cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UNISECO Case study Lithuania: Preserving extensive dairy farming by increasing the market competitiveness of small scale dairy farms
Creators: name: Jegelevičius, Gražvydas
name: Mikšytė, Elvyra
name: Gulbinas, Justas
name: Ruškutė, Eglė
name: Alijošiutė-Paulauskienė, Audronė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: UNISECO H2020 project
Lithuania
case study
small-scale extensive dairy farming
knowledge
capacity buildinig
on-farm processing

description: Presentation at the UNISECO H2020 Final Conference, 18-19 March 2021
 https://uniseco-project.eu/final-conference UNISECO is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Learn more about the project: https://uniseco-project.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773901.
A Study of the Afterglows of Four GRBs: Constraining the Explosion and Fireball Model
Creators: name: Yost, S. A.
name: Harrison, F. A.
name: Sari, R.
name: Frail, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ a fireball model of the GRB explosion to constrain intrinsic and environmental parameters of four events with good broadband afterglow data; GRB970508, GRB980329, GRB980703, and GRB000926. Using standard assumptions of constant circumburst density and no evolution of the fraction of the explosion energy in the post-shock magnetic field, we investigate the uniformity of the derived explosion and shock physics parameters among the events. We find densities that range from those of the ISM to diffuse clouds, energies comparable to the total GRB gamma-ray energy, collimations from near-isotropy to 0.04 rad, substantial electron energy fractions of 10-30% with energy distribution indices of 2.1-2.9 and magnetic energy fractions from 0.2-25%. We also investigate the level to which the data constrain standard model assumptions, such as the magnetic field evolution, and the allowed density profiles of the medium. Fits generally improve slightly with an increasing magnetic energy fraction epB. Good fits can be produced with epB accumulating or decaying with the shock strength over the afterglow as epB~gamma^x; -2<=x<=+1. The data are not very sensitive to increasing density profiles, allowing good fits even with density ~r^10. Some parameter values change by up to an order of magnitude under altered assumptions; parameters of even good fits cannot be taken at face value. The data are sensitive to decreasing densities; r^-2 profiles may produce reasonable fits; steeper profiles, even r^-2.5, will not fit the data.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, 39 pages (incl 8 figures, 6 tables)
Additional file 2 of Prognostic nomogram for patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer treated with gemcitabine plus nab–paclitaxel or FOLFIRINOX: A post–hoc analysis of a multicenter retrospective study in Japan (NAPOLEON study)
Creators: name: Shibuki, Taro
name: Mizuta, Toshihiko
name: Shimokawa, Mototsugu
name: Koga, Futa
name: Ueda, Yujiro
name: Nakazawa, Junichi
name: Komori, Azusa
name: Otsu, Satoshi
name: Arima, Shiho
name: Fukahori, Masaru
name: Makiyama, Akitaka
name: Taguchi, Hiroki
name: Honda, Takuya
name: Mitsugi, Kenji
name: Nio, Kenta
name: Ide, Yasushi
name: Ureshino, Norio
name: Shirakawa, Tsuyoshi
name: Otsuka, Taiga
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The calibration plot for the probability of survival at 6–, 12–, and 18–months showed optimal agreement between the predictions according to the nomogram and the actual observations.
Giant nonlinear conduction and thyristor-like negative derivative resistance in BaIrO3 single crystals
Creators: name: Nakano, Tomohito
name: Terasaki, Ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We synthesized single-crystalline samples of monoclinic BaIrO3 using a molten flux method, and measured their magnetization, resistivity, Seebeck coefficient and nonlinear voltage-current characteristics. The magnetization rapidly increases below a ferromagnetic transition temperature TC of 180 K, where the resistivity concomitantly shows a hump-type anomaly, followed by a sharp increase below 30 K. The Seebeck coefficient suddenly increases below TC, and shows linear temperature dependence below 50 K. A most striking feature of this compound is that the anomalously giant nonlinear conduction is observed below 30 K, where a small current density of 20 A/cm2 dramatically suppresses the sharp increase in resistivity to induce a metallic conduction down to 4 K.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Realtime search for compact binary mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run using PyCBC Live
Creators: name: Canton, Tito Dal
name: Nitz, Alexander H.
name: Gadre, Bhooshan
name: Davies, Gareth S. Cabourn
name: Villa-Ortega, Verónica
name: Dent, Thomas
name: Harry, Ian
name: Xiao, Liting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo took place between April 2019 and March 2020 and resulted in dozens of gravitational-wave candidates, many of which are now published as confident detections. A crucial requirement of the third observing run has been the rapid identification and public reporting of compact binary mergers, which enabled massive followup observation campaigns with electromagnetic and neutrino observatories. PyCBC Live is a low-latency search for compact binary mergers based on frequency-domain matched filtering, which has been used during the second and third observing runs, together with other low-latency analyses, to generate these rapid alerts from the data acquired by LIGO and Virgo. This paper describes and evaluates the improvements made to PyCBC Live after the second observing run, which defined its operation and performance during the third observing run.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures. Matches version accepted by ApJ
Quantum Field Effects on Cosmological Phase Transition in Anisotropic Spacetimes
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-loop renormalized effective potentials for the massive $ϕ^4$ theory on the spatially homogeneous models of Bianchi type I and Kantowski-Sachs type are evaluated. It is used to see how the quantum field affects the cosmological phase transition in the anisotropic spacetimes. For reasons of the mathematical technique it is assumed that the spacetimes are slowly varying or have specially metric forms. We obtain the analytic results and present detailed discussions about the quantum field corrections to the symmetry breaking or symmetry restoration in the model spacetimes.
description: Latex 17 pages
Desynchronization waves and localized instabilities in oscillator arrays
Creators: name: Restrepo, Juan G.
name: Ott, Edward
name: Hunt, Brian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a ring of identical or near identical coupled periodic oscillators in which the connections have randomly heterogeneous strength. We use the master stability function method to determine the possible patterns at the desynchronization transition that occurs as the coupling strengths are increased. We demonstrate Anderson localization of the modes of instability, and show that such localized instability generates waves of desynchronization that spread to the whole array. Similar results should apply to other networks with regular topology and heterogeneous connection strengths.
Collapsed Riemannian manifolds with bounded sectional curvature
Creators: name: Rong, Xiaochun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C

description: In the last two decades, one of the most important developments in Riemannian geometry is the collapsing theory of Cheeger-Fukaya-Gromov. A Riemannian manifold is called (sufficiently) collapsed if its dimension looks smaller than its actual dimension while its sectional curvature remains bounded (say a very thin flat torus looks like a circle in a bared eyes). We will survey the development of collapsing theory and its applications to Riemannian geometry since 1990. The common starting point for all of these is the existence of a singular fibration structure on collapsed manifolds. However, new techniques have been introduced and tools from related fields have been brought in. As a consequence, light has been shed on some classical problems and conjectures whose statements do not involve collapsing. Specifically, substantial progress has been made on manifolds with nonpositive curvature, on positively pinched manifolds, collapsed manifolds with an a priori diameter bound, and subclasses of manifolds whose members satisfy additional topological conditions e.g. $2$-connectedness.
Is the PPG signal chaotic?
Creators: name: de Pedro-Carracedo, Javier
name: Fuentes-Jimenez, David
name: Ugena, Ana M.
name: Gonzalez-Marcos, Ana P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.5.4; J.3

description: This paper shows how the dynamics of the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal, an easily accessible biological signal from which valuable diagnostic information can be extracted, of young and healthy individuals performs at different timescales. On a small timescale, the dynamic behavior of the PPG signal is predominantly quasi-periodic. On a large timescale, a more complex dynamic diversity emerges, but never a chaotic behavior as earlier studies had reported. The procedure by which the dynamics of the PPG signal is determined consists of contrasting the dynamics of a PPG signal with well-known dynamics---named reference signals in this study---, mostly present in physical systems, such as periodic, quasi-periodic, aperiodic, chaotic or random dynamics. For this purpose, this paper provides two methods of analysis based on Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures. The former uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture model. Upon training with reference signals, the CNN model identifies the dynamics present in the PPG signal at different timescales, assigning, according to a classification process, an occurrence probability to each of them. The latter uses a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based on a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture. With each of the signals, whether reference signals or PPG signals, the RNN model infers an evolution function (nonlinear regression model) based on training data, and considers its predictive capability over a relatively short time horizon.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures, 34 subfigures
The Effective Potential Originating from Swampland and the Non-trivial Brans-Dicke Coupling
Creators: name: Li, Qi
name: Li, Jing
name: Zhou, Yongxiang
name: Xue, Xun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective vacuum energy density contributed by the non-trivial contortion distribution and the bare vacuum energy density can be viewed as the energy density of the auxiliary quintessence field potential. We find that the negative bare vacuum energy density from string landscape leads to a monotonically decreasing quintessence potential while the positive one from swampland leads to the meta stable or stable de Sitter like potential. Moreover, the non-trivial Brans-Dicke like coupling between quintessence field and gravitation field is necessary in the latter case.
