cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mapping with Skysat Images
Creators: name: Jacobsen, K.
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus Publications
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Accuracy
subject: Economics
subject: Geometry
subject: Merging images
subject: Satellite orientation
subject: SkySat
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: The very high-resolution space imagery now competes with some functions that were previously solved with aerial images. Several very high-resolution optical satellites with a ground sampling distance (GSD) of 1 m and smaller are currently active. Not all of these satellites take images worldwide. Nevertheless, it is not a problem to obtain up-to-date satellite images with a very high resolution. Mapping projects not only need to consider access and quality, but also cost-effectiveness. Of course, the economic framework conditions are decisive for the decision as to whether space images or very high-resolution satellite images should be used. With a total 21 SkySat satellites, low-cost satellites with very high resolution have changed the economic conditions. To keep costs and weights down, the Skysat satellites were not designed to offer the best direct geo-referencing performance, but this problem can be solved by automatic orientation in relation to existing orthoimages.In North Rhine-Westphalia, the cadastral maps must be checked at regular intervals to ensure that the buildings are complete. A test project examined whether this is possible with SkySat images. The geometric conditions and the image quality with the effective ground resolutions are investigated. Experiences from earlier publications could not be used. First the specific problem had to be solved, the resolution of the SkySat images was improved by lowering the satellite orbit altitude from 500 km to 450 km and by a better super resolution with 0.50 m ground sampling distance for the SkySat Collect orthoimages and in addition Planet improved their generation of Collect images. The required standard deviation of the object details of 4 m was achieved clearly as the effective ground resolution of 0.5 m if the angle of incidence is below 20°.
Up-dated opacities from the Opacity Project
Creators: name: Badnell, N. R.
name: Bautista, M. A.
name: Butler, K.
name: Delahaye, F.
name: Mendoza, C.
name: Palmeri, P.
name: Zeippen, C. J.
name: Seaton, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the code AUTOSTRUCTURE, extensive calculations of inner-shell atomic data have been made for the chemical elements He, C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe and Ni. The results are used to obtain up-dated opacities from the Opacity Project, OP. A number of other improvements on earlier work have also been included. Rosseland-mean opacities from OP are compared with those from OPAL. Differences of 5 to 10% occur. OP gives the `Z-bump', at log(T)=5.2, to be shifted to slightly higher temperatures. The opacities from OP, as functions of temperature and density, are smoother than those from OPAL. Extensive tests show that the numerical accuracy of the OP opacities following integration over frequency mesh and interpolation on temperature-density mesh is better than 1%. Prior to a number of recent investigations which have indicated a need for a downward revision in the solar abundances of oxygen and other elements, there was good agreement between properties of the sun deduced from helioseismology and from stellar evolution models calculated using OPAL opacities. The revisions in abundances destroy that agreement. In a recent paper Bahcall et al argue that the agreement would be restored if opacities for the regions of the sun between 0.7 and 0.4 solar radii were larger than those given by OPAL by about 10%. In the region concerned, the present results from OP do not differ from those of OPAL by more than 2.5%.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS At Press. Revised accepted MS. Results unchanged. Revisions: New info on Data Archives, esp. OPserver. Typos corrected etc
Additional file 3 of Systematic review of patient-oriented interventions to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections
Creators: name: Mortazhejri, Sameh
name: Hong, Patrick Jiho
name: Yu, Ashley M.
name: Hong, Brian Younho
name: Stacey, Dawn
name: R. Sacha Bhatia
name: Grimshaw, Jeremy M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Excluded studies and reasons for exclusion.
Wpływ globalnego kryzysu finansowego na stan amerykańskiego i polskiego rolnictwa
Creators: name: Parlińska, Maria
name: Wielechowski, Michał
name: Parlińska, Maria
name: Wielechowski, Michał
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: global financial crisis
subject: food prices
subject: agricultural products
subject: / globalny kryzys finansowy
subject: ceny żywności
subject: produkty rolne

description: The main objective of the research was to present the impact of global financial crisis on the condition of the U.S. and Polish agriculture. Despite many difficulties these sectors seem to be more resilient to the unfavourable financial phenomena than the other branches of both economies. / Synopsis. Głównym zamierzeniem artykułu było przedstawienie wpływu globalnego kryzysu finansowego na stan amerykańskiego i polskiego rolnictwa. Pomimo występujących trudności sektory te wydają się być bardziej odporne na niekorzystne zjawiska finansowe aniżeli inne gałęzie obydwu gospodarek.
Red Luminescence in H-doped beta-Ga2O3
Creators: name: Huynh, Thanh Tung
name: Chikoidze, Ekaterine
name: Irvine, Curtis P.
name: Zakria, Muhammad
name: Dumont, Yves
name: Teherani, Ferechteh H.
name: Sandana, Eric V.
name: Bove, Philippe
name: Rogers, David J.
name: Phillips, Matthew R.
name: Ton-That, Cuong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of hydrogen incorporation into beta-Ga2O3 thin films have been investigated by chemical, electrical and optical characterization techniques. Hydrogen incorporation was achieved by remote plasma doping without any structural alterations of the film; however, X-ray photoemission reveals major changes in the oxygen chemical environment. Depth-resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) reveals that the near-surface region of the H-doped Ga2O3 film exhibits a distinct red luminescence (RL) band at 1.9 eV. The emergence of the H-related RL band is accompanied by an enhancement in the electrical conductivity of the film by an order of magnitude. Temperature-resolved CL points to the formation of abundant H-related donors with a binding energy of 28 +/- 4 meV. The RL emission is attributed to shallow donor-deep acceptor pair recombination, where the acceptor is a VGa-H complex and the shallow donor is interstitial H. The binding energy of the VGa-H complex, based on our experimental considerations, is consistent with the computational results by Varley et al [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 23, 334212, 2011].
description: 3 figures
Wpływ rozszerzenia UE na sytuację ekonomiczną gospodarstw zajmujących się hodowlą owiec
Creators: name: Rokicki, Tomasz
name: Rokicki, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: integration with European Union
subject: sheep production
subject: lamb meat
subject: / rozszerzenie UE
subject: produkcja owczarska
subject: mięso jagnięce

description: Influence of the Polish integration with the European Union on the economic situation of sheep breeding farms is presented. The research data used in the article were taken from publications by GUS, IERiGŻ-PIB and directly from farms in the Podlasie region. The predominating product from sheep farming in XXI century is meat. Reducing production to meat has caused a drastic reduction of sheep population. Decreasing population of sheep and production of lamb meat have a negative influence on the economic situation sheep farms. The main factors that could improve it are the lamb meat price and payments of a subsidy for sheep breeding from the EU and domestic budget. The cost of fodder has a big influence on profitability. The costs of fertilizers and of the means of chemicals plant protection are included in the costs of own fodder production. A big influence could have a growth of consumption of lamb meat in Poland. For proper organization of internal market farmers must create producers’ groups. / Synopsis. Integracja Polski z Unią Europejską miała duży wpływ na sytuację w rolnictwie, w tym na produkcję owczarską. Zmianom uległy wysokość i formy wsparcia. W okresie kilku lat po integracji ceny jagniąt były na podobnym poziomie, zaś wzrosły znacznie ceny środków do produkcji, takich jak nawozy mineralne i środki ochrony roślin. Opłacalność produkcji owczarskiej obniżyła się, co miało wpływ na pogorszenie się sytuacji ekonomicznej gospodarstw zajmujących się hodowlą owiec. Przyszłość produkcji owczarskiej należy wiązać z wyższym poziomem wsparcia unijnego lub krajowego, a także z promocją mięsa jagnięcego na rynku krajowym.
WDM: 3D Wavelet Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Medical Image Synthesis
Creators: name: Friedrich, Paul
name: Wolleb, Julia
name: Bieder, Florentin
name: Durrer, Alicia
name: Cattin, Philippe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
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: Due to the three-dimensional nature of CT- or MR-scans, generative modeling of medical images is a particularly challenging task. Existing approaches mostly apply patch-wise, slice-wise, or cascaded generation techniques to fit the high-dimensional data into the limited GPU memory. However, these approaches may introduce artifacts and potentially restrict the model's applicability for certain downstream tasks. This work presents WDM, a wavelet-based medical image synthesis framework that applies a diffusion model on wavelet decomposed images. The presented approach is a simple yet effective way of scaling 3D diffusion models to high resolutions and can be trained on a single \SI{40}{\giga\byte} GPU. Experimental results on BraTS and LIDC-IDRI unconditional image generation at a resolution of $128 \times 128 \times 128$ demonstrate state-of-the-art image fidelity (FID) and sample diversity (MS-SSIM) scores compared to recent GANs, Diffusion Models, and Latent Diffusion Models. Our proposed method is the only one capable of generating high-quality images at a resolution of $256 \times 256 \times 256$, outperforming all comparing methods.
description: Accepted at DGM4MICCAI 2024. Project page: https://pfriedri.github.io/wdm-3d-io Code: https://github.com/pfriedri/wdm-3d
Do IMF and World Bank Programs Induce Government Crises? An Empirical Analysis: an empirical analysis
Creators: name: Dreher, Axel
name: Gassebner, Martin
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2008
Subjects: POLITISCHE KRISEN + REGIERUNGSKRISEN (POLITIK)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
POLITICAL CRISES + GOVERNMENT CRISES (POLITICS)
International Financial Institutions
Banque Internationale pour la Reconstruction et le Développement
Political Crisis
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Weltbank
INTERNATIONALER WÄHRUNGSFONDS
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 200
Autonomous Sensing and Localization of a Mobile Robot for Multi-Step Additive Manufacturing in Construction
Creators: name: Lachmayer, L.
name: Recker, T.
name: Dielemans, G.
name: Dörfler, K.
name: Raatz, A.
Publisher: name: Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus Publications
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Adaptive Fabrication
subject: Additive Manufacturing
subject: Architecture and Digital Fabrication
subject: Localization
subject: Mobile robotics
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: In contrast to stationary systems, mobile robots have an arbitrarily expandable workspace. As a result, the spatial dimensioning of the task to be mastered plays only a subordinate role and can be scaled as desired. For the construction industry in particular, which requires the handling and production of substantial components, mobile robots mean an unlimited expansion of the workspace based on their mobility levels and thus increased flexibility. The greatest challenge in mobile robotics lies with the discrepancy between the precision required for the task and the achievable positioning accuracy. External localization systems show significant potential for improvement in this respect but, in many cases, require a line of sight between the measurement system and the robot or a time-consuming calibration of markers. Therefore, this article presents an approach for an onboard localization system for use in a multi-step additive manufacturing processes for building construction. While a SLAM algorithm is used for the initial estimation of the robot's base at the work site, in a refined estimation step, the positioning accuracy is enhanced using a 2D-laser-scanner. This 2D-scanner is used to create a 3D point cloud of the 3D-printed component each time after a print job of one segment has been carried out and before continuing a print job from a new location, to enable printing of layers on top of each other with sufficient accuracy over many repositioning manouvres. When the robot returns to a position for print continuation, the initial and the new point clouds are compared using an ICP-algorithm, and the resulting transformation is used to refine the robot's pose estimation relative to the 3D-printed building component. While initial experiments demonstrate the approach's potential, transferring it to large-scale 3D-printed components presents additional challenges, highlighted in this paper.
Studies of "Kapustinsky's" light pulser timing characteristics
Creators: name: Lubsandorzhiev, B. K.
name: Vyatchin, Y. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of studies of a nanosecond light pulser built following J.S.Kapustinsky et al original design and using bright InGaN/GaN ultraviolet and blue LEDs produced by NICHIA CHEMICAL. It is shown how timing characteristics of the pulser depend on the type of LED and the value of power supply voltage.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, to be submitted to NIM A
Additional file 1 of Climate-related migration and population health: social science-oriented dynamic simulation model
Creators: name: Reuveny, Rafael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix. Defining the model variables and parameters by type and alphabetical.
The Role of Media for Consumers' Inflation Expectation Formation
Creators: name: Lamla, Michael J.
name: Lein, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Media bias
MASS COMMUNICATION + MASS MEDIA (SOCIOLOGY)
INFLATION
MASSENKOMMUNIKATION + MASSENMEDIEN (SOZIOLOGIE)
Expectation formation
Monetary policy
Media coverage
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 201
В. В. Розанов и «Русское обозрение»: Журнал в судьбе автора и автор в судьбе журнала
Creators: name: Максим Викторович Медоваров
Publisher: name: Русско-Византийский вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: Василий Розанов
«Русское обозрение»
консерватизм
русская периодическая печать
Лев Тихомиров
Алексей Филиппов
Анатолий Александров
монархизм

description: Статья посвящена рассмотрению истории сотрудничества В. В. Розанова в журнале «Русское обозрение» в 1892–1898 гг. Целью исследования является выяснение роли журнала в становлении Розанова как публициста, а также его места в истории самого «Русского обозрения» при редакторе А. А. Александрове. В результате анализа неопубликованных материалов выявлены причины и особенности сотрудничества Розанова с Александровым. На основе базы данных содержания журнала произведены расчеты, позволяющие определить степень публикационной активности Розанова в «Русском обозрении» по годам и по темам. Рассмотрены его позиции по отношению к русской литературе и критике, к общим вопросам философии, к системе образования в России. Особое внимание уделено эволюции консервативных взглядов Розанова и его отношению к монархии. Продемонстрировано участие Розанова в борьбе за влияние в редакции журнала. Проанализированы причины его отказа принять участие в возрождении «Русского обозрения» А. Ф. Филипповым в 1899–1901 гг. и отхода мыслителя от «журнального консерватизма» как такового.
Assessing the Impact of the ECB’s Monetary Policy on the Stock Markets: A Sectoral View
Creators: name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Montagnoli, Alberto
name: Siliverstovs, Boriss
name: Napolitano, Oreste
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Europäische Zentralbank
MONETARY POLICY
ECB
STOCK EXCHANGES
BÖRSEN
GELDPOLITIK
Monetary policy
Stock markets
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 213
Dilaton-axion modular inflation in supergravity
Creators: name: Frolovsky, Daniel
name: Ketov, Sergei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dilaton and axion are ubiquitous in extended supergravities and closed superstrings. We propose new models of modular inflation in four-dimensional $N=1$ supergravity coupled to the chiral dilaton-axion-goldstino supermultiplet, which fit some necessary conditions of superstring cosmology. The model parameters are tuned to obey precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. We employ the modular-invariant superpotentials and asymptotically modular-invariant Kähler potentials, and achieve axion stabilization with high-scale supersymmetry breaking.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX
Wsparcie finansowe gospodarstw rolnych województwa wielkopolskiego po wejściu Polski do Unii Europejskiej
Creators: name: Stefko, Olga
name: Stefko, Olga
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: financial support
subject: agricultural farms
subject: Wielkopolska Province
subject: / wsparcie finansowe
subject: gospodarstwa rolne
subject: województwo wielkopolskie

description: The article is concentrated on problems connected with the financial support for agricultural farms in Wielkopolska province. Problems of the financial aid from the national and the EU public funds are discussed and some information about the SPO-ROL, PROW 2004-2006 and PROW 2007- 2013 provided. / W artykule ujęto zagadnienia dotyczące wsparcia finansowego gospodarstw rolnych woj. wielkopolskiego. Omówiono pomoc krajową i unijną, z uwzględnieniem takich programów jak SPO- ROL, PROW 2004-2006 i PROW 2007-2013.
Lepton Flavor Violation in a Long Baseline Experiment
Creators: name: Ota, Toshihiko
name: Sato, Joe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the size of a coupling for a lepton flavor violating interaction with neutrinos (nLFV) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with right-handed neutrinos (MSSMRN). It is expected that the nLFV interactions are detected in a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. We here deal with $μ^{-} \to e^{-} \barν_{e} ν_τ$ in $ν_μ \to ν_τ$ channel at a neutrino factory. First, we show the numerical study on feasibility to observe such interaction and point out that we can search for them with some oscillation channels. Next, we make a numerical calculation for the size of the nLFV coupling in the framework of the MSSMRN. A long baseline experiment is sensitive not only to the lepton mixings in the standard model but also to new physics effect.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Neutrino Factory and Superbeams NuFact04, Osaka,Japan, July 26 - August 1, 2004
Factors Leading to Inflation Targeting: The Impact of Adoption
Creators: name: Sturm, Jan-Egbert
name: Samarina, Anna
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013
Subjects: MONETARY POLICY
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Panel probit
INFLATION
WIRTSCHAFTSSTRUKTURÄNDERUNGEN (WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN)
Inflation targeting
WIRTSCHAFTLICHKEITSANALYSE
GELDPOLITIK
ECONOMIC STRUCTURAL CHANGES (ECONOMICS)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 346
The Effect of Policy Uncertainty on Investment Plans: Evidence from the Unexpected Acceptance of a Far-Reaching Referendum in Switzerland
Creators: name: Abberger, Klaus
name: Dibiasi, Andreas
name: Siegenthaler, Michael
name: Sturm, Jan-Egbert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2016
Subjects: INVESTITIONSPLANUNG
SCHWEIZ (MITTELEUROPA). SCHWEIZERISCHE EIDGENOSSENSCHAFT
SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION
INVESTMENT PLANNING
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 406
Additional file 1 of Improving KT tools and products: development and evaluation of a framework for creating optimized, Knowledge-activated Tools (KaT)
Creators: name: Kastner, Monika
name: Makarski, Julie
name: Hayden, Leigh
name: Yonda Lai
name: Chan, Joyce
name: Treister, Victoria
name: Harris, Kegan
name: Munce, Sarah
name: Jayna Holroyd-Leduc
name: Graham, Ian D.
name: Straus, Sharon E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendices.
Ocena wpływu reformy systemu regulacji rynku cukru w Unii Europejskiej na polski przemysł cukrowniczy
Creators: name: Szajner, Piotr
name: Szajner, Piotr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: sugar
subject: sugar industry
subject: CAP reform
subject: market regulation
subject: / cukier
subject: przemysł cukrowniczy
subject: reforma WPR
subject: regulacja rynku

description: An attempt is made of an assessment of the influence of sugar industry regulations in the EU on the Polish sugar industry. The analysis is based on statistical data concerning production and financial results as well as the legal framework concerning the sugar sector. The CAP reform has had both positive and negative influence on the situation in the Polish sugar industry. / Synopsis. Celem analizy była próba oceny wpływu reformy systemu regulacji rynku cukru w UE na sytuację w polskim cukrownictwie. Analizę przeprowadzono w oparciu o dane statystyczne dotyczące sektora cukrowniczego w zakresie wyników produkcyjno-finansowych, z uwzględnieniem ramowych uwarunkowań prawnych. Reforma WPR miała zarówno korzystny jak i negatywny wpływ na sytuację krajowego sektora przemysłu cukrowniczego.
Results on Tau Physics from BaBar
Creators: name: Torrence, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on tau physics from BaBar are reviewed. Limits on lepton-flavor violation in the tau decay process tau->lll are presented based on 91.6 fb^1 of data. In all six decay modes considered, the numbers of events found in data are compatible with the background expectations, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set in the range (1-3) 10^-7 at 90% CL. A preliminary measurement of the five prong branching fraction based on 110.7 fb^-1 of data is presented with the result B(tau- -> 3h- 2h+ nu) = (8.52+/-0.09+/-0.40) 10^-4. A preliminary measurement of the tau lifetime based on 30 fb^-1 of data is presented where a lifetime of 290.8+/-1.5+/-1.6 fs is measured.
description: Talk given at the 32nd International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP'04), Beijing, China, August 2004; 4 pages, 3 figures
Analysis of the Spo0A(257V) MUTANT OF Bacillus subtilis
Creators: name: Turner, Barbara Marion
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In response to a deteriorating environment, Bacillus subtilis cells are capable of several alternate survival strategies including motility, competence development, secretion of proteases and surfactants, and sporulation. Members of the response regulator family of proteins play key roles regulating entry into these alternate states. In the case of sporulation, the master regulator is SpoOA. SpoOA initiates the onset of sporulation by direct or indirect activation or repression of transcription of over 500 genes within the SpoOA regulon. The A257V mutation within SpoOA was previously identified as a mutation which abolishes the ability of B. subtilis cells to sporulate. In vivo, the mutation prevents transcription activation at both the oA-dependent spoIIG operon promoter and the oH-dependent spoIIA operon promoter, yet does not affect the ability of SpoOA to repress transcription at the abrB promoter. In this thesis I investigated the biochemical properties of SpoOA(A257V) to determine how the A257V mutation uncouples transcription activation from repression to lead to a sporulation negative phenotype. I demonstrated that the protein is phosphorylated efficiently by a reconstituted phosphorelay in vitro. I showed that SpoOA(A257V) can both repress transcription and activate oA-dependent transcription in vitm, although at a reduced level compared to wild type SpoOA. I showed that the A257V mutation did not affect the ability of SpoOA to recognize and bind specific sequences within promoter DNA, but rather that the reduction in transcription activation and repression in vitro could be attributed to a modest decrease in the apparent binding affinity of the mutant protein. While the reduction in apparent binding affinity could explain the in vitro results, it did not account for the complete lack of sporulation in spoOA(A257V) B. subtilis cells. Analysis of SpoOA expression in wild type and mutant strains indicated that SpoOA(A257V) expression was decreased as compared to SpoOA. To discriminate between mechanisms controlling the amount of SpoOA in vivo, strains were constructed which overexpressed wild type or mutant SpoOA proteins and used to test activation of oA and oH-dependent promoters in vivo. Results from these experiments were inconclusive; the levels of induced protein may have been insufficient to activate stage II sporulation genes.
Parameter Inference for Weak Lensing using Gaussian Processes and MOPED
Creators: name: Mootoovaloo, Arrykrishna
name: Heavens, Alan F.
name: Jaffe, Andrew H.
name: Leclercq, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a Gaussian Process (GP) emulator for the calculation of a) tomographic weak lensing band-power spectra, and b) coefficients of summary data massively compressed with the MOPED algorithm. In the former case cosmological parameter inference is accelerated by a factor of $\sim 10$-$30$ compared to explicit calls to the Boltzmann solver CLASS when applied to KiDS-450 weak lensing data. Much larger gains will come with future data, where with MOPED compression, the speed up can be up to a factor of $\sim 10^3$ when the common Limber approximation is used. Furthermore, the GP opens up the possibility of dropping the Limber approximation, without which the theoretical calculations may be unfeasibly slow. A potential advantage of GPs is that an error on the emulated function can be computed and this uncertainty incorporated into the likelihood. If speed is of the essence, then the mean of the Gaussian Process can be used and the uncertainty ignored. We compute the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the emulator likelihood and the CLASS likelihood, and on the basis of this and from analysing the uncertainties on the parameters, we find that in this case, the inclusion of the GP uncertainty does not justify the extra computational expense in the test application. For future weak lensing surveys such as Euclid and Legacy Survey of Space and Telescope (LSST), the number of summary statistics will be large, up to $\sim 10^{4}$. The speed of MOPED is determined by the number of parameters, not the number of summary data, so the gains are very large. In the non-Limber case, the speed-up can be a factor of $\sim 10^5$, provided that a fast way to compute the theoretical MOPED coefficients is available. The GP presented here provides such a fast mechanism and enables MOPED to be employed.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures (Accepted for publication in MNRAS)
Investigating the Innate Immune Systems of Bats and Their Roles as Zoonotic Viral Reservoirs
Creators: name: Clayton, Emily
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024
Subjects: virology
Innate Immunity
bats
virus
zoonotic

description: The zoonotic spillover of viral pathogens from wild animal reservoirs into
 human populations remains the leading cause of emerging and re-emerging
 infectious diseases globally. Bats represent important viral reservoirs,
 notorious for the diversity and richness of the viruses they host, several
 of which are highly pathogenic when transmitted to humans. Remarkably,
 bats appear to host an abundance of these viruses without exhibiting any
 clinical signs of disease. A dominant hypothesis for this ability suggests
 that bats can control viral replication early in the innate immune
 response, which acts as the first line of defence against infection.
 However, bat immunology remains fundamentally understudied, largely due to
 their high species diversity and the lack of accessible reagents required
 for bat research. Therefore, in this work we explored and characterised
 key components of bat innate immunity to gain a better understanding of
 bats as viral reservoirs and contribute to the currently limited
 literature.

 Here, we demonstrated the in vitro transcriptomic response of the bat
 model species, Pteropus alecto
 (P.alecto) upon stimulation with the bat henipavirus
 Cedar virus and also with a type III bat interferon (paIFNλ). These
 investigations highlighted key transcripts, some of which were
 immune-related, in the response of bats to the separate stimuli and
 presents a foundation for further research into significant genes
 concerned in bat viral infection. Building from genome-wide
 transcriptomics, three distinctive bat innate immune genes representative
 of different stages of interferon signalling were selected for comparative
 genomics and functional characterisation. Our work demonstrated the
 conservation of genes between bats and humans, including IRF7, IFIT5 and
 IFI35. Specific findings for IRF7 included its successful translocation to
 the cell nucleus upon stimulation. IFIT5 and IFI35 were specifically
 selected for exploration due to previous research demonstrating the
 respective antiviral and conflicting anti- or pro-viral roles of these
 genes in humans. Significantly, our research demonstrated the direct
 antiviral action of P.alecto IFIT5 against
 negative-sense RNA viruses. Collectively, our findings offer valuable
 contributions to the field of bat antiviral immunity and provide the
 framework for future investigative studies into the role and function of
 the bat innate immune system and bat viral tolerance mechanisms.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy and safety of GV1001 in patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s disease already receiving donepezil: a phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial
Creators: name: Koh, Seong-Ho
name: Kwon, Hyuk Sung
name: Choi, Seong Hye
name: Jeong, Jee Hyang
name: Na, Hae Ri
name: Lee, Chan Nyoung
name: Yang, YoungSoon
name: Lee, Ae Young
name: Lee, Jae-Hong
name: Park, Kyung Won
name: Han, Hyun Jeong
name: Kim, Byeong C.
name: Park, Jin Se
name: Lee, Jee-Young
name: Sangjae Kim
name: Kyu-Yong Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Clinical trial protocol.
Rola promocji produktów rolno-spożywczych po akcesji Polski do Unii Europejskiej
Creators: name: Tereszczuk, Mirosława
name: Tereszczuk, Mirosława
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: promotion
subject: agro-food products
subject: promotion campaigns
subject: food producers
subject: / promocja
subject: produkty rolno-spożywcze
subject: kampanie promocyjne
subject: producenci żywności

description: The article shows the role of promotion of agro-food products after Poland’s accession to the European Union. This factor as a source of competitiveness of food producers has not been enough appreciated in Poland yet and the advantages have been neglected. The on going increase of competition between food producers needs intensive promotion and information activities. These activities facilitate establishing of business contacts not only with the domestic clients, but also with foreign traders in food products. They supply to customers the knowledge about food producers and market’s requirements. Without a forceful promotion it is difficult to achieve a superior competitive position in the market. First of all, an increase of competitiveness, and then an increase of sales of agro-food products is the purpose of promotion. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono znaczenie promocji produktów rolno-spożywczych po przystąpieniu Polski do Unii Europejskiej (UE). Ten czynnik jako źródło konkurencyjności producentów żywności jest jeszcze w Polsce mało doceniany i słabo wykorzystywany. Rosnąca konkurencja między producentami żywności wymaga jednak prowadzenia intensywnych działań promocyjnych i informacyjnych. Działania te ułatwiają zawieranie kontaktów handlowych z odbiorcami zarówno krajowymi, jak i zagranicznymi, dostarczają odbiorcom wiedzy o produktach oraz umożliwiają rozszerzenie rynków zbytu. Bez skutecznej promocji trudno jest producentom żywności w dobie postępującej globalizacji osiągać przewagi konkurencyjne na danym rynku.
CPT violation in entangled B0-B0bar states and the demise of flavour tagging
Creators: name: Alvarez, E.
name: Bernabeu, J.
name: Mavromatos, N. E.
name: Nebot, M.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the demise of flavour tagging due to the loss of the particle-antiparticle identity of neutral B-mesons in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlated states. Such a situation occurs in cases where the CPT operator is ill-defined, as happens, for example, in quantum gravity models with induced decoherence in the matter sector. The time evolution of the perturbed B0-B0bar initial state, as produced in B-factories, is sufficient to generate new two-body states. For flavour specific decays at equal times, we discuss two definite tests of the two body entanglement: (i) search for the would-be forbidden B0 B0 and B0bar B0bar states; (ii) deviations from the indistinguishable probability between the permuted states B0bar B0 and B0 B0bar.
description: 12 pages LATEX, one eps figure incorporated
Does Siri Have a Soul? Exploring Voice Assistants Through Shinto Design Fictions
Creators: name: Seymour, William
name: Van Kleek, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It can be difficult to critically reflect on technology that has become part of everyday rituals and routines. To combat this, speculative and fictional approaches have previously been used by HCI to decontextualise the familiar and imagine alternatives. In this work we turn to Japanese Shinto narratives as a way to defamiliarise voice assistants, inspired by the similarities between how assistants appear to 'inhabit' objects similarly to kami. Describing an alternate future where assistant presences live inside objects, this approach foregrounds some of the phenomenological quirks that can otherwise easily become lost. Divorced from the reality of daily life, this approach allows us to reevaluate some of the common interactions and design patterns that are common in the virtual assistants of the present.
description: 11 pages, 2 images. To appear in the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20)
Continuous emission ultrasound: a new paradigm to ultrafast ultrasound imaging
Creators: name: Adam, A.
name: Nicolas, B.
name: Basarab, A.
name: Liebgott, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Current imaging techniques in echography rely on the pulse-echo (PE) paradigm which provides a straight-forward access to the in-depth structure of tissues. They inherently face two major challenges: the limitation of the pulse repetition frequency, directly linked to the imaging framerate, and, due to the emission scheme, their blindness to the phenomena that happen in the medium during the majority of the acquisition time. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new paradigm for ultrasound imaging, denoted by continuous emission ultrasound imaging (CUEI) \cite{CEUIpatent2023}, for a single input single output (SISO) device.
 A continuous insonification of the medium is done by the probe using a coded waveform inspired from the radar and sonar literature. A framework coupling a sliding window approach (SWA) and pulse compression methods processes the recorded echoes to rebuild a motion-mode (M-mode) image from the medium with a high temporal resolution compared to state-of-the-art ultrafast imaging methods.
 A study on realistic simulated data, with regards to the motion of the medium, has been carried out and, achieved results assess an unequivocal improvement of the slow time frequency up to, at least, two orders of magnitude compared to ultrafast US imaging methods. This enhancement leads, therefore, to a ten times improvement in the temporal separability of the imaging system. In addition, it demonstrates the capability of CEUI to catch relatively short and quick events, in comparison to the imaging period of PE methods, at any instant of the acquisition.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering in July 2024
Gravity tests in the solar system and the Pioneer anomaly
Creators: name: Jaekel, Marc-Thierry
name: Reynaud, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build up a new phenomenological framework associated with a minimal generalization of Einsteinian gravitation theory. When linearity, stationarity and isotropy are assumed, tests in the solar system are characterized by two potentials which generalize respectively the Newton potential and the parameter $γ$ of parametrized post-Newtonian formalism. The new framework seems to have the capability to account for the Pioneer anomaly besides other gravity tests.
description: 5 pages. Accepted version, to appear in Modern Physics Letters A
Universal size ratios of Gaussian polymers with complex architecture: Radius of gyration vs hydrodynamic radius
Creators: name: Haydukivska, K.
name: Blavatska, V.
name: Paturej, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present research is dedicated to provide deeper understanding of the impact of complex architecture of branched polymers on their behaviour in solvents. The folding dynamics of macromolecules and hydrodynamics of polymer fluids are strongly dependent on size and shape measures of single macromolecules, which in turn are determined by their topology. For this aim, we use combination of analytical theory, based on path integration method, and molecular dynamics simulations to study structural properties of complex Gaussian polymers containing $f^c$ linear branches and $f^r$ closed loops grafted to the central core. Using theory we determine the size measures such as gyration radius $R_g$ and the hydrodynamic radii $R_H$, and obtain the estimates for the size ratio $R_g /R_H$ with its dependence on the functionality $f=f^c+f^r$ of grafted polymers. In particular, we obtain the quantitative estimate of compactification (decrease of size measure) of such complex polymer architectures with increasing number of closed loops $f^r$ as compared with linear or star-shape molecules of the same total molecular weight. Numerical simulations corroborate theoretical prediction that $R_g /R_H$ decreases towards unity with increasing $f$. These findings provide qualitative description of complex polymers with different arm architecture in $θ$ solutions.
Additional file 2 of Efficacy and safety of GV1001 in patients with moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s disease already receiving donepezil: a phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial
Creators: name: Koh, Seong-Ho
name: Kwon, Hyuk Sung
name: Choi, Seong Hye
name: Jeong, Jee Hyang
name: Na, Hae Ri
name: Lee, Chan Nyoung
name: Yang, YoungSoon
name: Lee, Ae Young
name: Lee, Jae-Hong
name: Park, Kyung Won
name: Han, Hyun Jeong
name: Kim, Byeong C.
name: Park, Jin Se
name: Lee, Jee-Young
name: Sangjae Kim
name: Kyu-Yong Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria of this clinical trial. Table S2. Participant number of each group. Table S3. Observed mean total score of each outcome. Table S4. Summary of CIBIS and CIBIC-plus distributions in full analysis set. Table S5. Least mean difference from placebo in full analysis set. Table S6. Least mean difference from placebo in per-protocol population. Table S7. Overall summary of treatment-emergent adverse events: safety set population. Table S8. Most frequent treatment-emergent adverse events that occurred in > 2 patient overall: safety set population. Figure S1. GV1001 (1 mg/kg) or an equivalent volume of 0.9% saline was subcutaneously injected into old 3xTg-AD mice (B6:129-Psen1tm1Mpm Tg[APPSwe, tauP301L]1Lfa/Mmjax) from the age of 21 months until the mice were deemed ready for sacrifice according to the CCAC guidelines on selecting an appropriate endpoint in experiments using animals for research, teaching, and testing. The injections were administered three times a week until the endpoint. The neurobehavioral functions were evaluated every 3 days until the endpoint using the Y-maze test and passive avoidance task. A. In the Y-maze test, which was used to measure the willingness of rodents to explore new environments and therefore quantify the cognitive deficits,1,2 compared with 0.9% saline, 1 mg/kg GV1001 significantly improved the percentage of spontaneous alternations among the Y-maze arms. B and C. In the passive avoidance tasks, which is a fear-aggravated test used to evaluate learning and memory, the mice received an electric shock when they entered the dark compartment3,4; therefore, the latency to enter the dark compartment and number of errors reflected the learning and memory of the mice. The latency to enter the dark compartment and number of errors were significantly improved following treatment with 1 mg/kg GV1001 (B and C, respectively). D. To confirm that GV1001 can enter the brain, 1 mg/kg of GV1001 conjugated with ferrocenecarboxylic acid, which we used in our previous study,5 was subcutaneously injected into 3xTg-AD (12-month-old) mice. It was detected as dark signals in the brain using 3 T magnetic resonance imaging (white arrows) and Prussian blue staining (black boxes).
Konkurencyjność przedsiębiorstw przemysłu mięsnego i mleczarskiego na terenie Wielkopolski w aspekcie spełnienia wymagań prawa żywnościowego Unii Europejskiej
Creators: name: Górna, Justyna
name: Górna, Justyna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: food industry
subject: companies of meat and dairy industry
subject: HACCP system
subject: food law
subject: / przemysł spożywczy
subject: przedsiębiorstwa branży mięsnej i mleczarskiej
subject: system HACCP
subject: prawo żywnościowe

description: Requirements of food law contributed to an increase of competitiveness of meat and dairy industry thanks to a modernization of plant infrastructure. The implementation of the HACCP system from the point of view of company management should be treated as an investment which in the future brings repayment of costs, guarantees easier foreign and domestic trade and gives an opportunity to hold the old and to get new customers. Companies of meat and dairy industry were the first obliged to comply with the requirements of the EU food law. Companies of both branches in the same degree acknowledge, among other things, an increase of their employees’ self-control and an increase of product quality as positive effects of meeting the EU food law requirements (implementation of the HACCP system). / Synopsis. Wymagania prawa żywnościowego przyczyniły się do wzrostu konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstw przemysłu mięsnego i mleczarskiego, m.in. przez modernizację infrastruktury tych przedsiębiorstw. Z punktu widzenia zarządzania przedsiębiorstwem wprowadzenie systemu HACCP powinno się traktować jak inwestycję, która w niedalekiej przyszłości przyniesie zwrot poniesionych nakładów, zapewni łatwiejszy handel na rynku krajowym i międzynarodowym oraz da większe szanse na utrzymanie starych i zdobycie nowych konsumentów. Przedsiębiorstwa branży mięsnej i mleczarskiej, jako jedne z pierwszych były zobligowane do spełnienia wymagań unijnego prawa żywnościowego. W porównywalnym stopniu przedsiębiorstwa obydwu branż, jako pozytywny skutek spełnienia wymagań prawa żywnościowego (wdrożenie systemu HACCP) uznały m.in. wzrost samokontroli pracowników, czy też podniesienie jakości wyrobów.
IMF Conditionality: Theory and Evidence: theory and evidence
Creators: name: Dreher, Axel
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2008
Subjects: Conditionality
WIRTSCHAFTSTHEORIEN
Compliance
Implementation
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
ECONOMIC THEORIES
INTERNATIONALER WÄHRUNGSFONDS
IMF
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: KOF Working Papers, 188