cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
openEO D20: First versions of three front-end drivers
Creators: name: Dries, Jeroen
name: Mohr, Matthias
name: Lahn, Florian
name: Schramm, Matthias
name: Milenković, Milutin
name: Lippens, Stefaan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable of the openEO project describes the preliminary versions of all front-end drivers, which are currently compatible with the openEO API v1.0.
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title: Mood and modal anchoring in Spanish: de que clauses and relative clauses
Creators: name: Alonso-Ovalle, Luis
name: Menéndez-Benito, Paula
name: Rubinstein, Aynat
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: On a classical analysis (Hintikka, 1969), attitude verbs denote modal operators that take propositions as arguments. Starting with Kratzer 2006, a new decompositional analysis has emerged on which (i) attitude verbs express properties of individuals/events, (ii) modality is introduced at the level of the embedded clause, and (iii) the modal domain is projected from one of the arguments of the embedding predicate (its ‘modal anchor’). Work on mood developed within this new analysis (Kratzer, 2016; Portner and Rubinstein, 2020) assumes that mood morphology is one of the possible sources of modality in the embedded clause. This paper provides novel evidence for the decompositional analysis. The evidence comes from the interpretation of mood morphology within DPs. We show that adnominal clauses and relative clauses in Spanish exhibit systematic interpretational differences. We argue that those differences trace back to the availability of modal anchors in each configuration.
Esca symptoms appearance in Vitis vinifera L.: influence of climate, pedo-climatic conditions and rootstock/cultivar combination
Creators: name: Andreini, L.
name: Cardelli, R.
name: Bartolini, S.
name: Scalabrelli, G.
name: Viti, R.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: This study investigated the appearance of esca symptoms in relation to environmental factors and the rootstock/cultivar combination in an experimental setting between 2004 and 2009. Among the common genotypes showing susceptibility to the esca disease, four cultivars were considered: ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’, ‘Sangiovese’, ‘Trebbiano Toscano’ and ‘Chardonnay’. These cultivars were studied own-rooted and in combination with two rootstocks: Kober 5BB and 1103 Paulsen. The difference in susceptibility of cultivars to esca appeared negatively related to the graft. No clear relation was found between esca appearance and environmental factors. Moreover, an unexpected discordance between esca incidence percentage and mortality rate was observed.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2014): Vitis
Two-Stage Deep Learning Framework for Quality Assessment of Left Atrial Late Gadolinium Enhanced MRI Images
Creators: name: Sultan, K M Arefeen
name: Orkild, Benjamin
name: Morris, Alan
name: Kholmovski, Eugene
name: Bieging, Erik
name: Kwan, Eugene
name: Ranjan, Ravi
name: DiBella, Ed
name: Elhabian, Shireen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate assessment of left atrial fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation relies on high-quality 3D late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) MRI images. However, obtaining such images is challenging due to patient motion, changing breathing patterns, or sub-optimal choice of pulse sequence parameters. Automated assessment of LGE-MRI image diagnostic quality is clinically significant as it would enhance diagnostic accuracy, improve efficiency, ensure standardization, and contributes to better patient outcomes by providing reliable and high-quality LGE-MRI scans for fibrosis quantification and treatment planning. To address this, we propose a two-stage deep-learning approach for automated LGE-MRI image diagnostic quality assessment. The method includes a left atrium detector to focus on relevant regions and a deep network to evaluate diagnostic quality. We explore two training strategies, multi-task learning, and pretraining using contrastive learning, to overcome limited annotated data in medical imaging. Contrastive Learning result shows about $4\%$, and $9\%$ improvement in F1-Score and Specificity compared to Multi-Task learning when there's limited data.
description: Accepted to STACOM 2023. 11 pages, 3 figures
Identification of Flavescence dorée-related phytoplasma infecting grapevines on the isle of Ischia (southern Italy)
Creators: name: Ferretti, L.
name: Gentili, A.
name: Costantini, E.
name: Zoina, A.
name: Cozzolino, L.
name: Spigno, P.
name: Pasquini, G.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Among the grapevine diseases, Flavescence dorée (FD) is considered to be one of the greatest threats for grapevine cultivation throughout Europe. In Italy, where several major outbreaks of FD have occurred in the past, the disease is still mainly restricted to the northern regions and is under mandatory regulation. In 2011 the disease was recorded for the first time in southern Italy, in several vineyards located on the isle of Ischia (Campania). In order to determine the FD-related phytoplasma infecting these grapevines, molecular investigations were carried out on grapevine samples collected from several FD infected vineyards. The 16S rDNA/spacer region and the FD9 non-ribosomal fragment (secY gene) were investigated using a PCR/RFLP based method; a nucleotide sequence analysis of the FD9 amplified fragments was also carried out. The RFLP profiles obtained from all the analyzed samples showed the presence of FD-D phytoplasma type, on both 16S and secY genomic regions. Sequencing of the FD9 fragments showed a 99 % nucleotide sequence identity among the tested isolates and the various FD-D strains retrieved from the NCBI database.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2014): Vitis
Application of non-fluorescent carbon particles as scavengers for heavy metal ions: A waste utilization approach
Creators: name: Patidar, Rajesh
name: Babulal Rebary
name: Hariom Gupta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: In the preparation of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles, formation of non-fluorescent carbon particles (CPs) as waste matter is indispensible. This work is introducing (CPs) as adsorbent for some toxic metal ions in aqueous medium. CPs were characterized and their particle size, surface area, porosity, morphology etc. were compared with their parent material (charcoal). The effects of initial metal ion concentration, contact time and pH on adsorption were undertaken. Adsorption data were evaluated for Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. The adsorption capacity (mg/g) of Ni2+, Pb2+, Zn2+, Co2+, Cd2+ and Cu2+ were 85, 76, 75, 67, 58 and 46, respectively.
RNF4 regulates DNA double-strand break repair in a cell cycle-dependent manner
Creators: name: Ching-Ying Kuo
name: Li, Xu
name: Stark, Jeremy M.
name: Hsiu-Ming Shih
name: Ann, David K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Both RNF4 and KAP1 play critical roles in the response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), but the functional interplay of RNF4 and KAP1 in regulating DNA damage response remains unclear. We have previously demonstrated the recruitment and degradation of KAP1 by RNF4 require the phosphorylation of Ser824 (pS824) and SUMOylation of KAP1. In this report, we show the retention of DSB-induced pS824-KAP1 foci and RNF4 abundance are inversely correlated as cell cycle progresses. Following irradiation, pS824-KAP1 foci predominantly appear in the cyclin A (-) cells, whereas RNF4 level is suppressed in the G0-/G1-phases and then accumulates during S-/G2-phases. Notably, 53BP1 foci, but not BRCA1 foci, co-exist with pS824-KAP1 foci. Depletion of KAP1 yields opposite effect on the dynamics of 53BP1 and BRCA1 loading, favoring homologous recombination repair. In addition, we identify p97 is present in the RNF4-KAP1 interacting complex and the inhibition of p97 renders MCF7 breast cancer cells relatively more sensitive to DNA damage. Collectively, these findings suggest that combined effect of dynamic recruitment of RNF4 to KAP1 regulates the relative occupancy of 53BP1 and BRCA1 at DSB sites to direct DSB repair in a cell cycle-dependent manner.
Computational Modelling of Spinal Control of Larval Zebrafish Swimming Speeds
Creators: name: Topcu, Emine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: computational modelling
larval zebrafish
swimming speed
spinal control
locomotion

description: The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a commonly used animal model for biological study due to its available transgenic lines, fast life cycle, transparency, and relative simplicity. Zebrafish are also a great candidate to study locomotion, as most of the neuronal populations responsible for locomotion in zebrafish are evolutionarily conserved, including in mammals. From very early stages, embryonic and larval zebrafish display a wide range of swim-like behaviour following the neuronal development of their spinal cord. During the larval stages, they display a beat and glide swimming pattern consisting of frequent tail beats at various tail beat frequencies (TBFs) followed by a quiescent period. The literature strongly supports the idea that there are spinal cord speed microcircuits behind these different TBFs. However, the structure and mechanism of operation of these microcircuits are not well understood. Computational models are excellent tools for studying model animals as they enable tests which are not possible with the current experimental techniques. Previously, our lab has created computational models of various forms of swim-like behaviours of embryonic and larval zebrafish, displaying how different cellular populations interact to create the behavioural repository of the early stages of zebrafish development. This study aims to simulate the activation of speed microcircuits that can generate different speeds of the beat and glide swimming of larval stages. Based on the information presented in the literature, I hypothesize that there are speed microcircuits in the larval zebrafish spinal cord that are differentially recruited by the supraspinal regions and generate different tail beat frequencies. Different intrinsic properties, spatial distributions, projection lengths, patterns, and synaptic strengths are the building blocks of these microcircuits. There are currently close to twenty cell subgroups known to be differentially recruited at different swimming speeds. To be able to generate a model handling such complexity, a software tool, SiliFish, was implemented to create and test computational models of spinal control of swimming behaviour easily and quickly. Using SiliFish, a network of 440 cells and more than 8K synapses were created that can generate different ranges of tail beat frequencies, recruiting different cellular groups. The model is able to generate tail beats at different TBFs and replicates several features of spinal circuits observed experimentally, as reported in the literature.
COVID-19 - why multidisciplinary environmental research matters
Creators: name: Brus, Magdalena
name: Petzold, Andreas
name: Puillat, Ingrid
name: Kutsch, Werner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: environmental science
covid-19
corona virus
earth system
research infrastructures
ENVRI community
zoonotic diseases

description: The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak certainly is the most pressing issue our society is facing at the moment. We should redirect all our efforts on combating the spread of the disease, the treatment of already infected patients, and on the research scrambling to understand the disease better and to find a cure or vaccine against it. European Environmental Research Infrastructures organized in the ENVRI cluster cannot assist directly in tackling these burning issues but we can help understanding the environmental conditions which favor the evolution of pandemic, particularly when related to a warming climate, changes in ecosystems or biodiversity losses. This is the ENVRI community statement on the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak crisis. ENVRI community is convinced that the rich data assets provided by environmental Research Infrastructures will be pivotal for better understanding of the functioning of our environment. Because that is where the current and future societal challenges, such as Coronavirus crisis, originate and spread.
Reducing the pH of wine by increasing grape sunlight exposure: a method to mitigate the effects of climate warming
Creators: name: Martinez De Toda, F.
name: Balda, P.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this work was reducing the pH of wine through manipulating grape exposure. Two different training systems (VSP = vertical shoot positioning and free cordon) combined with leaf thinning treatments were performed within a commercial vineyard in order to modify bunch exposition levels to the sunlight radiation during 2010 and 2011 years. Leaf thinning and trellis systems involved significant differences in the pH of wine during the two years: the pH of wine decreased when the bunch exposure was increased in the vineyard. Manipulating grape exposure is a valuable tool in order to modify the pH of wine.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2014): Vitis
Too Good To Be True: performance overestimation in (re)current practices for Human Activity Recognition
Creators: name: Tello, Andrés
name: Degeler, Victoria
name: Lazovik, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today, there are standard and well established procedures within the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) pipeline. However, some of these conventional approaches lead to accuracy overestimation. In particular, sliding windows for data segmentation followed by standard random k-fold cross validation, produce biased results. An analysis of previous literature and present-day studies, surprisingly, shows that these are common approaches in state-of-the-art studies on HAR. It is important to raise awareness in the scientific community about this problem, whose negative effects are being overlooked. Otherwise, publications of biased results lead to papers that report lower accuracies, with correct unbiased methods, harder to publish. Several experiments with different types of datasets and different types of classification models allow us to exhibit the problem and show it persists independently of the method or dataset.
Predictive modelling of magnesium concentration in grapevine petioles as a basis for liming recommendations in vineyard acid soils
Creators: name: Olego, M. A.
name: Garzón, J. E.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Soil acidification is a natural process which can either be accelerated by the activity of plants, animals and humans, but can be controlled through appropriate soil management. The main aim of this work was to develop a predictive modelling of magnesium concentration in grapevine petioles for liming amendment recommendation in vineyard acid soils. One liming material, dolomite, has been added to the soil at three doses: 0.9, 1.8 and 2.7 t CaCO3 ha-1. Magnesium exchangeable content in soil surface and concentrations of this nutrient in petioles of leaf samples were investigated during three years. Exchangeable magnesium in soil tended to increase with increasing dolomite application rate. These increases were significant among all the doses and the control, except for the dose of 0.9. However, only between the highest dose and the control significant differences in magnesium concentration in petioles could be detected. In addition, one linear model has been proposed to make liming recommendations in vineyard acid soils based on petiole magnesium concentrations.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2014): Vitis
Periodic expression of Kv10.1 driven by pRb/E2F1 contributes to G2/M progression of cancer and non-transformed cells
Creators: name: Urrego, Diana
name: Movsisyan, Naira
name: Ufartes, Roser
name: Pardo, Luis A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Progression of cell cycle is associated with changes in K+ channel expression and activity. In this study, we report that Kv10.1, a K+ channel that increases cell proliferation and tumor growth, is regulated at the transcriptional level by the pRb/E2F1 pathway. De-repression of E2F1 by HPV-E7 oncoprotein leads to increased expression of Kv10.1. In proliferating cells, E2F1 transcription factor binds directly to the Kv10.1 promoter during (or close to) G2/M, resulting in transient expression of the channel. Importantly, this happens not only in cancer cells but also in non-transformed cells. Lack of Kv10.1 in both cancer and non-transformed cells resulted in prolonged G2/M phase, as indicated by phosphorylation of Cdk1 (Y15) and sustained pRb hyperphosphorylation. Our results strongly suggest that Kv10.1 expression is coupled to cell cycle progression and facilitates G2/M progression in both healthy and tumor cells.
Waypoint Control of a Quadrotor Carrying a Slung Payload Using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Al Saud, Nourah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics
subject: UAV
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Quadrotor
subject: Slung Load
subject: Waypoint Tracking
subject: Reinforcement Learning
subject: Control
subject: Engineering
subject: Aerial Robotics
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: In recent years, global e-commerce has experienced a significant rise. This surge has spurred a demand for efficient delivery services, specifically in the last-mile segment, which faces considerable challenges. Implementing Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), especially with the slung payload system, offers effective maneuverability and flexibility to address this issue. That being said, controlling a drone with a slung load poses unique challenges such as real-time adaptability and unpredictable dynamics. The objective of this work was to develop an onboard model free Reinforcement Learning (RL) controller capable of achieving precise waypoint tracking for a drone with a slung load while ensuring stability and accuracy in the presence of payload-induced perturbations. A Temporal Difference (TD) RL control algorithm was developed to enable the drone to achieve waypoint tracking capabilities through commanding changes in attitude. This algorithm was trained in simulation using a developed planar model of the drone-payload system. The trained controller was implemented on a prototype quadrotor in an indoor testing environment with an integrated motion capture system in charge of relaying position and velocity data in real time to the aircraft. Waypoint tracking was applied to the quadrotor using two separate RL agents to achieve full control in the horizontal plane. The proposed fully on-board controller was able to lead the aircraft to the desired goal successfully, closely matching simulation results. In both sets of results there was a small steady state error that could be mitigated in the future through step size optimisation along with additional training.
title: Moving beyond Eckardt’s two modes of interpretation
Creators: name: Bary, Corien
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: This paper investigates the difference between free indirect discourse and narrated perception on the basis of Eckardt’s (2014) analysis of free indirect discourse. I argue that certain aspects of Eckardt’s analysis are better equipped to capture the phenomenon of free indirect discourse, while others are better suited to capture the phenomenon of narrated perception. I conclude that to properly deal with both phenomena in their own right, the account needs to be further differentiated.
Evaluation of indexes for the quantitative and objective estimation of grapevine bunch compactness
Creators: name: Tello, J.
name: Ibáñez, J.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Bunch compactness is a key factor on the determination of grape quality. The use of qualitative visual systems for its determination is quite controversial, hindering some studies that require objective and quantitative measures of the trait. Here, eleven indexes published in literature and eight designed in this survey were tested with three different criteria to determine their usefulness for the estimation of bunch compactness. A sample of 110 grape bunches of different morphology, from 11 different varieties, were classified by a panel of 14 judges according to the visual OIV descriptor Nº 204. Besides, a number of measures were taken from the same bunches, which were used for the indexes’ calculations. Several indexes designed here proved to be more suitable to obtain quantitative estimations for this trait in a genetically diverse set of varieties than the indexes previously published. Two of the selected indexes, CI-18 and CI-19, are based on the combination of six metrics from bunches (bunch weight, number of berries per bunch, number of seeds per berry, bunch length, first ramification length and either pedicel length or number of ramifications per bunch, respectively). These two indexes are more suitable for intervarietal studies where obtaining quantitative data is critical. Other selected index (CI-12) is based on two easy-to-measure characteristics of the bunch (weight and length), and it is proposed as a fast estimator of bunch compactness for the viticulture sector.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2014): Vitis
Coherent excitation transport through ring-shaped networks
Creators: name: Perciavalle, Francesco
name: Morsch, Oliver
name: Rossini, Davide
name: Amico, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent quantum transport of matter wave through a ring-shaped circuit attached to leads defines an iconic system in mesoscopic physics that has allowed both to explore fundamental questions in quantum science and to draw important avenues for conceiving devices of practical use.
 Here we study the source-to-drain transport of excitations going through a ring-network, without propagation of matter waves. We model the circuit in terms of a spin system with specific long-range interactions that are relevant for quantum technology, such as Rydberg atoms trapped in optical tweezers or ion traps. Inspired by the logic of rf- and dc-SQUIDs, we consider rings with one and two local energy offsets, or detunings. As a combination of specific phase shifts in going though the localized detunings and as a result of coherent tunneling, we demonstrate how the transport of excitations can be controlled, with a distinctive dependence on the range of interactions.
description: Main text: 9 pages, 4 figures. Appendix: 16 pages, 10 figures
Quantum Oscillation Signatures of Fermi Arcs in Tunnel Magnetoconductance
Creators: name: Chaou, Adam Yanis
name: Dwivedi, Vatsal
name: Breitkreiz, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermi-arc surface states of Weyl semimetals exhibit a unique combination of localization to a surface and connectivity to the bulk Weyl fermions that can move along the localization direction. We predict anomalous quantum-oscillation signatures of Fermi arcs in the tunnel mangetoconductance across an interface between two Weyl semimetals. These oscillations stem from a momentum-space analog of Aharonov-Bohm interference of electrons moving along the interface Fermi arcs, driven by an external magnetic field normal to the interface. The Fermi arcs' connectivity to the bulk enables their characterization via transport normal to the interface, while their localization manifests in a strong field-angle anisotropy of the oscillations. This combination distinguishes these anomalous oscillations from conventional Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and makes them identifiable even in complex oscillation spectra of real materials.
description: 4 + 6 pages
More on the fact that Rastall = GR
Creators: name: Golovnev, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rastall gravity is the same as General Relativity, with a simple algebraic redefinition of what is called the energy-momentum tensor. Despite it having been very clearly explained by M. Visser several years go, there are still many papers claiming big differences between the two formulations of gravitational equations and trying to use them for problems of physics. When going this way, the totally ignored task is to explain why the conserved energy-momentum quantities and the quantities used for other purposes are different from each other. Moreover, when researchers are using the non-conserved energy density and pressure for determining the sound speed, it is just inconsistent with the Rastall gravity. I carefully explain all this, and also show how one could construct a variational principle for producing equations in the Rastall form.
description: 6 pages; minor additions
Is prostate cancer incidence worldwide linked to artificial light at night exposures? Review of earlier findings and analysis of current trends
Creators: name: Rybnikova, Nataliya A.
name: Haim, Abraham
name: Portnov, Boris A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Widespread use of artificial light at night (ALAN) might contribute to the global burden of hormone-dependent cancers. Previous attempts to verify this association in population-level studies have been sparse. Using GLOBOCAN, US-DMSP, and World Bank 2010–2012 databases, we studied the association between ALAN and prostate cancer (PC) incidence in 180 countries worldwide, controlling for several country-level confounders. The PC–ALAN association emerged marginally significant when year-2012 PC age-standardized rate data were compared with ALAN levels (t = 1.886, p < .1); this association was more significant (t > 2.7; p < .01) when only 110 countries with well-maintained cancer registries were analyzed. Along with other variables, ALAN explains up to 79% of PC ASR variability. PC–ALAN association appears to vary regionally, with the greatest deviations in Central Africa, Small Island Developing States, Southeast Asia, and Gulf States.
Predicting oral relative bioavailability of arsenic in soil from in vitro bioaccessibility
Creators: name: Diamond, Gary L.
name: Bradham, Karen D.
name: Brattin, William J.
name: Burgess, Michele
name: Griffin, Susan
name: Hawkins, Cheryl A.
name: Juhasz, Albert L.
name: Klotzbach, Julie M.
name: Nelson, Clay
name: Lowney, Yvette W.
name: Scheckel, Kirk G.
name: Thomas, David J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Several investigations have been conducted to develop in vitro bioaccessibility (IVBA) assays that reliably predict in vivo oral relative bioavailability (RBA) of arsenic (As). This study describes a meta-regression model relating soil As RBA and IVBA that is based upon data combined from previous investigations that examined the relationship between As IVBA and RBA when IVBA was determined using an extraction of soil in 0.4 M glycine at pH 1.5. Data used to develop the model included paired IVBA and RBA estimates for 83 soils from various types of sites such as mining, smelting, and pesticide or herbicide application. The following linear regression model accounted for 87% of the observed variance in RBA (R2 = .87): RBA(%) = 0.79 × IVBA(%) + 3.0. This regression model is more robust than previously reported models because it includes a larger number of soil samples, and also accounts for variability in RBA and IVBA measurements made on samples collected from sites contaminated with different As sources and conducted in different labs that have utilized different experimental models for estimating RBA.
Ophthalmological findings in 74 patients with mitochondrial disease
Creators: name: Zhu, Cheng-Cheng
name: Traboulsi, Elias I.
name: Parikh, Sumit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Mitochondrial disease often manifests with ophthalmologic signs and symptoms. Due to the important role of mitochondria in aerobic metabolism, the eyes are among the more preferentially involved organs. The clinical diagnosis of mitochondrial disease can be facilitated by an improved knowledge of the types and magnitude of their various manifestations. The aim of this study was to describe the ophthalmological manifestations of patients with mitochondrial diseases that are currently not well elucidated. Methods: From a database of patients with verified primary mitochondrial disease (n = 81) who had visited our institution we identified 74 patients who had ophthalmologic examinations. Demographic, clinical, and ophthalmologic data were collected. Institutional review board approval was obtained. Results: A total of 74 patients were identified with Leigh disease, MELAS, MERRF, CPEO, Pearson/Kearns-Sayre syndrome, as well as other mtDNA point mutations, deletions, depletions, and mutations. Overall, 26 of the 74 patients (35%) had one or more ophthalmological abnormalities. Retinal pigmentary changes were present in 12/74 (16%) of patients. Partial or total optic atrophy (OA) was noted in 8/74 (10%) of patients. Decreased extra-ocular movement (EOM) was noted in 6/74 (8%) of patients. Other ophthalmological findings included macular atrophy (2/74), macular dystrophy (1/74), and visual field defects (1/74). Conclusions: Over one-third of our cohort of patients with mitochondrial disorders had ophthalmological manifestations, some of which affected vision significantly. Eye examinations are critical in patients with mitochondrial disease so that complete assessments of the effects of the underlying mutations are uncovered and the appropriate counseling and care are given.
title: Creating absurdity
Creators: name: Beck, Sigrid
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: Christian Morgenstern’s lyrics is well known for being absurd and funny. In this paper, I examine the source of these interpretive effects from a linguistic perspective. I take two of his poems as examples and argue that local ambiguity and proposition level uninterpretability are pivotal points in the texts. From there, pragmatic reinterpretation is needed to create text level meaning. Linguistic analysis is shown to improve our understanding of how the effect of the poems on the reader arises. Conversely, the observed reinterpretation possibilities enrich our understanding of pragmatic resources that a reader or hearer has for the purpose of deriving text interpretation.
title: On lauter so’ne quirks – some amendments to Eckardt 2006: ch. 7
Creators: name: Blümel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: This paper is concerned with the predeterminer lauter in German (cf. Eckardt 2002, 2006) and aims at showing two things: First, the distribution of lauter can be more closely determined if combined with so’n (Hole and Klumpp 2000; Lenerz and Lohnstein 2005; von Heusinger 2012). This possibility suggests that lauter is not a determiner. Secondly, I propose that lauter’s resistance to split topicalization in German is to be found in its syntax: I show that if we adopt the symmetric-Merge approach to the phenomenon by Ott (2012, 2015), not only do the commonly observed facts fall in line, but new ones involving lauter do as well, which prove problematic for a stranding account. Crucially, lauter lacks a pronominal/N-elliptical use implicated in the former analysis.
Effects of internal and external decoherence on the resonant transport and Anderson localization of fermionic particles in the tight-binding chain
Creators: name: Kolovsky, Andrey R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study effects of relaxation/decoherence processes on quantum transport of non-interacting Fermi particles across the tight-binding chain, where we distinguish between relaxation processes in the contacts (external decoherence) and those in the chain (internal decoherence). It is argued that relaxation processes in the contacts can essentially modify the resonant transmission as compared to the Landauer theory. We also address quantum transport in disordered chains. It is shown that external decoherence reduces conductance fluctuations but does not alter the Anderson localization length. This is in strong contrast with the effect of internal decoherence which is found to suppress the Anderson localization.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Impact of Training Bolivian Farmers on Integrated Pest Management and Diffusion of Knowledge to Neighboring Farmers
Creators: name: Jørs, Erik
name: Konradsen, Flemming
name: Huici, Omar
name: Morant, Rafael C.
name: Volk, Julie
name: Lander, Flemming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Teaching farmers integrated pest management (IPM) in farmer field schools (FFS) has led to reduced pesticide use and safer handling. This article evaluates the long-term impact of training farmers on IPM and the diffusion of knowledge from trained farmers to neighboring farmers, a subject of importance to justify training costs and to promote a healthy and sustainable agriculture. Training on IPM of farmers took place from 2002 to 2004 in their villages in La Paz County, Bolivia, whereas dissemination of knowledge from trained farmer to neighboring farmer took place until 2009. To evaluate the impact of the intervention, self-reported knowledge and practice on pesticide handling and IPM among trained farmers (n = 23) and their neighboring farmers (n = 47) were analyzed in a follow-up study and compared in a cross-sectional analysis with a control group of farmers (n = 138) introduced in 2009. Variables were analyzed using χ2 test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Trained farmers improved and performed significantly better in all tested variables than their neighboring farmers, although the latter also improved their performance from 2002 to 2009. Including a control group showed an increasing trend in all variables, with the control farmers having the poorest performance and trained farmers the best. The same was seen in an aggregated variable where trained farmers had a mean score of 16.55 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 15.45–17.65), neighboring farmers a mean score of 11.97 (95% CI: 10.56–13.38), and control farmers a mean score of 9.18 (95% CI: 8.55–9.80). Controlling for age and living altitude did not change these results. Trained farmers and their neighboring farmers improved and maintained knowledge and practice on IPM and pesticide handling. Diffusion of knowledge from trained farmers might explain the better performance of the neighboring farmers compared with the control farmers. Dissemination of knowledge can contribute to justify the cost and convince donors and governments in low-income countries to prioritize farmers training.
title: Form-meaning relationships in the lab and in the mountains
Creators: name: Braun, Bettina
name: Dehé, Nicole
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: We present a brief overview of form-meaning relationships investigated in controlled laboratory experiments and discuss whether and how the results generalize to form-meaning relationships “in the wild”. As a case study for non-laboratory situations, we use mountain hikes, which, like intonation, also involve peaks and slopes. Mountain hikes are exhausting for the hiker and have an influence on breathing and hence speech production. We investigate the prosodic realization of some typical illocution types found on mountain hikes (self-addressed questions, information-seeking questions, surprise questions) in two conditions, in a normal laboratory condition and in a simulated mountain hike condition. The results show no differences across recording conditions in speaking rate. In regard to pitch characteristics, self-addressed questions were produced with a lower f0-range and shallower slope in the lab than in the mountains, while information-seeking questions and surprise questions showed the opposite patterns. These differences are discussed in terms of the prosody-semantic interface and phonetic constraints. We further discuss the larger context, which also plays a pivotal role, and discuss ideas for future research, in the lab and in the mountains.
Modeling Sequences as Star Graphs to Address Over-smoothing in Self-attentive Sequential Recommendation
Creators: name: Peng, Bo
name: Chen, Ziqi
name: Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
name: Ning, Xia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Self-attention (SA) mechanisms have been widely used in developing sequential recommendation (SR) methods, and demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, in this paper, we show that self-attentive SR methods substantially suffer from the over-smoothing issue that item embeddings within a sequence become increasingly similar across attention blocks. As widely demonstrated in the literature, this issue could lead to a loss of information in individual items, and significantly degrade models' scalability and performance. To address the over-smoothing issue, in this paper, we view items within a sequence constituting a star graph and develop a method, denoted as MSSG, for SR. Different from existing self-attentive methods, MSSG introduces an additional internal node to specifically capture the global information within the sequence, and does not require information propagation among items. This design fundamentally addresses the over-smoothing issue and enables MSSG a linear time complexity with respect to the sequence length. We compare MSSG with ten state-of-the-art baseline methods on six public benchmark datasets. Our experimental results demonstrate that MSSG significantly outperforms the baseline methods, with an improvement of as much as 10.10%. Our analysis shows the superior scalability of MSSG over the state-of-the-art self-attentive methods. Our complexity analysis and run-time performance comparison together show that MSSG is both theoretically and practically more efficient than self-attentive methods. Our analysis of the attention weights learned in SA-based methods indicates that on sparse recommendation data, modeling dependencies in all item pairs using the SA mechanism yields limited information gain, and thus, might not benefit the recommendation performance
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.07997
title: The Urdu/Hindi perfective-based future
Creators: name: Butt, Miriam
name: Deo, Ashwini
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: We explore the emergence of the Modern Urdu/Hindi -g- future, which is built historically from a combination of an imperfective-marked main verb and perfective-marked motion verb ‘go’. Given that both verbs are members of the finite tense/aspect subsystem in the linguistic system in which the construction is innovated, we suggest that this construction starts out as a combination of clauses which pragmatically gives rise to a teleological inference. It is this inference that, under certain assumptions, generates future reference.
title: Commonalities of expressives and predicates of personal taste
Creators: name: Csipak, Eva
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistik

description: This paper compares expressives to other speaker-oriented expressions such as predicates of personal taste and compares some of the diagnostics that have been used to identify them. It shows that they share a surprising number of similarities, especially in questions.
Breaking the Silence: Sexual Harassment of Mexican Women Farmworkers
Creators: name: Kim, Nicole Jung-Eun
name: Vásquez, Victoria Breckwich
name: Torres, Elizabeth
name: R. M. Bud Nicola
name: Karr, Catherine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study was to understand Mexican women farmworkers’ perceptions of workplace sexual harassment, its related factors and consequences, and potential points of intervention. This community-based participatory research study conducted focus groups with 20 women farmworkers in rural Washington. Four coders analyzed and gleaned interpretations from verbatim transcripts. Three main themes were identified. It was learned that women farmworkers: (1) frequently experienced both quid pro quo and hostile work environment forms of sexual harassment; (2) faced employment and health consequences due to the harassment; and (3) felt that both individual- and industry-level changes could prevent the harassment. Based on these findings, the authors identified three sets of risk factors contributing to workplace sexual harassment and recommend using a multilevel approach to prevent future harassment in the agriculture industry.
Graph Neural Networks for Pressure Estimation in Water Distribution Systems
Creators: name: Truong, Huy
name: Tello, Andrés
name: Lazovik, Alexander
name: Degeler, Victoria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pressure and flow estimation in Water Distribution Networks (WDN) allows water management companies to optimize their control operations. For many years, mathematical simulation tools have been the most common approach to reconstructing an estimate of the WDN hydraulics. However, pure physics-based simulations involve several challenges, e.g. partially observable data, high uncertainty, and extensive manual configuration. Thus, data-driven approaches have gained traction to overcome such limitations. In this work, we combine physics-based modeling and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), a data-driven approach, to address the pressure estimation problem. First, we propose a new data generation method using a mathematical simulation but not considering temporal patterns and including some control parameters that remain untouched in previous works; this contributes to a more diverse training data. Second, our training strategy relies on random sensor placement making our GNN-based estimation model robust to unexpected sensor location changes. Third, a realistic evaluation protocol considers real temporal patterns and additionally injects the uncertainties intrinsic to real-world scenarios. Finally, a multi-graph pre-training strategy allows the model to be reused for pressure estimation in unseen target WDNs. Our GNN-based model estimates the pressure of a large-scale WDN in The Netherlands with a MAE of 1.94mH$_2$O and a MAPE of 7%, surpassing the performance of previous studies. Likewise, it outperformed previous approaches on other WDN benchmarks, showing a reduction of absolute error up to approximately 52% in the best cases.
description: submitted to Water Resources Research. Huy Truong and Andr\'es Tello contributed equally to this work