cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using random regression models to estimate genetic variation in growth pattern and its association with sexual maturity of Thai native chickens
Creators: name: S. Tongsiri
name: J. H. J. Van Der Werf
name: L. Li
name: M. G. Jeyaruban
name: M. L. Wolcott
name: S. Hermesch
name: T. Chormai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. Genetic (co)variances and parameters between body weights (BW) across the growth trajectory were estimated using a univariate random regression (RR) animal model. The effect of growth rates (GH) on age at first egg (AFE) and egg weight at first egg (EWFE) were explored using a series of univariate and bivariate analyses. 2. Body weights were taken from Thai native chickens at hatch day to 168 days of age. The model included interactions between age with hatch nested within year and sex as fixed effects, and random effects of direct additive genetic, direct permanent environmental, maternal genetic and maternal permanent environmental effects. All random effects were fitted as regressions to animals’ age via quadratic Legendre polynomials and fitting six classes of residual variances was identified as an optimal variance structure to estimate parameters. 3. Genetic and phenotypic variances for BW increased with increasing age. Estimated heritabilities for direct additive (h2a) and maternal genetic (h2 m) effects on BW traits ranged from 0.34 to 0.54, and 0.04 to 0.06, respectively. Estimated variance ratios for direct (c2ape) and maternal permanent environmental (c2 mpe) effects ranged from 0.19 to 0.48 and 0.10 to 0.12, respectively. Estimated correlations between weights at different ages were high for all random effects. 4. Estimated h2a for six GH traits ranged from 0.06 to 0.28, while for AFE and EWFE these were 0.24 and 0.16, respectively. Estimated h2 m and c2 mpe were low for GH. Estimated genetic correlations between GH and AFE ranged from −0.22 to 0.02 and, between GH and EWFE, ranged from −0.05 to 0.40. These estimates suggested that selecting high GH chickens at 28 days of age can be expected to reduce AFE and to increase EWFE.
title: Ischemic infarcts causing isolated paralysis of the hand: report of 6 cases.
Creators: name: Ramón Y Cajal Calvo, Juan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - Isolated paresis of the hand secondary to ischemic stroke (konb hand syndrome) is a rare clinical entity that it can often be confused with peripheral paralysis of the pseudo ulnar, pseudo radial or pseudo median depending on the predominant...
Large negative magnetoresistance in thiospinel CuCrZrS4
Creators: name: Furubayashi, Takao
name: Suzuki, Hiroyuki
name: Kobayashi, Nami
name: Nagata, Shoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on large negative magnetoresistance observed in ferromagnetic thiospinel compound CuCrZrS$_{4}$. Electrical resistivity increased with decreasing temperature according to the form proportional to $\textrm{exp}(T_{0}/T)^{1/2} $, derived from variable range hopping with strong electron-electron interaction. Resistivity under magnetic fields was expressed by the same form with the characteristic temperature T0 decreasing with increasing magnetic field. Magnetoresistance ratio $ρ(T,0)/ρ(T,H)$ is 1.5 at 100 K for H=90 kOe and increases divergently with decreasing temperature reaching 80 at 16 K. Results of magnetization measurements are also presented. Possible mechanism of the large magnetoresistance is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Solid State Commun
Multistability, noise and attractor-hopping: The crucial role of chaotic saddles
Creators: name: Kraut, Suso
name: Feudel, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the hopping dynamics between different attractors in a multistable system under the influence of noise. Using symbolic dynamics we find a sudden increase of dynamical entropies, when a system parameter is varied. This effect is explained by a novel bifurcation involving two chaotic saddles. We also demonstrate that the transient lifetimes on the saddle obey a scaling law in analogy to crisis.
title: Congenital portosystemic venous shunt and hepatic nodules
Creators: name: CHETOUI, MARYEM
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Congenital
subject: Embolisation
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the pathophysiology of a portosystemic shunt, its types, and classifications. To study the imaging features of liver mass associated with the congenital portosystemic shunt. To learn the treatment indications and...
One-Pot Preparation of Mechanically Robust, Transparent, Highly Conductive and Memristive Metal-Organic Ultrathin Film
Creators: name: Moreno-Moreno, Miriam
name: Troyano, Javier
name: Ares, Pablo
name: Castillo, Oscar
name: Nijhuis, Christian A.
name: Yuan, Li
name: Amo-Ochoa, Pilar
name: Delgado, Salome
name: Gomez-Herrero, Julio
name: Zamora, Felix
name: Gomez-Navarro, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The future of 2D flexible electronics relies on the preparation of conducting ultrathin films of materials with mechanical robustness and flexibility in a simple but controlled manner. In this respect, metal-organic compounds present advantages over inorganic laminar crystals owing to their structural, chemical and functional diversity. While most metal-organic compounds are usually prepared in bulk, recent work has shown that some of them are processable down to low dimensional forms. Here we report the one-pot preparation, carried out at the water-air interface, of ultrathin (down to 4 nm) films of the metal-organic compound [Cu2I2(TAA)]n (TAA= thioacetamide). The films are shown to be homogenous over mm2 areas, smooth, highly transparent, mechanically robust and good electrical conductors with memristive behavior at low frequencies. This combination of properties, as well as the industrial availability of the two building blocks required for the preparation, demonstrates their wide range potential in future flexible and transparent electronics.
Claiming Gay: Exploring the Refugee Determination Process
Creators: name: Walters, C. R.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Approximately 80 countries criminalize same-sex sexual acts or behaviour that is considered deviant; seven of these countries maintain a death penalty (BBC, 2014). People impacted by criminalization and persecution are therefore seeking asylum overseas. Canada, a humanitarian beacon of hope for many, accepts refugees on the basis of sexual orientation and over the years there has been an influx of sexual minority refugees and refugee claimants. However, before Canada accepts the claimants they must build evidence and plea their cases to the Immigration and Refugee Board. This is known as the refugee status determination process. How the refugee claimant experiences this determination process, particularly around the need to prove one’s gay identity, is the foundational aspect of this qualitative, phenomenological study and is presented in this paper through several themes that arose through participant interviews.
title: Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis
Creators: name: Bishop, Charles
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Education and training
subject: Biopsy
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Extremities

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO): Clinical issues, presentation and prognosis Imaging: findings, role and best practice in diagnosis and management Differential diagnosis and indications for an image guided needle...
title: Choledochal cysts in children. What the radiologist should know.
Creators: name: Garzon Guiteria, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Congenital
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Know the clinical pictures that develop alterations in the biliary tree in children and their radiological diagnosis to differentiate them from other pathologies, avoid diagnostic delays, and detect...
Additional file 2 of Variations in the estimated intake of acrylamide from food in the Japanese population
Creators: name: Kito, Kumiko
name: Ishihara, Junko
name: Yamamoto, Junpei
name: Hosoda, Takayuki
name: Kotemori, Ayaka
name: Ribeka Takachi
name: Nakamura, Kazutoshi
name: Junta Tanaka
name: Yamaji, Taiki
name: Shimazu, Taichi
name: Ishii, Yuri
name: Sawada, Norie
name: Iwasaki, Motoki
name: Iso, Hiroyasu
name: Sobue, Tomotaka
name: Tsugane, Shoichiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2 : Table S2. Contribution of food groups to total acrylamide intake estimated using dietary records.
title: Quantum mechanics in phase space
Creators: name: Watson, Philip
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1991

description: The objective of this thesis is to describe the fundamental concepts relating to the reformulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. It is assumed that the interested reader is familiar with the principles and techniques of ordinary quantum mechanics. In classical statistical mechanics the expectation values of physical quantities are calculated as averages over phase space distribution functions. It is possible to obtain a similar procedure in quantum mechanics. However, phase space is a classical concept and thus has no quantum mechanical equivalent, owing to the non-commutability of the operators p and q. A sensible basic requirement for the formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space is a linear one-one mapping between quantum operators and classical functions. This was achieved by the pioneering work of Weyl, Wigner and Moyal. The phase space that they devised we shall call "pseudo phase space". It is completely quantum. The pseudo phase space variables are represented by commuting c-numbers of momentum, p, and position, q; they are the result of applying the Weyl correspondence rule to the operators p and q, respectively. In some ways the pseudo phase space formulation of quantum mechanics appears to return us to an "almost" classical arena, since we dispense with the calculus of non-commuting operators for purely algebraic methods. The pseudo phase space formulation of quantum mechanics is self-contained. That is, there is no need, in principle, to switch to the Schroedinger or Heisenberg pictures when solving physical problems, although it may often be convenient to do so. The classical appearance of the pseudo phase space scheme is especially useful when considering the semi-classical limit of quantum mechanics. In fact, for potentials up to and including the harmonic oscillator the equations represent classical motion. The structure of the thesis is such that it takes the reader steadily through the major concepts of pseudo phase space theory. The mathematical techniques that shall be needed are developed early in Chapter 1. These are used throughout the thesis. This presents the advantage that the reader is not faced with learning new mathematical methods as the thesis proceeds. The pseudo phase space formulation of quantum mechanics as found applications in all areas of mathematical physics. Hence, there is a considerable amount of specialist literature available on the subject. Itis hoped that this thesis serves has an introduction.
Effect of inter-wall surface roughness correlations on optical spectra of quantum well excitons
Creators: name: Ponomarev, I. V.
name: Deych, L. I.
name: Lisyansky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the correlation between morphological fluctuations of two interfaces confining a quantum well strongly suppresses a contribution of interface disorder to inhomogeneous line width of excitons. We also demonstrate that only taking into account these correlations one can explain all the variety of experimental data on the dependence of the line width upon thickness of the quantum well.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, Revtex4, submitted to PRB
title: MRI anatomy of the peripheral nerves of the upper extremity- a pictorial review
Creators: name: Sivagurunathan, Gayathri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To learn the MRI anatomy of the peripheral nerves of the upper limb. 2. To identify the anatomical locations that are prone to nerve...
Novel interaction induced oscillations in correlated electron transport
Creators: name: Claro, F.
name: Weisz, J. F.
name: Curilef, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlated motion of electrons in a one dimensional system with an externally applied longitudinal electric field is discussed. Within the tight binding model we show that in addition to the well known Bloch oscillations the electron-electron interaction induces time dependent oscillations of the mobility whose period depends on the strength and range of the coupling only. The oscillations involve transitions between bands of bound and unbound states. The case of two electrons is solved in detail and an extension of the results to more particles is discussed.
description: Latex: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Is the Moon there if nobody looks: Bell Inequalities and Physical Reality
Creators: name: Kupczynski, Marian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various Bell inequalities are trivial algebraic properties satisfied by each line of particular data spreadsheets.It is surprising that their violation in some experiments, allows to speculate about the existence of nonlocal influences in Nature and to doubt the existence of the objective external physical reality. Such speculations are rooted in incorrect interpretations of quantum mechanics and in a failure of local realistic hidden variable models to reproduce quantum predictions for spin polarisation correlation experiments. These hidden variable models use counterfactual joint probability distributions of only pairwise measurable random variables to prove the inequalities. In real experiments Alice and Bob, using 4 incompatible pairs of experimental settings, estimate imperfect correlations between clicks, registered by their detectors. Clicks announce detection of photons and are coded by 1 or -1. Expectations of corresponding ,only pairwise measurable, random variables are estimated and compared with quantum predictions. These estimates violate significantly the inequalities. Since all these random variables cannot be jointly measured , a joint probability distribution of them does not exist and various Bell inequalities may not be derived. Thus it is not surprising that they are violated. Moreover,if contextual setting dependent parameters describing measuring instruments are correctly included in the description, then imperfect correlations between the clicks may be explained in a locally causal way. In this paper we review and rephrase several arguments proving that the violation of various Bell inequalities may neither justify the quantum nonlocality nor allow for doubt regarding the existence of atoms, electrons and other invisible elementary particles which are building blocks of the visible world around us including ourselves.
description: 30 pages , 42 figures. In this version some remaining misprints in particular the numbering of the sections were corrected and one reference added
title: Post-operative imaging of total hip arthroplasty: what the radiologist needs to know
Creators: name: Sivagurunathan, Gayathri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To learn the structured approach to initial and follow up radiographic assessments of total hip arthroplasty. Pictorial review of the common complication...
An acoustic analysis of rhotic production by children and adults
Creators: name: Ριζοπούλου, Αννα Αλέξανδρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ακουστική ανάλυση
Ήχος «ρ»
Παιδιά-ενήλικες
Acoustic analysis
Rhotics
Children-adults

description: In our study, we examine the acoustic characteristics of the Greek rhotic as it is pronounced by Primary school children and adults. The children cover the ages of 6;0-7;0 and 9;0-10;0 years of age. Our data was collected through recordings of utterances that included words with phrase-initial /r/, words with /Cr/ and /rC/ clusters, produced by 14 native speakers of Greek (5 adults and 9 children). Our results showed that adults and 9;0-10;0 year-olds produce /r/ as a tap while 6;0-7;0 year-olds produce it as an approximant in the aforementioned word positions. We also observed that the production of /r/ is accompanied by a vowel-like element (vocoid), the quality of whom is influenced by the vowel of the stressed syllable. Some errors that occurred in the group of 6;0-7;0 year-olds suggested that the acquisition of /r/ is probably achieved after the 7th year of age
description: Στην έρευνά μας, εξετάζουμε τα ακουστικά χαρακτηριστικά του ελληνικού ήχου «ρ», όπως προφέρεται από παιδιά Δημοτικού και ενήλικες. Οι συμμετέχοντές μας είναι 14 φυσικοί ομιλητές της Ελληνικής (5 ενήλικες και 9 παιδιά). Οι ηλικίες των παιδιών είναι 6;0-7;0 και 9;0-10;0 έτη. Το υλικό μας το συλλέξαμε μέσα από ηχογραφήσεις εκφράσεων που περιείχαν λέξεις με «ρ» στην αρχή της φράσης, σε /Cr/ και /rC/ συμπλέγματα. Τα αποτελέσματά μας έδειξαν ότι οι ενήλικες και τα παιδιά 9;0-10;0 χρονών παράγουν το «ρ» ως tap ενώ τα παιδιά 6;0-7;0 χρονών παράγουν τον ίδιο ήχο ως approximant, σε όλες τις προαναφερθείσες θέσεις. Παρατηρήσαμε επίσης ότι η παραγωγή του «ρ» συνοδεύεται από ένα είδος φωνήεν (vocoid), η ποιότητα του οποίου επηρεάζεται από αυτή του φωνήεντος της τονισμένης συλλαβής. Σε μερικές περιπτώσεις, παρατηρήσαμε να γίνονται λάθη από τα παιδιά 6;0-7;0 χρονών και αυτό δείχνει ότι η κατάκτηση του «ρ» πιθανώς πραγματοποιείται μετά το 7ο έτος ηλικίας
title: Thoracolumbar injuries in Polytrauma Patients.
Creators: name: Pugliesi, Alba Rosa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Bones

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: -To illustrate the main classifications of thoracolumbar spine injuries. -To review the role of imaging methods on evaluation thoracolumbar spinal fractures, discussing the image characteristics important for treatment decision-making. -To show the...
Enhancement of Noise-induced Escape through the Existence of a Chaotic Saddle
Creators: name: Kraut, Suso
name: Feudel, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the noise-induced escape process in a prototype dissipative nonequilibrium system, the Ikeda map. In the presence of a chaotic saddle embedded in the basin of attraction of the metastable state, we find the novel phenomenon of a strong enhancement of noise-induced escape. This result is established by employing the theory of quasipotentials. Our finding is of general validity and should be experimentally observable.
description: 4 pages
Out with the Old and In with the New: Female Metamorphoses in the Revised Fairy Tales of Angela Carter and Emma Donoghue
Creators: name: Πολυτσίνου, Ελένη-Αργυρή Θεόδωρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Γυναίκες
Μεταμόρφωση
Παραμύθια
Women
Metamorphosis
Fairy Tales

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η ανάλυση των φεμινιστικών αναδιηγήσεων από κλασσικά παραμύθια με πατριαρχικά στοιχεία και η μεταμόρφωση των παθητικών ηρωίδων σε αυτόνομες και σεξουαλικά ελεύθερες πρωταγωνίστριες. Οι συλλογές The Bloody Chamber της Angela Carter και Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins της Emma Donoghue παρέχουν μια συγκριτική ματιά ανάμεσα στα κλασσικά παραμύθια που καταδικάζουν την γυναικεία ανεξαρτησία και σεξουαλικότητα, και στις σύχρονες εκδοχές τους που δίνουν έμφαση στη γυναικεία δύναμη και σεξουαλική ελευθερία. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο εστιάζει στην μεταμόρφωση των γυναικών αρχικά μέσα από την γυναικεία φιλία και αλληλεγγύη και επίσης μέσα από την αποδοχή μιας διαφορετικής σεξουαλικής ταυτότητας. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο εξερευνά την γυναικεία μεταμόρφωση των χαρακτήρων μέσα από την σεξουαλική απελευθέρωση. Το κύριο στοιχείο – η ιδέα της μεταμόρφωσης αποκαλύπτει νέους χαρακτήρες και νέες ιδέες βασισμένες σε φεμινιστικές πεποιθήσεις οι οποίες θα αναλυθούν στα κεφάλαια αυτά
