cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2: of Genomic analysis of serologically untypable human enteroviruses in Taiwan
Creators: name: Yeh-Sheng Chien
name: Luo, Shu-Ting
name: Kuo-Chien Tsao
name: Yhu-Chering Huang
name: Wan-Yu Chung
name: Yu-Chieh Liao
name: Tan, Yi
name: Das, Suman
name: Min-Shi Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Characteristics of enterovirus patients characterized using NGS in Taiwan, 2008. (DOCX 23 kb)
No More Mumbles: Enhancing Robot Intelligibility through Speech Adaptation
Creators: name: Ren, Qiaoqiao
name: Hou, Yuanbo
name: Botteldooren, Dick
name: Belpaeme, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spoken language interaction is at the heart of interpersonal communication, and people flexibly adapt their speech to different individuals and environments. It is surprising that robots, and by extension other digital devices, are not equipped to adapt their speech and instead rely on fixed speech parameters, which often hinder comprehension by the user. We conducted a speech comprehension study involving 39 participants who were exposed to different environmental and contextual conditions. During the experiment, the robot articulated words using different vocal parameters, and the participants were tasked with both recognising the spoken words and rating their subjective impression of the robot's speech. The experiment's primary outcome shows that spaces with good acoustic quality positively correlate with intelligibility and user experience. However, increasing the distance between the user and the robot exacerbated the user experience, while distracting background sounds significantly reduced speech recognition accuracy and user satisfaction. We next built an adaptive voice for the robot. For this, the robot needs to know how difficult it is for a user to understand spoken language in a particular setting. We present a prediction model that rates how annoying the ambient acoustic environment is and, consequentially, how hard it is to understand someone in this setting. Then, we develop a convolutional neural network model to adapt the robot's speech parameters to different users and spaces, while taking into account the influence of ambient acoustics on intelligibility. Finally, we present an evaluation with 27 users, demonstrating superior intelligibility and user experience with adaptive voice parameters compared to fixed voice.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RAL)
Can U.S. multi-state climate mitigation agreements work? A perspective from embedded emission flows
Creators: name: Feng, Kuishuang
name: Baiocchi, Giovanni
name: Hubacek, Klaus
name: Sun, Laixiang
name: Song, Kaihui
name: Guan, Dabo
name: Wang, Daoping
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
Subnational and non-governmental actors are expected to provide important contributions to broader climate actions. A consistent and accurate quantification of their GHG emissions is an important prerequisite for the success of such efforts. However, emissions embodied in domestic and international supply chains, that can undermine the effectiveness of climate agreements, add challenges to the quantification of emissions originating from theconsumption of goods and services produced elsewhere. We examine emission transfers between the states that have joined the U.S. Climate Alliance (USCA) and others. Our results show that states pledging to curb emissions consistent with the Paris Agreement were responsible for approximately 40% of total U.S. territorial GHG emissions. However, when accounting for transferred emissions through international and interstate supply chains of the products they consume, the share of Alliance states increased to 52.4% of the national total GHG emissions. The consumption-based emissions for some Alliance states, such as Massachusetts and New York, could be more than 1.5 times higher than their production-based emissions. Our detailed sectoral analysis highlights the challenges facing such agreements to extend cooperation in the future for larger joint benefit given the potential for carbon leakage from member states implementing stricter environmental policies that could lead to higher emissions from non-member states. It is critical for these arrangements to pay close attention to transferred emissions.
Additional file 1 of Does social support matter? The mediating links with coping strategy and anxiety among Chinese college students in a cross-sectional study of COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Li, Yue
name: Peng, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Items of Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ).
A 250 GHz Survey of High Redshift QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Carilli, C. L.
name: Bertoldi, F.
name: Rupen, M.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Kreysa, E.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Bertarini, A.
name: Yun, M. S.
name: Zylka, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations at 250 GHz (1.2 mm), 43 GHz, and 1.4 GHz of a sample of 41 QSOs at z > 3.7 found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We detect 16 sources with a 250 GHz flux density greater than 1.4 mJy. The combination of centimeter and millimeter wavelength observations indicates that the 250 GHz emission is most likely thermal dust emission. Assuming a dust temperature of 50 K, the implied dust masses for the 16 detected sources are in the range 1.5e8 to 5.9e8 Msun, and the dust emitting regions are likely to be larger than 1 kpc in extent. The radio-through-optical spectral energy distributions for these sources are within the broad range defined by lower redshift, lower optical luminosity QSOs. We consider possible dust heating mechanisms, including UV emission from the active nucleus (AGN) and a starburst concurrent with the AGN, with implied star formation rates between 500 and 2000 Msun/year.
description: 4 figures, aasms4.sty. to appear in the Astrophysical Journal
Meganeltumius Romero and Johnson, new genus
Creators: name: Romero, Jesús
name: Johnson, Clarence Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Meganeltumius

description: Meganeltumius Romero and Johnson, new genus
 Type species. Meganeltumius juani Romero and Johnson.
 Etymology. Named because it resembles a large member of the genus Neltumius Bridwell, but with significant differences. The generic name refers to the larger body size when compared to species of Neltumius.
237
 Description of Characters Diagnostic of the Genus. The following combination of characters distinguishes this genus from other genera known to us. The dimorphic antennae are subpectinate in males and serrate in females. The pronotum has two paired, well-defined gibbosities, the posterior pair is larger that the anterior pair (Fig. 1). The elytron has a gibbosity anteriorly between stria 2 and 5 and two more small gibbosities on strial interval 2, one mesal and one posterior to it (Fig. 2). The hind femur is especially diagnostic in that it is armed on its inner edge with about eight small serrations beginning about 0.5 from the base and ending at the apex in a subapical spine about 0.5 as long as the width of the tibial base (Figs. 3, 4). This pattern of serrations and spines on the metafemur is unique to this genus of bruchids. The genitalia are very elongate and the lateral lobes are cleft to about 0.65 their length (Figs. 5, 6). These elongate genitalia differ significantly from the shorter genitalia of species of Neltumius (Kingsolver, 1964; Romero and Johnson, submitted).
description: Published as part of Romero, Jesús & Johnson, Clarence Dan, 2003, Meganeltumius juani, New Genus, New Species (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), pp. 237-242 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (2) on pages 237-238, DOI: 10.1649/549, http://zenodo.org/record/10103586
Loosely Coupled Payload Transport System with Robot Replacement
Creators: name: Verma, Pulkit
name: Tallamraju, Rahul
name: Rawat, Abhay
name: Chand, Subhasis
name: Karlapalem, Kamalakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we present an algorithm for robot replacement to increase the operational time of a multi-robot payload transport system. Our system comprises a group of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots traversing on a known trajectory. We design a multi-robot system with loosely coupled robots that ensures the system lasts much longer than the battery life of an individual robot. A system level optimization is presented, to decide on the operational state (charging or discharging) of each robot in the system. The charging state implies that the robot is not in a formation and is kept on charge whereas the discharging state implies that the robot is a part of the formation. Robot battery recharge hubs are present along the trajectory. Robots in the formation can be replaced at these hub locations with charged robots using a replacement mechanism. We showcase the efficacy of the proposed scheduling framework through simulations and experiments with real robots.
description: 20 Pages, AAMAS 2019
Passive Tracer Dynamics in Slow-Bond Problem
Creators: name: Soh, Hyungjoon
name: Ha, Meesoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asymptotic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) properties are investigated in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) with a localized geometric defect. In particular, we focus on the universal nature of nonequilibrium steady states of the modified TASEP. Since the original TASEP belongs to the KPZ universality class, it is mathematically and physically a quite interesting question whether the localized columnar defect, the slow bond (SB), is really always relevant to the KPZ universality or not. However, it is numerically controversial to address the possibility of the non-queued SB phase in the weak-strength SB limit. Based on the detailed statistical analysis of KPZ-type growing interfaces, we present a comprehensive view of the non-queue SB phase, compared to finite-size crossover effects that reported in our earlier work [Soh {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 95}, 042123 (2017)]. Moreover, we employ two types of passive tracer dynamics as the probe of the SB dynamics. Finally, we provide intuitive arguments for additional clues to resolve the controversy of the SB problem.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures plus 3 extra figures; JSTAT Special Issue of nesmcq18; published version
Coelogyne williamsii M. W. Chase & Schuit. 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Chase, Mark W.
name: Gravendeel, Barbara
name: Sulistyo, Bobby P.
name: Wati, Richa Kusuma
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Coelogyne
Coelogyne williamsii

description: Coelogyne williamsii (Ames) M.W.Chase & Schuit., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Acoridium williamsii Ames, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 19: 143 (1906).
 Homotypic synonym: Dendrochilum williamsii (Ames) Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50 II B 7: 114 (1907).
description: Published as part of Chase, Mark W., Gravendeel, Barbara, Sulistyo, Bobby P., Wati, Richa Kusuma & Schuiteman, André, 2021, Expansion of the orchid genus Coelogyne (Arethuseae; Epidendroideae) to include Bracisepalum, Bulleyia, Chelonistele, Dendrochilum, Dickasonia, Entomophobia, Geesinkorchis, Gynoglottis, Ischnogyne, Nabaluia, Neogyna, Otochilus, Panisea and Pholidota, pp. 94-134 in Phytotaxa 510 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.510.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5426332
Pedestrian evacuations with imitation of cooperative behavior
Creators: name: Zablotsky, Amir
name: Kuperman, Marcelo N
name: Bouzat, Sebastián
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dynamics of room evacuation for mixed populations that include both competitive and cooperative individuals through numerical simulations using the social force model. Cooperative agents represent well-trained individuals who know how to behave in order to reduce risks within high-density crowds. We consider that competitive agents can imitate cooperative behavior when they are in close proximity to cooperators. We study the effects of the imitation of cooperative behavior on the duration and safety of evacuations, analyzing evacuation time and other quantities of interest for varying parameters such as the proportions of mixing, the aspect ratio of the room, and the parameters characterizing individual behaviors. Our main findings reveal that the addition of a relatively small number of cooperative agents into a crowd can reduce evacuation time and the density near the exit door, making the evacuation faster and safer despite an increase in the total number of agents. In particular, for long spaces such as corridors, a small number of added cooperative agents can significantly facilitate the evacuation process. We compare our results with those of systems without imitation and also study the general role of cooperation, providing further analysis for homogeneous populations. Our main conclusions emphasize the potential relevance of training people how to behave in high-density crowds
Application of mineral phosphorus fertilizer influences rhizosphere chemical and biological characteristics
Creators: name: Liu, Hang
name: Hao, Zhongming
name: Yuan, Yuhan
name: Li, Cuilan
name: Zhang, Jinjing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Soil microorganisms directly participate in phosphorus (P) cycle, which in turn affects crop yield and quality. However, how biological and chemical parameters respond to mineral P fertilizer application rates in rhizosphere soil remains unclear. Here, a pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of different mineral P fertilizer application rates (0, 60, 120, and 300 kg P2O5 ha−1) on soil chemical properties and bacterial community in maize rhizosphere in a Mollisol. With increasing P fertilizer rates, soil organic carbon concentration decreased, while soil Olsen P and inorganic P and organic P (Po) fractions concentrations increased. High-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that the relative abundances of some beneficial bacteria (Anaerolinea, Anaeromyxobacter, Kaistia and Rhodobacter) significantly increased with reduced P fertilizer rates, and meanwhile those of other beneficial bacteria (Mesorhizobium, Microvirga, Rhizobacter and Skermanella) significantly decreased under high P fertilizer rates. Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that labile Po was the main driver of the differences in bacterial community structure. Bacterial community diversity and composition significantly and indirectly affected maize yield via octacalcium-bound P, occluded Fe/Al-bound P, labile Po, and moderately labile Po. The results suggested that reducing P fertilizer rates can promote beneficial bacterial growth and increase bacterial community diversity.
Low-Temperature Annihilation Rate for Quasi-Localized Excitons in Monolayer MoS2
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Eric
name: Soh, Daniel B. S.
name: Rogers, Christopher
name: Gray, Dodd J.
name: Mabuchi, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong Coulomb forces in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides ensure that optical excitation of band electrons gives rise to Wannier-Mott excitonic states, each of which can be conceptualized as a composite of a Gaussian wavepacket corresponding to center-of-mass motion and an orbital state corresponding to the motion of the electron and hole about the center-of-mass. Here, we show that at low temperature in monolayer MoS2, given quasi-localized excitons and consequently a significant inter-exciton spacing, the excitons undergo dipole-dipole interaction and annihilate one another in a manner analogous to Auger recombination. To construct our model, we assume that each exciton is localized in a region whose length is on the same scale as the excitonic diameter, thus causing the exciton to behave in a fermionic manner, while the distance between neighboring excitons is much larger than the exciton diameter. We construct the orbital ladder operators for each exciton and apply Fermi's Golden Rule to derive the overall recombination rate as a function of exciton density.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: Social Order within and beyond the Shadow of Hierarchy
title: Governance Patterns in Afghanistan
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Koehler, Jan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: In this paper I argue that governance can be referred back to the basic sociological categories of social order, institutions and power. More specifically, governance as an analytical concept refers to the ordering function of institutions that limits the role of self-help in social interaction. Since social order clearly predates the state the empirically relevant question is if governance outputs require some kind of functional equivalent to the state or if governance can be observed devoid of statehood in this functional sense. I discuss this question on the basis of evidence from different patterns of local governance (or: governance zones) observed in Afghanistan which are defined by various degrees of state involvement and governance effects. I find that social control is the only functional equivalent to the hieratical state in enforcing institutional rules against the self-interest of actors. Social control devoid of state protection is, however, limited in its geographical and social scope.
description: In diesem Arbeitspapier führe ich den Begriff „Governance“ zurück auf die soziologischen Grundkategorien der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung, Institutionen und Macht. Governance als analytisches Konzept verweist auf die Ordnungsfunktion von Institutionen, die die bloße Durchsetzungsmacht (Selbsthilfe) von Akteuren in der gesellschaftlichen Interaktion einschränkt. Gesellschaftliche Ordnung gab es vor dem Staat; daher ist die empirisch relevante Frage, ob es Governance ohne Funktionsäquivalente zum hierarchisch durchsetzungsfähigen Staat gibt. Ich gehe dieser Frage auf der Grundlage von in Afghanistan beobachteten Governance-Mustern nach, welche nach dem Grad der Staatsanwesenheit und Governance-Effekten differenziert sind. Ich stelle fest, dass soziale Kontrolle das einzige Funktionsäquivalent zum Staat ist, das Regeln im Zweifelsfalle auch gegen die Interessen von Akteuren durchsetzen kann. Soziale Kontrolle ohne staatlichen Schutz ist allerdings in ihrer geografischen und sozialen Ausdehnung eng beschränkt.
NuRadioMC: Simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector
Creators: name: Glaser, Christian
name: García-Fernández, Daniel
name: Nelles, Anna
name: Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime
name: Barwick, Steven W.
name: Besson, Dave Z.
name: Clark, Brian A.
name: Connolly, Amy
name: Deaconu, Cosmin
name: de Vries, Krijn
name: Hanson, Jordan C.
name: Hokanson-Fasig, Ben
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Latif, Uzair
name: Kleinfelder, Stuart A.
name: Persichilli, Christopher
name: Pan, Yue
name: Pfender, Carl
name: Plaisier, Ilse
name: Seckel, Dave
name: Torres, Jorge
name: Toscano, Simona
name: van Eijndhoven, Nick
name: Vieregg, Abigail
name: Welling, Christoph
name: Winchen, Tobias
name: Wissel, Stephanie A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NuRadioMC is a Monte Carlo framework designed to simulate ultra-high energy neutrino detectors that rely on the radio detection method. This method exploits the radio emission generated in the electromagnetic component of a particle shower following a neutrino interaction. NuRadioMC simulates everything from the neutrino interaction in a medium, the subsequent Askaryan radio emission, the propagation of the radio signal to the detector and finally the detector response. NuRadioMC is designed as a modern, modular Python-based framework, combining flexibility in detector design with user-friendliness. It includes a state-of-the-art event generator, an improved modelling of the radio emission, a revisited approach to signal propagation and increased flexibility and precision in the detector simulation. This paper focuses on the implemented physics processes and their implications for detector design. A variety of models and parameterizations for the radio emission of neutrino-induced showers are compared and reviewed. Comprehensive examples are used to discuss the capabilities of the code and different aspects of instrumental design decisions.
description: replaced with published version
Channeled blast wave behavior based on longitudinal instabilities
Creators: name: Pohl, M.
name: Lerche, I.
name: Schlickeiser, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To address the important issue of how kinetic energy of collimated blast waves is converted into radiation, Pohl & Schlickeiser (2000) have recently investigated the relativistic two-stream instability of electromagnetic turbulence. They have shown that swept-up matter is quickly isotropized in the blast wave, which provides relativistic particles and, as a result, radiation. Here we present new calculations for the electrostatic instability in such systems. It is shown that the electrostatic instability is faster than the electromagnetic instability for highly relativistic beams. However, even after relaxation of the beam via the faster electrostatic turbulence, the beam is still unstable with respect to the electromagnetic waves, thus providing the isotropization required for efficient production of radiation. While the emission spectra in the model of Pohl and Schlickeiser have to be modified, the basic characteristics persist.
description: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press
Hydromagnetic instabilities in protoneutron stars
Creators: name: Miralles, Juan A.
name: Pons, Jose A.
name: Urpin, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability properties of newly born neutron stars, or proto--neutron stars, are considered. We take into account dissipative processes, such as neutrino transport and viscosity, in the presence of a magnetic field. In order to find the regions of the star subject to different sorts of instability, we derive the general instability criteria and apply it to evolutionary models of PNSs. The influence of the magnetic field on instabilities is analyzed and the critical magnetic field stabilizing the star is obtained. In the light of our results, we estimate of the maximum poloidal magnetic field that might be present in young pulsars or magnetars.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Astrophysical Journal
Phaeorrhiza H. Mayrhofer & Poelt 1979
Creators: name: Zhong, Qiuyi
name: Zhang, Yanyun
name: Wang, Xinyu
name: Timdal, Einar
name: Gong, Hede
name: Wang, Zizhi
name: Wang, Lisong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Caliciales
Physciaceae
Phaeorrhiza

description: Key to Phaeorrhiza
 1. Apothecia cryptolecanorine, disc concave to plane........................................................................................................... P. nimbosa
 - Apothecia lecideine, disc strongly convex......................................................................................... P. sareptana var. sphaerocarpa
description: Published as part of Zhong, Qiuyi, Zhang, Yanyun, Wang, Xinyu, Timdal, Einar, Gong, Hede, Wang, Zizhi & Wang, Lisong, 2021, Phaeorrhiza (Physciaceae), a new lichen genus record to China, pp. 228-238 in Phytotaxa 510 (3) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.510.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5426411
Additional file 4 of Identification of candidate tolerance genes to low-temperature during maize germination by GWAS and RNA-seqapproaches
Creators: name: Zhang, Hong
name: Zhang, Jiayue
name: Xu, Qingyu
name: Wang, Dandan
name: Di, Hong
name: Huang, Jun
name: Yang, Xiuwei
name: Wang, Zhoufei
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Dong, Ling
name: Wang, Zhenhua
name: Zhou, Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4 Table S3. Mean of LD decay distance of the 10 chromosomes for r2 values which are equal to greater than 0.1 and 0.2.
Effective defect generation and dual reaction pathways for phenol degradation on boron-doped carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Li, Xingfa
name: Liang, Dandan
name: Wang, Chaoxu
name: Li, Yongguo
name: Duan, Runbin
name: Yu, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new type of metal-free catalyst was successfully prepared by doping boron (B) in the carbon nanotube. The catalyst had 99.4% removal of phenol in 60 min at pH 7 by activating peroxymonosulfate (PMS). In order to explore the origin of the high catalytic activity, the samples were characterized by Raman and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the process of catalytic degradation were investigated. The Raman results showed that the defect sites increased after doping, which indicated that the B doping increases the active sites on the surface of the carbon nanotubes. Identification experiments of ROS found that not only hydroxyl radicals (·OH) and sulfate radical (SO4−•), but also singlet oxygen (1O2) exist in the system. The presence of multiple free radicals indicated the existence of free radical reaction pathway, and the presence of 1O2 confirmed the existence of non-radical reaction pathway. These results indicated that there were dual reaction pathways for the activation of persulfate by B-doped carbon nanotubes, which was the intrinsic nature for the high catalytic activity of the system.
Atomic scale modeling of the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of dilute alloys driven by forced atomic relocations
Creators: name: Huang, Liangzhao
name: Schuler, Thomas
name: Nastar, Maylise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sustained external forces acting on a material provide additional mechanisms to evolve the state of the system, and these mechanisms do not necessarily obey the microscopic detailed balance. Therefore, standard methods to compute the thermodynamic and kinetic properties do not apply in such driven systems. The competition between these mechanisms and the standard thermally activated jumps leads to non-equilibrium steady states. We extend the Self-Consistent Mean Field theory to take into account forced atomic relocations (FARs) as a model of these additional kinetic mechanisms. The theory is applied to the atomic-scale modelling of radiation damage. Using a first-shell approximation of the theory, we highlight the violation of Onsager reciprocal relations in driven systems. An implementation of the extended theory into the KineCluE code yields calculations of the effective Onsager coefficients in agreement with Monte Carlo simulations. A systematic parametric study is performed to emphasize the effect of FAR distances and the solute-defect interaction on the diffusion properties. The effect of FAR on the vacancy-solute flux coupling and the solute tracer diffusivity is non-negligible when: (i) the solute-vacancy thermodynamic attraction is large, (ii) the magnitude of the thermal jump frequencies is lower or comparable to the frequencies of FAR, and (iii) the range of interactions between vacancies and solute atoms is close to FAR distances.
description: typos corrected, references added, revised arguments in Introduction and Modeling sections
title: Preserving Privacy in Association Rule Mining
Creators: name: HajYasien, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Preserving
subject: Privacy
subject: Security
subject: Association
subject: Data Mining
subject: Rule Mining
subject: Mining
subject: Algorithm
subject: Software

description: With the development and penetration of data mining within different fields and disciplines, security and privacy concerns have emerged. Data mining technology which reveals patterns in large databases could compromise the information that an individual or an organization regards as private. The aim of privacy-preserving data mining is to find the right balance between maximizing analysis results (that are useful for the common good) and keeping the inferences that disclose private information about organizations or individuals at a minimum. In this thesis we present a new classification for privacy preserving data mining problems, we propose a new heuristic algorithm called the QIBC algorithm that improves the privacy of sensitive knowledge (as itemsets) by blocking more inference channels. We demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm, we propose two techniques (item count and increasing cardinality) based on item-restriction that hide sensitive itemsets (and we perform experiments to compare the two techniques), we propose an efficient protocol that allows parties to share data in a private way with no restrictions and without loss of accuracy (and we demonstrate the efficiency of the protocol), and we review the literature of software engineering related to the associationrule mining domain and we suggest a list of considerations to achieve better privacy on software.
Dynamic Gesture Recognition by Using CNNs and Star RGB: a Temporal Information Condensation
Creators: name: Santos, Clebeson Canuto dos
name: Samatelo, Jorge Leonid Aching
name: Vassallo, Raquel Frizera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the advance of technologies, machines are increasingly present in people's daily lives. Thus, there has been more and more effort to develop interfaces, such as dynamic gestures, that provide an intuitive way of interaction. Currently, the most common trend is to use multimodal data, as depth and skeleton information, to enable dynamic gesture recognition. However, using only color information would be more interesting, since RGB cameras are usually available in almost every public place, and could be used for gesture recognition without the need of installing other equipment. The main problem with such approach is the difficulty of representing spatio-temporal information using just color. With this in mind, we propose a technique capable of condensing a dynamic gesture, shown in a video, in just one RGB image. We call this technique star RGB. This image is then passed to a classifier formed by two Resnet CNNs, a soft-attention ensemble, and a fully connected layer, which indicates the class of the gesture present in the input video. Experiments were carried out using both Montalbano and GRIT datasets. For Montalbano dataset, the proposed approach achieved an accuracy of 94.58%. Such result reaches the state-of-the-art when considering this dataset and only color information. Regarding the GRIT dataset, our proposal achieves more than 98% of accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score, outperforming the reference approach by more than 6%.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Neurocomputing Journal
Additional file 1: of Genomic analysis of serologically untypable human enteroviruses in Taiwan
Creators: name: Yeh-Sheng Chien
name: Luo, Shu-Ting
name: Kuo-Chien Tsao
name: Yhu-Chering Huang
name: Wan-Yu Chung
name: Yu-Chieh Liao
name: Tan, Yi
name: Das, Suman
name: Min-Shi Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Analysis of enterovirus genomes sequenced using NGS in a pilot study. (DOCX 21 kb)
title: Essays on Corporate Governance and Stock Returns in Australia
Creators: name: Pham, Hai Yen
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Corporate governance
subject: Stock market returns
subject: Stock exchanges

description: This thesis examines the impact of corporate governance-related factors, particularly CEO incentive compensation, discretionary accruals and firm technical efficiency improvement, on stock returns in Australia. The motivation to investigate these impacts was the increasing importance of the equity-based compensation component in CEO remuneration packages, the numerous financial reporting scandals at high profile companies such as Enron, WorldCom and HIH Insurance, and an urgent call from the government on improvement in productivity. Among various corporate governance mechanisms, CEO compensation is viewed as an efficient incentive to align the interests of managers with those of shareholders. According to agency theory, effective compensation policies, particularly incentive-based pay, induce managers to make more effort, and to undertake risky and shareholder-wealth-increasing investments to increase their firms' value. However, in practice, some argue that too close a link between CEO compensation and firm performance may cause CEOs to become either too conservative or too aggressive, which may lead to suboptimal investments and lower firm value.
Byrsonima ligustrifolia A. Jussieu 1833
Creators: name: Alves, Livia Lara
name: Francener, Augusto
name: Costa, Maria Tereza R.
name: Sobral, Marcos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Malpighiaceae
Byrsonima
Byrsonima ligustrifolia

description: 0. Byrsonima ligustrifolia A. Jussieu (1833: 82). Figure 3A
 Trees, ca. 10 m tall. Stipules ca. 1.5 × 1.4 mm, ovate. Leaf blades ca. 9.8 × 3.8 cm, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, base attenuate, margins flat, apex acuminate, both sides glabrescent, sericeous on midrib, midrib prominulous on both sides, principal laterals veins ca. 13, impress on both sides; petioles ca. 12 × 1 mm, glabrescent to sericeous. Thyrse of 1–2- flowered cincinnus, with ca. 50 flowers, the main axis ca. 5.6 cm long, sericeous; bracts ca. 12 × 0.7 mm, triangular, sericeous on both sides, non-reflexed; peduncles ca. 3.3 × 0.9 mm; bracteoles not seen, [according to Rolim (2004), 2– 2.5 × 0.5–1.5 mm, lanceolate, ovate to triangular, non-reflexed]; pedicels ca. 0.7–7.6 mm, sericeous. Flowers not seen [according to Rolim (2004), sepals ca. 2.5 × 1.7 mm, both side glabrous, sericeous to tomentose, triangular to ovate, not accrescent on the drupes; glands 2.1–3.7 × 0.9–1.3 mm; lateral petals white to pink becoming red in age, blade ca. 3.7 × 4.7 mm, claw ca. 1.8 × 0.6 mm, margin subentire to slightly erose; posterior petal white to pink becoming red in age with the claw yellow, blade ca. 3.5–4 × 3.5–5 mm, claw ca. 2.1 × 0.8–1.1 mm, margin subentire to erose. Stamens free at base, homomorphic, anthers glabrous, connectives 2.1–2.5 × 0.8 mm, surpassing the anther sacs (0.1–1 mm in length); filaments 2.5–2.9 × 0.5–0.7 mm, sericeous at base. Ovary glabrous, styles 2.1–4.1 mm long]. Drupes ca. 12.2 × 11.4 mm, glabrescent to sericeous, verrucous, globose.
 Specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Espírito Santo. Linhares: 27 February 2015, fr., D.A. Folli 7347 (CVRD!, HUFSJ!); Marilândia, Alto Liberdade, 19º21’13’’ S, 40º31’1” W, 19 April 2006, fl., L.F.S. Magnago 942 (SP, MBML); Venda Nova, Conceição do Castelo, 20 August 1987, fr., G.M. Hatschbach 51336 (INPA, CEPEC, MO, FLOR, UPCB, US, SP, MBM).
 Notes: — Byrsonima ligustrifolia is endemic to Brazil, it is distributed from the state of Bahia to southern Brazil within the Atlantic Forest domain (Francener 2020). Its main features are the lanceolate leaves with acuminate apex and flowers with laterals petals white to pink and posterior petal white to pink becoming red in age with the claw yellow (Rolim 2004), ovary glabrous and anthers and inflorescence axis tomentose.
description: Published as part of Alves, Livia Lara, Francener, Augusto, Costa, Maria Tereza R. & Sobral, Marcos, 2021, Byrsonima (Malpighiaceae) from Espírito Santo state, Brazil, pp. 1-19 in Phytotaxa 511 (1) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5426482
Towards a resolution of the discrepancy between different estimators of star formation rate
Creators: name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Connolly, A. J.
name: Haarsma, D. B.
name: Cram, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different wavelength regimes and methods for estimating the space density of the star-formation rate (SFR) result in discrepant values. While it is recognised that ultra-violet (UV) and H-alpha emission line data must be corrected for the effects of extinction, the magnitude of the required correction is uncertain. Even when these corrections are made there remains a significant discrepancy between SFRs derived from UV and H-alpha measurements compared with those derived from far-infrared (FIR) and radio luminosities. Since the FIR/radio derived SFRs are not affected by extinction, and simple corrections to reconcile the UV and H-alpha measurement with these do not fully account for the discrepancies, a more sophisticated correction may be required. Recent results suggest that at least part of the solution may be a form of extinction which increases with increasing SFR (or luminosity, given the common assumption that SFR is proportional to luminosity). We present an analysis of the effects of a dust reddening dependent on star formation rate applied to estimators of SFR. We show (1) that the discrepancies between H-alpha and FIR/radio SFR estimates may be explained by such an effect, and we present an iterative method for applying the correction; and (2) UV-based estimates of SFR are harder to reconcile with FIR/radio estimates using this method, although the extent of the remaining discrepancy is less than for a non-SFR-dependent correction. Particularly at high redshift, our understanding of extinction at UV wavelengths may require a still more complex explanation.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ, tentatively scheduled for June 2001. 15 pages, 6 figures, colour versions of Figs 4, 5, 6 available from ahopkins@phyast.pitt.edu on request
The Detection of Circumnuclear X-ray Emission from the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3516
Creators: name: George, I. M.
name: Turner, T. J.
name: Netzer, H.
name: Kraemer, S. B.
name: Ruiz, J.
name: Chelouche, D.
name: Crenshaw, D. M.
name: Yaqoob, T.
name: Nandra, K.
name: Mushotzky, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first high-resolution, X-ray image of the circumnuclear regions of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3516, using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO). All three of the CXO observations reported were performed with one of the two grating assemblies in place, and here we restrict our analysis to undispersed photons (i.e. those detected in the zeroth-order). A previously-unknown X-ray source is detected approx 6 arcsec (1.1 h_{75}^{-1} kpc) NNE of the nucleus (position angle approx 29 degrees) which we designate CXOU 110648.1+723412. Its spectrum can be characterized as a power law with a photon index Gamma ~ 1.8--2.6, or as thermal emission with a temperature kT~0.7--3 keV. Assuming a location within NGC 3516, isotropic emission implies a luminosity L ~ 2--8e39 h_{75}^{-2} erg s^{-1} in the 0.4--2 keV band. If due to a single point source, the object is super-Eddington for a 1.4 M_sun neutron star. However, multiple sources or a small, extended source cannot be excluded using the current data. Large-scale extended X-ray emission is also detected out to ~10 arcsec (~1.7 h_{75}^{-1} kpc) from the nucleus to the NE and SW, and is approximately aligned with the morphologies of the radio emission and extended narrow emission line region (ENLR). The mean luminosity of this emission is 1--5e37 h_{75}^{-2} erg s^{-1} arcsec^{-2}, in the 0.4--2 keV band. Unfortunately the current data cannot usefully constrain its spectrum. These results are consistent with earlier suggestions of circumnuclear X-ray emission in NGC 3516. If the extended emission is due to scattering of the nuclear X-ray continuum, then the pressure in the X-ray emitting gas is at least two orders of magnitude too small to provide the confining medium for the ENLR clouds.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 8 pages including 3 colour figs
title: Identification of Susceptibility Genes for Metabolic Syndrome in the Isolated Population of Norfolk Island
Creators: name: Benton, Miles Clifford
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS)
subject: Type-2 diabetes (T2D)
subject: Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
subject: Norfolk Island
subject: Isolated Population, Gene pool
subject: Gene mapping

description: The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a common disorder characterized by obesity and abnormal lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Although not a disease in itself, MetS leads to markedly increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). MetS, and its component traits, are influenced by a complex interplay of multiple factors including modifiable environmental variables and inherited genetic predisposition. These envirogenomic relationships are yet to be completely elucidated and are likely to vary among different populations. The Norfolk Island (NI) community is an isolated population whereby the majority of inhabitants are direct descendants of 18th century European Bounty Mutineers and Polynesian (Tahitian) women, who relocated to NI from Pitcairn Island in 1856. Due to it's geographic separation from mainland Australia the NI population grew in isolation from other communities, which has resulted in a characteristic gene pool with features including reduced genetic diversity and Polynesian admixture. There is also a very well documented family history that has been used to establish a large multi-generational pedigree. Genetic isolates such as this can provide a powerful resource for studies of genetically influenced conditions, as their pedigree structure and size can provide improved inheritance information content and statistical power. To date, the prevalence or risk of MetS, CVD and T2D, have not been formally examined in the NI population, nor has there been research specifically focusing on the genetic susceptibility of MetS in this population.
Additional file 1 of Embryonic stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles promote the recovery of kidney injury
Creators: name: Yu, Lu
name: Liu, Siying
name: Wang, Chen
name: Zhang, Chuanyu
name: Wen, Yajie
name: Zhang, Kaiyue
name: Chen, Shang
name: Huang, Haoyan
name: Liu, Yue
name: Wu, Lingling
name: Han, Zhongchao
name: Chen, Xiangmei
name: Li, Zongjin
name: Liu, Na
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Aquaplanet Models on Eccentric Orbits: Effects of Rotation Rate on Observables
Creators: name: Adams, Arthur D.
name: Boos, William R.
name: Wolf, Eric T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotation and orbital eccentricity both strongly influence planetary climate. Eccentricities can often be measured for exoplanets, but rotation rates are currently difficult or impossible to constrain. Here we examine how the combined effects of rotation and eccentricity on observed emission from ocean-rich terrestrial planets can be used to infer their rotation rates in circumstances where their eccentricities are known. We employ an Earth climate model with no land and a slab ocean, and consider two eccentricities ($e=0.3$ and 0.6) and two rotation rates: a fast Earth-like period of 24 hours, and a slower pseudo-synchronous period that generalizes spin synchronization for eccentric orbits. We adopt bandpasses of the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope as a template for future photometry. At $e=0.3$ the rotation rates can be distinguished if the planet transits near periastron, because slow rotation produces a strong day-night contrast and thus an emission minimum during periastron. However, light curves behave similarly if the planet is eclipsed near periastron, as well as for either viewing geometry at $e=0.6$. Rotation rates can nevertheless be distinguished using ratios of emission in different bands, one in the water vapor window with another in a region of strong water absorption. These ratios vary over an orbit by $\lesssim\!0.1$ dex for Earth-like rotation, but by 0.3--0.5 dex for pseudo-synchronous rotation because of large day-night contrast in upper-tropospheric water. For planets with condensible atmospheric constituents in eccentric orbits, rotation regimes might thus be distinguished with infrared observations for a range of viewing geometries.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal