cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Axially symmetric volume preserving mean curvature flow
Creators: name: Kandanaarachchi, Sevvandi Priyanvada
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis we study two problems of axially symmetric volume preserving mean curvature flow. We study the singularities of the flow for the major part of the thesis. We consider an axially symmetric hypersurface contained between the two parallel planes, meeting the planes at right angles along its boundary. We study the first singularity that develop in this flow. We prove that given a certain lower height bound on the boundary of a specific region, the first singularity is of type I. As part of the methodology used in this thesis we also derive extension theorems: we prove that no singularities can develop during a finite time interval, if the mean curvature is bounded within that time interval on the entire hypersurface. Finally we include new convergence results: Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as for example on the curvature, we prove that it converges to a hemisphere, when the hypersurface has a free boundary and satisfies Neumann boundary data, and to a sphere when it is compact without boundary.
Characterisation of the oxidation state of hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2 during glycoprotein biosynthesis and virus entry
Creators: name: Dean, Johanna Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and is a leading reason for liver transplantation in industrialised countries. The most recent estimate of global prevalence is 2-3% representing 130-170 million HCV-positive people [1]. HCV is an enveloped, positive strand RNA virus which comprises the hepacivirus genus within the Flaviviridae family. The virus displays two glycoproteins on its surface, E1 and E2, which are required to mediate entry into hepatocytes [2,3,4]. Cellular infection is dependent on receptors CD81, SR-BI, claudin-1, 6 or 9, and occludin [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Following attachment HCV is thought to be internalised via clathrin mediated endocytosis where the low pH of the endosome is required for fusion of the viral and cellular membranes [11]. Productive infection occurs following delivery of the viral nucleocapsid to the cytoplasm where RNA translation, replication and virus assembly takes place. This project investigated the significance of the redox state of HCV envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2 during glycoprotein biosynthesis and virus entry. It was found that virion incorporated forms of E1 and E2 contain at least one free cysteine residue each prior to cellular attachment. Alkylation of reduced sulfhydryl groups prior to cellular attachment abolished virus infectivity. However, it was found that cell culture derived HCV (HCVcc) became insensitive to thiol-reactive agents after binding to cells indicating that the thiol groups were no longer available for modification following receptor engagement. These data suggest that free sulfhydryl groups within E1 and/or E2 are required to mediate virus entry and that receptor engagement may induce a switch in glycoprotein redox state from reduced to oxidised. A highly conserved C226VPC thiol isomerisation motif was identified in E1 critical for formation of a functional E1E2 heterodimer. Mutation of Val227 to Ile or Leu allowed normal E1 and E2 biosynthesis and virion incorporation. However,mutant viruses demonstrated significantly reduced entry compared to wild type. These findings indicate that the C226VPC motif is required to function during virus entry. Domain organisation within E1 was examined by expression of E1 ectodomain residues in bacteria. A stable domain consisting of N-terminal amino acids 191-259 was identified and produced as a soluble monomer. When expressed in mammalian cells, ectodomain residues 191-329 were efficiently expressed and secreted from cells suggesting that when glycosylated these residues may fold independently from other HCV protein sequences. The findings from this study indicate that HCV functionality is highly dependent on careful regulation of the redox state of the viral envelope glycoproteins, possibly mediated by the E1 C226VPC motif.
Astronomical distances and velocities and special relativity
Creators: name: D'Abramo, Germano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that some primary special relativity effects, which are believed to be hardly detectable in everyday life, such as time dilation, relativistic Doppler effect, and length contraction, should tangibly and spectacularly show up here on the Earth. They should occur in ordinary observations of known astronomical phenomena, also when these phenomena involve astronomical systems that move with very low velocities relative to us but are very distant. We shall do that by providing a reanalysis of the so-called Andromeda paradox and by revisiting the standard explanation of the muon lifetime dilation given when this phenomenon is observed from muon's perspective. Ultimately, we shall show that if Lorentz transformations (and basically, special relativity) are meant to entail real physical consequences, then the observable Universe should appear very differently from what we see every clear night.
description: 15 pages. Published version + Appendix with rigorous derivation of eqs. (3) and (4) shown in the text
Variables Psicopatológicas, Obstétricas y Reproductivas relacionadas con la Depresión Posparto (DPP)
Creators: name: Lasheras Pérez, Gracia
name: Farré Sender, Borja
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2024

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 28 (2024): enero-febrero-marzo
MOESM2 of Genomic evaluation of feed efficiency component traits in Duroc pigs using 80K, 650K and whole-genome sequence variants
Creators: name: Zhang, Chunyan
name: Kemp, Robert
name: Stothard, Paul
name: Wang, Zhiquan
name: Boddicker, Nicholas
name: Krivushin, Kirill
name: Dekkers, Jack
name: Plastow, Graham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Variance component and heritability estimates using different information. The data provided presented the genetic variance, total phenotypic variance and estimated heritability for the traits using different information and methods.
