cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Use of Tropical Strains: Aspergillus vadensis and Aspergillus oryzae as Producers of α-Amylases in Biotechnological Practice
Creators: name: Adejuwon AO
name: Tsygankova VA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Enzymes especially α-amylases are imported into Nigeria, West Africa in tons from the United States of America, Asia and East Europe, cumulating into annual national debts because of the dwindling exchange rate in foreign funds. There is avenue for the production of this enzyme locally in the tropics and even in the temperate zones of the world since production of this enzyme is advocated. In our study the isolates were obtained from deteriorated barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) plants grown locally in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Tropical strains of Aspergillus vadensis and Aspergillus oryzae were isolated from deteriorated barley seeds placed onto potato dextrose agar slants and plates at 25o C. Sterile barley-seed medium (1% w/v) and a defined growth medium consisting MgSO4 .7H2 0, K2 HPO4 , KH2 PO4 , aspartic acid, biotin, thiamine and FeSO4 .7H2 O with a nitrogen source and a carbon source for fungal growth were inoculated with spore suspensions of approximately 5 x 106 spores per ml of one hundred and twenty-hour-old cultures of each isolate. Incubation was at 25°C. The carbon source was varied and was independently starch, maltose, sucrose, lactose, glucose or galactose when the nitrogen source was potassium nitrate. The nitrogen source was also varied and was independently ammonium chloride, urea, potassium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, glycine, sodium nitrate, tryptone or peptone, when the carbon source in the growth medium was starch. Extracellular proteins produced within a ten day incubation period were extracted and assayed for α-amylase activity using the Pfueller and Elliott (1969) method. Extracellular proteins with expression of α-amylase activities were produced by the tropical fungal strains: Aspergillus vadensis and Aspergillus oryzae grown on the barley-seed medium and the defined growth medium used in this investigation within a period of ten days at 25°C. For the production of the most active α-amylases, the best carbon sources were maltose and glucose while the best nitrogen sources were ammonium chloride and ammonium sulphate when fungal strain Aspergillus vadensis was used as an inoculum. However, the best carbon sources were barley-seed medium, starch and sucrose while the best nitrogen sources were urea, glycine and sodium nitrate when the fungal strain Aspergillus oryzae was used as an inoculum. The exploration of this innovative is an a venue for the industrial production of α-amylases. This is encouraged in tropical Nigeria, West Africa, Ukraine, and East Europe.
MAKTABGACHA TA'LIM TASHKILOTLARINING TAYYORLOV GURUHLARIDA QURISH-YASASHGA O'RGATISHNING METOD VA USULLARI
Creators: name: Eshova, D.Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maktabgacha ta‘lim tashkilotlarida tayyorlov guruh bolalarni  ijodiy qobiliyatlarini rivojlantirish yo‘llari, qurish-yasash mashg‘ulotlarini olib borish hamda tashkil etish usullari.
Ejection of iron-bearing giant-impact fragments and the dynamical and geochemical influence of the fragment re-accretion
Creators: name: Genda, Hidenori
name: Iizuka, Tsuyoshi
name: Sasaki, Takanori
name: Ueno, Yuichiro
name: Ikoma, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Earth was born in violence. Many giant collisions of protoplanets are thought to have occurred during the terrestrial planet formation. Here we investigated the giant impact stage by using a hybrid code that consistently deals with the orbital evolution of protoplanets around the Sun and the details of processes during giant impacts between two protoplanets. A significant amount of materials (up to several tens of percent of the total mass of the protoplanets) is ejected by giant impacts. We call these ejected fragments the giant-impact fragments (GIFs). In some of the erosive hit-and-run and high-velocity collisions, metallic iron is also ejected, which comes from the colliding protoplanets' cores. From ten numerical simulations for the giant impact stage, we found that the mass fraction of metallic iron in GIFs ranges from ~ 1wt% to ~ 25wt%. We also discussed the effects of the GIFs on the dynamical and geochemical characteristics of formed terrestrial planets. We found that the GIFs have the potential to solve the following dynamical and geochemical conflicts: (1) The Earth, currently in a near circular orbit, is likely to have had a highly eccentric orbit during the giant impact stage. The GIFs are large enough in total mass to lower the eccentricity of the Earth to its current value via their dynamical friction. (2) The concentrations of highly siderophile elements (HSEs) in the Earth's mantle are greater than what was predicted experimentally. Re-accretion of the iron-bearing GIFs onto the Earth can contribute to the excess of HSEs. In addition, the estimated amount of iron-bearing GIFs provides significant reducing agent that could transform primitive CO2-H2O atmosphere and ocean into more reducing H2-bearing atmosphere. Thus, GIFs are important for the origin of Earth's life and its early evolution.
description: Accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 33 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Strangeness production in high-energy collisions and Hawking-Unruh radiation
Creators: name: Tawfik, Abdel Nasser
name: Yassin, Hayam
name: Elyazeed, Eman R. Abo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assumption that the production of quark-antiquark pairs and their sequential string-breaking taking place through the event horizon of the color confinement determines freezeout temperature and gives a plausible interpretation of the thermal pattern of pp and AA collisions. When relating the black-hole electric charges to the baryon-chemical potentials it was found that the phenomenologically-deduced parameters from various particle ratios in the statistical thermal models agree well with the ones determined from the thermal radiation from charged black-hole. Accordingly, the resulting freezeout conditions, such as $s/T^3=7$ and $/=1~$GeV, are confirmed at finite chemical potentials, as well. Furthermore, the problematic of strangeness production in elementary collisions can be interpreted by thermal particle production from the Hawking-Unruh radiation. Consequently, the freezeout temperature depends on the quark masses. This leads to a deviation from full equilibrium and thus a suppression of the strangeness production in the elementary collisions. But in nucleus-nucleus collisions, an average temperature should be introduced in order to dilute the quark masses. This nearly removes the strangeness suppression. An extension to finite chemical potentials is introduced. The particle ratios of kaon-to-pion, phi-to-kaon and antilambda-to-pion are determined from Hawking-Unruh radiation and compared with the thermal calculations and the measurements in different experiments. We conclude that these particle ratios can be reproduced, at least qualitatively, as Hawking-Unruh radiation at finite chemical potential. With increasing energy, both K+/pi+ and phi/K^- keep their maximum values at low SPS energies. But the further energy decrease rapidly reduces both ratios. For Lambda/pi-, there is an increase with increasing collision energy, i.e. no saturation is to be observed.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in IJMPE
Contemporary representations of adolescent Muslim girls in Australia and the United States: reinforcing or challenging the stereotypes
Creators: name: Almatani, Maram AbdulKarim
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis analyses the representation of teenage Muslim girls in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s novels Ten Things I Hate About Me and Does My Head Look Big In This?, Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf and Aliya Husain’s Neither This Nor That. All are set in the United States and Australia, with the central motif of the hijab as a symbol of female oppression. These four novels are analysed through the perspective of Mohja Kahf’s Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque, an extension of Said's Orientalism critique of the representation of Muslim women in western literature. The research demonstrates that while adolescent Muslim girls share similar concerns as their non-Muslim peers, their cultural and religious beliefs add complexity to their struggle to develop or reject their Islamic heritage and its symbols; such as the hijab. In current western political discourse in which Islam has become synonymous with terrorism, the four novels are significant in their attempts to represent the complexities of living in the 'west' as a Muslim and the pressure on young Muslim women in particular, to assimilate. Theories on class and power relations inform much of this thesis, drawing on theorists including Foucault, Bhabha, Spivak and Said. As well as the few academic papers and reviews on these novels, other sources include contemporary critiques and analyses of Islamic women as well as social and political discourse in Australia and the US.
Mathematical Modeling using Pure Fractions and Monte Carlo Simulation to Control Thalassemia Disease Transition
Creators: name: Zabadi AM
name: R, Assaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Thalassemia is one of the most widely spread genetic disease, especially in the Middle East. The study aims to create a mathematical model for the control of the transition of genetically inherited thalassemia disease. New form of representing the numbers in the unit - interval which is called pure fractions and the theory and properties of pure fractions were examined and applied. To generalize the effectiveness of this innovative model to predict the number of generations needed to eliminate Thalassemia or other similar genetic diseases, Monte-Carlo Simulation via MATLAB was used. Results indicated such genetic diseases could be controlled and can be eliminated with proper family policies.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0009v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0009v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0009v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Doppler-free resolution near-infrared spectroscopy at 1.28~$μ$m with the noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy method
Creators: name: Chen, Tzu-Ling
name: Liu, Yi-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the Doppler-free saturation spectroscopy of the nitrous oxide (N$_2$O) overtone transition at 1.28~$μ$m. This measurement is performed by the noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS) technique based on the quantum-dot (QD) laser. A high intra-cavity power, up to 10~W, reaches the saturation limit of the overtone line using an optical cavity with a high finesse of 113,500. At a pressure of several mTorr, the saturation dip is observed with a full width at half-maximum of about 2~MHz and a signal-to-noise ratio of 71. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first saturation spectroscopy of molecular overtone transitions in 1.3~$μ$m region. The QD laser is then locked to this dispersion signal with a stability of 15 kHz at 1 sec integration time. We demonstrate the potential of the N$_2$O as markers because of its particularly rich spectrum at the vicinity of 1.28-1.30 $μ$m where lies several important forbidden transitions of atomic parity violation measurements and the 1.3 $μ$m O-band of optical communication.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0100
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0100, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
Dietary Epigenetic Factors Influencing Central Obesity
Creators: name: Telles S
name: Fernandes D
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Central obesity, a major public health concern in the Asia-Pacific region, is a result of genetic predisposition as well as epigenetic influences. Nutritional factors influence obesity, through the calorie intake and modulating gene expression. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the efficacy of dietary interventions through clinical trials, in the management of obesity. Methods: PubMed and Google Scholar databases were searched for 20 years ending December 30, 2014, to find metaanalyses, systematic reviews, and randomized, placebo-controlled studies for central obesity-related clinical trials. The search terms were “central obesity” and “dietary interventions” or “calorie recommendation”. All clinical trials on the effects of dietary interventions with the key outcome measures as change in BMI, waist-hip circumference and body fat were included. Results: Several dietary regimens with varying macronutrients composition are used to combat obesity, such as low-calorie diets, very low-calorie diets (VLCD), low-fat diets, high-fiber diets, low-carbohydrate diets, low glycemic index (GI) diets and plant-based diets. However, very low-calorie-ketogenic and high protein diets have demonstrable significant adverse health effects. Conclusion: The studies reviewed show promise of benefits with changes in epigenetic dietary factors. To draw definite conclusions, there is a need for more long-term studies, with larger sample sizes; and clinical interventions trials, to minimize the risk of false positives and confounding factors influencing the results.
Converting Cascade-Correlation Neural Nets into Probabilistic Generative Models
Creators: name: Nobandegani, Ardavan Salehi
name: Shultz, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humans are not only adept in recognizing what class an input instance belongs to (i.e., classification task), but perhaps more remarkably, they can imagine (i.e., generate) plausible instances of a desired class with ease, when prompted. Inspired by this, we propose a framework which allows transforming Cascade-Correlation Neural Networks (CCNNs) into probabilistic generative models, thereby enabling CCNNs to generate samples from a category of interest. CCNNs are a well-known class of deterministic, discriminative NNs, which autonomously construct their topology, and have been successful in giving accounts for a variety of psychological phenomena. Our proposed framework is based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, called the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm, which capitalizes on the gradient information of the target distribution to direct its explorations towards regions of high probability, thereby achieving good mixing properties. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed framework.
On Ikehara type Tauberian theorems with $O(x^γ)$ remainders
Creators: name: Müger, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 40E05

description: Motivated by analytic number theory, we explore remainder versions of Ikehara's Tauberian theorem yielding power law remainder terms. More precisely, for $f:[1,\infty)\rightarrow{\mathbb R}$ non-negative and non-decreasing we prove $f(x)-x=O(x^γ)$ with $γ<1$ under certain assumptions on $f$. We state a conjecture concerning the weakest natural assumptions and show that we cannot hope for more.
description: A serious mistake in the first version was corrected and everything rewritten, including new material and a conjecture. 6 pages
Optimisation of dynamic toll-pricing systems, using VISSIM
Creators: name: Alwan, Aya
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study initiates work toward developing a new dynamic toll pricing scheme on road networks using simulation. This MRes project is a pilot study aimed at laying the groundwork for a doctoral project. The planned doctoral work will include developing a new approach that can practically contribute in mitigating traffic congestion and maximizing traffic throughput and toll revenue. The simulation software package VISSIM will be used to test the reliability of this approach. A major task in this study will be the development of an external module, using the technical computing package Matlab, through the VISSIM COM interface. The results of the data analysis and simulation are expected to show that toll lanes operated under such a scheme provide a noticeable time saving while maintaining speed at the minimum limit specified for optimal performance. As work toward the development of such a scheme within the MRes study period, I have done three things: 1. Preparing a literature review on similar previous approaches. 2. Obtaining the relevant traffic data on Sydney's M5 Freeway, the selected study area. 3. Planning and initial development of the methodology that will be adopted in this study, including the required models and algorithms necessary to accomplish the study objectives.
title: Интеллектуальные информационные системы
title: Учебное пособие для СПО
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Кудинов Ю.И.
Publisher: name: Липецкий государственный технический университет, Профобразование
Year: 2020

description: Учебное пособие включает теоретический и практический материал, позволяющий овладеть необходимыми базовыми знаниями в области интеллектуальных систем и приобрести первичные навыки работы с нейронными сетями, генетическими алгоритмами и нечеткими моделями. Подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Интеллектуальные информационные системы» по специальностям 10.02.02 «Информационная безопасность телекоммуникационных систем», 10.02.04 «Обеспечение информационной безопасности и телекоммуникационных систем».
Can invisible objects be `seen' via forward proton detectors at the LHC?
Creators: name: Khoze, V. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Ryskin, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the possibility of identifying invisible objects (e.g. dark matter) via missing mass in Central Exclusive Processes; that is, in events where only forward protons are detected at the LHC. We show that the signal must have a cross section greater than 0.25 fb in order that it can be detected. We estimate the huge background caused by soft proton dissociation and evaluate the requirements of the detector `veto' system needed to sufficiently suppress these events. In addition, we discuss the related process leading to the possible identification of the particles from the so-called `compressed-mass Beyond the Standard Model (BSM)' scenarios. In this case the background is not so severe.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Production and Simple Purification of Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor using the Inteintag in Escherichia Coli
Creators: name: Peymanfar P
name: Roghanian R
name: Ghaedi K
name: H, Sayed
name: Yari R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a cytokine which have many functions such as stimulating of hematopoiesis, proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte progenitor cells and production of bone marrow neutrophilic granulocyte colonies. Nowadays, the usage of human recombinant G-CSF (rh G-CSF) is for curing of chemotherapy- radiotherapy-induced neutropenia, and also in patients with bone marrow transplantation. The aim of this study was to produce a soluble type of G-CSF in E.coli and purification in new way. In this study, we achieved active G-CSF using the intein fusion system. Therefore, two copies of optimized Intein - GCSF genewas cloned into the pET22b vector to generate pET22b-G-CSF-intein2 (C-terminal fusion vector) and pET22b intein1-G-CSF (N-terminal fusion vector). The hG-CSF sequence with two different intein sequence from pTWIN1 vector are synthesized and then inserted into a pET22 expression vector under the control of T7 promoter and cloned in E. coli strain BL21 (DE3).The fused proteins formed misfolded proteins as inclusion bodies (IBs). The IBs were solved with urea solution and afterward proteins were saved for size-exclusion chromatography. Then , CBD-intein–GCSF was loaded onto chitin beads column equilibrated with 10mM Tris buffer, 500mM NaCl, pH 8.5, and was eluted from the column by incubation at 25°C under pH 6.5 for 16h based on intein C-terminal self-cleavage. SDS-Page, western blot, dot blot, size exclusion chromatography and in vivo assay of protein demonstrated that the bioactivity of recombinant GCSF was compared with standard GCSF. Results: After culturing and induction of recombinant E. coli with IPTG, we obtained a good expression of the hG-CSF, as determined by SDS-PAGE and confirmed by dot blotting and western blotting. Approximately 50% of the expressed G-CSF was soluble after the IPTG induction and temperature reduction. Up to 1.2 mg of G-CSF was achieved from a 1 L culture, and nearly75% of the GCSF-Intein2 was cleared by pH shift. Intein1-GCSF was not cleaved due to the inhibition of cleavage by the N-terminal amino acid of GCSF. The biological activity assay, in vivo, showed a higher biological effect than standard reference hG-CSF. Conclusion: The immunological and biological analyses showed that this protocol can be useful to develop bioproducts. In conclusion, the combination of different methods presented here permitted an simple and cost-effective protocol for rhG-CSF production.
Evaluating Rapid Application Development with Python for Heterogeneous Processor-based FPGAs
Creators: name: Schmidt, Andrew G.
name: Weisz, Gabriel
name: French, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As modern FPGAs evolve to include more het- erogeneous processing elements, such as ARM cores, it makes sense to consider these devices as processors first and FPGA accelerators second. As such, the conventional FPGA develop- ment environment must also adapt to support more software- like programming functionality. While high-level synthesis tools can help reduce FPGA development time, there still remains a large expertise gap in order to realize highly performing implementations. At a system-level the skill set necessary to integrate multiple custom IP hardware cores, interconnects, memory interfaces, and now heterogeneous processing elements is complex. Rather than drive FPGA development from the hardware up, we consider the impact of leveraging Python to ac- celerate application development. Python offers highly optimized libraries from an incredibly large developer community, yet is limited to the performance of the hardware system. In this work we evaluate the impact of using PYNQ, a Python development environment for application development on the Xilinx Zynq devices, the performance implications, and bottlenecks associated with it. We compare our results against existing C-based and hand-coded implementations to better understand if Python can be the glue that binds together software and hardware developers.
description: To appear in 2017 IEEE 25th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'17)
Are Instrumental Variables Really That Instrumental? Endogeneity Resolution in Regression Models for Comparative Studies
Creators: name: Kashyap, Ravi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62M10 Time series, regression, 91G70 Statistical methods, econometrics, 97D10 Comparative studies

description: We provide a justification for why, and when, endogeneity will not cause bias in the interpretation of the coefficients in a regression model. This technique can be a viable alternative to, or even used alongside, the instrumental variable method. We show that when performing any comparative study, it is possible to measure the true change in the coefficients under a broad set of conditions. Our results hold, as long as the product of the covariance structure between the explanatory variables and the covariance between the error term and the explanatory variables are equal, within the same system at different time periods or across multiple systems at the same point in time.
description: Statistica Sinica, 32 (2022), 645-651
Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from Non-Observation of Spectral Modulations for X-ray Point Sources
Creators: name: Conlon, Joseph P.
name: Day, Francesca
name: Jennings, Nicholas
name: Krippendorf, Sven
name: Rummel, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend previous searches for X-ray spectral modulations induced by ALP-photon conversion to a variety of new sources, all consisting of quasars or AGNs located in or behind galaxy clusters. We consider a total of seven new sources, with data drawn from the Chandra archive. In all cases the spectrum is well fit by an absorbed power-law with no evidence for spectral modulations, allowing constraints to be placed on the ALP-photon coupling parameter $g_{aγγ}$. Two sources are particularly good: the Seyfert galaxy 2E3140 in A1795 and the AGN NGC3862 within the cluster A1367, leading to 95\% bounds for light ALPs ($m_a \lesssim 10^{-12} {\rm eV}$) of $g_{aγγ} \lesssim 1.5 \times 10^{-12} {\rm GeV}^{-1}$ and $g_{aγγ} \lesssim 2.4 \times 10^{-12} {\rm GeV}^{-1}$ respectively.
description: 17 pages
Game theoretic analysis for advertising models in dual-channel supply chains
Creators: name: Wang, Ningning
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Fan, Xiaojun
name: Zhu, Xiaoxuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: In the sharing economy, it is trendy that companies share advertising resources or investments. This paper develops game-theoretic models to discuss three advertising schemes in a dual-channel supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and two competing retailers. The first is brand advertising, i.e. the manufacturer advertises solely for its branded product. The second is emerging joint advertising, i.e. the manufacturer jointly advertises for the product and the online retailer, and the online retailer shares a part of the advertising costs. We propose a third model, the cost-sharing of brand advertising, i.e. the manufacturer advertises solely for the product, and the offline retailer shares a part of the advertising costs. The valuation enhancement effect of brand advertising, and the valuation enhancement and demand shifting effects of joint advertising are recognised and examined. The results show that whether retailers should cooperate with the manufacturer on advertising depends on the consumer initial preference for channels, and the potential scale and cost-efficiency of advertising. We find that joint advertising benefits participants at the expense of harming the offline retailer due to demand shifting effect, while the cost-sharing of brand advertising may benefit all due to the valuation enhancement effect.
A study of local governments' challenges and processes in financing their greenhouse gas abatement initiatives
Creators: name: Cheung, Grace
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Local government has the potential to lead the transition from a high to low carbon economy. As a tier of government, it holds responsibilities for urban planning, building approvals, waste management, transport, street lighting and managing its own buildings and facilities. It is subject to the vertical interdependences with other tiers of government and horizontal pressure by its community for delivering services and facilities. Both factors directly impact on its financial capabilities and decision-makings. This research has identified institutional capacity constraints as a major barrier to the investment in alternative energy projects. By examining the financial evaluation and alternative energy investment decision-making processes of five urban councils, it found: most of the initial financial assessments for alternative energy projects were undertaken by environmental staff in isolation from those with specific financial expertise and without accessible financial-evaluation tool; institutional and political leadership to achieve committed greenhouse gas emission targets is inconsistent; and the lack of national guidelines in tracking and reporting of alternative energy projects and emissions reduction progresses for the sector, which has rendered meaningful comparative analysis between councils and quantifiable aggregated-progress reporting impossible. To address these constraints, a simple financial evaluation model was constructed to support investment decision-making process. This model included investment-criteria of NPV, IRR, discounted payback period and LCOE which are commonly used by financial managers in their assessment of medium to large capital investment decisions. A standardised national tracking and reporting platform is also recommended to enable local government in realising its potential as a leader in alternative energy investment and policy.
Bacteriophage - Mediated Micro Biome Manipulation: A Novel Venture in Fostering Infant Gut Health
Creators: name: Ebinesh A
name: T.V, Kailash
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The incidence of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been growing globally, posing threat to medical practice. Around this instance, environmental enteropathy remains one of the major causes of infant mortality. In the past few decades, great efforts have been laid to foster gut health. Efforts have been focused on understanding the role of exogenous factors such as sanitation, exclusive breast feeding, consumption of probiotic nutrition, etc. Antibiotics, while treating the disease successfully, diminishes the gut micro biome and possess the threat of developing resistance. A complementary way of enhance gut health is to build a healthy gut micro biome environment which requires a great insight in understanding the host-microbiome interactions. Precise engineering of bacteriophages to develop novel models to understand, describe, probe and modify gut function by building a healthy micro biome environment will yield decade’s worth progress in the field of biotechnology. The objective of this article is to introduce the hypothesis of tuning gut microbiota using bacteriophages and to familiarize the physiology of a bacteriophage, to elaborate its current implications, challenges faced on its application, future scope and to motivate new researchers to bring out novel strategies to mitigate the burden and spread of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) by establishing a healthy micro biome using bacteriophage- mediated micro biome engineering which proves complementary to nutritional and chemotherapeutic approaches.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0000
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0000, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0000, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
MOESM1 of Design, synthesis and biological activity of hydroxybenzoic acid ester conjugates of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiang
name: Yu, Linhua
name: Zhang, Min
name: Xu, Zhihong
name: Yao, Zongli
name: Wu, Qinglai
name: Du, Xiaoying
name: Li, Junkai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Spectrum data of PCA derivatives. Which includes the copies of 1H NMR and HRMS of selected compounds.
Pupil-linked arousal biases evidence accumulation towards desirable percepts during perceptual decision-making
Creators: name: Leong, Yuan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This repository hosts analyses code and data for our manuscript "Pupil-linked arousal biases evidence accumulation towards desirable percepts during perceptual decision-making" . A preprint is available here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.29.124115v2
Variational problems with long-range interaction
Creators: name: Soave, Nicola
name: Tavares, Hugo
name: Terracini, Susanna
name: Zilio, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a class of variational problems for densities that repel each other at distance. Typical examples are given by the Dirichlet functional and the Rayleigh functional \[ D(\mathbf{u}) = \sum_{i=1}^k \int_Ω |\nabla u_i|^2 \quad \text{or} \quad R(\mathbf{u}) = \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{\int_Ω |\nabla u_i|^2}{\int_Ω u_i^2} \] minimized in the class of $H^1(Ω,\mathbb{R}^k)$ functions attaining some boundary conditions on $\partial Ω$, and subjected to the constraint \[ \mathrm{dist} (\{u_i > 0\}, \{u_j > 0\}) \ge 1 \qquad \forall i \neq j. \] For these problems, we investigate the optimal regularity of the solutions, prove a free-boundary condition, and derive some preliminary results characterizing the free boundary $\partial \{\sum_{i=1}^k u_i > 0\}$.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, 30 references
Image quality assessment for machine learning tasks using meta-reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Saeed, Shaheer U.
name: Fu, Yunguan
name: Stavrinides, Vasilis
name: Baum, Zachary M. C.
name: Yang, Qianye
name: Rusu, Mirabela
name: Fan, Richard E.
name: Sonn, Geoffrey A.
name: Noble, J. Alison
name: Barratt, Dean C.
name: Hu, Yipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider image quality assessment (IQA) as a measure of how images are amenable with respect to a given downstream task, or task amenability. When the task is performed using machine learning algorithms, such as a neural-network-based task predictor for image classification or segmentation, the performance of the task predictor provides an objective estimate of task amenability. In this work, we use an IQA controller to predict the task amenability which, itself being parameterised by neural networks, can be trained simultaneously with the task predictor. We further develop a meta-reinforcement learning framework to improve the adaptability for both IQA controllers and task predictors, such that they can be fine-tuned efficiently on new datasets or meta-tasks. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed task-specific, adaptable IQA approach, using two clinical applications for ultrasound-guided prostate intervention and pneumonia detection on X-ray images.
description: Accepted to Medical Image Analysis; Final published version available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2022.102427
When Bertlmann wears no socks. Common causes induced by measurements as an explanation for quantum correlations
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
name: de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that correlations produced by common causes in the past cannot violate Bell's inequalities. This was emphasized by Bell in his celebrated example of Bertlmann's socks. However, if common causes are induced by the very measurement process i.e., actualized at each run of a joint measurement, in a way that depends on the type of joint measurement that is being executed (hence, the common causes are contextually actualized), the resulting correlations are able to violate Bell's inequalities, thus providing a simple and general explanation for the origin of quantum correlations. We illustrate this mechanism by revisiting Bertlmann's socks example. In doing so, we also emphasize that Bell's inequalities, in their essence, are about demarcating 'non-induced by measurements' (non-contextual) from 'induced by measurements' (contextual) common causes, where the latter would operate at a non-spatial level of our physical reality, when the jointly measured entangled entities are microscopic in nature.
description: 14 pages
Be a sport?: connecting past participation in sport and gender inequality in Australia's largest corporate law firms
Creators: name: Skellern, Jodie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Explaining the persistence of gender inequality in large corporate law firms, by focusing on women's domestic roles, has not produced significant change. I consider this puzzle by studying the under-representation of early-career female lawyers in the pipeline that produces partners in a large Australian corporate law firm. A mixed-methods research design, and a theoretical framework developed by appropriating Pierre Bourdieu's theory and analytical tools, are used to investigate how power transfers between fields: from the hegemonically masculine field of sport as a source of knowledge - to the economic domain of a large corporate law firm as a workplace. I take sport to be a central source for developing transferable soft skills for the workplace. Further, I claim that the gendered experience of sport, in Australia, results in different capacities to acquire and practise such skills, better enabling accelerated career trajectories for early-career male lawyers. Neither gender diversity nor social justice will be achieved by encouraging women to participate in sport on male terms. Instead, I conclude there is greater economic and social value to be gained by changing the decision-making practices, and the valuation of social and cultural capital, within large corporate law firms. Specifically, a lazy or convenient decision-making process, that risks confusing talent with visibility, should be replaced.
Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113
Creators: name: Zaborov, D.
name: Taylor, A. M.
name: Sanchez, D. A.
name: Lenain, J. -P.
name: Romoli, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies, providing new opportunities for studies of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with soft intrinsic spectra and at high redshifts. The high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects PKS 2155-304 (z = 0.116) and PG 1553+113 (0.43 < z < 0.58) are among the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky, both showing clear signatures of gamma-ray absorption at E > 100 GeV interpreted as being due to interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). Multiple observational campaigns of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113 were conducted during 2013 using the full H.E.S.S. II array (CT1-5). To achieve the lowest energy threshold, a monoscopic analysis of the data taken with CT5 was developed along with an investigation into the systematic uncertainties on the spectral parameters which are derived from this analysis. The energy spectra were reconstructed down to energies of 80 GeV for PKS 2155-304, which transits near zenith, and 110 GeV for the more northern PG 1553+113. The measured spectra, well fitted in both cases by a log-parabola spectral model (with a 5 sigma statistical preference for non-zero curvature for PKS 2155-304 and 4.5 sigma for PG 1553+113), were found consistent with spectra derived from contemporaneous Fermi-LAT data, indicating a sharp break in the observed spectra of both sources at E ~ 100 GeV. When corrected for EBL absorption, the intrinsic spectrum of PKS 2155-304 was found to show significant curvature. For PG 1553+113, however, no significant detection of curvature in the intrinsic spectrum could be found within statistical and systematic uncertainties.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be appear in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2016), Heidelberg, Germany, July 11-15, 2016
Compliment Receptor Type - 1 (CD35) Gene Polymorphism and Plasmodium falciperum Malaria
Creators: name: Saket RD
name: Kol S
name: Tripathi AK
name: Singh SP
name: Tipathi J
name: Chauhan UK
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Malaria is a most causative agent for worldwide death. Plasmodium falciperum infected malaria most dangerous than other plasmodium species. It has closely association to compliment receptor type-1 (CD35) gene polymorphism. CD35 (CR1) is a cell surface receptor for plasmodium falciperum containing PfEMP-1 as a legend. Density of CD35 on erythrocyte can be determined by CR1 allele (HH, HL, and LL). HH allele of CR1 gene express high density of CD35 whereas LL in low density. High density of CD35 is more susceptible to falciperum infection. CD35 is also responsible for sever malaria. During plasmodium infection, pro-inflammatory cytokine like TNF-α, IFN-γ levels are increased. The elevated ratio of TNF-α/ IL10 indicates falciperum infection. Cell adhesion protein like VCAM, ICAM also mediate the malarial infection.
Additional file 1: of Association between ATM rs1801516 polymorphism and cancer susceptibility: a meta-analysis involving 12,879 cases and 18,054 controls
Creators: name: Gu, Yulu
name: Shi, Jikang
name: Qiu, Shuang
name: Qiao, Yichun
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Cheng, Yi
name: Liu, Yawen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. Matching criteria and genotyping method of the eligible studies included in the meta-analysis. (DOCX 24 kb)