cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of interlock installation on driving behavior and drinking behavior related to driving
Creators: name: Nochajski, Thomas H.
name: Manning, Amy R.
name: Voas, Robert
name: Taylor, Eileen P.
name: Scherer, Michael
name: Romano, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: There is a substantial body of evidence that the recidivism of impaired-driving offenders is reduced while an ignition interlock device (IID) is on their vehicles. This study examines changes in driving behaviors and drinking behaviors used by DWI offenders to manage driving with the IID. A total of 166 IID participants who completed two surveys covering the period from arrest to IID installation (T1) and during IID use (T2) were examined. Four domains were covered: demographics, driving environments and transportation needs, reported driving activity, and reported drinking activities. Participants were on average 38 years old, 43% were female, 35% completed college, 34% had an income of more than $50,000, and 83% were employed. For those who provided it, the mean blood alcohol content (BAC) at arrest was .184 g/dL, with only 8 (5%) individuals below .08 g/dL, and 93 (56%) at over .18 g/dL. About 45% were repeat DWI offenders. Between T1 and T2 there was a slight increase in acknowledging public transportation was available (p=.001), an increase in other individuals driving the interlock-equipped vehicle (p=.002), an increase in the number of vehicles in the household not registered to the DWI offender (p< .001), and an increase in the number of participants who reported that driving was important to their lifestyle (p=.008). Initial (T1) expectations about whether the interlock would be a problem were significantly different from actual experiences reported in T2 (p<.001). With respect to alcohol consumption, 14% reported abstinence at T2 compared to 2% at T1 (p=.001) and the number of drinks per drinking occasion decreased from a mean of 4.90 at T1 to 3.14 at T2 (p=.001), but the number of drinking occasions increased by a third (p=.003). The number of drinking locations (p=.001), the frequency of stopping after work for a drink (p=.001), and drinking at a bar all decreased (p<.001). Interlock users make some adjustments in how they drink, the amount they drink, and where they drink. This finding suggests that there may be methods that can be used to extend the benefits of the IID beyond the sanction period.
Promote or inhibit: An inverted U-shaped effect of workload on driver takeover performance
Creators: name: Ma, Shu
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Yang, Zhen
name: Kang, Chunyan
name: Wu, Changxu
name: Chai, Chunlei
name: Shi, Jinlei
name: Li, Hongting
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: In conditional automated driving (SAE Level 3), drivers are required to take over their vehicles when the automated systems fail. Non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) can positively or negatively affect takeover safety, but the underlying reasons for this inconsistency remain unclear. This study aims to investigate how various workload levels generated by NDRTs may influence the takeover performance of drivers and the lead time they require. Fifty drivers were randomly distributed into five groups, which corresponded to five workload levels (1-4 levels generated by Tetris game; control level generated by monitoring). Each driver completed vehicle takeover tasks upon receiving takeover requests with various lead times (3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 s) while engaging in NDRTs. The drivers’ takeover performance and subjective opinions were recorded. Drivers in the moderate workload condition (i.e., level 3) had significantly shorter takeover times and better takeover quality than those in the lower (i.e., level 1 and level 2) or higher (i.e., level 4) workload conditions. They also subjectively required less lead time in the moderate condition. Moreover, the drivers rated 7 s as the most appropriate lead time despite the improvement in their overall takeover performances with increased lead time. This study found an inverted U-shaped relationship between the drivers’ workload generated by NDRTs and takeover performance. The moderate workload level (rather than the lower or higher workload level) led to a faster and better takeover performance, and it seemed to require minimal lead time for drivers. These findings help understand the relationship of drivers’ workload during the automation and takeover performance in conditional automated driving. An important recommendation emerging from this work is to investigate what should be the most efficient method to detect the drivers’ workload state real-time and give feedback to them when it comes to overload or underload during the automated driving.
Ranking and selection for terminating simulation under sequential sampling
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Lee, Loo Hay
name: Morrice, Douglas
name: Chen, Chun-Hung
name: Hu, Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This research develops an efficient ranking and selection procedure to select the best design for terminating simulation under sequential sampling. This approach enables us to obtain an accurate estimate of the mean performance at a particular point using regression in the case of a terminating simulation. The sequential sampling constraint is imposed to fully utilize the information along the simulation replication. The asymptotically optimal simulation budget allocation among all designs is derived concurrently with the optimal simulation run length and optimal number of simulation groups for each design. To implement the simulation budget allocation rule with a fixed finite simulation budget, a heuristic sequential simulation procedure is suggested with the objective of maximizing the probability of correct selection. Numerical experiments confirm the efficiency of the procedure relative to extant approaches.