Additional file 1 of Integrating pathway knowledge with deep neural networks to reduce the dimensionality in single-cell RNA-seq data
Creators: name: Gundogdu, Pelin
name: Loucera, Carlos
name: Alamo-Alvarez, Inmaculada
name: Dopazo, Joaquin
name: Nepomuceno, Isabel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material for: Integrating pathway knowledge with deep neural networks to reduce the dimensionality in single-cell RNA-seq data.
The Macro-Mineral Profile of Four Tropicas Grasses at Different Stages of Regrowth
Creators: name: Youssef, F.G.
name: Rastogi, R.H.
name: Persad, N.K.
name: Ramlal, H.
name: Youssef, F.G.
name: Rastogi, R.H.
name: Persad, N.K.
name: Ramlal, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984

description: Pang°la grass (Digitaria decumbeas) , • Lucuntu grass (Ischaemum timorcnse) , Star grass (Cyilodon niemfuensis) and Tanner grass (Brachiaria radicans) were planted on Piarco fine sand soil at Central Experiment Station, Centeno, Trinidad, using a split plot design with grasses as main plots, and regrowth cutting intervals: 4,5,6,7 and 8 weeks as sub-plots, in order to study their effects on the macro-mineral profile of the grasses. There were four replicates per treatment. When gratlses were compared, it was found that there were significant (P .001) differences in overall means of nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na) and magnesium (Mg) content, but not of potassium (K) content. Star grass had the highest levels (g/kg dry 48 matter) of N (12.8), P (3.4) and Mg (2.4); while Ca (7.3) and K (10.4) content were highest in Lucuntu grass. The lowest content of N (8.1) and Ca (2.8) were found in Tanner grass, of K (7.3) and Mg (1.6) in Pangola grass, and of P (1.8) and Na (0.4) in Lucuntu grass. .For all minerals studied except calcium, there were significant (13 ,001) differences at different stages of regrowth, with the highest levels at 4 weeks of age decreasing gradually to reach the lowest levels at 8 weeks. The results are discussed in consideration of meeting the macro-mineral requirements of ruminants for optimum health and production.
title: Implementing Communicative Language Teaching: A Case Study of English Language Teaching Reform in a Japanese Science University
Creators: name: Jennings, Stephen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis considers an example of English language teaching (ELT) reform in the context of internationalisation at Noda campus, Tokyo University of Science, Japan. Research questions not only enquire into institutional policy, but also teacher beliefs, attitudes and perceptions about a greater use of communicative language teaching activities and how these notions play out in examples of teaching practice. I take an interpretive stance to the enquiry and conduct a qualitative case study. As a participant in the research context, I am able to gain insight into the wider social processes of a purposely chosen group of seven Japanese English teachers. I employ Wolcott's (2008) notion of an ethnographic perspective on data gathering with 1) institutional documents regarding ELT reform and other ethnographic material, 2) field notes taken during classroom observations; and, 3) a theme analysis of semi-structured interview transcripts. Findings suggest there has been a move towards 1) the implementation of communicative language teaching activities with a large increase in the number of oral English courses, 2) a more student-centred approach; and, 3) the introduction of oral communication activities on a trial-and-error basis. I contend that findings are relevant to educational theory in illuminating the extent to which perceived negative attitudes towards ELT reform may be mitigated through constructive engagement. Moreover, in terms of educational practice, the study of participants’ apparent attitudes and beliefs may be analogous to other groups of teachers engaging with foreign language education reforms. The thesis concludes by recommending future investigation into educational contexts viewed as inter-related systems (Larsen-Freeman and Cameron, 2008). Such future investigations will focus on the constant mutual restructuring of teaching policy, theory and practice (Johnson, 2008). This type of research will provide insight into how educators mediate national and institutional policy initiatives in order that they be suitable for local contexts.
Structure-based discovery of phenyl-diketo acids derivatives as Mycobacterium tuberculosis malate synthase inhibitors
Creators: name: Rohit Shukla
name: Shukla, Harish
name: Timir Tripathi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the most successful bacterial pathogens worldwide. The development of drug-resistant strains and the ability of the bacteria to persist in a latent form in the host are major problems for tuberculosis (TB) control. Glyoxylate shunt is a metabolic bypass of the Krebs cycle and is the key for M. tuberculosis to survive under latent conditions. Malate synthase (MtbMS) catalyzes the second step of the glyoxylate cycle and converts glyoxylate into malate. Phenyl-diketo acid (PDKA) is a potent inhibitor of MtbMS, and its efficacy is validated in a mouse model of TB. To identify novel PDKA analogs as anti-TB compounds, PDKA analogs that obeyed the Lipinski rules (n = 5473) were analyzed and docked with MtbMS structure in three sequential modes. These compounds were then assessed for ADMET parameters. Of the compounds analyzed, 19 were found to fit well for redocking studies. After optimization, four prospective inhibitors were identified that along with the reference compound PDKA were subjected to 50 ns molecular dynamics simulation and binding-free energy analyses to evaluate the complex dynamics after ligand binding, the stability of the bound complexes, and the intermolecular interactions between the complexes. The MtbMS-PDKA complex showed the binding free energy of –57.16 kJ·mol−1. After a thorough analysis, our results suggested that three compounds which had binding-free energy of –127.96, –97.60, and –83.98 kJ·mol−1, with PubChem IDs 91937661, 14016246, and 126487337, respectively, have the potential to inhibit MtbMS and can be taken as lead compounds for drug discovery against TB.
One-Dimensional Theory of the Quantum Hall System
Creators: name: Bergholtz, Emil J.
name: Karlhede, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the lowest Landau level on a torus as a function of its circumference $L_1$. When $L_1\to 0$, the ground state at general rational filling fraction is a crystal with a gap--a Tao-Thouless state. For filling fractions $ν=p/(2pm+1)$, these states are the limits of Laughlin's or Jain's wave functions describing the gapped quantum Hall states when $L_1\to \infty$. For the half-filled Landau level, there is a transition to a Fermi sea of non-interacting neutral dipoles, or rather to a Luttinger liquid modification thereof, at $L_1\sim5$ magnetic lengths. This state is a version of the Rezayi-Read state, and develops continuously into the state that is believed to describe the observed metallic phase as $L_1\to \infty$. Furthermore, the effective Landau level structure that emerges within the lowest Landau level follows from the magnetic symmetries.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Peptide-like and small-molecule inhibitors against Covid-19
Creators: name: Suyash Pant
name: Singh, Meenakshi
name: V. Ravichandiran
name: U. S. N. Murty
name: Srivastava, Hemant Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Coronavirus disease strain (SARS-CoV-2) was discovered in 2019, and it is spreading very fast around the world causing the disease Covid-19. Currently, more than 1.6 million individuals are infected, and several thousand are dead across the globe because of Covid-19. Here, we utilized the in-silico approaches to identify possible protease inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2. Potential compounds were screened from the CHEMBL database, ZINC database, FDA approved drugs and molecules under clinical trials. Our study is based on 6Y2F and 6W63 co-crystallized structures available in the protein data bank (PDB). Seven hundred compounds from ZINC/CHEMBL databases and fourteen hundred compounds from drug-bank were selected based on positive interactions with the reported binding site. All the selected compounds were subjected to standard-precision (SP) and extra-precision (XP) mode of docking. Generated docked poses were carefully visualized for known interactions within the binding site. Molecular mechanics-generalized born surface area (MM-GBSA) calculations were performed to screen the best compounds based on docking scores and binding energy values. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out on four selected compounds from the CHEMBL database to validate the stability and interactions. MD simulations were also performed on the PDB structure 6YF2F to understand the differences between screened molecules and co-crystallized ligand. We screened 300 potential compounds from various databases, and 66 potential compounds from FDA approved drugs. Cobicistat, ritonavir, lopinavir, and darunavir are in the top screened molecules from FDA approved drugs. The screened drugs and molecules may be helpful in fighting with SARS-CoV-2 after further studies. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Additional file 1 of Sex and age interaction in fundamental circulatory volumetric variables at peak working capacity
Creators: name: Diaz-Canestro, Candela
name: Montero, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Graphical outline of the study protocol. Fig. S2. Representative cardiac imaging during exercise according to the Simpson Method (biplane method of disks).
