cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Two-step generation of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from human pluripotent stem cells with reinforced efficacy upon osteoarthritis rabbits by HA hydrogel
Creators: name: Zhang, Leisheng
name: Yimeng Wei
name: Chi, Ying
name: Dengke Liu
name: Sijun Yang
name: Zhongchao Han
name: Zongjin Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. qRT-PCR analysis of pluripotency-, germ layer- and MSCs-associated gene expression in hiPSCs and derived cells. (a) Statistical analysis of pluripotency-associated gene (POU5F1, SOX2, NANOG) expression in hPSCs during the differentiation process by qRT-PCR assay (mean ± SEM, N = 3). *P
Reaching wide and deep : public pedagogy of death and dying in Canada
Creators: name: Ryu, Hyunok
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Learning about death and dying is important because they are aspects of life we will all have to face. This learning is increasingly important as we are dying longer, mostly isolated and hidden behind the walls of medical or care facilities. To prevent breakdowns following a terminal diagnosis or a loved one’s death, and also to live a fuller life, keeping a sense of mortality close is crucial, which is what death education primarily aims to achieve. I studied established “public death educators” in Canada—those educating the general public in the public domain—to understand precisely what messages they are disseminating about death and dying, how they educate the public, and why they educate the way they do. I conducted a critical realist multi-case study through observing the educators’ practices and conducting in-depth interviews. I used theories of public pedagogy and thanatological cultural niches as my theoretical framework. The three cases of death education I studied focused on distinctively different aspects of death and dying, namely, the groundwork for end-of-life planning, the practical matters of doing a home funeral, and the sophisticated construction of why the culture of death and dying is the way it is. I found that public death educators use a variety of pedagogic tools to disorient people from widespread misconceptions around death and dying; to help them contemplate death; and to prompt them to live and love fully. These educators also differ in the ways they interact with the public. Importantly, these differences are rooted in their relational and ethical principles. Despite these differences, the educators share the belief that all of us are bound to one another by our mortality and that we share social responsibilities around death and dying. Based on these tenets, I consider how having a keen sense of mortality might contribute to the field of adult education and also to having solidarity with all beings, human and nonhuman.
Additional file 2 of Visual acuity is correlated with ischemia and neurodegeneration in patients with early stages of diabetic retinopathy
Creators: name: Li, Jin
name: Zhou, Yue
name: Chen, Feng
name: Li, Yingzi
name: Zhou, Rong
name: Wu, Chaoming
name: Yu, Huankai
name: Lin, Zhiyang
name: Shi, Ce
name: Zheng, Gu
name: Shao, Yilei
name: Chen, Qi
name: Lu, Fan
name: Shen, Meixiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. ROC analysis of microvascular parameters and retinal thickness of diabetic patients with normal and decreased BCVA.
FAST discovery of long tidal tails in NGC 4490/85
Creators: name: Liu, Yao
name: Zhu, Ming
name: Yu, Haiyang
name: Ai, Mei
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Liu, Siqi
name: Zhou, Ruilei
name: Yuan, Lixia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a 100 kpc HI tail in the merging galaxy pair NGC 4490/85 detected by the Five-Hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The tidal tails extended in both the south and north directions, and they are much longer than that reported previously based on the VLA interferometric maps. The NGC 4490/85 is surrounded by a large gas envelope, and a starburst low metallicity dwarf galaxy MAPS 1231+42 is found to be connected with the gas envelope, indicating that galaxy interaction trigged the intense star formation in it. Based on the fact that the metallicity in MAPS 1231+42 is one order of magnitude lower than that in the two disks of NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, we speculate that the gas near this galaxy should be primordial and could be due to gas inflow from the circum-galactic medium (CGM). We also found a collimated gas component pointing at a nearby dwarf galaxy KK 149, suggesting that this galaxy might also be interacting with the NGC 4490 pair. We discuss the possible origin of the long tidal tails and the extended gas envelope in this merging system based on the new data from FAST.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 1 table.Accepted by MNRAS. The raw data used in the article will be published on the FAST website: https://fast.bao.ac.cn. The PID is N2021_4. Please contact the author (liuyao@nao.cas.cn, mz@nao.cas.cn) for processed data
Additional file 4 of Two-step generation of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from human pluripotent stem cells with reinforced efficacy upon osteoarthritis rabbits by HA hydrogel
Creators: name: Zhang, Leisheng
name: Yimeng Wei
name: Chi, Ying
name: Dengke Liu
name: Sijun Yang
name: Zhongchao Han
name: Zongjin Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. FCM analysis of the immune costimulatory molecules in hESC-MSCs with/without HA hydrogel. (a) Representative diagrams of the immune costimulatory molecules (CD40, CD80, CD86) expression in hESC-MSCs with/without HA hydrogel by FCM assay (hESC-MSCs, HA/hESC-MSCs).
Magnetic Field Line Separation by Random Ballistic Decorrelation in Transverse Magnetic Turbulence
Creators: name: Yannawa, Chutima
name: Pongkitiwanichakul, Peera
name: Ruffolo, David
name: Chuychai, Piyanate
name: Sonsrettee, Wirin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistics of the magnetic field line separation provide insight into how a bundle of field lines spreads out and the dispersion of non-thermal particles in a turbulent environment, which underlies various astrophysical phenomena. Its diffusive character depends on the distance along the field line, the initial separation, and the characteristics of the magnetic turbulence. This work considers the separation of two magnetic field lines in general transverse turbulence in terms of the magnetic power spectrum in three-dimensional wavenumber space. We apply non-perturbative methods using Corrsin's hypothesis and assume random ballistic decorrelation to calculate the ensemble average field line separation for general transverse magnetic turbulence. For 2D+slab power spectra, our analytic formulae and computer simulations give similar results, especially at low slab fraction. Our analytical expression also demonstrates several features of field line separation that are verified by computer simulations.
Spherical harmonics analysis of Fermi gamma-ray data and the Galactic dark matter halo
Creators: name: Malyshev, Dmitry
name: Bovy, Jo
name: Cholis, Ilias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the decomposition of gamma-ray maps in spherical harmonics is a sensitive tool to study dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay in the main Galactic halo of the Milky Way. Using the spherical harmonic decomposition in a window excluding the Galactic plane, we show for one year of Fermi data that adding a spherical template (such as a line-of-sight DM annihilation profile) to an astrophysical background significantly reduces chi^2 of the fit to the data. In some energy bins the significance of this DM-like fraction is above three sigma. This can be viewed as a hint of DM annihilation signal, although astrophysical sources cannot be ruled out at this moment. We use the derived DM fraction as a conservative upper limit on DM annihilation signal. In the case of bb-bar annihilation channel the limits are about a factor of two less constraining than the limits from dwarf galaxies. The uncertainty of our method is dominated by systematics related to modeling the astrophysical background. We show that with one year of Fermi data the statistical sensitivity would be sufficient to detect DM annihilation with thermal freeze out cross section for masses below 100 GeV.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, 1 table; v2: minor corrections, v3: major revision of the presentation, results unchanged
Programme - MIDA Workshop on Online Ethnography 26/01/2021
Creators: name: Debargue Audrey
name: Galluccio Giulia
name: Buresi Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ITN MIDA
PROGRAMME
WORKSHOP
ONLINE ETHNOGRAPHY
ISLAM
SOCIAL SCIENCES

description: MIDA Workshop on Online Ethnography 26/01/2021 The overall aim of this workshop is to explore and discuss the consequences of forcedly resorting to online forms and methods of doing ethnography. We shall of course discuss online ethnographic methods in general, but the focus will be on possible alternatives and its consequences. The seminar was requested by a number of ESR’s. This information sheet is based on their suggestions. The coordinating team has invited four experts to give a short introduction, followed by two Q&A and discussion sessions.
MeerKAT view of the Dancing Ghosts -- Peculiar Galaxy Pair PKS 2130-538 in Abell 3785
Creators: name: Velović, Velibor
name: Cotton, William D.
name: Filipovi'c, Miroslav D.
name: Norris, Ray P.
name: Barnes, Luke A.
name: Condon, James J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present MeerKAT L-band (886-1682 MHz) observations of the extended radio structure of the peculiar galaxy pair PKS 2130-538 known as the "Dancing Ghosts". The complex of bending and possibly interacting jets and lobes originate from two Active Galactic Nuclei hosts in the Abell 3785 galaxy cluster, one of which is the brightest cluster galaxy. The radio properties of the PKS 2130-538 flux density, spectral index and polarization - are typical for large, bent-tail galaxies. We also investigate a number of thin extended low surface brightness filaments originating from the lobes. Southeast from the Dancing Ghosts, we detect a region of low surface brightness emission that has no clear origin. While it could originate from the Abell 3785 radio halo, we investigate the possibility that it is a radio relic or emission associated with the two PKS 2130-538 hosts. We find no evidence of interaction between the two PKS 2130-538 hosts.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Additional file 11 of Comparative genomic analysis of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2 reveals insights into the molecular mechanism of microbial immobilization of heavy metals
Creators: name: Shan, Shiping
name: Cheng, Wei
name: Li, Yilu
name: Zhang, Min
name: Liu, Zhudong
name: Wang, Yushuang
name: Wei, Xiaowu
name: Fu, Zujiao
name: Wu, Shandong
name: Du, Dongxia
name: Guo, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 11: Supplementary Table S11. Classification of the heavy metal resistancegenes in the gene category.
Rotation and activity in late-type members of the young cluster ASCC 123
Creators: name: Frasca, A.
name: Alonso-Santiago, J.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Bragaglia, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ASCC 123 is a little-studied young and dispersed open cluster. Recently, we conducted the first research devoted to it. In this paper, we complement our previous work with TESS photometry for the 55 likely members of the cluster. We pay special attention to seven of these high-probability members, all with FGK spectral types, for which we have high-resolution spectra from our preceding work. By studying the TESS light curves of the cluster members we determine the rotational period and the amplitude of the rotational modulation for 29 objects. The analysis of the distribution of the periods allows us to estimate a gyrochronogical age for ASCC 123 similar to that of the Pleiades, confirming the value obtained in our previous investigation. A young cluster age is also suggested by the distribution of variation amplitudes. In addition, for those stars with spectroscopic data we calculate the inclination of their rotation axis. These values appear to follow a random distribution, as already observed in young clusters, with no indication of spin alignment. However, our sample is too small to confirm this on more solid statistical grounds. Finally, for these seven stars we study the level of magnetic activity from the H$α$ and CaII H&K lines. Despite the small number of data points, we find a correlation of the H$α$ and CaII flux with Rossby number. The position of these stars in flux--flux diagrams follows the general trends observed in other active late-type stars.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 14 pages, 17 figures
A runaway T-Tauri star leaving an extended trail
Creators: name: Martí, Josep
name: Luque-Escamilla, Pedro L.
name: Sánchez-Ayaso, Estrella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We address the problem of young stellar objects that are found too far away from possible star formation sites. Different mechanisms have been proposed before to explain this unexpected circumstance. The idea of high-velocity protostars is one of these mechanisms, although observational support is not always easy to obtain. We aim to shed light on this issue after the serendipitous discovery of a related stellar system. Methods. Following the inspection of archival infrared data, a peculiar anonymous star was found that apparently heads a long tail that resembles a wake-like feature. We conducted a multiwavelength analysis including photometry, astrometry, and spectroscopy. Together with theoretical physical considerations, this approach provided a reasonable knowledge of the stellar age and kinematic properties, together with compelling indications that the extended feature is indeed the signature of a high-velocity, or runaway, newborn star. Results. Our main result is the discovery of a low-mass young stellar object that fits the concept of a runaway T-Tauri star that was hypothesized several decades ago. In this peculiar star, nicknamed UJT-1, the interaction of the stellar wind with the surrounding medium becomes extreme. Under reasonable assumptions, this unusual degree of interaction has the potential to encode the mass-loss history of the star on timescales of several $10^5$ years
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Observational tests for Λ(t)CDM cosmology
Creators: name: Pigozzo, C.
name: Dantas, M. A.
name: Carneiro, S.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the observational viability of a class of cosmological models in which the vacuum energy density decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, resulting in a production of cold dark matter particles at late times. Similarly to the flat ΛCDM case, there is only one free parameter to be adjusted by the data in this class of Λ(t)CDM scenarios, namely, the matter density parameter. To perform our analysis we use three of the most recent SNe Ia compilation sets (Union2, SDSS and Constitution) along with the current measurements of distance to the BAO peaks at z = 0.2 and z = 0.35 and the position of the first acoustic peak of the CMB power spectrum. We show that in terms of $χ^2$ statistics both models provide good fits to the data and similar results. A quantitative analysis discussing the differences in parameter estimation due to SNe light-curve fitting methods (SALT2 and MLCS2k2) is studied using the current SDSS and Constitution SNe Ia compilations. A matter power spectrum analysis using the 2dFGRS is also performed, providing a very good concordance with the constraints from the SDSS and Constitution MLCS2k2 data.
description: Revised version, to appear in JCAP
High-Entropy Polar Regions Around the First Protostars
Creators: name: Turk, Matthew J.
name: Norman, Michael L.
name: Abel, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on simulations of the formation of the first stars in the Universe, where we identify regions of hot atomic gas (fH2 < 10-6) at densities above 10-14 g/cc, heated to temperatures ranging between 3000 and 8000 K. Within this temperature range atomic hydrogen is unable to cool effectively. We describe the kinetic and thermal characteristics of these regions and investigate their origin. We find that these regions, while small in total mass fraction of the cloud, may be dynamically important over the accretion timescale for the central clump in the cloud, particularly as a chemical, rather than radiative, mechanism for clearing the polar regions of the accretion disk of material and terminating accretion along these directions. These inherently three-dimensional effects stress the need for multi-dimensional calculations of protostellar accretion for reliable predictions of the masses of the very first stars.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Additional file 2 of Citizen advisory groups for the creation and improvement of decision aids: experience from two Swiss centers for primary care
Creators: name: Selby, Kevin
name: Cardinaux, Regula
name: Metry, Beatrice
name: de Rougemont, Simone
name: Chabloz, Janine
name: Meier-Herrmann, Verena
name: Stoller, Jürg
name: Durand, Marie-Anne
name: Auer, Reto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. French-language questionnaires used by Lausanne group
Nuclear-mitochondrial DNA segments resemble paternally inherited mitochondrial DNA in humans
Creators: name: Wei, Wei
name: Pagnamenta, Alistair T.
name: Gleadall, Nicholas
name: Sanchis-Juan, Alba
name: Stephens, Jonathan
name: Broxholme, John
name: Odhams, Christopher A.
name: Fratter, Carl
name: Caulfield, Mark J.
name: Taylor, Jenny C.
name: Rahman, Shamima
name: Ambrose, J. C.
name: Baple, E. L.
name: Bleda, M.
name: Boardman-Pretty, F.
name: Boissiere, J. M.
name: Boustred, C. R.
name: Caulfield, M. J.
name: Chan, G. C.
name: Craig, C. E. H.
name: Daugherty, L. C.
name: De Burca, A.
name: Devereau, A.
name: Elgar, G.
name: Foulger, R. E.
name: Fowler, T.
name: Furió-Tarí, P.
name: Hackett, J. M.
name: Halai, D.
name: Holman, J. E.
name: Hubbard, T. J. P.
name: Jackson, R.
name: Kasperaviciute, D.
name: Kayikci, M.
name: Lahnstein, L.
name: Lawson, K.
name: Leigh, S. E. A.
name: Leong, I. U. S.
name: Lopez, F. J.
name: Maleady-Crowe, F.
name: Mason, J.
name: McDonagh, E. M.
name: Moutsianas, L.
name: Mueller, M.
name: Murugaesu, N.
name: Need, A. C.
name: Odhams, C. A.
name: Patch, C.
name: Perez-Gil, D.
name: Polychronopoulos, D.
name: Pullinger, J.
name: Rahim, T.
name: Rendon, A.
name: Riesgo-Ferreiro, P.
name: Rogers, T.
name: Ryten, M.
name: Savage, K.
name: Sawant, K.
name: Scott, R. H.
name: Siddiq, A.
name: Sieghart, A.
name: Smedley, D.
name: Smith, K. R.
name: Sosinsky, A.
name: Spooner, W.
name: Stevens, H. E.
name: Stuckey, A.
name: Sultana, R.
name: Thomas, E. R. A.
name: Thompson, S. R.
name: Tregidgo, C.
name: Tucci, A.
name: Walsh, E.
name: Watters, S. A.
name: Welland, M. J.
name: Williams, E.
name: Witkowska, K.
name: Wood, S. M.
name: Zarowiecki, M.
name: Tuna, Salih
name: Turro, Ernest
name: Chinnery, Patrick F.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
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/631/208/726/649
/631/208/726/2129
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/45/23
article

description: Abstract: Several strands of evidence question the dogma that human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited exclusively down the maternal line, most recently in three families where several individuals harbored a ‘heteroplasmic haplotype’ consistent with biparental transmission. Here we report a similar genetic signature in 7 of 11,035 trios, with allelic fractions of 5–25%, implying biparental inheritance of mtDNA in 0.06% of offspring. However, analysing the nuclear whole genome sequence, we observe likely large rare or unique nuclear-mitochondrial DNA segments (mega-NUMTs) transmitted from the father in all 7 families. Independently detecting mega-NUMTs in 0.13% of fathers, we see autosomal transmission of the haplotype. Finally, we show the haplotype allele fraction can be explained by complex concatenated mtDNA-derived sequences rearranged within the nuclear genome. We conclude that rare cryptic mega-NUMTs can resemble paternally mtDNA heteroplasmy, but find no evidence of paternal transmission of mtDNA in humans.
(130) Elektra Delta -- on the stability of the new third moonlet
Creators: name: Valvano, Giulia
name: Oliveira, Rai Machado
name: Winter, Othon Cabo
name: Sfair, Rafael
name: Borderes-Motta, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to verify the stability of the proposed orbital solutions for the third moonlet (Delta) taking into account a realistic gravitational potential for the central body of the quadruple system (Alpha). We also aim to estimate the location and size of a stability region inside the orbit of Gamma. First, we created a set of test particles with intervals of semi-major axis, eccentricities, and inclinations that covers the region interior to the orbit of Gamma, including the proposed orbit of Delta and a wide region around it. We considered three different models for the gravitational potential of Alpha: irregular polyhedron, ellipsoidal body and oblate body. For a second scenario, Delta was considered a massive spherical body and Alpha an irregular polyhedron. Beta and Gamma were assumed as spherical massive bodies in both scenarios. The simulations showed that a large region of space is almost fully stable only when Alpha was modeled as simply as an oblate body. For the scenario with Delta as a massive body, the results did not change from those as massless particles. Beta and Gamma do not play any relevant role in the dynamics of particles interior to the orbit of Gamma. Delta's predicted orbital elements are fully unstable and far from the nearest stable region. The primary instability source is Alpha's elongated shape. Therefore, in the determination of the orbital elements of Delta, it must be taken into account the gravitational potential of Alpha assuming, at least, an ellipsoidal shape.
The Harish-Chandra isomorphism for reductive symmetric superpairs
Creators: name: Alldridge, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B20, 58A50, 53C35

description: We consider symmetric pairs of Lie superalgebras which are strongly reductive and of even type, and introduce a graded Harish-Chandra homomorphism. We prove that its image is a certain explicit filtered subalgebra of the Weyl invariants on a Cartan subspace whose associated graded is the image of Chevalley's restriction map on symmetric invariants. This generalises results of Harish-Chandra and V. Kac, M. Gorelik.
description: 43 pages; v2: substantially improved version
Additional file 3 of Comparative genomic analysis of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2 reveals insights into the molecular mechanism of microbial immobilization of heavy metals
Creators: name: Shan, Shiping
name: Cheng, Wei
name: Li, Yilu
name: Zhang, Min
name: Liu, Zhudong
name: Wang, Yushuang
name: Wei, Xiaowu
name: Fu, Zujiao
name: Wu, Shandong
name: Du, Dongxia
name: Guo, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S3. The genome properties and statistics of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2
Overwintering with plastic silage tarps as a tool to improve the climate resilience of organic vegetable production in British Columbia
Creators: name: Kesler, Raelani
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Climate change is limiting the use of overwinter cover cropping in organic vegetable production and is driving the need for alternative cover options. Winter soil cover is important in protecting against nutrient leaching and erosion, both of which represent threats to the environment and economic costs to growers. This study investigated impacts of overwinter plastic tarping compared to cover cropping through a mother-daughter field trial in British Columbia. Research was conducted from 2019-2021 on 14 organic practicing vegetable farms, including two mother sites (University of British Columbia Farm and Green Fire Farm) and 12 daughter sites, in three agricultural regions (Lower Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island, and Kootenay Mountains). To determine the relationship between winter cover and crop nutrient sources, three approaches to spring nutrient amendment strategies and a control were trialed at the mother sites: (1) high compost, (2) low compost, (3) compost + fertilizer, and (4) control (no application). Plant available nitrogen (PAN), electrical conductivity (EC), and volumetric water content (VWC) were measured in the spring after tarp removal at all research sites. Additional measurements were taken at the mother sites, including PAN at the time of planting, mid-season, and post-harvest, and crop yield at the time of crop maturity. Spring PAN and EC increased under tarps relative to cover crops in all regions. Impacts to VWC varied between years and likely varies depending on the time of tarp removal. Data from UBC Farm indicate that tarps created lower VWC conditions over the winter until early spring (mid-March) after which time VWC under tarped conditions was higher than soil under cover crops. There were no consistent effects of the winter cover type on crop yields. Nutrient amendment strategies did not meaningfully interact with winter cover type with respect to spring PAN, EC, or VWC. In 2020, nutrient amendment strategy impacted post-harvest PAN at a 0-30 cm depth and crop yield at the mother sites. Results from this study help inform winter cover decisions for small-scale organic growers so that they may decrease the detrimental impacts to soil health from changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change.
