cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Proceedings from advanced course for senior academic and management staff in laboratory animal science, Die, July 6-15, 1990
Creators: name: Beynen, Anton
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The subject was restricted to the communication with the general public, often represented by journalists. Initially, it was also stated that we have to approach them with the prerequisite that they are entitled to get the proper information. Some general rules were given, for example be honest, be clear and concise, don’t exaggerate, don’t oversimplify, prepare yourself with answers to common questions and examples of benefits from animals used in biomedical research. Also consider whether or not to seek support from professional public relation staff. When communicating, try to concentrate on a few issues and try to put forward questions yourself. Avoid pure propaganda. A few examples of general statements were given that might be useful: — All humans, livestock and pets are consumers of the results from animal research. — Relatively few animals are used for trivial purposes, e.g. cosmetics. — The development of alternative methods, not using live animals, is stimulated by their relatively lower costs. — Data from animals cannot always be extrapolalated to man, but it reduces the risks. — Give figures and facts on other human use of animals, but don’t use it to justify lab-animal use. — Pictures of severely diseased humans might underline the need for biomedical research. It was recommended that ICLAS addresses editors of journals so as to point out that animals and their environment should be described adequately, and that certain guidelines should be followed concerning the ethical aspects of animal use.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 4 (1990)
5GZORRO_D4.1: Design of Zero Touch Service Management with Security & Trust Solutions
Creators: name: J. M. Jorquera Valero, P. M. Sánchez Sánchez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document details the architecture of a trustworthy and intelligent network slice management mechanism for building secure cross-domain slices and services. Taking Figure 1‑1 as 5GZORRO reference architecture, this report encloses security and trust across multiple domains and cross-domain intelligent network slice & service management.
description: EC approval: 08/10/2021
The influence of 17β-estradiol benzoate on weight and celIularity of rat lymphoid tissue and peripheral blood
Creators: name: Kuhn, Gerhard
name: Hardegg, Wolfgang
name: Trunk, Hermann
name: Noack, Silvia
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The effects of l7β-estradiol benzoate (E2) upon weight and cellularity of thymus, spleen and Ln. iliaci mediales (LLN), peripheral white blood cell parameters as well as T and B lymphocyte distribution were studied in vehicle- and E2-injected, ovariectomized female Lewis rats. The effects seen by E2 administration were a decrease in weight and cellularity of thymus and spleen while LLN weight and cell counts showed no significant differences between the groups. Circulating leukocyte counts exhibited a moderate decrease in Ez-injected animals. On the other side the distribution of pan T, T helper, T cytotoxiC/suppressor and B lymphocytes in the examined organs and peripheral blood was not affected by 17β-estradiol benzoate treatment. In conclusion, the present results suggest that 17B-estradiol benzoate reduces weight and cellularity of thymus and spleen while Lnn. iliaci mediales, peripheral white blood cell counts and the distribution of lymphocyte surface markers of the examined lymphoid tissue were only weakly to moderately influenced by E2 administration to ovariectomized female Lewis rats.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 4 (1990)
Additional file 1 of Does prophylactic antibiotic administration for tooth extraction affect PT-INR in patients taking warfarin?
Creators: name: Iwata, Eiji
name: Tachibana, Akira
name: Kusumoto, Junya
name: Takata, Naoki
name: Hasegawa, Takumi
name: Akashi, Masaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comparison of the patients whose INR value increased and those whose INR value decreased after one week after extraction. Values are expressed as absolute numbers, with the corresponding percentage of the total in parentheses. Some variables are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation in a parametric ratio scale.
5GZORRO_D4.2: Intermediate prototype of Zero Touch Service Mgmt with Security and Trust
Creators: name: Pietro G. Giardina, Juan Brenes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document reports on the intermediate prototypes of the 5GZORRO orchestration and security platforms produced. The prototypes described in this deliverable implement the first working version of the 5GZORRO solutions for advanced management of 5G Service and Slices with high level of security and trust, zero touch automation and intelligent resource selection and optimization. The prototypes are built to be integrated with an enhanced NFV management and orchestration solution (MANO) to provide intra and cross-domain services as well as network slice deployment, strictly coupled with 5G infrastructure management and monitoring functions. The reported prototypes implement specific parts of the 5GZORRO Platform and specifically realise the initial functionalities of: · The Security and Trust Orchestration sub-system · The Intelligent and Automated Slice and Service Management sub-system · The Enhancements to the MANO and Network Slicing sub-systems.
description: EC approval: 26/07/2021
5GZORRO_D4.3: Final prototype of Zero Touch Service Management with Security and Trust
Creators: name: Pietro G. Giardina, Juan Brenes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document reports on the final prototypes of the zero-touch slice and service management solutions, including security and trust orchestration, that have been developed as part of the 5GZORRO platform. These have been carried out in the context of the Work Package (WP) 4, and this document describes the essential features of all the trusted and secure zero-touch slice and service management software components. The implemented prototypes are aligned to the design guidelines reported in previous deliverables (i.e., D4.1 and D4.4) and are the result of continuous development and integration efforts performed by multiple software teams, taking also into account validation feedback collected from WP5 as part of the project use cases integration and KPI assessment. In summary, this document is organized to describe: · The software components that have been implemented inside each one of the three WP4 functional pillars: Security and Trust Orchestration, Intelligent and Automated (zero-touch) Slice and Service Management, and MANO and slicing enhancements. · The main functionalities and software prototype implementation details for each developed component, including the results of functional tests to validate the integration of the various components within the 5GZORRO platform. · References to the major prototype components and the respective source code repositories hosted in the 5GZORRO GitHub available at: https://github.com/5gzorro · Results of validation tests, including functional tests for the various modules and integration tests, to demonstrate the proper functionality of the involved components and their interrelation. · A proposed approach for automated Installation instructions for the presented prototypes, with the identification of deployment profiles and dependencies among the various required 5GZORRO components and modules
description: EC approval: 10/02/2023
Technical note Communication: Case report of alopecia in rats fed a high-fat diet containing fish oil
Creators: name: Van Herck, H
name: Herman, S
name: Beynen, A.C.
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: In a study on the effects of dietary fats on lipid metabolism, male rats were fed semipurified, lowor high-fat diets containing either corn oil or fish oil. Rats fed the high-fat diets showed significantly higher degrees of fur greasiness than rats fed the low-fat diets. The rats fed the high-fat diet rich in fish-oil, but not those fed corn oil, also showed extensive loss of hairs. The diets were in meal form and were offered in stainless steel mangers. that were Visited by the animals. This case report would indicate that rats should be prevented from entering food hoppers when powdered, high-fat diets are used.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 2 (1990)
Case report: Spontaneous staphylococcal arthritis in athymic SPF mice
Creators: name: Wullenweber, M
name: Deerberg, F
name: Lenz, W
name: Adegoke, G.O.
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Six cases of spontaneous purulent arthritis confined to the hock joints in male Han-NMRI-nu/nu mice have been observed in a SPF colony. Bacteriological examination revealed a protein A-positive Staphylococcus aureus belonging to phage group II. results of the histological, bacteriological examinations and the importance of S. aureus of the 3A/3C/55/71 phage complex for small laboratory animal are discussed.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 2 (1990)
An improved technique for the decontamination of barrier units contaminated with Bacillus piliformis strains of rat origin
Creators: name: Hansen, Axel Kornerup
name: Mollegaard-Hansen, Karl—Ejnar
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Desinfection of animal units is normally based on the use of aldehydes as desinfectants. This article describes a technique for desinfection of animal units in which the use of glutaraldehyde is supplemented with the use of heat and peracetic acid. This method is, in contrast to the use of aldehydes alone, effective against spores of Bacillus piliformis of rat origin, which is in accordance with in vitro investigations.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 2 (1990)
Space Research Services Report on Requirements and Specifications
Creators: name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Bordiu, Cristobal
name: Bufano, Filomena
name: Schisano, Eugenio
name: Tudisco, Giuseppe
name: Messineo, Rosario
name: Brandt, Carlos
name: Mantovani, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC
Services
Cloud Computing
Space Research

description: The objective of deliverable D4.2 is to report on final updates of user requirements and specifications accomplished for the software development plan of the Space Research Services latest release. This document reports on Space end-user communities, involved datasets and products and the current status of the Space Services developed according to the requirements, specifications and development plan initially set on deliverable D4.1 and significantly updated thanks to a survey that explored the current practices, needs and expectations of the space community, concerning research aspects related to open science practices, data access and management, data visualization, and data analysis. Results of the survey are detailed in this report.
Additional file 1 of Sharing genomic data from clinical testing with researchers: public survey of expectations of clinical genomic data management in Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Vidgen, Miranda E.
name: Kaladharan, Sid
name: Malacova, Eva
name: Hurst, Cameron
name: Waddell, Nicola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire.
The number of orthogonal conjugations
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a short introduction to anti-linearity, bounds for the number of orthogonal (skew) conjugations are proved. They are saturated if the dimension of the Hilbert space is a power of two. For the other dimensions this is an open problem.
description: The sign of tau_1 has changed in comparison to reference 11
What is laboratory animal science?
Creators: name: Obrink, K.J.
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Laboratory Animal Science (LAS) is an indispensable speciality for all biomedical research. It comprises important factors for the correct conductance of animal experiments. Knowledge and ethical consciousness are the fundamental corner-stones on which LAS should be based. A Clear definition of LAS is furthermore an imperative prerequisite for a proper construction of teaching curricula for all categories of people handling lab animals. Unfortunately many scientists misjudge their own state of knowledge in LAS. It is certainly not sufficient to have a pet dog at home, but even — and maybe for obvious reasons — persons with qualifications as physician or veterinary surgeon do often not realize their ignorance of LAS. This is the reason for the initial device in this paper.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 2 (1990)
Time related Characteristics of cardiac systole, diastole, baroreeeptor activity and inactivity during vagal stimulation and mild haemorrhage in the dog
Creators: name: Hakumäki, Martti O.K.
name: Hartikainen, Juha E.K.
name: Nevalainen, Timo O.
name: Sikanen, Antti E.
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The duration of cardiac systole and diastole in each individual cardiac cycle were measured from aortic pressure curves during vagal stimulation and mild haemorrhage with simultaneous recording of aortic baroreceptor single fibre nerve activity. The duration of cardiac diastole was highly correlated with the duration of cardiac cycle in all the interventions. The correlation coefficient between the duration of cardiac systole and the duration of cardiac cycle was not as high as that between the duration of cardiac cycle and cardiac diastole. A highly linear correlation also existed between the duration of cardiac cycle and the duration of baroreceptor inactivity time. The same was true when the duration of baroreceptor inactivity time was compared with the duration of cardiac diastole. It is concluded that the duration of baroreceptor inactivity time may inform the central nervous system about heart rate.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 1 (1990)
Additional file 2 of Sharing genomic data from clinical testing with researchers: public survey of expectations of clinical genomic data management in Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Vidgen, Miranda E.
name: Kaladharan, Sid
name: Malacova, Eva
name: Hurst, Cameron
name: Waddell, Nicola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Summary tables for statistical analysis of demographic groups.
The effect of local ivermectin treatment on ear mite infestation in a cat breeding colony
Creators: name: Jeneskog, Torgny
name: Falk, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The infestation with Otodectes cynotis in a laboratory cat breeding colony, and its apparently successful elimination after local treatment, is described. Breeding animals and kittens were given three treatments, separated by 8—10 days, of ivermectin locally into their ear canals. Samples from ears taken at various post-treatment intervals did not reveal continuing presence of parasites. Clinical follow-up during 11 months of the breeding animals and nine new litters (34 kittens) gave no indication of remaining mites in the colony.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 1 (1990)
5GZORRO_D5.1: Use case validation plan and testbed design
Creators: name: J. Brenes, G. Carrozzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document presents the validation plan for use cases of the H2020 5GZORRO project, together with the description of the available infrastructure and resources on the 5GZORRO testbeds and the initial setup on the testbeds. The project goal is to design, develop and validate a 5G architecture capable to incorporate zero-touch automation solutions for the orchestration of services and resources, tightly coupled with a multi-stakeholder market of 5G resources. This objective is supported by the 5GZORRO platform, which leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) on top of Data Lake technologies to provide service management automation, easing the overall service management through the identification of usage patterns. The platform also leverages the use of distributed ledger technologies to implement a trust enabled and scalable marketplace for the tracking the resource offers and the associated trust levels and actions. The 5GZORRO platform will be validated in terms of overall functionality and in terms of KPIs using the three reference use cases: Smart Contracts for Ubiquitous Computing/Connectivity, which tests the implementation of DLT-based Smart Contracts and Oracles in support of a trusted Marketplace catalogue of 5G resource offers from multiple providers and stakeholders. Dynamic spectrum allocation, which leverages the Marketplace platform to specifically trade licensed spectrum resources, to configure accordingly the RAN elements of the related network slices and to monitor the associated SLAs for breach verification. Pervasive virtual Content Distribution Network (vCDN) Services, which covers the intelligent selection of resource offers from Marketplace and the subsequent orchestrated provisioning and management of virtual CDN services, relying on the developments of the first two use cases. In particular, the goal is to assess the overall vCDN service scalability in cases of different resource demands to preserve the required SLAs.
description: EC approval: 26/07/2021
Field sources in a Lorentz symmetry breaking scenario with a single background vector
Creators: name: Borges, L. H. C.
name: Barone, F. A.
name: Helayel-Neto, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to investigating the interactions between stationary sources of the electromagnetic field, in a model which exhibits explicit Lorentz-symmetry breaking due to the presence of a single background vector. We focus on physical phenomena that emerge from this kind of breaking and which have no counterpart in Maxwell Electrodynamics.
The red patas monkey (Erythrocebus paras): An analysis of pathological changes and organ/body weight data in laboratory animals in a 12 year period
Creators: name: Lansdown, A.B.G.
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The histopathology and body and organ weights have been evaluated for 76 adult red patas monkeys used as controls in routine short term toxicity studies. Body and organ weights varied considerably, males weighting 2.45—7.7 kg and females 2.65—4.80 kg. Absolute organ weights did not exhibit a clear graphical relationship to body weight, although brain weight did show an exponential relationship when its weight relative to body weight was plotted against body weight. Neoplastic changes were not seen in any male or female animal. Common lesions included sialodacroadenitis, sub-acute thyroiditis, chronic respiratory disease, interstitial nephritis and cystitis. Pulmonary and intestinal nematode infections were present in ten animals. It is concluded that the range of lesions identified resemble those present in many other species of laboratory animal maintained under conventional laboratory conditlons.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 1 (1990)
Additional file 1 of Changing malaria fever test positivity among paediatric admissions to Tororo district hospital, Uganda 2012–2019
Creators: name: Mpimbaza, Arthur
name: Asadu Sserwanga
name: Rutazaana, Damian
name: Kapisi, James
name: Walemwa, Richard
name: Laurissa Suiyanka
name: Kyalo, David
name: Kamya, Moses
name: Opigo, Jimmy
name: Snow, Robert W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of key indicators among hospitalized children at Tororo hospital: 2012 to 2019.
Theory of macroscopic quantum tunneling with Josephson-Leggett collective excitations in multi-band superconducting Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Asai, Hidehiro
name: Ota, Yukihiro
name: Kawabata, Shiro
name: Machida, Masahiko
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collective excitations reveal fundamental properties and potential applications of superconducting states. We theoretically study macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in a Josephson junction composed of multi-band superconductors, focusing on a phase mode induced by inter-band fluctuations: the Josephson-Leggett (JL) collective excitation mode. Using the imaginary-time path-integral method, we derive a formula for the MQT escape rate for low-temperature switching events. We clarify that the JL mode has two major effects on the MQT: (i) the zero-point fluctuations enhance the escape rate, and (ii) the quantum dissipation induced by the couplings to the gauge-invariant phase difference suppresses the quantum tunneling. We show that the enhancement exceeds the suppression for a wide range of junction parameters. This enhancement originates from the single-mode interaction between the tunneling variable and the inter-band fluctuations.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Analysis of animal serum proteins using antisera against human analogous proteins
Creators: name: Hau, J
name: Nilsson, Marianne
name: Skovgaard-Jensen, H-J
name: De Souza, A
name: Eriksen, E
name: Wandall, Lene Tina
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: In the present rocket immunoelectrophoretic analysis commercially available antisera against human serum proteins were screened for their usability in the analysis of analogous proteins in a number of animal species. The result appears as a table which demonstrates to what extent antibodies raised against a human protein can be used in the quantitative and/or qualitative study of an analogous animal protein.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 1 (1990)
Order-by-disorder and spin-orbital liquids in a distorted Heisenberg-Kitaev model
Creators: name: Sela, Eran
name: Jiang, Hong-Chen
name: Gerlach, Max H.
name: Trebst, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic modeling of spin-orbit entangled $j=1/2$ Mott insulators such as the layered hexagonal Iridates Na$_2$IrO$_3$ and Li$_2$IrO$_3$ has spurred an interest in the physics of Heisenberg-Kitaev models. Here we explore the effect of lattice distortions on the formation of the collective spin-orbital states which include not only conventionally ordered phases but also gapped and gapless spin-orbital liquids. In particular, we demonstrate that in the presence of spatial anisotropies of the exchange couplings conventionally ordered states are formed through an order-by-disorder selection which is not only sensitive to the type of exchange anisotropy but also to the relative strength of the Heisenberg and Kitaev couplings. The spin-orbital liquid phases of the Kitaev limit -- a gapless phase in the vicinity of spatially isotropic couplings and a gapped Z$_2$ phase for a dominant spatial anisotropy of the exchange couplings -- show vastly different sensitivities to the inclusion of a Heisenberg exchange. While the gapless phase is remarkably stable, the gapped Z$_2$ phase quickly breaks down in what might be a rather unconventional phase transition driven by the simultaneous condensation of its elementary excitations.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures
Additional file 1 of Interpersonal relationships and drug use over time among homeless people: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Espíndola, Marília Ignácio De
name: Bedendo, André
name: Eroy Aparecida Da Silva
name: Noto, Ana Regina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Guideline to the Construction of Timeline.
5GZORRO_D5.2: Intermediate Validation Results
Creators: name: Javier Fernandez, Carlos Herranz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document presents the intermediate validation results for the use cases of the H2020 5GZORRO project. In addition, it describes the available infrastructure and the initial setup on the 5GZORRO testbeds (i.e., 5GBarcelona and 5TONIC). The 5GZORRO platform is validated in terms of overall functionality and KPIs using three reference use cases: 1. Use Case 1 (UC1): Smart Contracts for Ubiquitous Computing/Connectivity, testing the DLT-based Smart Contracts and Oracles application in order to support a trusted Marketplace catalogue of 5G resource offers from many providers and stakeholders. 2. Use Case 2 (UC2): Dynamic spectrum allocation, which utilizes the Marketplace platform to trade licensed spectrum resources, configure the RAN elements of the relevant network slices accordingly, and monitor associated SLAs for breach verification. 3. Use Case 3 (UC3): Pervasive virtual Content Distribution Network (vCDN) Services, which covers the smart selection of resource offers from the Marketplace and the subsequent orchestrated provisioning and management of virtual CDN services, based on the developments of the first two use cases. Specifically, the goal is to evaluate the overall scalability of the vCDN service, in cases of different resource requirements, in order to maintain the required SLAs. The document describes the details of the 5GBarcelona and 5TONIC testbeds that were used to validate the presented use case scenarios. These details refer to the actual components that are in use in the testbeds for 5GZORRO’s purposes as well as the setup and configurations made in order to support the ongoing tests. Moreover, this deliverable contains results of the first tests executed for the three use cases with the intermediate release of the 5GZORRO platform components.
description: EC approval: 10/02/2023
BREAST SELF EXAMINATION PRACTICE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG WOMEN SEEKING CARE IN PUBLIC HEALTH CENTERS OF ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 2016.
Creators: name: SALWA AMAN (BSc)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women of developed and developing countries. Among the screening methods, breast self-examination is the physical examination of the women’s breasts that is conducted by oneself that is easy, safe and requires no cost or specific equipment. However, in resource limited countries like Ethiopia, the figure appears to be much less. Therefore, Breast self-examination should be encouraged as early detection means of breast cancer in order to avert the related morbidities and mortalities.

Objective: To assess the practice of Breast self-examination and its associated factors among women seeking care in public health centers of Addis Ababa.
The algebraic and geometric classification of transposed Poisson algebras
Creators: name: Beites, Patrícia Damas
name: Ouaridi, Amir Fernández
name: Kaygorodov, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The algebraic and geometric classification of all complex $3$-dimensional transposed Poisson algebras is obtained. Also, we discuss strong special $3$-dimensional transposed Poisson algebras.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.00281
Theory of single-shot phase contrast imaging in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Ilo-Okeke, Ebubechukwu O.
name: Byrnes, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a theoretical framework for single-shot phase contrast imaging (PCI) measurements of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Our model allows for the simple calculation of the quantum backaction resulting from the measurement, and the amount of information that is read out. We find that there is an optimum time $ Gτ\sim 1/N $ for the light-matter interaction ($G $ is the ac Stark shift frequency, $ N $ is the number of particles in the BEC), where the maximum amount of information can be read out from the BEC. A universal information-disturbance tradeoff law $ ε_F ε_G \propto 1/N^2 $ is found where $ ε_F $ is the amount of backaction and $ ε_G $ is the estimation error. The PCI measurement can also be found to be a direct probe of the quantum fluctuations of the BEC, via the noise of the PCI signal.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Failure to replicate? Exacerbated 8-OH-DPAT-induced hypothermia could not be established in single housed mice when tested as part of a battery of depression tests
Creators: name: Skriver, HW
name: Kjær, MR
name: Sørensen, DB
name: Kalliokoski, O
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: We have previously described a depressive phenotype in male mice stemming from three weeks’ single housing, demonstrated as an exacerbated transient hypothermia following a challenge with the serotonin (5-HT) receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT. In an attempt to flesh out the phenotype, we carried out a battery of tests used to assess depressive states on C57BL/6 mice of both sexes. When combining the 8-OH-DPAT challenge with the tail-suspension test, an open field test, a sucrose preference test, and blood samplings for measuring serum levels of oxytocin, we could find no clear evidence of depressive states in the single housed animals. The fact that we could not replicate our previous findings is puzzling; however, we suspect that the stressful nature of the test battery may have been detrimental to the model. These negative findings and their implications may prove of significant importance moving forward with studying natural models of depression.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 45 (2019)
The effect of cage ventilation rate on the health of mice housed in Individually Ventilated Cages
Creators: name: Wang, Xiwei
name: Zhang, Yuanyuan
name: Lu, Taofeng
name: Qi, Jiancheng
name: Liu, Huairan
name: Jin, Zhimin
name: Chen, Hongyan
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The number of air changes per hour (ACH), an important index for individually ventilated cages (IVC), strongly affects the cage microenvironment and the health of laboratory animals. The objective of this study was to determine whether high or low cage ventilation adversely affects the health of mice housed in IVC systems and to identify cage ventilation rates suitable for the welfare of mice. We tested three different cage ventilation rates (40, 60, and 80 ACH) for 3 weeks in an IVC system. The temperature, relative humidity and ammonia concentrations in the cages were measured daily. The indices used to assess mouse health at specific time points throughout the study were body weight, stress hormones, T lymphocyte subsets (CD4 and CD8), immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM and IgA) and immune cells. There were no significant differences in body weight, growth hormones, immunoglobulin and T lymphocyte subsets in the IVC groups compared with the control group. The concentrations of corticosterone and epinephrine on day 7 of cage ventilation at 80 ACH were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). Mice housed in 80 ACH cages had the lowest immune cell counts among all groups, and the numbers of lymphocytes and neutrophils were significantly lower than those in the control group (P < 0.05). In summary, cage ventilation at 60 ACH provided an optimum cage microenvironment for mouse health and welfare.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 45 (2019)
Craniella wolfi Schuster, Cárdenas, Pisera, Pomponi, Kelly, Wörheide & Erpenbeck, 2018, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Schuster, Astrid
name: Cárdenas, Paco
name: Pisera, Andrzej
name: Pomponi, Shirley A.
name: Kelly, Michelle
name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Erpenbeck, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Tetillidae
Craniella
Craniella wolfi

description: CRANIELLA WOLFI SP. NOV.
(FIG. 14)
Diagnosis: Craniella with worm-like long (62–91 µ m) sigmaspires.
Type material: Holotype: HBOM 003:02004, Coll. JSL-I dive 3909 [20 October 1995, Galápagos, S. Coast, approx. 5 NM NE of Wolf Island, 1°21 ′ 28 ″ N, 91°48 ′ 41 ″ W, 355 m].
Type locality: Wolf Island, Galápagos Islands (355 m) (Fig. 1).
Distribution: Only known from type locality.
Habitat: Attached to hard substratum, 355 m.
Description: Morphology, globular small hispid sponge with small apical oscule and 1-mm-thick cortex (Fig. 14A, B). Dimension of the holotype is 3 cm in diameter and about 4–5 cm high (Fig. 14A, B). Texture, soft. Surface, conulose and hispid. Colour, white in vivo (Fig. 14A) and light brown in ethanol (Fig. 14B). Ectosomal skeleton contains bundles of oxeas with few protriaenes sticking out of these bundles. No anatriaenes detected. Choanosomal skeleton contains oxeas (Fig. 14C, D) and abandoned uncoiled sigmaspires. Megascleres are thick oxeas measuring 134– 356 –627 × 8– 15 –25 µm (N30) (Fig. 14C, D). Protriaenes, equal clads measuring 121– 150 –177 µ m (N11) and rhabdome 3380– 4864 – 5640 × 19– 27 –30 µ m (N11). Anatriaenes are not present in our spicule preparations. Microscleres are thin and uncoiled long sigmaspires 62– 79 – 91 × 1–3 µ m (N30) (Fig. 14G).
Etymology: Named after point of origin: Wolf Island (Latin, wolfi).
DNA barcodes: We sequenced COI, 28S (C1-D2) and 18S (1,670 bp) of the holotype. GenBank accession number: COI KY652825, 28S KY652795, 18S KY652840. SBD record no. 1727.
Remarks: The absence of porocalices and the presence of a conspicuous double-layered cortex clearly places this species into the genus Craniella. There are currently 34 valid Craniella species (P. Cárdenas, unpublished results), ten of which have lost their sigmaspires. The remaining 24 species have classical C- or S-shaped sigmaspires 8–30 µ m long; none have these unusually worm-like long (62–91 µ m) sigmaspires. Molecular investigations confirm that C. wolfi sp. nov. is closely related to Craniella aff. zetlandica (ZMBN 85239) from Western Norway (Korsfjord), a topology which is highly supported (PP = 1, BS = 100) (Fig. 5).
description: Published as part of Schuster, Astrid, Cárdenas, Paco, Pisera, Andrzej, Pomponi, Shirley A., Kelly, Michelle, Wörheide, Gert & Erpenbeck, Dirk, 2018, Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands - morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes, pp. 273-303 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 on page 297
An introduction to spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity black holes
Creators: name: Gambini, Rodolfo
name: Pullin, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent developments in the treatment of spherically symmetric black holes in loop quantum gravity. In particular, we discuss an exact solution to the quantum constraints that represents a black hole and is free of singularities. We show that new observables that are not present in the classical theory arise in the quantum theory. We also discuss Hawking radiation by considering the quantization of a scalar field on the quantum spacetime.
description: 4 pages, to appear in Proceedings of CosmoSur II, AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional file 1 of The COVID-19 pandemic preparedness simulation tool: CovidSIM
Creators: name: Schneider, Kristan A.
name: Ngwa, Gideon A.
name: Schwehm, Markus
name: Eichner, Linda
name: Eichner, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Mathematical description of the model
Fractional programming formulation for the vertex coloring problem
Creators: name: Matsui, Tomomi
name: Sukegawa, Noriyoshi
name: Miyauchi, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We devise a new formulation for the vertex coloring problem. Different from other formulations, decision variables are associated with the pairs of vertices. Consequently, colors will be distinguishable. Although the objective function is fractional, it can be replaced by a piece-wise linear convex function. Numerical experiments show that our formulation has significantly good performance for dense graphs.
description: 6 pages, 5 tables
Cryopreservation of genetically modified mouse strains: preserving valuable material, saving resources and reducing animal usage
Creators: name: Moreno-Del Val, Gonzalo
name: Muñoz-Robledano, Patricia
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Russell and Burch proposed the concept of the 3Rs, Replacement, Reduction and Refinement, in 1959 as a basis for ethical standards governing animal experimentation. Despite sincere attempts to implement these practices, increased use of genetically modified animals has created potential challenges to this framework. Specifically, genetically modified animals can be difficult to derive, and are therefore maintained continuously as a colony despite their transient experimental use. As an alternative, the use of embryo or sperm cryopreservation provides a means to efficiently archive strains and eliminate unutilized strains, avoiding the birth and use of animals to maintain them. It also provides substantial reductions to cost and cage occupancy. Surprisingly, recent work by Zeller et al. (2017) indicates that only 56% of professionals working with laboratory animals are aware of cryopreservation as a technique for colony management. This study shows that cryopreservation, within our institution, where the animal facility features a housing capacity of 3,000 cages and 10,000 to 15,000 mice, has allowed us to eliminate efficiently 115 unutilized genetically modified mouse strains during the past five years. This has i) liberated 19% of the animal house capacity, ii) prevented the birth of 21,189 unutilized mice, iii) lead to a saving of 382,800 € for our institution.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 45 (2019)
A ladder of topologically non-trivial non-BPS states
Creators: name: Dorigoni, Daniele
name: Rink, Norman A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple quiver gauge theory with gauge group U(r1) x U(r2) and a Higgs field in the bi-fundamental representation. The back-ground for this theory is a compact Kähler manifold M. For a careful but natural choice of Higgs field potential the second order field equations can be replaced with a set of first order BPS equations. We show that the theory admits two energy gaps: The vacuum is topologically trivial but has finite, non-zero energy and is not a BPS state. The second gap lies between the vacuum and the first BPS state. In this gap we find a ladder of states with non-trivial topology, at equidistant energy levels. We give a semi-explicit construction for such topologically non-trivial non-BPS states.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
Rederivation of transgenic rodent models expressing disease modified tau protein - a report
Creators: name: Valachova, Bernadeta
name: Cubinkova, Veronika
name: Uhrinova, Ivana
name: Brezovakova, Veronika
name: Hanes, Jozef
name: Jadhav, Santosh
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Transgenic animals are used extensively as in vivo experimental systems for modelling human diseases. A prerequisite for obtaining reliable experimental results is that the animal models used are free of defined infectious agents, including those that rarely produce disease, but still can modulate immune responses and alter the phenotype of affected animals. We have recently rederived transgenic rodent models of tauopathy to meet specific-pathogen free health standards for breeding in barrier areas. The surgical implantation of 2- cell embryos in three transgenic rat lines SHR24, SHR72 and W72 resulted in a total of 86 pups, out of which 36 were positive for transgene (42% efficiency). An overall 48 % transgenic efficiency was achieved in two transgenic mice lines R3m/4 and R3m/7 following non-surgical transfer of embryos. Microbiological evaluation, based on sentinel screening and serological examinations, confirmed the SPF status of all rederived strains. Most importantly, all rederived transgenic rodents developed AT8 positive neurofibrillary structures demonstrating high reproducibility of the phenotype. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first on rederivation of transgenic models of human tauopathy.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 45 (2019)
Existence Results for Some Damped Second-Order Volterra Integro-Differential Equations
Creators: name: Diagana, Toka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12H20, 45J05, 43A60, 35L71, 35L10, 37L05

description: In this paper we make a subtle use of operator theory techniques and the well-known Schauder fixed-point principle to establish the existence of pseudo-almost automorphic solutions to some second-order damped integro-differential equations with pseudo-almost automorphic coefficients. In order to illustrate our main results, we will study the existence of pseudo-almost automorphic solutions to a structurally damped plate-like boundary value problem.
description: 20 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1402.5638
Adaptive Umweltmodellierung für kognitive Systeme in offener Welt durch dynamische Konzepte und quantitative Modellbewertung
Creators: name: Kuwertz, Achim Christian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: Umweltmodellierung
quantitative Modellbewertung
probabilistische Informationsverarbeitung
Konzeptlernen
kognitive Systeme
world modeling
quantitative model evaluation
concept learning
probabilistic information processing
cognitive systems

description: In dieser Arbeit wird ein Ansatz zur adaptiven Umweltmodellierung betrachtet. Umweltmodelle für kognitive Systeme enthalten oft vorab definierte Domänenmodelle, die für unvorhergesehene Entitäten unzureichend sein können. Der vorgestellte Ansatz adressiert eine adaptive Erweiterung solcher Modelle unter Beachtung der Relevanz von Modellanpassungen. Grundlage ist eine quantitative Modellbewertung, die die Repräsentationsfähigkeit des Modells bezüglich des beobachteten Umgebungszustands bewertet.
Raychaudhuri Equation in an Anisotropic Universe with Anisotropic Sources
Creators: name: Sharma, Manabendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the fate of the universe with an anisotropic background sourced by anisotropic matter. We see the behaviour of the Raychaudhuri Equation and investigate wheather a congrurence of time like geodesics focus to a point in a universe with Bianchi I background which is dictated by anisotropic sources like cosmic strings, domain walls, magnetic field and lorentz violating magnetic field each separately. Thus, Focussing theorem has been checked both for initially contracting and diverging universe with each of these anisotropic sources.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures
Implementation of improved postoperative care decreases the mortality rate of operated mice after an abundant 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons
Creators: name: Koski, Sini K
name: Leino, Sakari
name: Rannanpää, Saara
name: Salminen, Outi
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: A mouse model of Parkinson’s disease with an abundant lesion of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons can be achieved by stereotactic injection of 6-hydroxydopamine into the medial forebrain bundle. However, postoperative mortality can be excessively high without intensive postoperative care. Here, we show that improvements in stereotactic operations and postoperative care result in significant benefits for both animal well-being and research efficiency. Adopting a wide combination of mostly previously described improvements resulted in a decrease of postoperative mortality from 71% to 14% and an increase in successful abundant dopaminergic lesions from 46% to 81%. The techniques adopted are described in detail. In addition, we describe a simple protocol for gradual preoperative handling which can be utilized to decrease animal stress, aggressive and aversive behaviors, and to facilitate postoperative care and other subsequent handling. We propose that the implementation of these improvements greatly decreases the risk of animal suffering and that the improvements are worth adopting in any research group utilizing abundant 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopaminergic lesions in mice. Suggestions for further improvement are also presented.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 45 (2019)