cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deep modeling of quasar variability
Creators: name: Tachibana, Yutaro
name: Graham, Matthew J.
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: Drake, Andrew J.
name: Mahabal, Ashish A.
name: Stern, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasars have long been known as intrinsically variable sources, but the physical mechanism underlying the temporal optical/UV variability is still not well understood. We propose a novel nonparametric method for modeling and forecasting the optical variability of quasars utilizing an autoencoder neural network to gain insight into the underlying processes. The autoencoder is trained with ~15,000 decade-long quasar light curves obtained by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey selected with negligible flux contamination from the host galaxy. The autoencoder's performance in forecasting the temporal flux variation of quasars is superior to that of the damped random walk process. We find a temporal asymmetry in the optical variability and a novel relation - the amplitude of the variability asymmetry decreases as luminosity and/or black hole mass increases - is suggested with the help of autoencoded features. The characteristics of the variability asymmetry are in agreement with those from the self-organized disk instability model, which predicts that the magnitude of the variability asymmetry decreases as the ratio of the diffusion mass to inflow mass in the accretion disk increases.
description: 22 pages, 20 figures, submitted to ApJ
Diseno de un indice para la medicion de la calidad fisicoquimica del agua piscicola. Aplicacion a la Cuenca Hidrografica del Jucar
Creators: name: Beamonte Cordoba, Eduardo
name: Bermudez Edo, Jose D.
name: Casino Martinez, Alejandro
name: Veres Ferrer, Ernesto J.
name: Beamonte Cordoba, Eduardo
name: Bermudez Edo, Jose D.
name: Casino Martinez, Alejandro
name: Veres Ferrer, Ernesto J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agua de uso piscicola
subject: calidad fisicoquimica del agua
subject: indice de calidad
subject: water intended for fish life
subject: physical-chemical water quality
subject: quality index.

description: El objectivo principal de este trabajo es proponer un indice para el estudio de la calidad fisicoquimica del agua, en un contecto probablistico. Este indice se utiliza para evaluar la calidad del agua de uso piscola. La metodologia aqui propuesta se aplica a los datos observados en un amplico conjunto de puntos de muestreo ubicados en la cuenca hidrografica del Jucar...The aim of this paper is to propose an index for water quality into a probability context, This index is utilized to evaluate the physical-chemical quality of surface fresh water intended for fish life. The methodology proposed here is then applied to the data observed in a set of sampling points of the Jucar river basin district.
Prodictos tipicos y desarrollo rural: entre calidad y politicas de gobernanza
Creators: name: Arfini, Filippo
name: Arfini, Filippo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: productos tipicos
subject: asimetria informativa
subject: desarrollo rural
subject: typical products
subject: informative asymmetry
subject: rural development

description: Los productos tipicos se consideran tanto un recurso como una esperanza para todo la colectividad europea. un recurso porque representan una parte importante del patrimonio productivo y cultural de muchas regiones rurales europeas, y una esperanza porque constituyen, precisamente por su capacidad para satisfacer a multiples tipos de consumidores, una palanca economica en la que basar politicas de desarrollo a escala local y, sobre todo, a escala de regiones rurales. Por consiguiente, este trabajo tiene dos objectivos. El primero es ilustrar las principales caracteristicas economicas de los productos tipicos y, por tanto, las posibles estrategias que pueden adoptar consumidores y productores, respectivamente, ante la posibilidad de utilizar y producir un bien de elevada calidad intrinseca, maximizando, asi, su nivel de utilidad. El segundo objectivo consiste en ilustrar por que los productos tipicos requieren una accion de gobernanze fuerte que permita la aplicacion de politicas de desarrollo local con el objectivo de redistribuir el beneficio resultante de la produccion y la comercializacion de estos productos. Todo lo expuesto de forma teorica se ejemplifica mediante el analisis de un estudio de caso representado por el Culatello di Zibello DOP (pernil de cerdo curado). Este producto representa, en positivo y en negatico, un ejemplo significativo de como un grupo de productores locales trataron de revalorizar su producto y el territorio de origen del mismo adoptando politicas de proteccion de la calidad y chocando con otras tipolodias de actores, que, a pesar de pertenecer al sector, prefieren politicas de sector a politicas de revalorizacion territorial...Typical products are at one time considered a resource and a hope for the whole European Community. A resource, since they represent an important part of the productive and cultural heritage of many European rural areas and an opportunity- thanks to their potential in satisfying multiple typologies of consumers- since they are considered an economic lever which local and regional (especially for the rural regions) development policies must be founded on. The aim of this work is twofold. First of all, it aims at illustrating the main economic features characterizing the typical products and the potential strategies which consumers and producers can respectively implement, when facing the option of using and producing goods with high intrinsic quality, thus maximizing their own level of usefulness. The second goal moves directly from these strategies and aims at explaining why the local development policies endeavour to distribute the income yielded by the production of the typical products, through collective behaviours which emerge as governance actions.
Światowy rynek jabłek i zagęszczonego soku jabłkowego
Creators: name: Bugała, Anna
name: Bugała, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: apples
subject: apple juice concentrate
subject: production
subject: exports
subject: imports
subject: / jabłka
subject: koncentrat soku jabłkowego
subject: produkcja
subject: eksport
subject: import

description: The paper concerns current situation and major changes on the world market of apples and concentrated apple juice over the period of 2002-2012. Largest producers, exporters and importers were described, with particular focus on new market players that are of growing importance as regards the market share in trade. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono sytuację i najważniejsze zmiany na światowym rynku jabłek oraz zagęszczonego soku jabłkowego w latach 2002-2012. Zdiagnozowano największych producentów, eksporterów i importerów tych produktów. Szczególna uwaga została poświęcona nowym uczestnikom rynku, mającym coraz większe znaczenie w światowych obrotach jabłkami i koncentratem soku jabłkowego.
A Multi-Core Fibre Photonic Lantern Based Spectrograph for Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Betters, Christopher H.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Sukkarieh, Salah
name: Gris-Sanchez, Itandehui
name: Leon-Saval, Sergio G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the development of a compact (volume $\approx$ 100\:cm$^3$), multimode diffraction-limited Raman spectrograph and probe designed to be compact as possible. The spectrograph uses `off the shelf' optics, a custom 3D-printed two-part housing and harnesses a multi-core fibre (MCF) photonic lantern (multimode to few-mode converter), which slices a large 40~\textmu m multimode input into a near-diffraction-limited 6~\textmu m aperture. Our unique design utilises the hexagonal geometry of our MCF, permitting high multimode collection efficiency with near-diffraction-limited performance in a compact design. Our approach does not require a complex reformatter or mask and thus preserves spectral information and throughput when forming the entrance slit of the spectrograph. We demonstrate the technology over the interval 800~nm to 940~nm (200~cm$^{-1}$ to 2000~cm$^{-1}$) with a resolution of 0.3\:nm (4\:cm$^{-1}$), but other spectral regions and resolutions from the UV to the near infrared are also possible. We demonstrate the performance of our system by recording the Raman spectra of several compounds, including the pharmaceuticals paracetamol and ibuprofen.
description: 4 pages; Accepted in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Relacja ziemia-praca w warunkach finansowego wsparcia rolnictwa na przykładzie wybranych krajów świata i Unii Europejskiej–15 po 1986 r.
Creators: name: Czyżewski, Andrzej
name: Kułyk, Piotr
name: Czyżewski, Andrzej
name: Kułyk, Piotr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: agriculture
subject: resources allocation
subject: interventionism in agriculture
subject: / rolnictwo
subject: alokacja zasobów
subject: interwencjonizm w rolnictwie

description: In the article one presented changes in the resource allocation of the land and the agricultural labour in 30 countries. One paid attention on the differentiation in these processes in countries. We presented dominant processes and curiosities. One evidenced the meaning of the financial support on the resource allocation in the agriculture. We presented the dependence among changes of the financial support and with changes of the supply of the work. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono zmiany zachodzące w alokacji zasobów ziemi i pracy w rolnictwie w 30. krajach, w tym UE-15. Zwrócono uwagę na zróżnicowanie w zachodzących przekształceniach w poszczególnych państwach wskazując na procesy dominujące i występujące osobliwości. Wskazano na znaczenie finansowego wsparcia na alokację zasobów w rolnictwie. Przedstawiono zależność pomiędzy jego zmianami a zmianami zasobu pracy, podkreślając, iż impulsy fiskalne oddziaływały na dynamikę realokacji tych zasobów.
Constructing Human Motion Manifold with Sequential Networks
Creators: name: Jang, Deok-Kyeong
name: Lee, Sung-Hee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U05 (Primary), 68T07 (Secondary)

description: This paper presents a novel recurrent neural network-based method to construct a latent motion manifold that can represent a wide range of human motions in a long sequence. We introduce several new components to increase the spatial and temporal coverage in motion space while retaining the details of motion capture data. These include new regularization terms for the motion manifold, combination of two complementary decoders for predicting joint rotations and joint velocities, and the addition of the forward kinematics layer to consider both joint rotation and position errors. In addition, we propose a set of loss terms that improve the overall quality of the motion manifold from various aspects, such as the capability of reconstructing not only the motion but also the latent manifold vector, and the naturalness of the motion through adversarial loss. These components contribute to creating compact and versatile motion manifold that allows for creating new motions by performing random sampling and algebraic operations, such as interpolation and analogy, in the latent motion manifold.
description: 11 pages, It will be published at Computer Graphics Forum
การฝึกหัดโขนพระเบื้องต้น
Creators: name: ธนกร สุวรรณอำภา
Publisher: name: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์ โครงการบัณฑิตศึกษา สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนศิลป์
Year: 2021
Subjects: การฝึกหัดโขนพระเบื้องต้น, โขนพระ

description: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์, 1, 3, 64-79
เอกลักษณ์ทางเดี่ยวปี่ใน เพลงแขกมอญ สามชั้น ของสายพระยาเสนาะดุริยางค์ (แช่ม สุนทรวาทิน)
Creators: name: พงศธร สุธรรม
Publisher: name: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์ โครงการบัณฑิตศึกษา สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนศิลป์
Year: 2021
Subjects: เดี่ยวปี่ใน, เพลงแขกมอญ สามชั้น, พระยาเสนาะดุริยางค์ (แช่ม สุนทรวาทิน)

description: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์, 1, 3, 80-95
การศึกษาความต้านทานการสึกหรอและโครงสร้างจุลภาคของแนวเชื่อมพอกผิวทองเหลืองที่ผ่านกระบวนการแล่นประสาน
Creators: name: วิโรจน์ ฉัตรเกษ
Publisher: name: ์Nakhon Phanom University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Wear Resistance
Microstructure
Brass
Brazing

description: Journal of Engineering Technology Access, 1, 2, 1-10
On the radiation gauge for spin-1 perturbations in Kerr-Newman spacetime
Creators: name: Hollands, Stefan
name: Toomani, Vahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend previous work [arXiv:1908.09095] to the case of Maxwell's equations with a source. Our work shows how to construct a retarded vector potential for the Maxwell field on the Kerr-Newman background in a radiation gauge. As in our previous work, the vector potential has a "reconstructed" term obtained from a Hertz potential solving Teukolsky's equation with a source, and a "correction" term which is obtainable by a simple integration along outgoing principal null rays. The singularity structure of our vector potential is discussed in the case of a point particle source.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor revisions
Additional file 2 of Effects of multidomain versus single-domain training on executive control and memory in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Soledad
name: Rieker, Jennifer A.
name: Mayas, Julia
name: Prieto, Antonio
name: Toril, Pilar
name: Jiménez, María Pilar
name: Reales, José Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table of items found in the WHO trial registry data.
Analysing the Needs of Homeless People Using Feature Selection and Mining Association Rules
Creators: name: Alcalde-Llergo, José M.
name: García-Martínez, Carlos
name: Vaquero-Abellán, Manuel
name: Aparicio-Martínez, Pilar
name: Yeguas-Bolívar, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Homelessness is a social and health problem with great repercussions in Europe. Many non-governmental organisations help homeless people by collecting and analysing large amounts of information about them. However, these tasks are not always easy to perform, and hinder other of the organisations duties. The SINTECH project was created to tackle this issue proposing two different tools: a mobile application to quickly and easily collect data; and a software based on artificial intelligence which obtains interesting information from the collected data. The first one has been distributed to some Spanish organisations which are using it to conduct surveys of homeless people. The second tool implements different feature selection and association rules mining methods. These artificial intelligence techniques have allowed us to identify the most relevant features and some interesting association rules from previously collected homeless data.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, MetroXRAINE 2022
A simple relationship for the spectro-temporal structure of bursts from FRB 121102
Creators: name: Rajabi, Fereshteh
name: Chamma, Mohammed A.
name: Wyenberg, Christopher M.
name: Mathews, Abhilash
name: Houde, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple dynamical and relativistic model to explain the spectro-temporal structure often displayed by repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). We show how this model can account for the downward frequency drift in a sequence of sub-bursts of increasing arrival time (the "sad trombone" effect) and their tendency for exhibiting a reduced pulse width with increasing frequency of observation. Most importantly, this model also predicts a systematic inverse relationship between the (steeper) slope of the frequency drift observed within a single sub-burst and its temporal duration. Using already published data for FRB 121102 we find and verify the relationship predicted by this model. We therefore argue that the overall behaviour observed for this object as a function of frequency is consistent with an underlying narrow-band emission process, where the wide-band nature of the measured FRB spectrum is due to relativistic motions. Although this scenario and the simple dynamics we consider could be applied to other theories, they are well-suited for a model based upon Dicke's superradiance as the physical process responsible for FRB radiation in this and similar sources.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication MNRAS
Dielectric Screening by 2D Substrates
Creators: name: Noori, Keian
name: Cheng, Nicholas Lin Quan
name: Xuan, Fengyuan
name: Quek, Su Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials are increasingly being used as active components in nanoscale devices. Many interesting properties of 2D materials stem from the reduced and highly non-local electronic screening in two dimensions. While electronic screening within 2D materials has been studied extensively, the question still remains of how 2D substrates screen charge perturbations or electronic excitations adjacent to them. Thickness-dependent dielectric screening properties have recently been studied using electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) experiments. However, it was suggested that some of the thickness-dependent trends were due to extrinsic effects. Similarly, Kelvin probe measurements (KPM) indicate that charge fluctuations are reduced when BN slabs are placed on SiO$_2$, but it is unclear if this effect is due to intrinsic screening from BN. In this work, we use first principles calculations to study the fully non-local dielectric screening properties of 2D material substrates. Our simulations give results in good qualitative agreement with those from EFM experiments, for hexagonal boron nitride (BN), graphene and MoS$_2$, indicating that the experimentally observed thickness-dependent screening effects are intrinsic to the 2D materials. We further investigate explicitly the role of BN in lowering charge potential fluctuations arising from charge impurities on an underlying SiO$_2$ substrate, as observed in the KPM experiments. 2D material substrates can also dramatically change the HOMO-LUMO gaps of adsorbates, especially for small molecules, such as benzene. We propose a reliable and very quick method to predict the HOMO-LUMO gap of small physisorbed molecules on 2D and 3D substrates, using only the band gap of the substrate and the gas phase gap of the molecule.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, Supplementary Information
MLM: A Benchmark Dataset for Multitask Learning with Multiple Languages and Modalities
Creators: name: Armitage, Jason
name: Kacupaj, Endri
name: Tahmasebzadeh, Golsa
name: Swati
name: Maleshkova, Maria
name: Ewerth, Ralph
name: Lehmann, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce the MLM (Multiple Languages and Modalities) dataset - a new resource to train and evaluate multitask systems on samples in multiple modalities and three languages. The generation process and inclusion of semantic data provide a resource that further tests the ability for multitask systems to learn relationships between entities. The dataset is designed for researchers and developers who build applications that perform multiple tasks on data encountered on the web and in digital archives. A second version of MLM provides a geo-representative subset of the data with weighted samples for countries of the European Union. We demonstrate the value of the resource in developing novel applications in the digital humanities with a motivating use case and specify a benchmark set of tasks to retrieve modalities and locate entities in the dataset. Evaluation of baseline multitask and single task systems on the full and geo-representative versions of MLM demonstrate the challenges of generalising on diverse data. In addition to the digital humanities, we expect the resource to contribute to research in multimodal representation learning, location estimation, and scene understanding.
D6.3: Library of KERs & Stakeholder Mapping
Creators: name: Belluati, Niccolò
name: Albanese, Niccolò
name: Moresco, Erica
name: Crippa, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Key Exploitable Results
Stakeholder Mapping

description: Deliverable D6.3 of the SUPERSHINE project focuses on the identification and analysis of KeyExploitable Results (KERs) and the mapping and analysis of stakeholders involved in the project’svalue chains. This deliverable is essential for laying the groundwork for effective dissemination andexploitation strategies that aim to maximize the impact of the project’s outcomes during andbeyond its execution.
Shareability of Quantum Steering and its Relation with Entanglement
Creators: name: Paul, Biswajit
name: Mukherjee, Kaushiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Steerability is a characteristic of quantum correlations lying in between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. Understanding how these steering correlations can be shared between different parties has profound applications in ensuring security of quantum communication protocols. Here we show that at most two bipartite reduced states of a three qubit state can violate the three settings CJWR linear steering inequality contrary to two settings linear steering inequality. This result explains that quantum steering correlations have limited shareability properties and can sometimes even be nonmonogamous. In contrast to the two setting measurement scenario, three setting scenario turns out to be more useful to develop deeper understanding of shareability of tripartite steering correlations. Apart from distribution of steering correlations, several relations between reduced bipartite steering, different measures of bipartite entanglement of reduced states and genuine tripartite entanglement are presented here. The results enable detection of different kind of tripartite entanglement.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
First-principles investigation of the Ni-Fe-Al system
Creators: name: Lechermann, Frank
name: Faehnle, Manfred
name: Sanchez, Juan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By combining ab-initio electron theory and statistical mechanics, the physical properties of the ternary intermetallic system Ni-Fe-Al in the ground state and at finite temperatures were investigated. The Ni-Fe-Al system is not only of high technological interest, but exhibits also rich physics, e.g., a delicate interplay between structure and magnetism over a wide composition range and substantial electronic correlations which is challenging for modern electronic structure methods. The new Stuttgart ab-initio mixed-basis pseudopotential code in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) was used to determine the energetics in the ground state. Therewith, in combination with the cluster expansion (CE) method a representation of the energy landscape at $T$=0 over the whole Gibbs triangle was elaborated. At finite temperatures, the cluster variation method (CVM) in tetrahedron approximation was employed in order to calculate the ab-initio ternary phase diagram on the bcc and fcc lattice. Thereby, a miscibility gap in the ternary B2 phase was theoretically verified.
description: 27 pages
Additional file 3 of Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of tsetse flies of the palpalis group in Congo Brazzaville based on mitochondrial cox1 gene sequences
Creators: name: Mayoke, Abraham
name: Shadrack M. Muya
name: Bateta, Rosemary
name: Mireji, Paul O.
name: Sylvance O. Okoth
name: Onyoyo, Samuel G.
name: Auma, Joanna E.
name: Ouma, Johnson O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. a Amplification of the cox1 gene for G. fuscipes (s.l.) using the COIF1/COIR1 primer set. Expected amplicon size: 570 bp. b Amplification of cox1 gene for G. p. palpalis using the CI-J-2195/CULR primer set. Expected amplicon size: 850 bp.
Quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around distorted black holes
Creators: name: Deligianni, Efthimia
name: Kunz, Jutta
name: Nedkova, Petya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk around the distorted Schwarzschild black hole in the framework of the resonant models. We confine ourselves to the case of a quadrupole distortion which can be caused for example by the accreting matter flow in the vicinity of the compact object. For the purpose we examine the linear stability of the circular geodesic orbits in the equatorial plane and derive analytical expressions for the radial and vertical epicyclic frequencies. We investigate their properties in comparison with the isolated Schwarzschild black hole. Due to the influence of the external matter the vertical epicyclic frequency is not always positive anymore, and the stability of the circular orbits is determined by the interplay between both of the frequencies. As a result, the stable circular orbits do not extend to infinity, but are confined to a finite annular region between an inner and an outer marginally stable orbit. In addition, the degeneracy between the vertical epicyclic and the orbital frequency, which is characteristic for the Schwarzschild solution, is broken, and there are regions in the parametric space where the radial epicyclic frequency is larger than the vertical one. All these properties allow for much more diverse types of non-linear resonances to be excited than for the isolated Schwarzschild black hole, which can provide an explanation for the observed 3:2 ratio between the twin-peak frequencies of the quasi-periodic oscillations from the accretion disk.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures
Belief Miner: A Methodology for Discovering Causal Beliefs and Causal Illusions from General Populations
Creators: name: Salim, Shahreen
name: Hoque, Md Naimul
name: Mueller, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Causal belief is a cognitive practice that humans apply everyday to reason about cause and effect relations between factors, phenomena, or events. Like optical illusions, humans are prone to drawing causal relations between events that are only coincidental (i.e., causal illusions). Researchers in domains such as cognitive psychology and healthcare often use logistically expensive experiments to understand causal beliefs and illusions. In this paper, we propose Belief Miner, a crowdsourcing method for evaluating people's causal beliefs and illusions. Our method uses the (dis)similarities between the causal relations collected from the crowds and experts to surface the causal beliefs and illusions. Through an iterative design process, we developed a web-based interface for collecting causal relations from a target population. We then conducted a crowdsourced experiment with 101 workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific using this interface and analyzed the collected data with Belief Miner. We discovered a variety of causal beliefs and potential illusions, and we report the design implications for future research.
Protease resistance of ex vivo amyloid fibrils implies the proteolytic selection of disease-associated fibril morphologies
Creators: name: Schönfelder, Jonathan
name: Pfeiffer, Peter Benedikt
name: Pradhan, Tejaswini
name: Bijzet, Johan
name: Hazenberg, Bouke P. C.
name: Schönland, Stefan O.
name: Hegenbart, Ute
name: Reif, Bernd
name: Haupt, Christian
name: Fändrich, Marcus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Several studies recently showed that ex vivo fibrils from patient or animal tissue were structurally different from in vitro formed fibrils from the same polypeptide chain. Analysis of serum amyloid A (SAA) and Aβ-derived amyloid fibrils additionally revealed that ex vivo fibrils were more protease stable than in vitro fibrils. These observations gave rise to the proteolytic selection hypothesis that suggested that disease-associated amyloid fibrils were selected inside the body by their ability to resist endogenous clearance mechanisms. We here show, for more than twenty different fibril samples, that ex vivo fibrils are more protease stable than in vitro fibrils. These data support the idea of a proteolytic selection of pathogenic amyloid fibril morphologies and help to explain why only few amino acid sequences lead to amyloid diseases, although many, if not all, polypeptide chains can form amyloid fibrils in vitro.
Enhancement of magnetic order in the incommensurate phase of Mg-doped CuGeO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Stock, C.
name: Wakimoto, S.
name: Birgeneau, R. J.
name: Danilkin, S.
name: Klenke, J.
name: Smeibidl, P.
name: Vorderwisch, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present elastic neutron scattering results at high magnetic fields for Mg-doped CuGeO$_{3}$. For low magnesium concentrations, where a spin-Peierls phase is present, we find an enhancement of the long range antiferromagnetic order in the structural incommensurate phase induced by a high magnetic field. In the incommensurate phase, the Néel temperature increases with field leading to a gain in the magnetic Bragg peak intensity at low temperatures. We also find that the magnetic Bragg peaks remain commensurate even though the structure is incommensurate at high magnetic fields due to the formation of solitons. We interpret these results in terms of the solitons formed at high-magnetic fields effectively acting as doped impurities. Our results point to a strongly disordered ground state with the the antiferromagnetic order localized around impurity sites.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Consolidation with a short course of daratumumab in patients with AL amyloidosis or light chain deposition disease
Creators: name: Kastritis, Efstathios
name: Rousakis, Pantelis
name: Kostopoulos, Ioannis V.
name: Gavriatopoulou, Maria
name: Theodorakakou, Foteini
name: Fotiou, Despina
name: Dialoupi, Ioanna
name: Migkou, Magdalini
name: Roussou, Maria
name: Kanellias, Nikolaos
name: Tselegkidi, Maria-Irini
name: Eleutherakis-Papaiakovou, Evangelos
name: Papanikolaou, Asimina
name: Gakiopoulou, Charikleia
name: Psimenou, Erasmia
name: Spyropoulou-Vlachou, Marylin
name: Gatou, Anastasia
name: Terpos, Evangelos
name: Tsitsilonis, Ourania
name: Dimopoulos, Meletios A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Daratumumab has major and rapid activity in AL amyloidosis with favourable toxicity. We used as a consolidation a short course of daratumumab in 25 patients with AL amyloidosis or light chain deposition disease (LCDD), who had not achieved a haematologic complete response (hemCR) after standard therapy with bortezomib, cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone (VCD). We evaluated minimal residual disease (MRD) and changes in the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment before and after consolidation using next generation flow cytometry (NGF). At the time of consolidation, 21 patients were in very good partial response (VGPR) and four in partial response (PR); all had detectable MRD. One month after consolidation completion, 8 patients (32%) achieved a hemCR, of whom 5 (20%) became also MRD negative. In the BM, we observed significant changes in B-cell precursors, naïve B-cells, T-cells, CD27+ NK & NKT cells, mast cells and erythroblasts. After a median follow-up of 25 months, none of the patients in hemCR has relapsed and all have achieved an organ response; a haematologic relapse occurred in 6/17 patients that did not achieve hemCR. In conclusion, consolidation with a short course of daratumumab can improve depth of response in patients with AL amyloidosis or LCDD and significantly affects BM environment.
Reconstructing historical abundances of exploited marine mammals at the global scale
Creators: name: Christensen, Line Bang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The relationship between humans and marine mammals extends back for centuries and covers a multitude of facets; literature and spirituality, necessities (food) and luxuries (corsets). Their exploitation history changed from small-scale hunting for foodlfur, to large commercial ventures for oil, to limited hunting as marine mammals became the poster child for environmental movements. The International Whaling Commission, national and regional bodies assess the current status of marine mammals. Information on stock size relative to carrying capacities is, however, hard to come by. Assessments to date have been limited to a relatively small number of stocks/species because data quality, availability and politics. To address concerns over stock status, the analyses have to be expanded to all exploited populations. Employing a Bayesian approach to stochastic stock reduction analysis, I construct probability distributions over historical stock sizes. The method allows me to use historical catch time series to estimate a distribution over population parameters, the intrinsic rate of growth and carrying capacity, that give rise to extant populations. I tested this stock reconstruction approach on simulated data sets generated from a reference model, and then applied it to available catch and abundance data. Simulation tests indicate that parameter estimates were unbiased. Globally, I find that aggregated information on all marine mammal populations indicate a decline of 22% (0-62%) in numbers, and 76% (58-86%) in biomass. The decline has been greatest for the great whales, with a 64% (40-79%) decline in numbers, and an 81% (69-89%) decline in biomass. My estimates are consistent with published estimates of carrying capacity. These estimates are intended to provide a status overview, rather than direct management advice, affording us the ability to begin calculating how humans have impacted these large fauna in their marine ecosystems. The International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) predicates that stocks must be maintained at their most productive levels. Also, a moratorium on whaling exists, awaiting better science. This represents the fundamental conflict in interest between pro-whaling nations and those with morallethical opposition to whaling, intent on upholding the moratorium. Results in this thesis indicate that the Japanese hunt of minke whales could increase and abide by the ICRW, yet the majority of western IWC signatories want to see commercial hunting banned altogether.
Additional file 1 of Effects of multidomain versus single-domain training on executive control and memory in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Soledad
name: Rieker, Jennifer A.
name: Mayas, Julia
name: Prieto, Antonio
name: Toril, Pilar
name: Jiménez, María Pilar
name: Reales, José Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) checklist.
Przyszłe członkostwo Albanii w Unii Europejskiej w kontekście roli rolnictwa we wzroście zrównoważonym
Creators: name: Greta, Marianna
name: Tomczak-Woźniak, Ewa
name: Greta, Marianna
name: Tomczak-Woźniak, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: farming
subject: Albania
subject: organic production
subject: / rolnictwo
subject: produkcja organiczna

description: The study is regarding the analysis of the development potential of the Albanian farming in the context of the sustainable growth. Farming being characteristic of it with specific backwardness towards countries of the European Union, is simultaneously high ecological, natural and having an enormous potential at its disposal. Therefor in the study was an attempt to analyse the situation of the agriculture sector in Albania. For that purpose documented sources were used (analyses, reports), and own study were also conducted research to the subject of the level of the competitiveness of the Albanian agriculture sector and the identification of potential threats for the farming in Albania. Findings authorise to generalize, that peculiar weakness of Albanian farming, appropriately protected with interlude periods, can contribute to its spectacular success, competing with high quality environmentally friendly products. / Synopsis. Opracowanie dotyczy analizy możliwości rozwojowych rolnictwa albańskiego w kontekście wzrostu zrównoważonego. Rolnictwo to charakteryzujące się swoistym zacofaniem w stosunku do krajów Unii Europejskiej, jest jednocześnie wysoko ekologiczne, naturalne i dysponujące ogromnym potencjałem. Z tego też względu w opracowaniu podjęto próbę analizy sytuacji sektora rolnego Albanii. W tym celu wykorzystano materiały źródłowe (analizy, raporty), a także przeprowadzono badania własne nt. poziomu konkurencyjności albańskiego sektora rolnego oraz identyfikacji potencjalnych zagrożeń dla rolnictwa w Albanii. Wyniki badań upoważniają do uogólnienia, iż specyficzna słabość rolnictwa Albanii, odpowiednio asekurowanego okresami przejściowymi, może przyczynić się do jej spektakularnego sukcesu, konkurując wysokiej jakości produktami ekologicznymi.
Patients with cardiac amyloidosis have a greater neurohormonal activation than those with non-amyloidotic heart failure
Creators: name: Vergaro, Giuseppe
name: Aimo, Alberto
name: Campora, Alessandro
name: Castiglione, Vincenzo
name: Prontera, Concetta
name: Masotti, Silvia
name: Musetti, Veronica
name: Chianca, Michela
name: Valleggi, Alessandro
name: Spini, Valentina
name: Emdin, Michele
name: Passino, Claudio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Neurohormonal activation has never been investigated in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (CA). Forty-seven patients with amyloid light-chain (AL)-CA and 61 with transthyretin (ATTR)-CA were matched to non-amyloidotic heart failure (HF) patients based on age, sex, left ventricular ejection fraction ranges, renal function and HF therapies. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), norepinephrine and renin were dosed. The primary and secondary endpoints were 1-year cardiovascular death or HF hospitalisation, and 5-year cardiovascular death, respectively. Patients with AL-CA had a 10-fold higher NT-proBNP than HF patients (6548 ng/L [2059–15,097] vs. 692 [243–2241], p p = 0.047). Patients with ATTR-CA had higher NT-proBNP (3984 ng/L [2275–9505] vs. 1751 [470–4768], p = 0.006), norepinephrine (552 ng/L [344–855] vs. 441 [323–601], p = 0.020), and renin (14 mU/L [8–80] vs. 10 [4–34], p = 0.017). Patients with AL- or ATTR-CA had more often 2 or 3 neurohormones above the corresponding upper reference limits than matched HF patients. NT-proBNP and aldosterone were univariate predictors of the primary endpoint in patients with ATTR-CA, but not in matched controls. NT-proBNP and renin predicted the secondary endpoint in patients with AL-CA, but not in matched controls. Patients with CA display a neurohormonal activation, with some prognostic significance.
Height Gap Conjectures, $D$-Finiteness, and Weak Dynamical Mordell-Lang
Creators: name: Bell, Jason P.
name: Hu, Fei
name: Satriano, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In previous work, the first author, Ghioca, and the third author introduced a broad dynamical framework giving rise to many classical sequences from number theory and algebraic combinatorics. Specifically, these are sequences of the form $f(Φ^n(x))$, where $Φ\colon X\to X$ and $f\colon X\to\mathbb{P}^1$ are rational maps defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ and $x\in X(\overline{\mathbb{Q}})$ is a point whose forward orbit avoids the indeterminacy loci of $Φ$ and $f$. They conjectured that if the sequence is infinite, then $\limsup \frac{h(f(Φ^n(x)))}{\log n} > 0$. They also made a corresponding conjecture for $\liminf$ and showed that it implies the Dynamical Mordell-Lang Conjecture. In this paper, we prove the $\limsup$ conjecture as well as the $\liminf$ conjecture away from a set of density $0$. As applications, we prove results concerning the growth rate of coefficients of $D$-finite power series as well as the Dynamical Mordell-Lang Conjecture up to a set of density $0$.
The abundance of primordial black holes from the global 21cm signal and extragalactic gamma-ray background
Creators: name: Yang, Yupeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe can accret dark matter particles due to gravity and form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). The theoretical researches and simulations have shown that the density profile of dark matter in UCMHs is in the form of $ρ(r) \sim r^{-2.25}$. Compared with the popular dark matter halo model, e.g. NFW model, dark matter annihilation rate is larger in UCMHs. Considering dark matter annihilation, there is a maximum core density $ρ_{\rm max}$ in UCMHs which has been treated independent on redshift. While in this work, we point out that $ρ_{\rm max}$ depends on redshift and dark matter annihilation rate in UCMHs also changes with time. We re-investigate the $γ$-ray flux from UCMHs due to dark matter annihilation and focus on their contributions to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Utilizing the EGB data of Fermi, the constraints on the abundance of PBHs are derived, $Ω_{\rm PBH,EGB} \lesssim 2\times 10^{-8}$. Motivated by the recent observations of global 21cm signals by the EDGES experiment, we investigate the influences of dark matter annihilation in UCMHs on global 21cm signals and derive the constraints on the abundance of PBHs, $Ω_{\rm PBH,21cm} \lesssim 2\times 10^{-10}$. The derived constraints are valid for mass range of $10^{-6} M_{\odot} \lesssim M_{\rm PBH} \lesssim 10^{3} M_{\odot}$.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Eur.Phys.J.Plus 135, 690 (2020). (https://rdcu.be/b6H7X)
Rola produktów tradycyjnych i regionalnych w budowaniu konkurencyjnej oferty regionu małopolskiego w Unii Europejskiej na przykładzie „Obwarzanka Krakowskiego”
Creators: name: Grębowiec, Mariusz
name: Grębowiec, Mariusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: traditional and regional products
subject: PDO
subject: PGI
subject: TSG
subject: obwarzanek krakowski
subject: / produkt tradycyjny i regionalny
subject: ChNP
subject: ChOG
subject: GTS

description: This is article important is the position of traditional and regional products in the purchasing decisions of Polish shoppers. The role of the Common Agricultural Policy, which iniciated the idea of high quality unique products was shown Subsequently the general characteristics of the European Union’s system of registration and protection of traditional and regional food was shown. The characteristics of the Małopolska region and traditional products produced over there, with the emphasis on “obwarzanek krakowski”, was brought closer. / Synopsis. W opracowaniu przedstawiono znaczenie roli produktów tradycyjnych i regionalnych w decyzjach nabywczych konsumentów. Przedstawiono rolę Wspólnej Polityki Rolnej, która zapoczątkowała ideę unikalnych produktów wysokiej jakości. Następnie przedstawiono ogólną charakterystykę europejskiego systemu rejestracji i ochrony produktów żywnościowych objętych wspólnotowym znakowaniem. Przybliżono charakterystykę regionu małopolskiego oraz produktów tradycyjnych i regionalnych wytwarzanych w tym regionie, ze szczególną uwagą traktując obwarzanka krakowskiego.
Additional file 1 of Psychosocial interventions targeting mental health in pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents: a systematic review
Creators: name: Laurenzi, Christina A.
name: Gordon, Sarah
name: Abrahams, Nina
name: Toit, Stefani Du
name: Bradshaw, Melissa
name: Brand, Amanda
name: G. J. Melendez-Torres
name: Tomlinson, Mark
name: Ross, David A.
name: Servili, Chiara
name: Carvajal-Aguirre, Liliana
name: Lai, Joanna
name: Dua, Tarun
name: Fleischmann, Alexandra
name: Skeen, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.