Surface activation by electron scavenger metal nanorod adsorption on TiH2, TiC, TiN, and Ti2O3
Creators: name: Hinuma, Yoyo
name: Mine, Shinya
name: Toyao, Takashi
name: Maeno, Zen
name: Shimizu, Ken-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal/oxide support perimeter sites are known to provide unique properties because the nearby metal changes the local environment on the support surface. In particular, the electron scavenger effect reduces the energy necessary for surface anion desorption, thereby contributes to activation of the (reverse) Mars-van Krevelen mechanism. This study investigated the possibility of such activation in hydrides, carbides, nitrides, and sulfides. The work functions (WFs) of known hydrides, carbides, nitrides, oxides, and sulfides with group 3, 4, or 5 cations (Sc, Y, La, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, and Ta) were calculated. The WFs of most hydrides, carbides, and nitrides are smaller than the WF of Ag, implying that the electron scavenger effect may occur when late transition metal nanoparticles are adsorbed on the surface. The WF of oxides and sulfides decrease when reduced. The surface anion vacancy formation energy correlates well with the bulk formation energy in carbides and nitrides, while almost no correlation is found in hydrides because of the small range of surface hydrogen vacancy formation energy values. The electron scavenger effect is explicitly observed in nanorods adsorbed on TiH2 and Ti2O3; the surface vacancy formation energy decreases at anion sites near the nanorod, and charge transfer to the nanorod happens when an anion is removed at such sites. Activation of hydrides, carbides, and nitrides by nanorod adsorption and screening support materials through WF calculation are expected to open up a new category of supported catalysts.
description: Supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP02068D
General Electric Quarterly Survey 73-01, Versions I & II, Prof. & Manag., I & II, College Student
Creators: name: Electric, General
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Adult sample: Most interesting concern (1); local community interests (1); race relations (1); future race relations (1); companies helping race relations (1); price controls (1); wage controls (1); unaffordable purchases (1); local construction approvals (6); atomic plant dangers (2); product values (19); government activity changes (14); national issues discussions (2); taxes for community services (24); large companies effects (1); energy predictions (9); reading habits (1); time spent with news (1); television programs viewed (2); income change (1); price changes (1); financial situation changes (1). College Student sample: Most interesting concern (1); race relations (1); future race relations (1); companies helping race relations (1); unaffordable purchases (1); atomic plant dangers (2); government activity changes (8); national issues discussions (2); taxes for community services (12); large companies effects (1); college attended (2); class year (1); major (1); degree (1); preferred career (2); important career aspects (8); academic standing (2); residency (2).
Additional file 6 of Two-step generation of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from human pluripotent stem cells with reinforced efficacy upon osteoarthritis rabbits by HA hydrogel
Creators: name: Zhang, Leisheng
name: Yimeng Wei
name: Chi, Ying
name: Dengke Liu
name: Sijun Yang
name: Zhongchao Han
name: Zongjin Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6. Additional procedures, additional references were listed.
A Family of Bipartite Separability Criteria Based on Bloch Representation of Density Matrices
Creators: name: Zhu, Xue-Na
name: Wang, Jing
name: Bao, Gui
name: Li, Ming
name: Shen, Shu-Qian
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the separability of bipartite quantum systems in arbitrary dimensions based on the Bloch representation of density matrices. We present two separability criteria for quantum states in terms of the matrices $T_{αβ}(ρ)$ and $W_{ab,αβ}(ρ)$ constructed from the correlation tensors in the Bloch representation. These separability criteria can be simplified and detect more entanglement than the previous separability criteria. Detailed examples are given to illustrate the advantages of results.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of Comparative genomic analysis of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2 reveals insights into the molecular mechanism of microbial immobilization of heavy metals
Creators: name: Shan, Shiping
name: Cheng, Wei
name: Li, Yilu
name: Zhang, Min
name: Liu, Zhudong
name: Wang, Yushuang
name: Wei, Xiaowu
name: Fu, Zujiao
name: Wu, Shandong
name: Du, Dongxia
name: Guo, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S2. Project information of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2.
Predicting the Occurrence of Variants in RAG1 and RAG2
Creators: name: Lawless, Dylan
name: Lango Allen, Hana
name: Thaventhiran, James
name: Hodel, Flavia
name: Anwar, Rashida
name: Fellay, Jacques
name: Walter, Jolan E.
name: Savic, Sinisa
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Original Article
Recombination activating genes 1 and 2 (RAG1, RAG2)
pathogenic variant
genomics
predictive

description: Abstract: While widespread genome sequencing ushers in a new era of preventive medicine, the tools for predictive genomics are still lacking. Time and resource limitations mean that human diseases remain uncharacterized because of an inability to predict clinically relevant genetic variants. A strategy of targeting highly conserved protein regions is used commonly in functional studies. However, this benefit is lost for rare diseases where the attributable genes are mostly conserved. An immunological disorder exemplifying this challenge occurs through damaging mutations in RAG1 and RAG2 which presents at an early age with a distinct phenotype of life-threatening immunodeficiency or autoimmunity. Many tools exist for variant pathogenicity prediction, but these cannot account for the probability of variant occurrence. Here, we present a method that predicts the likelihood of mutation for every amino acid residue in the RAG1 and RAG2 proteins. Population genetics data from approximately 146,000 individuals was used for rare variant analysis. Forty-four known pathogenic variants reported in patients and recombination activity measurements from 110 RAG1/2 mutants were used to validate calculated scores. Probabilities were compared with 98 currently known human cases of disease. A genome sequence dataset of 558 patients who have primary immunodeficiency but that are negative for RAG deficiency were also used as validation controls. We compared the difference between mutation likelihood and pathogenicity prediction. Our method builds a map of most probable mutations allowing pre-emptive functional analysis. This method may be applied to other diseases with hopes of improving preparedness for clinical diagnosis.
Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge 1983
Creators: name: Kočí, Tomáš
name: Veselská, Martina Kočová
name: Newman, William A.
name: Buckeridge, John S.
name: Sklenář, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Sessilia
Chionelasmatidae

description: Family Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge, 1983 (Upper Cretaceous–Recent)    Archaeochionelasmus KOČÍ, BUCKERIDGE & NEWMAN gen. nov.  Pl. 1, figs A–F; Pl. 2, figs A–H; Text-figs 3, 6
 Diagnosis. Low conical neobalanoform with a six-plated wall comprised of a carina (C) and a rostrum (R) plus paired carinolatera (CL1) and rostrolatera (RL) and at least one whorl of basal imbricating plates (IPs); pseudo-radii present on overlapping margins of RL and CL1; alae unexposed, rostrolatera perhaps included in the sheath; no trace of a calcareous basis.
 Etymology. Archaeo (Greek arkhaio-) = early, or before Chionelasmus.
 Stratum typicum. Upper Cenomanian, Korycany Member, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin.
description: Published as part of Kočí, Tomáš, Veselská, Martina Kočová, Newman, William A., Buckeridge, John S. & Sklenář, Jan, 2017, Archaeochionelasmus nekvasilovae gen. et sp. nov. (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha, Chionelasmatoidea) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic): the first bona fide Cretaceous neobalanoform, pp. 181-196 in Zootaxa 4294 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/831790
STXBP1 -associated neurodevelopmental disorder: a comparative study of behavioural characteristics
Creators: name: O’Brien, Sinéad
name: Ng-Cordell, Elise
name: Astle, Duncan E.
name: Scerif, Gaia
name: Baker, Kate
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research
STXBP1
Epilepsy
Intellectual disability
Language
Social

description: Abstract: Background: De novo loss of function mutations in STXBP1 are a relatively common cause of epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID). However, little is known about the types and severities of behavioural features associated with this genetic diagnosis. Methods: To address this, we collected systematic phenotyping data encompassing neurological, developmental, and behavioural characteristics. Participants were 14 individuals with STXBP1-associated neurodevelopmental disorder, ascertained from clinical genetics and neurology services UK-wide. Data was collected via standardised questionnaires administered to parents at home, supplemented by researcher observations. To isolate discriminating phenotypes, the STXBP1 group was compared to 33 individuals with pathogenic mutations in other ID-associated genes (ID group). To account for the potential impact of global cognitive impairment, a secondary comparison was made to an ability-matched subset of the ID group (low-ability ID group). Results: The STXBP1 group demonstrated impairments across all assessed domains. In comparison to the ID group, the STXBP1 group had more severe global adaptive impairments, fine motor difficulties, and hyperactivity. In comparison to the low-ability ID group, severity of receptive language and social impairments discriminated the STXBP1 group. A striking feature of the STXBP1 group, with reference to both comparison groups, was preservation of social motivation. Conclusions: De novo mutations in STXBP1 are associated with complex and variable neurodevelopmental impairments. Consistent features, which discriminate this disorder from other monogenic causes of ID, are severe language impairment and difficulties managing social interactions, despite strong social motivation. Future work could explore the physiological mechanisms linking motor, speech, and social development in this disorder. Understanding the developmental emergence of behavioural characteristics can help to focus clinical assessment and management after genetic diagnosis, with the long-term aim of improving outcomes for patients and families.
The energy budget for X-ray to infrared reprocessing in Compton-thin and Compton-thick active galaxies
Creators: name: Yaqoob, Tahir
name: Murphy, Kendrah D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavily obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) play an important role in contributing to the cosmic X-ray background (CXRB). However, the AGNs found in deep X-ray surveys are often too weak to allow direct measurement of the column density of obscuring matter. One method adopted in recent years to identify heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGNs under such circumstances is to use the observed mid-infrared to X-ray luminosity ratio as a proxy for the column density. This is based on the supposition that the amount of energy lost by the illuminating X-ray continuum to the obscuring matter and reprocessed into infrared emission is directly related to the column density and that the proxy is not sensitive to other physical parameters of the system (aside from contamination by dust emission from, for example, star-forming regions). Using Monte Carlo simulations, we find that the energy losses experienced by the illuminating X-ray continuum in the obscuring matter are far more sensitive to the shape of the X-ray continuum and to the covering factor of the X-ray reprocessor than they are to the column density of the material. Specifically we find that it is possible for the infrared to X-ray luminosity ratio for a Compton-thin source to be just as large as that for a Compton-thick source even without any contamination from dust. Since the intrinsic X-ray continuum and covering factor of the reprocessor are poorly constrained from deep X-ray survey data, we conclude that the mid-infrared to X-ray luminosity ratio is not a reliable proxy for the column density of obscuring matter in AGNs even when there is no other contribution to the mid-infrared luminosity aside from X-ray reprocessing. This conclusion is independent of the geometry of the obscuring matter.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 12 pages, 7 figures
New quasar proximity zone size measurements at $z\sim 6$ using the enlarged XQR-30 sample
Creators: name: Satyavolu, Sindhu
name: Eilers, Anna-Christina
name: Kulkarni, Girish
name: Ryan-Weber, Emma
name: Davies, Rebecca L.
name: Becker, George D.
name: Bosman, Sarah E. I.
name: Greig, Bradley
name: Mazzucchelli, Chiara
name: Bañados, Eduardo
name: Bischetti, Manuela
name: D'Odorico, Valentina
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Farina, Emanuele Paolo
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Keating, Laura C.
name: Lai, Samuel
name: Walter, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proximity zones of high-redshift quasars are unique probes of their central supermassive black holes as well as the intergalactic medium in the last stages of reionization. We present 22 new measurements of proximity zones of quasars with redshifts between 5.8 and 6.6, using the enlarged XQR-30 sample of high-resolution, high-SNR quasar spectra. The quasars in our sample have UV magnitudes of $M_{1450}\sim -27$ and black hole masses of $10^9$$\unicode{x2013}$$10^{10}$ M$_\odot$. Our inferred proximity zone sizes are 2$\unicode{x2013}$7 physical Mpc, with a typical uncertainty of less than 0.5 physical Mpc, which, for the first time, also includes uncertainty in the quasar continuum. We find that the correlation between proximity zone sizes and the quasar redshift, luminosity, or black hole mass, indicates a large diversity of quasar lifetimes. Two of our proximity zone sizes are exceptionally small. The spectrum of one of these quasars, with $z=6.02$, displays, unusually for this redshift, damping wing absorption without any detectable metal lines, which could potentially originate from the IGM. The other quasar has a high-ionization absorber $\sim$0.5 pMpc from the edge of the proximity zone. This work increases the number of proximity zone measurements available in the last stages of cosmic reionization to 87. This data will lead to better constraints on quasar lifetimes and obscuration fractions at high redshift, which in turn will help probe the seed mass and formation redshift of supermassive black holes.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, Accepted in MNRAS
On classification of Poisson vertex algebras
Creators: name: De Sole, Alberto
name: Kac, Victor
name: Wakimoto, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a conjectural classification of Poisson vertex algebras of CFT type and of Poisson vertex algebras in one differential variable (= scalar Hamiltonian operators).
Additional file 7 of Comparative genomic analysis of Citrobacter sp. XT1-2-2 reveals insights into the molecular mechanism of microbial immobilization of heavy metals
Creators: name: Shan, Shiping
name: Cheng, Wei
name: Li, Yilu
name: Zhang, Min
name: Liu, Zhudong
name: Wang, Yushuang
name: Wei, Xiaowu
name: Fu, Zujiao
name: Wu, Shandong
name: Du, Dongxia
name: Guo, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table S7. Basic information of the Citrobacter species used for the pan genome analysis.
An explicit Schrödinger picture for Aharonov's Modular Variable concept
Creators: name: Lobo, A. C.
name: Ribeiro, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to address in a natural manner, the modular variable concept explicitly in a Schrödinger picture. The idea of Modular Variables was introduced in 1969 by Aharonov, Pendleton and Petersen to explain certain non-local properties of quantum mechanics. Our approach to this subject is based on Schwinger's finite quantum kinematics and it's continuous limit.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 5 of Two-step generation of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells from human pluripotent stem cells with reinforced efficacy upon osteoarthritis rabbits by HA hydrogel
Creators: name: Zhang, Leisheng
name: Yimeng Wei
name: Chi, Ying
name: Dengke Liu
name: Sijun Yang
name: Zhongchao Han
name: Zongjin Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Matrix analysis of the relationship of the indicated groups based on multiple parameters of pathological changes and therapeutic effects. (a) The correlation matrix scores among the indicated groups (Sham, PBS, HA, hESC-MSCs, HA/hESC-MSCs) based on Pearson analysis as described in the “Methods and Materials” section.