cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reproductive aging associated common genetic variants and the risk of breast cancer
Creators: name: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay
name: Franceschini, Nora
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Introduction A younger age at menarche and an older age at menopause are well established risk factors for breast cancer. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified several novel genetic loci associated with these two traits. However, the association between these loci and breast cancer risk is unknown. Methods In this study, we investigated 19 and 17 newly identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the ReproGen Consortium that have been associated with age at menarche and age at natural menopause, respectively, and assessed their associations with breast cancer risk in 6 population-based studies among up to 3,683 breast cancer cases and 34,174 controls in white women of European ancestry. In addition, we used these SNPs to calculate genetic risk scores (GRSs) based on their associations with each trait. Results After adjusting for age and potential population stratification, two age at menarche associated SNPs (rs1079866 and rs7821178) and one age at natural menopause associated SNP (rs2517388) were associated with breast cancer risk (p values, 0.003, 0.009 and 0.023, respectively). The odds ratios for breast cancer corresponding to per-risk-allele were 1.14 (95% CI, 1.05 to 1.24), 1.08 (95% CI, 1.02 to 1.15) and 1.10 (95% CI, 1.01 to 1.20), respectively, and were in the direction predicted by their associations with age at menarche or age at natural menopause. These associations did not appear to be attenuated by further controlling for self-reported age at menarche, age at natural menopause, or known breast cancer susceptibility loci. Although we did not observe a statistically significant association between any GRS for reproductive aging and breast cancer risk, the 4th and 5th highest quintiles of the younger age at menarche GRS had odds ratios of 1.14 (95% CI, 1.01 to 1.28) and 1.13 (95% CI, 1.00 to 1.27), respectively, compared to the lowest quintile. Conclusions Our study suggests that three genetic variants, independent of their associations with age at menarche or age at natural menopause, were associated with breast cancer risk and may contribute modestly to breast cancer risk prediction; however, the combination of the 19 age at menarche or the 17 age at natural menopause associated SNPs did not appear to be useful for identifying a high risk subgroup for breast cancer.
Carbon fibre recycling from milling dust for the application in short fibre reinforced thermoplastics
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Eckart
name: Meier, Paul
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 670 Industrielle Fertigung
subject: fibre reinforced plastic
subject: recycling
subject: lifecycle

description: A new approach to reuse accruing chips and dust from milling operations of carbon reinforced plastics (CFRP) is studied, show-ing how CFRP milling dust, in comparison to primary and pyrolysed fibres, can find application as a filler material in thermo-plastic granulates. Recent examinations show an overall better handling of milling dust when separating it into different classes of fibre lengths reaching up to 600 µm, which typically occur while machining reinforced plastics. Furthermore, the carbon rein-forced polypropylene granulates have improved material properties, e.g. increased rigidity and tensile strength in dependence of their respective filler content towards non-reinforced plastics.
Development of Management Strategies for Fix It Centers under the Institute of Vocational Education in Northern Region 4
Creators: name: Sataporn Powee
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Strategy
Fix it center
Education in northern region 4

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 1, 194 - 208
MPEC 2024-R86 : 2024 RN2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RN2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Chiral Charge Erasure via Thermal Fluctuations of Magnetic Helicity
Creators: name: Long, Andrew J.
name: Sabancilar, Eray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a relativistic plasma of fermions coupled to an Abelian gauge field and carrying a chiral charge asymmetry, which might arise in the early Universe through baryogenesis. It is known that on large length scales, $λ\gtrsim 1/(αμ_5)$, the chiral anomaly opens an instability toward the erasure of chiral charge and growth of magnetic helicity. Here the chemical potential $μ_{5}$ parametrizes the chiral asymmetry and $α$ is the fine-structure constant. We study the process of chiral charge erasure through the thermal fluctuations of magnetic helicity and contrast with the well-studied phenomenon of Chern-Simons number diffusion. Through the fluctuation-dissipation theorem we estimate the amplitude and time scale of helicity fluctuations on the length scale $λ$, finding $δ\mathcal{H} \sim λT$ and $τ\sim αλ^3 T^2$ for a relativistic plasma at temperature $T$. We argue that the presence of a chiral asymmetry allows the helicity to grow diffusively for a time $t \sim T^3/(α^5 μ_5^4)$ until it reaches an equilibrium value $\mathcal{H} \sim μ_{5} T^2 / α$, and the chiral asymmetry is partially erased. If the chiral asymmetry is small, $μ_5 < T/α$, this avenue for chiral charge erasure is found to be slower than the chiral magnetic effect for which $t \sim T / (α^3 μ_{5}^2)$. This mechanism for chiral charge erasure can be important for the hypercharge sector of the Standard Model as well as extensions including ${\rm U}(1)$ gauge interactions, such as asymmetric dark matter models.
description: v2- minor additions for clarification; matches JCAP version; 17 pages + 8 appendices & refs, 6 figures, 1 table
Declaration of Intention of Henrietta Adalphine Enhardt
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1918

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Henrietta Adalphine Enhardt Applicant age: 41Occupation: NurseCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 26th September 1877Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Pretorio City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 27th November 1918
A theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni:LifeGuide): results from a repeat randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Sheeran, Paschal
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background This paper reports the results of a repeat trial assessing the effectiveness of an online theory-based intervention to promote healthy lifestyle behaviours in new university students. The original trial found that the intervention reduced the number of smokers at 6-month follow-up compared with the control condition, but had non-significant effects on the other targeted health behaviours. However, the original trial suffered from low levels of engagement, which the repeat trial sought to rectify. Methods Three weeks before staring university, all incoming undergraduate students at a large university in the UK were sent an email inviting them to participate in the study. After completing a baseline questionnaire, participants were randomly allocated to intervention or control conditions. The intervention consisted of a self-affirmation manipulation, health messages based on the theory of planned behaviour and implementation intention tasks. Participants were followed-up 1 and 6 months after starting university. The primary outcome measures were portions of fruit and vegetables consumed, physical activity levels, units of alcohol consumed and smoking status at 6-month follow-up. Results The study recruited 2,621 students (intervention n = 1346, control n = 1275), of whom 1495 completed at least one follow-up (intervention n = 696, control n = 799). Intention-to-treat analyses indicated that the intervention had a non-significant effect on the primary outcomes, although the effect of the intervention on fruit and vegetable intake was significant in the per-protocol analyses. Secondary analyses revealed that the intervention had significant effects on having smoked at university (self-report) and on a biochemical marker of alcohol use. Conclusions Despite successfully increasing levels of engagement, the intervention did not have a significant effect on the primary outcome measures. The relatively weak effects of the intervention, found in both the original and repeat trials, may be due to the focus on multiple versus single health behaviours. Future interventions targeting the health behaviour of new university students should therefore focus on single health behaviours. Trial registration Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN07407344 .
A Comparison of Perceptive Achievement Using 3D Cartoon Animation in "Commercial Deer Farming in Three Languages (Thai, English, Chinese)” : A Case Study among Ban Sam Takien Farmers, Wang Nok Aen, Wang Thong District, Phitsanulok
Creators: name: Siriporn Bunprakob
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: 3D Cartoon animation
Perceptive achievement
Commercial deer farming

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 1, 209 - 217
Declaration of Intention of Andrew Muller
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Andrew Muller Applicant age: 23Occupation: Bone CutterCountry of Origin:Austria HungaryDate of Birth: 1st November 1891Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Unknown City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:2nd March 1914
A 128 channel Extreme Learning Machine based Neural Decoder for Brain Machine Interfaces
Creators: name: Chen, Yi
name: Yao, Enyi
name: Basu, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently, state-of-the-art motor intention decoding algorithms in brain-machine interfaces are mostly implemented on a PC and consume significant amount of power. A machine learning co-processor in 0.35um CMOS for motor intention decoding in brain-machine interfaces is presented in this paper. Using Extreme Learning Machine algorithm and low-power analog processing, it achieves an energy efficiency of 290 GMACs/W at a classification rate of 50 Hz. The learning in second stage and corresponding digitally stored coefficients are used to increase robustness of the core analog processor. The chip is verified with neural data recorded in monkey finger movements experiment, achieving a decoding accuracy of 99.3% for movement type. The same co-processor is also used to decode time of movement from asynchronous neural spikes. With time-delayed feature dimension enhancement, the classification accuracy can be increased by 5% with limited number of input channels. Further, a sparsity promoting training scheme enables reduction of number of programmable weights by ~2X.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2015
Declaration of Intention of Thomas Rice
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1918

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Thomas Rice Applicant age: 43Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: EnglandDate of Birth: 11th July 1874Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Soxonia City of residence at time of declaration: Cologne NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 30th April 1918
Acute effects of a commercially-available pre-workout supplement on markers of training: a double-blind study
Creators: name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract: Background: Pre-workout supplements containing numerous ingredients claim to increase performance and strength. Product-specific research is important for identifying efficacy of combined ingredients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a proprietary pre-workout dietary supplement containing creatine monohydrate, beta-alanine, L-Tarurine, L-Leucine, and caffeine, on anaerobic power, muscular strength, body composition, and mood states. Methods: In a double-blind, randomized, matched-pair design, twenty male subjects (mean ± SD; 22.4 ± 9.5 yrs, 76.9 ± 11.2 kg, 22.7 ± 9.5% body fat), consumed either 30 g of a pre-workout supplement (SUP) or maltodextrin placebo (PLC) 30 minutes before a resistance training workout, after completing baseline testing. Body composition was determined via dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Subjects completed 12 vertical jumps for height (VJ) and one repetition maximum (1RM) and repetitions to failure lifts on bench (BPM) and leg press (LPM). Finally, subjects completed a Wingate power test on a cycle ergometer [mean power (WMP) and peak power (WPP)]. After baseline testing, participants completed eight days of supplementation and four split-body resistance-training bouts. Side effect questionnaires were completed daily 30 minutes after consuming the supplement. Subjects completed post-supplement testing on Day 8. Data were analyzed utilizing a 2 × 2 repeated measures ANOVA [treatment (PLC vs SUP) × time (T1 vs T2)] and ninety-five percent confidence intervals. Results: There were no significant treatment × time interactions (p > 0.05). There were no significant changes in %body fat (%BF; Δ-0.43 ± 0.58; p = 0.920), fat mass (Δ-2.45 ± 5.72; p = 0.988), or lean body mass (LBM; 10.9 ± 12.2; p = 0.848). 95% CI demonstrated significant LBM increases for both groups. There was a main effect for time for WPP (Δ100.5 ± 42.7W; p = 0.001), BPM (Δ8.0 ± 12.9 lbs; p = 0.001), and LPM (Δ80.0 ± 28.8 lbs; p = 0.001), with no significant differences between treatments. There was no significant difference in mood states between groups or over time. Conclusion: The proprietary pre-workout blend combined with eight days of training did not significantly (ANOVA) improve body composition or performance. While not significant, greater gains in LPM were demonstrated in the SUP group for lean body mass and lower body strength. Future studies should evaluate more chronic effects of proprietary pre-workout blends on total training volume and performance outcomes.
G9a/GLP complex maintains imprinted DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Zhang, Tuo
name: Termanis, Ausma
name: Özkan, Burak
name: Bao, Xun X.
name: Culley, Jayne
name: De Lima Alves, Flavia
name: Rappsilber, Juri
name: Ramsahoye, Bernard
name: Stancheva, Irina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: DNA methylation
subject: imprinting control regions
subject: ICRs
subject: gametes
subject: histone modifications
subject: somatic cells
subject: embryonic stem cells
subject: DNA methyltransferases

description: DNA methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs) is established in gametes in a sex-specific manner and has to be stably maintained during development and in somatic cells to ensure the correct monoallelic expression of imprinted genes. In addition to DNA methylation, the ICRs are marked by allele-specific histone modifications. Whether these marks are essential for maintenance of genomic imprinting is largely unclear. Here, we show that the histone H3 lysine 9 methylases G9a and GLP are required for stable maintenance of imprinted DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells; however, their catalytic activity and the G9a/GLP-dependent H3K9me2 mark are completely dispensable for imprinting maintenance despite the genome-wide loss of non-imprinted DNA methylation in H3K9me2-depleted cells. We provide additional evidence that the G9a/GLP complex protects imprinted DNA methylation by recruitment of de novo DNA methyltransferases, which antagonize TET dioxygenass-dependent erosion of DNA methylation at ICRs.
Bubble dynamics and the quark-hadron phase transition in nuclear collisions
Creators: name: Fogaça, D. A.
name: Sanches, S. M.
name: Fariello, R.
name: Navarra, F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nucleation of a quark gluon plasma (QGP) phase in a hadron gas at low temperatures and high baryon densities. This kind of process will presumably happen very often in nuclear collisions at FAIR and NICA. When the appropriate energy densities (or baryon densities) and temperatures are reached the conversion of one phase into another is not instantaneous. It is a complex process, which involves the nucleation of bubbles of the new phase. One important element of this transition process is the rate of growth of a QGP bubble. In order to estimate it we solve the Relativistic Rayleigh$-$Plesset equation which governs the dynamics of a relativistic spherical bubble in a strongly interacting medium. The baryon rich hadron gas is represented by the nonlinear Walecka model and the QGP is described by the MIT bag model and also by a mean field model of QCD.
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea -- printable format
Creators: name: Gosline, George
name: Bidault, Ehoarn
name: Burgt, Xander van der
name: Cahen, Daniel
name: Challen, Gill
name: Condé, Nagnouma
name: Couch, Charlotte
name: Couvreur, Thomas L.P .
name: Dagallier, Léo-Paul M.J.
name: Dawson, Sally
name: Doré, Tokpa Seny
name: Goyder, David
name: Grall, Aurélie
name: Haba, Pépé
name: Haba, Pierre
name: Harris, David
name: Hind, D.J. Nicholas
name: Jongkind, Carel
name: Konomou, Gbamom
name: Larridon, Isabel
name: Lewis, Gwilym
name: Ley, Alexandra
name: Lock, Michael
name: Lucas, Eve
name: Magassouba, Sékou
name: Mayo, Simon
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Monro, Alexandre
name: Onana, Jean Michel
name: Paiva, Jorge
name: Paton, Alan
name: Phillips, Sylvia
name: Prance, Ghillian
name: Quintanar, Alejandro
name: Rokni, Saba
name: Shah, Toral
name: Schrire, Brian
name: Schuiteman, André
name: Simões, Ana Rita Giraldes
name: Sosef, Marc
name: Stévart, Tariq
name: Stone, R. Doug
name: Utteridge, Tim
name: Wilkin, Paul
name: Xanthos, Martin
name: Nic Lughadha, Eimear
name: Cheek, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: West Africa
Taxonomic checklist
Flora

description: The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea (CVPRG) is a specimen-based, expert-validated knowledge product, which provides a concise synthesis and overview of current knowledge on 3898 vascular plant species documented from Guinea (Conakry), West Africa, including their accepted names and synonyms, as well as their distribution and status within Guinea (indigenous or introduced, endemic or not). The CVPRG is generated automatically from the Guinea Collections Database and the Guinea Names Backbone Database, both developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with the staff of the National Herbarium of Guinea. A total of 3505 indigenous vascular plant species are reported of which 3328 are flowering plants (angiosperms); this represents a 26% increase in known indigenous angiosperms since the last floristic overview. Intended as a reference for scientists documenting the diversity and distribution of the Guinea flora, the CVPRG will also inform those seeking to safeguard the rich plant diversity of Guinea and the societal, ecological and economic benefits accruing from these biological resources.
description: This file is a printable version of the GBIF checklist dataset of the same name stored at https://doi.org/10.15468/f5gb45 . It is described in a forthcoming paper "A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea", Gosline et al., in Scientific Data.
Declaration of Intention of Wasyl Pruchnicki
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Wasyl Pruchnicki Applicant age: 38Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: AustriaDate of Birth: 31st December 1875Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Unknown City of residence at time of declaration: Absecon NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 27th May 1914
Factorizations of relative extremal projectors
Creators: name: Conley, Charles H.
name: Sepanski, Mark R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B20, 17B35

description: We survey earlier results on factorizations of extremal projectors and relative extremal projectors and present preliminary results on non-commutative factorizations of relative extremal projectors: we deduce the existence of such factorizations for sl(4) and sl(5).
description: 17 pages
Declaration of Intention of Emiel Karl Sonntag
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Emiel Karl Sonntag Applicant age: 37Occupation: WaiterCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 21st September 1877Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Palatia City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 22nd October 1914
Reducing Craving and Lapse Risk in Addiction in In-Treatment and Post-Treatment Patients Using a Mobile App Involving Ecological Momentary Assessment and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Creators: name: Binkowska, Alicja
name: Lewczuk, Karol
name: Marcowski, Przemysław
name: Obarska, Katarzyna
name: Szymczak, Karol
name: Banaszak, Maria
name: Sollich, Katarzyna
name: Skorko, Maciek
name: Gola, Mateusz
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We aim to determine the effectiveness of mobile app-based support solutions for individuals with SUD with concurrent in-patient and out-patient treatment in clinics.
Verbascum kochiiforme Boissier & Haussknecht
Creators: name: Negaresh, Kazem
name: Khoshroo, Sayed Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Verbascum
Verbascum kochiiforme

description: 5. Verbascum kochiiforme Boissier & Haussknecht in Boissier (1879: 335)
 Type:— Iran. Prov. Khuzestan: inter Seytun et Behbehan, 1868, H. C. Haussknecht s.n. (lectotype G-BOIS: G00330407!, designated here; isolectotypes JE00013723!, W0030065!).
 Residual syntypes: IRAN. Prov. Luristan: inter Tschinar et Maregun, 1868, H. C. Haussknecht s.n. (G-BOIS: G 00330406!, JE 00013721!, JE 00013722).
 Note: Two syntypes (“inter Seytun et Behbehan, Haussknecht s.n. ”and “inter Tschinar et Maregun, Haussknecht s.n. ”) were cited by Boissier & Haussknecht in Boissier (1879) in the protologue of V. kochiiforme. The sheet “inter Seytun et Behbehan, Haussknechts.n. ” preserved at G is here selected as lectotype; its leaves, flowers and inflorescence are more developed, clearly showing the characters mentioned in the protologue.
 Distribution:— Endemic to Iran.
description: Published as part of Negaresh, Kazem & Khoshroo, Sayed Mohammad Reza, 2017, Typification of five species names of the genus Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) from Iran, pp. 98-100 in Phytotaxa 295 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/13695481
Lorentz Covariant Quantum 4-Potential and Orbital Angular Momentum for the Transverse Confinement of Matter Waves
Creators: name: Ducharme, Robert J.
name: da Paz, Irismar Gonçalves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two recent papers exact Hermite-Gaussian solutions to relativistic wave equations have been obtained for both electromagnetic and particle beams that include Gouy phase. The solutions for particle beams correspond to those of the Schrödinger equation in the non-relativistic limit. Here, distinct canonical and kinetic 4-momentum operators will be defined for quantum particles in matter wave beams. The kinetic momentum is equal to the canonical momentum minus the fluctuating terms resulting from the transverse localization of the beam. Three results are obtained. First, the total energy of a particle for each beam mode is calculated. Second, the localization terms couple into the canonical 4-momentum of the beam particles as a Lorentz covariant quantum 4-potential originating at the waist. The quantum 4-potential plays an analogous role in relativistic Hamiltonian quantum mechanics to the Bohm potential in the non-relativistic quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Third, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) operator must be defined in terms of canonical momentum operators. It is further shown that kinetic 4-momentum does not contribute to OAM indicating that OAM can therefore be regarded as a pure manifestation of quantum 4-potential.
description: 9 pages
Bondi-Hoyle-Littleton accretion and the upper mass stellar IMF
Creators: name: Ballesteros-Paredes, Javier
name: Hartmann, Lee W.
name: Perez-Goytia, Nadia
name: Kuznetsova, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a series of numerical simulations of gas clouds with self-gravity forming sink particles, adopting an isothermal equation of state to isolate the effects of gravity from thermal physics on the resulting sink mass distributions. Simulations starting with supersonic velocity fluctuations develop sink mass functions with a high-mass power-law tail $dN/d\log M \propto M^Γ$, $Γ= -1 \pm 0.1$, independent of the initial Mach number of the velocity field. Similar results but with weaker statistical significance hold for a simulation starting with initial density fluctuations. This mass function power-law dependence agrees with the asymptotic limit found by Zinnecker assuming Bondi-Hoyle-Littleton (BHL) accretion, even though the mass accretion rates of individual sinks show significant departures from the predicted $\mdot \propto M^2$ behavior. While BHL accretion is not strictly applicable due to the complexity of the environment, we argue that the final mass functions are the result of a {\em relative} $M^2$ dependence resulting from gravitationally-focused accretion. Our simulations may show the power-law mass function particularly clearly compared with others because our adoption of an isothermal equation of state limits the effects of thermal physics in producing a broad initial fragmentation spectrum; $Γ\rightarrow -1$ is an asymptotic limit found only when sink masses grow well beyond their initial values. While we have purposely eliminated many additional physical processes (radiative transfer, feedback) which can affect the stellar mass function, our results emphasize the importance of gravitational focusing for massive star formation.
description: Accepted by MNRAS. 10 pages, 14 figures
Identification of microRNAs associated with allergic airway disease using a genetically diverse mouse population
Creators: name: Baran-Gale, Jeanette
name: Kelada, Samir
name: Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Fernando
name: Rutledge, Holly
name: Sethupathy, Praveen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Allergic airway diseases (AADs) such as asthma are characterized in part by granulocytic airway inflammation. The gene regulatory networks that govern granulocyte recruitment are poorly understood, but evidence is accruing that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role. To identify miRNAs that may underlie AADs, we used two complementary approaches that leveraged the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of the Collaborative Cross (CC) mouse population. In the first approach, we sought to identify miRNA expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) that overlap QTL for AAD-related phenotypes. Specifically, CC founder strains and incipient lines of the CC were sensitized and challenged with house dust mite allergen followed by measurement of granulocyte recruitment to the lung. Total lung RNA was isolated and miRNA was measured using arrays for CC founders and qRT-PCR for incipient CC lines. Results Among CC founders, 92 miRNAs were differentially expressed. We measured the expression of 40 of the most highly expressed of these 92 miRNAs in the incipient lines of the CC and identified 18 eQTL corresponding to 14 different miRNAs. Surprisingly, half of these eQTL were distal to the corresponding miRNAs, and even on different chromosomes. One of the largest-effect local miRNA eQTL was for miR-342-3p, for which we identified putative causal variants by bioinformatic analysis of the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms on RNA structure. None of the miRNA eQTL co-localized with QTL for eosinophil or neutrophil recruitment. In the second approach, we constructed putative miRNA/mRNA regulatory networks and identified three miRNAs (miR-497, miR-351 and miR-31) as candidate master regulators of genes associated with neutrophil recruitment. Analysis of a dataset from human keratinocytes transfected with a miR-31 inhibitor revealed two target genes in common with miR-31 targets correlated with neutrophils, namely Oxsr1 and Nsf. Conclusions miRNA expression in the allergically inflamed murine lung is regulated by genetic loci that are smaller in effect size compared to mRNA eQTL and often act in trans. Thus our results indicate that the genetic architecture of miRNA expression is different from mRNA expression. We identified three miRNAs, miR-497, miR-351 and miR-31, that are candidate master regulators of genes associated with neutrophil recruitment. Because miR-31 is expressed in airway epithelia and is predicted to target genes with known links to neutrophilic inflammation, we suggest that miR-31 is a potentially novel regulator of airway inflammation.
Declaration of Intention of Henry Conrad
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1915

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Henry Conrad Applicant age: 67Occupation: CookCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 7th July 1847Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: unknown City of residence at time of declaration: Somers Point NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 14th June 1915
The laboratory measurement of radioactivity purification for Pb212 in liquid scintillator
Creators: name: Hu, Wei
name: Fang, Jian
name: Yu, Boxiang
name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Zhou, Li
name: Cai, Xiao
name: Sun, Lijun
name: Liu, Wanjin
name: Wang, Lan
name: Lv, Junguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The liquid scintillator (LS) has been widely utilized in the past, running and future neutrino experiments, and requirement to the LS radio-purity is higher and higher. The water extraction is a powerful method to remove soluble radioactive nuclei, and a mini-extraction station has been constructed. To evaluate the extraction efficiency and optimize the operation parameters, a setup to load radioactivity to LS and a laboratory scale setup to measure radioactivity which use Bi^{212}-Po^{212}-Pb^{208} cascade decay are developed. Experiences from laboratory study will be useful to large scale water extraction plants design and the optimization of working in future.
description: 5pages, 9 figures
Ludovico Zorzi. Profilo di uno studioso inquieto
Creators: name: Mazzoni, Stefano
Publisher: name: Drammaturgia
Year: 2014

description: The works of one of the most authoritative historians and insightful critics in Early Modern theatre studies, are reappraised here in the light of both co-textual and contextual evaluations, as well as on the basis of updated methodological knowledge. Le opere e i giorni di uno dei più acuti storici dello spettacolo rinascimentale e di Antico regime sono ricostruiti e interpretati nel loro contesto, anche sulla base di documenti inediti, e si saldano a una riflessione metodologica su temi e problemi della Storia dello spettacolo.
description: Drammaturgia, Vol 11 No 1 (2014): Anno XI / n.s. I – 2014
Detecting Overlapping Communities from Local Spectral Subspaces
Creators: name: He, Kun
name: Sun, Yiwei
name: Bindel, David
name: Hopcroft, John E
name: Li, Yixuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.3.3; G.2.2

description: Based on the definition of local spectral subspace, we propose a novel approach called LOSP for local overlapping community detection. Instead of using the invariant subspace spanned by the dominant eigenvectors of the entire network, we run the power method for a few steps to approximate the leading eigenvectors that depict the embedding of the local neighborhood structure around seeds of interest. We then seek a sparse approximate indicator vector in the local spectral subspace spanned by these vectors such that the seeds are in its support. We evaluate LOSP on five large real world networks across various domains with labeled ground-truth communities and compare the results with the state-of-the-art community detection approaches. LOSP identifies the members of a target community with high accuracy from very few seed members, and outperforms the local Heat Kernel or PageRank diffusions as well as the global baselines. Two candidate definitions of the local spectral subspace are analyzed, and different community scoring functions for determining the community boundary, including two new metrics, are thoroughly evaluated. The structural properties of different seed sets and the impact of the seed set size are discussed. We observe low degree seeds behave better, and LOSP is robust even when started from a single random seed. Using LOSP as a subroutine and starting from each ego connected component, we try the harder yet significant task of identifying all communities a single vertex is in. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves high F1 measures on the detected multiple local overlapping communities containing the seed vertex.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Lack of correlation between pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction in cystic fibrosis: a case report
Creators: name: Knowles, Michael
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Introduction Mutations in both alleles of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene result in the disease cystic fibrosis, which usually manifests as chronic sinopulmonary disease, pancreatic insufficiency, elevated sodium chloride loss in sweat, infertility among men due to agenesis of the vas deferens and other symptoms including liver disease. Case presentation We describe a pair of African-American brothers, aged 21 and 27, with cystic fibrosis. They were homozygous for a rare frameshift mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator 3791delC, which would be expected to cause significant morbidity. Although 80% of cystic fibrosis patients are colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa by eight years of age, the older brother had no serum opsonic antibody titer to P. aeruginosa by age 13 and therefore would have failed to mount an effective antibody response to the alginate (mucoid polysaccharide) capsule of P. aeruginosa. He was not colonized with P. aeruginosa until 24 years of age. Similarly, the younger brother was not colonized with P. aeruginosa until age 20 and had no significant lung disease. Conclusion Despite a prevailing idea in cystic fibrosis research that the amount of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator predicts clinical status, our results indicated that respiratory disease severity in cystic fibrosis exhibits phenotypic heterogeneity. If this heterogeneity is, in part, genetic, it is most likely derived from genes outside the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator locus.
SEISMIC: A Self-Exciting Point Process Model for Predicting Tweet Popularity
Creators: name: Zhao, Qingyuan
name: Erdogdu, Murat A.
name: He, Hera Y.
name: Rajaraman, Anand
name: Leskovec, Jure
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.2.8
subject: 60G55, 62P25

description: Social networking websites allow users to create and share content. Big information cascades of post resharing can form as users of these sites reshare others' posts with their friends and followers. One of the central challenges in understanding such cascading behaviors is in forecasting information outbreaks, where a single post becomes widely popular by being reshared by many users. In this paper, we focus on predicting the final number of reshares of a given post. We build on the theory of self-exciting point processes to develop a statistical model that allows us to make accurate predictions. Our model requires no training or expensive feature engineering. It results in a simple and efficiently computable formula that allows us to answer questions, in real-time, such as: Given a post's resharing history so far, what is our current estimate of its final number of reshares? Is the post resharing cascade past the initial stage of explosive growth? And, which posts will be the most reshared in the future? We validate our model using one month of complete Twitter data and demonstrate a strong improvement in predictive accuracy over existing approaches. Our model gives only 15% relative error in predicting final size of an average information cascade after observing it for just one hour.
description: 10 pages, published in KDD 2015
External Authority and ‘Erosion’ of Internal Motivations for Moral Behvaiour
Creators: name: Liebmann, Nathan
name: Levy, Guy
name: Muller, Tomer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This pre-registration pertains to an experiment conducted as part of an Experimental Psychology class taken at Tel Aviv University.
Implications of prioritizing HIV cure: new momentum to overcome old challenges in HIV
Creators: name: Tucker, Joseph
name: Gilbertson, Adam
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Curing HIV is a new strategic priority for several major AIDS organizations. In step with this new priority, HIV cure research and related programs are advancing in low, middle, and high-income country settings. This HIV cure momentum may influence existing HIV programs and research priorities. Discussion Despite the early stage of ongoing HIV cure efforts, these changes have directly influenced HIV research funding priorities, pilot programs, and HIV messaging. The building momentum to cure HIV infection may synergize with strategic priorities to better identify adults and infants with very early HIV infection. Although HIV cure represents a new goal, many existing programs and research techniques can be repurposed towards an HIV cure. HIV messages focused on engaging communities towards an HIV cure need to be careful to promote ARV adherence and retention within the HIV continuum of care. Summary An increased emphasis within the AIDS field on finding an HIV cure has several important implications. Strengthening connections between HIV cure research and other areas of HIV research may help to catalyze research and facilitate implementation in the future.
Le ‘convenienze teatrali’: i cantanti nelle caricature di Anton Maria Zanetti
Creators: name: Stefani, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Drammaturgia
Year: 2014

description: The Venetian engraver and collector Anton Maria Zanetti, quondam Girolamo the Elder, amused himself by caricaturing well known people of his time, above all operatic singers and other figures from musical theatre at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Zanetti’s graphic satire can be considered the visual equivalent of the famous Teatro alla moda by Benedetto Marcello: there are exact similarities between the biting literary portraits of male and female singers by the aristocratic Venetian composer and the figurative caricatures of castrati and prime donne by Zanetti. The works of both, full of hilarious wit and inveterate prejudices, are part of that satirical movement which accompanied the commercial musical theatre from its beginnings. This critical essay analyses some caricatures of the most famous singers of the time by Zanetti, and appraises the importance of the satirizing of the so-called convenienze teatrali shared by Marcello’s Teatro alla moda. L’incisore e collezionista veneziano Anton Maria Zanetti quondam Girolamo il vecchio si divertì a mettere in caricatura protagonisti del suo tempo, soprattutto cantanti d’opera e altre figure attinenti al teatro musicale del primo Settecento. La satira grafica zanettiana può considerarsi per molti aspetti l’equivalente visivo del celebre Teatro alla moda di Benedetto Marcello: puntuali le corrispondenze tra i graffianti ritratti letterari di virtuosi e canterine dell’aristocratico musicista veneziano e le icastiche caricature di castrati e primedonne di Zanetti. Gli uni e le altre, colmi di arguzie impagabili e inossidabili pregiudizi, rientrano in quel filone satirico che accompagna il teatro d’opera dei circuiti commerciali fin dai suoi esordi. Il saggio prende in considerazione alcune caricature zanettiane dei più noti cantanti dell’epoca, ponendo in valore quella satira delle cosiddette ‘convenienze teatrali’ condivisa dal libello marcelliano.
description: Drammaturgia, Vol 11 No 1 (2014): Anno XI / n.s. I – 2014
A new spirostanol steroid and a new spirostanol steroidal saponin from Aspidistra triradiata and their cytotoxic activities
Creators: name: Le, Hien Bich Thi
name: Ho, Duc Viet
name: Nguyen, Hien Minh
name: Le, Anh Tuan
name: Van Anh Tran, Thi
name: Nguyen, Hoai Thi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: A new spirostanol steroid, aspidiata A (1), and a new spirostanol steroidal saponin, aspidiata B (2), along with three known compounds, paris saponin VII (3), daucosterol (4), and (25R)-spirostane-1β,2β,3β,4β,5β,6β-hexol (5), were isolated from whole plants of Aspidistra triradiata collected in Vietnam. Their chemical structures were established by spectroscopic analysis and comparison with previously published data. Compound 3 showed strong cytotoxicity against LU-1, Hep-G2, MCF-7, and KB human cancer cell lines with half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values ranging from 0.57 to 1.23 µM. Compound 5 exhibited weak cytotoxic activity against the LU-1 cell line, with an IC50 value of 95.81 µM.
Lepton flavor (universality) violation in rare kaon decays
Creators: name: Crivellin, Andreas
name: D'Ambrosio, Giancarlo
name: Hoferichter, Martin
name: Tunstall, Lewis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent anomalies in the decays of $B$ mesons and the Higgs boson provide hints towards lepton flavor (universality) violating physics beyond the Standard Model. We observe that four-fermion operators which can explain the $B$-physics anomalies have corresponding analogs in the kaon sector, and we analyze their impact on $K\toπ\ell \ell'$ and $K\to\ell \ell'$ decays $(\ell=μ,e)$. For these processes, we note the corresponding physics opportunities at the NA62 experiment. In particular, assuming minimal flavor violation, we comment on the required improvements in sensitivity necessary to test the $B$-physics anomalies in the kaon sector.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures. v3: version published in PRD with title "Violation of lepton flavor and lepton flavor universality in rare kaon decays"
Comparison of practice based research network based quality improvement technical assistance and evaluation to other ongoing quality improvement efforts for changes in agency culture
Creators: name: Alexander, Dayna S
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Public health agencies in the USA are increasingly challenged to adopt Quality Improvement (QI) strategies to enhance performance. Many of the functional and structural barriers to effective use of QI can be found in the organizational culture of public health agencies. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of public health practice based research network (PBRN) evaluation and technical assistance for QI interventions on the organizational culture of public health agencies in Georgia, USA. Methods An online survey of key informants in Georgia’s districts and county health departments was used to compare perceptions of characteristics of organizational QI culture between PBRN supported QI districts and non-PBRN supported districts before and after the QI interventions. The primary outcomes of concern were number and percentage of reported increases in characteristics of QI culture as measured by key informant responses to items assessing organizational QI practices from a validated instrument on QI Collaboratives. Survey results were analyzed using Multi-level Mixed Effects Logistic Model, which accounts for clustering/nesting. Results Increases in QI organizational culture were consistent for all 10- items on a QI organizational culture survey related to: leadership support, use of data, on-going QI, and team collaboration. Statistically significant odds ratios were calculated for differences in increased QI organizational culture between PBRN-QI supported districts compared to Non-PBRN supported districts for 5 of the 10 items, after adjusting for District clustering of county health departments. Conclusions Agency culture, considered by many QI experts as the main goal of QI, is different than use of specific QI methods, such as Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles or root-cause analyses. The specific use of a QI method does not necessarily reflect culture change. Attempts to measure QI culture are newly emerging. This study documented significant improvements in characteristics of organizational culture and demonstrated the potential of PBRNs to support agency QI activities.