cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 review, Part 2: host extracellular to systemic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Creators: name: Schisler J.C.
name: Zaksas V.
name: Enguita F.J.
name: Topper M.
name: Clark K.B.
name: Coelho-dos-Reis J.G.A.
name: Koutnik A.P.
name: Narayanan S.A.
name: Galeano D.
name: Das S.
name: Park J.
name: Mason C.E.
name: Wurtele E.S.
name: Leitão A.L.
name: Trovão N.S.
name: Schwartz R.E.
name: Beheshti A.
name: Jamison D.A., Jr.
name: Moraes-Vieira P.M.
name: Guarnieri J.W.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The betacoronavirus continues to evolve with global health implications as we race to learn more to curb its transmission, evolution, and sequelae. The focus of this review, the second of a three-part series, is on the biological effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on post-acute disease in the context of tissue and organ adaptations and damage. We highlight the current knowledge and describe how virological, animal, and clinical studies have shed light on the mechanisms driving the varied clinical diagnoses and observations of COVID-19 patients. Moreover, we describe how investigations into SARS-CoV-2 effects have informed the understanding of viral pathogenesis and provide innovative pathways for future research on the mechanisms of viral diseases.
Additional file 1 of Review on the molecular study of the Diplozoidae: analyses of currently available genetic data, what it tells us, and where to go from here
Creators: name: Santos, Quinton Marco Dos
name: Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Table containing all sequence data available for the family Diplozoidae, as compiled from public data repositories (GenBank) and literature.
Results of the European Group for the Study of Resistant Depression (GSRD) — basis for further research and clinical practice
Creators: name: Bartova, Lucie
name: Dold, Markus
name: Kautzky, Alexander
name: Fabbri, Chiara
name: Spies, Marie
name: Serretti, Alessandro
name: Souery, Daniel
name: Mendlewicz, Julien
name: Zohar, Joseph
name: Montgomery, Stuart
name: Schosser, Alexandra
name: Kasper, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: The overview outlines two decades of research from the European Group for the Study of Resistant Depression (GSRD) that fundamentally impacted evidence-based algorithms for diagnostics and psychopharmacotherapy of treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Methods: The GSRD staging model characterising response, non-response and resistance to antidepressant (AD) treatment was applied to 2762 patients in eight European countries. Results: In case of non-response, dose escalation and switching between different AD classes did not show superiority over continuation of original AD treatment. Predictors for TRD were symptom severity, duration of the current major depressive episode (MDE), suicidality, psychotic and melancholic features, comorbid anxiety and personality disorders, add-on treatment, non-response to the first AD, adverse effects, high occupational level, recurrent disease course, previous hospitalisations, positive family history of MDD, early age of onset and novel associations of single nucleoid polymorphisms (SNPs) within the PPP3CC, ST8SIA2, CHL1, GAP43 and ITGB3 genes and gene pathways associated with neuroplasticity, intracellular signalling and chromatin silencing. A prediction model reaching accuracy of above 0.7 highlighted symptom severity, suicidality, comorbid anxiety and lifetime MDEs as the most informative predictors for TRD. Applying machine-learning algorithms, a signature of three SNPs of the BDNF, PPP3CC and HTR2A genes and lacking melancholia predicted treatment response. Conclusions: The GSRD findings offer a unique and balanced perspective on TRD representing foundation for further research elaborating on specific clinical and genetic hypotheses and treatment strategies within appropriate study-designs, especially interaction-based models and randomized controlled trials.
Analysis of system capacity and spectral efficiency of fixed-grid network
Creators: name: M, Adarsha
name: Malathi, S.
name: Kumar, Santosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this article, the performance of a fixed grid network is examined for various modulation formats to estimate the system's capacity and spectral efficiency. The optical In-phase Quadrature Modulator structure is used to build a fixed grid network modulation, and the homodyne detection approach is used for the receiver. Data multiplexing is accomplished using the Polarization Division Multiplexed technology. 100 Gbps, 150 Gbps, and 200 Gbps data rates are transmitted under these circumstances utilizing various modulation formats. Various pre-processing and signal recovery steps are explained by using modern digital signal processing systems. The achieved spectrum efficiencies for PM-QPSK, PM-8 QAM, and PM-16 QAM, respectively, were 2, 3, and 4 bits/s/Hz. Different modulation like PM-QPSK, PM-8-QAM, and PM-16-QAM each has system capacities of 8-9, 12-13.5, and 16-18 Tbps and it reaches transmission distances of 3000, 1300, and 700 kilometers with acceptable Bit Error Rate less than equal to 2*10-3 respectively. Peak optical power for received signal detection and full width at half maximum is noted for the different modulations under a fixed grind network.
Competing opinions and stubbornness: connecting models to data
Creators: name: Burghardt, Keith A.
name: Rand, William
name: Girvan, Michelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a general contagion-like model for competing opinions that includes dynamic resistance to alternative opinions. We show that this model can describe candidate vote distributions, spatial vote correlations, and a slow approach to opinion consensus with sensible parameter values. These empirical properties of large group dynamics, previously understood using distinct models, may be different aspects of human behavior that can be captured by a more unified model, such as the one introduced in this paper.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 2 column revetx4 format
Polarization of fluorescence lines: tracing magnetic field from circumstellar medium to early universe
Creators: name: Zhang, Heshou
name: Yan, Huirong
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021

description: Fluorescence emission lines are broadly applied in observation for diffuse medium in the universe. They are normally observed around strong pumping source, tracing the gas in circumstellar medium, reflection nebula, and H\,{\sc ii} regions, etc. They reside in UV/optical and infrared bands and hence could be directly observed with ground-base telescopes. In this letter, we demonstrate the polarization of fluorescence lines as a magnetic field tracer arising from ground state atomic alignment in diffuse medium, including our solar system, supernova remnants (SNRs), as well as quasi-stellar object (QSO) host galaxies. Two types of fluorescence emissions are considered: the primary fluorescence from the excited states; and the secondary fluorescence from the metastable state (forbidden lines). We find that the synergy of these lines could measure three-dimensional magnetic direction: the polarizations of the primary fluorescence lines could reveal the magnetic polar angle along the line-of-sight, whereas the polarization of forbidden lines traces the plane-of-sky magnetic direction. The expected degree of polarization is $P>10\%$. Polarizations of both types of fluorescence emissions have shown strong potential for observations, and are applicable to measure magnetic field within and beyond our galaxy.
Adjusting to the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States: The impact of disruptions on habits and changes in health behaviors
Creators: name: Burnell K.
name: Hoyle R.H.
name: Andrade F.C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic provides a naturalistic test of whether pandemic-related disruptions weaken habits and undermine behavior stability. We hypothesized that better capacity to effortfully guide behavior (self-regulation) would buffer this effect and be associated with behavior stability and development of new habits to accomplish daily behaviors. A cross-sectional study of 416 MTurk workers recruited in April 2020 (Mage = 34.60, SD = 11.51) indicated that pandemic-related disruptions generally exceeded people’s capacity to effortfully modify their behavior. Self-regulation related to the development of new habits and to lower likelihood that work productivity decreased. Self-regulation also protected against the effect of disruption on the likelihood that substance use increased. Besides these associations, self-regulation was largely unrelated to health-related behaviors and, in some instances, associated with poorer outcomes. These findings underscore the need to appreciate the impact of contextual disruptions in interpreting and promoting change in health-related behaviors.
The formation channels of multiphase gas in nearby early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Eskenasy, Ryan
name: Olivares, Valeria
name: Su, Yuanyuan
name: Li, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The processes responsible for the assembly of cold and warm gas in early-type galaxies (ETGs) are not well-understood. We report on the multiwavelength properties of 15 non-central, nearby ($z \leq$ 0.00889) ETGs primarily through Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and Chandra X-ray observations, to address the origin of their multiphase gas. The MUSE data reveals 8/15 sources contain warm ionized gas traced by the H$α$ emission line. The morphology of this gas is found to be filamentary in 3/8 sources: NGC 1266, NGC 4374, and NGC 4684 which is similar to that observed in many group and cluster-centered galaxies. All H$α$ filamentary sources have X-ray luminosities exceeding the expected emission from the stellar population, suggesting the presence of diffuse hot gas which likely cooled to form the cooler phases. The morphology of the remaining 5/8 sources are rotating gas disks, not as commonly observed in higher mass systems. Chandra X-ray observations (when available) of the ETGs with rotating H$α$ disks indicate that they are nearly void of hot gas. A mixture of stellar mass loss and external accretion was likely the dominant channel for the cool gas in NGC 4526 and NGC 4710. These ETGs show full kinematic alignment between their stars and gas, and are fast rotators. The H$α$ features within NGC 4191 (clumpy, potentially star-forming ring), NGC 4643 and NGC 5507 (extended structures) along with loosely overlapping stellar and gas populations allow us to attribute external accretion to be the primary formation channel of the cool gas in these systems.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
iji_2022_2_24 (1).pdf
Creators: name: Lulaj, Enkeleda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper presents empirical evidence on financial-stress (FSF) and educational-teaching (ETF) factors to students. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to identify whether these factors were related to each-other, as well as if they affected students' performance during online learning during the Cov19 pandemic. Correlation analysis (Pearson test r) and multiple regression analysis (R, R2, Adj. R2, Std. Error, F, Sig. F, Durbin-Watson, Anova) were used during this study. The data were collected from 380 students surveyed at the PhD, Master and Bachelor level at the Kosovos' Universities, where through version 23.0 Windows of the SPSS program, 57 factors were tested which were divided into 11 categories. The results (α=0.84, r=.873, R=.982, Sig.=000) showed that there was a correlation between the financial stress factor (FSF) and the educational-teaching factor (ETF) for students, so to increase performance during online learning the following findings should be considered: 1) students should have had concentration, adaptation and good communication during the lesson, 2) students should have had good financial conditions within the family to adapt to the new learning and teaching environment, 3) stress factors should be removed to increase learning motivation, 4) the university should provide suitable learning opportunities for students who have worked so as not to lose their jobs, 5) there should be reductions in tuition fees or flexible ways to pay them, 6) professors should provide information about exams, lecture, graduations so that students did not have educational-financial stress. Therefore, the six most important findings of this research should be taken into account to increase student performance during online learning. Research implications suggest that focusing during online learning enhances student performance, and that families who have good financial standing have less financial stress to create the conditions for a new learning environment, so these findings may become a reference for subsequent research.
Additional file 1 of Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India
Creators: name: Plesons, Marina
name: Aarushi Khanna
name: Ziauddin, Mohammed
name: Gogoi, Aparajita
name: Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. C3’s Theory of Change for Adolescent Programming.
VITALISE D6.3 Summary of the performed activities for  JRA2
Creators: name: Cea, Gloria
name: Merino-Barbancho, Beatriz
name: Petsani, Despoina
name: Tsimpita, Konstantina
name: Santonen, Teemu
name: Alastalo, Mika
name: Kehayia, Eva
name: Rakia, Dorra
name: Ahmed, Sara
name: LOMBRONI, IVANA
name: Carvajal, Diego
name: Mallo, Irene
name: Goga, Erilda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document describes the activities carried out within the context of JRA2 – Transitional Care, focusing on four case studies: a simulation phase pilot conducted in Finland, and three small-scale pilot studies conducted in Greece, Canada and Spain. It provides a detailed account of each phase and activity undertaken by each case study, including pilot definition, execution phase, evaluation, results and conclusions.  

Furthermore, it presents a harmonized analysis across Living Labs in transitional care, addressing aspects such as the services offered by the Living Labs, their utilization in the pilots, and how their use can contribute to such studies. In healthcare innovation, involving Living Lab creates inclusive environments that involves various stakeholders, aligning regulatory standards, clinical protocols, and human factors to develop effective transitional care solutions based on digital solutions. Capacity building initiatives and collaborative sessions engage diverse stakeholders, while simulation tests and real-world experiments refine interventions iteratively, supported by data collection methods to predict outcomes and ensure compliance with legal and safety standards throughout the innovation process.  

A comparative analysis has been conducted on the devices used and the data collected by them, as well as the PROMs/PREMs gathered in the context of the JRA2. Additionally, an economic impact assessment has been carried out, evaluating data collection in Living Labs for transitional care and compares home monitoring devices to clinical tools, addressing patient transition challenges. Case studies aim to streamline care and reduce readmission costs through real-time monitoring, offering insights for policymakers to improve EU healthcare systems and lower expenses.  Finally, a series of recommendations regarding practices in Transitional Care are provided: engaging patients and clinicians in the design phase ensures that home monitoring technologies effectively meet real-world needs, while standardized protocols and international pilot studies guarantee data consistency and applicability; thorough training for medical personnel in adopting new technologies is key for their smooth integration into clinical practice; supporting patient recovery with user-friendly interfaces and continuous feedback mechanisms for optimal transitional care management.
Additional file 1 of Beyond the scope and the glue: update on evaluation and management of gastric varices
Creators: name: Philips, Cyriac Abby
name: Ahamed, Rizwan
name: Sasidharan Rajesh
name: George, Tom
name: Mohanan, Meera
name: Augustine, Philip
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Classification systems of gastric varices. Supplementary Table 2. Hemodynamic classification of gastric varices based on portal inflow/afferent system.
Bias Analysis for Misclassification Errors in both the Response Variable and Covariate
Creators: name: Liu, Juxin
name: Afful, Annshirley
name: Mansell, Holly
name: Ma, Yanyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Abstract–Much literature has focused on statistical inference for misclassified response variables or misclassified covariates. However, misclassification in both the response variable and the covariate has received very limited attention within applied fields and the statistics community. In situations where the response variable and the covariate are simultaneously subject to misclassification errors, an assumption of independent misclassification errors is often used for convenience without justification. This article aims to show the harmful consequences of inappropriate adjustment for joint misclassification errors. In particular, we focus on the wrong adjustment by ignoring the dependence between the misclassification process of the response variable and the covariate. In this article, the dependence of misclassification in both variables is characterized by covariance-type parameters. We extend the original definition of dependence parameters to a more general setting. We discover a single quantity that governs the dependence of the two misclassification processes. Moreover, we propose likelihood ratio tests to check the nondifferential/independent misclassification assumption in main study/internal validation study designs. Our simulation studies indicate that ignoring the dependent error structure can be even worse than ignoring all the misclassification errors when the validation data size is relatively small. The methodology is illustrated by a real data example.
Hoping the best, expecting the worst: forecasting the potential impacts of climate and land-use change on Iberian plants of conservation concern
Creators: name: Alves, Cristiana
name: Sousa-Silva, Rita
name: Marcos, Bruno
name: Georges, Damien
name: Lomba, Angela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Worldwide, halting biodiversity loss is still a major challenge. Climate and land-use change (CLUC) are major drivers of species decline, and further expected to drive species’ future ranges. Understanding how these changes may impact species in the future is thus of utmost importance in the context of conservation and monitoring. This is especially critical for species of conservation concern, known to be more prone to extinction under environmental change. Aims: Here we addressed how CLUC may affect future distributions of 64 plant species designated under conservation legislation for Portugal and Spain. Current and future species distributions were modelled and projected under three CLUC scenarios. Range changes were analysed for each species and IUCN category, considering climate versus land-use change models, and the trade-offs between them. Results: Overall, our results depict consistent trends in the distribution of the targeted species under CLUC. The results also highlight potential extinction for some of the targeted species under climate change. However, under land-use change, 10 species are likely to expand their suitable habitat. Conclusions: Our research advances existing knowledge on how climate and land-use change may impact species of conservation concern in the Iberian Peninsula. Such knowledge is essential if further losses of species of conservation concern are to be proactively anticipated. Ultimately, such information can be useful to support data-driven conservation programmes and decision-making in the future.
Bias analysis for misclassification errors in both the response variable and covariate
Creators: name: Liu, Juxin
name: Afful, Annshirley
name: Mansell, Holly
name: Ma, Yanyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Much literature has focused on statistical inference for misclassified response variables or misclassified covariates. However, misclassification in both the response variable and the covariate has received very limited attention within applied fields and the statistics community. In situations where the response variable and the covariate are simultaneously subject to misclassification errors, an assumption of independent misclassification errors is often used for convenience without justification. This paper aims to show the harmful consequences of inappropriate adjustment for joint misclassification errors. In particular, we focus on the wrong adjustment by ignoring the dependence between the misclassification process of the response variable and the covariate. In this paper, the dependence of misclassification in both variables is characterized by covariance-type parameters. We extend the original definition of dependence parameters to a more general setting. We discover a single quantity that governs the dependence of the two misclassification processes. Moreover, we propose likelihood ratio tests to check the nondifferential/independent misclassification assumption in main study/internal validation study designs. Our simulation studies indicate that ignoring the dependent error structure can be even worse than ignoring all the misclassification errors when the validation data size is relatively small. The methodology is illustrated by a real data example.
Five-year survival rate of breast cancer patients in Brunei Darussalam
Creators: name: Leong, Elvynna
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: 10402 Biostatistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide. In Brunei Darussalam, breast cancer has the highest incidence rate among women. This study presents the survival rate of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Brunei Darussalam and explores the association between survival and demographic or clinical characteristics.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of breast cancer diagnosed from 2007 to 2017 among women in Brunei Darussalam. Cancer data was retrieved from population based cancer registry. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Log rank test were applied to estimate the survival rates and the association between survival and important patients’ characteristics. Hazard ratios were derived using Cox Proportional Hazard model.

Results: The survival rates of breast cancer patients at 1, 3 and 5 years were 89.5%, 79.2% and 72.0% respectively. The 5-year survival rates for cancer stages were 92.2% for localized, 76.9% for regional, and 21.4% for distant metastasis. Ethnicity, cancer stages and cancer stages-morphology interaction were significant independent predictors for breast cancer survival in Brunei Darussalam.

Conclusion: The survival rate of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Brunei Darussalam and its significant predictors are similar to those reported from other developed countries. Further studies on predictors such as health seeking behaviours and impact of different cancer treatment will provide further insight in improving survival rates of breast cancer through early cancer detection programmes and strengthening of the healthcare service delivery.
DiPS: Discriminative Pseudo-Label Sampling with Self-Supervised Transformers for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
Creators: name: Murtaza, Shakeeb
name: Belharbi, Soufiane
name: Pedersoli, Marco
name: Sarraf, Aydin
name: Granger, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Self-supervised vision transformers (SSTs) have shown great potential to yield rich localization maps that highlight different objects in an image. However, these maps remain class-agnostic since the model is unsupervised. They often tend to decompose the image into multiple maps containing different objects while being unable to distinguish the object of interest from background noise objects. In this paper, Discriminative Pseudo-label Sampling (DiPS) is introduced to leverage these class-agnostic maps for weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL), where only image-class labels are available. Given multiple attention maps, DiPS relies on a pre-trained classifier to identify the most discriminative regions of each attention map. This ensures that the selected ROIs cover the correct image object while discarding the background ones, and, as such, provides a rich pool of diverse and discriminative proposals to cover different parts of the object. Subsequently, these proposals are used as pseudo-labels to train our new transformer-based WSOL model designed to perform classification and localization tasks. Unlike standard WSOL methods, DiPS optimizes performance in both tasks by using a transformer encoder and a dedicated output head for each task, each trained using dedicated loss functions. To avoid overfitting a single proposal and promote better object coverage, a single proposal is randomly selected among the top ones for a training image at each training step. Experimental results on the challenging CUB, ILSVRC, OpenImages, and TelDrone datasets indicate that our architecture, in combination with our transformer-based proposals, can yield better localization performance than state-of-the-art methods.
Investigation the effects of Chitosan-natural antimicrobial substances based nano emulsions coating on extending the shelf life of a Cucumber
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Ali
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60501 Bacteriology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Botany
subject: Microbiology
subject: 60505 Mycology

description: Zataria multiflora (ZEO) essential oil was encapsulated by ionic gelation technique into CSNPs with an average size of 125–180 nm, as observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Meanwhile, the encapsulation efficiency (EE) and loading capacity (LC) of ZEO decreased upon increasing initial ZEO concentration with a decrease in particle size. In addition, we have prepared Cinnamomum zeylanicum (CEO) essential oil-loaded CSNPs (CEO@CSNPs) with size range of 140–200 nm, loading capacity of 3-4%, and encapsulation efficiency of 2-17% ,in the initial CEO content of 0.25–1 g/g chitosan. The optimal weight ratio of CS to ZEO or CEO was found 1:0.25. In vitro release studies also demonstrated a controlled and sustained release of ZEO and CEO.For coating analyze, cucumbers obtained in commercial maturation stage from organic farming, were transported at low temperature to the laboratory and coating experiments were carried out on the same day. Cucumbers were selected for uniform size, shape and color, and without any signs of mechanical damage or deterioration. Then, fruits washed in sodium hypochlorite solution (1% v/v) and left for 2 h in a safe cabinet to dry. A total of 1000 fruit was used for conducting all experiments.The superior performance of ZEO or CEO when encapsulated by CSNPs under both in vitro and in vivo conditions in comparison with unmodified ZEO against P. drechsleri was revealed. The in vivo experiment showed that the encapsulated oils significantly decreased both disease severity and incidence of infected cucumbers by P. drechsleri, after 1 or 2 days shelf-life at 20°C following removal from storage at 4°C. The in vivo experiment also showed that the ZEO@CSNPs or CEO@CSNPs coating extended the shelf life of cucumber up to 21 days at 8±1°C while uncoated fruits could not reach this far (<15days). Furthermore, it was capable of improving the microbiological and physicochemical quality and preserving the quality of the fruit during the storage period. Coated fruits were firmer, maintained color, water content, and showed lower microbial counts (P <0.05) throughout storage. According to these results, ZEO@CSNPs or CEO@CSNPs coatings can be an alternative method with which to extend cucumber shelf-life. Results indicated that the potential application of nanoencapsulated EOs at sub-inhibitory concentrations as an alternative to the sensory impact, particularly flavor and odor, resulting from the application of EOs alone at higher concentrations on fruits.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9060368
The 3D mesh model and photos of Hemipilia avisoides Y.Tang, X.M.Wang & H.Peng sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Xue-Man
name: Tang, Ying
name: Peng, Pei-Hao
name: Peng, Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: A new orchid species, Hemipilia avisoides Y.Tang, X.M.Wang & H.Peng, is described from the arid valley in the upper reaches of Minjiang River, Songpan County and Maoxian County, Sichuan Province, China. It is published in PhytoKeys, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.213.90377. Here presented are the 3D mesh model of the uppermost two flowers on an inflorescence and photos of the corresponding micro-CT-scanned individual of Hemipilia avisoides. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) was completed at the Key Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Ministry of Natural Resources. The inflorescence with the uppermost three flowers of an individual of Hemipilia avisoides was scanned in vivo in a NIKON XTH 225ST CT scanner at a resolution of 18.6 μm and X-ray of 90 kV and 70 μA. The 3D reconstructions were performed in the software VGSTUDIO MAX 3.0 with STL files being exported. For the 3D model of inflorescence, however, only the uppermost two flowers were reconstructed due to the trade-off between resolution and computing time. Acquired 3D mesh models were visualised and processed by the software GOM INSPECT PRO in GOM SUITE 3.1.1109.0. It should be noted that the 3D mesh model "1-HemiAvis150P" here included was thinned to ca 1,500,000 points to keep a small file size, although its resolution decreased simultaneously. The original STL file is large (ca 1.5 GB) and might be difficult to process on a PC. The photos were taken in the field with a CANON POWERSHOT G16 camera by one of the authors (Y. Tang). Raw CR2 files were processed by the software DIGITAL PHOTO PROFESSIONAL 4 to export JPG files. The photo "2-HemiAvisScanned-A" shows the habit of Hemipilia avisoides in the wild. The individual in this photo was the one micro-CT-scanned. Photos "2-HemiAvisScanned-B" and "2-HemiAvisScanned-C" show the condition when the individual was collected into a plastic bottle and brought back to the vehicle.
Additional file 1 of New insights into prediction of weak π–π complex association through proton-nuclear magnetic resonance analysis
Creators: name: Lin, Chenyu
name: Skufca, Joseph
name: Partch, Richard E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. The explanation for Eq. 2 development.
Topological Charge Analysis of Ultrafast Single Skyrmion Creation
Creators: name: Yin, Gen
name: Li, Yufan
name: Kong, Lingyao
name: Lake, Roger K.
name: Chien, C. L.
name: Zang, Jiadong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures of potential interest for future information storage applications, and for such purposes, the control and understanding of single skyrmion creation is required. A scheme is analyzed to create single Néel-type and Bloch-type skyrmions in helimagnetic thin films utilizing the dynamical excitations induced by the Oersted field and the spin transfer torque given by a vertically injected spin-polarized current. A topological charge analysis using a lattice version of the topological charge provides insight into the locally triggered transition from a trivial to a non-trivial topological spin texture of the Néel or Bloch type skyrmion. The topological protection of the magnetic skyrmion is determined by the symmetric Heisenberg exchange energy. The critical switching current density is $\sim10^{7}\thinspace\textrm{A/cm}^{2}$, which decreases with the easy-plane type uniaxial anisotropy and thermal fluctuations. In-plane spin polarization of the injected current performs better than out-of-plane polarization, and it provides ultrafast switching times (within 100 ps) and reliable switching outcomes.
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Roush J.
name: Kramer C.
name: McFayden T.C.
name: DeRamus M.
name: Mankowski J.
name: Culbertson S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2023

description: Autism spectrum disorders are more prevalent in children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (D/HH) than in the general population. This potential for diagnostic overlap underscores the importance of understanding the best approaches for assessing autism spectrum disorder in D/HH youths. Despite the recognition of clinical significance, youths who are D/HH are often identified as autistic later than individuals with normal hearing, which results in delayed access to appropriate early intervention services. Three primary barriers to early identification include behavioral phenotypic overlap, a lack of “gold-standard” screening and diagnostic tools for this population, and limited access to qualified clinicians. In the current article, we seek to address these barriers to prompt an appropriate identification of autism by providing recommendations for autism assessment in children who are D/HH from an interdisciplinary hearing and development clinic, including virtual service delivery during COVID-19. Strengths, gaps, and future directions for implementation are addressed.
FysikLab@FKF: Project-based learning & didactics. Bestil En Forsker. FKF/FysikLab besøger Slagelse Teknisk Gymnasium. 09. april 2025.
Creators: name: Hinse, Tobias Cornelius
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: STEM
Videnskabsformidling
Citizen Science
Borgerforskning
Space data
Space physics
Science communication

description: SDU/FKF FysikLab besøger Slagelse Teknisk Gymnasium (Astronomi C og Fysik A) som en del af "Bestil En Forsker" programmet. Emnet eller fokus var på data projekter fra astronomiens og rumfysikkens verden hvor elever kan arbejde med specifikke data sæt fra forskellige instrumenter og teleskoper. Data bliver stillet til rådighed via zooniverse som udbyder borgerforsker (Citizen Science) projekter. Der arbejdes i grupper af to. Forløbet afsluttes med korte uformelle elevoplæg om det CS/data emne som eleven/gruppen har fordybede sig i over 90 - 100 minutter. Under oplægget er der samtale mellem oplægsholderen / gruppen og resten af klassen og lærerer sikrer det faglige indhold og perspektiverer emnet i forhold til undervisning eller hverdags erfaringer.
Additional file 1 of nSARS-Cov-2, pulmonary edema and thrombosis: possible molecular insights using miRNA-gene circuits in regulatory networks
Creators: name: P. Khurana
name: A. Gupta
name: R. Sugadev
name: Y. K. Sharma
name: R. Varshney
name: L. Ganju
name: B. Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Network representation of comprehensive nSARS-CoV2 responsive miRNA:TF:gene coregulatory directed tripartite network. The miRNAs, TFs and genes are denoted in blue, green and yellow colour nodes respectively. Table S1. The list of interactions between the 11 antiviral host miRNAs (highlighted in red) and their direct miRNA indicators. Table S2. The pathway enrichment of TFs and genes present in comprehensive nSARS-CoV2 responsive miRNA:TF:gene coregulatory network. Table S3. A comprehensive list of genes related to β-coronavirus extracted from literature using textmining and manual curation. Table S4. The top 10 enriched pathways miRNA-TF-gene coregulatory network that was constructed using 82 β-coronavirus genes curated from the literature. Table S5. Z-scores of different subgraphs calculated after randomization of miRNA-TF-gene-coregulatory network. Table S6. The list of the genes expressed or regulated during High altitude pulmonary edema. Table S7. The list of the 15 FFLs present in miRNA-TF-gene coregulatory network that are having common HAPE TFs/genes. Table S8. The list of TFs regulating SERPINE1 in miRNA-TF-gene coregulatory network.
An empirical examination of suicidality among multiracial college students
Creators: name: Krueger, Nolan Travis
name: 0000-0001-9267-8430
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Multiracial mental health
Mixed mental health
College students
Multiracial college students
Multiracial
Mixed
Multiracial suicidality
Multiracial suicidal ideation
Multiracial suicide
Suicidality
Suicidal ideation
Suicide

description: The association between suicidal ideation (SI) and a set of strengths-based, malleable psychological factors related to well-being was examined among Multiracial college students and compared with monoracial college students in a diverse sample of 1,446 Asian Americans, 757 African Americans, 1091 Latino/a Americans, 382 Middle Eastern/East Indian Americans, 7,352 White Americans, and 797 Multiracial Americans. Data from the 2016 USDAS Survey was analyzed and showed that Multiracial students endorsed significantly higher levels of SI relative to their monoracial peers. Further multiple regression analyses revealed that among Multiracial students, perceived burdensomeness, emotion-focused coping self-efficacy, sense of coherence, search for meaning in life, social connectedness, and resilience significantly and uniquely predicted SI. Additionally, significant interactions were found such that Multiracial versus monoracial self-identification moderated the relationships between sense of coherence and SI, perceived burdensomeness and SI, and social connectedness and SI. Findings with regards to the establishment of an evidence-based understanding of SI among young Multiracial Americans, along with suggestions for future research are discussed
ROMO: Retrieval-enhanced Offline Model-based Optimization
Creators: name: Chen, Mingcheng
name: Zhao, Haoran
name: Zhao, Yuxiang
name: Fan, Hulei
name: Gao, Hongqiao
name: Yu, Yong
name: Tian, Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data-driven black-box model-based optimization (MBO) problems arise in a great number of practical application scenarios, where the goal is to find a design over the whole space maximizing a black-box target function based on a static offline dataset. In this work, we consider a more general but challenging MBO setting, named constrained MBO (CoMBO), where only part of the design space can be optimized while the rest is constrained by the environment. A new challenge arising from CoMBO is that most observed designs that satisfy the constraints are mediocre in evaluation. Therefore, we focus on optimizing these mediocre designs in the offline dataset while maintaining the given constraints rather than further boosting the best observed design in the traditional MBO setting. We propose retrieval-enhanced offline model-based optimization (ROMO), a new derivable forward approach that retrieves the offline dataset and aggregates relevant samples to provide a trusted prediction, and use it for gradient-based optimization. ROMO is simple to implement and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in the CoMBO setting. Empirically, we conduct experiments on a synthetic Hartmann (3D) function dataset, an industrial CIO dataset, and a suite of modified tasks in the Design-Bench benchmark. Results show that ROMO performs well in a wide range of constrained optimization tasks.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
An instant messaging mobile phone application for promoting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among Chinese gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: A mixed methods feasibility and piloting randomized controlled trial study
Creators: name: Yu J.
name: Li C.
name: Tong X.
name: Sherer R.
name: Yang Z.
name: Fisher E.B.
name: Matthews D.D.
name: Mu T.
name: Huang H.
name: Li L.
name: Maman S.
name: Xiong Y.
name: Tang W.
name: Muessig K.E.
name: Lio J.
name: Tucker J.D.
name: Hazra A.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a promising intervention mode for HIV prevention, but little is known about its feasibility and effects in promoting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among Chinese gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Methods We evaluated an instant messaging application using a WeChat-based mini-app to promote PrEP uptake among GBMSM via a mixed-methods design that includes a 12-week, two-arm randomized controlled pilot trial and in-depth progress interviews in Guangzhou, China. Primary outcomes include the number of PrEP initiations, individual-level psychosocial variables related to PrEP initiation, and usability of the PrEP mini-app. Results Between November 2020 and April 2021, 70 GBMSM were successfully enrolled and randomized into two arms at 2:1 ratio (46 to the intervention arm, 24 to the control arm). By the end of 12-week follow-up, 22 (31.4%) participants completed the initial consultation and lab tests for PrEP, and 13 (18.6%) filled their initial PrEP prescription. We observed modest but non-significant improvements in participants’ intention to use PrEP, actual PrEP initiation, PrEP-related self-efficacy, stigma, and attitudes over 12 weeks when comparing the mini-app and the control arms. Qualitative interviews revealed the key barriers to PrEP uptake include anticipated stigma and discrimination in clinical settings, burden of PrEP care, and limited operating hours of the PrEP clinic. In-person clinic navigation support was highly valued. Conclusions This pilot trial of a mobile phone-based PrEP mini-app demonstrated feasibility and identified limitations in facilitating PrEP uptake among Chinese GBMSM. Future improvements may include diversifying the content presentation in engaging media formats, adding user engagement features, and providing off-line in-clinic navigation support during initial PrEP visit. More efforts are needed to understand optimal strategies to identify and implement alternative PrEP provision models especially in highly stigmatized settings with diverse needs. Trial registration Trial registration: The study was prospectively registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04426656) on 11 June, 2020.
Goumas et al. Supplementary material from Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction
Creators: name: Goumas, Madeleine
name: Burns, Isabella
name: Kelley, Laura A.
name: Boogert, Neeltje J.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary methods and results
Electromagnetic field and the chiral magnetic effect in the quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Tuchin, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time evolution of electromagnetic field created in heavy-ion collisions strongly depends on the electromagnetic response of the quark-gluon plasma, which can be described by the Ohmic and chiral conductivities. The later is intimately related to the Chiral Magnetic Effect. I argue that a solution to the classical Maxwell equations at finite chiral conductivity is unstable due to the soft modes $k
description: 13 pages, 3 figures; v2: improved presentation, typos fixed, v3: a mistake in Eq. (62) is fixed
Ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with sum of periodic and inverse-square potentials
Creators: name: Guo, Qianqiao
name: Mederski, Jarosław
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 35Q55, Secondary: 35J10, 35J20, 58E05

description: We study the existence of solutions of the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation \begin{equation*} -Δu + \Big(V(x)-\fracμ{|x|^2}\Big) u = f(x,u) \hbox{ for } x\in\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\{0\}, \end{equation*} where $V:\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}$ and $f:\mathrm{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ are periodic in $x\in\mathbb{R}$. We assume that $0$ does not lie in the spectrum of $-Δ+V$ and $μ