cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unfolding ‘big’ problems of small water system performance: a qualitative study in British Columbia
Creators: name: Sarin Raj Pokhrel
name: Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha
name: Rodriguez, Manuel J.
name: Kasun Hewage
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: In this study, small water systems (SWSs) serve a population of less than 5,000. This paper includes responses to a qualitative questionnaire from 66 SWSs (33% out of 200 SWSs) that identify the major problems within these systems across British Columbia (BC). Focusing on four interrelated components of SWSs (water quality issues, treatment and disinfection, water quality monitoring and water governance challenges), the identified major problems include: insufficient water monitoring programs; inadequate treatment prior to disinfection; insufficient funds to build water infrastructure; high turbidity; iron and manganese in source water; microbial contamination, especially in distribution networks; and high disinfection by-product formation. Based on the findings, the authors recommend implementing efficient water policies suitable for SWSs and strengthening funding support from governments. Developing long-term plans for effective management of water resources, while building strong communication among relevant stakeholders (ie municipal managers, operators and consumers), can also play a significant role in ensuring safe drinking water supplies. The findings can help BC policymakers understand the major problems of SWSs and their root causes.
The Economics of the Interaction of GMO and Biofuel Policies in the European Union
Creators: name: Venus, Thomas J.
name: Drabik, Dusan
name: Venus, Thomas J.
name: Drabik, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: genetically modified organisms
subject: biofuel policies
subject: biodiesel
subject: New Plant Breding Technology

description: The objective of this paper is to analyze the interaction effects of labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the EU biodiesel market. On the one hand, the EU biofuel mandate reduces the area available for food cultivation. On the other hand, strict GMO regulations hamper the use of GM crops in EU Member States. Our motivation comes from the present political discussion of how to regulate a number of new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) in the European Union. In case the European Commission considers NPBTs as conventional breeding technique, several agricultural markets will be affected differently than when NPBTs fall under the scope of the genetically modified organism (GMO) regulation. This regulation decision affects labeling (and hence marketing) of NPBTs. We simulate the introduction of oilseed plants produced from NPBTs on the biodiesel market. We assume that rapeseed from NPBTs are more productive than conventional breeding techniques. We consider the case of rapeseed to show the implications of GM labeling on a crop that can be used for food, feed, and fuel. Rapeseed oil obtained from crushing rapeseed can be used for human or biofuel consumption while the byproduct rapeseed extraction meal (henceforth: meal) is mainly used as protein feed for animals (e.g., cows and cattle). We develop a theoretical model that links prices of rapeseed as well as rapeseed oil and meal, and also links the quantities through supply of oil and meal and demand for oil, meal, and biodiesel. Our preliminary results show that regulating NPBTs under the GM regulation reduces the inflationary effects on food prices of the biofuel policy. However, this reduced price effect is not for free. By comparing the welfare effects of the three scenarios, we show which consumers and producers benefit and loose from the GMO policy decision.
Charged Current Universality in the MSSM
Creators: name: Kurylov, A.
name: Ramsey-Musolf, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the complete one-loop contributions to low-energy charged current weak interaction observables in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We obtain the constraints on the MSSM parameter space which arise when precision low-energy charged current data are analyzed in tandem with measurements of the muon anomaly. While the data allow the presence of at least one light neutralino, they also imply a pattern of mass splittings among first and second generation sleptons and squarks which contradict predictions of widely used models for supersymmetry breaking mediation.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Transformation of the food system in Nigeria and female participation in the Non-Farm Economy (NFE).
Creators: name: Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis
name: Adjognon, Serge
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis
name: Adjognon, Serge
name: Reardon, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Development

description: This paper uses a recently available panel dataset from Nigeria to explore some implications of the rapidly transforming food system in Sub Saharan Africa. We find that urban and rural households in Nigeria have rapidly transforming diets. Consumption has diversified greatly, shifting beyond self-sufficiency into heavy reliance on food purchases and with a heavy shift into consumption of processed foods. We find that the growing demand for processed foods has important implications for the midstream (processing and wholesale) and downstream (retail) sector of food systems. The rise of these two segments (on the supply side) paralleling the rise of processed and prepared foods (on the demand side) creates opportunities for employment and income generation. Furthermore the availability of processed foods (to serve as substitutes for home food processing and preparation, usually a heavy use of time for women in traditional settings) appears to have reduced women’s time constraint and freed up time for them to engage more in non-farm activities in the local area – just as it did a half century ago in the US. These findings demonstrate the potential benefits from the transforming foods systems that could increase employment and improve household welfare in developing countries.
LSTM-MSNet: Leveraging Forecasts on Sets of Related Time Series with Multiple Seasonal Patterns
Creators: name: Bandara, Kasun
name: Bergmeir, Christoph
name: Hewamalage, Hansika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generating forecasts for time series with multiple seasonal cycles is an important use-case for many industries nowadays. Accounting for the multi-seasonal patterns becomes necessary to generate more accurate and meaningful forecasts in these contexts. In this paper, we propose Long Short-Term Memory Multi-Seasonal Net (LSTM-MSNet), a decomposition based, unified prediction framework to forecast time series with multiple seasonal patterns. The current state of the art in this space are typically univariate methods, in which the model parameters of each time series are estimated independently. Consequently, these models are unable to include key patterns and structures that may be shared by a collection of time series. In contrast, LSTM-MSNet is a globally trained Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM), where a single prediction model is built across all the available time series to exploit the cross series knowledge in a group of related time series. Furthermore, our methodology combines a series of state-of-the-art multiseasonal decomposition techniques to supplement the LSTM learning procedure. In our experiments, we are able to show that on datasets from disparate data sources, like e.g. the popular M4 forecasting competition, a decomposition step is beneficial, whereas in the common real-world situation of homogeneous series from a single application, exogenous seasonal variables or no seasonal preprocessing at all are better choices. All options are readily included in the framework and allow us to achieve competitive results for both cases, outperforming many state-of-the-art multi-seasonal forecasting methods.
Additional file 1 of Improving cell survival and engraftment in vivo via layer-by-layer nanocoating of hESC-derived RPE cells
Creators: name: Ru, Liyan
name: Wu, Nan
name: Wei, Keyu
name: Zeng, Yuxiao
name: Li, Qiyou
name: Weng, Chuanhuang
name: Ren, Chunge
name: Ren, Bangqi
name: Huo, Da
name: Li, Yijian
name: Hu, Xisu
name: Qin, Zuoxin
name: Fang, Yajie
name: Zhu, Chuhong
name: Liu, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Generation of hESC-RPE cells and effects of layer-by-layer assembly coated on RPE cells (A) A schematic overview of differentiation of hESC into RPE cells. The differentiation from hESC to RPE cells requires three steps: super-confluence, acquired pigment foci, and excision. RPE cells are the cells that diffuse from the excised pigment foci. (B) Calcien AM/PI (propidium iodide) assay showed cell viability of LbL-RPE cells when treated with (gelatin)2/alginate. Lower magnification image was observed by fluorescence microscope. Calcien AM (green) showed viable cells, while PI (red) showed dead cells. (Cell viability = (Total cells - number of dead cells)/Total cells × 100%; cell viability was ~ 95.6%). Scale bar: 200 μm. (C) Growth states of LbL-RPE and untreated RPE cells on days 4, 7, 9, and 18. Scale bar: 200 μm. (D) Phase contrast images of LbL-RPE and untreated RPE cells at 21 and 30 days after differentiation. Scale bar: 100 μm. Figure S2. Survival assessment of RPE and LbL-RPE cells in vivo (A-D) Immunofluorescence staining observed by confocal microscopy. Transplanted cells (pre-labeled with Dil (red)) expressed human mitochondria (green) or RPE65 (green) markers. Transplanted LbL-RPE cells remained at the injection site at 5 and 21 wk after surgery (arrowhead). Only a limited number of untreated RPE cells remained in graft area at 5 and 21 wk after surgery (arrowhead). Arrows indicated viable transplanted RPE or LbL-RPE cells which were human mitochondria or RPE65, Hoechst and Dil positive. Scale bar: 50 μm. Figure S3. Immunogenicity of RPE cells or LbL-RPE cells In Vivo (A-D) Photomicrographs showed the labeling of RCS rats retinal sections at 5 and 21 wk after transplantation. Anti-Iba1/CD3 antibody (green); many Iba1+ cells (arrow) invaded the INL/ONL after RPE transplants, but were poorly labeled after LbL-RPE transplants (RPE and LbL-RPE cells were pre-labeled with Dil (red)). There were numerous CD3+ cells (arrow) which infiltrated in the RPE retinas. CD3+ cells were very sparse in LbL-RPE transplants. Iba1+ cells in the retina were also observed in the control retina section (sham) that injected only with culture medium (without RPE/LbL-RPE cells), but there were no CD3+ cells. Scale bars: 50 μm. Supplemental experimental procedures.
