cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoran
name: Skourtanioti, Eirini
name: Benz, Marion
name: Gresky, Julia
name: Ilgner, Jana
name: Lucas, Mary
name: Morsch, Michael
name: Peters, Joris
name: Pollath, Nadja
name: Ringbauer, Harald
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neolithization
subject: Near East
subject: δ18O and δ13C isotopes
subject: 87Sr/86Sr
subject: ancient DNA
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: Growing reliance on animal and plant domestication in the Near East and beyond during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (the ninth to eighth millennium BC) has often been associated with a “revolutionary” social transformation from mobility toward more sedentary lifestyles. We are able to yield nuanced insights into the process of the Neolithization in the Near East based on a bioarchaeological approach integrating isotopic and archaeogenetic analyses on the bone remains recovered from Nevalı Çori, a site occupied from the early PPNB in Turkey where some of the earliest evidence of animal and plant domestication emerged, and from Ba'ja, a typical late PPNB site in Jordan. In addition, we present the archaeological sequence of Nevalı Çori together with newly generated radiocarbon dates. Our results are based on strontium (87Sr/86Sr), carbon, and oxygen (δ18O and δ13Ccarb) isotopic analyses conducted on 28 human and 29 animal individuals from the site of Nevalı Çori. 87Sr/86Sr results indicate mobility and connection with the contemporaneous surrounding sites during the earlier PPNB prior to an apparent decline in this mobility at a time of growing reliance on domesticates. Genome-wide data from six human individuals from Nevalı Çori and Ba'ja demonstrate a diverse gene pool at Nevalı Çori that supports connectedness within the Fertile Crescent during the earlier phases of Neolithization and evidence of consanguineous union in the PPNB Ba'ja and the Iron Age Nevalı Çori.
title: Pour bien réussir le revêtement d'étanchéité, dans les garages de stationnement
Creators: name: Mailvaganam, N. P.
name: Collins, P. G.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Institut de recherche en construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Parking garages
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1150
subject: Garages de stationnement
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1150
subject: waterproofing
subject: application factors
subject: durability

description: Cet article montre comment la préparation du support, les conditions ambiantes et les modalités de mise en oeuvre influent sur la performance de la membrane qui recouvre la dalle de béton, dans certains garages de stationnement.
description: This Update discusses how the preparation of the substrate, prevailing ambient conditions and application practices affect the performance of membrane systems installed on concrete decks in parking garages.
title: Influence des croisillons sur la performance des vitrages isolants
Creators: name: Elmahdy, A. H.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Institut de recherche en construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0392
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0392

description: Muntin bars are the strips of, say, aluminum or vinyl, that are inserted between the sheets of glass of an insulating glass unit (IGU) -- to give the Colonial look. It comes with a price: reduced R-value and reduced interior glass surface temperature, hence reduced condensation resistance of an IGU, all because the muntin bars cause thermal bridging. Furthermore, under ultraviolet radiation, they also cause fogging, i.e., volatile materials evaporate and then condense on the glass. This is not to imply that an IGU should go without muntin bars, because there are ways of avoiding possible problems.
description: Bandes d'aluminium ou de vinyle, les croisillons sont insérés entre les feuilles de verre d'un vitrage isolant (V.I.) pour donner un air colonial. Mais cette décoration n'est pas sans conséquences : valeur Rf et température de surface de la vitre intérieure réduites, d'où une résistance à la condensation réduite également, les croisillons jouant le rôle de pont thermique. Qui plus est, sous l'effet des rayons ultraviolets, il peut y avoir formation de buée due au dégagement de matières organiques volatiles et à leur condensation sur la vitre. Il existe cependant des façons de remédier à ces problèmes éventuels et le vitrage à croisillons ne doit pas obligatoirement être rejeté.
title: Coaching in Konvergenz von Supervision, Psychotherapie und Seelsorge: Multiperspektivische Beratung für lebenserfahrene Menschen
Creators: name: Spangehl, Peter
Publisher: name: Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Kempten
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 15 Psychologie
subject: 33 Wirtschaft

description: Diese Masterarbeit zum Abschluss des Studiengangs Supervision, Organisationsberatung und Coaching an der Hochschule Kempten stellt die gängigen informellen Beratungsverfahren samt therapeutischer Methoden zur sinnvollen Lebensgestaltung älterer Menschen zusammen und geht den drei Fragen nach: Wie kann im Spektrum der Altersstufen von Klienten ein bruchfreier Übergang von Coaching zu Seelsorge geschehen? Wo beginnt eigentlich Veränderung? Welchen Beitrag kann die Weisheit der Wüstenväter zu gelingender Beratung leisten? Eine Antwort auf die erste Frage wird in der Analytischen Psychologie C. G. Jungs gefunden, die Antwort auf die zweite Frage geht von der Theorie U nach C. O. Scharmer aus und untersucht für die Phase des Presencing verschiedene Hoffnungskonzepte, während für die Antwort auf die dritte Frage die Lebensbeschreibungen und Aphorismen von Wüstenvätern betrachtet werden. Die Arbeit erstellt ein umfassendes Beratungskonzept mit dem Ziel der Teilhabe im Alter und einem guten Gelingen der höheren Lebensjahre.
Additional file 2 of Neuroanatomical regions associated with non-progressive dysarthria post-stroke: a systematic review
Creators: name: Summaka, Marwa
name: Hannoun, Salem
name: Harati, Hayat
name: Daoud, Rama
name: Zein, Hiba
name: Estephan, Elias
name: Naim, Ibrahim
name: Nasser, Zeina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Prevalence of Parvovirus B19 Viremia Among German Blood Donations and the Relationship to ABO and Rhesus Blood Group Antigens
Creators: name: Healy, Katie
name: Aulin, Linda B. S.
name: Freij, Urban
name: Ellerstad, Marie
name: Brückle, Lena
name: Hillmering, Helen
name: Svae, Tor-Einar
name: Broliden, Kristina
name: Gustafsson, Rasmus
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ABO
subject: b19V
subject: blood donations
subject: blood group
subject: rhesus
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::614 Inzidenz und Prävention von Krankheiten

description: Background Asymptomatic blood donors can transmit human parvovirus B19 (B19V). Methods We assessed the B19V prevalence among a large cohort of blood donations collected in Germany during 2015–2018. Results In total, 167 123 donations were screened for B19V deoxyribonucleic acid with 22 cases of viremia identified (0.013% positive). Infections peaked at a 4-year interval and the highest number of cases occurred in the summer months. All 22 infections were found in rhesus D-antigen-positive donations, suggesting a protective factor in donors who lack this antigen. Conclusions These findings contribute to our understanding of risk factors for B19V infection among central European blood and plasma donors.
Measurement-Assisted Quantum Communication in Spin Channels with Dephasing
Creators: name: Bayat, Abolfazl
name: Omar, Yasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a protocol for countering the effects of dephasing in quantum state transfer over a noisy spin channel weakly coupled to the sender and receiver qubits. Our protocol, based on performing regular global measurements on the channel, significantly suppresses the nocuous environmental effects and offers much higher fidelities than the traditional no-measurement approach. Our proposal can also operate as a robust two-qubit entangling gate over distant spins. Our scheme counters any source of dephasing, including those for which the well established dynamical decoupling approach fails. Our protocol is probabilistic, given the intrinsic randomness in quantum measurements, but its success probability can be maximized by adequately tuning the rate of the measurements.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Basic concepts of mixture toxicity and relevance for risk evaluation and regulation
Creators: name: Bloch, Denise
name: Diel, Patrick
name: Epe, Bernd
name: Hellwig, Michael
name: Lampen, Alfonso
name: Mally, Angela
name: Marko, Doris
name: Villar Fernández, María A.
name: Guth, Sabine
name: Landsiedel, Robert
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: mixture toxicity
subject: risk evaluation
subject: regulation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Exposure to multiple substances is a challenge for risk evaluation. Currently, there is an ongoing debate if generic “mixture assessment/allocation factors” (MAF) should be introduced to increase public health protection. Here, we explore concepts of mixture toxicity and the potential influence of mixture regulation concepts for human health protection. Based on this analysis, we provide recommendations for research and risk assessment. One of the concepts of mixture toxicity is additivity. Substances may act additively by affecting the same molecular mechanism within a common target cell, for example, dioxin-like substances. In a second concept, an “enhancer substance” may act by increasing the target site concentration and aggravating the adverse effect of a “driver substance”. For both concepts, adequate risk management of individual substances can reliably prevent adverse effects to humans. Furthermore, we discuss the hypothesis that the large number of substances to which humans are exposed at very low and individually safe doses may interact to cause adverse effects. This commentary identifies knowledge gaps, such as the lack of a comprehensive overview of substances regulated under different silos, including food, environmentally and occupationally relevant substances, the absence of reliable human exposure data and the missing accessibility of ratios of current human exposure to threshold values, which are considered safe for individual substances. Moreover, a comprehensive overview of the molecular mechanisms and most susceptible target cells is required. We conclude that, currently, there is no scientific evidence supporting the need for a generic MAF. Rather, we recommend taking more specific measures, which focus on compounds with relatively small ratios between human exposure and doses, at which adverse effects can be expected.
On the Use of Covariate Supersets for Identification Conditions
Creators: name: Westreich, D.
name: Zivich, P.N.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Shook-Sa, B.E.
name: Edwards, J.K.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2022

description: The union of distinct covariate sets, or the superset, is often used in proofs for the identification or the statistical consistency of an estimator when multiple sources of bias are present. However, the use of a superset can obscure important nuances. Here, we provide two illustrative examples: one in the context of missing data on outcomes, and one in which the average causal effect is transported to another target population. As these examples demonstrate, the use of supersets may indicate a parameter is not identifiable when the parameter is indeed identified. Furthermore, a series of exchangeability conditions may lead to successively weaker conditions. Future work on approaches to address multiple biases can avoid these pitfalls by considering the more general case of nonoverlapping covariate sets.
Information entropy of classical versus explosive percolation
Creators: name: Vieira, T. M.
name: Viswanathan, G. M.
name: da Silva, L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Shannon entropy of the cluster size distribution in classical as well as explosive percolation, in order to estimate the uncertainty in the sizes of randomly chosen clusters. At the critical point the cluster size distribution is a power-law, i.e. there are clusters of all sizes, so one expects the information entropy to attain a maximum. As expected, our results show that the entropy attains a maximum at this point for classical percolation. Surprisingly, for explosive percolation the maximum entropy does not match the critical point. Moreover, we show that it is possible determine the critical point without using the conventional order parameter, just analysing the entropy's derivatives.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
title: Designing exterior walls according to the rainscreen principle
Creators: name: Brown, W. C.
name: Chown, G. A.
name: Poirier, G. F.
name: Rousseau, M. Z.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Rainscreen walls
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC03821
subject: Murs à écran pare-pluie
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC03821

description: According to the rainscreen principle, the first line of defence minimizes rainwater passage toward a wall, while the second line deals with water that gets past the first. The design characteristics of both lines of defence must take into account the given environmental conditions. For the first line of defence that means reducing the moisture loads, having a watertight facade, and managing the forces (gravity, capillarity, etc.) that drive water through possible holes in the cladding. For the second line of defence, it means intercepting free and bound water and dissipating it.
description: Selon le principe de l'écran pare-pluie, un premier niveau de protection permet de minimiser l'infiltration de la pluie, tandis qu'un second intercepte toute l'eau qui a franchi le premier niveau. Les caractéristiques conceptuelles de ces deux niveaux de protection doivent prendre en compte les conditions environnementales données. Pour le premier niveau, cela signifie réduire la charge d'humidité, avoir une façade étanche à l'eau et contrôler l'effet des forces (gravité, capillarité, etc.) qui drainent l'eau par les orifices éventuels dans le revêtement. Au second niveau, il faut intercepter l'eau gravitaire et l'eau liée, puis l'évacuer.
Estimating Associations Between Annual Concentrations of Particulate Matter and Mortality in the United States, Using Data Linkage and Bayesian Maximum Entropy
Creators: name: Whitsel, E.A.
name: Rudolph, J.E.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Richardson, D.B.
name: Serre, M.L.
name: Edwards, J.K.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2022

description: Background: Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is an established risk factor for human mortality. However, previous US studies have been limited to select cities or regions or to population subsets (e.g., older adults). Methods: Here, we demonstrate how to use the novel geostatistical method Bayesian maximum entropy to obtain estimates of PM2.5 concentrations in all contiguous US counties, 2000–2016. We then demonstrate how one could use these estimates in a traditional epidemiologic analysis examining the association between PM2.5 and rates of all-cause, cardiovascular, respiratory, and (as a negative control outcome) accidental mortality. Results: We estimated that, for a 1 log(μg/m3) increase in PM2.5 concentration, the conditional all-cause mortality incidence rate ratio (IRR) was 1.029 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.006, 1.053). This implies that the rate of all-cause mortality at 10 µg/m3 would be 1.020 times the rate at 5 µg/m3. IRRs were larger for cardiovascular mortality than for all-cause mortality in all gender and race–ethnicity groups. We observed larger IRRs for all-cause, nonaccidental, and respiratory mortality in Black non-Hispanic Americans than White non-Hispanic Americans. However, our negative control analysis indicated the possibility for unmeasured confounding. Conclusion: We used a novel method that allowed us to estimate PM2.5 concentrations in all contiguous US counties and obtained estimates of the association between PM2.5 and mortality comparable to previous studies. Our analysis provides one example of how Bayesian maximum entropy could be used in epidemiologic analyses; future work could explore other ways to use this approach to inform important public health questions.
Lifecourse Traumatic Events and Cognitive Aging in the Health and Retirement Study
Creators: name: Maselko, J.
name: Aiello, A.E.
name: Yang, Y.C.
name: Stebbins, R.C.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Plassman, B.L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Much of the heterogeneity in the rate of cognitive decline and the age of dementia onset remains unexplained, and there is compelling data supporting psychosocial stressors as important risk factors. However, the literature has yet to come to a consensus on whether there is a causal relationship and, if there is, its direction and strength. This study estimates the relationship between lifecourse traumatic events and cognitive trajectories and predicted dementia incidence. Methods: Using data on 7,785 participants aged ≥65 years from the Health and Retirement Study, this study estimated the association between lifecourse experience of 10 traumatic events (e.g., losing a child) and trajectories of Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status from 2006 to 2016 using linear mixed-effects models and predicted incident dementia from 2006 to 2014 using cumulative incidence functions (data analysis was in 2020–2022). Inverse probability weights accounted for loss to follow-up and confounding by sex, education, race/ethnicity, and age. Results: Experiencing 1 or more traumatic events over the lifecourse was associated with accelerated decline compared with experiencing no events (e.g., β= −0.05 [95% CI= −0.07, −0.02] Health and Retirement Study-Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status units/year; 1 vs 0 events). In contrast, experiencing traumatic events was associated with better cognitive function cross-sectionally. Furthermore, the impact of trauma on cognitive decline was of greater magnitude when it occurred after the age of 64 years. However, the magnitude and direction of association varied by the specific traumatic event. There were no associations with predicted incident dementia. Conclusions: These results suggest that researchers and clinicians should not aggregate traumatic events for understanding the risk of accelerated cognitive decline.
title: Controlling the transmission of impact sound through floors
Creators: name: Warnock, A. C. C.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Floors
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0841
subject: Planchers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0841

description: It is bad enough not being invited to the party upstairs; worse yet is having to endure the sound of stiletto-heeled shoes keeping time to up-tempo music. Something can be done, however, to reduce such annoying impact noise from above. That something entails the installation of either an impact-absorbing, i.e., resilient, layer on the floor such as a carpet, or a floating floor. Increasing the thickness of the concrete slab can also improve the impact insulation. It is a matter of impact insulation increasing with an increase in mass. That applies just as much to the gypsum board ceiling suspended resiliently from a concrete slab. Overall, the control of impact noise differs greatly from that of airborne noise.
description: C'est déjà assez vexant de ne pas avoir été invité à la fête qui se donne à l'étage au dessus mais c'est encore pire d'avoir à endurer le claquement rythmé des talons aiguilles au-dessus de sa tête. Il y a moyen de remédier à ce désagrément cependant : on peut installer soit une couche amortissante, un revêtement de sol résilient, par exemple, tel qu'un tapis, soit un plancher flottant. Augmenter l'épaisseur de la dalle de béton peut aussi améliorer l'isolement des bruits d'impact : plus la masse augmente, plus l'isolement des bruits d'impact augmentera. En suspendant la sous-face en plaques de plâtre d'un plancher en béton à l'aide de profilés souples, on peut aussi améliorer l'isolement. D'une façon générale, les techniques sont différentes pour réduire la transmission des bruits d'impact et réduire celle des bruits aériens.
Biogeochemical and historical drivers of microbial community composition and structure in sediments from Mercer Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica
Creators: name: Davis, Christina B.
name: Venturelli, Ryan R.
name: Michaud, Alexander M.
name: Hawkings, Jon J.
name: Achberger, Amanda E.
name: Vick-Majors, Trista E.
name: Rosenheim, Brad
name: Dore, John L.
name: Steigmeyer, August D.
name: Benning, Liane G.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: microbial community composition
subject: microbial structure
subject: sediments
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Ice streams that flow into Ross Ice Shelf are underlain by water-saturated sediments, a dynamic hydrological system, and subglacial lakes that intermittently discharge water downstream across grounding zones of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). A 2.06 m composite sediment profile was recently recovered from Mercer Subglacial Lake, a 15 m deep water cavity beneath a 1087 m thick portion of the Mercer Ice Stream. We examined microbial abundances, used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to assess community structures, and characterized extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) associated with distinct lithologic units in the sediments. Bacterial and archaeal communities in the surficial sediments are more abundant and diverse, with significantly different compositions from those found deeper in the sediment column. The most abundant taxa are related to chemolithoautotrophs capable of oxidizing reduced nitrogen, sulfur, and iron compounds with oxygen, nitrate, or iron. Concentrations of dissolved methane and total organic carbon together with water content in the sediments are the strongest predictors of taxon and community composition. δ¹³C values for EPS (−25 to −30‰) are consistent with the primary source of carbon for biosynthesis originating from legacy marine organic matter. Comparison of communities to those in lake sediments under an adjacent ice stream (Whillans Subglacial Lake) and near its grounding zone provide seminal evidence for a subglacial metacommunity that is biogeochemically and evolutionarily linked through ice sheet dynamics and the transport of microbes, water, and sediments beneath WAIS.
Multi-Scale Stochastic Simulation for Diffusive Molecular Communication
Creators: name: Noel, Adam
name: Cheung, Karen C.
name: Schober, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, hybrid models have emerged that combine microscopic and mesoscopic regimes in a single stochastic reaction-diffusion simulation. Microscopic simulations track every individual molecule and are generally more accurate. Mesoscopic simulations partition the environment into subvolumes, track when molecules move between adjacent subvolumes, and are generally more computationally efficient. In this paper, we present the foundation of a multi-scale stochastic simulator from the perspective of molecular communication, for both mesoscopic and hybrid models, where we emphasize simulation accuracy at the receiver and efficiency in regions that are far from the communication link. Our multi-scale models use subvolumes of different sizes, between which we derive the diffusion event transition rate. Simulation results compare the accuracy and efficiency of traditional approaches with that of a regular hybrid method and with those of our proposed multi-scale methods.
description: 7 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures. Will be presented at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in June 2015
Second-generation protoplanetary discs around evolved binaries: a high-resolution polarimetric view with SPHERE/IRDIS
Creators: name: Andrych, Kateryna
name: Kamath, Devika
name: Kluska, Jacques
name: Van Winckel, Hans
name: Ertel, Steve
name: Corporaal, Akke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars are products of a poorly understood binary interaction process that occurs during the AGB phase. These systems comprise of a post-AGB primary star, a main-sequence secondary companion and a stable circumbinary disc. Studying the structure and properties of these circumbinary discs is crucial for gaining insight into the binary interaction process that governs post-AGB binaries as well as comprehending the disc's creation, evolution, and its interaction with the post-AGB binary system. We aim to use near-infrared polarimetric imaging to investigate the morphology and potential substructures of circumbinary discs around eight representative post-AGB binary stars. To achieve this, we performed polarimetric differential imaging in H and Y bands using the high-angular resolution capabilities of the European Southern Observatory-Very Large Telescope/SPHERE-Infra-Red Dual-beam Imaging and Spectroscopy instrument. We resolved the extended circumbinary disc structure for a diverse sample of eight post-AGB binary systems. Our analysis provided the first estimates of the disc scale-height for two of the systems: IW Car and IRAS 15469-5311. We also investigated the morphological differences between the full discs (with the inner rim at the dust sublimation radius) and transition discs (which are expected to have larger inner cavities), as well as similarities to protoplanetary disks around young stellar objects. We found that the transition discs displayed a more intricate and asymmetric configuration. Surprisingly, no correlation was found between the over-resolved flux in near-IR interferometric data and the polarimetric observations, suggesting that scattering of light on the disc surface may not be the primary cause of the observed over-resolved flux component.
Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children
Creators: name: Morfopoulou, Sofia
name: Buddle, Sarah
name: Torres Montaguth, Oscar Enrique
name: Atkinson, Laura
name: Guerra-Assunção, José Afonso
name: Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi
name: Zennezini Chiozzi, Riccardo
name: Storey, Nathaniel
name: Kaufer, Benedikt B.
name: Reich, Jana
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical microbiology
subject: Paediatric research
subject: hepatitis
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Since its first identification in Scotland, over 1,000 cases of unexplained paediatric hepatitis in children have been reported worldwide, including 278 cases in the UK1. Here we report an investigation of 38 cases, 66 age-matched immunocompetent controls and 21 immunocompromised comparator participants, using a combination of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and immunohistochemical methods. We detected high levels of adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2) DNA in the liver, blood, plasma or stool from 27 of 28 cases. We found low levels of adenovirus (HAdV) and human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B) in 23 of 31 and 16 of 23, respectively, of the cases tested. By contrast, AAV2 was infrequently detected and at low titre in the blood or the liver from control children with HAdV, even when profoundly immunosuppressed. AAV2, HAdV and HHV-6 phylogeny excluded the emergence of novel strains in cases. Histological analyses of explanted livers showed enrichment for T cells and B lineage cells. Proteomic comparison of liver tissue from cases and healthy controls identified increased expression of HLA class 2, immunoglobulin variable regions and complement proteins. HAdV and AAV2 proteins were not detected in the livers. Instead, we identified AAV2 DNA complexes reflecting both HAdV-mediated and HHV-6B-mediated replication. We hypothesize that high levels of abnormal AAV2 replication products aided by HAdV and, in severe cases, HHV-6B may have triggered immune-mediated hepatic disease in genetically and immunologically predisposed children.
Proximitized insulators from disordered superconductors
Creators: name: Haim, Moshe
name: Dentelski, David
name: Frydman, Aviad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental study of bilayers of a disordered Ag metal layer close to the metal-insulator transition and an Indium Oxide film which is on the insulating side of the superconductor-insulator-transition. Our results show that superconducting fluctuations within the indium-oxide film, that proximitize the underlying metal layer, induce insulating rather than superconducting behavior. This is ascribed to suppression of density of states (due to the superconducting energy gap) for quasiparticles in the proximitized regions. Our results present a novel manifestation of the proximity effect phenomenon and provide important insight into the nature of the insulating phase of the disorder driven superconductor-insulator-transition.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Performance of thermal insulation on the exterior of basement walls
Creators: name: Swinton, M. C.
name: Bomberg, M. T.
name: Kumaran, M. K.
name: Normandin, N.
name: Maref, W.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Fibre
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0351
subject: Fibre
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0351

description: Exterior basement insulation matters most in heat-loss control and groundwater management. In an IRC study, all products tested, whether EPS, spray-polyurethane foam (SPF) or mineral-fibre board, performed more or less equally well from a thermal standpoint. And that regardless of water movement recorded at the outer face of the insulation. In no case did water reach the foundation wall, and where SPF was used, even the footing remained dry. Adjacent insulation boards must be tightly installed beside one another to stave off any ingress of water at the joints. Care must also be taken to avoid thermal bridges, which can erode thermal performance.
description: L'intérêt d'une isolation extérieure des sous-sols réside dans le fait qu'elle offre un contrôle du transfert thermique et une maîtrise des eaux souterraines. Dans une étude menée par l'IRC, tous les produits testés, polystyrène expansé (EPS), mousse de polyuréthane projetée (MPP) ou panneau de fibres minérales, ont affiché une performance thermique plus ou moins identique, indépendamment des mouvements d'eau enregistrés sur la face extérieure des isolants. L'eau n'a jamais atteint le mur de fondation et même, dans le cas de l'utilisation de MPP, la semelle est restée sèche. Les panneaux isolants adjacents doivent être très bien ajustés côte à côte pour empêcher toute pénétration d'eau au niveau des joints. Un soin particulier sera apporté pour éviter de créer des ponts thermiques pouvant entraver la performance thermique.
Choice of Outcome in COVID-19 Studies and Implications for Policy: Mortality and Fatality
Creators: name: Tennant, P.W.G.
name: Murray, E.J.
name: Westreich, D.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Van Smeden, M.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: In this brief communication, we discuss the confusion of mortality with fatality in the interpretation of evidence in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and how this confusion affects the translation of science into policy and practice. We discuss how this confusion has influenced COVID-19 policy in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and discuss the implications for decision-making about COVID-19 vaccine distribution. We also discuss how this confusion is an example of a more general statistical fallacy we term the "Missing Link Fallacy."
L'intelligence artificielle et le bibliothécaire
Creators: name: Université de Lorraine
name: Université de Strasbourg
name: Université de Haute Alsace
name: Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg
name: GTFU Alsace
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: GTFU Alsace
Compétences informationnelles
Bibliothèque
France
BNU
UHA
Unistra
Université de Lorraine
interdisciplinaire
Intelligence artificielle
IA

description: L'intelligence artificielle et le bibliothécaire

Constitution d'un groupe de travail entre décembre 2023 et juin 2024 réunissant 4 établissements sur la thématique de l’intelligence artificielle et son arrivée à l’université et dans les formations aux compétences informationnelles.

Présentation des productions du groupe de travail sur les 4 thématiques suivantes : 

·   Les IA et l’aide pour la recherche documentaire

·   Avantages et inconvénients des IA

·   La citation de ses sources

·  Trouver et vérifier ses sources
Oases in the Sahara Desert–Linking biological and cultural diversity
Creators: name: Tydecks, Laura
name: Hernández-Agüero, Juan Antonio
name: Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
name: Bremerich, Vanessa
name: Jeschke, Jonathan M.
name: Schütt, Brigitta
name: Zarfl, Christiane
name: Tockner, Klement
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biodiversity
subject: Cultural diversity
subject: Culture
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The diversity of life sensu lato comprises both biological and cultural diversity, described as “biocultural diversity.” Similar to plant and animal species, cultures and languages are threatened by extinction. Since drylands are pivotal systems for nature and people alike, we use oases in the Sahara Desert as model systems for examining spatial patterns and trends of biocultural diversity. We identify both the underlying drivers of biodiversity and the potential proxies that are fundamental for understanding reciprocal linkages between biological and cultural diversity in oases. Using oases in Algeria as an example we test current indices describing and quantifying biocultural diversity and identify their limitations. Finally, we discuss follow-up research questions to better understand the underlying mechanisms that control the coupling and decoupling of biological and cultural diversity in oases.
Additional file 1 of The extracellular matrix alteration, implication in modulation of drug resistance mechanism: friends or foes?
Creators: name: Jurj, Ancuta
name: Ionescu, Calin
name: Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana
name: Braicu, Cornelia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical trials of cancer therapies that target ECM and molecules linked with ECM.
Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in magnetostrictive Fe$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$ thin films
Creators: name: Barturen, M.
name: Milano, J.
name: Vásquez-Mansilla, M.
name: Helman, C.
name: Barral, M. A.
name: Llois, A. M.
name: Eddrief, M.
name: Marangolo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we report the appearence of a large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in Fe$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$ thin films grown onto ZnSe/GaAs(100). This arising anisotropy is related to the tetragonal metastable phase in as-grown samples recently reported [M. Eddrief {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 161410 (2011)]. By means of ferromagnetic resonance studies we measured PMA values up to $\sim$ 5$\times$10$^5$ J/m$^3$. PMA vanishes when the cubic structure is recovered upon annealing at 300$^{\circ}$C. Despite the important values of the magnetoelastic constants measured via the cantilever method, the consequent magnetoelastic contribution to PMA is not enough to explain the observed anisotropy values in the distorted state. {\it Ab initio} calculations show that the chemical ordering plays a crucial role in the appearance of PMA. Through a phenomenological model we are able to explain that an excess of next nearest neighbour Ga pairs (B$_2$-like ordering) along the perpendicular direction arises as the source of PMA in Fe$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$ thin films.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Use of field-applied polyurethane foams in buildings
Creators: name: Bomberg, M. T.
name: Kumaran, M. K.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Cellular plastics (plastic foam)
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Conduites en plastique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Plastic pipe
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1164
subject: Polymères renforcé de fibres (PRF)
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1164
subject: Air and vapour barriers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Pare-vapeur et pare-air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Foam
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352
subject: Mousse
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352

description: Spray-polyurethane foams (SPFs) are thermally efficient and can be sprayed to any thickness to provide the desired thermal resistance. Hence, SPFs have proven themselves as insulation for roofs, walls, ducts and pipes in district heating. They also make good air barriers and vapour retarders. While SPFs may represent an ideal building material, some caveats regarding thermal drift or aging and moisture performance must nevertheless be observed. Designers can mitigate both causes for concern by, among other things, adjusting the thickness of the layer of SPFs to be applied.
description: La mousse de polyuréthane pistolée (MPP) est efficace sur le plan thermique et peut être appliquée en épaisseurs variables de manière à assurer la résistance thermique recherchée. Elle a fait ses preuves comme isolant de toit, de mur, ainsi que de conduits et tuyauterie d'installations de chauffage centralisé. Elle forme aussi de bons pare-air. La MPP peut constituer un matériau de construction idéal, mais il faut prendre garde à certains points, dont la dérive thermique (vieillissement) et la performance hygrométrique de ce type de mousse. Pour remédier en partie à ces problèmes, les concepteurs peuvent notamment faire varier l'épaisseur de la couche de MPP à appliquer.
Globalization, Fertility, and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
Creators: name: Giuntella, Osea
name: Rotunno, Lorenzo
name: Stella, Luca
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Globalization
subject: Labor market outcomes
subject: Fertility
subject: Marriage
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: Declines in marriage and fertility rates in many developed countries have fostered research debate and increasing policy attention. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on fertility and marital behavior in Germany, which was a lowest-low fertility setting until recently. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These effects are driven by low-educated individuals, married men, and full-time workers and reflect changes in the likelihood of having any child (the extensive margin). We find evidence of some fertility postponement and significant effects on completed fertility, but we see little evidence of a significant impact on marital behavior. Our results inform the public debate on fertility rates in settings with lowest-low fertility, such as Germany, during the period under investigation.
title: Thermoplastic polyolefin roofing membranes
Creators: name: Paroli, R. M.
name: Liu, K. K. Y.
name: Simmons, T. R.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Toitures
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370

description: One of the components of a typical low-slope roofing system is the roofing membrane, the sheet that has reinforcing fibres sandwiched between sheets of flexible matrix. Its function is to waterproof the roof. The flexible matrix can be a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO). TPO roofing membranes have numerous advantages: their seams can be heat-welded, they are resistant to heat, UV and chemicals, and they have good cold-temperature flexibility. The breaking strength of the membrane depends heavily on the number of reinforcing fibre bundles across the width of the membrane.
description: Un des éléments d'un système de couverture classique à faible pente est la membrane d'étanchéité, constituée de fibre ou de toile de renforcement insérée entre deux feuilles de matrice souple. Sa fonction est d'assurer l'étanchéité du toit. La matrice souple peut être en polyoléfine thermoplastique (TPO). Ce type de membrane présente plusieurs avantages dont le thermosoudage des raccords, la résistance à la chaleur, aux UV et aux produits chimiques ainsi qu'une bonne souplesse à basse température. La résistance de la membrane à la rupture dépend grandement du nombre de faisceaux de fibres de renforcement dans la largeur de la membrane.
title: Effective installation of membranes on parking garage decks
Creators: name: Mailvaganam, N. P.
name: Collins, P.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Parking garages
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1150
subject: Garages de stationnement
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC1150
subject: waterproofing
subject: application factors
subject: durability

description: Cet article montre comment la préparation du support, les conditions ambiantes et les modalités de mise en oeuvre influent sur la performance de la membrane qui recouvre la dalle de béton, dans certains garages de stationnement.
description: This Update discusses how the preparation of the substrate, prevailing ambient conditions and application practices affect the performance of membrane systems installed on concrete decks in parking garages.
Racial/Ethnic and Age Differences in the Direct and Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on US Mortality
Creators: name: Filiatreau, L.M.
name: Zalla, L.C.
name: Mulholland, G.E.
name: Edwards, J.K.
Publisher: name: American Public Health Association Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Objectives. To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall, race/ ethnicity-specific, and age-specific mortality in 2020 in the United States. Methods. Using surveillance data, we modeled expected mortality, compared it to observed mortality, and estimated the share of "excess" mortality that was indirectly attributable to the pandemic versus directly attributed to COVID-19. We present absolute risks and proportions of total pandemic-related mortality, stratified by race/ethnicity and age. Results. We observed 16.6 excess deaths per 10 000 US population in 2020; 84% were directly attributed to COVID-19. The indirect effects of the pandemic accounted for 16% of excess mortality, with proportions as low as 0% among adults aged 85 years and older and more than 60% among those aged 15 to 44 years. Indirect causes accounted for a higher proportion of excess mortality among racially minoritized groups (e.g., 32% among Black Americans and 23% among Native Americans) compared with White Americans (11%). Conclusions. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and health disparities are underestimated when only deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 are considered. An equitable public health response to the pandemic should also consider its indirect effects on mortality.
Construction and implementation of asymptotic expansions for Jacobi--type orthogonal polynomials
Creators: name: Deaño, Alfredo
name: Huybrechs, Daan
name: Opsomer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: D.3.m; G.1.2; G.4
subject: 26C04 (Primary), 30E10, 33C45, 35Q15, 65D15 (Secondary)

description: We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of orthogonal polynomials of the generalized Jacobi type as their degree $n$ goes to $\infty$. These are defined on the interval $[-1,1]$ with weight function $w(x)=(1-x)^α(1+x)^βh(x)$, $α,β>-1$ and $h(x)$ a real, analytic and strictly positive function on $[-1,1]$. This information is available in the work of Kuijlaars, McLaughlin, Van Assche and Vanlessen, where the authors use the Riemann--Hilbert formulation and the Deift--Zhou non-linear steepest descent method. We show that computing higher-order terms can be simplified, leading to their efficient construction. The resulting asymptotic expansions in every region of the complex plane are implemented both symbolically and numerically, and the code is made publicly available. The main advantage of these expansions is that they lead to increasing accuracy for increasing degree of the polynomials, at a computational cost that is actually independent of the degree. In contrast, the typical use of the recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials in computations leads to a cost that is at least linear in the degree. Furthermore, the expansions may be used to compute Gaussian quadrature rules in $\mathcal{O}(n)$ operations, rather than $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ based on the recurrence relation.
description: 39 pages, 5 figures, 35 references. The article mentioned is arXiv:math/0111252 and the implementation is available on http://nines.cs.kuleuven.be/software/JACOBI/. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10444-015-9442-z
Additional file 1 of Cross-sectional study on the association of periodontitis with arterial hypertension in the Hamburg City Health Study
Creators: name: Könnecke, Henrieke
name: Schnabel, Renate B.
name: Walther, Carolin
name: Lamprecht, Ragna
name: Heydecke, Guido
name: Seedorf, Udo
name: Jagodzinski, Annika
name: Borof, Katrin
name: Zeller, Tanja
name: Beikler, Thomas
name: Smeets, Ralf
name: Gosau, Martin
name: Behrendt, Christian-Alexander
name: Wenzel, Ulrich
name: Börschel, Christin S.
name: Karakas, Mahir
name: Blankenberg, Stefan
name: Aarabi, Ghazal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Sampling flow chart.