cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The stellar content of OMC 2/3
Creators: name: Nielbock, Markus
name: Chini, Rolf
name: Mueller, Sven A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have revisited the stellar content of OMC 2 and OMC 3 by means of MIR imaging and NIR photometry; in addition, we have extended the existing (sub)mm maps by a huge 1200 micron map obtained with SIMBA showing new sources and filamentary features for the first time at that wavelength. The MIR data reveal 43 new sources at N and Q which are partly associated with dense condensations at millimetre wavelengths. Six close binary sources could be resolved at locations where existing (sub)mm maps only show single emission peaks; three of them are classified as early (B-type) systems, one of them is compatible with type K while the remaining two seem to be T Tauri stars. Furthermore, the MIR images indicate the existence of separate circumstellar discs in the K-binary system. NIR colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams obtained from 2MASS data are examined to explore the physical properties of the sources and to derive the distribution of J luminosities. There is a clear decrease in luminosity and thus in stellar mass when going from South to North. Likewise, there is an anti-correlation between Class I and II objects in both regions: while OMC 2 contains twice as much Class II objects compared to Class I, the situation is reversed in OMC 3.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for A&A (full version available at http://www.astro.rub.de/nielbock/research)
Zyras (Zyras)
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Zyras

description: Zyras (Zyras) sp.
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d PHILIPPINES: 1♀, Mindanao, Araibo, Pantukan, Compostela Valley, Candalaga Mts., 7°16'35''N, 126°10'13''E, 900 m, 4.V.2019, leg. Shavrin (cAss).
 C o m m e n t: The above female belongs to the Z. hirtus group and most likely represents an undescribed species. A male would be needed for an adequate description.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2019, Four new species and additional records of Lomechusini from Mindanao, Philippines (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), pp. 789-802 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2) on page 794, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5113804
Association of blood pressure components with mortality and cardiovascular events in prehypertensive individuals: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Oh, Hyung Jung
name: Seulbi Lee
name: Lee, Eun-Kyung
name: Oesook Lee
name: Eunhee Ha
name: Park, Eun-Mi
name: Seung-Jung Kim
name: Duk-Hee Kang
name: Choi, Kyu Bok
name: Kim, Seung Jun
name: Dong-Ryeol Ryu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Background: The effects of each blood pressure index [systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), pulse pressure (PP), mean arterial pressure (MAP)] on the occurrence of mortality and cardiovascular (CV) events have not yet been investigated in prehypertensive populations. Methods: A total of 30,258 prehypertensive Korean participants underwent periodic health examination between 2003 and 2004 were enrolled, and the associations of BP components with mortality and CV events were investigated. Moreover, based on the DBP [80 ≤ DBP <90 mmHg (N = 21,323) and DBP <80 mmHg (N = 8,935)], the effects of BP components were also evaluated. Results: Multivariate Cox analyses in prehypertensive group revealed that the hazard ratios (HRs) were 1.121 and 1.130 per 10 mmHg increase in SBP and PP for mortality, respectively. Additionally, 10 mmHg increase of SBP (HR:1.090) was still significantly, but increase of PP (HR:1.060) was marginally associated with higher incidence of CV events. However, there were no significant associations with increase in DBP or MAP on adverse clinical outcomes in prehypertensive group. In the prehypertensive subjects with DBP <80 mmHg, CV events more frequently occurred by 38.8% and 28.5% per 10 mmHg increase in SBP and PP, respectively. Conclusions: Prehypertensive subjects might need to be cautioned when they have high SBP or PP with low DBP even in healthy populations.Key messagePrehypertensive subjects should be cautioned when they have high-systolic blood pressure or pulse pressure with low-diastolic blood pressure, even without previous hypertension, diabetes mellitus or chronic kidney disease. Prehypertensive subjects should be cautioned when they have high-systolic blood pressure or pulse pressure with low-diastolic blood pressure, even without previous hypertension, diabetes mellitus or chronic kidney disease.
Turbulent kinetic energy transport in oscillatory pipe flow
Creators: name: Wagner, Claus
name: Feldmann, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laminar as well as turbulent oscillatory pipe flows occur in many fields of biomedical science and engineering. Pulmonary air flow and vascular blood flow are usually laminar, because shear forces acting on the physiological system ought to be small. However, frictional losses and shear stresses vary considerably with transition to turbulence. This plays an important role in cases of e.g. artificial respiration or stenosis. On the other hand, in piston engines and reciprocating thermal/chemical process devices, turbulent or transitional oscillatory flows affect mixing properties, and also mass and heat transfer. In contrast to the extensively investigated statistically steady wall bounded shear flows, rather little work has been devoted to the onset, amplification and decay of turbulence in pipe flows driven by an unsteady external force. Experiments [1, 3, 6] indicate that transition to turbulence depends on only one parameter, i.e. Re_δ \sim Re/Wo with a critical value of about 550, at least for Womersley numbers Wo > 7. We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) of oscillatory pipe flows at several combinations of Re and Wo to extend the validity of this critical value to higher Wo. To better understand the physical mechanisms involved during decay and amplification of the turbulent flow, we further analyse the turbulent kinetic energy distribution and its budgets terms.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures (colour)
Altair: The Brightest Delta Scuti Star
Creators: name: Buzasi, D. L.
name: Bruntt, H.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Retter, A.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Preston, H. L.
name: Mandeville, W. J.
name: Catanzarite, J.
name: Conrow, T.
name: Laher, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of observations of the bright star Altair (alpha Aql) obtained using the star camera on the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Although Altair lies within the delta Scuti instability strip, previous observations have not revealed the presence of oscillations. However, the WIRE observations show Altair to be a low-amplitude (Delta m < 1 ppt) delta Scuti star with at least 7 modes present.
description: 15 pages, 6 figure files (only 5 figures), 2 tables
Synthesis of long-tail nonionic surfactants and their investigation for vesicle formation, drug entrapment, and biocompatibility
Creators: name: Ali, Imdad
name: Saifullah, Salim
name: Ahmed, Farid
name: Ullah, Shafi
name: Imkan, Imkan
name: Hussain, Kashif
name: Imran, Muhammad
name: Shah, Muhammad Raza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Nonionic surfactants have an extraordinary fascination for the researchers in the field of drug delivery for enhancing drug bioavailability and therapeutic efficacy. Here, we are reporting the synthesis, characterization, drug entrapment efficiency (EE), critical micellar concentration, and biocompatibility evaluation of sulphanilamide based new nonionic surfactants. The surfactants were synthesized in single step reactions and characterized through 1H NMR, FT-IR, and mass spectrometric analysis. The surfactants abilities for niosomal vesicles formation were investigated utilizing Ciprofloxacin as a model drug. The drug loaded niosomal suspension of the synthesized surfactants was screened for shape; size, polydispersity index, and drug EE utilizing AFM, Zetasizer, and UV, respectively. The compatibility of the drug in drug loaded vesicles with excipients was assessed utilizing FT-IR spectroscopy. The biocompatibility of the synthesized surfactants was assessed through blood haemolysis and cell cytotoxicity assays. Results of this study showed that the synthesized surfactants were quite haemocompatible and nontoxic in nature and were able to form spherical vesicles. The size and drug EE of the vesicles were dependant on the length of surfactant aliphatic chain. Surfactant with long aliphatic chain was more efficient in entrapping the drug and could be used as a potential vesicular drug delivery vehicle for improving the lipophilic drug’s bioavailability.
Asymptotic behavior of the occupancy density for obliquely reflected Brownian motion in a half-plane and Martin boundary
Creators: name: Ernst, Philip
name: Franceschi, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $π$ be the occupancy density of an obliquely reflected Brownian motion in the half plane and let ($ρ$, $α$) be the polar coordinates of a point in the upper half plane. This work determines the exact asymptotic behavior of $π$($ρ$, $α$) as $ρ$ $\rightarrow$ $\infty$ with $α$ $\in$ (0, $π$). We find explicit functions a, b, c such that $π$($ρ$, $α$) $\sim$ $ρ$$\rightarrow$$\infty$ a($α$)$ρ$ b($α$) e --c($α$)$ρ$. This closes an open problem first stated by Professor J. Michael Harrison in August 2013. We also compute the exact asymptotics for the tail distribution of the boundary occupancy measure and we obtain an explicit integral expression for $π$. We conclude by finding the Martin boundary of the process and giving all of the corresponding harmonic functions satisfying an oblique Neumann boundary problem.
The Impact of Oil and Gold Prices Shock on Tehran Stock Exchange: A Copula Approach
Creators: name: Najafabadi, Amir T. Payandeh
name: Qazvini, Marjan
name: Ofoghi, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are several researches that deal with the behavior of SEs and their relationships with different economical factors. These range from papers dealing with this subject through econometrical procedures to statistical methods known as copula. This article considers the impact of oil and gold price on Tehran Stock Exchange market (TSE). Oil and gold are two factors that are essential for the economy of Iran and their price are determined in the global market. The model used in this study is ARIMA-Copula. We used data from January 1998 to January 2011 as training data to find the appropriate model. The cross validation of model is measured by data from January 2011 to June 2011. We conclude that: (i) there is no significant direct relationship between gold price and the TSE index, but the TSE is indirectly influenced by gold price through other factors such as oil; and (ii) the TSE is not independent of the volatility in oil price and Clayton copula can describe such dependence structure between TSE and the oil price. Based on the property of Clayton copula, which has lower tail dependency, as the oil price drops, stock index falls. This means that decrease in oil price has an adverse effect on Iranian economy.
Sminthurinus elegans
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Sminthurinus
Sminthurinus elegans

description: Sminthurinus elegans (Fitch, 1863) *
Sminthurus elegans Fitch, 1863: 668.
Sminthurinus elegans – Folsom 1928: 11.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ariège. Cassagne etal. 2004.
Aude. Ussonet Carcanet (Bonnet etal. 1979).
Bouches-du-Rhône. Camargue, dunes de Beynes, eaux saumâtres (Poinsot 1965, 1966b, 1973). — Forêtde Cadarache (Rougon & Rougon 1970). — Cadarache (Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d). — Sansouire à Salin de Badon, Camargue (Bigot & Poinsot-Balaguer 1978; Poinsot-Balaguer 1979). — Plateaudu Petit Arbois (Cortet & Poinsot-Balaguer 1998).
Corse. Poinsot 1970?, 1978.
Essonne. Forêtde Sénart (Ponge 1980, 1993).
Haute-Garonne. Toulouse (Cassagnau 1962a, b). — Auteville (Gers 1982).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Valléed’Aure (Cassagnau 1964a). — Piaud’Engaly (Bonnet etal. 1979). — Pyrénéescentrales (Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004).
Indre. Parc régional de la Brenne (Ponge et al. 2008).
Loir-et-Cher. Forêt près de Salbris (Prat & Massoud 1980).
Nord. Boisdes Asturies près d’Auby (Gillet & Ponge 2003, 2004).
Pyrénées-Orientales. Station de ski de Calmazeille-Formiguères (Gers & Izarra 1983).
Tarn, Aude. Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1965).
Var. Massif des Maures (Poinsot-Balaguer & Kabakibi 1987).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Cassagnau 1965 (écologie, sol); Poinsot 1965, 1966b, 1973; Rougon & Rougon 1970; Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d (irradiation), 1979; Bonnet etal. 1979 (déboisement, reboisement); Prat & Massoud 1980 (sol forestier); Ponge 1980, 1993; Gers 1982 (influences labour ou semis direct); Gers & Izarra 1983 (biocénose); Poinsot-Balaguer & Kabakibi 1987; Cortet & Poinsot- Balaguer 1998 (décompositiondelitières); Gillet & Ponge 2003, 2004 (pollution, métaux); Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004; Ponge etal. 2008 (test perturbation environnement).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 404, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Synergistic Activity of Fosfomycin, Ciprofloxacin, and Gentamicin Against Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Di Luca, Mariagrazia
name: Tkhilaishvili, Tamta
name: Trampuz, Andrej
name: Gonzalez Moreno, Mercedes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Escherichia coli
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
subject: antibiotic activity
subject: antibiotic resistance
subject: biofilm-associated infection
subject: clinical isolates
subject: isothermal microcalorimetry
subject: synergism
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Gram-negative (GN) rods cause about 10% periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and represent an increasing challenge due to emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are among the most common cause of GN-PJI and ciprofloxacin is the first-line antibiotic. Due to emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance, we evaluated in vitro the activity of fosfomycin, ciprofloxacin, and gentamicin, alone and in combinations, against E. coli and P. aeruginosa biofilms. Conventional microbiological tests and isothermal microcalorimetry were applied to investigate the anti-biofilm activity of the selected antibiotics against standard laboratory strains as well as clinical strains isolated from patients with prosthetic joint associated infections. The biofilm susceptibility to each antibiotic varied widely among strains, while fosfomycin presented a poor anti-biofilm activity against P. aeruginosa. Synergism of two-pair antibiotic combinations was observed against different clinical strains from both species. Highest synergism was found for the fosfomycin/gentamicin combination against the biofilm of E. coli strains (75%), including a gentamicin-resistant but fosfomycin-susceptible strain, whereas the gentamicin/ciprofloxacin combination presented synergism with higher frequency against the biofilm of P. aeruginosa strains (71.4%). A hypothetical bacteriolysis effect of gentamicin could explain why combinations with this antibiotic seem to be particularly effective. Still, the underlying mechanism of the synergistic effect on biofilms is unknown. In conclusion, combinatorial antibiotic application has shown to be more effective against biofilms compared to monotherapy. Further in vivo and clinical studies are essential to define the potential treatment regimen based on our results.
Spectral domain decomposition method for physically-based rendering of photochromic/electrochromic glass windows
Creators: name: Gbikpi-Benissan, Guillaume
name: Callet, Patrick
name: Magoules, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper covers the time consuming issues intrinsic to physically-based image rendering algorithms. First, glass materials optical properties were measured on samples of real glasses and other objects materials inside an hotel room were characterized by deducing spectral data from multiple trichromatic images. We then present the rendering model and ray-tracing algorithm implemented in Virtuelium, an open source software. In order to accelerate the computation of the interactions between light rays and objects, the ray-tracing algorithm is parallelized by means of domain decomposition method techniques. Numerical experiments show that the speedups obtained with classical parallelization techniques are significantly less significant than those achieved with parallel domain decomposition methods.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1912.05494
Experimental Challenges for Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Pospelov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of a new fundamental scale may lead to modified dispersion relations for particles at high energies. Such modifications seem to be realized with the Planck scale in certain descriptions of quantum gravity. We apply effective field theory to this problem and identify dimension 5 operators that would lead to cubic modifications of dispersion relations for Standard Model particles. We also discuss other issues related to this approach including various experimental bounds on the strength of these interactions. Further we sketch a scenario where mixing of these operators with dimensions 3 and 4 due to quantum effects is minimal.
description: QTS3 proceedings; review of hep-ph/0301124 plus extended discussion
Additional file 23 of Conversion between 100-million-year-old duplicated genes contributes to rice subspecies divergence
Creators: name: Wei, Chendan
name: Wang, Zhenyi
name: Wang, Jianyu
name: Teng, Jia
name: Shen, Shaoqi
name: Xiao, Qimeng
name: Bao, Shoutong
name: Feng, Yishan
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Li, Yuxian
name: Sun, Sangrong
name: Yue, Yuanshuai
name: Wu, Chunyang
name: Wang, Yanli
name: Zhou, Tianning
name: Xu, Wenbo
name: Yu, Jigao
name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Jinpeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 23: Fig. S9. Homologous dot plot between GJ and Setaria italica. The best, secondary, and other matched homologous gene pairs output by Blast were dotploted by red, blue, and gray colors in this figure.
Diagnosis of Metal Hypersensitivity in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report
Creators: name: Schoon, Janosch
name: Ort, Melanie J.
name: Huesker, Katrin
name: Geissler, Sven
name: Rakow, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: T cell subsets
subject: allergy diagnostics
subject: arthroplasty
subject: delayed type hypersensitivity
subject: lymphocyte transformation test
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions are considered infrequent complications in arthroplasty, but have been recognized to be associated with devastating morbidity and substantial decrease in quality of life of affected patients. Chronic inflammation of artificial joints and associated loss of peri-implant bone often require revision surgery. Methods for the diagnosis of implant-related DTH are available but infrequently considered to the full extent. Sequential diagnostics based on exclusion of septic complications, local and systemic metal level determination, lymphocyte transformation testing (LTT), and local T cell subset analysis are required for an unequivocal DTH diagnosis. Here, we report on a patient with a history of chronic rheumatoid arthritis and an unfavorable outcome of unilateral knee arthroplasty. This case illustrates pitfalls and difficulties in the course of recurrent inflammation following joint replacement. In the early course, suspicion of low-grade bacterial infection led to three two-stage revisions. Afterwards, the joint was proven to be sterile. However, metal level quantification revealed release of especially cobalt and chromium from the joint, LTT indicated persisting cobalt and nickel sensitization and subset analysis of T cells from the synovium suggested DTH as a root cause for the inflammatory symptoms. This report aims to recommend the depicted diagnostic algorithm as an adequate tool for future DTH detection. Yet, systemic to local subset ratios for effector memory and regulatory T cells should be derived from sufficient patient numbers to establish it as a diagnostic marker. Moreover, future prospects regarding implant-related DTH diagnostics are discussed. Therapeutic options for the portrayed patient are proposed, considering pharmaceutical, cell-therapeutic and surgical aspects. Patients who experience peri-implant inflammation but do not have obvious mechanical or infectious problems remain a diagnostic challenge and are at high risk of being treated inadequately. Since potentially sensitizing materials are regularly used in arthroplasty, it is essential to detect cases of acute DTH-derived inflammation of an artificial joint at early postoperative stages. This would reduce the severity of inflammation-related long-term consequences for affected patients and may avoid unnecessary revision surgery.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy and safety of radiofrequency treatment for improving knee pain and function in knee osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Liu, Jian
name: Wang, Ting
name: Zhu, Zhen-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Forest plots for the assessment of OKS score between the radiofrequency group and control group. At (a) 1-2 weeks, (b) 4 weeks, and (c) 12 weeks. OKS, Oxford knee score; SD, standard deviation; CI, confidence interval. Figure S2. Sensitivity analysis for the assessment of pain scores at 4 weeks after treatment. SD, standard deviation; CI, confidence interval. Table S1. Subgroup analysis of the WMD for pain scores between the RF and control groups at 4 weeks after treatment. Table S2. Subgroup analysis of the WMD for pain scores between the RF and control groups at 12 weeks after treatment.
Self Punishment and Reward Backfill for Deep Q-Learning
Creators: name: Bonyadi, Mohammad Reza
name: Wang, Rui
name: Ziaei, Maryam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement learning agents learn by encouraging behaviours which maximize their total reward, usually provided by the environment. In many environments, however, the reward is provided after a series of actions rather than each single action, leading the agent to experience ambiguity in terms of whether those actions are effective, an issue known as the credit assignment problem. In this paper, we propose two strategies inspired by behavioural psychology to enable the agent to intrinsically estimate more informative reward values for actions with no reward. The first strategy, called self-punishment (SP), discourages the agent from making mistakes that lead to undesirable terminal states. The second strategy, called the rewards backfill (RB), backpropagates the rewards between two rewarded actions. We prove that, under certain assumptions and regardless of the reinforcement learning algorithm used, these two strategies maintain the order of policies in the space of all possible policies in terms of their total reward, and, by extension, maintain the optimal policy. Hence, our proposed strategies integrate with any reinforcement learning algorithm that learns a value or action-value function through experience. We incorporated these two strategies into three popular deep reinforcement learning approaches and evaluated the results on thirty Atari games. After parameter tuning, our results indicate that the proposed strategies improve the tested methods in over 65 percent of tested games by up to over 25 times performance improvement.
Post-TTM Rebound Pyrexia after Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Results in Sterile Inflammation and Apoptosis in Cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: Tong, Giang
name: Garlen, Nalina N. A. Von
name: Wowro, Sylvia J.
name: Lam, Phuong D.
name: Krech, Jana
name: Berger, Felix
name: Schmitt, Katharina R. L.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Targeted temperature management
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction. Fever is frequently observed after acute ischemic events and is associated with poor outcome and higher mortality. Targeted temperature management (TTM) is recommended for neuroprotection in comatose cardiac arrest survivors, but pyrexia after rewarming is proven to be detrimental in clinical trials. However, the cellular mechanisms and kinetics of post- TTM rebound pyrexia remain to be elucidated. Therefore, we investigated the effects of cooling and post-TTM pyrexia on the inflammatory response and apoptosis in a cardiomyocyte ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury model. Methods. HL-1 cardiomyocytes were divided into the following groups to investigate the effect of oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R), hypothermia (33.5°C), and pyrexia (40°C): normoxia controls maintained at 37°C and warmed to 40°C, OGD/R groups maintained at 37°C and cooled to 33.5°C for 24 h with rewarming to 37°C, and OGD/R pyrexia groups further warmed from 37 to 40°C. Caspase-3 and RBM3 were assessed by Western blot and TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β, SOCS3, iNOS, and RBM3 transcriptions by RT-qPCR. Results. OGD-induced oxidative stress (iNOS) in cardiomyocytes was attenuated post-TTM by cooling. Cytokine transcriptions were suppressed by OGD, while reperfusion induced significant TNF-α transcription that was exacerbated by cooling. Significant inductions of TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β, and SOCS3 were observed in noncooled, but not in cooled and rewarmed, OGD/R-injured cardiomyocytes. Further warming to pyrexia induced a sterile inflammatory response in OGD/R-injured groups that was attenuated by previous cooling, but no inflammation was observed in pyrexic normoxia groups. Moreover, cytoprotective RBM3 expression was induced by cooling but suppressed by pyrexia, correlating with apoptotic caspase-3 activation. Conclusion. Our findings show that maintaining a period of post-TTM “therapeutic normothermia” is effective in preventing secondary apoptosis-driven myocardial cell death, thus minimizing the infarct area and further release of mediators of the innate sterile inflammatory response after acute IR injury.
Pulsar PSR B0656+14, the Monogem Ring, and the Origin of the `Knee' in the Primary Cosmic Ray Spectrum
Creators: name: Thorsett, S. E.
name: Benjamin, R. A.
name: Brisken, Walter F.
name: Golden, A.
name: Goss, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Monogem ring is a bright, diffuse, 25-degree-diameter supernova remnant easily visible in soft X-ray images of the sky. Projected within the ring is a young radio pulsar, PSR B0656+14. An association between the remnant and pulsar has been considered, but was seemingly ruled out by the direction and magnitude of the pulsar proper motion and by a distance estimate that placed the pulsar twice as far from Earth as the remnant. Here we show that in fact the pulsar was born very close to the center of the expanding remnant, both in distance and projection. The inferred pulsar and remnant ages are in good agreement. The conclusion that the pulsar and remnant were born in the same supernova explosion is nearly inescapable. The remnant distance and age are in remarkable concordance with the predictions of a model for the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in which the `knee' feature is produced by a single dominant source.
description: 4 pages, to appear in the Astrophys. J. Lett. Full size color figure can be found at http://www.thorsett.org/research
Sminthurinus niger sensu Stach 1956
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Sminthurinus
Sminthurinus niger

description: Sminthurinus niger (Lubbock, 1867) sensu Stach 1956 *
Sminthurus niger Lubbock, 1867: 297.
Sminthurinus niger – Börner 1900: 615. — Stach 1956: 108.
Les collembolesde France
DISTRIBUTION. — Ariège. Massif del’Arize, 400- 1400 m (Deharveng & Lek 1995, Sminthurides niger). — Cassagne et al. 2004. — Forêtde Freychinède, 1350 m (Lek-Ang etal. 2007).
Aude. Ussonet Carcanet (Bonnet etal. 1977, 1979).
Haute-Garonne. Auteville (Gers 1982). — Gar-Cagire près de Saint-Gaudens (Salmon etal. 2010).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Piaud’Engaly (Bonnet etal. 1977, 1979). — Hautevalléedel’Aureetmassif du Néouvielle (Lauga-Reyrel & Lauga 1995).
Landes. Roquefort (Jeannenot 1957).
Nièvre. Parcrégionaldu Morvan (Ponge etal. 2003).
Nord. Lille (Moniez 1890a).
Pyrénéescentrales. Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004.
Pyrénées-Orientales. Forêt de hêtres dela Massane, 630 m, près de Banyuls-sur-Mer (Izarra 1980). — Station de ski de Calmazeille- Formiguères (Gers & Izarra 1983).
Sud-Ouest de la France. Surtout en montagne (Cassagnau 1961). Tarn, Aude. Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1965).
Tarn. Sidobre (Izarra 1969). — Bonnet etal. 1972.
Vendée. Île-d’Yeu (Denis 1922a).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Cassagnau 1965 (écologie, sol); Bonnet etal. 1972 (écologie, muscicoles), 1977, 1979 (déboisement, reboisement); Gers 1982 (influences labour ou semis direct); Gers & Izarra 1983 (biocénose); Deharveng & Lek 1995 (Sminthurides niger); Cassagne etal. 2003, 2004; Ponge etal. 2003 (bioindicateur); Lek-Ang etal. 2007; Salmon etal. 2010 (diversité, peuplement, endémisme).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on pages 404-405, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
The Role of Boundary Conditions in Solving Finite-Energy, Two-Body, Bound-State Bethe-Salpeter Equations
Creators: name: Mainland, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The difficulties that typically prevent numerical solutions from being obtained to finite-energy, two-body, bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equations can often be overcome by expanding solutions in terms of basis functions that obey the boundary conditions. The method discussed here for solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation requires only that the equation can be Wick rotated and that the two angular variables associated with rotations in three-dimensional space can be separated, properties that are possessed by many Bethe-Salpeter equations including all two-body, bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equations in the ladder approximation. The efficacy of the method is demonstrated by calculating finite-energy solutions to the partially-separated Bethe-Salpeter equation describing the Wick-Cutkosky model when the constituents do not have equal masses.
description: 18 pages
Additional file 1 of High-throughput microarray reveals the epitranscriptome-wide landscape of m6A-modified circRNA in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhao, Wei
name: Liu, Jingwen
name: Wu, Jie
name: Ma, Xiaozhou
name: Wang, Xi
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: Han, Zhe
name: Yang, Jianming
name: Cui, Yameng
name: Hu, Xin
name: Deng, Jiayin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Methods for fusing uncertain results obtained from different models in accident reconstruction
Creators: name: Tiefang Zou
name: Fenglin He
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Considering that almost all existing solutions of fusing different reconstructed results require experts’ opinions and the issue of how to fuse probabilistic results and mixed results has not been discussed. Two solutions are proposed. The first is based on the Monte Carlo Method (FMCM), while the second is based on the Sub-Interval Technique (FSIT). The method based on FMCM generates sample points according to the distribution of each uncertain result firstly, and then gives out the cumulative distribution function of the final fused result by statistical analysis. The method based on FSIT gets the result fusion interval set according to lower and upper bounds of all interval results and a given length d of each sub-interval firstly, and then calculate the weighted matrix of the result fusion interval. As a result, the cumulative distribution function of the final fused result can also be given out by statistical analysis. Finally, three real accidents are given to demonstrate the methods of FMCM and FSIT, the results of which show that both work well in practice.
Lens space surgeries and a conjecture of Goda and Teragaito
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57R58

description: Using work of Ozsvath and Szabo, we show that if a nontrivial knot in S^3 admits a lens space surgery with slope p, then p <= 4g+3, where g is the genus of the knot. This is a close approximation to a bound conjectured by Goda and Teragaito.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol8/paper27.abs.html Version 3: minor correction to reference [1]
Formation channels of slowly rotating early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Krajnović, Davor
name: Ural, Ugur
name: Kuntschner, Harald
name: Goudfrooij, Paul
name: Wolfe, Michael
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Davies, Roger
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Duc, Pierre-Alain
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Karick, Arna
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Mei, Simona
name: Naab, Thorsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evidence for a diversity of formation processes in early-type galaxies by presenting the first complete volume-limited sample of slow rotators with both integral-field kinematics from the ATLAS3D Project and high spatial resolution photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope. Analysing the nuclear surface brightness profiles of 12 newly imaged slow rotators, we classify their light profiles as core-less, and place an upper limit to the core size of ~10 pc. Considering the full magnitude and volume-limited ATLAS3D sample, we correlate the presence or lack of cores with stellar kinematics, including the proxy for the stellar angular momentum and the velocity dispersion within one half-light radius, stellar mass, stellar age, $α$-element abundance, and age and metallicity gradients. More than half of the slow rotators have core-less light profiles, and they are all less massive than $10^{11}$ Msun. Core-less slow rotators show evidence for counter-rotating flattened structures, have steeper metallicity gradients, and a larger dispersion of gradient values than core slow rotators. Our results suggest that core and core-less slow rotators have different assembly processes, where the former are the relics of massive dissipation-less merging in the presence of central supermassive black holes. Formation processes of core-less slow rotators are consistent with accretion of counter-rotating gas or gas-rich mergers of special orbital configurations, which lower the final net angular momentum of stars, but support star formation. We also highlight core fast rotators as galaxies that share properties of core slow rotators and core-less slow rotators. Formation processes similar to those for core-less slow rotators can be invoked to explain the assembly of core fast rotators, with the distinction that these processes form or preserve cores.[Abridged]
description: 25 pages, 13 figures, Figure 12 illustrates the main difference between core or core-less and slow or fast rotators; data can be obtained from the Atlas3D survey web site, see http://purl.org/atlas3d
Why digital medicine depends on interoperability
Creators: name: Lehne, Moritz
name: Sass, Julian
name: Essenwanger, Andrea
name: Schepers, Josef
name: Thun, Sylvia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Health care
subject: Health policy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Digital data are anticipated to transform medicine. However, most of today's medical data lack interoperability: hidden in isolated databases, incompatible systems and proprietary software, the data are difficult to exchange, analyze, and interpret. This slows down medical progress, as technologies that rely on these data - artificial intelligence, big data or mobile applications - cannot be used to their full potential. In this article, we argue that interoperability is a prerequisite for the digital innovations envisioned for future medicine. We focus on four areas where interoperable data and IT systems are particularly important: (1) artificial intelligence and big data; (2) medical communication; (3) research; and (4) international cooperation. We discuss how interoperability can facilitate digital transformation in these areas to improve the health and well-being of patients worldwide.
Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroidal and Blue Compact Galaxies
Creators: name: Lanfranchi, Gustavo A.
name: Matteucci, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the chemical evolution of Dwarf Spheroidal (dSph) and Blue Compact Galaxies (BCGs) by means of comparison between the predictions of chemical evolution models and several observed abundance ratios. Detailed models with up to date nucleosynthesis taking into account the role played by supernovae of different types (II, Ia) were developed for both types of galaxies allowing us to follow the evolution of several chemical elements. The models are specified by the prescriptions of the star formation (SF) and galactic wind efficiencies chosen to reproduce the main features of these galaxies. We also investigated a possible connection in the evolution of dSph and BCGs and compared the predictions of the models to the abundance ratios observed in Damped Lyman alpha Systems (DLAs). The main conclusions are: i) the observed distribution of [alpha/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] in dSph is mainly a result of the SF rate coupled with the wind efficiency; ii) a low SF efficiency and a high wind efficiency are required to reproduce the observational data for dSph; iii) the low gas content of these galaxies is the result of the combined action of gas consumption by SF and gas removal by galactic winds; iv) the BCGs abundance ratios are reproduced by models with 2 to 7 bursts of SF with low efficiencies ; v) the low values of N/O observed in BCGs are the natural result of a bursting SF; vi) a connection between dSph and BCGs in an unified evolutionary scenario is unlikely; vii) the models for the dSph and BCGs imply different formation scenarios for the DLAs; viii) a suitable amount of primary N produced in massive stars can be perhaps an explanation for the low plateau in the [N/$α$] distribution observed in DLAs, if real.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Optical Properties of faint FIRST Variable Radio Sources
Creators: name: de Vries, W. H.
name: Becker, R. H.
name: White, R. L.
name: Helfand, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sample of 123 radio sources that exhibit significant variations at 1.4 GHz on a seven year base-line has been created using FIRST VLA B-array data from 1995 and 2002 on a strip at dec=0 near the south Galactic cap. This sample spans the range of radio flux densities from ~2 to 1000 mJy. It presents both in size and radio flux density range a unique starting point for variability studies of galaxies and quasars harboring lower luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We find, by comparing our variable and non-variable control samples to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey the following: 1) The quasar fraction of both the variable and non-variable samples declines as a function of declining radio flux density levels; 2) our variable sample contains a consistently higher fraction of quasars than the non-variable control sample, irrespective of radio flux; 3) the variable sources are almost twice as likely to be retrieved from the optical SDSS data than the non-variable ones; 4) based on relative numbers, we estimate that quasars are about five times more likely to harbor a variable radio source than are galaxies; and 5) there does not appear to be any significant optical color offset between the two samples, even though the suggestive trend for sources to be bluer when variable has been detected before and may be real. This leads us to conclude that both radio variability and radio flux density levels, in combination with accurate optical information, are important discriminators in the study of (radio) variability of galaxies. The latter start to dominate the source counts below about 20 mJy. In any case, variability appears to be an intrinsic property of radio sources, and is not limited to quasars. Radio variability at low flux density levels may offer a unique tool in AGN unification studies.
description: 22 pages, 10 color figures. Accepted for publication in AJ, May issue
Direct Measurement of the g-Factor of Composite Fermions
Creators: name: Schulze-Wischeler, F.
name: Mariani, E.
name: Hohls, F.
name: Haug, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The activation gap $Δ$ of the fractional quantum Hall states at constant fillings $ν=2/3$ and 2/5 has been measured as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field $B$. A linear dependence of $Δ$ on $B$ is observed while approaching the spin polarization transition. This feature allows a direct measurement of the $g$-factor of composite fermions which appears to be heavily renormalized by interactions and strongly sensitive to the electronic filling factor.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures Changed content: Fokus more on g-factors (and less on other details)
Note Lucane
Creators: name: De Martino, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: CONTESTI dedicates the Readings section of this issue to the essay by Ernesto de Martino, Note Lucane, published in Società, VI (1950), n. 4, which is part of the researches subsequently published in Sud e magia (1959) and in Furore, simbolo, valore (1962). This writing is relevant for the way in which the Neapolitan anthropologist describes, in particular, the ways of being there, of constituting the rural presence. Presence, for de Martino, is the ability to plan, to possess, to singularize oneself. The phenomenology of the crisis of this presence is investigated through an analysis of the settlement of the Rabata di Tricarico, in Basilicata, Italy.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Pseudodendrothrips mori
Creators: name: Rasool, Iftekhar
name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Aldhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Pseudodendrothrips
Pseudodendrothrips mori

description: Pseudodendrothrips mori (Niwa)
 Belothrips mori Niwa, 1908: 180.
 Described originally from Japan, with the holotype now unknown, this species has been re-described by Stannard (1968) and Kudo (1984). It is closely related to P. bhattii from which it can be distinguished by the pale body with head and fore wings pale (Alavi et al. 2014; Masumoto & Okajima 2017). Moreover, the female of P. mori is also similar to the female of P. darci, a species from northern Australia and southeast Asia, although that is distinguished by the presence of a pair of stout pointed setae laterally on abdominal segment IX (Mound 1999). In addition to the character states indicated in the key above, it seems that P. mori and P. bhattii differ from many species of this genus (including aegyptiacus and stuardoi) in having ocellar setae pair I anterior to or anterolateral to the first ocellus, instead of clearly lateral or even completely absent. Currently P. mori is known from Iran but not from Saudi Arabia. The records of P. mori from Yemen, and also from UAE, require further checking as they are possibly misidentifications of P. stuardoi.
 Material studied. JAPAN, Chiba Narita, female from leaf of Morus bombycis, 7.vi.2015 (M. Masumoto) in ANIC.
description: Published as part of Rasool, Iftekhar, Mound, Laurence A., Soliman, Ahmed M. & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2021, The Dendrothripinae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) of SaudiArabia, withnew records one new species, and revised status of Pseudodendrothrips stuardoi (Moulton), pp. 219-227 in Zootaxa 4999 (3) on pages 223-224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5118930
Sminthurinus reticulatus Cassagnau 1964
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Katiannidae
Sminthurinus
Sminthurinus reticulatus

description: Sminthurinus reticulatus Cassagnau, 1964 **
Sminthurinus reticulatus Cassagnau, 1964a: 481.
DISTRIBUTION. — Aude. Flanc sud de la Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1964a, 1965).
Haute-Garonne. Rangueil, Toulouse (Nayrolles 1988, S. aureus).
Pyrénées-Orientales. Forêt de hêtres de la Massane, 630 m, près de Banyuls-sur-Mer (Izarra 1980).
Tarn, Aude. Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1965).
Tarn. Sidobre (Izarra 1969).
CHÉTOTAXIE, MORPHO- ANATOMIE. — Nayrolles 1988 (chétotaxie, pattes).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Cassagnau 1965 (écologie, sol).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 405, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272