cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Getting Found, Staying Found: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and their value
Creators: name: Nason, Mike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: publishing
persistent identifiers
open journal systems
open scholarly infrastructure

description: Persistent Identifiers, commonly referred to as PIDs, play a pivotal role in fostering trust within scholarly publications while concurrently enhancing publication discoverability and accessibility. Join this session to learn about the multifaceted value of PIDs at different levels, including: authors, articles, and journals. The second part of this webinar will explore practical skills around PIDs, plugins, integrations, and interoperability for Open Journal Systems (OJS) users. Join this webinar and learn to think more maximally about metadata in your OJS publications!
title: How do Canadians perceive access to cash?
Creators: name: Chen, Heng
name: O'Habib, Daneal
name: Xiao, Hong Yu
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This paper introduces a subjective measure of cash accessibility in Canada, complementing existing distance-based metrics developed by Chen, O’Habib and Xiao (2023). Analyzing data from the 2023 Methods-of-Payment Survey, this study explores how Canadians perceive their ease of accessing cash from automated banking machines (ABMs) and financial institution branches. The results reveal strong alignment between subjective perceptions and distance-based metrics, with most Canadians reporting easy access to cash sources. Those who reported lower perceived cash accessibility need to travel longer distances and tend to be young, university-educated, low-income, unemployed or cashless.
description: Dans la présente étude, nous proposons une mesure subjective de l’accessibilité de l’argent comptant au Canada, en complément de la mesure fondée sur la distance que nous avons déjà présentée (Chen, O’Habib et Xiao; 2023). À partir de l’analyse des données provenant de l’enquête sur les modes de paiement de 2023, nous étudions dans quelle mesure les gens estiment qu’il est facile d’accéder à de l’argent comptant aux guichets automatiques bancaires et aux succursales des institutions financières. Les résultats obtenus au moyen de la mesure subjective concordent largement avec ceux de la mesure fondée sur la distance – la plupart des personnes interrogées disent avoir facilement accès à des sources d’argent comptant. Les participants pour qui cet accès semble moins facile doivent parcourir de plus longues distances que les autres et sont généralement des personnes jeunes, diplômées universitaires, à faible revenu ou sans emploi, ou ont cessé d’utiliser l’argent comptant.
Additional file 1 of Hemangiopericytoma/solitary fibrous tumor of the cranial base: a case series and literature review
Creators: name: Peng, Zhouying
name: Wang, Yumin
name: Wang, Yaxuan
name: Li, Qinxuan
name: Fang, Yan
name: Fan, Ruohao
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Jiang, Weihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Preoperative and postoperative MRI images of thecranial base. (a) Patient #3 (b) Patient #5.
Additional file 3: of Development and validation of a new tool to measure the facilitators, barriers and preferences to exercise in people with osteoporosis
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Isabel
name: Adachi, Jonathan
name: Beattie, Karen
name: MacDermid, Joy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Appendix C. The Personalized Exercise Questionnaire (PEQ). The PEQ was designed to identify possible facilitators and barriers to exercise in patients with osteopenia and osteoporosis. There are 6 domains (support network, access, goals, preferences, feedback and tracking, and barriers) and 38 questions. (PDF 121 kb)
Dynamics of vortex-antivortex pairs and rarefaction pulses in liquid light
Creators: name: Feijoo, David
name: Paredes, Angel
name: Michinel, Humberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two transverse dimensions, relevant for the propagation of light in certain exotic media. A well known feature of the model is the existence of flat-top bright solitons of fixed intensity, whose dynamics resembles the physics of a liquid. They support traveling wave solutions, consisting of rarefaction pulses and vortex-antivortex pairs. In this work, we demonstrate how the vortex-antivortex pairs can be generated in bright soliton collisions displaying destructive interference followed by a snake instability. We then discuss the collisional dynamics of the dark excitations for different initial conditions. We describe a number of distinct phenomena including vortex exchange modes, quasielastic flyby scattering, soliton-like crossing, fully inelastic collisions and rarefaction pulse merging.
A new gene family (BAPs) of Cotesia bracovirus induces apoptosis of host hemocytes
Creators: name: Wang, Ze-hua
name: Ye, Xi-qian
name: Wu, Xiao-tong
name: Wang, Zhi-zhi
name: Huang, Jian-hua
name: Chen, Xue-xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Polydnaviruses (PDVs), obligatory symbionts with parasitoid wasps, function as host immune suppressors and growth and development regulator. PDVs can induce host hemocyte apoptosis, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we provided evidence that, during the early stages of parasitism, the activated Cotesia vestalis bracovirus (CvBV) reduced the overall number of host hemocytes by inducing apoptosis. We found that one hemocyte-highly expressed CvBV gene, CvBV-26-4, could induce hemocyte apoptosis. Further analyses showed that CvBV-26-4 has four homologs from other Cotesia bracoviruses and BV from wasps in the genus Glyptapanteles, and all four of them possessed a similar structure containing 3 copies of a well-conserved motif (Gly-Tyr-Pro-Tyr, GYPY). Mass spectrometry analysis revealed that CvBV-26-4 was secreted into plasma by hemocytes and then degraded into peptides that induced the apoptosis of hemocytes. Moreover, ectopic expression of CvBV-26-4 caused fly hemocyte apoptosis and increased the susceptibility of flies to bacteria. Based on this research, a new family of bracovirus genes, Bracovirus apoptosis-inducing proteins (BAPs), was proposed. Furthermore, it was discovered that the development of wasp larvae was affected when the function of CvBV BAP was obstructed in the parasitized hosts. The results of our study indicate that the BAP gene family from the bracoviruses group is crucial for immunosuppression during the early stages of parasitism.
Large-deviations for spatial diffusion of cold atoms
Creators: name: Aghion, Erez
name: Kessler, David A.
name: Barkai, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-deviations theory deals with tails of probability distributions and the rare events of random processes, for example spreading packets of particles. Mathematically, it concerns the exponential fall-of of the density of thin-tailed systems. Here we investigate the spatial density $P_t(x)$ of laser cooled atoms, where at intermediate length scales the shape is fat-tailed. We focus on the rare events beyond this range, which dominate important statistical properties of the system. Through a novel friction mechanism induced by the laser fields, the density is explored with the recently proposed nonnormalized infinite-covariant density approach. The small and large fluctuations give rise to a bi-fractal nature of the spreading packet.
description: Paper has 4 pages (Supplementary material below includes 5 pages)
Implementing quantum mechanics visualisation tools
Creators: name: Maccormick, Calum
name: Bergamini, Silvia
name: Gorfinkiel, Jimena
Publisher: name: The Open University Scholarship Exchange
Year: 2024

description: ​Implementing quantum mechanics visualisation tools in a distance learning contextThe aim of the project is to analyse a trial run of some carefully selected quantum mechanics visualisation tools within the 19J presentation of SM358, and to use the analysis to inform the development of the level 3 physics curriculum. As a mathematically abstract and profoundly counter-intuitive subject, quantum mechanics (QM) is notoriously difficult to learn - and teach. One successful approach to improving QM teaching is to include lab-class based visualisation activities which allow students to better understand the abstract and counter-intuitive concepts of QM. Of course, the OU is not a classroom based university, so adapting these modern methods to the OU may not be straightforward. The OU’s SM358 quantum physics course is now 12 years old. SM358 has always received very good student feedback (>90% positive), but in recent years a small decline in student satisfaction has been noticed. It is hypothesised that the changing expectations of our evolving student population is driving this trend. An objective of the new QM course will be to improve student engagement, learning outcomes and satisfaction by using the latest QM visualisation tools. A notable development at St Andrews is the QuVis quantum visualisation project (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics/quvis/) which has also been adopted by the IOP as their recommended QM library. Our plan is to offer three QuVis activities in parallel with the existing course materials, and to ask the students using QuVis to answer conceptual questions and record their impressions on the activities in a questionnaire. Student participation in the trial is voluntary. We are looking to see what challenges/difficulties arise when QuVis are employed outside of a classroom, and therefore what additional support is required. QM is not the only mathematically abstract, conceptually challenging STEM subject and so the integration of visualisation tools into our teaching is of wide interest both within and beyond the Open University.​
Development of a model by LASSO to predict hospital length of stay (LOS) in patients with the SARS-Cov-2 omicron variant
Creators: name: Zhang, Jianxiang
name: Li, Lei
name: Hu, Xiaobo
name: Cui, Guangying
name: Sun, Ranran
name: Zhang, Donghua
name: Li, Juan
name: Li, Yonghong
name: Shen, Shen
name: He, Ping
name: Yu, Zujiang
name: Ren, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: The length of stay (LOS) in hospital varied considerably in different patients with COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics of Omicron patients, identify prognostic factors, and develop a prognostic model to predict the LOS of Omicron patients. This was a single center retrospective study in a secondary medical institution in China. A total of 384 Omicron patients in China were enrolled. According to the analyzed data, we employed LASSO to select the primitive predictors. The predictive model was constructed by fitting a linear regression model using the predictors selected by LASSO. Bootstrap validation was used to test performance and eventually we obtained the actual model. Among these patients, 222 (57.8%) were female, the median age of patients was 18 years and 349 (90.9%) completed two doses of vaccination. Patients on admission diagnosed as mild were 363 (94.5%). Five variables were selected by LASSO and a linear model, and those with P < 0.05 were integrated into the analysis. It shows that if Omicron patients receive immunotherapy or heparin, the LOS increases by 36% or 16.1%. If Omicron patients developed rhinorrhea or occur familial cluster, the LOS increased by 10.4% or 12.3%, respectively. Moreover, if Omicron patients’ APTT increased by one unit, the LOS increased by 0.38%. Five variables were identified, including immunotherapy, heparin, familial cluster, rhinorrhea, and APTT. A simple model was developed and evaluated to predict the LOS of Omicron patients. The formula is as follows: Predictive LOS = exp(1*2.66263 + 0.30778*Immunotherapy + 0.1158*Familiar cluster + 0.1496*Heparin + 0.0989*Rhinorrhea + 0.0036*APTT).
Calabi-Yau Volumes and Reflexive Polytopes
Creators: name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Seong, Rak-Kyeong
name: Yau, Shing-Tung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study various geometrical quantities for Calabi-Yau varieties realized as cones over Gorenstein Fano varieties, obtained as toric varieties from reflexive polytopes in various dimensions. Focus is made on reflexive polytopes up to dimension 4 and the minimized volumes of the Sasaki-Einstein base of the corresponding Calabi-Yau cone are calculated. By doing so, we conjecture new bounds for the Sasaki-Einstein volume with respect to various topological quantities of the corresponding toric varieties. We give interpretations about these volume bounds in the context of associated field theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: 70 pages, 22 figures, 6 tables
Macrophage innate immune responses delineate between defective translocon assemblies produced by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YopD mutants
Creators: name: Farag, Salah I.
name: Francis, Monika K.
name: Gurung, Jyoti M.
name: Wai, Sun Nyunt
name: Stenlund, Hans
name: Francis, Matthew S.
name: Nadeem, Aftab
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Translocon pores formed in the eukaryotic cell membrane by a type III secretion system facilitate the translocation of immune-modulatory effector proteins into the host cell interior. The YopB and YopD proteins produced and secreted by pathogenic Yersinia spp. harboring a virulence plasmid-encoded type III secretion system perform this pore-forming translocator function. We had previously characterized in vitro T3SS function and in vivo pathogenicity of a number of strains encoding sited-directed point mutations in yopD. This resulted in the classification of mutants into three different classes based upon the severity of the phenotypic defects. To investigate the molecular and functional basis for these defects, we explored the effectiveness of RAW 264.7 cell line to respond to infection by representative YopD mutants of all three classes. Signature cytokine profiles could separate the different YopD mutants into distinct categories. The activation and suppression of certain cytokines that function as central innate immune response modulators correlated well with the ability of mutant bacteria to alter anti-phagocytosis and programmed cell death pathways. These analyses demonstrated that sub-optimal translocon pores impact the extent and magnitude of host cell responsiveness, and this limits the capacity of pathogenic Yersinia spp. to fortify against attack by both early and late arms of the host innate immune response.
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Serum cytokine profiles predict survival benefits in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with sorafenib: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Hayashi, Tomoyuki
name: Yamashita, Taro
name: Terashima, Takeshi
name: Suda, Tsuyoshi
name: Okada, Hikari
name: Asahina, Yoshiro
name: Hayashi, Takehiro
name: Hara, Yasumasa
name: Nio, Kouki
name: Sunagozaka, Hajime
name: Takatori, Hajime
name: Arai, Kuniaki
name: Sakai, Yoshio
name: Yamashita, Tatsuya
name: Eishiro Mizukoshi
name: Honda, Masao
name: Kaneko, Shuichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Comparison of serum IL-5, CXCL9, and VGEF-A levels between long survivors and non-long survivors in the 2 cohorts. (PDF 117 kb)
Supplementary document for Fabrication of bionic compound eye on a curved surface by using a self-assembly technique - 5976588.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Miao
name: Li, Senhao
name: Li, Jing
name: Zhang, Lyudi
name: Lu, Hongbo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information
Quantum field theory and classical optics: determining the fine structure constant
Creators: name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Hawton, Margaret
name: Sanchez-Soto, Luis L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the vacuum are described by quantum physics including the response to external fields such as electromagnetic radiation. Of the two parameters that govern the details of the electromagnetic field dynamics in vacuum, one is fixed by the requirement of Lorentz invariance $c= 1/\sqrt{\varepsilon_{0} μ_{0}}$. The other one, $Z_{0}= \sqrt{μ_{0}/\varepsilon_{0}} = 1/(c\varepsilon_{0})$ and its relation to the quantum vacuum, is discussed in this contribution. Deriving $\varepsilon_{0}$ from the properties of the quantum vacuum implies the derivation of the fine structure constant.
description: 3 pages. Invited contribution to MPLP 2017 Novosibirsk "Modern Problems in Laser Physics". Comments welcome!
title: 01_0025
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Modelling and Observations of the Ionospheric Alfven Resonator at Eskdalemuir, UK
Creators: name: M. Hodnett, Rosie
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024

description: The Ionospheric Alfv´en Resonator (IAR) occurs when Alfv´en waves are partially reflected from the highly conductive lower layers of the ionosphere and above the F-region peak where the Alfv´en velocity reaches a maximum, resulting in a resonance. This thesis concerns the frequencies of the IAR observed in the Eskdalemuir magnetic observatory, which is located in southern Scotland, UK. I have extracted the IAR frequencies for nine years of data from 2013 - 2021 and calculated the harmonic frequency separation (Δf). I then compared this with a model which uses modelled Alfv´en velocity profiles and a time of flight calculation to model Δf. The model and data show similar trends, with Δf being greater during periods where the plasma mass density is lower. Next, I looked at the effects of the non-uniform Alfv´en velocity profile on the individual IAR harmonics. To model the IAR harmonics, I solved a onedimensional wave equation using the Alfv´en velocity profiles. I have modelled the harmonics using different lower boundary conditions, and compared these to the data and previous uniform models. By looking at the offset of the fundamental frequency and Δf, the results of this work show that the lower boundary of the IAR electric field is closest to a node.Lastly, I have looked at situations where the data deviates strongly from the model. I have observed more rapid variations in the IAR frequencies which may be a result of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs). Modelling of the effect of a TID on IAR frequencies shows that TID signatures should be observable in IAR measurements, and I have compared a perturbed IAR observation with ionosonde data. I have also examined the occurrence of IAR fine structure and splitting of IAR harmonics over the nine years of data.
Additional file 1: of At the dawn of delegation? Experiences and attitudes of general practitioners in Germany – a questionnaire survey
Creators: name: Goetz, Katja
name: Kornitzky, Anna
name: Mahnkopf, Janis
name: Steinhäuser, Jost
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Questionnaire “Attitudes towards the concept of task shifting within general practice”. The questionnaire for the presented survey is available as additional file. (PDF 23 kb)
title: BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 204 (2020): (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific
title: (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
Publisher: name: BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
Year: 2020

description: (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific, co-edited by Christine O’Bonsawin and John Price, showcases a unique collection of articles that explore Indigenous and Asian Canadian histories from Vancouver Island and beyond. To purchase a print copy of this issue, visit our website.
description: Artist Statement...5 Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs against Japanese Canadians in BC (excerpt)...7-10 A Historic Day for BC First Nations. Now the Work Starts: UNDRIP starts us on a journey, but without work, co-operation and shared vision we will be lost...11-13 Map of Peoples and Places Mentioned in This Special Issue...14 Introduction...15-19 Relocating Yuquot: The Indigenous Pacific and Transpacific Migrations...21-44 Vancouver Island and the Transpacific Chinese Diaspora, 1788-1918...45-65 Taraknath Das (1884–1958): British Columbia, and the Anti-Colonial Borderlands...67-88 Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia...89-113 Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia...115-138 My Transpacific Life...139-150 Lifting the Veil on Nanaimo's Nikkei Community: From Settlement to Return...151-170 The Soyokaze: A Gentle Wind That Weathered the Storm...171-182 The Murakami Women of Saltspring Island...183-204 Book Reviews...205-225 Bibliography...227-233 Contributors...235-237
Surface modelling of forest aboveground biomass based on remote sensing and forest inventory data
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaofang
name: Li, Bai
name: Du, Zhengping
name: Li, Guicai
name: Fan, Zemeng
name: Wang, Meng
name: Yue, Tianxiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: An accurate estimation of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is important for carbon accounting. In this study, six methods, including partial least squares regression, regression kriging, k-nearest neighbour, support vector machines, random forest and high accuracy surface modelling (HASM), were used to simulate forest AGB. Forest AGB was mapped by combining Geoscience Laser Altimeter System data, optical imagery and field inventory data. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index (WDRVI0.2) of September and October, which had a stronger correlation with forest AGB than that of the peak growing season, were selected as predictor variables, along with tree cover percentage and three GLAS-derived parameters. The results of the different methods were evaluated. The HASM model had the best modelling accuracy (small MAE, RMSE, NRMSE, RMSV and NMSE and large R2). A forest AGB map of the study area was generated using the optimal model.
Extracellular vesicle signatures and protein citrullination are modified in shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) infected with Hematodinium sp
Creators: name: Coates, Christopher J.
name: Kraev, Igor
name: Rowley, Andrew F.
name: Lange, Sigrun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Epizootiologists recurrently encounter symbionts and pathobionts in the haemolymph (blood equivalent) of shellfish. One such group is the dinoflagellate genus Hematodinium, which contains several species that cause debilitating disease in decapod crustaceans. The shore crab Carcinus maenas acts as a mobile reservoir of microparasites, including Hematodinium sp., thereby posing a risk to other co-located commercially important species, e.g. velvet crabs (Necora puber). Despite the widespread prevalence and documented seasonality of Hematodinium infection dynamics, there is a knowledge gap regarding host-pathogen antibiosis, namely, how Hematodinium avoids the host’s immune defences. Herein, we interrogated the haemolymph of Hematodinium-positive and Hematodinium-negative crabs for extracellular vesicle (EV) profiles (a proxy for cellular communication), alongside proteomic signatures for post-translational citrullination/deimination performed by arginine deiminases, which can infer a pathologic state. Circulating EV numbers in parasitized crab haemolymph were reduced significantly, accompanied by smaller EV modal size profiles (albeit non-significantly) when compared to Hematodinium-negative controls. Differences were observed for citrullinated/deiminated target proteins in the haemolymph between the parasitized and control crabs, with fewer hits identified overall in the former. Three deiminated proteins specific to parasitized crab haemolymph were actin, Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM), and nitric oxide synthase – factors that contribute to innate immunity. We report, for the first time, Hematodinium sp. could interfere with EV biogenesis, and that protein deimination is a putative mechanism of immune-modulation in crustacean-Hematodinium interactions.
INSTRUMENTS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM
Creators: name: Tashkent State Economic University Department of Fundamental Economics PhD Odilova Dilnoza Barnaevna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article highlights the implementation of the goals set inconcept for the development of the higher education system of the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030. At the same time, the model was analyzed cooperation between universities and subjects of the national innovation system.

 Keywords: national economy, national innovation system, the science, technopark, integration, endowment fund, innovative enterprises
An improved algorithm for narrow-band searches of continuous gravitational waves
Creators: name: Mastrogiovanni, S.
name: Astone, P.
name: D'Antonio, S.
name: Frasca, S.
name: Intini, G.
name: Leaci, P.
name: Miller, A.
name: Palomba, C.
name: Piccinni, O. J.
name: Singhal, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C35

description: Continuous gravitational waves signals, emitted by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, are among the main targets of current detectors like Advanced LIGO and Virgo. In the case of sources, like pulsars, which rotational parameters are measured through electromagnetic observations, typical searches assume that the gravitational wave frequency is at a given known fixed ratio with respect to the star rotational frequency. For instance, for a neutron star rotating around one of its principal axis of inertia the gravitational signal frequency would be exactly two times the rotational frequency of the star. It is possible, however, that this assumption is wrong. This is why search algorithms able to take into account a possible small mismatch between the gravitational waves frequency and the frequency inferred from electromagnetic observations have been developed. In this paper we present an improved pipeline to perform such narrow-band searches for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars, about three orders of magnitude faster than previous implementations. The algorithm that we have developed is based on the {\it 5-vectors} framework and is able to perform a fully coherent search over a frequency band of width $\mathcal{O}$(Hertz) and for hundreds of spin-down values running a few hours on a standard workstation. This new algorithm opens the possibility of long coherence time searches for objects which rotational parameters are highly uncertain.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, submitted to CQG
Additional file 2: of Establishing core outcome sets for phenylketonuria (PKU) and medium-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency in children: study protocol for systematic reviews and Delphi surveys
Creators: name: Potter, Beth
name: Hutton, Brian
name: Clifford, Tammy
name: Pallone, Nicole
name: Smith, Maureen
name: Stockler, Sylvia
name: Pranesh Chakraborty
name: Barbeau, Pauline
name: Garritty, Chantelle
name: Pugliese, Michael
name: Alvi Rahman
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: Tessier, Laure
name: Tingley, Kylie
name: Coyle, Doug
name: Greenberg, Cheryl
name: Korngut, Lawrence
name: MacKenzie, Alex
name: Mitchell, John
name: Nicholls, Stuart
name: Offringa, Martin
name: Schulze, Andreas
name: Taljaard, Monica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: List of Research Ethics Board: Delphi surveys for families. (DOCX 16 kb)
Bildflugroutenübersicht/Aerial Survey Route Map 1:2 000 000 Neuschwabenland (West), Antarktisexpedition 1983/84
Creators: name: Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie (Now: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie), Frankfurt am Main
Publisher: name: Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie (Now: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie), Frankfurt am Main
Year: 1985
Subjects: Antarctica
Flight index map
Neuschwabenland
Ekströmisen
Station Georg von Neumayer (DE)
Jelbartisen
Fimbulisen
Station SANAE (ZA)
Ritscherhochland
Borgmassivet
Ahlmannryggen
Station Grunehogna (ZA)
Ice front

description: Aerial survey route map, Photogrammetric survey flights in 1983/84; List of exposure data: Flight area, Date, Frame no, Time, Local solar time, Sun altitude, Image scale, Flying altitude, Film material;Scale: 1:2000000;Projection: Polar Stereographic;Bounding Box: POLYGON ((-11 -70, 0 -70, 0 -73, -11 -73, -11 -70))
The influence of atomic diffusion on stellar ages and chemical tagging
Creators: name: Dotter, Aaron
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Cargile, Phillip
name: Asplund, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the era of large stellar spectroscopic surveys, there is emphasis on deriving not only stellar abundances but also ages for millions of stars. In the context of Galactic archeology, stellar ages provide a direct probe of the formation history of the Galaxy. We use the stellar evolution code MESA to compute models with atomic diffusion--with and without radiative acceleration--and extra mixing in the surface layers. The extra mixing consists of both density-dependent turbulent mixing and envelope overshoot mixing. Based on these models we argue that it is important to distinguish between initial, bulk abundances (parameters) and current, surface abundances (variables) in the analysis of individual stellar ages. In stars that maintain radiative regions on evolutionary timescales, atomic diffusion modifies the surface abundances. We show that when initial, bulk metallicity is equated with current, surface metallicity in isochrone age analysis the resulting stellar ages can be systematically over-estimated by up to 20%. The change of surface abundances with evolutionary phase also complicates chemical tagging, the concept that dispersed star clusters can be identified through unique, high-dimensional chemical signatures. Stars from the same cluster, but in different evolutionary phases, will show different surface abundances. We speculate that calibration of stellar models may allow us to estimate not only stellar ages but also initial abundances for individual stars. In the meantime, analyzing the chemical properties of stars in similar evolutionary phases is essential to minimize the effects of atomic diffusion in the context of chemical tagging.
description: ApJ accepted; 9 pages, 9 figures
Temperature dependence of the plastic scintillator detector for DAMPE
Creators: name: Wang, Zhao-Min
name: Yu, Yu-Hong
name: Sun, Zhi-Yu
name: Yue, Ke
name: Yan, Duo
name: Zhang, Yong-Jie
name: Zhou, Yong
name: Fang, Fang
name: Huang, Wen-Xue
name: Chen, Jun-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) is one of the main sub-detectors in the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) project. It will be operated over a large temperature range from -$10$ to $30^{\circ}$C, so the temperature effect of the whole detection system should be studied in detail. The temperature dependence of the PSD system is mainly contributed by the three parts: the plastic scintillator bar, the photomultiplier tube (PMT), and the Front End Electronics (FEE). These three parts have been studied in detail and the contribution of each part has been obtained and discussed. The temperature coefficient of the PMT is $-0.320(\pm0.033)\%/^{\circ}$C, and the coefficient of the plastic scintillator bar is $-0.036(\pm0.038)\%/^{\circ}$C. This result means that after subtracting the FEE pedestal, the variation of the signal amplitude of the PMT-scintillator system due to temperature mainly comes from the PMT, and the plastic scintillator bar is not sensitive to temperature over the operating range. Since the temperature effect cannot be ignored, the temperature dependence of the whole PSD has been also studied and a correction has been made to minimize this effect. The correction result shows that the effect of temperature on the signal amplitude of the PSD system can be suppressed.
description: 9 pages, 9figures
Additional file 4: of Renal allograft rejection, lymphocyte infiltration, and de novo donor-specific antibodies in a novel model of non-adherence to immunosuppressive therapy
Creators: name: Kühne, Louisa
name: Jung, Bettina
name: Poth, Helen
name: Schuster, Antonia
name: Wurm, Simone
name: Ruemmele, Petra
name: Banas, Bernhard
name: Bergler, Tobias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: CXCR4 and CXCL12 expression. This figure shows quantitative RT-PCR analysis of chemokine and chemokine receptor expression from renal grafts after syngeneic or allogeneic transplantation treated with CyA for 6 or 28 days, or CyA on alternating days until d28. mRNA expression of target genes was normalized to the house-keeping gene HPRT and x-fold expression in comparison to syngeneic Tx d6 is shown. (A) CXCR4 (B) CXCL12. Data is shown as mean ± SEM. Groups consisted of at least 6 animals. Statistical analysis is shown (Mann-Whitney U Test). Significance is shown as *p
A novel quorum sensing regulator LuxT contributes to the virulence of Vibrio cholerae
Creators: name: Li, Yuehua
name: Yan, Junxiang
name: Li, Jinghao
name: Xue, Xinke
name: Wang, Ying
name: Cao, Boyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Vibrio cholerae is a waterborne bacterium that primarily infects the human intestine and causes cholera fatality. Quorum sensing (QS) negatively regulates the expression of V. cholerae virulence gene. However, the primary associated mechanisms remain undetermined. This investigation identified a new QS regulator from the TetR family, LuxT, which increases V. cholerae virulence by directly inhibiting hapR expression. HapR is a master QS regulator that suppresses virulence cascade expression. The expression of luxT increased 4.8-fold in the small intestine of infant mice than in Luria-Bertani broth. ΔluxT mutant strain revealed a substantial defect in the colonizing ability of the small intestines. At low cell densities, the expression level of hapR was upregulated by luxT deletion, suggesting that LuxT can suppress hapR transcription. The electrophoretic mobility shift analysis revealed that LuxT directly binds to the hapR promoter region. Furthermore, luxT expression was upregulated by the two-component system ArcB/ArcA, which responses to changes in oxygen levels in response to the host’s small intestine’s anaerobic signals. In conclusion, this research reveals a novel cell density-mediated virulence regulation pathway and contributes to understanding the complex association between V. cholerae virulence and QS signals. This evidence furnishes new insights for future studies on cholerae’s pathogenic mechanisms.
Additional file 2: of Development and validation of a new tool to measure the facilitators, barriers and preferences to exercise in people with osteoporosis
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Isabel
name: Adachi, Jonathan
name: Beattie, Karen
name: MacDermid, Joy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Appendix B. Content validity results. Describes the 8 rounds of revisions. Table 1 summarizes the major amendments to the PEQ; Table 2 the I-CVI calculations; Table 3 kappa scores; Table 4 CVR values. Major revisions to the PEQ are also described in detail in this appendix. (DOCX 104 kb)
Interacting galaxy NGC4656 and its unusual dwarf companion
Creators: name: Zasov, Anatoly V.
name: Saburova, Anna S.
name: Egorov, Oleg V.
name: Uklein, Roman I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the nearby edge-on galaxy NGC4656 and its dwarf low surface brightness companion with the enhanced UV brightness, NGC4656UV, belonging to the interacting system NGC4631/56. Regular photometric structure and relatively big size of NGC4656UV allows to consider this dwarf galaxy as a separate group member rather than a tidal dwarf. Spectral long-slit observations were used to obtain the kinematical parameters and gas-phase metallicity of NGC4656UV and NGC4656. Our rough estimate of the total dynamical mass of NGC4656UV allowed us to conclude that this galaxy is the dark-matter dominated LSB dwarf or ultra diffuse galaxy. Young stellar population of NGC4656UV, as well as strong local non-circular gas motions in NGC4656 and the low oxygen gas abundance in the region of this galaxy adjacent to its dwarf companion, give evidence in favour of the accretion of metal-poor gas onto the discs of both galaxies.
description: 8 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Role of paracoccin on Paracoccidioides brasiliensis virulence and susceptibility to antifungal drugs in the Galleria mellonella larvae model
Creators: name: de Souza Pitangui, Nayla
name: Fernandes, Fabrício Freitas
name: da Silva, Thiago Aparecido
name: Gonçales, Relber Aguiar
name: Roque-Barreira, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Paracoccin (PCN), a Paracoccidioides brasiliensis glycoprotein, has been reported to play roles in fungal biology and paracoccidioidomycosis pathogenesis. Lectin and chitinase domains account for the PCN’s dual roles as an immunomodulatory agent and virulence factor. Soluble PCN injected in P. brasiliensis infected mice, by interacting with TLRs’ N-glycans, drives the host immune response toward a protective Th1 axis. Otherwise, mice infection with yeasts overexpressing PCN (ov-PCN) revealed that PCN acts as a fungal virulence factor, thanks to its chitinase activity on the cell wall, resulting in resistance to phagocytes’ fungicidal activity and development of severe paracoccidioidomycosis. Because antifungal drug administration follows the disease diagnosis, we studied the PCN effect on yeast resistance or susceptibility to antifungal agents. Using a paracoccidioidomycosis model developed in Galleria mellonella larvae, we confirmed the observation, in the murine host, that ov-PCN yeasts display maximum virulence compared to wild-type (wt-PCN) or PCN-silenced (kd-PCN) yeasts. PCN overexpression accounted for the highest susceptibility of P. brasiliensis to antifungal and reduced relative mRNA expression of genes encoding proteins related to cell wall remodeling. The lowest virulence, detected in infection with kd-PCN yeasts, correlated with the lowest susceptibility to antifungals and impact on genes for cell wall remodeling. So, we defined that the grade of endogenous PCN production influences the P. brasiliensis virulence and susceptibility to antifungal drugs, as well as the expression of genes related to cell wall remodeling. We postulate that this variable gene expression is mechanistically associated with P. brasiliensis virulence changes.
Search for Interstellar LiH in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Neufeld, David
name: Goldsmith, Paul F.
name: Comito, Claudia
name: Schmiedeke, Anika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a sensitive search for the 443.952902 GHz $J=1-0$ transition of the LiH molecule toward two interstellar clouds in the Milky Way, W49N and Sgr B2 (Main), that has been carried out using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. The results obtained toward W49N place an upper limit of $1.9 \times 10^{-11}\, (3σ)$ on the LiH abundance, $N({\rm LiH})/N({\rm H}_2)$, in a foreground, diffuse molecular cloud along the sight-line to W49N, corresponding to 0.5% of the solar system lithium abundance. Those obtained toward Sgr B2 (Main) place an abundance limit $N({\rm LiH})/N({\rm H}_2) < 3.6 \times 10^{-13} \,(3σ)$ in the dense gas within the Sgr B2 cloud itself. These limits are considerably smaller that those implied by the tentative detection of LiH reported previously for the $z=0.685$ absorber toward B0218+357.
description: 16 pages, including 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal