cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary results including figures and tables from Immune stability predicts tuberculosis infection risk in a wild mammal
Creators: name: Seguel, Mauricio
name: Beechler, Brianna R.
name: Coon, Courtney C.
name: Snyder, Paul W.
name: Johannie M. Spaan
name: Jolles, Anna E.
name: Ezenwa, Vanessa O.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Immunity is one of the most variable phenotypic traits in animals; however, some individuals may show less fluctuation in immune traits, resulting in stable patterns of immune variation over time. It is currently unknown whether immune variation has consequences for infectious disease risk. In this study, we identified moderately stable immune traits in wild African buffalo and asked whether the stability of these traits affected bovine tuberculosis (TB) infection risk. We found that adaptive immune traits such as the level of IFN-γ released after white blood cell stimulation, the number of circulating lymphocytes, and the level of antibodies against bovine adenovirus-3 were moderately repeatable (i.e. stable) over time, whereas parameters related to innate immunity either had low repeatability (circulating eosinophil numbers) or were not repeatable (e.g. neutrophil numbers, plasma bacteria killing capacity). Intriguingly, individuals with more repeatable IFN-γ and lymphocyte levels were at a significantly higher risk of acquiring TB infection. In stark contrast, average IFN-γ and lymphocyte levels were poor predictors of TB risk, indicating that immune variability rather than absolute response level better captured variation in disease susceptibility. This work highlights the important and under-appreciated role of immune variability as a predictor of infection risk.
True Unicorns and False Positives: Simulated Probabilities of Dark Massive Companions to Bright Stars
Creators: name: Miller, Andrew M.
name: Stephan, Alexander P.
name: Martin, David V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many compact objects (black holes and neutron stars) exist in binaries. These binaries are normally discovered through their interactions, either from accretion as an X-ray binary or collisions as a gravitational wave source. However, the majority of compact objects in binaries should be non-interacting. Recently proposed discoveries have used radial velocities of a bright star (main sequence or evolved) that are indicative of a massive but dark companion, which is inferred to be a compact object. Unfortunately, this burgeoning new field has been hindered by false positives, including the ``Unicorn'' (V723 Mon) which was initially believed to be a red giant/black hole binary before being refuted. In this work, we investigate the evolution of stellar binary populations over time, using the binary evolution code COSMIC to simulate binary populations and determine the probability of a candidate object being either a ``true Unicorn'' (actual compact objects in binaries) or a false positive. We find that main sequence stars have a higher true Unicorn probability than red giants or naked helium stars (an exposed core of an evolved star), particularly if the companion is more massive and is >3 times less luminous than the MS star. We also find that a top-heavy initial mass function raises the true Unicorn probability further, that super-solar metallicity reduces the probability, and that most true Unicorns are found at periods <100 days. Finally, we find that a significant fraction of true Unicorns do not evolve into x-ray binaries during the age of the universe.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Super-Brownian motion with extra birth at one point
Creators: name: Fleischmann, Klaus
name: Mueller, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J80, 60K35

description: A super-Brownian motion in two and three dimensions is constructed where "particles" give birth at a higher rate, if they approach the origin. Via a log-Laplace approach, the construction is based on Albeverio et al. (1995) who calculated the fundamental solutions of the heat equation with one-point potential in dimensions less than four.
Exploring the Parameter Space of Inflation Model on the Brane and its Compatibility with the Swampland Conjectures
Creators: name: Gashti, Saeed Noori
name: Alipour, Mohammad Reza
name: Afshar, Mohammad Ali S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, inflationary models have been studied from different perspectives using different conditions. Now, in this paper, we want to investigate the inverse monomial Inflation $(IMI)$ on the brane. We limit our results to the potentials of the form $\frac{M^{4+σ}}{ϕ^σ}$. We calculate some cosmological parameters and then we investigate the satisfaction of the model with some conjectures of the swampland program. We will check the model's compatibility with the refined dS swampland conjecture(RDSSC), further refining the de Sitter swampland conjecture (FRSDC), scalar weak gravity (SWGC), and strong scalar weak gravity conjecture (SSWGC). Despite the incompatibility with (DSSC), We find a specific region of compatibility with other ones which means it satisfied the (FRDSSC) for example with (a=0.982873, b=0.017127, q=2.2). Also, the model is compatible with the (SWGC) with the ($ϕ\leq σ+2$) condition and consistent with the (SSWGC) with the ($ϕ\leq \sqrt{(σ+2)(σ+1)}$) condition. Since inverse monomial Inflation(IMI) on the brane could satisfy some swampland conjecture simultaneously, it has the potential to be a "real" inflation model of the universe.
description: 16 pages, 1 Table
Polarization of Radiation in Multipole Jaynes-Cummings Model
Creators: name: Can, Muhammet Ali
name: Shumovsky, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the spatial properties of quantum radiation emitted by a multipole transition in a single atom. The qualitative difference between the representations of plane and spherical waves of photons is examined. In particular, the spatial inhomogeneity of the zero-point oscillations of multipole field is shown. We show that the vacuum noise of polarization is concentrated in a certain vicinity of atoms where it strongly exceeds the level predicted by the representation of the plane waves. A new general polarization matrix is proposed. It is shown that the polarization and its vacuum noise strongly depend on the distance from the source.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 5 of Phosphorylation of β-catenin at Serine552 correlates with invasion and recurrence of non-functioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumours
Creators: name: Rai, Ashutosh
name: Yelamanchi, Soujanya D.
name: Radotra, Bishan D.
name: Gupta, Sunil K.
name: Mukherjee, Kanchan K.
name: Tripathi, Manjul
name: Chhabra, Rajesh
name: Ahuja, Chirag K.
name: Kumar, Narendra
name: Pandey, Akhilesh
name: Korbonits, Márta
name: Dutta, Pinaki
name: Gaston-Massuet, Carles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional File 5: Fig. S4. Increased upregulated phosphopeptides in the recurrent NF-PitNET subgroup. a, b Graphical representation showing the number of phosphopeptides with the Log2-fold change in the various NF-PitNET groups with red lines indicating hypo- and hyper-phosphorylated peptides. c Principle component (PC) analysis of NF-PitNET phosphoproteome reveal disease subgroup segregation and replicates group together. Singular value decomposition (SVD) with imputation of fold change of phosphopeptides of each NF-PitNET subgroup is used to calculate principal components. X and Y axis show principal component 1(PC1) and principal component 2 (PC2) that explain 63.3% and 82.8% of the total variance, respectively. Each grey dots represents an NF-PitNET subgroup. Abbreviations: NI/NR, non-invasive/non-recurrent; I, Invasive; R, Recurrent; PC Principle component. Green colour represents invasive (I) subgroups while blue colour represents recurrent (R).
Generic Incomparability of Infinite-Dimensional Entangled States
Creators: name: Clifton, Rob
name: Hepburn, Brian
name: Wuthrich, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In support of a recent conjecture by Nielsen (1999), we prove that the phenomena of 'incomparable entanglement'--whereby, neither member of a pair of pure entangled states can be transformed into the other via local operations and classical communication (LOCC)--is a generic feature when the states at issue live in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.
description: 3 pages, final published version, minor adjustments
Interaction of α-thymidine Inhibitors and Natural Substrates with Thymidylate Kinase from Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Mengshen Chen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: Malaria is one of the most devastating parasite-borne infectious diseases and Plasmodium falciparum is associated with the deadliest form of malaria. Due to the
emerging drug resistance against current treatments in these parasites, there is continuous need in developing novel anti-malarial drugs. Thymidylate kinase from Plasmodium falciparum (PfTMK) is an attractive druggable
target for the development of anti-malarial agents due to its vital role in the Plasmodium life cycle and potential in drug specificity. Several groups have developed and reported
PfTMK inhibitors, however, none have entered clinical trials. The field has been limited by the lack of structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies to aid further structural
modifications of existing inhibitors; furthermore, there has not been a study that comprehensively characterize PfTMK-substrate interaction in order to elaborate on the
unique substrate specificity of PfTMK of being capable of phosphorylating both dTMP and dGMP. In our study, we aim to address these concerns in the current field. We designed and synthesized small molecules derived from a reported PfTMK inhibitor, and thoroughly characterized the synthesized compounds in terms of enzyme inhibition and binding property; we also probed for binding site of the synthesized derivatives to provide an understanding on the SAR. We acquired methyl side-chain (ILV) assignments for
PfTMK. The PfTMK-substrate interaction was comprehensively characterized in terms of steady-state kinetics, binding property, thermodynamics and dynamics. These studies provide significant insights on the unique substrate specificity of PfTMK; and more importantly, revealed a unique half-site binding mechanism with dGMP, in which we showed that the binding of the first dGMP molecule results in intermonomer communication and possible conformation change that prohibits the binding of second dGMP in the other subunit of the PfTMK dimer. These observations have significant implication on the future PfTMK inhibitor design; guanosine-based small molecules
could be more optimal than their thymidine-based counterparts in terms of PfTMK inhibition and binding specificity.
Willingness to Pay for Revegetating the City of Subiaco’s Railway Reserve. A Choice Experiment to Determine Public Preferences
Creators: name: De Vos, Gunther
name: Kragt, Marit E
name: Pandit, Ram
name: De Vos, Gunther
name: Kragt, Marit E
name: Pandit, Ram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Conservation
subject: Choice Modelling
subject: Public Preferences
subject: Urban Greenery
subject: Western Australia
subject: Wildlife Management

description: Residents of the City of Subiaco (Western Australia) demonstrate a willingness to pay for revegetating the Railway Reserve. The Railway Reserve is the area of land immediately along both sides of the Fremantle Railway Line. The City of Subiaco aims to revegetate all available land in the Reserve with native plants to create a green link between Kings Park, Bold Park and other parks in the area. This study used a choice experiment to determine public preferences and to estimate willingness to pay for different ways of managing the Railway Reserve. Conditional logit model results show that residents prefer to have a larger proportion of the area revegetated, to add shrubs and/or trees to the ground-covering plants, and to add management for wildlife habitat such as nest boxes for birds and bats. No significant preference was found for the inclusion of interpretative signs. The average respondent was willing to pay 0.27 Australian dollars per household per year for every extra percent of the Reserve to be revegetated. To add management for wildlife habitat, the average respondent was willing to pay 14.15 Australian dollars per household per year. A higher willingness to pay for a larger revegetated proportion and for the wildlife management was found among females and among frequent users of the walking and bicycle path along the railway line. Residents who live further away from the railway line and residents who feel less safe as a result of dense urban vegetation demonstrated a lower willingness to pay per percentage of area revegetated. Results from the survey also indicate that respondents valued urban greenery more for the habitat it provides for wildlife than for the recreational opportunities or as a buffer against noise. The results from the choice experiment reinforce the current management strategies by the City of Subiaco. The current management strategy represents a total willingness to pay among residents of 480,750 Australian dollars per year. This study could be replicated in other local council areas along the Fremantle Railway Line to determine the values that the Railway Reserve provides to residents of other areas in Perth.
description: This work was undertaken to fulfil the requirements for Mr. de Vos’ Master degree in Environmental Science (Environmental Management) at the University of Western Australia. His supervisors were Dr Marit Kragt (UWA) and Dr Ram Pandit (UWA)
Use of a controlled experiment and computational models to measure the impact of sequential peer exposures on decision making
Creators: name: Sarkar, Soumajyoti
name: Aleali, Ashkan
name: Shakarian, Paulo
name: Armenta, Mika
name: Sanchez, Danielle
name: Lakkaraju, Kiran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is widely believed that one's peers influence product adoption behaviors. This relationship has been linked to the number of signals a decision-maker receives in a social network. But it is unclear if these same principles hold when the pattern by which it receives these signals vary and when peer influence is directed towards choices which are not optimal. To investigate that, we manipulate social signal exposure in an online controlled experiment using a game with human participants. Each participant in the game makes a decision among choices with differing utilities. We observe the following: (1) even in the presence of monetary risks and previously acquired knowledge of the choices, decision-makers tend to deviate from the obvious optimal decision when their peers make similar decision which we call the influence decision, (2) when the quantity of social signals vary over time, the forwarding probability of the influence decision and therefore being responsive to social influence does not necessarily correlate proportionally to the absolute quantity of signals. To better understand how these rules of peer influence could be used in modeling applications of real world diffusion and in networked environments, we use our behavioral findings to simulate spreading dynamics in real world case studies. We specifically try to see how cumulative influence plays out in the presence of user uncertainty and measure its outcome on rumor diffusion, which we model as an example of sub-optimal choice diffusion. Together, our simulation results indicate that sequential peer effects from the influence decision overcomes individual uncertainty to guide faster rumor diffusion over time. However, when the rate of diffusion is slow in the beginning, user uncertainty can have a substantial role compared to peer influence in deciding the adoption trajectory of a piece of questionable information.
MOESM1 of Exploring PEGylated and immobilized laccases for catechol polymerization
Creators: name: Su, Jing
name: Noro, Jennifer
name: Fu, Jiajia
name: Wang, Qiang
name: Silva, Carla
name: Cavaco-Paulo, Artur
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Half-life time of enzymes vs temperature of incubation.
Herzogiella seligeri Z. Iwats.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Hypnaceae
Herzogiella
Herzogiella seligeri

description: Herzogiella seligeri (Brid.) Z.Iwats.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): sine loco. Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 81, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
On the notion of effective impedance
Creators: name: Muranova, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C22, 05C25, 34B45, 39A12, 12J15

description: It is known that electrical networks with resistors are related to the Laplace operator and random walk on weighted graphs. In this paper we consider more general electrical networks with coils, capacitors, and resistors. We give two mathematical models of such networks: complex-weighted graphs and graphs with weight from the ordered field of rational functions. The notion of effective impedance in both approaches is defined.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Astrometric and Light-travel Time Orbits to Detect Low-mass Companions: A Case Study of the Eclipsing System R Canis Majoris
Creators: name: Ribas, Ignasi
name: Arenou, Frederic
name: Guinan, Edward F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a method to determine orbital properties and masses of low-mass bodies orbiting eclipsing binaries. The analysis combines long-term eclipse timing modulations (light-travel time or LTT effect) with short-term, high-accuracy astrometry. As an illustration of the method, the results of a comprehensive study of Hipparcos astrometry and over a hundred years of eclipse timings of the Algol-type eclipsing binary R Canis Majoris are presented. A simultaneous solution of the astrometry and the LTTs yields an orbital period of P_12=92.8+/-1.3 yr, an LTT semiamplitude of 2574+/-57 s, an angular semi-major axis of a_12=117+/-5 mas, and values of the orbital eccentricity and inclination of e_12=0.49+/-0.05, and i_12=91.7+/-4.7 deg, respectively. Adopting the total mass of R CMa of M_12=1.24+/-0.05 Mo, the mass of the third body is M_3=0.34+/-0.02 Mo and the semi-major axis of its orbit is a_3=18.7+/-1.7 AU. From its mass, the third body is either a dM3-4 star or, more unlikely, a white dwarf. With the upcoming microarcsecond-level astrometric missions, the technique that we discuss can be successfully applied to detect and characterize long-period planetary-size objects and brown dwarfs around eclipsing binaries. Possibilities for extending the method to pulsating variables or stars with transiting planets are briefly addressed.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in AJ (April 2002 issue)
Classical Mechanics and kappa-symmetry
Creators: name: Deotto, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze two local extensions of a model introduced some time ago to obtain a path integral formalism for Classical Mechanics. In particular, we show that these extensions exhibit a nonrelativistic local symmetry which is very similar to the well known kappa-symmetry introduced in the literature almost 20 years ago. Differently from the latter, this nonrelativistic local symmetry gives no problem in separating 1st from 2nd-class constraints.
description: 12 pages, LaTex2e
Sertularella rugosa
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Sertularellidae
Sertularella
Sertularella rugosa

description: Sertularella rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fig. 37
 Sertularia rugosa Linnaeus, 1758: 809.
 Sertularella rugosa.— Segerstedt, 1889: 17, 26.— Lönnberg, 1903: 60.— Jäderholm, 1909: 101, pl. 11, fig. 14.— Gislén, 1930: 346.— Rees & Rowe, 1969: 18.— Jägerskiöld, 1971: 64.— Cornelius, 1979: 290.
 Type locality. UK: England, Brighton (Cornelius 1979: 290).
 Museum material. Kosterhavet, 58°53.093’N, 11°05.668’E, 20–30 m, 09.ix.2010, biological dredge, R / V Nereus, one colony, up to 6 mm high, on Flustra sp., without gonophores, ROMIZ B3910.
 Remarks. Unlike many species of hydroids, the synonymy of Sertularella rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758) is uncomplicated (see Cornelius 1979). Some authors (e.g., Cornelius 1979, 1995b; Schuchert 2001a) have suggested that Sertularella tenella (Alder, 1856) may be identical with S. rugosa (Linnaeus, 1758), but the two seem quite distinct morphologically.
 Rees & Rowe (1969) noted that S. rugosa is common on colonies of the bryozoan Flustra in western Sweden, and it was found on that substrate in the Kosterhavet during this study. Kramp (1935b) reported it to be common in shallow waters (0–35 m) along the Danish coast on substrates such as algae, other hydroids, the bryozoan Flustra foliacea, and the sponge Halichondria panicea. Christiansen (1972) found it on the same species of sponge in the Oslofjord. The association of this hydroid with Flustra foliacea was described in Stebbing (1971).
