cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Sustainable cathodes for Lithium-ion energy storage devices based on tannic acid-toward ecofriendly energy storage
Creators: name: Ilic, Ivan K.
name: Tsouka, Alexandra
name: Perovic, Milena
name: Hwang, Jinyeon
name: Heil, Tobias
name: Löffler, Felix F.
name: Oschatz, Martin
name: Antonietti, Markus
name: Liedel, Clemens
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The use of organic materials with reversible redox activity holds enormous potential for next-generation Li-ion energy storage devices. Yet, most candidates are not truly sustainable, i.e., not derived from renewable feedstock or made in benign reactions. Here an attempt is reported to resolve this issue by synthesizing an organic cathode material from tannic acid and microporous carbon derived from biomass. All constituents, including the redox-active material and conductive carbon additive, are made from renewable resources. Using a simple, sustainable fabrication method, a hybrid material is formed. The low cost and ecofriendly material shows outstanding performance with a capacity of 108 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1) and low capacity fading, retaining approximately 80% of the maximum capacity after 90 cycles. With approximately 3.4 V versus Li+/Li, the cells also feature one of the highest reversible redox potentials reported for biomolecular cathodes. Finally, the quinone-catecholate redox mechanism responsible for the high capacity of tannic acid is confirmed by electrochemical characterization of a model compound similar to tannic acid but without catecholic groups.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1366
Additional file 1 of Association of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D with gait speed and handgrip strength in patients on hemodialysis
Creators: name: Fu, Chen
name: Wu, Fengqin
name: Chen, Fang
name: Han, Enhong
name: Gao, Yuehua
name: Xu, Yongxing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: The Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis Reared in the Laboratory
Creators: name: Floyd III, William Ray
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1977

description: Palaemonetes pugio larvae, obtained by induced breeding of adults collected in the late fall of 1975 from the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, were reared in the laboratory using a six temperature by seven salinity factorial design in order to determine the effects of these factors on larval development. Test conditions involved temperature levels ranging from 10°C to 32.5°C and salinity levels from 5°/oo to 35°/oo. At each temperature-salinity condition, 36 larvae were reared individually in 25 ml of artificial seawater containing 25 mg/kg of polyethylene oxide. Food consisted of Artemia nauplii at a concentration of 30/ml of culture water. From data collected, survival, larval duration, number of molts, and intermolt duration were derived. Standard statistical methods were used to assist in the analysis of the data. Employing stepwise multiple linear regression, an equation was derived to fit the observed data, and a predictive response surface was subsequently plotted. Results indicate that temperature and salinity have a significant effect on the larval development off P. pugio.
Additional file 1: of Examining constipation assessment and management of patients with advanced cancer receiving specialist palliative care: a multi-site retrospective case note review of clinical practice
Creators: name: McIlfatrick, Sonja
name: Muldrew, Deborah
name: Beck, Esther
name: Carduff, Emma
name: Clarke, Mike
name: Finucane, Anne
name: Graham-Wisener, Lisa
name: Larkin, Phil
name: McCorry, Noleen
name: Slater, Paul
name: Hasson, Felicity
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Management of Constipation in Adult Patients Receiving Palliative Care Guidelines Summary. (DOCX 326 kb)
Influencing factors of synchronization in manufacturing systems
Creators: name: Chankov, Stanislav
name: Marc-Thorsten Hütt
name: Bendul, Julia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Manufacturing systems exhibit two types of synchronisation phenomena: logistics and physics. Previous research has established synchronisation measures for both types and has shown that they are related to the due date performance. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the factors triggering synchronisation emergence as well as a holistic understanding of synchronisation effects on logistics performance. Thus, this research aims to further explore the relation between synchronisation, its influencing factors and its effect on logistics performance. Based on a profound literature review, we derive first hypotheses on the cause-and-effect-relationships between structural and dynamic properties of a manufacturing system and the emergence of logistics and physics synchronisation as well as logistics performance. By conducting a discrete-event simulation study on diverse manufacturing system types (line, flow shop and job shop production), we are able to test these hypotheses. We conclude that manufacturing network architecture as a structural property as well as processing time variability and system workload as dynamic properties may be exploited for an advanced and synchronisation-oriented manufacturing system design.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0085
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0085, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
description: Provenance: Dijon
Molecular dynamics studies on conformational thermodynamics of Orai1–calmodulin complex
Creators: name: Maganti, Lakshmi
name: Ghosh, Mahua
name: J. Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Molecular understanding of bio-macromolecular binding is a challenging task due to large sizes of the molecules and presence of variety of interactions. Here, we study the molecular mechanism of calmodulin (CaM) binding to Orai1 that regulates Ca2+-dependent inactivation process in eukaryotic cells. Although experimental observations indicate that Orai1 binds to the C-terminal of Ca2+-loaded CaM, it is not decisive if N-domain of CaM interacts with Orai1. We address the issue of interaction of different domains of CaM with Orai1 using conformational thermodynamic changes, computed from histograms of dihedral angles over simulated trajectories of CaM, CaM-binding domain of Orai1 and complexes of CaM with Orai1. The changes for all residues of both C and N terminal domains of CaM upon Orai1 binding are compared. Our analysis shows that Orai1binds to both C-terminal and N-terminal domains of CaM, indicating 1:2 stoichiometry. The Orai1 binding to N-terminal domain of CaM is less stable than that to the C-terminal domain. The binding residues are primarily hydrophobic. These observations are in qualitative agreement to the experiments. The conformational thermodynamic changes thus provide a useful computational tool to provide atomic details of interactions in bio-macromolecular binding.
Bioactive isoquinoline alkaloids from Cissampelos pareira†
Creators: name: Bala, Manju
name: Kumar, Shiv
name: Kunal Pratap
name: Verma, Praveen Kumar
name: Padwad, Yogendra
name: Singh, Bikram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The phytochemical and biological investigation of Cissampelos pareira leads to the isolation of one new isoquinoline alkaloid (7) along with six known isoquinoline alkaloids, namely, magnoflorine (1), magnocurarine (2), cissamine (3), curine (4), hayatinine (5) and cycleanine (6). Magnoflorine (1) and magnocurarine (2) were isolated for the first time from C. pareira. A new, rapid, simple and sensitive UPLC method was developed for simultaneous quantification of five pure compounds (1–5). Seasonal variation study revealed higher content of these compounds during the rainy season. The chloroform (CPCF) and n-butanol (CPBF) fractions showed cytotoxic efficacy against KB cells. Among pure compounds, hayatinine (5) was found to be most active against KB and A549, while, cycleanine (6) against KB cells.
Multidimensional Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture Practices of Cambodian Smallholder Farmers
Creators: name: Heylen, Camille
name: Meunier, Félicien
name: Peeters, Amaury
name: Ek, Sreykhouch
name: Neang, Malyne
name: Hean, Saray
name: Peanh, Sinal
name: Heylen, Camille
name: Meunier, Félicien
name: Peeters, Amaury
name: Ek, Sreykhouch
name: Neang, Malyne
name: Hean, Saray
name: Peanh, Sinal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: project impact assessment
subject: agricultural training
subject: SAFA
subject: Kampong Thom
subject: Cambodia

description: Agriculture is an important mainstay of the Cambodian economy and recent agriculture developments have lifted many people out of poverty. However, some key challenges remain in Cambodian rural areas. To further sustain the country‟s development, new ways need to be found to drive future growth without negatively impacting its existing resources. Recent efforts led by development stakeholders have been dedicated to enhanc the sustainability of Cambodian agriculture. The local non-governmental organization MODE jointly with Louvain Cooperation focuses on helping vulnerable farmers to transition towards sustainable agriculture practices through specific training. This paper aims to assess the benefits of such an approach by using SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems), a methodology developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Core indicators of the four pillars of sustainability were evaluated through interviews with eighty farmers, equally distributed in two groups (target farmers and a control group), to assess the agricultural sustainability of their local farming system. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences between the two groups. The target group which was supported in their transition to sustainable practices showed a significant increase of net incomes, more diverse food production, and higher number of actions already taken or planned in order to mitigate the inherent risks of food production. The global index resulting from the combination of all core indicators revealed a significant difference between the groups, with more sustainable practices for the target farmers. However, overall the level of sustainability remained low to very low in both groups, which was partly due to the choice to work with vulnerable people defined by low productivity.
Bioactive compounds and antioxidant potential for polyphenol-rich cocoa extract obtained by agroindustrial residue
Creators: name: Taís Vanessa Gabbay Alves
name: Russany Silva Da Costa
name: Aliakbarian, Bahar
name: Casazza, Alessandro Alberto
name: Perego, Patrizia
name: Arruda, Mara Silvia Pinheiro
name: Júnior, José Otávio Carréra Silva
name: Converti, Attilio
name: Roseane Maria Ribeiro Costa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Processing of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) beans responsible for agricultural exports leads to large amounts of solid waste that were discarded, however, this one presents high contents of metabolites with biological activities. The major objective of this study was to valorise cocoa agroindustrial residue obtained by hydraulic pressing for extract rich in antioxidants. For it, the centesimal composition of residue was investigated, the green extraction was carried out from the residue after, the bioactive compounds, sugar contents and screaming by HPTLC were quantified for extract. The extract has a total polyphenol content of 229.64 mg/g and high antioxidant activity according to ABTS 225.0 μM/g. HTPLC analysis confirmed the presence in the extract, residue of terpenes, sesquiterpenes, flavonoids and antioxidant activity. These results, as a whole, suggest that the extract from the cocoa residue has interesting characteristics to alternative crops with potential industrial uses.
Latvijas Finieris
Creators: name: Kern, Michael
Publisher: name: Galician Agency for Forest-based Industry (XERA)
Year: 2024

description: Contents:

Forests in the Baltic economies

Birch resource potential

Products derived from birch

Presentation at the international symposium 'Native hardwoods: the resilience of the forest sector?' hosted by Galician Agency for Forest-based Industry · XERA · Xunta de Galicia in Lugo, Spain on Feb 28 to March 1, 2024 in the framework of the regional ‘Project for Valorizing the Timber of Native Harwoods in Galicia’ and the European project ‘RESONATE ‘Resilient forest value chains – enhancing resilience through natural and socio-economic responses’, funded by Horizon Europe
Accoustate: Auto-annotation of IMU-generated Activity Signatures under Smart Infrastructure
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Soumyajit
name: Singh, Arun
name: Mitra, Bivas
name: Chakraborty, Sandip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human activities within smart infrastructures generate a vast amount of IMU data from the wearables worn by individuals. Many existing studies rely on such sensory data for human activity recognition (HAR); however, one of the major bottlenecks is their reliance on pre-annotated or labeled data. Manual human-driven annotations are neither scalable nor efficient, whereas existing auto-annotation techniques heavily depend on video signatures. Still, video-based auto-annotation needs high computation resources and has privacy concerns when the data from a personal space, like a smart-home, is transferred to the cloud. This paper exploits the acoustic signatures generated from human activities to label the wearables' IMU data at the edge, thus mitigating resource requirement and data privacy concerns. We utilize acoustic-based pre-trained HAR models for cross-modal labeling of the IMU data even when two individuals perform simultaneous but different activities under the same environmental context. We observe that non-overlapping acoustic gaps exist with a high probability during the simultaneous activities performed by two individuals in the environment's acoustic context, which helps us resolve the overlapping activity signatures to label them individually. A principled evaluation of the proposed approach on two real-life in-house datasets further augmented to create a dual occupant setup, shows that the framework can correctly annotate a significant volume of unlabeled IMU data from both individuals with an accuracy of $\mathbf{82.59\%}$ ($\mathbf{\pm 17.94\%}$) and $\mathbf{98.32\%}$ ($\mathbf{\pm 3.68\%}$), respectively, for a workshop and a kitchen environment.
description: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
Additional file 2: of Examining constipation assessment and management of patients with advanced cancer receiving specialist palliative care: a multi-site retrospective case note review of clinical practice
Creators: name: McIlfatrick, Sonja
name: Muldrew, Deborah
name: Beck, Esther
name: Carduff, Emma
name: Clarke, Mike
name: Finucane, Anne
name: Graham-Wisener, Lisa
name: Larkin, Phil
name: McCorry, Noleen
name: Slater, Paul
name: Hasson, Felicity
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: STROBE Statementâ checklist of items that should be included in reports of observational studies. (DOCX 40 kb)
Structural modeling of human cardiac sodium channel pore domain
Creators: name: Ji, Xiaofeng
name: Xiao, Yi
name: Liu, Shiyong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The pore domain of human voltage-dependent cardiac sodium channel Nav1.5 (hNav1.5) is the crucial binding targets for anti-arrhythmics drugs and some local anesthetic drugs but its three-dimensional structure is still lacking. This has affected the detailed studies of the binding features and mechanism of these drugs. In this paper, we present a structural model for open-state pore domain of hNav1.5 built using single template ROSETTA-membrane homology modeling with the crystal structure of NavMs. The assembled structural models are evaluated by rosettaMP energy and locations of binding sites. The modeled structures of the pore domain of hNav1.5 in open state will be helpful to explore molecular mechanism of a state-dependent drug binding and help designing new drugs.
Bioactive isoquinoline alkaloids from Cissampelos pareira†
Creators: name: Bala, Manju
name: Kumar, Shiv
name: Kunal Pratap
name: Verma, Praveen Kumar
name: Padwad, Yogendra
name: Singh, Bikram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The phytochemical and biological investigation of Cissampelos pareira leads to the isolation of one new isoquinoline alkaloid (7) along with six known isoquinoline alkaloids, namely, magnoflorine (1), magnocurarine (2), cissamine (3), curine (4), hayatinine (5) and cycleanine (6). Magnoflorine (1) and magnocurarine (2) were isolated for the first time from C. pareira. A new, rapid, simple and sensitive UPLC method was developed for simultaneous quantification of five pure compounds (1–5). Seasonal variation study revealed higher content of these compounds during the rainy season. The chloroform (CPCF) and n-butanol (CPBF) fractions showed cytotoxic efficacy against KB cells. Among pure compounds, hayatinine (5) was found to be most active against KB and A549, while, cycleanine (6) against KB cells.
RSV: Robotic Sonography for Thyroid Volumetry
Creators: name: Zielke, John
name: Eilers, Christine
name: Busam, Benjamin
name: Weber, Wolfgang
name: Navab, Nassir
name: Wendler, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In nuclear medicine, radioiodine therapy is prescribed to treat diseases like hyperthyroidism. The calculation of the prescribed dose depends, amongst other factors, on the thyroid volume. This is currently estimated using conventional 2D ultrasound imaging. However, this modality is inherently user-dependant, resulting in high variability in volume estimations. To increase reproducibility and consistency, we uniquely combine a neural network-based segmentation with an automatic robotic ultrasound scanning for thyroid volumetry. The robotic acquisition is achieved by using a 6 DOF robotic arm with an attached ultrasound probe. Its movement is based on an online segmentation of each thyroid lobe and the appearance of the US image. During post-processing, the US images are segmented to obtain a volume estimation. In an ablation study, we demonstrated the superiority of the motion guidance algorithms for the robot arm movement compared to a naive linear motion, executed by the robot in terms of volumetric accuracy. In a user study on a phantom, we compared conventional 2D ultrasound measurements with our robotic system. The mean volume measurement error of ultrasound expert users could be significantly decreased from 20.85+/-16.10% to only 8.23+/-3.10% compared to the ground truth. This tendency was observed even more in non-expert users where the mean error improvement with the robotic system was measured to be as high as $85\%$ which clearly shows the advantages of the robotic support.
description: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
Additional file 1 of The role of type 2 diabetes in the association between habitual glucosamine use and dementia: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Xu, Chenjie
name: Hou, Yabing
name: Fang, Xuexian
name: Yang, Hongxi
name: Cao, Zhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. List of ICD-10 codes for dementia. Supplementary Table 2. Association of habitual glucosamine use and risk of dementia stratified by APOE ε4 status. Supplementary Table 3. Association of habitual glucosamine use and risk of dementia stratified by potential risk factors. Supplementary Table 4. Associations of habitual glucosamine use and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia stratified by potential risk factors. Supplementary Table 5. Association of glucosamine supplement use and risk of dementia after excluding participants with limited follow-up years (≤ 2 years). Supplementary Table 6. Association of glucosamine supplement use and risk of dementia in completed-case analysis (n = 448,043) and multiple imputation samples. Supplementary Table 7. Association of glucosamine supplement use and risk of dementia in compete risk models. Supplementary Figure 1. Flowchart of participant enrolment.
Métodos
Creators: name: David, Jean Bart
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023

description: A concepção metodológica se fundamentou principalmente na revisão de literatura, na modalidade integrativa (WHITTEMORE; KNAFL, 2005), de trabalhos publicados na base de dados da literatura Latino-americana e do caribe em ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Scielo, Pubmed, Periódicos Capes e Google acadêmico considerando o período de publicação.............. Foram seguidas as fases propostas por Whittemore & Knafl (2005) acerca da revista integrativa. O delineamento deste trabalho seguiu as seguintes fases, I. identificação do problema a ser estudado II. Pesquisa nas bases de dados escolhidos considerando o tema do estudo III. aplicação dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão na avaliação dos estudos primários IV. análise dos estudos selecionados V. Apresentação da síntese e discussão dos resultados
Ideal structure and pure infiniteness of inverse semigroup crossed products
Creators: name: Kwaśniewski, B. K.
name: Meyer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $A\subseteq B$ be a $C^*$-inclusion. We give efficient conditions under which $A$ separates ideals in $B$, and $B$ is purely infinite if every positive element in $A$ is properly infinite in $B$. We specialise to the case when $B$ is a crossed product for an inverse semigroup action by Hilbert bimodules or a section $C^*$-algebra of a Fell bundle over an étale, possibly non-Hausdorff, groupoid. Then our theory works provided $B$ is the recently introduced essential crossed product and the action is essentially exact and residually aperiodic or residually topologically free. These last notions are developed in the article.
description: An error in the earlier version of Proposition 4.2 is fixed (we thank Alcides Buss, Diego Mart\'inez and Jonathan Taylor for pointing it to us). To appear in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry
Additional file 1: of Expression of AtLEC2 and AtIPTs promotes embryogenic callus formation and shoot regeneration in tobacco
Creators: name: Li, Ke
name: Wang, Juan
name: Liu, Chuanliang
name: Li, Changsheng
name: Qiu, Jingjing
name: Zhao, Chuanzhi
name: Xia, Han
name: Ma, Changle
name: Wang, Xingjun
name: Li, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Phenotype of seedlings grown on hormone free MS medium without DEX. Figure S2. Phenotype of mature plants grown in soil. Figure S3. PCR amplified the AtLEC2, AtIPT3, AtIPT7 and AtIPT9 fragments. Figure S4. Seedlings grown on 50 μM DEX condition. Figure S5. Seedlings grown on 20 μM DEX containing medium. Figure S6. Shoot regeneration from the callus. Table S1. Primers used in the study. (DOCX 1921 kb)
Boosting Neural Image Compression for Machines Using Latent Space Masking
Creators: name: Fischer, Kristian
name: Brand, Fabian
name: Kaup, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.4.2

description: Today, many image coding scenarios do not have a human as final intended user, but rather a machine fulfilling computer vision tasks on the decoded image. Thereby, the primary goal is not to keep visual quality but maintain the task accuracy of the machine for a given bitrate. Due to the tremendous progress of deep neural networks setting benchmarking results, mostly neural networks are employed to solve the analysis tasks at the decoder side. Moreover, neural networks have also found their way into the field of image compression recently. These two developments allow for an end-to-end training of the neural compression network for an analysis network as information sink. Therefore, we first roll out such a training with a task-specific loss to enhance the coding performance of neural compression networks. Compared to the standard VVC, 41.4% of bitrate are saved by this method for Mask R-CNN as analysis network on the uncompressed Cityscapes dataset. As a main contribution, we propose LSMnet, a network that runs in parallel to the encoder network and masks out elements of the latent space that are presumably not required for the analysis network. By this approach, additional 27.3% of bitrate are saved compared to the basic neural compression network optimized with the task loss. In addition, we are the first to utilize a feature-based distortion in the training loss within the context of machine-to-machine communication, which allows for a training without annotated data. We provide extensive analyses on the Cityscapes dataset including cross-evaluation with different analysis networks and present exemplary visual results. Inference code and pre-trained models are published at https://github.com/FAU-LMS/NCN_for_M2M.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables; This work has been accepted for IEEE T-CSVT special issue "Learned Visual Data Compression for both Human and Machine"
On the Physics of Heaven and Hell
Creators: name: Smith, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cosmology

description: In Manichaeism, a religion founded by the Persian Mani in the third century, both light and dark, and good and evil, are eternal principles involved in an eternal struggle. The idea is an old one - Heraclitus born 535 BC says for example that "the path up and down are one and the same". In The Marriage of Heaven Hell, William Blake illustrates the Manichean view that these principles are mutually dependent:
Without Contraries there is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
These philosophical/religious ideas can be re-cast in the language of mathematical-physics in such a way as to reveal their falsity, to reveal that darkness and evil are, not an eternal principle, but a finite interruption of an eternal principle, not an eternal principle in themselves, but privations of an eternal principle.
A computable phenotype for asthma case identification in adult and pediatric patients: External validation in the Chicago Area Patient-Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN)
Creators: name: Afshar, Majid
name: Press, Valerie G.
name: Robison, Rachel G.
name: Kho, Abel N.
name: Sindhura Bandi
name: Ashvini Biswas
name: Avila, Pedro C.
name: Harsha Vardhan Madan Kumar
name: Yu, Byung
name: Naureckas, Edward T.
name: Sharmilee M. Nyenhuis
name: Codispoti, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Comprehensive, rapid, and accurate identification of patients with asthma for clinical care and engagement in research efforts is needed. The original development and validation of a computable phenotype for asthma case identification occurred at a single institution in Chicago and demonstrated excellent test characteristics. However, its application in a diverse payer mix, across different health systems and multiple electronic health record vendors, and in both children and adults was not examined. The objective of this study is to externally validate the computable phenotype across diverse Chicago institutions to accurately identify pediatric and adult patients with asthma. Methods: A cohort of 900 asthma and control patients was identified from the electronic health record between January 1, 2012 and November 30, 2014. Two physicians at each site independently reviewed the patient chart to annotate cases. Results: The inter-observer reliability between the physician reviewers had a κ-coefficient of 0.95 (95% CI 0.93–0.97). The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value of the computable phenotype were all above 94% in the full cohort. Conclusions: The excellent positive and negative predictive values in this multi-center external validation study establish a useful tool to identify asthma cases in in the electronic health record for research and care. This computable phenotype could be used in large-scale comparative-effectiveness trials.
Design and Characterization of an Optically-Segmented Single Volume Scatter Camera Module
Creators: name: Keefe, Kevin
name: Alhajaji, Hassam
name: Brubaker, Erik
name: Druetzler, Andrew
name: Galindo-Tellez, Aline
name: Learned, John
name: Maggi, Paul
name: Manfredi, Juan J.
name: Nishimura, Kurtis
name: Souza, Bejamin Pinto
name: Steele, John
name: Sweany, Melinda
name: Takahashi, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Optically Segmented Single Volume Scatter Camera (OS-SVSC) aims to image neutron sources for nuclear non-proliferation applications using the kinematic reconstruction of elastic double-scatter events. We report on the design, construction, and calibration of one module of a new prototype. The module includes 16 EJ-204 organic plastic scintillating bars individually wrapped in Teflon tape, each measuring 0.5 cm$\times$0.5 cm$\times$20 cm. The scintillator array is coupled to two custom Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) boards consisting of a 2$\times$8 array of SensL J-Series-60035 Silicon Photomultipliers, which are read out by a custom 16 channel DRS-4 based digitizer board. The electrical crosstalk between SiPMs within the electronics chain is measured as 0.76% $\pm$ 0.11% among all 16 channels. We report the detector response of one module including interaction position, time, and energy, using two different optical coupling materials: EJ-560 silicone rubber optical coupling pads and EJ-550 optical coupling grease. We present results in terms of the overall mean and standard deviation of the z-position reconstruction and interaction time resolutions for all 16 bars in the module. We observed the z-position resolution for gamma interactions in the 0.3 MeVee to 0.4 MeVee range to be 2.24 cm$\pm$1.10 cm and 1.45 cm$\pm$0.19 cm for silicone optical coupling pad and optical grease, respectively. The observed interaction time resolution is 265 ps$\pm$29 ps and 235 ps$\pm$10 ps for silicone optical coupling pad and optical grease, respectively.
description: 11 pages, 21 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
State-of-the-Art in Smart Contact Lenses for Human Machine Interaction
Creators: name: Xia, Yuanjie
name: Khamis, Mohamed
name: Fernandez, F. Anibal
name: Heidari, Hadi
name: Butt, Haider
name: Ahmed, Zubair
name: Wilkinson, Tim
name: Ghannam, Rami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contact lenses have traditionally been used for vision correction applications. Recent advances in microelectronics and nanofabrication on flexible substrates have now enabled sensors, circuits and other essential components to be integrated on a small contact lens platform. This has opened up the possibility of using contact lenses for a range of human-machine interaction applications including vision assistance, eye tracking, displays and health care. In this article, we systematically review the range of smart contact lens materials, device architectures and components that facilitate this interaction for different applications. In fact, evidence from our systematic review demonstrates that these lenses can be used to display information, detect eye movements, restore vision and detect certain biomarkers in tear fluid. Consequently, whereas previous state-of the-art reviews in contact lenses focused exclusively on biosensing, our systematic review covers a wider range of smart contact lens applications in HMI. Moreover, we present a new method of classifying the literature on smart contact lenses according to their six constituent building blocks, which are the sensing, energy management, driver electronics, communications, substrate and the interfacing modules. Based on recent developments in each of these categories, we speculate the challenges and opportunities of smart contact lenses for human-machine interaction. Moreover, we propose a novel self-powered smart contact lens concept with integrated energy harvesters, sensors and communication modules to enable autonomous operation. Our review is therefore a critical evaluation of current data and is presented with the aim of guiding researchers to new research directions in smart contact lenses.
description: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
Secondhand Tobacco Smoke and COPD Risk in Smokers: A COPDGene Study Cohort Subgroup Analysis
Creators: name: Koeverden, Ian Van
name: Blanc, Paul D.
name: Bowler, Russell P.
name: Arjomandi, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) can be a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but its role among relatively heavy smokers with potential co-exposure to workplace vapors, gas, dust, and fumes (VGDF) has not been studied. Methods: To estimate the contribution of SHS exposure to COPD risk, taking into account smoking effects and work-related exposures to VGDF, we quantified SHS based on survey responses for 1400 ever-employed subjects enrolled in the COPDGene study, all current or former smokers with or without COPD. Occupational exposures to VGDF were quantified based on a job exposure matrix. The associations between SHS and COPD were tested in multivariate logistic regression analyses adjusted for age, sex, VGDF exposure, and cumulative smoking. Results and Discussion: Exposures to SHS at work and at home during adulthood were associated with increased COPD risk: odds ratio (OR) = 1.12 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.02–1.23; p = 0.01) and OR = 1.09 (95%CI: 1.00–1.18; p = 0.04) per 10 years of exposure adjusted for smoking and other covariates, respectively. In addition, subjects with employment histories likely to entail exposure to VGDF were more likely to have COPD: OR = 1.52 (95%CI: 1.16–1.98; p < 0.01) (adjusted for other covariates). While adult home SHS COPD risk was attenuated among the heaviest smokers within the cohort, workplace SHS and job VGDF risks persisted in that stratum. Conclusion: Among smokers all with at least 10 pack-years, adult home and work SHS exposures and occupational VGDF exposure are all associated with COPD.
Changes in the Superior Vena Cava Area During Inspiration and Expiration in Relation to Emphysema
Creators: name: Matsuoka, Shin
name: Yamashiro, Tsuneo
name: Akiyuki Kotoku
name: Matsushita, Shoichiro
name: Fujikawa, Atsuko
name: Yagihashi, Kunihiro
name: Kurihara, Yasuyuki
name: Nakajima, Yasuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: In patients with emphysema, increased intrathoracic pressure is closely related to hyperinflation and leads to hemodynamic impairments. Both intrathoracic pressure and hemodynamics such as venous return are affected by the respiratory phase. Therefore, respiratory variations in hemodynamics may be associated with the extent of emphysema that causes increased intrathoracic pressure. The current study was designed to evaluate the relationship between respiratory phasic variations in the area of the superior vena cava (SVC) and the extent of emphysema. Methods: We measured the SVC area and calculated the ratio of the SVC area in inspiratory and expiratory scans (i/e-SVC ratio) in 101 patients with emphysema who underwent both inspiratory and expiratory CT. The correlation of the i/e-SVC ratio with the extent of emphysema (%LAA) obtained by CT images was evaluated. Multiple linear regression analysis using i/e-SVC ratio as the dependent variable was performed. Results: The i/e-SVC ratio had a significant positive correlation with%LAA (ρ = 0.582, p <0.0001). The i/e-SVC ratio was significantly higher in patients with severe emphysema (0.86 ± 0.13) than in patients with mild-moderate emphysema (0.69 ± 0.13) (p <0.0001). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that%LAA was the only independent predictors of the i/e-SVC ratio (r2 = 0.471, p = 0.0006). Conclusion: Respiratory phasic variations in the SVC area are significantly correlated with the extent of emphysema.
Limited Information Shared Control: A Potential Game Approach
Creators: name: Varga, Balint
name: Inga, Jairo
name: Hohmann, Soeren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents a systematic method for the design of a limited information shared control (LISC). LISC is used in applications where not all system states or reference trajectories are measurable by the automation. Typical examples are partially human-controlled systems, in which some subsystems are fully controlled by automation while others are controlled by a human. The proposed systematic design method uses a novel class of games to model human-machine interaction: the near potential differential games (NPDG). We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an NPDG and derive an algorithm for finding a NPDG that completely describes a given differential game. The proposed design method is applied to the control of a large vehicle-manipulator system, in which the manipulator is controlled by a human operator and the vehicle is fully automated. The suitability of the NPDG to model differential games is verified in simulations, leading to a faster and more accurate controller design compared to manual tuning. Furthermore, the overall design process is validated in a study with sixteen test subjects, indicating the applicability of the proposed concept in real applications.
description: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication
Analyzing Enterprise DNS Traffic to Classify Assets and Track Cyber-Health
Creators: name: Lyu, Minzhao
name: Gharakheili, Hassan Habibi
name: Russell, Craig
name: Sivaraman, Vijay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical service that enables domain names to be converted to IP addresses (or vice versa); consequently, it is generally permitted through enterprise security systems (e.g., firewalls) with little restriction. This has exposed organizational networks to DDoS, exfiltration, and reflection attacks, inflicting significant financial and reputational damage. Large organizations with loosely federated IT departments (e.g., Universities and Research Institutes) often do not even fully aware of all their DNS assets and vulnerabilities, let alone the attack surface they expose to the outside world. In this paper, we address the "DNS blind spot" by developing methods to passively analyze live DNS traffic, identify organizational DNS assets, and monitor their health on a continuous basis. Our contributions are threefold. First, we perform a comprehensive analysis of all DNS traffic in two large organizations (a University Campus and a Government Research Institute) for over a month, and identify key behavioral profiles for various asset types such as recursive resolvers, authoritative name servers, and mixed DNS servers. Second, we develop an unsupervised clustering method that classifies enterprise DNS assets using the behavioral attributes identified, and demonstrate that our method successfully classifies over 100 DNS assets across the two organizations. Third, our method continuously tracks various health metrics across the organizational DNS assets and identifies several instances of improper configuration, data exfiltration, DDoS, and reflection attacks. We believe the passive analysis methods in this paper can help enterprises monitor organizational DNS health in an automated and risk-free manner.
description: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication