cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trends in presentation, treatment and survival of 1777 patients with colorectal cancer over a decade: a Biobank study
Creators: name: Heervä, Eetu
name: Carpelan, Anu
name: Kurki, Samu
name: Sundström, Jari
name: Huhtinen, Heikki
name: Rantala, Arto
name: Ålgars, Annika
name: Ristamäki, Raija
name: Carpén, Olli
name: Minn, Heikki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Background: Most survival data in colorectal cancer (CRC) is derived from clinical trials or register-based studies. Hospital Biobanks, linked with hospital electronic records, could serve as a data-gathering method based on consecutively collected tumor samples. The aim of this Biobank study was to analyze survival of colorectal patients diagnosed and treated in a single-center university hospital over a period of 12 years, and to evaluate factors contributing to outcome. Material and methods: A total of 1777 patients with CRC treated during 2001–2012 were identified from the Auria Biobank, Turku, Finland. Longitudinal clinical information was collected from various hospital electronic records and date and cause of death obtained from Statistics Finland. Results: Cancer-specific, overall and disease-free survival was higher in patients diagnosed during 2004–2008 as compared with patients diagnosed in 2001–2003. Further improvement was not seen during years 2009–2012. Potential factors contributing to the improvement were introduction of multidisciplinary meetings, centralization of rectal cancer surgery, use of adjuvant chemotherapy and systematic preoperative radiotherapy of rectal cancer. The proportion of patients with stage I–IV CRC remained similar over the study period, but a marked decrease in non-metastatic rectal cancer with biopsy only (locally advanced disease) was observed. In stage I–III rectal cancer, Cox multivariate analysis suggested age, comorbidity, R1 resection, T staging and tumor grade as prognostic factors. In colon cancer, prognostic factors were age, comorbidity, gender and presence of lymph node metastases. Conclusions: Organizational changes in the treatment of CRC patients made since 2004 coincide with improved survival in CRC and a marked reduction in locally advanced rectal cancers. The clinical presentation of CRC has remained similar between 2001 and 2012.
Nontrivial solutions of superlinear nonlocal problems
Creators: name: Bisci, Giovanni Molica
name: Repovš, Dušan
name: Servadei, Raffaella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49J35, 35A15, 35S15, 47G20, 45G05

description: We study the question of the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for nonlocal equations of fractional Laplacian type with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary data, in presence of a superlinear term. Starting from the well-known Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition, we consider different growth assumptions on the nonlinearity, all of superlinear type. We obtain three different existence results in this setting by using the Fountain Theorem, which extend some classical results for semilinear Laplacian equations to the nonlocal fractional setting.
The road to achieving herd immunity: factors associated with Singapore residents’ uptake and hesitancy of the COVID-19 vaccination
Creators: name: Tan, Li Feng
name: Huak, Chan Yiong
name: Siow, Isabel
name: Tan, Angel Justina
name: Venugopalan, Preetha Menon
name: Premkumar, Arthi
name: Seetharaman, Santhosh Kumar
name: Tan, Benjamin Y Q
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Achieving high vaccination rates is key to containing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study evaluated the factors associated with uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. Six hundred and seventy-six respondents were surveyed online between May and June 2021. Data on demographics, perception of the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine willingness and hesitancy factors were collected. Approximately 54.6% of the respondents had received the COVID-19 vaccination. Age (p = 0.001), males (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.1–2.6, p = 0.026), ethnicity (p = 0.004), occupation (p = 0.003)), working in healthcare (OR 6.1, 95% CI 2.8–13.2, p Social responsibility and well-being of collective society are important values associated with vaccine uptake in an Asian society. Understanding factors behind vaccine uptake can help advise public health measures and strategies to achieve high levels of vaccination.
Identification of a transition from stochastic to secular star formation around $z=9$ with JWST
Creators: name: Ciesla, L.
name: Elbaz, D.
name: Ilbert, O.
name: Buat, V.
name: Magnelli, B.
name: Narayanan, D.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Gómez-Guijarro, C.
name: Arango-Toro, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation histories (SFH) of early (6$9$, 87% of massive galaxies, ($\log(M_\ast/M_\odot)\gtrsim$9), have SFR gradients consistent with a stochastic star-formation activity during the last 100 Myr, while this fraction drops to 15% at $z<7$. On the other hand, we see an increasing fraction of galaxies with a star-formation activity following a common stream on the SFR-$M_\ast$ plane with cosmic time, indicating that a secular mode of star-formation is emerging. We place our results in the context of the observed excess of UV emission as probed by the UV luminosity function at $z\gtrsim10$, by estimating $σ_{UV}$, the dispersion of the UV absolute magnitude distribution, to be of the order of 1.2mag and compare it with predictions from the literature. In conclusion, we find a transition of star-formation mode happening around $z\sim9$: Galaxies with stochastic SFHs dominates at $z\gtrsim9$, although this level of stochasticity is too low to reach those invoked by recent models to reproduce the observed UV luminosity function.
description: Submitted to A&A
Adverse events reported after administration of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccines among hospital workers: a cross-sectional survey-based study in a Spanish hospital
Creators: name: Valera-Rubio, Marta
name: Sierra-Torres, María Isabel
name: García, Raquel Castillejo
name: Cordero-Ramos, Jaime
name: López-Márquez, María Reyes
name: Cruz-Salgado, Óscar
name: Calleja-Hernández, Miguel Ángel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. Since then, vaccine development has been rushed, however the first vaccine became available in December, with practically no post-marketing data. An analytical cross-sectional survey-based study was conducted in a third level hospital in Spain between March-April 2021 to describe the difference in adverse events with the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccines. The participants were hospital workers who completed a survey voluntarily at least 14 days after the last vaccine. The STROBE checklist was followed. 1249 respondents completed the survey; 48%(599) received mRNA-1273 and 52%(650) BNT162b2. 14402 adverse reactions were recorded, 6896 local (3939 with mRNA-1273 and 2957 with BNT162b2 (6.6 vs 4.4 reactions per patient)) and 7506 systemic (4460 with mRNA-1273 and 3046 with BNT162b2 (7.4 vs 4.7 per patient)). Local reactions were more frequent after the first dose, while systemic reactions were higher after the second, for both vaccines and in a higher percentage with mRNA-1273 compared to BNT162b2 (p-value<0.05). The licensed mRNA vaccines were highly safe when administered under post-marketing conditions among working-age adults. The vast majority of adverse events were mild, although they occurred in most patients, especially after the mRNA-1273 vaccine.
Theory of collective excitations in the quadruple-$Q$ magnetic hedgehog lattices
Creators: name: Eto, Rintaro
name: Mochizuki, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hedgehog and antihedgehog spin textures in magnets behave as emergent monopoles and antimonopoles, which give rise to astonishing transport and electromagnetic phenomena. Using the Kondo-lattice model in three dimensions, we theoretically study collective spin-wave excitation modes of magnetic hedgehog lattices which have recently been discovered in itinerant magnets such as MnSi1-xGex and SrFeO3. It is revealed that the spin-wave modes, which appear in the sub-terahertz regime, have dominant amplitudes localized at Dirac strings connecting hedgehog-antihedgehog pairs and are characterized by their translational oscillations. It is found that their spectral features sensitively depend on the number and configuration of the Dirac strings and, thus, can be exploited for identifying the topological phase transitions associated with the monopole-antimonopole pair annihilations.
description: 6+9 pages, 4+8 figures
Additional file 1 of Macrophage polarization-associated lnc-Ma301 interacts with caprin-1 to inhibit hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis through the Akt/Erk1 pathway
Creators: name: Luo, Hong-Lin
name: Luo, Tao
name: Liu, Jun-Jie
name: Wu, Fei-Xiang
name: Bai, Tao
name: Ou, Chao
name: Chen, Jie
name: Li, Le-Qun
name: Zhong, Jian-Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences.
EUCEI Workshop: Cloud-Edge-IoT innovations in Transportation: Market Insights and Use Cases
Creators: name: Giuffrida, Maria
name: Pourabdollahian, Golboo
name: Zachäus, Carolin
name: Federl, Stefanie
name: Martinez, David
name: Zrazinska, Izabela
name: Sunsik, Rudolf
name: Aslam, Sheraz
name: Cipolla, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This event, part of the “Industry Insights” webinar series, delivered comprehensive market and industry insights on Cloud-Edge-IoT for the mobility and logistics sector. It highlighted specific use cases developed by EU-funded projects within the Meta Operating Systems Cluster and other initiatives under the EUCloudEdgeIoT initiative. Additionally, the event facilitated dialogue between industry leaders and research experts, fostering collaboration and innovation.
The effect of an offset polar cap dipolar magnetic field on the modeling of the Vela pulsar's $γ$-ray light curves
Creators: name: Barnard, Monica
name: Venter, Christo
name: Harding, Alice K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed geometric pulsar light curve modeling using static, retarded vacuum, and offset polar cap (PC) dipole $B$-fields (the latter is characterized by a parameter $ε$), in conjunction with standard two-pole caustic (TPC) and outer gap (OG) emission geometries. The offset-PC dipole $B$-field mimics deviations from the static dipole (which corresponds to $ε=0$). In addition to constant-emissivity geometric models, we also considered a slot gap (SG) $E$-field associated with the offset-PC dipole $B$-field and found that its inclusion leads to qualitatively different light curves. Solving the particle transport equation shows that the particle energy only becomes large enough to yield significant curvature radiation at large altitudes above the stellar surface, given this relatively low $E$-field. Therefore, particles do not always attain the radiation-reaction limit. Our overall optimal light curve fit is for the retarded vacuum dipole field and OG model, at an inclination angle $α=78{_{-1}^{+1}}^{\circ}$ and observer angle $ζ=69{_{-1}^{+2}}^{\circ}$. For this $B$-field, the TPC model is statistically disfavored compared to the OG model. For the static dipole field, neither model is significantly preferred. We found that smaller values of $ε$ are favored for the offset-PC dipole field when assuming constant emissivity, and larger $ε$ values favored for variable emissivity, but not significantly so. When multiplying the SG $E$-field by a factor of 100, we found improved light curve fits, with $α$ and $ζ$ being closer to best fits from independent studies, as well as curvature radiation reaction at lower altitudes.
description: 42 pages, 17 figures
Kinetics of the one-dimensional voter model with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Corberi, Federico
name: Castellano, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-dimensional long-range voter model, where an agent takes the opinion of another at distance $r$ with probability $\propto r^{-α}$, is studied analytically. The model displays rich and diverse features as $α$ is changed. For $α>3$ the behavior is similar to the one of the nearest-neighbor version, with the formation of ordered domains whose typical size grows as $R(t)\propto t^{1/2}$ until consensus (a fully ordered configuration) is reached. The correlation function $C(r,t)$ between two agents at distance $r$ obeys dynamical scaling with sizeable corrections at large distances $r>r^*(t)$, slowly fading away in time. For $2< α\le 3$ violations of scaling appear, due to the simultaneous presence of two lengh-scales, the size of domains growing as $t^{(α-2)/(α-1)}$, and the distance $L(t)\propto t^{1/(α-1)}$ over which correlations extend. For $α\le 2$ the system reaches a partially ordered stationary state, characterised by an algebraic correlator, % $C(r)\propto r^{-(2-α)}$, whose lifetime diverges in the thermodynamic limit of infinitely many agents, so that consensus is not reached. For a finite system escape towards the fully ordered configuration is finally promoted by development of large distance correlations. In a system of $N$ sites, global consensus is achieved after a time $T \propto N^2$ for $α>3$, $T \propto N^{α-1}$ for $2<α\le 3$, and $T \propto N$ for $α\le 2$.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Kepler red-clump stars in the field and in open clusters: constraints on core mixing
Creators: name: Bossini, D.
name: Miglio, A.
name: Salaris, M.
name: Vrard, M.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Mosser, B.
name: Montalbán, J.
name: Girardi, L.
name: Noels, A.
name: Bressan, A.
name: Pietrinferni, A.
name: Tayar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Convective mixing in Helium-core-burning (HeCB) stars is one of the outstanding issues in stellar modelling. The precise asteroseismic measurements of gravity-modes period spacing ($ΔΠ_1$) has opened the door to detailed studies of the near-core structure of such stars, which had not been possible before. Here we provide stringent tests of various core-mixing scenarios against the largely unbiased population of red-clump stars belonging to the old open clusters monitored by Kepler, and by coupling the updated precise inference on $ΔΠ_1$ in thousands field stars with spectroscopic constraints. We find that models with moderate overshooting successfully reproduce the range observed of $ΔΠ_1$ in clusters. In particular we show that there is no evidence for the need to extend the size of the adiabatically stratified core, at least at the beginning of the HeCB phase. This conclusion is based primarily on ensemble studies of $ΔΠ_1$ as a function of mass and metallicity. While $ΔΠ_1$ shows no appreciable dependence on the mass, we have found a clear dependence of $ΔΠ_1$ on metallicity, which is also supported by predictions from models.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Role of Repetition Awareness in the Verbal Hebb Repetition Effect
Creators: name: Musfeld, Philipp
name: Krasnoff, Julia
name: Souza, Alessandra
name: Oberauer, Klaus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The aim of this project is to investigate the relation between long-term learning of repeatedly presented stimuli and the awareness of this repetition. In a previous study using visual stimuli we found that repetition learning was dependent on first becoming aware of the repetition. Here we want to clarify this relationship for verbal stimuli.
Measuring the engagement of children with disabilities in early childhood settings: a guide for inclusive practice
Creators: name: Kishida, Yuriko
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Learning occurs as children engage with people, activities and materials. It is important, therefore, that practitioners working with children with disabilities in early childhood settings ensure that these children are engaged in the activities provided. While engagement data can be useful for both research and practice, no individual engagement measure was found that practitioners could easily use to program for the children with disabilities attending their early childhood centre-based settings. The main purpose of the research reported in this thesis was to develop a simple, reliable and valid measure of engagement that could be useful in early childhood practitioners' daily practice. The Individual Child Engagement Record (ICER), which was developed following an examination of the existing measures and a review of the research, was trialed using observations of children with disabilities in an inclusive childcare centre. The results supported the potential of the ICER for both research and practice. After the ICER was revised (ICER-R), and validated as an indicator of learning opportunity, practitioners were trained in its implementation in order to investigate the use of the measure in inclusive early childhood practice. Data gathered through the training process indicated the practical value of the ICER-R. -- Following an examination of the data for the one child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) included in the pilot study and a subsequent review of the literature relating to the engagement of young children with ASD, children with ASD who attended both segregated and inclusive early childhood settings were observed using the ICER-R to examine learning opportunities available in the two types of settings. Both the strengths and weaknesses of the two types of settings were identified. The implications of the findings for practice were discussed, including the use of ICER-R data to program for an increase in learning opportunities provided in early childhood centre-based settings.
Additional file 5 of Identification of candidate genomic regions for chicken egg number traits based on genome-wide association study
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiurong
name: Nie, Changsheng
name: Zhang, Jinxin
name: Li, Xinghua
name: Zhu, Tao
name: Guan, Zi
name: Chen, Yu
name: Wang, Liang
name: Lv, Xue Ze
name: Yang, Weifang
name: Jia, Yaxiong
name: Ning, Zhonghua
name: Li, Haiying
name: Qu, Changqing
name: Wang, Huie
name: Qu, Lujiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. The line chart of cross validation error. The coefficient of variation value for each K-value, the accessions were divided into 20 subgroups (there was minimum K-value when K = 12).
Inhomogeneous high temperature melting and decoupling of charge density waves in spin-triplet superconductor UTe2
Creators: name: LaFleur, Alexander
name: Li, Hong
name: Frank, Corey E.
name: Xu, Muxian
name: Cheng, Siyu
name: Wang, Ziqiang
name: Butch, Nicholas P.
name: Zeljkovic, Ilija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic spatial modulations of the superfluid density, or pair density waves, have now been widely detected in unconventional superconductors, either as the primary or the secondary states accompanying charge density waves. Understanding how these density waves emerge, or conversely get suppressed by external parameters, provides an important insight into their nature. Here we use spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy to study the evolution of density waves in the heavy fermion spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 as a function of temperature and magnetic field. We discover that charge modulations, composed of three different wave vectors gradually weaken but persist to a surprisingly high temperature T_CDW ~ 10-12 K. By tracking the local amplitude of modulations, we find that these modulations become spatially inhomogeneous, and form patches that shrink in size with higher temperature or with applied magnetic field. Interestingly, one of the density wave vectors along the mirror symmetry has a slightly different temperature onset, thus revealing an unexpected decoupling of the three-component CDW state. Importantly, T_CDW determined from our work matches closely to the temperature scale believed to be related to magnetic fluctuations, providing the first possible connection between density waves observed by surface probes and bulk measurements. Combined with magnetic field sensitivity of the modulations, this could point towards an important role of spin fluctuations or short-range magnetic order in the formation of the primary charge density wave.
Question Analysis for Arabic Question Answering Systems
Creators: name: Ahmed, Waheeb
name: Babu, Dr. Anto P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The first step of processing a question in Question Answering(QA) Systems is to carry out a detailed analysis of the question for the purpose of determining what it is asking for and how to perfectly approach answering it. Our Question analysis uses several techniques to analyze any question given in natural language: a Stanford POS Tagger & parser for Arabic language, a named entity recognizer, tokenizer,Stop-word removal, Question expansion, Question classification and Question focus extraction components. We employ numerous detection rules and trained classifier using features from this analysis to detect important elements of the question, including: 1) the portion of the question that is a referring to the answer (the focus); 2) different terms in the question that identify what type of entity is being asked for (the lexical answer types); 3) Question expansion ; 4) a process of classifying the question into one or more of several and different types; and We describe how these elements are identified and evaluate the effect of accurate detection on our question-answering system using the Mean Reciprocal Rank(MRR) accuracy measure.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, published article in IJNLC
Radial and azimuthal gradients of the moving groups in Gaia DR3: The slow/fast bar degeneracy problem
Creators: name: Bernet, Marcel
name: Ramos, Pau
name: Antoja, Teresa
name: Monari, Giacomo
name: Famaey, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and dynamics of the central bar of the Milky Way are still under debate whilst being fundamental ingredients for the evolution of our Galaxy. The recent Gaia DR3 offers an unprecedented detailed view of the 6D phase-space of the MW. We aim to characterise the dynamical moving groups across the MW disc, and use their large-scale distribution to help constrain the properties of the Galactic bar. We used wavelet transforms of the azimuthal velocity ($V_ϕ$) distribution in bins of radial velocity to robustly detect the kinematic substructure in the Gaia DR3 catalogue. We then connected these structures across the disc to measure the azimuthal ($ϕ$) and radial ($R$) gradients of the moving groups. We simulated thousands of perturbed distribution functions using Backwards Integration of feasible Galaxy models that include a bar, to compare them with the data and to explore and quantify the degeneracies. The radial gradient of the Hercules moving group ($\partial V_ϕ/\partial R$ = 28.1$\pm$2.8 km$\,$s$^{-1}\,$kpc$^{-1}$) cannot be reproduced by our simple models of the Galaxy which show much larger slopes both for a fast and a slow bar. This suggests the need for more complex dynamics (e.g. spiral arms, a slowing bar, external perturbations, etc.). We measure an azimuthal gradient for Hercules of $\partial V_ϕ/\partial ϕ$ = -0.63$\pm$0.13$\,$km$\,$s$^{-1}$deg$^{-1}$ and find that it is compatible with both the slow and fast bar models. Our analysis points out that using this type of analysis at least two moving groups are needed to start breaking the degeneracies. We conclude that it is not sufficient for a model to replicate the local velocity distribution; it must also capture its larger-scale variations. The accurate quantification of the gradients, especially in the azimuthal direction, will be key for the understanding of the dynamics governing the disc. (ABR)
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The concentrated polyaluminum chloride with tailor-made distribution of Al species: Synthesis, distribution and transformation of Al species, and coagulation performance
Creators: name: Panahi, Reza
name: Ravi, Mehdi
name: Abdollahi, Kourosh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Production of concentrated polyaluminum chloride (PACl) with the proper distribution of Al species (Ala, Alb, and Alc) is still a challenging issue on both industrial and laboratory scale. Hence, the effects of total aluminum concentration (AlT) at high levels, regular basicity values, and low base injection rates on the distribution of Al species in PACl solutions were investigated using quadratic models. The results confirmed the possibility to synthesize tailor-made PACl solutions with a specified value of either Ala, Alb, or Alc within the range of 22-51%, 4-51%, or 0.5-74%, respectively. For instance, in agreement with the predicted value, a PACl sample rich in both Alb (42200 ppm) and AlT was produced by applying the basicity of 1.7, AlT of 9.07% as Al2O3, and basification rate of 0.48 ml/h. In addition, the maximum Alc could be acquired by exploiting the highest C, B, and Q values. This condition also minimized both Ala and Alb. The trends of Ala and Alc changes by the increment of basicity were concave and convex, respectively, while Alb showed either a decreasing trend or a concave pattern based on the values of injection rate and AlT. The Alb-rich PACl sample was effectively applied for turbidity removal from synthetic wastewater at various pHs and initial turbidities. At best, residual turbidity of about 1% was observed after the coagulation process. These findings can be constructive for the production and application of tailor-made PACl.
Additional file 2 of Identification of candidate genomic regions for chicken egg number traits based on genome-wide association study
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiurong
name: Nie, Changsheng
name: Zhang, Jinxin
name: Li, Xinghua
name: Zhu, Tao
name: Guan, Zi
name: Chen, Yu
name: Wang, Liang
name: Lv, Xue Ze
name: Yang, Weifang
name: Jia, Yaxiong
name: Ning, Zhonghua
name: Li, Haiying
name: Qu, Changqing
name: Wang, Huie
name: Qu, Lujiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Difference of the allele frequencies of the significant SNPs located at 48.61–48.84 Mb on chromosome 5 between the high and low productivity groups.
Acousto-magnonic spin Hall effect in honeycomb antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Sano, Ryotaro
name: Ominato, Yuya
name: Matsuo, Mamoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently discovered van der Waals antiferromagnets have suffered from the lack of a comprehensive method to study their magnetic properties. Here, we propose a dissipationless magnon spin Hall current driven by surface acoustic waves as a novel probe for such antiferromagnets. Our results pave the way towards mechanical detection and manipulation of the magnetic order in two-dimensional antiferromagnets. Furthermore, they will overcome the difficulties with weak magnetic responses inherent in the use of antiferromagnets and hence provide a building block for future antiferromagnetic spintronics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, and the Supplemental Materials
title: Topological and Chromatin Alterations Influencing Genome Integrity
Creators: name: Mohammed Iqbal, Mohamood  Adhil
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: DNA topoisomerases Top1 and Top2 have redundant functions in resolving topological alterations arising during replication and transcription processes. Topoisomerases assist replication forks encountering transcription units, preventing chromosome fragility by minimizing the aberrant topological events. We investigated the role of topoisomerases in supercoil accumulation across the yeast genome using biotin tagged psoralen immunoprecipitation. We found that DNA is under-wound at gene boundaries and over-wound at transcribed regions. Top1 is associated with positively supercoiled chromatin as it accompanies RNA Polymerase II (Pol2) and its chromatin association is influenced by transcription levels of the individual genes. Top2 is associated with stable negative supercoiled chromatin at the gene boundaries, and its association is not dependent on transcription. Top2 promotes transcription efficiencies by forming gene loop structure and restricts Top1 and Pol2 leakage at gene boundaries. Ablation of Top2 protein decreases the negative supercoil accumulation at gene boundaries. Expression of E.coli TopA in topoisomerases double mutant in yeast (top2-1top1Δ) significantly resolves only the negative supercoil of gene boundaries and increases the accumulation of positive supercoil. The supercoil state at gene boundaries and ORFs are crucial for nucleosome occupancy. Using Hi-C techniques, we show that, centromeres are prominently interacting with other centromeres and the inter-chromosomal centromere interactions are depleted along with cohesin protein in top2-1top1Δ mutant expressing E.coli TopA. This work therefore summarizes the role of supercoil structures in preserving higher order architecture including nucleosome formation and chromosome organization.
Deep Exclusive Meson Production as a probe to the puzzle of $Λ$ hyperon polarization
Creators: name: Tu, Zhoudunming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the 1970s, an unexpected transverse $Λ$ polarization in unpolarized proton-Beryllium collisions was discovered, which initiated extensive studies on spin phenomena in high-energy physics. Over the past five decades, similar transverse $Λ$ polarization has been observed across various collision systems, including lepton-hadron deep inelastic scattering, hadron-hadron collisions, and electron-positron collisions. Despite numerous promising theoretical models, the fundamental mechanism underlying this polarization phenomenon remains inconclusive to this day. However, in both longitudinally and transversely polarized lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, it is found that the $Λ$ hyperon is not polarized with respect to the initial parton spin direction. How the $Λ$ hyperon acquires its spin has become one of the most crucial questions to address in order to resolve this puzzle. In this paper, I propose to use an exclusive process that can be measured at the Electron-Ion Collider, the Deep Exclusive Meson Production, to explicitly test the mechanism of $Λ$ polarization. The outcomes of this experimental measurement are anticipated to unveil the dominant mechanism by which $Λ$ obtains its spin, eliminating many of the ambiguities that have been encountered in previous studies. Finally, experimental challenges and requirements will be discussed.
description: Final version published in journal
A critical exploration of existing laws, policies and practices pertaining to gender vulnerability, gender mainstreaming and disaster management: a case study of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Sultana, Nadira
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: It has been recognized that the existing laws, policies and program of disaster risk reduction have failed to address adequately the differential impact of natural disasters on women. This research has explored the extent to which the vulnerabilities of women are addressed in the existing disaster risk reduction approach in Bangladesh. In doing so, it divides women's experiences in natural disasters into five broad categories and identifies how far these are reflected in the existing disaster-related regulatory framework in Bangladesh and international treaties, which influence the Government's interventions. Five broad categories (biological, economic, socio-cultural, political and organisational) were used to identify the most frequently mentioned causes of vulnerabilities. To develop a more practical approach, the biological dimension of women's vulnerability requires focusing more on increasing the self-consciousness of women, while the economic dimension of women's vulnerability is influenced by lack of access to economic resources, particularly access to the public domain and marketplaces. Ameliorating the political dimension of vulnerability requires focus on capacity building for women as decision makers and leaders at the household, community and national levels. Additionally, the socio-cultural dimension of vulnerability highlighted that the existing disaster management approach should stress changing the attitudes of the community to develop a more women-friendly environment. Finally, the organisational dimension of vulnerability involves developing a more gender-sensitive approach and the successful implementation of the existing gender-sensitive approach to disaster risk reduction. This thesis argues that understanding these dimensions is useful in reducing disaster impacts on women and ensuring gender equality. As these dimensions of vulnerabilities are based on pre-existing variables, which may vary from society to society and culture to culture, it is significant to understand these dimensions to choose better policy options. Moreover, these pre-existing variables are so ingrained and widespread that improving women's situation demands a deeper understanding and a multi-dimensional approach based on the multi-disciplines and multi-stakeholders involved -- abstract.
The politics of participation: a critical occupational science analysis of social inclusion policy and entrenched disadvantage
Creators: name: Pereira, Robert Bernard
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: "This thesis reports on two linked studies which focus on entrenched disadvantage from a personal and policy perspective. Entrenched disadvantage is characterised by poverty, disability and social exclusion. The first study provides a life history exploration of seven citizens living with entrenched disadvantage. Their stories are then contextualised through a second study which analyses Australian social inclusion policy discourse through a critical occupational science lens." -- Abstract.
Nest boxes for Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus in the Hogsback area, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Creators: name: Wimberger, Kirsten
name: Carstens, Kate F
name: Carstens, Johann C
name: R Stephen Boyes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Breeding propensity of tree-cavity nesting bird species are often limited by a shortage of natural nesting sites. Artificial nests can be used to provide alternative nest sites. Cape Parrots Poicephalus robustus are nationally endangered and nest in existing tree-cavities in high-altitude fragmented Afromontane forests in South Africa, assumed to be in short supply due to historic and current logging practices. To increase nest site availability, 179 wooden bird boxes and 28 bee boxes (to ‘pull’ bees) were erected during 2011–2012 in Hogsback, Eastern Cape. In 2016, no bird boxes were occupied by Cape Parrots. A total of 43% were used by other species, 51% were unused and 6% could not be inspected due to tree instability and inaccessibility. Two bird boxes were inspected by two pairs of Cape Parrots, but were never occupied. Occupancy of boxes by birds was not associated with nest, tree or habitat characteristics. However, occupancy of boxes by bees was associated with habitat type and tree species. Future conservation efforts will include locating natural Cape Parrot nesting sites and reforestation efforts to ensure the long-term availability of natural nesting sites.
MORFEO enters final design phase
Creators: name: Busoni, Lorenzo
name: Agapito, Guido
name: Alessandro, Ballone
name: Puglisi, Alfio
name: Goncharov, Alexander
name: Petrella, Amedeo
name: Di Cianno, Amico
name: Balestra, Andrea
name: Baruffolo, Andrea
name: Bianco, Andrea
name: Di Dato, Andrea
name: Valentini, Angelo
name: Di Francesco, Benedetta
name: Sassolas, Benoit
name: Salasnich, Bernardo
name: Arcidiacono, Carmelo
name: Plantet, Cedric
name: Eredia, Christian
name: Fantinel, Daniela
name: Selvestrel, Danilo
name: Malone, Deborah
name: Magrin, Demetrio
name: D'auria, Domenico
name: Redaelli, Edoardo
name: Carolo, Elena
name: Costa, Elia
name: Portaluri, Elisa
name: Cascone, Enrico
name: Giro, Enrico
name: Battaini, Federico
name: Annibali, Francesca
name: Laudisio, Fulvio
name: Rodeghiero, Gabriele
name: Umbriaco, Gabriele
name: Chauvin, Gael
name: Di Rico, Gianluca
name: Pariani, Giorgio
name: Carla, Giulia
name: Capasso, Giulio
name: Cosentino, Giuseppe
name: Correia, Jean-Jacques
name: Foppiani, Italo
name: Di Antonio, Ivan
name: Farinato, Jacopo
name: Radakrishnan, Kalyan
name: Gluck, Laurence
name: Pinard, Laurent
name: Marafatto, Luca
name: Scalera, Marcello
name: Gullieuszik, Marco
name: Bonaglia, Marco
name: Riva, Marco
name: Xompero, Marco
name: Bergomi, Maria
name: Aliverti, Matteo
name: Genoni, Matteo
name: Munari, Matteo
name: Dolci, Mauro
name: Christophe, Michel
name: Cantiello, Michele
name: Colapietro, Mirko
name: Devaney, Nicholas
name: Azzaroli, Nicolo
name: Grani, Paolo
name: Ciliegi, Paolo
name: Rabou, Patrick
name: Feautrier, Philippe
name: Schipani, Pietro
name: Ragazzoni, Roberto
name: Sordo, Rosanna
name: Briguglio, Runa
name: Lampitelli, Salvatore
name: Savarese, Salvatore
name: Benedetti, Simone
name: Di Filippo, Simone
name: Esposito, Simone
name: Chinellato, Simonetta
name: Oberti, Sylvain
name: Rochat, Sylvain
name: Lapucci, Tommaso
name: Di Giammatteo, Ugo
name: Cianniello, Vincenzo
name: De Caprio, Vincenzo
name: Hubert, Zoltan
Publisher: name: Proceedings of AO4ELT7 conference 2023 - Editors: Thierry Fusco and Benoit Neichel
Year: 2023
Subjects: MORFEO
ELT
EELT
MCAO
ADAPTIVE OPTICS
STATUS
MICADO
UPDATE

description: MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY), the MCAO system for the ELT, will provide diffraction-limited optical quality to the large field camera MICADO. MORFEO has officially passed the Preliminary Design Review and it is entering the final design phase. We present the current status of the project, with a focus on the adaptive optics system aspects and expected milestones during the next project phase
Thermally induced stresses in boulders on airless body surfaces, and implications for rock breakdown
Creators: name: Molaro, Jamie L.
name: Byrne, Shane
name: Le, Jia-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work investigates the macroscopic thermomechanical behavior of lunar boulders by modeling their response to diurnal thermal forcing. Our results reveal a bimodal, spatiotemporally-complex stress response. During sunrise, stresses occur in the boulders' interiors that are associated with large-scale temperature gradients developed due to overnight cooling. During sunset, stresses occur at the boulders' exteriors due to the cooling and contraction of the surface. Both kinds of stresses are on the order of 10 MPa in 1 m boulders and decrease for smaller diameters, suggesting that larger boulders break down more quickly. Boulders <30 cm exhibit a weak response to thermal forcing, suggesting a threshold below which crack propagation may not occur. Boulders of any size buried by regolith are shielded from thermal breakdown. As boulders increase in size (>1 m), stresses increase to several 10s of MPa as the behavior of their surfaces approaches that of an infinite halfspace. As the thermal wave loses contact with the boulder interior, stresses become limited to the near-surface. This suggests that the survival time of a boulder is not only controlled by the amplitude of induced stress, but also by its diameter as compared to the diurnal skin depth. While stresses on the order of 10 MPa are enough to drive crack propagation in terrestrial environments, crack propagation rates in vacuum are not well constrained. We explore the relationship between boulder size, stress, and the direction of crack propagation, and discuss the implications for the relative breakdown rates and estimated lifetimes of boulders on airless body surfaces.
description: 31 pages, 12 figures
Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India
Creators: name: Hans-Jürgen Nitz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1992

description: Hans-Jürgen Nitz, "Planned temple towns and Brahmin villages as spatial expressions of the ritual politics of medieval kingdoms in South India", in Alan R.H. Baker and Gideon Biger (eds.), Ideology and landscape in historical perspective : essays on the meanings of some places in the past, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 107-124.
MORFEO enters final design phase
Creators: name: Busoni, Lorenzo
name: Agapito, Guido
name: Ballone, Alessandro
name: Puglisi, Alfio
name: Goncharov, Alexander
name: Petrella, Amedeo
name: Di Cianno, Amico
name: Balestra, Andrea
name: Baruffolo, Andrea
name: Bianco, Andrea
name: Di Dato, Andrea
name: Valentini, Angelo
name: Di Francesco, Benedetta
name: Sassolas, Benoit
name: Salasnich, Bernardo
name: Arcidiacono, Carmelo
name: Plantet, Cedric
name: Eredia, Christian
name: Fantinel, Daniela
name: Selvestrel, Danilo
name: Malone, Deborah
name: Magrin, Demetrio
name: D'Auria, Domenico
name: Redaelli, Edoardo
name: Carolo, Elena
name: Costa, Elia
name: Portaluri, Elisa
name: Cascone, Enrico
name: Giro, Enrico
name: Battaini, Federico
name: Annibali, Francesca
name: Laudisio, Fulvio
name: Rodeghiero, Gabriele
name: Umbriaco, Gabriele
name: Chauvin, Gael
name: Di Rico, Gianluca
name: Pariani, Giorgio
name: Carlà, Giulia
name: Capasso, Giulio
name: Cosentino, Giuseppe
name: Correia, Jean Jacques
name: Foppiani, Italo
name: Di Antonio, Ivan
name: Farinato, Jacopo
name: Radhakrishnan, Kalyan Kumar
name: Gluck, Laurence
name: Pinard, Laurent
name: Marafatto, Luca
name: Scalera, Marcello Agostino
name: Gullieuszik, Marco
name: Bonaglia, Marco
name: Riva, Marco
name: Xompero, Marco
name: Bergomi, Maria
name: Aliverti, Matteo
name: Genoni, Matteo
name: Munari, Matteo
name: Dolci, Mauro
name: Christophe, Michel
name: Cantiello, Michele
name: Colapietro, Mirko
name: Devaney, Nicholas
name: Azzaroli, Nicolò
name: Grani, Paolo
name: Ciliegi, Paolo
name: Rabou, Patrick
name: Feautrier, Philippe
name: Schipani, Pietro
name: Ragazzoni, Roberto
name: Sordo, Rosanna
name: Briguglio, Runa
name: Lampitelli, Salvatore
name: Savarese, Salvatore
name: Benedetti, Simone
name: Di Filippo, Simone
name: Esposito, Simone
name: Chinellato, Simonetta
name: Oberti, Sylvain
name: Rochat, Sylvain
name: Lapucci, Tommaso
name: Di Giammatteo, Ugo
name: Cianniello, Vincenzo
name: De Caprio, Vincenzo
name: Hubert, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MORFEO (Multi-conjugate adaptive Optics Relay For ELT Observations, formerly MAORY), the MCAO system for the ELT, will provide diffraction-limited optical quality to the large field camera MICADO. MORFEO has officially passed the Preliminary Design Review and it is entering the final design phase. We present the current status of the project, with a focus on the adaptive optics system aspects and expected milestones during the next project phase.
The Cartan Algorithm in Five Dimensions
Creators: name: McNutt, D. D.
name: Coley, A. A.
name: Forget, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we introduce an algorithm to determine the equivalence of five dimensional spacetimes, which generalizes the Karlhede algorithm for four dimensional general relativity. As an alternative to the Petrov type classification, we employ the alignment classification to algebraically classify the Weyl tensor. To illustrate the algorithm we discuss three examples: the singly rotating Myers-Perry solution, the Kerr (anti) de Sitter solution, and the rotating black ring solution. We briefly discuss some applications of the Cartan algorithm in five dimensions.
description: 18 pages