cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Material from Variability in electrophysiological properties and conducting obstacles controls re-entry risk in heterogeneous ischaemic tissue
Creators: name: Lawson, Brodie A. J.
name: Oliveira, Rafael S.
name: Berg, Lucas A.
name: Silva, Pedro A. A.
name: Burrage, Kevin
name: Santos, Rodrigo Weber Dos
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 60699 Physiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ischaemia, in which inadequate blood supply compromises and eventually kills regions of cardiac tissue, can cause many types of arrhythmia, some life-threatening. A significant component of this is the effects of the resulting hypoxia, and concomitant hyperkalemia and acidosis, on the electrophysiological properties of myocytes. Clinical and experimental data have also shown that regions of structural heterogeneity (fibrosis, necrosis, fibro-fatty infiltration) can act as triggers for arrhythmias under acute ischaemic conditions. Mechanistic models have successfully captured these effects in silico. However, the relative significance of these separate facets of the condition, and how sensitive arrhythmic risk is to the extents of each, is far less explored. In this work, we use partitioned Gaussian process emulation and new metrics for source-sink mismatch that rely on simulations of bifurcating cardiac fibres to interrogate a model of heterogeneous ischaemic tissue. Re-entries were most sensitive to the level of hypoxia and the fraction of non-excitable tissue. In addition, our results reveal both protective and pro-arrhythmic effects of hyperkalemia, and present the levels of hyperkalemia, hypoxia and percentage of non-excitable tissue that pose the highest arrhythmic risks.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Uncertainty quantification in cardiac and cardiovascular modelling and simulation’.
FERTILIZER TRIALS ON SELECTED ROOT CROPS IN ST. VINCENT
ESSAIS DE FERTILISATION SUR DES CULTURES DE TUBERCULES SELECTIONNES A SAINT VINCENT
Creators: name: Orban, Catherine M.
name: Matadial, Walter
name: Orban, Catherine M.
name: Matadial, Walter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Fertilizer trials were conducted on four different root crops ; (two spices, turmeric and ginger, and two food crops, eddoes and sweet potatoes) in a variety of agro-climatic ecozones and soil types in St. Vincent. A single crop was planted in each of the 20"x20' crop demonstration plots, which were divided into four 10"x10' sub-plots. ">he sub-plots were treated with the following N:P:K dressings : 18:18:5,16:18:24, and 16:8:24. The fourth subplot received no fertilizer. In each demonstration plot, a pre-planting composite soil sample was tested for pH and the following nutrients : nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Post-harvest soil samples were taken from each separate sub-plot, and underwent the same testing procedures as the composite samples. Results indicated that one of the fertilizer blends consistently produced the greatest yields for any single crop or soil type. However, the sub-plot with no fertilizer produced the poortest yields in most cases. The second round of fertilizer trials is due to begin in May, 1989, and will include the same root crops and fertilizer blends on a greater variety of demonstration plots. ----- Des essais de fertilisation ont été conduits sur quatre cultures de tubercules différents (deux épices, safran des Indes et gingembre, et deux cultures vivrières «madère» et patate douce), dans diverses zones agro-climatiques et sur divers types de sols de Saint Vincent. Chaque plante a été implantée sur une parcelle de démonstration de 20 χ 20 pieds, elle-même subdivisée en quatre sous-parcelles de 10 χ 10 pieds. Les sous-parcelles ont reçu les traitements Ν,Ρ,Κ suivants : 18:18:5, 16:18:24, et 16:8:24. La quatrième sous-parcelle n'a pas reçu de fertilisation. Dans chaque parcelle de démonstration, un échantillon moyen de sol a été prélevé avant plantation pour analyser le pH et les éléments nutritifs suivants : azote, phosphore, potassium, calcium et magnésium. Des échantillons de sols ont été prélevés dans les différentes sous-parcelles, et ont subi les mêmes analyses que les échantillons moyens. Les résultats indiquent qu'aucun des traitements fertilisants ne permet d'aboutir à un rendement significativement plus élevé, quelle que soit la plante ou le type de sol. Cependant, la sous-parcelle non fertilisée fournit le rendement le plus faible dans beaucoup de cas. La seconde campagne d'essais de fertilisation doit commencer en mai 1989, et doit concerner les mêmes plantes et les mêmes traitements defertilisation, sur une plus grande variété de parcelles de démonstration.
