cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring nighttime road traffic noise: A comprehensive predictive surface for Toronto, Canada
Creators: name: Drudge, Christopher
name: Johnson, James
name: MacIntyre, Elaina
name: Li, Ye
name: Copes, Ray
name: Ing, Stanley
name: Johnson, Steven
name: Varughese, Sunil
name: Chen, Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Road traffic noise can adversely impact the health of city residents, particularly when it occurs at night. The objective of this study was to evaluate nighttime traffic ambient noise in Toronto, Canada using measured and model-estimated noise levels. Road traffic noise was measured at 767 locations over 3 seasonal sampling campaigns between June 2012 and October 2013 to fully capture noise variability in Toronto. Temporal and campaign-specific spatial models, developed using the noise measurements, were used to build a final predictive surface. The surface was capable of estimating noise across the city over a 24-hr time frame. Measured and surface-estimated noise levels were compared with guidelines from the World Health Organization and the Province of Ontario to identify areas where noise may pose a health risk. Measured mean nighttime noise in Toronto exceeded World Health Organization (40 dBA) guidelines and mean daytime noise exceeded provincial (55 dBA) guidelines. The final predictive surface, incorporating spatial variables and daily cycles in noise levels, provides noise estimates geocoded for the entire study area. This tool could be used for epidemiological studies and to inform noise mitigation efforts. Based on surface-estimated noise levels during the quietest time of night (2 a.m.–2:30 a.m.), 100% of Toronto has nighttime noise exceeding 40 dBA (mean = 57 dBA, range = 49–110 dBA). A predictive surface was developed to estimate geocoded noise levels and facilitate further study of noise in Toronto. This tool can be used to assess road traffic noise, particularly at night, as an environmental health hazard.
$Υ(1S)$ transverse momentum spectra through dissociation and regeneration in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Hong, Juhee
name: Lee, Su Houng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the transition between a quarkonium state and an unbound heavy quark-antiquark pair through gluo-dissociation and inelastic parton scattering using a partonic picture that interpolates between the formal limits based on potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) at different temperatures. While the thermal width increases with momentum and temperature, the quarkonium regeneration is affected by the heavy quark distribution function which depends on the diffusion constant. By solving the Boltzmann equation with the dissociation and regeneration terms, we investigate the medium modifications of quarkonium momentum spectra. Our numerical results indicate that the $Υ(1S)$ $R_{AA}$ at high transverse momentum are influenced by the regeneration effects depending on the heavy quark diffusion. In this picture, the published CMS data that show an almost transverse momentum independence can be explained by the interplay between the suppression by dissociation and enhancement by regeneration at low and high transverse momenta, respectively. With the same input, we also calculate the transverse momentum dependence of the $Υ(1S)$ $v_2$ and show that it lies within the limits of the available data.
IMPACT OF LEGUME TECHNOLOGIES ON FOOD SECURITY: EVIDENCE FROM ZAMBIA
Creators: name: Sauer, Christine M.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Mofya-Mukaka, Rhoda
name: Sauer, Christine M.
name: Mason, Nicole M.
name: Maredia, Mywish K.
name: Mofya-Mukaka, Rhoda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
International Development
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis

description: Despite the many potential benefits of legume cultivation, there is scarce empirical evidence on whether and how producing legumes affects smallholder farm households’ food security. We use nationally representative household panel survey data from Zambia to estimate the differential effects on cereal-growing households of incorporating legumes into their farms via cereal-legume intercropping, cereal-legume rotation, and other means. Results suggest that cereal-legume rotation is positively and significantly associated with households’ months of adequate food provisions, and calorie and protein production. In contrast, cereal-legume intercropping generally has no statistically significant effect on the indicators of food security of Zambian smallholders.
MOESM7 of Hemimethylation of CpG dyads is characteristic of secondary DMRs associated with imprinted loci and correlates with 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at paternally methylated sequences
Creators: name: Nechin, Julianna
name: Tunstall, Emma
name: Naideline Raymond
name: Hamagami, Nicole
name: Pathmanabhan, Chris
name: Forestier, Samantha
name: Davis, Tamara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 7: Figure S1. The paternally methylated secondary DMRs associated with H19 and Cdkn1c display a high level of hemimethylation. Bisulfite mutagenesis and sequencing of F1 hybrid DNA derived from 14.5 dpc BxC embryos and adult BxC liver. Individual circles in each row represent one of the potentially methylated CpG dinucleotides analyzed at the H19-ppDMR (A) or the Cdkn1c DMR (B), and each paired row of circles represents the complementary strands of an individual subclone; semi-circles to the right or left indicate the location of the linker connecting the complementary strands. Filled circles represent methylated cytosines, open circles represent unmethylated cytosines, absent circles represent ambiguous data. Alphanumeric labels identify subclones analyzed; letters represent independent amplification reactions, while numbers represent individual subclones. Subclones derived from the same amplification that have identical sequence and methylation patterns are grouped together, as it was not possible to determine if these amplicons were derived from the same or different template molecules.
Cosmos caudatus as a dietary supplement for Bagrid Catfish,Mystus nemurus
Creators: name: Nor Maisarah Rameli
name: Md. Abdul Kader
name: Najiah Musa
name: Rahmah, Sharifah
name: Zainathan, Sandra
name: Ong Chee Hong
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cosmos caudatus
crude leaves
leaves extract
specific growth rate
fish body composition

