cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WHIRLY1 regulates aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis in early seedling development of arabidopsis
Creators: name: Nguyen Thuy Linh
name: Moutesidi, Pinelopi
name: Ziegler, Jörg
name: Glasneck, Anike
name: Khosravi, Solmaz
name: Abel, Steffen
name: Hensel, Götz
name: Krupinska, Karin
name: Humbeck, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 580

description: WHIRLY1 belongs to a family of plant-specific transcription factors capable of binding DNA or RNA in all three plant cell compartments that contain genetic materials. In Arabidopsis thaliana, WHIRLY1 has been studied at the later stages of plant development, including flowering and leaf senescence, as well as in biotic and abiotic stress responses. In this study, WHIRLY1 knockout mutants of A. thaliana were prepared by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to investigate the role of WHIRLY1 during early seedling development. The loss-of-function of WHIRLY1 in 5-day-old seedlings did not cause differences in the phenotype and the photosynthetic performance of the emerging cotyledons compared with the wild type. Nevertheless, comparative RNA sequencing analysis revealed that the knockout of WHIRLY1 affected the expression of a small but specific set of genes during this critical phase of development. About 110 genes were found to be significantly deregulated in the knockout mutant, wherein several genes involved in the early steps of aliphatic glucosinolate (GSL) biosynthesis were suppressed compared with wild-type plants. The downregulation of these genes in WHIRLY1 knockout lines led to decreased GSL contents in seedlings and in seeds. Since GSL catabolism mediated by myrosinases was not altered during seed-to-seedling transition, the results suggest that AtWHIRLY1 plays a major role in modulation of aliphatic GSL biosynthesis during early seedling development. In addition, phylogenetic analysis revealed a coincidence between the evolution of methionine-derived aliphatic GSLs and the addition of a new WHIRLY in core families of the plant order Brassicales.
Understanding young children's agendas, experiences, and learning from a field trip to a zoo
Creators: name: Lawson, Bethan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: School field trips to informal education venues (such as museums, zoos, aquariums, science centres, and art galleries) can be enjoyable, memorable, learning experiences for children. Children have unique personal histories of experiences, interests, and knowledge that they can bring to field trips to informal education venues. This study examined the agendas (desires, hopes, and expectations) of young children for a school field trip, and the impact of these agendas on the children's experiences and learning on the trip. A qualitative, case study approach was used to examine in-depth a field trip taken by children in a grade 1 and 2 (combined) class to a zoo. The study sought to highlight the voices of the children in the study, and to understand the field trip experience from their perspectives. The study generated a descriptive and interpretive account of the children's meanings and experiences of the field trip. The study was exploratory and generated emergent understandings regarding the children's field trip agendas, experiences, and learning. Each child had a unique, multifacted agenda for the field trip that they created prior to the trip. The children's pre-visit agendas included exhibit-based, activity-based, social, and affective elements. The children's previsit agendas appeared to be shaped prior to the visit by six factors: previous visits to zoos, previous indirect experiences with animals, desires to see animals they had never seen before, personal interests, prior knowledge, and school-related activities. An analysis of the field trip experiences of a subgroup of children revealed that these children appeared to construct exhibit-based and social agendas during the field trip, and these agendas were shaped by factors at the zoo. The children's agendas were found to impact on their field trip experiences and learning in numerous ways. Rewarding experiences of learning, enjoyment, and/or engagement were found to come from many children's experiences seeing animals that were part of their pre-visit agendas for the field trip. Many children conveyed that they had missed out on elements of their agendas during the field trip. Implications and recommendations for practice and future research are discussed.
Deep Learning for Portfolio Optimization
Creators: name: Zhang, Zihao
name: Zohren, Stefan
name: Roberts, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We adopt deep learning models to directly optimise the portfolio Sharpe ratio. The framework we present circumvents the requirements for forecasting expected returns and allows us to directly optimise portfolio weights by updating model parameters. Instead of selecting individual assets, we trade Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) of market indices to form a portfolio. Indices of different asset classes show robust correlations and trading them substantially reduces the spectrum of available assets to choose from. We compare our method with a wide range of algorithms with results showing that our model obtains the best performance over the testing period, from 2011 to the end of April 2020, including the financial instabilities of the first quarter of 2020. A sensitivity analysis is included to understand the relevance of input features and we further study the performance of our approach under different cost rates and different risk levels via volatility scaling.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Data from: Effect of a three-week treatment with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists on vasoactive hormones in euvolemic participants
Creators: name: Vukajlovic, Tanja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: To investigate the effect of a three-week treatment with the GLP-1 RA dulaglutide on vasoactive hormones, i.e., renin, angiotensin II, aldosterone, MP-proANP, urinary sodium excretion as well as clinical parameters in euvolemic participants.
Some representations of nongraded Lie algebras of generalized Witt type
Creators: name: Su, Yucai
name: Zhou, Jianhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B65

description: In a paper by Xu, some simple Lie algebras of generalized Cartan type were constructed, using the mixtures of grading operators and down-grading operators. Among them, are the simple Lie algebras of generalized Witt type, which are in general nongraded and have no torus. In this paper, some representations of these simple Lie algebras of generalized Witt type are presented.
description: 16 pages, latex
Ice recrystallization inhibition activity of chemically defined carrageenans
Creators: name: Hale, Julia
name: Furch, Alisa
name: Gerhäuser, Julian
name: Gaukel, Volker
name: Wefers, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Carrageenans are sulfated galactans from algae which are commonly used as thickeners, gelling agents, or stabilizers. It has been demonstrated that they also have significant ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity. Previous studies mainly focused on κ-carrageenan, but recent studies suggested that other carrageenans such as ι-carrageenans or carrageenans with multiple structural elements also have this functionality. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyze and compare the IRI activity of carrageenans with defined chemical structures and associated cations. For this purpose, κ- and ι-carrageenans as well as several hybrid carrageenans showing broad heterogeneity with regards to the molecular structure and the cations present were investigated. The selected commercial samples were subsequently converted into their potassium, calcium and (in part) sodium forms. Chemical characterization of the modified carrageenans demonstrated that the molecular structure was unaltered by the applied procedures and that the carrageenans were successfully converted into the different cation forms. The analysis of the IRI activity demonstrated that both molecular structure and associated cations had an influence on carrageenan functionality. The κ-carrageenan and hybrid carrageenans with consecutive κ-units showed a high IRI activity, whereas ι-carrageenan was less active. For κ-carrageenan, the potassium form showed a clearly higher activity than the calcium form, whereas the calcium form was more active for hybrid carrageenans and ι-carrageenans. Our results significantly expand the knowledge on the relationship between the molecular composition and the IRI activity of carrageenans. Furthermore, they can be used to optimize carrageenan production to obtain an enhanced IRI activity.
title: Déclaration du Roi, pour la chancellerie de Tournai
Creators: name: Louis XIV (Roi De France ; 1638-1715)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: Organisation judiciaire
Justice Royale

description: Source: http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39373083t.public
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandres
description: issued: 12/06/1681
Primordial nuggets survival and QCD pairing
Creators: name: Lugones, G.
name: Horvath, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of boiling and surface evaporation of quark nuggets in the cosmological quark-hadron transition with the explicit consideration of pairing between quarks in a color-flavor locked (CFL) state. Assuming that primordial quark nuggets are actually formed, we analyze the consequences of pairing on the rates of boiling and surface evaporation in order to determine whether they could have survived with substantial mass. We find a substantial quenching of the evaporation + boiling processes, which suggests the survival of primordial nuggets for the currently considered range of the pairing gap $Δ$. Boiling is shown to depend on the competition of an increased stability window and the suppression of the rate, and is not likely to dominate the destruction of the nuggets. If surface evaporation dominates, the fate of the nuggets depend on the features of the initial mass spectrum of the nuggets, their evaporation rate, and the value of the pairing gap, as shown and discussed in the text.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: FS Sonne Fahrtbericht/Cruise Report SO 192-1
title: MANGO ; marine geoscientific investigations on the input and output of the Kermadec Subduction Zone ; Auckland - Auckland 24.03. - 22.04.2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Flüh, Ernst
Publisher: name: IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel
Year: 2007

description: report
Blood immune profiling of Ethiopian patients with breast cancer highlights different forms of immune escape
Creators: name: Yohannes, Meron
name: Massa, Chiara
name: Desalegn, Zelalem
name: Stückrath, Kathrin
name: Mueller, Anja
name: Anberber, Endale
name: Bekuretsion, Yonas
name: Assefa, Mathewos
name: Santos, Pablo
name: Addissie, Adamu
name: Bauer, Marcus
name: Wickenhauser, Claudia
name: Taylor, Lesley
name: Vetter, Martina
name: Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna
name: Abbäbä, Tamrat
name: Seliger, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Breast cancer (BC) is a leading cause of death worldwide, particularly also among African woman. In order to better stratify patients for the most effective (immuno-) therapy, an in depth characterization of the immune status of BC patients is required. In this study, a cohort of 65 Ethiopian patients with primary BC underwent immune profiling by multicolor flow cytometry on peripheral blood samples collected prior to surgery and to any other therapy. Comparison with peripheral blood samples from healthy donors highlighted a general activation of the immune system, accompanied by the presence of exhausted CD4+ T cells and senescent CD8+ T cells with an inverted CD4/CD8 ratio in approximately 50% of BC cases. Enhanced frequencies of γδ T cells, myeloid-derived suppressor cells and regulatory T cells were also found. Correlation with clinical parameters demonstrated a progressive reduction in T cell frequencies with increasing histopathological grading of the tumor. Differences in CD8+ T cells and B cells were also noted among luminal and non-luminal BC subtypes. In conclusion, Ethiopian BC patients showed several alterations in the composition and activation status of the blood immune cell repertoire, which were phenotypically associated with immune suppression. The role of these immunological changes in the clinical outcome of patients with BC will have to be determined in follow-up studies and confirmed in additional patients’ cohorts.
Comment on "Mean First Passage Time for Anomalous Diffusion"
Creators: name: Yuste, S. B.
name: Lindenberg, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We correct a previously erroneous calculation [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6065 (2000)] of the mean first passage time of a subdiffusive process to reach either end of a finite interval in one dimension. The mean first passage time is in fact infinite.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. E
Living on a brane
Creators: name: Cembranos, J. A. R.
name: Dobado, A.
name: Maroto, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly review the distinctive signals of brane world models with low tension. We pay special attention to the brane fluctuations (branons), whose phenomenological consequences could be important both in high energy particle physics experiments and in astrophysical and cosmological observations.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the 29th Spanish Physical Royal Society Biennial on the centennial of the society, Madrid, Spain, July 2003
Evaluating the content structure of intelligent tutor systems : a psychological network analysis
Creators: name: Spitzer, Markus W. H.
name: Bardach, Lisa
name: Strittmatter, Younes
name: Meyer, Jennifer
name: Möller, Korbinian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 150

description: The adoption of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) worldwide has led to a considerable accumulation of process data as students interact with different learning topics within these systems. Typically, these learning topics are structured within ITSs (e.g., the fraction topic includes subtopics such as a fraction number line subtopic). However, there is a lack of methods that offer quick, data-driven insights into the content structure of ITSs, particularly through easily accessible visualizations. Here, we applied psychological network analysis to process data (230,241 students; 5,365,932 problem sets) from an ITS for learning mathematics to explore performance interdependencies between 40 different subtopics. We argue that the visualization of these content interdependencies allows for a quick empirical evaluation of the validity of the existing structuring of the respective learning content. These insights allow for deriving recommendations concerning potential changes in the ITS structure and are thus highly valuable for ITS developers. Our results are also relevant for researchers as the interdependencies illustrated through psychological network analysis can contribute towards a better understanding of the interplay between mathematical skills. Together, our results indicate that psychological network analysis represents a valuable data-driven method to evaluate and optimize ITSs.
Constraining momentum space correlators using slightly broken higher spin symmetry
Creators: name: Jain, Sachin
name: John, Renjan Rajan
name: Malvimat, Vinay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, building up on [1] we present momentum space Ward identities related to broken higher spin symmetry as an alternate approach to computing correlators of spinning operators in interacting theories such as the quasi-fermionic and quasi-bosonic theories. The direct Feynman diagram approach to computing correlation functions is intricate and in general has been performed only in specific kinematic regimes. We use higher spin equations to obtain the parity even and parity odd contributions to two-, three- and four-point correlators involving spinning and scalar operators in a general kinematic regime, and match our results with existing results in the literature for cases where they are available. One of the interesting facts about higher spin equations is that one can use them away from the conformal fixed point. We illustrate this by considering mass deformed free boson theory and solving for two-point functions of spinning operators using higher spin equations.
description: 36+21 pages, 1 figure. v2 : Reference added. v3 : A sentence in Section 7 modified. v4 : version published in JHEP
Calabaria reinhardtii
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Boidae
Calabaria
Calabaria reinhardtii

description: Calabaria reinhardtii (Schlegel, 1851)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 adult (GHS-W 0247), Kpalime.
MORPHOLOGY. — LT 735 mm; 33 MSR, scales straight, 217 Ven, 21 Sc single.
DISTRIBUTION. — First record fromTogo. This burrowing species has been observed in forests of ER IV. Localities are: Kloto, Kpele, Akposso, Akebou and Adele.
CONSERVATION STATUS. — According to reports of the CITES division of the Togo DFC, 638 living specimens were exported from the country between 2001 and 2005.
REMARK
 This species was referred to the boine genus Charina Gray, 1849 by Kluge (1993), but Vidal & David (2004) showed that Calabaria reinhardtii is genetically distant from the American species of the genus Charina. As a consequence, Calabaria Gray, 1858 was considered to be valid and placed in a separate family.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 330, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Post-Covid challenges and opportunities: rethinking ESG performance in the logistics sector
Creators: name: Juvvala, Rambabu
name: Sangle, Shirish
name: Tiwari, Manoj Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: In the post-COVID era, the logistics sector faces significant challenges and opportunities. These are mostly due to disruptions in global supply chains and a rise in e-commerce demand. To overcome these issues, companies need to adopt digital technologies, reshape consumer demand, and implement flexible work arrangements, with a focus on sustainability. This transition bolstered attention on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations. In this study, we introduce new metrics to evaluate ESG performance in the logistics sector. To resolve inconsistencies in existing approaches, we propose the Standardised Unitless Rating (SUR) methodology, which combines satisfaction scores and criterion relevance. We employed the Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (IT2FAHP) to calculate the relative weights of ESG criteria. The results show that newly established companies with innovative technology have performed better than traditional companies. This proposed method has been validated by comparing it with existing methods. Additionally, we observed the importance of relative weight as compared to criteria with equal weight. The findings suggest that incorporating process metrics could help companies enhance their ESG performance.
Z x Z-graded Lie algebras generated by the Virasoro algebra and $sl_2$
Creators: name: Su, Yucai
name: Zhang, Jiengfeng
name: Zhao, Kaiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B36

description: The present paper is another step toward the classification of $\Z\times\Z$-graded Lie algebras: we classify $\Z\times\Z$-graded Lie algebras $A=\oplus_{i,j\in\Z}A_{i,j}$ over a field $F$ of characteristic 0 with dim $A_{i,j}\le1$ for $i,j\in\Z$, satisfying: (1) $Å_0=\oplus_{i\in \Z}Å_{i,0}$ is isomorphic to the centerless Virasoro algebra, (2) $A_{0,-1},A_{0,0},A_{0,1}$ span the 3-dimensional simple Lie algebra $sl_2$, (3) $A$ is generated by the centerless Virasoro algebra and $sl_2$. These algebras include some rank 2 centerless Virasoro algebras, and some rank 2 Block algebras and their extensions.
description: 13 pages, latex
Variable Stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Results from OGLE and SIRIUS
Creators: name: Ita, Yoshifusa
name: Tanabe, Toshihiko
name: Matsunaga, Noriyuki
name: Nakajima, Yasushi
name: Nagashima, Chie
name: Nagayama, Takahiro
name: Kato, Daisuke
name: Kurita, Mikio
name: Nagata, Tetsuya
name: Sato, Shuji
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Nakaya, Hidehiko
name: Nakada, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed a cross-identification between OGLE-II data and single-epoch SIRIUS JHK survey data in the LMC and SMC. After eliminating obvious spurious variables, we determined the pulsation periods for 9,681 and 2,927 variables in the LMC and SMC, respectively. Based on these homogeneous data, we studied the pulsation properties and metallicity effects on period-K magnitude (PK) relations by comparing the variable stars in the LMC and SMC. The sample analyzed here is much larger, and we found the following new features: (1) variable red giants in the SMC form parallel sequences on the PK plane, just like those found by Wood (2000) in the LMC; (2) both of the sequences A and B of Wood (2000) have discontinuities, and they occur at the K-band luminosity of the TRGB; (3) the sequence B of Wood (2000) separates into three independent sequences B+- and C'; (4) comparison between the theoretical pulsation models (Wood et al. 1996) and observational data suggests that the variable red giants on sequences C and newly discovered C' are pulsating in the fundamental and first overtone mode, respectively; (5) the theory can not explain the pulsation mode of sequences A+- and B+-, and they are unlikely to be the sequences for the first and second overtone pulsators, as was previously suggested; (6) the zero points of PK relations of Cepheids in the metal deficient SMC are fainter than those of LMC ones by ~0.1 mag but those of SMC Miras are brighter than those of LMC ones by ~0.13 mag, which are probably due to metallicity effects.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. High resolution version is available at: http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yita/scr/astro/papers/RefereedPaper/yitaMD250 .pdf
Non-Bayesian Estimation Framework for Signal Recovery on Graphs
Creators: name: Routtenberg, Tirza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Graph signals arise from physical networks, such as power and communication systems, or as a result of a convenient representation of data with complex structure, such as social networks. We consider the problem of general graph signal recovery from noisy, corrupted, or incomplete measurements and under structural parametric constraints, such as smoothness in the graph frequency domain. In this paper, we formulate the graph signal recovery as a non-Bayesian estimation problem under a weighted mean-squared-error (WMSE) criterion, which is based on a quadratic form of the Laplacian matrix of the graph and its trace WMSE is the Dirichlet energy of the estimation error w.r.t. the graph. The Laplacian-based WMSE penalizes estimation errors according to their graph spectral content and is a difference-based cost function which accounts for the fact that in many cases signal recovery on graphs can only be achieved up to a constant addend. We develop a new Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) on the Laplacian-based WMSE and present the associated Lehmann unbiasedness condition w.r.t. the graph. We discuss the graph CRB and estimation methods for the fundamental problems of 1) A linear Gaussian model with relative measurements; and 2) Bandlimited graph signal recovery. We develop sampling allocation policies that optimize sensor locations in a network for these problems based on the proposed graph CRB. Numerical simulations on random graphs and on electrical network data are used to validate the performance of the graph CRB and sampling policies.
Glacial isostatic adjustment and sea level change near Berkner Island, Antarctica
Creators: name: Sasgen, Ingo
Publisher: name: GFZ, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Year: 2007

description: The glacial-isostatic adjustment in Iceland resulting from the recent melting of the Vatnajökull ice cap is controlled by the viscosity distribution in the earth's interior and by the details of the melting history. Interpretations of the results of GPS and gravity measuring campaigns in the time interval 1991-2000 and 1992-1999, respectively, by means of laterally homogeneous earth models for the determination of the lithosphere thickness, the asthenosphere thickness and the asthenosphere viscosity have so far been not fully satisfactory. In particular near the ice margin, the fitting of the computed land uplift and gravity change to the observational data was inadequate, which may be related to the neglegt of the Iceland plume in the laterally homogeneous earth models. In the present study, a program package is used for the modelling of the land uplift and gravity change that allows the computation of load-induced perturbations of a Maxwell-viscoelastic, incompressible, self-gravitating, spherical earth model. To simulate the presence of the plume below the Vatnajökull, an axisymmetric viscosity distribution is used, where the plume radius and the plume viscosity are free parameters. Based on seismic results, a 6-km-thick lithosphere is assumed above the plume, which thickens to 35 km in the peripheral region of the plume. The melting history of the Vatnajökull is founded on interpretations of geomorphological and climatological investigations and is simulated by a load co-axial with the plume with parabolic profile and time-dependent radius. The results of the modelling favour a plume radius of ~80 km and a plume viscosity of (0.3-1.0) x 10^{18} Pa s.
description: report
Additional file 3 of Broadening risk profile in familial colorectal cancer type X; increased risk for five cancer types in the national Danish cohort
Creators: name: Therkildsen, Christina
name: Rasmussen, Maria
name: Smith-Hansen, Lars
name: Kallemose, Thomas
name: Lindberg, Lars Joachim
name: Mef Nilbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3 Figure S1 Impact from degree of relatedness in FCCTX families in the 6 extracolorectal cancer types that were significantly different from the population-based cohort. A) Table showing the number of cancers observed and the mean age at onset in individuals affected with colorectal cancer, their first-degree relatives and their second-degree relatives. B) Incidence rates calculated separately in individuals affected by colorectal cancer (red), first-degree relatives (blue) and second-degree relatives (green). No significant differences were observed. Incidence rates and p values are available upon request.
Additional file 4 of Broadening risk profile in familial colorectal cancer type X; increased risk for five cancer types in the national Danish cohort
Creators: name: Therkildsen, Christina
name: Rasmussen, Maria
name: Smith-Hansen, Lars
name: Kallemose, Thomas
name: Lindberg, Lars Joachim
name: Mef Nilbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4 Table S3 Age-dependent incidence rates of different cancer types in the surveilled FCCTX cohort and in the age and sex-matched population-based cohorts
Smarter facility layout design: leveraging worker localisation data to minimise travel time and alleviate congestion
Creators: name: Aslan, Ayse
name: Vasantha, Gokula
name: El-Raoui, Hanane
name: Quigley, John
name: Hanson, Jack
name: Corney, Jonathan
name: Sherlock, Andrew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper introduces a novel methodology leveraging worker localisation data from ultrawide-band sensors to formulate alternative facility layouts aimed at minimising travel time and congestion in labour-intensive manufacturing systems. The system preprocesses sensor data to discern flow patterns between existing stations within the production facility, such as machine tools, workbenches, and stores. This information about the movement of people and materials informs the generation of optimised layouts through scenario-based optimisation. We explored two methods to devise these new layouts: a mixed-integer linear programming method and a simulated annealing metaheuristic, the latter being specifically developed to find high-quality solutions to the quadratic layout design formulation. Both methods employ biobjective formulations, focussing on the minimisation of travel time and the reduction of congestion risk on the manufacturing floor, an aspect often neglected in prior studies. Our methodology, applied to a real-world manual assembly line case study, demonstrated the potential to reduce travel time by a minimum of 32% and alleviate congestion while maintaining significant safety distances between facilities. This was achieved by automatically identifying design features that position high-traffic facilities closely and align them to eliminate movement overlaps.
T-STAR INITIATIVES IN SUPPORT OF INVASIVE SPECIES EFFORTS IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN REGION
Creators: name: Roberts, Martha R.
name: Roberts, Martha R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The T-STAR program supports basic and applied research on invasive species with respect to (i) their biology, ecology, (ii) methods of diagnosis/identification, detection, surveillance, exclusion, eradication and control and (iii) development of comprehensive safeguarding strategies, including international policy development and coordination among all countries and territories, and the use of internet-based communications to facilitate all aspects of a coordinated Regional system to prevent and mitigate invasive species impacts. Currently significant emphasis is on building technical and institutional policy support platforms for an effective US/Caribbean Basin Invasive Species Safeguarding System. A brief history of the T-STAR program is presented including the actions taken by various scientists and administrators to arrive at the invasive species program in the Greater Caribbean Region. A list of invasive species research projects currently funded by T-STAR is included.
HiVision: Rapid Visualization of Large-Scale Spatial Vector Data
Creators: name: Ma, Mengyu
name: Wu, Ye
name: Ouyang, Xue
name: Chen, Luo
name: Li, Jun
name: Jing, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rapid visualization of large-scale spatial vector data is a long-standing challenge in Geographic Information Science. In existing methods, the computation overheads grow rapidly with data volumes, leading to the incapability of providing real-time visualization for large-scale spatial vector data, even with parallel acceleration technologies. To fill the gap, we present HiVision, a display-driven visualization model for large-scale spatial vector data. Different from traditional data-driven methods, the computing units in HiVision are pixels rather than spatial objects to achieve real-time performance, and efficient spatial-index-based strategies are introduced to estimate the topological relationships between pixels and spatial objects. HiVision can maintain exceedingly good performance regardless of the data volume due to the stable pixel number for display. In addition, an optimized parallel computing architecture is proposed in HiVision to ensure the ability of real-time visualization. Experiments show that our approach outperforms traditional methods in rendering speed and visual effects while dealing with large-scale spatial vector data, and can provide interactive visualization of datasets with billion-scale points/segments/edges in real-time with flexible rendering styles. The HiVision code is open-sourced at https://github.com/MemoryMmy/HiVision with an online demonstration.
description: 19 pages 16 figures
title: MEXAGE - Mexican aero-geophysical experiment
title: survey report
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Meyer, Uwe
Publisher: name: GFZ, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Year: 2005

description: This report describes the set-up, logistics and results of the MEXAGE (Mexican Aero-Geophysical Survey) survey. It gives a short overview about the scientific intentions, detailed documentation of all technical aspects starting from the survey equipment via the aircraft installation to the GPS stations set-up to the experiences in flight. The processing results for the individual profiles are briefly discussed.
description: report
RED PALM MITE SITUATION IN THE CARIBBEAN AND FLORIDA
Creators: name: Roda, Amy
name: Dowling, Ashley
name: Welbourn, Cal
name: Pena, Jorge
name: Rodrigues, Jose Carlos V.
name: Hoy, Marjorie A.
name: Ochoa, Rondald
name: Duncan, Russell A.
name: De Chi, Wayne
name: Roda, Amy
name: Dowling, Ashley
name: Welbourn, Cal
name: Pena, Jorge
name: Rodrigues, Jose Carlos V.
name: Hoy, Marjorie A.
name: Ochoa, Rondald
name: Duncan, Russell A.
name: De Chi, Wayne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: acaricides
subject: biological control
subject: predatory mite
subject: foreign exploration

description: The red palm mite (Raoiella indica Hirst Tenuipalpidae), a pest of coconuts and ornamental palms in Asia and Africa, was reported in the Caribbean in 2004. By 2008, it spread to at least twelve islands, to two counties in Florida and to Venezuela. Red palm mite causes yellowing and leaf necrosis with severe reduction of leaf stomatal conductance. Growers are reporting > 70% reduction in coconut yield. Genetic studies of red palm mite collected from multiple regions in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean revealed several distinct haplotypes. All Caribbean samples have the same haplotype, which matches samples from coconut in Réunion and areca palms in India. The populations from coconut in India exhibited a different haplotype. Biological control and pesticide options are being studied to manage the pest. The efficacy of acaricides against red palm mite was tested to provide palm, banana and ornamental nursery growers with an updated list of acaricides with good control potential. Natural enemy studies in the Caribbean have shown that thrips, phytoseiid, lacewing, and coccinelid predators attack red palm mites. Fungal infections have been reported in Puerto Rico, Dominica and Trinidad. Predatory mite numbers, especially in the Phytoseiidae, increase in response to higher numbers of red palm mites. However, these local predators are apparently not controlling red palm mite outbreaks. Foreign exploration for natural enemies is being conducted in Mauritius and India. A phytoseiid predator is currently being evaluated in quarantine in Gainesville, Florida.
Gleaning After Citrus Mechanical Harvesters - Labor Productivity
Creators: name: Roka, Fritz
name: Hyman, Barbara
name: Roka, Fritz
name: Hyman, Barbara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: gleaner productivity
subject: citrus mechanical harvesting

description: Canopy and trunk shakers in properly prepared Florida orange groves recover between 85 and 93 percent of the available fruit. Whether a grower should "glean" the remaining fruit depends on if the unit cost of gleaning is less than the on-tree fruit value. Labor productivity of gleaners is an important component in determining the unit cost of gleaning. Previous work by Polopolus and Emerson indicates that worker productivity of orange harvesters averages between 8 and 10 boxes per hour. Their data, however, are restricted to hand crews working in blocks averaging between 300 and 500 boxes per acre. Workers, or gleaners, who follow mechanical harvesting systems have access to far less fruit, perhaps only between 25 and 75 boxes per acre. The objectives of this paper are to test the hypothesis that worker harvest productivity is positively correlated with crop yield, and if true, estimate the overall effect of crop yield on worker productivity. A data set was assembled from 47 Hamlin orange blocks harvested in southwest Florida between 27 November 2007 and 10 January 2008. Each block was characterized by its total production (boxes per acre), the total boxes harvested by either hand crews or mechanical systems, and the average hourly productivity of hand harvesting crews. A linear model of worker productivity as a function of the log-transformed value of fruit availability was estimated by OLS. The estimated parameter coefficient on fruit availability was positive and statistically significant. The model predicts that worker productivity falls from ten to nearly five boxes per hour when fruit availability decreases from 500 to 25 boxes per acre. In order to for all workers to earn at least $8 per hour, the harvesting piece rate must increase from 80-cents for hand harvesters to $1.50 per box for gleaners.
FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos Poll: November 2021 Parents Coronavirus Survey
Creators: name: FiveThirtyEight
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Current health and status (10); how are you feeling today (1); concern with lives of children (6); discussions around coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (10); impact of pandemic (2); support health mandates (3); coronavirus vaccine (4); main source of news (1); changes in health and status since March 2020 (6); concerns about life before pandemic (5); job approval of other people keeping you safe during pandemic (5); activities in last month (6); mask usage at schools (4); reason for not getting vaccine (1).
Integrating non-market values in economic analyses of flood mitigation: a case study of the Brown Hill and Keswick creeks catchment in Adelaide
Creators: name: Chalak, Morteza
name: Florec, Veronique
name: Atakelty Hailu
name: Gibson, Fiona
name: Pannell, David
name: Chalak, Morteza
name: Florec, Veronique
name: Atakelty Hailu
name: Gibson, Fiona
name: Pannell, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Non-market values
subject: benefit transfer
subject: flood mitigation
subject: economic analysis

description: This study undertakes an economic analysis of flood mitigation options for a high flood risk catchment in Adelaide, South Australia: the Brown Hill and Keswick creeks catchment. Several proposals for flood mitigation investments have been presented, including creek capacity upgrades, high flow bypass culverts and detention dams. For flood managers to know which option or options provide the best value for money, it is necessary to compare the costs and the benefits of all available options. To date, economic analyses have focused primarily on estimating the tangible (market) costs and benefits of mitigation strategies, but have largely ignored the intangible (non-market) costs and benefits. This analysis improves upon previous studies by conducting a cost benefit analysis that incorporates the intangible costs and benefits of mitigation. We used the benefit transfer method to include eight different intangible values that can be affected by floods or by the implementation of the proposed mitigation options. We found that for this particular case study in the Brown Hill and Keswick creeks catchment, the inclusion of intangible values does not change the results of the analysis significantly; the results with and without intangibles are relatively similar. This is because intangible values are relatively small compared to the potential tangible flood damages as intangible value losses represent only between 6 and 21% of total damages. In order to better understand people's preferences and the trade-offs they make, a survey based nonmarket valuation research would need to be conducted amongst the residents at risk of flooding. Such a study would provide values that are specific to the catchment and could be compared with the intangible values from the literature that have been assembled for this study.
Examining the roles of self-esteem and self-concept clarity in the stress process
Creators: name: Lee, Sharon C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The current study investigated levels of self-concept clarity as an important concomitant to self-esteem in understanding how individuals adapt to stress. Self-esteem has been widely studied with respect to its influence on the stress process, but the variable of self-concept clarity may also have predictive validity on adjustment outcomes. One hundred and seventy eight individuals from 99 stepfamily unions took part in an initial telephone interview, a twice-daily diary over 7 days, and another telephone interview 2 years later. Results of hierarchical linear modeling indicated that generally, levels of self-concept clarity were significantly associated with levels of evening negative affect over the week, controlling for morning negative affect and self-esteem. Those with greater clarity tended to experience lower levels of evening negative affect. Furthermore, self-esteem attenuated the relationship between cognitive appraisals and evening negative affect. When individuals high in self-esteem appraised a stressor as more threatening or less controllable than usual, they tended to experience less subsequent negative mood compared to individuals lower in self-esteem. We also found that levels of self-concept clarity were significantly associated with levels of depressive symptomatology at 2-year follow up, such that higher levels of self-concept clarity were associated with lower levels of depressive symptomatology. However, there was a significant interaction between self-esteem and self-concept clarity. For individuals with higher levels of self-esteem, there tended to be no significant association between self-concept clarity and depressive symptomatology at 2-year follow up. These findings point to the vulnerability of those with both low self-esteem and low self-concept clarity, in terms of short-term and long-term adaptation to stress. Further, they argue for the consideration of such individual differences in designing stress management interventions.
Finite temperature superfluid density in very underdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Herbut, Igor F.
name: Case, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combination of a large superconducting gap, low transition temperature, and quasi two-dimensionality in strongly underdoped high temperature superconductors severely constrains the behavior of the ab-plane superfluid density ρwith temperature T. In particular, we argue that the contribution of nodal quasiparticles to ρ(T) is essential to account both for the amplitude of, and the recently observed deviations from, the Uemura scaling. A relation between T_c and ρ(0) which combines the effects of quasiparticle excitations at low temperatures and of vortex fluctuations near the critical temperature is proposed and discussed in light of recent experiments.
description: 5 RevTex pages, 4 figures (one new); more discussion and comparison with experiment; version to appear in Phys. Rev. B
title: Interpreting trends in graphs: A study of 14 and 15 year olds
Creators: name: Preece, Jenny
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1985

description: Interpreting graphically displayed data is an important life skill. This thesis examines some of the problems that 14 and 15 year olds encounter when interpreting trends in cartesian graphs. A survey of errors made by 144 pupils is discussed, which shows that two of the most difficult aspects of graph work are interpreting changes in gradients, and inter-relating the graph with its context. A detailed analysis of individual pupils interpretations of changes in gradients shows that pupils conceptions of gradient can be classified according to whether they have an 'iconic' or an 'analytical' origin. iconic descriptions are concerned with the structure, shape or position of the curve, whereas analytical descriptions are concerned with more abstract notions, such as the angle or steepness of the curve, and rate of increase. The results indicate that the occurrence of different kinds of conceptions is influenced by both the form of the graph and its context. In another study, the pupils were given two structurally isomorphic graph interpretation tasks. The results of this investigation also show that the context of a graph in relation to its structural form, has a profound influence upon the way that pupils interpret it. Interpretations are described, in which the influence of metaphors, knowledge from everyday life experience and anthropomorphic reactions can be seen. Pictorial accounts show how conceptions from some of these sources are brought into the pupils interpretations.
Diamond Theorem for finitely generated Profinite free Group
Creators: name: Bary-Soroker, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12E25; 14G32

description: We extend Haran's Diamond Theorem to closed subgroups of a finitely generated free profinite group. This gives an affirmative answer to Problem 25.4.9 in the book Field Arithmetics of Fried and Jarden.
description: Final version. To appear in Math. Ann