Covid-19 risk factors: statistical learning from German healthcare claims data
Creators: name: Jucknewitz, Roland
name: Weidinger, Oliver
name: Schramm, Anja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Precise individual risk quantification of severe courses of Covid-19 is needed to prioritize protective measures and to assess population risks in a phase of increased immunization. So far, results for the German population are lacking. Furthermore, existing studies pre-specify comorbidity risks by broad categories rather than deriving them from the data using statistical learning techniques. Risk factors for severe, critical and lethal courses of Covid-19 are identified from a large German claims dataset covering more than 4 million individuals. To avoid prior grouping and pre-selection of risk factors, fine-grained hierarchical information from medical classification systems for diagnoses, pharmaceuticals and procedures are used, resulting in more than 33,000 covariates. These are processed using a LASSO approach. We identify relevant risk factors, among which hypertensive diseases, heart disease and the corresponding medications are most relevant at population level. Prior use of diuretics is the strongest single medical predictor for severe course (e.g. Torasemide, odds ratio (OR) 1.801), but also for a critical course (OR 2.304) and death (OR 2.523). To assess risk profiles at the individual level, our approach sums up many such factors and has better predictive ability than using pre-specified morbidity groups (AUC for predicting critical course 0.875 versus AUC ≤ 0.865). The proposed method can help to identify risk factors and assess risk at the individual level for other infectious diseases. The results can be used by administrative data holders to guide protective policies, while a risk index can be applied in clinical studies with a narrower focus.
Composite Fermions and the Fermion-Chern-Simons Theory
Creators: name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of composite fermions, and the related Fermion-Chern-Simons theory, have been powerful tools for understanding quantum Hall systems with a partially full lowest Landau level. We shall review some of the successes of the Fermion-Chern-Simons theory, as well as some limitations and outstanding issues.
description: 13 pages, including 2 figures. Invited talk at International Symposium, Quantum Hall Effect: Past, Present and Future, Stuttgart, July 2003. Proceedings to appear in Physica E
Activating Hidden Teleportation Power: Theory and Experiment
Creators: name: Li, Jyun-Yi
name: Fang, Xiao-Xu
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Tabia, Gelo Noel M.
name: Lu, He
name: Liang, Yeong-Cherng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ideal quantum teleportation transfers an unknown quantum state intact from one party Alice to the other Bob via the use of a maximally entangled state and the communication of classical information. If Alice and Bob do not share entanglement, the maximal average fidelity between the state to be teleported and the state received, according to a classical measure-and-prepare scheme, is upper bounded by a function $f_{\mathrm{c}}$ that is inversely proportional to the Hilbert space dimension. In fact, even if they share entanglement, the so-called teleportation fidelity may still be less than the classical threshold $f_{\mathrm{c}}$. For two-qubit entangled states, conditioned on a successful local filtering, the teleportation fidelity can always be activated, i.e., boosted beyond $f_{\mathrm{c}}$. Here, for all dimensions larger than two, we show that the teleportation power hidden in a subset of entangled two-qudit Werner states can also be activated. In addition, we show that an entire family of two-qudit rank-deficient states violates the reduction criterion of separability, and thus their teleportation power is either above the classical threshold or can be activated. Using hybrid entanglement prepared in photon pairs, we also provide the first proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of the activation of teleportation power hidden in this latter family of qubit states. The connection between the possibility of activating hidden teleportation power with the closely-related problem of entanglement distillation is discussed.
description: 6 + 12 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables. v3 virtually the same as the published version
Proposal of a Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy-PI Controller Hardware
Creators: name: Silva, Sérgio N.
name: Lopes, Felipe F.
name: Valderrama, Carlos
name: Fernandes, Marcelo A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This work proposes dedicated hardware for an intelligent control system on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The intelligent system is represented as Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy-PI controller. The implementation uses a fully parallel strategy associated with a hybrid bit format scheme (fixed-point and other floating-point). Two hardware designs are proposed; the first one uses a single clock cycle processing architecture, and the other uses a pipeline scheme. The bit accuracy was tested by simulation with a non linear control system of a robotic manipulator. The area, throughput, and dynamic power consumption of the implemented hardware are used to validate and compare the results of this proposal. The results achieved allow that the proposal hardware can use in several applications with high-throughput, low-power and ultra-low-latency restrictions such as teleportation of robot manipulators, tactile internet, industrial automation in industry 4.0, and others.
description: 34 pages, 24 figures and 9 tables
qualitative research documentation
Creators: name: Biely, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: qualitative research, interviews, focus group, workshop, sugar beet, Flanders, informed consent

description: The documents in these folders represent part of the qualitative data collection documentation. Research has been performed in Flanders (Belgium) in 2016 and 2017. Involved stakehodlers were flemish sugar beet farmers, processors as well as other value chain members. Though, the main stakeholders involved were farmers. The raw data cannot be published. Anonymized interview transcripts and focus group transcripts exist. However, as indicated in the informed consent, farmers did not agree to the raw data being published. The codes that resulted from data analysis are in this folder. Interview questions differed slightly from farmer to farmer as follow up questions may have been posed if needed. First interviews were performed, then focus groups were conducted and finally a workshop was organized. The qualitative reserach followed the research strategy and plan determined by the SUFISA project. On the project webpage (https://www.sufisa.eu/) more information can be found.
Geometry of Yang--Baxter maps: pencils of conics and quadrirational mappings
Creators: name: Adler, V. E.
name: Bobenko, A. I.
name: Suris, Yu. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Birational Yang-Baxter maps (`set-theoretical solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation') are considered. A birational map $(x,y)\mapsto(u,v)$ is called quadrirational, if its graph is also a graph of a birational map $(x,v)\mapsto(u,y)$. We obtain a classification of quadrirational maps on $\CP^1\times\CP^1$, and show that all of them satisfy the Yang-Baxter equation. These maps possess a nice geometric interpretation in terms of linear pencil of conics, the Yang-Baxter property being interpreted as a new incidence theorem of the projective geometry of conics.
description: LaTeX, 40pp, 3 Figs
Physiological Response and Transcriptome Analysis of Cotton Leaves under Low temperature Stress at the Two-leaf Stage
Creators: name: WANG Xiaoman
name: ZENG Jianbing
name: WANG Qiongshan
name: XIA Songbo
name: WANG Xiaogang
name: ZHANG Jiaohai
name: ZHANG Youchang
name: BIE Shu
name: WANG Xiaoman
name: ZENG Jianbing
name: WANG Qiongshan
name: XIA Songbo
name: WANG Xiaogang
name: ZHANG Jiaohai
name: ZHANG Youchang
name: BIE Shu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cotton leaf, Physiological response, Transcriptome, Gene expression, Low temperature stress

description: [Objectives] To investigate the effect of low temperature treatment on cotton leaves at the two-leaf stage. [Methods] Two cotton varieties (CN01 and SJB016 (low temperature-tolerant)) were used as the trial materials. They were treated at 25 (CK) and 12 ℃ (low temperature) for 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 h, respectively. Then, the changes in the contents of MDA, SS and Pro in the cotton leaves were analyzed. Based on the analysis results, RNA-seq verification was performed. [Results] The MDA, SS and Pro contents of CN01 and SJB016 treated at 12 ℃increased compared with those treated at 25 ℃. After low temperature treatment, the increases of MDA and Pro contents were smaller, and the increase of SS content was larger in SJB016 compared with those in CN01. Considering the above-mentioned indices comprehensively, the changes in the cotton leaves that were treated at 12 ℃ for 6 h were most obvious, so RNA-seq was performed on them. Compared to those treated at 25 ℃, the expression of photosynthesis-related genes in CN01 treated at 12 ℃ all up-regulated, and the expression of photosystem II oxygen-evolving complexes (PsdP, PsdQ) in SJB016 treated at 12 ℃ all down-regulated. The number of up-regulated differentially expressed genes related to plant hormones in CN01 and SJB016 was larger than that of down-regulated genes. Among them, the ethylene-responsive transcription factors ERF053, ERF020 and ERF061 up-regulated significantly. [Conclusions] These genes may play an important role in improving the cold resistance of cotton.
The Dynamic Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen Productivity Indicator With An Application To Dairy Farms In South West England
Creators: name: Ang, Frederic
name: Kerstens, Pieter Jan
name: Ang, Frederic
name: Kerstens, Pieter Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen indicator
subject: productivity growth
subject: adjustment cost
subject: additive completeness

description: Abstract. This paper introduces a dynamic Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen (LHM) productivity indicator that takes into account the adjustment costs of changing the level of quasi-fixed capital inputs. Being additively complete in the dynamic sense, the LHM indicator is decomposed into contributions of outputs, variable inputs and investments in dynamic factors. Moreover, we decompose the LHM indicator into technical change, technical inefficiency change and scale ineffi-ciency change using an investment-, output- and input-direction. Employing a nonparametric framework, the empirical application focuses on the dairy sector in South West England over the period 2001 − 2014.
Revisiting modular symmetry in magnetized torus and orbifold compactifications
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Shota
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Takada, Shintaro
name: Tatsuishi, Takuya H.
name: Uchida, Hikaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the modular symmetry in $T^2$ and orbifold comfactifications with magnetic fluxes. There are $|M|$ zero-modes on $T^2$ with the magnetic flux $M$. Their wavefunctions as well as massive modes behave as modular forms of weight $1/2$ and represent the double covering group of $Γ\equiv SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$, $\widetildeΓ \equiv \widetilde{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. Each wavefunction on $T^2$ with the magnetic flux $M$ transforms under $\widetildeΓ(2|M|)$, which is the normal subgroup of $\widetilde{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. Then, $|M|$ zero-modes are representations of the quotient group $\widetildeΓ'_{2|M|} \equiv \widetildeΓ/\widetildeΓ(2|M|)$. We also study the modular symmetry on twisted and shifted orbifolds $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_N$. Wavefunctions are decomposed into smaller representations by eigenvalues of twist and shift. They provide us with reduction of reducible representations on $T^2$.