Additional file 1: of Expression levels of long non-coding RNAs are prognostic for AML outcome
Creators: name: Mer, Arvind
name: Lindberg, Johan
name: Nilsson, Christer
name: Klevebring, Daniel
name: Wang, Mei
name: GrĂśnberg, Henrik
name: Lehmann, Soren
name: Rantalainen, Mattias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary figures and tables. Description of data: Figures and tables. (PDF 2723 kb)
A new framework for dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks
Creators: name: Shahid, Mohammad Iqbal Bin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The radio frequency (RF) spectrum is a limited and precious resource. The continuing deployment of a diverse range of new wireless services into an already crowded RF spectrum requires a new way to accommodate these services. This increasing demand for the spectrum is in contrast with the inefﬁcient use of the RF spectrum in some licensed bands, which high ights an opportunity for accessing the RF spectrum with cognitive radio (CR) networks. In CR networks, a secondary user group (the unlicensed users) is allowed to opportunistically access temporarily unused licensed bands of the primary users (licensed users), i.e., the spectrum holes. Accessing the spectrum band in such a manner poses many research challenges including ﬁnding the band vacancies, protecting the primary system from interference, allocating vacant bands among the secondary users, and sharing the spectrum bands among multiple CR networks. To address these issues, this dissertation proposes a new dynamic spectrum access framework for CR networks, including methods for the spectrum sensing, agile spectrum evacuation, spectrum allocation, and spectrum sharing. For spectrum sensing, a weighted combining scheme is introduced that intelligently assigns weights to the energy measurements of a number of CRs and then combines these values to decide if the primary user is currently using a band. This scheme exhibits a better detection accuracy and spectrum utilization. The agile spectrum evacuation scheme allows uninterrupted use of a licensed band by a CR until the primary transmitter returns when the CR quickly evacuates. This is a major innovation because until now a CR must interchange sensing and transmitting in a licensed band, creating a trade-off between spectrum utilization and unavoidable interference caused to the primary user. To allow the fair and fast allocation of available bands among CRs a collaborative framework for allocating multiple bands simultaneously among multiple CRs is proposed. This framework exhibits a signiﬁcant superiority over conventional approaches in terms of an improved throughput and spectrum utilization, and reduced interference loss and collisions. Finally, a scheme to facilitate spectrum sharing among multiple CR networks is created by utilizing various game theoretic approaches for different conﬁgurations of band access. For each game, the Nash Equilibrium is deﬁned and attained in most cases. Collaboration among the CR networks is also investigated through repeated games and it is shown that a cooperative method results in a much better sharing of the RF spectrum. Comprehensive performance analyses including mathematical formulations and experimental evaluations are provided, with the proposed dynamic spectrum access framework exhibiting a superior performance over existing techniques.
Additional file 2: of Skeletal, cardiac, and respiratory muscle function and histopathology in the P448Lneo− mouse model of FKRP-deficient muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Yu, Qing
name: Morales, Melissa
name: Li, Ning
name: Fritz, Alexander
name: Ruobing, Ren
name: Blaeser, Anthony
name: Francois, Ershia
name: Lu, Qi-Long
name: Nagaraju, Kanneboyina
name: Spurney, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Histological analyses for skeletal muscles and serum creatinine kinase levels in P448Lneo− (FKRP) and control (BL6) mice at 1, 2, 6, and 9 months of age. (DOCX 16 kb)
Prevalence, risk factors and outcome of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Creators: name: Bridevaux, Pierre-Olivier
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616
COPD
Epidemiology
Population study
Inflammation
Environnemental exposure
Smoking
Asthma
Bronchial hyperresponsiveness

description: This thesis summarizes some aspects of COPD epidemiology in 2011. Prevalence of COPD is increasing worldwide. Even mild COPD is associated with worse outcomes when present in smokers or symptomatic subjects. In Switzerland, prevalence of moderate or severe COPD is lower than elsewhere. Beyond smoking, which is decreasing in developed countries, novel risk factors have been documented. In developing countries, biomass exposure probably constitutes the most important risk factor for COPD in women. In developed countries, the role of environmental risk factors such as air pollution or occupational exposure is to be considered. But, air pollution slowly decreased and heavy industries and mining activities are outsourced in developing countries. Risk factors such as asthma or bronchial hyper-responsivness do play a role. Both may be considered as the results of interaction between genes and environment.
Additional file 5: of Expression levels of long non-coding RNAs are prognostic for AML outcome
Creators: name: Mer, Arvind
name: Lindberg, Johan
name: Nilsson, Christer
name: Klevebring, Daniel
name: Wang, Mei
name: GrĂśnberg, Henrik
name: Lehmann, Soren
name: Rantalainen, Mattias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary methods. Description of data: Detailed description of the methods used in the analysis. (DOCX 66 kb)
Health–related quality of life of elderly patients after ICU discharge
Creators: name: Merlani, Paolo
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/617
HRQOL
Quality of life
Elderly
Critically ill patients
ICU
Outcome

description: Elderly patients will constitute 2/3 of ICU patients and will likely consume ¾ of ICU resources in the coming years. It is therefore important to determine their outcome of those patients, especially with respect to what appears to be the most important factor, their Health Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL). This systematic review identified 26 studies that examined HRQOL of elderlies after ICU. Studies on this matter are difficult to compare, and their results are difficult to summarize due to heterogeneity in the instruments and measures used. Elderly ICU patients have a reduced HRQOL compared to the normal age- and gender-matched population even prior the event that requires their ICU admission. Compared to younger patients who will be hospitalized in ICUs, elderly patients appear to have a reduced HRQOL, especially with respect to physical domains. Once discharged from ICU, elderly patients appear to frequently regain their pre-ICU HRQOL. The speed of recovery appears to be similar to that of younger ICU patients. In the end, the HRQOL of elderlies will be only slightly reduced compared to younger ICU patients, primarily in physical domains, but HRQOLs appear to be even better in mental domains. The HRQOL of patients discharged from the ICU, however, remains statistically lower than age- and gender-matched populations. Altogether, the quality of the analyzed studies was quite disappointing. The exact impact of a possible selection bias in the studies is difficult to assess, and care should be taken in the interpretation of the results. Larger, quality studies are warranted to confirm important results.
Additional file 1: of TSG-6 released from intraperitoneally injected canine adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells ameliorate inflammatory bowel disease by inducing M2 macrophage switch in mice
Creators: name: Song, Woo-Jin
name: Li, Qiang
name: Ryu, Min-Ok
name: Ahn, Jin-Ok
name: Bhang, Dong
name: Jung, Yun
name: Youn, Hwa-Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary materials. Canine adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells: isolation, culture, and characterization. (PDF 16 kb)
On the images of Galois representations attached to low weight Siegel modular forms
Creators: name: Weiss, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F80, 11F46, 11S37

description: Let $π$ be a cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GSp}_4(\mathbf{A_Q})$, whose archimedean component is a holomorphic discrete series or limit of discrete series representation. If $π$ is not CAP or endoscopic, then we show that its associated $\ell$-adic Galois representations are irreducible and crystalline for $100\%$ of primes $\ell$. If, moreover, $π$ is neither an automorphic induction nor a symmetric cube lift, then we show that, for $100\%$ of primes $\ell$, the image of its mod $\ell$ Galois representation contains $\mathrm{Sp}_4(\mathbf{F}_{\ell})$.
description: 25 pages. Final version. To appear in Journal of the LMS
Entgiften wir uns – Wissen für die Zukunft
Creators: name: Bertoni, Federico
name: Borrelli, Davide
name: Pievatolo, Maria Chiara
name: Pinto, Valeria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wissenschaftsfreiheit
Lehrfreiheit
Forschungsbewertung
Italien

description: Deutsche Übersetzung eines italienischen Appells gegen die bürokratischen Zwänge, die die öffentliche Universität in Italien aufgrund eines administrativen und zentralisierten Forschungsbewertungssystems trotz der von der italienischen Verfassung gewährleisteten Wissenschafts- und Lehrfreiheit strangulieren. Wir danken Maria Böhmer und Daniel Elon für die Übersetzung.
Additional file 3: of Skeletal, cardiac, and respiratory muscle function and histopathology in the P448Lneo− mouse model of FKRP-deficient muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Yu, Qing
name: Morales, Melissa
name: Li, Ning
name: Fritz, Alexander
name: Ruobing, Ren
name: Blaeser, Anthony
name: Francois, Ershia
name: Lu, Qi-Long
name: Nagaraju, Kanneboyina
name: Spurney, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S2. Histological analyses of the diaphragm in P448Lneo− (FKRP) and control (BL6) mice at 1, 2, 6, and 9 months of age. (DOCX 15 kb)
Additional file 4: of Skeletal, cardiac, and respiratory muscle function and histopathology in the P448Lneo− mouse model of FKRP-deficient muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Yu, Qing
name: Morales, Melissa
name: Li, Ning
name: Fritz, Alexander
name: Ruobing, Ren
name: Blaeser, Anthony
name: Francois, Ershia
name: Lu, Qi-Long
name: Nagaraju, Kanneboyina
name: Spurney, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S3. Echocardiography results for P448Lneo− (FKRP) and control (BL6) mice at 2, 6, and 9 months of age showing increased cardiac hypertrophy and decreased systolic function at 9 months of age. (DOCX 15 kb)
Process-based distributed modelling of basin-scale sediment dynamics
Creators: name: Kabir, Md Aynul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, we propose a novel Process-based Distributed Sediment Dynamic Model (PDSDM) to estimate watershed sediment budgets at spatiotemporal scales, with due consideration of the suspended loads, bed loads and their interactions within the hillslope and channels. To overcome the limitations of existing approaches, in this model, hillslope and channel sediment dynamics have been modelled separately and the links between hillslope sediment processes and channel sediment dynamics have been strengthened. Fractional sediment loads (bed load and suspended load), their interactions and overall basin-scale sediment budgets have been investigated to represent in-stream sediment dynamics properly. Also, modelling of channel bed level variations has been linked with watershed sediment dynamics and an investigation of climate change conditions on watershed sediment dynamics has been carried out. The PDSDM has been developed by integrating an existing Distributed Hydrological Model (DHM) with newly developed sediment modules for: (i) suspended sediment dynamics at hillslope; (ii) suspended sediment dynamics at channel; (iii) bed load estimation and transport at channel; and (iv) channel bed level variations. In PDSDM, a transport capacity equation is used as one of the key parameters for estimating suspended sediment dynamics whilst the bed load transport rate is calculated by a bed load transport equation. The PDSDM has been upgraded by incorporating options to select from and use different transport capacity equations and bed load transport equations to simulate suspended and bed load transport processes in catchment areas. The model has been applied to two different hydro-climatic areas (the Abukuma River Basin in Japan and the Latrobe River Basin in Australia) to ensure its applicability. The modelling outcomes from the application areas have been found to be consistent in estimating watershed sediment dynamics. Overall, our proposed PDSDM reveals a robust sediment dynamic model that considers all relevant catchment parameters along with a detailed modelling of hillslope and channel areas separately.
Additional file 7: of Expression levels of long non-coding RNAs are prognostic for AML outcome
Creators: name: Mer, Arvind
name: Lindberg, Johan
name: Nilsson, Christer
name: Klevebring, Daniel
name: Wang, Mei
name: GrĂśnberg, Henrik
name: Lehmann, Soren
name: Rantalainen, Mattias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Description of TCGA-AML cohort. Description of data: Clinical characteristics of the TCGA-AML cohort used in this study. (PDF 46 kb)
Diferencias de género en drogodependencias: revisión sistemática
Creators: name: Molinero Romera, Laia
name: Lasheras Pérez, Gracia
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2024

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 28 (2024): enero-febrero-marzo
White Mirror: Leaking Sensitive Information from Interactive Netflix Movies using Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Creators: name: Mitra, Gargi
name: Vairam, Prasanna Karthik
name: SLPSK, Patanjali
name: Chandrachoodan, Nitin
name: V, Kamakoti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Privacy leaks from Netflix videos/movies is well researched. Current state-of-the-art works have been able to obtain coarse-grained information such as the genre and the title of videos by passive observation of encrypted traffic. However, leakage of fine-grained information from encrypted traffic has not been studied so far. Such information can be used to build behavioural profiles of viewers. On 28th December 2018, Netflix released the first mainstream interactive movie called 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'. In this work, we use this movie as a case-study to show for the first time that fine-grained information (i.e., choices made by users) can be revealed from encrypted traffic. We use the state information exchanged between the viewer's browser and Netflix as the side-channel. To evaluate our proposed technique, we built the first interactive video traffic dataset of 100 viewers; which we will be releasing. Preliminary results indicate that the choices made by a user can be revealed 96% of the time in the worst case.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Additional file 5: of TSG-6 released from intraperitoneally injected canine adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells ameliorate inflammatory bowel disease by inducing M2 macrophage switch in mice
Creators: name: Song, Woo-Jin
name: Li, Qiang
name: Ryu, Min-Ok
name: Ahn, Jin-Ok
name: Bhang, Dong
name: Jung, Yun
name: Youn, Hwa-Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. Primers used for this study. (PDF 33 kb)
Additional file 1: of Gender-specific contribution of cardiometabolic index and lipid accumulation product to left ventricular geometry change in general population of rural China
Creators: name: Wang, Haoyu
name: Sun, Yingxian
name: Li, Zhao
name: Guo, Xiaofan
name: Chen, Shuang
name: Ye, Ning
name: Tian, Yichen
name: Zhang, Lijun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Characteristics of study population according to the left ventricular geometry. (DOCX 18Â kb)
Additional file 1: of Postoperative infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii misdiagnosed as a free-living amoeba species in a humeral head hemiarthroplasty patient: a case report
Creators: name: Tang, Jiaxin
name: Zhu, Huaimin
name: Cai, Li
name: Tang, Tingting
name: Tang, Jian
name: Sun, Yuehua
name: Liu, Ming
name: Dai, Kerong
name: Qiao, Zhiguang
name: Yu, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 724Â kb)
Additional file 1: of Association of polymorphisms in MALAT1 with risk of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease in a Chinese population
Creators: name: Wang, Genan
name: Li, Yaxiong
name: Peng, Yong
name: Tang, Jian
name: Li, Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. HWE test of lncRNA MALAT1 among CAD patients and controls. (DOCX 14Â kb)
Infectious complications during pregnancy: from the vagina to the mouth, but affecting the uterus
Creators: name: Martinez De Tejada Weber, Begona
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/618
Infection
Pregnancy
Maternal and neonatal complications

description: Infectious diseases have a broad spectrum of effects on reproduction. Infections inflict their most serious damage on fertility, embryogenesis, and fetal development. Preterm delivery, particularly very preterm delivery, is emerging as an end point to which infections may make a major contribution. Infections have more subtle and disputed effects on the risk of miscarriage and impaired fetal growth. Understanding the impact of infectious diseases on reproductive outcomes allows the clinician to better evaluate and counsel the patient affected by these diseases. A thorough understanding of the acquisition, natural course, and pathological sequelae of infectious diseases on the various stages of reproduction will complement the interpretation of reproductive epidemiologic studies that can further guide clinical management.
Generation, propagation and detection of multi-bound solitons for optical communications
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duc Nhan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Optical fibres can transmit terabit per second of information over thousands of kilometres. Although impressive, this performance is quickly being used up by new internet applications. Thus there is a constant need for innovation in optical communications systems. One such innovation is multi-bound solitons, which are groups of pulses that maintain their spacing over extremely long distances, so do not interfere with one another. This thesis provides detailed studies of the generation, propagation and detection of bound solitons for telecommunications applications. For generation, nonlinear actively-mode-locked fibre lasers are studied in detail, using analysis, numerical simulations and experiments. Their stability under a wide variety of operating conditions is investigated. Stable bound solitons can be generated when the laser’s power is increased sufficiently. Excellent agreement between the simulated results and the experimental measurements for pulse width, pulse spectrum and RF spectrum is obtained. These bound solitons were then propagated through standard single-mode transmission fibre. Experimental measurements show that the solitons remain bound in a single span of fibre. Numerical simulations illustrate the dynamics of the solitons at various powers. Again, excellent agreement is found between experimental and numerical results. A novel technique for the detection and analysis of bound solitons is proposed. This uses bi-spectral analysis. A method of implementing bispectral analysis using four-wave mixing in optical fibres is investigated.
Métabolisme osseux chez l'homme : Place des estrogènes et de leurs analogues
Creators: name: Uebelhart, Brigitte Florence
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/618.97
Estrogènes
SERM
Raloxifene
Métabolisme osseux

description: L'importance du rôle des estrogènes dans le métabolisme osseux chez l'homme est établie quant à son implication dans l'arrêt de la croissance longitudinale par la soudure de la plaque épiphysaire, à travers les modèles humains de mutation des gènes des récepteurs aux estrogènes ou de l'enzyme aromatase. Un rôle substantiel des estrogènes est fortement présumé sur les résultats épidémiologiques des études humaines prospectives menées chez l'homme âgé, pour la prévention des fractures. Les analogues des estrogènes, les SERMs, de par leurs effets estrogéniques sur l'os sans induire de signes de féminisation représentent une modalité originale et innovante de prise en charge osseuse chez l'homme dont les résultats préliminaires sont encourageants et justifieraient d'être complétés.
Fandom and the art of community: the role of friendship, order and interest in online community longevity
Creators: name: Gibbs, Amy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Online communities have existed since the internet became available, yet media and common thought suggest that they are fleeting and ephemeral, their friendships not real and their interests narrow. The online landscape that they exist in has been painted as in turn emancipating and anarchic. However, some communities do last. One such community that has been in existence for over ten years is the media fandom community on LiveJournal. What is it about this community that has allowed it to survive this long? While much research has been done on virtual community, a great deal of it occurs in short-term studies and so it is important that a longitudinal look is taken of a community that has lasted. This thesis queries what it is about this community that has led to its longevity. It asks why people are drawn to the community, what allows the space to be amenable to communication, and why people remain for long periods of time. The research hypothesises that the answers to these questions are ‘friendship,’ ‘order’ and ‘interest’. Participant-observation, aided by longitudinal qualitative data and current quantitative data from surveying, confirms that it is the interplay between the three concepts of friendship, interest and order that is central to the community’s longevity. Initial interest allows members of the community to get to know each other and form friendships and it is these friendships that increase the density of the community and strengthen participants’ sense of belonging. Long-term interest is maintained, counter-intuitively, by fluid and divergent sub-interests, yet rather than pull it apart, this acceptance of change actually reinforces the community. Throughout it all, the emergent norms of behaviour and hierarchies built from social capital keep the community space amenable to communication without impinging on individual freedoms or succumbing to chaos. This order allows the critical time needed to build trust and friendships and in turn, keeps the community strong. What is found is that life in the online fandom community is neither utopian nor dystopian; norms and hierarchies develop that regulate order, friends are real and vary in strength, and it is the widening of interests that allows for the community to last.
MOESM1 of Association of genetic polymorphisms in genes involved in Ara-C and dNTP metabolism pathway with chemosensitivity and prognosis of adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Creators: name: Zhu, Ke-Wei
name: Chen, Peng
name: Zhang, Dao-Yu
name: Yan, Han
name: Liu, Han
name: Cen, Li-Na
name: Liu, Yan-Ling
name: Cao, Shan
name: Zhou, Gan
name: Zeng, Hui
name: Chen, Shu-Ping
name: Zhao, Xie-Lan
name: Chen, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Unconditional logistic regression analysis of clinical variables associated with non-CR risk in AML patients.
Spatial-Spectral Feature Extraction via Deep ConvLSTM Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Creators: name: Hu, Wen-Shuai
name: Li, Heng-Chao
name: Pan, Lei
name: Li, Wei
name: Tao, Ran
name: Du, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, deep learning has presented a great advance in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Particularly, long short-term memory (LSTM), as a special deep learning structure, has shown great ability in modeling long-term dependencies in the time dimension of video or the spectral dimension of HSIs. However, the loss of spatial information makes it quite difficult to obtain the better performance. In order to address this problem, two novel deep models are proposed to extract more discriminative spatial-spectral features by exploiting the Convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM). By taking the data patch in a local sliding window as the input of each memory cell band by band, the 2-D extended architecture of LSTM is considered for building the spatial-spectral ConvLSTM 2-D Neural Network (SSCL2DNN) to model long-range dependencies in the spectral domain. To better preserve the intrinsic structure information of the hyperspectral data, the spatial-spectral ConvLSTM 3-D Neural Network (SSCL3DNN) is proposed by extending LSTM to 3-D version for further improving the classification performance. The experiments, conducted on three commonly used HSI data sets, demonstrate that the proposed deep models have certain competitive advantages and can provide better classification performance than other state-of-the-art approaches.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Skin and HIV. From cutaneous disorders associated with immunosuppression to skin aging,a marked image of an infectious disease on skin
Creators: name: Toutous Trellu, Laurence Marie
Publisher: name: Université de Genève
Year: 2011
Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/616.8
HIV
Skin
Immunosuppression
Cutaneous disorders

description: Mucocutaneous involvement of infectious diseases are commonly observed and in a large variety of presentations. Microbes interfere by entering directly into the mucous membrane or cutaneous envelope or by systemic or loco-regional dissemination. Skin as a superficial, accessible and physical envelope is proposed in order to emphasize the importance of clinical accuracy and laboratory tests performance in such remarkable organ. Visual access by the patient himself or the physician allows an early diagnosis and close follow-up without any invasive diagnosis tool. In other part, simple and painless samples may lead to determinant conclusion and a quick cutaneous tissue biopsy may safe your patient. Host local and general immunity is primary for microbe multiplication or pathogenecity developpement and few key-points about skin proper immunity and relations with general immunity are noted. HIV infection is a perfect illustration for all these considerations about skin role. The virus directly induces cutaneous troubles but most of the time the associated pathologies are secondary to immune imbalance. Opportunistic infections are unfortunately the occasion to discover new microbes or exceptional clinical presentation of known infectious agents. The beneficial difference between the pre HAART era and early and late HAART eras is very clear when considering cutaneous disturbances in HIV patients. Although this dramatic health condition improvement, the focus will be done on considering cutaneous adverse drug reactions and non infectious co-morbidities including subcutaneous modifications in adipose tissue and lipodystrophy syndrome. Moreover, many cancer occurences increase including skin cancers associated or not with Human Papilloma virus infection. In 2011 and later, the main challenges in dermatology will be to continue to fight against all sexually transmitted diseases, to help people living with HIV to restore their body image destroyed by the chronic disease and the social stigmatization, then better understand the pathophysiology of skin tumors in order to optimize their prevention and treatment.
Secure Federated Matrix Factorization
Creators: name: Chai, Di
name: Wang, Leye
name: Chen, Kai
name: Yang, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To protect user privacy and meet law regulations, federated (machine) learning is obtaining vast interests in recent years. The key principle of federated learning is training a machine learning model without needing to know each user's personal raw private data. In this paper, we propose a secure matrix factorization framework under the federated learning setting, called FedMF. First, we design a user-level distributed matrix factorization framework where the model can be learned when each user only uploads the gradient information (instead of the raw preference data) to the server. While gradient information seems secure, we prove that it could still leak users' raw data. To this end, we enhance the distributed matrix factorization framework with homomorphic encryption. We implement the prototype of FedMF and test it with a real movie rating dataset. Results verify the feasibility of FedMF. We also discuss the challenges for applying FedMF in practice for future research.
Binary icosahedral quasicrystals of hard spheres in spherical confinement
Creators: name: Wang, Da
name: Dasgupta, Tonnishtha
name: van der Wee, Ernest B.
name: Zanaga, Daniele
name: Altantzis, Thomas
name: Wu, Yaoting
name: Coli, Gabriele M.
name: Murray, Christopher B.
name: Bals, Sara
name: Dijkstra, Marjolein
name: van Blaaderen, Alfons
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of geometry on the local and global packing of particles is important to many fundamental and applied research themes such as the structure and stability of liquids, crystals and glasses. Here, we show by experiments and simulations that a binary mixture of hard-sphere-like particles crystallizing into the MgZn2 Laves phase in bulk, spontaneously forms 3D icosahedral quasicrystals in slowly drying droplets. Moreover, the local symmetry of 70-80% of the particles changes to that of the MgCu2 Laves phase. Both of these findings are significant for photonic applications. If the stoichiometry deviates from that of the Laves phase, our experiments show that the crystallization of MgZn2 is hardly affected by the spherical confinement. Our simulations show that the quasicrystals nucleate away from the spherical boundary and grow along five-fold symmetric structures. Our findings not only open the way for particle-level studies of nucleation and growth of 3D quasicrystals, but also of binary crystallization.
description: 35 pages, 18 figures
Trauma como predictor de la satisfacción sexual en mujeres que han sufrido mutilación genital femenina
Creators: name: Ponce-López, Paula
name: Escribano Sordo, Sonia
name: Farré Martí, Josep M.
name: Palazón-Llecha, Alba
name: Lasheras Pérez, Gracia
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2024

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 28 (2024): enero-febrero-marzo
Second order rectifiability of varifolds of bounded mean curvature
Creators: name: Santilli, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q15, 53C65, 35D40, 35J60

description: We prove that the support of an $ m $ dimensional rectifiable varifold with a uniform lower bound on the density and bounded generalized mean curvature can be covered $ \mathscr{H}^{m} $ almost everywhere by a countable union of $m$ dimensional submanifolds of class $ \mathcal{C}^{2} $. We obtain this result using the notion of curvature of arbitrary closed sets originally developed in stochastic geometry and extending to our geometric setting techniques developed by Trudinger in the theory of viscosity solutions of PDE's.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1708.01549
Oxygen vacancy effects on electronic structure of Pt/NiO/Pt capacitor-like system
Creators: name: Sarhan, Abdulla
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oxygen vacancy effect on the electronic state of Pt/NiO/Pt capacitor-like system is theoretically investigated by density functional theory (DFT) based first-principles calculations. The potential energy profile for electrons at the interface between Pt and NiO is found to play a major role on the transport properties alternations where conduction path begin to construct. Oxygen vacancies effect is summarized in the induction of a spatially localized spin-polarized state near the Fermi level of the surrounding Ni ions. Also, electron transport through O vacancy filaments (conduction paths) is via s-orbital sub-bands. We have found that the absence or presence of a vacancy near the interface at the edges of the vacancy filament causes a conductance jump from ~0 to 1e2/h respectively which corresponds to clearly observable switching.
The macroeconomics of credit, asset prices and investment
Creators: name: Carrington, Sarah Jayne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: My thesis investigates the impact of credit markets on asset prices and investment activity in the macroeconomy. The theoretical approach used in this thesis to analyse the relationship between credit markets and investment fluctuations is mainly based on the Tobin’s q (1969) model of investment. Following an initial benchmarking chapter which revisits the fundamental empirical facts relating to q and its relationship with investment activity, subsequent chapters build on the conventional Tobin’s q model of investment by integrating credit constraints. The nexus between credit and both private non-residential and private residential investment is investigated empirically in separate chapters. To measure the nature and degree to which investment is credit constrained, survey data on financial intermediaries’ willingness to lend is used as a measure to distinguish lenders’ attitudes towards credit standards. The empirical tests focus mainly on the U.S., but several OECD countries are considered where data is available. The empirical results show that changes in financial market conditions and incentives to lend in markets where information flows are asymmetrical can have significant impacts on asset prices, private investment activity and macroeconomic dynamics more broadly.
MOESM2 of Association of genetic polymorphisms in genes involved in Ara-C and dNTP metabolism pathway with chemosensitivity and prognosis of adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Creators: name: Zhu, Ke-Wei
name: Chen, Peng
name: Zhang, Dao-Yu
name: Yan, Han
name: Liu, Han
name: Cen, Li-Na
name: Liu, Yan-Ling
name: Cao, Shan
name: Zhou, Gan
name: Zeng, Hui
name: Chen, Shu-Ping
name: Zhao, Xie-Lan
name: Chen, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multivariate Cox regression analysis of clinical factors influencing AML OS and RFS.
Extended dynamically weighted CASPT2: the best of two worlds
Creators: name: Battaglia, Stefano
name: Lindh, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new variant of the complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) method that performs similarly to multistate CASPT2 (MS-CASPT2) in regions of the potential energy surface where the electronic states are energetically well separated and is akin to extended MS-CASPT2 (XMS-CASPT2) in case the underlying zeroth-order references are near-degenerate. Our approach follows a recipe analogous to XMS-CASPT2 to ensure approximate invariance under unitary transformations of the model states and a dynamical weighting scheme to smoothly interpolate the Fock operator between a state-specific and a state-average regime. The resulting extended dynamically weighted CASPT2 (XDW-CASPT2) methodology possesses the most desirable features of both MS-CASPT2 and XMS-CASPT2, i.e. the ability to provide accurate transition energies and correctly describe avoided crossings and conical intersections. The reliability of XDW-CASPT2 is assessed on a number of molecular systems. First, we consider the dissociation of lithium fluoride, highlighting the distinctive characteristics of the new approach. Second, the invariance of the theory is investigated by studying the conical intersection of the distorted allene molecule. Finally, the relative accuracy in the calculation of vertical excitation energies is benchmarked on a set of 26 organic compounds. We found that XDW-CASPT2, albeit being only approximately invariant, produces smooth potential energy surfaces around conical intersections and avoided crossings, performing equally well to the strictly invariant XMS-CASPT2 method. The accuracy of vertical transition energies is almost identical to MS-CASPT2, with a mean absolute deviation of 0.01 to 0.02 eV, in contrast to 0.12 eV for XMS-CASPT2.