cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Twenty-year changes in mortality rates and underlying causes of death in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease
Creators: name: Gao, J
name: Xin, L
name: Guo, Q
name: Xu, K
name: Zhang, G
name: Yang, Y
name: Ma, D
name: Zhang, L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Objectives: Despite recent advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), few population-based studies have assessed the mortality rates and the underlying causes of death (UCDs) among patients with RA and RA-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). This study evaluated the trends in mortality rates, demographic characteristics, and UCDs among patients with RA-ILD. Method: Using data from death certificates (1999–2018) from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Multiple Cause of Death files, we explored the trends in mortality rates and UCD for patients with RA and RA-ILD. Moreover, we examined the crude and age-standardized mortality rates (ASMRs) for such patients. Results: Among patients with RA or RA-ILD, ASMR variation decreased over 20 years. The ASMR ratio of RA-ILD to RA decreased by 5.84%. The ASMR for RA and RA-ILD stratified by gender or age group also decreased. The change in the ASMR ratio of RA-ILD to RA trended downwards in women and upwards in men. Arthropathies and ILD were the most frequent UCDs for RA-ILD, while arthropathies and ischaemic heart disease were the most frequent UCDs for RA. Conclusions: Although RA and RA-ILD presented a downward trend in mortality, RA combined with ILD may reduce life expectancy. Specifically, the mortality rate for patients with RA-ILD remained relatively stable during the study period when ILD was the UCD, suggesting the need for active prevention, early diagnosis, and effective management of RA-ILD.
Prostate cancer detection from magnetic resonance images : a data-driven approach
Creators: name: Haq, Nandinee Fariah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The combination of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) images with Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) has shown great potential in prostate cancer detection. The parametrization of DCE images to generate cancer markers is traditionally performed based on pharmacokinetic modeling. However, pharmacokinetic models make simplistic assumptions about the tissue perfusion process, require the knowledge of contrast agent concentration in a major artery, and the modeling process is sensitive to noise and fitting instabilities. In this work, this issue is addressed by extracting features directly from the DCE T1-weighted signal intensities without modeling the physical perfusion phenomenon. In this work, a novel set of data-driven features are proposed which are generated by mapping the DCE T1-weighted signal intensity to its principal component space. The optimal set of components is extracted with sparse regularized regression through a Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) model. It is shown that when the proposed features are used to replace pharmacokinetic parameters, the Area under receiver operating characteristics Curve (AUC) is 0.86, with a support vector machine classifier trained on the peripheral zone of prostate. When the proposed features are used within the multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) protocol with the DTI feature, the area under ROC was 0.91 for the peripheral zone classifier, and 0.87 for the whole gland classifier. We showed that in 85.0% cases, the mpMRI whole gland classifier detected more than 50% area of the tumor. The proposed features were used to generate cancer likelihood maps for the prostate gland. These likelihood maps show the likelihood of cancer for each pixel and hence highlight the regions from where the biopsy samples should be taken. The generated cancer likelihood maps have the potential to be used as a reference in MRI-targeted biopsies to decrease the possibility of missing clinically significant and potentially aggressive tumors.
Citrullinated and homocitrullinated low- density lipoprotein in rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Rajamohan, A
name: Heit, B
name: Cairns, E
name: Barra, L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology

description: Objective: Antibodies to citrullinated and homocitrullinated (also known as carbamylated) proteins, specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Immune complexes containing these proteins have been identified in the atherosclerotic plaque of CVD patients. In mice, homocitrullinated low-density lipoprotein (HomoCitLDL) promotes foam cell formation, which is critical in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We aimed to investigate the atherogenic potential of HomoCitLDL and citrullinated low-density lipoprotein (CitLDL) in RA. Method: Human LDL was homocitrullinated in potassium cyanate and citrullinated by rabbit skeletal muscle peptidyl arginine deiminase-2. The modifications were confirmed by mass spectrometry. Primary human monoctyes from healthy subjects (N = 8) were differentiated to macrophages using macrophage colony-stimulating factor and incubated with modified LDL. Foam cells were visualized using Oil Red O staining. Serum from RA patients (N = 101) and controls (N = 32) was tested for immunoglobulin G antibodies to modified LDL using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results: HomoCitLDL and CitLDL strongly induced foam cell production (> 90%) versus unmodified LDL (11%) (p Conclusions: HomoCitLDL and CitLDL have atherogenic properties in vitro. Antibody responses to HomoCitLDL, but not CitLDL, were detected in RA patients.
Stories of change in men who were violent and abusive to their partners : a collaborative narrative inquiry
Creators: name: Takano, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Utilizing collaborative narrative inquiry, this study examines the process of change in men who were violent and abusive to their partners and children. The aim of this study is to explore violent offenders' meanings and experience in desisting from violence. The study attempts to deconstruct preconceptions of "change" from a dimensional ontological perspective to explore various dimensions of the experience of change. The results capture a concept of change in the individually unique form of stories in context that contain a series of transition and transformation processes in the lives of the men. The results are full of meaning and tell stories of their journeys that explain how violence and abuse intruded upon their lives, how they became oppressors themselves, how they struggled with hurting their families, and how they redeemed themselves from darkness. The meaning was coconstructed with stories of female victims of intimate violence and abuse at home and brings about a new meaning in desisting from violence and abuse, taking responsibility, and making amends. The reformed offenders’ change processes should not be considered limited only to confrontation and reinforcement but should also require engagement in a reflective process and internal transformation of an existential nature. More importantly, a meaning of change should be coconstructed with victims of intimate violence and abuse.
Oenopia conglobata LINNEAUS 1758
Creators: name: Samin, N.
name: Shojai, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oenopia
Oenopia conglobata

description: Oenopia conglobata LINNEAUS 1758
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Bagher-Abad, (1), August 2010. Pishva, (2), April 2011.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Europe and Asia.
description: Published as part of Samin, N. & Shojai, M., 2013, A study on Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Varamin and vicinity, Iran, pp. 2121-2126 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 2123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273598
Combining physics-based and statistics-based approaches to model calving in Antarctica
Creators: name: Emetc, Veronika
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Antarctica
ice shelves
ice sheet
calving
fractures
crevasses
basal
modelling
ISSM

description: Surface and basal crevasses are deep fractures in ice that are observed on the surface and the base of the Antarctic ice sheet/ice shelves, respectively. They are a direct pre- cursor of formation of rifts in ice shelves and a consequent calving or breaking off of icebergs. Modelling of calving is crucial for better estimation of the ice mass balance in Antarctica because ice shelves act like a supporting mechanism for the inland ice preventing it from accelerating into the ocean. While there have been a number of studies that attempted to parameterise calving, each of them has limitations that do not allow to apply them to all the Antarctic ice shelves on a large scale. A more comprehensive calving model needs to include not only parameterisation of calving at ice fronts, but also the history of fracturing of the ice that led to a calving event such as formation, advection and propagation of both surface and basal crevasses. Towards improving a calving parameterisation in ice sheet models we constructed a set of sub-models for predicting surface and basal fracturing, vertical and horizontal propagation as well as advection. Combining statistics-based and physics-based ap- proachers we developed a preliminary calving model that includes the full history of rifts and crevasses, from their initiation to the final break off at the ice front.
Knowledge of breast cancer and its risk factors among Al-Quds university students in Palestine
Creators: name: Ghrayeb, Farid Abdulwahab
name: Rimawi, Omar
name: Nimer, Azzam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111001 Aged Care Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111202 Cancer Diagnosis
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111203 Cancer Genetics
subject: 111204 Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy)

description: Background: Cancer is a major public health problem globally. The incidence of cancer is escalating rapidly in many low- and middle-income countries like Palestine due to the epidemiological transition. This could be due to lack of awareness, knowledge and beliefs about breast cancer and its management among females. Aims and objectives was to determine knowledge of breast cancer risk factors, symptoms and early detection methods among Al-Quds University female students.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted over a period of 6 months in Al-Quds University. Study population was 332 female university students. Data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire.Results: The most widely known risk factors by the students were old age 62.7%, followed by obesity 44% and never being pregnant 30.7%. Approximately half of the students (48.8%) identified breast lump as a symptom for breast cancer. However, non lump symptoms were less known and less than half were aware of other warning signs. Only 48.5 % of students identified correctly the appropriate time to perform breast self examination.Conclusions: The findings of this study showed a low level of knowledge on breast cancer risk factors, early warning signs and BSE among female university students. Therefore, effective educational programs are required to improve the knowledge level of university students regarding breast cancer and related practices.
Vaccinazione antiCovid-19 e trattamento dei dati personali. Prime osservazioni al Provvedimento del Garante privacy n. 198 del 2021
Creators: name: D'Arcangelo, Lucia
Publisher: name: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro
Year: 2021

description: Lo scritto affronta il tema della sicurezza sul lavoro con riferimento al problema della titolarità del trattamento dei dati personali dei lavoratori sulla vaccinazione antiCovid-19 in ambito non sanitario. Al riguardo, l’Autrice si sofferma sul recente provvedimento del Garante privacy, n. 198 del 13 maggio 2021, che attribuisce al medico competente la titolarità esclusiva del trattamento dei dati vaccinali, per esaminare il ruolo e le funzioni del medico competente e del datore di lavoro tra disciplina giuslavoristica e normativa sulla protezione dei dati personali. The paper addresses the issue of workers’ safety with reference to the problem of the ownership of the processing of workers’ personal data on antiCovid-19 vaccination in the non-healthcare environment. In this regard, The Autor dwells on the recent provision of the privacy Authority, n. 198 of May 13, 2021, which attributes the exclusive ownership of the treatment of vaccination data to the occupational physician, to examine the role and functions of the occupational physician and the employer between labour law and personal data protection legislation.
description: Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro, N. 1 (2021)
Metacognitive Skills among Left-Handed Students in Al-Quds University
Creators: name: Rimawi, Omar
name: Amira, Rimawi
name: Shaheen, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170105 Gender Psychology

description: The aim of this study was to reveal the metacognitive skills among left-handed students at Al-Quds University. The study population consisted of all left-handed students at Al-Quds University. Data obtained from a purposive sample of 47 left-handed male and female students was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings showed that left-handed students at Al-Quds University had a low degree of metacognitive skills. It was found that there were differences attributable to gender in favor of female students, but no differences attributable to college (Science and Humanities). The findings also revealed differences due to the overall grade point average (GPA) in favor of the students with a GPA of more than 80%. It is recommended that students must be taught metacognitive strategies through: helping them to plan and evaluate their learning process, stimulating their thinking processes by giving them assignments that require higher levels of
Additional file 1 of Severe and critical COVID-19 in a tertiary center in Colombia, a retrospective cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Arias Ramos, Deving
name: Restrepo Rueda, Diana Lizbeth
name: Rios Quintero, Erika Vanessa
name: Olaya Gómez, Juan Camilo
name: Cortés Bonilla, Isabella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Clinical manifestations and laboratory abnormalities.
Prenatal psychosocial disorders
Creators: name: Rimawi, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Clinical Psychology

description: The study aims to investigate psychosocial and social disorders associated with womenduring pregnancy in the light of certain variables namely: age during the previous pregnancy,number of pregnancies, level of academic qualifications and place of residence. The sampleconsisted of 446 pregnant women purposely selected. The data was collected through astructured index of 43-items developed by the researcher. The findings revealed that pregnantwomen experienced a low degree of psychosocial disorders with no significant differences inthe level of prenatal psychosocial disorders due to age during the previous pregnancy,number of pregnancies, and level of academic qualifications. However, statisticallysignificant differences were found due to the place of residence in favor of the city dwellers.
Stethorus gilvifrons
Creators: name: Samin, N.
name: Shojai, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Stethorus
Stethorus gilvifrons

description: Stethorus gilvifrons (MUKSANT 1850)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Taghi-Abad, (2), August 2010.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Mediterranean Region, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kashmir, India and Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Samin, N. & Shojai, M., 2013, A study on Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Varamin and vicinity, Iran, pp. 2121-2126 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 2123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273598
Additional file 10 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 10. Posterior probabilities on nodes, calculated by the mPTP algorithm.
Relation between the Psychological Pain and Alexithymia among Palestinian University Students
Creators: name: Rimawi, Omar
name: Almasri, Ibrahim Suleiman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: The current study aimed at identifying the relation between the psychological pain and Alexithymia among Palestinian university students. The study tool was applied to a sample of Hebron and Al-Quds universities students. The sample included (500) male and female students, from the first semester of the academic year 2019 randomly selected. The results: of the study showed a positive relationship between Alexithymia and psychological pain, and there are significant differences in the level of Alexithymia among Palestinian university students due to the university that favored Hebron University students, and for the gender in favor of males and for the college that favored the scientific college students.
Isolation, synthesis, and biological target identification of natural products from terrestrial and marine environments
Creators: name: Centko, Ryan Matthew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Natural products offer an unparalleled resource for the discovery and development of chemical tools to be used by humans. The terrestrial and marine environments contain unique niches where organisms chemically adapt to produce compounds that have proven useful medicinally and beyond. In the following chapters, several classes of novel natural products from terrestrial fungi and marine sponges will be presented. In some cases, synthetic methodology, biological activity and enzymatic target identification will also be presented. Chapters 2 and 3 highlight ramariolides A–D (2.18–2.21) and dhilirolides A–N (3.9–3.22), two new fungal derived compound classes isolated from terrestrial sources. The structure elucidation of these compounds will be presented alongside their biological activities as antimycobacterial and insecticidal agents, respectively. Chapter 4 contains the structure elucidation of three new members of the xestoquinone family of compounds, xestolactone A (4.19), xestosaprol O (4.20), and xestosaprol P (4.21) along with their potent inhibitory effect on human indolamine 2, 3-dioxygenase (hIDO). A new method for synthetic access to derivatives of these compounds is demonstrated in Chapter 5 along with a brief structure activity relationship (SAR) study. Lastly, Chapter 6 discusses latonduine A (6.9), a sponge-derived alkaloid, which has shown promise as a lead structure for the correction of cystic fibrosis (CF). Probes derived from latonduine A (6.9) have led to identification of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) as the enzymatic target. Methodology for the probes’ construction and SAR studies resulting in simplified synthetic analogues of latonduine will be presented.
Additional file 11 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 11. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker 28S.
MOESM1 of An efficient protocol to generate placental chorionic plate-derived mesenchymal stem cells with superior proliferative and immunomodulatory properties
Creators: name: Huang, Qilin
name: Yang, Yi
name: Luo, Chen
name: Wen, Yi
name: Liu, Ruohong
name: Li, Shuai
name: Chen, Tao
name: Sun, Hongyu
name: Tang, Lijun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer used for real-time quantitative PCR. Table S2. Immunophenotyping of cells derived from various sources by flow cytometry. Figure S1. Growth status of MSCs derived from different regions of the umbilical cord and placenta. Figure S2. COX-2 and PGE2 of MSCs from different tissues. Figure S3. CP-MSCs are the best choice for P-MSCs isolation. (DOCX 1182 kb)
Additional file 12 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 12. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker CISP.
Scymnus syriacus MARSEUL 1868
Creators: name: Samin, N.
name: Shojai, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Scymnus
Scymnus syriacus

description: Scymnus syriacus MARSEUL 1868
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Sharif-Abad, (3), June 2010.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Eastern Mediterranean region especially Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Egypt.
description: Published as part of Samin, N. & Shojai, M., 2013, A study on Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Varamin and vicinity, Iran, pp. 2121-2126 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 2123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273598
Additional file 13 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 13. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the mitochondrial marker CYTB.
Relationship Between Metacognitive Skills and Information Processing Skills Among
Creators: name: Rimawi, Omar
name: Rimawi, Amira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified

description: Metacognitive skills and information processing are key concepts inthe field of education, they are crucial in the learning process. The presentstudy aimed to identify the relationship between metacognitive skills andinformation processing skills among the students of Al-Quds University. Thestudy instruments were applied on a sample of 393 male and female students.The results showed that there was a positive correlation betweenmetacognitive skills and information processing among Al-Quds Universitystudents. The findings revealed statistically significant differences in the levelof metacognitive skills, attributed to gender in favor of female students.However, there were no statistically significant differences due to faculty oracademic level. The findings also showed that there were no statisticallysignificant differences in the level of information processing skills attributableto gender and academic level. However, there were statistically significantdifferences in the level of information processing due to the faculty variablein favor of the Faculty of Science.
title: Essays on Volatility and Variance Risk Premium
Creators: name: Su, Xiaoman
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: The thesis consists of three chapters on volatility and variance risk premium. In second chapter, we analyze volatility-managed strategies in commodity futures markets. We focus on two kinds of strategy: scaling original portfolio before and after its formation by volatility information, and three kinds of portfolio: momentum, basis momentum and carry trade. We find that both two strategies do not significantly improve the performance of the original portfolio. Exploring potential reasons behind this result, we find that the accuracy of the forecasting model, the economic conditions, the choice of the evaluation criteria, as well as as the method used to construct the portfolio cannot explain our main results. In third chapter, we investigate the time-series models for volatility risk premium (V RP) forecasts and their implications for volatility forecasting. We employ the role of V RP to reduce the bias in the model-free implied volatility (MFIV) and get an efficient and unbiased forecast of volatility. We study on commodity-related ETFs and compare the time-series model for volatility forecasting, EWMA and MFIV-related forecasts. Using Mincer-Zarnowitz regresivsion and two kinds of loss function, we confirm that MFIV performs better than EWMA and MFIV is biased. Furthermore, our adjustment for MFIV outperforms than pure MFIV and MFIV adjusted by historical averages of V RP. Our findings are robust to alternative proxies of the realized volatility, different V RP format and different rolling window of forecast. In fourth chapter, we study the effects of federal fund rate announcements on the market price of variance risk. We find that there is a positive relationship between the change in the variance risk premium and the interest rate shocks and the response to FOMC surprise declines with increases of maturity. Additionally, we document that the response is mainly driven by the reactions of implied variance and variance risk premium with short maturity respond more to timing surprise. Furthermore, we show that investors matter the downside risk and need more compensation since most of the FOMC announcement effect is from the expansionary policy, negative surprise and bad variance risk premium.
Report on AtlantOS fitness for Atlantic Albacore: Assessment of the observing system fitness for tuna catch estimates
Creators: name: Lehodey, Patrick
Publisher: name: AtlantOS
Year: 2019

description: The model SEAPODYM simulates the spatial dynamics of tuna populations and fisheries under the influence of both fishing and environmental effects. The model is coupled off-line to temperature, horizontal currents, primary production and dissolved oxygen concentration. It is proposed to implement an operational forecast system for the Atlantic albacore tuna [D8.3] using available forcing variables from COPERNICUS CMEMS. This report evaluates the interest of the AtlantOS fitness for this operational production of tuna stock distributions
Bioactive marine natural products : analogue synthesis, SAR, and target identification
Creators: name: Yan, Luping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: 3,6,7-trihydroxycoumarin C11 (2.14) was first isolated from the green alga Dasycladus vermicularis in 1983. C11 and 3,7,8-trihydroxycoumarin C21 (2.15), alongside their precursors C12 (2.18) and C22 (2.20), were synthesized for a target-based screen for anti-HCV drugs, where ideal hits eliminate fluorescence signals by inhibiting the proteolytic activity of HCV NS3pro/Pep4A against a synthetic peptide “BS-IQFS”. With C12 and C22 serving as negative controls, C11 and C21 inhibited the NS3pro/Pep4A activity in vitro. The IC₅₀’s of C11 and C21 were 3.07 μM and 2.10 μM, respectively. A bioassay-guided fractionation identified sintokamides A – E (3.11 – 3.15) from extracts of the sponge Dysidea sp. in 2008. In a phenotypic screen, the chlorinated dipeptides showed strong to modest inhibition of luciferase activity caused by AR NTD transactivation in LNCaP cells. Larger quantities of sintokamides A and B were isolated from the sponge for further biological study. After developing a practical synthetic route, a comprehensive SAR of the sintokamides was available from the in vitro activities of 29 synthetic analogues/precursors based on a 1,17-dinorsintokamide skeleton. LPY26 [(4R,10R)-3.233] showed the best biological activity in the synthetic analogues prepared to date and it was selected as a drug lead. Mechanism of action study using synthetic probes LPY30 (4.7) and LPY31 (4.8) revealed that the hexachlorinated 1,17-dinorsintokamides covalently bound to the AR, but not to the same AF1 region in the AR NTD as EPI-001 (3.8). The structure of latonduine A (5.1) isolated from the sponge Stylissa carteri and its total synthesis were published in 2003. Later, latonduine A was shown to be active in a phenotypic screen to find drug leads for the treatment of cystic fibrosis caused by the F508del mutation. Latonduine A could efficiently correct immunofluorescent F508del-CFTR trafficking from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane in the engineered cells. Synthetic latonduine A and N-biotinylated latonduine A (5.17) were prepared to support biological studies aimed at identifying its cellular protein target(s). These studies culminated in the finding that latonduine A is an inhibitor of PARP-3 with an EC₅₀ of 400 pM in CFBE41o­- cells.
Contemporary Analysis of Japanese Corporate Boards
Creators: name: Dissabandara, Hareedra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper evaluates the numerous sources about Japanese board of directors in the drastically changing business environment and thereby shows the road map of Japanese corporate boards. The results give in-depth understanding compared to the previous studies based on the evidence derived through the sub-samples representing different patterns of governance. Leader of the board of directors meeting is basically the president or chairman, especially in the companies having a traditional approach to corporate governance. Conversely, in case of the companies which have shifted to Anglo-Saxon committee system the leader of the board of directors meeting is mainly an outside director. The jomu-kai (executive directors meeting) or keiei-iinkai (management executive committee) is still the center for major decisions in many companies having traditional governance system. The major decisions of global companies having either committee system or intermediate system are taken at the board of directors meeting. When attaining a long-term goal is uncertain, disregarding the nature of governance system, Japanese boards try to grasp any failure through their monitoring function. The larger companies having either intermediate or committee system shifted the power of selecting the next president from the existing president to a board committee. About half of the companies have already implemented the outside directors though some of them are not independent in actual terms. Particularly in larger companies having shifted to Anglo-Saxon committee system, there are independent directors similar to their Western counterparts. No matter the system is Japanese or Anglo-Saxon type, the board of directors and president or chairman of Japanese companies have an above average influence on their corporate governance systems. At present the companies have more concern about very specific board reforms such as implementation of performance evaluation and review of compensation. The 'ceremonial nature' of Japanese Corporate Boards has been shifting away to some extent and emphasizing more on efficient and effective decision making. The nature and the role of board of directors of companies largely shifted to Anglo-Saxon committee system and intermediate system have been significantly changed. There is a trend of monitoring over execution indicating a tendency of converging toward the Anglo-Saxon model. Conversely, there are several larger companies greatly refusing to accept the new reforms, instead they consider improving the system along with the local and global requirements. The small and medium scale companies still prefer the traditional approach which benefits them over half a century. Historically, the Japanese people feel the obligation to a family, a company or country that leads to the consensus attitudes. But they have taken some measures to improve their traditional system for better governance.
Additional file 14 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 14. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker LSM.
Scymnus flavicollis REDTENBACHER 1843
Creators: name: Samin, N.
name: Shojai, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Scymnus
Scymnus flavicollis

description: Scymnus flavicollis REDTENBACHER 1843
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Gharchak, (4), May 2010.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: HolarcticRegion.
description: Published as part of Samin, N. & Shojai, M., 2013, A study on Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Varamin and vicinity, Iran, pp. 2121-2126 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 2123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273598
SENSE OF UNIVERSITY BELONGING: A CASE STUDY OF AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Creators: name: Banat, Bassam Yousef Ibrahim
name: Rimawi, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130305 Educational Counselling
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Gender studies

description: The main purpose of the current study was to investigate sense of belonging(SOB) of Al-Quds University students. Index of a 25-item scale was used tomeasure SOB which was developed by the researchers, based on the SOCmodel (McMillan & Chavis, 1986), and was administrated to three hundredand sixty-nine students (173 males and 196 females) full-time undergraduatestudents at Al-Quds University stratifiedly selected. The findings demonstratethat the students of Al-Quds University indicated a moderate level of SOB totheir university. Differences were found between gender, place of residency,and academic year; however, SOB has emerged as a significant predictor ofstudents' academic achievement. Implications of the findings of this study, anddirections for future empirical research were briefly discussed.
Source codes of MA-ISGF algorithm
Creators: name: Li, Guoqin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Source codes, MA-ISGF

description: Source codes of MA-ISGF

Programs order:

1 CosineMeasure.m

2 DSC.m

3 testCM.m

4 StatisticsAnalysis.m

5 DistanceMap.m

6 DistanceMapsfusion.m

7 ManualParameters.m

8 Selfsimilarity.m

9 Guidefilter.m

10 DiceAlgorithmsandManual.m

11 ErrorRate.m

12 mat2nii.m
MOESM2 of TEAD4 modulated LncRNA MNX1-AS1 contributes to gastric cancer progression partly through suppressing BTG2 and activating BCL2
Creators: name: Shuai, You
name: Ma, Zhonghua
name: Liu, Weitao
name: Yu, Tao
name: Yan, Changsheng
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Tian, Shengwang
name: Xu, Tongpeng
name: Shu, Yongqian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Univariate and multivariate analysis of clinicopathological factors for overall-survival in gastric cancer patients (n = 174).
The evolution of RNA processing in reduced eukaryotes
Creators: name: Grisdale, Cameron James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: RNA-processing encompasses several critical steps in the regulation of gene expression. Both transcription and pre-mRNA splicing are important for the formation of mature RNA. Most eukaryotic genes are interrupted by introns, the removal of which is catalyzed by the spliceosome. The spliceosome is a large molecular machine comprised of five small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) and up to two hundred proteins. In addition to constitutive removal of introns, alternative splicing increases transcriptome complexity, as it allows for the formation of multiple transcript isoforms from a single pre-mRNA. Although these processes are well-studied in model systems, relatively little is known about their evolution in unicellular eukaryotes. To investigate RNA-processing in reduced systems, I examined the transcriptomes of the microsporidian parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi, and the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. E. cuniculi and C. merolae harbour reduced genomes of 2.9Mbp and 16.5Mbp, respectively. Both genomes were annotated with fewer than 30 spliceosomal introns, and both have undergone reduction in spliceosomal components, including the loss of the U1 snRNA. Illumina RNAseq was used to sequence the transcriptomes of E. cuniculi at three time-points during its intracellular stage, and C. merolae under light and dark phases of its growth cycle. I found extremely low levels of pre-mRNA splicing for nearly all intron-containing genes in both organisms, under all conditions examined. These levels of splicing appear to be lower than in any other eukaryote examined, suggesting that reduction in unrelated spliceosomes reveals a common evolutionary trend: decreased splicing efficiency. In addition to intron-retention, I found examples of other types of alternative splicing in these two reduced systems. C. merolae displayed all major types of alternative splicing, and some events occurred at relatively high frequencies. The presence of few or no alternative splicing regulatory protein-coding genes in C. merolae and E. cuniculi, respectively, made this finding especially surprising. Also, I found high levels of antisense transcription in C. merolae, with the potential to play a regulatory role in gene expression.
Additional file 15 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 15. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker PJH.
Additional file 16 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 16. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker TRNA.
Additional file 17 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 17. Heatmaps calculated for three different statistics: A) Fst, B) Dxy and C) Da for three species based on the molecular data obtained from the nuclear marker UPCA.
Additional file 18 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 18. Demographic models created with Phylogeographic Inference Using Approximate Likelihoods (PHRAPL) to test the evolution of Psammolestes. (A) Divergence with no migration (B) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. coreodes and P. tertius. (C) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius and P. arthuri. (D) divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius with P. coreodes, and P. tertius with P. arthuri. (E) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. coreodes and P. arthuri. (F) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius with P. coreodes, and P. coreodes with P. arthuri. (G) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius with P. arthuri, and P. arthuri with P. coreodes (H) Divergence with bidirectional migration between the three Psammolestes species. Starting from this point, all of the demographic models include bidirectional migration between P. arthuri and the MRCA (most recent common ancestor) of P. tertius and P. coreodes. (I) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. arthuri and the MRCA of P. tertius and P. coreodes. (J) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. coreodes and P. tertius. (K) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius and P. arthuri. (L) divergence with bidirectional migration between P. tertius with P. coreodes and P. arthuri. (M) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. coreodes and P. arthuri. (N) divergence with bidirectional migration between P. coreodes with P. tertius and P. arthuri. (O) Divergence with bidirectional migration between P. arthuri with P. coreodes and P. tertius. (P) Divergence with bidirectional migration between the three Psammolestes species. Support values for the demographic scenarios are shown under each figure.
MOESM3 of TEAD4 modulated LncRNA MNX1-AS1 contributes to gastric cancer progression partly through suppressing BTG2 and activating BCL2
Creators: name: Shuai, You
name: Ma, Zhonghua
name: Liu, Weitao
name: Yu, Tao
name: Yan, Changsheng
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Tian, Shengwang
name: Xu, Tongpeng
name: Shu, Yongqian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Univariate and multivariate analysis of clinicopathological factors for disease-free survival in gastric cancer patients (n = 174).
Additional file 19 of Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Creators: name: Hernández, Carolina
name: Alvarado, Mateo
name: Salgado-Roa, Fabian C.
name: Ballesteros, Nathalia
name: Rueda-M, Nicol
name: Oliveira, Jader
name: Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli
name: da Rosa, Joao Aristeu
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 19. Linear correlations of Isolation by distance (IBD) test. (A) 28S (B) CISP (C) CYTB (D) LSM (E) TRNA (F) UPCA (G) PJH.
SOCIAL INTERACTION AND HEALTH BEHAVIOR OF IBS PATIENTS
Creators: name: Shaheen, Talat
name: Rimawi, Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111707 Family Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The study aimed to investigate social interaction and its relationship among patientswith irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). A sample of 141 IBS patients was selected. Thefindings revealed that IBS patients experienced a moderate level of social interactionand health. The results also revealed significant statistical differences in socialinteraction scores among IBS patients attributed to age as well as health behaviorscores due to discontent with their salaries. A positive statistical significantcorrelation between the level of social interaction and health behavior was alsorevealed among IBS patients. An implication