cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developing a model Fracture Liaison Service consultation with patients, carers and clinicians: a Delphi survey to inform content of the iFraP complex consultation intervention
Creators: name: Bullock, Laurna
name: Crawford-Manning, Fay
name: Cottrell, Elizabeth
name: Fleming, Jane
name: Leyland, Sarah
name: Edwards, John
name: Clark, Emma M
name: Thomas, Simon
name: Chapman, Stephen
name: Gidlow, Christopher
name: Iglesias, Cynthia P
name: Protheroe, Joanne
name: Horne, Robert
name: O’Neill, Terence W
name: Mallen, Christian
name: Jinks, Clare
name: Paskins, Zoe
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Original Article
Osteoporosis
Fracture Liaison Services
Delphi survey
Intervention development
Consultation
iFraP

description: Abstract: Summary: Fracture Liaison Services are recommended to deliver best practice in secondary fracture prevention. This modified Delphi survey, as part of the iFraP (Improving uptake of Fracture Prevention drug Treatments) study, provides consensus regarding tasks for clinicians in a model Fracture Liaison Service consultation. Purpose: The clinical consultation is of pivotal importance in addressing barriers to treatment adherence. The aim of this study was to agree to the content of the ‘model Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) consultation’ within the iFraP (Improving uptake of Fracture Prevention drug Treatments) study. Methods: A Delphi survey was co-designed with patients and clinical stakeholders using an evidence synthesis of current guidelines and content from frameworks and theories of shared decision-making, communication and medicine adherence. Patients with osteoporosis and/or fragility fractures, their carers, FLS clinicians and osteoporosis specialists were sent three rounds of the Delphi survey. Participants were presented with potential consultation content and asked to rate their perception of the importance of each statement on a 5-point Likert scale and to suggest new statements (Round 1). Lowest rated statements were removed or amended after Rounds 1 and 2. In Round 3, participants were asked whether each statement was ‘essential’ and percentage agreement calculated; the study team subsequently determined the threshold for essential content. Results: Seventy-two, 49 and 52 patients, carers and clinicians responded to Rounds 1, 2 and 3 respectively. One hundred twenty-two statements were considered. By Round 3, consensus was reached, with 81 statements deemed essential within FLS consultations, relating to greeting/introductions; gathering information; considering therapeutic options; eliciting patient perceptions; establishing shared decision-making preferences; sharing information about osteoporosis and treatments; checking understanding/summarising; and signposting next steps. Conclusions: This Delphi consensus exercise has summarised for the first time patient/carer and clinician consensus regarding clearly defined tasks for clinicians in a model FLS consultation.
Additional file 1 of Spatial distribution and incidence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in Bavaria, Germany
Creators: name: Sauter-Louis, Carola M.
name: Staubach, Christoph
name: Reichmann, Frederike
name: Stoll, Alexander
name: Rademacher, Günter
name: Cussler, Klaus
name: Bastian, Max
name: Pfitzner-Friedrich, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table 1 Fax questionnaire sent out in 2009
L3CCD results in pure photon counting mode
Creators: name: Daigle, Olivier
name: Gach, Jean-Luc
name: Guillaume, Christian
name: Carignan, Claude
name: Balard, Philippe
name: Boissin, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretically, L3CCDs are perfect photon counting devices promising high quantum efficiency ($\sim$90%) and sub-electron readout noise ($σ$<0.1 e-). We discuss how a back-thinned 512x512 frame-transfer L3CCD (CCD97) camera operating in pure photon counting mode would behave based on experimental data. The chip is operated at high electromultiplication gain, high analogic gain and high frame rate. Its performance is compared with a modern photon counting camera (GaAs photocathode, QE $\sim$28%) to see if L3CCD technology, in its current state, could supersede photocathode-based devices.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, to appear in SPIE conference proceedings vol 5499, "Optical & IR Detectors for Astronomy" Glasgow UK, 21-24 June 2004
Inflation with a class of concave inflaton potentials in Randall-Sundrum model
Creators: name: Loc, Ngo Phuc Duc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate inflation with a class of concave inflaton potentials of the form $\sim ϕ^n$ $(0
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; matches EPJC version; comments are welcome
Nuclear density functional constrained by low-energy QCD
Creators: name: Finelli, Paolo
name: Kaiser, Norbert
name: Vretenar, Dario
name: Weise, Wolfram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a relativistic point-coupling model of nuclear many-body dynamics constrained by the low-energy sector of QCD. The effective Lagrangian is characterized by density-dependent coupling strengths determined by chiral one- and two-pion exchange (with single and double delta isobar excitations) and by large isoscalar background fields that arise through changes of the quark condensate and the quark density at finite baryon density. The model has been tested in the analysis of nuclear ground-state properties along different isotope chains of medium and heavy nuclei. The agreement with experimental data is comparable with purely phenomenological predictions. The built-in QCD constraints and the explicit treatment of pion exchange restrict the freedom in adjusting parameters and functional forms of density-dependent couplings. It is shown that chiral pionic fluctuations play an important role for nuclear binding and saturation mechanism, whereas background fields of about equal magnitude and opposite sign generate the effective spin-orbit potential in nuclei.
description: ws-procs9x6.cls, 8 pgs, Talk presented at "X Convegno su Problemi di Fisica Nucleare Teorica", Cortona (AR), 6-9 october 2004
Brain-based control of car infotainment
Creators: name: Bellotti, Andrea
name: Antopolskiy, Sergey
name: Marchenkova, Anna
name: Colucciello, Alessia
name: Avanzini, Pietro
name: Vecchiato, Giovanni
name: Ambeck-Madsen, Jonas
name: Ascari, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Nowadays, the possibility to run advanced AI on embedded systems allows natural interaction between humans and machines, especially in the automotive field. We present a custom portable EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) that exploits Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) induced with an oddball experimental paradigm to control the infotainment menu of a car. A preliminary evaluation of the system was performed on 10 participants in a standard laboratory setting and while driving on a closed private track. The task consisted of repeated presentations of 6 different menu icons in oddball fashion. Subject-specific models were trained with different machine learning approaches on cerebral data from either only laboratory or driving experiments (in-lab and in-car models) or a combination of the two (hybrid model) to classify EEG responses to target and non-target stimuli. All models were tested on the subjects' last in-car sessions that were not used for the training. Analysis of ERPs amplitude showed statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences between the EEG responses associated with target and non-target icons, both in the laboratory and while driving. Classification Accuracy (CA) was above chance level for all subjects in all training configurations, with a deep CNN trained on the hybrid set achieving the highest scores (mean CA = 53 $\pm$ 12 %, with 16 % chance level for the 6-class discrimination). The ranking of the features importance provided by a classical BCI approach suggests an ERP-based discrimination between target and non-target responses. No statistical differences were observed between the CAs for the in-lab and in-car training sets, nor between the EEG responses in these conditions, indicating that the data collected in the standard laboratory setting could be readily used for a real driving application without a noticeable decrease in performance.
Inelastic displacement ratios for non-structural components in steel framed structures under forward-directivity near-fault strong-ground motion
Creators: name: Bravo-Haro, M. A.
name: Virreira, J. R.
name: Elghazouli, A. Y.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Original Article
Inelastic displacement ratios
Non-structural components
Steel structures
Near-fault events
Velocity pulses
Forward-directivity effects

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: This paper describes a detailed numerical investigation into the inelastic displacement ratios of non-structural components mounted within multi-storey steel framed buildings and subjected to ground motions with forward-directivity features which are typical of near-fault events. The study is carried out using detailed multi-degree-of-freedom models of 54 primary steel buildings with different structural characteristics. In conjunction with this, 80 secondary non-structural elements are modelled as single-degree-of-freedom systems and placed at every floor within the primary framed structures, then subsequently analysed through extensive dynamic analysis. The influence of ground motions with forward-directivity effects on the mean response of the inelastic displacement ratios of non-structural components are compared to the results obtained from a reference set of strong-ground motion records representing far-field events. It is shown that the mean demand under near-fault records can be over twice as large as that due to far-fault counterparts, particularly for non-structural components with periods of vibration lower than the fundamental period of the primary building. Based on the results, a prediction model for estimating the inelastic displacement ratios of non-structural components is calibrated for far-field records and near-fault records with directivity features. The model is valid for a wide range of secondary non-structural periods and primary building fundamental periods, as well as for various levels of inelasticity induced within the secondary non-structural elements.
Mapping ices in protostellar environments on 1000 AU scales: Methanol-rich ice in the envelope of Serpens SMM 4
Creators: name: Pontoppidan, K. M.
name: van Dishoeck, E. F.
name: Dartois, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present VLT-ISAAC L-band spectroscopy toward 10 stars in SVS 4, a 30"x45" dense cluster of pre-main sequence stars deeply embedded in the Serpens star forming cloud. The ISAAC spectra are combined with archival imaging from UKIRT and ISOCAM to derive accurate extinctions toward the SVS 4 stars. The data are then used to construct a spatial map of the distribution of ice in front of the cluster stars with an average angular resolution of 6" or 1500 AU, three orders of magnitude better than previous maps. We show that water ice is present throughout the region and confirm the presence of methanol ice with an abundance of up to 25% relative to water. It is shown that methanol ice maintains a very high abundance relative to H2 throughout SVS 4, but drops by at least an order of magnitude only 75" away from SVS 4. The maps indicate that some of the lines of sight toward the SVS 4 stars pass through the outer envelope of the class 0 protostar SMM 4. The abundance of water ice relative to the refractory dust component shows a sudden increase by 90% to (1.7+/-0.2) * 10^-4 relative to H2 at a distance of 5000 AU to the center of SMM 4. The water ice abundance outside the jump remains constant at (9+/-1) * 10^-5. We suggest that this is an indication of a significantly enhanced ice formation efficiency in the envelopes of protostars. The depletion of volatile molecules in the envelope of SMM 4 is discussed. In particular, it is found that up to 2/3 of the depleted CO is converted into CO2 and CH3OH in the ice. Therefore, only 1/3 of the CO originally frozen out will return to the gas phase as CO upon warmup.
description: 16 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
A Self-Consistent Model for the Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Shocks
Creators: name: Le, Truong
name: Becker, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we suggest that the relativistic protons powering the outflows emanating from radio-loud systems containing black holes are accelerated at standing, centrifugally-supported shocks in hot, advection-dominated accretion disks. Such disks are ideal sites for first-order Fermi acceleration at shocks because the gas is tenuous, and consequently the mean free path for particle-particle collisions generally exceeds the thickness of the disk. The accelerated particles are therefore able to avoid thermalization, and as a result a small fraction of them achieve very high energies and escape from the disk. In our approach the hydrodynamics and the particle acceleration are coupled and the solutions are obtained self-consistently based on a rigorous mathematical treatment. The theoretical analysis of the particle transport parallels the early studies of cosmic-ray acceleration in supernova shock waves. We find that particle acceleration in the vicinity of the shock can extract enough energy to power a relativistic jet. Using physical parameters appropriate for M87 and Sgr A*, we confirm that the jet kinetic luminosities predicted by the theory agree with the observational estimates.
description: accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Planspiele als experimentelle Methode der Politikfolgenabschätzung: Das Beispiel der Stickstoffextensivierung
Creators: name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Hirschauer, Norbert
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Hirschauer, Norbert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Politikfolgenabschätzung
subject: ökosystemare Dienstleistungen
subject: smart Regulation
subject: Stickstoffreduzierung
subject: experimentelle Ökonomik
subject: Unternehmensplanspiele
subject: policy impact analysis
subject: ecosystem services
subject: smart regulation
subject: nitrogen reduction
subject: experimental economics
subject: business management games

description: Bei der Abschätzung der Folgen verhaltenssteuernder politischer Maßnahmen mit Hilfe von Rational- Choice-Modellen, die von der Verhaltensannahme eines vollständig informierten und ausschließlich gewinnmaximierenden homo oeconomicus ausgehen, besteht die Gefahr, dass Art und Geschwindigkeit des Anpassungsverhaltens an veränderte Rahmenbedingungen falsch eingeschätzt werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund geht die vorliegende Untersuchung zwei Fragen nach: Erstens, können die bisher hauptsächlich zu Lehrzwecken verwendeten Unternehmensplanspiele so angepasst werden, dass sie als kostengünstige experimentelle Methode für die Politikfolgenabschätzung einsetzbar sind? Zweitens, können durch die explorative Durchführung von Planspielen mit „Convenience Groups“ (z.B. Studierenden) Hinweise auf Verhaltensmuster gewonnen werden, denen man im Rahmen spezifischerer Studien nachgehen sollte? In dem hier beschriebenen mehrperiodischen Planspiel leiten die Teilnehmer ein landwirtschaftliches Unternehmen und werden mit verschiedenen Politikmaßnahmen zur Stickstoffreduzierung konfrontiert. Die studentischen Planspielunternehmer reagieren sehr unterschiedlich auf die verschiedenen Maßnahmen, obwohl sich diese in ihrer Gewinnwirksamkeit nicht unterscheiden. Dies ist ein Hinweis, dass die je Euro Steuermittel erzielbaren Verhaltensänderungen und damit die Kosteneffizienz (und Smartness) staatlicher Maßnahmen maßgeblich von ihrem konkreten Design abhängen.
Die Rolle der Dienstleistungen in der polnischen und deutschen Landwirtschaft vor dem Hintergrund der EU-27
Creators: name: Kolodziejczak, Malgorzata
name: Kolodziejczak, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Vorleistungen
subject: landwirtschaftliche Dienstleistungen
subject: tierärztliche Dienstleistungen
subject: unterstellte Bankgebühr (FISIM)
subject: Dienstleistungskapazität

description: Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird die Bedeutung der Dienstleistungen in der polnischen und deutschen Landwirtschaft vor dem Hintergrund der Europäischen Union vorgestellt. Die Analyse wurde anhand von Landwirtschaftlicher Gesamtrechnung (LGR) erstellt. Untersucht wurden landwirtschaftliche, tierärztliche Dienstleistungen sowie die unterstellte Bankgebühr. Überprüft wurde ihr Anteil an den Vorleistungen und auch der Wert der einzelnen Dienstleistungsgruppen umgerechnet auf 1 ha der LF und die Dienstleistungskapazität der landwirtschaftlichen Erzeugung in den Jahren 1999-2011. Diese Analyse macht deutlich, dass zwischen den Dienstleistungen in der polnischen und der deutschen Landwirtschaft große Unterschiede bestehen, wobei die polnische Landwirtschaft einiges nachzuholen hat.
title: Engineering IgG-Like Bispecific Antibodies — An Overview
Creators: name: Krah, Simon
name: Kolmar, Harald
name: Becker, Stefan
name: Zielonka, Stefan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Monoclonal antibody therapeutics have proven to be successful treatment options for patients in various indications. Particularly in oncology, therapeutic concepts involving antibodies often rely on the so-called effector functions, such as antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), which are programed in the antibody Fc region. However, Fc-mediated effector mechanisms often seem to be insufficient in properly activating the immune system to act against tumor cells. Furthermore, long term treatments can lead to resistance against the applied drug, which is monospecific by nature. There is promise in using specific antibodies to overcome such issues due to their capability of recruiting and activating T-cells directly at the tumor site, for instance. During the last decade, two of these entities, which are referred to as Blinatumomab and Catumaxomab, have been approved to treat patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and malignant ascites. In addition, Emicizumab, which is a bispecific antibody targeting clotting factors IXa and X, was recently granted market approval by the FDA in 2017 for the treatment of hemophilia A. However, the generation of these next generation therapeutics is challenging and requires tremendous engineering efforts as two distinct paratopes need to be combined from two different heavy and light chains. This mini review summarizes technologies, which enable the generation of antibodies with dual specificities.
Inside the Final Black Hole: Puncture and Trapped Surface Dynamics
Creators: name: Evans, Christopher
name: Ferguson, Deborah
name: Khamesra, Bhavesh
name: Laguna, Pablo
name: Shoemaker, Deirdre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A popular approach in numerical simulations of black hole binaries is to model black holes as punctures in the fabric of spacetime. The location and the properties of the black hole punctures are tracked with apparent horizons, namely outermost marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs). As the holes approach each other, a common apparent horizon suddenly appears, engulfing the two black holes and signaling the merger. The evolution of common apparent horizons and their connection with gravitational wave emission have been studied in detail with the framework of dynamical horizons. We present a study of the dynamics of the MOTSs and their punctures in the interior of the final black hole. The study focuses on head-on mergers for various initial separations and mass ratios. We find that MOTSs intersect for most of the parameter space. We show that for those situations in which they do not, it is because of the singularity avoidance property of the moving puncture gauge condition used in the study. Although we are unable to carry out evolutions that last long enough to show the ultimate fate of the punctures, our results suggest that MOTSs always intersect and that at late times their overlap is only partial. As a consequence, the punctures inside the MOTSs, although close enough to each other to act effectively as a single puncture, do not merge.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Prediction Based On Retinal Fundus Photography Zhihong Lin
Creators: name: Lin, Zhihong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: Recent studies have validated the association between cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and retinal fundus photography. Deep learning (DL) models have been employed to predict CVD risk from retinal fundus photography based on different tasks. In this thesis, we addressed the research topic from three subjects: 1) The
fundus-based CVD risk score prediction, 2) The fundus-based CVD event prediction,
and 3) The automatic ophthalmology report generation.
Large deviations for trapped interacting Brownian particles and paths
Creators: name: Adams, Stefan
name: Bru, Jean-Bernard
name: König, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 60J65, 82B10, 82B26 (Primary)

description: We introduce two probabilistic models for $N$ interacting Brownian motions moving in a trap in $\mathbb {R}^d$ under mutually repellent forces. The two models are defined in terms of transformed path measures on finite time intervals under a trap Hamiltonian and two respective pair-interaction Hamiltonians. The first pair interaction exhibits a particle repellency, while the second one imposes a path repellency. We analyze both models in the limit of diverging time with fixed number $N$ of Brownian motions. In particular, we prove large deviations principles for the normalized occupation measures. The minimizers of the rate functions are related to a certain associated operator, the Hamilton operator for a system of $N$ interacting trapped particles. More precisely, in the particle-repellency model, the minimizer is its ground state, and in the path-repellency model, the minimizers are its ground product-states. In the case of path-repellency, we also discuss the case of a Dirac-type interaction, which is rigorously defined in terms of Brownian intersection local times. We prove a large-deviation result for a discrete variant of the model. This study is a contribution to the search for a mathematical formulation of the quantum system of $N$ trapped interacting bosons as a model for Bose--Einstein condensation, motivated by the success of the famous 1995 experiments. Recently, Lieb et al. described the large-N behavior of the ground state in terms of the well-known Gross--Pitaevskii formula, involving the scattering length of the pair potential. We prove that the large-N behavior of the ground product-states is also described by the Gross--Pitaevskii formula, however, with the scattering length of the pair potential replaced by its integral.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000214 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Supersymmetric SO(10) Models Inspired by Deconstruction
Creators: name: Huang, Chao-Shang
name: Jiang, Jing
name: Li, Tianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider 4-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric SO(10) models inspired by deconstruction of 5-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric orbifold SO(10) models and high dimensional non-supersymmetric SO(10) models with Wilson line gauge symmetry breaking. We discuss the $SO(10) \times SO(10)$ models with bi-fundamental link fields where the gauge symmetry can be broken down to the Pati-Salam, $SU(5) \times U(1)$, flipped $SU(5) \times U(1)'$ or the standard model like gauge symmetry. We also propose an $SO(10) \times SO(6) \times SO(4)$ model with bi-fundamental link fields where the gauge symmetry is broken down to the Pati-Salam gauge symmetry, and an $SO(10) \times SO(10)$ model with bi-spinor link fields where the gauge symmetry is broken down to the flipped $SU(5) \times U(1)'$ gauge symmetry. In these two models, the Pati-Salam and flipped $SU(5) \times U(1)'$ gauge symmetry can be further broken down to the standard model gauge symmetry, the doublet-triplet splittings can be obtained by the missing partner mechanism, and the proton decay problem can be solved. We also study the gauge coupling unification. We briefly comment on the interesting variation models with gauge groups $SO(10) \times SO(6)$ and $SO(10) \times flipped SU(5) \times U(1)'$ in which the proton decay problem can be solved.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures; references added, version to appear in NPB
Holographic imaging with multimode, large free spectral range lasers in photorefractive sillenite crystals
Creators: name: Barbosa, Eduardo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The holographic imaging of rigid objects with diode lasers emitting in many wavelengths in a sillenite Bi12TiO20 photorefractive crystal is both theoretically and experimentally investigated. It is shown that, due to the multi-wavelength emission and the typically large free spectral range of this light source, contour fringes appear on the holographic image corresponding to the surface relief, even in single-exposure recordings. The influence of the number of emitted modes on the fringe width is analysed, and the possible applications of the contour fringes in the field of optical metrology are pointed out.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, PDF only
Additional file 1 of Relationships between changes in HIV risk perception and condom use in East Zimbabwe 2003–2013: population-based longitudinal analyses
Creators: name: Schaefer, Robin
name: Thomas, Ranjeeta
name: Rufurwokuda Maswera
name: Kadzura, Noah
name: Nyamukapa, Constance
name: Gregson, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. One document (.pdf) containing the following sections, referred to throughout the article: 1. Further information on data and measures (p.2). 2. Information on the imputation procedures (p.3). 3. Analysis of excluded responses for the risk perception measure (p.4). 4. Details on methods (p.5). 5. Preliminary analyses to identify potential confounding factors (p.6). 6. Description of modelling change for potential confounding factors (p.7). 7. Analysis of decrease in condom use in relation to change in risk perception (p.8). 8. Sensitivity analysis of different definition of ‘no change’ in risk perception (p.13). 9. Additional results of analyses by age groups and marital status (p.15)
Relações de trocas e causalidade de Granger entre preços pagos e recebidos pela agricultura brasileira, 1986/2004
Creators: name: SOUZA, Nali De Jesus De
name: STULP, Valter José
name: SOUZA, Nali De Jesus De
name: STULP, Valter José
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Terms of trade
subject: agricultural prices
subject: Granger causality.

description: This papers examines the terms of trade and Granger causality between prices received and paid by the Brazilian agricultural sector, from 1986 to 2004. During that period, the terms of trade improved for the agricultural sector. The greatest improvement occurred before 1994; in 1995 the terms of trade fell, followed by a relative stabilization until 2004. The valorization in the whole period was due to agricultural products, since animals products had a significant decline in their terms of trade. Products with the greatest losses were coffee, wheat, potatoes, chicken and hogs. Regionally, the greatest losses, after 1994, occurred in the Northeast States, with the exception of Maranhão and Bahia. The Granger causality shows that agricultural prices did not cause the prices paid, considered as a whole, between 1986/2004; but they caused the prices paid for specific inputs, like fuel oil, seeds and services before 1994, and the prices of pesticides, seeds and services after that year. The effect of the prices paid on the prices received was greater in the first period than in the second one. With the opening of the economy, the prices received became more influenced by external factors than by inputs prices.
Analytic solution of a static scale-free network model
Creators: name: Catanzaro, Michele
name: Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analytical study of a paradigmatic scale-free network model, the Static Model. Analytical expressions for its main properties are derived by using the hidden variables formalism. We map the model into a canonic hidden variables one, and solve the latter. The good agreement between our predictions and extensive simulations of the original model suggests that the mapping is exact in the infinite network size limit. One of the most remarkable findings of this study is the presence of relevant disassortative correlations, which are induced by the physical condition of absence of self and multiple connections.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Externalidades e mudanças da regulamentação ambiental para a suinocultura norte-americana: é possível no caso brasileiro?
Creators: name: WEYDMANN, Celso Leonardo
name: WEYDMANN, Celso Leonardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: hog sector
subject: externalities
subject: regulation
subject: environment
subject: USA.

description: This paper describes the relationship between externalities and environmental regulation in the USA hog sector to verify the possibility to increase the stringency of regulation concerning externalities caused by hog manure in Brazil. The analysis shows that if the regulation reform in Brazil is going to follow the one in the USA it should be a government iniciative through the definition of national polluting standards based on hog manure rules already in place by the Brazilian states. Public funds would be required to enforce and punish polluters, and also to support farmers to acquire environmental inputs. On the other side, social pressure would be confined from the action of isolated groups related to environment, agriculture and farmer's work extension. The main conclusion is that there are no economic, social and institutional factors indicating the feasibility of such reform in the short run.
GPU-accelerated Image Reduction Pipeline
Creators: name: Niwano, Masafumi
name: Murata, Katsuhiro L.
name: Adachi, Ryo
name: Wang, Sili
name: Tachibana, Yutaro
name: Yatsu, Youichi
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Shimokawabe, Takashi
name: Itoh, Ryousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed a high-speed image reduction pipeline using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as hardware accelerators. Astronomers desire detecting EM counterpart of gravitational-wave sources as soon as possible for sharing positional information to organize systematic follow-up observations. Therefore, high-speed image processing is important. We developed a new image reduction pipeline for our robotic telescope system, which uses a GPU via a Python package CuPy to achieve high-speed image processing. As a result, the processing speed was increased by more than a factor of forty to that of the current pipeline, while maintaining the same functions.
description: 24 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ, code available at this http URL https://github.com/MNiwano/Eclaire
title: Reactivity and Microstructure of Metakaolin Based Geopolymers: Effect of Fly Ash and Liquid/Solid Contents
Creators: name: Vogt, Oliver
name: Ukrainczyk, Neven
name: Ballschmiede, Conrad
name: Koenders, Eddie
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Geopolymers are inorganic binders based on mixtures of an aluminosilicate powder with an alkali-silicate solution. Properties of geopolymers are strongly determined by the type of reactive solid, the liquid/solid ratio of paste and, amongst others, the Si/Al ratio of the formed geopolymer network. In this study, fly ash blended metakaolin based geopolymers with varying liquid/solid ratios (l/s), activated by potassium silicate solution, are investigated. Reactivity of metakaolin and fly ash was investigated by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and dissolution tests. Reactivity, mechanical properties and microstructure of hardened pastes were analyzed by setting and compressive strength tests, mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), capillary water absorption tests, thermogravimetric analysis-differential scanning calorimeter (TGA-DSC), isothermal calorimetry and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). The results show that substitution of metakaolin by fly ash as well as variation of l/s brings advantages up to a certain degree, but also has a considerable influence on the pore size distribution, mechanical properties, Si/Al ratio of the geopolymer network and the content of bound water.
Additional file 1 of Data-based RNA-seq simulations by binomial thinning
Creators: name: Gerard, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 This PDF file contains theoretical considerations, simulation summaries and figures, and additional simulation details.
Efeitos do aumento da idade mínima legal no trabalho dos brasileiros de 14 e 15 anos
Creators: name: FERRO, Andrea Rodrigues
name: Kassouf, Ana Lucia
name: FERRO, Andrea Rodrigues
name: Kassouf, Ana Lucia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: minimum age to work
subject: teenager work
subject: change in the legislation
subject: public policy evaluation.

description: In 1998 the child labor legislation was amended restricting the employment to minors under sixteen instead of fourteen. Using data from household surveys (PNAD) it is possible to observe a decline in the percentage of 14 and 15 year-old children working in the decades. This paper examines whether a federal law restricting the employment of child labor contributed to this decline. Using a probit model and pooling the cross-sectional data from 1995 to 2003, we observe statistically significant coefficients for the variable representing the change in the legislation for boys and girls in the urban and rural areas. Therefore, it can be inferred that the legislation contributed to a decrease in the percentage of teenagers working in the labor market, although it did not eliminate child labor.
Heavy-Quark Symmetry and the Electromagnetic Decays of Excited Charmed Strange Mesons
Creators: name: Mehen, Thomas
name: Springer, Roxanne P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy-hadron chiral perturbation theory (HH$χ$PT) is applied to the decays of the even-parity charmed strange mesons, D_{s0}(2317) and D_{s1}(2460). Heavy-quark spin symmetry predicts the branching fractions for the three electromagnetic decays of these states to the ground states D_s and D_s^* in terms of a single parameter. The resulting predictions for two of the branching fractions are significantly higher than current upper limits from the CLEO experiment. Leading corrections to the branching ratios from chiral loop diagrams and spin-symmetry violating operators in the HH$χ$PT Lagrangian can naturally account for this discrepancy. Finally the proposal that the D_{s0}(2317) (D_{s1}(2460)) is a hadronic bound state of a D (D^*) meson and a kaon is considered. Leading order predictions for electromagnetic branching ratios in this molecular scenario are in very poor agreement with existing data.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures
Importância e encadeamento dos setores de produção e abate e processamento da cadeia suinícola em Minas Gerais
Creators: name: Tosta, Marielce De Cássia Ribeiro
name: Gomes, Marília Fernandes Maciel
name: Lirio, Viviani Silva
name: Silveira, Suely De Fátima Ramos
name: Tosta, Marielce De Cássia Ribeiro
name: Gomes, Marília Fernandes Maciel
name: Lirio, Viviani Silva
name: Silveira, Suely De Fátima Ramos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: pork chain
subject: inter sectors relations
subject: regional development.

description: The main objective of this study was to establish the importance and the enchainment of the production sector and butchery/making up sector of pork chain in Minas Gerais, in the years of 1980 and 1995, applying the Rasmussen-Hirschman index, the influence field index and GHS index. The results showed that both sectors were considered key sectors only by the Rasmussen-Hirschman index and the influence field index, i.e., they presented greater importance when observed its impacts on the final demand and its power of enchainment in the economy. Despite not being considered key sectors by the GHS index, they presented great potential of backward impacts. This result, and the fact that the participation of these sectors had been increasing in the Minas Gerais economy since 1995, suggests that those sectors the state policy makers need to give priority in resources allocation and in the strategy for the industrial development.
Additional file 1 of Efficient dual-negative selection for bacterial genome editing
Creators: name: Cianfanelli, Francesca Romana
name: Cunrath, Olivier
name: Bumann, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Activity of the TetR system regulating expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in absence and presence of its inducer anhydro-tetracycline (aTC) as measured by flow cytometry (AF, autofluorescence of a strain without gfp).
Rethinking Blockchains in the Internet of Things Era from a Wireless Communication Perspective
Creators: name: Wei, Hongxin
name: Feng, Wei
name: Chen, Yunfei
name: Wang, Cheng-Xiang
name: Ge, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), a massive number of devices are connected to the Internet. For these distributed devices in IoT networks, how to ensure their security and privacy becomes a significant challenge. The blockchain technology provides a promising solution to protect the data integrity, provenance, privacy, and consistency for IoT networks. In blockchains, communication is a prerequisite for participants, which are distributed in the system, to reach consensus. However, in IoT networks, most of the devices communicate through wireless links, which are not always reliable. Hence, the communication reliability of IoT devices influences the system security. In this article, we rethink the roles of communication and computing in blockchains by accounting for communication reliability. We analyze the tradeoff between communication reliability and computing power in blockchain security, and present a lower bound to the computing power that is needed to conduct an attack with a given communication reliability. Simulation results show that adversarial nodes can succeed in tampering a block with less computing power by hindering the propagation of blocks from other nodes.
Additional file 2 of Efficient dual-negative selection for bacterial genome editing
Creators: name: Cianfanelli, Francesca Romana
name: Cunrath, Olivier
name: Bumann, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Resolution results (mutant or reversion back to wild-type) for 50 colonies obtained after negative selection. The results for deletion of foxA were obtained from clone 5 shown in Fig. 1g.
title: Control Limits for an Adaptive Self-Starting Distribution-Free CUSUM Based on Sequential Ranks
Creators: name: Lang, Michael
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Since their introduction in 1954, cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charts have seen a widespread use beyond the conventional realm of statistical process control (SPC). While off-the-shelf implementations aimed at practitioners are available, their successful use is often hampered by inherent limitations which make them not easily reconcilable with real-world scenarios. Challenges commonly arise regarding a lack of robustness due to underlying parametric assumptions or requiring the availability of large representative training datasets. We evaluate an adaptive distribution-free CUSUM based on sequential ranks which is self-starting and provide detailed pseudo-code of a simple, yet effective calibration algorithm. The main contribution of this paper is in providing a set of ready-to-use tables of control limits suitable to a wide variety of applications where a departure from the underlying sampling distribution to a stochastically larger distribution is of interest. Performance of the proposed tabularized control limits is assessed and compared to competing approaches through extensive simulation experiments. The proposed control limits are shown to yield significantly increased agility (reduced detection delay) while maintaining good overall robustness.
Milchkonflikt und resultierende Verbandsstrukturen - ökonomische und emotionale Auswirkungen von Marktliberalisierung
Creators: name: Alpmann, Jan
name: Bitsch, Vera
name: Alpmann, Jan
name: Bitsch, Vera
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Agrarverbandsgefüge
subject: Institutioneller Wandel
subject: Marktliberalisierung
subject: Milchkonflikt
subject: Milchlieferstreik

description: Der Milchkonflikt und die Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Deutschen Bauernverband und dem Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter stellt die Grundlage dieses Beitrages dar. Ziel ist es, die relevanten Konfliktfaktoren zu identifizieren und die verschiedenen Eskalationsstufen des Konfliktes in der Landwirtschaft sowie strukturelle Folgen im Agrarverbandsgefüge herauszuarbeiten. Die Analyse beruht auf einem qualitativen Forschungsansatz anhand von Interviews und Software-basierter Dokumentenanalyse. Als wichtigste Faktoren im Konfliktverlauf wurden die Abschaffung der Milchquotenregelung sowie die damit verbundenen Veränderungsängste identifiziert. Es wurde eine enge Verknüpfung zwischen den wirtschaftlichen und emotionalen Faktoren festgestellt, ebenso wie ein struktureller Wandel einhergehend mit einem zunehmenden Einfluss der Agraropposition auf die politische Diskussion.
Tidal Interactions and Disruptions of Giant Planets on Highly Eccentric Orbits
Creators: name: Faber, Joshua A.
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
name: Willems, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the evolution of planets undergoing a strong tidal encounter using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), for a range of periastron separations. We find that outside the Roche limit, the evolution of the planet is well-described by the standard model of linear, non-radial, adiabatic oscillations. If the planet passes within the Roche limit at periastron, however, mass can be stripped from it, but in no case do we find enough energy transferred to the planet to lead to complete disruption. In light of the three new extrasolar planets discovered with periods shorter than two days, we argue that the shortest-period cases observed in the period-mass relation may be explained by a model whereby planets undergo strong tidal encounters with stars, after either being scattered by dynamical interactions into highly eccentric orbits, or tidally captured from nearly parabolic orbits. Although this scenario does provide a natural explanation for the edge found for planets at twice the Roche limit, it does not explain how such planets will survive the inevitable expansion that results from energy injection during tidal circularization.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures, accepted by Icarus; updated for referees suggestions and recent observations