Dasineura Rondani 1840
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Dasineura

description: 155. Dasineura Rondani, 1840b: 12, 17.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Dasineura luteofusca Rondani, 1840; Dasineura obscura Rondani, 1840.
 TYPE SPECIES: Tipula sisymbrii Schrank, 1803, by subsequent designation (I.C.Z. N., 1998: 246 [Opinion 1911]).
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Gagné (2004: 125)].
FAMILY: CECIDOMYIIDAE.
 REMARKS: The earliest valid type species designation was by Rondani (1856: 200) who selected Dasineura obscura Rondani, 1840. Gagné et al. (1997) applied to the ICZN Commission noting that acceptance of this would upset stability of the well-known name Dasineura. The Commission voted in favor of suppressing the Rondani (1856) designation and fixed Tipula sisymbrii Schrank, 1803 as the type.
 EMENDATIONS: Dasyneura Oken, 1844: 450 (unjustified), n. syn.; Dasynevra Agassiz, 1846b: 117 (unjustified).
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on pages 70-71
Additional file 1 of The Chinese version of the American shoulder and elbow surgeons standardized shoulder assessment form questionnaire, patient self-report section: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation study
Creators: name: Tung-Hee Albert Tie
name: Chih-Kai Hong
name: Illich Chua
name: Fa-Chuan Kuan
name: Su, Wei-Ren
name: Hsu, Kai-Lan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. ASESp Questionnaire.
Page charge of D-branes and its behavior in topologically nontrivial B-fields
Creators: name: Zhou, Jian-Ge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The RR Page charges for the D(2p+1)-branes with B-field in type IIB supergravity are constructed consistently from brane source currents. The resulting Page charges are B-independent in the nontrivial and intricate way. It is found that in topologically trivial B-field the Page charge is conserved, but in the topologically nontrivial B-field it is no longer to be conserved, instead there is a jump between two Page charges defined in each patch, and we interpret this jump as Hanany-Witten effect.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected and reference added
Empirical Evaluations of Preprocessing Parameters' Impact on Predictive Coding's Effectiveness
Creators: name: Chhatwal, Rishi
name: Huber-Fliflet, Nathaniel
name: Keeling, Robert
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Zhao, Haozhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predictive coding, once used in only a small fraction of legal and business matters, is now widely deployed to quickly cull through increasingly vast amounts of data and reduce the need for costly and inefficient human document review. Previously, the sole front-end input used to create a predictive model was the exemplar documents (training data) chosen by subject-matter experts. Many predictive coding tools require users to rely on static preprocessing parameters and a single machine learning algorithm to develop the predictive model. Little research has been published discussing the impact preprocessing parameters and learning algorithms have on the effectiveness of the technology. A deeper dive into the generation of a predictive model shows that the settings and algorithm can have a strong effect on the accuracy and efficacy of a predictive coding tool. Understanding how these input parameters affect the output will empower legal teams with the information they need to implement predictive coding as efficiently and effectively as possible. This paper outlines different preprocessing parameters and algorithms as applied to multiple real-world data sets to understand the influence of various approaches.
description: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Thermal Instability and Magnetic Pressure in the Turbulent ISM
Creators: name: Vazquez-Semadeni, Enrique
name: Gazol, Adriana
name: Passot, Thierry
name: Sanchez-Salcedo, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent results on the nonlinear development of thermal instability in the context of the turbulent atomic interstellar medium (ISM). First, we pre- sent a brief summary of the linear theory, remarking that, in the atomic ISM, the wave mode is stable at small scales. Next, we revisit the growth of isolated entropy perturbations in initially unstable gas, as a function of the ratio $η$ of the cooling to the dynamical crossing times. Third, we consider the evolution of {\it velocity} perturbations. These correspond to the wave mode, and are stable at moderate amplitudes and small scales, as confirmed numerically. Fourth, we consider the behavior of magnetic pressure in turbulent regimes. We propose that recent findings of a poor B-rho correlation at low rho are due to the different B-rho scalings for the slow and fast modes of non- linear MHD waves. This implies that, in fully turbulent regimes, the magnetic field may not be a very efficient source of pressure, and that polytropic de- scriptions of magnetic pressure are probably not adequate. Finally, we discuss simulations of the ISM (and resolution issues) concerned with the possibility of significant amounts of gas being in the ``lukewarm'' temperature range be- tween the warm and cold stable phases. The mass fraction in this range in- creases, and the phase segregation decreases, as smaller scales are considered. We attribute this to the enhanced stability of moderate, adiabatic-like veloc- ity fluctuations with $η\gg 1$, to the recycling of gas from the dense to the diffuse phase by stellar energy injection, and to the magnetic field not being strongly turbulent there, possibly providing additional stability. Final- ly, we suggest that the lukewarm gas can be observationally distinguished through simultaneous determination of two of its thermodynamic variables.
description: 39 pages, 15 figures. Invited talk, to appear in "Simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in astrophysics", eds. T. Passot & E. Falgarone, Springer Lecture Notes in Physics. Extensive modifications in response to referee's report, including a detailed discussion of resolution issues and new simulations. Conclusions unchanged
Additional file 1 of Classification of colorectal carcinoma subtypes based on ferroptosis-associated molecular markers
Creators: name: Yue, Qingfang
name: Zhang, Yuan
name: Wang, Fei
name: Cao, Fei
name: Duan, Xianglong
name: Bai, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of TCGA and GEO sets. N/A, not available; BMI, body mass index. Table S2. The 60 ferroptosis-related genes. Table S3. Correlations between PD-L1 and 49 ferroptosis-associated genes. Supplementary Fig. S1. Principal component analysis showed the distribution of samples in GEO and TCGA datasets. Supplementary Fig. S2. Differences in antitumor drug (sorafenib(a), dasatinib(b) and cytarabine(c)) sensitivity in ferroptosis subclasses of CRC patients. Supplementary Fig. S3. (A) Differences in the tumor mutation burden (TMB) in ferroptosis-associated subtypes in patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC). (B) Differences in microsatellite instability (MSI) scores in ferroptosis-associated subtypes in patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC).
Ability of chicken protein hydrolysate to lower serum cholesterol through its bile acid binding activity
Creators: name: Pei-Ting Wu
name: Yie-Qie Lau
name: Fan-Jhen Dai
name: Jia-Ting Lin
name: Hung-Yuan Kao
name: Chi-Fai Chau
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this study, chicken breast meat was hydrolyzed enzymatically to obtain chicken meat hydrolysate with its molecular weight to a large extent (98%) less than 3000 Da. The hydrolysate was capable of binding bile acids dose-dependently. The potential hypolipidemic effect of this hydrolysate was evaluated in high-fat-fed hamsters. Total free amino acids in the hydrolysate were seven times higher than those in the chicken meat. As compared with high-fat control, the inclusion of hydrolysate resulted in decreased concentrations of serum TG (by 16–34%) and TC (by 6–20%). The animals fed hydrolysate at a high dose exhibited 30% lower serum LDL-C levels and maintained a higher ratio of HDL-C/LDL-C (0.54) than those fed casein (0.36). Moreover, higher levels of hydrolysate inclusion were associated with increased outputs of fecal bile acid and total lipid, suggesting an association between hypocholesterolemic potential and bile acid binding capacity of the chicken hydrolysate.
Regulatory Failure and Risk in Aquaculture: A case study of the Irish Oyster Industry
Creators: name: Renwick, Alan
name: Renwick, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Globally aquaculture is seen as an increasingly important component in the quest to achieve food security in light of such drivers as a decline in capture fisheries, an expanding global population and climatic change. However, it is widely recognised that in many countries poor regulation acts as a major constraint on the development of the sector. This paper, using the Irish oyster industry as an example highlights not only how regulation can be seen as a significant source of risk in itself to aquaculture, but also how it also increases the level of other risks to the successful development of the sector. Mechanisms for increasing the resilience of the sector by dealing with these risks are reviewed and two possible approaches (supporting collaborative action and backing selected producers) to strengthening the structure of the industry are considered. Both approaches are shown to have strengths and weaknesses
Learning in Text Streams: Discovery and Disambiguation of Entity and Relation Instances
Creators: name: Maggini, Marco
name: Marra, Giuseppe
name: Melacci, Stefano
name: Zugarini, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a scenario where an artificial agent is reading a stream of text composed of a set of narrations, and it is informed about the identity of some of the individuals that are mentioned in the text portion that is currently being read. The agent is expected to learn to follow the narrations, thus disambiguating mentions and discovering new individuals. We focus on the case in which individuals are entities and relations, and we propose an end-to-end trainable memory network that learns to discover and disambiguate them in an online manner, performing one-shot learning, and dealing with a small number of sparse supervisions. Our system builds a not-given-in-advance knowledge base, and it improves its skills while reading unsupervised text. The model deals with abrupt changes in the narration, taking into account their effects when resolving co-references. We showcase the strong disambiguation and discovery skills of our model on a corpus of Wikipedia documents and on a newly introduced dataset, that we make publicly available.
Dexiosoma Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Dexiosoma

description: 159. Dexiosoma Rondani, 1856: 85.
 ORIGINALLY INCLUDED SPECIES: Musca canina Fabricius, 1781 (as “ Dexia Canina Fabr. ”).
 TYPE SPECIES: Musca canina Fabricius, 1781 (as “ Dexia Canina Fabr. ”), by original designation.
 CURRENT STATUS: Valid genus [teste Herting & Dely-Draskovits (1993: 351)].
FAMILY: TACHINIDAE.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 72
Empirical Evaluations of Active Learning Strategies in Legal Document Review
Creators: name: Chhatwal, Rishi
name: Huber-Fliflet, Nathaniel
name: Keeling, Robert
name: Zhang, Jianping
name: Zhao, Haozhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One type of machine learning, text classification, is now regularly applied in the legal matters involving voluminous document populations because it can reduce the time and expense associated with the review of those documents. One form of machine learning - Active Learning - has drawn attention from the legal community because it offers the potential to make the machine learning process even more effective. Active Learning, applied to legal documents, is considered a new technology in the legal domain and is continuously applied to all documents in a legal matter until an insignificant number of relevant documents are left for review. This implementation is slightly different than traditional implementations of Active Learning where the process stops once achieving acceptable model performance. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) to question whether Active Learning actually is a superior learning methodology and (ii) to highlight the ways that Active Learning can be most effectively applied to real legal industry data. Unlike other studies, our experiments were performed against large data sets taken from recent, real-world legal matters covering a variety of areas. We conclude that, although these experiments show the Active Learning strategy popularly used in legal document review can quickly identify informative training documents, it becomes less effective over time. In particular, our findings suggest this most popular form of Active Learning in the legal arena, where the highest-scoring documents are selected as training examples, is in fact not the most efficient approach in most instances. Ultimately, a different Active Learning strategy may be best suited to initiate the predictive modeling process but not to continue through the entire document review.
description: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Peroral administration of beauverolides allows their transport into the peripheral blood and urine
Creators: name: Heneberg, Petr
name: Jegorov, Alexandr
name: Šimek, Petr
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Beauverolides are hydrophobic cyclodepsipeptides that inhibit sterol O-acyltransferases and calmodulin, thereby reducing senile plaques in Alzheimer’s disease and preventing foam cell formation in atherosclerosis. Other sterol O-acyltransferase inhibitors suffer from low bioavailability, and evidence of the distribution of beauverolides in bodily fluids is lacking. We aimed to determine the optimal formulation of beauverolides for administration to experimental animals and to determine if the orally administered beauverolides could cross the gastrointestinal barrier and be secreted in urine. We found that beauverolides formed gels in aqueous solutions and we developed a formula for their peroral administration. Administration of the beauverolide gel pellets to experimental mice revealed that beauverolides cross the gastrointestinal barrier, circulate untouched in the blood, and are excreted in the urine. Using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses, we show that the administered beauverolides circulate in mouse blood and are excreted from the body 24 h after their administration.
Modori reaction in blue grenadier and Alaska pollock frozen surimi and myosin degradation behavior upon addition of protease inhibitors
Creators: name: Yamada, Koki
name: Matsumiya, Masahiro
name: Fukushima, Hideto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The changes in protein degradation behavior in fish surimi upon addition of different protease inhibitors were examined, with the aim of identifying the proteases involved in the modori reaction in different species and grades of fish and at different temperatures. The modori reactions at 40, 50, and 60°C in four frozen surimi samples: grades FA and KA blue grenadier and grades SA and RA Alaska pollock were investigated. In the grade FA blue grenadier surimi, the modori reaction primarily involved metalloproteases at 40°C, serine proteases and cysteine proteases at 50°C, and cysteine proteases at 60°C. The reaction in the grade KA blue grenadier surimi involved multiple proteases at 40°C, and metalloproteases and cysteine proteases at 50 and 60°C. In the Alaska pollock surimi, multiple proteases were suggested to be equally involved in the modori reaction at 40, 50, and 60°C in both grades SA and RA samples.
Evaluating the effectiveness of perceptual treatments on sharp curves: a driving simulator study
Creators: name: Calvi, Alessandro
name: D’Amico, Fabrizio
name: Ciampoli, Luca Bianchini
name: Ferrante, Chiara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: Speed has been identified as a key risk factor in road crashes, influencing the occurrence of a road crash and its severity. Excessive speeding is particularly dangerous on highway curves, and under critical traffic and environmental conditions. Various measures have been identified to be effective in managing and controlling vehicle speed. Among these, low-cost perceptual measures have been considered to be effective tools, as they generally increase the risks perceived by drivers, or alter speed perception, and consequently lead the drivers to reduce their speeds. The overall aim of this study is 1) to investigate the effectiveness of a set of perceptual treatments in reducing the driver’s speed along a sharp curve of an existing rural road that is characterized by high crash rates, and 2) to identify the most effective measure(s) to implement in the field to counteract the problem of speeding. Methods: A driving simulator study was developed and four speed-reducing measures (white and red peripheral transverse bars (PTB), optical speed bars (OSB) and chevrons) were tested on a sample of forty-two drivers. The driving speeds recorded using the treatments tests were compared to a baseline condition (treatments were not applied). Subjective measures were also collected; these included the driver’s evaluation of the desired speed, risk perception, road legibility, and markings comprehension, as based on screenshot pictures that represented the simulated configurations of the treatments. Results: The outcomes demonstrated an overall effectiveness of the perceptual treatments. Particularly, red PTB were associated with a speed-reduction of up to 12 km/h along the curve under study. An analysis of the questionnaires revealed that drivers did not fully comprehend the relevant message of PTB. Despite that, the drivers did unconsciously reduce their speeds; this confirms the effectiveness of such perceptual treatments based on the optical illusion that entices drivers to reduce their speeds. Conclusions: The findings demonstrated the effectiveness of the perceptual treatments, especially red PTB, in enticing drivers to reduce their speeds whilst approaching the sharp curve under study or driving through the curve.
Orientifolds of String Theory Melvin backgrounds
Creators: name: Angelantonj, C.
name: Dudas, E.
name: Mourad, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of type I strings on Melvin backgrounds, with a single or multiple twisted two-planes. We construct two inequivalent types of orientifold models that correspond to (non-compact) irrational versions of Scherk-Schwarz type breaking of supersymmetry. In the first class of vacua, D-branes and O-planes are no longer localized in space-time but are smeared along the compact Melvin coordinate with a characteristic profile. On the other hand, the second class of orientifolds involves O-planes and D-branes that are both rotated by an angle proportional to the twist. In case of ``multiple Melvin spaces'', some amount of supersymmetry is recovered if the planes are twisted appropriately and part of the original O-planes are transmuted into new ones. The corresponding boundary and crosscap states are determined.
description: 34 pages, LaTeX
Development of edible gelatin composite films enriched with polyphenol loaded nanoemulsions as chicken meat packaging material
Creators: name: Khan, Muhammad Rehan
name: Sadiq, Muhammad Bilal
name: Zaffar Mehmood
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: In this study, food grade nanoemulsions (NEs) were prepared with polyphenols (curcumin, gallic acid and quercetin); NEs were incorporated into the film forming solution at various concentrations (5%, 10% and 20% v/w of gelatin plus carrageenan). Moisture content and water solubility of film samples decreased with increasing NE concentration. Curcumin NE-loaded gelatin composite films exhibited highest antioxidant activity (27.20 ± 0.02, 45.9 ± 0 and 60.51 ± 0.36%) at 5%, 10% and 20% NE concentrations, respectively. Curcumin NE-loaded composite gelatin films also exhibited antimicrobial activity against both Salmonella typhimurium (6.97 ± 0.03 mm) and Escherichia coli (7.47 ± 0.09 mm). The chemical finger printing of films was evaluated by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Curcumin NE-loaded films showed excellent results by increasing the shelf-life of fresh broiler meat up to 17 days in comparison to control (10 days), hence can be used as alternative to conventional packaging.
Global classical small-data solutions for a three-dimensional Keller--Segel--Navier--Stokes system modeling coral fertilization
Creators: name: Htwe, Myowin
name: Pang, Peter Y. H.
name: Wang, Yifu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B65, 35B40, 35K55, 92C17, 35Q92

description: We are concerned with the Keller--Segel--Navier--Stokes system \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} ρ_t+u\cdot\nablaρ=Δρ-\nabla\cdot(ρ\mathcal{S}(x,ρ,c)\nabla c)-ρm, &\!\! (x,t)\in Ω\times (0,T), \\ m_t+u\cdot\nabla m=Δm-ρm, &\!\! (x,t)\in Ω\times (0,T), \\ c_t+u\cdot\nabla c=Δc-c+m, & \!\! (x,t)\in Ω\times (0,T), \\ u_t+ (u\cdot \nabla) u=Δu-\nabla P+(ρ+m)\nablaϕ,\quad \nabla\cdot u=0, &\!\! (x,t)\in Ω\times (0,T) \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} subject to the boundary condition $(\nablaρ-ρ\mathcal{S}(x,ρ,c)\nabla c)\cdot ν\!\!=\!\nabla m\cdot ν=\nabla c\cdot ν=0, u=0$ in a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb R^3$. It is shown that the corresponding problem admits a globally classical solution with exponential decay properties under the hypothesis that $\mathcal{S}\in C^2(\overlineΩ\times [0,\infty)^2)^{3\times 3}$ satisfies $|\mathcal{S}(x,ρ,c)|\leq C_S $ for some $C_S>0$, and the initial data satisfy certain smallness conditions.
Patchworking singular algebraic curves, non-Archimedean amoebas and enumerative geometry
Creators: name: Shustin, Eugenii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H15; 12J25; 14H20; 14M25; 14N10

description: We prove a new patchworking theorem for singular algebraic curves, which states the following. Given a complex toric threefold $Y$ which fibers over ${\mathbb C}$ with a reduced reducible zero fiber $Y_0$ and other fibers $Y_t$ smooth, and given a reduced curve $C_0\subset Y_0$, the theorem provides a sufficient condition for the existence of a one-parametric family of curves $C_t\subset Y_t$, which induces an equisingular deformation for some singular points of $C_0$ and certain prescribed deformations for the other singularities. As application we give a comment on a recent theorem by G. Mikhalkin on enumeration of nodal curves on toric surfaces via non-Archimedean amoebas [arXiv:math.AG/0209253]. Namely, using our patchworking theorem, we establish link between nodal curves over the field of complex Puiseux series and their non-Archimedean amoebas, what has been done by Mikhalkin in a different way. We discuss also the case of curves with a cusp as well as real nodal curves.
description: 50 pages, 5 figures
Particle-vibration coupling for giant resonances beyond the diagonal approximation
Creators: name: Shen, Shihang
name: Colò, Gianluca
name: Roca-Maza, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A self-consistent particle-vibration coupling (PVC) model without diagonal approximation is presented. The diagonal approximation, that neglects completely the interaction between the doorway states, has been removed by taking into account the interaction between the two particle-holes inside the doorway states. As applications, isoscalar giant monopole, dipole, and quadrupole resonances in 16O are investigated based on the use of Skyrme functionals. The diagonal approximation is found to clearly impact the strength distribution of the giant quadrupole resonance, and the description of the experimental data is improved without this approximation. The impact of the diagonal approximation is analyzed in detail, especially its effect on the eigenenergies and the induced coupling between neutron and proton particle-hole configurations. The latter is a direct and physically sound effect of the improvement on our formalism. The importance of using self-consistently the full effective interaction in the PVC vertex, and the effect of its renormalization via the subtraction method, are also discussed. For completeness, we also analyze the dependence of our results on the Skyrme parametrization.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures
How complex is agricultural economics?
Creators: name: Butler, Allan
name: Butler, Allan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Economics
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Complex Adaptive Systems
subject: Agent-Based Modelling
subject: Literature Survey

description: Recognition that an economy is complex is not new. Frederick von Hayek, for example, made explicit that markets are complex systems in the 1960s. Contemporary proponents of complexity, movement across the sciences including economics, argue that an economy is a complex system in which economic agents (whether consumers, banks, firms or farmers) continually adjust and react to market behaviour of others. A major claim by these 2 proponents is that economics is going through its most profound change in over a hundred years. A further claim is that the neoclassical era in economics, upon which many agricultural economics principles are grounded, is being replaced by the complexity era. Indeed, is there some evidence that concepts such as agent-based modelling path dependency, self-organisation and network analysis used by the complexity movement are making inroads into agricultural economics research? This paper through a survey of literature of leading agricultural economic journals and the online repository, AgEcon Search, seeks to understand the degree that concepts from the complexity movement are emerging in agricultural economics research. Are they merely an adjunct to standard economic modelling or does it represent a more profound change in the way of analysing an economy?
Understanding urban landuse from the above and ground perspectives: a deep learning, multimodal solution
Creators: name: Srivastava, Shivangi
name: Vargas-Muñoz, John E.
name: Tuia, Devis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Landuse characterization is important for urban planning. It is traditionally performed with field surveys or manual photo interpretation, two practices that are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, we aim to automate landuse mapping at the urban-object level with a deep learning approach based on data from multiple sources (or modalities). We consider two image modalities: overhead imagery from Google Maps and ensembles of ground-based pictures (side-views) per urban-object from Google Street View (GSV). These modalities bring complementary visual information pertaining to the urban-objects. We propose an end-to-end trainable model, which uses OpenStreetMap annotations as labels. The model can accommodate a variable number of GSV pictures for the ground-based branch and can also function in the absence of ground pictures at prediction time. We test the effectiveness of our model over the area of Île-de-France, France, and test its generalization abilities on a set of urban-objects from the city of Nantes, France. Our proposed multimodal Convolutional Neural Network achieves considerably higher accuracies than methods that use a single image modality, making it suitable for automatic landuse map updates. Additionally, our approach could be easily scaled to multiple cities, because it is based on data sources available for many cities worldwide.
Cyterea Rondani 1856
Creators: name: O'Hara, James E.
name: Cerretti, Pierfilippo
name: Pape, Thomas
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Venerida
Veneridae
Cyterea

description: 153. Cyterea Rondani, 1856: 161.
 CURRENT STATUS: Unjustified emendation of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794; junior synonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794. New synonymy.
FAMILY: BOMBYLIIDAE.
REMARKS: Name made available as an emendation by virtue of similar spelling changes in two or more names from “th” to “t” in the same work.
description: Published as part of O'Hara, James E., Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Pape, Thomas & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, 3141, pp. 1-268 in Zootaxa 3141 on page 70
Additional file 1 of The risk trajectory of different cardiovascular morbidities associated with chronic kidney disease among patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus: a propensity score-matched cohort analysis
Creators: name: Chia-Ter Chao
name: Szu-Ying Lee
name: Jui Wang
name: Kuo-Liong Chien
name: Kuan-Yu Hung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Diagnostic and procedure codes for identifying cardiovascular morbidities in this study. Table S2. Risk of developing each cardiovascular morbidity according to the presence of DKD or not, based on a specific diagnostic codes for DKD (n = 5441 per group).
Hamilton-Jacobi treatment of a non-relativistic particle on a curved space
Creators: name: Baleanu, Dumitru
name: Guler, Yurdahan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a non-relativistic particle moving on a hypersurface in a curved space and the multidimensional rotator are investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. The equivalence with the Dirac Hamiltonian formalism is demonstrated in both Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates. The energy spectrum of the multidimensional rotator is equal to that of a pure Laplace-Beltrami operator with no additional constant arising from the curvature of the sphere.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX
Additional file 1 of Serum triglyceride glucose index is a valuable predictor for visceral obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Yang, Qing
name: Xu, Huichao
name: Zhang, Hongli
name: Li, Yanying
name: Chen, Shuxiong
name: He, Dongye
name: Yang, Guangzhi
name: Ban, Bo
name: Zhang, Mei
name: Liu, Fupeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Table 1. The adipose tissue and clinical characteristics of male patients with different levels of BMI and TyG index Supplemental Table 2. The adipose tissue and clinical characteristics of female patients with different levels of BMI and TyG index Supplemental Fig. 1. ROC analyses of TyG-WC and TyG-WHR for VO (A) male patients; (B) female patients