cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Establishment of a novel diagnostic test algorithm for human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection with line immunoassay replacement of western blotting: a collaborative study for performance evaluation of diagnostic assays in Japan
Creators: name: Kazu Okuma
name: Kuramitsu, Madoka
name: Niwa, Toshihiro
name: Tomokuni Taniguchi
name: Masaki, Yumiko
name: Gohzoh Ueda
name: Matsumoto, Chieko
name: Sobata, Rieko
name: Sagara, Yasuko
name: Nakamura, Hitomi
name: Satake, Masahiro
name: Miura, Kiyonori
name: Fuchi, Naoki
name: Masuzaki, Hideaki
name: Okayama, Akihiko
name: Umeki, Kazumi
name: Yamano, Yoshihisa
name: Sato, Tomoo
name: Iwanaga, Masako
name: Uchimaru, Kaoru
name: Nakashima, Makoto
name: Atae Utsunomiya
name: Kubota, Ryuji
name: Ishitsuka, Kenji
name: Hasegawa, Hiroo
name: Sasaki, Daisuke
name: Ki-Ryang Koh
name: Taki, Mai
name: Kisato Nosaka
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Naruse, Isao
name: Kaneko, Noriaki
name: Okajima, Sara
name: Tezuka, Kenta
name: Ikebe, Emi
name: Sahoko Matsuoka
name: Itabashi, Kazuo
name: Saito, Shigeru
name: Watanabe, Toshiki
name: Hamaguchi, Isao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. For performance (serological sensitivity) comparison between WB and LIA, 110 CLEIA-reactive, WB-indeterminate, and provirus-positive blood samples were collected and tested by LIA. CLEIA-specific antibody titers, the profiles of both WB and LIA blot patterns, the judgments by each test method, and the PVLs by PCR in all the blood samples used in this experiment are listed. NT: not tested, R: reactive, and I: indeterminate.
Additional file 3 of Establishment of a novel diagnostic test algorithm for human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection with line immunoassay replacement of western blotting: a collaborative study for performance evaluation of diagnostic assays in Japan
Creators: name: Kazu Okuma
name: Kuramitsu, Madoka
name: Niwa, Toshihiro
name: Tomokuni Taniguchi
name: Masaki, Yumiko
name: Gohzoh Ueda
name: Matsumoto, Chieko
name: Sobata, Rieko
name: Sagara, Yasuko
name: Nakamura, Hitomi
name: Satake, Masahiro
name: Miura, Kiyonori
name: Fuchi, Naoki
name: Masuzaki, Hideaki
name: Okayama, Akihiko
name: Umeki, Kazumi
name: Yamano, Yoshihisa
name: Sato, Tomoo
name: Iwanaga, Masako
name: Uchimaru, Kaoru
name: Nakashima, Makoto
name: Atae Utsunomiya
name: Kubota, Ryuji
name: Ishitsuka, Kenji
name: Hasegawa, Hiroo
name: Sasaki, Daisuke
name: Ki-Ryang Koh
name: Taki, Mai
name: Kisato Nosaka
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Naruse, Isao
name: Kaneko, Noriaki
name: Okajima, Sara
name: Tezuka, Kenta
name: Ikebe, Emi
name: Sahoko Matsuoka
name: Itabashi, Kazuo
name: Saito, Shigeru
name: Watanabe, Toshiki
name: Hamaguchi, Isao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. CLEIA-specific antibody titers, the profiles of LIA blot patterns, the judgments by each test method, and the PVLs by PCR in three primary test-reactive, LIA-negative, and PCR-positive blood samples found in Fig. 5b are listed. NT: not tested, R: reactive, and N: negative.
IS CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL FUTURES MARKET EFFICIENT?
Creators: name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Ke, Bingfan
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Ke, Bingfan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we study the efficiency of the Chinese wheat and soybeans futures markets and assess the conditions in agricultural commodity futures and cash markets in China. Formal statistical tests are conducted through Johansen's cointegration approach to identify the long-term equilibrium relationship between futures and cash markets. Three different cash prices from Zhengzhou Grain Wholesale Market, Tianjin Grain Wholesale Market, and the national average wholesale price are used. The wheat futures price from China Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange and soybeans futures price from Dalian Commodity Exchange with different forecasting horizons ranging from one week to six months are also used. Results suggest that a long-term equilibrium relationship between the futures price and cash price for soybeans has been established. A weak short-term efficiency of the soybean futures market is revealed. The futures market for wheat is inefficient. The relative inefficient wheat market may be caused by over-speculation and government intervention, because wheat is the staple food in China and the government has more control over it than soybeans. Another reason is geographic proximities between the cash market in Tianjin and both the soybean production area and the futures market in Dalian.
Additional file 1 of New anatomical reference systems for the bones of the foot and ankle complex: definitions and exploitation on clinical conditions
Creators: name: Conconi, Michele
name: Pompili, Alessandro
name: Sancisi, Nicola
name: Leardini, Alberto
name: Durante, Stefano
name: Belvedere, Claudio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Additional Material.
THE ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-A STUDY IN A COFFEE GROWING REGION OF INDIA
Creators: name: Ninan, K.N.
name: Sathyapalan, Jyothis
name: Ninan, K.N.
name: Sathyapalan, Jyothis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper analyses the economics of biodiversity conservation in the context of a tropical ecosystem in India, where coffee is the main competitor for land use.Using primary data covering a cross section of coffee growers,the study notes that the opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation in terms of coffee benefits foregone are quite high.Even after including external costs due to wild life damages and defensive expenditures to protect against wild life, the NPVs and IRRs from coffee for all land holding groups were high.The study notes that the external costs accounted for between 7 to 15% of the total discounted costs of coffee cultivation, and smaller holdings proportionately incurred higher external costs as compared to larger holdings. The study also notes high transaction costs incurred by the growers to claim compensation for wild life damages. Notwithstanding these disincentives, the study notes that the local community were willing to pay in terms of time for participatory biodiversity conservation, and they preferred a decentralised government institution for this purpose.
Non-Gaussian distribution of displacements for Lennard-Jones particles in equilibrium
Creators: name: Pachalieva, Aleksandra
name: Wagner, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most meso-scale simulation methods assume Gaussian distributions of velocity-like quantities. These quantities are not true velocities, however, but rather time-averaged velocities or displacements of particles. We show that there is a large range of coarse-graining scales where the assumption of a Gaussian distribution of these displacements fails, and a more complex distribution is required to adequately express these distribution functions of displacements.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
DualStreamFoveaNet: A Dual Stream Fusion Architecture with Anatomical Awareness for Robust Fovea Localization
Creators: name: Song, Sifan
name: Wang, Jinfeng
name: Wang, Zilong
name: Wang, Hongxing
name: Su, Jionglong
name: Ding, Xiaowei
name: Dang, Kang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate fovea localization is essential for analyzing retinal diseases to prevent irreversible vision loss. While current deep learning-based methods outperform traditional ones, they still face challenges such as the lack of local anatomical landmarks around the fovea, the inability to robustly handle diseased retinal images, and the variations in image conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel transformer-based architecture called DualStreamFoveaNet (DSFN) for multi-cue fusion. This architecture explicitly incorporates long-range connections and global features using retina and vessel distributions for robust fovea localization. We introduce a spatial attention mechanism in the dual-stream encoder to extract and fuse self-learned anatomical information, focusing more on features distributed along blood vessels and significantly reducing computational costs by decreasing token numbers. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed architecture achieves state-of-the-art performance on two public datasets and one large-scale private dataset. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the DSFN is more robust on both normal and diseased retina images and has better generalization capacity in cross-dataset experiments.
description: This paper is the camera-ready version with the IEEE template. Please check the final published version, which was published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (10.1109/JBHI.2024.3445112)
Additional file 4 of Establishment of a novel diagnostic test algorithm for human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection with line immunoassay replacement of western blotting: a collaborative study for performance evaluation of diagnostic assays in Japan
Creators: name: Kazu Okuma
name: Kuramitsu, Madoka
name: Niwa, Toshihiro
name: Tomokuni Taniguchi
name: Masaki, Yumiko
name: Gohzoh Ueda
name: Matsumoto, Chieko
name: Sobata, Rieko
name: Sagara, Yasuko
name: Nakamura, Hitomi
name: Satake, Masahiro
name: Miura, Kiyonori
name: Fuchi, Naoki
name: Masuzaki, Hideaki
name: Okayama, Akihiko
name: Umeki, Kazumi
name: Yamano, Yoshihisa
name: Sato, Tomoo
name: Iwanaga, Masako
name: Uchimaru, Kaoru
name: Nakashima, Makoto
name: Atae Utsunomiya
name: Kubota, Ryuji
name: Ishitsuka, Kenji
name: Hasegawa, Hiroo
name: Sasaki, Daisuke
name: Ki-Ryang Koh
name: Taki, Mai
name: Kisato Nosaka
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Naruse, Isao
name: Kaneko, Noriaki
name: Okajima, Sara
name: Tezuka, Kenta
name: Ikebe, Emi
name: Sahoko Matsuoka
name: Itabashi, Kazuo
name: Saito, Shigeru
name: Watanabe, Toshiki
name: Hamaguchi, Isao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4. Diagnostic Guidelines for Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Infection in Japan, Version 2 (November 2019).
Investing in Hope: AIDS, Life Expectancy, and Human Capital Accumulation
Creators: name: Huang, Rui
name: Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
name: Peterson, E. Wesley F.
name: Huang, Rui
name: Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
name: Peterson, E. Wesley F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: A three period overlapping generations model is developed to investigate the impact of shorter life expectancy due to disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are even more pronounced for the African continent than for the rest of the world.
EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE FORESTRY
Creators: name: Managi, Shunsuke
name: Managi, Shunsuke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This study evaluates efficiency of forest management in Japan. Our results show that efficiency of forest management decreases over 25 years period from 1975-2000 on average. The study indicates a substantial variation in efficiency across prefectures with a potential for output saving in the range of forty percent on average. Our econometric results seem to support the hypothesis that government subsidies had an adverse effect on economic performance of forestry sector. More subsidized prefectures were found to exhibit statistically significantly lower levels of efficiency.
Improved Pebbling Bounds
Creators: name: Chan, Melody
name: Godbole, Anant P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05C69

description: Consider a configuration of pebbles distributed on the vertices of a connected graph of order $n$. A pebbling step consists of removing two pebbles from a given vertex and placing one pebble on an adjacent vertex. A distribution of pebbles on a graph is called solvable if it is possible to place a pebble on any given vertex using a sequence of pebbling steps. The pebbling number of a graph, denoted $f(G)$, is the minimal number of pebbles such that every configuration of $f(G)$ pebbles on $G$ is solvable. We derive several general upper bounds on the pebbling number, improving previous results.
description: 10 pages
Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly-Shaped Samples and its Application to Uranium Ditelluride
Creators: name: Theuss, Florian
name: Simarro, Gregorio de la Fuente
name: Shragai, Avi
name: Grissonnanche, Gael
name: Hayes, Ian M.
name: Saha, Shanta
name: Shishidou, Tatsuya
name: Chen, Taishi
name: Nakatsuji, Satoru
name: Ran, Sheng
name: Weinert, Michael
name: Butch, Nicholas P.
name: Paglione, Johnpierre
name: Ramshaw, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) is a powerful technique for measuring the full elastic tensor of a given material in a single experiment. Previously, this technique was limited to regularly-shaped samples such as rectangular parallelepipeds, spheres, and cylinders. We demonstrate a new method for determining the elastic moduli of irregularly-shaped samples, extending the applicability of RUS to a much larger set of materials. We apply this new approach to the recently-discovered unconventional superconductor UTe$_2$ and provide its elastic tensor at both 300 and 4 kelvin.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 12 tables
Compact SQUID realized in a double layer graphene heterostructure
Creators: name: Indolese, David I.
name: Karnatak, Paritosh
name: Kononov, Artem
name: Delagrange, Raphaëlle
name: Haller, Roy
name: Wang, Lujun
name: Makk, Péter
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Schönenberger, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional systems that host one-dimensional helical states are exciting from the perspective of scalable topological quantum computation when coupled with a superconductor. Graphene is particularly promising for its high electronic quality, versatility in van der Waals heterostructures and its electron and hole-like degenerate 0$th$ Landau level. Here, we study a compact double layer graphene SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device), where the superconducting loop is reduced to the superconducting contacts, connecting two parallel graphene Josephson junctions. Despite the small size of the SQUID, it is fully tunable by independent gate control of the Fermi energies in both layers. Furthermore, both Josephson junctions show a skewed current phase relationship, indicating the presence of superconducting modes with high transparency. In the quantum Hall regime we measure a well defined conductance plateau of 2$e^2/h$ an indicative of counter propagating edge channels in the two layers. Our work opens a way for engineering topological superconductivity by coupling helical edge states, from graphene's electron-hole degenerate 0$th$ Landau level via superconducting contacts.
description: 38 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 1 of Risk factors for Lyme disease stage and manifestation using electronic health records
Creators: name: Moon, Katherine A.
name: Pollak, Jonathan S.
name: Poulsen, Melissa N.
name: Heaney, Christopher D.
name: Hirsch, Annemarie G.
name: Schwartz, Brian S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Lyme disease diagnoses used to identify Lyme disease cases and to classify by clinical stage and manifestation. Table S2. Co-diagnoses used to identify Lyme disease cases and to classify by clinical stage and manifestation. Table S3. Selected characteristics of 4530 Lyme disease cases classified by stage, by source of staging information. Table S4. Selected characteristics of 7310 Lyme disease cases, classified (n = 4530) vs. not classified (n = 2870) by stage. Table S5. Sensitivity analysis: adjusted associations (risk ratio, 95% confidence interval) of independent variables with Lyme disease stage (disseminated vs. early stage), excluding disseminated Lyme disease cases without an IgG+ western blot OR EIA+/IgM+ western blot within ± 30 days of Lyme disease diagnosis. Table S6. Sensitivity analysis: adjusted associations (risk ratio, 95% confidence interval) of independent variables with Lyme disease stage (disseminated vs. early stage), excluding diagnoses without an appropriate antibiotic order within ± 30 days of Lyme disease diagnosis.
Experimental Modeling of Cyclists Fatigue and Recovery Dynamics Enabling Optimal Pacing in a Time Trial
Creators: name: Ashtiani, Faraz
name: Sreedhara, Vijay Sarthy M
name: Vahidi, Ardalan
name: Hutchison, Randolph
name: Mocko, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Improving a cyclist performance during a time-trial effort has been a challenge for sport scientists for several decades. There has been a lot of work on understanding the physiological concepts behind it. The concepts of Critical Power (CP) and Anaerobic Work Capacity (AWC) have been discussed often in recent cycling performance related articles. CP is a power that can be maintained by a cyclist for a long time; meaning pedaling at or below this limit, theoretically, can be continued for infinite amount of time. However, there is a limited source of energy for generating power above CP. This limited energy source is AWC. After burning energy from this tank, a cyclist can recover some by pedaling below CP. In this paper we utilize the concepts of CP and AWC to mathematically model muscle fatigue and recovery of a cyclist. Then, the models are used to formulate an optimal control problem for a time trial effort on a 10.3 km course located in Greenville SC. The course is simulated in a laboratory environment using a CompuTrainer. At the end, the optimal simulation results are compared to the performance of one subject on CompuTrainer.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
43. Cepheid variables
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Cepheids are pulsating stars with periods of around 1–30 days. They play a crucial role as distance indicators, and they are important tracers of spiral arms and Galactic rotation. The Hipparcos catalogue contained just 280. The second Gaia data release contains 9575 Cepheids, of which 3767 are in the LMC, and 3692 are in the SMC.
Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Creators: name: Bernevig, B. Andrei
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum Hall liquid is a novel state of matter with profound emergent properties such as fractional charge and statistics. Existence of the quantum Hall effect requires breaking of the time reversal symmetry caused by an external magnetic field. In this work, we predict a quantized spin Hall effect in the absence of any magnetic field, where the intrinsic spin Hall conductance is quantized in units of $2 \frac{e}{4π}$. The degenerate quantum Landau levels are created by the spin-orbit coupling in conventional semiconductors in the presence of a strain gradient. This new state of matter has many profound correlated properties described by a topological field theory.
Detection of Fe\,{\sc i} Emission in the Day-side Spectrum of WASP-33b
Creators: name: Nugroho, Stevanus K.
name: Gibson, Neale P.
name: de Mooij, Ernst J. W.
name: Herman, Miranda K.
name: Watson, Chris A.
name: Kawahara, Hajime
name: Merrit, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the high-resolution emission spectrum of WASP-33b taken using the High Dispersion Spectrograph (R\,$\approx$\,165,000) on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. The data cover $λ$\,$\approx$\,$6170$-$8817$\,Å, divided over 30 spectral orders. The telluric and stellar lines are removed using a de-trending algorithm, {\sc SysRem}, before cross-correlating with planetary spectral templates. We calculate the templates assuming a 1-D plane-parallel hydrostatic atmosphere including continuum opacity of bound-free H$^{-}$ and Rayleigh scattering by H$_{2}$ with a range of constant abundances of Fe\,{\sc i}. Using a likelihood-mapping analysis, we detect an Fe\,{\sc i} emission signature at 6.4-$σ$ located at $K_{\mathrm{p}}$ of 226.0\,$^{+2.1}_{-2.3}$\,km\,s$^{-1}$and $v_{\mathrm{sys}}$ of -3.2\,$^{+2.1}_{-1.8}$\,km\,s$^{-1}$ -- consistent with the planet's expected velocity in the literature. We also confirm the existence of a thermal inversion in the day-side of the planet which is very likely to be caused by the presence of Fe\,{\sc i} and previously-detected TiO in the atmosphere. This makes WASP-33b one of the prime targets to study the relative contributions of both species to the energy budget of an ultra-hot Jupiter.
description: Accepted for publication on ApJL; 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
Creators: name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Jin, Songqing
name: Deininger, Klaus W.
name: Jin, Songqing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Impact and desirability of land transfers in post-socialist transition economies have been subject to considerable debate. We use data from Vietnam to identify factors conducive to the development of land markets and to assess potentially differential impacts of rental and sales. Results show that both rental and sales transfer land to more productive producers but that rental is more important for the poor to access land that becomes available as the non-farm economy develops. The fact that secure land rights significantly increase supply of land to the rental market suggests that government has a key role in facilitating emergence and functioning of efficiency-enhancing land markets.
The Differential Impact of Regional Policies on Economic Growth: One Size Does Not Fit All
Creators: name: Nizalov, Denys
name: Loveridge, Scott
name: Nizalov, Denys
name: Loveridge, Scott
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Public Economics

description: We analyze the impact of Michigan economic development policies and highway infrastructure improvements on per capita income and job growth in 1990s using fixed effect estimation procedure. We also improve measurement of policy treatment while accounting for possible spillover effect. The policies considered for analysis have significant impact on growth outcomes. However this effect is non-linear. The size of this impact changes over time and the path of change varies by type of policy. Policy impacts are different between metro and non-metropolitan areas. Also, cross-policy effects are found. The results can assist decision makers in targeting policies.
Using continuous measurement to protect a universal set of quantum gates within a perturbed decoherence-free subspace
Creators: name: Mendonca, Paulo E. M. F.
name: Marchiolli, Marcelo A.
name: Napolitano, Reginaldo d. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a universal set of quantum gates encoded within a perturbed decoherence-free subspace of four physical qubits. Using second-order perturbation theory and a measuring device modeled by an infinite set of harmonic oscillators, simply coupled to the system, we show that continuous observation of the coupling agent induces inhibition of the decoherence due to spurious perturbations. We thus advance the idea of protecting or even creating a decoherence-free subspace for processing quantum information.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure. To be published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Additional file 1 of Classification of Parkinson’s disease with freezing of gait based on 360° turning analysis using 36 kinematic features
Creators: name: Park, Hwayoung
name: Shin, Sungtae
name: Youm, Changhong
name: Cheon, Sang-Myung
name: Lee, Myeounggon
name: Noh, Byungjoo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Turning characteristics of PD patients in comparison with controls, and freezers in comparison with non-freezers, during 360° turning task.
42. Surprises in the HR diagram
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The vast numbers of accurate star distances being measured by Gaia yield Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams with unprecedented detail. The lower parts of the HR diagram show several surprising new features, with the convective-radiative transition evident in red dwarfs, and plasma crystallisation evident in white dwarfs.
Assessing farmers' risk attitudes based on economic, social, personal, and environmental sources of risk: evidence from Sweden
Creators: name: Lagerkvist, Carl Johan
name: Lagerkvist, Carl Johan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper examines farmers' risk attitudes, obtained by responses to sources of risk, using an attitudinal scale approach. Economic, social, personal, and environmental sources of risk are considered in the measurement of risk attitudes. In addition, use of various types of expertise and information sources are included as risk management tools. Inferences are drawn from results of a survey mailed to a representative random sample of 500 farmers drawn from the population of medium to large farms (by acreage) in southern Sweden. Regarding the adequacy of the results it was found that a mail survey produces results similar to earlier results obtained by personal interview. Farmers' responses to the attitudinal scales showed levels of communal variation between 80 and 83%, which is higher than the result reported by Bard and Barry (2000) (68.6%). This indicates that a broader field of risk sources improves the measurement of risk attitudes. The results further indicate a slight degree of risk aversion and that crop and livestock farmers use different sets of risk management tools, depending on their risk attitudes. The results of this work are of relevance because if attitudes induce risk response, then the communication approaches for extension services or policy makers will be very different than if it is 'risk', as that word is typically used.
Additional file 1 of An accessible, efficient and global approach for the large-scale sequencing of bacterial genomes
Creators: name: Perez-Sepulveda, Blanca M.
name: Heavens, Darren
name: Pulford, Caisey V.
name: Predeus, Alexander V.
name: Low, Ross
name: Webster, Hermione
name: Dykes, Gregory F.
name: Schudoma, Christian
name: Rowe, Will
name: Lipscombe, James
name: Watkins, Chris
name: Kumwenda, Benjamin
name: Shearer, Neil
name: Costigan, Karl
name: Baker, Kate S.
name: Feasey, Nicholas A.
name: Hinton, Jay C. D.
name: Hall, Neil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Includes supplementary figures S1, S2, and S3: Fig. S1. Average DNA concentration and molarity of libraries constructed using the LITE pipeline across individual 96-well plates. Fig. S2: Assessment of DNA integrity among libraries constructed using the LITE pipeline. Fig. S3: Integrity assessment of DNA extraction of 42 samples described in Table S2.
Superintegrable quantum mechanical systems with position dependent masses invariant with respect to two parametric Lie groups
Creators: name: Nikitin, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanical systems with position dependent masses (PDM) admitting two parametric Lie symmetry groups are classified. Namely, all PDM systems are specified which, in addition to their invariance w.r.t. a two parametric Lie group, admit at least one second order integral of motion. The presented classification is partially extended to the more generic systems which do not accept any Lie group.
description: 20 pages
Rural Economic Sustainability and Background Checks on Workers in Rural Health Care Settings: Evidence from the Michigan Pilot Background Check Program.
Creators: name: Oehmke, James F.
name: Post, Lori A.
name: Almerigi, Jason
name: Swierenga, Sarah
name: Oehmke, James F.
name: Post, Lori A.
name: Almerigi, Jason
name: Swierenga, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This paper examines the effects of conducting criminal background checks on health care employees on employment in and economic viability of rural communities.
Additional file 10 of A novel function of FAF1, which induces dopaminergic neuronal death through cell-to-cell transmission
Creators: name: Gyeongrin Park
name: Bok-Seok Kim
name: Eunhee Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9 Figure S8. CM from FAF1-transtected cells induces neighboring cell death via caspase-3 activation. Donor cells were transfected with VC or 3xFlag-FAF1 plasmid. At 24 h after transfection, the culture medium was replaced with serum-free medium plus z-IET-fmk (20 μM), a caspase-8 inhibitor, and the cells were cultured for 24 h. After the CM after culture for 48 h or treatment with TNFα (50 ng/ml) plus CHX (20 μg/ml) for 6 h was applied to recipient cells, caspase-3 activity was analyzed using fluorometric assays. TC: TNFα + CHX. Statistical comparisons were evaluated using ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD post hoc analysis. *P
Early detection of hip periprosthetic joint infections through CNN on Computed Tomography images
Creators: name: Guarnera, Francesco
name: Rondinella, Alessia
name: Giudice, Oliver
name: Ortis, Alessandro
name: Battiato, Sebastiano
name: Rundo, Francesco
name: Fallica, Giorgio
name: Traina, Francesco
name: Conoci, Sabrina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Early detection of an infection prior to prosthesis removal (e.g., hips, knees or other areas) would provide significant benefits to patients. Currently, the detection task is carried out only retrospectively with a limited number of methods relying on biometric or other medical data. The automatic detection of a periprosthetic joint infection from tomography imaging is a task never addressed before. This study introduces a novel method for early detection of the hip prosthesis infections analyzing Computed Tomography images. The proposed solution is based on a novel ResNeSt Convolutional Neural Network architecture trained on samples from more than 100 patients. The solution showed exceptional performance in detecting infections with an experimental high level of accuracy and F-score.
Surface-induced cubic anisotropy in nanomagnets
Creators: name: Kachkachi, H.
name: Bonet, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of surface anisotropy in a spherical many-spin magnetic nanoparticle. By computing minor loops, two-dimensional (2D) and 3D energyscape, and by investigating the behavior of the net magnetization, we show that in the case of not too strong surface anisotropy the behavior of the many-spin particle may be modeled by that of a macrospin with an effective energy containing uniaxial and cubic anisotropy terms. This holds for both the transverse and Néel's surface anisotropy models.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Evolution of $α$ Centauri B's protoplanetary disc
Creators: name: Martin, Rebecca G.
name: Lissauer, Jack J.
name: Quarles, Billy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With hydrodynamical simulations we examine the evolution of a protoplanetary disc around $α$ Centauri B including the effect of the eccentric orbit binary companion $α$ Centauri A. The initially circular orbit disc undergoes two types of eccentricity growth. First, the eccentricity oscillates on the orbital period of the binary, $P_{\rm orb}$, due to the eccentricity of the binary orbit. Secondly, for a sufficiently small disc aspect ratio, the disc undergoes global forced eccentricity oscillations on a time-scale of around $20\,P_{\rm orb}$. These oscillations damp out through viscous dissipation leaving a quasi-steady eccentricity profile for the disc that oscillates only on the binary orbital period. The time-averaged global eccentricity is in the range 0.05-0.1, with no precession in the steady state. The periastrons of the gas particles are aligned to one another. The higher the disc viscosity, the higher the disc eccentricity. With $N$-body simulations we examine the evolution of a disc of planetesimals that forms with the orbital properties of the quasi-steady protoplanetary disc. We find that the average magnitude of the eccentricity of particles increases and their periastrons become misaligned to each other once they decouple from the gas disc. The low planetesimal collision velocity required for planet formation suggests that for planet formation to have occurred in a disc of planetesimals formed from a protoplanetary disc around $α$ Centauri B, said disc's viscosity must be have been small and planet formation must have occurred at orbital radii smaller than about $2.5\,\rm au$. Planet formation may be easier with the presence of gas.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Identification and Quantification of barriers to HACCP implementation: Evidence from the Ontario Food Processing Sector
Creators: name: Herath, Deepananda P.B.
name: Henson, Spencer J.
name: Herath, Deepananda P.B.
name: Henson, Spencer J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This article explores the barriers that prevent the adoption of HACCP system by food processing firms in Ontario, Canada. The study identifies four key groups of barriers that prevent firms from adopting HACCP system in their food safety control programs, namely questionable appropriateness, scale of change, low priority and financial constraints. The severity of barriers is significantly different between the HACCP implementers and non-implementers while such differences are substantially higher for the barriers that have been grouped into questionable appropriateness of HACCP system relative to other barriers.
Boosting multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation through attention mechanism
Creators: name: Rondinella, Alessia
name: Crispino, Elena
name: Guarnera, Francesco
name: Giudice, Oliver
name: Ortis, Alessandro
name: Russo, Giulia
name: Di Lorenzo, Clara
name: Maimone, Davide
name: Pappalardo, Francesco
name: Battiato, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Magnetic resonance imaging is a fundamental tool to reach a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and monitoring its progression. Although several attempts have been made to segment multiple sclerosis lesions using artificial intelligence, fully automated analysis is not yet available. State-of-the-art methods rely on slight variations in segmentation architectures (e.g. U-Net, etc.). However, recent research has demonstrated how exploiting temporal-aware features and attention mechanisms can provide a significant boost to traditional architectures. This paper proposes a framework that exploits an augmented U-Net architecture with a convolutional long short-term memory layer and attention mechanism which is able to segment and quantify multiple sclerosis lesions detected in magnetic resonance images. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation on challenging examples demonstrated how the method outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches, reporting an overall Dice score of 89% and also demonstrating robustness and generalization ability on never seen new test samples of a new dedicated under construction dataset.
Nutrition and fertilization response : a case study using hybrid poplar
Creators: name: Zabek, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Three hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa x Populus deltoides) plantations on the east side of Vancouver Island were fertilized with N, Nand P, and N, P, and K at the beginning of the third growing season, followed by fertilization with N in the fourth growing season. Three-yearvolume growth increased with application of N alone, but was greatest in plots receiving both N and P. Potassium added with the N and P provided a slight benefit at one site. Litterfall biomass and leaf area of one clone increased with fertilization and remained unchanged in a second clone, as compared with untreated controls. Foliar N and P concentrations were linearly correlated with leaf area index, and leaf area index was linearly correlated with poplar volume growth. Amounts of N and P resorbed from the foliage increased with fertilization, but resorption efficiency and proficiency were unaffected by fertilization. Foliar resorption efficiency and proficiency of N and P differed between two of the three sites. Diagnostic techniques tested to determine if poplar growth response to fertilization could accurately be predicted were soil analysis, critical foliar nutrient concentrations, foliar N:P ratios, Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) analysis, optimum nutrient ratios and vector analysis. Neither soil chemical characteristics nor DRIS analysis were an effective diagnostic tool. Fertilizer prescriptions including the nutrients diagnosed as limiting using critical foliar nutrient concentrations, matched tree growth response to fertilization 63% of the time. A foliar N:P ratio of 9.5 coincided with differences in tree growth response to N or N-plus- P application. In a nursery trial, steady-state nutrient ratios were derived for three hybrid poplar clones. Ratios were somewhat similar among clones, but were not identical. Fertilizer prescriptions derived from differences between the diagnostic ratios and foliar nutrient ratios of unfertilized trees in the field had a success rate of 63%. Diagnoses of nutrient limitations from vector analysis using the whole plant, shoot, foliage and root tissues of poplar growing in the nursery were dissimilar among tissues. Foliar vector analysis provided the best index of tree growth response to fertilization.
A note on a fundamental domain for Siegel-Jacobi space
Creators: name: Yang, Jae-Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G18, 14G35

description: In this paper, we study a fundamental domain for the Siegel-Jacobi space $Sp(g,{\mathbb Z})\ltimes H_{\mathbb Z}^{(g,h)}\backslash {\mathbb H}_g\times {\mathbb C}^{(h,g)}$.
description: 9 pages ; Changed title, Added contents
Modeling Urban Sprawl and Land Use Change in a Coastal Area-- A Neural Network Approach
Creators: name: Lin, Huiyan
name: Lu, Kang Shou
name: Espey, Molly
name: Allen, Jeffery
name: Lin, Huiyan
name: Lu, Kang Shou
name: Espey, Molly
name: Allen, Jeffery
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Complexity of urban systems necessitates the consideration of interdependency among various factors for land use change modeling and prediction. The objective of this study is to explore the applicability of computational neural networks in modeling urban sprawl and land use change coupled with geographic information systems (GIS) in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. We are particularly interested in the capabilities of neural networks to identify land use patterns, to model new development, and to predict future change. A binary logistic regression model is estimated comparison. The results indicate the neural network model is an improvement over the logistic regression model in terms of prediction accuracy.
Additional file 4 of A novel function of FAF1, which induces dopaminergic neuronal death through cell-to-cell transmission
Creators: name: Gyeongrin Park
name: Bok-Seok Kim
name: Eunhee Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3 Figure S2. FAF1 is secreted from various cell lines. a-f MEF, HEK293, MCF-7, HeLa, PANC-1, and MIA PaCa-2 cells were transfected with VC or 3xFlag-FAF1 plasmid. At 24 h after transfection, the culture medium was replaced with serum-free medium, and the cells were cultured for 24 h. Concentrated CM was analyzed by western blotting with the indicated antibodies.
An Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Transition Dipole Moment and the XENON1T Excess
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Ian M.
name: Tsai, Yu-Dai
name: Wyenberg, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short letter, we find that a magnetic transition dipole moment between tau and sterile neutrinos can account for the XENON1T excess events. Unlike the ordinary neutrino dipole moment, the introduction of the new sterile mass scale allows for astrophysical bounds to be suppressed. Interestingly, the best-fit regions that are compatible with the SN1987A imply either boron-8 or CNO neutrinos as the source flux. We find that sterile neutrinos of either $\sim$ 260 keV or in the $\sim$(500 - 800) keV mass range are capable of evading astrophysical constraints while being able to successfully explain the XENON1T event rate. The sterile neutrino in the best fit parameter space may have significant effects on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). We show the region in which a low reheating temperature of the Universe may allow the BBN constraints to be alleviated.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Willingness-To-Pay for Food of the Own Region: Empirical Estimates from Hypothetical and Incentive Compatible Settings
Creators: name: Burchardi, Henrike
name: Schroeder, Carsten
name: Thiele, Holger D.
name: Burchardi, Henrike
name: Schroeder, Carsten
name: Thiele, Holger D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: The ongoing liberalisation of the European food market provides incentives to producers to seek for innovative strategies of product differentiation. One possibility to differentiate the own product from competing ones is its region-of-origin. In this paper, we investigate consumers' willingness-to-pay and underlying preferences for food of the own region. We consider fresh milk as an example. Underlying data stem from a hypothetical contingent valuation and from an incentive compatible experimental setting with real payoffs. We find that consumers perceive fresh milk from local farmers as a trustful, high quality product, and that consumers are interested in supporting local producers. Given that price premiums are small, both methods suggest a substantial demand for local products. However, compared to contingent-valuation estimates, the inclusion of real payoffs leads to a significant decrease in the willingness-to-pay stated. This decrease can mainly be assigned to "pretending altruists": free riding subjects who respond according to social norms as long as no costs are involved.