cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A High-Throughput Strategy for Dissecting Mammalian Genetic Interactions
Creators: name: Stockman, Victoria B.
name: Ghamsari, Lila
name: Lasso Cabrera, Gorka
name: Honig, Barry
name: Shapira, Sagi
name: Wang, Harris H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: RNA
subject: Mammals--Molecular genetics
subject: Nucleotide sequence
subject: Systems biology
subject: Molecular genetics
subject: Cloning
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Classification

description: Comprehensive delineation of complex cellular networks requires high-throughput interrogation of genetic interactions. To address this challenge, we describe the development of a multiplex combinatorial strategy to assess pairwise genetic interactions using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and next-generation sequencing. We characterize the performance of combinatorial genome editing and analysis using different promoter and gRNA designs and identified regions of the chimeric RNA that are compatible with next-generation sequencing preparation and quantification. This approach is an important step towards elucidating genetic networks relevant to human diseases and the development of more efficient Cas9-based therapeutics.
title: Johann Philipp Seipp
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Johann Philipp Seipp as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Targeted Gene Knockin in Porcine Somatic Cells Using CRISPR/Cas Ribonucleoproteins
Creators: name: Park, Ki-Eun
name: Park, Chi-Hun
name: Powell, Anne
name: Martin, Jessica
name: Donovan, David M.
name: Telugu, Bhanu P.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: CRISPR/Cas
SCNT
cloning
knockin
TARGATT pig
transegenic

description: The pig is an ideal large animal model for genetic engineering applications. A relatively short gestation interval and large litter size makes the pig a conducive model for generating and propagating genetic modifications. The domestic pig also shares close similarity in anatomy, physiology, size, and life expectancy, making it an ideal animal for modeling human diseases. Often, however, the technical difficulties in generating desired genetic modifications such as targeted knockin of short stretches of sequences or transgenes have impeded progress in this field. In this study, we have investigated and compared the relative efficiency of CRISPR/Cas ribonucleoproteins in engineering targeted knockin of pseudo attP sites downstream of a ubiquitously expressed COL1A gene in porcine somatic cells and generated live fetuses by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). By leveraging these knockin pseudo attP sites, we have demonstrated subsequent phiC31 integrase mediated integration of green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene into the site. This work for the first time created an optimized protocol for CRISPR/Cas mediated knockin in porcine somatic cells, while simultaneously creating a stable platform for future transgene integration and generating transgenic animals.
Beyond provocation : how viewers make sense of transgressive taboo art
Creators: name: Winn, Miranda Susan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Transgressive taboo art refers to a controversial visual art genre that deliberately discomforts its viewing audience by provocatively questioning commonly held values and widely accepted socio-cultural constructs. Within this provocation lies the potential for transformative critical reflection, as viewers recursively examine personal acceptance of socio-cultural constructs. But just as this art genre can enlighten, it also can outrage. To unpack the diversity of viewer exchange, the research presented here investigates circumstances in which novice viewers experience a pedagogic interplay and circumstances that cripple the meaning making process. As this contentious genre has largely been avoided by art educators, these findings are then used to make recommendations for optimal inclusion within an educational context. To investigate this complex process, 19 participants were extensively interviewed before, during and after they viewed three transgressive taboo artworks. Transcribed data indicates that viewers approach transgressive taboo art as both an artwork and a problem position. While most participants react with responses similar to traditional art such as comments on colour and composition, they may also engage emotionally and intellectually to the dilemma that the work presents. Often this intellectual engagement begins from an established self-position, then moves outward to the consideration of alternative perspectives. Circumstances that optimize a meaningful viewer exchange include willingness to engage dialogue openly examining intra and interpersonal values and beliefs. Circumstances that thwart engagement include an unending pursuit of artist message, anger due to a significant and specific breach in personal values, cynicism towards the artist/art world, and/or lack of knowledge. Strikingly, strong negative emotional responses and/or traditional art preferences do not necessarily impede viewers from having a meaningful exchange. Recommendations for the inclusion of transgressive taboo art within an educational context include: choosing pieces with pedagogic potential, an emphasis on sincere open dialogue, student self-awareness of personal hot points, exploration of related art history and providing students with guidelines for interpretation and a framework to facilitate art criticism. Recommendations also include two additional steps to the traditional interpretive process of description, interpretation, and evaluation, which include acknowledgement of emotional response and critical reflection of personal/cultural value set(s).
A Novel in situ Trigger Combination Method
Creators: name: Buzatu, Adrian
name: Warburton, Andreas
name: Krumnack, Nils
name: Yao, Wei-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for rare physics processes using particle detectors in high-luminosity colliding hadronic beam environments require the use of multi-level trigger systems to reject colossal background rates in real time. In analyses like the search for the Higgs boson, there is a need to maximize the signal acceptance by combining multiple different trigger chains when forming the offline data sample. In such statistically limited searches, datasets are often amassed over periods of several years, during which the trigger characteristics evolve and system performance can vary significantly. Reliable production cross-section measurements and upper limits must take into account a detailed understanding of the effective trigger inefficiency for every selected candidate event. We present as an example the complex situation of three trigger chains, based on missing energy and jet energy, that were combined in the context of the search for the Higgs (H) boson produced in association with a $W$ boson at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). We briefly review the existing techniques for combining triggers, namely the inclusion, division, and exclusion methods. We introduce and describe a novel fourth in situ method whereby, for each candidate event, only the trigger chain with the highest a priori probability of selecting the event is considered. We compare the inclusion and novel in situ methods for signal event yields in the CDF $WH$ search. This new combination method, by virtue of its scalability to large numbers of differing trigger chains and insensitivity to correlations between triggers, will benefit future long-running collider experiments, including those currently operating on the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables, accepted by Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
title: Adam Ernst Senfft von Pilsach
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Adam Ernst Senfft von Pilsach as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Improved preculture management for Cupriavidus necator cultivations
Creators: name: Gerlach, Michelle-Sophie
name: Neubauer, Peter
name: Gimpel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: Cupriavidus necator
subject: NAD+-reducing hydrogenase
subject: preculture management
subject: bioprocess development

description: Objectives: Research on hydrogenases from Cupriavidus necator has been ongoing for more than two decades and still today the common methods for culture inoculation are used. These methods were never adapted to the requirements of modified bacterial strains, resulting in different physiological states of the bacteria in the precultures, which in turn lead prolonged and different lag-phases. Results: In order to obtain uniform and always equally fit precultures for inoculation, we have established in this study an optimized protocol for precultures of the derivative of C. necator HF210 (C. necator HP80) which is used for homologous overexpression of the genes for the NAD+-reducing soluble hydrogenase (SH). We compared different media for preculture growth and determined the optimal time point for harvest. The protocol obtained in this study is based on two subsequent precultures, the first one in complex nutrient broth medium (NB) and a second one in fructose –nitrogen mineral salt medium (FN). Conclusion: Despite having two subsequent precultures our protocol reduces the preculture time to less than 30 h and provides reproducible precultures for cultivation of C. necator HP80.
Long-Term Post-Disturbance Forest Recovery in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Analyzed Using Landsat Time Series Stack
Creators: name: Zhao, Feng R.
name: Meng, Ran
name: Huang, Chengquan
name: Zhao, Maosheng
name: Zhao, Feng A.
name: Gong, Peng
name: Yu, Le
name: Zhu, Zhiliang
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: wildland fires
timber harvest
detectable forest recovery
1988 Yellowstone Fires

description: Forest recovery from past disturbance is an integral process of ecosystem carbon cycles, and remote sensing provides an effective tool for tracking forest disturbance and recovery over large areas. Although the disturbance products (tracking the conversion from forest to non-forest type) derived using the Landsat Time Series Stack-Vegetation Change Tracker (LTSS-VCT) algorithm have been validated extensively for mapping forest disturbances across the United States, the ability of this approach to characterize long-term post-disturbance recovery (the conversion from non-forest to forest) has yet to be assessed. In this study, the LTSS-VCT approach was applied to examine long-term (up to 24 years) post-disturbance forest spectral recovery following stand-clearing disturbances (fire and harvests) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). Using high spatial resolution images from Google Earth, we validated the detectable forest recovery status mapped by VCT by year 2011. Validation results show that the VCT was able to map long-term post-disturbance forest recovery with overall accuracy of ~80% for different disturbance types and forest types in the GYE. Harvested areas in the GYE have higher percentages of forest recovery than burned areas by year 2011, and National Forests land generally has higher recovery rates compared with National Parks. The results also indicate that forest recovery is highly related with forest type, elevation and environmental variables such as soil type. Findings from this study can provide valuable insights for ecosystem modeling that aim to predict future carbon dynamics by integrating fine scale forest recovery conditions in GYE, in the face of climate change. With the availability of the VCT product nationwide, this approach can also be applied to examine long-term post-disturbance forest recovery in other study regions across the U.S.
Annotation Guideline for Free-Text Activity Functioning Information: Mobility
Creators: name: NIH CC RMD Epidemiology & Biostatistics Section
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: ICF
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Activity
Functioning
NLP
Mobility
Annotation
Free-text

description: Creation of the guideline was driven by a use case involving a collaborative agreement with the United States (U.S.) Social Security Administration (SSA) to leverage clinical natural language processing to improve the disability determination process.  The research purpose was to develop tools that automate the detection of relevant functional information in electronic health records (EHR) to support medical record review by adjudicators. This guideline aims to standardize mobility information documented in free-text EHRs and provide a process for annotating this information. These efforts resulted in the creation of a gold standard corpus, which has been used to develop computational models of functioning.   

Contents of the guideline include an (1) Introduction that recommends how the guideline should be used, a description of the ICF as the conceptual framework, and an explanation of how mobility functioning is conceptualized; (2) Annotation data description; (3) Annotation tool description; (4) Annotation schema, including the entity, attribute, and value definitions, ICF codes and SNOMED clinical terms codes used, and their definitions and operationalization with examples of annotated text; (5) General annotation considerations; (6) Domain specific considerations; (7) Edge or difficult cases; (8) Acknowledgements; (9) References, and (10) four Appendices including an example of an annotated  note and a troubleshooting guide. 

This guideline was developed by clinical rehabilitation domain experts with backgrounds in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and primary care medicine, and individuals with public health and data science expertise.  The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is used as a framework for this work and aims to develop analytic tools for clinical natural language processing and vocabularies of function. 
description: Version 1.1 of the Mobility annotation guideline includes minor changes to the annotation schema to standarize nomenclature (all labels are now lowercase, use underscores to replace spaces, and empty attribute values have been replaced with codes to indicate that other or no attribute value applies). These changes have been updated in all text, tables, and figures within the guideline. This version also includes a revised Figure 5.
A Systematic Evaluation of Environmental Discrimination with Sustainability Initiatives in India
Creators: name: Williams, Jonah M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural resources--Management--Citizen participation
Sustainable development--Citizen participation
Natural resources—Management
Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
Sustainable development

description: In the past fifty-years, India has undeniably become one of the world’s economic and industrial superpowers, dominating the geopolticial climate of South Asia. India’s road to industrialization has been accompanied by extreme environmental devastation which is encapsulated by population growth, pollution, and loss of biodiversity; additionally, many of these factors have had crippling effects on certain areas of India’s environment. To combat these problems, certain groups within the government and nation, such as the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, have been implementing sustainable solutions to combat the adverse effects of man-made environmental degradation. Oftentimes however, the implementation of these conservation tactics is done at a state-wide or national level in what is masked as “soft-authoritarianism” and fail to consider the interests and accessibility of programs for all peoples; especially communities which are labeled as minority, indigenous, slum, or lower caste (Dalit) leading to the rise of environmental prejudices. Although India has come a long way in the past decade regarding action against environmental problems through new sustainable solutions, it has failed to consider the accessibility of these programs to all peoples and the alleviation of environmental discrimination. This paper considers the convoluted nature of the past and aims to propose solutions that will a) allow India to continue its commitment to a sustainable future and b) combat socio-political issues of environmental biases, which adhere to the paradigm of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Photoluminescence from Bi82+ and Bi53+ stabilized by [AlCl4]- in Molecular Crystals
Creators: name: Sun, Hong-Tao
name: Sakka, Yoshio
name: Shirahata, Naoto
name: Gao, Hong
name: Yonezawa, Tetsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photophysical properties of Bi82+ and Bi53+ polycations stabilized by [AlCl4]- have been studied experimentally and theoretically. The obtained product was thoroughly evaluated by powder X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence spectroscopy, making it clear that both Bi82+ and Bi53+ contribute to the observed broad near-infrared emission. Furthermore, it was revealed that Bi82+ polycation mainly results in the emission peaking at ca. 1180 nm, while Bi53+ the longer-wavelength emission. The following quantum chemistry calculation on Bi82+ polycation helps us attribute some observed excitation bands in the visible spectral range to specific electronic transitions of bismuth polycations. It is believed that systematical investigation of structural and luminescent properties as well as detailed quantum chemistry calculation of molecular crystals containing such kinds of bismuth units allows us to obtain a clearer picture on bismuth-related photophysical behaviors, which not only serve to solve the confusions on the luminescence origin of bismuth in other material systems such as bulk glasses, glass fibers and conventional crystals, but also is helpful to develop novel applicable broadband tunable laser mediums.
Annotation Guideline for Free-Text Activity Functioning Information: Mobility
Creators: name: NIH CC RMD Epidemiology & Biostatistics Section
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ICF
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Activity
Functioning
NLP
Mobility
Annotation
Free-text

description: Creation of the guideline was driven by a use case involving a collaborative agreement with the United States (U.S.) Social Security Administration (SSA) to leverage clinical natural language processing to improve the disability determination process.  The research purpose was to develop tools that automate the detection of relevant functional information in electronic health records (EHR) to support medical record review by adjudicators. This guideline aims to standardize mobility information documented in free-text EHRs and provide a process for annotating this information. These efforts resulted in the creation of a gold standard corpus, which has been used to develop computational models of functioning.   

Contents of the guideline include an (1) Introduction that recommends how the guideline should be used, a description of the ICF as the conceptual framework, and an explanation of how mobility functioning is conceptualized; (2) Annotation data description; (3) Annotation tool description; (4) Annotation schema, including the entity, attribute, and value definitions, ICF codes and SNOMED clinical terms codes used, and their definitions and operationalization with examples of annotated text; (5) General annotation considerations; (6) Domain specific considerations; (7) Edge or difficult cases; (8) Acknowledgements; (9) References, and (10) four Appendices including an example of an annotated  note and a troubleshooting guide. 

This guideline was developed by clinical rehabilitation domain experts with backgrounds in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and primary care medicine, and individuals with public health and data science expertise.  The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is used as a framework for this work and aims to develop analytic tools for clinical natural language processing and vocabularies of function.
title: William Seton of Pitmedden
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: William Seton of Pitmedden as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Evaluating Leaf and Canopy Reflectance of Stressed Rice Plants to Monitor Arsenic Contamination
Creators: name: Bandaru, Varaprasad
name: Daughtry, Craig S.
name: Codling, Eton E.
name: Hansen, David J.
name: White-Hansen, Susan
name: Green, Carrie E.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: plant stress
leaf chlorophyll
rice
arsenic uptake
spectral reflectance
SAIL model
red edge
vegetative indices
LAI
soil reflectance

description: Arsenic contamination is a serious problem in rice cultivated soils of many developing countries. Hence, it is critical to monitor and control arsenic uptake in rice plants to avoid adverse effects on human health. This study evaluated the feasibility of using reflectance spectroscopy to monitor arsenic in rice plants. Four arsenic levels were induced in hydroponically grown rice plants with application of 0, 5, 10 and 20 µmol·L−1 sodium arsenate. Reflectance spectra of upper fully expanded leaves were acquired over visible and infrared (NIR) wavelengths. Additionally, canopy reflectance for the four arsenic levels was simulated using SAIL (Scattering by Arbitrarily Inclined Leaves) model for various soil moisture conditions and leaf area indices (LAI). Further, sensitivity of various vegetative indices (VIs) to arsenic levels was assessed. Results suggest that plants accumulate high arsenic amounts causing plant stress and changes in reflectance characteristics. All leaf spectra based VIs related strongly with arsenic with coefficient of determination (r2) greater than 0.6 while at canopy scale, background reflectance and LAI confounded with spectral signals of arsenic affecting the VIs’ performance. Among studied VIs, combined index, transformed chlorophyll absorption reflectance index (TCARI)/optimized soil adjusted vegetation index (OSAVI) exhibited higher sensitivity to arsenic levels and better resistance to soil backgrounds and LAI followed by red edge based VIs (modified chlorophyll absorption reflectance index (MCARI) and TCARI) suggesting that these VIs could prove to be valuable aids for monitoring arsenic in rice fields.
BMS/GCA Redux: Towards Flatspace Holography from Non-Relativistic Symmetries
Creators: name: Bagchi, Arjun
name: Fareghbal, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asymptotic group of symmetries at null infinity of flat spacetimes in three and four dimensions is the infinite dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. This has recently been shown to be isomorphic to non-relativistic conformal algebras in one lower dimension, the Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) in 2d and a closely related non-relativistic algebra in 3d [1]. We provide a better understanding of this surprising connection by providing a spacetime interpretation in terms of a novel contraction. The 2d GCA, obtained from a linear combination of two copies of the Virasoro algebra, is generically non-unitary. The unitary subsector previously constructed had trivial correlation functions. We consider a representation obtained from a different linear combination of the Virasoros, which is relevant to the relation with the BMS algebra in three dimensions. This is realised by a new space-time contraction of the parent algebra. We show that this representation has a unitary sub-sector with interesting correlation functions. We discuss implications for the BMS/GCA correspondence and show that the flat space limit actually induces precisely this contraction on the boundary conformal field theory. We also discuss aspects of asymptotic symmetries and the consequences of this contraction in higher dimensions.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; v2: Minor corrections
Assessing Agreement between Radiomic Features Computed for Multiple CT Imaging Settings
Creators: name: Lu, Lin
name: Ehmke, Ross Coleman
name: Schwartz, Lawrence H.
name: Zhao, Binsheng
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Tomography
Computer algorithms
Diagnostic imaging
Medical radiology

description: Objectives: Radiomics utilizes quantitative image features (QIFs) to characterize tumor phenotype. In practice, radiological images are obtained from different vendors’ equipment using various imaging acquisition settings. Our objective was to assess the inter-setting agreement of QIFs computed from CT images by varying two parameters, slice thickness and reconstruction algorithm.

Materials and Methods: CT images from an IRB-approved/HIPAA-compliant study assessing thirty-two lung cancer patients were included for the analysis. Each scan’s raw data were reconstructed into six imaging series using combinations of two reconstruction algorithms (Lung[L] and Standard[S]) and three slice thicknesses (1.25mm, 2.5mm and 5mm), i.e., 1.25L, 1.25S, 2.5L, 2.5S, 5L and 5S. For each imaging-setting, 89 well-defined QIFs were computed for each of the 32 tumors (one tumor per patient). The six settings led to 15 inter-setting comparisons (combinatorial pairs). To reduce QIF redundancy, hierarchical clustering was done. Concordance correlation coefficients (CCCs) were used to assess inter-setting agreement of the non-redundant feature groups. The CCC of each group was assessed by averaging CCCs of QIFs in the group.

Results: Twenty-three non-redundant feature groups were created. Across all feature groups, the best inter-setting agreements (CCCs>0.8) were 1.25S vs 2.5S, 1.25L vs 2.5L, and 2.5S vs 5S; the worst (CCCs<0.51) belonged to 1.25L vs 5S and 2.5L vs 5S. Eight of the feature groups related to size, shape, and coarse texture had an average CCC>0.8 across all imaging settings.

Conclusions: Varying degrees of inter-setting disagreements of QIFs exist when features are computed from CT images reconstructed using different algorithms and slice thicknesses. Our findings highlight the importance of harmonizing imaging acquisition for obtaining consistent QIFs to study tumor imaging phonotype.
Non-Minimal Higgs Inflation and non-Thermal Leptogenesis in a Supersymmetric Pati-Salam Model
Creators: name: Pallis, C.
name: Toumbas, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a supersymmetric (SUSY) Grand Unified Theory (GUT) based on the gauge group G_PS=SU(4)_C x SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R, which incorporates non-minimal chaotic inflation, driven by a quartic potential associated with the Higgs fields involved in the spontaneous breaking of G_PS. The inflationary model relies on renormalizable superpotetial terms and does not lead to overproduction of magnetic monopoles. It is largely independent of the one-loop radiative corrections and can become consistent with the current observational data on the inflationary observables, with the symmetry breaking scale of G_PS assuming its SUSY value. Within our model, the strong CP and the mu problems of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can be resolved via a Peccei-Quinn symmetry. Moreover baryogenesis occurs via non-thermal leptogenesis realized by the out-of-equilibrium decay of the right-handed neutrinos, which are produced by the inflaton's decay. We consider two versions of such a scenario, assuming that the inflaton can decay to the lightest or to the next-to-lightest right-handed neutrino. Both scenaria can become compatible with the constraints arising from the baryon asymmetry of the universe, the gravitino limit on the reheating temperature and the upper bound on the light neutrino masses, provided that the gravitino is somehow heavy. In the second scenario extra restrictions from the SU(4)_C symmetry on the heaviest Dirac neutrino mass and the data on the atmospheric neutrino oscillations can be also met.
description: The reheating analysis improved
A Critic Lecture Of The Eu Two Faced Approach To Biodiversity: Equal Guaranty Or Multinational Bioraid? The Importance Of A Self-Reconsideration Of Eu Politics In Biodiversity
Creators: name: Colcelli, Valentina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: European Union seems to have a two-faced approach to the Biodiversity.

One of this is a support to the biodiversity defence by EU political position and

now through EU law with direct effect, the Reg. n. 511/2014. On the other side,

a limitation of certification and marketing of vegetable seeds as by European

Court of Justice affirmed in the case C-59/11. The article aims to lay down an

analysis for developing a juridical framework able to defend biodiversity, its

guarantee, local and native population’s benefit and jurisdictional prevalence

of patents. This meanwhile expects that the EU institutions must “align” their

two-faced approach to the Biodiversity in their legal system. To achieve these

goals the paper analyses the nature of invalidity by contracts and mutually

agreed terms if missing specific provisions for the fair and equitable sharing

of the benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources or of the

traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources. Thus, in the light of

the legal framework described the paper studies how applying for the vegetable

patent under the light of the aims of the Reg. EU n. 511/2014 despite no apt

coordination between the Regulation itself and the system for the protection of

plant variety rights established by EU legislation.
title: J. W. Göbel
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: J. W. Göbel as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Vertical Graphene Base Transistor
Creators: name: Mehr, Wolfgang
name: Scheytt, J. Christoph
name: Dabrowski, Jarek
name: Lippert, Gunther
name: Xie, Ya-Hong
name: Lemme, Max C.
name: Ostling, Mikael
name: Lupina, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel, graphene-based device concept for high-frequency operation: a hot electron graphene base transistor (GBT). Simulations show that GBTs have high current on/off ratios and high current gain. Simulations and small-signal models indicate that it potentially allows THz operation. Based on energy band considerations we propose a specific materials solution that is compatible with SiGe process lines.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures; IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol.33, Issue 5, (2012)
Evaluation of Batteries for Safe Air Transport
Creators: name: Williard, Nicholas
name: Hendricks, Christopher
name: Sood, Bhanu
name: Chung, Jae Sik
name: Pecht, Michael
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: batteries
standards
transportation
public safety
aviation

description: Lithium-ion batteries are shipped worldwide with many limitations implemented to ensure safety and to prevent loss of cargo. Many of the transportation guidelines focus on new batteries; however, the shipment requirements for used or degraded batteries are less clear. Current international regulations regarding the air transport of lithium-ion batteries are critically reviewed. The pre-shipping tests are outlined and evaluated to assess their ability to fully mitigate risks during battery transport. In particular, the guidelines for shipping second-use batteries are considered. Because the electrochemical state of previously used batteries is inherently different from that of new batteries, additional considerations must be made to evaluate these types of cells. Additional tests are suggested that evaluate the risks of second-use batteries, which may or may not contain incipient faults.
Epitaxial Growth of a Silicene Sheet
Creators: name: Lalmi, Boubekeur
name: Oughaddou, Hamid
name: Enriquez, Hanna
name: Karae, Abdelkader
name: Vizzini, Sébastien
name: Ealet, Bénidicte
name: Aufray, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using atomic resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, we present here the experimental evidence of a silicene sheet (graphene like structure) epitaxially grown on a close-packed silver surface (Ag(111)). This has been achieved via direct condensation of a silicon atomic flux onto the single-crystal substrate in ultra-high vacuum conditions. A highly ordered silicon structure, arranged within a honeycomb lattice is synthesized and presenting two silicon sub-lattices occupying positions at different heights (0.02 nm) indicating possible sp2-sp3 hybridizations.
Quantum singularities in a model of f(R) Gravity
Creators: name: Tahamtan, T.
name: Gurtug, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of a naked singularity in a model of f(R) gravity having as source a linear electromagnetic field is considered in view of quantum mechanics. Quantum test fields obeying the Klein-Gordon, Dirac and Maxwell equations are used to probe the classical timelike naked singularity developed at r=0. We prove that the spatial derivative operator of the fields fails to be essentially self-adjoint. As a result, the classical timelike naked singularity remains quantum mechanically singular when it is probed with quantum fields having different spin structures.
description: 12 pages, final version. Accepted for publication in EPJC
Model-Based Design and Formal Verification Processes for Automated Waterway System Operations
Creators: name: Petnga, Leonard
name: Austin, Mark
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: model-based systems engineering
formal verification
automation
modeling
waterways operation
canal systems

description: Waterway and canal systems are particularly cost effective in the transport of bulk and containerized goods to support global trade. Yet, despite these benefits, they are among the most under-appreciated forms of transportation engineering systems. Looking ahead, the long-term view is not rosy. Failures, delays, incidents and accidents in aging waterway systems are doing little to attract the technical and economic assistance required for modernization and sustainability. In a step toward overcoming these challenges, this paper argues that programs for waterway and canal modernization and sustainability can benefit significantly from system thinking, supported by systems engineering techniques. We propose a multi-level multi-stage methodology for the model-based design, simulation and formal verification of automated waterway system operations. At the front-end of development, semi-formal modeling techniques are employed for the representation of project goals and scenarios, requirements and high-level models of behavior and structure. To assure the accuracy of engineering predictions and the correctness of operations, formal modeling techniques are used for the performance assessment and the formal verification of the correctness of functionality. The essential features of this methodology are highlighted in a case study examination of ship and lock-system behaviors in a two-stage lock system.
The Multilayer Connectome of Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Bentley, Barry
name: Branicky, Robyn
name: Barnes, Christopher L.
name: Chew, Yee Lian
name: Yemini, Eviatar
name: Bullmore, Edward T.
name: Vértes, Petra E.
name: Schafer, William R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons
subject: Neural networks (Neurobiology)
subject: Caenorhabditis elegans
subject: Neuropeptides
subject: Synapses
subject: Brain mapping
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biology

description: Connectomics has focused primarily on the mapping of synaptic links in the brain; yet it is well established that extrasynaptic volume transmission, especially via monoamines and neuropeptides, is also critical to brain function and occurs primarily outside the synaptic connectome. We have mapped the putative monoamine connections, as well as a subset of neuropeptide connections, in C. elegans based on new and published gene expression data. The monoamine and neuropeptide networks exhibit distinct topological properties, with the monoamine network displaying a highly disassortative star-like structure with a rich-club of interconnected broadcasting hubs, and the neuropeptide network showing a more recurrent, highly clustered topology. Despite the low degree of overlap between the extrasynaptic (or wireless) and synaptic (or wired) connectomes, we find highly significant multilink motifs of interaction, pinpointing locations in the network where aminergic and neuropeptide signalling modulate synaptic activity. Thus, the C. elegans connectome can be mapped as a multiplex network with synaptic, gap junction, and neuromodulator layers representing alternative modes of interaction between neurons. This provides a new topological plan for understanding how aminergic and peptidergic modulation of behaviour is achieved by specific motifs and loci of integration between hard-wired synaptic or junctional circuits and extrasynaptic signals wirelessly broadcast from a small number of modulatory neurons.
User Perception of Facebook App Data Access: A Comparison of Methods and Privacy Concerns
Creators: name: Golbeck, Jennifer
name: Mauriello, Matthew Louis
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: social media
privacy
usability
apps

description: Users share vast amounts of personal information online, but are they fully aware of what information they are sharing and with whom? In this paper, we focused on Facebook apps and set out to understand how concerned users are about privacy and how well-informed they are about what personal data apps can access. We found that initially, subjects were generally under-informed about what data apps could access from their profiles. After viewing additional information about these permissions, subjects’ concern about privacy on Facebook increased. Subjects’ understanding of what data apps were able to access increased, although even after receiving explicit information on the topic, many subjects still did not fully understand the extent to which apps could access their data.
Creating 'authentic' communities among the middle class : a case study of new organic farmers in southern British Columbia
Creators: name: Petrusa, Kathryn Grace
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis investigates the construction of community and how it is used to create the identity of small-scale (often) organic farmers who are growing food for local customers. Using ethnographic methods, I explore the meaning of community both among local, organic farmers, but also investigated its salience within the interactions between the farmers, their customers and the wider public (markets, public events, media and exhibitions). To my ethnographic findings, I apply notions of the ‘new middle class’ and its relationship to authenticity to explore why food and farming are providing such a successful venue for a community of people to gather and mobilize around. I describe the “lived” community of organic farmers and its distinctions from a more widespread “public” farming community and its representations, which are increasingly available to mainstream North American culture. I critique these public representations of farming because of the ways they conjure images that gloss over those who have access to locally farmed food and who benefits from this industry. I draw attention to this dynamic with the hope that this critique will bring a new awareness to the local food movement, thus contributing to its success.
Neutrino quasielastic interaction and nuclear dynamics
Creators: name: Martini, M.
name: Ericson, M.
name: Chanfray, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the double differential neutrino-carbon quasielastic cross sections as measured by the MiniBooNE experiment. Our present treatment incorporates relativistic corrections in the nuclear response functions and includes the multinucleon component. We confirm our previous conclusion that it is possible to account for all the data without any modification of the axial mass. We also introduce the Q^2 distribution for charged and neutral current. The data point at a sizable multinucleon component beside the genuine quasielastic peak. They are also indicative of the collective character of the nuclear response, of interest for hadronic physics.
description: Two figures added and two figures modified
title: Fedor Alekseevič Golovin
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Fedor Alekseevič Golovin as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Entangled Harmonic Oscillators and Space-Time Entanglement
Creators: name: Başkal, Sibel
name: Kim, Young S.
name: Noz, Marilyn E.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gaussian entanglement
two coupled harmonic oscillators
coupled Lorentz groups
space-time separation
Wigner's little groups
O(3, 2) group
Dirac's generators for two coupled oscillators

description: The mathematical basis for the Gaussian entanglement is discussed in detail, as well as its implications in the internal space-time structure of relativistic extended particles. It is shown that the Gaussian entanglement shares the same set of mathematical formulas with the harmonic oscillator in the Lorentz-covariant world. It is thus possible to transfer the concept of entanglement to the Lorentz-covariant picture of the bound state, which requires both space and time separations between two constituent particles. These space and time variables become entangled as the bound state moves with a relativistic speed. It is shown also that our inability to measure the time-separation variable leads to an entanglement entropy together with a rise in the temperature of the bound state. As was noted by Paul A. M. Dirac in 1963, the system of two oscillators contains the symmetries of the 𝑂(3,2) de Sitter group containing two 𝑂(3,1) Lorentz groups as its subgroups. Dirac noted also that the system contains the symmetry of the 𝑆𝑝(4) group, which serves as the basic language for two-mode squeezed states. Since the 𝑆𝑝(4) symmetry contains both rotations and squeezes, one interesting case is the combination of rotation and squeeze, resulting in a shear. While the current literature is mostly on the entanglement based on squeeze along the normal coordinates, the shear transformation is an interesting future possibility. The mathematical issues on this problem are clarified.
Three pure inorganic materials based on Strandberg-type phosphomolybdate and different transition metal linkers
Creators: name: Wang, Chunxiao
name: Shi, Jie
name: Yu, Kai
name: Bin B. Zhou, Bai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Three inorganic materials based on Strandberg polyoxoanion, Na10[Ag(P2Mo5O23)]2·8H2O (1), Na8[{Cu(H2O)4}(HP2Mo5O23)2]·8H2O (2), and Na8[{Co(H2O)4}(HP2Mo5O23)2]·6H2O (3), were hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, IR, TG, and single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. The compounds are based on the [P2Mo5O23]6− cluster and transition metal linkers. Compound 1 is a 1-D wave-like chain connected by Ag+ bridges. Compounds 2 and 3 are isostructural dimers bonded by {Cu(H2O)4} or {Co(H2O)4} linkers. The 1-D chain and dimeric clusters of 1-3 are further extended to 3-D supramolecular networks via hydrogen bonds and supramolecular interactions. Channels with different sizes are observed in 1-3, in which isolated Na+ and lattice water molecule fill the channels via intermolecular interactions. Weak interactions play important roles in stabilizing the three 3-D networks. Electrochemical and electrocatalytic properties of 1-3 have been investigated.
Using the Three Delays Model to Examine Civil Registration Barriers in Indonesia
Creators: name: Bennouna, Cyril
name: Feldman, Brooke
name: Usman, Rahmadi
name: Adiputra, Rama
name: Kusumaningrum, Santi
name: Stark, Lindsay B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Child health services
Mothers--Mortality--Prevention
Infants--Mortality--Prevention
Maternal health services--Government policy
Childbirth--Political aspects
Maternal health services
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Medicine

description: The Three Delays Model has proven a useful framework for examining barriers to seeking obstetric care and preventing maternal and child mortality. This article demonstrates the applicability of the Three Delays Model to the case of civil registration in rural Indonesia and examines ways that efforts to strengthen civil registration services can draw on lessons from maternal and child health programming. Twenty focus group discussions were conducted using a participatory ranking exercise in four Indonesian districts. Focus groups were stratified into four groups: (1) government officials involved in civil registration, (2) civil society organization members that assist communities in civil registration, and (3) female and (4) male community members. Transcripts were analyzed using constant comparative method and thematic analysis, revealing barriers that communities commonly faced in accessing civil registration services. In examining the categories and themes related to these barriers, the research team found a significant overlap with the factors and phases of the Three Delays Model. Participants were delayed from seeking registration services by a range of sociocultural factors and by the perceived inaccessibility and poor quality of services. Once they decided to seek care, long distances to services and poor transportation options delayed their access to registration offices. Finally, a series of bottlenecks in service provision created extended delays once applicants reached registration offices. Ownership of civil registration documents in Indonesia remains exceptionally low, with just over half of children and youth possessing a birth certificate. To strengthen civil registration and health systems more generally, it is important to understand the factors that enable and constrain civil registration, how these factors relate to one another, and how they change over a child’s life.