cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
Creators: name: Huang, Shuo
name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
name: Wilhelm, Maite J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Current exoplanet formation studies tend to overlook the birth environment of stars in clustered environments. The effect of this environment on the planet-formation process, however, is important, especially in the earliest stage. Aims: We investigate the differences in planet populations forming in star-cluster environments through pebble accretion and compare these results with the planet formation around isolated stars. We try to provide potential signatures on the young planetary systems to guide future observation. Methods: We design and present a new planet population synthesis code for clustered environments. The planet formation model is based on pebble accretion and includes migration in the circumstellar disk. The disk's gas and dust are evolved in 1D simulations considering the effects of photo-evaporation of the nearby stars. Results: Planetary systems in a clustered environment are different than those born in isolation; the environmental effects are important for a wide range of observable parameters and the eventual architecture of the planetary systems. Planetary systems born in a clustered environment lack cold Jupiters compared to isolated planetary systems. This effect is more pronounced for low-mass stars ($\lesssim$0.2 $M_\odot$). On the other hand, planetary systems born in clusters show an excess of cold Neptune around these low-mass stars. Conclusions: In future observations, finding an excess of cold Neptunes and a lack of cold Jupiters could be used to constrain the birth environments of these planetary systems. Exploring the dependence of cold Jupiter's intrinsic occurrence rate on stellar mass provides insights into the birth environment of their proto-embryos.
description: 13 pages 10 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Tailored graphical lasso for data integration in gene network reconstruction
Creators: name: Lingjærde, Camilla
name: Lien, Tonje G.
name: Borgan, Ørnulf
name: Bergholtz, Helga
name: Glad, Ingrid K.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Methodology Article
Graphical lasso
Weighted graphical lasso
High-dimensional inference
Network models
Genomics
Multiomics
Gene networks
Protein–protein interaction networks
Cancer genomics
Integrative analysis

description: Abstract: Background: Identifying gene interactions is a topic of great importance in genomics, and approaches based on network models provide a powerful tool for studying these. Assuming a Gaussian graphical model, a gene association network may be estimated from multiomic data based on the non-zero entries of the inverse covariance matrix. Inferring such biological networks is challenging because of the high dimensionality of the problem, making traditional estimators unsuitable. The graphical lasso is constructed for the estimation of sparse inverse covariance matrices in such situations, using L1-penalization on the matrix entries. The weighted graphical lasso is an extension in which prior biological information from other sources is integrated into the model. There are however issues with this approach, as it naïvely forces the prior information into the network estimation, even if it is misleading or does not agree with the data at hand. Further, if an associated network based on other data is used as the prior, the method often fails to utilize the information effectively. Results: We propose a novel graphical lasso approach, the tailored graphical lasso, that aims to handle prior information of unknown accuracy more effectively. We provide an R package implementing the method, tailoredGlasso. Applying the method to both simulated and real multiomic data sets, we find that it outperforms the unweighted and weighted graphical lasso in terms of all performance measures we consider. In fact, the graphical lasso and weighted graphical lasso can be considered special cases of the tailored graphical lasso, and a parameter determined by the data measures the usefulness of the prior information. We also find that among a larger set of methods, the tailored graphical is the most suitable for network inference from high-dimensional data with prior information of unknown accuracy. With our method, mRNA data are demonstrated to provide highly useful prior information for protein–protein interaction networks. Conclusions: The method we introduce utilizes useful prior information more effectively without involving any risk of loss of accuracy should the prior information be misleading.
Role of caspase-3 in supporting normal and malignant human mammary cells
Creators: name: Eskandari-Nasab, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Mechanisms that regulate cell survival and proliferation are important for the both the development and homeostasis of normal tissue. Elements of the pathways that mediate these roles are also variably deregulated both during the establishment and perpetuation of malignant states. CASPASE-3 (CASP3) is well known for its key function in apoptosis, but an involvement in other cellular processes has also been documented. The investigations carried out in this thesis focused on understanding if and how CASP3 might affect the proliferation, survival, and cell cycle progression of normal and malignant human mammary cells. A series of lentiviral-mediated CASP3 knockdown (KD) experiments ± vectors encoding the wild-type CASP3 cDNA or a cDNA lacking the catalytic domain required for its apoptotic function showed that loss of CASP3 diminished both the growth and survival of normal and malignant human mammary cells in vitro and the growth of malignant human mammary cells in vivo. Moreover, the “rescue” experiments showed these activities of CASP3 did not require its known catalytic function. Initial mass spectrometry-based proteomic comparisons of control and CASP3 KD cells were then used to identify molecular targets and pathways dependent on CASP3. This revealed a number of candidates with known roles in controlling the clearance of protein aggregates by the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) and components of the autophagy process. Additional intracellular flow cytometric analyses of these candidate molecular targets in both normal and malignant human mammary cells showed that the levels of protein aggregates were consistently highest in the CASP3 KD cells and, conversely, CASP3 overexpressing cells harboured reduced levels of protein aggregates further implicating an important role of CASP3 in the clearance of protein aggregates. These observations suggest that the toxic consequences of an accumulation of protein aggregates might be a driving factor in causing the impaired survival and proliferation of CASP3 KD human mammary cells. The results of functional assays of the effect of inhibiting these targets added strength to the idea of their involvement in the dependency function of CASP3 in normal mammary cells that may be exploited to enhance the treatment of highly aggressive types of human breast cancer cells.
Efficient Emptiness Check for Timed Büchi Automata (Extended version)
Creators: name: Herbreteau, Frédéric
name: Srivathsan, B.
name: Walukiewicz, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Büchi non-emptiness problem for timed automata refers to deciding if a given automaton has an infinite non-Zeno run satisfying the Büchi accepting condition. The standard solution to this problem involves adding an auxiliary clock to take care of the non-Zenoness. In this paper, it is shown that this simple transformation may sometimes result in an exponential blowup. A construction avoiding this blowup is proposed. It is also shown that in many cases, non-Zenoness can be ascertained without extra construction. An on-the-fly algorithm for the non-emptiness problem, using non-Zenoness construction only when required, is proposed. Experiments carried out with a prototype implementation of the algorithm are reported.
description: Published in the Special Issue on Computer Aided Verification - CAV 2010; Formal Methods in System Design, 2011
EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE PROPORTION OF LOW-COST CARE FOR LOW-BACK PAIN MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH META-ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Grande, Guilherme Henrique Dalaqua
name: Crystian Bitencourt Soares De Oliveira
name: Thamíris Martins Ferreira Santos
name: Crespo, Flávia Orlanda
name: Munuera, Letícia Crellis
name: Vidal, Rubens Vinícius Caversan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Orthopedics
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: Hypothesis and aim Despite attempts to reduce the social and financial impact of low back pain, few interventions have been successful in providing effective solutions35. A few systematic reviews were conducted on this topic36, 37. However, their search includes studies up to 2016 at most, and we are aware of new published studies since then, which may change the findings of these systematic review37, 38, 39 Estimating the effectiveness of implementation strategies will help to understand the effectiveness of certain strategies that should lead to improvements in health practices and patient care41, 42. The objective of this review will be to estimate the effectiveness of evidence-based clinical guidelines-recommended practice implementation strategies in healthcare professionals to reduce the proportion of low-value care and increase the proportion of high-value care in the management of low back pain.
The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year
Creators: name: Weisse, Mikaela
name: Goldman, Liz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: global forest watch
primary forest
forest coverage
forest fire
forest loss

description: The tropics lost 12 million hectares of tree cover in 2018, the fourth-highest annual loss since record-keeping began in 2001. Of greatest concern is the disappearance of 3.6 million hectares of primary rainforest, an area the size of Belgium. The fgures come from updated data from the University of Maryland, released today on Global Forest Watch.

Old growth, or “primary” tropical rainforests are a crucially important forest ecosystem, containing trees that can be hundreds or even thousands of years old. They store more carbon than other forests and are irreplaceable when it comes to sustaining biodiversity. Primary rainforests provide habitat for animals ranging from orangutans and mountain gorillas to jaguars and tigers. Once these forests are cut down, they may never return to their original state.

For the frst time, new data on the location of primary forests can help distinguish loss of these important forests from other tree cover loss (read more about the data here). The data reveal that despite a growing number of zero-deforestation commitments from governments and companies, primary rainforest loss hit record-highs in 2016 and 2017 due to fres and remained above historical  levels in 2018.
AVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO PERMANENTE EM SAÚDE: Construção de um Instrumento
Creators: name: Santos, Daniel Marques Dos
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Educação Continuada
subject: Avaliação no Trabalho
subject: Avaliação
subject: Intrumentos de Avaliação
subject: Educação Permanente em Saúde

description: Investigar estratégias de avaliação da Educação Permanente em Saúde na DRS IV, com vistas ao aprimoramento e acompanhamento de suas práticas. Identificando práticas de avaliação da EPS utilizadas nos municípios. investigando como a EIP e a PIC têm sido consideradas nestes processos avaliativos Levantantando potencialidades e desafios da avaliação dessas práticas avaliativas. Reconhecendo sugestões para o desenvolvimento de um instrumento de avaliação. Construindo e validando um instrumento de avaliação da EPS no contexto dos serviços de saúde.
Functional annotation of two genomes of Sceloporus tristichus
Creators: name: Bedoya, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Functional annotation file of the Sceloporus tristichus genome from Snowflake and Holbrook.Data reported in Bedoya et al., 2020 ("Characterization of a Pericentric Inversion in Plateau Fence Lizards Sceloporus tristichus: Evidence from Chromosome-scale Genomes")
Parental Support, Functional Connectivity, and Mental Health ABCD Project
Creators: name: Lakhan-Pal, Shreya
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this study, I aim to examine whether resting state functional connectivity in late childhood can predict psychopathology during the transition into adolescence. Because the development of the brain is sensitive to environmental inputs, functional connectivity may serve as a metric of prior life history that gets neurally encoded as vulnerability for emotional dysregulation. We have reason to believe that this longitudinal relationship may exist given a body of work presenting cross-sectional associations between functional connectivity and psychopathology. Moving beyond vulnerability, I aim to understand which experiences then disrupt that vulnerability in functional connectivity, thus serving as protective factors. The efficacy of parenting and family support in this transitional age range is of particular interest because adolescence is also associated with a decrease in reliance on parents for emotional support.
Retroviral analysis reveals the ancient origin of Kihnu native sheep in Estonia: implications for breed conservation
Creators: name: Rannamäe, Eve
name: Saarma, Urmas
name: Ärmpalu-Idvand, Anneli
name: Teasdale, Matthew D.
name: Speller, Camilla
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/208
/631/601
/704/844
article

description: Abstract: Native animal breeds constitute an invaluable pool of genetic resources in a changing environment. Discovering native breeds and safeguarding their genetic diversity through specific conservation programs is therefore of high importance. Endogenous retroviruses have proved to be a reliable genetic marker for studying the demographic history of sheep (Ovis aries). Previous research has revealed two migratory episodes of domesticated sheep from the Middle East to Europe. The first episode included predominantly ‘primitive populations’, while the second and most recent is hypothesised to have included sheep with markedly improved wool production. To examine whether the recently discovered Kihnu native sheep in Estonia have historically been part of the first migratory episode and to what extent they have preserved primitive genetic characters, we analysed retroviral insertions in 80 modern Kihnu sheep and 83 ancient sheep from the Bronze Age to Modern Period (850 BCE–1950 CE). We identified that the Kihnu sheep have preserved ‘primitive’, ‘Nordic’, and other ‘ancient’ retrotypes that were present both in archaeological and modern samples, confirming their shared ancestry and suggesting that contemporary Kihnu native sheep originate from the first migratory episode. However, over the course of history, there has been a gradual decrease in the frequency of primitive retrotypes. Furthermore, Kihnu sheep possessed several ‘novel’ retrotypes that were absent in archaeological individuals, but were shared with improvement breeds, suggesting recent crossing within the last two centuries. To preserve these ancient lineages, our results are being applied in the conservation program of the Kihnu Native Sheep Society.
Cluster membership analysis with supervised learning and $N$-body simulations
Creators: name: Bissekenov, A.
name: Kalambay, M.
name: Abdikamalov, E.
name: Pang, X.
name: Berczik, P.
name: Shukirgaliyev, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Membership analysis is an important tool for studying star clusters. There are various approaches to membership determination, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning (ML) methods. We perform membership analysis using the supervised machine learning approach. We train and test our ML models on two sets of star cluster data: snapshots from $N$-body simulations and 21 different clusters from the Gaia Data Release 3 data. We explore five different ML models: Random Forest (RF), Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Feed-Forward Neural Networks, and K-Nearest Neighbors. We find that all models produce similar results, with RF showing slightly better accuracy. We find that a balance of classes in datasets is optional for successful learning. The classification accuracy depends strongly on the astrometric parameters. The addition of photometric parameters does not improve performance. We do not find a strong correlation between the classification accuracy and clusters' age, mass, and half-mass radius. At the same time, models trained on clusters with a larger number of members generally produce better results.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 10 pages, 12 figures
Preregistered Extension of Personality and Psychopathology in Youth Project: Individual Differences in Temperament in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study
Creators: name: Beauchaine, Ted
name: Tackett, Jennifer L
name: Katz, Benjamin
name: Watts, Ashley L.
name: Shields, Allison
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: An extension of a current meta-analysis using temperament data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Auditory Discrimination and Preference Tasks (ADAPT)
Creators: name: Rondeline M. Williams
name: Frank, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Communication
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: active learning
subject: auditory noise
subject: cognitive development

description: This study explores how 3-5-year-old preschool children make decisions about optimal auditory environments given changing goal states. In this study, we introduced children to a pair of friends with a list of activity goals to complete in one or more rooms. We manipulated the sound type in each room and then asked children to decide whether the selected activity appropriately matched the sound type. We hypothesize that children will use auditory information to evaluate activity-sound mappings, and that this ability is driven by both learned conventions and a desire to reach optimal outcomes where possible. The purpose of this study is to explore children’s understanding of noise’s differential impact on goals.
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Creators: name: Bedoya, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Functional annotation file of the Sceloporus tristichus genome from Snowflake.Data reported in Bedoya et al., 2020 ("Characterization of a Pericentric Inversion in Plateau Fence Lizards Sceloporus tristichus: Evidence from Chromosome-scale Genomes")
Correspondence of pubertal hormones and physical maturation
Creators: name: Cheng, Theresa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: A part of the Transitions in Adolescent Girls study (https://osf.io/5r4mv/) from the DSN Lab (https://osf.io/bkwyb/) Outdated version of this project: https://osf.io/t9ukf/
Dyslexia treatment studies: A systematic review and suggestions on testing treatment efficacy with small effects and small samples
Creators: name: Toffalini, Enrico
name: Giofrè, David
name: Pastore, Massimiliano
name: Carretti, Barbara
name: Fraccadori, Federica
name: Szűcs, Denes
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
Dyslexia
Treatment efficacy
Design analysis
Meta-analysis
Mixed-effects modelling

description: Funder: Università degli Studi di Padova
description: Abstract: Poor response to treatment is a defining characteristic of reading disorder. In the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we found that the overall average effect size for treatment efficacy was modest, with a mean standardized difference of 0.38. Small true effects, combined with the difficulty to recruit large samples, seriously challenge researchers planning to test treatment efficacy in dyslexia and potentially in other learning disorders. Nonetheless, most published studies claim effectiveness, generally based on liberal use of multiple testing. This inflates the risk that most statistically significant results are associated with overestimated effect sizes. To enhance power, we propose the strategic use of repeated measurements with mixed-effects modelling. This novel approach would enable us to estimate both individual parameters and population-level effects more reliably. We suggest assessing a reading outcome not once, but three times, at pre-treatment and three times at post-treatment. Such design would require only modest additional efforts compared to current practices. Based on this, we performed ad hoc a priori design analyses via simulation studies. Results showed that using the novel design may allow one to reach adequate power even with low sample sizes of 30–40 participants (i.e., 15–20 participants per group) for a typical effect size of d = 0.38. Nonetheless, more conservative assumptions are warranted for various reasons, including a high risk of publication bias in the extant literature. Our considerations can be extended to intervention studies of other types of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Online Beratungen zum Forschungsdatenmanagement für das Wintersemester 2022/23 (FDM-Stelle, UB)
Creators: name: Strauch-Davey, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Beratungen
Forschungsnahe Dienste
Forschungsdatenmanagement
research data
research support

description: "Im Fokus neuer serviceorientierter Leistungen der UB stehen seit März 2018 alle Forscher, angefangen vom Bachelor-Bereich bis hin zum Post-Doc. sowie alle Mitarbeiter der Universität. Außerdem laufen Ankündigungen über die Webseite der Universität Hildesheim im Veranstaltungskalender: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/. Eine sehr hohe Motivation und Einsatztbereitschaft sind essentiell für eine gute Entwicklung des Forschungsdatenmanagement innerhalb der Bibliothek und am Campus.

 Mit „Awareness“-Maßnahmen wie Schulungen und Workshops hat sich die FDM-Stelle der UB inzwischen gut positionieren können."

 Quelle: https://www.password-online.de/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzQ1LCIwZDkxNzMwYTg5YmMiLDAsMCwzOCwxXQ
MOOC4Slav: Ficheiros texto - Quizzes
Creators: name: Inovação Educativa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: MOOC4Slav
Língua portuguesa
B1
B2
C1
Textos
Quiz

description: Textos PDF do MOOC4Slav contendo quizzes sobre os seguintes pontos dos Módulos: 1.1 Os exames na minha faculdade em Portugal; 2.1 Exames orais; Trabalhos de grupo em contexto universitário; 2.3 Como debater em contexto universitário; 3.1 Estruturas de expressão de opinião em contexto formal; 3.2 Marcadores conversacionais; 4.1 Como estudar eficazmente uma língua estrangeira; Quiz final (M6).
Multiplicity of stars with planets in the solar neighbourhood
Creators: name: González-Payo, J.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Gorgas, J.
name: Cortés-Contreras, M.
name: Gálvez-Ortiz, M. -C.
name: Cifuentes, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: - Aims: We intended to quantify the impact of stellar multiplicity on the presence and properties of exoplanets. - Methods: We investigated all exoplanet host stars at less than 100 pc using the latest astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and advanced statistical methodologies. We complemented our search for common proper motion and parallax companions with data from the Washington Double Star catalogue and the literature. After excluding a number of systems based on radial velocity data, and membership in clusters and open associations, or with resolved ultracool companions, we kept 215 exoplanet host stars in 212 multiple-star systems. - Results: We found 17 new companions in the systems of 15 known exoplanet host stars, measured precise angular and projected physical separations and position angles for 236 pairs of stars, compiled key parameters for 276 planets in multiple systems, and established a comparison sample comprising 687 single stars with exoplanets. With all of this, we statistically analysed a series of hypothesis regarding planets in multiple stellar systems. Although they are only statistically significant at a 2σ level, our analysis pointed to several interesting results on the comparison in the mean number of planets in multiple versus single stellar systems and the tendency of high mass planets to be located in closer orbits in multiple systems. We confirm that planets in multiple systems tend to have orbits with larger eccentricities than those in single systems. In particular, we found a significant (> 4σ) preference for planets to exhibit high orbital eccentricities at small ratios between star-star projected physical separations and star-planet semi-major axes.
description: Accepted in A&A. 47 Pages, 14 figures and 9 tables (4 tables online)
Determining the cost-effectiveness requirements of an exoskeleton preventing second hip fractures using value of information
Creators: name: Manetti, Stefania
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
name: Fusco, Francesco
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Utilization, expenditure, economics and financing systems
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Early health technology assessment
Value of information
Uncertainty
Elicitation

description: Abstract: Background: Falls may lead to hip fractures, which have a detrimental effect on the prognosis of patients as well as a considerable impact on healthcare expenditures. Since a secondary hip fracture (SHF) may lead to even higher costs than primary fractures, the development of innovative services is crucial to limit falls and curb costs in high-risk patients. An early economic evaluation assessed which patients with a second hip fracture could benefit most from an exoskeleton preventing falls and whether its development is feasible. Methods: The life-course of hip fractured patients presenting with dementia or cardiovascular diseases was simulated using a Markov model relying on the United Kingdom administrative data and complemented by published literature. A group of experts provided the exoskeleton parameters. Secondary analyses included a threshold analysis to identify the exoskeleton requirements (e.g. minimum impact of the exoskeleton on patients’ quality of life) leading to a reimbursable incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. Similarly, the uncertainty around these requirements was modelled by varying their standard errors and represented alongside population Expected Value of Perfect Information (EVPI). Results: Our base-case found the exoskeleton cost-effective when providing a statistically significant reduction in SHF risk. The secondary analyses identified 286 cost-effective combinations of the exoskeleton requirements. The uncertainty around these requirements was explored producing further 22,880 scenarios, which showed that this significant reduction in SHF risk was not necessary to support the exoskeleton adoption in clinical practice. Conversely, a significant improvement in women quality of life was crucial to obtain an acceptable population EVPI regardless of the cost of the exoskeleton. Conclusions: Our study identified the exoskeleton requisites to be cost-effective and the value of future research. Decision-makers could use our analyses to assess not only whether the exoskeleton could be cost-effective but also how much further research and development of the exoskeleton is worth to be pursued.
Electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling in China : scale and policy challenges
Creators: name: Sun, Jie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of Electric Vehicles (EVs). This study assesses: (i) the number of future passenger and commercial electric vehicles (EVs), and consequent retired lithium-ion battery (LIB) amounts in China and (ii) current Chinese policies regarding retired battery reuse and recycling. The first part of this work used the Bass Diffusion Model (BDM) framework to predict the China’s future EV sales trends and uses those numbers to calculate retired battery amounts. We use 4 scenarios to assess future EV sales based on (i) solely historical trends for internal combustion vehicles (ICEVs); (ii) a rapid sales scenario for EVs; (iii) a scenario based on government goals for EVs and (iv) a slow uptake scenario. The scenario based on historical trends for ICEVs predicts the most rapid growth rate and is expected to reach market saturation (95% adoption) within the next decade and provides the best fit for the EV and ICEV data. Thus, this work predicts a far more rapid uptake of EVs in China than previous work and government predictions. The results show that the cumulated retired battery amounts across scenarios range between 120 million tonnes to 263 million tonnes by 2060, with the higher end of this range being the most plausible. This sets up an immediate challenge for the Chinese battery recycling regulatory system. The second section combines a review of existing Chinese state and regional policies regarding the reuse and recycling of retired EV batteries, along with a combination of surveys and 16 interviews on current and future policy expectations. We find that current policy directives are mostly issued on a national level and intended to serve primarily as guidelines for the industry. Experts see the recycling industry as informal and fragmented and are deeply concerned about lack of monitoring and an absence of emission standards in the reuse and recycle sector. As retired battery amounts are expected to grow fast, experts recommended introducing the deposit scheme, extended producer responsibility (EPR), closed-loop tracking system, and qualification of recycling facilities to solve the current policy deficiencies and industrial problems.
Marked manuscript file from Inter-species stimulus enhancement: Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) mimic human food choice during foraging
Creators: name: Feist, Franziska
name: Smith, Kiera
name: Graham, Paul
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A copy of the manuscript file with all changes marked with yellow highlighter.
title: Évaluer et développer l’empathie des élèves :
title: séquence d’enseignement autour de l’album jeunesse Fleur de Neige
titleType: Subtitle
title: Évaluer et développer l’empathie des élèves :
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Martinez, Alice
name: Moehr, Pauline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: diversité
subject: empathie
subject: lecture interactive
subject: album jeunesse

description: De nos jours, l’école tend à être de plus en plus inclusive et s’ouvre à l’accueil d’enfants en situation de handicap dans les classes dites « ordinaires ». L’État de Vaud, avec la mise en œuvre du Concept 360° formalise cette vision et demande aux établissements vaudois de s’y préparer. Cependant, il nous semble nécessaire d’entreprendre un travail afin de préparer les élèves à accueillir la différence. Les comportements violents – indirects ou directs – peuvent être un obstacle fort à l’inclusion et à l’acceptation de la diversité. Une bonne empathie peut a contrario permettre de prévenir ces comportements-là. C’est dans ce contexte que nous avons établi nos deux objectifs de recherche : (1) engendrer des réflexions et des discussions autour de la diversité en classe et (2) évaluer et développer l’empathie des élèves. La littérature jeunesse est un vecteur qui favorise le développement de l’empathie. Nous avons donc choisi de créer une séquence autour de « Fleur de Neige », un album traitant de la différence et des situations d’exclusion de manière implicite et poétique. La séquence a été construite selon le dispositif de la lecture interactive qui permet un échange continu avec l’élève. Les questions posées aux élèves les amènent à effectuer des transactions littéraires (affectives, créatives et critiques) afin de favoriser leur compréhension et leur interprétation du livre. Grâce à certaines activités, dont une discussion philosophique, nous avons amené les élèves à monter en généralité pour qu’ils puissent transférer ce qui a été lu dans leur réalité. Suite à l’analyse des deux traces écrites que nous avons récoltées et aux enregistrements vidéos, nous arrivons à plusieurs constats. Tout d’abord, cette séquence permet bel et bien d’engendrer des réflexions et des discussions autour de la diversité. Ensuite, si elle s’inscrit dans un travail à long terme, notre séquence contribue également au développement de l’empathie. Elle n’est donc pas à considérer comme une fin en soi, mais comme un tremplin pour continuer à préparer nos élèves à accueillir la diversité.
Quality of fish oil-based dietary supplements available on the Italian market as related to the global fatty acid composition
Creators: name: Nevigato, Teresina
name: Masci, Maurizio
name: Turrini, Aida
name: Zoani, Claudia
name: Caproni, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Omega-3 dietary supplements
Quality control

description: The consumption of dietary supplements is growing rapidly with a large turnover. In this research work the composition of omega-3 supplements is analyzed by Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry. It has been observed that compliance with the label is not always enough to judge a product of "good quality"
Combinations of binders for improvement/treatment of contaminated soils
Creators: name: Bikoko, Theodore Gautier
name: Tchamba, Jean Claude
name: Ndubisi Okonta, Felix
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Soil improvement or soil treatment is the process of mixing binder (s) such as cement, blast furnace slag, fly ash, lime, basic oxygen furnace slag, desilicated fly ash, high carbon fly ash, modified clay, silica fume, sodium silicate, bentonite, dicalcium phosphate, high refractory cements, zeolite, activated carbon and others to the contaminated soil in order to improve its strength, bearing capacity, density, stiffness, workability, durability (e.g. freeze-thaw, wet-dry) and decrease its plasticity, leachability, porosity, permeability and compressibility. This process aims at minimising or controlling or stabilizing the rate of contaminant migration into the environment in order of converting them into less soluble, mobile, or toxic forms. Although there are many researches on improvement or treatment technology, very few investigations have been reported on binders of different combinations or in blended systems for the improvement or treatment of contaminated soils. Hence, this paper seeks to fill that knowledge gap in the literature by providing a critical review of binders of different combinations or in blended systems for the improvement or treatment of contaminated soils. This paper also proposed a model which researchers can use for selecting the journal for publishing their research works.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
title: La collaboration :
title: une précieuse ressource pour l’apprentissage des élèves présentant une dyslexie
titleType: Subtitle
title: La collaboration :
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schopfer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Québec
subject: Suisse romande
subject: dyslexie
subject: compréhension en lecture
subject: enseignant·e·s régulier·ère·s et spécialisé·e·s

description: La dyslexie-dysorthographie est un trouble du langage de plus en plus présent dans les classes. Au sein d’une école à visée inclusive, il est essentiel d’accompagner ces élèves dans leurs apprentissages sans les écarter du groupe classe. Pour ce faire, les compétences des enseignants se voient prendre de l’ampleur et la collaboration avec les enseignant·e·s spécialisé·e·s semble essentielle. Notre travail de recherche a pour ambition de répondre à la question suivante : « Comment se met en œuvre le travail collaboratif entre l’enseignant·e ordinaire et l’enseignant·e spécialisé au sein des classes de 5-6 en Suisse et de 3-4P au Québec pour pallier les difficultés transdisciplinaires de compréhension en lecture des élèves porteurs de dyslexie ? » Ce travail vise deux objectifs. Premièrement, nous avons souhaité décrire et comparer les modalités de collaboration entre les enseignant·e·s spécialisé·e·s et régulier·ère·s en Suisse et au Québec dans les classes du primaire. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons recensé et comparé les outils proposés aux élèves dyslexiques-dysorthographiques. Les réponses ont été obtenues grâce à des entretiens menés avec des enseignantes spécialisées et régulières, nous permettant d’émettre des hypothèses quant aux modes de collaboration favorisant les apprentissages des élèves dyslexiques-dysorthographiques. Nous avons finalement émis trois hypothèses. Tout d’abord, la réduction de l’itinérance des enseignant·e·s spécialisé·e·s pourrait favoriser le temps d’échange à disposition et l’entente entre collègues. Aussi, des pratiques plus fréquentes de co-enseignement permettraient aux élèves de rester intégrés au groupe classe, contrairement aux modalités de co-intervention souvent pratiquées. Finalement, les aménagements mis en place par les enseignantes régulières au sein de notre recherche semblent moindres alors que ceux proposés par les enseignantes spécialisées sont plus en accord avec la littérature. La collaboration entre ces deux corps de métier nous semble donc essentielle pour optimiser toutes les chances de réussite des élèves présentant une dyslexie-dysorthographie.
DNA methylation landscapes of 1538 breast cancers reveal a replication-linked clock, epigenomic instability and cis-regulation.
Creators: name: Batra, Rajbir Nath
name: Lifshitz, Aviezer
name: Vidakovic, Ana Tufegdzic
name: Chin, Suet-Feung
name: Sati-Batra, Ankita
name: Sammut, Stephen-John
name: Provenzano, Elena
name: Ali, H Raza
name: Dariush, Ali
name: Bruna, Alejandra
name: Murphy, Leigh
name: Purushotham, Arnie
name: Ellis, Ian
name: Green, Andrew
name: Garrett-Bakelman, Francine E
name: Mason, Chris
name: Melnick, Ari
name: Aparicio, Samuel A J R
name: Rueda, Oscar M
name: Tanay, Amos
name: Caldas, Carlos
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Funder: Cancer Research UK
description: Funder: Wellcome Trust
description: DNA methylation is aberrant in cancer, but the dynamics, regulatory role and clinical implications of such epigenetic changes are still poorly understood. Here, reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) profiles of 1538 breast tumors and 244 normal breast tissues from the METABRIC cohort are reported, facilitating detailed analysis of DNA methylation within a rich context of genomic, transcriptional, and clinical data. Tumor methylation from immune and stromal signatures are deconvoluted leading to the discovery of a tumor replication-linked clock with genome-wide methylation loss in non-CpG island sites. Unexpectedly, methylation in most tumor CpG islands follows two replication-independent processes of gain (MG) or loss (ML) that we term epigenomic instability. Epigenomic instability is correlated with tumor grade and stage, TP53 mutations and poorer prognosis. After controlling for these global trans-acting trends, as well as for X-linked dosage compensation effects, cis-specific methylation and expression correlations are uncovered at hundreds of promoters and over a thousand distal elements. Some of these targeted known tumor suppressors and oncogenes. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that global epigenetic instability can erode cancer methylomes and expose them to localized methylation aberrations in-cis resulting in transcriptional changes seen in tumors.
Peering into the dark (ages) with low-frequency space interferometers: Using the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the infant universe to probe fundamental (Astro)physics.
Creators: name: Koopmans, Léon V E
name: Barkana, Rennan
name: Bentum, Mark
name: Bernardi, Gianni
name: Boonstra, Albert-Jan
name: Bowman, Judd
name: Burns, Jack
name: Chen, Xuelei
name: Datta, Abhirup
name: Falcke, Heino
name: Fialkov, Anastasia
name: Gehlot, Bharat
name: Gurvits, Leonid
name: Jelić, Vibor
name: Klein-Wolt, Marc
name: Lazio, Joseph
name: Meerburg, Daan
name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Mertens, Florent
name: Mesinger, Andrei
name: Offringa, André
name: Pritchard, Jonathan
name: Semelin, Benoit
name: Subrahmanyan, Ravi
name: Silk, Joseph
name: Trott, Cathryn
name: Vedantham, Harish
name: Verde, Licia
name: Zaroubi, Saleem
name: Zarka, Philippe
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dark Ages
Epoch Of Reionization
21-Cm Cosmology
Cosmic Dawn
Space Or Lunar-Based Radio Telescopes

description: The Dark Ages and Cosmic Dawn are largely unexplored windows on the infant Universe (z ~ 200-10). Observations of the redshifted 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen can provide valuable new insight into fundamental physics and astrophysics during these eras that no other probe can provide, and drives the design of many future ground-based instruments such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). We review progress in the field of high-redshift 21-cm Cosmology, in particular focussing on what questions can be addressed by probing the Dark Ages at z > 30. We conclude that only a space- or lunar-based radio telescope, shielded from the Earth's radio-frequency interference (RFI) signals and its ionosphere, enable the 21-cm signal from the Dark Ages to be detected. We suggest a generic mission design concept, CoDEX, that will enable this in the coming decades.
MPEC 2023-X215 : 2023 XH8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XH8

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Prospects of using closure traces directly for imaging in Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Creators: name: Müller, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reconstruction of the polarization of a source in radio interferometry is a challenging calibration problem since the reconstruction strongly depends on the gains and leakages that need to be inferred along with the image. This is particularly true for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) due to its small number of antennas, small signal-to-noise ratio and large gain corruptions. To recover linear polarization, one either has to infer the leakages and gains together with the image structure, or rely completely on calibration independent closure quantities. While the first approach has been explored in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) for a long time, the later one has been less studied for polarimetry. Closure traces are a recently proposed concept of closure quantities that, in contrast to closure phases and closure amplitudes, are independent against both gains and leakages and carry the relevant information about the polarization of the source. Here we explore, how closure traces could be directly fitted to create an image and point out an imaging pipeline that succeeds in the direct imaging from closure traces. Since closure traces have a number of inherent degeneracies, multiple local image modes that can fit the data are detected. Therefore, a multiobjective imaging technique is needed to correctly sample this multimodality. Closure traces are not constraining enough for the EHT configuration in 2017 to recover an image directly, mainly due to the small number of antennas. For planned successors of the EHT however (with a significantly larger number of antennas), this option becomes feasible and performs competitive to the imaging with residual leakages.
description: Accepted for publication by A&A
title: Теория и методика обучения информатике младших школьников
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Босова Л.Л.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2019

description: Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по образовательной программе магистратуры по направлению 44.04.01 «Педагогическое образование». Пособие направлено на подготовку педагогических кадров к ведению образовательной деятельности по предмету «Информатика» в младших классах общеобразовательной школы, формирование компетенций, необходимых для научно-методической деятельности в данной сфере. В содержании пособия представлена история становления пропедевтического этапа школьной информатики, рассмотрено современное состояние обучения информатике младших школьников в нашей стране и за рубежом. Каждый параграф сопровождается большим количеством вопросов и заданий, обеспечивающих развитие исследовательских компетенций обучающихся. Книга будет полезна студентам, аспирантам, учителям информатики, а также всем, кто интересуется вопросами раннего обучения информатике.
description: The textbook is designed for students enrolled in the educational program of magistracy on the direction 44.04.01 "Pedagogical education". The manual is aimed at training teachers to conduct educational activities on the subject of computer science in Junior secondary schools, the formation of competences, required for scientific and methodological activities in this area. The Handbook presents the history of the formation of the propaedeutic phase of the school of computer science, discusses the current state of teaching of younger students in our country and abroad. Each paragraph is accompanied by a large number of questions and tasks for the development of research competences of students. The book will be useful to students, graduate students, computer science teachers, and anyone interested in early computer science learning.