cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Operads and embeddings
Creators: name: De Leger, Florian
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis, our objective is to present a strategy of a new proof of the weak equivalence Emb(R1, Rm) ∼ Ω2MapOp(D1,Dm), where Emb(R1, Rm) is the space of tangentially straightened long knots in Rm (see [1]) and MapOp(D1,Dm) is the space of operadic morphisms from the little 1-disk operad to the little m-disk operad. The existing proofs of Turchin [2] and Dwyer-Hess [1] are based on homotomy theory. We develop a more categorical proof which uses the theory of internal algebra classifiers [3] and explains conceptually the 'raison d'etre' of such a delooping. It also allows us to employ powerfu categorical/combinatorial techniques developed in [3] for proving and generalising of this sort of results. Our proof should admit a generalisation to higher dimensions, known as Dwyer-Hess conjecture.
Additional file 1: of Study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial to compare human papillomavirus based cervical cancer screening in community-health campaigns versus health facilities in western Kenya
Creators: name: Huchko, Megan
name: Kahn, James
name: Smith, Jennifer
name: Hiatt, Robert
name: Cohen, Craig
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: WHO Trial Registry Data. (PDF 86 kb)
An examination of equity, production, and cost in community college finance
Creators: name: Kasmin, Richard Bruce
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: In this series of essays, merged institutional and community-representative datasets are analyzed to explore interstate variability in community college expenditure and revenue, education production, and the cost of community college completions. Evidence is presented that factors, such as socioeconomic variables, instructor inputs, size and degree of urbanization of institutions, are significant across states in explaining variability in revenue, expenditure, production, and cost. By use of these models, factors are explored that potentially mediate relationships between spending, revenue, cost, and student outcomes. These essays and the findings within make contributions to the literature on community college finance by presenting empirical evidence that national datasets can be used to estimate financial equity across states, the association between instructor investments and student outcomes, the cost of community college completions, and what factors mediate these relationships.
Three-dimensional Topological Insulators and Bosonization
Creators: name: Cappelli, Andrea
name: Randellini, Enrico
name: Sisti, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massless excitations at the surface of three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulators possess both fermionic and bosonic descriptions, originating from band theory and hydrodynamic BF gauge theory, respectively. We analyze the corresponding field theories of the Dirac fermion and compactified boson and compute their partition functions on the three-dimensional torus geometry. We then find some non-dynamic exact properties of bosonization in (2+1) dimensions, regarding fermion parity and spin sectors. Using these results, we extend the Fu-Kane-Mele stability argument to fractional topological insulators in three dimensions.
description: 54 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 13: Figure S11. of A reconstruction of sexual modes throughout animal evolution
Creators: name: Sasson, Daniel
name: Ryan, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Stochastic character mapping ancestral-state reconstruction for the â ctenophore-sisterâ topology with the gonochrositc Xenoturbella profunda replacing the hermaphrodite X. bocki. The inclusion of the gonochoristic X. profunda has an especially strong effect on the LCA of Bilateria. Blue circles indicate gonochorism, red circles hermaphroditism, and yellow circles asexuality. (PDF 157 kb)
Coexistence of Surface Lattice Resonances and Bound states In the Continuum in a Plasmonic Lattice
Creators: name: Trinh, Quoc Trung
name: Nguyen, Sy Khiem
name: Nguyen, Dinh Hai
name: Tran, Gia Khanh
name: Le, Viet Hoang
name: Nguyen, Hai Son
name: Le-Van, Quynh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study on a 2D array of plasmonic structures covered by a subwavelength film. We explain the origin of surface lattice resonances (SLRs) using coupled dipole approximation and show that the diffraction-assisted plasmonic resonances and formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs) can be controlled by altering the optical environment. Our study shows that when the refractive index contrast is small ( $Δ$n < -0.1), the SLR cannot be excited, while a significant contrast ($Δ$n > 0.3) not only sustains plasmonic-induced resonances but also forms both symmetry-protected and accidental BICs. The results can aid the streamlined design of plasmonic lattices in studies on light-matter interaction and applications in biosensors and optoelectronic devices.
Spectral analysis of photonic crystals made of thin rods
Creators: name: Holzmann, Markus
name: Lotoreichik, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we address the question how to design photonic crystals that have photonic band gaps around a finite number of given frequencies. In such materials electromagnetic waves with these frequencies can not propagate; this makes them interesting for a large number of applications. We focus on crystals made of periodically ordered thin rods with high contrast dielectric properties. We show that the material parameters can be chosen in such a way that transverse magnetic modes with given frequencies can not propagate in the crystal. At the same time, for any frequency belonging to a predefined range there exists a transverse electric mode that can propagate in the medium. These results are related to the spectral properties of a weighted Laplacian and of an elliptic operator of divergence type both acting in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$. The proofs rely on perturbation theory of linear operators, Floquet-Bloch analysis, and properties of Schroedinger operators with point interactions.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
Pseudomonas aeruginosa LptE is crucial for LptD assembly, cell envelope integrity, antibiotic resistance and virulence
Creators: name: Sciuto, Alessandra Lo
name: Martorana, Alessandra M.
name: Fernández-Piñar, Regina
name: Mancone, Carmine
name: Polissi, Alessandra
name: Imperi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an essential structural component of the outer membrane (OM) of most Gram-negative bacteria. In the model organism Escherichia coli, LPS transport to the OM requires seven essential proteins (LptABCDEFG) that form a continuous bridge across the cell envelope. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa the recently-demonstrated essentiality of LptD and LptH, the P. aeruginosa LptA homologue, confirmed the crucial role of the Lpt system and, thus, of LPS in OM biogenesis in this species. Surprisingly, independent high-throughput transposon mutagenesis studies identified viable P. aeruginosa insertion mutants in the lptE gene, suggesting that it might be dispensable for bacterial growth. To test this hypothesis, we generated an lptE conditional mutant in P. aeruginosa PAO1. LptE depletion only slightly impairs P. aeruginosa growth in vitro. Conversely, LptE is important for cell envelope stability, antibiotic resistance and virulence in an insect model. Interestingly, the maturation and OM localization of LPS is only marginally affected in LptE-depleted cells, while the levels of the OM component LptD are strongly reduced. This suggests that P. aeruginosa LptE might not be directly involved in LPS transport, although it is clearly essential for the maturation and/or stability of LptD. While poor functionality of LptD caused by LptE depletion is somehow tolerated by P. aeruginosa, this has a high cost in terms of cell integrity, drug resistance and virulence, highlighting LptE function(s) as an interesting target to weaken P. aeruginosa defenses and reduce its infectivity.
Additional file 1 of A novel inflammation-related prognostic biomarker for predicting the disease-free survival of patients with colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Cai, Xiaoling
name: Chen, Fa
name: Liang, Lisheng
name: Jiang, Weizhong
name: Liu, Xing
name: Wang, Dong
name: Wu, Yunli
name: Chen, Jinyan
name: Guan, Guoxian
name: Peng, Xian-e
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline tumor markers and inflammation index of patients with colorectal cancer. Fig. S1. Coefficients deviance of the LASSO analysis. Fig. S2. A, B, C X-tile analysis on the optimal cutoff points of NSAP. Fig. S3. A Kaplan-Meier curves for disease-free survival of CRC patients. according to the stage; B according to alpha-fetoprotein (AFP); C according to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Fig. S4. A Calibration curve of nomogram of 1-Year DFS. B Calibration curve of nomogram of 2-Year DFS.
Outcomes of end of range axilla splinting in children following burn injury
Creators: name: Thomas, Rhianydd
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores the prevalence and predictors of hypertrophic scarring and burn scar contracture in adults and children. It builds upon the limited evidence base of axilla splinting as an intervention, which may be a valuable treatment strategy to prevent axilla contracture following burn injury to this area. To date, two randomised control trials have been completed into the effectiveness of axilla splinting at 90° abduction post burn in adult cohorts. In children, the only available evidence is a case series of 23 children splinted between 90° and 160° abduction post burn, published in 1985. Anecdotally, at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead splinting the axilla at end of range post burn injury is well-tolerated with excellent range of movement outcomes. Therefore, a retrospective study was completed, exploring outcomes from January 2006 to July 2016 in 76 children. No child developed contracture of the axilla for the duration of the 2 year study follow-up with no adverse events recorded. Children who required splinting ≥60 days to maintain full axilla range of movement had a higher frequency of deep burn, flame mechanism and burn distribution involving the anterior trunk, flank and arm compared to children who were splinted <60 days. Early signs of contracture, considered to be loss of full axilla range of movement or significant banding, developed in 9 children within the first 3 months post burn. All 9 children responded to intensive therapy with restoration of full axilla range by 9 months post burn. End of range splinting may be a valuable intervention to maintain axilla range of movement in children following a burn to this area. To provide better evidence of the efficacy, feasibility and safety of end of range axilla splinting, comparison of this intervention to other types of axilla splinting practice or exercise only is recommended. Future research should also focus on improving reporting of the prevalence and predictors of burn scar contracture and hypertrophic scarring.
Additional file 1: of Identifying models of HIV care and treatment service delivery in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia using cluster analysis and Delphi survey
Creators: name: Tsui, Sharon
name: Denison, Julie
name: Kennedy, Caitlin
name: Chang, Larry
name: Koole, Olivier
name: Kwasi Torpey
name: Praag, Eric Van
name: Farley, Jason
name: Ford, Nathan
name: Leine Stuart
name: Wabwire-Mangen, Fred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: â ART Task-Shifting Survey.pdfâ is the file of the structured survey used to collect task-shifting and task-sharing practices of ART services. This survey was embedded in the larger healthcare manager survey and assessed staffing practices of major ART tasks, including registration, triage, ART initial prescription, ART monitoring and management, clinical services, referral services, ART dispensing at the HIV clinic, ART drug adherence counselling, phlebotomy, follow-up on missed appointments and defaulters, medical records management, and other services. (PDF 78Â kb)
Molecular epidemiology of Giardia duodenalis in Australia
Creators: name: Asher, Amy Jeannette
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study investigates Giardia duodenalis contributing to sporadic clinical cases in NSW between 2010 and 2013, and to cases among children of a high prevalence remote Indigenous community. The study also developed and evaluated two new molecular screening tools, terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and multilocus next generation sequencing for Giardia identification. In NSW, G. duodenalis assemblage B was highly prevalent, and patients aged 0 – 39 years were most at risk. Subtyping showed cases were highly similar (BIV). Spatial mapping demonstrated seasonal links in the geographic dispersal of assemblage A across NSW. High Giardia carriage rates (64.9%) were detected among remote Indigenous children, and over 50% of cases were not detectable by microscopy. A variety of assemblages, subassemblages/genotypes persisted in the community over a 12 month period, and these assemblages and subassemblages were not linked to child age or gender. Mixed assemblage B population infections were higher among remote community children than children in NSW. Application of T-RFLP and multilocus NGS to community studies enabled powerful detection of Giardia, and deep population analyses of individual cases. The study significantly progresses knowledge of Giardia transmission in NSW, and among remote community children, and has facilitated new approaches to Giardia research.
Plasma Brightenings in a Failed Solar Filament Eruption
Creators: name: Li, Y.
name: Ding, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Failed filament eruptions are solar eruptions that are not associated with coronal mass ejections. In a failed filament eruption, the filament materials usually show some ascending and falling motions as well as generate bright EUV emissions. Here we report a failed filament eruption that occurred in a quiet-Sun region observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. In this event, the filament spreads out but gets confined by the surrounding magnetic field. When interacting with the ambient magnetic field, the filament material brightens up and flows along the magnetic field lines through the corona to the chromosphere. We find that some materials slide down along the lifting magnetic structure containing the filament and impact the chromosphere to cause two ribbon-like brightenings in a wide temperature range through kinetic energy dissipation. There is evidence suggesting that magnetic reconnection occurs between the filament magnetic structure and the surrounding magnetic fields where filament plasma is heated to coronal temperatures. In addition, thread-like brightenings show up on top of the erupting magnetic fields at low temperatures, which might be produced by an energy imbalance from a fast drop of radiative cooling due to plasma rarefaction. Thus, this single event of failed filament eruption shows existence of a variety of plasma brightenings that may be caused by completely different heating mechanisms.
description: ApJ accepted. Comments are welcome
Χειρουργική της επιληψίας σε άτομα με νευροαναπτυξιακές διαταραχές. Συσχέτιση της βελτίωσης της αποκλίνουσας συμπεριφοράς με την μείωση των επιληπτικών επεισοδίων. Συστηματική ανασκόπηση
Creators: name: Γιαννακόπουλος, Νικόλαος Θεοδώρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Νευροαναπτυξιακές διαταραχές
Επιληψία
Χειρουργική αντιμετώπιση
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Epilepsy
Surgical treatment

description: Εισαγωγή – Σκοπός: Οι ασθενείς που πάσχουν από νευροαναπτυξιακές διαταραχές, με βασικότερες το αυτιστικό φάσμα, την ΔΕΠΥ και την νοητική υστέρηση εμφανίζουν σημαντικά ποσοστά συννοσηροτήτων. Η επιληψία αποτελεί μία πάθηση που απαντάται στα άτομα αυτά σε μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό συγκριτικά με τον γενικό πληθυσμό. Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής αποτέλεσε η μελέτη της επίδρασης της ελάττωσης των επιληπτικών επεισοδίων με χειρουργική μέθοδο στην αποκλίνουσα συμπεριφορά των ασθενών αυτών. Υλικό και Μέθοδος: Διενεργήθηκε συστηματική ανασκόπηση της υπάρχουσας αγγλόφωνης βιβλιογραφίας χρησιμοποιώντας τις μεγάλες βάσεις δεδομένων προς αναζήτηση των σχετικών δημοσιεύσεων. Η επιλογή των άρθρων πραγματοποιήθηκε με βάση τις κατευθυντήριες οδηγίες PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). Αποτελέσματα: Εξάχθηκαν μετεγχειρητικά δεδομένα από συνολικά 22 άρθρα που πληρούσαν τα κριτήρια επιλογής. Τα στοιχεία αυτά αφορούσαν τον αριθμό των επιληπτικών κρίσεων, τις μεταβολές στη συμπεριφορά και τη χειρουργική τεχνική που εφαρμόστηκε. Συμπεράσματα: Η πλειοψηφία των δημοσιεύσεων αποδεικνύει την ύπαρξη συσχέτισης μεταξύ της βελτίωσης της συμπεριφοράς και της μείωσης των επιληπτικών κρίσεων έπειτα από χειρουργική παρέμβαση.
description: Introduction – Aim: Patients with neurodevelopmental disorders, primarily autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and mental retardation, exhibit significant rates of comorbidities. Epilepsy is more common in these individuals compared to the general population. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of reducing epileptic seizures utilizing surgical techniques on the aberrant behavior of these patients. Materials and Methods: A systematic review of the existing English-language literature was conducted using major databases to identify relevant publications. The selection of articles was carried out based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. Results: Postoperative findings were extracted from a total of 22 studies that met the inclusion criteria. These data included the number of epileptic seizures, changes in behavior, and the surgical techniques applied. Conclusions: Most of the publications demonstrate an association between behavioral improvement and the reduction of epileptic seizures following surgical intervention.
Capite coperto/aperto in context: selected depictions of female head covering on statuary and in relief sculptures in the Large and Small Herculaneum woman types from the Roman world between the 1st century B.C.E. and 4th century C.E.
Creators: name: Smith, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis I examine head coverings among selected sculptural representations of women in the Large and Small Herculaneum types as they appear in portrait statues, reliefs and sarcophagi from the Roman world in the period between the 1st century B.C.E. and the early 4th century C.E. Where enough contextual information survives, I explore the possible reasons why the female figure depicted has a head covering or not. I focus primarily on depictions of married women, representations of mother-figures and portraits of women depicted alongside statuesque iconography on sepulchral monuments and in civic commemorations. My study enriches our knowledge of women from the Roman world, highlighting the different forms of their representation within sculptural monuments, as well as the nuanced and multivalent reasons for portraying women with and without head coverings within visual commemorations.
Higgs Pair Production at NLO QCD for CP-violating Higgs Sectors
Creators: name: Grober, R.
name: Muhlleitner, M.
name: Spira, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgs pair production through gluon fusion is an important process at the LHC to test the dynamics underlying electroweak symmetry breaking. Higgs sectors beyond the Standard Model (SM) can substantially modify this cross section through novel couplings not present in the SM or the on-shell production of new heavy Higgs bosons that subsequently decay into Higgs pairs. CP violation in the Higgs sector is important for the explanation of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry through electroweak baryogenesis. In this work we compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections in the heavy top quark limit, including the effects of CP violation in the Higgs sector. We choose the effective theory (EFT) approach, which provides a rather model-independent way to explore New Physics (NP) effects by adding dimension-6 operators, both CP-conserving and CP-violating ones, to the SM Lagrangian. Furthermore, we perform the computation within a specific UV-complete model and choose as benchmark model the general 2-Higgs-Doublet Model with CP violation, the C2HDM. Depending on the dimension-6 coefficients, the relative NLO QCD corrections are affected by several per cent through the new CP-violating operators. This is also the case for SM-like Higgs pair production in the C2HDM, while the relative QCD corrections in the production of heavier C2HDM Higgs boson pairs deviate more strongly from the SM case. The absolute cross sections both in the EFT and the C2HDM can be modified by more than an order of magnitude. In particular, in the C2HDM the resonant production of Higgs pairs can by far exceed the SM cross section.
On Improving the Capacity of Solving Large-scale Wireless Network Design Problems by Genetic Algorithms
Creators: name: D'Andreagiovanni, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the last decade, wireless networks have experienced an impressive growth and now play a main role in many telecommunications systems. As a consequence, scarce radio resources, such as frequencies, became congested and the need for effective and efficient assignment methods arose. In this work, we present a Genetic Algorithm for solving large instances of the Power, Frequency and Modulation Assignment Problem, arising in the design of wireless networks. To our best knowledge, this is the first Genetic Algorithm that is proposed for such problem. Compared to previous works, our approach allows a wider exploration of the set of power solutions, while eliminating sources of numerical problems. The performance of the algorithm is assessed by tests over a set of large realistic instances of a Fixed WiMAX Network.
description: This is the authors' final version of the paper published in Di Chio C. et al. (Eds): EvoApplications 2011, LNCS 6625, pp. 11-20, 2011. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_2
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0087v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0087v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0087v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Let Me and My Metadata Alone: Australia's Compliance with Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Creators: name: Maluga, Paul
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In 2015, Australia enacted legislation to require telecommunications service providers to retain user and subscriber metadata for a period of two years. The retention of metadata, classified under legislation as personal information, raises concerns of the potential of unlawful privacy intrusions into the private lives of individuals by state and non-state actors. The aim of this research is to evaluate whether the legislation is consistent with Australia's obligations under article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This paper explores the development of the concept of privacy as a human right and illustrates that privacy concerns closely followed with advances in technology, capable of being delineated into three waves of privacy discourse. Daniel Solove's taxonomy of privacy is used to analyse threats to privacy engendered by metadata retention. Using international legal instruments, this research offers a set of requirements that must be satisfied for privacy intrusions to be deemed legitimate, necessary and proportionate. Upon applying the international legal requirements to the metadata retention legislation, this research concludes that Australia does not meet its international legal obligations to protect individual privacy against unlawful or arbitrary interference.
Additional file 1 of Quantifying heterogeneity in individual participant data meta-analysis with binary outcomes
Creators: name: Chen, Bo
name: Benedetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. The Median (IQR) of the estimated Ď 2 when no effect modification was present. Table S2. Sensitivity of heterogeneity measures to accounting for effect modification when prevalence of the outcome was 70%. Median (IQR) was presented. Table S3. Sensitivity of heterogeneity measures Ď emod 2 Ď crude 2 $\left(\frac{\tau_{\text{emod}}^{2}}{\tau^{2}_{\text{crude}}}\right)$ to accounting for effect modification. Median (IQR) was presented. (PDF 145 kb)
Vascular endothelial growth factor B inhibits lipid accumulation in C2C12 myotubes incubated with fatty acids
Creators: name: Li, Ling-Jie
name: Ma, Jin
name: Li, Song-Bo
name: Chen, Xuefei
name: Zhang, Jing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To investigate (1) the effect of vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGFB) on lipid accumulation and the alteration of fatty acids and fatty acid-related enzymes in C2C12 myotubes incubated with fatty acids and (2) the regulatory effect of VEGFB on skeletal muscle lipid metabolism. Mouse C2C12 myotubes were incubated with oleic acid (OA) and palmitic acid (PA), and differentiated mature C2C12 myotubes were treated with VEGFB. Oil-red O staining, BODIPY staining and cell triglycerides (TG) content were examined. Total RNA was isolated, and real-time PCR analysis was performed. Treatment with 100 μM OA and 50 μM PA induced lipid droplet accumulation and increased TG content (p < .01), and 100 ng/mL VEGFB reduced lipid droplet accumulation and decreased TG content (p < .01). Treatment with 100 ng/mL VEGFB significantly induced the mRNA expression of fatty acid transport protein 1 (FATP1) (p < .01) and FATP4 (p < .01). Treatment with 100 ng/mL VEGFB significantly induced the mRNA expression of adipose TG lipase and hormone-sensitive lipase (p < .01) as well as carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (p < .01), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α (p < .01), acyl-coa dehydrogenase very long chain (p < .05), acyl-coa synthetase long-chain family member 1 (p < .01), peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 1 (p < .05), and mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (p < .01). VEGFB enhanced FATP1and FATP4 expression, promoted C2C12 myotube fatty acid oxidation and TG decomposition, and inhibited C2C12 myotube fatty acid re-esterification, thus inhibiting lipid accumulation in C2C12 myotubes incubated with fatty acids.
Strong coupling between an electron in a quantum dot circuit and a photon in a cavity
Creators: name: Bruhat, L. E
name: Cubaynes, T.
name: Viennot, J. J.
name: Dartiailh, M. C.
name: Desjardins, M. M.
name: Cottet, A.
name: Kontos, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circuit quantum electrodynamics allows one to probe, manipulate and couple superconducting quantum bits using cavity photons at an exquisite level. One of its cornerstones is the possibility to achieve the strong coupling which allows one to hybridize coherently light and matter. Its transposition to quantum dot circuits could offer the opportunity to use new degrees of freedom such as individual charge or spin. However, the strong coupling of quantum dot circuits to cavity photons remains to be observed. Here, we demonstrate a hybrid superconductor-quantum dot circuit which realizes the strong coupling of an individual electronic excitation to microwave photons. We observe a vacuum Rabi splitting 2g~10 MHz which exceeds by a factor of 3 the linewidth of the hybridized light-matter states. Our findings open the path to ultra-long distance entanglement of quantum dot based qubits. They could be adapted to many other circuit designs, shedding new light on the roadmap for scalability of quantum dot setups.
Additional file 12: Figure S10. of A reconstruction of sexual modes throughout animal evolution
Creators: name: Sasson, Daniel
name: Ryan, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Transitions across the stochastic character mapping ancestral state reconstruction of the â sponge-sisterâ topology averaged over 1000 simulations. Blue represents separate sexes, red hermaphroditism, and yellow asexuality. Gradations between those colors indicate areas where transitions were simulated to have occurred. R script used to generate this PDF is available here: https://github.com/josephryan/2017b_Sasson_and_Ryan . (PDF 4 kb)
Separating the Material and Geometry Contribution to the Circular Dichroism of Chiral Objects Made from Chiral Media
Creators: name: Rebholz, Lukas
name: Krstić, Marjan
name: Zerulla, Benedikt
name: Pawlak, Mateusz
name: Lewandowski, Wiktor
name: Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan
name: Rockstuhl, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chirality of an object can be studied by measuring the circular dichroism, that is, the difference in absorption of light with different helicity. The chiral optical response of an object, however, can have two different origins. On the one hand, it can be linked to the chiral geometry of the object. On the other hand, it can be linked to the chiral material from which the object is made. Whereas previously, no distinction between the two contributions could be made, we report here a computational approach that allows us to separate these two contributions to the circular dichroism of an object. We consider separately the cases where geometry-related resonances affect the optical response and where they are absent. In both cases, we find the circular dichroism to be easily decomposable if a geometrically achiral object has a similar absorption spectrum to the chiral object under investigation. Furthermore, in the non-resonant case, the contribution attributed to the material can be obtained without taking any geometry into account. Besides being of fundamental importance, the possibility of disentangling both contributions will be important for guiding the future design of chiral objects and devices.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa LptE is crucial for LptD assembly, cell envelope integrity, antibiotic resistance and virulence
Creators: name: Lo Sciuto, Alessandra
name: M. Martorana, Alessandra
name: Fernández-Piñar, Regina
name: Mancone, Carmine
name: Polissi, Alessandra
name: Imperi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an essential structural component of the outer membrane (OM) of most Gram-negative bacteria. In the model organism Escherichia coli, LPS transport to the OM requires seven essential proteins (LptABCDEFG) that form a continuous bridge across the cell envelope. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa the recently-demonstrated essentiality of LptD and LptH, the P. aeruginosa LptA homologue, confirmed the crucial role of the Lpt system and, thus, of LPS in OM biogenesis in this species. Surprisingly, independent high-throughput transposon mutagenesis studies identified viable P. aeruginosa insertion mutants in the lptE gene, suggesting that it might be dispensable for bacterial growth. To test this hypothesis, we generated an lptE conditional mutant in P. aeruginosa PAO1. LptE depletion only slightly impairs P. aeruginosa growth in vitro. Conversely, LptE is important for cell envelope stability, antibiotic resistance and virulence in an insect model. Interestingly, the maturation and OM localization of LPS is only marginally affected in LptE-depleted cells, while the levels of the OM component LptD are strongly reduced. This suggests that P. aeruginosa LptE might not be directly involved in LPS transport, although it is clearly essential for the maturation and/or stability of LptD. While poor functionality of LptD caused by LptE depletion is somehow tolerated by P. aeruginosa, this has a high cost in terms of cell integrity, drug resistance and virulence, highlighting LptE function(s) as an interesting target to weaken P. aeruginosa defenses and reduce its infectivity.
Regulation of TrkB activity by PTPN11 is mediated through transmembrane protein Caveolin in the inner retina
Creators: name: Abbasi, Mojdeh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its high affinity receptor tropomyosin-related kinase receptor B (TrkB) play a protective role in the survival of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in healthy and disease states. SH2 domain tyrosine phosphatase PTPN11 (Shp2) is a ubiquitously expressed tyrosine phosphatase that regulates TrkB receptor and its activation is mediated through its interactions with the adapter protein Caveolin (Cav-1). This study determines the involvement of Cav-1 in facilitating Shp2 mediated inner retinal effects by genetically upregulating Shp2 expression in Cav-1 knockout mice.Shp2 was over-expressed in mice retina (n=38) through intravitreal injection of recombinant adeno-associated virus vector (AAV2). Wildtype and Cav-1 transgenic mice were used and for each animal one eye was transduced with PTPN11 transgene whereas GFP expression in the contralateral eye was used as control. Retinal functional changes were assessed by electroretinogram (ERG) and scotopic threshold response (STR) recordings. In vivo imaging using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and histological analysis were used to evaluate structural changes in the retinal laminar structure. Shp2 upregulation resulted in significantly reduced STR amplitude in both WT and Cav-1+/- mice (p<0.001 and p<0.01 respectively). Cav-1-/- group on the other hand demonstrated only a slight loss of STR amplitudes upon Shp2 upregulation that was statistically insignificant. Cellular density in the ganglion cell layer (GCL) was also significantly reduced in WT and Het groups (p<0.001 and p<0.01 respectively). Shp2 upregulation did not result in a significant decrease in the GCL density in Cav-1-/- mice. Together, these results suggest a novel role of Cav-1 in mediating Shp2 actions in retina particularly RGCs. Loss of Cav-1 exerts a protective effect particularly on the inner retinal function and structure. Future studies will help establish the pathophysiological cross talk between these two proteins.
Evaluating non-market costs of ICT involving data transmission in smart cities
Creators: name: Yang, Wenjing
name: Lam, Patrick T. I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Smart cities are spurred by rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Cost justification has been a challenging but essential decision-making aspect for smart city projects. Whilst market costs are measurable, non-market costs are often obscure and even intangible. The adverse effects on individuals arising from ICT services are usually underestimated due to the exclusion of intangible elements. This study is devoted to the non-market costs of ICT to users (i.e. Privacy leak, Cyber-attack, Non-availability, and Impediment) and non-users (due to Digital divide) in smart cities. Contingent Valuation is conducted on representative ICT services in Hong Kong which is an emerging smart city. Ordinal regression is adopted to calculate Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for avoiding detriments as the proxy of non-market cost. The results indicate that the WTPs increase with data input needs. Information overload is remarkable in smart cities. Age is identified as a significant determinant through a discussion of influential factors of WTP. The impacts of Age on digital divide are studied with further insights through supplementary interviews. The estimated non-market costs should be incorporated into the Cost–Benefit Analysis of smart city projects for decision-making. Accordingly, policy recommendations on ICT use and security are provided for smart city managers.
The Harmonic Oscillator Potential Perturbed by a Combination of Linear and Non-linear Dirac Delta Interactions with Application to Bose-Einstein Condensation
Creators: name: Akyüz, Cenk
name: Erman, Fatih
name: Uncu, Haydar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the bound state analysis of a one dimensional nonlinear version of the Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator potential perturbed by a $δ$ potential, where the nonlinear term is taken to be proportional to $δ(x) |ψ(x)|^2 ψ(x)$. The bound state wave functions are explicitly found and the bound state energy of the system is algebraically determined by the solution of an implicit equation. Then, we apply this model to the Bose-Einstein condensation of a Bose gas in a harmonic trap with a dimple potential. We propose that the many-body interactions of the Bose gas can be effectively described by the nonlinear term in the Schrödinger equation. Then, we investigate the critical temperature, the condensate fraction, and the density profile of this system numerically.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, published version
Hemolysis in human erythrocytes by Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin requires activation of P2 receptors
Creators: name: Gao, Jie
name: Xin, Wenwen
name: Huang, Jing
name: Ji, Bin
name: Gao, Shan
name: Chen, Liang
name: Kang, Lin
name: Yang, Hao
name: Shen, Xin
name: Zhao, Baohua
name: Wang, Jinglin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Epsilon-toxin (ETX) is produced by types B and D strains of Clostridium perfringens, which cause fatal enterotoxaemia in sheep, goats and cattle. Previous studies showed that only a restricted number of cell lines are sensitive to ETX and ETX-induced hemolysis has not previously been reported. In this study, the hemolytic ability of ETX was examined using erythrocytes from 10 species including murine, rabbit, sheep, monkey and human. We found that ETX caused hemolysis in human erythrocytes (HC50 = 0.2 μM) but not erythrocytes from the other test species. Moreover, the mechanism of ETX-induced hemolysis was further explored. Recent studies showed that some bacterial toxins induce hemolysis through purinergic receptor (P2) activation. Hence, the function of purinergic receptors in ETX-induced hemolysis was tested, and we found that the non-selective P2 receptor antagonists PPADS inhibited ETX-induced lysis of human erythrocytes in a concentration-dependent manner, indicating that ETX-induced hemolysis requires activation of purinergic receptors. P2 receptors comprise seven P2X (P2X1–7) and eight P2Y (P2Y1, P2Y2, P2Y4, P2Y6, and P2Y11–P2Y14) receptor subtypes. The pattern of responsiveness to more selective P2-antagonists implies that both P2Y13 and P2X7 receptors are involved in ETX-induced hemolysis in human species. Furthermore, we demonstrated that extracellular ATP is likely not involved in ETX-induced hemolysis and the activation of P2 receptors. These findings clarified the mechanism of ETX-induced hemolysis and provided new insight into the activities and ETX mode of action.
Excitation of magnon accumulation by laser clocking as a source of long-range spin waves in transparent magnetic films
Creators: name: Jäckl, M.
name: Belotelov, V. I.
name: Akimov, I. A.
name: Savochkin, I. V.
name: Yakovlev, D. R.
name: Zvezdin, A. K.
name: Bayer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical tools are of great promise for generation of spin waves due to the possibility to manipulate on ultrashort time scales and to provide local excitation. However, a single laser pulse can inject spin waves only with a broad frequency spectrum, resulting in a short propagation distance and low amplitude. Here we excite a magnetic garnet film by a train of fs-laser pulses with 1 GHz repetition rate so that pulse separation is smaller than decay time of the magnetic modes which allows to achieve collective photonic impact on magnetization. It establishes a quasi-stationary source of SWs, namely a coherent magnon accumulation ("magnon cloud"). This approach has several appealing features: (i) the source is tunable; (ii) the SW amplitude can be significantly enhanced; (iii) the spectrum of the generated SWs is quite narrow that provides longer propagation distance; (iv) the periodic pumping results in almost constant in time SW amplitude up to 100 um away from the source; and (v) the SW emission shows a pronounced directionality. These results expand the capabilities of ultrafast coherent optical control of magnetization and pave a way for applications in data processing, including the quantum regime. The quasi-stationary magnon accumulation might be also of interest for the problem of magnon Bose-Einstein condensate.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 8: Table S8. of Low serum sodium concentration is a prognostic factor related to current blood glucose level in stable hemodialysis patients: an observational study
Creators: name: Nagai, Kojiro
name: Ueda, Sayo
name: Tsuchida, Kenji
name: Doi, Toshio
name: Minakuchi, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Demographic and clinical characteristics of low sodium or high sodium stable older patients. (PDF 131Â kb)