Reports of this boreal species from the tropical eastern Pacific and from Peru by Fraser (1938, 1948) seem questionable.
 Reported distribution. West coast of Sweden.—Kosterfjord to southern Kattegat (Jägerskiöld 1971).
Elsewhere.—In the northern hemisphere from the Barents and White seas to western France (Linko 1912; Naumov 1960; Cornelius 1995b) in the eastern Atlantic, from Greenland and Labrador to Long Island Sound (Schuchert 2001a; Calder 2004) in the western Atlantic, from Alaska to California (Fraser 1948) in the eastern Pacific, and from the Bering Sea to Japan (Yamada 1959; Naumov 1960) in the western Pacific.
description: Published as part of Calder, Dale R., 2012, On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina) from the west coast of Sweden, with a checklist of species from the region 3171, pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 3171 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5247704
THE NEXUS OF SEXUALITY AND VIOLENCE: UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AMONG RURAL IGALA WOMEN IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Aisha, Halima Abdullahi
name: Ngozi, Chika Onyeka
Publisher: name: klover journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Violence against women
Beijing Platform for Action
Gender-based violence
Sexual violence
psychological violence

description: The Beijing Platform for Action, outlined during the fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, delineates various forms of violence against women, encompassing physical, sexual, and psychological violence occurring within familial and community settings. Within the family, violence may manifest as battering, sexual abuse of female children, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation, and other harmful traditional practices. Similarly, violence within the broader community encompasses rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, intimidation in the workplace, trafficking in women, and forced prostitution. These acts, identified as detrimental due to their association with violence, predominantly victimize women, perpetuated by men. This paper aims to critically examine the multifaceted forms of violence against women as delineated by the Beijing Platform for Action, shedding light on their prevalence, impact, and societal implications
Ultrathin SnTe films as a route towards all-in-one spintronics devices
Creators: name: Sławińska, Jagoda
name: Cerasoli, Frank T.
name: Gopal, Priya
name: Costa, Marcio
name: Curtarolo, Stefano
name: Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin transistors based on a semiconducting channel attached to ferromagnetic electrodes suffer from fast spin decay and extremely low spin injection/detection efficiencies. Here, we propose an alternative all-in-one spin device whose operation principle relies on electric manipulation of the spin lifetime in two-dimensional (2D) SnTe, in which the sizable spin Hall effect eliminates the need for using ferromagnets. In particular, we explore the persistent spin texture (PST) intrinsically present in the ferroelectric phase which protects the spin from decoherence and supports extraordinarily long spin lifetime. Our first-principles calculations followed by symmetry arguments revealed that such a spin wave mode can be externally detuned by perpendicular electric field, leading to spin randomization and decrease in spin lifetime. We further extend our analysis to ultrathin SnTe films and confirm the emergence of PST as well as a moderate enhancement of intrinsic spin Hall conductivity. The recent room-temperature observation of the ferroelectric phase in 2D-SnTe suggests that novel all-electric spintronics devices are within reach.
Symmetry of distribution for the one-dimensional Hadamard walk
Creators: name: Konno, Norio
name: Namiki, Takao
name: Soshi, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study a one-dimensional quantum random walk with the Hadamard transformation which is often called the Hadamard walk. We construct the Hadamard walk using a transition matrix on probability amplitude and give some results on symmetry of probability distributions for the Hadamard walk.
description: 17 pages, revised version, Journal-ref added
Molecular tools to identify tropical mosses: a case study of the Brazilian species of Schlotheimia Brid. (Bryophyta, Orthotrichaceae)
Creators: name: Daiane Valente Valente
name: Câmara, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva
name: Denilson Fernandes Peralta
name: Stech, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Species of the moss genus Schlotheimia are often difficult to identify morphologically, because it is necessary to study sporophytic characters and fertile plants are quite rare. In this paper, we aim to infer the potential of trnG-R, trnL-F, and ITS markers to resolve phylogenetic relationships and species delimitations within Schlotheimia in Brazil, using different tree-based analysis methods and Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery (ABGD). For the first time in bryophytes, the trnG-R spacer was sequenced together with the trnG intron (trnG-R region). Furthermore, we aim to evaluate the morphological species concept based on the molecular data, to aid the on-going taxonomic revision of Schlotheimia in Brazil. The combined analysis of all three markers resolved 11 clades corresponding to Schlotheimia species, which was corroborated by ABGD and morphological characters. The best candidate marker for DNA barcoding was trnG-R due to its easy amplification and ability to discriminate all but one species. While trnG-R is sufficient for routine identification, the combination trnG-R + ITS should be used if all Brazilian Schlotheimia species are to be identified with high statistical support. The nuclear marker ITS was easy to amplify and more variable than the plastid markers, but a higher percentage of low quality sequences due to polynucleotide stretches or fungal contamination is a potential drawback. TrnL-F had a low discrimination potential. The analysis of the molecular markers investigated provides a baseline for the taxonomic revision of Schlotheimia and is an important tool for the identification of sterile specimens.
Revisiting BPR: A Replicability Study of a Common Recommender System Baseline
Creators: name: Milogradskii, Aleksandr
name: Lashinin, Oleg
name: P, Alexander
name: Ananyeva, Marina
name: Kolesnikov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR), a collaborative filtering approach based on matrix factorization, frequently serves as a benchmark for recommender systems research. However, numerous studies often overlook the nuances of BPR implementation, claiming that it performs worse than newly proposed methods across various tasks. In this paper, we thoroughly examine the features of the BPR model, indicating their impact on its performance, and investigate open-source BPR implementations. Our analysis reveals inconsistencies between these implementations and the original BPR paper, leading to a significant decrease in performance of up to 50% for specific implementations. Furthermore, through extensive experiments on real-world datasets under modern evaluation settings, we demonstrate that with proper tuning of its hyperparameters, the BPR model can achieve performance levels close to state-of-the-art methods on the top-n recommendation tasks and even outperform them on specific datasets. Specifically, on the Million Song Dataset, the BPR model with hyperparameters tuning statistically significantly outperforms Mult-VAE by 10% in NDCG@100 with binary relevance function.
description: This paper is accepted at the Reproducibility track of the ACM RecSys '24 conference
ASSOCIATIONS AND RETURN TO THE FARMS
Creators: name: Pejcic, Hristivoje
name: Pejcic, Hristivoje
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: associations
subject: Serbia
subject: farms

description: This paper explores the involvement of a Serbian non-government organization in solving the existential problems of ''internally displaced persons and refugees'' that are temporarily residing in Serbian territory. To some extent, the participation of other entities in the activities of this organization has been explained. Based on the obtained information, an analysis of this engagement has been made. Suggestions were made regarding such activities, taking into account maintenance of the previous territorial placement of the population
The Excitation, Propagation and Dissipation of Waves in Accretion Discs: The Non-linear Axisymmetric Case
Creators: name: Bate, M. R.
name: Ogilvie, G. I.
name: Lubow, S. H.
name: Pringle, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the non-linear propagation and dissipation of axisymmetric waves in accretion discs using the ZEUS-2D hydrodynamics code. The waves are numerically resolved in the vertical and radial directions. Both vertically isothermal and thermally stratified accretion discs are considered. The waves are generated by means of resonant forcing and several forms of forcing are considered. Compressional motions are taken to be locally adiabatic ($γ= 5/3$). Prior to non-linear dissipation, the numerical results are in excellent agreement with the linear theory of wave channelling in predicting the types of modes that are excited, the energy flux by carried by each mode, and the vertical wave energy distribution as a function of radius. In all cases, waves are excited that propagate on both sides of the resonance (inwards and outwards). For vertically isothermal discs, non-linear dissipation occurs primarily through shocks that result from the classical steepening of acoustic waves. For discs that are substantially thermally stratified, wave channelling is the primary mechanism for shock generation. Wave channelling boosts the Mach number of the wave by vertically confining the wave to a small cool region at the base of the disc atmosphere. In general, outwardly propagating waves with Mach numbers near resonance ${\cal M}_{\rm r} \ga 0.01$ undergo shocks within a distance of order the resonance radius.
description: 28 pages, 21 figures - 8 as GIF, 13 embedded postscript, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Full postscript version available from http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/mbate
Symmetric photon-photon coupling by atoms with Zeeman-split sublevels
Creators: name: Petrosyan, David
name: Kurizki, Gershon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple scheme for highly efficient nonlinear interaction between two weak optical fields. The scheme is based on the attainment of electromagnetically induced transparency simultaneously for both fields via transitions between magnetically split F=1 atomic sublevels, in the presence of two driving fields. Thereby, equal slow group velocities and symmetric cross-coupling of the weak fields over long distances are achieved. By simply tuning the fields, this scheme can either yield giant cross-phase modulation or ultrasensitive two-photon switching.
description: Modified scheme, 4 pages, 1 figure
Homalia lusitanica Schimp.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Leucodontales
Neckeraceae
Homalia
Homalia lusitanica

description: Homalia lusitanica Schimp.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a), Ahayoun et al. (2007): Gorges de la Chiffa, ruisseau des Singes. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Djebel Édough, fond des ravins, au nord. Trabut (1888): sine loco. Lapie (1909): Kabylie du Djurjura. Battandier et al. (1914), Jelenc (1955a): Forêt des Aït-Ouaban, groute l’Ifri-bou-Anou. Feldmann (1947), Jelenc (1955a, 1959): Kabylie de Collo, Baie de Tamanart, moins de 50 m. Jelenc (1954b, 1967): Sahel de Koléa, au ravin des Voleurs. Jelenc (1955a): Arba; Atlas de Blida; Djebel Chenoua; Kabylie du Djurdjura, forêt des Aït Ouaban; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Ifir Smeden. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 81, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Statistical mechanics of integrable quantum spin systems
Creators: name: Göhmann, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This script is based on the notes the author prepared to give a set of six lectures at the Les Houches School "Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics" in the summer of 2018. The school had its focus on the application of integrability based methods to problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The lectures were meant to complement this subject with background material on the equilibrium statistical mechanics of quantum spin chains from a vertex model perspective. The author was asked to provide a minimal introduction to quantum spin systems including notions like the reduced density matrix and correlation functions of local observables. He was further asked to explain the graphical language of vertex models and to introduce the concepts of the Trotter decomposition and the quantum transfer matrix. This was basically the contents of the first four lectures presented at the school. In the remaining two lectures these notions were filled with life by deriving an integral representation of the free energy per lattice site for the Heisenberg-Ising chain (alias XXZ model) using techniques based on non-linear integral equations.
description: Les Houches Lecture Notes 2018, 38 pages, v2: typos corrected, v3: minor changes, references and one figure added, version for publication in SciPost
The emergence of highly resistant and hypervirulent Escherichia coli ST405 clone in a tertiary hospital over 8 years
Creators: name: Wang, Min
name: Zhang, Zhijun
name: Sun, Zhifei
name: Wang, Xinying
name: Zhu, Jie
name: Jiang, Meijie
name: Zhao, Shuping
name: Chen, Liang
name: Feng, Qiang
name: Du, Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli (CREC) poses crucial challenges in clinical management, requiring continuous monitoring to inform control and treatment strategies. This study aimed to investigate the genomic and epidemiological characteristics of CREC isolates obtained from a tertiary hospital in China between 2015 and 2022. Next-generation sequencing was used for genomic profiling, and clinical data from patients were integrated into the analysis. ST405 (21.2%), ST167 (20.3%) and ST410 (15.9%) were the most prevalent of the 30 distinct sequence types (STs) identified among the 113 unique CREC isolates. Infections caused by the ST405 CREC clone and severe underlying diseases were associated with higher in-hospital mortality rates, particularly in patients aged ≥65 years. Furthermore, the ST405 clone exhibited a greater number of virulence and resistance genes than non-ST405 CREC clones. The virulence gene eaeX and resistance genes mph(E) and msr(E) were exclusively found in ST405 clones, while other virulence genes (agn43, ipad and malX) and resistance genes (armA, catB3 and arr-3) were more prevalent in this clones. Additionally, ST405 showed higher minimum inhibitory concentrations for both meropenem and imipenem and showed superior growth under the meropenem challenge. Galleria mellonella virulence assays revealed that the ST405 CREC clone was more virulent than other predominant CREC STs. Our findings underscore the clinical threat posed by the ST405 CREC clone, which exhibits both enhanced virulence and extensive drug resistance. These results highlight the urgent need for stringent surveillance and targeted interventions to curb its further dissemination and prevent potential outbreaks.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MILK QUOTA SYSTEM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Creators: name: Grbic, Vladimir
name: Milanovic, Milan R.
name: Dorovic, Milutin T.
name: Grbic, Vladimir
name: Milanovic, Milan R.
name: Dorovic, Milutin T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: quota system
subject: milk
subject: milk products
subject: shadow price
subject: quota rent

description: The main aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of the quotas imposed on the milk production in Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. It is concluded that the quotas system is, in conceptual sense, a weaker solution than a free market solution. However, the situation on the аgricultural market in the time of setting up the quota system in 1984 prescribed the goals which were partly committed : the milk prices have been stabilized; the budget expenses decreased; and the level of farmers revenue have been maintained. The negative effects of that system can be identified: enhanced expenditure of milk production, higher prices of milk and milk products than world prices and stagnation of the export
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and associated risk factors for childhood strabismus in Lhasa, Tibet, China: a cross-sectional, school-based study
Creators: name: He, Hailong
name: Fu, Jing
name: Meng, Zhaojun
name: Chen, Weiwei
name: Li, Lei
name: Zhao, Xinyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
A 2011 Social Accounting Matrix for the West Bank with detailed representation of households and labour accounts
Creators: name: Agbahey, Johanes U. I.
name: Siddig, Khalid
name: Grethe, Harald
name: Agbahey, Johanes U. I.
name: Siddig, Khalid
name: Grethe, Harald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Production Economics
subject: Social Accounting Matrix
subject: agriculture
subject: labour
subject: trade
subject: Palestine

description: A detailed Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the West Bank is developed for the year 2011. The data used to build the SAM are obtained from various official sources in Palestine, mainly the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Major data sets include the Palestinian national accounts, the supply and use table, the balance of payments, the labour force survey data, the expenditure and consumption survey data, the economic survey report, the living standards report and the demographics report. The SAM provides data on 49 activities, 83 commodities, 110 households, 59 production factors and 58 tax accounts. Driven by the specificity of the West Bank economy, this SAM has several features including the classification of the households and labour accounts according to the workplace (West Bank, Israel and rest of the world), which in turn considers associating each household and each labour category with their eligibility to work in Israel. In addition to dividing the labour force into eligible and not eligible to work in Israel, the SAM also considers various eligibility levels. Other features of the SAM include the separation of transactions with Israel from those with the rest of the world as well as the separation of taxes collected domestically from those collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority. Furthermore, this SAM takes proper account of the compensation of labour for the self-employed and of household income from unincorporated capital. It also includes an account for non-profit organisations serving households and a Zakat account, which is introduced for the first time in SAM literature.
CONTRIBUTO PARA A ANÁLISE DO MEGALITISMO NO ALTO RIBATEJO. O COMPLEXO MEGALÍTICO DO REGO DA MURTA, ALVAIÁZERE
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description:   Figueiredo, A. (2005) – CONTRIBUTO PARA A ANÁLISE DO MEGALITISMO NO ALTO RIBATEJO. O COMPLEXO MEGALÍTICO DO REGO DA MURTA, ALVAIÁZERE, Al-madan, Almada. 2ª Série: 13, pp. 134-136.
Homalia trichomanoides Schimp.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Leucodontales
Neckeraceae
Homalia
Homalia trichomanoides

description: Homalia trichomanoides (Hedw.) Schimp.
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a) sine loco. Jelenc (1955b, 1967) Constantine. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 81, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Deep Predictive Motion Tracking in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Application to Fetal Imaging
Creators: name: Singh, Ayush
name: Salehi, Seyed Sadegh Mohseni
name: Gholipour, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.5

description: Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is challenged by uncontrollable, large, and irregular fetal movements. It is, therefore, performed through visual monitoring of fetal motion and repeated acquisitions to ensure diagnostic-quality images are acquired. Nevertheless, visual monitoring of fetal motion based on displayed slices, and navigation at the level of stacks-of-slices is inefficient. The current process is highly operator-dependent, increases scanner usage and cost, and significantly increases the length of fetal MRI scans which makes them hard to tolerate for pregnant women. To help build automatic MRI motion tracking and navigation systems to overcome the limitations of the current process and improve fetal imaging, we have developed a new real time image-based motion tracking method based on deep learning that learns to predict fetal motion directly from acquired images. Our method is based on a recurrent neural network, composed of spatial and temporal encoder-decoders, that infers motion parameters from anatomical features extracted from sequences of acquired slices. We compared our trained network on held out test sets (including data with different characteristics, e.g. different fetuses scanned at different ages, and motion trajectories recorded from volunteer subjects) with networks designed for estimation as well as methods adopted to make predictions. The results show that our method outperformed alternative techniques, and achieved real-time performance with average errors of 3.5 and 8 degrees for the estimation and prediction tasks, respectively. Our real-time deep predictive motion tracking technique can be used to assess fetal movements, to guide slice acquisitions, and to build navigation systems for fetal MRI.
description: The article has been published in IEEE TMI: 14 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables and 1 supplementary https://github.com/bchimagine/DeepPredictiveMotionTracking