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 2, 575-581
Programming Soft Robots with Flexible Mechanical Metamaterials
Creators: name: Rafsanjani, Ahmad
name: Bertoldi, Katia
name: Studart, André R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complex behavior of highly deformable mechanical metamaterials can substantially enhance the performance of soft robots.
Quark scattering at QGP/2SC interface
Creators: name: Sadzikowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We considered the phenomenon of the Andreev reflection of quarks at the interface between the cold quark-gluon plasma phase and 2SC color superconductor.
description: 4 pages. Minor changes in "Conclusions"
Additional file 1 of Immunization with Pneumocystis carinii A121–85 antigen activates immune function against P. carinii
Creators: name: Tong, Tong
name: Wang, Zhongxin
name: Xu, Yuanhong
name: Shen, Jilu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. The normal distribution test of the Fig. 1A data. Supplementary Fig. 2. The normal distribution test of the Fig. 2 data.(A. Figure 2A data; B. Figure 2B data). Supplementary Fig. 3. The normal distribution test of the Fig. 3 data.(A. Figure 3A data; B. Figure 3B data; C. Figure 3C data).
Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) ayacucho Polhemus & Spangler 1995
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Stridulivelia
Stridulivelia ayacucho

description: Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) ayacucho Polhemus & Spangler, 1995
Geographical distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, and Argentina.
Distribution in Brazil: North and Southeast regions (PA, MG) (Polhemus & Spangler 1995; Melo & Nieser 2004).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Sub-milliwatt threshold power and tunable-bias all-optical nonlinear activation function using vanadium dioxide for wavelength-division multiplexing photonic neural networks
Creators: name: Parra, Jorge
name: Navarro-Arenas, Juan
name: Sanchis, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The increasing demand for efficient hardware in neural computation highlights the limitations of electronic-based systems in terms of speed, energy efficiency, and scalability. Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) photonic neural networks offer a high-bandwidth, low-latency alternative but require effective photonic activation functions. Here, we propose a power-efficient and tunable-bias all-optical nonlinear activation function using vanadium dioxide (VO2) for WDM photonic neural networks. We engineered a SiN/BTO waveguide with a VO2 patch to exploit the phase-change material's reversible insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) for nonlinear activation. We conducted numerical simulations to optimize the waveguide geometry and VO2 parameters, minimizing propagation and coupling losses while achieving a strong nonlinear response and low-threshold activation power. Our proposed device features a sub-milliwatt threshold power, a footprint of 5 $μ$m, and an ELU-like activation function. Temporal dynamics show a rise time as low as 5 $μ$s. Moreover, the bias of our device could be thermally tuned, improving the speed and power efficiency. On the other hand, performance evaluations using the CIFAR-10 dataset confirmed the device's potential for convolutional neural networks (CNN). Our results show that a hybrid VO2/SiN/BTO platform could play a prominent role in the path towards the development of high-performance photonic neural networks.
Supplementary document for Snapshot spectral polarimetric light field imaging using a single detector - 4960471.pdf
Creators: name: Lv, Xiaobo
name: Li, Yiwei
name: zhu, shuaishuai
name: Guo, Xinmin
name: Zhang, Jianlong
name: Lin, Jie
name: Jin, Peng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Information regarding the optical setup and the theoretical model as well as the alignment and calibration method used in the main text along with details of the accuracy experiments of multi-dimensional imaging and an artificial reduction technique.
Testing neutrino mass matrices with approximate L_e-L_mu-L_tau symmetry
Creators: name: Goh, H. S.
name: Mohapatra, R. N.
name: Ng, S. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As neutrino experiments are starting to probe the detailed structure of the neutrino mass matrix, we present sumrules relating its matrix elements for a class of models with approximate $L_e-L_μ-L_τ$ symmetry and the observables in neutrino oscillation experiments. We show that regardless of how the above symmetry is broken (whether in the neutrino sector or the charged lepton sector), as long as the breaking terms are small, there is a lower bound on the solar neutrino mixing angle, $sin^22θ_{\odot}$, correlated with the solar mass difference square, $Δm^2_{\odot}$, or the mixing parameter, $U_{e3}$. We also discuss models where such patterns can arise.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; references and a note added; figure labelling fixed
Green synthesis of cerium oxide nanoparticles using aloevera leafextract and its optical properties
Creators: name: S. Sebastiammal
name: S. Sonia
name: J. Henry
name: A. Lesly Fathima
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: biosynthesis
CeO2 NPs
PXRD
FTIR
UV-DRS
FESEM

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 2, 582-587
Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) quadrispinosa
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Stridulivelia
Stridulivelia quadrispinosa

description: Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) quadrispinosa (Hungerford, 1929)
Geographical distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia.
Distribution in Brazil: North Region (PA) (Hungerford 1929b; Polhemus & Spangler 1995).
Comments: Polhemus and Spangler (1995) recorded the species from AM, based on material collected by Dr. E. J. Fittkau in a locality with the code “A 88-1.” The location of this site has been checked on Dr. Fittkau’s field notes, and it is actually located on PA, not AM. The species is, therefore, not known from AM.
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Synthetic Trajectory Generation Through Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Merhi, Jesse
name: Buchholz, Erik
name: Kanhere, Salil S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Location trajectories provide valuable insights for applications from urban planning to pandemic control. However, mobility data can also reveal sensitive information about individuals, such as political opinions, religious beliefs, or sexual orientations. Existing privacy-preserving approaches for publishing this data face a significant utility-privacy trade-off. Releasing synthetic trajectory data generated through deep learning offers a promising solution. Due to the trajectories' sequential nature, most existing models are based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, research in generative adversarial networks (GANs) largely employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image generation. This discrepancy raises the question of whether advances in computer vision can be applied to trajectory generation. In this work, we introduce a Reversible Trajectory-to-CNN Transformation (RTCT) that adapts trajectories into a format suitable for CNN-based models. We integrated this transformation with the well-known DCGAN in a proof-of-concept (PoC) and evaluated its performance against an RNN-based trajectory GAN using four metrics across two datasets. The PoC was superior in capturing spatial distributions compared to the RNN model but had difficulty replicating sequential and temporal properties. Although the PoC's utility is not sufficient for practical applications, the results demonstrate the transformation's potential to facilitate the use of CNNs for trajectory generation, opening up avenues for future research. To support continued research, all source code has been made available under an open-source license.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST 2024)
Optimization of quantum dots for solar cell applications
Creators: name: Lekshmi Gangadhar
name: P. K Praseetha
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: cadmium sulfide
zinc sulfide
quantum dots
core/shell
solar cells

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 2, 588-595
Three new α-pyrone derivatives from the plant endophytic fungus Penicillium ochrochloronthe and their antibacterial, antifungal, and cytotoxic activities
Creators: name: Zhao, Ting
name: Xu, Lu-Lin
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Lin, Zheng-Hong
name: Xia, Tao
name: Yang, Deng-Feng
name: Chen, Ye-Miao
name: Yang, Xiao-Long
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Three new 3,4,6-trisubstituted α-pyrone derivatives, namely 6-(2′R-hydroxy-3′E,5′E-diene-1′-heptyl)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (1), 6-(2′S-hydroxy-5′E-ene-1′-heptyl)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (2), and 6-(2′S-hydroxy-1′-heptyl)-4 -hydroxy-3-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (3), together with one known compound trichodermic acid (4), were isolated from the solid-substrate fermentation culture of Penicillium ochrochloronthe associated the roots of Taxus media. Compounds 1–4 displayed the antimicrobial activity selectively against tested fungal and bacterial strains with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ranging from 12.5 to 100 μg/ml. Furthermore, we found that only compound 4 exhibited moderate cytotoxicity against five human cancer cells (A549, LN229, MGC, LOVO, and MDA231) with IC50 values of 51.45, 23.43, 39.16, 46.97, and 42.85 μg/ml, respectively.
Secure Mobile Technologies for Proactive Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness
Creators: name: Salles-Loustau, Gabriel
name: Sadhu, Vidyasagar
name: Pompili, Dario
name: Zonouz, Saman
name: Sritapan, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trustworthy operation of our national critical infrastructures, such as the electricity grid, against adversarial parties and accidental failures requires constant and secure monitoring capabilities. In this paper, Eyephone is presented to leverage secure smartphone sensing and data acquisition capabilities and enable pervasive sensing of the national critical infrastructures. The reported information by the smartphone users will notify the control center operators about particular accidental or malicious remote critical infrastructure incidents. The reporting will be proactive regarding potentially upcoming failures given the system's current risky situation, e.g., a tree close to fall on a power grid transmission line. The information will include various modalities such as images, video, audio, time and location. Eyephone will use system-wide information flow analysis and policy enforcement to prevent user privacy violations during the incident reportings. A working proof-of-concept prototype of Eyephone is implemented. Our results show that Eyephone allows secure and effective use of smartphones for real-time situational awareness of our national critical infrastructures.
description: 6 pages, IEEE HST 2016
Irreversibility in Non-reciprocal Chaotic Systems
Creators: name: Pham, Tuan
name: Alonso, Albert
name: Proesmans, Karel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How is the irreversibility of a high-dimensional chaotic system controlled by the heterogeneity in the non-reciprocal interactions among its elements? In this paper, we address this question using a stochastic model of random recurrent neural networks that undergoes a transition from quiescence to chaos at a critical heterogeneity. In the thermodynamic limit, using dynamical mean field theory, we obtain an exact expression for the averaged entropy production rate - a measure of irreversibility - for any heterogeneity level J. We show how this quantity becomes a constant at the onset of chaos while changing its functional form upon crossing this point. The latter can be elucidated by closed-form approximations valid for below and slightly above the critical point and for large J.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
An Empirical Analysis of Socio-Demographic Stratification in Sweetened Carbonated Soft-Drink Purchasing
Creators: name: Rhodes, Charles
name: Rhodes, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: sugar-sweetened beverages
subject: Heckit
subject: scanner data
subject: demographic sub-groups

description: Caloric soft drinks are the number one source of added sugars in U.S. diets, and are associated with many health problems. Three recent years of household purchase, household demographic, and industry advertising data allow Heckit estimation to identify how specific demographic groups vary in their purchase response to marketing of sweetened carbonated soft drinks (sCSDs) at the product category level. Empirical results reveal unique non-linear patterns of household purchase response to sCSD-industry price, sale, and advertising signals that vary significantly by specific demographic characteristics. Isolating the effects of either price, sale, or advertising on household purchase, highest education level of high school or less for the household head tends to be the most robust predictor of higher sCSD purchase, followed by household income at or below the poverty level for a family of four. The novel approach and results here contribute to the literature by estimating how rising education level for a fixed level of household income will variously affect sCSD purchase quantity depending on the ethnicity of the household, and does the same fixing education level across rising income level. Econometric controls are used to avoid estimation and inference errors the literature warns commonly accompany the Heckman specification.
Earthshine as an Illumination Source at the Moon
Creators: name: Glenar, David A.
name: Stubbs, Timothy J.
name: Schwieterman, Edward W.
name: Robinson, Tyler D.
name: Livengood, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earthshine is the dominant source of natural illumination on the surface of the Moon during lunar night, and at locations within permanently shadowed regions that never receive direct sunlight. As such, earthshine may enable the exploration of areas of the Moon that are hidden from solar illumination. The heat flux from earthshine may also influence the transport and cold trapping of volatiles present in the very coldest areas. In this study, Earth's spectral radiance at the Moon is examined using a suite of Earth spectral models created using the Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) three dimensional modeling capability. At the Moon, the broadband, hemispherical irradiance from Earth near 0 phase is approximately 0.15 watts per square meter, with comparable contributions from solar reflectance and thermal emission. Over the simulation timeframe, spanning two lunations, Earth's thermal irradiance changes less than a few mW per square meter as a result of cloud variability and the south-to-north motion of sub-observer position. In solar band, Earth's diurnally averaged light curve at phase angles < 60 degrees is well fit using a Henyey Greenstein integral phase function. At wavelengths > 0.7 microns, near the well known vegetation "red edge", Earth's reflected solar radiance shows significant diurnal modulation as a result of the longitudinal asymmetry in projected landmass, as well as from the distribution of clouds. A simple formulation with adjustable coefficients is presented for estimating Earth's hemispherical irradiance at the Moon as a function of wavelength, phase angle and sub-observer coordinates. It is demonstrated that earthshine is sufficiently bright to serve as a natural illumination source for optical measurements from the lunar surface.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, 1 table
Additional file 1: of Mortality and severe morbidity of very preterm infants: comparison of two French cohort studies
Creators: name: Anais Godeluck
name: Gérardin, Patrick
name: Lenclume, Victorine
name: Mussard, Corinne
name: Pierre-Yves Robillard
name: Sampériz, Sylvain
name: Benhammou, Valérie
name: Truffert, Patrick
name: Pierre-Yves Ancel
name: Duksha Ramful
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Consensual definitions of neonatal outcomes between the Observatoire de La Grande Prématurité, La Réunion (OGP) cohort and the EPIPAGE 2 mainland France cohort. (DOCX 17 kb)
The Islamic State’s Rebel Governance
Creators: name: Teiner, David
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Islamischer Staat
subject: Verwaltungshandeln

description: The Islamic State is arguably the most prominent Islamist insurgent group to have attracted increased international attention in recent years, although it first emerged in the late 20th century, and this is largely a result of its significant territorial conquests in Iraq and Syria and the proclamation of its own global caliphate in June 2014 (Tønnessen 2018: 60). While research on the Islamic State's ideology, propaganda, financing, military strategy, recruitment of foreign fighters, and use of the Internet and social media has been conducted extensively in a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, media science, criminology, Islamic studies, history, and many others, systematic and in-depth analysis of the Islamic State's rebel governance, though not entirely unexplored, has remained comparatively under-researched. This thesis builds on the above-mentioned issues and employs existing insights and concepts from Rebel Governance to systematically examine the transformation of the Islamic State’s territorial control into functional governance. In addition, through a comprehensive analysis of Islamic State administrative documents, which are continuously contextualized using secondary literature, this thesis develops a comprehensive portrait of the Islamic State's rebel governance. The following research questions are consequently derived from this approach: in what ways did the Islamic State engage in rebel governance during the height of its territorial control in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017, and how can the utilization of concepts and insights from Rebel Governance, and the qualitative analysis of Islamic State administrative documents, improve our knowledge of the Islamic State's rebel governance and help to generate new insights into it?
Dynamical and correlation properties of the Internet
Creators: name: Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo
name: Vazquez, Alexei
name: Vespignani, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The description of the Internet topology is an important open problem, recently tackled with the introduction of scale-free networks. In this paper we focus on the topological and dynamical properties of real Internet maps in a three years time interval. We study higher order correlation functions as well as the dynamics of several quantities. We find that the Internet is characterized by non-trivial correlations among nodes and different dynamical regimes. We point out the importance of node hierarchy and aging in the Internet structure and growth. Our results provide hints towards the realistic modeling of the Internet evolution.
description: 4 pages, 4 EPS figures
Non-linear modelling of construction workers' behaviorsfor accident prediction
Creators: name: Nart Sooksil
name: Vacharapoom Benjaoran
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: artificial neural network
capability
cognitive engineering
construction safety
logistic regression
task demand
workers' behaviors

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 2, 596-602
Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Stridulivelia
Stridulivelia raspa

description: Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) raspa (Hungerford, 1929)
Geographical distribution: Brazil.
Distribution in Brazil: North Region (AM) (Hungerford 1929b; Polhemus & Spangler 1995).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
First Principles Study of Electronic Structure and Fermi Surface in Rare-earth Filled Skutterudites RPt4Ge12
Creators: name: Pascut, Gheorghe Lucian
name: Widom, Michael
name: Haule, Kristjan
name: Quader, Khandker F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments on rare-earth filled skutterudites demonstrate an intriguing array of thermodynamic, transport and superconducting properties, and bring to fore theoretical challenges posed by f-electron systems. First principle calculations based density functional theory and its extensions for strongly correlated systems such as the Hubbard U correction, provide valuable information about electronic structure that can be used to understand experiments. We present a comprehensive study of the electronic structure and Fermi surface of a series of rare earth filled skutterudites, RPt4Ge12 (where R = La, Ce, Pr), aimed at shedding light on: consequences of progressive increase of f-orbital occupancy in the series; the effects of the Hubbard parameter U; the Fermi surfaces, band structures and densities of states. The calculated Fermi surfaces may be relevant to the question of multi-band versus single-band superconductivity. Computed densities of states qualitatively explain the available resonant photoemission spectroscopy experiments, and (together with available specific heat measurements) provide estimates of the effective masses. We also show the existence of pseudogaps in the total density of states which may be relevant for the thermoelectric properties of these systems.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Renormalon structure in compactified spacetime
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Kosuke
name: Morikawa, Okuto
name: Shibata, Kazuya
name: Suzuki, Hiroshi
name: Takaura, Hiromasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the location of renormalon singularities in theory on a circle-compactified spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{d-1} \times S^1$ (with a small radius $R Λ\ll 1$) can differ from that on the non-compactified spacetime $\mathbb{R}^d$. We argue this under the following assumptions, which are often realized in large $N$ theories with twisted boundary conditions: (i) a loop integrand of a renormalon diagram is volume independent, i.e. it is not modified by the compactification, and (ii) the loop momentum variable along the $S^1$ direction is not associated with the twisted boundary conditions and takes the values $n/R$ with integer $n$. We find that the Borel singularity is generally shifted by $-1/2$ in the Borel $u$-plane, where the renormalon ambiguity of $\mathcal{O}(Λ^k)$ is changed to $\mathcal{O}(Λ^{k-1}/R)$ due to the circle compactification $\mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}^{d-1} \times S^1$. The result is general for any dimension $d$ and is independent of details of the quantities under consideration. As an example, we study the $\mathbb{C} P^{N-1}$ model on $\mathbb{R} \times S^1$ with $\mathbb{Z}_N$ twisted boundary conditions in the large $N$ limit.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in PTEP
Computational symplectic topology and symmetric orbits in the restricted three-body problem
Creators: name: Joung, Chankyu
name: van Koert, Otto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we propose a computational approach to proving the Birkhoff conjecture on the restricted three-body problem, which asserts the existence of a disk-like global surface of section. Birkhoff had conjectured this surface of section as a tool to prove existence of a direct periodic orbit. Using techniques from validated numerics we prove the existence of an approximately circular direct orbit for a wide range of mass parameters and Jacobi energies. We also provide methods to rigorously compute the Conley-Zehnder index of periodic Hamiltonian orbits using computational tools, thus giving some initial steps for developing computational Floer homology and providing the means to prove the Birkhoff conjecture via symplectic topology. We apply this method to various symmetric orbits in the restricted three-body problem.
Highly degenerate photonic flat bands arising from complete graph configurations
Creators: name: Wang, Hanyu
name: Yang, Biao
name: Xu, Wei
name: Fan, Yuancheng
name: Guo, Qinghua
name: Zhu, Zhihong
name: Chan, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by complete graph theory, we demonstrate that a metallic claw "meta-atom" structure can carry a high number of nearly degenerate resonant modes. A photonic meta-crystal composing of a lattice of such meta-atoms exhibits a large number of flat bands that are squeezed into a narrow frequency window, and these flat bands can be designed to locate in a wide complete 3D bandgap. The degeneracy dimension (Nf) of the flat bands is determined by the number of branches (Nb) of the metallic claw with Nf=Nb-3, which is geometrically related to the complete graph theory. Different from those flat bands emerging from special lattice arrangements (e.g., Kagome lattice), the isolated flat bands here are insensitive to lattice perturbations. The proposed mechanism offers a new platform for realizing various dispersion-less phenomena and a new paradigm to realize high density of states and spectra compressing.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
The Treatment of Sleep Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disorders
Creators: name: Voysey, Zanna J.
name: Barker, Roger A.
name: Lazar, Alpar S.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Review
Sleep
Insomnia
Neurodegeneration
Dementia
Alzheimer’s
Parkinson’s

description: Funder: Medical Research Council; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
description: Funder: National Institute for Health Research; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272
description: Abstract: Sleep dysfunction is highly prevalent across the spectrum of neurodegenerative conditions and is a key determinant of quality of life for both patients and their families. Mounting recent evidence also suggests that such dysfunction exacerbates cognitive and affective clinical features of neurodegeneration, as well as disease progression through acceleration of pathogenic processes. Effective assessment and treatment of sleep dysfunction in neurodegeneration is therefore of paramount importance; yet robust therapeutic guidelines are lacking, owing in part to a historical paucity of effective treatments and trials. Here, we review the common sleep abnormalities evident in neurodegenerative disease states and evaluate the latest evidence for traditional and emerging interventions, both pharmacological and nonpharmacological. Interventions considered include conservative measures, targeted treatments of specific clinical sleep pathologies, established sedating and alerting agents, melatonin, and orexin antagonists, as well as bright light therapy, behavioral measures, and slow-wave sleep augmentation techniques. We conclude by providing a suggested framework for treatment based on contemporary evidence and highlight areas that may emerge as major therapeutic advances in the near future.
OECD’s work on agricultural policy: A bridge between research and government
Creators: name: Cahill, Carmel
name: Cahill, Carmel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agricultural support
subject: OECD
subject: decoupling
subject: agricultural policy
subject: risk
subject: Agrarprotektion
subject: Agrarstützung
subject: Entkopplung
subject: Agrarpolitik
subject: Risiko

description: The role of the OECD in linking the research and policy communities is described as well as the processes whereby OECD member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to illustrate the approaches and processes used. Attention is drawn to gaps in data or analysis, from the point of view of the needs of policy-makers. Areas of priority interest for policy research in the future are explored. Dieser Artikel analysiert die Rolle der OECD in der Vermittlung zwischen Forschung und praktischer Agrarpolitik. Am Beispiel der Entkopplung der agrarpolitischen Stützung werden die analytischen Ansätze sowie Abstimmungsprozesse zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten in der OECD beschrieben. Aus der Sicht der praktischen Politikgestaltung werden Defizite der analytischen Ansätze sowie der verfügbaren Datenbanken aufgezeigt und Prioritäten für die zukünftige Schwerpunktsetzung der Arbeit in der OECD diskutiert.
MOESM6 of Hemimethylation of CpG dyads is characteristic of secondary DMRs associated with imprinted loci and correlates with 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at paternally methylated sequences
Creators: name: Nechin, Julianna
name: Tunstall, Emma
name: Naideline Raymond
name: Hamagami, Nicole
name: Pathmanabhan, Chris
name: Forestier, Samantha
name: Davis, Tamara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 6. Primers and PCR cycling conditions for 5hmC analyses for each DMR analyzed in this study.
The Political Economy of the Most Radical Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: 2003 Reform
subject: Mid Term Review
subject: Political Economy
subject: Fischler Reform
subject: Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik
subject: 2003-Reform
subject: Halbzeitbewertung
subject: Politische Ökonomie
subject: Fischler-Reform

description: The 2003 reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) under Commissioner Fischler was the most radical in the history of the CAP. This paper analyzes the causes and constraints of the 2003 reform. The paper argues that an unusual combination of pro-reform factors such as institutional reforms, changes in the number and quality of the political actors involved in the reform process, and strong calls to reform from external factors came together in the first few years of the 21st century, allowing this reform to be possible. Die 2003-Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU unter Kommissar Fischler ist die bisher radikalste Reform in der Geschichte der EU. In diesem Artikel werden die Faktoren untersucht, die die Reform ermöglicht, aber in ihrer Ausgestaltung auch begrenzt haben. Es wird gezeigt, dass eine ungewöhnliche Kombination von „pro-Reform-Faktoren“ wie institutionellen Reformen, Veränderungen in der Zusammensetzung und Anzahl der politischen Akteure und aus verschiedenen externen Faktoren resultierender Reformdruck zu Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts diese Reform ermöglicht hat.
Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) stridulata
Creators: name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio
name: Alecrim, Viviani Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Veliidae
Stridulivelia
Stridulivelia stridulata

description: Stridulivelia (Stridulivelia) stridulata (Hungerford, 1929)
Geographical distribution: Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. The record from Colombia provided by Roback and Nieser (1974) has been overlooked by Polhemus and Spangler (1995).
Distribution in Brazil: North Region (PA, AM) (Polhemus & Spangler 1995).
description: Published as part of Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Ribeiro, José Ricardo Inacio & Alecrim, Viviani Pereira, 2011, Checklist and distribution of semiaquatic and aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha) occurring in Brazil 2958, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 2958 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2958.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281851
Organic and inorganic fertilization on the yield and quality of soybean
Creators: name: Khaim, S.
name: Chowdhury, M.A.H.
name: Saha, B.K.
name: Khaim, S.
name: Chowdhury, M.A.H.
name: Saha, B.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Soybean
subject: Organic and inorganic fertilizers
subject: Yield
subject: Protein
subject: Oil contents

description: Combined application of organic and inorganic fertilizers can play an important role for increasing yield and quality of soybean. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted at Genetics and Plant Breeding farm, Bangladesh Agricultural University from July to November, 2011 to evaluate the effect of cowdung and poultry manure with chemical fertilizer on the yield and quality of soybean cv. BINA soybean-2. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design having 9 treatments viz. control (CT), 100% recommended dose of chemical fertilizers (RDCF100%), 50% RDCF (RDCF50%), cowdung 10 t ha-1 (CD10 t ha-1), 50% RDCF + CD 5 t ha-1 (RDCF50% + CD5 t ha-1), 75% RDCF + CD 3 t ha-1 (RDCF75% + CD3 t ha-1), poultry manure 3 t ha-1 (PM3 t ha-1), 50% RDCF + PM 1.5 t ha-1 (RDCF50% + PM1.5 t ha-1) and 75% RDCF + PM 1 t ha-1 (RDCF75% + PM1 t ha-1) with 3 replications. All the treatments significantly influenced the yield, yield attributing parameters and protein content except oil content of BINA soybean-2. The highest plant height, yield, branches plant-1, filled pods plant-1, grain plant-1 and 100-grain wt. were found in RDCF100%, which were statistically identical with RDCF75%+PM1 t ha-1 and RDCF75%+CD3 t ha-1 and the lowest values of all the parameters were obtained from control treatment. The maximum protein content was observed in RDCF100%, which was identical to RDCF75%+PM1 t ha-1 and RDCF75%+CD3 t ha-1 and the lowest value was found in control. The overall finding of this study indicated that organic manure in combination with the recommended dose of chemical fertilizers can be applied to achieve better yield and quality of soybean as well as to improve soil fertility status.
How do short-term associations between diet quality and metabolic risk vary with age?
Creators: name: Winpenny, Eleanor M.
name: Van Sluijs, Esther M. F.
name: Forouhi, Nita G.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Contribution
DASH
Adolescent
Early adulthood
Diet quality
Metabolic syndrome
Cardiovascular risk

description: Abstract: Purpose: Poor diet quality is one of the key contributors to poor cardiovascular health and associated morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess how the short-term associations between diet quality and metabolic risk factors change with age. Methods: This longitudinal, observational study used data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (2008–2016) (n = 2024). Diet quality was measured using the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) index, fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake, and a F&V biomarker score. We assessed associations between measures of diet quality and a metabolic risk z score (generated from five metabolic risk factors) among those aged 11–60 years, and then tested effect modification by age group (adolescents 11–18 years, young adults 19–35 years, mid-aged adults 36–60 years). Results: Analysis across all age groups showed inverse associations between standardised DASH index and metabolic risk z score of − 0.19 (95% CI − 0.26, − 0.11). These associations were moderated by age group, with strong associations seen in mid-aged adults: − 0.27 (95% CI − 0.39, − 0.16), but associations were significantly attenuated in young adults [− 0.10 (95% CI − 0.22, 0.01)] and adolescents [0.03 (95% CI − 0.05, 0.11)]. Similar results were found for F&V intake and F&V biomarker score. Conclusions: Short-term associations between diet quality and metabolic risk are not consistent across adolescent and young adult age groups, suggesting that mechanisms by which diet impacts on metabolic risk may be acting differently in younger age groups compared to adults. Further research is warranted using longitudinal study designs and replication in different populations to understand changes in determinants of cardiometabolic health with age.