cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-equilibrium odds for the emergence of life
Creators: name: Stopnitzky, Elan
name: Still, Susanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large and complex molecules are building blocks for life. We compute probabilities for their formation from an average non-equilibrium model. As the distance from thermodynamic equilibrium is increased in this model, so too are the chances for forming molecules that would be prohibitively rare in thermodynamic equilibrium. This effect is explored in two settings: the synthesis of heavy amino acids, and their polymerization into peptides. In the extreme non-equilibrium limit, concentrations of the heaviest amino acids can be boosted by a factor of 10,000. Concentrations of the longest peptide chains can be increased by hundreds of orders of magnitude. Since all details of the non-equilibrium driving are averaged out, these findings indicate that, independent of the details of the driving, the mere fact that pre-biotic environments were not in thermodynamic equilibrium may help cross the barriers to the formation of life.
A massive, quiescent, population II galaxy at a redshift of 2.1
Creators: name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: van Dokkum, Pieter G.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Choi, Jieun
name: Reddy, Naveen A.
name: Siana, Brian
name: van de Voort, Freeke
name: Coil, Alison L.
name: Mobasher, Bahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way, the majority of the stars in massive elliptical galaxies were formed in a short period early in the history of the Universe. The duration of this formation period can be measured using the ratio of magnesium to iron abundance ([Mg/Fe]), which reflects the relative enrichment by core-collapse and type Ia supernovae. For local galaxies, [Mg/Fe] probes the combined formation history of all stars currently in the galaxy, including younger and metal-poor stars that were added during late-time mergers. Therefore, to directly constrain the initial star-formation period, we must study galaxies at earlier epochs. The most distant galaxy for which [Mg/Fe] had previously been measured is at z~1.4, with [Mg/Fe]=0.45(+0.05,-0.19). A slightly earlier epoch (z~1.6) was probed by stacking the spectra of 24 massive quiescent galaxies, yielding an average [Mg/Fe] of 0.31+/-0.12. However, the relatively low S/N of the data and the use of index analysis techniques for both studies resulted in measurement errors that are too large to allow us to form strong conclusions. Deeper spectra at even earlier epochs in combination with analysis techniques based on full spectral fitting are required to precisely measure the abundance pattern shortly after the major star-forming phase (z>2). Here we report a measurement of [Mg/Fe] for a massive quiescent galaxy at z=2.1. With [Mg/Fe]=0.59+/-0.11, this galaxy is the most Mg-enhanced massive galaxy found so far, having twice the Mg enhancement of similar-mass galaxies today. The abundance pattern of the galaxy is consistent with enrichment exclusively by core-collapse supernovae and with a star-formation timescale of 0.1-0.5 Gyr - characteristics that are similar to population II stars in the Milky Way. With an average past SFR of 600-3000 Msol/yr, this galaxy was among the most vigorous star-forming galaxies in the Universe.
description: Published in Nature on 8 December 2016 (5 pages, 3 figures)
Durability performance of alkali-activated concrete with pre-treated coarse recycled aggregates for pavements
Creators: name: Khan, MD Ikramullah
name: Ram, V Vinayaka
name: Patel, Vipulkumar
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4005
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
classificationCode: 3302
subject: Building
classificationCode: 33
subject: Built environment and design

description: This study examines the effect of coarse recycled aggregates (CRAs) and processed coarse recycled aggregates (PCRAs) on the behaviour of alkali-activated concrete (AAC) before and after exposure to marine seawater and acidic environments (5% HCl and 5% H2SO4 solutions). Measurements of compressive strength and the microstructure changes were conducted over periods of 56 and 90 days to assess these effects. The experimental design included varying the replacement levels of NAs with CRAs and PCRAs from (0–100%) and using ground-granulated blast furnace slag and fly ash as constant components. In addition to durability tests, sorptivity assessments were conducted to gauge the material’s porosity and water absorption capabilities. Advanced microstructure techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), were employed to detail the pre and post-exposure mineralogical and microstructural transformations within the AAC blends. The AAC mixtures incorporating PCRAs emerged as durable, showcasing better strength and a denser, more compact matrix facilitated by the synergistic formation of NASH and CASH gels after exposure to aggressive agents compared to untreated CRAs. In addition, the results show that the samples exposed to marine seawater exhibited improved mechanical performance compared to those exposed to acidic environments. The novelty of this study lies in its exploration of the effects of recycling plant-based CRAs and PCRAs on AAC for marine and acid exposure.
title: API Security through Contract-Driven Programming
Creators: name: Vesey, Alex
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01xqjjn94
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This blog post from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute will explore contract programming and specifically how that applies to the building, maintenance, and security of APIs.
A second-order PHD filter with mean and variance in target number
Creators: name: Schlangen, Isabel
name: Delande, Emmanuel D.
name: Houssineau, Jeremie
name: Clark, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) and Cardinalized PHD (CPHD) filters are popular solutions to the multi-target tracking problem due to their low complexity and ability to estimate the number and states of targets in cluttered environments. The PHD filter propagates the first-order moment (i.e. mean) of the number of targets while the CPHD propagates the cardinality distribution in the number of targets, albeit for a greater computational cost. Introducing the Panjer point process, this paper proposes a second-order PHD filter, propagating the second-order moment (i.e. variance) of the number of targets alongside its mean. The resulting algorithm is more versatile in the modelling choices than the PHD filter, and its computational cost is significantly lower compared to the CPHD filter. The paper compares the three filters in statistical simulations which demonstrate that the proposed filter reacts more quickly to changes in the number of targets, i.e., target births and target deaths, than the CPHD filter. In addition, a new statistic for multi-object filters is introduced in order to study the correlation between the estimated number of targets in different regions of the state space, and propose a quantitative analysis of the spooky effect for the three filters.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0101v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0101v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome III, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 187 (11 H 72), f. 0101v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Additional file 1 of The risk of dyspnea in patients treated with third-generation P2Y12 inhibitors compared with clopidogrel: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Zhang, Na
name: Xu, Weisen
name: Li, Ou
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of potential bias of included studies. Figure S1. Potential bias of included studies using Cochrane Risk Bias. Figure S2. Funnel plot of the overall analysis.
The Muirhead-Rado inequality, 2: Symmetric means and inequalities
Creators: name: Nathanson, Melvyn B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05, 11B83, 15B51, 26D05, 26D15, 52A20, 52A30, 52A40

description: Preliminary results from Nathanson [5] are used to prove the Muirhead and Rado inequalities.
description: 19 pages
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 2019, Vol. 15, iss. 1
Creators: name: Maxim Nabozhenko, editor-in-chief
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Insects, Aranei, Archaeognatha, systematics, morphology, fauna, biogeography

description: The full issue of the journal "Caucasian Entomological Bulletin", Volume 15, issue 1, published August 6, 2019: 23 scientific papers on Aranei, Archaeognatha and Insecta and 1 memorial paper
Excess Galactic molecular absorption toward the radio galaxy 3C 111
Creators: name: Tombesi, F.
name: Reynolds, C. S.
name: Mushotzky, R. F.
name: Behar, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the combined spectral analysis of \emph{Chandra} high energy transmission grating (HETG) and \emph{XMM-Newton} reflection grating spectrometer (RGS) observations of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111. The source is known to show excess neutral absorption with respect to the one estimated from 21 cm radio surveys of atomic H I in the Galaxy. However, previous works were not able to constrain the origin of such absorber as local to our Milky Way or intrinsic to the source ($z = 0.0485$). The high signal-to-noise grating spectra allow us to constrain the excess absorption as due to intervening gas in the Milky Way, and we estimate a time averaged total column density of $N_H = (7.4\pm0.1)\times 10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$, a factor of two higher than the tabulated H I value. We recommend to use the total average Galactic column density here estimated when studying 3C 111. The origin of the extra Galactic absorption of $N_H = 4.4\times 10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$ is likely due to molecular gas associated with the Taurus molecular cloud complex toward 3C 111, which is our nearest star-forming region. We also detect a weak (EW$=$$16\pm10$ eV) and narrow (FWMH$
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0700
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0700, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0700, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 1: of Leucine and ACE inhibitors as therapies for sarcopenia (LACE trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Band, Margaret
name: Sumukadas, Deepa
name: Struthers, Allan
name: Avenell, Alison
name: Donnan, Peter
name: Kemp, Paul
name: Smith, Karen
name: Hume, Cheryl
name: Hapca, Adrian
name: Witham, Miles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Informed consent form for the LACE trial. (PDF 29Â kb)
Claude-Joseph de Mullet
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://www.sudoc.fr/080675700
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
Overall survival time prediction for high-grade glioma patients based on large-scale brain functional networks
Creators: name: Rekik, Islem
name: Wang, Qian
name: Yu, Zhengda
name: Liu, Luyan
name: Lu, Junfeng
name: Zhang, Han
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Chen, Xiaobo
name: Wu, Jinsong
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2018

description: High-grade glioma (HGG) is a lethal cancer with poor outcome. Accurate preoperative overall survival (OS) time prediction for HGG patients is crucial for treatment planning. Traditional presurgical and noninvasive OS prediction studies have used radiomics features at the local lesion area based on the magnetic resonance images (MRI). However, the highly complex lesion MRI appearance may have large individual variability, which could impede accurate individualized OS prediction. In this paper, we propose a novel concept, namely brain connectomics-based OS prediction. It is based on presurgical resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) and the non-local, large-scale brain functional networks where the global and systemic prognostic features rather than the local lesion appearance are used to predict OS. We propose that the connectomics features could capture tumor-induced network-level alterations that are associated with prognosis. We construct both low-order (by means of sparse representation with regional rs-fMRI signals) and high-order functional connectivity (FC) networks (characterizing more complex multi-regional relationship by synchronized dynamics FC time courses). Then, we conduct a graph-theoretic analysis on both networks for a jointly, machine-learning-based individualized OS prediction. Based on a preliminary dataset (N = 34 with bad OS, mean OS, ~400 days; N = 34 with good OS, mean OS, ~1030 days), we achieve a promising OS prediction accuracy (86.8%) on separating the individuals with bad OS from those with good OS. However, if using only conventionally derived descriptive features (e.g., age and tumor characteristics), the accuracy is low (63.2%). Our study highlights the importance of the rs-fMRI and brain functional connectomics for treatment planning.
Interacting Supernovae: Types IIn and Ibn
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supernovae (SNe) that show evidence of strong shock interaction between their ejecta and pre-existing, slower circumstellar material (CSM) constitute an interesting, diverse, and still poorly understood category of explosive transients. The chief reason that they are extremely interesting is because they tell us that in a subset of stellar deaths, the progenitor star may become wildly unstable in the years, decades, or centuries before explosion. This is something that has not been included in standard stellar evolution models, but may significantly change the end product and yield of that evolution, and complicates our attempts to map SNe to their progenitors. Another reason they are interesting is because CSM interaction is an efficient engine for making bright transients, allowing super-luminous transients to arise from normal SN explosion energies, and allowing transients of normal SN luminosities to arise from sub-energetic explosions or low radioactivity yield. CSM interaction shrouds the fast ejecta in bright shock emission, obscuring our normal view of the underlying explosion, and the radiation hydrodynamics of the interaction is challenging to model. The CSM interaction may also be highly non-spherical, perhaps linked to binary interaction in the progenitor system. In some cases, these complications make it difficult to definitively tell the difference between a core-collapse or thermonuclear explosion, or to discern between a non-terminal eruption, failed SN, or weak SN. Efforts to uncover the physical parameters of individual events and connections to possible progenitor stars make this a rapidly evolving topic that continues to challenge paradigms of stellar evolution.
description: Final draft of a chapter in the "SN Handbook". Accepted. 25 pages, 3 figs
Realization of Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Graphene from \textit{n}-\textit{p} Codoping Induced Stable Atomic-Adsorption
Creators: name: Deng, Xinzhou
name: Qi, Shifei
name: Han, Yulei
name: Zhang, Kunhua
name: Xu, Xiaohong
name: Qiao, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using first-principles calculation methods, we study the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene from stable 3\textit{d}-atomic adsorption via charge-compensated \textit{n}-\textit{p} codoping scheme. As concrete examples, we show that long-range ferromagnetism can be established by codoping 3\textit{d} transition metal and boron atoms, but only the Ni codopants can open up a global bulk gap to harbour the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Our estimated ferromagnetic Curie transition temperature can reach over 10 Kelvin for various codoping concentrations.
Additional file 1 of Asperosaponin VI ameliorates the CMS-induced depressive-like behaviors by inducing a neuroprotective microglial phenotype in hippocampus via PPAR-γ pathway
Creators: name: Jiang, Xue
name: Yi, Saini
name: Liu, Qin
name: Su, Dapeng
name: Li, Liangyuan
name: Xiao, Chenghong
name: Zhang, Jinqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary materials.
Evolutionary aspects and north-south asymmetry of soft X-ray flare index during solar cycles 21, 22, and 23
Creators: name: Joshi, Bhuwan
name: Bhattacharyya, R.
name: Pandey, K. K.
name: Kushwaha, Upendra
name: Moon, Yong-Jae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. In this paper, we investigate the temporal evolution and north-south (N-S) asymmetry in the occurrence of solar flares during cycle 21, 22, and 23, and compare the results with traditional solar activity indices. Methods. The flare activity is characterized by a soft X-ray (SXR) flare index, which incorporates information about flare occurrences during a selected interval along with the peak intensity of individual events. Results. The SXR flare index correlates well with other conventional parameters of solar activity. Further, it exhibits a significantly higher correlation with sunspot area over sunspot number, which suggests the variations in sunspot area to be more closely linked with the transient energy release in the solar corona. The cumulative plots of the flare index indicate a slight excess of activity in the northern hemisphere during cycle 21, while a southern excess clearly prevails for cycles 22 and 23. The study reveals a significant N-S asymmetry, which exhibits variations with the phases of solar cycle. The reliability and persistency of this asymmetry significantly increases when the data is averaged over longer periods, while an optimal level is achieved when data is binned for 13 Carrington rotations. The time evolution of the flare index further confirms evolution of dual peaks in solar cycles during the solar maxima and violation of Gnevyshev-Ohl rule for the pair of solar cycles 22 and 23. Conclusions. The SXR flare index in the northern and the southern hemispheres of the Sun exhibits significant asymmetry during the evolutionary phases of the solar cycle, which implies that N-S asymmetry of solar flares is manifested in terms of the flare counts as well as the intensity of flare events.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Topological classification of crystalline insulators through band structure combinatorics
Creators: name: Kruthoff, Jorrit
name: de Boer, Jan
name: van Wezel, Jasper
name: Kane, Charles L.
name: Slager, Robert-Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for efficiently enumerating all allowed, topologically distinct, electronic band structures within a given crystal structure. The algorithm applies to crystals with broken time-reversal, particle-hole, and chiral symmetries in any dimension. The presented results match the mathematical structure underlying the topological classification of these crystals in terms of K-theory, and therefore elucidate this abstract mathematical framework from a simple combinatorial perspective. Using a straightforward counting procedure, we classify the allowed topological phases in any possible two-dimensional crystal in class A. We also show how the same procedure can be used to classify the allowed phases for any three-dimensional space group. Employing these classifications, we study transitions between topological phases within class A that are driven by band inversions at high symmetry points in the first Brillouin zone. This enables us to list all possible types of phase transitions within a given crystal structure, and identify whether or not they give rise to intermediate Weyl semimetallic phases.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Perspectives on HIV partner notification, partner HIV self-testing and partner home-based HIV testing by pregnant and postpartum women in antenatal settings: a qualitative analysis in Malawi and Zambia
Creators: name: Phanga, Twambilile
name: Mutale, Wilbroad
name: Matenga, Tulani
name: Mweemba, Oliver
name: Rosenberg, Nora E
name: Chibwe, Kasapo F
name: Dunda, Wezzie
name: Hershow, Rebecca B
name: Maman, Suzanne
name: Chi, Benjamin H
name: Zimba, Chifundo C
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2019

description: INTRODUCTION: HIV testing male partners of pregnant and postpartum women can lead to improved health outcomes for women, partners and infants. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, few male partners get HIV tested during their partner's pregnancy in spite of several promising approaches to increase partner testing uptake. We assessed stakeholders' views and preferences of partner notification, home-based testing and secondary distribution of self-test kits to understand whether offering choices for partner HIV testing may increase acceptability. METHODS: Interviewers conducted semi-structured interviews with HIV-negative (N = 39) and HIV-positive (N = 41) pregnant/postpartum women, male partners of HIV-negative (N = 14) and HIV-positive (N = 14) pregnant/postpartum women, healthcare workers (N = 19) and policymakers (N = 16) in Malawi and Zambia. Interviews covered views of each partner testing approach and preferred approaches; healthcare workers were also asked about perceptions of a choice-based approach. Interviews were transcribed, translated and analysed to compare perspectives across country and participant types. RESULTS: Most participants within each stakeholder group considered all three partner testing strategies acceptable. Relationship conflict was discussed as a potential adverse consequence for each approach. For partner notification, additional barriers included women losing letters, being fearful to give partners letters, being unable to read and men refusing to come to the clinic. For home-based testing, additional barriers included lack of privacy or confidentiality and fear of experiencing community-level HIV stigma. For HIV self-test kits, additional barriers included lack of counselling, false results and poor linkage to care. Preferred male partner testing options varied. Participants preferred partner notification due to their respect for clinical authority, home-based testing due to their desire to prioritize convenience and clinical authority, and self-test kits due to their desire to prioritize confidentiality. Less than half of couples interviewed selected the same preferred male partner testing option as their partner. Most healthcare workers felt the choice-based approach would be acceptable and feasible, but noted implementation challenges in personnel, resources or space. CONCLUSIONS: Most stakeholders considered different approaches to partner HIV testing to be acceptable, but concerns were raised about each. A choice-based approach may allow women to select their preferred method of partner testing; however, implementation challenges need to be addressed.
Correlation effects in Barkhausen noise and magnetic attenuation in soft ribbons
Creators: name: Puppin, E.
name: Zani, M.
name: Pinotti, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of the effects connected with the occurrence of magnetization reversals in an amorphous ribbon of Fe$_{63}$B$_{64}$Si$_{8}$Ni$_{15}$ has been investigated using a method based on two pickup coils separated by a distance variable between 2 an 40 mm. The ratio $R$ between the voltage signals induced in the coils contains information on the location where the magnetization reversal took place. This information can be extracted by knowing the function $V(x)$ which represents the attenuation of a signal generated by a reversal that took place at a distance x from the coil. A mathematical model for extracting this function starting from the histogram of the experimentally measured values of $R$ is presented. The attenuation function obtained in this way is relatively independent on the distance between the coils, and this is in strong support of the correctness of the model adopted.
Additional file 1: of Training the next generation of physician researchers â Vanderbilt Medical Scholars Program
Creators: name: Brown, Abigail
name: Chipps, Teresa
name: Tebeb Gebretsadik
name: Ware, Lorraine
name: Islam, Jessica
name: Finck, Luke
name: Barnett, Joey
name: Hartert, Tina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental On-line Content. (DOCX 17 kb)
ผลของความเข้มข้นสารตั้งต้นต่อลักษณะทางสัณฐานวิทยาและสมบัติการเร่งปฏิกิริยาด้วยแสงของแท่งนาโนซิงค์ออกไซด์ที่เตรียมโดยวิธีไฮโดรเทอร์มอล
Creators: name: สุคนธ์ กาละสังข์
name: มติ ห่อประทุม
name: ฉันทนา เอี่ยมพนากิจ
name: กมล เอี่ยมพนากิจ
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: แท่งนาโนซิงค์ออกไซด์
ความเข้มข้นของสารตั้งต้น
ไฮโดรเทอร์มอล
การเร่งปฏิกิริยาด้วยแสง

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 2, 230-240
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organisational citizenship behaviour: a study in Pakistan
Creators: name: Hassan, Rahiba
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibiliy (CSR) and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among employees in the Pakistani context. Although much research has been conducted to explore how CSR influences organisational outcomes, there remains limited research examining its effects on employees' attitudes and behaviour. To address this research gap, this study examined the relationship between CSR programs and employee OCB. Further, in consideration of the range of criticisms regarding managerial imposition of ethical values on employees, this study also examined the variables of communication satisfaction and perceived organisational politics. This study was based on primary questionnaire data from over 200 non-managerial employees from a single case-study organisation in Pakistan. Three dimensions of CSR were found to be significant in promoting or fostering employee OCB: CSR towards the government, CSR towards customers and CSR towards social issues. Interestingly, the results indicated that CSR towards employees was not significant for employee OCB. The results also demonstrated that perceived organisational politics and communication satisfaction fully mediate the relationship between CSR and OCB. This paper discusses the theoretical and practical implications of these findings, and offers suggestions for future studies.
PrEParing for choice in a new era of HIV prevention
Creators: name: Chi, Benjamin H
name: Graybill, Lauren A
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: In The Lancet HIV, Gonasagrie Nair and colleagues1 report the findings from the MTN-34/REACH trial, which investigated the safety of, adherence to, and preferences for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among adolescent girls and young women. Conducted in three African countries, this study used a crossover design to gain new insights about PrEP use in this population. Participants aged 16–21 years agreed to take oral daily emtricitabine plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and use the dapivirine vaginal ring for 6 months each. The sequence of these PrEP assignments was randomly allocated, after which participants transitioned to a 6-month product choice period during which they could continue with a preferred PrEP modality or no PrEP at all.
การผลิตก๊าซไบโอไฮเทนจากชานอ้อยโดยกระบวนการหมัก 2 ขั้นตอน ที่สภาวะเทอร์โมฟิลิก
Creators: name: วัฒนณรงค์ มากพันธ์
name: สมพงศ์ โอทอง
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: ชานอ้อย
ไบโอไฮเทน
การหมัก

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 2, 241-255
Probing Tissue Microarchitecture of the Baby Brain via Spherical Mean Spectrum Imaging
Creators: name: Xu, Tiantian
name: Chen, Geng
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Wu, Ye
name: Wu, Haiyong
name: Thung, Kim-Han
name: Lin, Weili
name: Huynh, Khoi Minh
name: Wang, Xifeng
name: Yap, Pew-Thian
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2020

description: During the first years of life, the human brain undergoes dynamic spatially-heterogeneous changes, invo- lving differentiation of neuronal types, dendritic arbori- zation, axonal ingrowth, outgrowth and retraction, synaptogenesis, and myelination. To better quantify these changes, this article presents a method for probing tissue microarchitecture by characterizing water diffusion in a spectrum of length scales, factoring out the effects of intra-voxel orientation heterogeneity. Our method is based on the spherical means of the diffusion signal, computed over gradient directions for a set of diffusion weightings (i.e., b -values). We decompose the spherical mean profile at each voxel into a spherical mean spectrum (SMS), which essentially encodes the fractions of spin packets undergoing fine- to coarse-scale diffusion proce- sses, characterizing restricted and hindered diffusion stemming respectively from intra- and extra-cellular water compartments. From the SMS, multiple orientation distribution invariant indices can be computed, allowing for example the quantification of neurite density, microscopic fractional anisotropy ( Î¼ FA), per-axon axial/radial diffusivity, and free/restricted isotropic diffusivity. We show that these indices can be computed for the developing brain for greater sensitivity and specificity to development related changes in tissue microstructure. Also, we demonstrate that our method, called spherical mean spectrum imaging (SMSI), is fast, accurate, and can overcome the biases associated with other state-of-the-art microstructure models.
Ginzburg-Landau approximation for self-sustained oscillators weakly coupled on complex directed graphs
Creators: name: Di Patti, Francesca
name: Fanelli, Duccio
name: Miele, Filippo
name: Carletti, Timoteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A normal form approximation for the evolution of a reaction-diffusion system hosted on a directed graph is derived, in the vicinity of a supercritical Hopf bifurcation. Weak diffusive couplings are assumed to hold between adjacent nodes. Under this working assumption, a Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) is obtained, whose coefficients depend on the parameters of the model and the topological characteristics of the underlying network. The CGLE enables one to probe the stability of the synchronous oscillating solution, as displayed by the reaction-diffusion system above Hopf bifurcation. More specifically, conditions can be worked out for the onset of the symmetry breaking instability that eventually destroys the uniform oscillatory state. Numerical tests performed for the Brusselator model confirm the validity of the proposed theoretical scheme. Patterns recorded for the CGLE resemble closely those recovered upon integration of the original Brussellator dynamics.
Prevalence of cardiovascular disease and risk factors, quality of life, and health behaviors of cancer survivors and their spouses: findings from MEPS
Creators: name: Tan, Xianming
name: Keyserling, Thomas C.
name: Guan, Ting
name: Van Houtven, Courtney
name: Guo, Peiran
name: Song, Lixin
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019

description: Purpose

Few population-based studies have examined the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and risk factors, quality of life (QOL), and health behaviors of cancer survivors and their spouses. This case-control study aimed to fill this gap using the data from a set of large-scale surveys of individuals and families across the USA.
Methods

Data were obtained from the 2010–2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Using one-to-many (1:5) propensity score matching, we identified cancer survivors (N = 1037) and noncancer-matched controls (N = 5185), as well as survivor spouses (N = 1038) and matched controls (N = 5190). We used weighted multivariable logistic and linear regressions to examine the categorical and numerical outcomes.
Results

Compared with noncancer controls, survivors have higher rates of stroke (p < .05), hypertension (p < .05), high cholesterol (p < .01), fair or poor health (p < .0001), and report self-reported worse physical QOL scores (PCS) (p < .0001). A higher percentage of survivors report receiving BP checks (p < .01), serum cholesterol assessments (p < .001), routine physical checkups (p < .01), blood stool tests (p < .05), colonoscopies (p < .0001), and flu vaccinations (p < .05). Survivor spouses, compared to their respective matched controls, reported higher rates of serum cholesterol testing (p < .001), routine physical checkups (p < .01), and flu vaccinations (p < .01).
Conclusions

Compared to the general population, cancer survivors are at higher risk for CVD, report worse physical QOL, and, along with their spouses, more frequently receive certain preventive health care services.
Implications for Cancer Survivors

There is a need for intervention to more fully engage cancer survivors and spouses in lifestyle behavior change associated with decreased CVD and related risk factors and improved QOL.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Predicting 7-day, 30-day and 60-day all-cause unplanned readmission: a case study of a Sydney hospital
Creators: name: Maali, Yashar
name: Perez-Concha, Oscar
name: Coiera, Enrico
name: Roffe, David
name: Day, Richard O.
name: Gallego, Blanca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Parameters of the Gradient Tree Boosting algorithm. In this study, we used the freely available gradient tree boosting algorithm implemented in the R package XGBoost with the following parameters chosen via manual tuning. Table S2. Conversion of continuous variables into categorical variables: cutting points for hospital length of stay (LOS), age (years), cumulative LOS (hours) in the previous year, days from last admission, number of pathology tests, number of pathology panels, hours since last surgery, hours since last panel and admission type. Table S3: Characteristics of patients and their hospital admissions for the study population. Main descriptive statistics. Table S4. Main categories of primary diagnosis (ICD10-AM) in our cohort. Table S5. Comorbidity groups in our cohort (Reference value = no comorbidity). Table S6. Pathology variables identified by the hospital laboratory in our cohort (Reference value = missing). Table S7. Calibration performance; Observed and expected rates for selected scores can be found in this table. Table S8. Sensitivity, specificity and PPV for different cut-off scores. (PDF 155 kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0161
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0161, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
Structural constraints on the crystallisation of amorphous calcium carbonate
Creators: name: Colas, Bruno
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) is a biogenic precursor of calcium carbonates forming shells and skeletons of marine organisms which are key components of the whole marine environment. Understanding carbonate formation is an essential prerequisite to quantify the effect climate change and pollution have on marine population, to build biogenic climate proxy archives and to design novel functional materials by biomimetism. Water is a critical component of the structure of ACC and a component controlling the stability of the amorphous phase. Addition of small amounts of magnesium (1–10% of the calcium content) is known to promote the stability of ACC, presumably through stabilization of the hydrogen bonding network. Understanding the hydrogen bonding network in ACC is fundamental to understand the stability of ACC. I successfully developed a synthesis protocol to make stable Amorphous Calcium Carbonate.This study describes the sample synthesis and characterization methods. This is followed by a description of the nucleation and crystallisation of calcium carbonate, along a non-classical pathway. The results are parameterised in terms of kinetics and final product as a function of magnesium doping. The approach used in this study to determine the atomic structure of ACC is to use Monte-Carlo simulations, using the Empirical Potential Structure Refinement program, constrained by X-ray and neutron scattering data. X-ray data are suitable for determining Ca, Mg and O correlations, and neutron data give information on the hydrogen / deuterium (as the interaction of X-rays with hydrogen is too low for us to be able to constrain hydrogen atom positions with only X-rays). The final atomic model includes water molecule positions. This new approach is used to constrain current novel kinetic models, shed light on the role of impurities and provide a basis for understanding biogenic systems in general.
Rab27a plays a dual role in metastatic propensity of pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Michaud, Daniel
name: Greene, Kevin
name: Kren, Nancy
name: Pylayeva-Gupta, Yuliya
name: Bagchi, Sukriti
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2020

description: Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive malignancy, often diagnosed at metastatic stages. Several studies have implicated systemic factors, such as extracellular vesicle release and myeloid cell expansion, in the establishment of pre-metastatic niches in cancer. The Rab27a GTPase is overexpressed in advanced cancers, can regulate vesicle trafficking, and has been previously linked to non-cell autonomous control of tumor growth and metastasis, however, the role of Rab27a itself in the metastatic propensity of pancreatic cancer is not well understood. Here, we have established a model to study how Rab27a directs formation of the pre-metastatic niche. Loss of Rab27a in pancreatic cancer cells did not decrease tumor growth in vivo, but resulted in altered systemic myeloid cell expansion, both in the primary tumors and at the distant organ sites. In metastasis assays, loss of Rab27a expression in tumor cells injected into circulation compromised efficient outgrowth of metastatic lesions. However, Rab27a knockdown cells had an unexpected advantage at initial steps of metastatic seeding, suggesting that Rab27a may alter cell-autonomous invasive properties of the tumor cells. Gene expression analysis of gene expression revealed that downregulation of Rab27a increased expression of genes involved in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition pathways, consistent with our findings that primary tumors arising from Rab27a knockdown cells were more invasive. Overall, these data reveal that Rab27a can play divergent roles in regulating pro-metastatic propensity of pancreatic cancer cells: by generating pro-metastatic environment at the distant organ sites, and by suppressing invasive properties of the cancer cells.
Optimizing noise level for perturbing geo-location data
Creators: name: Palia, Abhinav
name: Tandon, Rajat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the tremendous increase in the number of smart phones, app stores have been overwhelmed with applications requiring geo-location access in order to provide their users better services through personalization. Revealing a user's location to these third party apps, no matter at what frequency, is a severe privacy breach which can have unpleasant social consequences. In order to prevent inference attacks derived from geo-location data, a number of location obfuscation techniques have been proposed in the literature. However, none of them provides any objective measure of privacy guarantee. Some work has been done to define differential privacy for geo-location data in the form of geo-indistinguishability with l privacy guarantee. These techniques do not utilize any prior background information about the Points of Interest (PoIs) of a user and apply Laplacian noise to perturb all the location coordinates. Intuitively, the utility of such a mechanism can be improved if the noise distribution is derived after considering some prior information about PoIs. In this paper, we apply the standard definition of differential privacy on geo-location data. We use first principles to model various privacy and utility constraints, prior background information available about the PoIs (distribution of PoI locations in a 1D plane) and the granularity of the input required by different types of apps, in order to produce a more accurate and a utility maximizing differentially private algorithm for geo-location data at the OS level. We investigate this for a particular category of apps and for some specific scenarios. This will also help us to verify that whether Laplacian noise is still the optimal perturbation when we have such prior information.
description: 10 pages and 3 figures