cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Are fewer cases of diabetes mellitus diagnosed in the months after SARS-CoV-2 infection? A population-level view in the EHR-based RECOVER program
Creators: name: Harper, Jeremy
name: Wong, Rachel
name: Reddy, Neha V.
name: Johnson, Steven G.
name: Buse, John B.
name: Tronieri, Jena S.
name: Wilkins, Kenneth J.
name: Bramante, Carolyn T.
name: Stürmer, Til
name: Moffitt, Richard
name: Reusch, Jane E.
name: Yeh, Hsin-Chieh
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

description: Long-term sequelae of severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection may include increased incidence of diabetes. Here we describe the temporal relationship between new type 2 diabetes and SARS-CoV-2 infection in a nationwide database. We found that while the proportion of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes increased during the acute period of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the mean proportion of new diabetes cases in the 6 months post-infection was about 83% lower than the 6 months preinfection. These results underscore the need for further investigation to understand the timing of new diabetes after COVID-19, etiology, screening, and treatment strategies.
Das "Zeugnis" am Ort des Subjekts
Creators: name: Zeilinger, Peter
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 2 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 2
Evidence Linking PPARG Genetic Variants with Periodontitis and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Brazilian Population
Creators: name: Scarel-Caminaga, R.M.
name: Theodoro, L.H.
name: Nicchio, I.G.
name: Nepomuceno, R.
name: Cirelli, J.A.
name: Bussaneli, D.G.
name: Silva, B.R.
name: Cirelli, T.
name: Barros, S.P.
name: Orrico, S.R.P.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) gene encodes a transcription factor involved in the regulation of complex metabolic and inflammatory diseases. We investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotypes of the PPARG gene could contribute with susceptibility to develop periodontitis alone or together with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Moreover, we evaluated the gene–phenotype association by assessing the subjects’ biochemical and periodontal parameters, and the expression of PPARG and other immune response–related genes. We examined 345 subjects with a healthy periodontium and without T2DM, 349 subjects with moderate or severe periodontitis but without T2DM, and 202 subjects with moderate or severe periodontitis and T2DM. PPARG SNPs rs12495364, rs1801282, rs1373640, and rs1151999 were investigated. Multiple logistic regressions adjusted for age, sex, and smoking status showed that individuals carrying rs1151999-GG had a 64% lower chance of developing periodontitis together with T2DM. The CCGT haplotype increased the risk of developing periodontitis together with T2DM. The rs1151999-GG and rs12495364-TC were associated with reduced risk of obesity, periodontitis, elevated triglycerides, and elevated glycated hemoglobin, but there was no association with gene expression. Polymorphisms of the PPARG gene were associated with developing periodontitis together with T2DM, and with obesity, lipid, glycemic, and periodontal characteristics.
IoT-Aerial Base Station Task Offloading with Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning for Smart Agriculture
Creators: name: Pamuklu, Turgay
name: Nguyen, Anne Catherine
name: Syed, Aisha
name: Kennedy, W. Sean
name: Erol-Kantarci, Melike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aerial base stations (ABSs) allow smart farms to offload processing responsibility of complex tasks from internet of things (IoT) devices to ABSs. IoT devices have limited energy and computing resources, thus it is required to provide an advanced solution for a system that requires the support of ABSs. This paper introduces a novel multi-actor-based risk-sensitive reinforcement learning approach for ABS task scheduling for smart agriculture. The problem is defined as task offloading with a strict condition on completing the IoT tasks before their deadlines. Moreover, the algorithm must also consider the limited energy capacity of the ABSs. The results show that our proposed approach outperforms several heuristics and the classic Q-Learning approach. Furthermore, we provide a mixed integer linear programming solution to determine a lower bound on the performance, and clarify the gap between our risk-sensitive solution and the optimal solution, as well. The comparison proves our extensive simulation results demonstrate that our method is a promising approach for providing a guaranteed task processing services for the IoT tasks in a smart farm, while increasing the hovering time of the ABSs in this farm.
description: Accepted Paper
Was macht das Zeugnis des Zeugen aus?
Creators: name: Gerl-Falkovitz, Hanna-Barbara
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 2 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 2
Erik Petersons Traktat "Zeuge der Wahrheit"
Creators: name: Nichtweiß, Barbara
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 2 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 2
ESAVE: Estimating Server and Virtual Machine Energy
Creators: name: Pathania, Priyavanshi
name: Mehra, Rohit
name: Sharma, Vibhu Saujanya
name: Kaulgud, Vikrant
name: Podder, Sanjay
name: Burden, Adam P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sustainable software engineering has received a lot of attention in recent times, as we witness an ever-growing slice of energy use, for example, at data centers, as software systems utilize the underlying infrastructure. Characterizing servers for their energy use accurately without being intrusive, is therefore important to make sustainable software deployment choices. In this paper, we introduce ESAVE which is a machine learning-based approach that leverages a small set of hardware attributes to characterize a server or virtual machine's energy usage across different levels of utilization. This is based upon an extensive exploration of multiple ML approaches, with a focus on a minimal set of required attributes, while showcasing good accuracy. Early validations show that ESAVE has only around 12% average prediction error, despite being non-intrusive.
description: 3 pages. To be published in the proceedings of 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering: Late Breaking Results Track (ASE '22), October 10-14, 2022, Michigan, USA
title:  Formello e Monterano, due comunità del Cinquecento nel dominio Orsini a confronto. La lettura di un Catasto come specchio della comunità
Creators: name: Van Kampen, Iefke
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Il contributo fa un confronto tra Monterano e Formello nel XVI secolo, due centri che facevano parte del dominio Orsini, partendo dalla documentazione archivistica conservata negli archivi storici comunali. Pur con ovvie differenze le due comunità appaiono in qualche modo simili, inserendosi nello ‘Stato’ degli Orsini a Nord di Roma, del ramo di Bracciano. Uno dei temi che si evidenzia è quello della dicotomia tra «Monterani» e «Capannari», dove l’attuale Canale risulta fondato da coloni chiamati dagli Orsini per disboscare la selva; entrambi i gruppi, con i «capannari» in forte minoranza, risultano rappresentati in consiglio. Viene presentata una prima lettura del Catasto di Monterano del 1588, conservato all’interno di un volume di verbali di consiglio, messo a confronto con quello di Formello del 1559.

This contribution makes a comparison between Monterano and Formello in the 16th century, two towns that were part of the Orsini dominion, starting from the archival documentation preserved in the municipal historical archives. Despite obvious differences, the two communities appear somewhat similar, belonging to the Orsini ‘State’ north of Rome, of the Bracciano branch. One of the themes that stands out is that of the dichotomy between «Monterani» and «Capannari», where the actual Canale Monterano was founded by settlers called by the Orsini to clear the forest; both groups, with the «Capannari» in a strong minority, are represented in the council. A first reading of the Cadastre of Monterano from 1588 is presented, preserved within a volume of council minutes, compared with that of Formello from 1559.
description: Eredità culturale bene comune. Per un Museo della comunità nel territorio di Canale Monterano. Prime ricerche
Analytic solutions of topologically disjoint systems
Creators: name: Armstrong, J. R.
name: Volosniev, A. G.
name: Fedorov, D. V.
name: Jensen, A. S.
name: Zinner, N. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a procedure to solve an up to $2N$ problem where the particles are separated topologically in $N$ groups with at most two particles in each. Arbitrary interactions are allowed between the (two) particles within one group. All other interactions are approximated by harmonic oscillator potentials. The problem is first reduced to an analytically solvable $N$-body problem and $N$ independent two-body problems. We calculate analytically spectra, wave functions, and normal modes for both the inverse square and delta-function two-body interactions. In particular, we calculate separation energies between two strings of particles. We find that the string separation energy increases with $N$ and interaction strength.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, revised and published version
Large-deviation properties of resilience of power grids
Creators: name: Dewenter, Timo
name: Hartmann, Alexander K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the distributions of the resilience of power flow models against transmission line failures via a so-called backup capacity. We consider three ensembles of random networks and in addition, the topology of the British transmission power grid. The three ensembles are Erdős-Rényi random graphs, Erdős-Rényi random graphs with a fixed number of links, and spatial networks where the nodes are embedded in a two dimensional plane. We investigate numerically the probability density functions (pdfs) down to the tails to gain insight in very resilient and very vulnerable networks. This is achieved via large-deviation techniques which allow us to study very rare values which occur with probability densities below $10^{-160}$. We find that the right tail of the pdfs towards larger backup capacities follows an exponential with a strong curvature. This is confirmed by the rate function which approaches a limiting curve for increasing network sizes. Very resilient networks are basically characterized by a small diameter and a large power sign ratio. In addition, networks can be made typically more resilient by adding more links.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures; Corrected smaller errors (Omega=2\pi*50 rad/s and n_P is number of poles) and added additional information for some references
Discovery of Gamma-ray Pulsations from the Transitional Redback PSR J1227-4853
Creators: name: Johnson, T. J.
name: Ray, P. S.
name: Roy, J.
name: Cheung, C. C.
name: Harding, A. K.
name: Pletsch, H. J.
name: Fort, S.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Deneva, J.
name: Bhattacharyya, B.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Kerr, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 1.69 ms spin period of PSR J1227-4853 was recently discovered in radio observations of the low-mass X-ray binary XSS J12270-4859 following the announcement of a possible transition to a rotation-powered millisecond pulsar state, inferred from decreases in optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray flux from the source. We report the detection of significant (5$σ$) gamma-ray pulsations after the transition, at the known spin period, using ~1 year of data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The gamma-ray light curve of PSR J1227-4853 can be fit by one broad peak, which occurs at nearly the same phase as the main peak in the 1.4 GHz radio profile. The partial alignment of light-curve peaks in different wavebands suggests that at least some of the radio emission may originate at high altitude in the pulsar magnetosphere, in extended regions co-located with the gamma-ray emission site. We folded the LAT data at the orbital period, both pre- and post-transition, but find no evidence for significant modulation of the gamma-ray flux. Analysis of the gamma-ray flux over the mission suggests an approximate transition time of 2012 November 30. Continued study of the pulsed emission and monitoring of PSR J1227-4853, and other known redback systems, for subsequent flux changes will increase our knowledge of the pulsar emission mechanism and transitioning systems.
description: 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ, updated to reflect accepted version and add additional coauthor
1-O-Octadecyl-2-O-benzyl-sn-glyceryl-3-phospho-GS-441524 (V2043). Evaluation of Oral V2043 in a Mouse Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Synthesis and Antiviral Evaluation of Additional Phospholipid Esters with Enhanced Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity
Creators: name: Moreira, F.R.
name: Baric, R.S.
name: Graham, R.L.
name: Beadle, J.R.
name: McVicar, R.N.
name: Rana, T.
name: Zhang, X.-Q.
name: Schooley, R.T.
name: Freshman, J.E.
name: Clark, A.E.
name: Gully, K.L.
name: Murphy, J.A.
name: Carlin, A.F.
name: Valiaeva, N.
name: Leibel, S.L.
name: Bray, W.
name: Garretson, A.F.
name: Hostetler, K.Y.
name: McMillan, R.E.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2023

description: Early antiviral treatments, including intravenous remdesivir (RDV), reduce hospitalization and severe disease caused by COVID-19. An orally bioavailable RDV analog may facilitate earlier treatment of non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here we describe the synthesis and evaluation of alkyl glyceryl ether phosphodiesters of GS-441524 (RVn), lysophospholipid analogs which allow for oral bioavailability and stability in plasma. Oral treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected BALB/c mice with 1-O-octadecyl-2-O-benzyl-sn-glyceryl-3-phospho-RVn (60 mg/kg orally, once daily for 5 days starting 12h after infection) reduced lung viral load by 1.5 log10 units versus vehicle at day 2 and to below the limit of detection at day 5. Structure/activity evaluation of additional analogs that have hydrophobic ethers at the sn-2 of glycerol revealed improved in vitro antiviral activity by introduction of a 3-fluoro-4-methoxy-substituted benzyl or a 3- or 4-cyano-substituted benzyl. Collectively, our data support the development of RVn phospholipid prodrugs as oral antiviral agents for prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Bronchoscopic Management of COPD and Advances in Therapy
Creators: name: DeMarco, Benjamin
name: MacRosty, Christina R.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent and morbid disease marked by irreversible structural changes in the lungs. Bronchoscopic therapies have significantly expanded the treatment armamentarium for patients with persistent symptoms by reducing the physiologic detriments of hyperinflation in a less invasive fashion than surgical lung volume reduction. The spectrum of bronchoscopic techniques to reduce hyperinflation includes endobronchial valves, coils, thermal ablation, and biologic sealants. Other therapies focus on reducing parasympathetic tone and mucus hypersecretion and include targeted lung denervation, bronchial rheoplasty, and cryospray techniques. In this article, we will review the variety of techniques for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, both established and investigational, along with their respective benefits and complications and will briefly review other investigational therapies for COPD.
Der Zeuge - Geisel der Wahrheit
Creators: name: Tück, Jan-Heiner
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 2 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 2
An Introduction to Hodge Structures
Creators: name: Filippini, Sara Angela
name: Ruddat, Helge
name: Thompson, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C30

description: We begin by introducing the concept of a Hodge structure and give some of its basic properties, including the Hodge and Lefschetz decompositions. We then define the period map, which relates families of Kahler manifolds to the families of Hodge structures defined on their cohomology, and discuss its properties. This will lead us to the more general definition of a variation of Hodge structure and the Gauss-Manin connection. We then review the basics about mixed Hodge structures with a view towards degenerations of Hodge structures; including the canonical extension of a vector bundle with connection, Schmid's limiting mixed Hodge structure and Steenbrink's work in the geometric setting. Finally, we give an outlook about Hodge theory in the Gross-Siebert program.
description: 38 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Lecture Notes of the Concentrated Graduate Courses for Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics; forthcoming volume in the Fields Institute Communications Series. v2: Edited to correct a problem with theorem numbering in the original submission
Interleukin-6 is associated with tryptophan metabolism and signs of depression in individuals with carbohydrate malabsorption
Creators: name: Enko, Dietmar
name: Zelzer, Sieglinde
name: Wenninger, Julian
name: Holasek, Sandra
name: Schnedl, Wolfgang J.
name: Baranyi, Andreas
name: Herrmann, Markus
name: Meinitzer, Andreas
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: depression
inflammation
interleukin-6
interferon-gamma
tumor necrosis factor-alpha
lactoferrin

description: The aim of the present study was to investigate possible associations between interleukin-6 (IL-6), interferon-gamma (INF-γ), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), lactoferrin and lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) with TRP metabolism and signs of depression in a large cohort of outpatients referred for carbohydrate malabsorption testing. Serum concentrations of IL-6, INF-γ, TNF-α, lactoferrin, LBP, tryptophan (TRP), kynurenine (KYN) and kynuric acid were determined in 250 adults referred for lactose and fructose malabsorption testing. All participants filled out the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Serum IL-6 levels were positively correlated with the BDI score (p = 0.001, ρ = 0.205) and indicators of TRP metabolism (KYN/TRP ratio, KYN) (P-values < 0.05, ρ = 0.176 and 0.136). Ninety-five individuals with a BDI score > 13 showed significantly higher IL-6 serum levels (1.7 [1.0 – 2.8] vs. 1.1 [0.8 – 1.7] pg/mL, p < 0.001) compared to 115 individuals with a BDI score ≤ 13. LBP showed a positive correlation with the KYN/TRP ratio (p = 0.005, ρ = 0.177). IL-6 and LBP were associated with indicators of TRP metabolism. IL-6 was found to be linked to signs of depression. Individuals with the presence of depressive symptoms showed higher serum IL-6 levels compared to individuals without depressive symptoms.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1414; ISSN 1611-2156
Expanded methods from Male responses to sperm competition risk associated with increased macronutrient intake and reduced lifespan
Creators: name: Simmons, Leigh W.
name: Chan, Hwei-Ling
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
Animal Behaviour

description: Increased expenditure on the ejaculate is a taxonomically widespread male response to sperm competition. Increased ejaculate expenditure is assumed to come at a cost to future reproduction, otherwise males should always invest maximally. However, the life-history costs of strategic ejaculation are not well documented. Macronutrient intake is known to affect the trade-off between reproduction and lifespan. Intakes of protein and carbohydrate that maximize reproduction often differ from those that maximize lifespan. Here, we asked whether strategic expenditure on the ejaculate by male crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus, is mediated by macronutrient intake, and whether it comes at a cost of reduced lifespan. Males were exposed to rival song throughout their lifespan or were held in a silent non-competitive environment. Males exposed to song had a higher intake of both protein and carbohydrate, they reached adulthood sooner, produced ejaculates of higher quality, and died sooner than males living in a silent environment. Our findings provide a rare example of both the mechanisms and life-history costs associated with strategic ejaculation.
Collider signatures of Hylogenesis
Creators: name: Demidov, S. V.
name: Gorbunov, D. S.
name: Kirpichnikov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider collider signatures of the hylogenesis --- a variant of antibaryonic dark matter model. We obtain bounds on the model parameters from results of the first LHC run. Also we suggest several new channels relevant for probing the antibaryonic dark matter at LHC.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, replaced with journal version
Heart Attack Classification System using Neural Network Trained with Particle Swarm Optimization
Creators: name: Amin, Askandar H.
name: Ahmed, Botan K.
name: Maaroof, Bestan B.
name: Rashid, Tarik A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The prior detection of a heart attack could lead to the saving of one's life. Putting specific criteria into a system that provides an early warning of an imminent at-tack will be advantageous to a better prevention plan for an upcoming heart attack. Some studies have been conducted for this purpose, but yet the goal has not been reached to prevent a patient from getting such a disease. In this paper, Neural Network trained with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSONN) is used to analyze the input criteria and enhance heart attack anticipation. A real and novel dataset that has been recorded on the disease is used. After preprocessing the data, the features are fed into the system. As a result, the outcomes from PSONN have been evaluated against those from other algorithms. Decision Tree, Random Forest, Neural network trained with Backpropagation (BPNN), and Naive Bayes were among those employed. Then the results of 100%, 99.2424%, 99.2323%, 81.3131%, and 66.4141% are produced concerning the mentioned algorithms, which show that PSONN has recorded the highest accuracy rate among all other tested algorithms.
description: 12 pages
The Associations of Maternal Health Characteristics, Newborn Metabolite Concentrations, and Child Body Mass Index among US Children in the ECHO Program
Creators: name: Gebretsadik, Tebeb
name: Hartert, Tina V.
name: Paneth, Nigel S.
name: Lynch, Susan V.
name: Dabelea, Dana M.
name: Wu, Pingsheng
name: McEvoy, Cindy T.
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Rohrig, Nina B.
name: Program Collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes
name: Snyder, Brittney M.
name: Gern, James E.
name: Dupont, William D.
name: Ryckman, Kelli K.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: We aimed first to assess associations between maternal health characteristics and newborn metabolite concentrations and second to assess associations between metabolites associated with maternal health characteristics and child body mass index (BMI). This study included 3492 infants enrolled in three birth cohorts with linked newborn screening metabolic data. Maternal health characteristics were ascertained from questionnaires, birth certificates, and medical records. Child BMI was ascertained from medical records and study visits. We used multivariate analysis of variance, followed by multivariable linear/proportional odds regression, to determine maternal health characteristic-newborn metabolite associations. Significant associations were found in discovery and replication cohorts of higher pre-pregnancy BMI with increased C0 and higher maternal age at delivery with increased C2 (C0: discovery: aβ 0.05 [95% CI 0.03, 0.07]; replication: aβ 0.04 [95% CI 0.006, 0.06]; C2: discovery: aβ 0.04 [95% CI 0.003, 0.08]; replication: aβ 0.04 [95% CI 0.02, 0.07]). Social Vulnerability Index, insurance, and residence were also associated with metabolite concentrations in a discovery cohort. Associations between metabolites associated with maternal health characteristics and child BMI were modified from 1–3 years (interaction: p < 0.05). These findings may provide insights on potential biologic pathways through which maternal health characteristics may impact fetal metabolic programming and child growth patterns.
Combined source-channel coding using multilevel/phase modulation
Creators: name: Weitzner, Andrew Todd
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1988

description: A combined source-channel coding and modulation approach is implemented for the encoding, transmission and remote reconstruction of a first-order one-dimensional Gauss-Markov source described by the correlation coefficient ρ. The source encoder employs differential pulse code modulation (DPCM). This is an efficient encoding scheme in the absence of channel errors. However, DPCM degrades rapidly in the presence of channel errors. Trellis-Coded Modulation is used to provide error protection without incurring a bandwidth expansion. This is accomplished by using m-bit DPCM with a rate m/(m + 1) trellis code and a 2m+1-ary modulation technique such as multiple phase-shift keying (MPSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). The trellis codes used are those developed by Ungerboeck. Performance of the overall system is evaluated on a mean square reconstructed error (MSRE) versus channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNRin) criterion for an AWGN Channel. The system performance is increased by 3 to 7 dB as compared to an uncoded system and results are within 1.0 to 2.3 dB of the R0 bound. The technique demonstrates an effective bandwidth efficient means for transmitting source encoded date represented by more than one bit per source symbol which has not been previously demonstrated in the technical literature.
Parametric Reduced Models for the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Creators: name: Harlim, John
name: Li, Xiantao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reduced models for the (defocusing) nonlinear Schrödinger equation are developed. In particular, we develop reduced models that only involve the low-frequency modes given noisy observations of these modes. The ansatz of the reduced parametric models are obtained by employing a rational approximation and a colored noise approximation, respectively, on the memory terms and the random noise of a generalized Langevin equation that is derived from the standard Mori-Zwanzig formalism. The parameters in the resulting reduced models are inferred from noisy observations with a recently developed ensemble Kalman filter-based parameterization method. The forecasting skill across different temperature regimes are verified by comparing the moments up to order four, a two-time correlation function statistics, and marginal densities of the coarse-grained variables.
The effects of gypsy moth defoliation on nitrogen cycling in an oak-pine forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Creators: name: Kornbluh, Andrea G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: Insect herbivory that results in extensive defoliation has the potential to affect forest nitrogen dynamics. High-nitrogen leaf materials and insect excrement (frass) are deposited on the forest floor during the growing season, potentially providing a pulse of labile carbon and nitrogen. Whether the released nitrogen is retained by or lost from the forest system has important implications for nitrogen dynamics within the forest, as well as across the larger landscape. Invasion of forests in the New Jersey Pine Barrens by the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) during the summer months of 2006 and 2007 provided the opportunity to study the impact of defoliation on nitrogen cycling in an oak-pine stand. Nitrogen budgets were produced for a non-defoliated year, 2005, and a year in which forest plots were completely defoliated, 2007, in order to assess the ecosystemlevel effects of defoliation. The two budgets were not as distinct as expected. This was due, in part, to the lack of adequate forest floor data for 2005. It is likely that the forest floor is the site of altered nitrogen cycling and that microbial activity is a key component of nitrogen retention and/or loss. Future studies should focus on filling the gaps in our understanding of the Pine Barrens nitrogen budget.
Predation drives complex eco-evolutionary dynamics in sexually selected traits
Creators: name: Servedio, M.R.
name: Lerch, B.A.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Predation plays a role in preventing the evolution of ever more complicated sexual displays, because such displays often increase an individual's predation risk. Sexual selection theory, however, omits a key feature of predation in modeling costs to sexually selected traits: Predation is density dependent. As a result of this density dependence, predator-prey dynamics should feed back into the evolution of sexual displays, which, in turn, feeds back into predator-prey dynamics. Here, we develop both population and quantitative genetic models of sexual selection that explicitly link the evolution of sexual displays with predator-prey dynamics. Our primary result is that predation can drive eco-evolutionary cycles in sexually selected traits. We also show that mechanistically modeling the cost to sexual displays as predation leads to novel outcomes such as the maintenance of polymorphism in sexual displays and alters ecological dynamics by muting prey cycles. These results suggest predation as a potential mechanism to maintain variation in sexual displays and underscore that short-term studies of sexual display evolution may not accurately predict long-run dynamics. Further, they demonstrate that a common verbal model (that predation limits sexual displays) with widespread empirical support can result in unappreciated, complex dynamics due to the density-dependent nature of predation.
G3/2019/400261
Creators: name: Zhu, Jiang
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Materials forTranscriptome analysis alk-SMase knockout mice reveals the effect of alkaline sphingomyelinase on liver
Automatic Error Analysis for Document-level Information Extraction
Creators: name: Das, Aliva
name: Du, Xinya
name: Wang, Barry
name: Shi, Kejian
name: Gu, Jiayuan
name: Porter, Thomas
name: Cardie, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Document-level information extraction (IE) tasks have recently begun to be revisited in earnest using the end-to-end neural network techniques that have been successful on their sentence-level IE counterparts. Evaluation of the approaches, however, has been limited in a number of dimensions. In particular, the precision/recall/F1 scores typically reported provide few insights on the range of errors the models make. We build on the work of Kummerfeld and Klein (2013) to propose a transformation-based framework for automating error analysis in document-level event and (N-ary) relation extraction. We employ our framework to compare two state-of-the-art document-level template-filling approaches on datasets from three domains; and then, to gauge progress in IE since its inception 30 years ago, vs. four systems from the MUC-4 (1992) evaluation.
description: Accepted to ACL 2022 Main Conference. First three authors contributed equally to this work
Background independent exact renormalization group for conformally reduced gravity
Creators: name: Dietz, Juergen A.
name: Morris, Tim R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the conformally reduced gravity model, where the metric is parametrised by a function $f(ϕ)$ of the conformal factor $ϕ$, we keep dependence on both the background and fluctuation fields, to local potential approximation and $\mathcal{O}(\partial^2)$ respectively, making no other approximation. Explicit appearances of the background metric are then dictated by realising a remnant diffeomorphism invariance. The standard non-perturbative Renormalization Group (RG) scale $k$ is inherently background dependent, which we show in general forbids the existence of RG fixed points with respect to $k$. By utilising transformations that follow from combining the flow equations with the modified split Ward identity, we uncover a unique background independent notion of RG scale, $\hat k$. The corresponding RG flow equations are then not only explicitly background independent along the entire RG flow but also explicitly independent of the form of $f$. In general $f(ϕ)$ is forced to be scale dependent and needs to be renormalised, but if this is avoided then $k$-fixed points are allowed and furthermore they coincide with $\hat k$-fixed points.
description: 53 pages, broken reference corrected
Die Personidentität Jesu Christi mit dem ewigen Sohn Gottes
Creators: name: Essen, Georg
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 1 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 1
Freiheit - das geheime Motiv altkirchlicher Christologie
Creators: name: Bausenhart, Guido
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 1 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 1
The Fermionic Propagator in an Intense Background
Creators: name: Lavelle, Martin
name: McMullan, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New results for the fermion propagator in a laser background are presented. We show that the all orders electron propagator can be written in a compact and appealing form as a sum of sideband poles with a matrix wave function renormalisation and a matrix valued mass shift. This last result is essential in the fermionic theory if we are to maintain that both the mass and its square pick up a correction only at order e^2. A perturbative verification of our results is carried out.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, minor amendments and references added. Version to appear in Physical Review D
title: Henry Craik (1805-66), from St. Andrews to Bristol: an irenic Scotsman and the call for a Second Reformation
Creators: name: Lenz, Darin Duane
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow in partnership with the Edinburgh Theological Seminary
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the life of Henry Craik (1805-66), a nineteenth century Scotsman, who was a crucial figure in the development of the Christian Brethren. Craik’s understanding of Christianity changed during his years at the University of St. Andrews where he embraced an Evangelical understanding of Christianity. His newfound Evangelical piety encouraged him to live out his faith in the minutia of everyday life, as well as supporting Christian missions and helping those in need. Addressing the various influences on Craik’s life and career as a pastor in Bristol, England, this thesis argues that Craik’s experience at the University of St. Andrews laid the foundation for his irenic, biblical approach to Christianity that called for a Second Reformation of the Church and for Christians to become more biblically minded. Craik’s hope for reform was not unique to him but reflected broader understandings of Christian devotion in Scotland that were rooted in the memory of the sixteenth century Scottish Reformation that sought to revitalize Christian faith and British society by returning to the authority of Scripture in everyday piety and ecclesiastical life.
Constraining Galileon Inflation
Creators: name: Regan, Donough
name: Anderson, Gemma J.
name: Hull, Matthew
name: Seery, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short paper, we present constraints on the Galileon inflationary model from the CMB bispectrum. We employ a principal-component analysis of the independent degrees of freedom constrained by data and apply this to the WMAP 9-year data to constrain the free parameters of the model. A simple Bayesian comparison establishes that support for the Galileon model from bispectrum data is at best weak.
description: 11 pages. Matches published version
The Impending Opacity Challenge in Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization
Creators: name: Niraula, Prajwal
name: de Wit, Julien
name: Gordon, Iouli E.
name: Hargreaves, Robert J.
name: Sousa-Silva, Clara
name: Kochanov, Roman V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a new generation of observatories coming online this decade, the process of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres will need to be reinvented. Currently mostly on the instrumental side, characterization bottlenecks will soon stand by the models used to translate spectra into atmospheric properties. Limitations stemming from our stellar and atmospheric models have already been highlighted. Here, we show that the current limitations of the opacity models used to decode exoplanet spectra propagate into an accuracy wall at ~0.5-1.0 dex (i.e., 3 to 10x) on the atmospheric properties, which is an order of magnitude above the precision targeted by JWST Cycle 1 programs and needed for, e.g., meaningful C/O-ratio constraints and biosignatures identification. We perform a sensitivity analysis using nine different opacity models and find that most of the retrievals produce harmonious fits owing to compensations in the form of >5$σ$ biases on the derived atmospheric parameters translating in the aforementioned accuracy wall. We suggest a two-tier approach to alleviate this problem involving a new retrieval procedure and guided improvements in opacity data, their standardization and optimal dissemination.
description: 16 Pages, 12 Figures
Electric and magnetic fields as explicitly observer dependent four-dimensional vectors and their Lorentz transformations according to Minkowski-Ivezić
Creators: name: Ivezić, Tomislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a geometric approach to the special relativity (SR) is used that is called the "invariant special relativity" (ISR). In the ISR it is considered that in the four-dimensional (4D) spacetime physical laws are geometric, coordinate-free relationships between the 4D geometric, coordinate-free quantities. It is mathematicaly proved that in the ISR the electric and magnetic fields are properly defined vectors on the 4D spacetime. According to the first proof the dimension of a vector field is mathematicaly determined by the dimension of its domain. Since the electric and magnetic fields are defined on the 4D spacetime they are properly defined 4D vectors, the 4D geometric quantities (GQs). As shown in an axiomatic geometric formulation of electromagnetism with only one axiom, the field equation for the bivector field F [33], [T. Ivezić, Found. Phys. Lett. 18, 401 (2005), arXiv: physics/0412167], the primary quantity for the whole electromagnetism is the bivector field F. The electric and magnetic fields 4D vectors E and B are determined in a mathematically correct way in terms of F and the 4D velocity vector v of the observer who measures E and B fields. Furthermore, the proofs are presented that under the mathematicaly correct Lorentz transformations, which are first derived by Minkowski and reinvented and generalized in terms of 4D GQs, e.g., in [23], [T. Ivezić, Phys. Scr. 82, 055007 (2010)], the electric field 4D vector transforms as any other 4D vector transforms, i.e., again to the electric field 4D vector; there is no mixing with the magnetic field 4D vector B, as in the usual transformations (UT) of the 3D fields. This formulation with the 4D GQs is in a true agreement with experiments in electromagnetism, e.g., the motional emf.
description: 40 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1204.5137, arXiv:1508.04802
OʻZBEK DAVLAT DRAMA TEATRI
Creators: name: Sultonov, Dostonbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada o'zbek milliy drama teatri, uning tuzulishi, ijodkorlari, hamda unda qo'yilgan mashxur asarlar haqida so'z boradi.
Transcriptional leakage versus noise: A simple mechanism of conversion between binary and graded response in autoregulated genes
Creators: name: Ochab-Marcinek, Anna
name: Tabaka, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the response of an autoregulated gene to a range of concentrations of signal molecules. We show that transcriptional leakage and noise due to translational bursting have the opposite effects. In a positively autoregulated gene, increasing the noise converts the response from graded to binary, while increasing the leakage converts the response from binary to graded. Our findings support the hypothesis that, being a common phenomenon, leaky expression may be a relatively easy way for evolutionary tuning of the type of gene response without changing the type of regulation from positive to negative.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, published in Physical Review E, http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.012704 , copyright APS. Added missing explanations of the symbols in Tab. 1. Corrected "inactive", "active" in the text. Added missing "transcriptional" in the abstract
The pathfinder Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: Pushing the limits for ultra-low surface brightness spectroscopy
Creators: name: Lokhorst, Deborah M.
name: Chen, Seery
name: Pasha, Imad
name: Shen, Jeff
name: Malakhov, Evgeni I.
name: Abraham, Roberto G.
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pathfinder Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper is a distributed aperture telescope based off of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array with additional instrumentation (the Dragonfly "Filter-Tilter") to enable ultranarrow bandpass imaging. The pathfinder is composed of three redundant optical tube assemblies (OTAs) which are mounted together to form a single field of view imaging telescope (where the effective aperture diameter increases as the square-root of the number of OTAs). The pathfinder has been on sky from March 2020 to October 2021 equipped with narrowband filters to provide proof-of-concept imaging, surface brightness limit measurements, on sky testing, and observing software development. Here we describe the pathfinder telescope and the sensitivity limits reached along with observing methods. We outline the current limiting factors for reaching ultra-low surface brightnesses and present a comprehensive comparison of instrument sensitivities to low surface brightness line emission and other methods of observing the ultra-faint line emission from diffuse gas. Finally, we touch on plans for the upcoming 120-OTA Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper, which is currently under construction.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, published in SPIE
Die Wiederkunft Christi und die Geheimnisse des Lebens Jesu
Creators: name: Armogathe, Jean Robert
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 1 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 1
A multispecies framework for modeling adaptive immunity and immunotherapy in cancer
Creators: name: Vincent, Benjamin
name: Cao, Yanguang
name: Qi, Timothy
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Predator-prey theory is commonly used to describe tumor growth in the presence of selective pressure from the adaptive immune system. These interactions are mediated by the tumor immunopeptidome (what the tumor “shows” the body) and the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire (how well the body “sees” cancer cells). The tumor immunopeptidome comprises neoantigens which can be gained and lost throughout tumorigenesis and treatment. Heterogeneity in the immunopeptidome is predictive of poor response to immunotherapy in some tumor types, suggesting that the TCR repertoire is unable to support a fully polyclonal response against every neoantigen. Importantly, while tumor and T-cell populations are known to compete with each other for intratumoral resources, whether between-lineage competition among peripheral T cells influences the TCR repertoire is unknown and difficult to interrogate experimentally. Computational models may offer a way to investigate these phenomena and deepen our understanding of the tumor-immune axis. Here, we construct a predator-prey-like model and calibrate it to preclinical and clinical data to describe tumor growth and immunopeptidome diversification. Simultaneously, we model the expansion of antigen-specific T-cell lineages and their consumption of both lineage-specific antigenic resources and lineage-agnostic, shared resources. This predator-prey-like framework accurately described clinically observed immunopeptidomes; recapitulated response-associated effects of immunotherapy, including immunoediting; and allowed exploration of treatment of tumors with varying growth and mutation rates.