cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Haptic experience design : tools, techniques, and process
Creators: name: Schneider, Oliver Stirling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Haptic technology, which engages the sense of touch, offers promising benefits for a variety of interactions including low-attention displays, emotionally-aware interfaces, and augmented media experiences. Despite an increasing presence of physical devices in commercial and research applications, there is still little support for the design of engaging haptic sensations. Previous literature has focused on the significant challenges of technological capabilities or physical realism rather than on supporting experience design. In this dissertation, we study how to design, build, and evaluate interactive software to support haptic experience design (HaXD). We define HaXD and iteratively design three vibrotactile effect authoring tools, each a case study covering a different user population, vibrotactile device, and design challenge, and use them to observe specific aspects of HaXD with their target users. We make these in-depth findings more robust in two ways: generalizing results to a breadth of use cases with focused design projects, and grounding them with expert haptic designers through interviews and a workshop. Our findings 1) describe HaXD, including processes, strategies, and challenges; and 2) present guidelines on designing, building, and evaluating interactive software that facillitates HaXD. When characterizing HaXD processes, strategies, and challenges, we show that experience design is already practiced with haptic technology, but faces unique considerations compared to other modalities. We identify four design activities that must be explicitly supported: sketching, refining, browsing, and sharing. We find and develop strategies to accommodate the wide variety of haptic devices. We articulate approaches for designing meaning with haptic experiences, and finally, highlight a need for supporting adaptable interfaces. When informing the design, implementation, and evaluation of HaXD tools, we discover critical features, including a need for improved online deployment and community support. We present steps to develop both existing and future research software into a mature suite of HaXD tools, and reflect upon evaluation methods. By characterizing HaXD and informing supportive tools, we make a first step towards establishing HaXD as its own field, akin to graphic and sound design.
Heavy flavour kinetic equilibration in the confined phase
Creators: name: Laine, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By making use of a non-perturbative definition of a momentum diffusion coefficient as well as Heavy Meson Chiral Perturbation Theory, we investigate the Brownian motion and kinetic equilibration of heavy quark flavours deep in the confined phase. It appears that the momentum diffusion coefficient can be expressed in terms of known low-energy constants; it increases rapidly at temperatures above 50 MeV, behaving as ~ T^7/F_pi^4 for m_pi / pi << T << F_pi, where m_pi and F_pi are the pion mass and decay constant, respectively. The early increase may suggest a broad peak in kappa/T^3 around the QCD crossover. For a more detailed understanding the computation could be generalized in a number of ways.
description: 20 pages. v2: clarifications and a note added; published version
title: MNHN-HA-4259 (N° SV: 4259-tempo/4254) Temporal
Creators: name: Adrien Thibeault
name: Villotte, Sébastien
name: PACEA
name: Université de Bordeaux
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2021

description: Adult CM2 - Note : Same MNHN number for several fragments
Ultrafast effective multi-level atom method for primordial hydrogen recombination
Creators: name: Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine
name: Hirata, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological hydrogen recombination has recently been the subject of renewed attention because of its importance for predicting the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. It has become clear that it is necessary to account for a large number n >~ 100 of energy shells of the hydrogen atom, separately following the angular momentum substates in order to obtain sufficiently accurate recombination histories. However, the multi-level atom codes that follow the populations of all these levels are computationally expensive, limiting recent analyses to only a few points in parameter space. In this paper, we present a new method for solving the multi-level atom recombination problem, which splits the problem into a computationally expensive atomic physics component that is independent of the cosmology, and an ultrafast cosmological evolution component. The atomic physics component follows the network of bound-bound and bound-free transitions among excited states and computes the resulting effective transition rates for the small set of "interface" states radiatively connected to the ground state. The cosmological evolution component only follows the populations of the interface states. By pre-tabulating the effective rates, we can reduce the recurring cost of multi-level atom calculations by more than 5 orders of magnitude. The resulting code is fast enough for inclusion in Markov Chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation algorithms. It does not yet include the radiative transfer or high-n two-photon processes considered in some recent papers. Further work on analytic treatments for these effects will be required in order to produce a recombination code usable for Planck data analysis.
description: Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D. Proof of equivalence of effective and standard MLA methods moved to the main text. Some rewordings
Charmonium-nucleon potential from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Kawanai, Taichi
name: Sasaki, Shoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for charmonium-nucleon potential $V_{c\bar{c}-N}(r)$ from quenched lattice QCD, which is calculated from the equal-time Bethe-Salpeter amplitude through the effective Schrödinger equation. Detail information of the low-energy interaction between the nucleon and charmonia ($η_c$ and $J/ψ$) is indispensable for exploring the formation of charmonium bound to nuclei. Our simulations are performed at a lattice cutoff of $1/a\approx 2.1$ GeV in a spatial volume of $(3 fm)^3$ with the nonperturbatively $O(a)$ improved Wilson action for the light quarks and a relativistic heavy quark action for the charm quark. We have found that the potential $V_{c\bar{c}-N}(r)$ for either the $η_c$ and $J/ψ$ states is weakly attractive at short distances and exponentially screened at large distances. The spin averaged $J/ψ$-$N$ potential is slightly more attractive than that of the $η_c$-$N$ case.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, v2: version accepted for publication in PRD Rapid Communications
title: MNHN-HA-4334 (N° SV: 4334-dist) Right Fibula
Creators: name: Adrien Thibeault
name: Villotte, Sébastien
name: PACEA
name: Université de Bordeaux
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2021

description: Adult 4334-prox and 4334-dist  same fibula - Note : Same MNHN number for several fragments
A Comparison of Cosmological Codes: Properties of Thermal Gas and Shock Waves in Large Scale Structures
Creators: name: Vazza, F.
name: Dolag, K.
name: Ryu, D.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Gheller, C.
name: Kang, H.
name: Pfrommer, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [...] We present results for the statistics of thermal gas and the shock wave properties for a large volume simulated with three different cosmological numerical codes: the Eulerian total variations diminishing code TVD, the Eulerian piecewise parabolic method-based code ENZO, and the Lagrangian smoothed-particle hydrodynamics code GADGET. Starting from a shared set of initial conditions, we present convergence tests for a cosmological volume of side-length 100 Mpc/h, studying in detail the morphological and statistical properties of the thermal gas as a function of mass and spatial resolution in all codes. By applying shock finding methods to each code, we measure the statistics of shock waves and the related cosmic ray acceleration efficiencies, within the sample of simulations and for the results of the different approaches. We discuss the regimes of uncertainties and disagreement among codes, with a particular focus on the results at the scale of galaxy clusters. Even if the bulk of thermal and shock properties are reasonably in agreement among the three codes, yet some significant differences exist (especially between Eulerian methods and smoothed particle hydrodynamics). In particular, we report: a) differences of huge factors (10-100) in the values of average gas density, temperature, entropy, Mach number and shock thermal energy flux in the most rarefied regions of the simulations between grid and SPH methods; b) the hint of an entropy core inside clusters simulated in grid codes; c) significantly different phase diagrams of shocked cells in grid codes compared to SPH; d) sizable differences in the morphologies of accretion shocks between grid and SPH methods.
description: 30 pages, 24 figures. Version accepted by MNRAS. Only minor changes and updated references list compared to the first submitted version
Investigation of a two-stage steam/organosolv pretreatment approach for the fractionation of softwood biomass
Creators: name: Lin, Mandy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: In order to improve the economic viability of a bioconversion process it would be extremely beneficial to maximize the recovery of all of the lignocellulosic components while enhancing enzyme accessibility to the cellulosic component. Wood residue derived pellets are already a prominent Canadian commodity and the existing supply-chain produces a high density, low moisture feedstock suitable for mass collection and transport. However, pellets are almost exclusively used for combustion and not as a possible biorefinery feedstock. As a result, there is limited information on the influence of the pelletization process (e.g. grinding, drying, compressing) on the susceptibility of pellets, as opposed to chips, to the various pretreatment, fractionation and cellulose hydrolysis steps that are components of a typical bioconversion process. The work described in the thesis assessed the potential of a two-stage steam/organosolv pretreatment process to fractionate and isolate the hemicellulose and lignin components from softwood pellets, yielding a more accessible, cellulose-rich substrate. Various steam pretreatment conditions were compared for their ability to enhance hemicellulose solubilisation while minimizing lignin condensation (first-stage), to improve subsequent organosolv delignification (second-stage). Carbocation scavengers were compared for their ability to minimize lignin condensation during either stage. When softwood chips and pellets were compared, the effectiveness of the pretreatment was determined by hemicellulose solubilisation, delignification capability and the ease of enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulosic component. It was apparent that pellets were more responsive than chips to pretreatment due to their smaller particle size, which facilitated both hemicellulose solubilisation and delignification. At conditions that solubilized and recovered hemicellulose, acid-catalyzed steam pretreatment induced lignin condensation. This impeded subsequent organosolv delignification and enzymatic hydrolysis. The addition of lignosulfonates as a potential carbocation scavenger during acid-catalyzed steam pretreatment resulted in increased hemicellulose solubilisation and carbohydrate recovery while improving delignification during subsequent organosolv treatment. Adding lignosulfonates during acid-catalyzed steam pretreatment also enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis. It was likely that the added lignosulfonates increased lignin hydrophilicity which facilitated lignin dissolution and decreased non-productive enzyme inhibition. It was apparent that the addition of lignosulfonates prior to pretreatment reduced the detrimental effects of lignin condensation which benefited subsequent fractionation of the pretreated biomass.
LTER Shita, Israel, Tree growth, 2015-2020
Creators: name: [Unknown]
Publisher: name: https://b2share.eudat.eu
Year: 2020

description: Tree height is estimated using laser rangefinder model "TruPulse 200" manufactured by "Laser Technology" company. Canopy length is measured using a measuring tape held by two people standing in the east-west direction, either north-south. Browsing height is estimated using measuring tape from the ground up to the high point of browsed branches. The lowest leaf height is measured using measuring tape from the ground up to the first low leaf. The trunk perimeter is measured with a soft measuring tape at the height of the tree tag, which is placed in a fixed position on the trunk. The greenes index is detected by taking NDVI photo of the tree from south position, using TETRACAM MULTISPECTRAL camera. The photos are analized by PIXELWRENCH2 softwrae. Photograph of the tree is taken from a southern position including a 1-meter scale stick and a color palette for calibration. ImageJ software is used for analyzing the RGB channels (data not supplied). The foliage, flowers, and pods are visually rated on a scale of 0 to 5 (low-high).
Holographic dual of a boost-invariant plasma with chemical potential
Creators: name: Kalaydzhyan, Tigran
name: Kirsch, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a gravity dual of a boost-invariant flow of an N=4 SU(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theory plasma with chemical potential. We present both a first-order corrected late-time solution in Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates and a zeroth-order solution in parametric form in Fefferman-Graham coordinates. The resulting background takes the form of a time-dependent AdS Reissner-Nordstroem-type black hole whose horizons move into the bulk of the AdS space. The solution correctly reproduces the energy and charge density as well as the viscosity of the plasma previously computed in the literature.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, minor modifications, as published in JHEP
Additional file 8 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Table S6. Costs incurred by participants at baseline and after self-care, Anambra State (N = 30).
Understanding hadronic gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants
Creators: name: Caprioli, Damiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to test the plausibility of a theoretical framework in which the gamma-ray emission detected from supernova remnants may be of hadronic origin, i.e., due to the decay of neutral pions produced in nuclear collisions involving relativistic nuclei. In particular, we investigate the effects induced by magnetic field amplification on the expected particle spectra, outlining a phenomenological scenario consistent with both the underlying Physics and the larger and larger amount of observational data provided by the present generation of gamma experiments, which seem to indicate rather steep spectra for the accelerated particles. In addition, in order to study to study how pre-supernova winds might affect the expected emission in this class of sources, the time-dependent gamma-ray luminosity of a remnant with a massive progenitor is worked out. Solid points and limitations of the proposed scenario are finally discussed in a critical way.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures; Several comments, references and a figure added. Some typos corrected
Slow-roll freezing quintessence
Creators: name: Dutta, Sourish
name: Scherrer, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the evolution of quintessence models with potentials satisfying (V'/V)^2<<1 and V"/V<<1, in the case where the initial field velocity is nonzero. We derive an analytic approximation for the evolution of the equation of state parameter, w, for the quintessence field. We show that such models are characterized by an initial rapid freezing phase, in which the equation of state parameter w decreases with time, followed by slow thawing evolution, for which w increases with time. These models resemble constant-V models at early times but diverge at late times. Our analytic approximation gives results in excellent agreement with exact numerical evolution.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, references added
Trends, predictors, and outcomes of major bleeding after transcatheter aortic valve implantation, from national inpatient sample (2011–2018)
Creators: name: Zahid, Salman
name: Ullah, Waqas
name: Khan, Muhammad Usman
name: Abbas, Sakina
name: Din, Mian Tanveer Ud
name: Uddin, Muhammad Faisal
name: Inayat, Arslan
name: Ubaid, Aamer
name: Salman, Fnu
name: Thakkar, Samarthkumar
name: Salama, Amr
name: Khan, Muhammad Zia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Major bleeding remains one of the most frequent complications seen in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes, trends, and predictors of major bleeding in patients undergoing TAVI. We utilized the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) data from the year 2011 to 2018. Baseline characteristics were compared using a Pearsonχ2 test for categorical variables and Mann–Whitney U-Test for continuous variables. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to evaluate predictors of major bleeding. Propensity Matching was done for adjusted analysis to compare outcomes in TAVI with and without major bleeding. A total of 215,938 weighted hospitalizations for TAVI were included in the analysis. Of the patient undergoing the procedure, 20,102 (9.3%) had major bleeding and 195,836 (90.7%) patients did not have in-hospital bleeding events. Patients in the major bleeding cohort were older and had greater female gender representation. At baseline patients with thrombocytopenia (Odds Ratio [OR], 1.47[confidence interval (CI), 1.36–1.59]), colon cancer (OR, 1.70[CI, 1.27–2.28]), coagulopathy (OR, 1.17[CI, 1.08–1.27]), liver disease (OR, 1.31[CI, 1.21–1.41]), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (OR, 1.29[CI, 1.25–1.33]), congestive heart failure (OR, 1.12[CI, 1.08–1.16]), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (OR, 1.47[CI, 1.38–1.57]) had higher adjusted rates of major bleeding. The percentage of adjusted in-hospital mortality (14.4% vs. 4.2%, P In conclusion, we report that mortality is higher in patients with major bleeding and that baseline comorbidities like ESRD, liver disease, coagulopathy and colonic malignancy are important predictors of this adverse event.
Gravitational perturbations and metric reconstruction: Method of extended homogeneous solutions applied to eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Hopper, Seth
name: Evans, Charles R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the gravitational perturbations produced by a small mass in eccentric orbit about a much more massive Schwarzschild black hole and use the numerically computed perturbations to solve for the metric. The calculations are initially made in the frequency domain and provide Fourier-harmonic modes for the gauge-invariant master functions that satisfy inhomogeneous versions of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations. These gravitational master equations have specific singular sources containing both delta function and derivative-of-delta function terms. We demonstrate in this paper successful application of the method of extended homogeneous solutions, developed recently by Barack, Ori, and Sago, to handle source terms of this type. The method allows transformation back to the time domain, with exponential convergence of the partial mode sums that represent the field. This rapid convergence holds even in the region of $r$ traversed by the point mass and includes the time-dependent location of the point mass itself. We present numerical results of mode calculations for certain orbital parameters, including highly accurate energy and angular momentum fluxes at infinity and at the black hole event horizon. We then address the issue of reconstructing the metric perturbation amplitudes from the master functions, the latter being weak solutions of a particular form to the wave equations. The spherical harmonic amplitudes that represent the metric in Regge-Wheeler gauge can themselves be viewed as weak solutions. They are in general a combination of (1) two differentiable solutions that adjoin at the instantaneous location of the point mass (a result that has order of continuity $C^{-1}$ typically) and (2) (in some cases) a delta function distribution term with a computable time-dependent amplitude.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, Updated with minor changes
Testing the interaction between dark energy and dark matter via latest observations
Creators: name: He, Jian-Hua
name: Wang, Bin
name: Abdalla, Elcio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological analysis based on currently available observations are unable to rule out a sizeable coupling between dark energy and dark matter. However, the signature of the coupling is not easy to grasp, since the coupling is degenerate with other cosmological parameters, such as the dark energy equation of state and the dark matter abundance. We discuss the possible ways to break such degeneracy. Based on the perturbation formalism, we carry out the global fitting by using latest observational data and get a tight constraint on the interaction between dark sectors. We find that the appropriate interaction can alleviate the coincidence problem.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Circuit Analysis in Metal-Optics
Creators: name: Staffaroni, Matteo
name: Conway, Josh
name: Vedantam, Shantha
name: Tang, Japeck
name: Yablonovitch, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide electrical circuit descriptions for bulk plasmons, single surface plasmons, and parallel-plate plasmons. Simple circuits can reproduce the exactly known frequency versus wave-vector dispersion relations for all these cases, with reasonable accuracy. The circuit paradigm directly provides a characteristic wave-impedance, Zo, that is rarely discussed in the context of plasmonics. The case of a single-surface-plasmon is particularly interesting since it can be modeled as a transmission line, even though there is no return current conductor. The capacitance/unit length and the Faraday inductance/unit length, of a flat metal surface, are C'=2epsilon_okW, and L'=epsilon_o/2kW respectively, (where k is wave-vector, and W is the width of the flat metal surface). We believe that many other metal-optic geometries can be described within the circuit paradigm, with the prerequisite that the distributed capacitance and inductance must be calculated for each particular geometry
Description of two new species of marine gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa) from the intestines of Lumbrineris inflata (Annelida)
Creators: name: Iritani, Naoki Davis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Apicomplexans are diverse single-celled eukaryotes that parasitize animals. The most notorious members include those of particular human interest such as the causative agents of malaria, toxoplasmosis, and cryptosporidiosis. While a subset of apicomplexans has been intensively studied from a medical or veterinary perspective, the diversity of remaining groups is underrepresented in existing literature. This lack of data has left the deep relationships among apicomplexan taxa enigmatic and in turn has hindered the revelation of some major evolutionary processes that sparked the apicomplexan radiation. The dearth of understanding surrounding apicomplexan systematics can be addressed in part through the discovery of novel species and the identification of how morphological and molecular characters are distributed across the apicomplexan phylogeny. Some lineages of marine gregarines have retained plesiomorphic characters that offer unique insight into the earliest stages of apicomplexan evolution. The current thesis describes and establishes two novel marine gregarine species isolated from a polychaete hosts (Lumbrineris inflata). Species delimitation and description was based on morphological data acquired using light and electron microscopy and a molecular phylogenetic analysis of 18S small subunit (SSU) rDNA sequences. Paralecudina anankea n. sp. possessed an elongated body, an oval nucleus, and gliding motility. The sister relationship of P. anankea n. sp. with P. polymorpha was robustly supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (100 MLB, 1.00 BPP) and the SSU rDNA sequences between the two were 12% divergent. In contrast, L. caspera n. sp. was morphologically dissimilar to its closest relative L. longissima and possessed an acorn-shaped body, a distinct mucron, and gliding motility. Molecular phylogenetic analysis recovered L. caspera n. sp. as a sister species to L. longissima with strong support (100 MLB, 1.00 BPP) and their SSU rDNA sequences which were 8% divergent. The generation of additional morphological and molecular traits in gregarines will improve the phylogenetic resolution of the apicomplexan backbone and improve inferences about the evolutionary transition from photosynthetic ancestors to obligate parasites.
Additional file 9 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Table S7. Association between household costs and demographic characteristics of the participants (N = 30).
Meta-analysis of minimalist versus standard care approach for transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Creators: name: Qureshi, Waqas T.
name: Kundu, Amartya
name: Mir, Tanveer
name: Khan, Amna
name: Anwaruddin, Saif
name: Sattar, Yasar
name: Ogunsua, Adedotun
name: Dutta, Abhishek
name: Majeed, Chaudry Nasir
name: Walker, Jennifer
name: Kakouros, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: The change in practice of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) to a minimalist approach is a debate. Online database search for studies that compared the minimalist approach with the standard approach for TAVR were searched from inception through September 2020. We calculated pooled odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using the fixed or random-effects model. A total of 9 studies with 2,880 TAVR patients (minimalist TAVR;1066 and standard TAVR; 1,814) were included. Compared to standard approach, there were no significant differences in in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, or hospital readmissions. However, there was a reduced risk of acute kidney injury (OR0.49;95%CI0.27–0.89), major bleeding (OR0.21;95%CI0.12–0.38) and major vascular complications (OR0.60,95%CI0.39–0.91) associated with the minimalist TAVR group. There was comparatively shorter hospital length of stay (mean difference −2.41;95%CI-2.99,-1.83) days, procedural time (mean difference −43.99;95%CI-67.25,-20.75) minutes, fluoroscopy time (mean difference −2.69;95%CI-3.44,-1.94) minutes and contrast volume (mean difference −26.98;95%CI-42.18,-11.79) ml in the minimalist TAVR group. This meta-analysis demonstrated potential benefits of the minimalist TAVR approach over the standard approach regarding some adverse clinical outcomes as well as procedural outcomes without significant differences in mortality or readmission rates.
Cascade supersymmetry breaking and low-scale gauge mediation
Creators: name: Ibe, Masahiro
name: Shirman, Yuri
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new class of models with gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, the cascade supersymmetry breaking. This class of models is consistent with the gravitino mass as low as O(1)eV without having suppressed gaugino masses, nor the Landau pole problems of the gauge coupling constants of the Standard Model below the scale of the grand unification. In particular, there is no supersymmetric vacuum in the vicinity of the supersymmetry breaking vacuum even for such a low gravitino mass. Thus, the model does not have a vacuum stability problem decaying into supersymmetric vacua.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Interleukin-25-mediated resistance against intestinal trematodes does not depend on the generation of Th2 responses
Creators: name: Álvarez-Izquierdo, María
name: Pérez-Crespo, Miguel
name: Esteban, J. Guillermo
name: Muñoz-Antoli, Carla
name: Toledo, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Applied Biosystems Inventoried assays used in the present work.
title: MNHN-HA-4334 (N° SV: 4334-prox) Right Fibula
Creators: name: Adrien Thibeault
name: Villotte, Sébastien
name: PACEA
name: Université de Bordeaux
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2021

description: Adult 4334-prox and 4334-dist  same fibula - Note : Same MNHN number for several fragments
Additional file 1 of CAMPAREE: a robust and configurable RNA expression simulator
Creators: name: Lahens, Nicholas F.
name: Brooks, Thomas G.
name: Sarantopoulou, Dimitra
name: Nayak, Soumyashant
name: Lawrence, Cris
name: Mrčela, Antonijo
name: Srinivasan, Anand
name: Schug, Jonathan
name: Hogenesch, John B.
name: Barash, Yoseph
name: Grant, Gregory R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Input and output files for each CAMPAREE step. A table listing each step in the CAMPAREE pipeline, along with the input and output files for each. Output files marked with a ‘*’ can be provided by the user to skip the associated step(s).
Designing Decisive Detections
Creators: name: Trotta, R.
name: Kunz, M.
name: Liddle, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general Bayesian formalism for the definition of Figures of Merit (FoMs) quantifying the scientific return of a future experiment. We introduce two new FoMs for future experiments based on their model selection capabilities, called the decisiveness of the experiment and the expected strength of evidence. We illustrate these by considering dark energy probes, and compare the relative merits of stage II, III and IV dark energy probes. We find that probes based on supernovae and on weak lensing perform rather better on model selection tasks than is indicated by their Fisher matrix FoM as defined by the Dark Energy Task Force. We argue that our ability to optimize future experiments for dark energy model selection goals is limited by our current uncertainty over the models and their parameters, which is ignored in the usual Fisher matrix forecasts. Our approach gives a more realistic assessment of the capabilities of future probes and can be applied in a variety of situations.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, minor changes following referee report; matches accepted version to appear in MNRAS
Characterization of degradative protein quality control mechanisms using model substrates derived from temperature sensitive alleles
Creators: name: Comyn, Sophie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of protein homeostasis (proteostasis) is to maintain proteome integrity, thereby promoting viability at both the cellular and organism levels. Exposure to a range of acute stresses often produces misfolded proteins, which present a challenge to maintaining proteostatic balance. The accumulation of misfolded proteins can lead to the formation of potentially toxic protein aggregates, which are characteristic of a number of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Therefore, a number of protein quality control pathways exist to promote protein folding by molecular chaperones or target terminally misfolded proteins for degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome system or autophagy. Within the cytosol the mechanisms responsible for targeting substrates for proteasomal degradation remain to be fully elucidated. In this thesis, we established and employed thermosensitive model substrates to screen for factors that promote proteasomal degradation of proteins misfolded as the result of missense mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using a genome- wide flow cytometry based screen we identified the prefoldin chaperone subunit Gim3 as well as the E3 ubiquitin ligase Ubr1. An absence of Gim3 leads to the accumulation of model substrates in cytosolic inclusions and their delayed degradation. We propose that Gim3 promotes degradation by maintaining substrate solubility. In the course of screening for factors involved in degradative protein quality control, we identified secondary mutations in the general stress response gene WHI2 among a number of E3 ligase deletion strains. We demonstrate that an absence of WHI2 is responsible for the observed impairment in the proteolytic degradation of Guk1-7. We propose a link between mutations in WHI2 to a deficiency in the Msn2/4 transcriptional response, thereby altering the cell’s capacity to degrade misfolded cytosolic proteins. Collectively, the data in this thesis generated with the Guk1-7 model substrate underscores how changes in the elaborate protein quality control network can perturb proteostasis. Given that proteostasis is altered in a number of diseases ranging from cancer to ageing, identifying the factors that mediate protein quality control and understanding the interplay between members of the proteostatic network are important not only for understanding the basic biological processes but also for potential therapeutic applications.
A dwarf nova in the globular cluster M13
Creators: name: Servillat, Mathieu
name: Webb, N. A.
name: Lewis, F.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Berg, M. van den
name: Dieball, A.
name: Grindlay, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf novae in globular clusters seem to be rare with only 13 detections in the 157 known Galactic globular clusters. We report the identification of a new dwarf nova in M13, the 14th dwarf nova identified in a globular cluster to date. Using the 2m Faulkes Telescope North, we conducted a search for stars in M13 that show variability over a year (2005-2006) on timescales of days and months. This led to the detection of one dwarf nova showing several outbursts. A Chandra X-ray source is coincident with this dwarf nova and shows both a spectrum and variability consistent with that expected from a dwarf nova, thus supporting the identification. We searched for a counterpart in Hubble Space Telescope ACS/WFC archived images and found at least 11 candidates, of which we could characterize only the 7 brightest, including one with a 3 sigma H-alpha excess and a faint blue star. The detection of one dwarf nova when more could have been expected likely indicates that our knowledge of the global Galactic population of cataclysmic variables is too limited. The proportion of dwarf novae may be lower than found in catalogs, or they may have a much smaller duty cycle in general as proposed by some population synthesis models and recent observations in the field.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 12 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables (v2 contains corrections of the proofs)
title: Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica: Radiological and endoscopic correlation
Creators: name: Matos, Inês
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A sixty-six-year-old male was referred to the pulmonology consultation by his medical assistant with a history of two months odynophagia, exacerbated with swallowing and no other symptoms. A nasopharyngolaringoscopy was performed, which showed multiple granulomatous lesions in the first tracheal rings. Past medical history was irrelevant.

description: 66 years, male
Galaxy Formation in Heavily Overdense Regions at z~10: the Prevalence of Disks in Massive Halos
Creators: name: Romano-Diaz, Emilio
name: Choi, Jun-Hwan
name: Shlosman, Isaac
name: Trenti, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a high-resolution cosmological numerical simulation, we have analyzed the evolution of galaxies at z~10 in a highly overdense region of the universe. These objects could represent the high redshift galaxies recently observed by the Hubble's WFC3, and be as well possible precursors of QSOs at z~6-7. To overcome the sampling and resolution problems in cosmological simulations, we have used the Constrained Realizations method. Our main result for z~10 shows the region of 3.5h^{-1}Mpc radius in comoving coordinates completely dominated by disk galaxies in the total mass range of >=10^9h^{-1}Mo. We have verified that the gaseous and stellar disks we identify are robust morphological features, capable of surviving the ongoing merger process at these redshifts. Below this mass range, we find a sharp decline in the disk fraction to negligible numbers. At this redshift, the disks appear to be gas-rich and the dark matter halos baryon-rich, by a factor of ~2-3 above the average fraction of baryons in the universe. The prevalence of disk galaxies in the high density peaks during the epoch of reionization is contrary to the morphology-density trend observed at low redshifts.
description: To be published by the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 5 pages, 3 figures. Small corrections following the referee report
Gap closing and universal phase diagrams in topological insulators
Creators: name: Murakami, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a general problem how the gap in a nonmagnetic band insulator closes by tuning a parameter. We review our recent results on the classification of all the possible gap closing in two and three dimensions. We show that they accompany the change of Z_2 topological numbers, and that the gap closings correspond to phase transitions between the quantum spin Hall and the insulator phases. Interestingly, in inversion-asymmetric three-dimensional systems there appears a gapless phase between the quantum spin Hall and insulator phases. This gapless phase is due to a topological nature of gap-closing points in three dimensions, but not in two dimensions.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, proceedings for nanoPHYS'09 in Tokyo
Search Relevance based on the Semantic Web
Creators: name: Bicer, Veli
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Semantic Search
Web Retrieval
Semantic Web

description: In this thesis, we explore the challenge of search relevance in the context of semantic search. Specifically, the notion of semantic relevance can be distinguished from the other types of relevance in Information Retrieval (IR) in terms of employing an underlying semantic model. We propose the emerging Semantic Web data on the Web which is represented in RDF graph structures as an important candidate to become such a semantic model in a search process.
DILPS/Media Edition
Creators: name: Enge, Jürgen
name: Weiß, Nadin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012

description: DILPS/Media Edition ist ein von der DFG gefördertes Projekt der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe und der KIT-Bibliothek. Dabei wird eine Digitale Bibliothek entwickelt, die eine virtuelle e-Research Infrastruktur für multimediale Objekte und Forschungsdaten in vornehmlich medienbasierten Arbeitsumgebungen (Media Solution) für Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Disziplinen verwalten und anbieten kann. Ausgangspunkt ist das seit dem Jahr 2000 an der HfG Karlsruhe entwickelte Digital Image Library Processing System.
Im Zuge des Projekts wurde eine Kooperation mit dem FIZ Karlsruhe eingegangen, um den freien und langfristigen Zugang der Forschungsdaten und die Weiterverbreitung der Media Solution in der Fach-Community zu sichern. DILPS/M wird als Applikation der integrierten e-Research-Infrastruktur für netzbasiertes wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (eSciDoc) aufgesetzt.
Das DFG-Projekt baut auf den langjährigen Erfahrungen der Hochschule für Gestaltung in der Entwicklung und Betreuung von Bilddatenbanken im Bereich der Medien- und Kunstsammlungen auf. Die KIT-Bibliothek mit ihren großen Mediensammlungen an Volltexten, Bildern und AV-Medien im Bereich des E-Learnings bietet außerdem die Vernetzung in die Welt der großen Forschungseinrichtungen und war insofern ein idealer Partner für die Hochschule für Gestaltung bei der Antragstellung. Ein gemeinsames Team aus Bibliothekaren, Projektmanagern und Entwicklern installiert ein Grundsystem, das als ersten Input die Mediensammlungen der beiden Einrichtungen für ihre Wissenschaftler auf modernste Weise anbietet und in die bestehenden Katalogsysteme integriert. Aber DILPS/M hat als erklärtes Ziel, die Übertragbarkeit auf andere Einrichtungen zu sichern.
The non-motor protein RHAMM locates TPX2 to coordinate spindle assembly and balance motor forces needed to segregate chromosomes and complete cell division
Creators: name: Chen, Helen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Cell division requires the assembly and organization of a microtubule-based mitotic spindle. Microtubule assembly at multiple sites is dependent on Aurora kinase A activity, which is promoted through a complex with TPX2 (targeting protein for XKlp2). Subsequent organization of these microtubules and progression into anaphase requires balance between forces orchestrated by antagonistic motor complexes. My studies show that the non-motor protein RHAMM (receptor for hyaluronan mediated motility) integrates structural and biochemical pathways to ensure the fidelity of cell division. Silencing RHAMM in HeLa cells delayed the kinetics of spindle assembly. I located RHAMM to centrosomes and non-centrosome sites for microtubule nucleation and found it necessary for TPX2 localization and Aurora A activity at kinetochores. The RHAMM-TPX2 complex requires a conserved leucine zipper motif in RHAMM and a domain that includes the nuclear localization signal in TPX2. These findings indicate RHAMM is needed for spatially-regulated activation of Aurora A by TPX2, which coordinates spindle assembly. I monitored mouse embryonic fibroblasts deficient for RHAMM through division and identified defects progressing through the spindle checkpoint. In RHAMM-silenced HeLa cells, I identified sustained activation of the checkpoint with unfocused spindles and unattached kinetochores, implicating unbalanced motor activities mediated by kinesins. In metaphase-delayed cells, the abundance or location of checkpoint proteins was not altered. Moreover, aberrant spindle orientation could not account for each delayed division. In RHAMM-silenced cells, I found that the reciprocal immunoprecipitation of Eg5-TPX2, an inhibitory complex, was reduced and that the concurrent inhibition of Eg5-generated force recovered division kinetics. I also observed a prolonged metaphase delay in a proportion of RHAMM-silenced cells, which resolved through cohesion fatigue. Together, my findings indicate that RHAMM-mediated attenuation of Eg5-dependent outward forces is needed to align chromosomes and progress through division. Lastly, I identified defects in spindle structure and function in redundant models for RHAMM over-expression. Collectively, my studies demonstrate that RHAMM coordinates Aurora A signaling and balances motor forces that are needed for cell division. These findings provide novel insights into processes that are essential for mammalian cell division and the maintenance of genome stability.
Hamiltonian Analysis of Lagrange Multiplier Modified Gravity
Creators: name: Kluson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop Hamiltonian formalism for Lagrange Multiplier Modified Gravity. We further calculate the Poisson brackets between constraints and we show that they coincide with the algebra of constraints in Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity.
description: 15 pages, references added