cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optical design and development of a cost-efficient, compact, super-sensitive scanning confocal fluorescence microscope
Creators: name: Yunfeng Nie
name: Aikio, Sanna
name: Kokkonen, Annukka
name: Uusitalo Sanna
name: Sipola, Teemu
name: Grilli, Simonetta
name: Ottevaere, Heidi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: onfocal fluorescence microscope; Optical design

description: Current commercial confocal fluorescence detection instruments are typically sophisticated, bulky and expensive, not suitable for rapid clinic routine detection targeting early fatal disease diagnosis, e.g. Alzheimer’s Disease. The detection of those severe and disabling diseases at an early stage is quite difficult due to very low abundant biomarkers to be determined. When miniaturizing and optimizing optical systems containing mass-produced optical components for more versatile and robust point-of-care usages, the optical characteristics should be carefully examined to suit the core requirements of high diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity.
 We designed a scanning confocal fluorescence optical system in the framework of a EU-funded FET project called ‘SensApp’ to reach a cutting-edge limit of detection (LOD) below 1pg/ml. By carefully quantifying the spectra and scattering features of the optical components in the detection system, including the laser diode, filter set and sample slide, a comprehensive optical modelling approach was established to evaluate the influence of different components and to determine best optical configurations. The approach enables fast decision on the most performant configuration which greatly reduces the development time and prototyping cost. Two system configurations via tilt illumination and perpendicular illumination are compared to find an optimal design over excitation efficiency, signal-noise-ratio as well as tolerance requirements. Tolerances from typical perturbations, such as element decenters and tilts, are also
 analyzed to give a practical consideration of the mechanical holder design and system assembly. Furthermore, the illumination uniformity (e.g. Gaussian beam and top-hat beam) which is often overlooked has been thoroughly considered from Beer’s Law to determine the maximum peak intensity and to avoid potential serious photobleaching at low abundant detection.
 As we know signal-noise-ratio (SNR) is the most important criterion for super-sensitive detection, the corresponding noise sources are identified (including autofluorescence and scattered light sources), and various strategies to reduce noise are proposed to improve the SNR. In the end, we have built the confocal fluorescence detection system given all the above-mentioned aspects. To determine the system performance, the samples were made by diluting a series of solutions using dye Alexa Fluor 647 and PBS buffer. Experimental results have demonstrated that the as-built system can reach a limit of detection at a very low abundant concentration such as sub pM/ml.
Splitting the difference: can limited coordination achieve a fair distribution of the global climate financing effort?
Creators: name: Pickering, Jonathan
name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Wood, Peter J.
name: Pickering, Jonathan
name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Wood, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Climate policy
subject: climate finance
subject: equity
subject: fairness
subject: climate change mitigation
subject: climate change adaptation
subject: development assistance

description: Mobilizing climate finance for developing countries is crucial for achieving a fair and effective global climate regime. To date developed countries retain wide discretion over their national contributions. We explore how different degrees of international coordination may influence the fairness of the global financing effort. We present quantitative scenarios for (i) the metrics used to distribute the collective effort among countries contributing funding; and (ii) the number of contributing countries. We find that an intermediate degree of coordination—combining nationally determined financing pledges with a robust international review mechanism—may reduce distortions in relative efforts as well as shortfalls in overall funding, while reflecting reasonable differences over what constitutes a fair share. Broadening the group of contributors may do little to improve adequacy or equity unless the more heterogeneous group can converge on credible measures of responsibility and capacity. The analysis highlights the importance of building common understandings about effort-sharing.
Liquid-liquid phase separation of a surfactant-solubilized membrane protein
Creators: name: Piazza, R.
name: Pierno, M.
name: Vignati, E.
name: Venturoli, G.
name: Francia, F.
name: Mallardi, A.
name: Palazzo, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The phase behavior of membrane proteins stems from a complex synergy with the amphiphilic molecules required for their solubilization. We show that ionization of a pH-sensitive surfactant, LDAO, bound to a bacterial photosynthetic protein, the Reaction Center (RC), leads in a narrow pH range to protein liquid-liquid phase separation in surprisingly stable `droplets', forerunning reversible aggregation at lower pH. Phase segregation is promoted by increasing temperature and hindered by adding salt. RC light-absorption and photoinduced electron cycle are moreover strongly affected by phase segregation.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Risk factors of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Haiyan Chen
name: Mo, Liang
name: Hongjuan Hu
name: Yulan Ou
name: Luo, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary
Efficiency or Equity? Simulating the Carbon Emission Permits Trading Schemes in China Based on an Inter-Regional CGE Model
Creators: name: Wu, Libo
name: Tang, Weiqi
name: Wu, Libo
name: Tang, Weiqi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Greenhouse gas emissions
subject: energy conservation
subject: emission reduction
subject: pollution
subject: cap-and-trade mechanism

description: Energy conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement have been included in the national development strategy of China. However, the rigidity in command-and-control mechanisms and arbitrariness in assignment of GHG abatement burden across regions have caused unnecessary losses in both economic efficiency and social equity. In this paper, we use an Inter-Regional Dynamic CGE (IRD-CGE) model to simulate economic and welfare impacts of climate policies on national and regional level, including carbon intensity targets, regional emission constraints and cap-and-trade mechanism. Comparison among alternative emission reduction policy mechanisms indicates that emission trading scheme can not only moderate the economic and social welfare losses, but also improve social equity by decoupling the allocation of emission permits from economic optimization of emission reduction scheme. From this perspective, emissions trading bridges the concerns for economic efficiency and social equity, since emission permits could be reallocated as an income transfer so as to promote inter-regional equity, while economic efficiency is maintained.
Electric dissociation of H⁻ ions by magnetic fields
Creators: name: Stinson, G. M.
name: Olsen, William Charles
name: McDonald, W. J.
name: Axen, David Arnold
name: Blackmore, Ewart William
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2015

description: Electric v(vector) x B(vector) dissociation of H⁻ ions moving through a magnetic field has been measured for electric field strengths near 2 MV/cm. The H⁻ ions were obtained by charge exchange of protons in water vapour and were accelerated to 49.5 MeV by the proton linear accelerator at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory. Stripped particles were detected using an acoustic spark-chamber. Experimental lifetimes are lower by approximately a factor of two from those predicted by Mullen ¹) and a factor of three from those predicted by Hiskes ²). Our measurements also appear inconsistent with those of Cahill et al. ³).
Oncopagurus Lemaitre 1996
Creators: name: Lemaitre, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Parapaguridae
Oncopagurus

description: Key to the Atlantic species of Oncopagurus
 1. Ocular peduncle about half length of shield, cornea not dilated (Fig. 1A)............................................................... O. africanus
– Ocular peduncle more than half length of shield, cornea at most weakly dilated................................................................2
 2. Antennal acicle armed mesially with spines set at 90° angle (at least distally) to longitudinal axis of acicle; palm of right cheliped with mesial face concave and often expanded distomesially, ventromesial margin well delimited by row of spines (Fig. 1K, L).............................................. O. bicristatus
 – Antennal acicle armed mesially with spines set at 45° angle to longitudinal axis of acicle; palm of right cheliped with mesial face not concave, ventromesial face rounded, without spinose margin (Fig. 25A–D)............................................... O. gracilis
description: Published as part of Lemaitre, Rafael, 2014, A worldwide taxonomic and distributional synthesis of the genus Oncopagurus Lemaitre, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Parapaguridae), with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 210-301 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 on page 214, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458372
Fusus nicobaricus Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus nicobaricus

description: Fusus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798)
 1798 Syrinx nicobaricus Röding: 122, sp. no. 1569
 1822 Fusus nicobaricus (Röding) Lamarck: 123, sp. no. 5
 1832 Fusus nicobaricus (Röding) Deshayes: 149
1840a Kiener: 8, pl. 6, fig. 1
 Material in MHNG: 2 specimens MHNG INVE 51708 (ex MHNG 1098/10); 1098/10/1: 126 mm; 1098/10/2: 110 mm. The specimen figured by Kiener was supposedly one of Lamarck’s original specimens, but Kiener’s illustration does not match Lamacrk’s material. Locality on the label: Océan Indien.
 Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained only two specimens.
 Current taxonomic position: Fusinus nicobaricus (Röding, 1798); placed in Fusinus by Kira (1962): 75. Locality is Indo – Pacific. Lamarck made reference only to pre-Linnaean figures.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Additional file 9 of Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential gene expression, alternative splicing, and novel exons during mouse trophoblast stem cell differentiation
Creators: name: Ullah, Rahim
name: Naz, Ambreen
name: Akram, Hafiza Sara
name: Ullah, Zakir
name: Tariq, Muhammad
name: Mithani, Aziz
name: Faisal, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S1. Venn diagram showing the number of differentially regulated genes identified as significant by DESEQ2 and EdgeR in TGCs compared to TSCs. The overlap shows the number of differentially regulated genes identified both by DESEQ2 and EdgeR.
Magnet core construction concept for a 500 MeV H⁻ cyclotron
Creators: name: Kiesners, U.
name: Logie, A. V.
name: Stringer, J.
name: Roy Chowdhury, A. (Asesh)
name: Dilworth, Secord
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2015

description: This report describes the construction of the 4000-ton sector magnet cores for the TRIUMF cyclotron. The various considerations leading to the optimum design concept are discussed in detail. These include a study of the magnetic properties of commercial steels; the relative advantages of plates, forgings and castings; assembly methods such as bolting and welding; and an assessment of tolerances obtainable by flame cutting and machining. Economy considerations and delivery time have received major attention throughout the study. An important objective was to adapt the design, to the largest possible extent, to the capabilities of Canadian steel manufacturers and fabricators. The report includes a construction schedule and concludes with a cost estimate ($2,834,000).
Virtual excess intersection theory
Creators: name: Khan, Adeel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a K-theoretic excess intersection formula for derived Artin stacks. When restricted to classical schemes, it gives a refinement and new proof of R. Thomason's formula.
description: 12 pages, final version (minor revisions)
Fusus syracusanus Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus syracusanus

description: Fusus syracusanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 1758 Murex syracusanus Linnaeus: 755, sp. no. 794.
 1816 Fusus syracusanus Lamarck: 6, pl. 423, fig. 6a–b
 1822 Fusus syracusanus (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 130, sp. no. 25
 1832 Fusus syracusanus (Linnaeus) Deshayes: 152
1840a Kiener: 23, pl. 4, fig. 2
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 3 specimens MHNG INVE 51730 (ex MHNG 1098/32); 1098/32/1: 52.5 mm; 1098/32/2: 49.3 mm; 1098/32/3: 46.5 mm. Locality on the label: Méditerranée.
 Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained four specimens. G. Mermod noted that the specimen 1098/32/1 could be the one figured by Kiener, while the 1098/32/ 2 specimen could be the one measured by Lamarck, but we cannot be certain of these conclusions.
 Current taxonomic position: Fusinus syracusanus (Linnaeus, 1758); placed in Fusinus by Buzzurro and Russo (2007): 72, 178. Locality is the Mediterranean Sea. Lamarck (1822) recognized the priority of Linnaeus’ name.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Additional file 3 of Risk factors of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Haiyan Chen
name: Mo, Liang
name: Hongjuan Hu
name: Yulan Ou
name: Luo, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3. Level of evidence assessment of meta-analysis results using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE).
Additional file 2 of Risk factors of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Haiyan Chen
name: Mo, Liang
name: Hongjuan Hu
name: Yulan Ou
name: Luo, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Risk of bias assessment for included studies using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Studies were considered to be at low risk if rated 7 stars or above, moderate risk if rated 4–6 stars, and high risk if less than 4 stars.
Geocomputational infrastructure for population-environment data. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Manson, Steven
name: Kugler, Tracy
name: Riper, David Van
name: Schroeder, Jonathan
name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Geocomputation is increasingly integrated with spatial data infrastructure to develop and deliver massive datasets and attendant analysis and visualization capacity to a wide range of users. IPUMS Terra is spatial data infrastructure that develops and uses geocomputational approaches to provide one of the largest collections of integrated population and environment data in the world. In this paper, we describe new efforts to fundamentally change the landscape of population-environment data by integrating, preserving, and disseminating vast amounts of aggregate census and agricultural census data. We are developing data manipulation tools and workflow management approaches to transform and standardize data as well as capture metadata. These developments in turn facilitate the processing, documenting, and intake of tens of thousands of data tables into IPUMS Terra, which then are shared with the scientific community and the broader public to advance understanding of the population and agricultural systems that are central to many complex human-environment systems.
Temporal analysis of multilateral spatial interactions. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Yuan, May
name: Luo, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Conventional gravity-model estimates of spatial interactions assume that spatial interactions or flows from all locations to all other locations are independent of other flows and, therefore, overlook the latent multilateral influences in play. This research developed a novel application of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to retrospectively examine historical spatial interactions among multiple locations for new insights into the spatial and temporal dependence of flows across locations. We built a SOM with units of spatial interaction patterns and traced changes in spatial interactions patterns for each location over time. By tracing the changes, we created new trajectories of spatial interactions on the SOM to contextualize spatial interactions at individual locations and among all locations over time. We used international trade data among 207 countries from 1900 to 2014 to demonstrate the proposed data-driven approach for retrospective analysis of spatial interactions. We created a SOM of international trade patterns, mapped each country’s trading trajectory, and compared the trajectories among all 207 countries. We showed that the SOM application could answer questions about multilateral spatial interactions over time. Our findings extended earlier network analyses of the global system with an integrated space-time view of spatial interactions. The SOM approach is adaptable to other domains of spatial interactions (e.g., urban transportation, immigrations) to characterize spatial interactions among locations change over time individually or contextually among all locations.
Measuring the Redshift Evolution of Clustering: the Hubble Deep Field South
Creators: name: Arnouts, S.
name: Moscardini, L.
name: Vanzella, E.
name: Colombi, S.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Giallongo, E.
name: Matarrese, S.
name: Saracco, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the evolution of galaxy clustering in the redshift interval 0
description: 17 pages Latex, with 12 PostScript figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Convergence of Market Concentration: Evidence from Czech Food Processing Sectors
Creators: name: Blažková, I.
name: Blažková, I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Market concentration
subject: food and beverages industry
subject: concept of convergence.

description: The aim of the paper is to evaluate the market concentration in the Czech food and beverages industry over the period of 2003-2014, to quantify disparities among particular sectors and to investigate the trend of market concentration. The concept of convergence is applied when investigating the trend in the long term. The market concentration in the Czech food and beverages industry has increased on average. In sectors with relatively low market concentration in 2003, the values of concentration increased more rapidly after 2003. On the contrary, the most concentrated sectors tend to change slowly over time and the concentration in some sectors even declined. On the basis of the absolute β-convergence model estimation, it was concluded that there is a trend for convergence of the market concentration in the long run to one and the same point for all sectors of the industry.
Additional file 6: of Proteolytic cleavage of Beclin 1 exacerbates neurodegeneration
Creators: name: Bieri, Gregor
name: Lucin, Kurt
name: OâBrien, Caitlin
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Villeda, Saul
name: Wyss-Coray, Tony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S6. Stereotaxic Surgery is not sufficient to exacerbate neurodegeneration in the Kainic acid lesion model. (PDF 181 kb)
Fusus afer Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus afer

description: Fusus afer (Bruguière, 1789)
 1789 Buccinum afer Bruguière: 282
 1816 Fusus afer Lamarck: 6, pl. 426, fig. 6a – b
 1822 Fusus afer (Bruguière) Lamarck: 131, sp. no. 29
1840a Kiener: 34, pl. 18, fig. 2
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 2 specimens MHNG INVE 51732 (ex MHNG 1098/34); 1098/34/1: 26.5 mm (? Lamarck, 1816: pl. 426, fig. 6; Kiener: 34, pl. 18, fig. 2); 1098/34/2: 25.0 mm. Locality on the label: Sénégal.
 Current taxonomic position: Afer afer (Bruguière, 1822); type species of Afer Conrad, 1858 [Buccinidae]. Locality is West Africa. Lamarck recognized the priority of Bruguière’s name.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Cosmological perturbations in the 5D Big Bang
Creators: name: Garriga, Jaume
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bucher [Bucher2001] has recently proposed an interesting brane-world cosmological scenario where the ``Big Bang'' hypersurface is the locus of collision of two vacuum bubbles which nucleate in a five dimensional flat space. This gives rise to an open universe, where the curvature can be very small provided that $d/R_0$ is sufficiently large. Here, d is the distance between bubbles and $R_0$ is their size at the time of nucleation. Quantum fluctuations develop on the bubbles as they expand towards each other, and these in turn imprint cosmological perturbations on the initial hypersurface. We present a simple formalism for calculating the spectrum of such perturbations and their subsequent evolution. We conclude that, unfortunately, the spectrum is very tilted, with spectral index $n_s=3$. The amplitude of fluctuations at horizon crossing is given by $ \sim (R_0/d)^2 S_E^{-1} k^2$, where $S_E\gg 1$ is the Euclidean action of the instanton describing the nucleation of a bubble and k is the wavenumber in units of the curvature scale. The spectrum peaks on the smallest possible relevant scale, whose wave-number is given by $k\sim d/R_0$. We comment on the possible extension of our formalism to more general situations where a Big Bang is ignited through the collision of 4D extended objects.
description: 7 pages
High Performance Geocomputation for Assessing Human Dynamics at Planet Scale
Creators: name: Budhendra Bhaduri
name: Lunga, Dalton
name: Hsiu-Han Yang
name: McKee, Jacob
name: Laverdiere, Melanie
name: Kurte, Kuldeep
name: Jibonananda Sanyal
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Settlements are key indicators of human presence on the landscape. Large scale mapping of human settlements and their morphology from very high-resolution satellite images is a critical step towards developing an interpretative understanding of population distribution and the sociocultural attributes of the built environment they live in. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based Deep Learning experiments indicates that such computations can be scaled to some of the largest high-performance computing (HPC) architectures. While early results are encouraging for developing settlement and corresponding population mapsat unprecedented speed and spatial resolutions, characterizing human dynamics at planet scale with high temporal resolution will require the community to develop novel geocomputational infrastructures and ecosystems.
Syndecan-4 promotes vascular beds formation in tissue engineered liver via thrombospondin 1
Creators: name: Hu, Xiaoyi
name: Chen, Junjie
name: Huang, Hechen
name: Yin, Shengyong
name: Zheng, Shusen
name: Zhou, Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Instantaneous blood coagulation after bioengineered liver transplantation is a major issue, and the key process in its prevention is the construction of the endothelial vascular bed on biomimetic scaffolds. However, the specific molecules involved in the regulation of the vascular bed formation remain unclear. Syndecan-4 is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein commonly expressed in the human body; its receptor has been reported as critical for optimal cell adhesion and initiation of intracellular signaling, indicating its promising application in vascular bed formation. In the current study, bioinformatics analysis and in vitro experiments were performed to evaluate whether syndecan-4 promoted endothelial cell migration and functional activation. Exogenous syndecan-4-overexpressing endothelial cells were perfused into the decellularized liver scaffold, which was assessed by Masson’s trichrome staining. Western blotting and qRT-PCR were used to evaluate the effects of syndecan-4 on the thrombospondin 1 (THBS1) stability. We found that syndecan-4 promoted the adhesion of vascular endothelial cells and facilitated cell migration and angiogenesis. Furthermore, syndecan-4 overexpression resulted in a well-aligned endothelium on the decellularized liver scaffolds. Mechanistically, syndecan-4 destabilized THBS1 at the protein level. Therefore, our data revealed that syndecan-4 promoted the biological activity of endothelial cells on the bionic liver vascular bed through THBS1. These findings provide scientific evidences for solving transient blood coagulation after bionic liver transplantation.
Modeling Building Use and Population Distribution Opportunity Using Open Geosocial Data in Urban Areas. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Sparks, Kevin
name: Sims, Kelly
name: Thakur, Gautam
name: Urban, Marie
name: Stewart, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Knowing where people are and knowing how the land in urban areas is being used is critical for assessing human mobility patterns, monitoring population health, planning for transportation services, and responding to natural disasters and emergency situations. While geophysical phenomena like land cover are more easily observed through remote sensing, social phenomena like how a city block or building is being used by the population is generally unobservable through standard remote sensing practices. Current methods and land use data by their nature are also difficult to scale to national or global levels. While land use data are often available in large cities, there are abundant data gaps globally. Furthermore, land use data can often appear relatively coarse in its spatial and semantic resolution (i.e. 1km grid cells rather than building level, and "commercial" rather than "coffee shop"). In particular, there is a need to harvest scalable data and develop methods to create global land use maps. To this end, in this work we combine building footprints and Points of Interest (POI) to estimate land use at the building level, including its mixed-use intensity. Next, we propose a method for defining semantic temporal zones referring to Morning, Day, Evening, and Night times unique to a region, based on the cumulative hourly change in the POIs' hours of operation. We then use these POIs' hours of operation to estimate non-residential population distribution opportunity and land use change over a 24-hour period. We validate our results through manual checks of randomly sampled individual buildings using multiple sources. Finally, we discuss the impact of our results on identifying population distribution opportunity and the reliability of estimating building use.
Fusus antiquus Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus antiquus

description: Fusus antiquus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 1758 Murex antiqua Linnaeus: 754, no. 486
 1822 Fusus antiquus (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 125, sp. no. 11
 1832 Fusus antiquus (Linnaeus) Deshayes: 158
1840a Kiener: 28, pl. 18, fig. 1
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51714 (ex MHNG 1098/16), 14.8 cm. There is a handwritten note of Lamarck, Fusus antiquus, inside the aperture of the shell. Locality on the label: Mers du Nord.
 Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained five specimens.
 Current taxonomic position: Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758); type species of Neptunea Röding, 1798 [Buccinidae]. Locality is Western Europe to Scotland. Lamarck (1822) recognized the priority of Linnaeus’ name.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
A New Measurement of the Average FUV Extinction Curve
Creators: name: Sasseen, T. P.
name: Hurwitz, M.
name: Dixon, W. V.
name: Airieau, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the extinction curve in the far-ultraviolet wavelength region of (900 -- 1200 A) using spectra obtained with the Berkeley EUV/FUV spectrometer during the ORFEUS-I and the ORFEUS-II missions in 1993 and 1996. From the complete sample of early-type stars observed during these missions, we have selected pairs of stars with the same spectral type but different reddenings to measure the differential FUV extinction. We model the effects of molecular hydrogen absorption and exclude affected regions of the spectrum to determine the extinction from dust alone. We minimize errors from inaccuracies in the cataloged spectral types of the stars by making our own determinations of spectral types based on their IUE spectra. We find substantial scatter in the curves of individual star pairs and present a detailed examination of the uncertainties and their effects on each extinction curve. We find that, given the potentially large uncertainties inherent in using the pair method at FUV wavelengths, a careful analysis of measurement uncertainties is critical to assessing the true dust extinction. We present a new measurement of the average far-ultraviolet extinction curve to the Lyman limit; our new measurement is consistent with an extrapolation of the standard extinction curve of Savage & Mathis (1979).
description: 13 pages text, 7 figures 4 tables. Sent as gzipped tar, with ms.tex and 7 figures
ABL: Alignment-Based Learning
Creators: name: van Zaanen, Menno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; I.2.6; I.2.7

description: This paper introduces a new type of grammar learning algorithm, inspired by string edit distance (Wagner and Fischer, 1974). The algorithm takes a corpus of flat sentences as input and returns a corpus of labelled, bracketed sentences. The method works on pairs of unstructured sentences that have one or more words in common. When two sentences are divided into parts that are the same in both sentences and parts that are different, this information is used to find parts that are interchangeable. These parts are taken as possible constituents of the same type. After this alignment learning step, the selection learning step selects the most probable constituents from all possible constituents. This method was used to bootstrap structure on the ATIS corpus (Marcus et al., 1993) and on the OVIS (Openbaar Vervoer Informatie Systeem (OVIS) stands for Public Transport Information System.) corpus (Bonnema et al., 1997). While the results are encouraging (we obtained up to 89.25 % non-crossing brackets precision), this paper will point out some of the shortcomings of our approach and will suggest possible solutions.
description: 7 pages
Factors Affecting Information Security Focused on SME and Agricultural Enterprises
Creators: name: Bolek, V.
name: Látečková, A.
name: Romanová, A.
name: Korček, F.
name: Bolek, V.
name: Látečková, A.
name: Romanová, A.
name: Korček, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Information security
subject: security incident
subject: risk
subject: factors
subject: SME
subject: agricultural enterprises.

description: Progress in the field of information and communication technology is a source of advantage that improves quality of business services; increases productivity levels and brings competitive advantage to enterprises and organisations related to agricultural production. However, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) is connected with information security risks that threaten business continuity and information assets. The ICT in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and agricultural enterprises is the source of several advantages as well as the risks resulting from information security violation and security incidents. This paper aims at the current situation of information security in SME and agricultural enterprises. Furthermore, the paper provides results of a survey focusing on identification and evaluation of the effects of internal and external factors affecting existence of risks in information security in Slovak SME and agricultural enterprises. Until now, there had not been a similar survey carried out.
Streaming Geospatial Data into Virtual Reality. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Herzig, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The integration of modelling and simulation with Virtual Reality (VR) contributes to the development of Virtual Geographic Environments. In this paper we present a free and open source prototype software that enables the streaming of environmental modelling results into a web-based VR application. It could potentially be used by GIScience professionals and VR developers for building web-based VR applications intended to help scientists, professionals, and members of the public better understand spatial phenomena and processes relevant for spatial planning processes. The server component of our software is implemented in the Land Use Management Support System (LUMASS). It uses WebSockets to send binary data over a TCP connection to a client application. The prototype client application component is based on A-Frame and the JavaScript WebSockets application programming interface. It visualises the received model results as raster data in a web-based VR application. We successfully tested our application using a Google Daydream headset for mobile phones. Future research needs to investigate the scalability of the presented approach and the adoption of standards for streaming geospatial data.
Chern-Simons Vortices in Supergravity
Creators: name: Abou-Zeid, M.
name: Samtleben, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study supersymmetric vortex solutions in three-dimensional abelian gauged supergravity. First, we construct the general U(1)-gauged D=3, N=2 supergravity whose scalar sector is an arbitrary Kahler manifold with U(1) isometry. This construction clarifies the connection between local supersymmetry and the specific forms of some scalar potentials previously found in the literature -- in particular, it provides the locally supersymmetric embedding of the abelian Chern-Simons Higgs model. We show that the Killing spinor equations admit rotationally symmetric vortex solutions with asymptotically conical geometry which preserve half of the supersymmetry.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX2e
Non-connected toric Hilbert schemes
Creators: name: Santos, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B11; 52B20

description: We construct small (50 and 26 points, respectively) point sets in dimension 5 whose graphs of triangulations are not connected. These examples improve our construction in J. Amer. Math. Soc., 13:3 (2000), 611--637 not only in size, but also in that their toric Hilbert schemes are not connected either, a question left open in that article. Additionally, the point sets can easily be put into convex position, providing examples of 5-dimensional polytopes with non-connected graph of triangulations.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. Except for Remark 2.6 (see below) changes w.r.t. version 2 are mostly minor editings suggested by an anonimous referee of "Mathematische Annalen". The paper has been accepted in that journal. Most of the contents of Remark 2.6 have been deleted, since there was a flaw in the argument
Fusus carinatus Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus carinatus

description: Fusus carinatus (Pennant, 1777)
 1777 Murex carinatus Pennant: 123, pl. 77, fig. 96
 1822 Fusus carinatus (Pennant) Lamarck: 126, sp. no. 13
 1832 Fusus carinatus (Pennant) Deshayes: 159
1840a Kiener: 30, pl. 19, fig. 1
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51717 (ex MHNG 1098/19), 60.6 mm. 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51718 (ex MHNG 1098/20), 133 mm. Locality on both labels: Groenland.
 Current taxonomic position: Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758); placed in synonymy with Neptunea despecta [Buccinidae] by A. Adams (1864): 107. Locality is Japan. Lamarck (1822) recognized the priority of Pennant’s name.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Optical design and fabrication of a monolithic, slanted freeform shaper for laser beam shaping
Creators: name: Yunfeng Nie
name: Madrid-Sánchez, Alejandro
name: Rosseel, Dries
name: Rochlitz, Kurt
name: Thienpont, Hugo
name: Ottevaere, Heidi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: laser beam; Optical design

description: Laser beam shaping has been promising for many applications, such as two-photon polymerization[1], advanced microscopy[2], laser material processing[3]. Typical components are apertures, filters, diffractive optical elements (DOEs), refractive lenses, etc. So far, most designs have been focusing on how to shape a laser beam in a co-axial optical path, whereas certain applications require tilt geometry for a skew optical path [4].
 Beam shaping problem is in general an inversed problem, which can be solved by ray-mapping, supporting quadric and Monge-Ampère equation method [5]. Ray-mapping method has its superiority for its high compatibility for various applications. Our previous work has led to a generalized ray-mapping method (A paper under review), which solves the Monge-Ampère equations for versatile input and output irradiance distributions[6]. This method is quite practical and readily to use for optical designers. In this work, we have further investigated its application for a top-hat beam shaping in a slanted illumination configuration.
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF THE INVASIVE COCOA PATHOGEN MONILIOPHTHORA RORERI, CAUSAL AGENT OF FROSTY POD ROT
Creators: name: Krauss, Ulrike
name: Krauss, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Cocoa
subject: invasive species management
subject: Moniliophthora roreri
subject: Theobroma cacao

description: The basidiomycete Moniliophthora roreri causes the devastating frosty pod rot (FPR) disease of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), a disease that commonly reduces yields by over 80% within a few years of pathogen establishment. The invasive pathogen originated in Western Colombia/Ecuador. In recent years it has expanded its range in South America (Peru and Venezuela) and rampaged throughout Mesoamerica as far as Mexico. Africa, Asia, and insular Caribbean are still free of this pathogen. Thus, the full management cascade recommended for invasive plant pathogens is applicable at certain locations: prevention, early detection and rapid response, and impact mitigation using various control approaches. This paper presents key issues and prioritizes actions that need to be taken to manage this pathogen cost-effectively at the applicable intervention point(s): (1) Prevention • Public awareness and education • More efficient enforcement of existing regulations • Extreme alertness and regional cooperation in the insular Caribbean, Eastern Venezuela, French Guiana, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Brazil, and Bolivia • Strategic measures for intercontinental germplasm transfer, transport and trade (2) Early Detection and Rapid Response • Training of quarantine and survey personnel in early detection of latent infections • Anticipatory emergency plan, based on pathway risk analysis • Effective mechanism for prompt host elimination and compensation scheme (3) Impact Mitigation • Integrated approach, supplementing cultural control with chemical and biological agents • Design of disease-resilient agroforestry systems (both short term) • Classical biocontrol where introduced, e.g., with endophytes (medium term) • Genetic and induced resistance (long term) • Regular review of cost-effectiveness of measures, e.g., modelling for decisionmaking
Superlattice with hot electron injection: an approach to a Bloch oscillator
Creators: name: Ryndyk, D. A.
name: Demarina, N. V.
name: Keller, J.
name: Schomburg, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A semiconductor superlattice with hot electron injection into the miniband is considered. The injection changes the stationary distribution function and results in a qualitative change of the frequency behaviour of the differential conductivity. In the regime with Bloch oscillating electrons and injection into the upper part of the miniband the region of negative differential conductivity is shifted from low frequencies to higher frequencies. We find that the dc differential conductivity can be made positive and thus the domain instability can be suppressed. At the same time the high-frequency differential conductivity is negative above the Bloch frequency. This opens a new way to make a Bloch oscillator operating at THz frequencies.
description: RevTeX, 8 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B, 15 Januar 2003
Fusus contrarius Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus contrarius

description: Fusus contrarius (Linnaeus, 1771)
 1771 Murex contrarius Linnaeus: 551
 1816 Fusus contrarius (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 8, pl. 437, fig. 1a – b
 1822 Fusus contrarius (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 133, sp. no. 37
 1832 Fusus contrarius (Linnaeus) Deshayes: 160
1840a Kiener: 36, pl. 20, fig. 1
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: Rosalie de Lamarck’s notes indicate that there was originally one specimen of this Linnaean species in her father’s collection. This specimen, which was said to measure 2 pouces 7 lignes (= about 69 mm.), has not been located. The collection previously contained a specimen measuring 99 mm that did not match Lamarck’s description and was removed by G. Mermod. There is currently no Lamarckian material of this species held by MHNG.
 Current taxonomic position: Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771); placed in Neptunea [Buccinidae] by Nyst (1845): 499. Locality is Bay of Biscay to Morocco. Lamarck recognized the priority of Linnaeus’ name.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Energy resolution in a 500 MeV H⁻ cyclotron
Creators: name: Richardson, J. Reginald
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2015

description: This report describes the energy resolution to be expected from a 500 MeV H⁻ cyclotron for the following four cases: (1) Energy resolution of the raw beam, with no selection process in the cyclotron. (2) Energy resolution with low energy defining slits to limit the amplitude of radial oscillations. (3) Separated turn acceleration and extraction. (4) Selection of energy by determining three points on the final orbits (proposed by B.L. White.)