cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CcpA-Independent Glucose Regulation of Lactate Dehydrogenase 1 in Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Richardson, Anthony R.
name: Vitko, Nicholas P.
name: Obrist, Markus W.
name: Crooke, Adrianne K.
name: Tomkovich, Sarah E.
name: Fuller, James R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Lactate Dehydrogenase 1 (Ldh1) is a key enzyme involved in Staphylococcus aureus NO·-resistance. Full ldh1-induction requires the presence of glucose, and mutants lacking the Carbon-Catabolite Protein (CcpA) exhibit decreased ldh1 transcription and diminished Ldh1 activity. The redox-regulator Rex represses ldh1 directly by binding to Rex-sites within the ldh1 promoter (Pldh1). In the absence of Rex, neither glucose nor CcpA affect ldh1 expression implying that glucose/CcpA-mediated activation requires Rex activity. Rex-mediated repression of ldh1 depends on cellular redox status and is maximal when NADH levels are low. However, compared to WT cells, the ΔccpA mutant exhibited impaired redox balance with relatively high NADH levels, yet ldh1 was still poorly expressed. Furthermore, CcpA did not drastically alter Rex transcript levels, nor did glucose or CcpA affect the expression of other Rex-regulated genes indicating that the glucose/CcpA effect is specific for Pldh1. A putative catabolite response element (CRE) is located ∼30 bp upstream of the promoter-distal Rex-binding site in Pldh1. However, CcpA had no affinity for Pldh1 in vitro and a genomic mutation of CRE upstream of Pldh1 in S. aureus had no affect on Ldh1 expression in vivo. In contrast to WT, ΔccpA S. aureus preferentially consumes non-glycolytic carbon sources. However when grown in defined medium with glucose as the primary carbon source, ΔccpA mutants express high levels of Ldh1 compared to growth in media devoid of glucose. Thus, the actual consumption of glucose stimulates Ldh1 expression rather than direct CcpA interaction at Pldh1.
Parental support and meaning in life
Creators: name: Yuan, Rong
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This diary study investigated the relationships between perceived parental support and components of meaning in life (i.e., search for meaning and presence of meaning) among adolescents. This study also tested whether personal (i.e., adolescent gender) and contextual (i.e., family subjective socioeconomic status, FSSS) factors moderated these links.
Scatter 2019
Creators: name: Ferguson, John
name: Griswold, Erik
name: Bardini, Paul
name: Della-Bosca, Daniel
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: Performing Arts
subject: 200212 Screen and Media Culture
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: Scatter 2019 is a solar-powered installation, sonic composition, and artistic research project by John Ferguson, Erik Griswold, Paul Bardini, and Daniel Della-Bosca. Sound emanates from twelve loudspeakers that hang from six motorised rotors, which are each mounted at a height of four metres on a freestanding structure. By walking and listening beneath and between each mechanism, visitors experience a unique sonic adventure. The project was commissioned by Tourism and Events Queensland through Brisbane Powerhouse for the inaugural Curiocity Brisbane Festival. In March 2019 Scatter was installed in the South Bank Parklands for a period of three weeks. Over 1000 visitors a day interacted with the installation and during World Science Festival Brisbane approximately 3000 visitors per day were counted. Scatter 2019 appeared courtesy of Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Queensland College of Art at Griffith University. Scatter 2019 is a playful embracement of rotational dynamics that also highlights the Doppler effect and celebrates the directionality of sound waves by exploring sound-in-motion. Each rotor is controlled by an embedded computer and microcontroller, the system is programmed to have periods of acceleration, deceleration, and pause. Computer-controlled lighting makes the installation effective at night and visually articulates the physics of sound while querying the relationship between sonic and visual modalities. Various predetermined compositional segments are activated by individually seeded random number generators so the length and order of each section is unpredictable, meaning the emergent composition is never the same twice. Each Scatter unit runs from a deep cycle battery that is charged by two solar panels, this enables Scatter to run after dark; in Brisbane during March sunset is before 6pm and the installation needed to run from 8am till 10pm every day, two solar panels provide sufficient energy to run the system and charge the batteries to full capacity before nightfall (this proved successful even when we experienced several wet and rainy days in a row). The sound-world is created digitally through a combination of audio samples and synthesis using graphical programming environment Pure data (Pd). This runs live (via libpd) on Bela Platform, with audio, motor speed and direction of rotation, and LED lighting all on Bela Platform. Additionally, a Teensy microcontroller is connected to Bela via USB in order to access the Neopixel library and control the LEDs via MIDI from Pd. A slip ring is utilised to feed power and signal through the motor axle to the moving rotor.
The quest for a Quantum Neural Network
Creators: name: Schuld, M.
name: Sinayskiy, I.
name: Petruccione, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the overwhelming success in the field of quantum information in the last decades, the "quest" for a Quantum Neural Network (QNN) model began in order to combine quantum computing with the striking properties of neural computing. This article presents a systematic approach to QNN research, which so far consists of a conglomeration of ideas and proposals. It outlines the challenge of combining the nonlinear, dissipative dynamics of neural computing and the linear, unitary dynamics of quantum computing. It establishes requirements for a meaningful QNN and reviews existing literature against these requirements. It is found that none of the proposals for a potential QNN model fully exploits both the advantages of quantum physics and computing in neural networks. An outlook on possible ways forward is given, emphasizing the idea of Open Quantum Neural Networks based on dissipative quantum computing.
description: Review of Quantum Neural Networks research; 21 pages, 5 figs, 71 Refs
Songs of Inanimate Objects
Creators: name: Ferguson, John
name: Brown, Andrew
name: Della-Bosca, Daniel
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190499 Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190205 Interactive Media

description: The Listening Museum was a single night event held on the 21st of September 2018. It was a ticketed event, and all tickets were sold. The Createworld Exhibition had its opening night on the 28th of November 2018 and continued for 3 days closing on the 30th of November 2018. In 2019 Songs of Inanimate Objects was selected for a one day event as part of Curious Music/CurioCIty Brisbane at Brisbane Power House and video documentation also featured in a Griffith News Story.
title: The European Social Charter Turns 60: Introduction to the Special Section
Creators: name: Mola, Lorenza
name: Boggero, Giovanni
name: Costamagna, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: European Social Charter
subject: Economic and Social Rights
subject: Council of Europe
subject: multi-level human rights protection
subject: multi-sourced human rights
subject: European social charter system

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1489-1494
description: Since it was opened for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe (CoE) on 18 October 1961, the European Social Charter (ESC) has developed into an advanced regional system of economic and social human rights protection, although on different modalities than the European Convention of Human Rights’ system. The ESC’s effectiveness has increased with the quasi-judicial, optional procedure of collective complaints, but further improvement of the ESC control mechanisms has been sought. Moreover, the multiple crises which have affected Europe over the past two decades have highlighted the relevance of ESC guaranteed rights, in the State parties’ legal orders, in relation to EU law, and in the CoE framework. These developments have shown room for potential use as well as a need for wider knowledge of this treaty instrument. After presenting the main features of the ESC system, this Article aims to frame further study on its impact in the multi-sourced and multi-level framework of human rights protection in Europe.
Additional file 1 of A statistical network pre-processing method to improve relevance and significance of gene lists in microarray gene expression studies
Creators: name: Agapito, Giuseppe
name: Milano, Marianna
name: Cannataro, Mario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Provides detailed information about the other investigated GSE data sets.
CCR2 and CD44 Promote Inflammatory Cell Recruitment during Fatty Liver Formation in a Lithogenic Diet Fed Mouse Model
Creators: name: Egan, Charlotte E.
name: Denkers, Eric Y.
name: Daugherity, Erin K.
name: Rogers, Arlin B.
name: Maurer, Kirk J.
name: Abi Abdallah, Delbert S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common disease with a spectrum of presentations. The current study utilized a lithogenic diet model of NAFLD. The diet was fed to mice that are either resistant (AKR) or susceptible (BALB/c and C57BL/6) to hepatitis followed by molecular and flow cytometric analysis. Following this, a similar approach was taken in congenic mice with specific mutations in immunological genes. The initial study identified a significant and profound increase in multiple ligands for the chemokine receptor CCR2 and an increase in CD44 expression in susceptible C57BL/6 (B6) but not resistant AKR mice. Ccr2−/− mice were completely protected from hepatitis and Cd44−/− mice were partially protected. Despite protection from inflammation, both strains displayed similar histological steatosis scores and significant increases in serum liver enzymes. CD45+CD44+ cells bound to hyaluronic acid (HA) in diet fed B6 mice but not Cd44−/− or Ccr2−/− mice. Ccr2−/− mice displayed a diminished HA binding phenotype most notably in monocytes, and CD8+ T-cells. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that absence of CCR2 completely and CD44 partially reduces hepatic leukocyte recruitment. These data also provide evidence that there are multiple redundant CCR2 ligands produced during hepatic lipid accumulation and describes the induction of a strong HA binding phenotype in response to LD feeding in some subsets of leukocytes from susceptible strains.
Constraints on photoevaporation models from (lack of) radio emission in the Corona Australis protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Galván-Madrid, Roberto
name: Liu, Hauyu Baobab
name: Manara, Carlo Felice
name: Forbrich, Jan
name: Pascucci, Ilaria
name: Carrasco-González, Carlos
name: Goddi, Ciriaco
name: Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
name: Takami, Michihiro
name: Testi, Leonardo
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoevaporation due to high-energy stellar photons is thought to be one of the main drivers of protoplanetary disk dispersal. The fully or partially ionized disk surface is expected to produce free-free continuum emission at centimeter (cm) wavelengths that can be routinely detected with interferometers such as the upgraded Very Large Array (VLA). We use deep (rms noise down to 8 $μ$Jy beam$^{-1}$ in the field of view center) 3.5 cm maps of the nearby (130 pc) Corona Australis (CrA) star formation (SF) region to constrain disk photoevaporation models. We find that the radio emission from disk sources in CrA is surprisingly faint. Only 3 out of 10 sources within the field of view are detected, with flux densities of order $10^2$ $μ$Jy. However, a significant fraction of their emission is non-thermal. Typical upper limits for non-detections are $3σ\sim 60~μ$Jy beam$^{-1}$. Assuming analytic expressions for the free-free emission from extreme-UV (EUV) irradiation, we derive stringent upper limits to the ionizing photon luminosity impinging on the disk surface $Φ_\mathrm{EUV}<1-4\times10^{41}$ s$^{-1}$. These limits constrain $Φ_\mathrm{EUV}$ to the low end of the values needed by EUV-driven photoevaporation models to clear protoplanetary disks in the observed few Myr timescale. Therefore, at least in CrA, EUV-driven photoevaporation is not likely to be the main agent of disk dispersal. We also compare the observed X-ray luminosities $L_X$ of disk sources with models in which photoevaporation is driven by such photons. Although predictions are less specific than for the EUV case, most of the observed fluxes (upper limits) are roughly consistent with the (scaled) predictions. Deeper observations, as well as predictions spanning a wider parameter space, are needed to properly test X-ray driven photoevaporation.
description: Accepted as a Letter in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Cell Cycle-Regulated Protein Abundance Changes in Synchronously Proliferating HeLa Cells Include Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing Proteins
Creators: name: Lackey, Patrick E.
name: Marzluff, William F.
name: Lane, Karen R.
name: Yu, Yanbao
name: Chen, Xian
name: Cook, Jeanette Gowen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Cell proliferation involves dramatic changes in DNA metabolism and cell division, and control of DNA replication, mitosis, and cytokinesis have received the greatest attention in the cell cycle field. To catalogue a wider range of cell cycle-regulated processes, we employed quantitative proteomics of synchronized HeLa cells. We quantified changes in protein abundance as cells actively progress from G1 to S phase and from S to G2 phase. We also describe a cohort of proteins whose abundance changes in response to pharmacological inhibition of the proteasome. Our analysis reveals not only the expected changes in proteins required for DNA replication and mitosis but also cell cycle-associated changes in proteins required for biological processes not known to be cell-cycle regulated. For example, many pre-mRNA alternative splicing proteins are down-regulated in S phase. Comparison of this dataset to several other proteomic datasets sheds light on global mechanisms of cell cycle phase transitions and underscores the importance of both phosphorylation and ubiquitination in cell cycle changes.
A DARIAH Impact Case Study: UDigiSH – Digital Practices for the Study of Urban Heritage is cooperating with artists and NGOs to crowdsource local knowledge on built heritage at risk
Creators: name: Artopoulos, Georgios
name: Redaelli, Gaia
name: Wehmeier, Colter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Digital Architectural Heritage
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Augmented Reality
subject: FARO
subject: Citizen Science
subject: Cantieri Culturalli
subject: Patio houses
subject: Cordoba
subject: PAX

description: UDigiSH started as an international cooperation that dates back to 2019* (1), including University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, (Spain), National Lab of Civil Engineering (Portugal), ICOMOS Cyprus, Europa Nostra Cyprus and Israeli Architects Association. The members involved had the common goal of developing a digital method that would: a) enable key actors to exchange views through innovative digital interfaces and share knowledge about challenges that neglected heritage examples in their neighbourhood are facing; and b) allow systematic collection, analysis and linking of descriptive information about this heritage.
Mode coupling and resonance instabilities in quasi-two-dimensional dust clusters in complex plasmas
Creators: name: Qiao, Ke
name: Kong, Jie
name: Carmona, Jorge
name: Matthews, Lorin S.
name: Hyde, Truell W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small quasi-two-dimensional (2D) dust clusters consisting of three to eleven particles are formed in an argon plasma under varying rf power. Their normal modes are investigated through their mode spectra obtained from tracking thermal motion of the particles. Detailed coupling patterns between their horizontal and vertical modes are detected for particle numbers up to seven and discrete instabilities are found for dust clusters with particle number greater than nine, as predicted in previous theory on ion-flow induced mode coupling in small clusters. The instabilities are proven to be induced by resonance between coupled horizontal and vertical normal modes.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Cell Lineage Identification and Stem Cell Culture in a Porcine Model for the Study of Intestinal Epithelial Regeneration
Creators: name: Blikslager, Anthony T.
name: Piedrahita, Jorge A.
name: Williamson, Ian
name: Magness, Scott T.
name: Gonzalez, Liara M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Significant advances in intestinal stem cell biology have been made in murine models; however, anatomical and physiological differences between mice and humans limit mice as a translational model for stem cell based research. The pig has been an effective translational model, and represents a candidate species to study intestinal epithelial stem cell (IESC) driven regeneration. The lack of validated reagents and epithelial culture methods is an obstacle to investigating IESC driven regeneration in a pig model. In this study, antibodies against Epithelial Adhesion Molecule 1 (EpCAM) and Villin marked cells of epithelial origin. Antibodies against Proliferative Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA), Minichromosome Maintenance Complex 2 (MCM2), Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and phosphorylated Histone H3 (pH3) distinguished proliferating cells at various stages of the cell cycle. SOX9, localized to the stem/progenitor cells zone, while HOPX was restricted to the +4/‘reserve’ stem cell zone. Immunostaining also identified major differentiated lineages. Goblet cells were identified by Mucin 2 (MUC2); enteroendocrine cells by Chromogranin A (CGA), Gastrin and Somatostatin; and absorptive enterocytes by carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) and sucrase isomaltase (SIM). Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated morphologic and sub-cellular characteristics of stem cell and differentiated intestinal epithelial cell types. Quantitative PCR gene expression analysis enabled identification of stem/progenitor cells, post mitotic cell lineages, and important growth and differentiation pathways. Additionally, a method for long-term culture of porcine crypts was developed. Biomarker characterization and development of IESC culture in the porcine model represents a foundation for translational studies of IESC-driven regeneration of the intestinal epithelium in physiology and disease.
A semi-Lagrangian Vlasov solver in tensor train format
Creators: name: Kormann, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we derive a semi-Lagrangian scheme for the solution of the Vlasov equation represented as a low-parametric tensor. Grid-based methods for the Vlasov equation have been shown to give accurate results but their use has mostly been limited to simulations in two dimensional phase space due to extensive memory requirements in higher dimensions. Compression of the solution via high-order singular value decomposition can help in reducing the storage requirements and the tensor train (TT) format provides efficient basic linear algebra routines for low-rank representations of tensors. In this paper, we develop interpolation formulas for a semi-Lagrangian solver in TT format. In order to efficiently implement the method, we propose a compression of the matrix representing the interpolation step and an efficient implementation of the Hadamard product. We show numerical simulations for standard test cases in two, four and six dimensional phase space. Depending on the test case, the memory requirements reduce by a factor $10^2-10^3$ in four and a factor $10^5-10^6$ in six dimensions compared to the full-grid method.
Equivariant oriented cohomology of flag varieties
Creators: name: Calmès, Baptiste
name: Zainoulline, Kirill
name: Zhong, Changlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F43, 14M15, 19L41, 55N22, 57T15, 57R85

description: Given an equivariant oriented cohomology theory $h$, a split reductive group $G$, a maximal torus $T$ in $G$, and a parabolic subgroup $P$ containing $T$, we explain how the $T$-equivariant oriented cohomology ring $h_T(G/P)$ can be identified with the dual of a coalgebra defined using exclusively the root datum of $(G,T)$, a set of simple roots defining $P$ and the formal group law of $h$. In two papers [Push-pull operators on the formal affine Demazure algebra and its dual, arXiv:1312.0019] and [A coproduct structure on the formal affine Demazure algebra, arXiv:1209.1676], we studied the properties of this dual and of some related operators by algebraic and combinatorial methods, without any reference to geometry. The present paper can be viewed as a companion paper, that justifies all the definitions of the algebraic objects and operators by explaining how to match them to equivariant oriented cohomology rings endowed with operators constructed using push-forwards and pull-backs along geometric morphisms. Our main tool is the pull-back to the $T$-fixed points of $G/P$ which injects the cohomology ring in question into a direct product of a finite number of copies of the $T$-equivariant oriented cohomology of a point.
description: 26 pages
National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey 1993
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: The current GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The General Social Survey is one of the nation's longest-running surveys of social, cultural and political indicators available today. The dataset encompasses more than four decades of national survey data in one comprehensive data file. The newly released cumulative data file contains individual response coding for over 60,000 respondents and over 6000 variables.
Changes in Mouse Thymus and Spleen after Return from the STS-135 Mission in Space
Creators: name: Cunningham, Christopher E.
name: Jones, Tamako A.
name: Gridley, Daila S.
name: Moldovan, Maria
name: Ferguson, Virginia L.
name: Bateman, Ted A.
name: Stodieck, Louis S.
name: Slater, Jerry M.
name: Mao, Xiao Wen
name: Pecaut, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Our previous results with flight (FLT) mice showed abnormalities in thymuses and spleens that have potential to compromise immune defense mechanisms. In this study, the organs were further evaluated in C57BL/6 mice after Space Shuttle Atlantis returned from a 13-day mission. Thymuses and spleens were harvested from FLT mice and ground controls housed in similar animal enclosure modules (AEM). Organ and body mass, DNA fragmentation and expression of genes related to T cells and cancer were determined. Although significance was not obtained for thymus mass, DNA fragmentation was greater in the FLT group (P<0.01). Spleen mass alone and relative to body mass was significantly decreased in FLT mice (P<0.05). In FLT thymuses, 6/84 T cell-related genes were affected versus the AEM control group (P<0.05; up: IL10, Il18bp, Il18r1, Spp1; down: Ccl7, IL6); 15/84 cancer-related genes had altered expression (P<0.05; up: Casp8, FGFR2, Figf, Hgf, IGF1, Itga4, Ncam1, Pdgfa, Pik3r1, Serpinb2, Sykb; down: Cdc25a, E2F1, Mmp9, Myc). In the spleen, 8/84 cancer-related genes were affected in FLT mice compared to AEM controls (P<0.05; up: Cdkn2a; down: Birc5, Casp8, Ctnnb1, Map2k1, Mdm2, NFkB1, Pdgfa). Pathway analysis (apoptosis signaling and checkpoint regulation) was used to map relationships among the cancer–related genes. The results showed that a relatively short mission in space had a significant impact on both organs. The findings also indicate that immune system aberrations due to stressors associated with space travel should be included when estimating risk for pathologies such as cancer and infection and in designing appropriate countermeasures. Although this was the historic last flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, exploration of space will undoubtedly continue.
Improved mechanical properties of multi-layered PTFE composites through hybridisation
Creators: name: Bandaru, Aswani
name: Khan, Ashraf Nawaz
name: Durmaz, Tayfun
name: Alagirusamy, Ramasamy
name: O'HIGGINS, RONAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: The current study demonstrates the utility of thermoplastic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composites for automotive, biomedical, electrical, food processing, civil engineering, tribology, and aerospace industries, etc. The PTFE composites reinforced with glass (G), aramid (A), a stainless-steel metal mesh (MM), and their com?bination were manufactured using an autoclave. The average fibre volume fraction of the composites was maintained at ~52%. The performance of monolithic and hybrid composites was evaluated in terms of tensile, flexural, interlaminar shear strength (ILSS), and low-velocity impact (LVI). According to the experimental results, the monolithic G composites exhibited the highest tensile strength (134 MPa), while the hybrid G/MM composites showed the highest tensile modulus (3.8GPa). In flexural characteristics, hybrid MM/A (MM on the top) composites revealed superior flexural strength (76 MPa), whereas monolithic A composites showed excellent flexural modulus (6.5GPa) among all. The LVI performance was evaluated at three different energy levels (5 J, 10 J and 15 J) in terms of peak force, energy absorption, and peak deformation and compared. This study shows the positive influence of hybridisation, which signifies the utility of the hybrid composites for various industrial and domestic applications.
Les politiques de Science Ouverte, vue et vécues par les communautés de chercheurs : le Brésil et le Pérou
Creators: name: Manco, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Science ouverte

description: Cette étude porte sur les opinions, les perceptions et les expériences des chercheurs en sciences fondamentales concernant les politiques de science ouverte au Brésil et au Pérou.
Additional file 1 of Facilitators and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers and the general population in Guinea
Creators: name: Toure, Almamy Amara
name: Traore, Fodé Amara
name: Camara, Gnoume
name: Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki
name: Barry, Ibrahima
name: Kourouma, Mohamed Lamine
name: Sylla, Younoussa
name: Conte, Naby Yaya
name: Cisse, Diao
name: Dioubaté, Nafissatou
name: Sidibe, Sidikiba
name: Beavogui, Abdoul Habib
name: Delamou, Alexandre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material.
Changes in Sensitivity of Reward and Motor Behavior to Dopaminergic, Glutamatergic, and Cholinergic Drugs in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome
Creators: name: Krouse, Michael C.
name: Stringfield, Sierra J.
name: Robinson, J. Elliott
name: DiBerto, Jeffrey F.
name: Fish, Eric W.
name: Malanga, C. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a leading cause of intellectual disability. FXS is caused by loss of function of the FMR1 gene, and mice in which Fmr1 has been inactivated have been used extensively as a preclinical model for FXS. We investigated the behavioral pharmacology of drugs acting through dopaminergic, glutamatergic, and cholinergic systems in fragile X (Fmr1-/Y) mice with intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) and locomotor activity measurements. We also measured brain expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme in dopamine biosynthesis. Fmr1-/Y mice were more sensitive than wild type mice to the rewarding effects of cocaine, but less sensitive to its locomotor stimulating effects. Anhedonic but not motor depressant effects of the atypical neuroleptic, aripiprazole, were reduced in Fmr1-/Y mice. The mGluR5-selective antagonist, 6-methyl-2-(phenylethynyl)pyridine (MPEP), was more rewarding and the preferential M1 antagonist, trihexyphenidyl, was less rewarding in Fmr1-/Y than wild type mice. Motor stimulation by MPEP was unchanged, but stimulation by trihexyphenidyl was markedly increased, in Fmr1-/Y mice. Numbers of midbrain TH+ neurons in the ventral tegmental area were unchanged, but were lower in the substantia nigra of Fmr1-/Y mice, although no changes in TH levels were found in their forebrain targets. The data are discussed in the context of known changes in the synaptic physiology and pharmacology of limbic motor systems in the Fmr1-/Y mouse model. Preclinical findings suggest that drugs acting through multiple neurotransmitter systems may be necessary to fully address abnormal behaviors in individuals with FXS.
Practical Applications of Cosmology to Human Society
Creators: name: Chaisson, Eric J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Complex systems throughout Nature display structures and functions that are built and maintained, at least in part, by optimal energies flowing through them--not specific, ideal values, rather ranges in energy rate density below which systems are starved and above which systems are destroyed. Cosmic evolution, as a physical cosmology that notably includes life, is rich in empirical findings about many varied systems that can potentially help assess global problems facing us here on Earth. Despite its grand and ambitious objective to unify theoretical understanding of all known complex systems from big bang to humankind, cosmic evolution does have useful, practical applications from which humanity could benefit. Cosmic evolution's emphasis on quantitative data analyses might well inform our attitudes toward several serious issues now challenging 21st-century society, including global warming, smart machines, world economics, and cancer research. This paper comprises one physicist's conjectures about each of these applied topics, suggesting how energy-flow modeling can guide our search for viable solutions to real-world predicaments confronting civilization today.
description: Research paper accepted for publication in Natural Science, v6, no10, pp767-796, 2014; to be published in June 2014 at dx.doi.org/10.4236/ns.2014.610077
General Social Surveys: 1993 SPSS-PC+ Adaptation
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: SPSS-PC+ adaptation prepared by The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Many standard items have been replicated in 1993 (such as batteries of questions on government spending, abortion, role of government, etc.) as they have been since 1972. The 1993 GSS included one topical module and one International Social Survey Program (ISSP) module. The 1993 topical module was on culture. It contains items on musical preferences, leisure time activities, television viewing, important areas of life, the meaning of life, basic values and collective memory. Additional 'mini-modules' were employed concerning perceived poverty levels, AIDS and sexual behavior, and images of God and prayer. The ISSP module, conducted as part of a twenty country effort, focused on the environment. Questions include measures of scientific and environmental knowledge, personal involvement in environmental activities, concern for issues such as air pollution, pesticides, nuclear energy and global warming, and support for various government programs dealing with environmental issues.
Observation of Intensity-Intensity Correlation Speckle Patterns with Thermal Light
Creators: name: Wang, Li-Gang
name: Al-Amri, M.
name: Zubairy, M. Suhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In traditional Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) schemes, the thermal intensity-intensity correlations are phase insensitive. Here we propose a modified HBT scheme with phase conjugation to demonstrate the phase-sensitive and nonfactorizable features for thermal intensity-intensity correlation speckle. Our scheme leads to results that are similar to those of the two-photon speckle. We discuss the possibility of the experimental realization. The results provide us a deeper insight of the thermal correlations and may lead to more significant applications in imaging and speckle technologies.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
PLUMMETING THE CHALLENGES OF NURSING MOTHERS WITH USUAL GARMENTS FOR BREASTFEEDING IN ONDO CITY METROPOLIS (Sapientia Foundation Journal of Education, Sciences and Gender Studies, SFJESGS, 2022)
Creators: name: Oluwagbemileke, Feranmi Boluwatife
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Family and household studies
Textile and fashion design

description: This study was designed to investigate and plummet the challenges of nursing mothers with usual garments for breastfeeding in Ondo City metropolis. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised the eight hundred and eighty-nine (889) nursing mothers at the immunization clinics in Ondo metropolis, out of which three hundred and sixty (360) respondents were randomly selected from nine (9) immunization clinics. Two research questions and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire which was trial-tested to determine the psychometric indices namely internal consistency of the items and coefficient of stability. Using Spearman rank order, the correlation coefficient of 0.78 was obtained, indicating a high internal consistency of the items. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions, while the null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that nursing mothers encounter challenges in using the usual garments for breastfeeding such as unavailability of the desired design for nursing garments, inappropriate time or place to express breastfeeding, inability to understand figure type and faults so as to choose suitable and flattering styles, inability to find nursing garments that fit to the desired design as well as inability of a designer to sew and suit the taste of nursing mothers. The study also found out that garments with inconspicuous zippers at the princess lines at the center front, a form of closure at the under bust using snaps, and a form of closure using inconspicuous fastening at bust, flap-covering fastening the layer of dress using snaps, concealed opening at inverted pockets at bust regions and a form of closure using zipper in the center front and side are good for breastfeeding. It was recommended that dress makers especially those within our locality should take a proactive stance and try to produce comfortable, convenient and beautiful designs for nursing mothers' garments for general acceptability.
Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada
Creators: name: Cescon, Angela
name: Justice, Amy
name: Gange, Stephen J.
name: Modur, Sharada P.
name: Gill, M. John
name: Kitahata, Mari M.
name: Deeks, Stephen
name: Samji, Hasina
name: Buchacz, Kate
name: Jacobson, Lisa P.
name: Gebo, Kelly A.
name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Burchell, Ann N.
name: Martin, Jeff
name: Moore, Richard
name: Rourke, Sean B.
name: Kirk, Gregory
name: Cohen, Mardge
name: Sterling, Timothy R.
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Bosch, Ronald J.
name: Goedert, James J.
name: Klein, Marina B.
name: Althoff, Keri N.
name: Silverberg, Michael J.
name: Korthuis, P. Todd
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundCombination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly increased survival among HIV-positive adults in the United States (U.S.) and Canada, but gains in life expectancy for this region have not been well characterized. We aim to estimate temporal changes in life expectancy among HIV-positive adults on ART from 2000–2007 in the U.S. and Canada.MethodsParticipants were from the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD), aged ≥20 years and on ART. Mortality rates were calculated using participants' person-time from January 1, 2000 or ART initiation until death, loss to follow-up, or administrative censoring December 31, 2007. Life expectancy at age 20, defined as the average number of additional years that a person of a specific age will live, provided the current age-specific mortality rates remain constant, was estimated using abridged life tables.ResultsThe crude mortality rate was 19.8/1,000 person-years, among 22,937 individuals contributing 82,022 person-years and 1,622 deaths. Life expectancy increased from 36.1 [standard error (SE) 0.5] to 51.4 [SE 0.5] years from 2000–2002 to 2006–2007. Men and women had comparable life expectancies in all periods except the last (2006–2007). Life expectancy was lower for individuals with a history of injection drug use, non-whites, and in patients with baseline CD4 counts <350 cells/mm3.ConclusionsA 20-year-old HIV-positive adult on ART in the U.S. or Canada is expected to live into their early 70 s, a life expectancy approaching that of the general population. Differences by sex, race, HIV transmission risk group, and CD4 count remain.
General Social Surveys: 1994 SPSS-PC+ Adaptation
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: SPSS-PC+ adaptation prepared by The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Many standard items have been replicated in 1994 (such as batteries of questions on government spending, abortion, role of government, etc.) as they have been since 1972. The 1994 GSS is a departure from previous surveys, encompassing 2,992 cases or twice the normal GSS sample size. Also, there are two topical modules and two International Social Survey Program (ISSP) modules. In effect the 1994 GSS is two GSSs fielded as one. The 1994 topical modules are on family mobility and multiculturalism. The contain items on education and occupation of respondent, current spouse, parents, first/former spouse, parents-in-law and a randomly selected child/sibling, as well as questions concerning ethnic identification, ethnic stereotypes, group rights, immigration, assimilation, bilingualism, government assistance to immigrants and minorities, affirmative action and related issues. The 1994 ISSP modules were on the environment and women, work and the family.
Linear chaos and frequent hypercyclicity
Creators: name: Menet, Quentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A16

description: We answer one of the main current questions in Linear Dynamics by constructing a chaotic operator on $\ell^1$ which is not $\mathcal{U}$-frequently hypercyclic and thus not frequently hypercyclic. This operator also gives us an example of a chaotic operator which is not distributionally chaotic. We complement this result by showing that every chaotic operator is reiteratively hypercyclic.
description: 16 pages
Comparative Analysis of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Patients Using Automated Rare Cell Analysis (ARCA) and Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)
Creators: name: Chavala, Sai H.
name: Say, Emil Anthony T.
name: Esserman, Denise Ann
name: Melamud, Alex
name: Povsic, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundPatients with age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) begin with non-neovascular (NNV) phenotypes usually associated with good vision. Approximately 20% of NNV-ARMD patients will convert to vision debilitating neovascular (NV) ARMD, but precise timing of this event is unknown. Developing a clinical test predicting impending conversion to NV-ARMD is necessary to prevent vision loss. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), defined as CD34+VEGR2+ using traditional fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), are rare cell populations known to be elevated in patients with NV-ARMD compared to NNV-ARMD. FACS has high inter-observer variability and subjectivity when measuring rare cell populations precluding development into a diagnostic test. We hypothesized that automated rare cell analysis (ARCA), a validated and FDA-approved technology for reproducible rare cell identification, can enumerate EPCs in ARMD patients more reliably. This pilot study serves as the first step in developing methods for reproducibly predicting ARMD phenotype conversion.MethodsWe obtained peripheral venous blood samples in 23 subjects with NNV-ARMD or treatment naïve NV-ARMD. Strict criteria were used to exclude subjects with known angiogenic diseases to minimize confounding results. Blood samples were analyzed in masked fashion in two separate laboratories. EPCs were independently enumerated using ARCA and FACS within 24 hours of blood sample collection, and p<0.2 was considered indicative of a trend for this proof of concept study, while statistical significance was established at 0.05.ResultsWe measured levels of CD34+VEGFR2+ EPCs suggestive of a trend with higher values in patients with NV compared to NNV-ARMD (p = 0.17) using ARCA. Interestingly, CD34+VEGR2+ EPC analysis using FACS did not produce similar results (p = 0.94).ConclusionsCD34+VEGR2+ may have predictive value for EPC enumeration in future ARCA studies. EPC measurements in a small sample size were suggestive of a trend in ARMD using ARCA but not FACS. ARCA could be a helpful tool for developing a predictive test for ARMD phenotype conversion.
General Social Surveys: 1992 Reinterviews
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Life achievement(16); life expectations(1); social equality(9); professional earnings(22); role of government(7); taxes(4); social conflict(6); social mobility(3); salary standards(7); attitudes toward corporations(2); labor unions(2); economy(2); personal financial status(15); political ideology(1); party preference(3); union membership(1); newspaper readership(1).
Additional file 6 of Facilitators and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare workers and the general population in Guinea
Creators: name: Toure, Almamy Amara
name: Traore, Fodé Amara
name: Camara, Gnoume
name: Magassouba, Aboubacar Sidiki
name: Barry, Ibrahima
name: Kourouma, Mohamed Lamine
name: Sylla, Younoussa
name: Conte, Naby Yaya
name: Cisse, Diao
name: Dioubaté, Nafissatou
name: Sidibe, Sidikiba
name: Beavogui, Abdoul Habib
name: Delamou, Alexandre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Dataset supporting the conclusions of this article.
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PROCESSING METHODS ON THE NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF MORINGA LEAVES (The VAS Journal, Tai Solarin University of Education, 2022)
Creators: name: Oluwagbemileke, Feranmi Boluwatife
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nutritional science
Food packaging, preservation and processing

description: Moringa produces abundant leaves with high concentration of energy, proteins, vitamins and minerals. The study employed experimental research design. Proximate and mineral analyses of fresh, indoor dried, and outdoor dried moringa leaves were carried out in the microbiology laboratory of the Federal University of Technology, Akure. Energy value, ash, moisture, crude fibre, fat, protein and carbohydrate contents of the three samples were determined. Minerals analysed were sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron. Findings showed that outdoor dried moringa leaves contained the highest energy value (1262.581±0.039kj/g). and the highest protein content (40.296±0.051). None of the samples contained the Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for fats in any of the age groups. Outdoor dried moringa leaves contained more than the RDI for energy and protein require by infants and children below 8 years and l4 years of age respectively. Indoor dried moringa leaves contained the highest magnesium content (320.400±0.020mg/kg), though all contained almost the RDI for magnesium required by all age groups. It was concluded from the study that when moringa are processed through drying, the nutritional value is improved rather than depleted, though outdoor drying produced relatively better nutrient improvement than indoor drying. It was recommended that outdoor dried moringa leaves should be given to all age groups because it has the highest protein content and energy value. Fresh moringa leaves is recommended for the aged and overweight because of its fat content. The three samples of moringa leaves are recommended for all age groups because of their high magnesium contents.
Additional file 2 of Widespread false gene gains caused by duplication errors in genome assemblies
Creators: name: Ko, Byung June
name: Lee, Chul
name: Kim, Juwan
name: Rhie, Arang
name: Yoo, Dong Ahn
name: Howe, Kerstin
name: Wood, Jonathan
name: Cho, Seoae
name: Brown, Samara
name: Formenti, Giulio
name: Jarvis, Erich D.
name: Kim, Heebal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional File 2: Figure S1-S16.
MPEC 2023-R46 : 2023 RY
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RY

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.