cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potential gains in life expectancy from reducing amenable mortality among people diagnosed with serious mental illness in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Dregan, Alex
name: McNeill, Ann
name: Gaughran, Fiona
name: Jones, Peter B.
name: Bazley, Anna
name: Cross, Sean
name: Lillywhite, Kate
name: Armstrong, David
name: Smith, Shubulade
name: Osborn, David P. J.
name: Stewart, Robert
name: Wykes, Til
name: Hotopf, Matthew
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: To estimate the potential gain in life expectancy from addressing modifiable risk factors for all-cause mortality (excluding suicide and deaths from accidents or violence) across specific serious mental illness (SMI) subgroups, namely schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar disorders in a Western population. Methods: We have used relative risks from recent meta-analyses to estimate the population attribution fraction (PAF) due to specific modifiable risk factors known to be associated with all-cause mortality within SMI. The potential gain in life expectancy at birth, age 50 and age 65 years were assessed by estimating the combined effect of modifiable risk factors from different contextual levels (behavioural, healthcare, social) and accounting for the effectiveness of existing interventions tackling these factors. Projections for annual gain in life expectancy at birth during a two-decade was estimated using the Annual Percentage Change (APC) formula. The predicted estimates were based on mortality rates for year 2014–2015. Results: Based on the effectiveness of existing interventions targeting these modifiable risk factors, we estimated potential gain in life expectancy at birth of four (bipolar disorders), six (schizoaffective disorders), or seven years (schizophrenia). The gain in life expectancy at age 50 years was three (bipolar disorders) or five (schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders) years. The projected gain in life expectancy at age 65 years was three (bipolar disorders) or four (schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders) years. Conclusions: The implementation of existing interventions targeting modifiable risk factors could narrow the current mortality gap between the general and the SMI populations by 24% (men) to 28% (women). These projections represent ideal circumstances and without the limitation of overestimation which often comes with PAFs.
Critical exponents for two-dimensional percolation
Creators: name: Smirnov, Stanislav
name: Werner, Wendelin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B43, 60K35

description: We show how to combine Kesten's scaling relations, the determination of critical exponents associated to the stochastic Loewner evolution process by Lawler, Schramm, and Werner, and Smirnov's proof of Cardy's formula, in order to determine the existence and value of critical exponents associated to percolation on the triangular lattice.
description: to appear in Math. Res. Lett
MOESM1 of The Microphenotron: a robotic miniaturized plant phenotyping platform with diverse applications in chemical biology
Creators: name: Burrell, Thomas
name: Fozard, Susan
name: Holroyd, Geoff
name: French, Andrew
name: Pound, Michael
name: Bigley, Christopher
name: C. James Taylor
name: Forde, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. The assembled clamping device used to hold a set of 12 Phytostrips in place so that they can be inverted and sealed at their base with adhesive film. Figure S2. 3-D drawing showing a cross-section of one of the plate-holders. Figure S3. Custom-made fingers for the robotic gripper. Figure S4. Images showing the effect of a range of IAA concentrations on root and shoot development and the reproducibility of the seedling phenotypes across each Phytostrip.
FINANCING TRANSPORTATION IN FISCALLY CONSTRAINED TIMES: TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES FOR MUMBAI, INDIA.
Creators: name: Apte, Prakash M.
name: Apte, Prakash M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The strategy detailed in this paper proposes to build on the current strengths of the existing transportation network, optimize its utilization, convert the threats into opportunities and shun the temptation to make Mumbai look like Shanghai or Singapore by taking up grandiose projects like trans- harbor sea links, elevated light rail or ‘Sky bus’ projects. In fiscally constrained times, the only alternative is to OPTIMIZE available infrastructure to; double the capacity of suburban trains with double decker coaches and bus service by dedicated bus lanes that can transform into light rail tracks in future; restrict entry of private cars in the city by area licensing, and prohibit cars 2 days a week; initiate ‘Park & Ride’ schemes at rail stations and bus depots, facilitate pedestrians and two wheelers for the east-west traffic, construct elevated pedestrian walkways as extensions of the foot over bridges at rail stations; provide a satellite air terminal in south Mumbai; reconsider construction of the Trans-Harbour link bridge using the investment instead for creation of employment opportunities on the mainland and construct a ‘calm sea channel’ along the west coast instead of the west island expressway, to facilitate plying of ferries all the year round.
Probing the dark energy with strong lensing by clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Sereno, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of clusters of galaxies that gravitationally lens faint background galaxies can probe the amount and the equation of state, $\5$, of the dark energy (quintessence) in the universe. Provided that the mass profile and the mass normalization of the cluster are determined, it is possible to constrain the cosmological parameters that enter the lensing equations by means of the angular diameter distances, by locating (either by observations of giant arcs and magnification bias effect) the critical lines corresponding to known redshift source populations of galaxies. This method can help to distinguish between accelerating and decelerating models of the universe. Furthermore, since the position of critical lines is affected, especially in low-matter density universes, by the properties of quintessence, the observations of a suitable number of lensing clusters at intermediate redshifts can determine the equation of state. A very preliminary application of the method to the cluster CL 0024+1654 seems to support a flat accelerating universe dominated by dark energy.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, A&A in press
The maximum mass of a black hole which can tidally disrupt a star: measuring black hole spins with tidal disruption events
Creators: name: Mummery, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tidal acceleration experienced by an object at the event horizon of a black hole decreases as one over the square of the black hole's mass. As such there is a maximum mass at which a black hole can tidally disrupt an object outside of its event horizon and potentially produce observable emission. This maximum mass is known as the ``Hills mass'', and in full general relativity is a function of both the black hole's spin $a_\bullet$ and the inclination angle of the incoming object's orbit with respect to the black hole's spin axis $ψ$. In this paper we demonstrate that the Hills mass can be represented by a simple analytical function of $a_\bullet$ and $ψ$, the first general solution of this problem. This general solution is found by utilising the symmetries of a class of critical Kerr metric orbits known as the innermost bound spherical orbits. Interestingly, at fixed black hole spin the maximum Hills mass can lie at incoming orbital inclinations outside of the black hole's equatorial plane $ψ\neq π/2$. When compared to previous results in the literature this effect can lead to an increase in the maximum Hills mass (at fixed spin) by as much as a factor of $\sqrt{11/5} \simeq 1.48$ for a maximally rotating black hole. We then demonstrate how Bayesian inference, coupled with an estimate of the mass of a black hole in a tidal disruption event, can be used to place conservative constraints on that black hole's spin. We provide a publicly available code tidalspin which computes these spin distributions.
description: V2: Typographical errors corrected in equations C1 and C6. No results changed. With thanks to Bence Kocsis. V1: 16 pages + appendices, 15 figures. Version accepted for publication in MNRAS. Code for computing spin posteriors available at https://github.com/andymummeryastro/tidalspin
title: Contested landscapes: third-party certification and the blue economy in West Africa
Creators: name: Ambe-Uva, Terhemba
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, the blue economy has emerged as among the most critical market-based solutions to achieve a ‘triple-win’ for marine resources, climate change, and fisher’s livelihood. Surprisingly, despite the grandiose claims, we continue to know little about how the blue growth strategy can achieve this triple-win. This thesis seeks to address the overarching question: How has third-party certification distributed political and economic power in West Africa’s fisheries, and in turn, how has it been resisted or accepted by fishers? I argue that the blue economy needs certified fisheries and aquaculture. The corporate seafood regime has led to keystone corporations reorganizing the seafood system to increase their profits through certified products, and by using a sustainable narrative trope that rationalizes and perpetuates access and control to West African fisheries resources. The implication is that certification schemes are orienting fisheries for export instead of self-sufficiency. I also argue that marginal actors such as small-scale fishers mobilized exclusion and lack of voice to contest and resist corporate control over the global seafood and reconstruct alternative food systems. I posit that these actors challenge the discourses, knowledge, and evidence that tends to entrench a corporate seafood system. I develop a theoretical framework that highlights how different aspects of the relationship between hegemony and corporate seafood regime interfaces with the everyday political economy to understand the persistence of the blue economy despite its contradictions, and the ensuing frictions of resistance In sum, this thesis addresses a significant gap in the international political economy literature by offering a systematic theoretical and empirical exploration of when a seafood regime becomes hegemonic; and the agency of marginal actors, especially as they negotiate alternative food systems. It thus contributes to seafood regulation and the recent call towards ‘thinking ecologically’ as well as the broader ongoing debates about the alternative food system and environmental justice.
Aging in an infinite-range Hamiltonian system of coupled rotators
Creators: name: Montemurro, Marcelo A.
name: Tamarit, Francisco A.
name: Anteneodo, Celia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze numerically the out-of-equilibrium relaxation dynamics of a long-range Hamiltonian system of $N$ fully coupled rotators. For a particular family of initial conditions, this system is known to enter a particular regime in which the dynamic behavior does not agree with thermodynamic predictions. Moreover, there is evidence that in the thermodynamic limit, when $N\to \infty$ is taken prior to $t\to \infty$, the system will never attain true equilibrium. By analyzing the scaling properties of the two-time autocorrelation function we find that, in that regime, a very complex dynamics unfolds in which {\em aging} phenomena appear. The scaling law strongly suggests that the system behaves in a complex way, relaxing towards equilibrium through intricate trajectories. The present results are obtained for conservative dynamics, where there is no thermal bath in contact with the system. This is the first time that aging is observed in such Hamiltonian systems.
description: Figs. 2-4 modified, minor changes in text. To appear in Phys. Rev. E
MOESM2 of The Microphenotron: a robotic miniaturized plant phenotyping platform with diverse applications in chemical biology
Creators: name: Burrell, Thomas
name: Fozard, Susan
name: Holroyd, Geoff
name: French, Andrew
name: Pound, Michael
name: Bigley, Christopher
name: C. James Taylor
name: Forde, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Engineering drawings of the clamping device, robotic fingers and plate-holder.
NASA ALLIANCES: COLLABORATION WITHIN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Creators: name: Metz, Nanette Scarpellini
name: Metz, Nanette Scarpellini
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This study explores collaboration between partners involved in public-private alliances formed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA). A brief analysis based on the comparative case study approach will be used to examine the formation and operation of two NASA research and development alliances: Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) and Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS). Literature on collaboration helps to frame the basis for this study. By exploring the development and interaction of these relationships, this study establishes the elements that facilitate collaboration. The importance of partnerships and collaboration with SATS and other aviation initiatives is advancing with government support. At a recent Congressional hearing, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta said, “The Department of Transportation is going to help SATS go from R&D [research and development] to implementation…implementation is already happening…the next generation national air transportation system plan will make the number of operations go up rapidly… SATS is very important to this and our future” (Future of Air, 2004). The study provides a foundation for future research into the varied public-private partnerships that constitute SATS
The influence of rare variants in circulating metabolic biomarkers
Creators: name: Riveros-Mckay, Fernando
name: Oliver-Williams, Clare
name: Karthikeyan, Savita
name: Walter, Klaudia
name: Kundu, Kousik
name: Ouwehand, Willem H.
name: Roberts, David
name: Di Angelantonio, Emanuele
name: Soranzo, Nicole
name: Danesh, John
name: INTERVAL Study
name: Wheeler, Eleanor
name: Zeggini, Eleftheria
name: Butterworth, Adam S.
name: Barroso, Inês
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circulating metabolite levels are biomarkers for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Here we studied, association of rare variants and 226 serum lipoproteins, lipids and amino acids in 7,142 (discovery plus follow-up) healthy participants. We leveraged the information from multiple metabolite measurements on the same participants to improve discovery in rare variant association analyses for gene-based and gene-set tests by incorporating correlated metabolites as covariates in the validation stage. Gene-based analysis corrected for the effective number of tests performed, confirmed established associations at APOB, APOC3, PAH, HAL and PCSK (p<1.32x10-7) and identified novel gene-trait associations at a lower stringency threshold with ACSL1, MYCN, FBXO36 and B4GALNT3 (p<2.5x10-6). Regulation of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex was associated for the first time, in gene-set analyses also corrected for effective number of tests, with IDL and LDL parameters, as well as circulating cholesterol (pMETASKAT<2.41x10-6). In conclusion, using an approach that leverages metabolite measurements obtained in the same participants, we identified novel loci and pathways involved in the regulation of these important metabolic biomarkers. As large-scale biobanks continue to amass sequencing and phenotypic information, analytical approaches such as ours will be useful to fully exploit the copious amounts of biological data generated in these efforts.
Igerna Kirkaldy. It 1903
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna

description: Genus Igerna Kirkaldy
 Igerna Kirkaldy 1903: 13. Type-species: Pachynus bimaculicollis Stål, by original designation, replacement name for Pachynus Stål 1866 not Rafinesque 1815.
 Color. Usually with black or brown markings on ochraceous background.
 Morphology. Small to medium sized leafhoppers measuring 3.0–6.0 mm in length. Head shorter in middle than next to eyes, hind margin sinuately curved laterally behind eyes. Head including eyes broader than pronotum. Ocelli either slightly closer to each other than to eyes or equidistant or distinctly closer to eyes than to each other, situated in rather shallow depressions. Face forming even convex curve from vertex to tip of clypellus with surface slightly polished. Frontoclypeus dorsally slightly diverging, transclypal suture not complete in middle. Pronotum and scutellum either finely granulated or with punctures, often surface faintly wrinkled. Forewing venation without accessory cross veins, with three anteapical and four apical cells, inner anteapical cell open behind (Fig. 15), no cross vein between claval veins. Forefemur as in Austroagallia (Fig. 24). Hind tibial macrosetae PD 7±2 (5–12), AD 7±1, AV 5±1 (4–7). Hind basitarsus with one platella on distal transverse row (Fig. 34).
 Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe either with tooth-like process on caudo-dorsal margin or caudally produced into simple or bifurcate spine-like process or elongate dorsal lobe. Styles with inner arm either as long as or longer than outer arm. Connective caudally often bilobed, about as long as broad, either articulated with aedeagus or fused with it. Aedegus symmetrical, rarely asymmetrical, shaft ventrally produced at base, dorsal apodeme and socle well developed, process on shaft when present elongate. Anal collar simple or reduced.
 Female genitalia. First pair of valvulae slightly arcuate, sculptured area occupying more than half length, sculpture alveolate, submarginal in mid region, each alveoli rather elongate, ventral and dorsal two to three rows parallel to long axis of valve, remaining obliquely arranged and closely packed (Figs 68, 69). Second pair of valvulae arcuate, with toothed area occupying less than half length, with denticles (Fig. 71–72).
 Distribution. Afrotropical, Oriental and Pacific Islands.
 Remarks. Igerna closely resembles the genera Austroagaiia Evans, Ianagallia gen. nov. and Japanagallia. It differs from Austroagallia by having symmetrical male genitalia, more convex and polished face, from Ianagallia in having less robust aedeagal shaft and from Japanagallia in having the claval veins separate, not connected by a cross vein.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 62
Nuclear Structure in Nonmesonic Weak Decay of Hypernuclei
Creators: name: Krmpotic, F.
name: Tadic, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general shell model formalism for the nonmesonic weak decay of the hypernuclei has been developed.It involves a partial wave expansion of the emitted nucleon waves,preserves naturally the antisymmetrization between the escaping particles and the residual core, and contains as a particular case the weak Lambda-core coupling formalism. The hypernuclei are grouped having in view their A-1 cores, that is in those with even-even, even-odd and odd-odd cores.It is shown that in all three cases the nuclear structure manifests itself basically through Pauli Principle, and very simple expressions are derived for the neutron and proton induced decays rates, which does not involve the spectroscopic factors.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of XXV RTFNB (Sept. 2002), Brazil
Igerna delineata C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna delineata

description: Igerna delineata sp. nov.
Figs 312–316.
 Color. Pale ochraceous. Two somewhat round spots on vertex, often joined by transverse band on hind margin of vertex of same color, inverted Y on upper part of face often encircling ocelli, two sub-marginal bands on frontoclypeus, clypellus excepting base, antennal pits, lateral frontoclypeal sulci, black. Antennae pale fuscous. Two large round spots on posterior margin of pronotum, median inverted cone shaped spot touching posterior margin of vertex, two lateral spots (often all three joined forming an anterior band), black. Two triangular spots at base of scutellum and median impressed line, black, latter connected to basal triangles by black line. Thoracic pleura fuscous. Forewings whitish with brown stripes on clavus and on main longitudinal veins. Head, thorax and abdomen often covered with waxy powder.
 Morphology. Elongate, slender species, face slightly longer than broad, ocelli closer to each other than to adjacent eye, lateral margins of gena almost straight, lora elongate, apical half of clypellus depressed and flat.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer with caudo-dorsal short blunt lobe. Subgenital plates comparatively short. Connective dark brown, slightly broader than long, caudally excavated in middle. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme and socle strongly developed, shaft terminating in pair of ventrally directed forked processes, mesal fork may or may not overlap and each bear tooth on outer margin, gonopore apical.
 Female genitalia. Caudal margin of seventh sternite slightly concave in middle.
 Measurements. Male 5.36–5.73 mm long, 1.39–1.42 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.90–6.18 mm long and 1.39–1.56 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Kodaikanal, v.1916, T.V. Campbell, Brit. Mus., 1912-171 (BMNH). PARATYPES: INDIA: Tamil Nadu: 7 ♂, 2 ♀, same data as holotype; 4 ♂, 7 ♀, same data as holotype except vi.1917 (BMNH); 2 ♂, 7 miles (11.20 km) NW Pykara, 6500 ft (1972 m), 12.iii.1962, E.S. Ross and D.Q. Cavagnaro (CAS); 12 ♂, 3 ♀, Dodabetta, 2670 m, 4.vi.1977, C.A. Viraktamath; 6 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but collected by S. Viraktamath (UASB).
 Remarks. Distant’s manuscript name “ delineata ” (on the specimen) is retained for this species. This species resembles I. atrovenosa and I. aurora. It can be easily distinguished by the aedeagus being more arcuate and sunk into the base of dorsal apodeme and by the caudodorsal lobe-like extention of the male pygofer.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 67
Vertical smooth pursuit as a diagnostic marker of traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Hunfalvay, Melissa
name: Roberts, Claire-Marie
name: Murray, Nicholas P
name: Tyagi, Ankur
name: Barclay, Kyle W
name: Bolte, Takumi
name: Kelly, Hannah
name: Carrick, Frederick R
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
concussion
eye tracking
TBI
vertical smooth pursuit

description: Aim: Neural deficits were measured via the eye tracking of vertical smooth pursuit (VSP) as markers of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The present study evaluated the ability of the eye tracking tests to differentiate between different levels of TBI severity and healthy controls. Methodology: Ninety-two individuals divided into four groups (those with mild, moderate or severe TBI and healthy controls) participated in a computerized test of VSP eye movement using a remote eye tracker. Results: The VSP eye tracking test was able to distinguish between severe and moderate levels of TBI but unable to detect differences in the performance of participants with mild TBI and healthy controls. Conclusion: The eye-tracking technology used to measure VSP eye movements is able to provide a timely and objective method of differentiating between individuals with moderate and severe levels of TBI.
Molecular Characterization and Immuno-Reactivity Patterns of a Novel Plasmodium falciparum Armadillo-Type Repeat Protein, PfATRP
Creators: name: Amlabu, Emmanuel
name: Ilani, Philip
name: Opoku, Grace
name: Nyarko, Prince B.
name: Quansah, Evelyn
name: Thiam, Laty G.
name: Anim, Manfred
name: Ayivor-Djanie, Reuben
name: Akuh, Ojo-Ajogu
name: Mensah-Brown, Henrietta
name: Rayner, Julian C.
name: Awandare, Gordon A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cellular and Infection Microbiology
PfATRP
recombinant protein
immunolocalization
immunoreactivity
serosurveilance

description: Nearly half of the genes in the Plasmodium falciparum genome have not yet been functionally investigated. We used homology-based structural modeling to identify multiple copies of Armadillo repeats within one uncharacterized gene expressed during the intraerythrocytic stages, PF3D7_0410600, subsequently referred to as P. falciparum Armadillo-Type Repeat Protein (PfATRP). Soluble recombinant PfATRP was expressed in a bacterial expression system, purified to apparent homogeneity and the identity of the recombinant PfATRP was confirmed by mass spectrometry. Affinity-purified α-PfATRP rabbit antibodies specifically recognized the recombinant protein. Immunofluorescence assays revealed that α-PfATRP rabbit antibodies reacted with P. falciparum schizonts. Anti-PfATRP antibody exhibited peripheral staining patterns around the merozoites. Given the localization of PfATRP in merozoites, we tested for an egress phenotype during schizont arrest assays and demonstrated that native PfATRP is inaccessible on the surface of merozoites in intact schizonts. Dual immunofluorescence assays with markers for the inner membrane complex (IMC) and microtubules suggest partial colocalization in both asexual and sexual stage parasites. Using the soluble recombinant PfATRP in a screen of plasma samples revealed that malaria-infected children have naturally acquired PfATRP-specific antibodies.
title: The Racial Matching of Gamete Donors in UK Fertility Clinics
Creators: name: Starza-Allen, Antony
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Race is a deeply contested concept; however, race and related characteristics, including ethnicity and skin tone, are frequently provided with gamete donor information, implicating race in donor selection at UK fertility clinics. While existing literature shows that fertility professionals might sometimes seek a racial match between the donor and the patient(s), the role that race plays, if any, in donor selection has been relatively underexplored. By adopting a constructivist model of race and applying empirical evidence gathered through a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews with clinicians, counsellors and nurses, this thesis identifies if and how race plays a role in donor selection and whether patients and gamete donors are racially matched. It examines the nature and degree of involvement of fertility professionals in this matter and evaluates if a concern for race may be operationalised in 'routine' clinical practice or 'problem' cases where patients raise a query or challenge norms. The findings demonstrate how race operates as a social construction where biological or essentialist notions of race are reproduced through racial matching and assumptions within the donor selection process. However, the construction of race is also observed to be linked to themes of privacy, identity and autonomy, presenting a complex and nuanced picture overall. Fertility professionals are seen to play an integral role in how race is deployed in donor selection. While assumptions around race-kinship congruity result from the problematising of racial mismatching, the findings also describe sensitive and meaningful interaction with patients' understandings of kinship and the construction of relatedness. These findings raise important normative considerations for fertility practice and policy in this unique sphere of interaction between patient, donor and clinic.
An Unbiased Risk Estimator for Learning with Augmented Classes
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu-Jie
name: Zhao, Peng
name: Zhou, Zhi-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies the problem of learning with augmented classes (LAC), where augmented classes unobserved in the training data might emerge in the testing phase. Previous studies generally attempt to discover augmented classes by exploiting geometric properties, achieving inspiring empirical performance yet lacking theoretical understandings particularly on the generalization ability. In this paper we show that, by using unlabeled training data to approximate the potential distribution of augmented classes, an unbiased risk estimator of the testing distribution can be established for the LAC problem under mild assumptions, which paves a way to develop a sound approach with theoretical guarantees. Moreover, the proposed approach can adapt to complex changing environments where augmented classes may appear and the prior of known classes may change simultaneously. Extensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM CAPITAL INVESTMENTS HAVE NOT REDUCED FAA OPERATING COSTS
Creators: name: Shantz, Arthur A.
name: Hampton, Matthew
name: Shantz, Arthur A.
name: Hampton, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The FAA modernization of the nation’s air traffic control system, called the National Airspace System, or NAS, has not reduced the cost of providing air traffic control services, nor is it likely to, as currently planned. Since 1981, FAA operating costs have increased about as fast as the growth in aviation. Although its workforce took about 10 years to recover from the crippling controller strike, since 1992 it has only increased about 5 percent. The FAA predicts that in the next decade, its operating costs will continue to rise about as fast as forecast passenger-revenue miles, the principal source of Aviation Trust Fund revenues derived from ticket taxes. The aviation trust fund currently supports both FAA operations and NAS modernization appropriations. We examined more than 20 years of NAS modernization and automation program investments to modernize operations and a variety of operations and controller work force data for Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) and Traffic Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities providing air traffic control services. At issue is why this large public agency performing an essential service could invest billions of dollars to modernize and increase its operations, but not reduce its costs per operation. We contend that FAA may have to reduce operating costs in a constrained budget environment, when confronted with potentially altered demand for aviation services. Either NAS modernization will have to change or aviation excise taxes will have to be increased. Otherwise, FAA’s growing operations cost will crowd out future modernization investment.
Kernel-, mean- and noise-marginalised Gaussian processes for exoplanet transits and $H_0$ inference
Creators: name: Kroupa, Namu
name: Yallup, David
name: Handley, Will
name: Hobson, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using a fully Bayesian approach, Gaussian Process regression is extended to include marginalisation over the kernel choice and kernel hyperparameters. In addition, Bayesian model comparison via the evidence enables direct kernel comparison. The calculation of the joint posterior was implemented with a transdimensional sampler which simultaneously samples over the discrete kernel choice and their hyperparameters by embedding these in a higher-dimensional space, from which samples are taken using nested sampling. Kernel recovery and mean function inference were explored on synthetic data from exoplanet transit light curve simulations. Subsequently, the method was extended to marginalisation over mean functions and noise models and applied to the inference of the present-day Hubble parameter, $H_0$, from real measurements of the Hubble parameter as a function of redshift, derived from the cosmologically model-independent cosmic chronometer and $Λ$CDM-dependent baryon acoustic oscillation observations. The inferred $H_0$ values from the cosmic chronometers, baryon acoustic oscillations and combined datasets are $H_0= 66 \pm 6\, \mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$, $H_0= 67 \pm 10\, \mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ and $H_0= 69 \pm 6\, \mathrm{km}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$, respectively. The kernel posterior of the cosmic chronometers dataset prefers a non-stationary linear kernel. Finally, the datasets are shown to be not in tension with $\ln R=12.17\pm 0.02$.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Implications for Long-Term Health: Identifying the Research Priorities for Low-Resource Settings
Creators: name: Nagraj, Shobhana
name: Kennedy, Stephen H.
name: Norton, Robyn
name: Jha, Vivekananda
name: Praveen, Devarsetty
name: Hinton, Lisa
name: Hirst, Jane E.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cardiovascular Medicine
high-risk pregnancy
preeclampsia
gestational diabetes
cardiometabolic disorders
cardiovascular disease

description: Cardiometabolic disorders (CMDs), including ischemic heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in women worldwide. The burden of CMDs falls disproportionately on low and middle-income countries (LMICs), placing substantial demands on already pressured health systems. Cardiometabolic disorders may present up to a decade earlier in some LMIC settings, and are associated with high-case fatality rates. Early identification and ongoing postpartum follow-up of women with pregnancy complications such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs), and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may offer opportunities for prevention, or help delay onset of CMDs. This mini-review paper presents an overview of the key challenges faced in the early identification, referral and management of pregnant women at increased risk of CMDs, in low-resource settings worldwide. Evidence-based strategies, including novel diagnostics, technology and innovations for early detection, screening and management for pregnant women at high-risk of CMDs are presented. The review highlights the key research priorities for addressing cardiometabolic risk in pregnancy in low-resource settings.
Effect of spacing and number of seedlings per hill on the performance of aus rice cv. NERICA 1 under dry direct seeded rice (DDSR) system of cultivation
Creators: name: Bhowmik, S.K.
name: Sarkar, M.A.R.
name: Zaman, F.
name: Bhowmik, S.K.
name: Sarkar, M.A.R.
name: Zaman, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Spacing
subject: Number of seedlings per hill-1
subject: Dry direct seeded rice (DDSR)
subject: NERICA

description: An experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during the period from April to August 2011 to find out the effect of spacing and number of seedlings hill-1 on the performance of Aus rice cv. NERICA 1. Four spacing viz. 25 cm × l5 cm, 20 cm × l5 cm. 20 cm × 10 cm and 15 cm × 10 cm and four number of seedlings hill-1 viz. 2, 3, 4 and 5 were included in the experiment. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The highest number of total tillers m-2, number of effective tillers m-2, number of grains panicle-1, grain yield, straw yield, biological yield and harvest index were obtained from 20 cm × 10 cm spacing. Plant height and 1000- grain weight were not significantly affected by spacing. Number of seedlings hill-1 exerts a significant effect on plant height. The highest value of total tillers m-2, number of effective tillers m-2, total grains panicle-1, grain yield, straw yield, biological yield and harvest index were obtained from five seedlings hill-1. The interaction between spacing and number of seedlings hill-1 significantly influenced yield and plant characters. The highest number of effective tillers m-2, grains panicle-1, grain yield, straw yield and biological yield were recorded from the interaction between 20 cm × 10 cm and five seedlings hill-1.
of One-step partial or complete caries removal and bonding with antibacterial or traditional self-etch adhesives: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Villat, Cyril
name: Attal, Jean-Pierre
name: Brulat, Nathalie
name: Decup, Franck
name: Doméjean, Sophie
name: Dursun, Elisabeth
name: Fron-Chabouis, Hélène
name: Jacquot, Bruno
name: Bolla, Michèle Muller
name: Plasse-Pradelle, Nelly
name: Roche, Laurent
name: Maucort-Boulch, Delphine
name: Nony, Patrice
name: Gritsch, Kerstin
name: Millet, Pierre
name: Gueyffier, François
name: Grosgogeat, Brigitte
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: of One-step partial or complete caries removal and bonding with antibacterial or traditional self-etch adhesives: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Torsional optomechanical cooling of a nanofiber
Creators: name: Su, Dianqiang
name: Solano, Pablo
name: Wack, Jeffrey D.
name: Orozco, Luis A.
name: Zhao, Yanting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the optomechanical cooling of a tapered optical nanofiber by coupling the polarization of light to the mechanical angular momentum of the system. The coupling is enabled by birefringence in the fiber and does not make use of an optical resonator. We find evidence for cooling in the distribution of thermally driven amplitude fluctuations and the noise spectrum of the torsional modes. Our proof-of-principle demonstration shows cavity-less cooling of the torsional degree of freedom of a macroscopically extended nanofiber.
Sensitivity to initial conditions at bifurcations in one-dimensional nonlinear maps: rigorous nonextensive solutions
Creators: name: Baldovin, F.
name: Robledo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Feigenbaum renormalization group (RG) transformation we work out exactly the dynamics and the sensitivity to initial conditions for unimodal maps of nonlinearity $ζ>1$ at both their pitchfork and tangent bifurcations. These functions have the form of $q$-exponentials as proposed in Tsallis' generalization of statistical mechanics. We determine the $q$-indices that characterize these universality classes and perform for the first time the calculation of the $q$-generalized Lyapunov coefficient $λ_{q} $. The pitchfork and the left-hand side of the tangent bifurcations display weak insensitivity to initial conditions, while the right-hand side of the tangent bifurcations presents a `super-strong' (faster than exponential) sensitivity to initial conditions. We corroborate our analytical results with {\em a priori} numerical calculations.
description: latex, 4 figures. Updated references and some general presentation improvements. To appear published in Europhysics Letters
Confinement Effect Driven Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Monolayer AuTe2Cl
Creators: name: Zhong, Guyue
name: Xie, Q.
name: Xu, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on first-principles calculations, we predict that the monolayer AuTe2Cl is a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator with a topological band gap about 10 meV. The three-dimensional (3D) AuTe2Cl is a topological semimetal that can be viewed as the monolayer stacking along b axis. By studying the energy level distribution of p orbitals of Te atoms for the bulk and the monolayer, we find that the confinement effect driven p_y^- and p_z^+ band inversion is responsible for the topological nontrivial nature of monolayer. Since 3D bulk AuTe2Cl has already been experimentally synthesized, we expect that monolayer AuTe2Cl can be exfoliated from a bulk sample and the predicted QSH effect can be observed.
The Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of the Evi1 proto-oncogene, egl-43, coordinates G1 cell cycle arrest with pro-invasive gene expression during anchor cell invasion
Creators: name: Deng, Ting
name: Stempor, Przemyslaw
name: Appert, Alex
name: Daube, Michael
name: Ahringer, Julie
name: Hajnal, Alex
name: Lattmann, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Biology and life sciences
Research and analysis methods

description: Cell invasion allows cells to migrate across compartment boundaries formed by basement membranes. Aberrant cell invasion is a first step during the formation of metastases by malignant cancer cells. Anchor cell (AC) invasion in C. elegans is an excellent in vivo model to study the regulation of cell invasion during development. Here, we have examined the function of egl-43, the homolog of the human Evi1 proto-oncogene (also called MECOM), in the invading AC. egl-43 plays a dual role in this process, firstly by imposing a G1 cell cycle arrest to prevent AC proliferation, and secondly, by activating pro-invasive gene expression. We have identified the AP-1 transcription factor fos-1 and the Notch homolog lin-12 as critical egl-43 targets. A positive feedback loop between fos-1 and egl-43 induces pro-invasive gene expression in the AC, while repression of lin-12 Notch expression by egl-43 ensures the G1 cell cycle arrest necessary for invasion. Reducing lin-12 levels in egl-43 depleted animals restored the G1 arrest, while hyperactivation of lin-12 signaling in the differentiated AC was sufficient to induce proliferation. Taken together, our data have identified egl-43 Evi1 as an important factor coordinating cell invasion with cell cycle arrest.
No disk needed around HD 199143 B
Creators: name: Chauvin, G.
name: Fusco, T.
name: Lagrange, A-M.
name: Mouillet, D.
name: Beuzit, J-L.
name: Thomson, M.
name: Augereau, J-C.
name: Marchis, F.
name: Dumas, C.
name: Lowrance, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new, high angular resolution images of HD 199143 in the Capricornus association, obtained with the adaptive optics system ADONIS+SHARPII at the ESO 3.6m Telescope of La Silla Observatory. HD 199143 and its neighbour star HD 358623 (separation 5'away) have previously been imaged with adaptive optics. For each star, a companion has been detected in the J and K bands at respective separations of 1.1'' and 2.2'' (Jayawardhana & Brandeker 2001). Our new photometry of HD 199143 B suggests that it is a M2 star and that the presence of circumstellar dust proposed by Van den Ancker et al. (2000) is no longer necessary. We show that the 12 microns flux detected by IRAS previously interpreted as an IR excess, can be explained by the presence of the late-type companion.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Igerna fasciata C.A.Viraktamath 2011, comb. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna fasciata

description: Igerna fasciata (Osborn) comb. nov.
Figs 317–320.
 Agalliopsis fasciata Osborn 1934: 164, fig. 1. HOLOTYPE ♀, SAMOA IS. [BMNH, examined].
 Color. Ochraceous with dark brown patches. Median half of vertex chocolate brown (result of fusion of two round lateral spots, median stripe, their shape more clearly visible in facial view). Face yellow, shining, lower portion of clypellus medially reddish brown. Pronotum yellowish brown with conical large chocolate brown patch reaching both anterior and posterior margins, median stripe not reaching anterior margin, yellow. Scutellum in anterior half brown, basal triangles darker, posterior half yellow. Forewings chocolate brown, with broad costal stripe, claval suture and claval veins, yellow.
 Morphology. Face flattish, transverse clypeal suture absent. Ocelli closer to each other than to eye.
 Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer rounded and produced into darkly pigmented mesal lobe. Styles stout, long, inner arm slender, longer than outer arm, dorsal angle prolonged. Connective as long as wide, anteriorly produced in middle, caudal margin medially excavated. Aedeagus in lateral view V-shaped, dorsal apodeme well developed, closely oppressed to shaft, shaft slightly curved at apical 0.33 bearing subapical tooth on right lateral margin, apically terminated by two short processes, gonopore subapical.
 Female genitalia. Hind margin of female seventh sternite straight.
 Measurement. Male 4.9 mm long, 1.6 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.44 mm long, 1.68 mm wide across head.
 Material examined. SAMOA: HOLOTYPE ♀, “Type” “Samoan Is.” “Malololeleci” “Upolu 2000ft, 14– 30.vi.24, P.A. Burton and G.H. Hopkins [red label]” “ Holotype Agalliopsis fasciatus Osborn ” (BMNH). Additional material: 1 ♂, Upolu: Afiamalu, 3.vi.1940, O.H. Swezey, Agalliopsis fasciatus Osborn, O.H. Swezey det. (BPBM).
 Remarks. I. fasciata resembles Agallia hilaris Horváth from Canary Islands (Horváth 1909, Lindberg 1954) but differs in the coloration, position of the ocelli and the structure of the male genitalia.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 67-69