cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Experience and acceptability for HPV self-sampling among women in Jiangsu province, China: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Qu, Shui-Xiang
name: Ni, Yi-Hua
name: Qin, Jian-Fen
name: Chen, Xiao-Yan
name: Wu, Wei-Li
name: Zhang, Wei-Chu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology

description: This aim of this study was to investigate women’s knowledge about HPV along with their experience and acceptability of self-sampling in Jiangsu province, China. A total of 862 women aged 25–63 years old from Jiangsu province who purchased an HPV self-sampling test kit were invited to complete a questionnaire designed by the authors. Participants had high acceptability for HPV self-sampling with a mean score of 4.2 (95% [CI], 4.1–4.22) out of 5 points. 27% of participants preferred clinician-sampling, 33% preferred self-sampling, other 40% expressed no preference. Women with good knowledge about HPV and with a good experience with HPV self-sampling were more acceptable for self-sampling (P < 0.05). The biggest concern about HPV self-sampling of the participants includes ‘specimens’ spoilage’, ‘incorrect sampling’, ‘can’t get results in time’, and so on. HPV self-sampling can be used to improve cervical cancer screening coverage and participation rates in China. Cancer screening and can be an alternative primary screening for cervical cancer.•What the results of this study add? This study adds new findings about Chinese women’s experience and acceptability of HPV self-sampling. We found that most women had high acceptability for HPV self-sampling in Jiangsu province, China, and high knowledge about HPV as well as good•What is already known on this subject? HPV self-sampling testing was proven to be useful for improving the uptake rate of cervical experience of self-sampling can improve the acceptability for self-sampling in women.•What the implications are of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Further research should assess the acceptability of women with less education or who never screened. Cancer screening and can be an alternative primary screening for cervical cancer. •What the results of this study add? This study adds new findings about Chinese women’s experience and acceptability of HPV self-sampling. We found that most women had high acceptability for HPV self-sampling in Jiangsu province, China, and high knowledge about HPV as well as good •What is already known on this subject? HPV self-sampling testing was proven to be useful for improving the uptake rate of cervical experience of self-sampling can improve the acceptability for self-sampling in women. •What the implications are of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Further research should assess the acceptability of women with less education or who never screened.
Stem Cell Therapy in Liver Cirrhosis
Creators: name: Ghassemi A
name: Ommati H
name: Esmaeilzadeh A
name: Kooshyar MM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110708 Transplantation Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Cirrhosis results from different mechanisms of liver injury that lead to necroinflammation and fibrogenesis; Patients with liver cirrhosis often require liver transplantation but it is affected by many problems, including relative operative damage, high costs, lack of donors, and risk of rejection. Currently studies are shown the Stem cell therapy has the potential to provide a valuable adjunct to the management of disease, Stem cell should be the natural candidates to provide a renewable source of cells for transplantation. The main mechanism of stem cell therapy is that stem cell capacity to differentiate into any of the hundreds of distinct cell types that comprise the human body. In addition to their potential in therapeutics can be used to study the earliest stages of human development and disease modeling using human cells. In this article, we review the potential for stem cell therapies to treat liver cirrhosis, MSCs cells are reprogrammed as useful sources of cells that can be change to liver cell for treatment of cirrhosis but pathological implication and autologous bone marrow stem cell therapy for cirrhosis are still to be elucidated and clinical trials that required before this cell transplantation must be performed in Large-scale controlled to becomes a regular therapy.
An experimentally accessible quality factor for Majorana wires
Creators: name: Clarke, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit coupled semiconducting nanowires with proximity-induced superconductivity are expected to host Majorana zero modes at their endpoints when a sufficiently strong magnetic field is applied. The resulting phase would be a one-dimensional topological superconductor. However, while a variety of experiments have been performed observing a zero bias conductance peak (suggestive of Majorana zero modes), the topological nature of these physical systems is still a subject of debate. Here we suggest a quantitative test of the degree to which a system displaying a zero bias peak may be considered topological. The experiment is similar to previous measurements of conductance, but is performed with the aid of a quantum dot at the wire's end. We arrive at the surprising result that the non-local nature of the topological system may be identified through a local measurement.
description: 4+ pages, 3 Figures
Enhanced mobility of ternary InGaAs quantum wells through digital alloying
Creators: name: Dong, Jason T.
name: Gul, Yilmaz
name: Engel, Aaron N.
name: van Schijndel, Teun A. J.
name: Dempsey, Connor P.
name: Pepper, Michael
name: Palmstrøm, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High In content InGaAs quantum wells (In $\geq$ 75%) are potentially useful for topological quantum computing and spintronics applications. In high mobility InGaAs quantum wells, alloy disorder scattering is a limiting factor. In this report, we demonstrate that by growing the InGaAs quantum wells as a digital alloy, or a short period superlattice, we can reduce the alloy disorder scattering within the quantum well and increase the peak 2 K electron mobility to 545,000 cm^2/V s, which is the highest reported mobility for high In content InGaAs quantum wells to the best of the authors' knowledge. Our results demonstrate that the digital alloy approach can be used to increase the mobility of quantum wells in random alloy ternary materials.
Femtosecond profiling of shaped X-ray pulses
Creators: name: Hoffmann, M. C.
name: Grguraš, I.
name: Behrens, C.
name: Bostedt, C.
name: Bozek, J.
name: Bromberger, H.
name: Coffee, R.
name: Costello, J. T.
name: DiMauro, L. F.
name: Ding, Y.
name: Doumy, G.
name: Helml, W.
name: Ilchen, M.
name: Kienberger, R.
name: Lee, S.
name: Maier, A. R.
name: Mazza, T.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Messerschmidt, M.
name: Schorb, S.
name: Schweinberger, W.
name: Zhang, K.
name: Cavalieri, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Arbitrary manipulation of the temporal and spectral properties of X-ray pulses at free-electron lasers (FELs) would revolutionize many experimental applications. At the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory, the momentum phase-space of the FEL driving electron bunch can be tuned to emit a pair of X-ray pulses with independently variable photon energy and femtosecond delay. However, while accelerator parameters can easily be adjusted to tune the electron bunch phase-space, the final impact of these actuators on the X-ray pulse cannot be predicted with sufficient precision. Furthermore, shot-to-shot instabilities that distort the pulse shape unpredictably cannot be fully suppressed. Therefore, the ability to directly characterize the X-rays is essential to ensure precise and consistent control. In this work, we have generated X-ray pulse pairs and characterized them on a single-shot basis with femtosecond resolution through time-resolved photoelectron streaking spectroscopy. This achievement completes an important step toward future X-ray pulse shaping techniques.
Opportunities and barriers for providing HIV testing through community health centers in mainland China: a nationwide cross-sectional survey.
Creators: name: Ong, Jason J
name: Peng, Ming Hui
name: Wong, William W
name: Lo, Ying-Ru
name: Kidd, Michael R
name: Roland, Martin
name: Zhu, Shan Zhu
name: Jiang, Sun Fang
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: China
HIV
Testing
Primary Care
Community Health Centre

description: BACKGROUND:Primary care may be an avenue to increase coverage of HIV testing but it is unclear what challenges primary healthcare professionals in low- and middle-income countries face. We describe the HIV testing practices in community health centres (CHCs) and explore the staff's attitude towards further development of HIV testing services at the primary care level in China. METHODS:We conducted a national, cross-sectional survey using a stratified random sample of CHCs in 20 cities in 2015. Questionnaires were completed by primary care doctors and nurses in CHCs, and included questions regarding their demographics, clinical experience and their views on the facilitators and barriers to offering HIV testing in their CHC. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to examine the association between staff who would offer HIV testing and their sociodemographic characteristics. RESULTS:A total of 3580 staff from 158 CHCs participated. Despite the majority (81%) agreeing that HIV testing was an important part of healthcare, only 25% would provide HIV testing when requested by a patient. The majority (71%) were concerned about reimbursement, and half (47%) cited lack of training as a major barrier. Almost half (44%) believed that treating people belonging to high-risk populations would scare other patients away, and 6% openly expressed their dislike of people belonging to high-risk populations. Staff who would offer HIV testing were younger (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.97 per year increase in age, 95% confidence interval (CI):0.97-0.98); trained as a doctor compared to a nurse (aOR 1.79, 95%CI:1.46-2.15); held a bachelor degree or above (aOR 1.34, 95%CI:1.11-1.62); and had previous HIV training (aOR 1.55, 95%CI:1.27-1.89). CONCLUSIONS:Improving HIV training of CHC staff, including addressing stigmatizing attitudes, and improving financial reimbursement may help increase HIV testing coverage in China.
Pastinaca sativa var. soleirolii Briq.
Creators: name: Jeanmonod, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Apiaceae
Pastinaca
Pastinaca sativa
Pastinaca sativa var. soleirolii briq.

description: Pastinaca sativa var. soleirolii Briq. in Briq. & Litard., Prodr. Fl. Corse 3(1): 141. 1938.
Holotypus: FRANCE. Corse: Calvi, s.d., Soleirol 1925 (G-BU [G00830023]!).
= Pastinaca kochii Duby subsp. kochii
description: Published as part of Jeanmonod, Daniel, 2018, Typification des noms de taxons corses de l'herbier Burnat (G-BU), pp. 61-74 in Candollea 73 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.15553/c2018v731a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5722164
xGASS: Gas-rich central galaxies in small groups and their connections to cosmic web gas feeding
Creators: name: Janowiecki, Steven
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Saintonge, Amélie
name: Brown, Toby
name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use deep HI observations obtained as part of the extended GALEX Arecibo SDSS survey (xGASS) to study the cold gas properties of central galaxies across environments. We find that, below stellar masses of 10^10.2 Msun, central galaxies in groups have an average atomic hydrogen gas fraction ~0.3dex higher than those in isolation at the same stellar mass. At these stellar masses, group central galaxies are usually found in small groups of N=2 members. The higher HI content in these low mass group central galaxies is mirrored by their higher average star formation activity and molecular hydrogen content. At larger stellar masses, this difference disappears and central galaxies in groups have similar (or even smaller) gas reservoirs and star formation activity compared to those in isolation. We discuss possible scenarios able to explain our findings and suggest that the higher gas content in low mass group central galaxies is likely due to contributions from the cosmic web or HI-rich minor mergers, which also fuel their enhanced star formation activity.
description: 20 pages, including two appendices; accepted to MNRAS
Human Umbilical Cord Matrix - Derived Stem Cells Show Tropism Towards the Human Glioma Microenvironment
Creators: name: Z, Abdi
name: Eskandary H
name: Nematollahi-Mahani SN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110708 Transplantation Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Objective: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive type of brain tumor in humans. The median survival of patients is a year after diagnosis. It is a great challenge to identify new therapeutic strategies that could reach to the tumor mass. A novel approach to this strategy is the use of stem cells. Human umbilical cord matrix-derived mesenchymal cells (hUCM) are an extraordinary source of stem cells for clinical application. In the present study, the aim was evaluating the tropism of hUCM towards the tumor mass and the effects of hUCM inoculation on tumor behavior in an animal model of brain cancer. Materials and Methods: hUCMs were isolated from Umbilical cord of a normal volunteer. hUCMs were labeled with fluorescent dye and injected into the left ventricle of human glioma-bearing rats. The magnetic resonance imaging, H&E and, Immunohistochemical staining were used to assess characteristics of groups. Results: hUCMs were found in the tumor bed, but not in the normal parenchyma. H&E and IHC staining data were shown the positive role of hUMCs in inhibition of progression of glioma. In addition; the intracardiac injection was a suitable approach for transplantation of stem cells in brain cancer in comparison with intravascular injection. Conclusion: Human Umbilical cord matrix-derived mesenchymal cells have the ability of migration towards and homing in GBM tumor. This is important because the hUMCs may be a suitable cellular vehicle for delivery of therapeutic agents to sites of tumor types in human.
A reappraisal of Lagrangians with non-quadratic velocity dependence and branched Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Bagchi, Bijan
name: Ghosh, Aritra
name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time and again, non-conventional forms of Lagrangians with non-quadratic velocity dependence have found attention in the literature. For one thing, such Lagrangians have deep connections with several aspects of nonlinear dynamics including specifically the types of the Liénard class; for another, very often the problem of their quantization opens up multiple branches of the corresponding Hamiltonians, ending up with the presence of singularities in the associated eigenfunctions. In this article, we furnish a brief review of the classical theory of such Lagrangians and the associated branched Hamiltonians, starting with the example of Liénard-type systems. We then take up other cases where the Lagrangians depend upon the velocity with powers greater than two while still having a tractable mathematical structure, while also describing the associated branched Hamiltonians for such systems. For various examples, we emphasize upon the emergence of the notion of momentum-dependent mass in the theory of branched Hamiltonians.
description: v1: Preliminary version, comments are welcome; v2: Published in Symmetry
The Relationship between Self-Reported Exposure to Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Promotions and Intake: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 2017 International Food Policy Study.
Creators: name: Forde, Hannah
name: White, Martin
name: Levy, Louis
name: Greaves, Felix
name: Hammond, David
name: Vanderlee, Lana
name: Sharp, Stephen
name: Adams, Jean
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sugar
subject: Promotion
subject: Advertising
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Soft Drinks
subject: Sugar-sweetened Beverages

description: Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is independently associated with several non-communicable diseases, so policymakers are increasingly implementing measures, such as marketing regulation, to reduce intake. To help understand how such measures work, this study examined the association between SSB consumption and self-reported exposure to SSB promotions, both overall and by type of promotion, and whether these relationships vary between the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. Cross-sectional analysis of the online 2017 International Food Policy Study was performed (n = 15,515). Participants were grouped into 5265 (34%) non-, 5117 (33%) low-, and 5133 (33%) high-SSB consumers. Multinomial logistic regression models examined whether SSB consumption varied by exposure to total SSB promotion and by type: traditional, digital, recreational environment, and functional environment. Multiplicative interactions were included to investigate international variations. An additional unit of total self-reported SSB promotion exposure increased the likelihood of participants being low SSB consumers (relative risk ratio (RRR) = 1.08, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.06-1.10) and high SSB consumers (RRR = 1.13, 95% CI = 1.11-1.16). Only exposure to traditional and digital promotion increased the likelihood of participants being SSB consumers, though this may be explained by degree of exposure, which was not measured in this study. Some evidence illustrated international variation in these relationships.
Evaluation of pregnancy outcomes in mothers with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Simbar, Masoumeh
name: Nazarpour, Sima
name: Sheidaei, Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Pregnant women are one of the endangered groups who need special attention in the COVID-19 epidemic. We conducted a systematic review and summarised the studies that reported adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with COVID-19 infection. A literature search was performed in PubMed and Scopus up to 1 September 2022, for retrieving original articles published in the English language assessing the association between COVID-19 infection and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Finally, in this review study, of 1790 articles obtained in the initial search, 141 eligible studies including 1,843,278 pregnant women were reviewed. We also performed a meta-analysis of a total of 74 cohort and case-control studies. In this meta-analysis, both fixed and random effect models were used. Publication bias was also assessed by Egger’s test and the trim and fill method was conducted in case of a significant result, to adjust the bias. The result of the meta-analysis showed that the pooled prevalence of preterm delivery, maternal mortality, NICU admission and neonatal death in the group with COVID-19 infection was significantly more than those without COVID-19 infection (p<.01). A meta-regression was conducted using the income level of countries. COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may cause adverse pregnancy outcomes including of preterm delivery, maternal mortality, NICU admission and neonatal death. Pregnancy loss and SARS-CoV2 positive neonates in Lower middle income are higher than in High income. Vertical transmission from mother to foetus may occur, but its immediate and long-term effects on the newborn are unclear.
Onstein_procb_ESM_methods_tables_figures from The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms
Creators: name: Onstein, Renske E.
name: Kissling, W. Daniel
name: Linder, H. Peter
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary methods, results, tables and figures
Reshaping Free-Text Radiology Notes Into Structured Reports With Generative Transformers
Creators: name: Bergomi, Laura
name: Buonocore, Tommaso M.
name: Antonazzo, Paolo
name: Alberghi, Lorenzo
name: Bellazzi, Riccardo
name: Preda, Lorenzo
name: Bortolotto, Chandra
name: Parimbelli, Enea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; J.3

description: BACKGROUND: Radiology reports are typically written in a free-text format, making clinical information difficult to extract and use. Recently the adoption of structured reporting (SR) has been recommended by various medical societies thanks to the advantages it offers, e.g. standardization, completeness and information retrieval. We propose a pipeline to extract information from free-text radiology reports, that fits with the items of the reference SR registry proposed by a national society of interventional and medical radiology, focusing on CT staging of patients with lymphoma. METHODS: Our work aims to leverage the potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Transformer-based models to deal with automatic SR registry filling. With the availability of 174 radiology reports, we investigate a rule-free generative Question Answering approach based on a domain-specific version of T5 (IT5). Two strategies (batch-truncation and ex-post combination) are implemented to comply with the model's context length limitations. Performance is evaluated in terms of strict accuracy, F1, and format accuracy, and compared with the widely used GPT-3.5 Large Language Model. A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire is used to collect human-expert feedback on the similarity between medical annotations and generated answers. RESULTS: The combination of fine-tuning and batch splitting allows IT5 to achieve notable results; it performs on par with GPT-3.5 albeit its size being a thousand times smaller in terms of parameters. Human-based assessment scores show a high correlation (Spearman's correlation coefficients>0.88, p-values<0.001) with AI performance metrics (F1) and confirm the superior ability of LLMs (i.e., GPT-3.5, 175B of parameters) in generating plausible human-like statements.
Discrete spectrum of interactions concentrated near conical surfaces
Creators: name: Ourmières-Bonafos, Thomas
name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectrum of two kinds of operators involving a conical geometry: the Dirichlet Laplacian in conical layers and Schrödinger operators with attractive $δ$-interactions supported by infinite cones. Under the assumption that the cones have smooth cross-sections, we prove that such operators have infinitely many eigenvalues accumulating below the threshold of the essential spectrum and we express the accumulation rate in terms of the eigenvalues of an auxiliary one-dimensional operator with a curvature-induced potential.
description: 18 pages
¿CÓMO HAGO PARA RENTABILIZAR MI CONSULTA PRIVADA Y QUE VENGAN MAS PACIENTES?
Creators: name: Alba, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150499 Commercial Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: La sanidad, tal y como ocurre con la educación o la seguridad puede ser pública o privada. Cuando se habla de sanidad pública son las CC.AA. (Comunidades Autónomas) las que se encargan de la gestión (o tienen a una empresa externa para gestionarlo en su nombre), pero ¿y cuándo se trata de una consulta privada? ¿Cómo puede gestionarse correctamente?
Prospects for detection of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters using integrated-light spectroscopy
Creators: name: de Vita, Ruggero
name: Trenti, Michele
name: Bianchini, Paolo
name: Askar, Abbas
name: Giersz, Mirek
name: van de Ven, Glenn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has so far been controversial. In order to characterize the effectiveness of integrated-light spectroscopy through integral field units, we analyze realistic mock data generated from state-of-the-art Monte Carlo simulations of GCs with a central IMBH, considering different setups and conditions varying IMBH mass, cluster distance, and accuracy in determination of the center. The mock observations are modeled with isotropic Jeans models to assess the success rate in identifying the IMBH presence, which we find to be primarily dependent on IMBH mass. However, even for a IMBH of considerable mass (3% of the total GC mass), the analysis does not yield conclusive results in 1 out of 5 cases, because of shot noise due to bright stars close to the IMBH line-of-sight. This stochastic variability in the modeling outcome grows with decreasing BH mass, with approximately 3 failures out of 4 for IMBHs with 0.1% of total GC mass. Finally, we find that our analysis is generally unable to exclude at 68% confidence an IMBH with mass of $10^3~M_\odot$ in snapshots without a central BH. Interestingly, our results are not sensitive to GC distance within 5-20 kpc, nor to mis-identification of the GC center by less than 2'' (<20% of the core radius). These findings highlight the value of ground-based integral field spectroscopy for large GC surveys, where systematic failures can be accounted for, but stress the importance of discrete kinematic measurements that are less affected by stochasticity induced by bright stars.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Excited state characterization of carbonyl containing carotenoids: a comparison between single and multireference descriptions
Creators: name: Spezia, Riccardo
name: Knecht, Stefan
name: Mennucci, Benedetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carotenoids can play multiple roles in biological photoreceptors thanks to their rich photophysics. In the present work, we have investigated six of the most common carbonyl containing carotenoids: Echinenone, Canthaxanthin, Astaxanthin, Fucoxanthin, Capsanthin and Capsorubin. Their excitation properties are investigated by means of a hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) approach to elucidate the role of the carbonyl group: the bright transition is of ππ* character, as expected, but the presence of a C=O moiety reduces the energy of nπ* transitions which may become closer to the ππ* transition, in particular as the conjugation chain decreases. This can be related to the presence of a low-lying charge transfer state typical of short carbonyl- containing carotenoids. The DFT/MRCI results are finally used to benchmark single- reference time-dependent DFT-based methods: among the investigated functionals, the meta- GGA (and in particular M11L and MN12L) functionals show to perform the best for all six investigated systems.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0205
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0205, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0205, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
A GPU accelerated and error-controlled solver for the unbounded Poisson equation in three dimensions
Creators: name: Exl, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled, the overall computation error is driven by the convergence of the finite Fourier series of the density. For smooth and fast-decaying densities the proposed method will be spectral accurate. The method scales with $\mathcal{O}(N\log N)$ operations, where $N$ is the total number of discretization points in the Cartesian grid. The majority of the computational costs come from fast Fourier transforms (FFT), which makes it ideal for GPU computation. Several numerical computations on CPU and GPU validate the method and show efficiency and convergence behavior. Tests are performed using the Vienna Scientific Cluster 3 (VSC3). A free MATLAB implementation for CPU and GPU is provided to the interested community.
Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income.
Creators: name: Hill, W David
name: Davies, Neil M
name: Ritchie, Stuart J
name: Skene, Nathan G
name: Bryois, Julien
name: Bell, Steven
name: Di Angelantonio, Emanuele
name: Roberts, David J
name: Xueyi, Shen
name: Davies, Gail
name: Liewald, David C M
name: Porteous, David J
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: Butterworth, Adam S
name: McIntosh, Andrew M
name: Gale, Catharine R
name: Deary, Ian J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019

description: Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a multi-dimensional construct reflecting (and influencing) multiple socio-cultural, physical, and environmental factors. In a sample of 286,301 participants from UK Biobank, we identify 30 (29 previously unreported) independent-loci associated with income. Using a method to meta-analyze data from genetically-correlated traits, we identify an additional 120 income-associated loci. These loci show clear evidence of functionality, with transcriptional differences identified across multiple cortical tissues, and links to GABAergic and serotonergic neurotransmission. By combining our genome wide association study on income with data from eQTL studies and chromatin interactions, 24 genes are prioritized for follow up, 18 of which were previously associated with intelligence. We identify intelligence as one of the likely causal, partly-heritable phenotypes that might bridge the gap between molecular genetic inheritance and phenotypic consequence in terms of income differences. These results indicate that, in modern era Great Britain, genetic effects contribute towards some of the observed socioeconomic inequalities.
The Topology of Canonical Flux Tubes in Flared Jet Geometry
Creators: name: Lavine, Eric Sander
name: You, Setthivoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetized plasma jets are generally modeled as magnetic flux tubes filled with flowing plasma governed by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We outline here a more fundamental approach based on flux tubes of canonical vorticity, where canonical vorticity is defined as the circulation of the species canonical momentum. This approach extends the concept of magnetic flux tube evolution to include the effects of finite particle momentum and enables visualization of the topology of plasma jets in regimes beyond MHD. A flared, current-carrying magnetic flux tube in an ion-electron plasma with finite ion momentum is thus equivalent to either a pair of electron and ion flow flux tubes, a pair of electron and ion canonical momentum flux tubes, or a pair of electron and ion canonical vorticity flux tubes. We examine the morphology of all these flux tubes for increasing electrical currents, different radial current profiles, different electron Mach numbers, and a fixed, flared, axisymmetric magnetic geometry. Calculations of gauge-invariant relative canonical helicities track the evolution of magnetic, cross, and kinetic helicities in the system, and show that ion flow fields can unwind to compensate for an increasing magnetic twist. The results demonstrate that including a species finite momentum can result in a very long collimated canonical vorticity flux tube even if the magnetic flux tube is flared. With finite momentum, particle density gradients must be normal to canonical vorticities, not to magnetic fields, so observations of collimated astrophysical jets could be images of canonical vorticity flux tubes instead of magnetic flux tubes.
description: 27 pages, colour figures, accepted by ApJ
T-VSL: Text-Guided Visual Sound Source Localization in Mixtures
Creators: name: Mahmud, Tanvir
name: Tian, Yapeng
name: Marculescu, Diana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Visual sound source localization poses a significant challenge in identifying the semantic region of each sounding source within a video. Existing self-supervised and weakly supervised source localization methods struggle to accurately distinguish the semantic regions of each sounding object, particularly in multi-source mixtures. These methods often rely on audio-visual correspondence as guidance, which can lead to substantial performance drops in complex multi-source localization scenarios. The lack of access to individual source sounds in multi-source mixtures during training exacerbates the difficulty of learning effective audio-visual correspondence for localization. To address this limitation, in this paper, we propose incorporating the text modality as an intermediate feature guide using tri-modal joint embedding models (e.g., AudioCLIP) to disentangle the semantic audio-visual source correspondence in multi-source mixtures. Our framework, dubbed T-VSL, begins by predicting the class of sounding entities in mixtures. Subsequently, the textual representation of each sounding source is employed as guidance to disentangle fine-grained audio-visual source correspondence from multi-source mixtures, leveraging the tri-modal AudioCLIP embedding. This approach enables our framework to handle a flexible number of sources and exhibits promising zero-shot transferability to unseen classes during test time. Extensive experiments conducted on the MUSIC, VGGSound, and VGGSound-Instruments datasets demonstrate significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Code is released at https://github.com/enyac-group/T-VSL/tree/main
description: Accepted in CVPR-2024. Code: https://github.com/enyac-group/T-VSL/tree/main
Reliable Feature Selection for Adversarially Robust Cyber-Attack Detection
Creators: name: Vitorino, João
name: Silva, Miguel
name: Maia, Eva
name: Praça, Isabel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growing cybersecurity threats make it essential to use high-quality data to train Machine Learning (ML) models for network traffic analysis, without noisy or missing data. By selecting the most relevant features for cyber-attack detection, it is possible to improve both the robustness and computational efficiency of the models used in a cybersecurity system. This work presents a feature selection and consensus process that combines multiple methods and applies them to several network datasets. Two different feature sets were selected and were used to train multiple ML models with regular and adversarial training. Finally, an adversarial evasion robustness benchmark was performed to analyze the reliability of the different feature sets and their impact on the susceptibility of the models to adversarial examples. By using an improved dataset with more data diversity, selecting the best time-related features and a more specific feature set, and performing adversarial training, the ML models were able to achieve a better adversarially robust generalization. The robustness of the models was significantly improved without their generalization to regular traffic flows being affected, without increases of false alarms, and without requiring too many computational resources, which enables a reliable detection of suspicious activity and perturbed traffic flows in enterprise computer networks.
description: 24 pages, 17 tables, Annals of Telecommunications journal. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2402.16912
Central Pontine Myelinolysis Associated with Cyclosporine in a Patient with NK Cell Leukaemia after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Creators: name: MA, Cheong
name: CW, Tan
name: YC, Linn
name: WYK, Hwang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110708 Transplantation Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) has been described as a rare complication of liver transplantation. Cases in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant are less reported. We present a patient with NK cell leukaemia who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and had progressive altered mental status and neurological deterioration. Clinical and radiological findings were consistent with CPM. The patient had hepatic impairment and was on cyclosporine at the time of diagnosis of CPM, both are common risk factors for development of CPM in the post-transplant setting. Patient was managed in the intensive care unit. A trial of corticosteroids was given and immunosuppressive agent was switched from cyclosporine to sirolimus. Patient regained full neurological function from this CPM episode.
Shercliff layers in strongly magnetic cylindrical Taylor-Couette flow
Creators: name: Hollerbach, Rainer
name: Hulot, Deborah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically compute axisymmetric Taylor-Couette flow in the presence of axially periodic magnetic fields, with Hartmann numbers up to $Ha^2=10^7$. The geometry of the field singles out special field lines on which Shercliff layers form. These are simple shear layers for insulating boundaries, versus super-rotating or counter-rotating layers for conducting boundaries. Some field configurations have previously studied spherical analogs, but fundamentally new configurations also exist, having no spherical analogs. Finally, we explore the influence of azimuthal fields $B_ϕ\sim r^{-1}{\bf\hat e}_ϕ$ on these layers, and show that the flow is suppressed for conducting boundaries but enhanced for insulating boundaries.
Supplementary Materials from Sanctions and international interaction improve cooperation to avert climate change
Creators: name: Grimalda, Gianluca
name: Belianin, Alexis
name: Hennig-Schmidt, Heike
name: Requate, Till
name: Ryzhkova, Marina V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Imposing sanctions on non-compliant parties to international agreements is advocated as a remedy for international cooperation failure. Nevertheless, sanctions are costly, and rational choice theory predicts their ineffectiveness in improving cooperation. We test sanctions effectiveness experimentally in international collective-risk social dilemmas simulating efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change. We involve individuals from countries where sanctions were shown to be effective (Germany) or ineffective (Russia) in increasing cooperation. Here, we show that, while this result still holds nationally, international interaction backed by sanctions is beneficial. Cooperation by low cooperator groups increases relative to national cooperation and converges to the levels of high cooperators. This result holds regardless of revealing other group members' nationality, suggesting that participants' specific attitudes or stereotypes over the other country were irrelevant. Groups interacting under sanctions contribute more to catastrophe prevention than what would maximize expected group payoffs. This behaviour signals a strong propensity for protection against collective risks.
Quintessential interpretation of the evolving dark energy in light of DESI
Creators: name: Tada, Yuichiro
name: Terada, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent result of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in combination with other cosmological data shows evidence of the evolving dark energy parameterized by $w_0w_a$CDM model. We interpret this result in terms of a quintessential scalar field and demonstrate that it can explain the DESI result even though it becomes eventually phantom in the past. Relaxing the assumption on the functional form of the equation-of-state parameter $w=w(a)$, we also discuss a more realistic quintessential model. The implications of the DESI result for Swampland conjectures, cosmic birefringence, and the fate of the Universe are discussed as well.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; v2: references and discussions added; v3 matches the accepted version in PRD letter; v4: references added
Carbon nanotubes heavy metal detection with stripping voltammetry: A review paper
Creators: name: Wang, Tingting
name: Yue, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The challenge of heavy metal detection for environmental, industrial and medical purposes has led to the development of many analytical techniques. Stripping voltammetry is a very sensitive electrochemical method and has been widely used for heavy metal detection. Carbon nanotubes, a well-studied carbon material with physical and chemical properties suited for electrode material is commonly employed for sensitive and selective metal detection in electrochemistry. This article reviews the recent (2011-2016) applications of carbon nanotubes as an electrode or electrode surface modifier for heavy metals detection with stripping voltammetry.
Phleum alpinum var. parviceps Briq.
Creators: name: Jeanmonod, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Phleum
Phleum alpinum
Phleum alpinum var. parviceps briq.

description: Phleum alpinum var. parviceps Briq., Prodr. Fl. Corse 1: 81. 1910.
Ξ Phleum parviceps (Briq.) A.W. Hill
Holotypus: FRANCE. Corse: Monte Cinto, 2700 m, 17.VII.1900, E. Burnat, Briquet & Cavillier 141 (G-BU [G00830017]!).
description: Published as part of Jeanmonod, Daniel, 2018, Typification des noms de taxons corses de l'herbier Burnat (G-BU), pp. 61-74 in Candollea 73 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.15553/c2018v731a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5722164
Additional file 4 of Transcriptome analysis of metabolic pathways associated with oil accumulation in developing seed kernels of Styrax tonkinensis, a woody biodiesel species
Creators: name: Wu, Qikui
name: Cao, Yuanyuan
name: Chen, Chen
name: Gao, Zhenzhou
name: Yu, Fangyuan
name: Guy, Robert D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. Validation of temporal unigene expression patterns uncovered by RNA-Seq. Panels show relative expression levels determined by qRT-PCR and RPKM values by RNA-Seq (50 DAF as the control) of 12 key genes (accC, mat, had, kasI, kasII, sad, fatA, fatB, acp, gpat9, dgat, pdat2). These results confirm that accC, mat, had, kas, sad, and fat for FA biosynthesis, and dgat and pdat2 for TAG biosynthesis, had high expression at about 70DAF and 100 to 130 DAF, respectively.