description: 29 pages
Dealing With Corner Solutions In Multi-crop Microeconometric Models: An Endogenous Switching Regime Approach With Regime Fixed Costs
Creators: name: Koutchade, Obafèmi Philippe
name: Carpentier, Alain
name: Feminia, Fabienne
name: Koutchade, Obafèmi Philippe
name: Carpentier, Alain
name: Feminia, Fabienne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: corner solutions
subject: endogenous regime switching models
subject: agricultural production choices

description: We propose an Endogenous Regime Switching model specifically designed for modelling acreage choices with corner solutions featuring regime fixed costs. Contrary to models based on censored regression systems, this model is fully coherent from an economic point of view, by construction. To illustrate its empirical tractability, we estimate a random parameter version of this model for a panel dataset of French arable crop producers. Our results show that the model fits well the data, the regime fixed cost matter, and that the decision to produce a crop or not play a major role in the acreage responses to economic incentives.
Projects Exchange 2021: Platforms #1
Creators: name: Levett, Kerry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: platforms, virtual labs, research infrastructure, ARDC, projects exchange

description: The ARDC 2021 Projects Exchange showcased the 41 ARDC co-investment projects that commenced in 2021. This session presents projects in the Platforms program, which aims to increase the number of researchers with access to platforms, both in terms of absolute number and in terms of diversity of disciplines. Platforms are “a set of online services, often with associated integration and/or orchestration functions and connections to specific data resources, that is intended to enable researchers to carry out some of their research activities”. Platforms are also called virtual research environments or virtual laboratories. This presentation includes: AgReFed: A platform for the transformation of agricultural research - Helen Thompson (Federation University, Victoria) Global Multi-Resolution Topography for Australian coastal and ocean models - Kim Picard (Geoscience Australia) Geodynamic ADjoint Optimization PlaTform - Rhodri Davies (ANU) Open EcoAcoustics: A Platform to Manage, Share and Analyse EcoAcoustic Data - Paul Roe (QUT) Transforming Australian aquatic ecosystem monitoring using AI (FishID) - Rod Connolly (Griffith) Biosecurity Commons - Intelligently Managing our Pests and Diseases - Aaron Dodd (UniMelb) Scientific workflow system for environmental health impact assessments - Ivan Hanigan (U Syd) The Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform - Chris Pettit (UNSW) The video recording of this session can be viewed on ARDC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Fy7kkpcVo
Solution of the Kwiecinski evolution equations for unintegrated parton distributions using the Mellin transform
Creators: name: Arriola, Enrique Ruiz
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kwiecinski equations for the QCD evolution of the unintegrated parton distributions in the transverse-coordinate space (b) are analyzed with the help of the Mellin-transform method. The equations are solved numerically in the general case, as well as in a small-b expansion which converges fast for b Lambda_QCD sufficiently small. We also discuss the asymptotic limit of large bQ and show that the distributions generated by the evolution decrease with b according to a power law. Numerical results are presented for the pion distributions with a simple valence-like initial condition at the low scale, following from chiral large-N_c quark models. We use two models: the Spectral Quark Model and the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Formal aspects of the equations, such as the analytic form of the b-dependent anomalous dimensions, their analytic structure, as well as the limits of unintegrated parton densities at x -> 0, x -> 1, and at large b, are discussed in detail. The effect of spreading of the transverse momentum with the increasing scale is confirmed, with growing asymptotically as Q^2 alpha(Q^2). Approximate formulas for for each parton species is given, which may be used in practical applications.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX
Progress of Intelligent Monitoring Technology for Wheat Fusarium Head Blight
Creators: name: SUN Qixun
name: SUN Qixun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Wheat, Fusarium head blight, Hazard, Intelligent monitoring

description: Fusarium head blight is one of the most important diseases affecting wheat yield and quality. It is of great significance to carry out intelligent monitoring of wheat Fusarium head blight for high yield, high quality and sustainable development of wheat. On the basis of identifying the harms of wheat Fusarium head blight, this paper analyzed the monitoring technology of wheat Fusarium head blight based on satellite remote sensing, hyperspectral, near-infrared, Internet of things and photoelectric system, to provide a reference for the intelligent monitoring of wheat Fusarium head blight.
182W and HSE constraints from 2.7 Ga komatiites on the heterogeneous nature of the Archean mantle
Creators: name: Puchtel, Igor S
name: Blichert-Toft, Janne
name: Touboul, Mathieu
name: Walker, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Year: 2018
Subjects: 182Hf-182W; 187Re-187Os; 176Lu-176Hf; 146,147Sm-142,143Nd; Highly siderophile elements; Abitibi greenstone belt; Boston Creek; Komatiite; Stochastic late accretion; Mantle mixing

description: While the isotopically heterogeneous nature of the terrestrial mantle has long been established, the origin, scale, and longevity of the heterogeneities for different elements and isotopic systems are still debated. Here, we report Nd, Hf, W, and Os isotopic and highly siderophile element (HSE) abundance data for the Boston Creek komatiitic basalt lava flow (BCF) in the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada. This lava flow is characterized by strong depletions in Al and heavy rare earth elements (REE), enrichments in light REE, and initial epsilon143Nd = +2.5 ± 0.2 and initial epsilon176Hf = +4.2 ± 0.9 indicative of derivation from a deep mantle source with time-integrated suprachondritic Sm/Nd and Lu/Hf ratios. The data plot on the terrestrial Nd-Hf array suggesting minimal involvement of early magma ocean processes in the fractionation of lithophile trace elements in the mantle source. This conclusion is supported by a mean mu142Nd = -3.8 ± 2.8 that is unresolvable from terrestrial standards. By contrast, the BCF exhibits a positive 182W anomaly (mu182W = +11.7 ± 4.5), yet is characterized by chondritic initial gamma187Os = +0.1 ± 0.3 and low inferred source HSE abundances (35 ± 5% of those estimated for the present-day Bulk Silicate Earth, BSE). Collectively, these characteristics are unique among Archean komatiite systems studied so far. The deficit in the HSE, coupled with the chondritic Os isotopic composition, but a positive 182W anomaly, are best explained by derivation of the parental BCF magma from a mantle domain characterized by a predominance of HSE-deficient, differentiated late accreted material. According to the model presented here, the mantle domain that gave rise to the BCF received only ~35% of the present-day HSE complement in the BSE before becoming isolated from the rest of the convecting mantle until the time of komatiite emplacement at 2.72 Ga. These new data provide strong evidence for a highly heterogeneous Archean mantle in terms of absolute HSE abundances and W isotopic composition, and also indicate slow mixing, on a timescale of at least 1.8 billion years. Additionally, the data are consistent with a stagnant-lid plate tectonic regime in the Hadean and Archean, prior to the onset of modern-style plate tectonics.
Supplementary Material - Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages
Creators: name: Cédrique L. Solofondranohatra
name: Vorontsova, Maria S.
name: Hempson, Gareth P.
name: Hackel, Jan
name: Cable, Stuart
name: Jeannoda Vololoniaina
name: Lehmann, Caroline E. R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Figures 1 – 4, Tables 1 – 3
Phricotelphusa ALCOCK 1909
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Lee, Patrick K. Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Gecarcinucidae
Phricotelphusa

description: Phricotelphusa Alcock, 1909
  Type species.  — Telphusa callianira De Man, 1887, by original designation; gender feminine.
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L. & Lee, Patrick K. Y., 2012, On A New Species Of Phricotelphusa Alcock, 1909, From A Limestone Cave In Perlis, Peninsular Malaysia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), pp. 461-465 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (2) on page 461, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4509283
Supplementary document for Orchestrating time and color: a programmable source of high-dimensional entanglement - 7168858.pdf
Creators: name: Serino, Laura
name: Ridder, Werner
name: Bhattacharjee, Abhinandan
name: Lopez, Jano Gil
name: Brecht, Benjamin
name: Silberhorn, Christine
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
title: Applying optogenetics in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
Creators: name: Forbes, Liam
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2025

description: Cyanobacteria can be utilised in biotechnology as environmentally sustainable cell machines to convert CO2 into a diverse range of biochemicals. However, a lack of molecular tools available for precise and dynamic control of gene expression hinders metabolic engineering and often contributes to low product titres. Optogenetic tools enable light-regulated control of gene expression with high tunability and reversibility, though their application in cyanobacteria species with high industrial potential is limited. In this study, two different optogenetic systems were characterised in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, applications for metabolic engineering were tested, and a transcriptomics study was performed to pinpoint novel optogenetic tools. Firstly, the green/red lightresponsive CcaS/CcaR optogenetic system originating from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was expressed in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and performance was monitored by measuring its regulation of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). Characterisation of activation and deactivation was performed under a range of different light wavelengths and intensities using both fluorescence spectrometry and qRT-PCR. The performance of the CcaS/CcaR system was further improved by making targeted genetic modifications to the pCpcG2 output promoter. Secondly, the blue light-regulated YF1/FixJ optogenetic system of noncyanobacterial origin was expressed in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. The system demonstrated poor performance with minimal increase in system output in response to blue light or darkness. To evaluate the use of optogenetics for metabolic engineering, the optimised CcaS/CcaR system was tested for lightcontrolled heterologous production of mannitol and L-alanine. While the former was successful, the latter failed despite careful troubleshooting. Finally, to identify new potential optogenetic tools from Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, RNA sequencing was used to identify genes differentially expressed in blue and orange light. A variety of genes were identified, including transcriptional regulators and kinases which could have roles in wavelength-specific signalling pathways. Overall, this work lays a critical foundation for the use of optogenetics to increase control over metabolic pathways and improve the production of commercially valuable compounds in an industrially promising cyanobacteria species.
Supplementary Figure 1 from Mitral valve leaflet response to ischemic mitral regurgitation: from gene expression to tissue remodelling
Creators: name: Howsmon, Daniel P.
name: Rego, Bruno V.
name: Castillero, Estibaliz
name: Ayoub, Salma
name: Khalighi, Amir H.
name: Gorman, Robert C.
name: Gorman, Joseph H.
name: Ferrari, Giovanni
name: Sacks, Michael S.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Full biaxial mechanical testing results and model fits for representative specimens (A) pre-MI and (B) 8 weeks post-MI.
Cellular Automata Models of Road Traffic
Creators: name: Maerivoet, Sven
name: De Moor, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we give an elaborate and understandable review of traffic cellular automata (TCA) models, which are a class of computationally efficient microscopic traffic flow models. TCA models arise from the physics discipline of statistical mechanics, having the goal of reproducing the correct macroscopic behaviour based on a minimal description of microscopic interactions. After giving an overview of cellular automata (CA) models, their background and physical setup, we introduce the mathematical notations, show how to perform measurements on a TCA model's lattice of cells, as well as how to convert these quantities into real-world units and vice versa. The majority of this paper then relays an extensive account of the behavioural aspects of several TCA models encountered in literature. Already, several reviews of TCA models exist, but none of them consider all the models exclusively from the behavioural point of view. In this respect, our overview fills this void, as it focusses on the behaviour of the TCA models, by means of time-space and phase-space diagrams, and histograms showing the distributions of vehicles' speeds, space, and time gaps. In the report, we subsequently give a concise overview of TCA models that are employed in a multi-lane setting, and some of the TCA models used to describe city traffic as a two-dimensional grid of cells, or as a road network with explicitly modelled intersections. The final part of the paper illustrates some of the more common analytical approximations to single-cell TCA models.
description: Accepted for publication in "Physics Reports". A version of this paper with high-quality images can be found at: http://phdsven.dyns.cx (go to "Papers written")
The Impact Of Pollution Abatement Investments On Production Technology: New Insights From Frontier Analysis
Creators: name: Simioni, Michel
name: Huiban, Jean Pierre
name: Mastromarco, Camilla
name: Musolesi, Antonio
name: Simioni, Michel
name: Huiban, Jean Pierre
name: Mastromarco, Camilla
name: Musolesi, Antonio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Pollution
subject: Porter Hypothesis
subject: Food Processing Industry
subject: Frontier analysis
subject: Non and semiparametric econometrics

description: This paper estimates the impact of pollution abatement investments on the production technology of firms by pursuing two new directions. First, we take advantage of recent econometric developments in productivity and eciency analysis and compare the results obtained with two complementary approaches: parametric stochastic frontier analysis and conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. Second, we focus not only on the average eect but also on its heterogeneity across rms and over time and search for potential nonlinearities. We provide new results suggesting that such an eect is heterogeneous both within rms and over time and indicating that the eect of pollution abatement investments on the production process is not monotonic. These results have relevant implications both for modeling and for the purposes of advice on environmentally friendly policy.
ИНТЕРНЕТ ТАРМОҚЛАРИ ОРҚАЛИ СОДИР ЭТИЛАЁТГАН ЖИНОЯТЛАРНИ ФОШ ЭТИШ МЕТОДИКАСИНИ ТАКОМИЛЛАШТИРИШГА ОИД МУЛОҲАЗАЛАР
Creators: name: Маджидов, Абдумалик
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Сўнгги йилларда мамлакатимизда “рақамли иқтисодиёт”ни ривожлантириш ва телекоммуникация соҳаси тараққиётига алоҳида эътибор қаратилмоқда. Хусусан, аҳолини сифатли телекоммуникация ва интернет хизматлари билан таъминлаш мақсадида тизимли ишлар олиб борилмоқда.
Projects Exchange 2021: Platforms #2
Creators: name: Levett, Kerry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: platforms, virtual labs, research infrastructure, ARDC, projects exchange

description: The ARDC 2021 Projects Exchange showcased the 41 ARDC co-investment projects that commenced in 2021. This session presents projects in the Platforms program, which aims to increase the number of researchers with access to platforms, both in terms of absolute number and in terms of diversity of disciplines. Platforms are “a set of online services, often with associated integration and/or orchestration functions and connections to specific data resources, that is intended to enable researchers to carry out some of their research activities”. Platforms are also called virtual research environments or virtual laboratories. This presentation includes: Global technologies and standards for sharing human genomics research data - Bernie Pope (Australian BioCommons) Australian Cancer Data Network: distributed learning from clinical data - Tim Churches (Ingham Institute / UNSW) Australian Electrophysiology Data Analytics PlaTform (AEDAPT) - Tom Johnstone (Swinburne) Scalable Governance, Control & Management of FAIR Sensitive Research Data - Anitha Kannan (Monash) Australian Text Analytics Platform - Michael Haugh (UQ) - Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia 2.0 - Bill Pascoe (U Newcastle) Australian Digital Observatory: Infrastructure for Dynamic Digital Data - Marissa Takahashi (QUT) The video recording of this session can be viewed on ARDC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6B2OJ8V1w
Elamenopsis A. Milne Edwards 1873
Creators: name: Naruse, Tohru
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Hymenosomatidae
Elamenopsis

description: Key to the species of Elamenopsis A. Milne Edwards, 1873
1. Dorsal rim of carapace subrectangular, width to length ratio more than 1.36; anterior lateral margin without tooth or angle.... 2
– Dorsal rim of carapace subcircular, width to length ratio 1.19– 1.20; anterior lateral margin with 2 teeth or one angle....... 3
 2. Rostrum slightly bilobed to subtruncate in dorsal view, appears broadly triangular shape in frontal view; merus of third maxilliped as long as ischium; male fourth and fifth abdominal segments completely fused; G1 slender, distal parts gently tapering from stouter proximal part................................................................. Elamenopsis lineata A. Milne Edwards, 1873
 – Rostrum distinctly triangular in dorsal view, appears relatively narrow between eyes in frontal view; merus of third maxilliped distinctly longer than ischium; all male abdominal segments freely articulating; G1 stout, distal part distinctly stouter than more slender proximal part.................................................................................... Elamenopsis comosa Ng & Chuang, 1996
 3. Anterolateral margin with 2 teeth, former tooth directed perpendicularly upwards; lateral lobes of rostrum distinct, similar to former anterolateral tooth; first to third ambulatory legs stout.................................... Elamenopsis ariakensis (Sakai, 1969)
 – Anterolateral margin with 1 angle which is formed by thickened rim with anterior notch; lateral lobes of rostrum present but very low; first to third ambulatory legs slender........................................................................ Elamenopsis rotunda, new species
description: Published as part of Naruse, Tohru & Ng, Peter K. L., 2007, On A New Species Of Elamenopsis From Singapore, With Notes On Crustaenia Palawanensis (Serène, 1971) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), pp. 121-125 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 122, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4508905
The New Normal: Online Classes and Assessments during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Creators: name: Wahid, Rizwana
name: Farooq, Oveesa
name: Aziz, Ahtisham
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: The current quantitative research paper intends to examine the experience and opinion of students and teachers on online teaching and assessment during the COVID-19 outbreak. Online classes have substituted face-to-face classes. Both students and teachers are experiencing the new normal in the pandemic. This study attempts to investigate students' and teachers’ experiences and opinions about virtual learning and testing. For this, two sets (one for students and other for teachers) of questionnaires were formulated to collect data. Each set of questionnaires had three sections; first about demographic information of the participants, second (variables, 1-9) about online classes and third (variables, 10-18) about online assessments. 150 subjects (90 students and 60 teachers) participated from five countries: Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, England and Canada. SPSS was used to analyze the data statistically. The results showed that both students and teachers were ready to imply online teaching as it is the need of the hour and future, but they did not find online teaching and assessment to be of high quality as that of face-to-face learning during the COVID-19 period. Moreover, the findings of the study did not exhibit much significant difference between teachers' and students’ experience and opinions towards online classes and assessment across all five countries. Furthermore, the study offers some implications based on the findings. The researchers see that blended learning might be the future of education. It would maintain the quality of learning and prepare educational institutions and teachers to meet any challenge in this unpredictable world.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 2 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Regular Issue N. 2/2021
Assessing performance of animal welfare organizations to improve philanthropic decision-making
Creators: name: McConnachie, Leanne Katherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In 2005-06, 24 Canadian and American animal welfare organizations (AWOs) and foundations participated in an in-depth qualitative study to establish which performance criteria best determine the effectiveness of AWOs. Participants' comments resulted in the development of a framework that offers individual donors and foundations a consistent approach to evaluating organizational performance. Termed the PREP Framework, this approach categorizes performance into four key pillars, each with its own components and criteria: 1. Philosophy - the organization's beliefs and values, as reflected in its mandate, position statements, policies and practices; 2. Red Flags - indicators of problems in the organization, such as excessive personnel turnover, disproportionate management salaries, high administration and fundraising costs, lack of peer collaboration, poor financial statements; 3. Efficiencies - financial and operational conduct of the organization, including long term strategic planning, financial credibility and sustainability; and 4. People - abilities of those involved with the organization, including management, volunteers, peers, donors and board members. The study also explored the pros and cons of standardizing performance evaluation and found that many participants felt the sector would benefit from the use of more quantitative and qualitative benchmarks and standards to establish sector norms and trends. In addition, the research examined the sector's familiarity with outcome measurement and found most participants struggled to clearly define outcomes for the sector. This may suggest the sector would also gain from consultation on how to establish objectives within an outcome evaluation framework. Finally, the study investigated how funding strategies of foundations often are at odds with AWO needs and priorities. Participants identified conflicts concerning funding of: 1. short-term vs. long-term projects; 2. innovative vs. proven projects; 3. many, small grants vs. fewer, large grants; 4. new vs. established organizations; 5. emotional appeal vs. practical needs; and 6. no-kill vs. open-admission shelters. Participants provided ideas on where funding could be applied to make the most impact and achieve mutual goals for both AWOs and foundations. The findings and recommendations of this study may enable AWOs to better identify and manage their objectives while enabling donors and foundations to better assess AWO performance and outcomes to improve philanthropic decision-making.
The impact of online instruction integrated with Brain Based Teaching to EFL Students with Different Motivation Level
Creators: name: Rukminingsih, -
name: Mujiyanto, Januarius
name: Nurkamto, Joko
name: Hartono, Rudi
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: In the Covid 19 pandemic, teachers and students have to implement the distance education by using online learning. It creates new obstacles for them but also stimulates potential methods for teaching and learning process to meet the digital era. This study investigated the difference effect of implementing online instruction integrated with brain-based teaching (BBT) approach as an experimental group. A quantitative research design with factorial 2 x2 was applied, then two classes involving each 33 students for experimental group and 30 students for a control group of a private college in Indonesia were chosen as the sample. The instruments used were a questionnaire and a test. Two-way ANOVA was applied to analyze the data. The findings showed that (1) There was distinct impact between experimental class and control class in students’ reading achievement, (2) The achievements of the students in the Reading course with high motivation were higher than those with low motivation., (3) There was an interaction between teaching strategies and the level of students’ motivation in EFL reading achievement. These findings also can stimulate teachers to teach brain-based teaching approach with online instruction to students to enhance their motivation in reading. have to integrate BBT with technology support for the meaningful learning Further research and development on different brain-based teaching approaches is suggested. These findings can encourage teachers to teach EFL learners in brain-based approach integrated with online instruction with the purpose of improving their motivation for reading.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 2 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Regular Issue N. 2/2021
Beef feedlot cattle use individual feeding strategies to gain access to feed in a competitive environment
Creators: name: Zobel, Gosia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Cattle are social animals and frequently interact with other members of their social group, especially when access to food is limited. Despite considerable interest in the social behavior of cattle, no research has focused on assessing the relationship between competition and the feeding behavior of individual feedlot cattle housed in small groups. Forty-five British crossbred feedlot heifers (520.5 ± 32 kg BW) were used to determine how successful competitive interactions impacted an individual's ability to consume and gain access to feed in a competitive feeding environment. Heifers were randomly assigned to 3 pens of 15 animals. Pens were fitted with two radio frequency equipped feed tubs that monitored individual dry matter intake and bunk attendance duration. Cattle were fed a total mixed ration once daily consisting of barley silage, concentrate and mineral supplement at 0900, 1200 and 1500 and had ad libitum access to both feed and water. All competitive interactions at and around the feed tubs were monitored continuously from 0900 to 2200 on three separate days. Animals were considered successful if they either gained access to feed, or if they were already eating, they maintained their position. There was a positive relationship between the number of successful interactions displayed and dry matter intake (R² = 0.26, P = 0.0003), bunk attendance duration, (R² 0.45, P < 0.0001) and bunk attendance frequency (R² = 0.49, P < 0.0001). The strength of these relationships varied dramatically throughout the day and was strongest in the first hour after feed delivery between 0900 and 1000. Large variation between individuals suggests that different animals develop individual feeding strategies in competitive environments. Animals used competition, varied eating rate, and shifted feeding times to access feed. Although this study suggests that the success of an animal in competitive interactions at the feedbunk plays a role in its ability to access and consume feed, individual behavioral differences also play a significant role.
Recombination of Shower Partons at High $p_T$ in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Hwa, Rudolph C.
name: Yang, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formalism for hadron production at high \pt in heavy-ion collisions has been developed such that all partons hadronize by recombination. The fragmentation of a hard parton is accounted for by the recombination of shower partons that it creates. Such shower partons can also recombine with the thermal partons to form particles that dominate over all other possible modes of hadronization in the $3
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