Born-Infeld Cosmologies
Creators: name: Garcia-Salcedo, Ricardo
name: Breton, Nora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model for an inhomogeneous and anisotropic early universe filled with a nonlinear electromagnetic field of Born-Infeld (BI) type. The effects of the BI field are compared with the linear case (Maxwell). Since the curvature invaria nts are well behaved then we conjecture that our model does not present an initial big bang singularity. The existence of the BI field modifies the curvature invariants at t=0 as well as sets bounds on the amplitude of the conformal metric function
description: 13 pages, latex, 6 eps figures
An internet for water: connecting Texas water data
Creators: name: Rosen, Rudolph
name: Hermitte, Sam Marie
name: Pierce, Suzanne
name: Richards, Sarah
name: Roberts, Susan V
Publisher: name: Texas Water Journal
Year: 2019

description: The Connecting Texas Water Data Workshop brought together experts representative of Texas’ water sectors to engage in the identification of critical water data needs and discuss the design of a data system that facilitates access to and use of public water data in Texas. Workshop participants identified “use cases” that list data gaps, needs, and uses for water data and answered questions on who needs data, what data do they need, in what form do they need the data, and what decisions need to be made about water in Texas. They described desires for future water data management and access practices, and articulated key attributes of a comprehensive, open access, public water data information system. Next steps were described to include a subset of workshop participants meeting regularly to further define the goals of a Texas public water data hub, develop a strawman of the hub’s structure, characterize several use cases, and facilitate development of pilot projects that demonstrate the value of connected public water data for improved decision making.
description: Texas Water Journal, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019)
Micronychia danguyana H. Perrier
Creators: name: Randrianasolo, Armand
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Anacardiaceae
Micronychia
Micronychia danguyana

description: Micronychia danguyana H. Perrier
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 18: 267 (1944).
— Lectotype (here designated): Decary 5034, Madagascar, Fianarantsoa Prov., Farafangana, Befotaka, 20 Aug. 1926, fl. (P!).
Trees, ca. 6-9 m tall; young twigs ferrugineous pubescent, bark with translucide latex. Leaves coriaceous, persistent; blades obovate to elliptic, 8.5-22 cm long, 4.5-11 cm wide, apex rounded, base cuneate, margin entire; adaxial surface ferrugineous pubescent when young, glabrescent and pubescent only on the veins and margin when older, abaxial surface pubescent and ferrugineous; venation pinnate and cladodromous, midvein prominent below, 20-22 pairs of secondary veins, 2-15 mm apart, arcuate, prominent below, forming an obtuse angle with the midrib at the leaf base. Petiole 20-25 mm long, shallowly channeled, tomentose. Inflorescence terminal paniculate, 13-18 cm long, branches regular, villous; bracts triangular, 1.5-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, pubescent outside. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual; pedicel 0.5 mm long, pubescent; calyx lobes ovate to deltate, 1.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, sericeous outside, imbricate; corolla lobes obovate, 5 mm long, 2 mm wide, pubescent outside, red or pink, imbricate; stamens 5; in staminate flowers filaments 5.5 mm long, sigmoid, inserted basally on the outer surface of the disk, glabrous; anthers ca. 1 mm long, ovate, yellow, glabrous, dorsifixed, introrse, dehiscent by longitudinal slits; disk dish-shaped and crenulate, glabrous, ovary rudimentary. Pistillate flowers and fruit unknown.
HABITAT, DISTRIBUTION AND PHENOLOGY. — Micronychia danguyana occurs in the rainforest of southeastern Madagascar (Fig. 2). It has been collected in flower and young fruit in late August.
VERNACULAR NAME. — Karakatafy.
This species is sometimes confused with M. macrophylla, but its leaves are more obovate, much smaller in size, and lack a decurrent base, making its petiole length much greater than that of M. macrophylla (20-25 mm vs. 7-15 mm).
PERRIER DE LA BÂTHIE (1944) cited two collections when he first published M. danguyana, which constitute syntypes. One of them (Decary 5034) has been selected as the lectotype because it has flowers.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MADAGASCAR: Decary 4767, Fianarantsoa Prov., Farafangana, Befotaka, 13 Aug. 1926, fr. (P!).
description: Published as part of Randrianasolo, Armand, 2000, A taxonomic revision of the Malagasy endemic genus Micronychia (Anacardiaceae), pp. 145-155 in Adansonia (3) (3) 22 (1) on pages 148-149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4605738
Euzopherodes proleucalis Hampson 1908
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ranjan, Rahul
name: Talukdar, Avishek
name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Kirti, Jagbir Singh
name: Chandra, Kailash
name: Mally, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Euzopherodes
Euzopherodes proleucalis

description: 219. Euzopherodes proleucalis Hampson, 1908a: 261
Type locality: India, Punjab, Kangra Valley, 4500 ft
 = Rhodophaea sinensis Caradja, 1927: 400
Type locality: China, Kwanhsien
Distribution. Indian records: Punjab, Kangra valley [now in Himachal Pradesh] (Hampson 1908a). Global records: unknown.
  Genus Faveria Walker, 1859a: 888
 Type species: Faveria laiasalis Walker, 1859a, by monotypy
 = Oligochroa Ragonot, 1888: 20
 Type species: Pempelia dionysia Zeller, 1846b, by original designation
 = Pristarthria Ragonot, 1893: 326
 Type species: Salebria minutella Ragonot, 1885b, by monotypy
 = Sclerobia Ragonot, 1893: 528–529
 Type species: Hypochalcia tritalis Walker, 1863a, by monotypy
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on pages 90-91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292
Minkowski Bessel modes
Creators: name: Gerlach, Ulrich H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The global Minkowski Bessel (M-B) modes, whose explicit form allows the identification and description of the condensed vacuum state resulting from the operation of a pair of accelerated refrigerators, are introduced. They span the representation space of the unitary representation of the Poincare group on 2-D Lorentz space-time. Their three essential properties are: (1) they are unitarily related to the familiar Minkowski plane waves; (2) they form a unitary representation of the translation group on two dimensional Minkowski spacetime. (3) they are eigenfunctions of Lorentz boosts around a given reference event. In addition the global Minkowski Mellin modes are introduced. They are the singular limit of the M-B modes. This limit corresponds to the zero transverse momentum solutions to the zero rest mass wave equation. Also introduced are the four Rindler coordinate representatives of each global mode. Their normalization and density of states are exhibited in a (semi-infinite) accelerated frame with a finite bottom. In addition we exhibit the asymptotic limit as this bottom approaches the event horizon and thereby show how a mode sum approaches a mode integral as the frame becomes bottomless.
description: 18 pages, 2 postscript figures, PlainTex. Related papers also available at http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~gerlach
Study on Evidence Based Social Sciences: A New Emerging Field
Creators: name: Zarghi, Nazila
name: Khorasani, Soheil Dastmalchian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: evidence
subject: field

description: One of the state-of- the-art area of this field is evidence-based social sciences. It makes decisions based on the conscientious, explicit, and judicious application of the best available evidence from various sources. It may also be conducive to evidence-based social work, i.e. a kind of evidence based practice in some extent. In this new emerging field, the research findings help social workers in different levels of social sciences such as policy making, management, academic area, education, and social settings, etc. When using research in a real-world environment, critical appraisal is required, not only to trust the paper's internal validity or rigour methodology, but also to determine the degree to which research results can be implemented in a real-world setting. Without a question, the latter is a subjective assessment. As social sciences findings are highly context bound, it is necessary to pay more attention to this area. The present paper tries to introduce firstly evidence based social sciences and its importance and then propose criteria for critical appraisal of research findings for application in society. Finally some challenges in evidence applications should also recognized and prevented properly.
Lightweight design of cylindrical stiffened shells in launch vehicles by a dual-elite population sequential approximation optimization approach
Creators: name: Wang, Zhixiang
name: Lei, Yongjun
name: Wu, Zeping
name: OuYang, Xing
name: Zhang, Dapeng
name: Liu, Guanri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: A nonlinear displacement-controlled loading dynamic method is employed to investigate the deformed shape evolution of stiffened shells from prebuckling to postbuckling field until collapse. Because of the time-consuming postbuckling analysis, the dual-elite population sequential approximation optimization (SAO) approach is proposed. A novel determination method of Gaussian kernel widths based on moment estimates is proposed to enhance the augmented radial basis function surrogate model. A novel adaptive parallel infilling strategy is then developed to balance the capabilities of local and global optimization. A dual-elite population strategy is further developed to exploit the information from already acquired sampling points. Finally, the framework of the proposed SAO approach, which is implemented in a distributed parallel way on high-performance clusters to further diminish computation costs, is presented. The efficiency of the algorithm is validated by the postbuckling lightweight optimization of a cylindrical stiffened shell, resulting in a reduction of 12.3% of the initial weight.
“COntext-Aware systems Testing and validation” (COATI)
Creators: name: Augusto, Juan Carlos
name: Tan, Mario Jose Quinde Li Say
name: Chimezie Leonard Oguego
Publisher: name: Middlesex University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80504 Ubiquitous Computing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Software

description: This templates show how the testing and validation method COATI is applied based on the SEArch.
Additional file 1: of Ocular surface health in Shanghai University students: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Li, Shanshan
name: He, Jiangnan
name: Chen, Qiuying
name: Zhu, Jianfeng
name: Zou, Haidong
name: Xu, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Survey. College Studentsâ Eye Health Questionnaires including the widely-used ocular surface disease index (OSDI) and the Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). (DOCX 19 kb)
Homoeosoma ephestidiella Hampson 1896
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ranjan, Rahul
name: Talukdar, Avishek
name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Kirti, Jagbir Singh
name: Chandra, Kailash
name: Mally, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Homoeosoma
Homoeosoma ephestidiella

description: 231. Homoeosoma ephestidiella Hampson, 1896b: 67
Type locality: India, Nilgiris. Indonesia, Sumbawa
Distribution. Indian records: Nilgiris (Hampson 1896b). Global records: Sumbawa (Hampson 1896b), Vietnam (Tonkin) (de Joannis 1930).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292
Scattering phase shifts in quasi-one-dimension
Creators: name: Deo, P. Singha
name: Bandopadhyay, Swarnali
name: Das, Sourin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering of an electron in quasi-one dimensional quantum wires have many unusual features, not found in one, two or three dimensions. In this work we analyze the scattering phase shifts due to an impurity in a multi-channel quantum wire with special emphasis on negative slopes in the scattering phase shift versus incident energy curves and the Wigner delay time. Although at first sight, the large number of scattering matrix elements show phase shifts of different character and nature, it is possible to see some pattern and understand these features. The behavior of scattering phase shifts in one-dimension can be seen as a special case of these features observed in quasi-one-dimensions. The negative slopes can occur at any arbitrary energy and Friedel sum rule is completely violated in quasi-one-dimension at any arbitrary energy and any arbitrary regime. This is in contrast to one, two or three dimensions where such negative slopes and violation of Friedel sum rule happen only at low energy where the incident electron feels the potential very strongly (i.e., there is a very well defined regime, the WKB regime, where FSR works very well). There are some novel behavior of scattering phase shifts at the critical energies where $S$-matrix changes dimension.
description: Minor corrections made
Additional file 1: of Controlling the Secondary Surface Morphology of Electrospun PVDF Nanofibers by Regulating the Solvent and Relative Humidity
Creators: name: Zaarour, Bilal
name: Zhu, Lei
name: Huang, Chen
name: Jin, Xiangyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S1. SEM pictures (lower magnification) of the porous electrospun PVDF fibers. Figure S2 The diameter of fiber. Figure S3 and S4 SEM pictures (lower magnification) of the rough and grooved electrospun PVDF fibers. (DOCX 2656 kb)
Homoeosoma elongatella Hampson 1901
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ranjan, Rahul
name: Talukdar, Avishek
name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Kirti, Jagbir Singh
name: Chandra, Kailash
name: Mally, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Homoeosoma
Homoeosoma elongatella

description: 230. Homoeosoma elongatella Hampson, 1901: 257, pl. 34, fig. 4.
Type locality: Bengal (?Calcutta)
Distribution. Indian records: Bengal (Ragonot & Hampson 1901). Global records: unknown.
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292
Photometry and preliminary modelling of Type IIb Supernova 2017gpn
Creators: name: Pruzhinskaya, Maria
name: Balakina, Elena
name: Moskvitin, Alexander
name: Blinnikov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MASTER OT J033744.97+723159.0/SN 2017gpn was discovered in the error-box of LIGO/Virgo G299232 gravitational wave alert. The spectrum of SN 2017gpn is consistent with a Type IIb supernova. In this work we present the photometry of 20 epochs of observations performed with CCD-photometer on the Zeiss-1000 telescope. The light curves in B and Rc filters were obtained. The multicolour light curves were also modelled numerically using the one-dimensional radiation hydro-dynamical code STELLA.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure
The kinematics of Galactic disc white dwarfs in Gaia DR2
Creators: name: Rowell, Nicholas
name: Kilic, Mukremin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the kinematics of Galactic disc white dwarf stars in the Solar neighbourhood using data from Gaia Data Release 2. Selection of white dwarfs based on parallax provides the first large, kinematically unbiased sample of Solar neighbourhood white dwarfs to date. Various classical properties of the Solar neighbourhood kinematics have been detected for the first time in the WD population. The disc white dwarf population exhibits a correlation between absolute magnitude and mean age, which we exploit to obtain an independent estimate of the Solar motion with respect to the Local Standard of Rest. This is found to be $(U,V,W)_{\odot} = (9.5\pm1.2, 7.5\pm1.2, 8.2\pm1.2)$ kms$^{-1}$. The $UW$ components agree with studies based on main sequence stars, however the $V$ component differs and may be affected by systematics arising from metallicity gradients in the disc. The velocity ellipsoid is shown to vary strongly with magnitude, and exhibits a significant vertex deviation in the $UV$ plane of around 15 degrees, due to the non-axisymmetric Galactic potential. The results of this study provide an important input to proper motion surveys for white dwarfs, which require knowledge of the velocity distribution in order to correct for missing low velocity stars that are culled from the sample to reduce subdwarf contamination.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of The combination of methotrexate and cytosine arabinoside in newly diagnosed adult Langerhans cell histiocytosis: a prospective phase II interventional clinical trial
Creators: name: Han, Xiao
name: Ouyang, Mingqi
name: Duan, Minghui
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhu, Tienan
name: Li, Jian
name: Wang, Shujie
name: Zhou, Daobin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The survival analysis of other predetermined subgroups.
Learning Converged Propagations with Deep Prior Ensemble for Image Enhancement
Creators: name: Liu, Risheng
name: Ma, Long
name: Wang, Yiyang
name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Enhancing visual qualities of images plays very important roles in various vision and learning applications. In the past few years, both knowledge-driven maximum a posterior (MAP) with prior modelings and fully data-dependent convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques have been investigated to address specific enhancement tasks. In this paper, by exploiting the advantages of these two types of mechanisms within a complementary propagation perspective, we propose a unified framework, named deep prior ensemble (DPE), for solving various image enhancement tasks. Specifically, we first establish the basic propagation scheme based on the fundamental image modeling cues and then introduce residual CNNs to help predicting the propagation direction at each stage. By designing prior projections to perform feedback control, we theoretically prove that even with experience-inspired CNNs, DPE is definitely converged and the output will always satisfy our fundamental task constraints. The main advantage against conventional optimization-based MAP approaches is that our descent directions are learned from collected training data, thus are much more robust to unwanted local minimums. While, compared with existing CNN type networks, which are often designed in heuristic manners without theoretical guarantees, DPE is able to gain advantages from rich task cues investigated on the bases of domain knowledges. Therefore, DPE actually provides a generic ensemble methodology to integrate both knowledge and data-based cues for different image enhancement tasks. More importantly, our theoretical investigations verify that the feedforward propagations of DPE are properly controlled toward our desired solution. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DPE outperforms state-of-the-arts on a variety of image enhancement tasks in terms of both quantitative measure and visual perception quality.
description: This paper has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror
Creators: name: Nicolaevici, Nistor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror for the massless scalar field in 1+1 Minkowski space. Partial reflectivity is achieved by localizing a delta-type potential at the mirror's position. The radiated flux is exactly obtained for arbitrary motions as an integral functional of the mirror's past trajectory. Partial reflectivity corrections to the perfect mirror result are discussed.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX
Identifying potential entry inhibitors for emerging Nipah virus by molecular docking and chemical-protein interaction network
Creators: name: Pathania, Shivalika
name: Randhawa, Vinay
name: Kumar, Manoj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Nipah Virus (NiV) is a newly emergent paramyxovirus that has caused various outbreaks in Asian countries. Despite its acute pathogenicity and lack of approved therapeutics for human use, there is an urgent need to determine inhibitors against NiV. Hence, this work includes prospection of potential entry inhibitors by implementing an integrative structure- and network-based drug discovery approach. FDA-approved drugs were screened against attachment glycoprotein (NiV-G, PDB: 2VSM), one of the prime targets to inhibit viral entry, using a molecular docking approach that was benchmarked both on CCDC/ASTEX and known NIV-G inhibitor set. The predicted small molecules were prioritized on the basis of topological analysis of the chemical-protein interaction network, which was inferred by integrating the drug-target network, NiV-human interaction network, and human protein-protein interaction network. A total of 17 drugs were predicted to be NiV-G inhibitors using molecular docking studies that were further prioritized to 3 novel leads − Nilotinib, Deslanoside and Acetyldigitoxin − on the basis of topological analysis of inferred chemical-protein interaction network. While Deslanoside and Acetyldigitoxin belong to an already known class of anti-NiV inhibitors, Nilotinib belongs to Benzenoids chemical class that has not been reported hitherto for developing anti-NiV inhibitors. These identified drugs are expected to be successful in further experimental evaluation and therefore could be used for anti-Nipah drug discovery. Apart, we also obtained various insights into the underlying chemical-protein interaction network, based on which several important network nodes were predicted. The applicability of our proposed approach was also demonstrated by prospecting for anti-NiV phytochemicals on an independent dataset.
A Refined Hydrogeologic Framework Model for Gaines, Terry, and Yoakum Counties, Texas
Creators: name: Thomas, Jonathan Van
name: Teeple, Andrew P.
name: Payne, Jason D.
name: Ikard, Scott J.
Publisher: name: Texas Water Journal
Year: 2019

description: Declining groundwater levels in Gaines, Yoakum, and Terry counties in the Southern High Plains have raised concerns about the amount of available groundwater and the potential for water-quality changes resulting from dewatering and increased vertical groundwater movement between adjacent water-bearing hydrogeologic units. More than 11,500 well records containing pertinent data were compiled, including data delineating the vertical extents of wells penetrating one or more of the units. Additional geophysical data were collected to improve the spatial coverage of available data across the study area and to reduce uncertainty regarding hydrogeologic unit extents. Across the study area, the average altitude of the base of the Ogallala Aquifer was approximately 1.7 feet lower compared to previous assessments of the altitude of the base of the aquifer, resulting in an increase in the saturated thickness by the same amount. Some of the largest increases in the altitude of the base of the Ogallala Aquifer were observed in central and east-central Gaines County where the units that compose the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer thin at approximately 136 feet and the largest decreases in altitudes are in Yoakum County at around 185 feet. Both the thickest and thinnest part of the Ogallala Aquifer is in Gaines County at just over 300 feet in west Gaines County and around 20 feet in northeast Gaines County.
description: Texas Water Journal, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019)
Sommeria aganais
Creators: name: Mbata, Keith J.
name: Prins, Jurate De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Sommeria
Sommeria aganais

description: Sommeria aganais (Felder, 1874)
COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth.
SYNONYM(S): Digama albicosta Pagenstecher, 1903.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Alala plateau, near Mkushi, Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Larval foodplants include Acokanthera oblongifolia Benth. & Hook.f., Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A.DC., Macadamia sp.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
description: Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
Additional file 10: of A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in asthma in UK adults
Creators: name: Wang, Qi
name: Li, Fei
name: Liang, Bishan
name: Liang, Yuhu
name: Chen, Sijie
name: Mo, Xiaodong
name: Ju, Yanmei
name: Zhao, Hui
name: Jia, Huijue
name: Spector, Timothy
name: Xie, Hailiang
name: Guo, Ruijin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S3. The number of significant enrichment virulence factor (VF): we counted the significant (two-tailed Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Pâ <â 0.05) enrichment VF in different cohort. (PDF 92 kb)
Homoeosoma goliathella Ragonot 1888
Creators: name: Singh, Navneet
name: Ranjan, Rahul
name: Talukdar, Avishek
name: Joshi, Rahul
name: Kirti, Jagbir Singh
name: Chandra, Kailash
name: Mally, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Homoeosoma
Homoeosoma goliathella

description: 233. Homoeosoma goliathella Ragonot, 1888: 35
Type locality: Indes orientales [East Indies]
Distribution. Indian records: Calcutta (Hampson 1896b, Bhattacharya 1997). Global records: Indes orientales (Ragonot 1888).
description: Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292
Identifying the electron-positron cascade regimes in high-intensity laser-matter interactions
Creators: name: Slade-Lowther, C.
name: Del Sorbo, D.
name: Ridgers, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong-field quantum electrodynamics predicts electron-seeded electron-positron pair cascades when the electric field in the rest-frame of the seed electron approaches the Sauter-Schwinger field, i.e. $η= E_{RF}/E_S \sim 1$. Electrons in the focus of next generation multi-PW lasers are expected to reach this threshold. We identify three distinct cascading regimes in the interaction of counter-propagating, circularly-polarised laser pulses with a thin foil by performing a comprehensive scan over the laser intensity (from $10^{23}$ -- $5\times10^{24}$\ Wcm$^{-2}$) and initial foil target density (from $10^{26}$ -- $10^{31}$\ m$^{-3}$). For low densities and intensities the number of pairs grows exponentially. If the intensity and target density are high enough the number density of created pairs reaches the relativistically-corrected critical density, the pair plasma efficiently absorbs the laser energy (through radiation reaction) and the cascade saturates. If the initial density is too high, such that the initial target is overdense, the cascade is suppressed by the skin effect. We derive a semi-analytical model which predicts that dense pair plasmas are endemic features of these interactions for intensities above $10^{24}$ Wcm$^{-2}$ provided the target's relativistic skin-depth is longer than the laser wavelength. Further, it shows that pair production is maximised in near-critical-density targets, providing a guide for near-term experiments.
Behavior of a polymer chain in a critical binary solvent
Creators: name: Stapper, M.
name: Vilgis, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a field-theoretic renormalization group analysis of a polymer chain immersed in a binary good solvent close to its critical demixing point. We first show that this problem can be mapped on a bicritical field theory, i.e. a $(Φ^{2})^{2}$-model with a mass anisotropy. This implies that the end-to-end distance of the polymer is now controlled by a new critical exponent $ν_{B}$ related to the quadratic mass anisotropy operator $B$. To show this we solve the RG equation and calculate explicitly the exponents and the mean end-to-end length of the chain.
description: 6 pages, accepted in Europhys. Lett
Surface water-groundwater interaction issues in Texas
Creators: name: Young, Steven C.
name: Mace, Robert E.
name: Rubinstein, Carlos
Publisher: name: Texas Water Journal
Year: 2018

description: In Texas, surface water is owned and regulated by the State of Texas, whereas groundwater is owned by respective property owners under the rule of capture. Owners of surface water rights, issued by the state, and groundwater may use and sell their water as a private property right. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality administers surface water rights, while groundwater conservation districts (where they exist) are primarily responsible for permitting groundwater use. This paper focuses on the complexity of both systems that are designed to manage water resources differently with specific emphasis on where surface water and groundwater interact. Surface water-groundwater interactions have contributed to disputes over the actual ownership and right to water. The available science and the limitations of the models currently used to make water availability and permitting determinations are discussed, as are the investments in field data gathering and interpretation and model enhancements that can lead to better assessments of surface water-groundwater interactions and impacts. More complete science and enhanced models may also help reduce the timeline associated with the permitting of future water supply and use strategies.
description: Texas Water Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018)
Additional file 2: of Nogo-B receptor increases the resistance to tamoxifen in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Gao, Pin
name: Wang, Xiang
name: Jin, Ying
name: Hu, Wenquan
name: Duan, Yajun
name: Shi, Aiping
name: Du, Ye
name: Song, Dong
name: Yang, Ming
name: Li, Sijie
name: Han, Bing
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Zhang, Hongquan
name: Fan, Zhimin
name: Miao, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S2. NgBR is highly expressed in the tamoxifen-resistant T47D-TamR cells. (A) NgBR level was increased in T47D-TamR cells. Protein levels of Nogo-B, ERα, p53 and survivin in T47D and T47D-TamR cells were determined using western blot analysis. (B) Quantitative analysis of proteins presented in Additional file 2: Figure S2A was carried out using ImageJ and normalized to β-actin. Data are presented as fold changes of T47D-TamR compared to the T47D cells. The data are from three separate repeated experiments and are presented as the mean ± SD (*p < 0.05, n = 3). (PDF 155 kb)
One-loop structure of the photon propagator in the Standard Model Extension
Creators: name: Hernández-Juárez, A. I.
name: Montaño, J.
name: Novales-Sánchez, H.
name: Salinas, M.
name: Toscano, J. J.
name: Vázquez-Hernández, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study radiative corrections on the photon propagator from the electroweak sector of the minimal Lorentz- and $CPT$-violating Standard Model Extension. We derive the most general Lorentz-violating ghost sector from BRST symmetry and renormalization theory. We introduce a Lorentz-violating nonlinear gauge that simplifies both the Higgs and gauge-sector extensions, which can be helpful in radiative corrections. At one loop, these sectors contribute to the $CPT$-even part of the photon propagator, characterized by the Riemann-type tensor $(k_F)_{αβμν}$. We give exact results for the contributions to the SO(1,3) irreducible parts of $(k_F)_{αβμν}$, namely, the Weyl-type tensor $(\hat{k}_F)_{αβμν}$, the Ricci-type tensor $(k_F)_{αβ}$, and the curvature-type scalar $k_F$. In the Yukawa sector, one-loop contributions are ultraviolet finite, but most of them are unobservable due to finite renormalization. The only observable effect is a contribution proportional to $(k_F)_{αβ}$ that emerges via a dimension-6 term that is observer and gauge invariant. In the Higgs and gauge sectors, all the irreducible parts of the corresponding Riemann-type tensors receive divergent contributions, so they are observable. The only finite contribution corresponds to the dimension-6 term. We think of these contributions as radiative corrections to the renormalized tensors and assume that both effects are of the same order of magnitude to find bounds from vacuum birefringence and compare with the literature. Bounds on $(k_F)_{αβ}$ contributions, innocuous to birefringence, are also derived using limits on the renormalized tensor from Laser-Interferometer-Gravitational-Wave-Observatory data. We compare these bounds with the literature. Beta functions associated with $(\hat{k}_F)_{αβμν}$ and $(k_F)_{αβ}$ are derived.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D, 33 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3: of Nogo-B receptor increases the resistance to tamoxifen in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Gao, Pin
name: Wang, Xiang
name: Jin, Ying
name: Hu, Wenquan
name: Duan, Yajun
name: Shi, Aiping
name: Du, Ye
name: Song, Dong
name: Yang, Ming
name: Li, Sijie
name: Han, Bing
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Zhang, Hongquan
name: Fan, Zhimin
name: Miao, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S3. NgBR decreases the resistance of T47D-TamR to tamoxifen. (A) NgBR knockdown increases apoptosis of T47D-TamR cells induced by 4-OHT (5 μM). The apoptotic cells were detected by Annexin V-PI staining. The total number of cells in the Q2 and Q4 quadrant was regarded as apoptotic cells. (B) Percentages of apoptotic cells are shown in the bar graph. (C) NgBR knockdown decreases the viability of T47D-TamR cells. Cell viability was determined using trypan blue staining of T47D-TamR cells treated with 5 μM 4-OHT for 48 h. The viable cell number of the NS group is referred to as 100%. (D) NgBR knockdown decreases the clonogenenicity of T47D-TamR cells. The clonogenic survival assay was used for measuring clonogenicity of T47D-TamR cells treated with 4-OHT (5 μM). (E) Quantification of colony number in colony formation assays presented in Additional file 3: Figure S3D. The data are from three separate repeated experiments and are presented as the mean ± SD (*p < 0.05, n = 3). (PDF 296 kb)
Uniqueness properties of the Kerr metric
Creators: name: Mars, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a geometrical condition on vacuum, stationary, asymptotically flat spacetimes which is necessary and sufficient for the spacetime to be locally isometric to Kerr. Namely, we prove a theorem stating that an asymptotically flat, stationary, vacuum spacetime such that the so-called Killing form is an eigenvector of the self-dual Weyl tensor must be locally isometric to Kerr. Asymptotic flatness is a fundamental hypothesis of the theorem, as we demonstrate by writing down the family of metrics obtained when this requirement is dropped. This result indicates why the Kerr metric plays such an important role in general relativity. It may also be of interest in order to extend the uniqueness theorems of black holes to the non-connected and to the non-analytic case.
description: 30 pages, LaTeX, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity