cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inbreeding and kinship coefficients of parents of sperm competition experiment with lake char (Lake Geneva 2017/18)
Creators: name: de Guttry, Christian
name: Nusbaumer, David
name: Garaud, Laura
name: Ançay, Laurie
name: Wedekind, Claus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: A total of 14 lake char (Salvelinus umbla) were genotyped in the same library using ddRADsequencing. The data includes 14 gzipped .fastq files generated using 2 lanes of sequencing on an Illumina HIseq 2500 and the final dataset with the final estimates of kinship and inbreeding. For each individual, the fastq files of the 2 sequencings lanes were merged after demultiplexing using process_radtags (Stacks 1.48). We provide the bash and R scripts that we used. There are no legal or ethical considerations regarding the above-mentioned data.
description: Starting from the .fastq files it is possible to reproduce the result by following the provided scripts. Genomic data processing was done on bash together with MLH estimates. Kinship and inbreeding coefficients were estimated using R package Hierfstat.Funding provided by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711
Award Number: 31003A_182265
description: See Nusbaumer et al., 2021 Nusbaumer D., Garaud L., de Guttry C., Ançay L., Wedekind C. 2021 Sperm of more colorful males are better adapted to ovarian fluids in lake char (Salmonidae). bioRxiv. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.02.462848).
title: Evangelische Kirche in Österreich während der NS-Zeit
Creators: name: Oberlerchner, Lukas Andreas
Year: 2009

description: Im Jahr 1938, das als Gedenk- und Bedenkjahr begangen wurde, las ich einen Artikel über die katholische Kirche und den Nationalsozialismus in Österreich. Daraufhin drängte sich in mir die Frage auf, wie sich die evangelische Kirche in Österreich während dieser Zeit verhalten hat. Ich wusste zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht sehr viel über die Geschichte des österreichischen Protestantismus während der behandelten Zeit. Zunächst las ich im Buch von Rudolf Leeb und Maximilian Liebmann (Geschichte des Christentums in Österreich. Von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart) den Artikel über die evangelische Kirche. Danach geriet mir ein Aufsatz mit 15 Thesen zum Protestantismus in Österreich von Karl Schwarz in die Hände. Nun hatte ich eine erste Idee von der Zeit, dennoch waren mir die betroffenen Personen noch immer nicht greifbar und ich konnte mir kein Bild machen, wie man sich die betroffene Zeit vorzustellen hätte, aber meine Neugierde war geweckt und da es für mich an der Zeit war, sich allmählich der Diplomarbeit zu widmen, beschloss ich schließlich, diese Fragestellung zu meinem Diplomarbeitsthema zu machen. Diese Arbeit versucht, die bisherigen Arbeiten zum Thema miteinander zu verbinden und so ein Bild der Zeit von 1938 bis 1945 entstehen zu lassen. Auch wenn der Titel der Arbeit von der Zeit während der NS-Zeit spricht, so hat es sich doch als unumgänglich gezeigt, auch auf die Zeit vor dem Anschluss an Hitlerdeutschland, besonders auf die Zeit des so genannten "`Ständestaates"' einzugehen. So widmet sich das erste Kapitel der Frage nach der Verfassung der evangelischen Kirche in Österreich und gibt sogleich Aufschluss über die wichtigsten Personen zu jener Zeit. Das zweite Kapitel, beschreibt die wichtigsten Entwicklungen von 1934 bis 1938. Ich habe versucht, es so kurz wie möglich zu halten, obwohl für die besagte Zeit die Literatur am zahlreichsten ist. Das dritte Kapitel stellt den Hauptteil der Arbeit dar und widmet sich schließlich der Zeit während der NS-Zeit. Auch wenn die Literatur und Quellenlage für die Kriegsjahre von Jahr zu Jahr schlechter wird, so war es mir dennoch ein Anliegen, die Zeit bis zum Ende des Krieges darzustellen, auch wenn das nur noch aus einzelnen, mikroperspektivischen Darlegungen passieren konnte. Ein letztes Kapitel widmet sich der Verfolgung und dem Widerstand Evangelischer während des Ständestaates und der NS-Zeit.
Association of the salivary microbiome with animal contact during early life and stress-induced immune activation in healthy Participants
Creators: name: Langgartner, Dominik
name: Zambrano, Cristian A.
name: Heinze, Jared D.
name: Stamper, Christopher E.
name: Böbel, Till S.
name: Hackl, Sascha B.
name: Jarczok, Marc N.
name: Rohleder, Nicolas
name: Rook, Graham A. W.
name: Gündel, Harald
name: Waller, Christiane
name: Lowry, Christopher A.
name: Reber, Stefan Oskar
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: alpha diversity
subject: animal contact
subject: beta diversity
subject: interleukin (IL)-6
subject: salivary microbiome
subject: Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)
subject: rural upbringing
subject: urban upbringing
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Stress, Psychological
subject: Microbiota
subject: Interleukin-6
subject: Stress
subject: Mikroflora
subject: Interleukin 6

description: The prevalence of stress-associated somatic and psychiatric disorders is increased in environments offering a narrow relative to a wide range of microbial exposure. Moreover, different animal and human studies suggest that an overreactive immune system not only accompanies stress-associated disorders, but might even be causally involved in their pathogenesis. In support of this hypothesis, we recently showed that urban upbringing in the absence of daily contact with pets, compared to rural upbringing in the presence of daily contact with farm animals, is associated with a more pronounced immune activation following acute psychosocial stressor exposure induced by the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Here we employed 16S rRNA gene sequencing to test whether this difference in TSST-induced immune activation between urban upbringing in the absence of daily contact with pets (n = 20) compared with rural upbringing in the presence of daily contact with farm animals (n = 20) is associated with differences in the composition of the salivary microbiome. Although we did not detect any differences in alpha or beta diversity measures of the salivary microbiome between the two experimental groups, statistical analysis revealed that the salivary microbial beta diversity was significantly higher in participants with absolutely no animal contact (n = 5, urban participants) until the age of 15 compared to all other participants (n = 35) reporting either daily contact with farm animals (n = 20, rural participants) or occasional pet contact (n = 15, urban participants). Interestingly, when comparing these urban participants with absolutely no pet contact to the remaining urban participants with occasional pet contact, the former also displayed a significantly higher immune, but not hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis or sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation, following TSST exposure. In summary, we conclude that only urban upbringing with absolutely no animal contact had long-lasting effects on the composition of the salivary microbiome and potentiates the negative consequences of urban upbringing on stress-induced immune activation.
Additional file 1 of Survival time prediction in patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer based on 18F-FDG PET/CT- derived inter-tumor heterogeneity metrics
Creators: name: He, Dianning
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Chang, Zhihui
name: Liu, Zhaoyu
name: Li, Beibei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
sj-docx-1-spo-10.1177_17479541221131649 - Supplemental material for Comparisons and correlations between the anthropometric profile and physical performance of professional female and male soccer players: Individualities that should be considered in training
Creators: name: Schons, Pedro
name: Birk Preissler, Artur Avelino
name: Oliveira, Rafael
name: Brito, João Paulo
name: Clemente, Filipe Manuel
name: Droescher de Vargas, Guilherme
name: Moraes Klein, Lucas
name: Kruel, Luiz Fernando Martins
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spo-10.1177_17479541221131649 for Comparisons and correlations between the anthropometric profile and physical performance of professional female and male soccer players: Individualities that should be considered in training by Pedro Schons, Artur Avelino Birk Preissler, Rafael Oliveira, João Paulo Brito, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Guilherme Droescher de Vargas, Lucas Moraes Klein and Luiz Fernando Martins Kruel in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
A diverse viral community from predatory wasps in their native and invaded range, with a new virus infectious to honey bees
Creators: name: Remnant, Emily J.
name: Baty, James W.
name: Bulgarella, Mariana
name: Dobelmann, Jana
name: Quinn, Oliver
name: Gruber, Monica A. M.
name: Lester, Philip J.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: multi-host pathogen
subject: wasp virus
subject: honey bee virus
subject: virus discovery
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Spillover (Chemistry)
subject: Spillover-Effekt (Chemie)

description: Wasps of the genus Vespula are social insects that have become major pests and predators in their introduced range. Viruses present in these wasps have been studied in the context of spillover from honey bees, yet we lack an understanding of the endogenous virome of wasps as potential reservoirs of novel emerging infectious diseases. We describe the characterization of 68 novel and nine previously identified virus sequences found in transcriptomes of Vespula vulgaris in colonies sampled from their native range (Belgium) and an invasive range (New Zealand). Many viruses present in the samples were from the Picorna-like virus family (38%). We identified one Luteo-like virus, Vespula vulgaris Luteo-like virus 1, present in the three life stages examined in all colonies from both locations, suggesting this virus is a highly prevalent and persistent infection in wasp colonies. Additionally, we identified a novel Iflavirus with similarity to a recently identified Moku virus, a known wasp and honey bee pathogen. Experimental infection of honey bees with this novel Vespula vulgaris Moku-like virus resulted in an active infection. The high viral diversity present in these invasive wasps is a likely indication that their polyphagous diet is a rich source of viral infections.
The last representatives of the Superfamily Wellerelloidea (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellida) in the westernmost Tethys (Iberian paleomargins) prior to their demise in the Early Toarcian Mass Extinction Event
Creators: name: Baeza Carratalá, José Francisco
name: García Joral, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Brachiopoda
Early Jurassic
mass extinction events
Rhynchonellida
systematic

description: The last clade-level extinction episode affecting the Phylum Brachiopoda has been long-established in the Early Toarcian Mass Extinction Event (ETMEE) around the Pliensbachian-Toarcian transition, when several rhynchonellide groups became extinct and others underwent a notable renewal in the western Tethys. Among them, Wellerelloidea is a long-range superfamily severely affected by this environmental crisis, embodying the subfamily Cirpinae as the last wellerelloids worldwide, prior to their global extinction in the Pb-To transition. The profuse record of Lower Jurassic cirpines in the peri-Iberian paleomargins provides an opportunity to clarify the taxonomy of wellerelloid species in the pre-extinction interval. A new species (Cirpa lucentina) is erected and the revision of the Cirpinae taxa around the ETMEE is carried out. Morphometric analysis and the study of internal structures of the shells support the splitting between the genera Cirpa and Salgirella, adding new supplementary diagnostic criteria. The biogeographic distribution of this clade in the western Tethys and its evolutionary history in the Early Jurassic reveal a pervasive colonization pattern of both epicontinental and epioceanic habitats. The Mediterranean origin of the last representatives of this group is ascertained, but while diversification of Salgirella took place in epioceanic habitats, speciation of Cirpa is unrelated to biochorema boundaries, even colonizing epicontinental seas until their extinction prior to the hyperwarming event that occurred in the basal Serpentinum Zone. A rhynchonellide morphogroup epitomized by cirpines was resilient to this event in the epicontinental seas. This morphogroup is also recorded after the extinction interval by means of the genus Pseudogibbirhynchia, thus postulating potential pre- and post-extinction phyletic relationships.
description: - Field sampling - Repositories - Main Biometric parameters and indices
sj-pdf-2-pom-10.1177_03057356221122371 – Supplemental material for The professional values of American undergraduate music majors
Creators: name: Shaw, Brian P
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-pom-10.1177_03057356221122371 for The professional values of American undergraduate music majors by Brian P Shaw in Psychology of Music
title: Mediale Selbstinszenierung in der Politik
Creators: name: Ertl, Sylvia Anna
Year: 2009

description: Diese hier vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema Mediale Selbstinszenierung in der Politik und wird am konkreten Beispiel der Bundesministerin für Gesundheit, Familie und Jugend Andrea Kdolsky erläutert. Das Forschungsgebiet wird zu-erst mit Hilfe der Grounded Theory aufgearbeitet. Zu Beginn wird das Phänomen der Selbstinszenierung aus theaterwissenschaftlicher Perspektive erörtert und von anderen Beg-riffen abgegrenzt. Der historische Hintergrund bis hin zum aktuellen Verständnis des Beg-riffs wird dargelegt. Auf das Verhältnis von Politik, Medien und Bürger wird eingegangen. Der Inhalt einer Selbstinszenierung und die Anforderungen an die Schauspielkunst eines Politikers werden ebenfalls dargelegt. Einen Schwerpunkt der Forschungsarbeit bildet die Semiotik der Selbstinszenierung in der Politik. Neben den verbalen Inszenierungsmitteln wird besonders die hohe Bedeutung der nonverbalen, visuellen Inszenierungsmittel, im Rahmen einer politischen Selbstinszenierung, hervorgehoben. Die erarbeiteten theoreti-schen Grundsätze werden im Anschluss durch eine Inszenierungsanalyse der öffentlichen Auftritte der Bundesministerin für Gesundheit, Familie und Jugend Frau Andrea Kdolsky, aus dem Jahr 2007, überprüft und anschließend die Wirkung auf den Rezipienten ermittelt. Die Angleichung der unterschiedlichen Parteiprogramme und die Komplexität der politi-schen Sachverhalte fördern den Einsatz von symbolischer Politik und Personalisierung. Die Bedeutung einer gelungenen Selbstinszenierung eines Politikers steigt in Folge, um Auf-merksamkeit und Orientierung in der Bevölkerung zu schaffen. Eine erfolgreiche Selbstin-szenierung im politischen System erfüllt die Erwartungen der Wähler und wird von den Parteikollegen unterstützt.
Age-related alterations in DTI metrics in the human brain—consequences for age correction
Creators: name: Behler, Anna
name: Kassubek, Jan Rainer
name: Müller, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Age dependence
subject: Fractional anisotropy
subject: Diffusivity
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Diffusion tensor imaging
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Anisotropy
subject: Age factors
subject: Kernspintomografie
subject: Diffusionsgewichtete Magnetresonanztomografie
subject: Anisotropie

description: Background: Over the life span, the diffusion metrics in brain MRI show different, partly nonlinear changes. These age-dependent changes also seem to exhibit regional differences with respect to the brain anatomy. The age correction of a study cohort’s diffusion metrics might thus require consideration of age-related factors. Methods: Diffusion tensor imaging data sets were acquired from 219 healthy participants at ages between 19 and 81 years. Fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), and axial and radial diffusivity (AD and RD, respectively) maps were analyzed by a tract of interest-based fiber tracking approach. To describe diffusion metrics as a function of the participant age, linear splines were used to perform curve fitting in 21 specific tract systems covering different functional areas and diffusion directions. Results: In the majority of tracts, an interpolation with a change of alteration rate during adult life described the diffusion properties more accurately than a linear model. Consequently, the diffusion properties remained relatively stable until a decrease (of FA) or increase (of MD, AD, and RD) started at a region-specific time point, whereas a uniform change of diffusion properties was observed only in a few tracts. Single tracts, e.g., located in the cerebellum, remained nearly unaltered throughout the ages between 19 and 81 years. Conclusions: Age corrections of diffusion properties should not be applied to all white matter regions and all age spans in the same way. Therefore, we propose three different approaches for age correction based on fiber tracking techniques, i.e., no correction for areas that do not experience age-related changes and two variants of an age correction depending on the age range of the cohort and the tracts considered.
sj-pdf-1-hpi-10.1177_11207000221130270 – Supplemental material for Operative management of metastatic disease of the acetabulum: review of the literature and prevailing concepts
Creators: name: Christ, Alexander B
name: Bartelstein, Meredith K
name: Kenan, Shachar
name: Ogura, Koichi
name: Fujiwara, Tomohiro
name: Healey, John H
name: Fabbri, Nicola
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hpi-10.1177_11207000221130270 for Operative management of metastatic disease of the acetabulum: review of the literature and prevailing concepts by Alexander B Christ, Meredith K Bartelstein, Shachar Kenan, Koichi Ogura, Tomohiro Fujiwara, John H Healey and Nicola Fabbri in HIP International
Cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein mutants
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Markus
name: Arora, Prerna
name: Anzhalika, Sidarovich
name: Graichen, Luise
name: Hörnich, Bojan
name: Hahn, Alexander
name: Pöhlmann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Several SARS-CoV-2 variants emerged that harbor mutations in the surface unit of the viral spike (S) protein that enhance infectivity and transmissibility. Here, we analyzed whether ten naturally-occurring mutations found within the extended loop harboring the S1/S2 cleavage site of the S protein, a determinant of SARS-CoV-2 cell tropism and pathogenicity, impact S protein processing and function. None of the mutations increased but several decreased S protein cleavage at the S1/S2 site, including S686G and P681H, the latter of which is found in variants of concern B.1.1.7 (Alpha variant) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron variant). None of the mutations reduced ACE2 binding and cell-cell fusion although several modulated the efficiency of host cell entry. The effects of mutation S686G on viral entry were cell-type dependent and could be linked to the availability of cathepsin L for S protein activation. These results show that polymorphisms at the S1/S2 site can modulate S protein processing and host cell entry.
Additional file 2 of Survival time prediction in patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer based on 18F-FDG PET/CT- derived inter-tumor heterogeneity metrics
Creators: name: He, Dianning
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Chang, Zhihui
name: Liu, Zhaoyu
name: Li, Beibei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Reducing the radar cross-section of microstrip arrays using AMC structures for the vehicle integration of automotive radars
Creators: name: Vasanelli, Claudia
name: Bögelsack, Frank
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Radar cross sections
subject: Radar; Antennas
subject: Radarstreuquerschnitt
subject: Radarantenne

description: Automotive radar sensors for driver assistance systems are usually installed behind the bumper of the car. Multiple reflections between radar and bumper can occur and may lead to a wrong estimation of the direction of arrival of the signal reflected by the target. This paper presents an effective solution to improve the hidden integration of radars in a vehicle. In particular, this paper proposes the design of a low-radar cross section (RCS) millimeter-wave antenna array to reduce the reflections toward the car fascia. The design exploits the properties of artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs) to cancel out the wave backscattered by the antenna array. The integration of the AMC with the antenna array is analyzed in detail. The experimental results prove that the array with low RCS can mitigate the multiple reflections. Moreover, the measurement results show that the proposed antenna has 20 dB RCS reduction at 76 GHz.
Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic manipulation
Creators: name: Kim, Yoonho
name: Genevriere, Emily
name: Harker, Pablo
name: Choe, Jaehun
name: Balicki, Marcin
name: Regenhardt, Robert W.
name: Vranic, Justin E.
name: Dmytriw, Adam A.
name: Patel, Aman B.
name: Zhao, Xuanhe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Advances in robotic technology have been adopted in various subspecialties of both open and minimally invasive surgery, offering benefits such as enhanced surgical precision and accuracy with reduced fatigue of the surgeon. Despite the advantages, robotic applications to endovascular neurosurgery have remained largely unexplored because of technical challenges such as the miniaturization of robotic devices that can reach the complex and tortuous vasculature of the brain. Although some commercial systems enable robotic manipulation of conventional guidewires for coronary and peripheral vascular interventions, they remain unsuited for neurovascular applications because of the considerably smaller and more tortuous anatomy of cerebral arteries. Here, we present a teleoperated robotic neurointerventional platform based on magnetic manipulation. Our system consists of a magnetically controlled guidewire, a robot arm with an actuating magnet to steer the guidewire, a set of motorized linear drives to advance or retract the guidewire and a microcatheter, and a remote-control console to operate the system under real-time fluoroscopy. We demonstrate our system's capability to navigate narrow and winding pathways both in vitro with realistic neurovascular phantoms representing the human anatomy and in vivo in the porcine brachial artery with accentuated tortuosity for preclinical evaluation. We further demonstrate telerobotically assisted therapeutic procedures including coil embolization and clot retrieval thrombectomy for treating cerebral aneurysms and ischemic stroke, respectively. Our system could enable safer and quicker access to hard-to-reach lesions while minimizing the radiation exposure to physicians and open the possibility of remote procedural services to address challenges in current stroke systems of care.
description: Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: EFRI-1935291Funding provided by: National Institutes of Health
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002
Award Number: 1R01HL153857-01Funding provided by: Philips Research Americas
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100015703
Award Number:
sj-pdf-7-hpi-10.1177_11207000221130270 – Supplemental material for Operative management of metastatic disease of the acetabulum: review of the literature and prevailing concepts
Creators: name: Christ, Alexander B
name: Bartelstein, Meredith K
name: Kenan, Shachar
name: Ogura, Koichi
name: Fujiwara, Tomohiro
name: Healey, John H
name: Fabbri, Nicola
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-7-hpi-10.1177_11207000221130270 for Operative management of metastatic disease of the acetabulum: review of the literature and prevailing concepts by Alexander B Christ, Meredith K Bartelstein, Shachar Kenan, Koichi Ogura, Tomohiro Fujiwara, John H Healey and Nicola Fabbri in HIP International
Side by side battery technologies with lithium‐ion based batteries
Creators: name: Durmus, Yasin Emre
name: Zhang, Huang
name: Baakes, Florian
name: Desmaizieres, Gauthier
name: Hayun, Hagay
name: Yang, Liangtao
name: Kolek, Martin
name: Küpers, Verena
name: Janek, Jürgen
name: Mandler, Daniel
name: Passerini, Stefano
name: Ein‐Eli, Yair
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: metal–air batteries
subject: multivalent batteries
subject: redox flow batteries
subject: sodium ion batteries, side‐by‐side technologies
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Sodium ion batteries
subject: Metall-Luft-Batterie
subject: Redox-Akkumulator
subject: Natrium-Ionen-Akkumulator

description: Promising battery concepts and chemistries that are often identified as “post‐Li” battery technologies are extensively discussed in terms of sustainability, safety, durability, performance, and targeted applications. The take‐home message of this progress report is that each battery chemistry can exist “side‐by‐side” with Li‐ion battery technologies. Therefore, the quest for a winning “post‐Li” battery technology is conceptually incorrect and should be reconsidered. In recent years, the electrochemical power sources community has launched massive research programs, conferences, and workshops on the “post Li battery era.” However, in this report it is shown that the quest for post Li‐ion and Li battery technologies is incorrect in its essence. This is the outcome of a three day discussion on the future technologies that could provide an answer to a question that many ask these days: Which are the technologies that can be regarded as alternative to Li‐ion batteries? The answer to this question is a rather surprising one: Li‐ion battery technology will be here for many years to come, and therefore the use of “post Li‐ion” battery technologies would be misleading. However, there are applications with needs for which Li‐ion batteries will not be able to provide complete technological solutions, as well as lower cost and sustainability. In these specific cases, other battery technologies will play a key role. Here, the term “side‐by‐side technologies” is coined alongside a discussion of its meaning. The progress report does not cover the topic of Li‐metal battery technologies, but covers the technologies of sodium‐ion, multivalent, metal–air, and flow batteries.
New reduced‐order lithium‐ion battery model to account for the local fluctuations in the porous electrodes
Creators: name: Traskunov, Igor
name: Latz, Arnulf
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: battery degradation
subject: Doyle, Fuller, and Newman
subject: homogenization
subject: numerical modeling
subject: order reduction
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Lithium ion batteries
subject: Lithium-Ionen-Akkumulator
subject: Modellordnungsreduktion

description: Numerical simulations of microscopic transport processes in porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries demonstrate the presence of spatially localized fluctuations of physical quantities on the microstructure scale. They can influence the macroscopic battery characteristics (for example, the degradation rates). These fluctuations cannot be captured in a straightforward manner by the widely used porous electrode theory by Doyle, Fuller, and Newman (DFN model). The latter treats the porous electrodes as macroscopically homogeneous composite materials; it reduces the computational costs of numerical simulations. Herein, a modification of the DFN model that incorporates the local fluctuations but preserves the computational efficiency is proposed. Numerical simulation examples are presented that test the accuracy of the reproduction of the local fluctuations. The main new feature lies in the mathematical representation of the slow transport processes in the active material and their influence on the macroscopic reaction rates. The model is rooted in the rigorous mathematical analysis of the transition from a microscopic, microstructure-resolving transport and reaction description to a macroscopic, volume averaging-based one. The model construction methodology is open for further modifications for the applications in which some of the assumptions should be dropped, or description of new processes, reactions, phases, etc. should be incorporated.
Additional file 2 of Allelic variation in the autotetraploid potato: genes involved in starch and steroidal glycoalkaloid metabolism as a case study
Creators: name: Li, Hongbo
name: Brouwer, Matthijs
name: Pup, Elena Del
name: van Lieshout, Natascha
name: Finkers, Richard
name: Bachem, Christian W. B.
name: Visser, Richard G. F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Electrochemical Formation and Characterization of Surface Blocking Layers on Gold and Platinum by Oxygen Reduction in Mg(ClO4)(2) in DMSO
Creators: name: Fischer, Philipp
name: Reinsberg, Philip
name: Schwarz, Rainer M.
name: Marinaro, Mario
name: Wachtler, Mario
name: Diemant, Thomas
name: Behm, R. Jürgen
name: Baltruschat, Helmut
name: Jörissen, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Oxygen reduction
subject: Surface films
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
subject: Magnesium
subject: Metall-Luft-Batterie

description: Metal-oxygen batteries employing non-aqueous electrolytes are a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries due to their high specific energies. One of the most appealing metals in such an application is magnesium, considering its price and its volumetric charge density. While previous reports already indicated the formation of a blocking layer on the oxygen-electrode surface during oxygen reduction, associated with a low reversibility, the reasons for this behavior are not yet understood. This work focuses on elucidating the composition as well as the electrochemical behavior of this blocking layer employing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and measurements with a rotating ring-disc electrode setup. The electrochemical measurements indicate that the blocking layer exhibits an effect similar to the valve effect, which is known from the oxidation of aluminum for example. Combining potentiodynamic and –static measurements, it could be shown that there is a current flow at cathodic potentials due to migration of ions within the layer. A further outcome of the electrochemical measurements is that the anodization of this surface layer proceeds in a self-accelerating manner. The spectroscopic analysis of the surface layer suggests the formation of magnesium peroxide on the surface as well as the presence of some sulfur and chloride containing compounds which must arise from the decomposition of the electrolyte.
Cerebral oxygenation in preterm infants developing cerebral lesions
Creators: name: Schwab, Angelika L.
name: Mayer, Benjamin
name: Bassler, Dirk
name: Hummler, Helmut D.
name: Fuchs, Hans W.
name: Bryant, Manuel B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: preterm infant
subject: intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH)
subject: periventricular leukomalacia (PVL)
subject: near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)
subject: cStO2
subject: cerebral oxygenation
subject: cerebral ischemia
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Infant, Premature
subject: Brain ischemia
subject: Spectroscopy, Near-infrared
subject: Leukomalacia, Periventricular
subject: Cerebral hemorrhage
subject: Frühgeborenes
subject: Hirninfarkt
subject: NIR-Spektroskopie
subject: Periventrikuläre Leukomalazie

description: Background We investigated the association between cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (cStO2) measured by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and cerebral lesions including intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). Methods Preterm infants <1,500 g received continuous cStO2 monitoring, initiated at the earliest time possible and recorded until 72 h of life. Mean cStO2 over periods of 5, 15, 30 min and 1 h were calculated. To calculate the burden of cerebral hypoxia, we defined a moving threshold based on the 10th percentile of cStO2 of healthy study participants and calculated the area under the threshold (AUT). cStO2 <60% for >5 min was regarded a critical event. The study was registered on clinicaltrials.gov (ID NCT01430728, URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01430728?id=NCT01430728&draw=2&rank=1). Results Of 162 infants (gestational age: mean 27.2 weeks, standard deviation 20 days; birth weight: mean 852 g, standard deviation 312 g) recorded, 24/12 (14.8%/7.4) developed any/severe IVH/PVL. Mean cStO2 was significantly lower in infants with IVH/PVL as well as severe IVH/PVL. In addition, we observed critical events defined by mean cStO2 over 5 min <60% in four infants with severe IVH/PVL during NIRS monitoring. AUT showed no statistically significant difference between outcome groups. Conclusion These findings suggest that cStO2 is lower in infants developing IVH/PVL. This may be related to lower oxygenation and/or perfusion and implies that cStO2 could potentially serve as an indicator of imminent cerebral lesions.
Supplemental Material - Preparation and property of soluble hemostatic material with 3D knitted structure
Creators: name: Zhang, Shiyao
name: Shi, Tingting
name: Wu, Guangjun
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Ma, Pibo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemetary Material for Preparation and property of soluble hemostatic material with 3D knitted structure by Shiyao Zhang, Tingting Shi, Guangjun Wu, Qi Zhang and Pibo Ma in Journal of Industrial Textiles
Eine alternative Modellierung von Geschlechtsunterschieden in Mathematik
Creators: name: Brunner, M.
name: Krauss, Stefan
name: Martignon, L.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geschlechtsunterschiede, Mathematik, PISA, Konfirmatorische Faktorenanalyse
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Geschlechtsunterschiede in Mathematik können mittels alternativer Messmodelle analysiert werden. Im Standardmodell der empirischen Bildungsforschung wird angenommen, dass die Leistung bei Mathematikaufgaben nur von einer mathematischen Kompetenz und nicht von der Intelligenz der Schülerinnen und Schüler funktional abhängig ist. Das Nested-Faktormodell hingegen basiert auf zentralen theoretischen Annahmen der Intelligenzforschung und geht davon aus, dass die Leistung bei Mathematikaufgaben auch von Intelligenz abhängt. Üblicherweise ergeben sich bei Verwendung des Standardmodells geringe Geschlechtsunterschiede zu Gunsten der Jungen. Im vorliegenden Artikel zeigen wir auf Grundlage der Daten von Jugendlichen in der 9. Klasse (N=29.171), die an der deutschen PISA-2000 Studie teilnahmen, dass mit einer Modellierung mathematischer Kompetenz mittels des Nested-Faktormodells deutlich größere Geschlechtsunterschiede zu Gunsten der Jungen resultieren. Wir diskutieren diese Befunde hinsichtlich einer Neubewertung von Geschlechtsunterschieden in Mathematik.
Additional file 2 of CAR T cells and T cells phenotype and function are impacted by glucocorticoid exposure with different magnitude
Creators: name: Poiret, Thomas
name: Vikberg, Sara
name: Schoutrop, Esther
name: Mattsson, Jonas
name: Magalhaes, Isabelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Additional data.
Diagnostic and prognostic value of CEA and CA19-9 in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Lakemeyer, Leilani
name: Sander, Silvia
name: Wittau, Mathias
name: Henne-Bruns, Doris
name: Kornmann, Marko
name: Lemke, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: colorectal cancer
subject: CEA
subject: carbohydrate antigen 19-9
subject: tumor markers
subject: survival
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Colorectal neoplasms
subject: Carcinoembryonic antigen
subject: Biomarkers, Tumor
subject: Early detection of cancer
subject: Prognosis
subject: Colonkrebs
subject: Tumormarker
subject: Tumorantigen CA 19-9
subject: Frühdiagnostik
subject: Prognose

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. A diagnosis at early stages with enhanced screening methods is vital as metastases and recurrences increase mortality. The aim of this study was to analyze the tumor markers CEA and CA19-9 combined in correlation with diagnostics and prognosis. Therefore, 1487 patients with CRC who were diagnosed and treated between 2000 and 2015 at the University Hospital Ulm, Germany, were retrospectively evaluated. Overall and recurrence-free survival was analyzed in association with preoperative CEA and CA19-9 separately and combined and a multivariate analysis was performed. The 5-year overall survival was significantly shorter in patients with a CEA or CA19-9 level ≥200 compared to patients with an increased, but <200, or normal level (CEA: 69%/44%/7%; CA19-9: 66%/38%/8%). Patients with both tumor markers increased also showed a remarkably shorter 5-year survival rate (CEA+/CA19-9+: 23%). The multivariate analysis emphasizes these results (p-value < 0.0001). Patients with both tumor markers elevated had the shortest 5-year recurrence-free survival rate, followed by patients with either CEA or CA19-9 elevated (CEA-/CA19-9-: 79%; CEA+/CA19-9; CEA-/CA19-9+: 65%; CEA+/CA19-9+: 44%). In conclusion, measuring CEA and CA19-9 preoperatively in CRC patients is reasonable and could be useful as a prognostic factor.
Data rate reduction for chirp-sequence based automotive radars using compressed sensing
Creators: name: Roos, Fabian
name: Hügler, Philipp
name: Knill, Christina
name: Appenrodt, Nils
name: Dickmann, Jürgen
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chirp-sequence
subject: Compressinve sensing
subject: Data rate reduction
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Radar
subject: Compressed sensing (Telecommunication)
subject: Automotive sensors
subject: Chirp
subject: Komprimierte Abtastung
subject: Autonomes Fahren

description: For autonomous driving high-resolution radar sensors are key components, which have the drawback of high data rates. In order to reduce the amount of sampled data, random samples can be omitted and afterwards reconstructed using compressed sensing methods. A possible application is that not every receiving antenna element demands its own analog-to-digital converter. One converter can be used for several receiving elements with a random assignment to each antenna instead. In this paper, an analysis is presented of how many samples can be neglected such that a successful reconstruction in post-processing for an automotive scenario is possible. A measurement result is shown to prove that with only 40% of samples a successful reconstruction is possible.
The power of the middle bit
Creators: name: Green, Frederic
name: Köbler, Johannes
name: Torán, Jacobo
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Computational complexity
subject: Komplexitätsklasse
subject: Komplexitätstheorie

description: We study the class of languages that can be recognized in polynomial time with the additional information of one bit from a #P function. In particular we show that every MOD~c class and every class contained in PH are low for this class. We translate these results to the area of circuit complexity using MidBit (middle bit) gates. AMidBitgate over w inputs x1 , ... ,xw is a gate which outputs the value of the Llog(w)/2Jth bit in the binary representation of the number E~1 Xi. We show that every language in ACC can be computed by a family of depth-2 deterministic circuits of size 2(logn)e with a MidBit gate at the root and AND-gates of fanin (log n )c at the leaves. This result improves the known upper bounds for the class ACC.
Additional file 1 of Co-designing adult weight management services: a qualitative study exploring barriers, facilitators, and considerations for future commissioning
Creators: name: Langford, Rebecca
name: Brockman, Rowan
name: Banks, Jonathan
name: Jago, Russell
name: Gillison, Fiona
name: Coulman, Karen
name: Moore, Theresa
name: Nobles, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Interview topic guide.
Feeding Strategies for the Production of Designer Eggs in Chickens
Creators: name: S. N. Patel1*, M. M. Pawar2 and S. S. Patil2
Publisher: name: veterinary today
Year: 2024

description: ndian poultry industry is expanding very fast to meet the increasing demand of the domestic consumers. The poultry eggs are nutrient rich food and now regarded as an inexpensive, convenient and source of high-quality protein with several other essential nutrients. However, the healthconscious consumers demand for the wholesome, healthy and nutritious food products. Eggs are being used worldwide as food due to its protein quality (high biological value), low cost and palatability. In spite of all positives, it is being often blamed as high cholesterol food because of its lipid profile in the yolk. They are more interested and ready to pay for the products which are more beneficial, wholesome and health promoting in order to improve their well-being. The poultry eggs have already gained a healthy image, so in order to curb the prevalence of chronic diseases and several attempts were made to modify the eggs by adding ingredients which are beneficial for the health or by eliminating or reducing components that are harmful. This modification resulted in development of functional eggs. Improving consumers’ health and nutritional status by designing nutritional profile of poultry egg through dietary approaches is relatively simple and economic. Eggs can be designed through dietary approaches either through supplementation of specific nutrients, or certain herbs or specific drugs that have functional and therapeutic properties.
Determinants of e-waste composition in the EU28 + 2 countries : a panel quantile regression evidence of the STIRPAT model
Creators: name: Boubellouta, Bilal
name: Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Waste electrical and electronic equipment
subject: E-waste categories
subject: Driving forces e-waste
subject: Environmental Kuznets curve
subject: Umwelt-Kuznets-Kurve
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics
subject: DDC 600 / Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: Elektronikschrott
subject: Kuznets-Kurve

description: Previous studies have examined the relationship between total e-waste generation and its determinants. However, e-waste categories have not received appropriate attention, and thus important information is missing for policymakers. This paper advances the state of knowledge by studying e-waste categories individually. Statistical data of e-waste in the EU28 + 2 countries over the period 2000–2015 is disaggregated into single categories, namely temperature exchange equipment, screens and monitors, lamps, large equipment, small equipment, and small IT and telecommunication equipment. To examine the main driving forces of e-waste in each category, the STIRPAT model (Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology) and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis are applied, using panel quantile regression as main method and pooled OLS to control robustness of findings. Results show that population, renewable energy consumption, trade openness, and urbanization are positively correlated with all e-waste categories. Renewable energy exploitation is a major e-waste driver of large and small equipment, screens and monitors, and small IT. Interestingly, an inverted U-shaped relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and the quantity of e-waste was found across all e-waste categories for most regressions when using the quantile regression method (28 out of 30 quantiles), and for all regressions when using the pooled OLS method. This confirms the EKC hypothesis and indicates that e-waste of all categories increases with GDP up to a certain level (turning point) but then decreases when GDP continues to grow.
Craniodental traits predict feeding performance and dietary hardness in a community of Neotropical free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae)
Creators: name: Villalobos Chaves, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Form-function studies have established a strong link between dental morphology and the mechanical properties of food items, with animals evolving tooth shapes theoretically ideal for their diets. However, information on how teeth perform under natural conditions is rare, which limits our understanding of how dental morphology influences dietary ecology and niche partitioning within animal communities. Free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) are a diverse clade of aerial insectivorous mammals that exhibit an outstanding variation in size and craniodental traits, which have been directly related to ecological segregation among sympatric species. We investigate the mechanisms that allow functional dietary specialization and trophic segregation among sympatric free-tailed bat species inhabiting a Neotropical forest. To do so, we coupled data on 3D dental topographic metrics, head and skull dimensions, field-collected feeding performance and dietary hardness measurements. We found that evolved differences in molar topography and skull size vary in tandem with the mechanical demands of prey items naturally consumed by sympatric molossid species. This may be explained by feeding performance capabilities resulting from both molar shape and the overall size of the feeding apparatus, which seem to allow efficient processing of prey items with specific mechanical properties. For instance, smaller bats with higher molar topographic values (sharper, more complex molars) and more gracile heads mainly feed on softer insects, whereas bigger bats with lower molar topographic values (blunter, less complex molars) and more robust heads mostly feed on tougher insects. Species with a broader range of sizes, craniodental morphologies, and insect hardness are also present in the community. Our results illustrate how the morphology and size of feeding structures, and how they perform, may facilitate trophic segregation among sympatric insectivorous bats. Similar mechanisms may help structure other communities of insectivorous mammals, therefore the approaches presented here could be used to generate a better understanding of the ecomorphological traits and processes that underlie their diversity.