cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Associations of genetically predicted IL-6 signaling with cardiovascular disease risk across population subgroups.
Creators: name: Georgakis, Marios K
name: Malik, Rainer
name: Richardson, Tom G
name: Howson, Joanna MM
name: Anderson, Christopher D
name: Burgess, Stephen
name: Hovingh, G Kees
name: Dichgans, Martin
name: Gill, Dipender
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Article
Inflammation
Interleukin-6
Atherosclerosis
Cardiovascular disease
C-reactive protein
Cytokines
Human genetics
Mendelian randomization

description: BACKGROUND: Interleukin 6 (IL-6) signaling is being investigated as a therapeutic target for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). While changes in circulating high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) are used as a marker of IL-6 signaling, it is not known whether there is effect heterogeneity in relation to baseline hsCRP levels or other cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of this study was to explore the association of genetically predicted IL-6 signaling with CVD risk across populations stratified by baseline hsCRP levels and cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: Among 397,060 White British UK Biobank participants without known CVD at baseline, we calculated a genetic risk score for IL-6 receptor (IL-6R)-mediated signaling, composed of 26 variants at the IL6R gene locus. We then applied linear and non-linear Mendelian randomization analyses exploring associations with a combined endpoint of incident coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke, peripheral artery disease, aortic aneurysm, and cardiovascular death stratifying by baseline hsCRP levels and cardiovascular risk factors. RESULTS: The study participants (median age 59 years, 53.9% females) were followed-up for a median of 8.8 years, over which time a total of 46,033 incident cardiovascular events occurred. Genetically predicted IL-6R-mediated signaling activity was associated with higher CVD risk (hazard ratio per 1-mg/dL increment in absolute hsCRP levels: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.06-1.17). The increase in CVD risk was linearly related to baseline absolute hsCRP levels. There was no evidence of heterogeneity in the association of genetically predicted IL-6R-mediated signaling with CVD risk when stratifying the population by sex, age, body mass index, estimated glomerular filtration rate, or systolic blood pressure, but there was evidence of greater associations in individuals with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥ 160 mg/dL. CONCLUSIONS: Any benefit of inhibiting IL-6 signaling for CVD risk reduction is likely to be proportional to absolute reductions in hsCRP levels. Therapeutic inhibition of IL-6 signaling for CVD risk reduction should therefore prioritize those individuals with the highest baseline levels of hsCRP.
MS Gr. class. c. 2 359
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 698 col. 35B col. 36B. Philodemus, De sensibus
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students
Creators: name: Mieschbuehler, Ruth
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2015
Subjects: higher education
student experience
ethnicity
attainment
equality
subject-based
education
leanring and teaching

description: Research into ‘ethnic’ attainment differences in British higher education tends to depict students from minority ethnic backgrounds as disadvantaged, marginalised, discriminated against and excluded. This shapes the current theoretical perspective adopted by university policies and informs practice. However, the consequences of this perspective for students, their educational attainment and university education as a whole are largely unexamined. This study explored the teaching and learning experiences of students, alongside their views concerning how these experiences may have impacted on their attainment. To arrive at a more unbiased and better informed understanding of ethnic attainment differences, the student narratives in this study were analysed from a realist philosophical position. The experiences students related included student interactions, participatory and intellectual engagement, (un)equal treatment and academic study and support. The richness and variety of the individual narratives defied simple analysis and required further discussion of perceptions, interpretations, meaning, understanding and categorisation. Some students talked of social interaction in terms of race, colour, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class and age, while others thought such social grouping unproblematic. Engagement was seen either as participatory engagement in the learning process or as intellectual engagement with the subject. There were perceptions of unequal treatment due to race or ethnicity which contrasted with suggestions of straightforward unprofessional practices. Attitudes to academic study ranged from descriptions of struggling with the academic workload to feeling the lack of intellectual challenge. The analysis and discussion revealed a process of minoritisation that resulted from the current approaches to ethnic attainment. The continued use of group-based social differentiation inadvertently fosters the idea that ethnic and social attributes matter and creates a divisive subtext which loses any sense of our common humanity. Group-based social differentiation can undermine the resilience and human agency of students because it suggests that educational attainment is predominantly determined by ethnic and social attributes, downplaying the students’ capacity to act in pursuit of educational goals. As a result, university policies and practice perpetuate rather than ameliorate the status of minority ethnic higher education students.
SM_Revised
Creators: name: Scimone, Concetta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60404 Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Supplementary materials for paper SM_ Manuscript "Deciphering impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms on co-transcriptional modification in CCM gene mRNAs",C-00279-2022R2
MPEC 2023-T113 : 2023 TQ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TQ3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Caroxylon swakopmundense Mucina 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Mucina, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Caroxylon
Caroxylon swakopmundense

description: 85. Caroxylon swakopmundense (Botsch.) Mucina comb. nov.
 Basionym: ― Salsola swakopmundensis Botsch. in Botanicheskii Zhurnal 66(7): 1039 (1981), sub ‘ swakopmundi’.
 Type: ― SOUTH-WEST AFRICA [NAMIBIA]. Swakopmund: Swakopmündung, 8 February 1964, Giess 7719 (holotype M-0107403!; isotypes PRE-0529851-0! WIND!).
 Distribution: ― Namibia: Swakop River mouth (Swakopmund).
description: Published as part of Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, pp. 151-178 in Phytotaxa 312 (2) on page 170, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13701544
Twisted holomorphic symplectic forms
Creators: name: Istrati, Nicolina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that a compact Kahler manifold admitting a nondegenerate holomorphic 2-form valued in a line bundle is a finite cyclic cover of a hyperkahler manifold. With respect to the connection induced by the locally hyperkahler metric, the form is parallel. We then describe the structure of the fundamenal group of such manifolds and derive some consequences.
description: 13 pages
From White Light to Ultraviolet: Integrating Object Oriented Programming into Data Pipelines for the CCOR and SUVI Imagers
Creators: name: Dima, Gabriel
name: Schmit, Donald
name: Bethge, Christian
name: Darnel, Jonathan
name: Lucas, Elysia
name: Roland, William
name: Salinas, Vicente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: To ensure continuity of space weather prediction capabilities and improve understanding of space weather phenomena, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been increasing its portfolio of spaceborne instruments in recent years and plans to continue to do so in the coming years. Since 2016, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), a 6-channel instrument, has flown on three Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Network (GOES) missions and is planned to launch again in 2024 as part of the GOES-U mission. SUVI features a robust data processing pipeline that consistently provides imaging data of multi-thermal coronal structures and their dynamics in the low corona. Looking ahead and anticipating the decommissioning of the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph, NOAA is set to launch two Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instruments that will capture unpolarized white light. For the first time one of the coronagraphs will fly into geosynchronous orbit as part of the 2024 GOES-U mission. The second one will be flown onboard the Space Weather Follow On Lagrange-1 (SWFO-L1) mission in 2025. Ensuring continuity of white light coronagraph observations is critical to NOAA's mission for forecasting coronal mass ejection (CMEs) arrival times. In this presentation, we will explore how Python classes are utilized in the development of the Ground Processing Algorithms (GPAs) for these instruments. Additionally, we will discuss the upcoming transition to a cloud-based system for running the GPAs, highlighting both the new opportunities for data reprocessing and the challenges in pipeline architecture.
Supporting additional analyses from Time constraints may pace the ontogeny of movement behaviour
Creators: name: Hertel, Anne G.
name: Efrat, Ron
name: Reznikov, Korin
name: Sapir, Nir
name: Berger-Tal, Oded
name: Mueller, Thomas
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supporting Figures and Tables of model results, S. analysis 1: Effects of time of release, age, cohort, and breeding pair on individual ontogeny, S. analysis 2: Time effects on spring and winter released vultures., S. analysis 3: Daily movements of adult birds
2d Partition Function in Omega-background and Vortex/Instanton Correspondence
Creators: name: Fujimori, Toshiaki
name: Kimura, Taro
name: Nitta, Muneto
name: Ohashi, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the exact vortex partition function in 2d $\mathcal{N}$ = (2,2) gauge theory on the Omega-background, applying the localization scheme in the Higgs phase. We show that the partition function at a finite Omega-deformation parameter $ε$ satisfies a system of differential equations, which can be interpreted as a quantized version of the twisted F-term equations characterizing the SUSY vacua. Using the differential equations derived in this paper, we show the correspondence between the partition function of the two-dimensional vortex string worldsheet theory and the Nekrasov partition function at the root of Higgs branch of the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}$ = 2 theory with two Omega-deformation parameters $(ε_1,ε_2)$.
description: 1+45 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, references added
The Representation of African-American Male Protagonists in Picture Books: A Content Analysis
Creators: name: Cunningham, Heather C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Children's literature
African-Americans--Children's literature
Content analysis--Children's literature
Children's literature--Evaluation--Multiculturalism

description: Multicultural literature refers to books by and about people of color. Since the 1960's the existence of multicultural literature has increased, but not substantially. There is still a need for more books that provide positive and authentic portrayals of diverse people and cultures especially African-American males. Such positive representation can provide these males with a greater connection to the literature and greater reading achievement. In this study, a content analysis of books with African-American male protagonists from the Cooperative Children's Book Center was conducted to illustrate the need for more quality multicultural picture books featuring African-American males.
Evolution, pulsation and period change in the Cepheid SZ Tau
Creators: name: Fadeyev, Yuri A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study is devoted to radial pulsations in Population I Cepheids with masses from 5.4 to 6 Msun. Solution of the equations of radiation hydrodynamics and turbulent convection for nonlinear stellar pulsations was obtained with initial conditions as the core helium burning models of computed evolutionary sequences. For each value of the initial mass we considered stellar evolution from the zero age main sequence to central helium exhaustion with three values of the convective overshoot parameter: aov=0.1, 0.15 and 0.2. Models for the Cepheid SZ Tau with pulsation period 3.149 day can be constructed only for aov=0.1 and aov=0.15. The star is at the evolutionary stage of the second crossing of the instability strip and pulsates in the first overtone just near the boundary between the fundamental mode and the first overtone. The mass, radius and age of the star are in the ranges 5.46 <= M/Msun <= 5.75, 41.5 <= R/Rsun <= 42.3 and 6.9e7 yr <= t <= 8.0e7 yr, respectively. Predicted period change rates are of -0.4 s/yr.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy Letters
Superfluid-Mott transitions and vortices in the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard lattices with time reversal symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Hayward, Andrew L. C.
name: Martin, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the groundstate behaviour of Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard lattices in the presence of a synthetic magnetic field, via a Gutzwiller ansatz. Specifically, we study the Mott-Superfluid transition, and the formation of vortex lattices in the superfluid regime. We find a suppression of the superfluid fraction due to the frustration induced by the incommensurate magnetic and spacial lattice lengths. We also predict the formation of regime.
Caroxylon ugabicum Mucina 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Mucina, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Caroxylon
Caroxylon ugabicum

description: 89. Caroxylon ugabicum (Botsch.) Mucina comb. nov.
 Basionym: ― Salsola ugabica Botsch. in Botanicheskii Zhurnal 68(9): 1249 (1983). Type: ― SOUTH-WEST AFRICA [NAMIBIA]. Cape Cross (2113BB), 15 km östlich der Küste, 6 km südlich des Ugab [River], im sandigen Rinnsal am Gesteinshang, 28 November 1978, Giess 15324 (holotype M-0107402!; isotypes PRE-0538930-0!, WIND!).
 Distribution: ― Namibia: Skeleton Coast, near Ugab River (Erongo Region).
description: Published as part of Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, pp. 151-178 in Phytotaxa 312 (2) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13701544
Saturation of the f-mode instability in neutron stars: I. Theoretical framework
Creators: name: Pnigouras, Pantelis
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic formulation describing quadratic mode coupling in rotating Newtonian stars is presented, focusing on polar modes. Due to the Chandrasekhar-Friedman-Schutz mechanism, the f-mode (fundamental oscillation) is driven unstable by the emission of gravitational waves. If the star falls inside the so-called instability window, the mode's amplitude grows exponentially, until it is halted by nonlinear effects. Quadratic perturbations form three-mode networks inside the star, which evolve as coupled oscillators, exchanging energy. Coupling of the unstable f-mode to other (stable) modes can lead to a parametric resonance and the subsequent saturation of its amplitude, thus suppressing the instability. The saturation point determines the amplitude of the gravitational-wave signal obtained from an individual source, as well as the evolutionary path of the latter inside the instability window.
description: 18 pages, 5 PDF figures, uses cleveref.sty; minor style changes, updated references
New Developments in FeynCalc 9.0
Creators: name: Shtabovenko, Vladyslav
name: Mertig, Rolf
name: Orellana, Frederik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we report on the new version of FeynCalc, a Mathematica package for symbolic semi-automatic evaluation of Feynman diagrams and algebraic expressions in quantum field theory. The main features of version 9.0 are: improved tensor reduction and partial fractioning of loop integrals, new functions for using FeynCalc together with tools for reduction of scalar loop integrals using integration-by-parts (IBP) identities, better interface to FeynArts and support for SU(N) generators with explicit fundamental indices.
description: 40 pages, no figures, updated to match the journal version. To obtain the program, see http://github.com/FeynCalc/feyncalc
Thermal desorption of ammonia from crystalline forsterite surfaces
Creators: name: Suhasaria, T.
name: Thrower, J. D.
name: Zacharias, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal desorption of ammonia (NH$_3$) from single crystal forsterite (010) has been investigated using temperature-programmed desorption. The effect of defects on the desorption process has been probed by the use of a rough cut forsterite surface prepared from the cleaved forsterite sample. Several approaches have been used to extract the desorption energy and pre-exponential factor describing the desorption kinetics. In the sub-monolayer coverage regime, the NH$_3$ desorption shows a broad distribution of desorption energies, indicating the presence of different adsorption sites, which results in an apparent coverage-dependent desorption energy. This distribution is sensitive to the surface roughness with the cut forsterite surface displaying a significantly broader distribution of desorption energies compared to the cleaved forsterite surface. The cut forsterite surface exhibits sites with desorption energies up to 62.5 kJ mol$^{-1} $ in comparison to a desorption energy of up to 58.0 kJ mol$^{-1} $ for the cleaved surface. Multilayer desorption is independent of the nature of the forsterite surface used, with a desorption energy of ($25.8\pm0.9$) kJ mol$^{-1} $. On astrophysically relevant heating time-scales, the presence of a coverage dependent desorption energy distribution results in a lengthening of the NH$_3$ desorption time-scale by $5.9\times 10^4$ yr compared to that expected for a single desorption energy. In addition, the presence of a larger number of high-energy adsorption sites on the rougher cut forsterite surface leads to a further lengthening of ca. 7000 yr.
description: 12 Pages, 9 Figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MS Gr. class. c. 2 360
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 698 col. 27B col. 28B. Philodemus, De sensibus
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Parameterized and approximation complexity of the detection pair problem in graphs
Creators: name: Foucaud, Florent
name: Klasing, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the complexity of the problem DETECTION PAIR. A detection pair of a graph $G$ is a pair $(W,L)$ of sets of detectors with $W\subseteq V(G)$, the watchers, and $L\subseteq V(G)$, the listeners, such that for every pair $u,v$ of vertices that are not dominated by a watcher of $W$, there is a listener of $L$ whose distances to $u$ and to $v$ are different. The goal is to minimize $|W|+|L|$. This problem generalizes the two classic problems DOMINATING SET and METRIC DIMENSION, that correspond to the restrictions $L=\emptyset$ and $W=\emptyset$, respectively. DETECTION PAIR was recently introduced by Finbow, Hartnell and Young [A. S. Finbow, B. L. Hartnell and J. R. Young. The complexity of monitoring a network with both watchers and listeners. Manuscript, 2015], who proved it to be NP-complete on trees, a surprising result given that both DOMINATING SET and METRIC DIMENSION are known to be linear-time solvable on trees. It follows from an existing reduction by Hartung and Nichterlein for METRIC DIMENSION that even on bipartite subcubic graphs of arbitrarily large girth, DETECTION PAIR is NP-hard to approximate within a sub-logarithmic factor and W[2]-hard (when parameterized by solution size). We show, using a reduction to SET COVER, that DETECTION PAIR is approximable within a factor logarithmic in the number of vertices of the input graph. Our two main results are a linear-time $2$-approximation algorithm and an FPT algorithm for DETECTION PAIR on trees.
description: 13 pages
AI-based Energy Management Strategies for P2 Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Creators: name: Mousa, Amr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Energy Management Strategy, Deterministic Dynamic Programming, Reinforcement Learning, Machine learning, Deep Neural Networks, Model-based RL

description: Abstract Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) offer a promising solution for the increasing CO2 emission problem. However, the improved economy of PHEVs strongly depends on the control strategy that decides on the power distribution between the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and the electric battery. Traditional rule-based control strategies are no more practical considering the increasing and more complex control objectives introduced by the emerging technologies such as automated driving and connected vehicles. In this study, an advanced Energy Management Strategy (EMS) based on Deterministic Dynamic Programming (DDP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) is developed. DDP solves a finite-horizon optimization problem given the driving cycle a priori to obtain a global optimal vehicle power distribution that contributes mostly to the fuel economy improvements. DDP results are used to benchmark the subsequent RL-developed algorithms’ performance. In the newly proposed control strategy, an adaptive online learning RL agent is introduced into the existing Hybrid Control Unit (HCU) architecture solving the EMS for near-optimal solutions. The objective is to minimize the vehicle's expected total fuel consumption with a proper battery depletion rate besides penalizing the frequent engine on/off switching. Several RL-based algorithms have been experimented with using a vehicle model simulation. As a result, an Extended Deep Q-Network (E-DQN) agent is proposed by the thesis, trained on one cycle, and deployed on two other cycles to evaluate the performance. The thesis findings showed that E-DQN outperformed the rule-based strategy achieving up to 10.46% improvement in fuel economy closer to the DP performance alongside providing adequate compliance with the vehicle drivability and driver comfort objectives.
Transient reconfigurable subangstrom-precise photonic circuits at the optical fiber surface
Creators: name: Dmitriev, A.
name: Toropov, N.
name: Sumetsky, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transient fully reconfigurable photonic circuits can be introduced at the optical fiber surface with subangstrom precision. A building block of these circuits, a 0.7 angstrom-precise nano-bottle resonator, is experimentally created by local heating, translated, and annihilated.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society (Reston, 2015), postdeadline paper PD2
title: Effect of multiple-repeated aging and rejuvenation processes on bitumen properties evaluated with physical and chemical tests and multivariate analysis methods
Creators: name: Schwettmann, Kim
name: Nytus, Nina
name: Weigel, Sandra
name: Radenberg, Martin
name: Stephan, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk::691 Baustoffe
subject: bitumen
subject: aging
subject: rejuvenation
subject: multiple recycling
subject: multivariate analysis methods
subject: Bitumen
subject: Alterung
subject: Verjüngung
subject: mehrfache Wiederverwendung
subject: multivariate Analysemethoden

description: This paper presents laboratory experiments on repeated bitumen aging and rejuvenation processes to assess multiple reuse feasibility. Three 50/70 penetration-graded bitumen samples were reused with four different rejuvenators, without adding virgin binder. The experiments continued until significant material changes, such as inhomogeneities and increased stickiness, prevented reliable characterization. After each rejuvenation and aging process, physical and chemical properties were analyzed, resulting in a comprehensive dataset. Results show that reuse with pure rejuvenators without virgin binder is limited. Cyclic reuse depends heavily on the rejuvenator and its interaction with the binder. Of the four rejuvenators tested, two bio-based products allowed the most reuse cycles (four cycles). Therefore, the rejuvenators used in this project are more suitable as additives to improve the physical properties of the bitumen for reuse rather than as substitutes for the binder. The datasets were further evaluated using multivariate analysis methods to construct statistical models for two use cases: In the first use case the samples are classified by their aging condition. In the second use case the samples are differentiated according to the rejuvenators. The models were successfully validated and therefore provide a promising framework for the classification of unknown bitumen samples for reuse.
Henk Moed and the University of Granada (EC3): an annotated chronology
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
name: Robinson-García, Nicolás
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bibliometrics
Scientometrics

description: Presented at: Frontiers of the Evaluation Workshop in Honour of the Memory of Henk F. Moed (1951-2021) Friday, 10 June 2022 Sapienza Università di Roma European Summer School for Scientometrics In memory of Henk F. Moed (1951-2021), one of the great pioneers in scientometrics,
Caroxylon unjabicum Mucina 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Mucina, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Caroxylon
Caroxylon unjabicum

description: 90. Caroxylon unjabicum (Botsch.) Mucina comb. nov.
 Basionym: ― Salsola unjabica Botsch. in Botanicheskii Zhurnal 66(7): 1040 (1981). Type: ― SOUTH-WEST AFRICA [NAMIBIA]. Unjab Mouth (2013BC): Nahe von Wasserstelle im Koichab, 17 April 1964, Giess 8049 (holotype M-0107401!; isotypes LE-00011932!, WIND!).
 Distribution: ― Namibia: Skeleton Coast, Unjab River Mouth.
description: Published as part of Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, pp. 151-178 in Phytotaxa 312 (2) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13701544
Binary properties of CH and Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars
Creators: name: Jorissen, A.
name: Van Eck, S.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Merle, T.
name: Boffin, H. M. J.
name: Andersen, J.
name: Nordstroem, B.
name: Udry, S.
name: Masseron, T.
name: Lenaerts, L.
name: Waelkens, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The HERMES spectrograph installed on the 1.2-m Mercator telescope has been used to monitor the radial velocity of 13 low-metallicity carbon stars, among which 7 Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars and 6 CH stars. All stars but one show clear evidence for binarity. New orbits are obtained for 8 systems. The sample covers an extended range in orbital periods, extending from 3.4 d (for the dwarf carbon star HE 0024-2523) to about 54 yr (for the CH star HD 26, the longest known among barium, CH and extrinsic S stars). Three systems exhibit low-amplitude velocity variations with periods close to 1 yr superimposed on a long-term trend. In the absence of an accurate photometric monitoring of these systems, it is not clear yet whether these variations are the signature of a very low-mass companion, or of regular envelope pulsations. The period - eccentricity (P - e) diagram for the 40 low-metallicity carbon stars with orbits now available shows no difference between CH and CEMP-s stars (the latter corresponding to those CEMP stars enriched in s-process elements, as are CH stars). We suggest that they must be considered as one and the same family and that their different names only stem from historical reasons. Indeed, these two families have as well very similar mass-function distributions, corresponding to companions with masses in the range 0.5 - 0.7 Msun, indicative of white-dwarf companions, adopting 0.8 - 0.9 Msun for the primary component. This result confirms that CH and CEMP-s stars obey the same mass-transfer scenario as their higher-metallicity analogs, the barium stars. The P - e diagrams of barium, CH and CEMP-s stars are indeed very similar. They reveal two different groups of systems: one with short orbital periods (P < 1000 d) and mostly circular or almost circular orbits, and another with longer-period and eccentric (e > 0.1) orbits.
description: Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
MS Gr. class. c. 2 361
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 698 col. 13B col. 18B. Philodemus, De sensibus
Drawing by Giuseppe (?) Casanova
Full-length coding sequence analysis of genome segments A and B of infectious bursal disease virus in Thailand: identification of Chinese-like and recombinant virus in the field
Creators: name: Junnu, Sucheeva
name: Pohuang, Tawatchai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) causes immunosuppression in chickens, with distinctive bursal lesions. Genomic sequence information is essential to understand the epidemiology of antigenically and/or pathogenically variable IBDV strains. The present study investigated the full-length coding sequences of genome segments A and B of IBDV circulating in Thailand during 2010–2015. Five clinical samples of pooled bursas obtained from five commercial chicken farms experiencing problems with IBD in five different provinces of Thailand were identified by using a one-step reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. The full-length coding sequences of genome segments A and B of three and five isolates, respectively, were successfully characterized. Phylogenetic analysis showed that two groups of IBDV were circulating in Thailand. The first group was similar to strain HLJ-504, genotype A3B3, isolated in China, but it had some minor variations in both genome segments A and B. The second group, which had a recombination event in segment A, was clustered with genotype A1B1. Its segment A originated from the intermediate vaccine W2512-like strain and isolate 9109, whereas segment B shared characteristics of a classical strain without recombination events. This study characterized the full-length coding sequences of genome segments A and B of Thai IBDV and demonstrated the presence of recombinant IBDV in Thailand for the first time. Therefore, the molecular characterization of the full-length coding sequences of both genome segments of IBDV is essential to monitor the emergence of new variant viruses, which is important for effective control and appropriate vaccine development. For the first time, this work demonstrated a recombinant IBDV strain in Thailand.Two genogroups of IBDV were found in Thailand: including HLJ-504-like and recombinant virus.Analysis of the full coding sequence is essential for monitoring emerging variant IBDV. For the first time, this work demonstrated a recombinant IBDV strain in Thailand. Two genogroups of IBDV were found in Thailand: including HLJ-504-like and recombinant virus. Analysis of the full coding sequence is essential for monitoring emerging variant IBDV.
Fandom and the Development and Literary Lives of Young Adults
Creators: name: Street, Kristen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Young adults' reading--Psychological aspects
Fandom
Young adults--Books & reading

description: This study looked at how young adults feel that their lives have been influenced by their experiences participating in fandom, both in their reading and creative habits as well as in their own personal development. A survey of 215 people showed that most people, after joining fandom, read, write and create art more than they did before. It also revealed that young people in fandom believe their lives to have been significantly shaped by the support, feedback and inspiration that the friends they make in fandom communities give them.
Caroxylon warmbadicum Mucina 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Mucina, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Caroxylon
Caroxylon warmbadicum

description: 92. Caroxylon warmbadicum (Botsch.) Mucina comb. nov.
 Basionym: ― Salsola warmbadica Botsch. in Botanicheskii Zhurnal 58: 833 (1973).
 Type: ― SOUTH-WEST AFRICA [NAMIBIA]. Dist. Warmbad: 20 miles N of Ariamsvlei, Driedoring-veld, c. 2700 ft, 17 March 1956, Acocks 18805 (holotype K-000243974!; isotypes PRE0457002 -0!, PRE0592863 -0!).
 Distribution: ― Namibia: Warmbad Dist., Brandberg.
description: Published as part of Mucina, Ladislav, 2017, Caroxylon (Chenopodiaceae s. str.) in continental southern Africa and Madagascar: a preliminary nomenclatural synopsis and biogeographical considerations, pp. 151-178 in Phytotaxa 312 (2) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.312.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13701544
Effect of in-water administration of quorum system inhibitors in broilers’ productive performance and intestinal microbiome in a mild necrotic enteritis challenge
Creators: name: Jaramillo-Jaramillo, A. S.
name: Coulson, T. J. D.
name: Hofacre, C.
name: Jones, M.
name: O’Neill, L.
name: Nguyen, N.
name: Labbe, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The poultry industry has been facing the impact of necrotic enteritis (NE), a disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium perfringens producing the haemolytic toxin NetB. NE severity may vary from mild clinical to prominent enteric signs causing reduced growth rates and affecting feed conversion ratio. NetB production is controlled by the Agr-like quorum-sensing (QS) system, which coordinates virulence gene expression in response to bacterial cell density. In this study, the peptide-containing cell-free spent media (CFSM) from Enterococcus faecium was tested in NE challenged broilers in two battery cage and one floor pen studies. Results showed a significant reduction of NE mortality. Metagenomic sequencing of the jejunum microbiome revealed no impact of the CFSM on the microbial community, and growth of C. perfringens was unaffected by CFSM in vitro. The expression of QS-controlled virulence genes netB, plc and pfoA was found to be significantly repressed by CFSM during the mid-logarithmic stage of C. perfringens growth and this corresponded with a significant decrease in haemolytic activity. Purified fractions of CFSM containing bioactive peptides were found to cause reduced haemolysis. These results showed that bioactive peptides reduce NE mortality in broilers by interfering with the QS system of C. perfringens and reducing bacterial virulence. Furthermore, the microbiome of C. perfringens-challenged broilers is not affected by quorum sensing inhibitor containing CFSM.
Application of bond valence method in the non-isovalent semiconductor alloy (GaN)$_{1-x}$(ZnO)$_x$
Creators: name: Liu, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies the bond valence method (BVM) and its application in the non-isovalent semiconductor alloy (GaN)$_{\rm{1-x}}$(ZnO)$_{\rm{x}}$. Particular attention is paid to the role of short-range order (SRO). A physical interpretation based on atomic orbital interaction is proposed and examined by density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. Combining BVM with Monte-Carlo simulations and a DFT-based cluster expansion model, bond-length distributions and bond-angle variations are predicted. The correlation between bond valence and bond stiffness is also revealed. Finally the concept of bond valence is extended into the modelling of an atomistic potential.
Supplementary material for “Multilevel dynamic adjustments of geckos (Hemidactylus frenatus) climbing vertically: head-up vs head-down”
Creators: name: Schultz, Johanna T.
name: Labonte, David
name: Clemente, Christofer J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary material for “Multilevel dynamic adjustments of geckos (Hemidactylus frenatus) climbing vertically: head-up vs head-down”
title: Reinforcement learning based ship autopilot for transit in ice
Creators: name: Dawson, Michael
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2022

description: Aided navigation systems are constantly evolving and lending themselves to a growing number of applications. With a range of benefits from improved safety to reduced costs, they are an important concept within the shipping industry. This work aims to improve safety at sea in northern regions through demonstrating the potential for a ship autopilot specifically designed for transit in ice. Autopilots on ships are not a new concept – PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller-based autopilots are already implemented onboard vessels. PID controllers, however, do not perform well when dealing with ice floes. This is because they are designed to maintain a process – such as ship speed and heading – without proper information regarding the ice around the vessel. Instead, this work aims to implement an adaptive autopilot that adjusts based on ice information ahead of the ship. The autopilot is a reinforcement learning based model that is trained using proximal policy optimization. Within a simulated setting, the ship autopilot is shown to be able to safely navigate through ice under controlled conditions. Both the ability to travel through ice at reasonable speeds as well as avoid individual ice floes is demonstrated. Due to the limited generalizability of the current method, further development is necessary before being applied in real world scenarios.
$S^1/T^2$ Compactifications of 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ Theories and Brane Webs
Creators: name: Ohmori, Kantaro
name: Shimizu, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the circle and torus compactification of a certain subclass of 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ SCFTs which are Higgsable to the higher rank E-string theories. Using the T-duality between Type I' and Type IIB, we found that the $S^1$ compactification of the theories can be realized by 5-brane webs describing the 5d uplifting of a specified class S theory, generalizing the result by Benini, Benvenuti and Tachikawa. We checked the above result by calculating conformal and flavor central charges of the 4d torus compactified theory both from the tensor branch structure of the 6d theory and from the predicted class S description.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures :revised version : explanation are clarified, typos are corrected, references are added
title: Gender Bias in der Wissenschaft
title: Warum studentische Lehrevaluationen auf den Prüfstand gehören; mit einem Kommentar von Liudvika Leišytė
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Klonschinski, Andrea
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Göttinger Centrum für Geschlechterforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: Studentische Lehrevaluationen
Frauen in der Wissenschaft
Leaky Pipeline
Gender Bias
Stereotype
Student Teaching Evaluations
Women in Academia
Stereotypes

description: Frauen sind unter den Professor:innen nach wie vor unterrepräsentiert. Empirische Befunde deuten darauf hin, dass dies unter anderem auf die systematisch negativeren Bewertungen der Leistung von Frauen in der Wissenschaft zurückzuführen ist. Auch studentische Lehrevaluationen fallen schlechter aus, wenn die Lehrperson eine Frau ist. Während diese Ergebnisse Anlass zum Überdenken der Bewertungspraxis von Wissenschaftler:innen geben sollten, sind studentische Lehrevaluationen nach wie vor die wichtigste und oft einzige an Hochschulen praktizierte Form der Lehrbewertung und ihre Ergebnisse spielen eine wichtige Rolle für die wissenschaftliche Karriere. Der vorliegende Beitrag trägt empirische Befunde zu Gender Bias im Rahmen studentischer Lehrevaluationen zusammen, argumentiert, dass diese Bewertungspraxis ungerecht ist und in ihrer aktuellen Form nicht mehr praktiziert werden sollte und skizziert Vorschläge für alternative, fairere Evaluationsverfahren.
description: Women are still underrepresented among the higher ranks of academia. Empirical evidence indicates that a central reason for this underrepresentation consists in the fact that women’s academic performance is evaluated much more harshly than men’s. One example for such evaluation biases are student teaching evaluations, which are systematically worse for female than for male teachers. Considered against the background of the low percentage of female professors, these results should be alarming, but in fact, student teaching evaluations continue to be the major if not the only form of teaching evaluation and their results are of pivotal importance for the academic career. This paper reviews studies on gender biases in student teaching evaluations, argues that they should no longer be used in their current form and sketches fairer alternatives.
description: Gender(ed) thoughts ; 2022, vol. 3
Building a Better Mousetrap: Capturing New Data in ISI Journal Citation Reports and Local Journal Utilization Reports to Support Academic Collection Managers
Creators: name: Brown, E. Ashley Rogers
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: ISI
Publication analysis
Collection Management
Journal Selection and Deselection
Impact Factor
Citation analysis

description: The ISI provides librarians with tools such as the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and the institution specific Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR) to aid in the management of serials collections. These tools enable librarians to respond quickly to changes in publishing practices and purchasing options. While available literature often criticizes ISI data, few studies provide concrete recommendations for improvement. This study explores two extensions to LJUR: (1)adding citation date and (2)creating institution specific impact factors. In addition, I explore the degree to which self-citations influence the ISI impact factor. Publication and citation calculations are made for three prominent southern universities' research chemists using a corpus of full text articles drawn from 27 American Chemical Society (ACS) journals and stored in an Oracle database. The ACS research corpus impact factor simulation and ACS research corpus self-citation omission impact factor are also created and compared with current JCR data.
CEO Marital Status and Insider Trading
Creators: name: Hegde, Prasad
name: Liao, Shushu
name: Ma, Rui
name: Nguyen, Nhut H
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations
classificationCode: 3506
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We investigate the association between chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) marital status and their tendency to profit from insider trading. We argue that marriage can constrain CEOs’ opportunistic behaviour, which could increase litigation risk, and show that married CEOs earn lower insider trading returns compared to unmarried CEOs. Insider trades can be identified as either routine or opportunistic. We also find that married CEOs are less likely to engage in opportunistic trades, and they earn lower insider trading returns in firms with weaker corporate governance and higher information asymmetry. Our empirical results remain robust after accounting for several endogeneity tests.
Green WSN- Optimization of Energy Use Through Reduction in Communication Workload
Creators: name: Jindal, Vandana
name: Verma, A. K.
name: Bawa, Seema
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are growing day by day due to the ease of deployment, reduction in costs to affordable levels and versatility of these networks. Besides developing advanced micro fabrication technologies means are being devised to reduce energy consumption to bring the network setup and operational costs down. With increasing applications amount of energy consumed in these networks is enormous. Even a small savings in energy consumption will result in huge benefits in energy consumption globally. Bulk of the energy is consumed in communication activity of these networks. It is our endeavor to optimize this activity to make these networks energy efficient and thereby reducing their impact on the overall environment in line with the principle Go Green.
description: 11 pages, 6 Figures, 3 Tables