cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interventions for primary prevention of post-bronchiolitis allergic sensitization in guinea pigs
Creators: name: Tayyari, Farnoosh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Asthma is a serious health problem that affects over 2.4 million Canadians. Asthma and allergy are closely linked and 80% of asthmatic children are allergic to at least one inhaled antigen. Among several conditions of diverse etiology that are included in asthma, we studied postbronchiolitis asthma and allergy in children, in which an episode of acute bronchiolitis precedes the onset of asthma. By focusing on the Thl/Th2 paradigm concept, in which shifting the Thl/Th2 balance towards Th2 is characteristic of allergic responses, we proposed two types of interventions for preventing the post-bronchiolitis allergic sensitization and asthma in a guinea pig model of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and ovalbumin (OA) sensitization. These interventions, which included inoculation of animals with relatively "low doses" of RSV or administration of CpG-ODN (synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides rich in cytosine and guanine) before experimental RSV infection plus OA exposures, were applied to shift the Thl/Th2 towards Thl responses. We compared 4 groups of animals (n=10-12/group), including controls and animals that had the intervention. We compared airway inflammatory cells (eosinophils and T cells) by point counting of the Hansel stained and anti-CD3 immunostained formalin-fixed paraffin embedded lung sections. Using ELISA, we also measured the titers of serum OAspecific IgGi antibodies, which increase during allergic sensitization and reflect Th2 responses. We also compared lung IFNy/IL-5 gene expression ratios as indices of Thl/Th2 balance, by semi-quantitative RT-PCR method. The results showed that low dose RSV had no effect on any of the indices of allergy and asthma examined. However, CpG-ODN intervention decreased the percentage of inflammatory cells and the titers of IgGi antibodies, and increased the lung IFNy/IL-5 gene expression ratios. We also tested the effect of CpG-ODN on uninfected OAsensitized guinea pigs and the results showed that CpG-ODN did not affect OA sensitization. In conclusion, the "low dose" RSV intervention had no effect on post-bronchiolitis allergic sensitization of guinea pigs but the CpG-ODN administration provided partial protection against combination of RSV infection and OA sensitization.
Dynamics of local quantum uncertainty among cavity-reservoir qubits
Creators: name: Ali, Mazhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamics of local quantum uncertainty (LQU) for a system of two cavities and two reservoirs. In the start, the cavities treated as two qubits are quantum correlated with each other, whereas reservoirs are neither correlated with each other nor with cavities. We answer two main questions in this work. First, how local quantum uncertainty decays from two quantum correlated cavities and grows among reservoirs. The second question is the examination of LQU developed among four qubits and also shed some light on its dynamics. We observe that LQU develops among reservoirs as kind of mirror image to its decay from cavities. For four qubits, we propose how to compute LQU such that the method is intuitive and conformable to the observation. We find that among four qubits LQU starts growing from zero to maximum value and then decays again to zero as the asymptotic state of cavities is completely transferred to reservoirs. We suggest the experimental setup to implement our results.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
From the Jaynes-Cummings model to non-Abelian gauge theories: a guided tour for the quantum engineer
Creators: name: Kasper, Valentin
name: Juzeliunas, Gediminas
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Jendrzejewski, Fred
name: Zohar, Erez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The design of quantum many body systems, which have to fulfill an extensive number of constraints, appears as a formidable challenge within the field of quantum simulation. Lattice gauge theories are a particular important class of quantum systems with an extensive number of local constraints and play a central role in high energy physics, condensed matter and quantum information. Whereas recent experimental progress points towards the feasibility of large-scale quantum simulation of Abelian gauge theories, the quantum simulation of non-Abelian gauge theories appears still elusive. In this paper we present minimal non-Abelian lattice gauge theories, whereby we introduce the necessary formalism in well-known Abelian gauge theories, such as the Jaynes-Cumming model. In particular, we show that certain minimal non-Abelian lattice gauge theories can be mapped to three or four level systems, for which the design of a quantum simulator is standard with current technologies. Further we give an upper bound for the Hilbert space dimension of a one dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory, and argue that the implementation with current digital quantum computer appears feasible.
THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Matei, Mirela
name: Stancu, Adrian
name: Vukovic, Predrag
name: Matei, Mirela
name: Stancu, Adrian
name: Vukovic, Predrag
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate change
subject: agriculture
subject: greenhouse gas

description: Global climate changes are taking place and its impacts on economy are already occurring in fields like tourism, agriculture, forestry, infrastructure, insurance industry or capital market. Specialists draw attention that climate change has negative effects and positive effects. For example, in some parts of Europe, especially in north, the agricultural may benefit from temperature rise increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The most important part of these changes is due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity. Between greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest contributor with a weight around of 80 % of total GHG emissions. The agriculture is the most affected sector by the climate change, but agricultural activities have many implications on environment through emissions of methane and nitrous oxide that result from changes in land use and agricultural production or through the production of bio fuels.
Atlantic Salmon Fishery in the Baltic Sea – A Case of Trivial Cooperation
Creators: name: Kulmala, Soile
name: Levontin, Polina
name: Lindroos, Marko
name: Pintassilgo, Pedro
name: Kulmala, Soile
name: Levontin, Polina
name: Lindroos, Marko
name: Pintassilgo, Pedro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Atlantic salmon
subject: bioeconomic model
subject: coalition formation
subject: partition function
subject: sharing rules
subject: stability analysis

description: This paper analyses the management of the Atlantic salmon stocks in the Baltic Sea through a coalition game in the partition function form. The signs of economic and biological over-exploitation of these salmon stocks over the last two decades indicate that cooperation among the harvesting countries, under the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy, has been superficial. Combining a two-stage game of four asymmetric players with a comprehensive bioeconomic model, we conclude that cooperation under the Relative Stability Principle is not a stable outcome. In contrast, the equilibrium of the game is non-cooperation. The paper also addresses the possibility of enhancing cooperation through more flexible fishing strategies. The results indicate that partial cooperation is stable under a specific sharing scheme. It is also shown that substantial economic benefits could have been realised by reallocating the fishing effort.
Implementation of quantum algorithms with resonant interactions
Creators: name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
name: Dong, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for implementing quantum algorithms with resonant interactions. Our scheme only requires resonant interactions between two atoms and a cavity mode, which is simple and feasible. Moreover, the implementation would be an important step towards the fabrication of quantum computers in cavity QED system.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of CCL1 blockade alleviates human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC)-induced pulmonary fibrosis in a murine sclerodermatous graft-versus-host disease (Scl-GVHD) model
Creators: name: Lim, Ji-Young
name: Ryu, Da-Bin
name: Kim, Tae Woo
name: Lee, Sung-Eun
name: Gyeongsin Park
name: Yoon, Hyoung Kyu
name: Chang-Ki Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods and figure.
Quantum optimal control of multi-level dissipative quantum systems with Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: An, Zheng
name: He, Qi-Kai
name: Song, Hai-Jing
name: Zhou, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Manipulate and control of the complex quantum system with high precision are essential for achieving universal fault tolerant quantum computing. For a physical system with restricted control resources, it is a challenge to control the dynamics of the target system efficiently and precisely under disturbances. Here we propose a multi-level dissipative quantum control framework and show that deep reinforcement learning provides an efficient way to identify the optimal strategies with restricted control parameters of the complex quantum system. This framework can be generalized to be applied to other quantum control models. Compared with the traditional optimal control method, this deep reinforcement learning algorithm can realize efficient and precise control for multi-level quantum systems with different types of disturbances.
description: 12 figures, 1 table
QuASeR -- Quantum Accelerated De Novo DNA Sequence Reconstruction
Creators: name: Sarkar, Aritra
name: Al-Ars, Zaid
name: Bertels, Koen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this article, we present QuASeR, a reference-free DNA sequence reconstruction implementation via de novo assembly on both gate-based and quantum annealing platforms. Each one of the four steps of the implementation (TSP, QUBO, Hamiltonians and QAOA) is explained with simple proof-of-concept examples to target both the genomics research community and quantum application developers in a self-contained manner. The details of the implementation are discussed for the various layers of the quantum full-stack accelerator design. We also highlight the limitations of current classical simulation and available quantum hardware systems. The implementation is open-source and can be found on https://github.com/prince-ph0en1x/QuASeR.
description: 24 pages
Opening the Treasure Chest: A Newborn Star Cluster Emerges from its Dust Pillar in Carina
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Bally, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present detailed observations of the Treasure Chest, a compact nebula at the head of a dust pillar in the southern Carina nebula. This object is of interest because it is an example of a dense young cluster containing at least one massive star, the formation of which may have been triggered by feedback from the very massive stars in the Carina nebula, and possibly Eta Car itself. We investigate both the nebular and stellar content of the object. Near-IR emission-line images reveal a cavity inside the head of the dust pillar, which contains a dense cluster of young stars, while the observed spectrum of the nebula is consistent with an H II region ionized by an O9.5 V star. After subtracting contamination of field stars within the Carina nebula itself, we compare the cluster's color magnitude diagram with pre-main-sequence isochrones to derive a likely cluster age less than about 0.1 Myr. This is in reasonable agreement with the dynamical age of a few times 10^4 yr for the expanding nebular cavity, indicating extreme youth. Stars in the Treasure Chest cluster are highly reddened, with extinction values as large as A_V=50. Two-thirds of cluster members show strong infrared excess colors indicative of circumstellar disks, which may prove to be among the highest fraction yet seen for a young cluster. All evidence suggests that the Treaure Chest is an extremely young cluster that is just now breaking out of its natal cloud into the surrounding massive star forming region, and is a good target for more detailed study.
description: 23 pages, 10 figs, 4 color figs
Additional file 1 of Nutritional status according to the mini nutritional assessment (MNA)® as potential prognostic factor for health and treatment outcomes in patients with cancer – a systematic review
Creators: name: Torbahn, G.
name: T. Strauss
name: C. C. Sieber
name: E. Kiesswetter
name: D. Volkert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Search strategy Medline (via Ovid). Table S3a: Results on mortality and poor overall survival (OS) (N = 33). Table S3b: Results on disease progression (progression-free survival (PFS) and time to progression (TTP)) (N = 5). Table S3c: Results on treatment maintenance or duration (N = 11). Table S3d: Results on adverse treatment outcomes (N = 15). Table 3e: Results functional status/ - decline (N = 4). Table S3f: Results (health-related) quality of life (n = 3).
How Profitable is Farm Business in Australia? Farm Performance Data and Some Implications from ABARE Broadacre and Dairy Industries Farm Surveys
Creators: name: Lagura, Erwin
name: Ronan, Glenn
name: Lagura, Erwin
name: Ronan, Glenn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Time series data on farm profitability for Australia and South Australia from ABARE’s farm surveys, shows a minority of businesses consistently profitable and a majority not. The paper finds evidence of prevalent and persistent negative farm profit in both available long-run data (1990-2007) and more recent data (2006-09). Trends in several structural change elements, productivity, farm size and age of operators, are also examined to aid the interpretation of farm economic performance in agri-food. The paper concludes with several contemporary examples of public policy distorting the structure and performance of the farm sector and spoiling the usefulness of profitability as an indicator of sectoral performance. Policies on hobby farming tax benefits, drought, and agribusiness managed investment schemes policy are discussed in this context
X-ray Bright Optically Inactive Galaxies (XBONG) in XMM-Newton/SDSS fields: more diluted than absorbed?
Creators: name: Georgantopoulos, I.
name: Georgakakis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the properties of X-ray Bright Optically Inactive Galaxies (XBONG) detected in the 0.5-8 keV spectral band in 20 public XMM fields overlapping with the SDSS. We constrain our sample to optically extended systems with log (f_X/f_o > -2) that have spectroscopic identifications available from the SDSS (r<19.2 mag). The resulting sample contains 12 objects with L_X (0.5-8keV)= 5 x 10^41 - 2x10^44 erg s-1 in the redshift range 0.06 < z < 0.45. The X-ray emission in four cases is extended suggesting the presence of hot gas associated with a cluster or group of galaxies. The X-ray spectral fits show that two additional sources are best fit with a thermal component emission (kT \~ 1 keV). Three sources aremost likely associated with AGN: their X-ray spectrum is described by a steep photon index ~ 1.9 typical of unobscured AGN while, they are very luminous in X-rays (L_X (0.5-8 keV) ~ 10^43 - 10^44 erg s-1.) Finally, three more sources could be associated with either normal galaxies or unobscured Low Luminosity AGN (L_X < 10^42 erg s-1). We find no evidence for significant X-ray absorbing columns in any of our XBONGs. The above suggest that XBONGs, selected in the total 0.5-8 keV band, comprise a mixed bag of objects primarily including normal elliptical galaxies and type-1 AGN whose optical nuclear spectrum is probably diluted by the strong stellar continuum. Nevertheless, as our sample is not statistically complete we cannot exclude the possibility that a fraction of optically fainter XBONG may be associated with heavily obscured AGN.
description: 8 pages to appear in MNRAS
agri benchmark: Benchmarking Beef Farming Systems Worldwide
Creators: name: Deblitz, Claus
name: Deblitz, Claus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The agri benchmark Beef Network is a unique association of economists, scientists, farmers and advisors, as well as scientific and agribusiness partners from more than 30 organisations across 23 countries. The Network benchmarks 'typical' beef finishing and cow-calf farms from participating countries, which are generated from panel meetings of farmers and advisors and collated using a standard operating procedure. Once data are entered and processed using a series of Excel spreadsheet tools, it is broken down to the enterprise and animal level for performing unit cost analyses. The complexity of the data recorded enables detailed analyses and international comparisons on farm demographics (land size, stocking numbers, daily weight gain, prices), cost breakdowns by composition and per 100 kg carcass weight, physical and economic labour productivity (kg beef per hour, return per unit of labour cost), land productivity (carcass weight per hectare), short and medium term profitability (per 100 kg carcass weight) and whole farm profitability ($AUD '000). This paper discusses the approach and benefits of the agri benchmark model and network and presents key findings and results from the 2009 partner countries, as well as new developments, including sheep and emission analyses, from the agri benchmark Beef Network.
M1.9 Third Synchronisation Workshop Report - 20250211_Graphical version
Creators: name: Everhardt, Marita
name: Fink, Anne Sofie
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Gonzalez, Esteban
name: Dillo, Ingrid
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Horton, Laurence
name: Marjamaa-Mankinen, Liisa
name: Verburg, Maaike
name: Priddy, Mike
name: GRAU, Nina
name: Rouchon, Olivier
name: Pittonet Gaiarin, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: FAIR
FAIR assessment
FAIR data
FAIR-IMPACT

description: The Synchronisation Force workshops, annual series held between 2022 and 2024, brought together various stakeholders to periodically assess the progress in the FAIR-IMPACT focus areas. This Milestone concerns the 2024 workshop series.

This Milestone demonstrates that FAIR-IMPACT, specifically Task 1.3 Synchronisation with EOSC Partnership and relevant projects and initiatives, organises an annual workshop series to monitor progress in FAIR practices across a wide range of EOSC initiatives and to disseminate such developments among the representatives of these initiatives.
Photometric selection of high-redshift type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Sullivan, M.
name: Howell, D. A.
name: Perrett, K.
name: Nugent, P.
name: Astier, P.
name: Aubourg, E.
name: Balam, D.
name: Basa, S.
name: Carlberg, R.
name: Conley, A.
name: Fabbro, S.
name: Fouchez, D.
name: Guy, J.
name: Hook, I.
name: Lafoux, H.
name: Neill, J. D.
name: Pain, R.
name: Palanque-Delabrouille, N.
name: Pritchet, C.
name: Regnault, N.
name: Rich, J.
name: Taillet, R.
name: Aldering, G.
name: Baumont, S.
name: Bronder, J.
name: Filiol, M.
name: Knop, R.
name: Perlmutter, S.
name: Tao, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for selecting high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) located via rolling SN searches. The technique, using both color and magnitude information of events from only 2-3 epochs of multi-band real-time photometry, is able to discriminate between SNe Ia and core collapse SNe. Furthermore, for the SNe Ia, the method accurately predicts the redshift, phase and light-curve parameterization of these events based only on pre-maximum-light data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique on a simulated survey of SNe Ia and core-collapse SNe, where the selection method effectively rejects most core-collapse SNe while retaining SNe Ia. We also apply the selection code to real-time data acquired as part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). During the period May 2004 to January 2005 in the SNLS, 440 SN candidates were discovered of which 70 were confirmed spectroscopically as SNe Ia and 15 as core-collapse events. For this test dataset, the selection technique correctly identifies 100% of the identified SNe II as non-SNe Ia with only a 1-2% false rejection rate. The predicted parameterization of the SNe Ia has a precision of |delta_z|/(1+z_spec)<0.09 in redshift, and +/- 2-3 rest-frame days in phase, providing invaluable information for planning spectroscopic follow-up observations. We also investigate any bias introduced by this selection method on the ability of surveys such as SNLS to measure cosmological parameters (e.g., w and omega matter), and find any effect to be negligible.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ
Quasiparticle scattering and local density of states in graphite
Creators: name: Bena, Cristina
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the effect of quasiparticle interference on the spatial variations of the local density of states (LDOS) in graphite in the neighborhood of an isolated impurity. A number of characteristic behaviors of interference are identified in the Fourier transformed spectrum. A comparison between our results and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments could provide a critical test of the range (of energy) of applicability of the Fermi liquid description of graphite, where some evidence of the breakdown of Fermi liquid theory has recently been discussed. Moreover, given the similarity between the band structures of graphite and that of nodal quasiparticles in a d-wave superconductor, a comparison between results in the two materials is useful for understanding the physics of the cuprates.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4
Additional file 1 of A prospect on the use of antiviral drugs to control local outbreaks of COVID-19
Creators: name: Torneri, Andrea
name: Libin, Pieter
name: Vanderlocht, Joris
name: Anne-Mieke Vandamme
name: Neyts, Johan
name: Hens, Niel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Sensitivity Analysis.
Hunting gravitational wave black holes with microlensing
Creators: name: Abrams, Natasha S.
name: Takada, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool to search for a population of invisible black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way (MW), including isolated BHs and binary BHs at wide orbits that are complementary to gravitational wave observations. By monitoring highly populated regions of source stars like the MW bulge region, one can pursue microlensing events due to these BHs. We find that if BHs have a Salpeter-like mass function extended beyond $30M_\odot$ and a similar velocity and spatial structure to stars in the Galactic bulge and disk regions, the BH population is a dominant source of the microlensing events at long timescales of the microlensing light curve $\gtrsim 100~$days. This is due to a boosted sensitivity of the microlensing event rate to lens mass, given as $M^2$, for such long-timescale events. A monitoring observation of $2 \times 10^{10}$ stars in the bulge region over 10 years with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) would enable one to find about $6\times 10^5$ BH microlensing events. We evaluate the efficiency of potential LSST cadences for characterizing the light curves of BH microlensing and find that nearly all events of long timescales can be detected.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures: accepted for publication in ApJ
D3.2.1 – Secure web-based communication platform for EuroFIR partners (with WP 1.1)
Creators: name: Institute of Food Research
name: Baigent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: D3.2.1 – Web-based communication platform became live on 01/08/2005 at www.eurofir.net
Profitability and risk evaluation of novel perennial pasture systems for livestock producers in the high rainfall zone: Context, Approach and Preliminary Results
Creators: name: Lewis, Claire
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Farquharson, Robert J.
name: Leury, Brian
name: Behrendt, Ralph
name: Clark, Steve
name: Lewis, Claire
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Farquharson, Robert J.
name: Leury, Brian
name: Behrendt, Ralph
name: Clark, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The decision to invest in pasture improvement raises various questions for the livestock grazier, with the most pertinent being about the potential returns and risks. In the high rainfall zone of south-west Victoria, researchers have trialled novel perennial pasture systems with the aim of substantially increasing on-farm profits whilst simultaneously improving environmental outcomes. Results from the Hamilton EverGraze® proof site have shown potential to greatly improve livestock production. Promotion of the pasture technology is the next step. Key to this process is developing information about profitability and risk regarding the decision to invest in the new pasture. To help meet this need a model of a representative mixed livestock farm system for the region has been developed to generate information about profit, cash wealth and risk to aid extension and help inform decisions. The farm is comprised of a wool and meat producing sheep system and a beef enterprise. Using the model, the performance of two of the novel pasture systems can be evaluated against current practice, and compared to determine which of the two is the most beneficial EverGraze® option for the future. The risk associated with the pasture decision is assessed by considering different price structures and seasonal outcomes, and evaluating these effects on net benefits. Discounted cash flows, net present values and internal rates of return are estimated for the alternative systems, which include the effects of this price and seasonal variability. Preliminary results have been calculated, however further work is needed to confirm these. The method and results of the analysis provide information that is valuable for farm decisions about investing in a new pasture system and provide a basis for future economic analyses at the case study site and elsewhere.
M1.9 Third Synchronisation Workshop Report - 20241218 1.0
Creators: name: Everhardt, Marita
name: Fink, Anne Sofie
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Gonzalez, Esteban
name: Dillo, Ingrid
name: Nordling, Josefine
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Horton, Laurence
name: Marjamaa-Mankinen, Liisa
name: Verburg, Maaike
name: Priddy, Mike
name: GRAU, Nina
name: Rouchon, Olivier
name: Pittonet Gaiarin, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: FAIR
FAIR assessment
FAIR data
FAIR-IMPACT

description: The Synchronisation Force workshops, annual series held between 2022 and 2024, brought together various stakeholders to periodically assess the progress in the FAIR-IMPACT focus areas. This Milestone concerns the 2024 workshop series.

This Milestone demonstrates that FAIR-IMPACT, specifically Task 1.3 Synchronisation with EOSC Partnership and relevant projects and initiatives, organises an annual workshop series to monitor progress in FAIR practices across a wide range of EOSC initiatives and to disseminate such developments among the representatives of these initiatives.
Statistics of Impedance and Scattering Matrices in Chaotic Microwave Cavities: Single Channel Case
Creators: name: Zheng, Xing
name: Antonsen, Thomas M.
name: Ott, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a model for studying the statistical properties of the impedance ($Z$) and scattering ($S$) matrices of open electromagnetic cavities with several transmission lines or waveguides connected to the cavity. In this paper, we mainly discuss the single port case. The generalization to multiple ports is treated in a companion paper. The model is based on assumed properties of chaotic eigenfunctions for the closed system. Analysis of the model successfully reproduces features of the random matrix model believed to be universal, while at the same time incorporating features which are specific to individual systems. Statistical properties of the cavity impedance $Z$ are obtained in terms of the radiation impedance (i.e., the impedance seen at a port with the cavity walls moved to infinity). Effects of wall absorption are discussed. Theoretical predictions are tested by direct comparison with numerical solutions for a specific system. (Here the word universal is used to denote high frequency statistical properties that are shared by the members of the general class of systems whose corresponding ray trajectories are chaotic. These universal properties are, by definition, independent of system-specific details.)
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of The ProBio trial: molecular biomarkers for advancing personalized treatment decision in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
Creators: name: Crippa, Alessio
name: Laere, Bram De
name: Discacciati, Andrea
name: Larsson, Berit
name: Connor, Jason T.
name: Gabriel, Erin E.
name: Thellenberg, Camilla
name: Jänes, Elin
name: Enblad, Gunilla
name: Ullen, Anders
name: Hjälm-Eriksson, Marie
name: Oldenburg, Jan
name: Ost, Piet
name: Lindberg, Johan
name: Eklund, Martin
name: Grönberg, Henrik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Patients pathway. Patients in ProBio may end up in an observational arm where standard-of-care (SOC) is administered. This may have been the result of low or undetectable ctDNA (Pathway 1, 10 & 14), technical failure during liquid biopsy profiling (Pathway 2, 11 & 15) or identification of the MSI or hypermutator (Pathway 3). When biomarker signature can be inferred, the trajectory of the new patient depends whether particular biomarker signature-treatments combinations have graduated. If none are available, the patient will be randomized either to the control group (SOC) or one of the active treatments (Pathway 4 & 5). Upon first randomisation and progressive disease, the allocated patients remain in their respective arm for re-randomisation (Pathway 8 & 12). However, as patients might be unfit or unwilling to continue the trial after their first randomisation, both patient and treating physician might chose to discontinue the patient and exit the trial (Pathway 9 & 13). If a newly entered patient has a biomarker signature for which a graduated biomarker signature-therapy combination is available, the patient will enter a confirmatory trial pathway, which uses fixed randomisation between control and graduating treatment (Pathway 6-7). Finally, upon progressive disease after the second randomisation (Pathway 16 & 17), or after randomisation within the confirmatory trial testing the graduated biomarker signature-therapy combination (Pathway 18), all patients will discontinue and exit the ProBio trial.
Meta-evaluations in government and government institutions: A case study example from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Creators: name: Madzivhandila, T.P.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Nesamvuni, A.E.
name: Madzivhandila, T.P.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Nesamvuni, A.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Meta-evaluation
subject: Evaluation Quality
subject: Program Evaluation Standards
subject: Evaluation Model
subject: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
subject: Limpopo Department of Agriculture (South Africa)

description: In this paper we draw on impact assessment work of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to present an example of meta-evaluation – an evaluation of evaluations – in an agricultural research, development and extension setting. We explore quality issues relating to evaluation studies in the context of government institutions. Program evaluation standards (PES) are divided into categories of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy to provide a framework for the meta-evaluation. The PES are presented as a universal measure of evaluation study quality. The intent of using them here is to judge the adequacy of PES as a universal quality measure or meta-evaluation base and to extract useful insights from ACIAR program evaluation activities when developing a meta-evaluation model for the Limpopo Department of Agriculture (LDA). Our meta-evaluation is undertaken of 63 impact assessment reports. First, the literature guiding the conduct of a meta-evaluation is reviewed. Second, an assessment (the meta-evaluation) of the evaluation studies is carried out for 19 sampled reports from a population of relevant reports fitting the dimension of the analysis, and results are presented and discussed. Also, lessons learned are presented, using the framework provided by the meta-evaluation criteria. Third, taking into account the lessons learned, implications are drawn for a proposed systematic meta-evaluation of the LDA. Finally, we conclude that all the PES cannot be equally emphasized in a meta-evaluation model. At ACIAR, 70% of the standards were at least partially addressed. Therefore, we succeeded in using the PES in judging the ACIAR evaluation quality. As such, they can be an important base when developing an evaluation model but should be applied in a contextualized manner.
Additional file 3 of A pilot study of essential tremor: cerebellar GABA+/Glx ratio is correlated with tremor severity
Creators: name: Tapper, Sofie
name: Göransson, Nathanael
name: Lundberg, Peter
name: Tisell, Anders
name: Zsigmond, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Pentaquarks: review of the experimental evidence
Creators: name: Kabana, Sonia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pentaquarks, namely baryons made by 4 quarks and one antiquark have been predicted and searched for since several decades without success. Theoretical and experimental advances in the last 2 years led to the observation of a number of pentaquark candidates. We review the experimental evidence for pentaquarks as well as their non-observations by some experiments, and discuss to which extend these sometimes contradicting informations may lead to a consistent picture.
description: Contribution to the International Conference on 'Strangeness in Quark Matter', 15-21 Sept. 2004, Cape Tawn, South Africa
The prevalence of gingival overgrowth in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with cyclosporin
Creators: name: McCloy, Deborah F.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cyclosporin has been recognized since the mid 1980's as a potent disease-modifying agent for inflammatory auto-immune diseases that are unresponsive to standard therapeutic regimens. From the organ transplant literature, cyclosporin is known to induce gingival overgrowth in the first ninety days of treatment. In Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), gingival overgrowth, coupled with the common feature of compromised manual dexterity, may make dental plaque control difficult for immunosupressed patients, resulting in increased susceptibility to oral complications. Determination of oral health status has not been included previously in patient evaluations. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of gingival overgrowth, predisposing factors and types of oral complications occurring in this population group. The objectives of the study were to determine the prevalence and severity of gingival overgrowth and to determine at what point in the treatment regime the patients were most at risk. Twenty-eight volunteer R A patients took participated in the study. Twenty-two were placed on a cyclosporin treatment regime while six were used as a control group and placed on Methotrexate. Methotrexate is an immunosupressive medication frequently used in the treatment of advanced RA. It does not induce gingival overgrowth but it does produce a high incidence of oral ulceration. At Day Zero, patients were examined by a calibrated examiner to determine probing depths, periodontal attachment loss, maximum opening and gingival inflammation using standard indices. Plaque scores and the presence and severity of gingival overgrowth were recorded. Patients completed a Quality of Life (QOL) Visual Analogue Scale at Day One. Patients were re-examined every four to six weeks for a minimum of six months. At each appointment they were interviewed about their oral health experiences. Upon leaving the study, participants again completed the QOL visual analogue scale. There was no significant correlation between plaque accumulation and oral complications. Gingival overgrowth was not detected in any of the patients. There was no significant correlation between plaque accumulation and gingival inflammation. Maximum opening scores did not correlate with plaque accumulation scores but did correlate with QOL scores. There was a decrease in gingival inflammation scores through the course of the study.
Exact Renormalization Group, Entanglement Entropy, and Black Hole Entropy
Creators: name: Miqueleto, Joao Lucas
name: Landulfo, Andre G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of black hole physics revealed a fundamental connection between thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and gravity. Today, it is known that black holes are thermodynamical objects with well-defined temperature and entropy. Although black hole radiance gives us the mechanism from which we can associate a well-defined temperature to the black hole, the origin of its entropy remains a mystery. Here we investigate how the quantum fluctuations from the fields that render the black hole its temperature contribute to its entropy. By using the exact renormalization group equation for a self-interacting real scalar field in a spacetime possessing a bifurcate Killing horizon, we find the renormalization group flow of the total gravitational entropy. We show that throughout the flow one can split the quantum field contribution to the entropy into a part coming from the entanglement between field degrees of freedom inside and outside the horizon and a part due to the quantum corrections to the Wald entropy coming from the Noether charge. The renormalized black hole entropy is shown to be constant throughout the flow while the balance between the effective black hole entropy at low energies and the infra-red entanglement entropy changes. A similar conclusion is valid for the Wald entropy part of the total entropy. Additionally, our calculations show that there is no mismatch between the renormalization of the coupling constants coming from the effective action or the gravitational entropy, solving an apparent "puzzle" that appeared to exist for interacting fields.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
METAFRONTIER ANALYSIS OF FARM-LEVEL EFFICIENCIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL-TECHNOLOGY GAPS IN PHILIPPINE RICE FARMING
Creators: name: Mariano, Marc Jim
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Acda, Rachelle
name: Mariano, Marc Jim
name: Villano, Renato A.
name: Fleming, Euan M.
name: Acda, Rachelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: Technology gap
subject: Metafrontier
subject: Stochastic production frontier
subject: Philippine rice farming productivity

description: Rice producers in the Philippines operate in different physical environments that are largely beyond their control, especially in terms of the agroclimatic conditions they face. Each rice area requires a unique set of location-specific technologies to match its location-specific needs. The rice production frontier is expected to vary, depending on the degree of yield-enhancing interventions implemented by the government and adopted by farmers. Understanding differences in specific production frontiers in different production systems should provide better assessments of yield performance across different locations and enable rice scientists to develop location-specific technologies as well as disseminate appropriate technologies to farmers in different climatic zones. A precise analysis of productive efficiencies, technology gaps and technical change among these zones may contribute to a more accurate targeting and effective design of the government’s rice program. We measure technical efficiencies and technological gaps in rice production for farmers in four agroclimatic zones in the Philippines who may employ different production technologies according to environmental conditions. Climatic zone 3 is considered most favourable for rice production based on the intensity and distribution patterns of rainfall. A stochastic metafrontier function is used to compare mean technical efficiency and the environmental and technological gap ratio (ETGR) across climatic zones. We estimated four regional stochastic frontiers using the standard stochastic frontier model based on a translog functional form. A deterministic metafrontier production function was then fitted to the regional frontiers. Farm-level panel data were used from a three-round survey covering six cropping periods – the wet seasons of 1996, 2001 and 2006 and the dry seasons of 1997, 2002 and 2007. Results show surprisingly little interzonal variation in productivity. First, the production frontiers are quite stable across the different agroclimatic zones. The mean ETGR is quite high in all zones and varies in a narrow range from 0.83 to 0.87. Farmers operating in agroclimatic zone 3 are the most productive group followed by those operating in agroclimatic zone 2. Mean technical efficiencies of farmers in respect of their group frontiers are also closely grouped, ranging from 0.74 to 0.76. It appears that Philippine rice producers have been able to adapt their crop management strategies well to suit their particular agroclimatic conditions.
Signatures of complex new physics in $b\to cτ\barν$ transitions
Creators: name: Kumbhakar, Suman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalies in the measurements of $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$ continue to provide motivation for physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we assume the new physics Wilson coefficients to be complex and find their values by doing a global fit to the present $b\rightarrow cτ\barν$ data. We find that the number of allowed solutions depend on the choice of the upper limit on $Br(B_c\rightarrow τ\barν)$. We find that the forward-backward asymmetries in $B\rightarrow (D, D^*)τ\barν$ decays have the capability to distinguish between different solutions. Further we calculate the maximum values of CP violating triple product asymmetries in $B\to D^*τ\barν$ decay allowed the current data. We observe that only one of the three CP asymmetries can be enhanced up to a maximum value of $\sim 2-3\%$ whereas the other asymmetries remain smaller.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B