cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Separated at Birth: The origin of the pulsars B2020+28 and B2021+51 in the Cygnus Superbubble
Creators: name: Vlemmings, W. H. T.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Chatterjee, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High precision astrometric data have enabled us to determine the trajectories through the Galactic potential for a growing number of pulsars. This has resulted in the discovery of a pulsar pair (B2020+28 and B2021+51) that has a common origin in the Cygnus Superbubble or in one of its related OB associations at an epoch which is comparable with the spin-down ages of the pulsars. Analysis of the Galactic orbits indicates that the progenitors of the pulsars had similar masses and were in a binary system, which was disrupted after the second supernova explosion. The implied pulsar birth velocities are consistent with the high velocities of neutron stars in general. The initial spin period of the pulsar that was formed in the second supernova explosion was approximately 200 ms. A further increase in astrometric accuracy will allow us to more tightly constrain the birth velocities and the kick velocities that were imparted by the two respective supernova explosions. Two additional pulsars in the sample of 24 with parallax measurements may also have originated in the Cygnus Superbubble.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures; emulateapj; Accepted by ApJ
Additional file 4 of PfSWIB, a potential chromatin regulator for var gene regulation and parasite development in Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Wang, Wei-Feng
name: Zhang, Yi-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Western blot of PfSWIB in different parasite lines. a Western blot was performed within the third life-cycle. b Gray-level image analysis was performed using ImageJ software. Abbreviations: R, ring; T: trophozoite; Ald: aldolase.
Long Lived Large Type II Strings: decay within compactification
Creators: name: Chialva, Diego
name: Iengo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated also by recent revival of interest about metastable string states (as cosmic strings or in accelerator physics), we study the decay, in presence of dimensional compactification, of a particular superstring state, which was proven to be remarkably long-lived in the flat uncompactified scenario. We compute the decay rate by an exact numerical evaluation of the imaginary part of the one-loop propagator. For large radii of compactification, the result tends to the fully uncompactified one (lifetime T = const M^5/g^2), as expected, the string mainly decaying by massless radiation. For small radii, the features of the decay (emitted states, initial mass dependence,....) change, depending on how the string wraps on the compact dimensions.
description: 32 pages, 24 text plus appendices, 4 figures
Model selection applications in time series studies of air pollution and mortality
Creators: name: Jiang, Ying
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Air Pollution Health aspects Illinois Chicago
subject: Air Pollution Illinois Chicago
subject: Mortality Illinois Chicago
subject: Air quality Illinois Chicago
subject: Time-series analysis

description: A number of time series studies provide evidence that air pollution levels are associated with daily death counts. Most of these studies explain these associations by using Poisson log-linear regression models, after allowing for possible confounders. However, the findings of these time series studies suffer from several problems, of which the most significant is conflicting results from different approaches to model selection. To address this problem, this dissertation compares the statistical properties of these approaches, including those with and without model selection uncertainty. In the simulation experiments, the sensitivity of these statistical properties to the choice of bootstrap resampling schemes, including a parametric bootstrap and residual-based bootstrap, is investigated. Simulation results indicate that regardless of the type of resampling schemes used, Bayesian model averaging methods based on Akaike's Information Criterion (BMA-aic) perform well in predicting the mortality effect of particulate matter. Additionally, rather than the standard use of the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), this study suggests using Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) for the data from Chicago, if prediction is the goal. Thus, when predicting seasonal mortality effects of air pollution in Chicago, this dissertation incorporates AIC to identify the pattern of unmeasured confounding effects for each season in that city. A common approach to control for unmeasured confounding effects is to adopt a natural cubic spline function of time with fixed degrees of freedom per year. This approach uses an annual adjustment for these effects. However, in reality, these effects may vary according to season; given this, seasonal adjustments for these effects are advocated. As such, this raises the issue of how to control the confounders adequately in the natural cubic spline function. To resolve this issue, a model is proposed to explain the association between particulate matter and mortality after allowing for the seasonal patterns of confounders. AIC is used to select the degrees of freedom for each season. The results indicate a high mortality level during seasons with high particulate matter concentrations.
microRNA involvement in root organ formation and function in Medicago truncatula
Creators: name: Eyles, Rodney Peter
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: medicago truncatula
microrna
root meristem
root organogenesis
next generation sequencing
microrna profiling
mir166
mir2087
root nodulation
nitrogen fixation

description: Plant root architecture is regulated by the formation and function of meristems at the sites of root organogenesis. Meristem formation requires the generation of stem cell niches which produce the new cells of the growing organ. microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as regulators of many key biological functions in plants including root organogenesis. To identify key miRNAs involved in root meristem formation in M. truncatula, deep sequencing was used to compare the miRNA populations between root tip (RT), containing root apical meristem, and elongation zone (EZ) tissue plus root forming callus (RFC) and non-root forming callus (NRFC). We identified 83 previously reported miRNAs, 24 new to M. truncatula, in 44 families. Functional analysis was performed on two of these predicted miRNAs, miRN304 and miR166g-5p. Over-expression of novel miRNA, miRN304, produces severe root abnormalities including stunted growth, loss of meristem structure and a poorly formed vasculature. mtr-miR166a-5p corresponds to the passenger strand of miR166a-3p, a miRNA previously shown to negatively regulate lateral root and nodule numbers. miR166a-5p over-expression results in increased nodule numbers and acts independently of miR166a-3p and may be a previously un-identified.
РОЛЬ ПОЛИМОРФИЗМОВ ГЕНА MDR1 В ИНДИВИДУАЛИЗАЦИИ ЛЕЧЕНИЯ ОСТЕОАРТРИТА С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ ФАРМАКОГЕНЕТИЧЕСКОГО ПОДХОДА
Creators: name: Абдужаборов, Жамшидбек
name: Омонов, Жамшид
name: Турсунбоев, Улугбек
name: Кушбоева, Шабнам
name: Абдурахманова, Сайёра
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ревматоидный артрит (РА) является хроническим аутоиммунным заболеванием, которое значительно снижает качество жизни и ведет к инвалидности уже в молодом возрасте. Несмотря на значительные достижения в лечении, около 30-35% пациентов продолжают испытывать активность заболевания, что подтверждает необходимость дальнейших исследований в области оптимизации терапии. В последние годы все большее внимание уделяется роли фармакогенетики, которая позволяет подобрать лечение, основываясь на индивидуальных генетических особенностях пациента. В частности, полиморфизмы гена MDR1, играющего ключевую роль в метаболизме препаратов, таких как метотрексат, могут значительно повлиять на эффективность лечения. Данное исследование направлено на изучение взаимосвязи полиморфизмов гена MDR1 с исходами лечения пациентов с РА и на разработку персонализированных методов терапии.
The Stochastic State Selection Method for Energy Eigenvalues in the Shastry-Sutherland Model
Creators: name: Munehisa, Tomo
name: Munehisa, Yasuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a recently developed stochastic method to the Shastry-Sutherland model on 4x4 and 8x8 lattices. This method, which we call the Stochastic State Selection Method here, enables us to evaluate expectation values of powers of the Hamiltonian with very limited number of states. In this paper we first apply it to the 4x4 Shastry-Sutherland system, where one can easily obtain the exact ground state, in order to demonstrate that the method works well for this frustrated system. We numerically show that errors of the evaluations depend much on representations of the states and that the restructured representation is better than the normal one for this model. Then we study the 8x8 system to estimate energy eigenvalues of the lowest S=1 state as well as of the lowest excited S=0 state, where S denotes the total spin of the system. The results, which are in good accordance with our previous data obtained by the Operator Variational method, support that an intermediate spin-gap phase exists between the singlet dimer phase and the magnetically ordered phase. Estimates of the critical coupling and of the spin gap for the transition from the dimer phase to the intermediate phase are also presented.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps var. caroliniana Vana et L. Soderstr. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Váňa, Jiŕí
name: Söderström, Lars
name: Hagborg, Anders
name: Konrat, Matt Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Cephaloziaceae
Fuscocephaloziopsis
Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps
Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps var. caroliniana (r.m.schust.) váňa et l.söderstr.

description: Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps var. caroliniana (R.M.Schust.) Váňa et L.Söderstr., comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Cephalozia pleniceps var. caroliniana R.M.Schust., Hepat. Anthocerotae N. Amer. 3: 780, 1974 (Schuster 1974).
 Type:— USA. North Carolina: along Davidson R., in gorge just above Looking Glass Falls, north of Brevard, R. M. Schuster 61245 (holotype F-1825694).
Note:—This variety also creates the autonym.
description: Published as part of Váňa, Jiŕí, Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2013, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 41. New combinations and synonyms in Cephaloziaceae (Marchantiophyta), pp. 7-15 in Phytotaxa 112 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.112.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10088085
Casimir forces on deformed fermionic chains
Creators: name: Mula, Begoña
name: Santalla, Silvia N.
name: Rodríguez-Laguna, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the Casimir forces for the Dirac vacuum on free-fermionic chains with smoothly varying hopping amplitudes, which correspond to (1+1)D curved spacetimes with a static metric in the continuum limit. The first-order energy potential for an obstacle on that lattice corresponds to the Newtonian potential associated to the metric, while the finite-size corrections are described by a curved extension of the conformal field theory predictions, including a suitable boundary term. We show that, for weak deformations of the Minkowski metric, Casimir forces measured by a local observer at the boundary are metric-independent. We provide numerical evidence for our results on a variety of (1+1)D deformations: Minkowski, Rindler, anti-de Sitter (the so-called rainbow system) and sinusoidal metrics.
Informative image partitioning: techniques and applications
Creators: name: Brewer, Nathan William
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: It is natural for us as humans to pay more attention to some parts of what we see in the world around us than others. This thesis introduces a technique for partitioning an image in such a way that 'interesting' objects are segmented into fine segments while 'uninteresting' objects are segmented into coarse segments, called an Informa- tive Image Partitioning. This is achieved by first producing an oversegmentation of an image, dividing the whole image into small segments. These segments are then merged together in uninteresting areas to create different scales of segmentation in different parts of the image. Two different techniques are presented for producing an Informative Image Part- itioning from user input. The first is based on learning a distance metric and a threshold to determine if two adjacent oversegments should be merged. The second method introduces a novel edge to node transformation and trains a binary Support Vector Machine classifier on this new graph to determine if a pair of oversegments should be merged. As the translation from the edge graph to an image partitioning is not one to one, three loop resolution methods are introduced to resolve potential ambiguities. These techniques are able to generate an image partitioning which has the desired 'focussing' behaviour. A key feature of the techniques detailed in this thesis is that the 'interestingness' of different objects is defined by the user using simple side information, and objects do not need to be explicitly classified in order to define them as interesting or uninteresting. This thesis also explores the behaviour of these methods. It shows that it is pos- sible to train a task-specific model for generating an Informative Image Partitioning on similar images. In addition it demonstrates the impact of different user input on the partitioning developed, showing that different objects are able to be defined as the object of interest in an image. Further, the thesis details the performance of the developed methods using only a single channel of information. Two applications of Informative Image Partitioning, image and video compres- sion and stereo disparity calculation, are also discussed. When used as a part of an image compression algorithm, high image and video compression results are achieved, and compressed images are both qualitatively and quantitatively good. The Informative Image Partitioning process can also be used to improve stereo dis- parity by making use of a piecewise planar assumption and treating planar objects as uninteresting. By treating each partition within a processed image as a plane, it is possible to generate disparity maps with better performance in large, low informa- tion areas in which disparity calculation methods have traditionally had difficulty.
Aesthetic Outcomes of Patient with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Following NasoAlveolar Molding (NAM) Therapy in an Outreach Setting, in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Creators: name: Kassam, Serena
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: To Assess a model integrating long term delivery of pre-surgical NasoAlveolar Molding (NAM) therapy as a part of sustainable comprehensive cleft care treatment, in an outreach setting. Methods: Using the Cleft Aesthetic Rating Scale (CARS) and a modified scar rating scale, to assess aesthetic outcomes of patients who had received NAM were compared to their non-NAM controls. Intra and Inter- rater agreements were also evaluated. Results: Using the CARS and a modified scar rating scale, patients who had received NAM were found to have superior nose, lip, and scar aesthetic outcomes in comparison to our non-NAM controls; CARS Nose, CARS Lip, Scar Color, Scar Heigh, Scar Width Overall, we saw a trend toward better outcomes for patients treated with NAM vs no-NAM. Overall intra- rater agreement across all assessment points was strong and moderate for inter-rater agreement. Conclusion: Our study has shown that NAM patients trended toward improved scores for Nasolabial esthetics in Unilateral CLCP and Scar outcomes for both Bilateral and Unilateral CLCP patients treated in Guayaquil Ecuador with GSF. However more investigation is needed to show universal statistical significance in our results. Our results suggests that NAM is not only feasible in an outreach setting, but it is also shows promise with improved lip, nose and scar outcomes.
In Search of the Chiral Regime
Creators: name: Beane, Silas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A critical appraisal is given of a recent analysis of the quark-mass and finite-size dependence of unquenched lattice QCD data for the nucleon mass. We use this forum to estimate the boundary of the chiral regime for nucleon properties.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Decay of a quasi-stable quantum system and quantum backflow
Creators: name: van Dijk, Wytse
name: Toyama, F. Masafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay of quasi-stable quantum system involves primarily an outgoing probability current density. However, during the transition from exponential to inverse-power-law decay there are time intervals during which this current, although small, is inward. In this paper this inward flow is associated with quantum backflow. Furthermore substantial backflow exists for time-evolving free wave packets which are initially confined in space.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures
Hamiltonian N=2 Superfield Quantization
Creators: name: Batalin, I. A.
name: Damgaard, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a superfield construction of Hamiltonian quantization with N=2 supersymmetry generated by two fermionic charges Q^a. As a byproduct of the analysis we also derive a classically localized path integral from two fermionic objects Σ^a that can be viewed as ``square roots'' of the classical bosonic action under the product of a functional Poisson bracket.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX, misprint corrected, a reference added
Additional file 3 of PfSWIB, a potential chromatin regulator for var gene regulation and parasite development in Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Wang, Wei-Feng
name: Zhang, Yi-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Identification of integration events and clone screening of integrated clones. a Clone screening was performed by a serial dilution of parasites in 96-well plates. b Identification of integration events by PCR.
Lorentz Invariance And Unitarity Problem In Non-Commutative Field Theory
Creators: name: Morita, Katsusada
name: Okumura, Yoshitaka
name: Umezawa, Eizou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the one-loop two-point amplitude in {\it Lorentz-invariant} non-commutative (NC) $ϕ^3$ theory is finite after subtraction in the commutative limit and satisfies the usual cutting rule, thereby eliminating the unitarity problem in Lorentz-non-invariant NC field theory in the approximation considered.
description: 14 pages
Human Capital: Parental Aspirations, Ethnic Differences and Crime
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Minh Hieu
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: human capital
education
child's time allocation
parental aspiration
ethnic inequality
crime
Vietnam
Indonesia

description: This thesis comprises three empirical papers. Using various econometric techniques, each paper examines different aspects of human capital. These aspects vary from determinants of human capital to heterogeneity in human capital, and to non-economic benefit of human capital. The objective of this thesis is to obtain a better understanding about issues related human capital and education in developing countries, in particular Indonesia and Vietnam. The first research paper examines the role of parental academic aspirations for a child in determining the allocation of the child’s time. Parental academic aspirations are included in a theoretical model of household utility maximization to assess how they affect the child’s optimal time allocation. Then, an empirical analysis is conducted to verify the effect of parental aspirations on a child’s hours of study and work by using data from the 2006 and 2014 Vietnam Young Lives Survey. The instrumental variable approach is adopted to address a problem related to the simultaneity of decision making process and endogeneity of parental aspirations. Both the theoretical and empirical results show that parental academic aspirations are positively associated with the child’s hours of study and negatively associated with the child’s hours of work. The second research paper seeks to understand the reasons for the ethnic gaps in education outcomes, measured by enrolment rate, schooling progress and test scores, in Vietnam. The examination employs Probit and multilevel regression models, and associated decomposition techniques. The estimation results suggest that the factors mainly driving the poor performance at school of minority children are not their own internal attributes, but disadvantages related to the external determinants. The decomposition results show that the gap in enrolment is mostly explained by household characteristics. However, all child, household and commune attributes significantly contribute to the gap in schooling progress. The test score gaps are attributable to a broader set of variables such as parent’s education, the use of the Vietnamese language, peer and school characteristics. The third paper identifies the causal effect of education on property crime at the district level in Indonesia over the period 2007–2012. Both dynamics of crime and endogeneity of education are taken into accounted by applying difference generalized method of moments. The results show that more educated neighbourhoods experience less crime. Secondary and higher education play a particularly important role in crime reduction. Effects are more pronounced for crimes reported by males than females. One mechanism seems to be that there are fewer opportunities for engaging in criminal behaviour when one is in school. Extreme poverty appears to weaken the extent to which education reduces crime.
Luidia alternata subsp. alternata
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Paxillosida
Luidiidae
Luidia
Luidia alternata
Luidia alternata alternata (say, 1825)

description: granulosa Perrier, 1869, Luidia
Luidia granulosa Perrier, 1869: 303, pl. 2, fig. 18.
Luidia alternata alternata ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 4.
CURRENT STATUS. — Luidia alternata alternata (Say, 1825).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Caribbean Sea • holotype; West Indies; Plée leg.; 1825; MNHN-IE-2014-373.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 288, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
The case for dynamical dark energy revisited
Creators: name: Alam, Ujjaini
name: Sahni, Varun
name: Starobinsky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behaviour of dark energy using the recently released supernova data of Riess et al ~(2004) and a model independent parameterization for dark energy (DE). We find that, if no priors are imposed on $Ω_{0m}$ and $h$, DE which evolves with time provides a better fit to the SNe data than $Λ$CDM. This is also true if we include results from the WMAP CMB data. From a joint analysis of SNe+CMB, the best-fit DE model has $w_0 < -1$ at the present epoch and the transition from deceleration to acceleration occurs at $z_T = 0.39 \pm 0.03$. However, DE evolution becomes weaker if the $Λ$CDM based CMB results $Ω_{0m} = 0.27 \pm 0.04$, $h = 0.71 \pm 0.06$ are incorporated in the analysis. In this case, $z_T = 0.57 \pm 0.07$. Our results also show that the extent of DE evolution is sensitive to the manner in which the supernova data is sampled.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures. Discussions enhanced, new references added. Matches version published in JCAP
Interactions of a massless tensor field with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor. No-go results
Creators: name: Bizdadea, C.
name: Ciobirca, C. C.
name: Cioroianu, E. M.
name: Saliu, S. O.
name: Sararu, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-trivial, consistent interactions of a free, massless tensor field t_{μν|αβ} with the mixed symmetry of the Riemann tensor are studied in the following cases: self-couplings, cross-interactions with a Pauli-Fierz field and cross-couplings with purely matter theories. The main results, obtained from BRST cohomological techniques under the assumptions on smoothness, locality, Lorentz covariance and Poincaré invariance of the deformations, combined with the requirement that the interacting Lagrangian is at most second-order derivative, can be synthesized into: no consistent self-couplings exist, but a cosmological-like term; no cross-interactions with the Pauli-Fierz field can be added; no non-trivial consistent cross-couplings with the matter theories such that the matter fields gain gauge transformations are allowed.
description: for version 3: 45 pages, uses amssymb; shortened version, the three appendices from version 2 can be found in hep-th/0402099
Validation of a portable game controller to assess peak expiratory flow against conventional spirometry in children
Creators: name: Chelabi, Khadidja
name: Balli, Fabio
name: Bransi, Myriam
name: Gervais, Yannick
name: Marthe, Clement
name: Tse, Sze Man
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open-source spirometry
peak expiratory flow
asthmatic children
pulmonary function test
lung capacity
expiratory volume
open-source game controller
open hardware for respiratory health
games for health
respiratory health promotion

description: The game controller we designed represents a novel tool that has proven to be valid compared to spirometry in measuring PEF values in children aged 8-15 years old with a mean bias of -36.4 L/min. The values are reproducible at 96.2% without coaching, suggesting it could be used without supervision and outside the clinical environment. The game controller was highly appreciated by our study participants with up to 78.3% reporting they would use the game if they had it at home. There was insufficient data to evaluate the game controller’s response to bronchodilator. Further studies are necessary to evaluate users’ adherence over time, the validity of the game controller in different situations, and its impact on clinical outcomes, specifically its role in the prevention of asthma exacerbations.
description: Full article (open access): https://doi.org/10.2196/25052 – Video: https://youtu.be/Ht2sVoU6gXo
Twisted representation rings and Dirac induction
Creators: name: Landweber, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19A22, 19L47 (primary), 17B10, 22E47 (secondary)

description: Extending ideas of twisted equivariant $K$-theory, we construct twisted versions of the representation rings for Lie superalgebras and Lie supergroups, built from projective $\Z_{2}$-graded representations with a given cocycle. We then investigate the pullback and pushforward maps on these representation rings (and their completions) associated to homomorphisms of Lie superalgebras and Lie supergroups. As an application, we consider the Lie supergroup $Π(T^{*}G)$, obtained by taking the cotangent bundle of a compact Lie group and reversing the parity of its fibers. An inclusion $H \hookrightarrow G$ induces a homomorphism from the twisted representation ring of $Π(T^{*}H)$ to the twisted representation ring of $Π(T^{*}G)$, which pulls back via an algebraic version of the Thom isomorphism to give an additive homomorphism from $K_{H}(\mathrm{pt})$ to $K_{G}(\mathrm{pt})$ (possibly with twistings). We then show that this homomorphism is in fact Dirac induction, which takes an $H$-module $U$ to the $G$-equivariant index of the Dirac operator $\dirac \otimes U$ on the homogeneous space $G/H$ with values in the homogeneous bundle induced by $U$.
description: 26 pages. Shortened the paper and cleaned up problems with cocycles vs. cohomology classes, Proposition 2, and other minor issues
Dirac's Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics from an Unconstrained Dynamics
Creators: name: Rothe, Heinz J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the Hamilton equations of motion for a constrained system in the form given by Dirac, by a limiting procedure, starting from the Lagrangean for an unconstrained system. We thereby ellucidate the role played by the primary constraints and their persistance in time.
description: 10 pages
Additional file 2 of PfSWIB, a potential chromatin regulator for var gene regulation and parasite development in Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Wang, Wei-Feng
name: Zhang, Yi-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Primer sets used in qPCR assays specifically to amplify 44 var genes.
Fuscocephaloziopsis zoopsioides Vana et L. Soderstr. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Váňa, Jiŕí
name: Söderström, Lars
name: Hagborg, Anders
name: Konrat, Matt Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Cephaloziaceae
Fuscocephaloziopsis
Fuscocephaloziopsis zoopsioides

description: Fuscocephaloziopsis zoopsioides (Horik.) Váňa et L.Söderstr., comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Cephalozia zoopsioides Horik., J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ., Ser. B., Div. 2, Bot. 2: 178, 1934 (Horikawa 1934).
 Type:— JAPAN. Kagoshima Pref.: Ins. Yakushima, Kosugidani-Wilsonkabu, July 1933, Y . Horikawa 11815 (holotype HIRO!)
description: Published as part of Váňa, Jiŕí, Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2013, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 41. New combinations and synonyms in Cephaloziaceae (Marchantiophyta), pp. 7-15 in Phytotaxa 112 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.112.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10088085
Inverse time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from coated polyhedral scatterers with a single far-field pattern
Creators: name: Hu, Guang-Hui
name: Vashisth, Manmohan
name: Yang, Jiaqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proved that a convex polyhedral scatterer of impedance type can be uniquely determined by the electric far-field pattern of a non-vanishing incident field. The incoming wave is allowed to bean electromagnetic plane wave, a vector Herglotz wave function or a point source wave incited by some magnetic dipole. Our proof relies on the reflection principle for Maxwell's equations with the impedance (or Leontovich) boundary condition enforcing on a hyper-plane. We prove that it is impossible to analytically extend the total field across any vertex of the scatterer. This leads to a data-driven inversion scheme for imaging an arbitrary convex polyhedron.
description: Updated the several sections of the paper
Reversing The Meaning of Node Connectivity for Content Placement in Networks of Caches
Creators: name: Khan, Junaid Ahmed
name: Westphal, Cedric
name: Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J. J.
name: Ghamri-Doudane, Yacine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is a widely accepted heuristic in content caching to place the most popular content at the nodes that are the best connected. The other common heuristic is somewhat contradictory, as it places the most popular content at the edge, at the caching nodes nearest the users. We contend that neither policy is best suited for caching content in a network and propose a simple alternative that places the most popular content at the least connected node. Namely, we populate content first at the nodes that have the lowest graph centrality over the network topology. Here, we provide an analytical study of this policy over some simple topologies that are tractable, namely regular grids and trees. Our mathematical results demonstrate that placing popular content at the least connected nodes outperforms the aforementioned alternatives in typical conditions.
Observability of neutron events above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off due to violation of Lorentz invariance
Creators: name: Gupta, Nayantara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The clustering of ultra high energy cosmic ray events suggests that they have originated from compact sources. One of the possible physical mechanisms by which ultra high energy nuclei reach the Earth from far away astrophysical sources (quasars or BL Lac objects) evading the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cut-off is by violation of Lorentz invariance. Assuming that there is violation of Lorentz invariance, we calculate the expected number of neutron events from some of the EGRET sources (including $γ$-ray loud BL Lac objects) which can be correlated in direction with ultra high energy cosmic ray events observed by AGASA above energy $4\times10^{19}$eV. We present in this paper what AGASA should see in future if violation of Lorentz invariance is responsible for the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays having energies above the GZK cut-off when there is a correlation of EGRET sources with the ultra high energy cosmic ray events.
description: 9 pages latex, title changed following referee's suggestion, version to appear in PLB
Reorganized functional connectivity of language centers as a possible compensatory mechanism for basal ganglia aphasia
Creators: name: Xu, Li
name: Huang, Lin
name: Cui, Wei
name: Yu, Qian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Primary Object: To investigate the functional connectivity (FC) of cortical language centers in patients who have regained fluent speech after basal ganglia aphasia and identify the possible compensatory mechanism. Methods & Procedures: A retrospective cohort of 12 patients and 17 healthy controls were studied using resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI). All patients suffered from an ischemic stroke with lesions confined to the basal ganglia and showed impaired language functions at admission. Seven patients had lesions in the left basal ganglia, three in the right, and two in both sides. The rs-fMRI was performed after the patients regained fluent speech. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and their contralateral homologues were selected as the region-of-interest (ROI) for both voxel-wise and ROI-wise FC studies. Results: We discovered that the interhemispheric FC of the language centers (i.e. Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area) decreased and the intrahemispheric FC of the language centers increased in these patients who regained fluent speech after basal ganglia aphasia. Conclusions: We speculated that damages to the basal ganglia disrupted the cortico-subcortical circuits that facilitated the transhemispheric communications of language functions, resulting in decreased interhemispheric FC. Consequently, the intrahemispheric FC increased as a possible compensatory mechanism to restore the language functions.
title: Lithospheric architecture from amphibious AlpArray data across the Ligurian Basin
Creators: name: Dannowski (1), Anke
name: Thorwart, Martin
name: Kopp, 2)
name: Caielli (3), Grazia
name: de Franco (3), Roberto
name: Grevemeyer (3), Ingo
name: Lange (1), Dietrich
name: Wolf (1), Felix
name: Crawford (4), Wayne
name: Paul (5), Anne
name: Crawford (4), Wayne
name: cruise participants  (6), M'SM71
name: Working Group (6), AlpArray
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft – Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany (1); CAU, Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany (2); IDPA-CNR, Istituto per la dinamica dei processi ambientali, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy (3); IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Laboratoire de Géosciences Marines, Paris, France (4); ISTerre, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Grenoble, Grenoble, France (5); AlpArray Working Group: http://www.alparray.ethz.ch (6)

 The Ligurian Basin is located north-west of Corsica at the transition from the western Alpine orogen to the Apennine system. The Back-arc basin was generated by the southeast trench retreat of the Apennines-Calabrian subduction zone. The opening took place from late Oligocene to Miocene. While the extension led to extreme continental thinning little is known about the style of back-arc rifting. Today, the seismic events indicate the closure of this back-arc basin. To shed light on the present day crustal and lithospheric architecture of the Ligurian Basin, active seismic data have been recorded on short period ocean bottom seismometers in the framework of SPP2017 4D-MB, the German component of AlpArray. An amphibious refraction seismic profile was shot across the Ligurian Basin in an E-W direction from the Gulf of Lion to Corsica. The profile extends onshore Corsica to image the necking zone of continental thinning. Local seismicity was recorded on broad band ocean bottom seismometers over a period of 8 month. The majority of the refraction seismic data show mantle phases at offsets up to 70 km. The arrivals of seismic phases were picked and inverted in a travel time tomography. The results show a crust-mantle boundary in the central basin at ~12 km depth below sea surface. The mantle shows rather high velocities >7.8 km/s. The crust-mantle boundary deepens from ~12 km to ~18 km within 25 - 30 km towards Corsica. The results do not map an axial valley as expected for oceanic spreading. However, an extremely thinned continental crust indicates a long lasting rifting process that possibly does not initiated oceanic spreading before the opening of the Ligurian Basin stopped. In the centre of the Ligurian Basin, a cluster of 15 seismic events with magnitudes lower than 2.5 occurred in the upper mantle in a depth of 10-15 km below the seismic Moho. The fault plane solutions indicate reverse faulting and a convergence in NW-SE direction.
Cephalozia mollusca Vana 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Váňa, Jiŕí
name: Söderström, Lars
name: Hagborg, Anders
name: Konrat, Matt Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Jungermanniopsida
Jungermanniales
Cephaloziaceae
Cephalozia
Cephalozia mollusca

description: Cephalozia mollusca (De Not.) Váňa, comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Jungermannia mollusca De Not., Epat. Borneo: 16, 1874 (De Notaris 1894).
 Type:— MALAYSIA. Sarawak: Mt. Linga, 1867, O. Beccari 55 (lectotype FI-2799!, isotypes JE, PC-103103).
 Ξ Metahygrobiella mollusca (De Not.) R.M.Schust., Bryologist 64: 206, 1961 (Schuster 1961).
description: Published as part of Váňa, Jiŕí, Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders & Konrat, Matt Von, 2013, Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 41. New combinations and synonyms in Cephaloziaceae (Marchantiophyta), pp. 7-15 in Phytotaxa 112 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.112.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10088085
Pseudasterina delicata Aziz & Jangoux 1985
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinidae
Pseudasterina
Pseudasterina delicata

description: granulosa Aziz & Jangoux, 1985 Pseudasterina
Pseudasterina delicata Aziz & Jangoux, 1985: 285, pl. 3, fig. A, B. — Clark 1993: 227.
CURRENT STATUS. — Pseudasterina delicata Aziz & Jangoux, 1985.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Philippines • holotype; station 33; off Mindoro; Musorstom 2 expedition (1980); depth 130-137 m; MNHN- IE-2013-4350.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 288, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Cache Creek, As Constructed
Creators: name: Ranta, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: The truth is stranger than fiction. This axiom defines the small community of Cache Creek, B.C., where coincidental and contradictory forces have shaped the town’s architecture, culture, and environments in unusual ways. The resulting entanglements of spatial phenomena in Cache Creek, ranging from intricate neon signs, to UFOs and garbage-based rituals, colour one’s experiences there with a skewed sense of reality. Using found 35mm slide film photos, "Cache Creek, As Constructed" traces the histories of these spatial phenomena through personal and official narratives.
Delocalization due to correlations in two-dimensional disordered systems
Creators: name: Vasseur, Gabriel
name: Weinmann, Dietmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral statistics of interacting spinless fermions in a two-dimensional disordered lattice. Within a full quantum treatment for small few-particle-systems, we compute the low-energy many-body states numerically. While at weak disorder the interactions reduce spectral correlations and lead to localization, for the case of strong disorder we find that a moderate Coulomb interaction has a delocalizing effect. In addition, we observe a non-universal structure in the level-spacing distribution which we attribute to a mechanism reinforcing spectral correlations taking place in small systems at strong disorder.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, corrected typos
One-side surface modifications of graphene
Creators: name: Savin, Alexander V.
name: Kosevich, Yuriy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dependence of mechanical conformations of graphene sheets located on flat substrates on the density of unilateral (one-side) attachment of hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine atoms to them. It is shown that chemically modified graphene sheet can take four main forms on a flat substrate: the form of a flat sheet located parallel to the surface of the substrate, the form of convex sheet partially detached from the substrate with bent edges adjacent to the substrate, and the forms of single and double rolls on the substrate. On the surface of crystalline graphite, the flat form of the sheet is lowest in energy for hydrogenation density p <0.21, fluorination density p<0.20 and chlorination density p<0.16. The surface of crystalline nickel has higher adsorption energy for graphene monolayer and the flat form of chemically modified sheet on such substrate is lowest in energy for hydrogenation density p<0.47, fluorination density p<0.30 and chlorination density p<0.21. The flat shape of the graphene sheet remains basic on a substrate also when molecular groups CH3, CH2-CH3 or rings C6H5 are one-side attached to its outer surface. At the attachment density p=1/6 (one group per 6 sheet atoms) the sheet becomes the nanocarpet the basis of which is formed by a sheet of graphene and the pile of which is formed by the attached molecular groups forming a tightly packed regular lattice. The addition of hydroxyl groups OH with attachment density p=1/4 leads to the formation of hexagonal lattices of hydroxyl groups on the outer surface of graphene sheet on a substrate. In this lattice, the groups can form various configurations of hydrogen bonds, which turns the chemically modified sheet into a multistable system.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Strong ellipticity and spectral properties of chiral bag boundary conditions
Creators: name: Beneventano, C. G.
name: Gilkey, P. B.
name: Kirsten, K.
name: Santangelo, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove strong ellipticity of chiral bag boundary conditions on even dimensional manifolds. From a knowledge of the heat kernel in an infinite cylinder, some basic properties of the zeta function are analyzed on cylindrical product manifolds of arbitrary even dimension.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, References added
Point defect in solids: Shear dominance of the far-field energy
Creators: name: Dyre, Jeppe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the elastic energy far from a point defect in an isotropic solid is mainly shear elastic energy. The calculation, which is based on a standard dipole expansion, shows that no matter how large or small the bulk modulus is compared to the shear modulus, less than 10% of the distant point defect energy is associated with volume changes.
description: Brief note
Additional file 2 of Feasibility and accuracy of continuous intraabdominal pressure monitoring with a capsular device in human pilot trial
Creators: name: Liao, Chien-Hung
name: Spain, David A.
name: Chen, Chih-Chi
name: Cheng, Chi-Tung
name: Lin, Wei-Cheng
name: Ho, Dong-Ru
name: Lin, Heng-Fu
name: Catena, Fausto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2