cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Designer Modeling through Design Style Clustering
Creators: name: Alvarez, Alberto
name: Font, Jose
name: Togelius, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose modeling designer style in mixed-initiative game content creation tools as archetypical design traces. These design traces are formulated as transitions between design styles; these design styles are in turn found through clustering all intermediate designs along the way to making a complete design. This method is implemented in the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer, a research platform for mixed-initiative systems to create adventure and dungeon crawler games. We present results both in the form of design styles for rooms, which can be analyzed to better understand the kind of rooms designed by users, and in the form of archetypical sequences between these rooms, i.e., Designer Personas.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Games (TOG) for publication
Seismology of the Accreting White Dwarf in GW Lib
Creators: name: Townsley, Dean M.
name: Arras, Phil
name: Bildsten, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first analysis of the g-mode oscillation spectrum for the white dwarf (WD) primary of GW Lib, a faint cataclysmic variable (CV). Stable periodicities have been observed from this WD for a number of years, but their interpretation as stellar pulsations has been hampered by a lack of theoretical models appropriate to an accreting WD. Using the results of Townsley and Bildsten, we construct accreting models for the observed effective temperature and approximate mass of the WD in GW Lib. We compute g-mode frequencies for a range of accreted layer masses, Macc, and long term accretion rates, . If we assume that the observed oscillations are from l=1 g-modes, then the observed periods are matched when M ~= 1.02 Msun, Macc ~= 0.31 x 10^-4 Msun and ~= 7.3 x 10^-11 Msun/yr. Much more sensitive observations are needed to discover more modes, after which we will be able to more accurately measure these parameters and constrain or measure the WD's rotation rate.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; uses emulateapj; Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Letters
An anomalous refraction of spin waves as a way to guide signals in curved magnonic multimode waveguides
Creators: name: Mieszczak, S
name: Busel, O.
name: Gruszecki, P.
name: Kuchko, A. N.
name: Kłos, J. W.
name: Krawczyk, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for efficient spin wave guiding within the magnonic nanostructures. Our technique is based on the anomalous refraction in the metamaterial flat slab. The gradual change of the material parameters (saturation magnetization or magnetic anisotropy) across the slab allows tilting the wavefronts of the transmitted spin waves and controlling the refraction. Numerical studies of the spin wave refraction are preceded by the analytical calculations of the phase shift acquired by the spin wave due to the change of material parameters in a confined area. We demonstrate that our findings can be used to guide the spin waves smoothly in curved waveguides, even through sharp bends, without reflection and scattering between different waveguide's modes, preserving the phase -- the quantity essential for wave computing.
Thermogenic diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection by microcalorimetry of synovial fluid
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Christian
name: Renz, Nora
name: Cabric, Sabrina
name: Maiolo, Elena
name: Perka, Carsten
name: Trampuz, Andrej
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Periprosthetic joint infection
subject: Microcalorimetry
subject: Synovial fluid
subject: Joint arthroplasty
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Synovial fluid culture is the standard investigation for the preoperative diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, the culture has limited sensitivity and requires several days until result. We evaluated the value of isothermal microcalorimetry for real-time diagnosis of PJI based on heat produced by microbial growth in synovial fluid. Methods: Patients undergoing aspiration of prosthetic hip or knee joint before revision surgery were prospectively included between 2014 and 2015. The performance of microcalorimetry was compared to synovial fluid culture using McNemar’s chi-squared test. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated for synovial fluid leukocyte count and microcalorimetric heat. Results: Of 107 included patients (58 knee and 49 hip prosthesis), PJI was diagnosed in 46 patients (43%) and aseptic failure in 61 patients (57%) according to institutional criteria. In 26 PJI cases (56%) the pathogen grew in synovial fluid and intra-operative cultures. The sensitivity of synovial fluid culture and microcalorimetry was both 39% and the results were concordant in 98 patients (92%). In patients with PJI, microcalorimetry missed 4 pathogens which grew in synovial fluid culture, whereas culture missed 4 pathogens detected by microcalorimetry. A linear correlation (r = 0.366) was found between leukocyte count and microcalorimetric heat in synovial fluid (p
Tukunha minor Mendes & Rafael 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Tukunha
Tukunha minor

description: Tukunha minor Mendes & Rafael sp. nov.
Figures 11–13 and 19
 Diagnosis. Tegmina with first branch of MP vein and last branch of CuA vein connected by two transverse veins, forming a pentagonal cell (Fig. 13). Lateral lobes of mesobasisternum laterally and posteriorly straight, posterolaterally forming an angle of 40° and acuminate tip (Fig. 12E).
 Description. Holotype Female.
 Thorax. Lateral lobes of mesobasisternum anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, posterolaterally forming an angle of 40° and acuminate tip (Fig. 12E). Lateral lobes of metabasisternum anterolaterally convex, laterally and posteriorly straight, posterolaterally forming an angle of 90° (Fig. 12E).
 Wings. First branch of MP vein and last branch of CuA vein connected by two transverse veins, forming a pentagonal cell (Fig. 13).
 Coloration. Based on photos of preserved specimen (Fig. 12). Body yellowish-brown. Eyes dark brown.
Male: unknown.
 Etymology. From Latin minor = smaller. In reference to the smaller size of this species compared to T. pinimauna sp. nov.
 Geographical records. Brazil: Amazonas (Fig. 19).
 Type material. Holotype ♂. BRASIL, Amazonas, Coari, rio Urucu, Petrobras, RUC–29, 05– 10.ii.1992, P.F. Bührnheim, N.O. Aguiar & N. Fé leg. / à luz mista de mercúrio (INPA).
 Measurements (mm). Holotype ♀: TL: 25,3; TegL: 41,7; TegH: 19,5; WF: 4,1; PL: 5,7; PH: 7,3; FF: 5,9; FT: 5,9; MF: 8,1; MT: 7,9; HF: 17,1; HT: 17,3; Lplac: 3,5; LC: 3,4.
 Natural history notes. Tukunha minor sp. nov. is registered in Terra Firma forest in the endemic area of Inambari.
description: Published as part of Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello & Rafael, José Albertino, 2021, Two new and rare genera of angle-winged katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini) from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, pp. 553-572 in Zootaxa 4999 (6) on pages 564-566, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.6.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5119780
Analysis of the Effect of Loan to Deposit Ratio, Non-Performing Loans and Capital Adequacy Ratio on Return on Assets with Good Corporate Governance as Intervening Variable in Banking Companies Listed in the Corporate Governance Perception Index (CGPI) for the Period 2014 – 2018
Creators: name: Arsew, Viviana Tantiara
name: Zainul Kisman
name: Sawitri, Ni Nyoman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of loan to deposit ratio (LDR), non-performing loans (NPL), and capital adequacy ratio (CAR) on return on assets (ROA) in banking companies listed on the Indonesian Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) in 2014-2018. This study uses Good Corporate Governance (GCG) as an Intervening variable. The use of intervening variables GCG in this study is a recent breakthrough in increasing return on assets. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. With this sampling method, the samples used in the study were 10 of the best banking companies implementing Good Corporate Governance registered in The Indonesian Institute for Corporate Governance (IICG) in 2014-2018. This study uses secondary data obtained from SWA Magazine publications. The analysis technique used in this study is path analysis. The results of the first structural equation model that LDR and NPL have a significant negative effect on GCG and CAR has a positive significant effect. The results of the second structural equation model that NPL, CAR, GCG have an influence on ROA, but LDR does not have a significant effect. The implication of this research is that GCG as a very large variable intervening plays a role in banks in increasing ROA.
Role of Strange Quark Mass in Pairing Phenomena in QCD
Creators: name: Abuki, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical effect of strange quark mass as well as kinematical one on the color-flavor unlocking transition using a NJL model. Paying a special attention to the multiplicity of gap parameters, we derive an exact formula of the effective potential for 5-gap parameters. Based on this, we discuss that the unlocking transition might be of second order rather than of first order as is predicted by a simple kinematical criterion for the unlocking.
description: 10 pages, talk at the KIAS-APCTP International Symposium on Astro-Hadron Physics "Compact Stars: Quest for New States of Dense Matter"
Spherically symmetric black holes with electric and magnetic charge in extended gravity: Physical properties, causal structure, and stability analysis in Einstein's and Jordan's frames
Creators: name: Elizalde, E.
name: Nashed, G. G. L.
name: Nojiri, S.
name: Odintsov, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel static black hole solutions with electric and magnetic charges are derived for the class of modified gravities: $f({\cal R})={\cal R}+2β\sqrt{\cal R}$, with or without a cosmological constant. The new black holes behave asymptotically as flat or (A)dS space-times with a dynamical value of the Ricci scalar given by $R=\frac{1}{r^2}$ and $R=\frac{8r^2Λ+1}{r^2}$, respectively. They are characterized by three parameters, namely their mass and electric and magnetic charges, and constitute black hole solutions different from those in Einstein's general relativity. Their singularities are studied by obtaining the Kretschmann scalar and Ricci tensor, which shows a dependence on the parameter $β$ that is not permitted to be zero. A conformal transformation is used to display the black holes in Einstein's frame and check if its physical behavior is changed w.r.t. the Jordan one. The thermal stability of the solutions is discussed by using thermodynamical quantities, in particular the entropy, the Hawking temperature, the quasi-local energy, and the Gibbs free energy. Also, the casual structure of the new black holes is studied, and a stability analysis is performed in both frames using the odd perturbations technique and the study of the geodesic deviation. It is concluded that, generically, there is coincidence of the physical properties of the novel black holes in both frames, although this turns not to be the case for the Hawking temperature.
description: 27 pages, 18 figures, will appear in EPJC
The Impact of Effective Training on Employee Retention: A Study in Private Banks of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Akther, Shahin
name: Tariq, Javed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This examination underlines on the affectability of variables influencing employee continuation in Banking Industry of Bangladesh. Retain human resources is a procedure practiced by organizations to keep hold of a successful workforce and simultaneously meet operational necessities. Every organization must regard their work force as prime assets and need not to intend to depart since they enhance the value of the organization. The goal of the investigation is to gauge the view of employee retention. For this purpose, the sample chose 204 employees working in private banks of Bangladesh. We have utilized needed testing technique for credible information accumulation. We have utilized just essential information through an endorsed questionnaire. The gathered information was handled by applying t-test, ANOVA. In this investigation, univariate, bivariate and multivariate examinations were executed. Factor analysis and regression examination have attempted to evaluate the relationship of the factors. The aftereffect of the examination uncovers that employee retention relies upon depends on growth opportunity of the employees, employee self-attainment, Training and Development and employee benefits.
Megalothorax aquaticus Stach 1951
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Neelipleona
Neelidae
Megalothorax
Megalothorax aquaticus

description: Megalothorax aquaticus Stach, 1951 *
Megalothorax aquaticus Stach, 1951: 102.
DISTRIBUTION. — Hautes-Pyrénées. Massif du Néouvielle (Cassagnau 1961).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
CCR2 of Tumor Microenvironmental Cells Is a Relevant Modulator of Glioma Biology
Creators: name: Felsenstein, Matthäus
name: Blank, Anne
name: Bungert, Alexander D.
name: Mueller, Annett
name: Ghori, Adnan
name: Kremenetskaia, Irina
name: Rung, Olga
name: Broggini, Thomas
name: Turkowski, Kati
name: Scherschinski, Lea
name: Raggatz, Jonas
name: Vajkoczy, Peter
name: Brandenburg, Susan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs)
subject: blood vessel integrity
subject: tumor angiogenesis
subject: CCR2/CCL2 signaling
subject: GBM
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) shows a high influx of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). The CCR2/CCL2 pathway is considered a relevant signal for the recruitment of TAMs and has been suggested as a therapeutic target in malignant gliomas. We found that TAMs of human GBM specimens and of a syngeneic glioma model express CCR2 to varying extents. Using a Ccr2-deficient strain for glioma inoculation revealed a 30% reduction of TAMs intratumorally. This diminished immune cell infiltration occurred with augmented tumor volumes likely based on increased cell proliferation. Remaining TAMs in Ccr2-/- mice showed comparable surface marker expression patterns in comparison to wildtype mice, but expression levels of inflammatory transcription factors (Stat3, Irf7, Cox2) and cytokines (Ifnβ, Il1β, Il12α) were considerably affected. Furthermore, we demonstrated an impact on blood vessel integrity, while vascularization of tumors appeared similar between mouse strains. The higher stability and attenuated leakiness of the tumor vasculature imply improved sustenance of glioma tissue in Ccr2-/- mice. Additionally, despite TAMs residing in the perivascular niche in Ccr2-/- mice, their pro-angiogenic activity was reduced by the downregulation of Vegf. In conclusion, lacking CCR2 solely on tumor microenvironmental cells leads to enhanced tumor progression, whereby high numbers of TAMs infiltrate gliomas independently of the CCR2/CCL2 signal.
Spatial Matrix Completion for Spatially-Misaligned and High-Dimensional Air Pollution Data
Creators: name: Vu, Phuong T.
name: Szpiro, Adam A.
name: Simon, Noah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In health-pollution cohort studies, accurate predictions of pollutant concentrations at new locations are needed, since the locations of fixed monitoring sites and study participants are often spatially misaligned. For multi-pollution data, principal component analysis (PCA) is often incorporated to obtain low-rank (LR) structure of the data prior to spatial prediction. Recently developed predictive PCA modifies the traditional algorithm to improve the overall predictive performance by leveraging both LR and spatial structures within the data. However, predictive PCA requires complete data or an initial imputation step. Nonparametric imputation techniques without accounting for spatial information may distort the underlying structure of the data, and thus further reduce the predictive performance. We propose a convex optimization problem inspired by the LR matrix completion framework and develop a proximal algorithm to solve it. Missing data are imputed and handled concurrently within the algorithm, which eliminates the necessity of a separate imputation step. We show that our algorithm has low computational burden and leads to reliable predictive performance as the severity of missing data increases.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables, 1 supplemental file (available upon request). This v2 is a pre peer-reviewed version that was submitted to Environmetrics. A final version with minor revisions was accepted for publication by Environmetrics on Dec 13, 2021, and will be linked to this version once published
Novel methods for in vitro modeling of pancreatic cancer reveal important aspects for successful primary cell culture
Creators: name: Ehlen, Lukas
name: Arndt, Janine
name: Treue, Denise
name: Bischoff, Philip
name: Loch, Florian N.
name: Hahn, Elisabeth M.
name: Kotsch, Katja
name: Klauschen, Frederick
name: Beyer, Katharina
name: Margonis, Georgios Antonios
name: Kreis, Martin E.
name: Kamphues, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Primary cell culture
subject: Organoids
subject: PDAC
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Pancreatic cancer remains a fatal disease. Experimental systems are needed for personalized treatment strategies, drug testing and to further understand tumor biology. Cell cultures can serve as an excellent preclinical platform, but their generation remains challenging. Methods: Tumor cells from surgically removed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) specimens were cultured under novel protocols. Cellular growth and composition were analyzed and culture conditions were continuously optimized. Characterization of cell cultures and primary tumors was performed via hematoxylin and eosin (HE) and immunofluorescence (IF) staining. Results: Protocols for two- and three-dimensional PDAC primary cell cultures could successfully be established. Primary cell culture depended on dissociation techniques, growth factor supplementation and extracellular matrix components containing Matrigel being crucial for the transformation to three-dimensional PDAC organoids. The generated cultures showed to be highly resemblant to established PDAC primary cell cultures. HE and IF staining for cell culture and corresponding primary tumor characterization could successfully be performed. Conclusions: The work presented herein shows novel and effective methods to successfully establish primary PDAC cell cultures in a distinct time frame. Factors contributing to cell growth and differentiation could be identified with important implications for further primary cell culture protocols. The established protocols might serve as novel tools in personalized tumor therapy.
An accretion disk model for periodic timing variations of pulsars
Creators: name: Qiao, G. J.
name: Xue, Y. Q.
name: Xu, R. X.
name: Wang, H. G.
name: Xiao, B. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The long-term, highly periodic and correlated variations in both the pulse shape and the rate of slow-down of two isolated pulsars (PSRs) PSR B1828-11 and PSR B1642-03 were discovered recently. This phenomenon may provide evidence for "free precession" as suggested in the literature. Some authors presented various kinds of models to explain this phenomenon within the framework of free precession. Here we present an accretion disk model for this precession phenomenon instead. Under reasonable parameters, the observed phenomenon can be explained by an isolated pulsar with a fossil disk. This may link radio pulsars and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and present an indirect evidence for the existence of the fossil disk in nature.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in A&A Letter
Presynaptic GABAB receptors functionally uncouple somatostatin interneurons from the active hippocampal network
Creators: name: Booker, Sam A.
name: Harada, Harumi
name: Elgueta, Claudio
name: Bank, Julia
name: Bartos, Marlene
name: Kulik, Akos
name: Vida, Imre
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GABAergic interneurons
subject: feedback inhibition
subject: hippocampus
subject: network activity
subject: rat
subject: synaptic transmission
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Information processing in cortical neuronal networks relies on properly balanced excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission. A ubiquitous motif for maintaining this balance is the somatostatin interneuron (SOM-IN) feedback microcircuit. Here, we investigated the modulation of this microcircuit by presynaptic GABAB receptors (GABABRs) in the rodent hippocampus. Whole-cell recordings from SOM-INs revealed that both excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs are strongly inhibited by GABABRs, while optogenetic activation of the interneurons shows that their inhibitory output is also strongly suppressed. Electron microscopic analysis of immunogold-labelled freeze-fracture replicas confirms that GABABRs are highly expressed presynaptically at both input and output synapses of SOM-INs. Activation of GABABRs selectively suppresses the recruitment of SOM-INs during gamma oscillations induced in vitro. Thus, axonal GABABRs are positioned to efficiently control the input and output synapses of SOM-INs and can functionally uncouple them from local network with implications for rhythmogenesis and the balance of entorhinal versus intrahippocampal afferents.
Investigating APOE, APP-Aβ metabolism genes and Alzheimer’s disease GWAS hits in brain small vessel ischemic disease
Creators: name: Blumenau, Sonja
name: Foddis, Marco
name: Müller, Susanne
name: Holtgrewe, Manuel
name: Bentele, Kajetan
name: Berchtold, Daniel
name: Beule, Dieter
name: Dirnagl, Ulrich
name: Sassi, Celeste
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: genome-wide association study (GWAS)
subject: Alzheimer’s disease
subject: small vessel ischemic disease
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Alzheimer’s disease and small vessel ischemic disease frequently co-exist in the aging brain. However, pathogenic links between these 2 disorders are yet to be identified. Therefore we used Taqman genotyping, exome and RNA sequencing to investigate Alzheimer’s disease known pathogenic variants and pathways: APOE ε4 allele, APP-Aβ metabolism and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease main genome-wide association loci (APOE, BIN1, CD33, MS4A6A, CD2AP, PICALM, CLU, CR1, EPHA1, ABCA7) in 96 early-onset small vessel ischemic disease Caucasian patients and 368 elderly neuropathologically proven controls (HEX database) and in a mouse model of cerebral hypoperfusion. Only a minority of patients (29%) carried APOE ε4 allele. We did not detect any pathogenic mutation in APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 and report a burden of truncating mutations in APP-Aß degradation genes. The single-variant association test identified 3 common variants with a likely protective effect on small vessel ischemic disease (0.54>OR > 0.32, adj. p-value <0.05) (EPHA1 p.M900V and p.V160A and CD33 p.A14V). Moreover, 5/17 APP-Aß catabolism genes were significantly upregulated (LogFC > 1, adj. p-val<0.05) together with Apoe, Ms4a cluster and Cd33 during brain hypoperfusion and their overexpression correlated with the ischemic lesion size. Finally, the detection of Aβ oligomers in the hypoperfused hippocampus supported the link between brain ischemia and Alzheimer’s disease pathology.
Estimating the Lasso's Effective Noise
Creators: name: Lederer, Johannes
name: Vogt, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62J07, 62F03, 62F40

description: Much of the theory for the lasso in the linear model $Y = X β^* + \varepsilon$ hinges on the quantity $2 \| X^\top \varepsilon \|_{\infty} / n$, which we call the lasso's effective noise. Among other things, the effective noise plays an important role in finite-sample bounds for the lasso, the calibration of the lasso's tuning parameter, and inference on the parameter vector $β^*$. In this paper, we develop a bootstrap-based estimator of the quantiles of the effective noise. The estimator is fully data-driven, that is, does not require any additional tuning parameters. We equip our estimator with finite-sample guarantees and apply it to tuning parameter calibration for the lasso and to high-dimensional inference on the parameter vector $β^*$.
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Arcobacter species in human stool samples derived from out- and inpatients: the prospective German Arcobacter prevalence study Arcopath
Creators: name: Brückner, Vanessa
name: Fiebiger, Ulrike
name: Ignatius, Ralf
name: Friesen, Johannes
name: Eisenblätter, Martin
name: Höck, Marlies
name: Alter, Thomas
name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Gölz, Greta
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Arcobacter
subject: Humans
subject: Germany
subject: Prevalence
subject: Antimicrobial susceptibility
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Arcobacter species, particularly A. butzleri, but also A. cryaerophilus constitute emerging pathogens causing gastroenteritis in humans. However, isolation of Arcobacter may often fail during routine diagnostic procedures due to the lack of standard protocols. Furthermore, defined breakpoints for the interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibilities of Arcobacter are missing. Hence, reliable epidemiological data of human Arcobacter infections are scarce and lacking for Germany. We therefore performed a 13-month prospective Arcobacter prevalence study in German patients. Results: A total of 4636 human stool samples was included and Arcobacter spp. were identified from 0.85% of specimens in 3884 outpatients and from 0.40% of specimens in 752 hospitalized patients. Overall, A. butzleri was the most prevalent species (n = 24; 67%), followed by A. cryaerophilus (n = 10; 28%) and A. lanthieri (n = 2; 6%). Whereas A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus and A. lanthieri were identified in outpatients, only A. butzleri could be isolated from samples of hospitalized patients. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Arcobacter isolates revealed high susceptibilities to ciprofloxacin, whereas bimodal distributions of MICs were observed for azithromycin and ampicillin. Conclusions: In summary, Arcobacter including A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus and A. lanthieri could be isolated in 0.85% of German outpatients and ciprofloxacin rather than other antibiotics might be appropriate for antibiotic treatment of infections. Further epidemiological studies are needed, however, to provide a sufficient risk assessment of Arcobacter infections in humans.
Megalothorax incertus Borner 1903
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Neelipleona
Neelidae
Megalothorax
Megalothorax incertus

description: Megalothorax incertus Börner, 1903
Megalothorax incertus Börner, 1903: 160.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ariège. Forêtde Bethmale (Cassagne etal. 2006). — Prèsducirquede Campuls, valléede Bethmale (Luque etal. 2011).
Essonne. Parc du Laboratoire du MNHN à Brunoy et forêt de Sénart (Ponge 1973, 1980, 1993).
Hérault. Montpellier (Denis 1924d).
Loiret. Forêtd’Orléans (Ponge & Prat 1982).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Ponge 1973, 1980, 1993; Ponge & Prat 1982 (humidification); Cassagne etal. 2006; Luque etal. 2011.
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Численная оценка безопасности при техногенной аварии
Creators: name: Skob, Yurii
name: Д. В. Евтушенко
name: Ю. В. Бондаренко
name: А.С. Тищенко
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Численная оценка безопасности при техногенной аварии
The Nuclear Reddening Curve for Active Galactic Nuclei and the Shape of the Infra-Red to X-Ray Spectral Energy Distribution
Creators: name: Gaskell, C. Martin
name: Goosmann, Rene W.
name: Antonucci, Robert R. J.
name: Whysong, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present extinction curves derived from the broad emission lines and continua of large samples of both radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs. The curves are significantly flatter in the UV than are curves for the local ISM. The reddening curves for the radio-quiet LBQS quasars are slightly steeper than those of the radio-loud quasars in the UV, probably because of additional reddening by dust further out in the host galaxies of the former. The UV extinction curves for the radio-loud AGNs are very flat. This is explicable with slight modifications to standard MRN dust models: there is a relative lack of small grains in the nuclear dust. Our continuum and broad-emission line reddening curves agree in both shape and amplitude, confirming that the continuum shape is indeed profoundly affected by reddening for all but the bluest AGNs. With correction by our generic extinction curve, all of the radio-loud AGNs have continuous optical-UV spectra consistent with a single shape. We show that radio-quiet AGNs have very similar intrinsic UV to optical shape over orders of magnitude in luminosity. We also argue that radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs probably share the same underlying continuum shape and that most of the systematic differences between their observed continuum shapes are due to higher nuclear reddening in radio-selected AGNs, and additional reddening from dust further out in the host galaxies in radio-quiet AGNs. Our conclusions have important implications for the modelling of quasar continua and the analysis of quasar demographics.
description: 41 pages, including 6 figures and 3 tables. To appear in ApJ vol. 614, October 20 issue. Some slight wording changes. Some additional references added. Small changes in the model fit in section 6.2, to the analytical fit in the Appendix, and to the tabulated reddening curve in the Appendix
Численное моделирование и оценка рисков взрывов, пожаров и рассеяния вредных примесей в атмосфере
Creators: name: Granovskiy, Eduard
name: Lyfar, Vladimir
name: Skob, Yurii
name: Ugryumov, Mykhaylo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Численное моделирование и оценка рисков взрывов, пожаров и рассеяния вредных примесей в атмосфере
High-dose Vitamin D Supplementation in Multiple Sclerosis - Results From the Randomized EVIDIMS (Efficacy of Vitamin D Supplementation in Multiple Sclerosis) Trial
Creators: name: Dörr, Jan
name: Bäcker-Koduah, Priscilla
name: Wernecke, Klaus-Dieter
name: Becker, Elke
name: Hoffmann, Frank
name: Faiss, Jürgen
name: Brockmeier, Bernd
name: Hoffmann, Olaf
name: Anvari, Kerstin
name: Wuerfel, Jens
name: Piper, Sophie K.
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Paul, Friedemann
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multiple sclerosis
subject: clinical trial
subject: vitamin D
subject: efficacy
subject: treatment
subject: supplementation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Epidemiological, preclinical, and non-interventional studies link vitamin D (VD) serum levels and disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS). It is unclear whether high-dose VD supplementation can be used as an intervention to reduce disease activity. Objectives: The study aimed to compare the effects of every other day high- (20,400 IU) versus low-dose (400 IU) cholecalciferol supplementation on clinical and imaging markers of disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting MS or clinically isolated syndrome. Methods: The EVIDIMS (efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in multiple sclerosis) trial was a multicentre randomized/stratified actively controlled explorative phase 2a pilot trial with a double-blind intervention period of 18 months, add on to interferon-β1b. Results: Fifty-three patients were randomized, and 41 patients completed the study. Cholecalciferol supplementation was well tolerated and safe in both arms. After 18 months, clinical (relapse rates, disability progression) and radiographical (T2-weighted lesion development, contrast-enhancing lesion development, brain atrophy) did not differ between both treatment arms. Post-study power calculations suggested that the sample size was too low to prove the hypothesis. Conclusions: The results neither support nor disprove a therapeutic benefit of high-dose VD supplementation but provide a basis for sound sample size estimations in future confirmatory studies. www.clinicaltrials.gov/NCT01440062.
Additional file 8 of Conversion between 100-million-year-old duplicated genes contributes to rice subspecies divergence
Creators: name: Wei, Chendan
name: Wang, Zhenyi
name: Wang, Jianyu
name: Teng, Jia
name: Shen, Shaoqi
name: Xiao, Qimeng
name: Bao, Shoutong
name: Feng, Yishan
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Li, Yuxian
name: Sun, Sangrong
name: Yue, Yuanshuai
name: Wu, Chunyang
name: Wang, Yanli
name: Zhou, Tianning
name: Xu, Wenbo
name: Yu, Jigao
name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Jinpeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S6. Relationship between the block number and the gene conversion rate in the three rice subspecies genomes.
Static fission properties of actinide nuclei
Creators: name: Jachimowicz, P.
name: Kowal, M.
name: Skalski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fission barriers heights and excitation energies of superdeformed isomeric minima are calculated within the microscopic - macroscopic Woods - Saxon model for 75 actinide nuclei for which the experimental data are known. State - of - the - art methods were used: minimization over many deformation parameters for minima and the imaginary water flow on many - deformation energy grid for saddles, including nonaxial and reflection-asymmetric shapes. We obtain 0.82 - 0.94 MeV rms deviation between the calculated and experimental barriers and 0.53 MeV rms error in the excitation of superdeformed minima (SD). Experimental vs theory discrepancies seem to be of various nature and not easy to eliminate, especially if one cares for more than one or two observables. As an example, we show that by strengthening pairing in odd systems one can partially improve agreement in barriers, while spoiling it for masses. We also discuss the "thorium anomaly" and suggest its possible relation to a different way in which the Ac and Th barriers are derived from experimental data.
description: Submitted to PRC
Farmers, Traders, and Processors: Estimating the Welfare Loss from Double Marginalization for the Indonesian Rubber Sector
Creators: name: Kopp, Thomas
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Kopp, Thomas
name: Sexton, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Development
subject: double marginalization
subject: market power
subject: oligopsony
subject: rubber
subject: Indonesia

description: Reducing buyer market power over agricultural suppliers is a key strategy to improve rural livelihoods in emerging economies. This paper focuses on implications of failure of a supply chain to coordinate vertically for farm incomes, with specific application to the Indonesian rubber industry. In the Jambi province production is mainly in the hands of smallholder farmers, who sell via spot transactions to a network of traders who in turn sell in spot exchanges to rubber processors. Processing is highly concentrated, and, whereas there are large numbers of rubber traders, evidence indicates that both traders and processors exercise oligopsony power, a classic problem of double marginalization. We estimate the extent of buyer market power in farmer-trader and trader-processor interactions and derive the welfare loss from double marginalization. We then explore the nature of this market failure and quantify the extent of welfare loss and redistribution away from farmers. We conclude by asking why the market has not addressed this failure through improved vertical coordination in the supply chain and discussing policy innovations to facilitate better coordination.
Galactic archaeology at high redshift: inferring the nature of GRB host galaxies from abundances
Creators: name: Palla, Marco
name: Matteucci, Francesca
name: Calura, Francesco
name: Longo, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify the nature of high redshift long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) host galaxies by comparing the observed abundance ratios in the interstellar medium with detailed chemical evolution models accounting for the presence of dust. We compare abundance data from long Gamma-Ray Bursts afterglow spectra to abundance patterns as predicted by our models for different galaxy types. We analyse [X/Fe] abundance ratios (where X is C, N, O, Mg, Si, S, Ni, Zn) as functions of [Fe/H]. Different galaxies (irregulars, spirals, spheroids) are, in fact, characterised by different star formation histories, which produce different [X/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] relations ("time-delay model"). This allows us to identify the star formation history of the host galaxies and to infer their age (i.e. the time elapsed from the beginning of star formation) at the time of the GRB events. Unlike previous works, we use newer models in which we adopt updated stellar yields and prescriptions for dust production, accretion and destruction. We consider a sample of seven LGRB host galaxies. Our results suggest that two of them (GRB 050820, GRB 120815A) are star forming spheroids, two (GRB 081008, GRB 161023A) are spirals and three (GRB 090926A, GRB 050730, GRB 120327A) are irregulars. The inferred ages of the considered host galaxies span from 10 Myr to slightly more than 1 Gyr.
description: 23 pages, 20 figures. Accepted for publication on ApJ. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1903.01353
Integration of twisted Poisson structures
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Alberto S.
name: Xu, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D17, 53D20, 22A22, 58H05, 58H15

description: Poisson manifolds may be regarded as the infinitesimal form of symplectic groupoids. Twisted Poisson manifolds considered by Severa and Weinstein [math.SG/0107133] are a natural generalization of the former which also arises in string theory. In this note it is proved that twisted Poisson manifolds are in bijection with a (possibly singular) twisted version of symplectic groupoids.
description: 12 pages; minor corrections (especially in terminology: "twisted symplectic" replaces "quasi-symplectic"), references updated; to appear in J. Geom. Phys
Численное моделирование процессов истечения, смешения, рассеяния и взрыва топливовоздушных смесей
Creators: name: Granovskiy, Eduard
name: Lyfar, Vladimir
name: Skob, Yurii
name: Ugryumov, Mykhaylo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Численное моделирование процессов истечения, смешения, рассеяния и взрыва топливовоздушных смесей
REST: Robust and Efficient Neural Networks for Sleep Monitoring in the Wild
Creators: name: Duggal, Rahul
name: Freitas, Scott
name: Xiao, Cao
name: Chau, Duen Horng
name: Sun, Jimeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, significant attention has been devoted towards integrating deep learning technologies in the healthcare domain. However, to safely and practically deploy deep learning models for home health monitoring, two significant challenges must be addressed: the models should be (1) robust against noise; and (2) compact and energy-efficient. We propose REST, a new method that simultaneously tackles both issues via 1) adversarial training and controlling the Lipschitz constant of the neural network through spectral regularization while 2) enabling neural network compression through sparsity regularization. We demonstrate that REST produces highly-robust and efficient models that substantially outperform the original full-sized models in the presence of noise. For the sleep staging task over single-channel electroencephalogram (EEG), the REST model achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.67 vs. 0.39 achieved by a state-of-the-art model in the presence of Gaussian noise while obtaining 19x parameter reduction and 15x MFLOPS reduction on two large, real-world EEG datasets. By deploying these models to an Android application on a smartphone, we quantitatively observe that REST allows models to achieve up to 17x energy reduction and 9x faster inference. We open-source the code repository with this paper: https://github.com/duggalrahul/REST.
description: Accepted to WWW 2020
Association of simple renal cysts and chronic kidney disease with large abdominal aortic aneurysm
Creators: name: Miszczuk, Milena
name: Müller, Verena
name: Althoff, Christian E.
name: Stroux, Andrea
name: Widhalm, Daniela
name: Dobberstein, Andy
name: Greiner, Andreas
name: Kuivaniemi, Helena
name: Hinterseher, Irene
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: abdominal aortic aneurysm
subject: renal cyst
subject: chronic kidney disease
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) primarily affect men over 65 years old who often have many other diseases, with similar risk factors and pathobiological mechanisms to AAA. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of simple renal cysts (SRC), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and other kidney diseases (e.g. nephrolithiasis) among patients presenting with AAA. Methods: Two groups of patients (97 AAA and 100 controls), with and without AAA, from the Surgical Clinic Charité, Berlin, Germany, were selected for the study. The control group consisted of patients who were evaluated for a kidney donation (n = 14) and patients who were evaluated for an early detection of a melanoma recurrence (n = 86). The AAA and control groups were matched for age and sex. Medical records were analyzed and computed tomography scans were reviewed for the presence of SRC and nephrolithiasis. Results: SRC (74% vs. 57%; p<0.016) and CKD (30% vs. 8%; p<0.001) were both more common among AAA than control group patients. On multivariate analysis, CKD, but not SRC, showed a strong association with AAA. Conclusions: Knowledge about pathobiological mechanisms and association between CKD and AAA could provide better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for these patients.
Megalothorax willemi Schneider & D'Haese 2013
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Neelipleona
Neelidae
Megalothorax
Megalothorax willemi

description: Megalothorax willemi Schneider & D’Haese, 2013 *
Megalothorax willemi Schneider & D’Haese, 2013: 347.
DISTRIBUTION. — Essonne. Parcdu Laboratoiredu MNHNà Brunoy (Schneider & D’Haese 2013).
Indre. Cuzion (Schneider & D’Haese 2013).
Jura. Schneider & D’Haese 2013.
Oise. Labosse (Schneider & D’Haese 2013).
Paris. Jardin des Plantes au MNHN (Schneider & D’Haese 2013).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 413, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Search for the Pentaquark State in $ψ(2S)$ and $J/ψ$ Decays to $K^0_SpK^-\bar n$ and $K^0_S\bar p K^+n$
Creators: name: BES Collaboration
name: Bai, J. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented on $ψ(2S)$ and $J/ψ$ hadronic decays to $K^0_SpK^-\bar n$ and $K^0_S\bar p K^+n$ final states from data samples of 14 million $ψ(2S)$ and 58 million $J/ψ$ events accumulated at the BES II detector. No $Θ(1540)$ signal, the pentaquark candidate, is observed, and upper limits for ${\cal B}(ψ(2S)\toΘ\barΘ\to K^0_S p K^-\bar n + K^0_S \bar p K^+ n) < 0.84\times 10^{-5}$ and ${\cal B}(J/ψ\toΘ\barΘ\to K^0_S p K^-\bar n + K^0_S \bar p K^+ n) < 1.1\times 10^{-5}$ at the 90% confidence level are set. For single $Θ(1540)$ production, the upper limits determined by our analysis are also on the order of $10^{-5}$ in both $ψ(2S)$ and $J/ψ$ decays.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables