cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Upper Bounds on the Generalization Error of Private Algorithms for Discrete Data
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Gálvez, Borja
name: Bassi, Germán
name: Skoglund, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we study the generalization capability of algorithms from an information-theoretic perspective. It has been shown that the expected generalization error of an algorithm is bounded from above by a function of the relative entropy between the conditional probability distribution of the algorithm's output hypothesis, given the dataset with which it was trained, and its marginal probability distribution. We build upon this fact and introduce a mathematical formulation to obtain upper bounds on this relative entropy. Assuming that the data is discrete, we then develop a strategy using this formulation, based on the method of types and typicality, to find explicit upper bounds on the generalization error of stable algorithms, i.e., algorithms that produce similar output hypotheses given similar input datasets. In particular, we show the bounds obtained with this strategy for the case of $ε$-DP and $μ$-GDP algorithms.
description: 18 pages (double column), 4 figures, accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Механизм международно-правовой интеграции Всеобъемлющего евразийского партнерства: принципы и основные элементы
Creators: name: Емченко, Людмила
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2025
Subjects: Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP)
international law
integration
legal mechanism
implementation
Всеобъемлющее евразийское партнерство (ВЕП)
международное право
интеграция
правовой механизм
имплементация

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 4 (154) 2025
The mediating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between trait mindfulness and posttraumatic stress symptom severity
Creators: name: Bellini, Paula G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Mindfulness, particularly nonjudgment and awareness, are associated with posttraumatic stress symptom severity (Vujanovic, Youngwirth, Johnson, & Zvolensky, 2009). However, the mechanism by which mindfulness is related to posttraumatic stress is not as well understood. Emotion regulation is associated with both mindfulness and PTSD (Tull, Barrett, McMillan, &Roemer, 2007; Vujanovic, Bonn-Miller, Bernstein, McKee, & Zvolensky, 2010). Therefore, the present study examined whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic stress symptom severity in a sample of 188 trauma exposed adults. Participants completed questionnaires on trait mindfulness, difficulties in emotion regulation, and posttraumatic stress symptom severity. Higher levels of nonjudgment and awareness were associated with lower levels of both PTSD symptom severity and difficulties in emotion regulation. Mediation analysis revealed overall difficulties in emotion regulation, and specifically lack of access to effective emotion regulation strategies, mediated the relationship between nonjudgment and awareness to PTSD symptom severity. Although correlational, these results provide further insight into one possible mechanism of action by which mindfulness is associated with PTSD symptom severity.
title: Mapping the topographic epitopes of a model antigen
Creators: name: Paus, Didrik
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2003

description: The thesis describes the development of a method for determining the antigenicity of different regions of the surface of a protein. The method involved the construction of a set of mutant antigens in which cysteine residues had been introduced at different points in the surface of the antigen. Each mutant protein was tethered through the surface cysteine residue and a bifunctional chemical cross-linker to solid phase, allowing the creation of an array of mutant antigens, each oriented so as to expose or to mask different topological regions of the antigen surface. Indeed, as expected, binding of a set of monoclonal antibodies proved sensitive to the orientation of the antigen. By use of this array of oriented antigen it became possible to compare the different regions of the antigen surface for binding to rabbit antiserum, and thereby to create a topological map of the antibody response. When the immunisations were undertaken with use of Freund's adjuvant, the antibody response to β-lactamase was mainly directed against a region centered on a flexible loop. Furthermore it comprised antibodies cross-reactive to both native and denatured protein. By contrast, in the absence of Freund's adjuvant, the antibody response was more evenly distributed, and with few cross reactive antibodies. This suggested that Freund's adjuvant denatures β-lactamase (as was confirmed experimentally), and that the appearance of dominant epitopes may follow the presentation of denatured protein to the immune system. These observations have implications for understanding the basis for dominance of B-cell epitopes, and also for design of vaccines.
Melanotus monticola
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Melanotus
Melanotus monticola

description: Melanotus monticola (Ménétriés, 1832)
(Map 6)
 Material examined (HMIM). Azarbaijan-e Sharghi province: 1 ex.: “AZARBAIDJAN, Ahar, Kalibar [Kaleybar], 14.6.1973, [leg.] Ragabi [Rajabi]. Kordestan province: 2 exs: Saghez, Abdol-Razzagh Protected Area, ca. 1 km S Qaplantu village, nr. Patar mt., N36°13’10.7”, E46°42’37.6”, 1866 m, 29. V.2016, leg. H. Nasserzadeh.
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cold winters and warm summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 354, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
The Effect of Magnetic Field Tilt and Divergence on the Mass Flux and Flow Speed in a Line-Driven Stellar Wind
Creators: name: Owocki, Stan
name: ud-Doula, Asif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out an extended analytic study of how the tilt and faster-than-radial expansion from a magnetic field affect the mass flux and flow speed of a line-driven stellar wind. A key motivation is to reconcile results of numerical MHD simulations with previous analyses that had predicted non-spherical expansion would lead to a strong speed enhancement. By including finite-disk correction effects, a dynamically more consistent form for the non-spherical expansion, and a moderate value of the line-driving power index $α$, we infer more modest speed enhancements that are in good quantitative agreement with MHD simulations, and also are more consistent with observational results. Our analysis also explains simulation results that show the latitudinal variation of the surface mass flux scales with the square of the cosine of the local tilt angle between the magnetic field and the radial direction. Finally, we present a perturbation analysis of the effects of a finite gas pressure on the wind mass loss rate and flow speed in both spherical and magnetic wind models, showing that these scale with the ratio of the sound speed to surface escape speed, $a/v_{esc}$, and are typically 10-20% compared to an idealized, zero-gas-pressure model.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, for the full version of the paper go to: http://www.bartol.udel.edu/~owocki/preprints/btiltdiv-mdotvinf.pdf
Glück stärken in der Schule
Creators: name: Baumann-Wieduwilt, Cornelia
name: Fehr-Fuhrer, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Glück
Schule
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema „Glück stärken in der Schule“ und will mittels eines selbst entwickelten Glückskoffers, die Schülerinnen und Schüler sozial und mental stärken. Ziel ist es herauszufinden, ob durch diese Stärkung, die Schuleinstellung, die Anstrengungsbereitschaft, die Lernfreude und die Konzentration gesteigert werden können. Dazu wird theoriegeleitet ein Glückskoffer entwickelt, welcher von drei Expertinnen begutachtet und anhand eines Fragebogens evaluiert wird. Diese so entstehende definitive Version des Glückskoffers wird an vier dritten und einer vierten Klasse praktisch erprobt und mit Hilfe von standardisierten Tests und verschiedener Fragebögen ausgewertet. Die Auswertungen zeigen, dass durch die acht- bis zehnwöchige Arbeit mit dem Glückskoffer in allen Bereichen kleinere bis grössere Steigerungen festgestellt werden können.
BL Lac evolution revisited
Creators: name: Wolter, Anna
name: Cavallotti, Francesca
name: Stocke, John T.
name: Rector, Travis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BL Lac objects are an elusive and rare class of active galactic nuclei. For years their evolutionary behavior has appeared inconsistent with the trend observed in the population of AGN at large. The so-called ``negative'' evolution implies that BL Lacs were either less or fainter in the past. This effect is stronger for BL Lacs selected in X-ray surveys. We have investigated if one of the selection criteria, namely the flat-radio spectrum (imposed on the Radio-selected but not on the X-ray-selected samples), might explain the different evolutionary trend.
description: Proceedings of "Multiwavelength AGN Surveys", Cozumel, Dec 2003
Fighting The Obesity Epidemic: The Influence of Television Commercials on Body Appreciation, Self-esteem, and Mood in Women
Creators: name: Brawley, Alexandra
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the influence of health-related commercials advertising weight-loss, nutrition, or exercise, on body appreciation, self-esteem and mood in women. One hundred and five women between the ages of 18-44 viewed either health (N=55) or non-health (N=50) related commercials. Participants were randomly assigned to each group. Body appreciation, self-esteem, and mood were assessed pre- and post-commercial viewing. Results indicate strong correlational relationships between the main study variables. Additionally, the study yielded an association between age, self-esteem, and mood. Commercial exposure did not yield significant main effects on body appreciation, self-esteem, or mood. The results of this study suggest future exploration on race and age in body image literature and further investigation on the messages portrayed in the media pertaining to the potential impacts on mental health.
On the shape-dependent propulsion of nano- and microparticles by traveling ultrasound waves
Creators: name: Voß, Johannes
name: Wittkowski, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the many types of artificial motile nano- and microparticles that have been developed in the past, colloidal particles that exhibit propulsion when they are exposed to ultrasound are particularly advantageous. Their properties, however, are still largely unexplored. For example, the dependence of the propulsion on the particle shape and the structure of the flow field generated around the particles are still unknown. In this article, we address the propulsion mechanism of ultrasound-propelled nano- and microparticles in more detail. Based on direct computational fluid dynamics simulations and focusing on traveling ultrasound waves, we study the effect of two important aspects of the particle shape on the propulsion: rounded vs. pointed and filled vs. hollow shapes. We also address the flow field generated around such particles. Our results reveal that pointedness leads to an increase of the propulsion speed, whereas it is not significantly affected by hollowness. Furthermore, we find that the flow field of ultrasound-propelled particles allows to classify them as pusher squirmers, which has far-reaching consequences for the understanding of these particles and allows us to predict that they can be used to realize active materials with a tunable viscosity that can exhibit suprafluidity and even negative viscosities. The obtained results are helpful, e.g., for future experimental work further investigating or applying ultrasound-propelled colloidal particles as well as for theoretical approaches that aim at modeling their dynamics on mesoscopic scales.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Mulsanteus guillebeaui
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Mulsanteus
Mulsanteus guillebeaui

description: Mulsanteus guillebeaui (Mulsant & Godart, 1853)
(Map 5)
 Material examined (HMIM). Kordestan province: 3 exs.: Kusalan va Shaho Protected Area, Sarvabad, 2 km E Dezli, N35°22’34.5”, E46°09’36.4”, 1379 m, 30. VI.2015, leg. H. Nasserzadeh (Light trap).
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cool winters and warm summers.
 MAP 6. Distribution map of Melanotus species in northwestern Iran.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 354, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
Additional file 4 of Protocol of a multicentric prospective cohort study for the VALIDation of the IBD-disk instrument for assessing disability in inflammatory bowel diseases: the VALIDate study
Creators: name: C. Le Berre
name: A. Bourreille
name: M. Flamant
name: G. Bouguen
name: L. Siproudhis
name: M. Dewitte
name: N. Dib
name: E. Cesbron-Metivier
name: T. Goronflot
name: M. Hanf
name: P.-A. Gourraud
name: E. Kerdreux
name: A. Poinas
name: C. Trang-Poisson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. SPIRIT checklist. SPIRIT_Filled-checklist_VALIDate.
Fighting The Obesity Epidemic: The Influence of Television Commercials on Body Appreciation, Self-esteem, and Mood in Women
Creators: name: Brawley, Alexandra
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study investigated the influence of health-related commercials advertising weight-loss, nutrition, or exercise, on body appreciation, self-esteem and mood in women. One hundred and five women between the ages of 18-44 viewed either health (N=55) or non-health (N=50) related commercials. Participants were randomly assigned to each group. Body appreciation, self-esteem, and mood were assessed pre- and post-commercial viewing. Results indicate strong correlational relationships between the main study variables. Additionally, the study yielded an association between age, self-esteem, and mood. Commercial exposure did not yield significant main effects on body appreciation, self-esteem, or mood. The results of this study suggest future exploration on race and age in body image literature and further investigation on the messages portrayed in the media pertaining to the potential impacts on mental health.
Spiral vortices in a 2D ferromagnet
Creators: name: Borisov, A. B.
name: Bostrem, I. G.
name: Ovchinnikov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of a new class of exact solutions having a form of spiral vortices for an isotropic two-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnet using a continuum theory and direct numerical simulations of the spin system on a square lattice. We find their features issued from the conservation laws and describe their interaction. Reasons behind the formation of the proper spin configurations on a square lattice are investigated.
description: accepted in Phys. Rev. B
Expanding the Scope of Treatment for Trichotillomania: Treatment Modalities and Interpersonal Context
Creators: name: Falkenstein, Martha J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: The objective of this project was to lay the groundwork for expanding the scope of treatment for trichotillomania (TTM; hair pulling disorder) by focusing on key modalities of pulling behavior and also patients’ contexts, such as interpersonal functioning. The first study of this project aimed to concretize and pilot test the Comprehensive Behavioral Model (ComB), with the ultimate goal of rigorous testing of the efficacy of the model. The ComB treatment manual was drafted and revised based on patient and therapist feedback; an intervention choice study demonstrated that therapists could reliably select interventions consistent with the manual; therapist adherence and competence measures were developed; and a preliminary examination of the efficacy of the treatment was completed. Participants found the ComB treatment highly acceptable, and TTM severity and impairment improved across all measures, with large effects. The second study investigated interpersonal functioning among adults with TTM as another approach to learning more about expanding the scope of treatment for trichotillomania. The objective was to contribute data for future development of components of treatment that focus on interpersonal functioning. This was done through a survey about relationships and related difficulties among people with trichotillomania. Hypotheses were supported that greater TTM severity is associated with lower relationship satisfaction, perceived social support, and greater perceived criticism, perceived risk in intimacy, and social interaction anxiety, though these correlations were small. TTM-by-proxy urges were reported by 54% of participants and 37% of participants reported having actually pulled hair from other people. Higher levels of TTM-by-proxy urges were associated with “focused” pulling and perfectionistic thinking, yet for individuals with current urges, there was no association with greater functional impairment. Approximately one-quarter of survey respondents had not told their closest friend about their trichotillomania, and one-fifth had not told their spouse or long-term romantic partner. Among individuals who reported having asked other people to pull hair for them (7% of sample), there was increased endorsement of “focused” pulling episodes. Researchers should consider these issues in developing treatments, as the need to individualize based on treatment modalities and interpersonal functioning might hold promise for adults with TTM.
Expanding the Scope of Treatment for Trichotillomania: Treatment Modalities and Interpersonal Context
Creators: name: Falkenstein, Martha J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this project was to lay the groundwork for expanding the scope of treatment for trichotillomania (TTM; hair pulling disorder) by focusing on key modalities of pulling behavior and also patients’ contexts, such as interpersonal functioning. The first study of this project aimed to concretize and pilot test the Comprehensive Behavioral Model (ComB), with the ultimate goal of rigorous testing of the efficacy of the model. The ComB treatment manual was drafted and revised based on patient and therapist feedback; an intervention choice study demonstrated that therapists could reliably select interventions consistent with the manual; therapist adherence and competence measures were developed; and a preliminary examination of the efficacy of the treatment was completed. Participants found the ComB treatment highly acceptable, and TTM severity and impairment improved across all measures, with large effects. The second study investigated interpersonal functioning among adults with TTM as another approach to learning more about expanding the scope of treatment for trichotillomania. The objective was to contribute data for future development of components of treatment that focus on interpersonal functioning. This was done through a survey about relationships and related difficulties among people with trichotillomania. Hypotheses were supported that greater TTM severity is associated with lower relationship satisfaction, perceived social support, and greater perceived criticism, perceived risk in intimacy, and social interaction anxiety, though these correlations were small. TTM-by-proxy urges were reported by 54% of participants and 37% of participants reported having actually pulled hair from other people. Higher levels of TTM-by-proxy urges were associated with “focused” pulling and perfectionistic thinking, yet for individuals with current urges, there was no association with greater functional impairment. Approximately one-quarter of survey respondents had not told their closest friend about their trichotillomania, and one-fifth had not told their spouse or long-term romantic partner. Among individuals who reported having asked other people to pull hair for them (7% of sample), there was increased endorsement of “focused” pulling episodes. Researchers should consider these issues in developing treatments, as the need to individualize based on treatment modalities and interpersonal functioning might hold promise for adults with TTM.
Regge calculus from discontinuous metrics
Creators: name: Khatsymovsky, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Regge calculus is considered as a particular case of the more general system where the linklengths of any two neighbouring 4-tetrahedra do not necessarily coincide on their common face. This system is treated as that one described by metric discontinuous on the faces. In the superspace of all discontinuous metrics the Regge calculus metrics form some hypersurface. Quantum theory of the discontinuous metric system is assumed to be fixed somehow in the form of quantum measure on (the space of functionals on) the superspace. The problem of reducing this measure to the Regge hypersurface is addressed. The quantum Regge calculus measure is defined from a discontinuous metric measure by inserting the $δ$-function-like phase factor. The requirement that this reduction would respect natural physical properties (positivity, well-defined continuum limit, absence of lattice artefacts) put rather severe restrictions and allows to define practically uniquely this phase factor.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX
Joint Angular Refinement and Reconstruction for Single-Particle Cryo-EM
Creators: name: Zehni, Mona
name: Donati, Laurène
name: Soubies, Emmanuel
name: Zhao, Zhizhen J.
name: Unser, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstructs the three-dimensional (3D) structure of bio-molecules from a large set of 2D projection images with random and unknown orientations. A crucial step in the single-particle cryo-EM pipeline is 3D refinement, which resolves a high-resolution 3D structure from an initial approximate volume by refining the estimation of the orientation of each projection. In this work, we propose a new approach that refines the projection angles on the continuum. We formulate the optimization problem over the density map and the orientations jointly. The density map is updated using the efficient alternating-direction method of multipliers, while the orientations are updated through a semi-coordinate-wise gradient descent for which we provide an explicit derivation of the gradient. Our method eliminates the requirement for a fine discretization of the orientation space and does away with the classical but computationally expensive template-matching step. Numerical results demonstrate the feasibility and performance of our approach compared to several baselines.
Pittonotus iranicus Platia & Nemeth 2011
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Pittonotus
Pittonotus iranicus

description: Pittonotus iranicus Platia & Nemeth, 2011
(Fig. 6, Map 5)
 Material examined (HMIM). Kordestan province: 2 exs.: Kusalan va Shaho Protected Area, Sarvabad, ca. 1 km W Tefli village, N35°19’ E46°19’, 1300 m, 23.VIII.2017, leg. H. Nasserzadeh (Light trap); 3 exs.: Marivan, Zarivar Wildlife Sanctuary, Tefli valley to Sardush rd., ca. 1 km E Sardush village, N35°32’33.3”, E46°05’01.5”, 1400 m, 22.VIII.2017, leg. H. Nasserzadeh (Light trap).
 Climate types. Sub-humid and Semi-arid, cold to cool winters and warm summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
Additional file 2 of Protocol of a multicentric prospective cohort study for the VALIDation of the IBD-disk instrument for assessing disability in inflammatory bowel diseases: the VALIDate study
Creators: name: C. Le Berre
name: A. Bourreille
name: M. Flamant
name: G. Bouguen
name: L. Siproudhis
name: M. Dewitte
name: N. Dib
name: E. Cesbron-Metivier
name: T. Goronflot
name: M. Hanf
name: P.-A. Gourraud
name: E. Kerdreux
name: A. Poinas
name: C. Trang-Poisson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Annex 2. IBD Disability Index questionnaire (French version).
Role of extracellular DNA in biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Farmer, Jackson
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology

description: Biofilms are communities of bacteria, surrounded by a self-produced extracellular matrix, growing attached to a tissue or surface. The biofilm mode of growth protects bacteria from cell stressors such as antibiotics and desiccation, and is thought to play a role in up to 80% of human infections. The biofilm matrix is composed of polymers such as proteinaceous pili, exopolysaccharides and double-stranded DNA. This study investigated the role of extracellular DNA (eDNA) in biofilms formed by Staphylococcus aureus, an important human pathogen. By using a microtiter plate crystal violet binding assay, agarose gel electrophoresis, and confocal scanning laser microscopy, we found that eDNA plays an important structural and adhesive role in S. aureus biofilms. We further found that DNase is a potent inhibitor of S. aureus biofilm formation and found that many environmental bacteria produce DNases that inhibit S. aureus biofilm formation. The results of these studies confirm that eDNA mediates cell-to-cell interactions in bacterial biofilms and suggest that eDNA warrants further consideration as an antimicrobial drug target.
Additional file 2 of Comparing copy-number profiles under multi-copy amplifications and deletions
Creators: name: Cordonnier, Garance
name: Lafond, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 Supplementary file S33-S2.pdf contains all the additional experimental results.
Safety Standards for Mobile Homes Make a Difference
Creators: name: Hession, John C.
name: Hession, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Construction standards were implemented in 1976 to make mobile homes safer. The standards have made a great difference, based on a comparison of fires in mobile homes constructed before the standards took effect and in those constructed afterwards. Furthermore, the newer mobile homes are much safer than site-built houses in terms of incidence of fires and about as safe in terms of fire-related deaths.
Seiberg-Witten Map for Superfields on Canonically Deformed N=1, d=4 Superspace
Creators: name: Mikulovic, Dzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we construct Seiberg-Witten maps for superfields on canonically deformed N=1, d=4 Minkowski and Euclidean superspace. On Minkowski superspace we show that the Seiberg-Witten map is not compatible with locality, (anti)chirality and supersymmetry at the same time. On Euclidean superspace we show that there exists a local, chiral and supersymmetric Seiberg-Witten map for chiral superfields if we take the noncommutativity parameter to be selfdual, and a local, antichiral and supersymmetric Seiberg-Witten map for antichiral superfields if we take the noncommutativity parameter to be antiselfdual, respectively.
description: 24 pages, LaTeX; typos corrected, two comments added
Role of extracellular DNA in biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Farmer, Jackson
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Biofilms are communities of bacteria, surrounded by a self-produced extracellular matrix, growing attached to a tissue or surface. The biofilm mode of growth protects bacteria from cell stressors such as antibiotics and desiccation, and is thought to play a role in up to 80% of human infections. The biofilm matrix is composed of polymers such as proteinaceous pili, exopolysaccharides and double-stranded DNA. This study investigated the role of extracellular DNA (eDNA) in biofilms formed by Staphylococcus aureus, an important human pathogen. By using a microtiter plate crystal violet binding assay, agarose gel electrophoresis, and confocal scanning laser microscopy, we found that eDNA plays an important structural and adhesive role in S. aureus biofilms. We further found that DNase is a potent inhibitor of S. aureus biofilm formation and found that many environmental bacteria produce DNases that inhibit S. aureus biofilm formation. The results of these studies confirm that eDNA mediates cell-to-cell interactions in bacterial biofilms and suggest that eDNA warrants further consideration as an antimicrobial drug target.
The Effect of Emotion Differentiation and Emotional State on Eating
Creators: name: Jones, Alyssa C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Emotion differentiation, a component of emotional awareness, is the ability to identify and label emotional experiences into discrete categories. The present study examines the influence of emotion differentiation and emotional state, specifically sad versus positive mood, on eating in a laboratory setting. Undergraduate student participants completed a series of questionnaires, including a measure of emotion differentiation, and then underwent a randomly assigned sad or positive mood induction. Afterwards, they participated in a taste test. Food was counted before and after the taste test to determine total caloric intake. Results showed that negative emotion differentiation was significantly associated with overall caloric intake, such that low negative emotion differentiators ate more regardless of mood induction group. Positive emotion differentiation was not associated with caloric intake. A mediation analysis found that difficulties regulating emotions predicted less negative emotion differentiation, which in turn predicted increased caloric intake. The same pattern of results was found for the mediating effect of negative emotion differentiation on the relation between depressive symptoms and caloric intake.
Pauli spin blockade in weakly coupled quantum dots
Creators: name: Fransson, J.
name: Rasander, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a two-level system, constituted by two serially coupled single level quantum dots, coupled to external leads we find that the current is suppressed in one direction of biasing caused by a fully occupied two-electron triplet state in the interacting region. The efficiency of the current suppression is governed by the ratio between the interdot tunnelling rate and the level off-set. In the opposite bias direction, the occupation of the two-electron triplet is lifted which allows a larger current to flow through the system, where the conductance is provided by transitions between one-electron states and two-electron singlet states. Is is also shown that a finite ferromagnetic interdot exchange interaction provides an extended range of the current suppression, while an anti-ferromagnetic exchange leads to a decreased range of the blockade regime.
description: 9 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures (submitted). The model Hamiltonian has been corrected, which gives the correct triplet and singlet configurations for arbitrary exchange interactions. The correction only affects the case with a finite exchange. Accordingly, Sec. IV D has been replaced with a new discussion that is relevant for the correct model. A few new references have been added
Additional file 3 of Protocol of a multicentric prospective cohort study for the VALIDation of the IBD-disk instrument for assessing disability in inflammatory bowel diseases: the VALIDate study
Creators: name: C. Le Berre
name: A. Bourreille
name: M. Flamant
name: G. Bouguen
name: L. Siproudhis
name: M. Dewitte
name: N. Dib
name: E. Cesbron-Metivier
name: T. Goronflot
name: M. Hanf
name: P.-A. Gourraud
name: E. Kerdreux
name: A. Poinas
name: C. Trang-Poisson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Annex 3. The IBD Disk questionnaire and the scoring disk (French version).
Satellite Alignment: III. Satellite Galaxies Spatial Distribution and their Dependence on Redshift with A Novel Galaxy Finder
Creators: name: Tang, Lin
name: Lin, Weipeng
name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After extensively explored, broad agreement between observations and theories has been reached that satellites are preferentially aligned with major axes of their host centrals. There are still some issues unsolved on this topic. In this paper, we present studies on satellite spatial distribution. To fairly compare with observations, we develop a novel galaxy finder and reconstruction algorithm in hydrodynamical simulation, which is based on the projected mock image, taking into account the full consideration of the point spread function, pixel size, surface brightness limit, resolution and redshift dimming effects. With galaxy samples constructed using such an algorithm, the satellite alignment is examined by comparing with observational results. It is found that the observational alignment can be reproduced for red galaxies, which dominate the sample in this study, but not for blue galaxies. Satellites' radial distribution is also investigated. It exhibits that outer satellites within host halos show stronger alignment signal than satellites in the inner regions, especially for red satellites, which is in contrast with previous studies. The disagreement is mainly due to extra galaxies identified by our new galaxy finder, which are mainly located in the inner region of host halos. Our study illustrates that at lower redshift, the alignment strength becomes stronger, while radial distribution curve becomes flatter. This suggests differences in the evolution of the angular distribution between satellites residing in the inner and outer halos, and implies that the post-infall evolution reduces the original alignment signal, that the impact decreases for satellites with later infall times.
description: 15 pages,11 figures and 3 tables; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Anostirus eschscholtzi
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Anostirus
Anostirus eschscholtzi

description: Anostirus eschscholtzi (Faldermann, 1835)
(Fig. 9, Map 5)
 Material examined (HMIM). Azarbaijan-e Sharghi province: 7 exs.: Arasbaran Protected Area, Kaleybar, Asheghlu, Marzrud to Kalan Ranger Station rd., 3 Km W Kalan Ranger Station, N38°46’07.5”, E46°49’35.7”, 2600 m, 25. VI.2015, leg. H. Nasserzadeh.
 Climate types. Semi-arid, cold winters and mild summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227
FARM LABOR AVAILABLE IN AN URBAN CENTER: WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Mayo, Selz C.
name: Hamilton, Horace
name: Mayo, Selz C.
name: Hamilton, Horace
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1943
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The purpose of this report is to indicate the number and characteristics of Negro persons available for farm employment in the town of Washington, North Carolina; also, on the basis of the data obtained, to suggest ways and means of recruiting and utilizing tho available urban Negro workers to the fullest extent on the farms in the immediate area, especially in emergency seasons.
The effective mass and g-factor of the strongly correlated 2-D electron fluid. Evidence for a coupled-valley condensate in the Si system
Creators: name: Dharma-wardana, M. W. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective mass m*, and the Lande g-factor of the uniform 2-D electron fluid (2DEF) are calculated as a function of the spin polarization zeta, and the density parameter r_s, using a non-perturbative analytic approach. Our theory is in good accord with the m*g* data of Zhu et al. for zeta=0 for the GaAs-2DEF, and striking agreement with the data of Shashkin et al for the Si-2DEF. While g* is enhanced in GaAs, m* is enhanced in Si. The latter arises from singlet-pair excitations in the two valleys forming a coupled-valley state occurring at the critical density of ~1.10^{11}$ e/cm^2.
description: New version#4 is the July 2004 published version (Europhysics Letters)
The Effect of Emotion Differentiation and Emotional State on Eating
Creators: name: Jones, Alyssa C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Emotion differentiation, a component of emotional awareness, is the ability to identify and label emotional experiences into discrete categories. The present study examines the influence of emotion differentiation and emotional state, specifically sad versus positive mood, on eating in a laboratory setting. Undergraduate student participants completed a series of questionnaires, including a measure of emotion differentiation, and then underwent a randomly assigned sad or positive mood induction. Afterwards, they participated in a taste test. Food was counted before and after the taste test to determine total caloric intake. Results showed that negative emotion differentiation was significantly associated with overall caloric intake, such that low negative emotion differentiators ate more regardless of mood induction group. Positive emotion differentiation was not associated with caloric intake. A mediation analysis found that difficulties regulating emotions predicted less negative emotion differentiation, which in turn predicted increased caloric intake. The same pattern of results was found for the mediating effect of negative emotion differentiation on the relation between depressive symptoms and caloric intake.
Новые подходы к обеспечению орнитологической безопасности полетов воздушных судов в районе аэродрома
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2025
Subjects: bird management
ornithological support
flight safety
bird strike
aircraft
bird deterrence
борьба с птицами
орнитологическое обеспечение
безопасность полетов
столкновение с птицами
воздушное судно
отпугивание птиц

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 4 (154) 2025
MEDICAL CARE SERVICES IN NORTH CAROLINA: A STATISTICAL AND GRAPHIC SUMMARY
Creators: name: Baver, L.D.
name: Baver, L.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1945
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy
Public Economics

description: PREPARED FOR THE North Carolina Commission on Hospital and Medical Care BY THE Department of Rural Sociology NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION L. D. BAVER, Director State College Station RALEIGH
Additional file 1 of Comparing copy-number profiles under multi-copy amplifications and deletions
Creators: name: Cordonnier, Garance
name: Lafond, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary file S33-S1.pdf contains all the missing proofs.
title: A longitudinal study investigating pupil attitudes towards their school science learning experiences from a gender perspective
Creators: name: Sharp, Gaynor Denise
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2004

description: The research aim was to challenge the belief that girls' access to and performance in science education is no longer problematic based on evidence of the continuing low uptake by girls of science courses post 16 and female participation in science related careers. The research hypothesised that affective factors were influential in this and explored through a longitudinal study how girls and boys experience science in Key Stages 3 and 4. The initial literature review examined research into the relationships between attitudes and gender and the conceptualisation of these constructs. The study drew on this to survey 208 Year 7 and 8 pupils from three community schools about their views of their self-efficacy as science learners, their topic preferences and interest in science. A sub-sample of twenty pupils from each school was interviewed annually through to Year 9 to probe their perceptions of what influenced their experiences and affected their learning. The data revealed that looking for some concept or construct of attitudes to explain science achievement was not productive to understand either achievement or how pupils feel positioned in relation to science. The second phase of the research, based on a social view of learning and knowledge, focused on 20 case studies of a sub-sample of pupils from one school as they studied science in years 10 and 11. Narrative accounts were derived to show how individuals react to common experiences in science and how this impacts their achievements and liking for science and their future engagement with it. This approach provides insights into attitudes as personal responses to lived experiences in school science and a more subtle view of gender mediation that emerges first from individual experiences out to common influences to reveal that there are no simple relationships between achievement, liking for and engagement in science.
WOMEN IMMIGRANT COMMERCIAL CLEANERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH SOCIAL NETWORKS AND FAMILY RELATIONS
Creators: name: Lee, Eunjung
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis helps gain a better understanding of the family and social lives (outside work) of women immigrant service workers, who compose a multiply-marginalized group in terms of their social location in U.S. society. In order to analyze how their everyday lives intersect with multiple axes of social inequalities, I conducted semi-structured interviews with eight women immigrant commercial cleaners in the Washington DC area. This type of employment has been given little academic attention despite the large proportion of women immigrant service workers so employed. Through the participants’ immigrant experiences, this study elaborates on both the women’s autonomy and structural constraints on their agency. Specifically, their limited socio-economic resources seem to have increased a sense of social isolation, and their unequal gender division of household labor further prevents them from joining various social activities. The findings also call for social attention to the urgent need for appropriate childcare options for women workers like the participants in this study.
Selatosomus caucasicus
Creators: name: Nasserzadeh, Hiva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Selatosomus
Selatosomus caucasicus

description: Selatosomus caucasicus (Ménétriés, 1832)
(Map 7)
 Material examined (HMIM). Ardabil province: “ ARDABIL, Heyrân, [N38°25 E48°33], 1600 m, 18.VI.2002, [leg.] Deuve/ Montreuil/Mof./Hâj.”.
 Climate types. Sub-humid, cold winters and mild summers.
description: Published as part of Nasserzadeh, Hiva, 2021, A study of the click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of northwestern Iran with three new species Reitterelater prosternalis sp. n., Melanotus borumandi sp. n. and M. kurdestanicus sp. n., pp. 338-368 in Zootaxa 4941 (3) on page 360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4595227