description: This thesis aims at analysing feminist retellings of patriarchal versions of fairy tales and how writers transformed passive female characters into fierce, autonomous and sexually active protagonists. Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (1979) and Emma Donoghue’s anthology, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, (1997) provide a more comparative perspective between traditional fairy tales that condemn female empowerment and sexuality, and more contemporary ones that emphasize female agency and sexual liberation. The first section of my thesis focuses on female metamorphosis firstly as a result of female bonding and support and also on women accepting and embracing their queer sexual identity. The second section explores the female metamorphosis as it occurs as a result sexual liberation and desire. The key notion, metamorphosis, reveals new characters and new ideas, based on feminist beliefs, all of which will be explored and analysed in the following chapters
Additional file 1 of Variations in the estimated intake of acrylamide from food in the Japanese population
Creators: name: Kito, Kumiko
name: Ishihara, Junko
name: Yamamoto, Junpei
name: Hosoda, Takayuki
name: Kotemori, Ayaka
name: Ribeka Takachi
name: Nakamura, Kazutoshi
name: Junta Tanaka
name: Yamaji, Taiki
name: Shimazu, Taichi
name: Ishii, Yuri
name: Sawada, Norie
name: Iwasaki, Motoki
name: Iso, Hiroyasu
name: Sobue, Tomotaka
name: Tsugane, Shoichiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. Evaluation of the relationships between dietary records, food frequency questionnaires used for the validation analysis, and food frequency questionnaires.
Whole-genome resequencing of Dulong Chicken reveal signatures of selection
Creators: name: Qilin Wang
name: Li, Diyan
name: Aiwei Guo
name: Li, Momo
name: Li, Lu
name: Jielong Zhou
name: Mishra, Shailendra Kumar
name: Guangyu Li
name: Yanqing Duan
name: Qingqing Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Dulong Chickens (DLCs) live at high altitude (~3000m) and humidity (~90%), which is endemic to Yunnan province, and has gradually developed unique physiological characteristics, but its genetic basis is still unclear. Using the fixation index (FST ) approach, based on whole-genome resequencing, DLCs were analysed to uncover the genomic architecture of the population and candidate genes involved in selection during domestication.A total of 469 candidate genes were obtained to be putatively under selection in DLCs. Further investigations revealed the genic footprint for local adaptation (high-altitude and high-humidity) as the genic signatures that are involved in economic traits (related to egg production).Candidate genes were identified that may be associated with disease resistance, aggressiveness, small body size and positive selection of vision in DLCs.The data revealed the loci of selective signals that operate during selection for production at high altitude and humidity. Dulong Chickens (DLCs) live at high altitude (~3000m) and humidity (~90%), which is endemic to Yunnan province, and has gradually developed unique physiological characteristics, but its genetic basis is still unclear. Using the fixation index (FST ) approach, based on whole-genome resequencing, DLCs were analysed to uncover the genomic architecture of the population and candidate genes involved in selection during domestication. A total of 469 candidate genes were obtained to be putatively under selection in DLCs. Further investigations revealed the genic footprint for local adaptation (high-altitude and high-humidity) as the genic signatures that are involved in economic traits (related to egg production). Candidate genes were identified that may be associated with disease resistance, aggressiveness, small body size and positive selection of vision in DLCs. The data revealed the loci of selective signals that operate during selection for production at high altitude and humidity.
High resolution observations of 6.7-GHz methanol masers with the LBA
Creators: name: Dodson, R.
name: Ojha, R.
name: Ellingsen, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA) to produce milliarcsecond images of five sites of methanol maser emission at 6.7 GHz. These are all sites that have linear morphologies at arcsecond resolutions, which have been hypothesised to be due to the masers forming in edge-on circumstellar disks. We find that a simple disk model cannot explain the observations. We discuss various alternatives, and suggest a new model which explains how linear velocity gradients can be produced in methanol masers that arise in planar shocks propagating nearly perpendicular to the line of sight.
description: Accepted in MNRAS
Enhanced electrical resistivity before Néel order in the metals, RCuAs$_2$ (R= Sm, Gd, Tb and Dy
Creators: name: Sampathkumaran, E. V.
name: Sengupta, Kausik
name: Rayaprol, S.
name: Iyer, Kartik K.
name: Doert, Th.
name: Jemetio, J. P. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an unusual temperature (T) dependent electrical resistivity($ρ$) behavior in a class of ternary intermetallic compounds of the type RCuAs$_2$ (R= Rare-earths). For some rare-earths (Sm, Gd, Tb and Dy) with negligible 4f-hybridization, there is a pronounced minimum in $ρ$(T) far above respective Néel temperatures (T$_N$). However, for the rare-earths which are more prone to exhibit such a $ρ$(T) minimum due to 4f-covalent mixing and the Kondo effect, this minimum is depressed. These findings, difficult to explain within the hither-to-known concepts, present an interesting scenario in magnetism.
description: Physical Review Letters (accepted for publication)
title: Granite Petrogenesis in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia and Crustal Evolution in the Central Andes
Creators: name: Miller, James Fisher
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1988

description: Isotopic, trace and major element studies of intrusives from the Cordillera Real, Bolivia have identified two distinct granitoid types. Crustally derived granitoids are characterized by high Rb/Sr and Rb/Ba ratios, high degrees of peraluminosity, high eSr and Nd model ages of approximately 1 G a. Granitoids containing a mantle component are characterized by low Rb/Sr and Rb/Ba ratios, peraluminous or metaluminous character, low eSr and younger Nd model ages between 0.5 to 1 Ga. Sr isotope geochronology has identified two periods of intrusion; late Carboniferous to early Permian and mid Miocene, both times of crustal thickening. Within plate and subduction related mantle components have been identified in specific granitoids on trace element grounds. Both AFC and simple mixing have been identified and quantitatively modelled as processes of combining mantle and crustal components to produce the least evolved samples studied. The observed evolution of the granitoids was an isotopically closed system process and is modelled as fractional crystallization. The dominant role of accessory phases in controlling the REEs has been quantitatively modelled. Intra-pluton variations in ESr and ENd can be modelled as either mixing between mantle and crust or episodic crustal remobilization. Individual plutons display homogeneous ESr and heterogeneous ENd values, reflecting the role of xenocrystic accessory phases in preserving the Nd isotope heterogeneity of the source. The boundary between Hercynian and Andean Orogenies (250 Ma), is marked by: a sharp fall in Nd model ages of magmatic samples, (1 to 0.5 Ga); a fall in the calculated average source Rb/Sr ratio (0.6 to 0.2); and decrease in the inferred crustal reworking rate from between 1.75x Ga-i and 1.2x Ga-i to below 1.2x Ga b All these features reflect an increase in mantle involvement in the Andean orogeny relative to the Hercynian. A second shift in Nd model ages occurs at 25 Ma, the Nd model ages increase back to values comparable to the Hercynian data. Crustal thickening occurred at both these times, the first event probably involved magmatic underplating, the second was a purely intra-crustal event.
Additional file 1 of Recent advances in high-throughput mass spectrometry that accelerates enzyme engineering for biofuel research
Creators: name: Lihao Fu
name: Jianzhi Zhang
name: Si, Tong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.Â Graphical abstract and article highlight.
Direct detection of Salmonella from poultry samples by DNA isothermal amplification
Creators: name: Jéssica Waldman
name: Souza, Margarida Neves
name: Fonseca, André Salvador Kazantzi
name: Ikuta, Nilo
name: Lunge, Vagner Ricardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: 1. Salmonellosis is one of the most important diseases in public health and it is usually associated with poultry product consumption. This study aimed to validate rapid methods to detect Salmonella spp. from poultry samples. 2. A DNA isothermal amplification method, previously developed for other matrices, was applied for the specific detection of Salmonella spp. from various samples, including poultry tissues, drag and boot swabs, faeces and feed. A new procedure was validated with Salmonella spp. serotypes and isolates from other enteric bacterial species, as well as naturally contaminated poultry samples. 4. The study demonstrated the successful development and implementation of a procedure, including a DNA isothermal amplification method, for the detection of Salmonella spp. directly from tissues, drag and boot swabs, faeces and feed. The whole procedure can be performed in less than 24 hours and it has been successfully used in a veterinary diagnostic laboratory.
Using random regression models to estimate genetic variation in growth pattern and its association with sexual maturity of Thai native chickens
Creators: name: S. Tongsiri
name: J.H.J. Van Der Werf
name: L. Li
name: M.G. Jeyaruban
name: M.L. Wolcott
name: S. Hermesch
name: T. Chormai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. Genetic (co)variances and parameters between body weights (BW) across the growth trajectory were estimated using a univariate random regression (RR) animal model. The effect of growth rates (GH) on age at first egg (AFE) and egg weight at first egg (EWFE) were explored using a series of univariate and bivariate analyses. 3. Body weights were taken from Thai native chickens at hatch day to 168 days of age. The model included interactions between age with hatch nested within year and sex as fixed effects, and random effects of direct additive genetic, direct permanent environmental, maternal genetic and maternal permanent environmental effects. All random effects were fitted as regressions to animals’ age via quadratic Legendre polynomials and fitting six classes of residual variances were identified as an optimal variance structure to estimate parameters. 4. Genetic and phenotypic variances for BW increased with increasing age. Estimated heritabilities for direct additive (h2 a) and maternal genetic (h2 m) effects on BW traits ranged from 0.34 to 0.54, and 0.04 to 0.06, respectively. Estimated variance ratios for direct (c2 ape) and maternal permanent environmental (c2 mpe) effects ranged from 0.19 to 0.48 and 0.10 to 0.12, respectively. Estimated correlations between weights at different ages were high for all random effects. 5. Estimated h2 a for six GH traits ranged from 0.06 to 0.28, while for AFE and EWFE these were 0.24 and 0.16, respectively. Estimated h2 m and c2 mpe were low for GH. Estimated genetic correlations between GH and AFE ranged from -0.22 to 0.02 and, between GH and EWFE, ranged from -0.05 to 0.40. 8. These estimates suggested that selecting high GH chickens at 28 days of age can be expected to reduce AFE and to increase EWFE.
title: The new approach for non-invasive diagnosis of pancreatic fibrosis in chronic pancreatitis
Creators: name: Lesko, Konstantin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To study a new approach for non-invasive diagnosis of pancreatic fibrosis in chronic pancreatitis (CP)...
Evolving fuzzy CP^n and lattice n-simplex
Creators: name: Sasakura, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizing the previous works on evolving fuzzy two-sphere, I discuss evolving fuzzy CP^n by studying scalar field theory on it. The space-time geometry is obtained in continuum limit, and is shown to saturate locally the cosmic holographic principle. I also discuss evolving lattice n-simplex obtained by `compactifying' fuzzy CP^n. It is argued that an evolving lattice n-simplex does not approach a continuum space-time but decompactifies into an evolving fuzzy CP^n.
description: Typos corrected, 13 pages, no figures, LaTeX
A technique for the study of (p,n) reactions with unstable isotopes at energies relevant to astrophysics
Creators: name: Gastis, P.
name: Perdikakis, G.
name: Berg, G. P. A.
name: Dombos, A. C.
name: Estrade, A.
name: Falduto, A.
name: Horoi, M.
name: Liddick, S. N.
name: Lipschutz, S.
name: Lyons, S.
name: Montes, F.
name: Palmisano, A.
name: Pereira, J.
name: Randhawa, J. S.
name: Redpath, T.
name: Redshaw, M.
name: Schmitt, J.
name: Sheehan, J. R.
name: Smith, M. K.
name: Tsintari, P.
name: Villari, A. C. C.
name: Wang, K.
name: Zegers, R. G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed and tested an experimental technique for the measurement of low-energy (p,n) reactions in inverse kinematics relevant to nuclear astrophysics. The proposed setup is located at the ReA3 facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. In the current approach, we operate the beam-transport line in ReA3 as a recoil separator while tagging the outgoing neutrons from the (p,n) reactions with the low-energy neutron detector array (LENDA). The developed technique was verified by using the $^{40}$Ar(p,n)$^{40}$K reaction as a probe. The results of the proof-of-principle experiment with the $^{40}$Ar beam show that cross-section measurements within an uncertainty of $\sim$25\% are feasible with count rates up to 7 counts/mb/pnA/s. In this article, we give a detailed description of the experimental setup, and present the analysis method and results from the test experiment. Future plans on using the technique in experiments with the separator for capture reactions (SECAR) that is currently being commissioned are also discussed.
description: Submitted to NIMA. Revised manuscript after referees' first review
Agroholdings and Land Rental Markets: A Spatial Competition Perspective
Creators: name: Graubner, Marten
name: Ostapchuk, Igor
name: Gagalyuk, Taras
name: Graubner, Marten
name: Ostapchuk, Igor
name: Gagalyuk, Taras
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Land rental market
subject: Ukraine
subject: lokal market power

description: With the emergence of large, horizontally integrated farm enterprises especially in Eastern European countries, the question arises whether these agroholdings exercise market power in (local) land markets. Using a theoretical framework of spatial competition that accounts for the presence of multi-farm agroholdings, we derive equilibrium prices under alternative spatial competition settings. Based on the investigation of Ukrainian farms, we provide a theoretical explanation and empirical support that farms affiliated with an agroholding possess (ceteris paribus) more land and set higher land rental prices compared to independent farms. The results indicate that agroholdings can act as price leaders in local land markets.
Identification of differentially expressed genes and signalling pathways in the ovary of higher and lower laying ducks
Creators: name: Yanfa Sun
name: Wu, Qiong
name: Jiajia Pan
name: Li, Ting
name: Lingyu Liu
name: Donghong Chen
name: Xuemei Zhang
name: Hongping Chen
name: Li, Yan
name: Rulong Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: 1. Ovarian transcriptomic profiling between birds showing high egg number (HEN) and birds of low egg number (LEN) in Longyan Shan-ma ducks at 71 weeks of age was carried out using Illumina Hiseq 2500 technology. 2. A total of 343 differentially expressed genes (DEGs, 269 upregulated and 74 downregulated) were identified between HEN and LEN ovaries. These DEGs were enriched in 30 Gene Ontology terms. Pathway functional analysis found that the DEGs were enriched in ten metabolic pathways (P<0.05), one of which was regulation of the actin cytoskeleton pathway (Q<0.05). 3. Three integrin family genes, ITGB2, ITGB5 and ITGA8 were differentially expressed in the RNA-seq and qPCR experiments. 4. The DEGs and signalling pathways identified in ovarian tissue in this study provide new insights into high egg number production in Longyan Shan-ma duck.
Automated Clustering Algorithms for Classification of Astronomical Objects
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanxia
name: Zhao, Yongheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data mining is an important and challenging problem for the efficient analysis of large astronomical databases and will become even more important with the development of the Global Virtual Observatory. In this study, learning vector quantization (LVQ), single-layer perceptron (SLP) and support vector machines (SVM) were put forward for multi-wavelength data classification. A feature selection technique was used to evaluate the significance of the considered features to the results of classification. From the results, we conclude that in the situation of less features, LVQ and SLP show better performance. In contrast, SVM shows better performance when considering more features. The focus of the automatic classification is on the development of efficient feature-based classifier. The classifiers trained by these methods can be used for preselecting AGN candidates.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Polymorphic characterisation of gallinacin candidate genes and their molecular associations with growth and immunity traits in chickens
Creators: name: M. S. Saleh
name: M. H. Khalil
name: M. M. Iraqi
name: A. Camarda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1.Four gallinacin (GAL) genes were assessed by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) to characterise these genes in Fayoumi (F) and Rhode Island Red (R) breeds and their crosses of Rhode Island Red × Fayoumi (½R½F) and Fayoumi × Rhode Island Red (½F½R). 2.Genes examined were GAL2, GAL3, GAL4 and GAL5. The molecular associations between the SNPs of the gallinacin genes and body weight, caecal bacterial count and the serum antibody titres of IgA, IgG and IgM were determined. In the R breed, the frequency of TC genotype was higher than TT and CC genotypes for the GAL3 gene. The GG genotype frequency was higher than AA and AG genotypes for the GAL4 gene in the other genetic groups, and the CA genotype frequency was higher than CC and AA genotypes in crosses for the GAL5 gene. 3.In all populations, the frequency of the C allele was higher than the T allele for the GAL3 gene, the G allele was higher than the A allele for the GAL4 gene and the C allele was higher than the A allele for the GAL5 gene. The observed heterozygosity in R, ½R½F and ½F½R was 0.476, 0.375 and 0.158 for the GAL3 gene, 0.458, 0.615 and 0.250 for the GAL4 gene and 0.053, 0.792 and 0.739 for the GAL5 gene, while the expected heterozygosities were 0.490, 0.430 and 0.145 for the GAL3 gene, 0.430, 0.348 and 0.219 for the GAL4 gene and 0.229, 0.478 and 0.496 for the GAL5 gene, respectively. 4.On a molecular level, the genotype TT was significantly higher for body weight than TC and CC genotypes in the GAL3 gene. Birds with the GG genotype had a significantly lower Salmonella typhimurium count than birds with AA genotype in the GAL4 gene. Birds with the genotype AA had higher significant body weights than those with CC and CA genotypes in the GAL5 gene. 5.The results indicated that the GAL3, GAL4 and GAL5 genes are potential candidates for selection programmes to improve S. typhimurium resistance and body weight in chickens.