cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
تقييم جودة الأنشطة الرياضية المدرسية في سلطنة عمان في ضوء متطلبات إدارة الجودة الشاملة Evaluating the quality of school sports activities in the Sultanate of Oman in light of the requirements of total quality management
Creators: name: سالم, الجهضمي
name: أحمد, فاروق
name: خلف, العبري
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Total Quality Management, Requirements, Quality of Activities, School sports, TQM

description: The study aimed to assess the quality of school sports activities in Oman in light of the requirements of total quality management. The researchers used the descriptive approach and questionnaire to collect data; And a representative sample of the community consisting of (462) male and female teachers and supervisors of school sports, and the study concluded that the level of quality of school sports activities in  the Sultanate of Oman in light of the requirements of total quality management was average with an arithmetic mean as a whole for the scale amounted to (3.23) and a standard deviation of (0.51). The results of the study also showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level (α≤0.05) due to gender variables in favor offemale teachers, job variable in favor of teachers, and academic qualification variable in favor of bachelor’s holders, and one of the most important recommendations was to use the results of the study for improvement and development
Reply To "Comment on 'Quantum Convolutional Error-Correcting Codes' "
Creators: name: Chau, H. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In their comment, de Almedia and Palazzo \cite{comment} discovered an error in my earlier paper concerning the construction of quantum convolutional codes (quant-ph/9712029). This error can be repaired by modifying the method of code construction.
description: 1 page, to appear in PRA
Faint Radio Sources in the NOAO Bootes Field. VLBA Imaging and Optical Identifications
Creators: name: Wrobel, J. M.
name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Rector, T. A.
name: Myers, S. T.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a step toward investigating the parsec-scale properties of faint extragalactic radio sources, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) was used at 5.0 GHz to obtain phase-referenced images of 76 sources in the NOAO Bootes field. These 76 sources were selected from the FIRST catalog to have peak flux densities above 10 mJy at 5 arcsec resolution and deconvolved major diameters of less than 3 arcsec at 1.4 GHz. Fifty-seven of these faint radio sources were identified with accretion-powered radio galaxies and quasars brighter than 25.5 mag in the optical I band. On VLA scales at 1.4 GHz, a measure of the compactness of the faint sources (the ratio of the peak flux density from FIRST to the integrated flux density from the NVSS catalog) spans the full range of possibilites arising from source-resolution effects. Thirty of the faint radio sources, or 39 +9/-7%, were detected with the VLBA at 5.0 GHz with peak flux densities above 6 sigma ~2 mJy at 2 mas resolution. The VLBA detections occur through the full range of compactness ratios. The stronger VLBA detections can themselves serve as phase-reference calibrators, boding well for opening up much of the radio sky to VLBA imaging. For the adopted cosmology, the VLBA resolution correponds to 17 pc or finer. Most VLBA detections are unresolved or slightly resolved but one is diffuse and five show either double or core-jet structures; the properties of these latter six are discussed in detail. Three VLBA detections are unidentified and fainter than 25.5 mag in the optical I band; their properties are highlighted because they likely mark optically-obscured active nuclei at high redshift.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures, ID tweaks, to appear in the September 2005 issue of AJ
Measurement of the t anti-t Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV using Missing E(t) + jets Events with Secondary Vertex b-Tagging
Creators: name: CDF Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the t anti-t production cross section in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV which uses events with an inclusive signature of significant missing transverse energy and jets. This is the first measurement which makes no explicit lepton identification requirements, so that sensitivity to W --> tau nu decays is maintained. Heavy flavor jets from top quark decay are identified with a secondary vertex tagging algorithm. From 311 pb-1 of data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab we measure a production cross section of 5.8 +/- 1.2(stat.)+0.9_-0.7(syst.) pb for a top quark mass of 178 GeV/c2, in agreement with previous determinations and standard model predictions.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Use of focus group interviews for exploring and participatory mapping of cultural ecosystem services and disservices of urban green space – an example from the city of Zagreb, Croatia.
Creators: name: Krajter Ostoić, Silvija
name: Kičić, Martina
name: Vuletić, Dijana
name: Marin, Ana Marija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description:  

Presentation held at the "European Forum on Urban Forestry 2023 (EFUF 2023), Krakow, 24-26 May 2023.
Vehicle classification based on convolutional networks applied to FM-CW radar signals
Creators: name: Capobianco, Samuele
name: Facheris, Luca
name: Cuccoli, Fabrizio
name: Marinai, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the processing of Frequency Modulated-Continuos Wave (FM-CW) radar signals for vehicle classification. In the last years deep learning has gained interest in several scientific fields and signal processing is not one exception. In this work we address the recognition of the vehicle category using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) applied to range Doppler signature. The developed system first transforms the 1-dimensional signal into a 3-dimensional signal that is subsequently used as input to the CNN. When using the trained model to predict the vehicle category we obtain good performance.
description: in Proceedings of 1st European Conference on Traffic Mining Applied to Police Activities (TRAP 2017)
The Length Control Mechanisms of Type-III Secretion Systems in Salmonella enterica
Creators: name: Wee, Daniel Hyung Jin
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology

description: The flagellum allows both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria to swim towards favorable environments and colonize new sites. However, the injectisome is unique to Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. Injectisomes are utilized to secrete effector proteins into host cells where they influence the cell's behavior and evade the immune response. The flagellar hook and injectisome needle have evolved to optimal lengths to facilitate motility and pathogenicity, respectively. The mechanism of length control also plays a central role in their assembly process. Many factors can alter the lengths of these structures, which has influenced researchers in the field to propose different length-control models. The works presented in this dissertation provide a detailed description of the experiments and logic that have led to elucidating one model of length control based on a secreted molecular ruler in both flagellar and injectisome systems. Chapter 1 provides a review of the structural architecture, assembly process and genetic regulation of the flagella and injectisome of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. This chapter also provides a brief overview and history of the different length control models that have been proposed for the hook- and needle-length control. Chapters 2 and 3 focuses on the flagellar length-control mechanism. Here, a model of length control, called the cup model, was questioned and was experimentally found to be a misinterpretation of previous data (Chapter 2). This work also provided key insights into the mechanism of how hook length is determined by the molecular ruler, FliK (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 of this work supports the assertion that the molecular ruler mechanism for length control is conserved throughout type-III secretion systems. We refuted the data published in support of an inner-rod model of length control in the Spi-1 injectisome. The findings presented in this thesis are concluded in Chapter 5, as well as further insights into the length-control and assembly mechanisms of type-III secretion systems uncovered during our investigations to provide a complete model for length control and uncover the conservation of a molecular ruler length determinant in type-III secretion systems.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0292
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0292, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0292, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Measuring the quality factor of a microwave cavity using superconduting qubit devices
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-xi
name: Wei, L. F.
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to create superpositions of two macroscopic quantum states of a single-mode microwave cavity field interacting with a superconducting charge qubit. The decoherence of such superpositions can be determined by measuring either the Wigner function of the cavity field or the charge qubit states. Then the quality factor Q of the cavity can be inferred from the decoherence of the superposed states. The proposed method is experimentally realizable within current technology even when the $Q$ value is relatively low, and the interaction between the qubit and the cavity field is weak.
description: 8 pages
Accreting black hole binaries in globular clusters
Creators: name: Kremer, Kyle
name: Chatterjee, Sourav
name: Rodriguez, Carl L.
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the formation of mass-transferring binary systems containing black holes within globular clusters. We show that it is possible to form mass-transferring black hole binaries with main sequence, giant, and white dwarf companions with a variety of orbital parameters in globular clusters spanning a large range in present-day properties. All mass-transferring black hole binaries found in our models at late times are dynamically created. The black holes in these systems experienced a median of $\sim 30$ dynamical encounters within the cluster before and after acquiring the donor. Furthermore, we show that the presence of mass-transferring black hole systems has little correlation with the total number of black holes within the cluster at any time. This is because the net rate of formation of black hole-non-black hole binaries in a cluster is largely independent of the total number of retained black holes. Our results suggest that the detection of a mass-transferring black hole binary in a globular cluster does not necessarily indicate that the host cluster contains a large black hole population.
description: v2. Manuscript submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. Comments welcome
Fourier Phase Analysis of SDSS Galaxies
Creators: name: Hikage, Chiaki
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Park, Changbom
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: Brinkmann, Jon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a first analysis of the clustering of SDSS galaxies using the distribution function of the sum of Fourier phases. This statistic was recently proposed by one of authors as a new method to probe phase correlations of cosmological density fields. Since the Fourier phases are statistically independent of Fourier amplitudes, the phase statistic plays a complementary role to the conventional two-point statistics of galaxy clustering. In particular, we focus on the distribution functions of phase sum over three closed wavevectors as a function of the configurations of triangle wavevectors. We find that the observed distribution functions of phase sum are in good agreement with the lowest-order approximation from perturbation theory. For direct comparison with observations, we construct mock catalogs from N-body simulations taking account of several observational effects such as the survey geometry, the redshift distortion, and the discreteness due to the limited number of data. Indeed the observed phase correlations for the galaxies in the range of absolute magnitude -22
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Vol.57. No.5 in press)
Limited Postnatal Feeding Reduces the PPARy-Setd8-H4K20me-1_WNT Pathway in the Lung of Chronically Ventilated Preterm Lambs
Creators: name: Hagen-Lillevik, Synneva Jean
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nutrition
Developmental biology

description: Preterm neonates supported by invasive intermittent mechanical ventilation (IMV) often experience poor postnatal growth characterized by feeding intolerance and failure to thrive. One consequence of poor postnatal nutrition is reduced substrate availability such as essential fatty acids, and reduced alveolar formation, all resulting in poor lung outcomes and risk for chronic lung disease. Our group showed that preterm lambs supported by IMV have feeding intolerance, poor growth, and impaired alveolar formation. In contrast, preterm lambs supported by high-frequency nasal ventilation (HFNV) feed and grow, and have normal alveolar formation. When preterm lambs supported by HFNV have feeding volumes restricted, they experience poor postnatal growth, and have arrested alveolar formation. One pathway involved in alveolar formation is the essential fatty acid docosahexanoic acid (DHA) activated PPARγ-Setd8- H4K20me1-Wnt pathway. We hypothesized that restricted feeding of preterm lambs supported by HFNV reduces available serum DHA, as well as components of the PPARγ- Setd8-H4K20me1-Wnt pathway. To test this hypothesis, we used the preterm lamb model of chronic lung disease. Two groups of preterm lambs were supported by noninvasive HFNV for 21 days. One group (restricted) had feedings restricted to 75% (mL/kg/day) of that received by the control group (matched for feeding tolerated during IMV). iv The other group (control) received feedings as tolerated, progressing to ad libitum. Both groups were fed ewe's colostrum for three days, proceeding to mature ewe milk. We measured plasma and lung DHA, as well as components of the PPARγ-Setd8-H4K20me1-Wnt pathway. Restricted feeding of preterm lambs reduced serum and lung DHA levels relative to control. Restricted feeding of preterm lambs also significantly decreased lung PPARγ, Setd8, and Wnt signaling components β-catenin, and Wnt11 compared to control. Restricted feeding also reduced Wnt output gene MMP9 mRNA transcript level compared to control. In conclusion, restricted feeding of preterm lambs managed by HFNV reduces serum DHA and components of the PPARγ-Setd8-H4K20me1-Wnt pathway in the lung. We speculate that restoration of serum DHA levels in preterm lambs managed by restricted feeding during HFNV will restore PPARγ- Setd8-H4K20me1-Wnt pathway activation and alveolar formation.
Solvable relativistic quantum dots with vibrational spectra
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For Klein-Gordon equation a consistent physical interpretation of wave functions is reviewed as based on a proper modification of the scalar product in Hilbert space. Bound states are then studied in a deep-square-well model where spectrum is roughly equidistant and where a fine-tuning of the levels is mediated by PT-symmetric interactions composed of imaginary delta functions which mimic creation/annihilation processes.
description: Int. Worskhop "Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics III" (June 20 - 22, 2005, Koc Unversity, Istanbul(http://home.ku.edu.tr/~amostafazadeh/workshop/workshop.htm) a part of talk (9 pages)
Genetic Algorithm for Epidemic Mitigation by Removing Relationships
Creators: name: Concatto, Fernando
name: Zunino, Wellington
name: Giancoli, Luigi A.
name: Santiago, Rafael
name: Lamb, Luís C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Min-SEIS-Cluster is an optimization problem which aims at minimizing the infection spreading in networks. In this problem, nodes can be susceptible to an infection, exposed to an infection, or infectious. One of the main features of this problem is the fact that nodes have different dynamics when interacting with other nodes from the same community. Thus, the problem is characterized by distinct probabilities of infecting nodes from both the same and from different communities. This paper presents a new genetic algorithm that solves the Min-SEIS-Cluster problem. This genetic algorithm surpassed the current heuristic of this problem significantly, reducing the number of infected nodes during the simulation of the epidemics. The results therefore suggest that our new genetic algorithm is the state-of-the-art heuristic to solve this problem.
description: GECCO '17 - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Lipids, Membranes, and Neurogenesis: A Developmental Continuum
Creators: name: Johri, Shaili
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019

description: Lipids, including fats, waxes and sterols, are a group of naturally occurring cellular molecules that perform a diverse array of vital functions within every organism. Broadly, lipids directly or indirectly participate in signaling, act as building blocks within membranes, and function as highly efficient sources of energy. In all these roles, lipids can heavily influence the chemical activities that sustain life-processes collectively known as metabolism. Lipids are composed of fatty acids and particularly, the lipids that constitute biological membranes are composed of long chain fatty acids. Long chain fatty acids, in order to be used for energy generation, membrane biogenesis, or signaling within the cell, need to be activated by esterification to Coenzyme-A. Long chain Acyl CoA Synthase enzymes catalyze this important esterification reaction and hence act as key metabolic regulators of fatty acid metabolism within the cell. The membrane fatty acid composition of a cell determines the protein composition of biological membranes and can thus define the developmental fate of a cell as well as its membrane bending and migratory abilities. In this regard, Acyl CoA Synthases can also act as key developmental regulators. In the current study, we present evidence for the role of Long chain Acyl CoA Synthases (ACSL): Bgm and Dbb in Drosophila embryogenesis. Particularly, maternally deposited bgm transcript is required for the processes of iv cellularization and neurogenesis during Drosophila embryonic development. Rab-5 tagged endocytic vesicles are critical sources of membrane components during cellularization, and Bgm is required for the proper subcellular targeting of these vesicles. Neurogenesis also requires maternal expression of bgm, and abnormal neurogenesis in bgm mutants appears to be related to the early defect in cellularization. In addition, we also demonstrate that bgm and dbb are duplicated genes with partially diverged developmental expression patterns and are transcriptionally regulated by dorsoventral patterning genes. Lastly, we provide evidence for behavioral abnormalities in bgm and dbb mutant flies, thus making them attractive models of neurodegenerative disorders, which can be potentially used in large scale screens for diet and drug therapies.
The life and educational contributions of Dr. George Thomas
Creators: name: Erickson, Joseph Glen
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: Thomas, George, 1866-1951

description: Dr. George Thomas had a long career as an educator in Utah. During his life he occupied several very important educational positions. His most important position, which he held for twenty years, was that of president of the University of Utah. The importance of this position was brought out very well in a tribute to him that appeared in the 1935 issue of the Utonian, the University of Utah annual.
Getting the message across: Flexitarians as messengers for meat reduction
Creators: name: Ginn, Joel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a registration of the project page for the manuscript "Getting the message across: Flexitarians as messengers for meat reduction". This page contains the data and syntax used for analysis, the materials used in all studies, and a supplementary findings document.
A Measurement of the Tau Hadronic Branching Ratios
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exclusive and semi-exclusive branching ratios of the tau lepton hadronic decay modes (h- v_t, h- pi0 v_t, h- pi0 pi0 v_t, h- \geq 2pi0 v_t, h- \geq 3pi0 v_t, 2h- h+ v_t, 2h- h+ pi0 v_t, 2h- h+ \geq 2pi0 v_t, 3h- 2h+ v_t and 3h- 2h+ \geq 1pi0 v_t) were measured with data from the DELPHI detector at LEP.
description: 53 pages, 18 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Anatomy and Functions of Salivary Glands in Ruminants
Creators: name: Shailendra Chaurasia
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Ruminants have a unique digestive system that allows them to chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. Saliva aids in mastication and swallowing of food and also plays an important role to maintaining the rumen homeostasis. The three pairs of major salivary glands viz., parotid, mandibular and sublingual are found in ruminants that secreted saliva conveyed into the oral cavity by their ducts. The minor salivary glands i.e., labial, buccal, lingual and palatine are also provide necessary moisture in their area. The secretion of salivary glands is serous and mucous in nature and contains water, mucin, amylase and salts especially sodium bicarbonate in ruminants. The large amount of saliva secretion in ruminants provides an important source of fluids in the rumen. The salts present in saliva are also necessary for neutralizing acids formed by fermentation in the rumen to maintain acid-base equilibrium. Saliva also play role in food perception and preferences. Thus, saliva has important role to facilitate process of food digestion and utilization in ruminants.
The First Ionization Potential Effect from the Ponderomotive Force: On the Polarization and Coronal Origin of the Alfven Waves
Creators: name: Laming, J. Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate in more detail the origin of chromospheric Alfven waves that give rise to the separation of ions and neutrals, the First Ionization Potential Effect (FIP), through the action of the ponderomotive force. In open field regions, we model the dependence of fractionation on the plasma upflow velocity through the chromosphere for both shear (or planar) and torsional Alfven waves of photospheric origin. These differ mainly through their parametric coupling to slow mode waves. Shear Alfven waves appear to reproduce observed fractionations for a wider range of model parameters, and present less of a "fine-tuning" problem than do torsional waves. In closed field regions, we study the fractionations produced by Alfven waves with photospheric and coronal origins. Waves with a coronal origin, at or close to resonance with the coronal loop, offer a significantly better match to observed abundances than do photospheric waves, with shear and torsional waves in such a case giving essentially indistinguishable fractionations. Such coronal waves are likely the result of a nanoflare coronal heating mechanism, that as well as heating coronal plasmas releases Alfven waves that can travel down to loop footpoints and cause FIP fractionation through the ponderomotive force as they reflect from the chromosphere back into the corona.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted
Effect of second booster vaccinations and prior infection against SARS-CoV-2 in the UK SIREN healthcare worker cohort
Creators: name: Kirwan, PD
name: Hall, VJ
name: Foulkes, S
name: Otter, AD
name: Munro, K
name: Sparkes, D
name: Howells, A
name: Platt, N
name: Broad, J
name: Crossman, D
name: Norman, C
name: Corrigan, D
name: Jackson, CH
name: Cole, M
name: Brown, CS
name: Atti, A
name: Islam, J
name: Group, SIREN Study
name: Presanis, AM
name: Charlett, A
name: De Angelis, D
name: Hopkins, S
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Cell Biology
subject: Cell Biology

description: Background: The protection of fourth dose mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is relevant to current global policy decisions regarding ongoing booster roll-out. We aimed to estimate the effect of fourth dose vaccination, prior infection, and duration of PCR positivity in a highly-vaccinated and largely prior-COVID-19 infected cohort of UK healthcare workers. Methods: Participants underwent fortnightly PCR and regular antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 and completed symptoms questionnaires. A multi-state model was used to estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) against infection from a fourth dose compared to a waned third dose, with protection from prior infection and duration of PCR positivity jointly estimated. Findings: 1298 infections were detected among 9560 individuals under active follow-up between September 2022 and March 2023. Compared to a waned third dose, fourth dose VE was 13.1% (95% CI 0.9 to 23.8) overall; 24.0% (95% CI 8.5 to 36.8) in the first 2 months post-vaccination, reducing to 10.3% (95% CI −11.4 to 27.8) and 1.7% (95% CI −17.0 to 17.4) at 2–4 and 4–6 months, respectively. Relative to an infection >2 years ago and controlling for vaccination, 63.6% (95% CI 46.9 to 75.0) and 29.1% (95% CI 3.8 to 43.1) greater protection against infection was estimated for an infection within the past 0–6, and 6–12 months, respectively. A fourth dose was associated with greater protection against asymptomatic infection than symptomatic infection, whilst prior infection independently provided more protection against symptomatic infection, particularly if the infection had occurred within the previous 6 months. Duration of PCR positivity was significantly lower for asymptomatic compared to symptomatic infection. Interpretation: Despite rapid waning of protection, vaccine boosters remain an important tool in responding to the dynamic COVID-19 landscape; boosting population immunity in advance of periods of anticipated pressure, such as surging infection rates or emerging variants of concern. Funding: UK Health Security Agency, Medical Research Council, NIHR HPRU Oxford, Bristol, and others.
Probing 3-D matter distribution at z~2 with QSO multiple lines of sight
Creators: name: Cristiani, S.
name: D'Odorico, V.
name: Saitta, F.
name: Viel, M.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Boyle, B.
name: Lopez, S.
name: Maza, J.
name: Outram, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the 3-D matter distribution at z~2 with high resolution (R ~ 40000) spectra of QSO pairs and groups obtained with the UVES spectrograph at ESO VLT. Our sample is unique for the number density of objects and the variety of separations, between 0.5 and 7 proper Mpc. We compute the real space cross-correlation function of the Lyman-alpha forest transmitted fluxes. There is a significant clustering signal up to ~2 proper Mpc, which is still present when absorption lines with high column density (log N > 13.8) are excluded.
description: Poster paper presented at the IAU Colloquium #199 on "Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines" held in Shanghai, China from March 14th to 18th, 2005
Multivariate modelling of spatial extremes based on copulas
Creators: name: Chan, Raymond K. S.
name: So, Mike K. P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology

description: To model extreme spatial events, a general approach is to use the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution with spatially varying parameters such as spatial GEV models and latent variable models. In the literature, this approach is mostly used to capture spatial dependence for only one type of event. This limits the applications to air pollutants data as different pollutants may chemically interact with each other. A recent advancement in spatial extremes modelling for multiple variables is the multivariate max-stable processes. Similarly to univariate max-stable processes, the multivariate version also assumes standard distributions such as unit-Fréchet as margins. Additional modelling is required for applications such as spatial prediction. In this paper, we extend the marginal methods such as spatial GEV models and latent variable models into a multivariate setting based on copulas so that it is capable of handling both the spatial dependence and the dependence among multiple pollutants. We apply our proposed model to analyse weekly maxima of nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, respirable suspended particles, fine suspended particles, and ozone collected in Pearl River Delta in China.
Local Translation During Axon Guidance in the Zebrafish Retinotectal System
Creators: name: Gaynes, John Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019

description: Development of the nervous system involves establishment of precise long distance connections between distinct single cells called neurons. During development, long axons extend from the cell body and grow, following a very specific pathway through a complex environment to their target. The growth cone is a dynamic structure with finger-like filopodia that sense guidance cues in the surrounding environment through receptors. External guidance cues can be attractive or repulsive, and growth cone turning in response to a guidance cue is driven by actin dynamics, with increased polymerization during attractive turning and increased disassembly during repulsive turning. Therefore, regulators of actin dynamics such as actin-binding proteins are the targets of signaling in the growth cone initiated by external guidance cues. The growth cone changes its behavior very rapidly in response to guidance cues, even as it becomes further and further from the cell body. Growth cones have the ability to act autonomously to guidance cues, in order to continue to react quickly without delay. Local mRNA translation in growth cones has an important role in growth cone behavior, giving the ability to respond to external guidance cues without communication with the cell body. Local translation is regulated by RNA-binding proteins and directly influences actin dynamics that are important for growth cone behavior. While in vitro studies have revealed a wealth of knowledge about the mechanisms involved with local translation during axon guidance, the requirement for the function of RNA-binding proteins in vivo has not been tested extensively. In this dissertation, an in vivo local translation timelapse assay, performed in the zebrafish retinotectal system, demonstrates that the zebrafish β- actin3'UTR is sufficient to target Kaede expression to RGC growth cones. Also, Igf2bp1 is shown to be the zebrafish ZBP1 ortholog, and a bipartite "zipcode element," required for interaction with ZBP1, is identified in the β-actin3'UTR. I also present the first evidence to date that Igf2bp1/ZBP1 function is required for axon guidance, and furthermore provide data that suggest that Igf2bp1 function may be required for axon specification or elongation, contrary to the common belief that ZBP1 function is required only for axon branching and arbor formation, and that local β-actin translation is only required for growth cone turning during axon guidance.
Direct detection of the 229Th nuclear clock transition
Creators: name: von der Wense, Lars
name: Seiferle, Benedict
name: Laatiaoui, Mustapha
name: Neumayr, Jürgen B.
name: Maier, Hans-Jörg
name: Wirth, Hans-Friedrich
name: Mokry, Christoph
name: Runke, Jörg
name: Eberhardt, Klaus
name: Düllmann, Christoph E.
name: Trautmann, Norbert G.
name: Thirolf, Peter G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Today's most precise time and frequency measurements are performed with optical atomic clocks. However, it has been proposed that they could potentially be outperformed by a nuclear clock, which employs a nuclear transition instead of the atomic shell transitions used so far. By today there is only one nuclear state known which could serve for a nuclear clock using currently available technology, which is the isomeric first excited state in $^{229}$Th. Here we report the direct detection of this nuclear state, which is a further confirmation of the isomer's existence and lays the foundation for precise studies of the isomer's decay parameters. Based on this direct detection the isomeric energy is constrained to lie between 6.3 and 18.3 eV, and the half-life is found to be longer than 60 s for $^{229\mathrm{m}}$Th$^{2+}$. More precise determinations appear in reach and will pave the way for the development of a nuclear frequency standard.
Lithium1.3Aluminum0.3Titanium1.7Phosphate as a solid state Li-ion conductor: Issues with microcracking and stability in aqueous solutions
Creators: name: Jackman, Spencer D.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2019
Subjects: Inorganic chemistry
Materials science

description: Lithium aluminum titanium phosphate (LATP) with formula Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 was analyzed and tested to better understand its applicability as a solid state ion conducting ceramic material for electrochemical applications. Sintered samples were obtained from Ceramatec, Inc. in Salt Lake City and characterized in terms of density, phase-purity, fracture toughness, Young's modulus, thermal expansion behavior, mechanical strength, a.c. and d.c. ionic conductivity, and susceptibility to static and electrochemical corrosion in aqueous Li salt solutions. It was shown that LATP is prone to microcrack generation because of high thermal expansion anisotropy. A.c. impedance spectra of high-purity LATP of varying grain sizes showed that microcracking had a negative impact on the ionic conduction of Li along grain boundaries, with fine-grained (1.7±0.7 µm) LATP having twice the ionic conductivity of the same purity of coarse-grained (4.8±1.9 µm) LATP at 50°C. LATP with detectible secondary phases had lower ionic conductivity for similar grain sizes, as would be expected. The Young's modulus of fine-grained LATP was measured to be 115 GPa, and the highest biaxial strength was 191±11 MPa when tested in mineral oil, 144±13 MPa as measured in air, and 26±7 MPa after exposure to deionized water, suggesting that LATP undergoes stress-corrosion cracking. After exposure to LiOH, the strength was 76±19 MPa. This decrease in strength was observed despite there being no measureable change in a.c. impedance spectra, X-ray diffraction, or sample mass, suggesting phosphate glasses at grain boundaries. The chemical and electrochemical stability of high-purity LATP in aqueous electrochemical cells was evaluated using LiOH, LiCl, LiNO3, and LiCOOCH3 salts as the Li source. LATP was found to be most stable between pH 8-9, with the longest cell operating continuously at 25 mA cm-2 for 625 hours at 40°C in LiCOOCH3. At pH values outside of the 7-10 range, eventual membrane degradation was observed in all aqueous systems under electrochemical conditions. While LATP was surprisingly resistant to static corrosion in a hot, aqueous LiOH solution, electrochemical degradation was observed at the cathode due to subsurface pitting. Strength measurements were more instructive than impedance measurements in detecting this degradation.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1403-1423) (11 H 1161), f. 00262
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1403-1423), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1161). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1403-1423), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1161), f. 00262, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
Additional file 2: of NKX2.5 is expressed in papillary thyroid carcinomas and regulates differentiation in thyroid cells
Creators: name: Penha, Ricardo
name: Buexm, Luisa
name: Rodrigues, Fabiana
name: Taciana De Castro
name: Santos, Maria
name: Fortunato, Rodrigo
name: Carvalho, Denise
name: Luciene Cardoso-Weide
name: Ferreira, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Table S2. Immunohistochemical analysis of NKX2.5 in papillary thyroid carcinoma samples (n = 10). (DOC 29 kb)
Navigating the Future of Rural Connectivity: The XGAIN Tool Architecture
Creators: name: Betzler, August
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The XGAIN project addresses rural connectivity challenges using the Knowledge Facilitation Tool (KFT). This tool guides the implementation of technologies tailored to rural needs, considering diverse end devices and communication technologies. The KFT's architecture is systematically designed based on stakeholder requirements, comprising modules for requirement gathering, technology selection, analysis, and business model proposals. A mockup aids in visualizing dashboard features and refining functionalities. Challenges in architecture design are being addressed iteratively, with future work focusing on implementation and integration of KFT modules. 

 

This work has been developed in the context of the XGain project (101060294). XGain fosters a sustainable, balanced, and inclusive development of rural, coastal and urban areas by facilitating access to relevant stakeholders to a comprehensive inventory of smart XG, last-mile connectivity and edge computing solutions, and of related assessment methods. Learn more at xgain-project.eu.
Search for excited leptons in e+e- collisions at sqrt{s}=189-209 GeV
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for excited lepton production in e+e- collisions was performed using the data collected by the DELPHI detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 189 GeV to 209 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 600 pb^{-1}. No evidence for excited lepton production was found. In searches for pair-produced excited leptons, lower mass limits were established in the range 94 - 103 GeV/c^2, depending on the channel and model assumptions. In searches for singly-produced excited leptons, upper limits on the parameter f/Lambda were established as a function of the mass.
description: 31 pages, 12 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Kaon condensation in the quark-meson coupling model and compact stars
Creators: name: Menezes, D. P.
name: Panda, P. K.
name: Providencia, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of neutron stars constituted of a crust of hadrons and an internal part of hadrons and kaon condensate are calculated within the quark-meson-coupling model. We have considered stars with nucleons only in the hadron phase and also stars with hyperons as well. The results are compared with the ones obtained from the non-linear Walecka model for the hadronic phase.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time
Creators: name: Wells, Ryan
name: Manly, Catherine A.
name: Kommers, Suzan
name: Kimball, Ezekiel
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Higher Education

description: Empirical studies have concluded that rural students experience lower rates of college enrollment and degree completion compared to their nonrural peers, but this literature needs to be expanded and updated for a continually changing context. This article examines the rural-nonrural disparities in students’ postsecondary trajectories, influences, and outcomes. By comparing results to past research using similar national data and an identical design, we are able to examine change over time. Results show narrowed gaps from the 1990s into the 2000s, but with rural students still facing persistent challenges and experiencing lower average rates of college enrollment and degree completion.
Primordial Cosmology in Mimetic Born-Infeld Gravity
Creators: name: Bouhmadi-López, Mariam
name: Chen, Che-Yu
name: Chen, Pisin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld (EiBI) model is reformulated within the mimetic approach. In the presence of a mimetic field, the model contains non-trivial vacuum solutions which could be free of spacetime singularity because of the Born-Infeld nature of the theory. We study a realistic primordial vacuum universe and prove the existence of regular solutions, such as primordial inflationary solutions of de Sitter type or bouncing solutions. Besides, the linear instabilities present in the EiBI model are found to be avoidable for some interesting bouncing solutions in which the physical metric as well as the auxiliary metric are regular at the background level.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures and 1 table. References added. Version accepted in JCAP
Determination of the b quark mass at the M_Z scale with the DELPHI detector at LEP
Creators: name: The DELPHI Collaboration
name: Abdallah, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental study of the normalized three-jet rate of b quark events with respect to light quarks events (light= \ell \equiv u,d,s) has been performed using the CAMBRIDGE and DURHAM jet algorithms. The data used were collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP on the Z peak from 1994 to 2000. The results are found to agree with theoretical predictions treating mass corrections at next-to-leading order. Measurements of the b quark mass have also been performed for both the b pole mass: M_b and the b running mass: m_b(M_Z). Data are found to be better described when using the running mass. The measurement yields: m_b(M_Z) = 2.85 +/- 0.18 (stat) +/- 0.13 (exp) +/- 0.19 (had) +/- 0.12 (theo) GeV/c^2 for the CAMBRIDGE algorithm. This result is the most precise measurement of the b mass derived from a high energy process. When compared to other b mass determinations by experiments at lower energy scales, this value agrees with the prediction of Quantum Chromodynamics for the energy evolution of the running mass. The mass measurement is equivalent to a test of the flavour independence of the strong coupling constant with an accuracy of 7 permil.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. C
Additional file 1: of NKX2.5 is expressed in papillary thyroid carcinomas and regulates differentiation in thyroid cells
Creators: name: Penha, Ricardo
name: Buexm, Luisa
name: Rodrigues, Fabiana
name: Taciana De Castro
name: Santos, Maria
name: Fortunato, Rodrigo
name: Carvalho, Denise
name: Luciene Cardoso-Weide
name: Ferreira, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table S1. Primers used for Real Time PCR assay. (DOC 32 kb)