cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Al-Imari, Mohammed
name: Xiao, Pei
name: Imran, Muhammad Ali
name: Tafazolli, Rahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) as well as other orthogonal multiple access techniques fail to achieve the system capacity limit in the uplink due to the exclusivity in resource allocation. This issue is more prominent when fairness among the users is considered in the system. Current Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) techniques introduce redundancy by coding/spreading to facilitate the users' signals separation at the receiver, which degrade the system spectral efficiency. Hence, in order to achieve higher capacity, more efficient NOMA schemes need to be developed. In this paper, we propose a NOMA scheme for uplink that removes the resource allocation exclusivity and allows more than one user to share the same subcarrier without any coding/spreading redundancy. Joint processing is implemented at the receiver to detect the users' signals. However, to control the receiver complexity, an upper limit on the number of users per subcarrier needs to be imposed. In addition, a novel subcarrier and power allocation algorithm is proposed for the new NOMA scheme that maximizes the users' sum-rate. The link-level performance evaluation has shown that the proposed scheme achieves bit error rate close to the single-user case. Numerical results show that the proposed NOMA scheme can significantly improve the system performance in terms of spectral efficiency and fairness comparing to OFDMA.
description: Presented in the International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS), 2014
The visual system of the blind shark (Brachaelurus waddi)
Creators: name: Seeger, Olivia
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Sharks have evolved over a period of approximately 400 million years. This extensive time frame has resulted in a divergence of shark species that occupy a wide range of environments and exhibit considerable diversity in morphology and behavior. It is likely that this diversity is reflected in the anatomy and physiology of shark visual systems. However, only a very small proportion of extant shark species has been studied in detail and much remains to be discovered about interspecific variation in their visual system. Furthermore, there have been no studies to date that have undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the visual abilities of a single shark species. Blind sharks (Brachaelurus waddi) are a benthic species found in abundance along Australia’s coast and adapt well in captivity, which makes them amenable to an in-depth assessment of their visual system. In this study, the anatomy and physiology of the blind shark’s eye was investigated and the results interpreted within the context of their environment and behavior. Electrophysiological techniques were used to measure the temporal resolution and contrast sensitivity of the eye. The spectral absorption properties of the photoreceptor visual pigments that subserve vision were measured in situ using single cell microspectrophotometry. Spatial resolving power was assessed by measuring the topographic distribution of ganglion cells in wholemounted retinas. When presented with a sinusoidally modulated light stimulus, blind sharks have a maximum critical flicker fusion rate of 22 Hz and a contrast sensitivity threshold of 177.6 (0.56%) at the brightest light intensity. Rods were the only type of photoreceptor identified in the retina. The rods contained a medium-wavelength (‘green’) sensitive visual pigment with a mean max at 501 nm. The topographic distribution of ganglion cells in B. waddi showed a weakly defined, elongated horizontal band or visual streak of higher density in the central-dorsal region of the retina. Based on the mean peak density of ganglion cells in the retina, the estimated spatial resolving power of the eye was 2.36 cycles per degree (cpd).
Fast, precise, and widely tunable frequency control of an optical parametric oscillator referenced to a frequency comb
Creators: name: Prehn, Alexander
name: Glöckner, Rosa
name: Rempe, Gerhard
name: Zeppenfeld, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical frequency combs (OFC) provide a convenient reference for the frequency stabilization of continuous-wave lasers. We demonstrate a frequency control method relying on tracking over a wide range and stabilizing the beat note between the laser and the OFC. The approach combines fast frequency ramps on a millisecond timescale in the entire mode-hop free tuning range of the laser and precise stabilization to single frequencies. We apply it to a commercially available optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and demonstrate tuning over more than 60 GHz with a ramping speed up to 3 GHz/ms. Frequency ramps spanning 15 GHz are performed in less than 10 ms, with the OPO instantly relocked to the OFC after the ramp at any desired frequency. The developed control hardware and software is able to stabilize the OPO to sub-MHz precision and to perform sequences of fast frequency ramps automatically.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Review of Scientific Instruments
Ringed accretion disks: evolution of double toroidal configurations
Creators: name: Pugliese, D.
name: Stuchlík, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate ringed accretion disks constituted by two tori (rings) orbiting on the equatorial plane of a central super-massive Kerr black hole. We discuss the emergence of the instability phases of each ring of the macro-configuration (ringed disk) according to Paczynski violation of mechanical equilibrium. In the full general relativistic treatment, we consider the effects of the geometry of the Kerr spacetimes relevant in the characterization of the evolution of these configurations. The discussion of the rings stability in different spacetimes enables us to identify particular classes of central Kerr attractors in dependence of their dimensionless spin. As a result of this analysis we set constraints of the evolutionary schemes of the ringed disks related to the tori morphology and their rotation relative to the central black hole and to each other. The dynamics of the unstable phases of this system is significant for the high energy phenomena related to accretion onto super-massive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and the extremely energetic phenomena in quasars which could be observable in their X-ray emission.
description: 35 pages, 15 figures multipanels, 1 table. To appear in APJS
Additional file 3: Figure S1. of The function and evolutionary significance of a triplicated Na,K-ATPase gene in a toxin-specialized insect
Creators: name: Lohr, Jennifer
name: Meinzer, Fee
name: Safaa Dalla
name: Renja Romey-GlĂźsing
name: Dobler, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Gene expression stability and ranking of the seven reference genes as calculated by NormFinder. (a) RNAi treatments, (b) different tissue types, (c) different cardiac glycoside treatments. A lower average expression stability M value indicates more stable expression. (PDF 35Â kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0074
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: LaMOP
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0074, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 178 (11 H 80), 82 folios, f. 0074, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Design of $n$- and $p$-type oxide thermoelectrics in LaNiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3(001)$ superlattices exploiting interface polarity
Creators: name: Geisler, Benjamin
name: Blanca-Romero, Ariadna
name: Pentcheva, Rossitza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the structural, electronic, transport, and thermoelectric properties of LaNiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3(001)$ superlattices containing either exclusively $n$- or $p$-type interfaces or coupled interfaces of opposite polarity by using density functional theory calculations with an on-site Coulomb repulsion term. The results show that significant octahedral tilts are induced in the SrTiO$_3$ part of the superlattice. Moreover, the La-Sr distances and Ni-O out-of-plane bond lengths at the interfaces exhibit a distinct variation by about $7\,\%$ with the sign of the electrostatic doping. In contrast to the much studied LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ system, the charge mismatch at the interfaces is exclusively accommodated within the LaNiO$_3$ layers, whereas the interface polarity leads to a band offset and to the formation of an electric field within the coupled superlattice. Features of the electronic structure indicate an orbital-selective quantization of quantum well states. The potential- and confinement-induced multiband splitting results in complex cylindrical Fermi surfaces with a tendency towards nesting that depends on the interface polarity. The analysis of the thermoelectric response reveals a particularly large positive Seebeck coefficient ($135~μ$V/K) and a high figure of merit ($0.35$) for room-temperature cross-plane transport in the $p$-type superlattice that is attributed to the participation of the SrTiO$_3$ valence band. Superlattices with either $n$- or $p$-type interfaces show cross-plane Seebeck coefficients of opposite sign and thus emerge as a platform to construct an oxide-based thermoelectric generator with structurally and electronically compatible $n$- and $p$-type oxide thermoelectrics.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Commitment in learning plans: fostering learner autonomy in the second language classroom and beyond
Creators: name: Schuster, Susann
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Students who feel responsible for their learning can develop into autonomous and therefore successful and confident learners who are equipped for lifelong learning. In the attempt to support secondary students to take responsibility for their learning, the literature proposes the use of learning plans which can be described as written agreements on specific learning goals between students and teachers. However, little research has engaged in assessing whether students can feel committed towards, and as a result, take responsibility for their learning plan. Combining findings from education, educational and organisational psychology, and second language learning, this thesis aims at measuring various forms of commitment that students develop towards their learning plan. Furthermore, it attempts to establish links between student commitment, and other psychological concepts that influence the development of an autonomous learner - student engagement and academic self-efficacy. This thesis further explores a number of socio-economic and background factors that influence students' commitment. Finally, putting emphasis on second language learning, this thesis aims to identify the didactic factors that determine a learning environment of a successful learning plan which promotes learner autonomy. In this endeavour, this thesis proposes a mixed methods approach, consisting of two studies in the Australian secondary education system. Study one represents an empirical, longitudinal approach using student questionnaires. Study two pursues a qualitative approach in the form of student and teacher interviews. The findings support the view that students can develop various forms of commitment towards their learning plan and that it is a concept which appears to be linked to students' engagement and their confidence to take on academic tasks. In addition to that, the learning environment will be described within which learning plans promote controlled learner autonomy.
D7.4 – Communication, dissemination, and  stakeholders engagement interim report, and  user uptake updates
Creators: name: Pittonet, Sara
name: Abergas-Arteza, Julie
name: Mariani, Jacopo
name: Abrusci, Gianfranco
name: Stich, Ivan
name: Sorella, Sandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The document is a direct output of WP7 whose key role in the project is to raise awareness about project results, disseminate major outputs, and engage key stakeholders. The aim of this document is twofold:

It gives an overview of the implementation plan to engage the EU stakeholder community on HPC for stochastic quantum chemical simulations.

It demonstrates the impact generated by the different activities carried out so far, linking them to the main outputs produced by the TREX project.

This report outlines the communication, dissemination and engagement objectives and actions in the period up to March 2022 (M18). The document provides information on how the project has targeted the main target stakeholders through various channels such as the TREX website, social media, events, schools, and workshops. The document also reports on quantitative and qualitative measures demonstrating the impact of the project.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0172r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0172r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0172r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Additional file 2: of The determinants and consequences of adult nursing staff turnover: a systematic review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Halter, Mary
name: Boiko, Olga
name: Pelone, Ferruccio
name: Beighton, Carole
name: Harris, Ruth
name: Gale, Julia
name: Gourlay, Stephen
name: Vari Drennan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Turnover in adult nursing r OVERVIEW: Thematic index of determinants and consequences. (DOCX 22Â kb)
The Stochastic Energy-Casimir Method
Creators: name: Arnaudon, Alexis
name: Ganaba, Nader
name: Holm, Darryl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we extend the energy-Casimir stability method for deterministic Lie-Poisson Hamiltonian systems to provide sufficient conditions for the stability in probability of stochastic dynamical systems with symmetries and multiplicative noise. We illustrate this theory with classical examples of coadjoint motion, including the rigid body, the heavy top and the compressible Euler equation in two dimensions. The main result of this extension is that stable deterministic equilibria remain stable in probability up to a certain stopping time which depends on the amplitude of the noise for finite dimensional systems and on the amplitude the spatial derivative of the noise for infinite dimensional systems.
MPEC 2024-F66 : 2024 FC2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 FC2

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.
title: Transcription du manuscrit de Semur-en-Auxois, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 1, p. 64
Creators: name: Aubert, Eduardo Henrik
name: Brochard, Pierre
name: Aubert, Eduardo Henrik
name: Brochard, Pierre
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris
subject: Semur-en-Auxois
subject: LaMOP

description: Transcription du manuscrit de Semur-en-Auxois, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 1, p. 64

production-software: eScriptorium + Kraken version 3.0.13 (PageXml)
description: Source: https://www.nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.3c8f3203
description: Source: https://www.nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.e905tdea
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
description: Transcription du manuscrit Semur-en-Auxois, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 1
description: Transcription du manuscrit Semur-en-Auxois, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 1
Enzymatic production of soluble bioactive β-1,3-glucans from paramylon
Creators: name: Gissibl, Alexander
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Paramylon is a high-molecular weight unbranched β-1,3-glucan polymer produced by the flagellated microalga Euglena gracilis. Paramylon and other β-1,3-glucans have been reported to have antitumor and immunostimulating activities, making them ideal candidates as nutraceuticals or adjuvants. Their bioactivity can be increased by breaking them down to shorter-chain soluble saccharides by chemical or enzymatic methods. Here, chemical, physical and enzymatic approaches were examined as individual or combined strategies to facilitate the production of soluble bioactive compounds from paramylon. A microwave method was developed for the pretreatment of paramylon granules, which otherwise are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis. The granules were sourced commercially after attempts to produce paramylon in an open pond cultivation proved unsuccessful. The paramylon granules were hydrolysed with a selection of commercially-sourced enzymes and a dye-based assay was devised to assess the efficacy of the hydrolysis. The new microwave pretreatment resulted in improved enzyme accessibility and thereby substantially enhanced the hydrolysis of paramylon granules. The soluble β-1,3-glucans produced with this method were characterised by highperformance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and an immunological assay on mouse macrophages showed that they were bioactive. The pathway for enzymatic degradation of paramylon in E. gracilis was also explored with Escherichia coli cells transformed with an E. gracilis-derived cDNA library. Recombinants were screened for the production of E. gracilis β-1,3-glucanases using an assay which combines fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) with enzyme activity tests in microtiter plates. Both methods were based on the use of the fluorogenic β-glucan analogue fluorescein di-β-D glucopyranoside. However, the identification of new enzymes was prevented probably due to the suboptimal quality of the original cDNA library. In a parallel approach, protein fractions obtained from E. gracilis were analysed using mass spectrometry and a recently published transcriptomic database. Four putative enzymes with a high amino acid sequence similarity to known β-1,3-glucanase sequences were identified based on their translated DNA sequences. One of the corresponding genes was introduced into E. coli and into Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce a recombinant enzyme. Unfortunately, expression levels were too low for reliable enzyme activity assays and further characterisation. Finally, various commercially-available and in-house enzyme preparations were shown to degrade paramylon on a dye-based plate assay. This new source of paramylon-degrading enzymes deserves further characterisation, which unfortunately was outside the time-frame of this project but could form the basis for promising future work
Wigner distributions of quarks for different polarizations
Creators: name: More, Jai
name: Mukherjee, Asmita
name: Nair, Sreeraj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate quark Wigner distributions using the light-front wave functions in a dressed quark model. In this model, a proton target is replaced by a simplified spin-1/2 state, namely a quark dressed with a gluon. We calculate the Wigner distributions for different polarization configuration of quark and the target state in this model.
description: 6 pages, 12 figures. Presented by Jai More at Light Cone 2016, 5-8 September 2016, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0242r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: cartulaire
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0242r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VI, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 190 (11 H 75), 316 folios, f. 0242r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Continuity in adaptation: a history of Rapanui music
Creators: name: Bendrups, Daniell E.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents a history of Rapanui music, and aims to test the hypothesis that traditionalRapanui musical practices have influenced and are manifested in contemporary performances,despite widely held perceptions of cultural loss. The adaptation of introduced musicalinfluences is presented as a continual process by which Rapanui musicians negotiate theirunderstanding of music and the place of music in their society and culture. The emphasis onadaptation provides a frame of reference that circumvents such culturally loaded terms asacculturation, instead allowing for a framework in which perceived ancient and modemmusical practices are viewed side by side and in historical relation to each other. The ethnographic research method for this study included lengthy periods of fieldwork. participant-observation, interviews with Rapanui musicians, and case studies of particular Rapanui songs and ensembles. Most of the fieldwork occurred on Rapanui, but other locations (particularly in Chile) were included during the research process. The theoretical literature pertaining to the field of ethnomusicology has provided the basis upon which the research findings are presented, though resources from adjunct ethnographic fields of research have also been consulted. A further area of theoretical enquiry concerns the social responsibility of the researcher, and reciprocity is presented as an essential component of the research method.
Additional file 1: of A two-month follow-up evaluation testing interventions to limit the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria among Maasai of northern Tanzania
Creators: name: Roulette, Casey
name: Caudell, Mark
name: Roulette, Jennifer
name: Quinlan, Robert
name: Quinlan, Marsha
name: Subbiah, Murugan
name: Call, Douglas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Community-Health Meeting Script, Innovation Use Protocols, and Pictures of the Innovations, Community-Meetings, and Training Sessions. Contains three sections. Includes three parts. Part 1 (Community-Health Meeting Script and Image) includes an example of the script from a community-health meeting and images from a meeting. Part 2 (Pasteurization Protocol and Images) includes protocols (in English) for using the thermometers for pasteurization as well as pictures of a pasteurization training session. Part 3 (Weight-estimation Protocol and Images of Materials and Training) includes protocols for using the weight-estimation material (in Swahili), an image of the dosing chart, and pictures of a weight-estimation training session. (DOCX 874 kb)
A performance study of anomaly detection using entropy method
Creators: name: Waskita, A. A.
name: Suhartanto, H.
name: Handoko, L. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An experiment to study the entropy method for an anomaly detection system has been performed. The study has been conducted using real data generated from the distributed sensor networks at the Intel Berkeley Research Laboratory. The experimental results were compared with the elliptical method and has been analyzed in two dimensional data sets acquired from temperature and humidity sensors across 52 micro controllers. Using the binary classification to determine the upper and lower boundaries for each series of sensors, it has been shown that the entropy method are able to detect more number of out ranging sensor nodes than the elliptical methods. It can be argued that the better result was mainly due to the lack of elliptical approach which is requiring certain correlation between two sensor series, while in the entropy approach each sensor series is treated independently. This is very important in the current case where both sensor series are not correlated each other.
description: Proceeding of the International Conference on Computer, Control, Informatics and its Applications (2017) pp. 137-140
Aroma Profile of Apple Spirits Fermented With non-Saccharomyces Yeasts and Their Dynamic Changes During Maturation
Creators: name: Fejzullahu, Fatjona
name: Ladányi, Márta
name: Kun-Farkas, Gabriella
name: Kun, Szilárd
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Recently, non-Saccharomyces yeasts have gained considerable attention as a novel strategy to enhance the aroma diversity of alcoholic beverages. This study explores the effect of sequential fermentations involving Lachancea thermotolerans and Torulaspora delbrueckii on the aroma profile of apple spirits. Additionally, the influence of time, temperature, and alcohol content on the volatile composition during the maturation of distillates was described. The results revealed that distillates obtained from mixed cultures exhibited improved aroma complexity, primarily due to increased ester production. Torulaspora delbrueckii positively influenced the synthesis of 2-phenethyl acetate, diethyl succinate, and hexyl acetate. Lachancea thermotolerans promoted the formation of ethyl lactate, ethyl myristate, and ethyl phenylacetate while reducing the concentration of higher alcohols. During maturation, changes in aroma constituents were observed. In general, the concentration of the investigated volatile compounds tends to decrease during maturation, with this trend being strongly related to the alcohol content of the distillates. Temperature did not affect the variations of methanol, acetaldehyde, 1-propanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol, cis-2-hexen-1-ol, and diethyl succinate. Regarding esters, increases were observed in the concentration of ethyl octanoate, ethyl myristate, and, under certain circumstances, ethyl acetate and isoamyl acetate. No correlation was found between changes in acetaldehyde and the conditions tested.
RACE AND IMMIGRATION STATUS AS MODERATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY ACCEPTANCE/FAMILY REJECTION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH
Creators: name: Levin, Emma R
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mental health
subject: Sexuality
subject: Public health
subject: depressive symptoms
subject: immigrant status
subject: LGBTQ youth
subject: mental health
subject: race

description: Research consistently demonstrates that LGBTQ+ youth, when compared to non-LGBTQ+ youth, are at significantly greater risk for depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidality as a result of stressors related to belonging to a minority group (Russell & Fish, 2016). Family acceptance is an important protective factor against these negative mental health outcomes, and family rejection has been demonstrated as an important risk factor. Research on LGBTQ+ youth has been criticized for regarding all LGBTQ+ youth as the same and not accounting for the intersection and interaction with other identities such as race or immigrant status. The research questions posed by this study are 1) to what extent do race and immigrant status, separately and combined, moderate the established relationship between family acceptance and depressive symptoms?, and 2) to what extent do race and immigrant status, separately and combined, moderate the established relationship between family rejection and depressive symptoms? Results of the present study show that race significantly moderated the relationship between family acceptance and depression for LGBTQ+ youth, but did not moderate the relationship between family rejection and depression. Immigrant status moderated neither relationship. Three-way interactions with race and immigrant status moderated both the association among family acceptance, family rejection, and depression. Clinical implications and implications for future research are discussed.
Phonetic characterization of a complex coronal system: insights from Punjabi
Creators: name: Hussain, Qandeel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language that has contrastive retroflex and dental series. However, very little is known about the phonetic and phonological properties of the retroflexand dental stops in Pnjabi, and whetherthese are fully contrastive in all word-positions. The aim of this dissertation in therefore to investigate the phonetic properties of the Punjabiretroflex and dental stops across word-positions using temporal and spectral measures. Among the world's languages, stops are the most frequently occurring manner of articulation (Schwartz, Boe, Badin, & Sawallis, 2012). Their acoustic cues in Indo-Aryan languages are yet to be fully investigated. Punjabi has a singleton vs. geminate opposition within the manner class of stops. In this dissertation, I examine the place contrasts only for the singleton retroflex and dental stops. However, I also provide an overview of the singleton vs.geminate opposition to show that the difference between these two classes of stops is one of duration, and not a manner opposition. Firstly, an introduction to the phonemic inventory of Punjabi is provided, followed by the temporal characteristics of the word-medial Punjabi singleton and geminate stops. After that, the contrast between Punjabi singleton retroflex and dental stops is investigated in detail, across word-positions (word-medial, word-initial and word-final positions). Finally, these insights are applied to better understand the nature of loanword adaptation, showing how English alveolar /t/ and Punjabi speakers' productions of source loanword /t/ align with Punjabi native retroflex and dental categories. For this purpose,Australian English (AusE) productions of alveolar stop /t/ and loanword /t/ were compared with native Punjabi retroflex and dental stops. The findings suggest that Punjabi singletons differ from geminates in terms of both consonant duration and the duration of the following vowel. The results also suggest that Punjabi coronal place contrasts are signaled by the complex interaction of temporal and spectral cues. In the loanword study, the loanword /t/ was acoustically more similar to Punjabi retroflex than dental stops. On the other hand, the comparisons of the AusE alveolar /t/ and Punjabi retroflex stop indicate no clear patterns of acoustic similarities. This suggests that AusE /t/ played little role in explaining the adaptation of English alveolar stops as retroflexes in Punjabi. This dissertation will therefore help inform the phonetic and phonological processes underlying coronal contrasts in the native and loanword phonologies of Indo-Aryan languages.The detailed phonetic analyses of Punjabi will also contribute to the growing body of crosslinguistic literature on the phonetics of coronals.
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Effect of oral glycine on the clinical, spirometric and inflammatory status in subjects with cystic fibrosis: a pilot randomized trial
Creators: name: Vargas, Mario
name: Del-Razo-Rodríguez, Rosangela
name: López-García, Amando
name: Lezana-Fernández, José
name: Chávez, Jaime
name: Furuya, María
name: Marín-Santana, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional Baseline Characteristics of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis at their Enrollment in the Study and at the Start of the Placebo or Glycine Periods. (DOC 124 kb)
Can We Find Documents in Web Archives without Knowing their Contents?
Creators: name: Vo, Khoi Duy
name: Tran, Tuan
name: Nguyen, Tu Ngoc
name: Zhu, Xiaofei
name: Nejdl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1

description: Recent advances of preservation technologies have led to an increasing number of Web archive systems and collections. These collections are valuable to explore the past of the Web, but their value can only be uncovered with effective access and exploration mechanisms. Ideal search and rank- ing methods must be robust to the high redundancy and the temporal noise of contents, as well as scalable to the huge amount of data archived. Despite several attempts in Web archive search, facilitating access to Web archive still remains a challenging problem. In this work, we conduct a first analysis on different ranking strategies that exploit evidences from metadata instead of the full content of documents. We perform a first study to compare the usefulness of non-content evidences to Web archive search, where the evidences are mined from the metadata of file headers, links and URL strings only. Based on these findings, we propose a simple yet surprisingly effective learning model that combines multiple evidences to distinguish "good" from "bad" search results. We conduct empirical experiments quantitatively as well as qualitatively to confirm the validity of our proposed method, as a first step towards better ranking in Web archives taking meta- data into account.
description: Published via ACM to Websci 2015
Assessment of Flavor Compounds in Blended Malt Whisky Aged with Acacia, Cedar and Oak Wood Using Liquid Chromatography Hyphenated to Electrospray Ionization and Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS)
Creators: name: Díaz, Daniel A.
name: Byzdra, Aleksander
name: Jensen, Tobias E.
name: Nielsen, Nikoline J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Selected flavor compounds from wood were quantified, with liquid chromatography hyphenated to electrospray ionization and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS), in four samples of base spirit matured with acacia, cedar, virgin oak, and used port wine oak wood cubes and the results were used to describe and differentiate their different wood congener profiles. ESI-MS/MS parameters were optimized in terms of capillary voltage, cone- and desolvation gas flow, source- and desolvation temperature, cone voltage, and collision energy. The method was validated in terms of linearity (R2 > 0.995), limit of detection, limit of quantification, recovery, and repeatability. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that for most compounds there were no significant differences (α = 0.05) between seven to 30 days of aging plus a heat treatment at 40 °C, but wood type did significantly influence the wood congener profile. Principal component analysis discriminated the spirits based on relative amounts of wood congeners extracted, and the chemical profile. Aging with cedar wood led to a less pronounced chemical profile, not very distinct from the base spirit. Aging with acacia and virgin oak wood produced a second chemical profile with relatively higher levels of synapaldehyde, syringaldehyde, scopoletin, and coniferyl aldehyde. Aging with port oak wood produced a third chemical profile with relatively higher levels of 5-HMF, gallic acid, furfural, vanillic acid, and syringic acid.
Nanoparticle Size Distribution Quantification: Results of a SAXS Inter-Laboratory Comparison
Creators: name: Pauw, Brian R.
name: Kästner, Claudia
name: Thünemann, Andreas F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first world-wide inter-laboratory comparison of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) for nanoparticle sizing. The measurands in this comparison are the mean particle radius, the width of the size distribution and the particle concentration. The investigated sample consists of dispersed silver nanoparticles, surrounded by a stabilizing polymeric shell of poly(acrylic acid). The silver cores dominate the X-ray scattering pattern, leading to the determination of their radii size distribution using: i) Glatter's Indirect Fourier Transformation method, ii) classical model fitting using SASfit and iii) a Monte Carlo fitting approach using McSAS. The application of these three methods to the collected datasets produces consistent mean number- and volume-weighted core radii of R$_n$ = 2.76 nm and R$_v$ = 3.20 nm, respectively. The corresponding widths of the log-normal radii distribution of the particles were $σ_n$ = 0.65 nm and $σ_v$ = 0.71 nm. The particle concentration determined using this method was 3.00 $\pm$ 0.38 g/L (4.20 $\pm$ 0.73 $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ mol/L). We show that the results are slightly biased by the choice of data evaluation procedure, but that no substantial differences were found between the results from data measured on a very wide range of instruments: the participating laboratories at synchrotron SAXS beamlines, commercial and home-made instruments were all able to provide data of high quality. Our results demonstrate that SAXS is a qualified method for revealing particle size distributions in the sub-20 nm region (at least), out of reach for most other analytical methods.
description: 6 figures, 21 pages
Additional file 2: Table S1. of The function and evolutionary significance of a triplicated Na,K-ATPase gene in a toxin-specialized insect
Creators: name: Lohr, Jennifer
name: Meinzer, Fee
name: Safaa Dalla
name: Renja Romey-Glüsing
name: Dobler, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Reference gene RT-qPCR primers. E = amplification efficiency, size = size of amplified product. 5’ – 3’ orientation. Table S2. RNAi primer pairs used to knockdown the α1A, α1B and α1C gene copies, as well as the eGFP primers used to create the dsRNA for the positive control. 5’ – 3’ orientation. *UniprotKB number. (DOCX 12 kb)
Integral field spectroscopy of nearby QSOs II. The molecular gas content and condition for star formation
Creators: name: Husemann, B.
name: Davis, T. A.
name: Jahnke, K.
name: Dannerbauer, H.
name: Urrutia, T.
name: Hodge, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present single-dish CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) observations for 14 low-redshift quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). In combination with optical integral field spectroscopy we study how the cold gas content relates to the star formation rate (SFR) and black hole accretion rate. CO(1-0) is detected in 8 of 14 targets and CO(2-1) is detected in 7 out of 11 cases. The majority of disc-dominated QSOs reveal gas fractions and depletion times well matching normal star forming systems. Two gas-rich major mergers show clear starburst signatures with higher than average gas fractions and shorter depletion times. Bulge-dominated QSO hosts are mainly undetected in CO(1-0) which corresponds, on average, to lower gas fractions than in disc-dominated counterparts. Their SFRs however imply shorter than average depletion times and higher star formation efficiencies. Negative QSO feedback through removal of cold gas seems to play a negligible role in our sample. We find a trend between black hole accretion rate and total molecular gas content for disc-dominated QSOs when combined with literature samples. We interpret this as an upper envelope for nuclear activity which is well represented by a scaling relation between the total and circum-nuclear gas reservoir accessible for accretion. Bulge-dominated QSOs significantly differ from that scaling relation and appear uncorrelated with the total molecular gas content. This could be explained either by a more compact gas reservoir, blow out of the gas envelope through outflows, or a different ISM phase composition.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS