cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 7 of A prognostic nomogram to predict survival in elderly patients with small-cell lung cancer: a large population-based cohort study and external validation
Creators: name: Lu, Guangrong
name: Li, Jiajia
name: Ruan, Yejiao
name: Shi, Yuning
name: Zhang, Xuchao
name: Xia, Yushan
name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Lin, Jiafeng
name: Li, Lili
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table 1. Patient characteristics of external validation cohort.
Updated Introduction to Biological Anthropology Syllabus 22
Creators: name: Glass, Delaney
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 160102 Biological (Physical) Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Updated syllabus in Fall 2021 to apply to teach in Summer 2022.
Differentially Private Multivariate Statistics with an Application to Contingency Table Analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Minwoo
name: Lee, Jonghyeok
name: Kwak, Seung Woo
name: Jung, Sungkyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Differential privacy (DP) has become a rigorous central concept for privacy protection in the past decade. We use Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) in gauging the level of privacy protection for releasing statistical summaries from data. The GDP is a natural and easy-to-interpret differential privacy criterion based on the statistical hypothesis testing framework. The Gaussian mechanism is a natural and fundamental mechanism that can be used to perturb multivariate statistics to satisfy a $μ$-GDP criterion, where $μ>0$ stands for the level of privacy protection. Requiring a certain level of differential privacy inevitably leads to a loss of statistical utility. We improve ordinary Gaussian mechanisms by developing rank-deficient James-Stein Gaussian mechanisms for releasing private multivariate statistics, and show that the proposed mechanisms have higher statistical utilities. Laplace mechanisms, the most commonly used mechanisms in the pure DP framework, are also investigated under the GDP criterion. We show that optimal calibration of multivariate Laplace mechanisms requires more information on the statistic than just the global sensitivity, and derive the minimal amount of Laplace perturbation for releasing $μ$-GDP contingency tables. Gaussian mechanisms are shown to have higher statistical utilities than Laplace mechanisms, except for very low levels of privacy. The utility of proposed multivariate mechanisms is further demonstrated using differentially private hypotheses tests on contingency tables. Bootstrap-based goodness-of-fit and homogeneity tests, utilizing the proposed rank-deficient James--Stein mechanisms, exhibit higher powers than natural competitors.
Pulsation Period Changes as a Tool to Identify Pre-Zero Age Horizontal Branch Stars
Creators: name: Aguirre, V. Silva
name: Catelan, M.
name: Weiss, A.
name: Valcarce, A. A. R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most dramatic events in the life of a low-mass star is the He flash, which takes place at the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) and is followed by a series of secondary flashes before the star settles into the zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB). Yet, no stars have been positively identified in this key evolutionary phase, mainly for two reasons: first, this pre-ZAHB phase is very short compared to other major evolutionary phases in the life of a star; and second, these pre-ZAHB stars are expected to overlap the loci occupied by asymptotic giant branch (AGB), HB and RGB stars observed in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). We investigate the possibility of detecting these stars through stellar pulsations, since some of them are expected to rapidly cross the Cepheid/RR Lyrae instability strip in their route from the RGB tip to the ZAHB, thus becoming pulsating stars along the way. As a consequence of their very high evolutionary speed, some of these stars may present anomalously large period change rates. We constructed an extensive grid of stellar models and produced pre-ZAHB Monte Carlo simulations appropriate for the case of the Galactic globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272), where a number of RR Lyrae stars with high period change rates are found. Our results suggest that some -- but certainly not all -- of the RR Lyrae stars in M3 with large period change rates are in fact pre-ZAHB pulsators.
description: Conference Proceedings HELAS Workshop on 'Synergies between solar and stellar modelling', Rome, June 2009, Astrophys. Space Sci., in the press
Temperature versus acceleration: the Unruh effect for holographic models
Creators: name: Paredes, Angel
name: Peeters, Kasper
name: Zamaklar, Marija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the effect of velocity and acceleration on the temperature felt by particles and strings in backgrounds relevant in holographic models. First, we compare accelerated strings and strings at finite temperature. We find that for fixed Unruh temperature felt by the string endpoints, the screening length is smaller for the accelerated Wilson loop than for the static one in a thermal background of the same temperature; hence acceleration provides a "more efficient" mechanism for melting of mesons. Secondly, we show that the velocity-dependence of the screening length of the colour force, previously obtained from a moving Wilson loop in a finite temperature background, is not specific for the string, but is a consequence of the generic fact that an observer which moves with constant velocity in a black hole background measures a velocity-dependent temperature. Finally, we analyse accelerated particles and strings in the AdS black hole background, and show that these feel a temperature which increases as a function of time. As a byproduct of our analysis we find a global Minkowski embedding for the planar AdS black hole.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures; v2: references added; v3: various points clarified, published version
Garden Club of America's Trip to Honolulu and Japan, 1935, by Eva Johnston Coe, Featuring Paper Read by Mr. Takashi Komatsu at Farewell Dinner in Japan
Creators: name: Coe, Eva Johnston
name: Komatsu, Takashi
name: Garden Club Of East Hampton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1935
Subjects: Gardening
Gardens
Social organizations
Organizations
East Hampton (N.Y.)
Japan

description: These notes were written by Mrs. Eva Johnston Coe, wife of Mr. Henry E. Coe, about her trip as a delegate of the Garden Club of East Hampton on a trip to Honolulu and Japan with the Garden Club of America. Included with Mrs. Coe's paper is the paper read by Mr. Takashi Komatsu, "The Pageant of Costumes of Different Ages", at the farewell dinner in Japan before the Garden Club visitors departed. Mrs. Coe describes this speech on page 17 in her notes about the trip.
On generalized eigenvalue problems of fractional $(p,q)$-Laplace operator with two parameters
Creators: name: Biswas, Nirjan
name: Sk, Firoj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A01, 35B09, 35B38, 35J60, 35P30, 47G20

description: For $s_1,s_2\in(0,1)$ and $p,q \in (1, \infty)$, we study the following nonlinear Dirichlet eigenvalue problem with parameters $α, β\in \mathbb{R}$ driven by the sum of two nonlocal operators:
 \begin{equation*}
 (-Δ)^{s_1}_p u+(-Δ)^{s_2}_q u=α|u|^{p-2}u+β|u|^{q-2}u\;\;\text{in }Ω, \quad u=0\;\;\text{in } \mathbb{R}^d \setminus Ω, \ \ \ \qquad \quad \mathrm{(P)}
 \end{equation*} where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is a bounded open set. Depending on the values of $α,β$, we completely describe the existence and non-existence of positive solutions to (P). We construct a continuous threshold curve in the two-dimensional $(α, β)$-plane, which separates the regions of the existence and non-existence of positive solutions. In addition, we prove that the first Dirichlet eigenfunctions of the fractional $p$-Laplace and fractional $q$-Laplace operators are linearly independent, which plays an essential role in the formation of the curve. Furthermore, we establish that every nonnegative solution of (P) is globally bounded.
description: 35 pages, 2 figures (In the latest version, we have revised the proof of Theorem 1.6-(i) by constructing a suitable test function to demonstrate that the solution is nonzero.)
Additional file 2 of Patient and provider perspectives on self-administered electronic substance use and mental health screening in HIV primary care
Creators: name: Lea, Alexandra N.
name: Altschuler, Andrea
name: Leibowitz, Amy S.
name: Levine-Hall, Tory
name: McNeely, Jennifer
name: Silverberg, Michael J.
name: Satre, Derek D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Appendix S2. Patient Interview Guide. Qualitative interview guide used to complete interviews with patients.
Additional file 1 of Photosynthetic Enhancement, Lifespan Extension, and Leaf Area Enlargement in Flag Leaves Increased the Yield of Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing Rubisco Under Sufficient N Fertilization
Creators: name: Tanaka, Marin
name: Keira, Mamoru
name: Yoon, Dong-Kyung
name: Mae, Tadahiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Makino, Amane
name: Ishiyama, Keiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1 Changes in the dry weights of above-ground sections (shoots), leaf blades, leaf sheaths and stems, panicles, and dead organs of wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants between 10 DAH in early ripening (A) and 49 DAH in late ripening stages (B) in the plots applied with 15 g N m−2 fertilizer. Mean values ± the standard error of three independent plots are shown. *p < 0.05 between the wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants using Student’s t-test. The wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants are represented by black and red bars, respectively. The abbreviations stand as follows: “DAH”; days after heading, “DO”; dead organs, “ER”; early ripening stage, “LB”; leaf blades, “LR”; late ripening stage, “LSS”; leaf sheaths and stems, “P”; panicles, “RBCS-sense”; transgenic rice plants overproducing Rubisco, “S”; shoots (above-ground sections), “Wild”; wild-type rice plant.
Additional file 3 of Comparative transcription profiling of mRNA and lncRNA in pulmonary arterial hypertension after C75 treatment
Creators: name: Hou, Cuilan
name: Xie, Lijian
name: Wang, Tingxia
name: Zheng, Junmin
name: Zhao, Yuqi
name: Qiu, Qingzhu
name: Yang, Yi
name: Xiao, Tingting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Table S3. List of filtered 259 lncRNA-miRNA relationship pairs (in the attachment of supporting information).
Additional file 2 of Photosynthetic Enhancement, Lifespan Extension, and Leaf Area Enlargement in Flag Leaves Increased the Yield of Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing Rubisco Under Sufficient N Fertilization
Creators: name: Tanaka, Marin
name: Keira, Mamoru
name: Yoon, Dong-Kyung
name: Mae, Tadahiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Makino, Amane
name: Ishiyama, Keiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2 Stem or panicle number of the wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants at 10 DAH in early and 49 DAH in late ripening stages in plots applied with 15 g N m−2 fertilizer. Mean values ± the standard error of three independent plots, and those of stem numbers at an early ripening and panicle numbers at late ripening stages are shown. *p < 0.05 between the wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants using Student’s t-test. The abbreviations stand as follows: “ER”; early ripening stage, “LR”; late-ripening stage, “RBCS-sense”; transgenic rice plants overproducing Rubisco, “Wild”; wild-type rice plants.
A graphical description of the BNS-invariants of Bestvina-Brady groups and the RAAG recognition problem
Creators: name: Chang, Yu-Chan
name: Ruffoni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36, 20J05, 20F65, 20F05

description: A finitely presented Bestvina-Brady group (BBG) admits a presentation involving only commutators. We show that if a graph admits a certain type of spanning trees, then the associated BBG is a right-angled Artin group (RAAG). As an application, we obtain that the class of BBGs contains the class of RAAGs. On the other hand, we provide a criterion to certify that certain finitely presented BBGs are not isomorphic to RAAGs (or more general Artin groups). This is based on a description of the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariants of finitely presented BBGs in terms of separating subgraphs, analogous to the case of RAAGs. As an application, we characterize when the BBG associated to a 2-dimensional flag complex is a RAAG in terms of certain subgraphs.
description: 49 pages, 20 figures, comments welcome. v2: minor edits. Final version to appear on Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics
Additional file 1 of Patient and provider perspectives on self-administered electronic substance use and mental health screening in HIV primary care
Creators: name: Lea, Alexandra N.
name: Altschuler, Andrea
name: Leibowitz, Amy S.
name: Levine-Hall, Tory
name: McNeely, Jennifer
name: Silverberg, Michael J.
name: Satre, Derek D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Provider Interview Guide. Qualitative interview guide used to complete interviews with providers.
Additional file 4 of Comparative transcription profiling of mRNA and lncRNA in pulmonary arterial hypertension after C75 treatment
Creators: name: Hou, Cuilan
name: Xie, Lijian
name: Wang, Tingxia
name: Zheng, Junmin
name: Zhao, Yuqi
name: Qiu, Qingzhu
name: Yang, Yi
name: Xiao, Tingting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Figure S1. Co-expression networks of lncRNAs and protein-coding genes.
Laser-catalyzed spin-exchange process in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Jing, H.
name: Jiang, Y.
name: Zhang, Weiping
name: Meystre, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show theoretically that it is possible to optically control collective spin-exchange processes in spinor Bose condensates through virtual photoassociation. The interplay between optically induced spin exchange and spin-dependent collisions provides a flexible tool for the control of atomic spin dynamics, including enhanced or inhibited quantum spin oscillations, the optically-induced ferromagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic transition, and coherent matter-wave spin conversion.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Time Variable Cosmological Constant from Renormalization Group Equations
Creators: name: Xu, Lixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a time variable cosmological constant (CC) from renormalization group equations (RGEs) is explored, where the renormalization scale $μ^2=R^{-2}_{CC}=Max(\dot{H}+2H^2,-\dot{H})$ is taken. The cosmological parameters, such as dimensionless energy density, deceleration parameter and effective equation of state of CC etc, are derived. Also, the cosmic observational constraints are implemented to test the model's consistence. The results show that it is compatible with cosmic data. So, it would be a viable dark energy model.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. the case \mu^2=-\dot{H} and data from CMB shift parameter R are added
Additional file 3 of Photosynthetic Enhancement, Lifespan Extension, and Leaf Area Enlargement in Flag Leaves Increased the Yield of Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing Rubisco Under Sufficient N Fertilization
Creators: name: Tanaka, Marin
name: Keira, Mamoru
name: Yoon, Dong-Kyung
name: Mae, Tadahiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Makino, Amane
name: Ishiyama, Keiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2 N contents of above-ground sections (shoots), leaf blades, sheaths and stems, and panicles at 10 DAH in early ripening (A) and 49 DAH in the late ripening stages (B) in the plots applied with 15 g N m−2 fertilizer. Mean values ± the standard error of three independent plots are indicated. *p < 0.05 between the wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants using Student’s t-test. The wild-type and RBCS-sense rice plants are shown by black and red bars, respectively. The abbreviations stand as follows: “ER”; early ripening stage, “LB”; leaf blades, “LSS”; leaf sheaths and stems, “LR”; late ripening stage, “P”; panicles, “RBCS-sense”; transgenic rice plants overproducing Rubisco, “S”; shoots (above-ground sections), “Wild”; wild-type rice plants.
Extension of the Hamaneh - Taylor model using the macroscopic polarization for the description of chiral smectic liquid crystals
Creators: name: Dhaouadi, Hassen
name: Bitri, Nabila
name: Essid, Sahbi
name: Soltani, Taoufik
name: Gharbi, Abdelhafidh
name: Marcerou, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral smectic liquid crystals exhibit a series of phases, including ferroelectric, antiferroelectric and ferrielectric commensurate structures as well as an incommensurate SmCalpha phase. We carried out an extension of the phenomenological model, recently presented by M. B. Hamaneh and P. L. Taylor, based upon the distorted clock model.
SUV TANQISLIGINI OLDINI OLISH UCHUN QISHLOQ XO'JALIGIDA FOYDALANILAYOTGAN TOMCHILATIB SUG'ORISH TIZIMLARINING BUGUNGI KUNDAGI IMKONIYATLARI
Creators: name: Mavlonova, Muxlisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada tomchilatib sug'orish tizimlari zamonaviy qishloq xo'jaligida suv tanqisligini oldini olish hamda sug‘orish, suvni to‘g‘ridan-to‘g‘ri o‘simlik ildizlariga yetkazish, isrofgarchilikni kamaytirish va samaradorlikni oshirish, qishloq xo‘jaligida suv tanqisligiga qarshi kurashishning istiqbolli yechimlari haqida keng qamrovli fikr yurutilgan. Barqaror va iqlim sharoitiga chidamli dehqonchilik amaliyotlarini rag‘batlantirish, tomchilatib sug‘orish suvdan tejamkorlik bilan foydalanib  ekin yetishtirishni ta’minlashda muhim rol o‘ynaydi.
$Λ$-hypernuclear production in ($K^-_{\rm stop}, π$) reactions
Creators: name: Krejčiřík, V.
name: Cieplý, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on calculation of the $Λ$ - hypernuclear production induced by the stopped $K^-$. The calculation was performed within the framework of the distorted wave impulse approximation and employed chirally motivated model for the microscopic description of the elementary $K^-$-nucleon process. The sensitivity of the calculation was tested with various wave functions of both the kaon in the initial state and the pion in the final state. Our results are closer to the experimental values then the results of previous calculations.
description: 31st Mazurian Lakes Conference contribution, August 30 - September 6, 2009, Piaski, Poland; to appear in Acta Physica Polonica B
Additional file 4 of Photosynthetic Enhancement, Lifespan Extension, and Leaf Area Enlargement in Flag Leaves Increased the Yield of Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing Rubisco Under Sufficient N Fertilization
Creators: name: Tanaka, Marin
name: Keira, Mamoru
name: Yoon, Dong-Kyung
name: Mae, Tadahiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Makino, Amane
name: Ishiyama, Keiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3 Panoramic view of the Isolated Farm for Genetically Modified Plants (Isolated Paddy Field) of the Field Science Center, Tohoku University (Kawatabi Field Center; 38˚44′ N, 140˚45′ E, at 140 m altitude) (A) and planting map in 2021 (B). Experimental paddy fields used in this research are shown in the red frame (A). The abbreviations stand as follows: “RBCS-sense”; transgenic rice plants overproducing Rubisco, “Wild”; wild-type rice plants.
CROSS-TALK BETWEEN THE PROTEOLYTIC AND NON-PROTEOLYTIC FUNCTIONS OF THE UROKINASE RECEPTOR
Creators: name: DE LORENZI, VALENTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Urokinase (uPA) and its cell surface receptor (uPAR) have been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes related to tissue homeostasis. Moreover the uPA-system plays an important role in many pathological events, such as tumour cell migration and dissemination. On the one hand, the binding of uPA to uPAR favours extracellular proteolysis by enhancing cell surface plasminogen activation. On the other hand, it promotes cell adhesion and signalling through binding of the provisional matrix protein vitronectin (VN). Although the existence of feedback loops between the functions of uPAR in extracellular proteolysis, cell adhesion and signalling has been described, some aspects of this cross-talk are still poorly understood and not characterized experimentally. We here report that cell surface plasminogen activation induces a potent negative feedback on cell adhesion to VN. The feedback is predominantly caused by proteolytic cleavage of the RGD-motif in VN catalyzed by both uPA and plasmin. In this process the cell-adhesive properties of VN are impaired by disruption of the integrin binding site and release of the somatomedin B (SMB) domain responsible for binding of uPAR. Cleavage of VN by uPA displays a remarkable receptor-dependence and requires concomitant binding of both uPA and VN to uPAR suggesting that the hydrolysis is accelerated by a mechanism of substrate presentation. VN represents the first described uPAR-dependent substrate of uPA and our findings therefore identify a potential novel function of uPAR in focusing the proteolytic activity of the plasminogen activation system onto extracellular matrix-associated VN. Additionally, SMB-containing N-terminal VN fragments are released by several cancer cell lines in vitro and are detectable in human urines samples. We have thus developed a clinical grade immunoassay for the detection and quantification of such fragments in urine samples with the aim of using the levels of urinary VN fragments as a novel cancer biomarker. Our working hypothesis is that this biomarker may be used as an indirect functional measurement of the uPA-system activity in the tumour tissue. Finally, we show that the specific urokinase inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), blocks the negative feedback mediated by uPA and behaves as a potent uPA-dependent agonist of the interaction between uPAR and VN. Indeed, we report for the first time that the covalent complex between uPA and PAI-1 is endowed with higher agonistic activity compared to uPA. Taken together, these data might represent a molecular explanation of the poor clinical outcome observed in cancer patients with high levels of uPA and PAI-1.
Monitoring spectral forest regrowth trends in the Chapare watershed of Bolivia, 1985 to 2018
Creators: name: Kavlin Castaneda, Marcos
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Forest restoration is increasingly seen as a promising solution that can help address global climate change, biodiversity loss, and support sustainable development. One of the main approaches is Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR), which increases tree and forest cover in landscapes, therefore enhancing carbon sequestration and storage. However, this approach is only effective if these restored forests have long lasting permanence on the landscape. In this study, I leveraged cloud computing and time series analysis (using the Landtrendr algorithm in Google Earth Engine) to evaluate the spatial and temporal trends in regrowth permanence in the Bolivian watershed of Chapare, between 1985 and 2018. I then conducted a multi-variate driver analysis to better understand what factors increase regrowth permanence within the watershed, as well as in its three distinct regions. On average, regrowth events persisted for 7.3 years, with the mean ranging from 7.2 to 9.4 years. Most long-lasting regrowth events tended to be clustered in the Andean region of the watershed, or around the village of Villa Tunari, one of the most populated settlements in the watershed. Proximity to roads and human settlements increased the persistence of regrowth events. Surrounding forest cover had a negative quadratic relationship with regrowth permanence within the watershed, suggesting a non-linear relationship whereby regrowth permanence was highest at medium forest cover. However, regional trends within the watershed were also apparent, shaped by local context and history. The Andes had the most persistent regrowth events, whereas the Amazon region had the shortest regrowth permanence in the watershed. The findings of this study highlight the importance that human factors play when determining the longevity of a regrowth event. Additionally, the differences seen between each region within the watershed highlight the need to approach this kind of study at multiple scales, as many insights could be lost otherwise.
Image-to-Image Translation with Disentangled Latent Vectors for Face Editing
Creators: name: Dalva, Yusuf
name: Pehlivan, Hamza
name: Moran, Cansu
name: Hatipoğlu, Öykü Irmak
name: Dündar, Ayşegül
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an image-to-image translation framework for facial attribute editing with disentangled interpretable latent directions. Facial attribute editing task faces the challenges of targeted attribute editing with controllable strength and disentanglement in the representations of attributes to preserve the other attributes during edits. For this goal, inspired by the latent space factorization works of fixed pretrained GANs, we design the attribute editing by latent space factorization, and for each attribute, we learn a linear direction that is orthogonal to the others. We train these directions with orthogonality constraints and disentanglement losses. To project images to semantically organized latent spaces, we set an encoder-decoder architecture with attention-based skip connections. We extensively compare with previous image translation algorithms and editing with pretrained GAN works. Our extensive experiments show that our method significantly improves over the state-of-the-arts.
description: See https://yusufdalva.github.io/vecgan for the project webpage. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2207.03411
The DACH AG: Shaping and empowering change together
Creators: name: Höhener, Olivia
name: Nolte, Nina C.
name: Dörler, Daniel
name: Heigl, Florian
name: Stämpfli, Tiina
name: Zumthurn, Tizian
name: Siegele, Petra
name: Schoppa-Briele, Elena
name: Brink, Wiebke
name: Müller, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: cooperation
working groups
D-A-CH region
Citizen Science
change
impact

description: Since 2019, the DACH AG unites stakeholders in the context of Citizen Science, such as platform providers, representatives of universities, research institutions and Citizen Science organisations. As D-A-CH AG, it is our concern to intensify the cooperation in German-speaking Europe, to use synergies, to exchange best practices and to establish short ways of informal exchange.

With our poster, we intend to show how we work together in the DACH AG, which goals we have set and which activities we carry out together. In addition to what has been achieved so far, the poster will also present challenges in cross-border cooperation, as well as tips on how to overcome them. Central questions are:

What goals can be achieved within the framework of an international network?

Where are the limits?

How must the cooperation be organized in order to sustainably keep a transnational working group alive?

What impulses can a transnational approach give to all three countries?

The poster is aimed at leaders and members of other networks and working groups concerned with how networks can bring about a framework for shared learning and concrete change, as well as at Citizen Science actors in German-speaking countries. The poster is interactive, leaving space for visitors at the conference to share their experiences and recommendations.
The past, present and future of the Pite Saami language: Sociological factors and revitalization efforts
Creators: name: Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa
name: Wilbur, Joshua
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Arjeplog Saami
subject: endangered languages
subject: language documentation
subject: language policy
subject: language sociology
subject: minority languages
subject: language revitalization
subject: Pite Saami
subject: Saami
subject: Sweden
subject: 400 Sprache
subject: 490 Andere Sprachen
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Our paper is a report on the past, current and future state of the endangered Pite Saami language (aka: Arjeplog Saami) spoken in Swedish Lapland. Our primary data come from interviews with Pite Saami individuals and our field observations. We estimate the vitality of Pite Saami based on the UNESCO Language Vitality Scale, taking into consideration factors such as the number of speakers, language attitudes and the quality of documentation. We also discuss the possible reasons for the decline of Pite Saami, report on the speakers’ views of other Saami languages and Swedish, consider whether there is a specific Pite Saami identity, describe revitalization efforts already taking place, and discuss the future prospects of the language.
title: Neuro-Imaging in Zellweger Syndrome
Creators: name: Gala, Foram
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A preterm (36 weeks) newborn male child presented with complaints of GTCS on day 2 of life, generalised hypotonia with absent DTRs, respiratory distress and mild facial dysmorphic features.

description: 36 weeks, male
Solution of the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov equations in the Cartesian deformed harmonic-oscillator basis. (VI) HFODD (v2.38j): a new version of the program
Creators: name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Satula, W.
name: Carlsson, B. G.
name: Engel, J.
name: Olbratowski, P.
name: Powalowski, P.
name: Sadziak, M.
name: Sarich, J.
name: Schunck, N.
name: Staszczak, A.
name: Stoitsov, M.
name: Zalewski, M.
name: Zdunczuk, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the new version (v2.38j) of the code HFODD which solves the nuclear Skyrme-Hartree-Fock or Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov problem by using the Cartesian deformed harmonic-oscillator basis. In the new version, we have implemented: (i) projection on good angular momentum (for the Hartree-Fock states), (ii) calculation of the GCM kernels, (iii) calculation of matrix elements of the Yukawa interaction, (iv) the BCS solutions for state-dependent pairing gaps, (v) the HFB solutions for broken simplex symmetry, (vi) calculation of Bohr deformation parameters, (vii) constraints on the Schiff moments and scalar multipole moments, (viii) the D2h transformations and rotations of wave functions, (ix) quasiparticle blocking for the HFB solutions in odd and odd-odd nuclei, (x) the Broyden method to accelerate the convergence, (xi) the Lipkin-Nogami method to treat pairing correlations, (xii) the exact Coulomb exchange term, (xiii) several utility options, and we have corrected two insignificant errors.
description: 45 LaTeX pages, 4 figures, submitted to Computer Physics Communications
title: Η συμπεριφορά του καταναλωτή στην ψηφιακή εποχή
title: The consumer behaviour in the digital era
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Λιζάρδου, Ειρήνη
name: Lizardou, Eirini
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Consumer behaviour
subject: Online shopping
subject: Personal data safety

description: Ο σκοπός αυτής της έρευνας είναι να διερευνήσει τη συμπεριφορά των Ελλήνων καταναλωτών στην ψηφιακή εποχή. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, η έρευνα αφορά τις συνήθειες των Ελλήνων καταναλωτών όταν πραγματοποιούν αγορές στο διαδίκτυο, καθώς και την αντίληψή τους σχετικά με την προστασία των προσωπικών τους δεδομένων κατά τη διάρκεια ψηφιακών αγορών. Για το σκοπό αυτό, πραγματοποιείται μία πρωτογενής έρευνα ερωτηματολογίου. Σε αυτήν την έρευνα, 200 Έλληνες καταναλωτές, οι οποίοι χρησιμοποιούν το διαδίκτυο και που προέρχονται από όλες τις διαφορετικές περιοχές από την Ελλάδα, αποδέχθηκαν την πρόσκληση συμμετοχής στην έρευνα. Από τις απαντήσεις του συγκεκριμένου δείγματος μπορεί γενικά να συναχθεί το συμπέρασμα ότι, ειδικά όταν πρόκειται για τη νεότερη γενιά του σημερινού ελληνικού πληθυσμού, το διαδίκτυο έχει καταφέρει να αποκτήσει τη δική του θέση στις αγορές προϊόντων ή υπηρεσιών. Πράγματι, οι σύγχρονοι Έλληνες καταναλωτές έχουν επιλέξει να εμπιστεύονται τις διαδικτυακές αγορές, παρά το γεγονός ότι αναγνωρίζουν ότι είναι σίγουρα πιο «επικίνδυνες» από τις αγορές στα συμβατικά καταστήματα όταν πρόκειται για την προστασία και τη χρήση προσωπικών δεδομένων. Έτσι, μπορεί να ειπωθεί ότι σίγουρα οι διαδικτυακές αγορές με τα μειονεκτήματα ασφάλειας και τα πλεονεκτήματα ευκολίας τους, καθίστανται ένας ισχυρός παράγοντας στην ελληνική αγορά αγοράς προϊόντων και υπηρεσιών.
TUMOR SUPPRESSOR MUTAGENESIS DRIVEN BY DNA DEAMINASE
Creators: name: SICOURI, LARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Genomic instability is commonly associated with pathological disorders including cancer. The progressive accumulation of genetic abnormalities in cancer-associated genes can confer cellular autonomous proliferation, contributing to the oncogenic transformation. Although animal models have been instrumental to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms responsible for tumor progression, there are severe limitations for success. This thesis work aimed at the development of an innovative animal model that could recapitulate the ongoing lifelong accumulation of DNA lesions, leading to neoplastic transformation. To this end, the natural DNA mutating enzyme AID was fused to sequence specific DNA binding proteins. They were engineered to target tumor suppressor genes and to induce low-frequency mutagenesis in cell lines and in zebrafish. A TALE-Aid fusion protein was targeted to the p53 locus of mouse cell lines, and the Aid-dependent mutations were monitored by next-generation sequencing. The induced mutations occurred at a comparable frequency to those observed in Aid-induced non-immunoglobulin gene targets in B cells. Mutations were found mostly in the DNA binding domain of p53, possibly reflecting AID- hotspot residues in p53. Our approach also induced mutations that have not been characterized previously, and could provide further insight into p53 dependent oncogenesis. When TALE-AID were expressed and targeted to the p53 locus of zebrafish embryos, the activity induced developmental abnormalities with variable severity, leading to both an increased mortality, and impaired ovarian maturation and fertility. We have developed and initially characterized a novel tool for the in vitro / in vivo study of the accumulation of mutations in cancer-associated genes.
$δ$-biased Josephson tunnel junctions
Creators: name: Monaco, R.
name: Mygind, J.
name: Koshelets, V. P.
name: Dmitriev, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of a long Josephson tunnel junction drastically depends on the distribution of the dc bias current. We investigate the case in which the bias current is fed in the central point of a one-dimensional junction. Such junction configuration has been recently used to detect the persistent currents circulating in a superconducting loop. Analytical and numerical results indicate that the presence of fractional vortices leads to remarkable differences from the conventional case of uniformly distributed dc bias current. The theoretical findings are supported by detailed measurements on a number of $δ$-biased samples having different electrical and geometrical parameters.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
title: Κβαντική πληροφορική & κβαντικοί υπολογιστές
title: Quantum computing & quantum computers
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Φούντας, Άγγελος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Quantum computers
Quantum mechanics
Quantum gates

description: Η παρακάτω εργασία έχει ως θέμα την Κβαντική Πληροφορική και τους Κβαντικούς Υπολογιστές. Αρχικά στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο, θα μιλήσουμε για την Κβαντική Πληροφορική. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, αρχικά θα κάνουμε μια ιστορική αναδρομή για το θέμα της Κβαντικής Πληροφορικής. Έπειτα, θα μιλήσουμε για την Κβαντική Πληροφορική και την Κβαντική Μηχανική και πως τέθηκαν τα θεμέλια της Κβαντικής Πληροφορικής. Θα αναλύσουμε το πέρασμα από τη Κβαντική Μηχανική στην Κβαντική Θεωρία Πληροφόρησης, όπου εκεί κλείνει και το κεφάλαιό μας. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας, θα μιλήσουμε για τους Κβαντικούς Υπολογιστές. Στο πρώτο υπόκεφάλαιο, θα μιλήσουμε για την έννοια του Κβαντικού Υπολογιστή και στη συνέχεια για τη δομή και την λειτουργία των Κβαντικών Υπολογιστών. Θα εξηγήσουμε τι σημαίνει Κβαντική Πύλη αλλά και ποια είναι τα πλεονεκτήματα του Κβαντικού Υπολογιστή έναντι του κλασικού. Κλείνοντας το κεφάλαιο, θα αναφερθούμε στην Κβαντική Διόρθωση Σφαλμάτων. Στο τρίτο και τελευταίο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας μας, θα αναλύσουμε την προσέγγιση της θεωρίας. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, θα γίνει σαφής η προσέγγιση της θεωρίας της Κβαντικής Πληροφορικής αλλά και η σχέση της θεωρίας της Κβαντικής Πληροφορικής και Κβαντικής Μηχανικής
Involvement of nasopharyngeal angiotensin converting enzyme 2 in severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 infection and transmission
Creators: name: Nikiforuk, Aidan McKerrell
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Introduction: The angiotensin converting enzyme two (ACE2) protein serves as the host receptor for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus two (SARS-CoV-2). We aim to understand if transcription of ACE2 can be reliably detected in diagnostic specimens collected by nasopharyngeal swab and if a relationship exists between availability of ACE2 in the upper human respiratory tract, SARS-CoV-2 viral load, and secondary transmission. Methods: Measurements of ACE2 transcription and SARS-CoV-2 viral load were taken by targeted ribonucleic acid sequencing (RNA-Seq) and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Alternative measures of ACE2 transcription were compared using bivariate statistical analysis to quantify instrument bias. Viral load was only measured by RT-qPCR. A cross-sectional study of n = 424 people who tested positive (n = 212) or negative (n = 212) for SARS-CoV-2 was performed to observe the association between ACE2 transcription and SARS-CoV-2 viral load. Statistical analysis involved bivariate testing and multivariable linear regression. To assess involvement of ACE2 in transmission of SARS-CoV-2, nasopharyngeal ACE2 transcription was measured in confirmed cases from hospital associated outbreaks. An infection tracing transmission network and multivariable Poisson/Negative Binomial regression was used for analysis. Results: No instrument bias was detected. In COVID-19 negative participants nasopharyngeal ACE2 transcription had no relationship with biological sex (P = 0.832) or age (P = 0.092), in adults over the age of 18. Regardless, nasopharyngeal ACE2 transcription varied greatly between SARS-CoV-2 negative participants indicating inter-individual heterogeneity. In COVID-19 positive participants the association between ACE2 transcription and SARS-CoV-2 viral load differed by isoform. Transmembrane ACE2 transcription positively correlated (β = 0.89, 95%CI: [0.59 to 1.18]) while the putative soluble transcript had a negative association (β = -0.099, 95%CI: [-0.18 to -0.022]). The infection tracing transmission network provided n = 76 potential transmission events across n = 103 cases. High ACE2 transcription was observed in 98.6% of transmission events. In patients, ACE2 transcription was associated with an increased in the number of secondary cases (β = 0.187 (95% CI: 0.0101 to 0.370) adjusting for viral load. Conclusion: ACE2 expression in the upper respiratory tract may differentiate an individual’s risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and likelihood of transmission.
Spatial interpolation of high-frequency monitoring data
Creators: name: Stein, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Climate modelers generally require meteorological information on regular grids, but monitoring stations are, in practice, sited irregularly. Thus, there is a need to produce public data records that interpolate available data to a high density grid, which can then be used to generate meteorological maps at a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. In addition to point predictions, quantifications of uncertainty are also needed. One way to accomplish this is to provide multiple simulations of the relevant meteorological quantities conditional on the observed data taking into account the various uncertainties in predicting a space-time process at locations with no monitoring data. Using a high-quality dataset of minute-by-minute measurements of atmospheric pressure in north-central Oklahoma, this work describes a statistical approach to carrying out these conditional simulations. Based on observations at 11 stations, conditional simulations were produced at two other sites with monitoring stations. The resulting point predictions are very accurate and the multiple simulations produce well-calibrated prediction uncertainties for temporal changes in atmospheric pressure but are substantially overconservative for the uncertainties in the predictions of (undifferenced) pressure.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOAS208 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 5 of Photosynthetic Enhancement, Lifespan Extension, and Leaf Area Enlargement in Flag Leaves Increased the Yield of Transgenic Rice Plants Overproducing Rubisco Under Sufficient N Fertilization
Creators: name: Tanaka, Marin
name: Keira, Mamoru
name: Yoon, Dong-Kyung
name: Mae, Tadahiko
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Makino, Amane
name: Ishiyama, Keiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S2 Climatic conditions in 2021. Climatic conditions at Kawatabi Field Center (38°44′ N, 140°45′ E, at 140-m altitude) from May to October 2021. This covers the rice cultivation period in the experimental paddy field. For “Temp.,” yellow and light blue indicate a change in the average temperature of >1.0°C or 120% or <80% of the average sunshine duration, respectively. Gray highlights show a temperature within 1°C of the average temperature and a sunshine duration of 80%–120% of the average. Data on the average weather over the past 30 years at Kawatabi Field Center, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, are available on the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) website (JMA, http://www.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/risk/obsdl/index.php). The abbreviations stand as follows: “A.v.,” average, “Temp.,” temperature.
Equivalence of the (generalised) Hadamard and microlocal spectrum condition for (generalised) free fields in curved spacetime
Creators: name: Sanders, Ko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the singularity structure of all n-point distributions of a state of a generalised real free scalar field in curved spacetime can be estimated if the two-point distribution is of Hadamard form. In particular this applies to the real free scalar field and the result has applications in perturbative quantum field theory, showing that the class of all Hadamard states is the state space of interest. In our proof we assume that the field is a generalised free field, i.e. that it satisies scalar (c-number) commutation relations, but it need not satisfy an equation of motion. The same argument also works for anti-commutation relations and it can be generalised to vector-valued fields. To indicate the strengths and limitations of our assumption we also prove the analogues of a theorem by Borchers and Zimmermann on the self-adjointness of field operators and of a very weak form of the Jost-Schroer theorem. The original proofs of these results in the Wightman framework make use of analytic continuation arguments. In our case no analyticity is assumed, but to some extent the scalar commutation relations can take its place.
description: 18 pages