cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Covid-19 Crisis: Is our personal data likely to be breached?
Creators: name: Vinden Wylde
name: Prakash, Edmond
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Since the Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2: Covid-19) outbreak, the pandemic of 2020, mobile Applications (apps) via the Internet of Things (IoT: smart-phones, sensors and devices) and Internet of Everything (IoE: Cloud and Phone networks) continue to play a key role in tracking and tracing programs. Many countries seek different approaches to minimise person-person transmission [1, 2].
Analyzing soundness of Nationalized Banks in India: a camel approach
Creators: name: Khatik-, S.K.
name: Kr Nag, Amit
name: Khatik-, S.K.
name: Kr Nag, Amit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Capital Adequacy
subject: Assets Quality
subject: Management Efficiency
subject: Earning Quality and Liquidity.

description: Performance of the economy of any country is largely dependent on the performance of its banking sector. Since, banking sector constitutes a major component of the financial service sector. Soundness of the banking sector is essential for a healthy and vibrant economy. The efficiency, productivity, profitability, stability and a shock free economy is possible only when a country is having a sound and healthy banking sector. The present research work has been undertaken to analyze the soundness of five nationalized banks in India. In order to measure the performances of these banks CAMEL MODEL Approach has been applied, incorporating important parameters like Capital Adequacy, Assets Quality, Management Efficiency, Earnings Quality and Liquidity. The finding of the study shows that Bank of Baroda has been ranked at the top position, the Union Bank of India and Dena Bank secured the 2nd position, the next was the State Bank of India which secured the 4th position and in the last position was the UCO Bank which secured the 5th position.
An Investigation into the Psychology of Socially Responsible Investment Decisions
Creators: name: Barwick-Barrett, Matthew
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: sustainable
SRI

description: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) defines socially responsible investing (SRI) as an investment discipline that considers environmental, social and corporate governance criteria to generate long-term, competitive financial returns and positive societal impact (US SIF, 2016a). In contrast, conventional investing strategies aim to generate longterm competitive financial returns but do not consider societal impact. Recent trend reports estimate that the total value of US-domiciled assets under management using SRI strategies is $8.72 trillion (US SIF, 2016a), while in Europe it is more than €10 trillion (Eurosif, 2016). Consequently, the importance of SRI is considerable to both academics and practitioners, as is the influence that this form of investing can have on the practices of major corporations. This dissertation analyses whether behavioural economic theory and theory relating to psychological biases can potentially be utilised in the promotion of SRI to increase the quantity of capital being invested through SRI strategies. The analysis finds that the way SRI decisions are framed can significantly affect the propensity with which investors choose to invest through SRI strategies and that the promoters of SRI, can potentially utilise framing and choice architecture to increase the prevalence of this form of investing. This important finding enhances the current academic and practitioner literature relating to SRI, whilst also adding additional depth to the literature pertaining to behavioural economics.
MAIZE MARKETING IN BANGLADESH-A MICRO LEVEL STUDY
Creators: name: Haque, A. B. M. M.
name: Raha, S. K.
name: Haque, A. B. M. M.
name: Raha, S. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Production Economics

description: The marketing study of maize was mainly based on data of 97 samples. which were randomly selected from the study areas in Dinajpur district. The sample included 52 farmers. 6 Farias. 10 wholesalers. 9 retailers. 20 feed processors and organized trader BRAC and GKF. Primary data were collected during the months of October '95 to March '96. The marketing system, marketing cost. margin, price spread and farmer's share in retail price were also analysed. The Independent maize farmers incurred the highest marketing cost per quintal (Tk.31.84) followed by BRAC farmers (Tk.24.43) and G.K.F farmers (Tk.14.14). Among the intermediaries at Dinajpur, the marketing cost per quintal incurred were Tk.30.00, Tk.50.75. Tk.36.00 and Tk.2 L50 for Farias. wholesalers. retailers and BRAC respectively while the marketing cost was higher for wholesalers (Tk.2i7.50) compared to GKF (Tk.80.00) in Dhaka. At Dinajpur the net margins earned by Farias, wholesalers. retailers and BRAC were Tk.10.00, Tk.16.25. Tk.64.00 and Tk.131.50 per quintal respectively. In Dhaka, the net margin earned by the wholesaler was higher (Tk.24.50) than that of G.K.F (Tk.23.00). Marketing problems faced by the farmers and maize traders were also identified.
Characterizing scalable measures of quantum resources
Creators: name: Parisio, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The question of how quantities, like entanglement and coherence, depend on the number of copies of a given state $ρ$ is addressed. This is a hard problem, often involving optimizations over Hilbert spaces of large dimensions. Here, we propose a way to circumvent the direct evaluation of such quantities, provided that the employed measures satisfy a self-similarity property. We say that a quantity ${\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes N})$ is {\it scalable} if it can be described as a function of the variables $\{{\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes i_1}),\dots,{\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes i_q}); N\}$ for $N>i_j$, while, preserving the tensor-product structure. If analyticity is assumed, recursive relations can be derived for the Maclaurin series of ${\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes N})$, which enable us to determine its possible functional forms (in terms of the mentioned variables). In particular, we find that if ${\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes 2^n})$ depends only on ${\cal E}(ρ)$, ${\cal E}(ρ^{\otimes 2})$, and $n$, then it is completely determined by Fibonacci polynomials, to leading order. We show that the one-shot distillable (OSD) entanglement is well described as a scalable measure for several families of states. For a particular two-qutrit state $\varrho$, we determine the OSD entanglement for $\varrho^{\otimes 96}$ from smaller tensorings, with an accuracy of $97 \%$ and no extra computational effort. Finally, we show that superactivation of non-additivity may occur in this context.
description: Text enlarged and improved
RICE, RISK AND RATIONALITY: EXPLORATIONS IN SUPPLY RESPONSE IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Jabber, M. A.
name: Alam, M. Shahe
name: Islam, Md. Serajul
name: Jabber, M. A.
name: Alam, M. Shahe
name: Islam, Md. Serajul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Most studies on rational response of rice producers in less developed countries (LDCs) assume risk neutrality. However, the role of risk in farmers's decision making has been recognised as an important determinant of production. If farmers are rational and risk averse in less developed countries (LDCs) they should consider not only expected output prices and yields when allocating resources, but also expected risk in output prices and yields. The extent to which price and yield risks do in fact affect producer decisions is an important empirical question. In this paper, we review the literature on risk & supply response in agriculture of LDCs. Next, we develop single equation as well as a system of equations model to estimate supply under risky conditions when agents are rational. A rational expectation model incorporating risk variables is presented. Then, we apply the models to a LDC (Bangladesh) and estimate the validity of the models.
DNA-PKcs/ Artemis Complex in DNA Double-Strand-Break Repair: Cryo-EM and Biochemical Studies
Creators: name: Liang, Shikang
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: DNA repair
DNA double-strand break
Non-Homologous End Joining
Cryo-EM
DNA-PKcs/ Artemis complex
NHEJ spatial organisation
NHEJ temporal organisation
Structural Biology
structure-based drug discovery

description: DNA is the main carrier of inheritance and DNA damage will thus have serious consequences. DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are amongst the most lethal forms of DNA damage. One DSB can lead to catastrophic consequences including cancer and cell death. To fix it, there are two main mechanisms-- homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). My PhD project focuses on NHEJ. Unlike HR, NHEJ is not limited by the cell cycle as it does not require a template for recombination. Also, NHEJ has been shown to be the preferred DSB repair pathway in higher eukaryotic organisms including human. NHEJ is dynamic and flexible but can be separated into three steps - DNA end recognition, end synapsis and processing, and end ligation. The main objective of my project is to understand the interaction in the complex between DNA-PKcs and Artemis, which is the major nuclease in the step of end synapsis and processing to help clean up the modified DSB ends caused by external factors including ionizing radiation. It is also the only discovered human endonuclease cleaving hairpin DNA, which is indispensable in V(D)J recombination— a mechanism that provides the immunodiversity of antibodies and T-cell receptors. During my PhD, I purified Artemis and DNA-PKcs, conduct biochemical and biophysical characterisation of these proteins and used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as the main structural method. The nuclease assays for investigation of endonuclease activity targeting hairpin DNA revealed that XLF and XLF/XRCC4 have a stimulating effect on the endonuclease complex without and with Ku. Moreover, I have identified the region of Artemis interacting with DNA-PKcs and collected cryo-EM data for complexes of DNA-PKcs with different Artemis constructs, revealing the interaction mode between DNA-PKcs and Artemis. In addition, I further explored the cryo-EM structure of the DNA-PKcs to provide a firmer ground for modelling and the related complex study. A part of my PhD project focuses on the preliminary drug discovery of Artemis/ DNA Ligase IV complex. An intrinsically disordered Artemis C-terminal peptide interacts with DNA Ligase IV through concerted folding, showing a site that can be most easily targeted by small molecules. Therefore, during my PhD, different constructs of DNA Ligase IV have been screened and the fragment-based drug discovery approach was initiated to provide chemical tools or candidate drug molecules to inhibit the Artemis-DNA Ligase IV binding site. Moreover, collaboration work with the Strick group enabled us to monitor the temporal organisation of NHEJ using the single-molecule method, which identified the function of PAXX as an early participating component in end synapsis.
Background Field Method in Thermo Field Dynamics Theory for Wave Propagation in Unmagnetized Spinor QED Plasmas
Creators: name: Wu, Shan
name: Zhang, Ji-ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, a many body relativistic quantum field theory for the collective modes of spinor quantum electrodynamic theory (QED) plasmas is developed. We introduce the thermo field dynamics into the QED plasma study. The nontrivial background field method is used to take account of the non-perturbativity of background charged plasma particles and radiation field. It is an extension of "Furry picture" which is first introduced by Yuan Shi, et al. [Phys. Rev. A 94, 012124 (2016)] in their scalar QED plasma study. However, their wave function method in evaluating the background field of ideal system is hard to extend to the general many body cases. We propose a classical limit method that most perturbative high energy and quantum many body aspects can be included in a practical way. As an example, the wave propagation in unmagnetized electron-positron plasma is discussed. In the low energy limit case, the well known wave dispersion relations for non-relativistic degenerate plasma are recovered. In addition, mass increase of plasma particles due to the relativity, effective charge decrease due to the vacuum polarization, finite light velocity influence on the dispersion relation, and temperature influence on plasma system are discussed. Besides, new phenomenons including the zero sound of the electron-positron pair plasma and the particle production induced by the plasma oscillation are first reported. At last, the high energy limit case is studied.
description: We have replace the previous paper (with a technical problem) with this corrected version. The presentation of the paper has also been improved. The published version can be seen in "Physics of Plasmas"
A QUARTER CENTURY EXPERIENCE OF CROP PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN BANGLADESH: IMPLICATIONS FOR A FUTURE STRATEGY
Creators: name: Alam, Shamsul
name: Alam, Shamsul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: To fill the general caveat of dearth of crop productivity trend studies covering for a longer period of almost a quarter century, the present study has been undertaken. This is more imperative when the government is preparing fifth five year plan documents and launching programmes to implement the plan. Productivity of a crop reflects attainment in technological advance over time. Productivity trend analyses of the crops for the last quarter century of Bangladesh reveal a dismal picture of slowing down of HYV rices. Some yield increases have occurred for local variety of rice through concentration of cultivation in most suitable land areas. A few crops like potato, lentil, mungbean and chilli exhibited up turning trends in productivity onwards the eighties or from the middle half of the eighties. Jute yield level increased, sugarcane and wheat yields have fallen. Yields of slow growth crops like garlic, groundnut, barley and sesamum have remained stagnated. However, in general, no perceptible productivity increase has taken place for any crop over the last quarter century of crop sector growth.
Construction of Sources for Majumdar-Papapetrou Spacetimes
Creators: name: Varela, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions for the 3+1 Einstein-Maxwell equations, with charged dust acting as the external source for the fields. The spherically symmetric solution of Gürses is considered in detail. We introduce new parameters that simplify the construction of class $C^1$, singularity-free geometries. The arising sources are bounded or unbounded, and the redshift of light signals allows an observer at spatial infinity to distinguish these cases. We find out an interesting affinity between the conformastatic metric and some homothetic, matter and Ricci collineations. The associated non-Noetherian symmetries provide us with distinctive solutions that can be used to construct non-singular sources for Majumdar-Papapetrou spacetimes.}
description: 15 pages, LaTeX
Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy
Creators: name: Couri, Marcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
name: Daugeron, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Hydrotaea

description: Genus Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy
 Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 509. Type-species: Musca meteorica Linnaeus, 1758, des. Curtis (1839: plate 768).
 Diagnosis. Male holoptic; eye bare; general colour black metallic; arista very short pubescent; gena with a strong upcurved seta in anterior part; female with a pair of cruciate setae on frontal vitta, and with lower orbital seta proclinate; dorsocentrals 2+4; notopleuron with or without ground setulae; anepimeron bare; katepisternals 1:1 (or 0: 1 in some specimens of H. spinigera); vein M straight; distiphallus with apical part of juxta spinulose; ovipositor long, with narrow tergites.
 Comments. Six species have been recorded from the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, two of them from Vanuatu: H. chalcogaster (Wiedemann) and H. spinigera (Stein), the former being more commom and the second one represented by only three females.
description: Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2556 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228
title: 01_1269
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/
Phase Structure of Resource Allocation Games
Creators: name: Savit, R.
name: Brueckner, S. A.
name: Parunak, H. V. D.
name: Sauter, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a class of games that are generalizations of the minority game, in that the demand and supply of the resource are specified independently. This allows us to study systems in which agents compete under different demand loads. Among other features, we find the existence of a robust phase change with a coexistence region as the demand load is varied, separating regions with nearly balanced supply and demand from regions of scarce or abundant resources. The coexistence region exists when the amount of information used by the agents to make their choices is greater than a critical value, which is related to the point at which there is a phase transition in the standardd minority game.
description: 11 pages 4 figures. Submitted to Physics Letter A, Feb. 2002WE
Joints formed by lines and a $k$-plane, and a discrete estimate of Kakeya type
Creators: name: Carbery, Anthony
name: Iliopoulou, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a family of lines and let $\mathcal{P}$ be a family of $k$-planes in $\mathbb{F}^n$ where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field. In our first result we show that the number of joints formed by a $k$-plane in $\mathcal{P}$ together with $(n-k)$ lines in $\mathcal{L}$ is $O_n(|\mathcal{L}||\mathcal{P}|^{1/(n-k)}$). This is the first sharp result for joints involving higher-dimensional affine subspaces, and it holds in the setting of arbitrary fields $\mathbb{F}$. In contrast, for our second result, we work in the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$, and we establish the Kakeya-type estimate \begin{equation*}\sum_{x \in J} \left(\sum_{\ell \in \mathcal{L}} χ_\ell(x)\right)^{3/2} \lesssim |\mathcal{L}|^{3/2}\end{equation*} where $J$ is the set of joints formed by $\mathcal{L}$; such an estimate fails in the setting of arbitrary fields. This result strengthens the known estimates for joints, including those counting multiplicities. Additionally, our techniques yield significant structural information on quasi-extremisers for this inequality.
description: 45 pages, 4 figures. Published in Discrete Analysis
Magnetic Wall From Chiral Phase Transition and CMBR Correlations
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possible CMBR correlations are estimated with a model in which a Hubble-size magnetic wall is formed during the QCD chiral phase transition. Measurable polarization correlations are found for l greater than 1000. Metric perturbations from the wall were found to give rise to observable correlations.
description: Eight pages, one figure, revtex. In revised version details of the derivation of the magnetic wall is given, and a comparison with inflationary models is given in the figure
Remote Detection of Surging Glaciers Across High Mountain Asia
Creators: name: Vale, Amelia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: glacier

description: High Mountain Asia (HMA) hosts the largest glacier concentration outside of polar regions. This region also represents the second major surge cluster, globally. Despite numerous sub-regional and individual glacier – scale studies of surging, our understanding of this phenomenon remains largely ambiguous. This study sought to identify and quantify trends in the characteristics and distribution of glacier surging synoptically across HMA using remote sensing techniques. This was with the intention enhancing the state of knowledge of glacier surging in this highly dynamic region and demonstrating the capabilities of remote sensing for this purpose. Terminus positions of surging glaciers identified in this study using satellite imagery were delimited using Google Earth Engine Digitisation Tool (GEEDiT). Subsequently, using terminus change profiles, a 6-part classification scheme was developed to characterise surge phenomenology. Surging variables, including duration, terminus advance distance, terminus advance rate, and surge recurrence intervals were also quantified using terminus change profiles. A statistical assessment was performed on the data to test surging relationships both intra- and extra- sub-regionally. In total, 139 glaciers were identified as surging in HMA between 1987-2019. Of this 139, 15 surged multiple times, and 52 were newly identified as surging in this study. Overall, surging across HMA is heterogeneous in distribution and behaviour. Surge incidence is greater along a northwest-southeast transect, stretching from Pamir through Karakoram, to West Kunlun Shan. In Tian Shan and Himalaya surge incidence was isolated. Pamir glacier surge variables support a dominant hydrologically-regulated surge mechanism, in contrast to Karakoram and West Kunlun Shan glaciers, characterised by long durations, and likely controlled by a thermal switch mechanism. This supports the idea that surging occurs along a spectrum of flow instability, validating earlier surge studies. The synoptic nature of this study provides a degree of representation of the surge phenomenon not attainable by smaller-scale studies. The results highlight the necessity to update the RGI, and the continued need to monitor the surging phenomenon in HMA. It would be possible to automate the methods adopted in this study, facilitating near real-time monitoring of surging across HMA.
(Gravitational) Vacuum Cherenkov Radiation
Creators: name: Schreck, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work reviews our current understanding of Cherenkov-type processes in vacuum that may occur due to a possible violation of Lorentz invariance. The description of Lorentz violation is based on the Standard Model Extension (SME). To get an overview as general as possible, the most important findings for vacuum Cherenkov radiation in Minkowski spacetime are discussed. After doing so, special emphasis is put on gravitational Cherenkov radiation. For a better understanding, the essential properties of the gravitational SME are recalled in this context. The common grounds and differences of vacuum Cherenkov radiation in Minkowski spacetime and in the gravity sector are emphasized.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Analysis by region of outcomes for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with cabozantinib or everolimus: a sub-analysis of the METEOR study
Creators: name: Schmidinger, Manuela
name: Motzer, Robert J.
name: Rolland, Frederic
name: Staehler, Michael
name: Rink, Michael
name: Retz, Margitta
name: Csoszi, Tibor
name: McCaffrey, John A.
name: De Giorgi, Ugo
name: Caserta, Claudia
name: Duran, Ignacio
name: Benzaghou, Fawzi
name: Clary, Douglas O.
name: Albiges, Laurence
name: Choueiri, Toni K.
name: Tannir, Nizar M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: METEOR was a phase 3 trial (NCT01865747) of cabozantinib versus everolimus in adults with advanced or metastatic clear cell RCC previously treated with VEGF receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). This post hoc analysis of METEOR compared outcomes for patients recruited from European and non-European countries. Adults with advanced/metastatic clear cell RCC who had received ≥ 1 prior VEGFR-TKI treatment were randomized 1:1 to receive cabozantinib or everolimus. Patients were categorized by recruitment region: Europe or outside of Europe (rest of world [RoW]). Progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), and adverse events (AEs) were compared between regional subgroups. In total, there were 320 eligible patients from Europe (cabozantinib, 167; everolimus, 153) and 338 from RoW (North America, 240 patients; Asia-Pacific, 86; Latin America, 12; randomized as cabozantinib, 163; everolimus, 175). PFS and OS were longer with cabozantinib than with everolimus and similar for the Europe and RoW subgroups. For PFS, the hazard ratio (HR) for cabozantinib versus everolimus was 0.54 for the Europe subgroup (p < .001) and 0.50 for the RoW subgroup (p < .001). For OS, the HR was 0.75 for the Europe subgroup (p = .034) and 0.69 for the RoW subgroup (p = .006). ORR in the Europe subgroup was 15% for cabozantinib and 3.9% for everolimus (p < .001). For the RoW subgroup, ORR was 20% for cabozantinib and 2.9% for everolimus (p < .001). Incidence of grade 3/4 AEs were similar for the Europe (cabozantinib, 74%; everolimus, 58%) and RoW subgroups (cabozantinib, 69%; everolimus, 64%). In the METEOR trial, efficacy outcomes for patients recruited from European and non-European countries favored cabozantinib over everolimus. The efficacy and safety results for the regional subgroups were consistent with those of the overall METEOR population.
Additional file 3: of Using peer education to improve diabetes management and outcomes in a low-income setting: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Seuring, Till
name: Marthoenis
name: Rhode, Sabrina
name: Rogge, Lisa
name: Rau, Holger
name: StĂŠphane BesanĂ§On
name: Zufry, Hendra
name: Hizir Sofyan
name: Vollmer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Consent Form (patients and facilities) in English. (PDF 313 kb)
Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy A. Palpus 1830
Creators: name: Couri, Marcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
name: Daugeron, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Muscina

description: Genus Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy
 Muscina Robineau –Desvoidy, 1830: 406. Type-species: Musca stabulans Fallén, 1817, des. Coquillett (1910: 571).
 Diagnosis. Male holoptic, eye bare; arista plumose with hairs on basal three-fourths and bare on the apical fourth; female with crossed setae on frontal vitta; anterior postsutural intraalar seta placed posterior to level of supraalar seta; presutural acrostichals developed; prealar seta short, but distinct; anepimeron bare; meron setulose; wing with apical section of vein M slightly curved forward, veins bare; hind tibia with calcar strong, submedian; sternite 1 setulose.
 Comments. Two species of Muscina were listed from the Australasian/Oceanian Regions by Pont (1989), and since then Muscina arcuata Shinonaga, 1989 has been described from Bougainville Island. Only M. stabulans has been recorded from Vanuatu.
description: Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2556 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228
SMALL FARM PLANNING UNDER RISK : AN APPLICATION OF PARAMETRIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING
Creators: name: Alam, M. S.
name: Elias, S. M.
name: Murshed, S.M.M.
name: Alam, M. S.
name: Elias, S. M.
name: Murshed, S.M.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The present study was undertaken at the farming systems research area of Jessore district to evolve risk efficient plans. Results of risk programming demonstrate that higher gross margin, labour employment and tractor/power tiller utilization were associated with higher risk. Land utilization increased along with the gross margin-risk frontier. Capital borrowing increased the risk bearing ability of the plans. Capital investment gradually increased with the increase in gross margin and risk. The results showed direction of resource use for minimizing risk at various levels of gross margins. Thus, the results would help in suggesting suitable production plan for the small farms. The farmers can choose the plans according to their personal attitude to risk. This knowledge regarding alternative opportunities corresponding to risk can be of immense help in farm decision making under risky situations.
Additional file 1: of Using peer education to improve diabetes management and outcomes in a low-income setting: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Seuring, Till
name: Marthoenis
name: Rhode, Sabrina
name: Rogge, Lisa
name: Rau, Holger
name: StĂŠphane BesanĂ§On
name: Zufry, Hendra
name: Hizir Sofyan
name: Vollmer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: SPIRIT 2013 Checklist. Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents. (DOC 122 kb)
Additional file 1: of NRG1 variant effects in patients with Hirschsprung disease
Creators: name: Gunadi
name: Budi, Nova
name: Sethi, Raman
name: Fauzi, Aditya
name: Kalim, Alvin
name: Indrawan, Taufik
name: Iskandar, Kristy
name: Akhmad Makhmudi
name: Adrianto, Indra
name: San, Lai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary material URLs. (DOC 22 kb)
Investigating the role of kidney mononuclear phagocytes in immune complex-induced inflammation.
Creators: name: Richoz, Nathan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Immune complexes
subject: Kidney
subject: Autoimmunity
subject: Mononuclear phagocytes

description: Resident mononuclear phagocytes (MNPs) play key roles in tissue homeostasis, defence against infection and repair. Although MNPs have been studied for more than 130 years, there have been significant advances in our understanding of their role, origin, maintenance and interactions in recent years, due to advances in fate-mapping technologies and the ability to study cells at a single cell resolution. However, numerous studies carried out in different organs have highlighted the difficulty of drawing parallels between MNPs in different tissues, with tissue-specific variation in ontogeny, surface markers and function in MNPs from the gastrointestinal tract, the lungs or the brain. In the kidneys, myeloid cells have been associated with both aggravation and amelioration of a variety of diseases depending on the mouse strain and the model used but less is known about the subtypes of cells present within the tissue and their role in homeostasis. Using healthy and autoimmunity-prone mice, as well as single cell technologies, we characterized kidney MNP subsets at baseline and during autoimmune IgG immune complex (IC)-induced inflammation. We found that kidney MNPs could be divided into at least six subsets in healthy mice based on their expression of F4/80, CD11b and MHC II. These subsets differed in their localization within the organ, IgG Fc receptor expression, and their ability to survey the circulation and present MHC II-peptide complexes, the latter varying with IgG opsonization and IgG IC size. In autoimmune inflammation, one minor subset of F4/80hi CD11blow cells, referred to as MNP4s, expanded substantially. Single cell transcriptomics data confirmed previous descriptions that the F4/80hi subsets originated from the yolk-sac, while the other subsets arose from hematopoietic stem cells. Intravital, two-photon imaging showed that kidney MNPs constantly surveyed the interstitium with their dendrites and rapidly acquired circulating IgG IC. In the context of IC-induced inflammation, the transcriptome of the kidney MNP subsets changed, with an induction of Fc receptor signalling and type I interferon genes. In human kidneys, we similarly showed that several MNP subsets could be distinguished based on expression of CD14, HLA-DR, CD206, CD36 and CLEC5A. These cells avidly phagocytosed both free and IgG-opsonized antigens. Together this work substantially increases our understanding of the heterogeneity, ontogeny and function of kidney MNPs.
description: Wellcome Trust/National Institutes of Health 4-year PhD studentship
Evidence for Bosonization in a three-dimensional gas of SU($N$) fermions
Creators: name: Song, Bo
name: Yan, Yangqian
name: He, Chengdong
name: Ren, Zejian
name: Zhou, Qi
name: Jo, Gyu-Boong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blurring the boundary between bosons and fermions lies at the heart of a wide range of intriguing quantum phenomena in multiple disciplines, ranging from condensed matter physics and atomic, molecular and optical physics to high energy physics. One such example is a multi-component Fermi gas with SU($N$) symmetry that is expected to behave like spinless bosons in the large $N$ limit, where the large number of internal states weakens constraints from the Pauli exclusion principle. However, bosonization in SU($N$) fermions has never been established in high dimensions where exact solutions are absent. Here, we report direct evidence for bosonization in a SU($N$) fermionic ytterbium gas with tunable $N$ in three dimensions (3D). We measure contacts, the central quantity controlling dilute quantum gases, from the momentum distribution, and find that the contact per spin approaches a constant with a 1/$N$ scaling in the low fugacity regime consistent with our theoretical prediction. This scaling signifies the vanishing role of the fermionic statistics in thermodynamics, and allows us to verify bosonization through measuring a single physical quantity. Our work delivers a highly controllable quantum simulator to exchange the bosonic and fermionic statistics through tuning the internal degrees of freedom in any generic dimensions. It also suggests a new route towards exploring multi-component quantum systems and their underlying symmetries with contacts.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Governing Large-Scale Assessment Programmes in Mexico: A Multi- Scalar Account of Policy and Practice
Creators: name: Moreno Salto, Israel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Governance
Mexico
Assessments
Large-scale assessments

description: In 2004 Mexico managed to consolidate a highly complex and contradictory large-scale assessment (LSA) landscape comprised of three particular programmes run by different institutions, each with their own special interests and their own distinct scalar architecture (global, regional and national), yet mutually focused on seeking to shape education practice improvement and policy decisions through the production of data regarding student learning. Existing literature in the field of LSAs and governance tends to address this phenomenon through the lens of one or at best two programmes, and their effects on single cases. As a result we do not know enough about the origins, nature and problems generated by these sorts of arrangements and their implications for education. Adopting a critical theory stance, this thesis develops an empirically driven multi-scalar approach to explore large-scale assessments and governance in three layers of the Mexican context: local, sub-national and national. To this end, it makes use of a multi-scalar embedded case study research design, and a multi- phase mix-methods methodology which draws upon an original data set comprised of one survey applied to 319 educators; semi-structured interviews with Senators, Secretariat of Education authorities, Governing Board members from the National Institute for Education Evaluation, sub-national Education Authorities, educators and school leaders; and a set of LSA publications. Findings suggests that the assessment regime in Mexico came into being as the result of wider global efforts to improve education systems, at the same time that neoliberalism as a political project emerged as a way of rethinking state-society relations. The current arrangement is comprised of three LSAs namely PISA, ERCE and PLANEA, all of which operate at particular scales, and are underpinned by distinctive programme ontologies: respectively, human capital, human rights, and public accountability. There are significant variations in each case regarding how LSAs govern the education sector in Mexico. Even so, these relationships are underlined by a set of governing tools which set in motion competitive comparison, principles of classificatory judgment and flattening practices, which help frame, reinforce, amplify and reproduce beliefs and judgments amongst participants, consequently influencing how education issues and problems are approached and viewed and how their solutions are framed and engaged.
description: The Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) The Cambridge Trust The Secretariat for Public Education (SEP) The State Education System of Baja California
Mamduh Bshara raconte l'histoire du diwan qu'il a fondé
Creators: name: Bsharat, Mamduh
name: Wafa Al-Shalabi (Enquêtrice)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-3139
description: Coverage: Amman, Jordanie
Effective Temperatures of late L dwarfs and the onset of Methane signatures
Creators: name: Schweitzer, Andreas
name: Gizis, John E.
name: Hauschildt, Peter H.
name: Allard, France
name: Howard, Eric M.
name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spectral analysis of a sample of late L dwarfs. We use our latest model atmospheres and synthetic spectra and optical and K band spectra to determine effective temperatures. We derive effective temperatures of 1400 K to 1700 K for L8 to L6 dwarfs. The analysis demonstrates that our recent models that rain out the formed dust completely are applicable to optical spectra of late L dwarfs and that more consistent models are needed for intermediate L dwarfs and for infrared spectra. We compare the results for the effective temperatures with the temperatures of the onset of Methane formation. Our models predict Methane absorption at 3.3micron to occur at about 400 K higher temperatures than Methane absorption at 2.2micron. This is consistent with our data and previous observations which show Methane absorption at 3.3micron but not at 2.2micron in late L dwarfs.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ, 13 pages, AASTex5.0, 16 figures
Distributed Collaborative Prognostics
Creators: name: Salvador Palau, Adrià
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Prognostics
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Multi Agent Systems
Distributed Systems
Reliability
Engineering
Collaborative Prognostics
Failure Prediction
Internet of Things

description: Managing large fleets of machines in a cost-effective way is becoming more important as corporations own increasingly large amounts of assets. The steady improvement in cost and reliability of sensors, processors and communication devices has helped the spread of a new paradigm: the Internet of Things. This paradigm allows for real-time monitoring of countless physical objects, obtaining data that can be fed to machine learning algorithms to predict their future state and take managerial decisions. Despite rapid technological change, industries have been slow to react, and it has been only recently that many have transitioned towards a new business model: servitisation. Servitisation is based on selling the services that assets provide, instead of the assets themselves. Although more companies are adopting this business model, there is a lack of solutions aimed to maximise its economic value. This thesis presents one such solution capable of predicting failures in real time, thus reducing a crucial cost contribution to asset ownership: unexpected failures. This new approach, Distributed Collaborative Prognostics, consists of providing each machine with its own particular agent, that enables it to communicate with other similar machines in order to improve its failure predictions. This thesis implements Distributed Collaborative Prognostics in three different scenarios: (i) using a multi-agent simulation framework, (ii) using synthetic data from a well-established prognostics data set, and (iii) using real data from a fleet of industrial gas turbines. Each of these scenarios is used to study different elements of the prognostics problem. Multi-agent simulations allow for the calculation of the cost of predictive maintenance coupled with Distributed Collaborative Prognostics, and for the estimation of the cost of agent failures in different architectures. Synthetic data is used as a test bench and to study assets operating in dynamic situations. Real industrial data from the Siemens industrial gas turbine fleet serves to test the applicability of the tool in a real scenario. This thesis concludes that Distributed Collaborative Prognostics is the adequate solution for large and heterogeneous fleets of assets operating dynamically. Its cost effectiveness depends on the value of the assets; in general, highly-valued assets are more conducive to Distributed Collaborative Prognostics, as the savings from improved failure predictions compensate the cost of enabling them with Internet of Things technologies.
description: This PhD Thesis has been supported by a “la Caixa" Fellowship (ID 100010434), with code LCF/BQ/EU17/11590049.
Synthesiomyia Brauer & Bergenstamm
Creators: name: Couri, Marcia S.
name: Pont, Adrian C.
name: Daugeron, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Synthesiomyia

description: Genus Synthesiomyia Brauer & Bergenstamm
 Synthesiomyia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1893: 9, 110, 178. Type-species: Synthesiomyia brasiliana Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1893 [= Cyrtoneura nudiseta Wulp, 1883], orig. des.
 Diagnosis. Eye bare; arista with very short cilia; prealar seta strong; katepimeron and anepimeron bare; dorsocentrals 2:4; katepisternals 1:2; wing veins bare; vein M strongly curved forward apically; lower calypter very enlarged; sternite 1 setulose.
 Comments. The genus is widespread in the Australasian and Oceanian Regions and was recently recorded from New Caledonia (Couri et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Couri, Marcia S., Pont, Adrian C. & Daugeron, Christophe, 2010, The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2556 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2556.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5302228
AI Assisted Annotator using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Saripalli, V. Ratna
name: Avinash, Gopal
name: Pati, Dibyajyoti
name: Potter, Michael
name: Anderson, Charles W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Healthcare data suffers from both noise and lack of ground truth. The cost of data increases as it is cleaned and annotated in healthcare. Unlike other data sets, medical data annotation, which is critical to accurate ground truth, requires medical domain expertise for a better patient outcome. In this work, we report on the use of reinforcement learning to mimic the decision making process of annotators for medical events, to automate annotation and labelling. The reinforcement agent learns to annotate alarm data based on annotations done by an expert. Our method shows promising results on medical alarm data sets. We trained DQN and A2C agents using the data from monitoring devices annotated by an expert. Initial results from these RL agents learning the expert annotation behavior are promising. The A2C agent performs better in terms of learning the sparse events in a given state, thereby choosing more right actions compared to DQN agent. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reinforcement learning application for the automation of medical events annotation, which has far-reaching practical use.
description: 10 pages