cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Smoking Does Not Alter Treatment Effect of Intravenous Thrombolysis in Mild to Moderate Acute Ischemic Stroke—A Dutch String-of-Pearls Institute (PSI) Stroke Study
Creators: name: Kufner, Anna
name: Ebinger, Martin
name: Luijckx, Gert Jan
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Siegerink, Bob
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: stroke
subject: smoking
subject: thrombolysis (tPA)
subject: ischemic stroke
subject: cerebrovascular risk factors
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background:The smoking-thrombolysis paradox refers to a better outcome in smokers who suffer from acute ischemic stroke (AIS) following treatment with thrombolysis. However, studies on this subject have yielded contradictory results and an interaction analysis of exposure to smoking and thrombolysis in a large, multicenter database is lacking. Methods:Consecutive AIS patients admitted within 12 h of symptom onset between 2009 and 2014 from the prospective, multicenter stroke registry (Dutch String-of-Pearls Stroke Study) were included for this analysis. We performed a generalized linear model for functional outcome 3 months post-stroke depending on risk of the exposure variables (smoking yes/no, thrombolysis yes/no). The following confounders were adjusted for: age, smoking, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus, stroke severity, and stroke etiology. Results:Out of 468 patients, 30.6% (N= 143) were smokers and median baseline NIHSS was 3 (interquartile range 1-6). Smoking alone had a crude and adjusted relative risk (RR) of 0.99 (95% CI 0.89-1.10) and 0.96 (95% CI 0.86-1.01) for good outcome (modified Rankin Score <= 2), respectively. A combination of exposure variables (smoking and thrombolysis) did not change the results significantly [crude RR 0.87 (95% CI 0.74-1.03], adjusted RR 1.1 (95%CI 0.90-1.30)]. Smoking alone had an adjusted RR of 1.2 (95% CI 0.6-2.7) for recanalization following thrombolysis (N= 88). Conclusions:In patients with mild to moderate AIS admitted within 12 h of symptom onset, smoking did not modify treatment effect of thrombolysis.
Behavior of the van der Waals force between a plate and a single-walled carbon nanotube under uniform hydrostatic pressure: a theoretical study
Creators: name: Valchev, Galin
name: Djondjorov, Peter
name: Vassilev, Vassil
name: Dantchev, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behaviour of the non-retarded van der Waals force between a planar substrate and a single-walled carbon nanotube, assuming that the system is immersed in a liquid medium which exerts hydrostatic pressure on the tube's surface, thereby altering its cross-section profile. The shape of the latter is described as a continual structure characterized by its symmetry index $n$. Two principle mutual positions of the tube with respect to the substrate are studied: when one keeps constant the minimal separation between the surfaces of the interacting objects; when the distance from the tube's axis to the substrates bounding surface is fixed. Within these conditions, using the technique of the surface integration approach, we derive an integral form of the expressions which give the dependence of the commented force on the applied pressure.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Pain in NMOSD and MOGAD: A Systematic Literature Review of Pathophysiology, Symptoms, and Current Treatment Strategies
Creators: name: Asseyer, Susanna
name: Cooper, Graham
name: Paul, Friedemann
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: aquaporin 4
subject: headache
subject: myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-antibody-associated disease
subject: neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
subject: neuropathic pain
subject: pain
subject: painful tonic spasms
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) are autoimmune inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). Pain is highly prevalent and debilitating in NMOSD and MOGAD with a severe impact on quality of life, and there is a critical need for further studies to successfully treat and manage pain in these rare disorders. In NMOSD, pain has a prevalence of over 80%, and pain syndromes include neuropathic, nociceptive, and mixed pain, which can emerge in acute relapse or become chronic during the disease course. The impact of pain in MOGAD has only recently received increased attention, with an estimated prevalence of over 70%. These patients typically experience not only severe headache, retrobulbar pain, and/or pain on eye movement in optic neuritis but also neuropathic and nociceptive pain. Given the high relevance of pain in MOGAD and NMOSD, this article provides a systematic review of the current literature pertaining to pain in both disorders, focusing on the etiology of their respective pain syndromes and their pathophysiological background. Acknowledging the challenge and complexity of diagnosing pain, we also provide a mechanism-based classification of NMOSD- and MOGAD-related pain syndromes and summarize current treatment strategies.
Ion-neutral interactions and non-equilibrium ionization in the solar chromosphere
Creators: name: Martinez-Sykora, Juan
name: Leenaarts, Jorrit
name: De Pontieu, Bart
name: Nobrega-Siverio, Daniel
name: Hansteen, Viggo H.
name: Carlsson, Mats
name: Szydlarski, Mikolaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal structure of the chromosphere is regulated through a complex interaction of various heating processes, radiative cooling, and the ionization degree of the plasma. Here we study the impact on the thermal properties of the chromosphere when including the combined action of non-equilibrium ionization (NEI) of hydrogen and helium and ion-neutral interaction effects. We have performed a 2.5D radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation including ion-neutral interaction effects by solving the generalized Ohm's law (GOL) as well as NEI for hydrogen and helium using the Bifrost code. The GOL equation includes ambipolar diffusion and the Hall term. We compare this simulation with another simulation that computes the ionization in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) including ion-neutral interaction effects. Our numerical models reveal substantial thermal differences in magneto-acoustic shocks, the wake behind the shocks, spicules, low-lying magnetic loops, and the transition region. In particular, we find that heating through ambipolar diffusion in shock wakes is substantially less efficient, while in the shock fronts themselves it is more efficient, under NEI conditions than when assuming LTE.
description: 14 pages, 8 Figures, Accepted to be published in ApJ
A narrow-linewidth III-V/Si/Si3N4 laser using multilayer heterogeneous integration
Creators: name: Xiang, Chao
name: Jin, Warren
name: Guo, Joel
name: Peters, Jonathan D.
name: Kennedy, MJ
name: Selvidge, Jennifer
name: Morton, Paul A.
name: Bowers, John E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silicon nitride (Si3N4), as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) material, finds wide use in modern integrated circuit (IC) technology. The past decade has witnessed tremendous development of Si3N4 in photonic areas, with innovations in nonlinear photonics, optical sensing, etc. However, the lack of an integrated laser with high performance prohibits the large-scale integration of Si3N4 waveguides into complex photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Here, we demonstrate a novel III-V/Si/Si3N4 structure to enable efficient electrically pumped lasing in a Si3N4 based laser external cavity. The laser shows superior temperature stability and low phase noise compared with lasers purely dependent on semiconductors. Beyond this, the demonstrated multilayer heterogeneous integration provides a practical path to incorporate efficient optical gain with various low-refractive-index materials. Multilayer heterogeneous integration could extend the capabilities of semiconductor lasers to improve performance and enable a new class of devices such as integrated optical clocks and optical gyroscopes.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Additional images of histological sections from Evidence of five digits in embryonic horses and developmental stabilization of tetrapod digit number
Creators: name: Kavanagh, Kathryn D.
name: C. Scott Bailey
name: Sears, Karen E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Histological sections of embryonic horse toes
title: Helping or hurting
title: die operative Uro-Onkologie im Spannungsfeld zwischen funktionellen Ergebnissen und gesundheitsbezogener Lebensqualität
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kretschmer, Alexander
Publisher: name: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität, Prostatakarzinom, Urothelkarzinom
subject: 600
subject: 610
subject: FOS: Medical and Health Sciences

description: Das vorliegende Habilitationsprojekt liefert neue Erkenntnisse über die Entwicklung von, sowie Einflussgrößen auf die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität wichtiger uro-onkologischer Operationen. Der signifikante Einfluss der funktionellen Ergebnisse wurde herausgearbeitet und eine zeitliche Entwicklung der Lebensqualität nach kontinenter sowie inkontinenter Harnableitung nach Zystektomie dargestellt. Mittels moderner, objektiver Messmethoden wurde die Kontinenz nach radikaler Zystektomie neu definiert. Die herausragende Bedeutung der perioperativen Patientenaufklärung im Hinblick auf funktionelle Ergebnisse und Lebensqualität nach radikaler Prostatektomie wurde ausgearbeitet. Der großen Bedeutung der postoperativen Belastungsharninkontinenz wurde Rechnung getragen, indem die wichtigsten Therapiemöglichkeiten dieser die Lebensqualität massiv beeinträchtigenden funktionellen Komplikation gesondert evaluiert wurden. Hierbei konnten erstmalig gute Langzeitergebnisse der transobturatorischen Suspensionsschlinge dargestellt werden. Für den artifiziellen Sphinkter wurden schlechtere Ergebnisse nach penoskrotaler Implantation des AMS 800® sowie allgemein nach Implantation eines ZSI 375® artifiziellen Sphinkters gezeigt. Basierend auf den Arbeiten des Habilitationsprojekts erfolgte die Planung prospektiver Studien zur Evaluation der Lebensqualität nach operativer Therapie des Urothelkarzinoms sowie Prostatakarzinoms. Hiervon werden neue Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich des longitudinalen Verlaufes der Lebensqualität sowie hinsichtlich Einflussfaktoren auf die postoperative Lebensqualität erwartet.
On the light echo in V838 Mon
Creators: name: Tylenda, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After having presented a theoretical outline of the light echo phenomenon and results of simple numerical simulations we study the available images of the light echo in V838 Mon obtained with HST. From an analysis of the observed expansion of the light echo we conclude that the distance to V838 Mon is greater then $\sim$5 kpc. We also investigate the structure of the dust distribution in the vicinity of the object. We find no obvious signs of spherical symmetry in the resultant distribution. Near the central object there is a strongly asymmetric dust-free region which we interpret as an evidence that V838 Mon is moving relatively to the dusty medium. From these results we conclude that dust illuminated by the light echo is of interstellar origin rather than produced by mass loss from V838 Mon in the past.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to A&A
Cumulative Risk and Externalizing Behaviors During Infancy in a Predominantly Latine Sample
Creators: name: Rowe, Greighson McCrae
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 520101
subject: Child and adolescent development

description: Externalizing behavior problems are one of the top mental health concerns in early childhood, and many parenting interventions have been developed to address this issue. To better understand predictors of parenting intervention outcomes in high-risk families, this secondary data analysis evaluated the moderating effect of cumulative risk on child externalizing behaviors, parenting skills, and intervention dropout after completion of a home-based adaptation of the Child-Directed Interaction phase of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), called the Infant Behavior Program (IBP). Participants included 58 toddlers (53% male; average age of 13.5 months; 95% Hispanic or Latine) who were part of a larger randomized control trial in which families were randomly assigned to receive the IBP or treatment as usual (TAU). Cumulative risk was found to moderate the effect of intervention group on child externalizing behaviors, such that the participants in the intervention group with higher cumulative risk scores had greater reductions in externalizing behaviors. A potential explanation for these unexpected findings may be that the obstacles to treatment previously imposed by comorbid risk factors (i.e. lack of transportation, time commitment, language barriers) were adequately addressed such that the families who most needed the intervention were able to remain fully engaged.
Altered Coupling of Psychological Relaxation and Regional Volume of Brain Reward Areas in Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: Wakonig, Katharina
name: Eitel, Fabian
name: Ritter, Kerstin
name: Hetzer, Stefan
name: Schmitz-Hübsch, Tanja
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Haynes, John-Dylan
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Gold, Stefan M.
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Weygandt, Martin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: multiple sclerosis
subject: autoimmunity
subject: neuroinflammation
subject: gray matter
subject: ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)
subject: psychological relaxation
subject: psychophysiological stress responses
subject: brain reward system
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background:Psychological stress can influence the severity of multiple sclerosis (MS), but little is known about neurobiological factors potentially counteracting these effects. Objective:To identify gray matter (GM) brain regions related to relaxation after stress exposure in persons with MS (PwMS). Methods:36 PwMS and 21 healthy controls (HCs) reported their feeling of relaxation during a mild stress task. These markers were related to regional GM volumes, heart rate, and depressive symptoms. Results:Relaxation was differentially linked to heart rate in both groups (t= 2.20,p= 0.017), i.e., both markers were only related in HCs. Relaxation was positively linked to depressive symptoms across all participants (t= 1.99,p= 0.045) although this link differed weakly between groups (t= 1.62,p= 0.108). Primarily, the volume in medial temporal gyrus was negatively linked to relaxation in PwMS (t= -5.55, p(family-wise-error(FWE)corrected)= 0.018). A group-specific coupling of relaxation and GM volume was found in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) (t= -4.89, p(FWE)= 0.039). Conclusion:PwMS appear unable to integrate peripheral stress signals into their perception of relaxation. Together with the group-specific coupling of relaxation and VMPFC volume, a key area of the brain reward system for valuation of affectively relevant stimuli, this finding suggests a clinically relevant misinterpretation of stress-related affective stimuli in MS.
Adsorption properties of dopamine derivatives using carbon nanotubes: A first-principles study
Creators: name: Kim, Heeju
name: Kim, Gunn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detecting dopamine is of great biological importance because the molecule plays many roles in the human body. For instance, the lack of dopamine release is the cause of Parkinson's disease. Although many researchers have carried out experiments on dopamine detection using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), there are only a few theoretical studies on this topic. We study the adsorption properties of dopamine and its derivatives, L-DOPA and dopamine o-quinone, adsorbed on a semiconducting (10, 0) CNT, using density functional theory calculations. Our computational simulations reveal that localized states originating from dopamine o-quinone appear in the bandgap of the (10, 0) CNT, but those originating from dopamine and L-DOPA do not appear in the gap. Therefore, dopamine o-quinone is expected to be detectable using an external electric field but dopamine and L-DOPA should be difficult to detect.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
A Vector Space Model for Neural Network Functions: Inspirations From Similarities Between the Theory of Connectivity and the Logarithmic Time Course of Word Production
Creators: name: Fromm, Ortwin
name: Klostermann, Fabian
name: Ehlen, Felicitas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: neural network
subject: connectivity
subject: word production
subject: vector space
subject: energy efficiency
subject: neural clique
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The present report examines the coinciding results of two study groups each presenting a power-of-two function to describe network structures underlying perceptual processes in one case and word production during verbal fluency tasks in the other. The former is theorized as neural cliques organized according to the functionN= 2(i)- 1, whereas the latter assumes word conglomerations thinkable as tuples following the functionN= 2(i). Both theories assume the innate optimization of energy efficiency to cause the specific connectivity structure. The vast resemblance between both formulae motivated the development of a common formulation. This was obtained by using a vector space model, in which the configuration of neural cliques or connected words is represented by aN-dimensional state vector. A further analysis of the model showed that the entire time course of word production could be derived using basically one single minimal transformation-matrix. This again seems in line with the principle of maximum energy efficiency.
Electronic Supplementary Material from Do penguins’ vocal sequences conform to linguistic laws?
Creators: name: Favaro, Livio
name: Gamba, Marco
name: Cresta, Eleonora
name: Fumagalli, Elena
name: Bandoli, Francesca
name: Pilenga, Cristina
name: Isaja, Valentina
name: Mathevon, Nicolas
name: Reby, David
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Subjects and colonies
Model-independent view on the low-mass proton-antiproton enhancement
Creators: name: Kerbikov, B.
name: Stavinsky, A.
name: Fedotov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple interpretation of the recently observed near-threshold proton-antiproton enhancement. It is described by a set of low-energy parameters deduced from the analysis of NantiN experiments at LEAR. We predict a related effect in photoproduction reaction under study by CLAS collaboration.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
LiteSeg: A Novel Lightweight ConvNet for Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Emara, Taha
name: Munim, Hossam E. Abd El
name: Abbas, Hazem M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semantic image segmentation plays a pivotal role in many vision applications including autonomous driving and medical image analysis. Most of the former approaches move towards enhancing the performance in terms of accuracy with a little awareness of computational efficiency. In this paper, we introduce LiteSeg, a lightweight architecture for semantic image segmentation. In this work, we explore a new deeper version of Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling module (ASPP) and apply short and long residual connections, and depthwise separable convolution, resulting in a faster and efficient model. LiteSeg architecture is introduced and tested with multiple backbone networks as Darknet19, MobileNet, and ShuffleNet to provide multiple trade-offs between accuracy and computational cost. The proposed model LiteSeg, with MobileNetV2 as a backbone network, achieves an accuracy of 67.81% mean intersection over union at 161 frames per second with $640 \times 360$ resolution on the Cityscapes dataset.
description: Accepted, DICTA 2019
Differences in Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in MOG-IgG and AQP4-IgG Seropositive Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: Schmidt, Felix A.
name: Chien, Claudia
name: Kuchling, Joseph
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Ruprecht, Klemens
name: Siebert, Nadja
name: Asseyer, Susanna
name: Jarius, Sven
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Scheel, Michael
name: Paul, Friedemann
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: NMOSD
subject: AQP4
subject: MOG
subject: MRI
subject: DTI
subject: advanced imaging
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims: To explore differences in advanced brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics between myelin oligodendrocyte (MOG) immunoglobulin (IgG) and aquaporin-4 (AQP4) IgG seropositive (+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Methods: 33 AQP4-IgG and 18 MOG-IgG seropositive NMOSD patients and 61 healthy control (HC) subjects were included. All 112 participants were scanned with the same standardized MRI-protocol on a 3-Tesla MRI-scanner. Brain volume and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters were assessed. Results: MOG-IgG+ patients showed reduced parallel diffusivity within white matter tracts compared to HC whereas AQP4-IgG+ showed no significant brain parenchymal damage in DTI analysis. AQP4-IgG+ patients showed reduced whole brain volumes and reduced volumes of several deep gray matter structures compared to HC whereas MOG-IgG+ patients did not show reduced brain or deep gray matter volumes compared to HC. Conclusions: Microstructural brain parenchymal damage in MOG-IgG+ patients was more pronounced than in AQP4-IgG+ patients, compared with HC, whereas normalized brain volume reduction was more severe in AQP4-IgG+ patients. Longitudinal imaging studies are warranted to further investigate this trend in NMOSD. Our results suggest that MOG-IgG+ and AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD patients differ in cerebral MRI characteristics. Advanced MRI analysis did not help to differentiate between MOG-IgG+ and AQP4-IgG+ patients in our study.
Giving Researchers a Headache – Sex and Gender Differences in Migraine
Creators: name: Al-Hassany, Linda
name: Haas, Jennifer
name: Piccininni, Marco
name: Kurth, Tobias
name: Maassen Van Den Brink, Antoinette
name: Rohmann, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: migraine
subject: headache
subject: aura
subject: review (article)
subject: primary headache
subject: sex
subject: gender
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Migraine is a common neurovascular disorder affecting similar to 15% of the general population. Ranking second in the list of years lived with disability (YLD), people living with migraine are greatly impacted by this especially burdensome primary headache disorder. In similar to 30% of individuals with migraine, transient neurological symptoms occur (migraine aura) that further increase migraine burden. However, migraine burden is differential with respect to sex. Though one-year prevalences in childhood are similar, starting with puberty, migraine incidence increases at a much higher rate in females than males. Thus, migraine over the life course occurs in women three to four times more often than in men. Attacks are also more severe in women, leading to greater disability and a longer recovery period. The sex disparity in migraine is believed to be partly mediated through fluctuations in ovarian steroid hormones, especially estrogen and progesterone, although the exact mechanisms are not yet completely understood. The release of the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), followed by activation of the trigeminovascular system, is thought to play a key role in the migraine pathophysiology. Given the burden of migraine and its disproportionate distribution, the underlying cause(s) for the observed differences between sexes in the incidence, frequency, and intensity of migraine attacks must be better understood. Relevant biological as well as behavioral differences must be taken into account. To evaluate the scope of the existing knowledge on the issue of biological sex as well as gender differences in migraine, we conducted a systematized review of the currently available research. The review seeks to harmonize existing knowledge on the topic across the domains of biological/preclinical, clinical, and population-level research, which are traditionally synthesized and interpreted in isolation. Ultimately, we identify knowledge gaps and set priorities for further interdisciplinary and informed research on sex and gender differences as well as gender-specific therapies in migraine.
Additional file 1: of Associations between superoxide dismutase, malondialdehyde and all-cause mortality in older adults: a community-based cohort study
Creators: name: Mao, Chen
name: Yuan, Jin-Qiu
name: Lv, Yue-Bin
name: Gao, Xiang
name: Yin, Zhao-Xue
name: Kraus, Virginia
name: Luo, Jie-Si
name: Chei, Choy-Lye
name: Matchar, David
name: Zeng, Yi
name: Shi, Xiao-Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S1. Kaplanâ Meier plot showing the all-cause mortality by quintiles of superoxide dismutase in women (PDF 159 kb)
Apterostigma Mayr 1865
Creators: name: DE ALBUQUERQUE, EMÍLIA ZOPPAS
name: PRADO, LÍVIA PIRES DO
name: ANDRADE-SILVA, JOUDELLYS
name: DE SIQUEIRA, EMELY LAIARA SILVA
name: DA SILVA SAMPAIO, KELLY LIANE
name: ALVES, DIEGO
name: BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO FERREIRA
name: ANDRADE, PALOMA L.
name: FEITOSA, RODRIGO MACHADO
name: DE AZEVEDO KOCH, ELMO BORGES
name: DELABIE, JACQUES HUBERT CHARLES
name: FERNANDES, ITANNA
name: BACCARO, FABRÍCIO BEGGIATO
name: SOUZA, JORGE LUIZ PEREIRA
name: ALMEIDA, RONY PETERSON SANTOS
name: SILVA, ROGÉRIO R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Apterostigma

description: Apterostigma Mayr, 1865
 Apterostigma auriculatum Wheeler, 1925. Municipality unavailable [Kempf, 1972c]; Belém [MZSP; Kempf, 1970; Lattke, 1997]; Marituba [CPDC].
description: Published as part of DE ALBUQUERQUE, EMÍLIA ZOPPAS, PRADO, LÍVIA PIRES DO, ANDRADE-SILVA, JOUDELLYS, DE SIQUEIRA, EMELY LAIARA SILVA, DA SILVA SAMPAIO, KELLY LIANE, ALVES, DIEGO, BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO FERREIRA, ANDRADE, PALOMA L., FEITOSA, RODRIGO MACHADO, DE AZEVEDO KOCH, ELMO BORGES, DELABIE, JACQUES HUBERT CHARLES, FERNANDES, ITANNA, BACCARO, FABRÍCIO BEGGIATO, SOUZA, JORGE LUIZ PEREIRA, ALMEIDA, RONY PETERSON SANTOS & SILVA, ROGÉRIO R., 2021, Ants of the State of Pará, Brazil: a historical and comprehensive dataset of a key biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon Basin, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 5001 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5001.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122523
RNA Sequencing of Human Peripheral Blood Cells Indicates Upregulation of Immune-Related Genes in Huntington's Disease
Creators: name: Andrade-Navarro, Miguel A.
name: Mühlenberg, Katja
name: Spruth, Eike J.
name: Mah, Nancy
name: González-López, Adrián
name: Andreani, Tommaso
name: Russ, Jenny
name: Huska, Matthew R.
name: Muro, Enrique M.
name: Fontaine, Jean-Fred
name: Amstislavskiy, Vyacheslav
name: Soldatov, Alexei
name: Nietfeld, Wilfried
name: Wanker, Erich E.
name: Priller, Josef
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: RNA-Seq
subject: differential gene expression
subject: Huntington's disease
subject: disease markers
subject: inflammation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene. As disease-modifying therapies for HD are being developed, peripheral blood cells may be used to indicate disease progression and to monitor treatment response. In order to investigate whether gene expression changes can be found in the blood of individuals with HD that distinguish them from healthy controls, we performed transcriptome analysis by next-generation sequencing (RNA-seq). We detected a gene expression signature consistent with dysregulation of immune-related functions and inflammatory response in peripheral blood from HD cases vs. controls, including induction of the interferon response genes, IFITM3, IFI6 and IRF7. Our results suggest that it is possible to detect gene expression changes in blood samples from individuals with HD, which may reflect the immune pathology associated with the disease.
Hopf algebroids with bijective antipodes: axioms, integrals and duals
Creators: name: B"ohm, Gabriella
name: Szlach'anyi, Korn'el
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W30

description: Motivated by the study of depth 2 Frobenius extensions we introduce a new notion of Hopf algebroid. It is a 2-sided bialgebroid with a bijective antipode which connects the two, left and right handed, structures. While all the interesting examples of the Hopf algebroid of J.H. Lu turn out to be Hopf algebroids in the sense of this paper, there exist simple examples showing that our definition is not a special case of Lu's. Our Hopf algebroids, however, belong to the class of $\times_L$-Hopf algebras proposed by P. Schauenburg. After discussing the axioms and some examples we study the theory of non-degenerate integrals in order to obtain duals of Hopf algebroids.
description: 31 pages LaTeX2e file
Four Years in Review: Statistical Practices of Likert Scales in Human-Robot Interaction Studies
Creators: name: Schrum, Mariah L.
name: Johnson, Michael
name: Ghuy, Muyleng
name: Gombolay, Matthew C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As robots become more prevalent, the importance of the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) grows accordingly. As such, we should endeavor to employ the best statistical practices. Likert scales are commonly used metrics in HRI to measure perceptions and attitudes. Due to misinformation or honest mistakes, most HRI researchers do not adopt best practices when analyzing Likert data. We conduct a review of psychometric literature to determine the current standard for Likert scale design and analysis. Next, we conduct a survey of four years of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2016 through 2019) and report on incorrect statistical practices and design of Likert scales. During these years, only 3 of the 110 papers applied proper statistical testing to correctly-designed Likert scales. Our analysis suggests there are areas for meaningful improvement in the design and testing of Likert scales. Lastly, we provide recommendations to improve the accuracy of conclusions drawn from Likert data.
Raw data and confidence intervals from Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition
Creators: name: Billard, Pauline
name: Schnell, Alexandra K.
name: Clayton, Nicola S.
name: Jozet-Alves, Christelle
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this file you can find the raw data of our experiment (condition 1 & 2 and experiment 2). We included the R code used for our analyses. Pages 1-4. From page 5 to 7, we presented the confidence intervals for each condition.
Daniconema Moravec & Koie 1987
Creators: name: Arai, Hisao P.
name: Smith, John W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Spirurida
Daniconematidae
Daniconema

description: Daniconema Moravec & Køie, 1987
Generic diagnosis (after Moravec 2013). Daniconematidae. Body thread-like, head bluntly rounded, with pair of large dome-shaped forwardly directed papillae (cephalic elevations); there are also eight external paired papillae (two ventro-ventral, two latero-ventral, two dorso-lateral, two dorso-dorsal) and pair of lateral amphids (Fig. 27 A). Buccal capsule absent. Oesophagus muscular. Oesophageal gland highly developed, very long, extending posteriorly along intestine. Nerve ring encircling oesophagus in its anterior half, with excretory pore slightly below nerve ring level. Male tail long, lacking caudal alae; four pairs pre-cloacal and five pairs post-cloacal papillae. Spicules, gubernaculum or sclerotized copulatory plate absent; common cloacal duct opening on lobular genital projection. Female with functional anus. Female tail conical with rounded tip. Most of female body filled with uterus containing larvae. Vulva in anterior part of body. Monodelphic. Viviparous. Parasites of eels.
Type and apparently only species D. anguillae Moravec & Køie, 1987.
description: Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530
Feasibility and Safety of Bilateral Hybrid EEG/EOG Brain/Neural–Machine Interaction
Creators: name: Nann, Marius
name: Peekhaus, Niels
name: Angerhöfer, Cornelius
name: Soekadar, Surjo R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: bilateral exoskeleton control
subject: bimanual tasks
subject: EEG
subject: EOG
subject: brain-computer interface
subject: BCI
subject: brain-machine (computer) interface
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Cervical spinal cord injuries (SCIs) often lead to loss of motor function in both hands and legs, limiting autonomy and quality of life. While it was shown that unilateral hand function can be restored after SCI using a hybrid electroencephalography/electrooculography (EEG/EOG) brain/neural hand exoskeleton (B/NHE), it remained unclear whether such hybrid paradigm also could be used for operating two hand exoskeletons, e.g., in the context of bimanual tasks such as eating with fork and knife. To test whether EEG/EOG signals allow for fluent and reliable as well as safe and user-friendly bilateral B/NHE control, eight healthy participants (six females, mean age 24.1 +/- 3.2 years) as well as four chronic tetraplegics (four males, mean age 51.8 +/- 15.2 years) performed a complex sequence of EEG-controlled bilateral grasping and EOG-controlled releasing motions of two exoskeletons visually presented on a screen. A novel EOG command performed by prolonged horizontal eye movements (>1 s) to the left or right was introduced as a reliable switch to activate either the left or right exoskeleton. Fluent EEG control was defined as average "time to initialize" (TTI) grasping motions below 3 s. Reliable EEG control was assumed when classification accuracy exceeded 80%. Safety was defined as "time to stop" (TTS) all unintended grasping motions within 2 s. After the experiment, tetraplegics were asked to rate the user-friendliness of bilateral B/NHE control using Likert scales. Average TTI and accuracy of EEG-controlled operations ranged at 2.14 +/- 0.66 s and 85.89 +/- 15.81% across healthy participants and at 1.90 +/- 0.97 s and 81.25 +/- 16.99% across tetraplegics. Except for one tetraplegic, all participants met the safety requirements. With 88 +/- 11% of the maximum achievable score, tetraplegics rated the control paradigm as user-friendly and reliable. These results suggest that hybrid EEG/EOG B/NHE control of two assistive devices is feasible and safe, paving the way to test this paradigm in larger clinical trials performing bimanual tasks in everyday life environments.
Cephalotes pallidus De Andrade 1999
Creators: name: DE ALBUQUERQUE, EMÍLIA ZOPPAS
name: PRADO, LÍVIA PIRES DO
name: ANDRADE-SILVA, JOUDELLYS
name: DE SIQUEIRA, EMELY LAIARA SILVA
name: DA SILVA SAMPAIO, KELLY LIANE
name: ALVES, DIEGO
name: BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO FERREIRA
name: ANDRADE, PALOMA L.
name: FEITOSA, RODRIGO MACHADO
name: DE AZEVEDO KOCH, ELMO BORGES
name: DELABIE, JACQUES HUBERT CHARLES
name: FERNANDES, ITANNA
name: BACCARO, FABRÍCIO BEGGIATO
name: SOUZA, JORGE LUIZ PEREIRA
name: ALMEIDA, RONY PETERSON SANTOS
name: SILVA, ROGÉRIO R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cephalotes
Cephalotes pallidus

description: Cephalotes pallidus De Andrade, 1999 *. Novo Repartimento [CPDC]; Primavera [MPEG].
 Cephalotes palustris De Andrade, 1999. Municipality unavailable [de Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999]; Belém [MZSP; de Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999]; Mojuí dos Campos [de Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999]; Oriximiná [INPA]; Paragominas [MZSP].
 Cephalotes pavonii (Latreille, 1809). Municipality unavailable [de Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999]; Altamira [MZSP]; Goianésia do Pará [CPDC]; Parauapebas [MZSP]; Santarém [INPA; Vasconcelos et al., 2006]; São Félix do Xingu [MPEG].
description: Published as part of DE ALBUQUERQUE, EMÍLIA ZOPPAS, PRADO, LÍVIA PIRES DO, ANDRADE-SILVA, JOUDELLYS, DE SIQUEIRA, EMELY LAIARA SILVA, DA SILVA SAMPAIO, KELLY LIANE, ALVES, DIEGO, BRANDÃO, CARLOS ROBERTO FERREIRA, ANDRADE, PALOMA L., FEITOSA, RODRIGO MACHADO, DE AZEVEDO KOCH, ELMO BORGES, DELABIE, JACQUES HUBERT CHARLES, FERNANDES, ITANNA, BACCARO, FABRÍCIO BEGGIATO, SOUZA, JORGE LUIZ PEREIRA, ALMEIDA, RONY PETERSON SANTOS & SILVA, ROGÉRIO R., 2021, Ants of the State of Pará, Brazil: a historical and comprehensive dataset of a key biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon Basin, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 5001 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5001.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122523
Distributional Transformation Improves Decoding Accuracy When Predicting Chronological Age From Structural MRI
Creators: name: Soch, Joram
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: chronological age
subject: structural MRI
subject: prediction
subject: decoding
subject: machine learning
subject: structural neuroimaging
subject: distributional transformation
subject: continuous variables
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: When predicting a certain subject-level variable (e.g., age in years) from measured biological data (e.g., structural MRI scans), the decoding algorithm does not always preserve the distribution of the variable to predict. In such a situation, distributional transformation (DT), i.e., mapping the predicted values to the variable's distribution in the training data, might improve decoding accuracy. Here, we tested the potential of DT within the 2019 Predictive Analytics Competition (PAC) which aimed at predicting chronological age of adult human subjects from structural MRI data. In a low-dimensional setting, i.e., with less features than observations, we applied multiple linear regression, support vector regression and deep neural networks for out-of-sample prediction of subject age. We found that (i) when the number of features is low, no method outperforms linear regression; and (ii) except when using deep regression, distributional transformation increases decoding performance, reducing the mean absolute error (MAE) by about half a year. We conclude that DT can be advantageous when predicting variables that are non-controlled, but have an underlying distribution in healthy or diseased populations.
Quantum turbulence decay
Creators: name: Kivotides, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a computational model of quantum turbulence decay employing a kinematic prescription for the normal fluid. We find that after an initial transient, the length of the vortex tangle L decreases and for large times obeys a scaling law with a -0.45 exponent. The average magnitude (along the quantized vortices) of the superfluid and line-vortex velocity are close and differ significantly from the average magnitude of the normal fluid velocity.
description: to appear in Phys. Lett. A
A Turing Test for Crowds
Creators: name: Webster, Jamie
name: Amos, Martyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The realism and believability of crowd simulations underpins computational studies of human collective behaviour, with implications for urban design, policing, security and many other areas. Realism concerns the closeness of the fit between a simulation and observed data, and believability concerns the human perception of plausibility. In this paper, we ask two questions, via a so-called "Turing Test" for crowds: (1) Can human observers distinguish between real and simulated crowds, and (2) Can human observers identify real crowds versus simulated crowds? In a study with student volunteers (n=384), we find convincing evidence that non-specialist individuals are able to reliably distinguish between real and simulated crowds. A rather more surprising result is that such individuals are overwhelmingly unable to identify real crowds. That is, they can tell real from simulated crowds, but are unable to say which is which. Our main conclusion is that (to the lay-person, at least) realistic crowds are not believable (and vice versa).
description: Submitted
Quantitative Multi-Parameter Mapping Optimized for the Clinical Routine
Creators: name: Cooper, Graham
name: Hirsch, Sebastian
name: Scheel, Michael
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Finke, Carsten
name: Boehm-Sturm, Philipp
name: Hetzer, Stefan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: quantitative multi-parameter mapping
subject: intra-subject reliability
subject: Gibb's ringing
subject: quantitative MRI
subject: signal-to-noise-ratio
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Using quantitative multi-parameter mapping (MPM), studies can investigate clinically relevant microstructural changes with high reliability over time and across subjects and sites. However, long acquisition times (20 min for the standard 1-mm isotropic protocol) limit its translational potential. This study aimed to evaluate the sensitivity gain of a fast 1.6-mm isotropic MPM protocol including post-processing optimized for longitudinal clinical studies. 6 healthy volunteers (35 +/- 7 years old; 3 female) were scanned at 3T to acquire the following whole-brain MPM maps with 1.6 mm isotropic resolution: proton density (PD), magnetization transfer saturation (MT), longitudinal relaxation rate (R1), and transverse relaxation rate (R2*). MPM maps were generated using two RF transmit field (B1+) correction methods: (1) using an acquired B1+ map and (2) using a data-driven approach. Maps were generated with and without Gibb's ringing correction. The intra-/inter-subject coefficient of variation (CoV) of all maps in the gray and white matter, as well as in all anatomical regions of a fine-grained brain atlas, were compared between the different post-processing methods using Student's t-test. The intra-subject stability of the 1.6-mm MPM protocol is 2-3 times higher than for the standard 1-mm sequence and can be achieved in less than half the scan duration. Intra-subject variability for all four maps in white matter ranged from 1.2-5.3% and in gray matter from 1.8 to 9.2%. Bias-field correction using an acquired B1+ map significantly improved intra-subject variability of PD and R1 in the gray (42%) and white matter (54%) and correcting the raw images for the effect of Gibb's ringing further improved intra-subject variability in all maps in the gray (11%) and white matter (10%). Combining Gibb's ringing correction and bias field correction using acquired B1+ maps provides excellent stability of the 7-min MPM sequence with 1.6 mm resolution suitable for the clinical routine.
Daniconema anguillae Moravec & Koie 1987
Creators: name: Arai, Hisao P.
name: Smith, John W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Spirurida
Daniconematidae
Daniconema
Daniconema anguillae

description: Daniconema anguillae Moravec & Køie 1987
Description (after Moravec 2013). With characteristics of the genus. Fine, thread-like worms with slightly striated cuticle. Head papillae and absence of buccal capsule as described above for the genus. Junction of muscular oesophagus and intestine somewhat submerged into oesophageal gland (Fig. 27 B). Position of nerve ring and excretory pore as described above for genus. Deirids not observed. Intestine a fine narrow tube. Gravid females two to three times longer than males.
Males: 7.48–8.81 long; maximum width 0.041–0.051. Cephalic elevations 0.006 high. Muscular oesophagus 0.501–0.540, and oesophageal gland 2.04–2.96 long. Nerve ring and excretory pore 0.210–0.219 and 0.233–0.243 respectively from anterior end. Anterior end of testis near end of oesophageal gland. Caudal end spirally coiled; caudal alae absent. Four pairs pre-cloacal papillae, all subventral; five pairs post-cloacal papillae, four subventral and one lateral (Fig. 27 C). Spicules, gubernaculum and sclerotized plate absent. Common cloacal duct opening on peculiar large, lobular genital projection. Tail conical, sharply pointed, 0.114–0.141 long (Fig. 27 C).
Females: Gravid worms 16.82–31.17 long; maximum width 0.081–0.095. Muscular oesophagus 0.666–0.680, and oesophageal gland 2.68–2.70 long. Nerve ring and excretory pore 0.270–0.381 and 0.299–0.408 respectively from anterior end. Anus functional. Tail conical, rounded tip, 0.144–0.162 long. Monodelphic. Posterior end of ovary reaches tail. Uterus very long, occupies much of body, contains eggs, developing embryos and fully formed larvae about 0.5 long. Vulva well developed, 0.830–0.966 from anterior end. Narrow, thin-walled vagina extending anteriorly from uterus along most of length of oesophageal gland; ovijector oval in shape.
Site: swim bladder
Host: Anguilla rostrata
Distribution: Atlantic, Nova Scotia
Records: Marcogliese & Cone 1996 (NS); Marcogliese & Cone 1998 (AT)
description: Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530