalena E.
name: Downey, A. Michael
name: Seeberger, Peter H.
name: Moscovitz, Oren
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: antibacterial vaccines
subject: bacteria
subject: capsular polysaccharides
subject: carbohydrates
subject: synthetic carbohydrate
subject: vaccines
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The importance of vaccine-induced protection was repeatedly demonstrated over the last three decades and emphasized during the recent COVID-19 pandemic as the safest and most effective way of preventing infectious diseases. Vaccines have controlled, and in some cases, eradicated global viral and bacterial infections with high efficiency and at a relatively low cost. Carbohydrates form the capsular sugar coat that surrounds the outer surface of human pathogenic bacteria. Specific surface-exposed bacterial carbohydrates serve as potent vaccine targets that broadened our toolbox against bacterial infections. Since first approved for commercial use, antibacterial carbohydrate-based vaccines mostly rely on inherently complex and heterogenous naturally derived polysaccharides, challenging to obtain in a pure, safe, and cost-effective manner. The introduction of synthetic fragments identical with bacterial capsular polysaccharides provided well-defined and homogenous structures that resolved many challenges of purified polysaccharides. The success of semisynthetic glycoconjugate vaccines against bacterial infections, now in different phases of clinical trials, opened up new possibilities and encouraged further development towards fully synthetic antibacterial vaccine solutions. In this mini-review, we describe the recent achievements in semi- and fully synthetic carbohydrate vaccines against a range of human pathogenic bacteria, focusing on preclinical and clinical studies.
On the characterization of constitutive equations for third grade viscous Korteweg fluids
Creators: name: Gorgone, Matteo
name: Rogolino, Patrizia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a model of a third grade viscous Korteweg--type fluid in three space dimensions, and apply the extended Liu procedure in order to explicitly solve the constraints imposed by the entropy principle on the non--local constitutive relations. We detail the algorithm we use, and are able to characterize the material functions involved in the constitutive equations. In a natural way, the application of the extended Liu procedure allows us to recover an extra term in the entropy flux, preserving all the features of third grade viscous Korteweg--type fluids. Moreover, a further constraint, in order to avoid that at equilibrium only very special phase boundaries are admissible, is investigated.
description: 25 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.03237
Response of RAW 264.7 and J774A.1 macrophages to particles and nanoparticles of a mesoporous bioactive glass: A comparative study"
Creators: name: Feito, M. J.
name: Casarrubios, L.
name: Onaderra, M.
name: Gomez-Duro, M.
name: Arribas, P.
name: Polo-Montalvo, A.
name: Vallet-Regi, M.
name: Arcos, D.
name: Portoles, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs) are bioceramics designed to induce bone tissue regeneration and very useful materials with the ability to act as drug delivery systems. MBGs can be implanted in contact with bone tissue in different ways, as particulate material, in 3D scaffolds or as nanospheres. In this work, we assessed the effects of particles of mesoporous bioactive glass MBG-75S and mesoporous nanospheres NanoMBG-75S on RAW 264.7 and J774A.1 macrophages, which present different sensitivity and are considered as ideal models for the study of innate immune response. After evaluating several cellular parameters (morphology, size, complexity, proliferation, cell cycle and intracellular content of reactive oxygen species), the action of MBG-75S particles and NanoMBG-75S on the polarization of these macrophages towards the proinflammatory (M1) or reparative (M2) phenotype was determined by the expression of specific M1 (CD80) and M2 (CD206, CD163) markers. We previously measured the adsorption of albumin and fibrinogen on MBG-75S particles and the production of proinflammatory cytokines as TNF-α and IL-6 by macrophages in response to these particles. This comparative study demonstrates that particles of mesoporous bioactive glass MBG-75S and mesoporous nanospheres NanoMBG-75S allow the appropriated development and function of RAW 264.7 and J774A.1 macrophages and do not induce polarization towards the M1 pro-inflammatory phenotype. Therefore, considering that these mesoporous biomaterials offer the possibility of loading drugs into their pores, the results obtained indicate their high potential for use as drug-delivery systems in bone repair and osteoporosis treatments without triggering an adverse inflammatory response.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
The role of recipient myosteatosis in graft and patient survival after deceased donor liver transplantation
Creators: name: Czigany, Zoltan
name: Kramp, Wiebke
name: Lurje, Isabella
name: Miller, Hannah
name: Bednarsch, Jan
name: Lang, Sven Arke
name: Ulmer, Tom Florian
name: Bruners, Philipp
name: Strnad, Pavel
name: Trautwein, Christian
name: Websky, Martin Wolfgang Von
name: Tacke, Frank
name: Neumann, Ulf Peter
name: Lurje, Georg
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Liver transplantation
subject: Body composition
subject: Myosteatosis
subject: Sarcopenia
subject: Graft survival
subject: Patient survival
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Myosteatosis is associated with perioperative outcomes in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Here, we investigated the effects of body composition and myosteatosis on long-term graft and patient survival following OLT. Methods: Clinical data from 225 consecutive OLT recipients from a prospective database were retrospectively analysed (May 2010 to December 2017). Computed tomography-based lumbar skeletal muscle index (SMI) (muscle mass) and mean skeletal muscle radiation attenuation (SM-RA) (myosteatosis) were calculated using a segmentation tool (3D Slicer). Patients with low skeletal muscle mass (low SMI) and myosteatosis (low SM-RA) were identified using predefined and validated cut-off values. Results: The mean donor and recipient age was 55 ± 16 and 54 ± 12 years, respectively. Some 67% of the recipients were male. The probability of graft and patient survival was significantly lower in patients with myosteatosis compared with patients with higher SM-RA values (P = 0.011 and P = 0.001, respectively). Low skeletal muscle mass alone was not associated with graft and patient survival (P = 0.273 and P = 0.278, respectively). Dividing the cohort into quartiles, based on the values of SMI and SM-RA, resulted in significant differences in patient but not in graft survival (P = 0.011). Even though multivariable analysis identified low SM-RA as an important prognostic marker (hazard ratio: 2.260, 95% confidence interval: 1.177-4.340, P = 0.014), myosteatosis lost its significance when early mortality (90 days) was excluded from the final multivariable model. Patients with myosteatosis showed significantly higher all-cause mortality and in particular higher rates of deaths due to respiratory and septic complication (P = 0.002, P = 0.022, and P = 0.049, respectively). Conclusions: Preoperative myosteatosis may be an important prognostic marker in patients undergoing deceased donor liver transplantation. The prognostic value of myosteatosis seems to be particularly important in the early post-operative phase. Validation in prospective clinical trials is warranted.
The diagnostic and prognostic value of galectin‐3 in patients at risk for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: results from the DIAST‐CHF study
Creators: name: Trippel, Tobias Daniel
name: Mende, Meinhard
name: Düngen, Hans‐Dirk
name: Hashemi, Djawid
name: Petutschnigg, Johannes
name: Nolte, Kathleen
name: Herrmann‐Lingen, Christoph
name: Binder, Lutz
name: Hasenfuss, Gerd
name: Pieske, Burkert
name: Wachter, Rolf
name: Edelmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Galectin-3
subject: Heart failure
subject: HFpEF
subject: Mortality
subject: Risk prediction
subject: Biomarkers
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims: Galectin-3 (Gal-3) predicts long-term outcome among patients with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The ability of Gal-3 to diagnose and predict incident HFpEF in a cohort at risk for HFpEF is of particular interest. We aimed to determine the association between Gal-3 and clinical manifestations of HFpEF, the relationship between Gal-3 and all-cause mortality, or the composite of cardiovascular hospitalization and death. Methods and results: The observational Diast-CHF study included patients aged 50 to 85 years with ≥1 risk factor for HF (e.g. hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerotic disease) or previously suspected HF. Patients were followed for 10 years. The association between Gal-3, evidence of diastolic dysfunction, and Framingham criteria for HF was examined. All deaths and hospitalizations were adjudicated as cardiovascular or non-cardiovascular. The analysis population was composed of 1386 subjects (67 years old, 50.9% female). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve to diagnose HFpEF was 0.71. At a cut-off value of 13.57 ng/mL, sensitivity was 0.61 and specificity was 0.73 for Gal-3, and the diagnostic power to detect HFpEF was superior to N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.59, P > 0.001). Baseline Gal-3 was associated with risk factors for HF (P < 0.001). Higher levels of Gal-3 predicted incident HFpEF (P < 0.05), adjusted all-cause mortality (P < 0.001), and the adjusted composite of cardiovascular hospitalization and death (P < 0.001), both independent from N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide. Conclusions: Gal-3 differentiated patients with HFpEF from an overall cohort of well-characterized patients with risk factors for HFpEF. Independent of other factors, baseline Gal-3 levels were associated with a higher risk for incident HFpEF, mortality, or the composite of cardiovascular hospitalization and death over 10 year follow-up. In conjunction with clinical parameters, Gal-3 adds a statistically significant value for the diagnosis of HFpEF within this study, yet the clinical relevance remains debatable.
Observation of burst activity from SGR1935+2154 associated to first galactic FRB with H.E.S.S
Creators: name: Kostunin, D.
name: Ashkar, H.
name: Schüssler, F.
name: Rowell, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast radio bursts (FRB) are enigmatic powerful single radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness temperatures suggesting coherent emission mechanism. For the time being a number of extragalactic FRBs have been detected in the high-frequency radio band including repeating ones. The most plausible explanation for these phenomena is magnetar hyperflares. The first observational evidence of this scenario was obtained in April 2020 when an FRB was detected from the direction of the Galactic magnetar and soft gamma repeater SGR1935+2154. The FRB was preceded with a number of soft gamma-ray bursts observed by Swift-BAT satellite, which triggered the follow-up program of the H.E.S.S. imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). H.E.S.S. has observed SGR1935+2154 over a 2 hour window few hours prior to the FRB detection by STARE2 and CHIME. The observations overlapped with other X-ray bursts from the magnetar detected by INTEGRAL and Swift-BAT, thus providing first observations of a magnetar in a flaring state in the very-high energy domain. We present the analysis of these observations, discuss the obtained results and prospects of the H.E.S.S. follow-up program for soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars.
description: Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021), 12-23 July 2021, Berlin, Germany - Online
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title: Parametric synthesis of mechatronic systems units
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Year: 2024
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kinematic pair
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description: The article is devoted mechanisms with closed kinematic pairs, determines the degrees of freedom for them, carries out calculations and analyzes formulas in the Maple program. As a result, the mobility and performance of the mechanism under study was proven.
Effect of inoculum density on human‐induced pluripotent stem cell expansion in 3D bioreactors
Creators: name: Greuel, Selina
name: Hanci, Güngör
name: Böhme, Mike
name: Miki, Toshio
name: Schubert, Frank
name: Sittinger, Michael
name: Mandenius, Carl‐Fredrik
name: Zeilinger, Katrin
name: Freyer, Nora
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 3D culture
subject: bioreactor culture
subject: cell expansion
subject: human-induced pluripotent stem cells
subject: inoculum density
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: For optimized expansion of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) with regards to clinical applications, we investigated the influence of the inoculum density on the expansion procedure in 3D hollow-fibre bioreactors. Materials and Methods: Analytical-scale bioreactors with a cell compartment volume of 3 mL or a large-scale bioreactor with a cell compartment volume of 17 mL were used and inoculated with either 10 x 10(6) or 50 x 10(6) hiPSCs. Cells were cultured in bioreactors over 15 days; daily measurements of biochemical parameters were performed. At the end of the experiment, the CellTiter-Blue (R) Assay was used for culture activity evaluation and cell quantification. Also, cell compartment sections were removed for gene expression and immunohistochemistry analysis. Results: The results revealed significantly higher values for cell metabolism, cell activity and cell yields when using the higher inoculation number, but also a more distinct differentiation. As large inoculation numbers require cost and time-extensive pre-expansion, low inoculation numbers may be used preferably for long-term expansion of hiPSCs. Expansion of hiPSCs in the large-scale bioreactor led to a successful production of 5.4 x 10(9) hiPSCs, thereby achieving sufficient cell amounts for clinical applications. Conclusions: In conclusion, the results show a significant effect of the inoculum density on cell expansion, differentiation and production of hiPSCs, emphasizing the importance of the inoculum density for downstream applications of hiPSCs. Furthermore, the bioreactor technology was successfully applied for controlled and scalable production of hiPSCs for clinical use.
D3.5 Updated- Systemic Understanding: Summary Report on 15 Case Study Results
Creators: name: Bustamante, Maria
name: Manrique, Cintya
name: Vidueira, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This summary report provides a synthesis of the 15 case study analyses and results, following a three-phase methodological approach. In phase one, it provides an overview of the case studies' main features, taking the key structural elements from D3.1. Methodological guidelines and reporting template into account. The second phase provides a systemic understanding of agricultural trade from different sustainability perspectives. The aim is to illustrate how the elements that explain the current situation behave within the food system – either as drivers or outcomes – under the environmental sustainability and human rights perspectives we set out to address from the Grant Agreement. Finally, the third phase identifies and selects those SDG indicators from the D2.1 Set of indicators to assess the sustainability impacts of agricultural trade, which are best suited to focus on the transformation of agricultural trade. This selection of indicators is done with a focus on their ability to help identify the key leverage points for changes in agricultural trade policy that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of trade on sustainable development and human rights.

This summary and synthesis report is not only deemed useful for the following key processes and communication steps in subsequent MATS work packages (transition pathways development, policy recommendations development, society-stakeholder-policy dialogue, dissemination, and communication) but also useful as a blueprint for future research projects with a similar synthesis agenda.
In vitro efficacy of Artemisia extracts against SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Nie, Chuanxiong
name: Trimpert, Jakob
name: Moon, Sooyeon
name: Haag, Rainer
name: Gilmore, Kerry
name: Kaufer, Benedikt B.
name: Seeberger, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artemisia annua
subject: Artemisia afra
subject: Antivirals
subject: COVID-19
subject: Covid-organics
subject: Feline coronavirus (FCoV)
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Background Traditional medicines based on herbal extracts have been proposed as affordable treatments for patients suffering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Teas and drinks containing extracts of Artemisia annua and Artemisia afra have been widely used in Africa in efforts to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and fight COVID-19. Methods The plant extracts and Covid-Organics drink produced in Madagascar were tested for plaque reduction using both feline coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Their cytotoxicities were also investigated. Results Several extracts as well as Covid-Organics inhibited SARS-CoV-2 and FCoV infection at concentrations that did not affect cell viability. Conclusions Some plant extracts show inhibitory activity against FCoV and SARS-CoV-2. However, it remains unclear whether peak plasma concentrations in humans can reach levels needed to inhibit viral infection following consumption of teas or Covid-Organics. Clinical studies are required to evaluate the utility of these drinks for COVID-19 prevention or treatment of patients.
Spin Lefschetz fibrations are abundant
Creators: name: Arabadji, Mihail
name: Baykur, R. Inanc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that any finitely presented group can be realized as the fundamental group of a spin Lefschetz fibration over the 2-sphere. We moreover show that any admissible lattice point in the symplectic geography plane below the Noether line can be realized by a simply-connected spin Lefschetz fibration.
description: 15 pages, several figures in color, corrected typos
Vulnerable Resilient and Climate Justice Communities: A policy and satisfaction evaluation of post-disaster temporary housing
Creators: name: Tsai, Sung Lun
name: Ochiai, Chiho
name: Deng, Chuan Zhong
name: Tseng, Min Hui
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160507 Environment Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: This item is part of: Boarin, P., Haarhoff, E., Manfredini, M., Mohammadzadeh, M., Premier, A., (2021). Rethinking Sustainable Pacific Rim Territories. Proceedings of the 2020 APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Hub PhD Symposium, Future Cities Research Hub, School of Architecture and Planning of the University of Auckland. ISBN: 978-0-473-53616-9
ABSTRACTGiven the rise of natural disasters, post-disaster reconstruction plays an essential role in forming resilient communities. However, among the multiple post-disaster reconstruction processes, temporary housing had been ignored by most post-disaster reconstruction practitioners. The 2009 Typhoon Morakot post-disaster management process was no exception. Therefore, this study uses literature research, interviews, and a time-series questionnaire to understand the temporary housing policy, stakeholders' opinions associated with the post-disaster management process, and the temporary shelter and housing living satisfaction trends. Two typhoon-affected indigenous communities located in southern Taiwan were selected as case studies owing to similarities in their social structure and conditions. Findings from this research shows that past experience and collaborating NGO might be the principal factors that influence the decision making on temporary housing policy. Moreover, an ideal environment and location for temporary housing are essential for living satisfaction. Finally, this research suggests an ideal pre-established policy, community-centered considerations, and spatial design are crucial for the future of temporary shelter and housing programs.
First Passage Distributions in a Collective Model of Anomalous Diffusion with Tunable Exponent
Creators: name: Amitai, Assaf
name: Kantor, Yacov
name: Kardar, Mehran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes whose friction coefficients scale as wavenumber to the power $2-z$. A single (tagged) monomer then executes subdiffusion over a broad range of time scales, and its mean square displacement increases as $t^α$ with $α=1/z$. To demonstrate non-trivial aspects of the model, we numerically study the absorption of the tagged particle in one dimension near an absorbing boundary or in the interval between two such boundaries. We obtain absorption probability densities as a function of time, as well as the position-dependent distribution for unabsorbed particles, at several values of $α$. Each of these properties has features characterized by exponents that depend on $α$. Characteristic distributions found for different values of $α$ have similar qualitative features, but are not simply related quantitatively. Comparison of the motion of translocation coordinate of a polymer moving through a pore in a membrane with the diffusing tagged monomer with identical $α$ also reveals quantitative differences.
description: LaTeX, 10 pages, 8 eps figures
Canadian Gallup Poll # 507-2
Creators: name: Inc., The Canadian Gallup Poll
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Federal elections vote intent(1); past federal elections vote(1); federal budget(3); Canada's mail service(3); usage of automatic teller cards(2); minimum family income(1); drinking habits(1); right to strike(2); news reporting(1). Note: Demographics(17).
Perirobot space representation for HRI: measuring and designing collaborative workspace coverage by diverse sensors
Creators: name: Rozlivek, Jakub
name: Svarny, Petr
name: Hoffmann, Matej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.9

description: Two regimes permitting safe physical human-robot interaction, speed and separation monitoring and safety-rated monitored stop, depend on reliable perception of the space surrounding the robot. This can be accomplished by visual sensors (like cameras, RGB-D cameras, LIDARs), proximity sensors, or dedicated devices used in industrial settings like pads that are activated by the presence of the operator. The deployment of a particular solution is often ad hoc and no unified representation of the interaction space or its coverage by the different sensors exists. In this work, we make first steps in this direction by defining the spaces to be monitored, representing all sensor data as information about occupancy and using occupancy-based metrics to calculate how a particular sensor covers the workspace. We demonstrate our approach in two (multi-)sensor-placement experiments in three static scenes and one experiment in a dynamic scene. The occupancy representation allow to compare the effectiveness of various sensor setups. Therefore, this approach can serve as a prototyping tool to establish the sensor setup that provides the most efficient coverage for the given metrics and sensor representations.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures
Abelian Complex Structures and Generalizations
Creators: name: Poon, Yat Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D18, 32G07, 14D15, 17B30, 17B62

description: After a review on the development of deformation theory of abelian complex structures from both the classical and generalized sense, we propose the concept of semi-abelian generalized complex structure. We present some observations on such structure and illustrate this new concept with a variety of examples.