Flight Time Prediction for Fuel Loading Decisions with a Deep Learning Approach
Creators: name: Zhu, Xinting
name: Li, Lishuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Under increasing economic and environmental pressure, airlines are constantly seeking new technologies and optimizing flight operations to reduce fuel consumption. However, the current practice on fuel loading, which has a significant impact on aircraft weight and fuel consumption, has yet to be thoroughly addressed by existing studies. Excess fuel is loaded by dispatchers and (or) pilots to handle fuel consumption uncertainties, primarily caused by flight time uncertainties, which cannot be predicted by current Flight Planning Systems. In this paper, we develop a novel spatial weighted recurrent neural network model to provide better flight time predictions by capturing air traffic information at a national scale based on multiple data sources, including Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, Meteorological Aerodrome Reports, and airline records. In this model, a spatial weighted layer is designed to extract spatial dependences among network delay states. Then, a new training procedure associated with the spatial weighted layer is introduced to extract OD-specific spatial weights. Long short-term memory networks are used to extract the temporal behavior patterns of network delay states. Finally, features from delays, weather, and flight schedules are fed into a fully connected neural network to predict the flight time of a particular flight. The proposed model was evaluated using one year of historical data from an airline's real operations. Results show that our model can provide more accurate flight time predictions than baseline methods, especially for flights with extreme delays. We also show that, with the improved flight time prediction, fuel loading can be optimized and resulting in reduced fuel consumption by 0.016%-1.915% without increasing the fuel depletion risk.
Spectroscopic methodologies and computational simulation studies on the characterization of the interaction between human serum albumin and astragalin
Creators: name: Lyu, ShaoLi
name: Wang, Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In the present work, the interactions of astragalin (AST) with human serum albumin (HSA) were studied systematically thought fluorescence spectra, ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption spectra, circular dichroism (CD), molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Fluorescence spectra elaborated that AST reduced the intrinsic fluorescence of HSA through static quenching and non-radiative energy transfer with moderate binding constants in the order of 104 mol/L. Thermodynamic parameters and computational simulations elaborated that hydrogen bond, van der Walls force and hydrophobic interaction played a major role in the binding process of AST to HSA. UV-vis absorption, synchronous fluorescence, three-dimensional (3D) fluorescence and CD spectra illustrated that AST disturbed slightly the microenvironment of tryptophan (Trp) and tyrosine (Tyr) residues and decreased α-helical structure content. The effect of some biologically significant metal ions, such as Mg2+, Cu2+ and Fe3+, on the binding of AST to HSA was also investigated in detail. Binding displacement and docking studies revealed that AST was located in the binding site I of subdomain IIA in HSA. Finally, MD simulations evaluated the binding stability of the HSA-AST system in a simulated environment.
Gravitational collapse in braneworld models with curvature corrections
Creators: name: Kofinas, G.
name: Papantonopoulos, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the collapse of a homogeneous braneworld dust cloud in the context of the various curvature correction scenarios, namely, the induced-gravity, the Gauss-Bonnet, and the combined induced-gravity and Gauss-Bonnet. In accordance to the Randall-Sundrum model, and contrary to four-dimensional general relativity, we show in all cases that the exterior spacetime on the brane is non-static.
description: References added
Slope aspect influences soil microbial community structure and composition in the Israel arid Mediterranean
Creators: name: I. Moroenyane
name: B.M. Tripathi
name: J.M. Adams
name: S. Chen
name: Y. Steinberger
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Microbial biogeographical patterns in Mediterranean ecosystems are becoming widely documented; however, the influences of slope aspect on the microbial community composition and structure are poorly understood. This study tested the hypotheses that slope aspect and organic matter content would influence microbial diversity patterns and distribution. Sets of five soil samples were collected from different slope aspects (north slope, south slopes, and valley bottom) and bacterial and fungal communities were examined using the 16S rRNA gene and ITS1 region sequencing, respectively, on the Illumina HiSeq platform. Organic matter and soil moisture varied significantly across all sites but did not influence microbial diversity patterns. Community structure (Bray-Curtis dissimilarity) indicated that each site had a distinct microbial community, and soil moisture along with organic matter modulated the community structure. Relative abundance of key bacterial taxa (Actinobacteria and Bacteriodetes ) and fungal taxa (Ascomycota was significantly influenced by slope aspect. Our results show, for the first time, that the often reported slope aspect dynamics of the soil microbiomes do in fact influence bacterial and fungal community composition and structure. Overall, taken together with previous studies from the region, this study provides novel insight on the physio-chemical properties that modulate the biogeographical patterns of soil microbes and contributes to our knowledge of factors that mediate microbial ecology in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Bericht über die Jahrestagung und Exkursionen der DGMT vom 20. - 23. September 2017 im Hunsrück
Creators: name: Günther, Jürgen
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: Die Jahrestagung und Mitgliederversammlung der DGMT fand vom 20. bis 23. September 2017 im Hunsrückhaus statt. Es liegt unterhalb des Erbeskopfes, er ist mit 816 m die höchste Erhebung im Hunsrück und liegt in der Gemeinde Deuselbach. Bei der Vorbereitung der Tagung, insbesondere der Exkursionen, wurde die DGMT von BRITTA VOM LEHN vom Landesamt für Geologie und Bergbau des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz und von der „Stiftung Natur und Umwelt Rheinland-Pfalz“ unterstützt.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: conference
title: The epidemiology of vaccine preventable virus infections: studies of rubella virus and hepatitis B virus infections performed by oral fluid testing
Creators: name: Vyse, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2001

description: This thesis presents studies on the epidemiology of vaccine preventable VIruS infections investigated by oral fluid testing. It involved studies of both rubella and hepatitis B virus infections by the detection of specific IgG in oral fluid and of rubella virus by PCR detection and genotyping of viral nucleic acid. To select an oral fluid collection device with optimal performance for these studies three (Orasure, Omni- SAL, Oracol) were compared. Each device collected oral fluid of sufficient quality for qualitative analysis of virus specific IgG, but DracoI was most acceptable to the subjects being tested. IgG capture ELISA (GACELISA) tests were developed for detection of rubella and anti-HBc specific IgG in oral fluid. Their sensitivity was less than that of corresponding serum ELiSAs, with sensitivity decreasing with increasing age of subjects. Whilst the performance of the rubella GACELISA was shown to be an improvement over the existing radioimmunoassay and was particularly sensitive with samples from paediatric populations, the performance of the anti-HBc GACELISA was not considered good enough for further use. The development of an RT-PCR assay targeting the El gene of rubella virus enabled the molecular epidemiology of rubella to be investigated using samples from the UK, China, Greece, and Brazil. By comparison to previously reported strains, the majority of strains were assigned to three banches of a phylogenetic tree. Those assigned to branches 1 (UK, Greece, China) and 2 (China) were not closely related to any previously reported strains. The timing of oral fluid collection and subsequent storage was critical for PCR detection. Ideally oral fluid samples should be collected within 14 days of the onset of symptoms and stored at least at -20°C prior to testing.
Nilpotent pseudogroups of functions on an interval
Creators: name: Begazo, Tania M.
name: Saldanha, Nicolau C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E05; 37E45; 57S25; 57R30

description: A near-identity nilpotent pseudogroup of order m >= 1 is a family f_1, ..., f_n: (-1,1) -> R of C^2 functions for which: |f_i - id|_{C^1} < epsilon for some small positive real number epsilon < 1/10^{m+1} and commutators of the functions f_i of order at least m equal the identity. We present a classification of near-identity nilpotent pseudogroups: our results are similar to those of Plante, Thurston, Farb and Franks for nilpotent groups. As an application, we classify certain foliations of nilpotent manifolds.
description: 13 pages, no figures
X-ray flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) during very quiet solar activity conditions of 2009
Creators: name: Nagaraja, Kamsali
name: Basuvaraj, Praveen Kumar
name: Chakravarty, S. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar flares (SFs) are sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface which is associated with a large energy release. Flares with burst of Xray emission are normally followed by a mass ejection of electrons and ions from the solar atmosphere called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). There is an evidence that solar magnetic field can change its configuration through reconnection and release energy, accelerating solar plasma causing SFs and CMEs. This study examines the SFs and CMEs data from SOHO and GOES satellites during the very low solar activity year of 2009 and moderately high solar activity of 2002. The results indicate that certain modifications in the existing mechanisms of generating SFs and CMEs would be necessary for developing more realistic forecast models affecting the space weather conditions.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DISCLOSURE IN INDIAN AND NEPALESE COMMERCIAL BANKS
Creators: name: Dr. Himal Bhattrai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Corporate governance brings challenges and opportunities at a time for business organization. It can be the strategic tool to gain competitive financial performance. This study aims to measure the relationship between the Financial Performances and Corporate Governance Disclosure (CGD) of commercial bank of India and Nepal. The study is based on the secondary sources of data that are abstracted from the annual reports and web sites of the respective banks in a sample size of 30 commercial banks that includes 23 Nepalese commercial Banks and 7 Indian commercial Banks. Reference period has been taken from fiscal year 2011/12 to 2015/16. Hence a total of 150 observations have been drawn to analyze the relationship between financial performance and corporate governance. Financial performance is measured by Return on Investment and Corporate Governance is represented by the level of disclosure made in the annual report of commercial banks. Based on the financial and non-financial disclosure, Index has been calculated and corporate governance disclosure index has been defined. Finally, the relationship between corporate governance disclosure index and financial performance is measured and a set of relationship is established. The result shows that financial performance is positively correlated with the corporate governance disclosure. This study provides the empirical observation to policy maker of corporate governance in Indian and Nepalese commercial Banks.
Überregional aktive Kapitaleigentümer in ostdeutschen Agrarunternehmen: Entwicklungen bis 2017
Supra-regionally active shareholders in East-German agricultural companies: Trends up to 2017
Creators: name: Tietz, Andreas
name: Tietz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: agricultural structure
subject: investors
subject: land market

description: Based on an investigation of 2015, the number and the cultivated area of agricultural companies with the majority of capital shares owned by supra-regionally active investors are assessed, as well as the number of acquisitions by this type of investors between 2007 and the first quarter of 2017. With the help of data available on-line, agricultural legal entities in ten East-German administrative districts are analyzed with respect to their current shareholders and changes in share ownership since 2007. Companies are categorized according to certain characteristics of shareholders, such as local residence, number of shareholders, family relationships, economic activities in different sectors, and capital majority. Results show that the importance of supra-regionally active investors differs greatly between the federal states. Since 2007, many companies which were so far owned by locally-settled shareholders have been taken over by external investors. At the same time, the ratio of land owned by legal entities has steadily increased. Therefore, the importance of agricultural company share acquisitions is rising compared with the agricultural land market which is regulated by law. Hence, this law is virtually losing its effectiveness.
Complex hyperbolic triangle groups
Creators: name: Schwartz, Richard Evan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53

description: The theory of complex hyperbolic discrete groups is still in its childhood but promises to grow into a rich subfield of geometry. In this paper I will discuss some recent progress that has been made on complex hyperbolic deformations of the modular group and, more generally, triangle groups. These are some of the simplest nontrivial complex hyperbolic discrete groups. In particular, I will talk about my recent discovery of a closed real hyperbolic 3-manifold which appears as the manifold at infinity for a complex hyperbolic discrete group.
Aufnahme und Integration von Geflüchteten in ländliche Räume: Spezifika und (Forschungs-)herausforderungen. Beiträge und Ergebnisse eines Workshops am 6. und 7. März 2017 in Braunschweig
Reception and Integration of Refugees in Rural Areas: state of research and the most important future research questions. Contributions and discussions at a workshop on March 6-7, 2017 in Braunschweig
Creators: name: Mehl, Peter (Ed.)
name: Mehl, Peter (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: refugees
subject: integration
subject: rural areas

description: The current Thünen Report documents the contributions and discussions at a workshop on the „Reception and Integration of Refugees in Rural Areas“, which took place on March 6-7, 2017 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig. A central goal of this workshop was an intensive exchange on the state of research and the most important future research questions on this topic. The invited participants were scientists who have already done empirical research on this topic or who are currently working on it, including persons with practical integration experience, to ensure the inclusion of the research into practice. The lectures and discussions comprised four blocks: 1) specifics of and greatest challenges for rural areas in the reception and integration of refugees; 2) the perspective of refugees on rural areas; 3) the role of local and regional policies for integration and settlement perspectives for refugees in rural areas, as well as 4) the role of social involvement and acceptance in the local society. These four topical blocks were addressed with a standard approach beginning with an opening report, then comments from a scientific and practical perspective, ending with an extensive discussion.
Additional file 1 of Mapping the prevalence and use of questionnaires to detect the neglected sexual side effects after prostate cancer treatment: a scoping review
Creators: name: Röscher, Pierre
name: Sathiram, Ronisha
name: Milios, Joanne E.
name: van Wyk, Jacqueline M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Collected data organised into subgroups.
Veröffentlichungen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum zum Thema „Moor und Torf“ aus dem Jahre 2016 und 2017 mit Nachträgen für frühere Jahre.
Publications on „Peat and Peatland“ from the German language area in 2016 and 2017 with additions for earlier years.
Creators: name: Steffens, Peter
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: Die vorliegende Zusammenstellung der Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet „Moor und Torf“ umfasst 112 Titel.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: bibliography
Laser-nucleus interactions in the sudden regime
Creators: name: Kobzak, Sergei
name: Weidenmüller, Hans A.
name: Pálffy, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between medium-weight nuclei and a strong zeptosecond laser pulse of MeV photons is investigated theoretically. Multiple absorption of photons competes with nuclear equilibration. We investigate the sudden regime. Here the rate of photon absorption is so strong that there is no time for the nucleus to fully equilibrate after each photon absorption process. We follow the temporal evolution of the system in terms of a set of rate equations. These account for dipole absorption and induced dipole emission, equilibration (modeled in terms of particle-hole states coupled by the residual nuclear interaction), and neutron decay (populating a chain of proton-rich nuclei). Our results are compared with earlier work addressing the adiabatic regime where equilibration is instantaneous. We predict the degree of excitation and the range of nuclei reached by neutron evaporation. These findings are relevant for planning future experiments.
description: v3, final
Planetary Migration and Extrasolar Planets in the 2/1 Mean-Motion Resonance
Creators: name: Beauge, C.
name: Ferraz-Mello, S.
name: Michtchenko, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the possible relationship between the current orbital elements fits of known exoplanets in the 2/1 mean-motion resonance and the expected orbital configuration due to migration. It is found that, as long as the orbital decay was sufficiently slow to be approximated by an adiabatic process, all captured planets should be in apsidal corotations. In other words, they should show a simultaneous libration of both the resonant angle and the difference in longitudes of pericenter. We present a complete set of corotational solutions for the 2/1 commensurability, including previously known solutions and new results. Comparisons with observed exoplanets show that current orbital fits of three known planetary systems in this resonance are either consistent with apsidal corotations (GJ876 and HD82943) or correspond to bodies with uncertain orbits (HD160691). Finally, we discuss the applicability of these results as a test for the planetary migration hypothesis itself. If all future systems in this commensurability are found to be consistent with corotational solutions, then resonance capture of these bodies through planetary migration is a working hypothesis. Conversely, If any planetary pair is found in a different configuration, then either migration did not occur for those bodies, or it took a different form than currently believed.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Structures and orientational transitions in thin films of tilted hexatic smectics
Creators: name: Dolganov, P. V.
name: Belov, K. I.
name: Dolganov, V. K.
name: Demikhov, E. I.
name: Bolotin, B. M.
name: Kats, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present detailed systematic studies of structural transformations in thin liquid crystal films with the smectic-C to hexatic phase transition. For the first time all possible structures reported in the literature are observed for one material (5 O.6) at the variation of temperature and thickness. In unusual modulated structures the equilibrium period of stripes is twice with respect to the domain size. We interpret these patterns in the frame work of phenomenological Landau type theory, as equilibrium phenomena produced by a natural geometric frustration in a system having spontaneous splay distortion.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 3 of Mapping the prevalence and use of questionnaires to detect the neglected sexual side effects after prostate cancer treatment: a scoping review
Creators: name: Röscher, Pierre
name: Sathiram, Ronisha
name: Milios, Joanne E.
name: van Wyk, Jacqueline M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist.