cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2: of A systematic review of chronic disease management interventions in primary care
Creators: name: Reynolds, Rebecca
name: Dennis, Sarah
name: Hasan, Iqbal
name: Slewa, Jan
name: Chen, Winnie
name: Tian, David
name: Sangeetha Bobba
name: Zwar, Nicholas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Full text verification template. (DOCX 27Â kb)
Prevalence, treatment status, medical costs, quality of life, and productivity loss in Japanese adult patients with anemia: a real-world database study
Creators: name: Takeshima, Tomomi
name: Yamamoto, Yosuke
name: Iwasaki, Kosuke
name: Ha, Chise
name: Oishi, Masahito
name: Sato, Asuka
name: Sonoyama, Yohei
name: Honda, Natsumi
name: Niida, Hiromichi
name: Takeda, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: To investigate the prevalence, treatment status, and effect of anemia on medical costs, quality of life (QOL), and productivity loss in Japan. This cross-sectional study used a database containing claims, health check-ups, and questionnaire data. Adults with hemoglobin data at 2020 check-ups were included. QOL and productivity loss were evaluated using EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D) and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire data available for a subset of the population. Nationwide anemia prevalence, including both diagnosed as having anemia and undiagnosed but with low hemoglobin levels, were estimated. Treatment status was described by hemoglobin levels. Differences in medical costs, QOL, and productivity loss were compared between individuals with and without anemia. Subgroup analyses were performed using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). The study population included 554,798 individuals. Anemia prevalence was estimated at 15.1% with 55.3% undiagnosed. In patients with anemia, 85.3% were untreated; 79.5% of the treated patients received only oral iron drugs. In patients with anemia, monthly medical costs were ¥17,766 higher, EQ-5D score was 0.0118 lower, and productivity loss was 2.6% higher than in those without anemia. The trends were consistent even in limited patients with CCI = 0. Nationwide annual excess medical costs, deficit QOL, and productivity loss in patients with anemia were estimated at ¥3.32 trillion, 138,000 quality-adjusted life-years, and ¥1.13 trillion, respectively. As the study population only included individuals who underwent health check-ups, they may be healthier than general population. Whether the differences in medical costs, QoL, and productivity loss are caused by anemia or other underlying differences in patient characteristics is unclear, given the likelihood of residual confounding. The results suggest that more than half of patients with anemia were undiagnosed and untreated. Patients with anemia had higher medical costs, lower QOL, and greater productivity loss than those without anemia.
Streaming Pattern Matching with d Wildcards
Creators: name: Golan, Shay
name: Kopelowitz, Tsvi
name: Porat, Ely
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the pattern matching with $d$ wildcards problem one is given a text $T$ of length $n$ and a pattern $P$ of length $m$ that contains $d$ wildcard characters, each denoted by a special symbol $'?'$. A wildcard character matches any other character. The goal is to establish for each $m$-length substring of $T$ whether it matches $P$. In the streaming model variant of the pattern matching with $d$ wildcards problem the text $T$ arrives one character at a time and the goal is to report, before the next character arrives, if the last $m$ characters match $P$ while using only $o(m)$ words of space. In this paper we introduce two new algorithms for the $d$ wildcard pattern matching problem in the streaming model. The first is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm that is parameterized by a constant $0\leq δ\leq 1$. This algorithm uses $\tilde{O}(d^{1-δ})$ amortized time per character and $\tilde{O}(d^{1+δ})$ words of space. The second algorithm, which is used as a black box in the first algorithm, is a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm which uses $O(d+\log m)$ worst-case time per character and $O(d\log m)$ words of space.
description: Extended abstract appeared in ESA 2016
Salt-inducible kinases (SIKs) regulate TGFβ-mediated transcriptional and apoptotic responses.
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Luke D
name: Darling, Nicola J
name: Stephanos Nicolaou
name: Gori, Ilaria
name: Squair, Daniel R
name: Cohen, Philip
name: Hill, Caroline S
name: Sapkota, Gopal P
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Model organisms
Signalling & Oncogenes
Gene Expression
Genetics & Genomics
Developmental Biology
Cell Biology
Computational & Systems Biology

description: The signalling pathways initiated by members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) family of cytokines control many metazoan cellular processes, including proliferation and differentiation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and apoptosis. TGFβ signalling is therefore strictly regulated to ensure appropriate context-dependent physiological responses. In an attempt to identify novel regulatory components of the TGFβ signalling pathway, we performed a pharmacological screen by using a cell line engineered to report the endogenous transcription of the TGFβ-responsive target gene PAI-1. The screen revealed that small molecule inhibitors of salt-inducible kinases (SIKs) attenuate TGFβ-mediated transcription of PAI-1 without affecting receptor-mediated SMAD phosphorylation, SMAD complex formation or nuclear translocation. We provide evidence that genetic inactivation of SIK isoforms also attenuates TGFβ-dependent transcriptional responses. Pharmacological inhibition of SIKs by using multiple small-molecule inhibitors potentiated apoptotic cell death induced by TGFβ stimulation. Our data therefore provide evidence for a novel function of SIKs in modulating TGFβ-mediated transcriptional and cellular responses.
On the Necessity of Superparametric Geometry Representation for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Domains with Curved Boundaries
Creators: name: Zwanenburg, Philip
name: Nadarajah, Siva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide numerical evidence demonstrating the necessity of employing a superparametric geometry representation in order to obtain optimal convergence orders on two-dimensional domains with curved boundaries when solving the Euler equations using Discontinuous Galerkin methods. However, concerning the obtention of optimal convergence orders for the Navier-Stokes equations, we demonstrate numerically that the use of isoparametric geometry representation is sufficient for the case considered here.
description: AIAA Aviation 2017 conference paper
Australian and Canadian far-right extremism: a cross-national comparative analysis of social media mobilisation on Facebook
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Jade
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Australia and Canada have experienced a growth in far-right extremist activity, from organised hate rallies in urban centres to a growing presence on social media platforms such as Facebook. A common sentiment shared across these movements using social media is the need to defend national and Western identity and culture from what adherents argue are the threat of unchecked immigration, liberal government and the proliferation of Islam. Recent studies have described this ideological narrative within the European and North American context. Little is known, however, about how this is being experienced in the Australian context and how the Australian experience compares to the Canadian far-right extremist movement. This research will conduct a cross-national comparative survey of the online activity and thematic content of the Australian and Canadian far-right extremist movements on Facebook. Any thematic content that emerges from the findings will be interpreted using Social Mobilisation Theory. This conceptual framework seeks to identify some of the ways Australian and Canadian far-right extremist groups mobilise on the social media platform Facebook. This research demonstrates empirically that Australian and Canadian far-right extremist groups share ideological and behavioural commonalities and differences in online activity, thematic content, and in their use of passive and active online behaviour in the form of platform-based symbolic gestures of emotional sentiment. Understanding these similarities and differences in online behaviour provides insight on how far-right groups in these countries evolve online, mobilise on social media, and how best to counter them.
Additional file 1: of Parental reassurance concerning a feverish child: determinant factors in rural general practice
Creators: name: Chapron, Anthony
name: Brochard, Marc
name: ChloĂŠ Rousseau
name: Anne-Charlotte Rousseau
name: Brujean, Martine
name: Fiquet, Laure
name: Gandemer, Virginie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Parental questionnaire before and after GPs consultation. (DOCX 79 kb)
First Order Galilean Superfluid Dynamics
Creators: name: Banerjee, Nabamita
name: Dutta, Suvankar
name: Jain, Akash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamics of (anomalous) Galilean superfluid up to first order in derivative expansion, both in parity-even and parity-odd sectors. We construct a relativistic system -- null superfluid, which is a null fluid (introduced in [arXiv:1509.04718]) with a spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetry. A null superfluid is in one to one correspondence with Galilean superfluid in one lower dimension, i.e. they have same symmetries, thermodynamics, constitutive relations and are related to each other by a mere choice of basis. The correspondence is based on null reduction, which is known to reduce the Poincaré symmetry of a theory to Galilean symmetry in one lower dimension. To perform this analysis, we use offshell formalism of (super)fluid dynamics, adopting it appropriately to null (super)fluids.
description: 50+1 pages
Health impact and cost effectiveness of implementing gender-neutral HPV vaccination in Japan
Creators: name: Palmer, Cody
name: Tobe, Keisuke
name: Negishi, Yusuke
name: You, Xuedan
name: Chen, Ya-Ting
name: Abe, Machiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess the public health impact and cost effectiveness of gender-neutral vaccination (GNV) versus female-only vaccination (FOV) with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Japan. We modeled the public health impact and cost effectiveness of GNV versus FOV to prevent HPV-associated diseases in Japan over the next 100 years. We used one-way sensitivity analyses to examine the impact of varying key model input parameters and conducted scenario analyses to explore the effects of varying the vaccination coverage rate (VCR) of each cohort. In the base-case analysis, GNV averted additional cancer cases (17,228 female/6,033 male) and deaths (1,892 female/1,849 male) compared to FOV. When all HPV-associated diseases were considered, GNV had an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of ¥4,732,320 (US$35,987)/quality-adjusted life year gained compared to FOV. The model was most sensitive to the discount rate and the disutility associated with HPV-related diseases. GNV had greater relative public health benefits when the female VCR was lower and was cost effective at a female VCR of 30%. Immediate implementation of GNV would reduce the disease burden and mortality associated with HPV in Japan, and would be cost effective compared to FOV if the female VCR remains low (30%). Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection and, in Japan, the prevalence of HPV infection and the incidence of its associated diseases are high among both men and women. In the present manuscript we modeled the public health impact and cost effectiveness of gender-neutral vaccination versus female-only vaccination to prevent HPV-associated diseases in Japan over the next 100 years and found that immediate implementation of a gender-neutral vaccination strategy would reduce the burden and mortality associated with HPV in Japan.
Additional file 1 of Adapting Connect for Health pediatric weight management program for telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Simione, Meg
name: Aschbrenner, Kelly
name: Farrar-Muir, Haley
name: Luo, Man
name: Granadeno, Jazmin
name: Caballero-Gonzalez, Ariadne
name: Price, Sarah N.
name: Torres, Carlos
name: Boudreau, Alexy Arauz
name: Fiechtner, Lauren
name: Hambidge, Simon J.
name: Sease, Kerry
name: Taveras, Elsie M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS).
Behavioural interactions in secondary classrooms between teachers and students: what they say, what they do
Creators: name: Beaman, Robyn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The focus of this thesis is troublesome classroom behaviour and the behavioural interactions between teachers and students in secondary school. Following a review of the extant research literature, Section A of the thesis reports a study examining the perceptions of 145 secondary teachers from New South Wales with regard to behaviours they find troublesome in their classrooms. Talking out of turn was clearly identified as the classroom behaviour of most concern, most frequently occurring and, importantly, the main misbehaviour of the most troublesome individual students. In two studies completed in parallel, it was similarly shown that teachers who identified themselves as having particular difficulties with classroom behaviour, or who had identified ten percent or more of their class as troublesome, experienced higher levels of stress related to classroom behaviour and their students perceived the classroom environment to be characterised by differential treatment of students. Section B of the thesis comprises observational studies of teachers and classroom behaviour with a substantial focus on student and teacher gender. Reviews of the literature on teachers' "natural" use of approval and disapproval and on differential teacher behaviour towards boys and girls were followed by two parallel studies. The first study, involving 79 New South Wales secondary school teachers and their classes, showed that while teachers typically responded to students with more approval than disapproval, almost all approval was reserved for academic behaviour whereas approval for appropriate classroom behaviour was very infrequent. Teachers typically reprimanded students for inappropriate behaviour at a very high rate. The second study showed that boys attracted far more teacher responses than girls but that most of this involved reprimands for inappropriate behaviour. Section C of the thesis relates teacher perceptions to observed classroom behaviour. It was concluded that in classes with larger numbers of troublesome students there was reduced academic feedback to students and where teachers' rates of negative responding were higher there was a reduced perception of participation by students.
The Frequency and Stellar-Mass Dependence of Boxy/Peanut-Shaped Bulges in Barred Galaxies
Creators: name: Erwin, Peter
name: Debattista, Victor P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From a sample of 84 local barred, moderately inclined disc galaxies, we determine the fraction which host boxy or peanut-shaped (B/P) bulges (the vertically thickened inner parts of bars). We find that the frequency of B/P bulges in barred galaxies is a very strong function of stellar mass: 79% of the bars in galaxies with log (M_{star}/M_{sun}) >~ 10.4 have B/P bulges, while only 12% of those in lower-mass galaxies do. (We find a similar dependence in data published by Yoshino & Yamauchi 2015 for edge-on galaxies.) There are also strong trends with other galaxy parameters -- e.g., Hubble type: 77% of S0-Sbc bars, but only 15% of Sc-Sd bars, have B/P bulges -- but these appear to be side effects of the correlations of these parameters with stellar mass. In particular, despite indications from models that a high gas content can suppress bar buckling, we find no evidence that the (atomic) gas mass ratio M_{atomic}/M_{star} affects the presence of B/P bulges, once the stellar-mass dependence is controlled for. The semi-major axes of B/P bulges range from one-quarter to three-quarters of the full bar size, with a mean of R_{box}/L_{bar} = 0.42 +/- 0.09 and R_{box}/a_{max} = 0.53 +/- 0.12 (where R_{box} is the size of the B/P bulge and a_{max} and L_{bar} are lower and upper limits on the size of the bar).
description: pdflatex, 17 pages (+ appendices), 15 figures. Revised submission to MNRAS, addressing minor final referee comments
MOESM2 of In silico epitope mapping and experimental evaluation of the Merozoite Adhesive Erythrocytic Binding Protein (MAEBL) as a malaria vaccine candidate
Creators: name: Cravo, Pedro
name: Machado, Renato
name: Leite, Juliana
name: Taizy Leda
name: Rossarin Suwanarusk
name: Najara Bittencourt
name: Letusa Albrecht
name: Judice, Carla
name: Lopes, Stefanie
name: Lacerda, Marcus
name: Ferreira, Marcelo
name: Soares, Irene
name: Goh, Yun
name: Bargieri, Daniel
name: Nosten, François
name: Russell, Bruce
name: Rénia, Laurent
name: Costa, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
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 2. Predicted MHC class I and II epitopes within the Plasmodium yoelii MAEBL antigen generated from a consensus between different epitope prediction programs.
Impact of information and deliberation on the consistency of preferences for prioritisation in health care – evidence from discrete choice experiments undertaken alongside citizens’ juries
Creators: name: Whitty, Jennifer A
name: Littlejohns, Peter
name: Ratcliffe, Julie
name: Rixon, Kylie
name: Wilson, Andrew
name: Kendall, Elizabeth
name: Burton, Paul
name: Chalkidou, Kalipso
name: Scuffham, Paul A
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Public preferences are an important consideration for priority-setting. Critics suggest preferences of the public who are potentially naïve to the issue under consideration may lead to sub-optimal decisions. We assessed the impact of information and deliberation via a Citizens’ Jury (CJ) or preference elicitation methods (Discrete Choice Experiment, DCE) on preferences for prioritising access to bariatric surgery. Preferences for seven prioritisation criteria (e.g. obesity level, obesity-related comorbidities) were elicited from three groups who completed a DCE: (i) participants from two CJs (n = 28); (ii) controls who did not participate in the jury (n = 21); (iii) population sample (n = 1,994). Participants in the jury and control groups completed the DCE pre- and post-jury. DCE data were analysed using multinomial logit models to derive ‘priority weights’ for criteria for access to surgery. The rank order of criteria was compared across groups, time points and CJ recommendations. The extent to which the criteria were considered important were broadly consistent across groups and were similar to jury recommendations, but with variation in the rank order. Preferences of jurors but not controls were more differentiated (that is, criteria were assigned a greater range of priority weights) after than before the jury. Juror preferences pre-jury were similar to that of the public, but appeared to change during the course of the jury with greater priority given to a person with comorbidity. Conversely, controls appeared to give a lower priority to those with comorbidity and higher priority to treating very severe obesity after than before the jury. Being informed and undertaking deliberation had little impact on the criteria that were considered to be relevant for prioritising access to bariatric surgery but may have a small impact on the relative importance of criteria. CJs may clarify underlying rationale but may not provide substantially different prioritisation recommendations compared to a DCE.
The culture of Vietnamese refusing: a mixed-methods multiperspectival approach
Creators: name: Nguyen, Du Trong
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research project aims at exploring the cultural values which condition and constrain Vietnamese refusing from different perspectives (Candlin, 1997, 2006; Candlin &Crichton, 2011a, 2013b; Crichton, 2010). Accordingly, the project is composed of three separate but interrelated studies exploring Vietnamese refusing from ethnographic-based, interactional and social psychological perspectives. The first study, drawing predominantly on interviews as the data collection tool, aims at exploring whether different native speakers of Vietnamese have different views on whether or not they would refuse in some given specific situations, and the reasoning behind such choices. The interviews were treated as social practices (Talmy, 2010; Talmy & Richards, 2011) and analysed using Sacks’ Membership Categorization Analysis (Sacks, 1974) and Goffman’s Participation Framework (Goffman, 1981). The second study seeks to explore how refusals are realised in interactions by investigating conversations taken from a Vietnamese television series. Film excerpts were subjected to Multimodal Interactional Analysis (Norris, 2004), Conversation Analysis (Hutchby & Wooffitt, 2008), and examined using Scollon’s Nexus of Practices (Scollon, 2001). The final study looks at the phenomenon in question from a social psychological perspective, using a Likert-scale questionnaire to explore how non-native speakers of Vietnamese perceive Vietnamese refusals. Analyses show that Confucian ideological and philosophical values still exert a great influence on Vietnamese people’s refusals. One important Confucian value is the hierarchical order in the family as well as in society in which each member has to fulfil his/her expected role. In addition, collectivism, patriarchy, and indirectness are also characteristics of Vietnamese society. However, in recent times the Vietnamese culture has also witnessed some degree of divergence from the traditional norms. For example, the four Confucian virtues expected for women are no longer strictly observed as before. Also, directness and rudeness have become common in everyday interactions in contemporary Vietnam. The possible impact of these social changes on the pragmatics of Vietnamese is also considered.
Prevalence, treatment status, medical costs, quality of life, and productivity loss in Japanese adult patients with anemia: A real-world database study
Creators: name: Takeshima, Tomomi
name: Yamamoto, Yosuke
name: Iwasaki, Kosuke
name: Ha, Chise
name: Oishi, Masahito
name: Sato, Asuka
name: Sonoyama, Yohei
name: Honda, Natsumi
name: Niida, Hiromichi
name: Takeda, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Aims: To investigate the prevalence, treatment status, and effect of anemia on medical costs, quality of life (QOL), and productivity loss in Japan. Methods: This cross-sectional study used a database containing claims, health check-ups, and questionnaire data. Adults with hemoglobin data at 2020 check-ups were included. QOL and productivity loss were evaluated using EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D) and Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire data available for a subset of the population. Nationwide anemia prevalence, including both diagnosed as having anemia and undiagnosed but with low hemoglobin levels, were estimated. Treatment status was described by hemoglobin levels. Differences in medical costs, QOL, and productivity loss were compared between individuals with and without anemia. Subgroup analyses were performed using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Results: The study population included 554,798 individuals. Anemia prevalence was estimated at 15.1% with 55.3% undiagnosed. In patients with anemia, 85.3% were untreated; 79.5% of the treated patients received only oral iron drugs. In patients with anemia, monthly medical costs were ¥17,766 higher, EQ-5D score was 0.0118 lower, and productivity loss was 2.6% higher than in those without anemia. The trends were consistent even in limited patients with CCI = 0. Nationwide annual excess medical costs, deficit QOL, and productivity loss in patients with anemia were estimated at ¥3.32 trillion, 138,000 quality-adjusted life-years, and ¥1.13 trillion, respectively. Limitations: As the study population only included individuals who underwent health check-ups, they may be healthier than general population. Whether the differences in medical costs, QoL, and productivity loss are caused by anemia or other underlying differences in patient characteristics is unclear, given the likelihood of residual confounding. Conclusions: The results suggest that more than half of patients with anemia were undiagnosed and untreated. Patients with anemia had higher medical costs, lower QOL, and greater productivity loss than those without anemia.
Qubit-loss-free fusion of W states employing weak cross-Kerr nonlinearities
Creators: name: Wang, Meiyu
name: Hao, Quanzhi
name: Yan, Fengli
name: Gao, Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the assistance of weak cross-Kerr nonlinearities, we introduce an optical scheme to fuse two small-size polarization entangled W states into a large-scale W state without qubit loss, i.e.,$\mathrm{W}_{n+m}$ state can be generated from an $n$-qubit W state and a $m$-qubit W state. To complete the fusion task, two polarization entanglement processes and one spatial entanglement process are applied. The fulfillments of the above processes are contributed by a cross-Kerr nonlinear interaction between the signal photons and a coherent state via Kerr media. We analyze the resource cost and the success probability of the scheme. There is no complete failure output in our fusion mechanism, and all the garbage states are recyclable. In addition, there is no need for any controlled quantum gate and any ancillary photon, so it is simple and feasible under the current experiment technology.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Genetic profile of Chinese patients with small bowel cancer categorized by anatomic location
Creators: name: Shi, Chengmin
name: Ma, Junrui
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Shi, Yanqiang
name: Duan, Weiming
name: Huang, Depei
name: Zhang, Hushan
name: Zeng, Yujian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of genes of the 733-gene panel.
Additional file 1: of Feasibility of a commercial smartphone application for dietary assessment in epidemiological research and comparison with 24-h dietary recalls
Creators: name: Ambrosini, Gina
name: Hurworth, Miriam
name: Giglia, Roslyn
name: Trapp, Gina
name: Strauss, Penelope
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: CONSORT 2010 Flow Diagram. (DOCX 51 kb)
Quark orbital dynamics in the proton from Lattice QCD -- from Ji to Jaffe-Manohar orbital angular momentum
Creators: name: Engelhardt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a Wigner distribution simultaneously characterizing quark transverse positions and momenta in a proton, one can directly evaluate their cross-product, i.e., quark orbital angular momentum. The aforementioned distribution can be obtained by generalizing the proton matrix elements of quark bilocal operators which define transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions (TMDs); the transverse momentum information is supplemented with transverse position information by introducing an additional nonzero momentum transfer. A gauge connection between the quarks must be specified in the quark bilocal operators; the staple-shaped gauge link path used in TMD calculations yields the Jaffe-Manohar definition of orbital angular momentum, whereas a straight path yields the Ji definition. An exploratory lattice calculation, performed at the pion mass m_pi = 518 MeV, is presented which quasi-continuously interpolates between the two definitions and demonstrates that their difference can be clearly resolved. The resulting Ji orbital angular momentum is confronted with traditional evaluations based on Ji's sum rule. Jaffe-Manohar orbital angular momentum is enhanced in magnitude compared to its Ji counterpart.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Uropygial gland in birds
Creators: name: P. Dharani1 and S. Paramasivan2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food industries and plays a crucial role in the supply of protein worldwide. Providing nutrient rich feed is an important driving factor behind aquaculture sector growth and development. Traditionally, fishmeal was the primary source of protein supply in aquaculture practice for its growth. However, the aquaculture industry is shifting its focus to an alternative source of protein due to the increasing cost of fish meal and the depletion of wild stock. Plan based protein like azolla is one of the cheapest protein sources for aquafeed. Azolla is a aquatic weed which grows easily in aquaculture ponds. It is a great source of all the nutrients needed to stimulate growth and resist disease in aquatic organisms. Hence, this article emphasizes the cultural practice of Azolla, nutritional profiling, and its application in aquaculture.
Providing timely support to students in educational virtual worlds
Creators: name: Makhija, Anupam
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Educational virtual worlds (EVWs) are immersive educational tools that have the potential to engage students using interactive virtual avatars in the simulated multi-media environments. As with any learning approach, EVWs should have the capacity to adapt according to individual student needs and differences such as their personality characteristics, engagement levels, navigational behaviour, and emotional level. Based on such factors, the EVWs should be capable of providing tailored support and feedback when required. This experimental study conducted with 144 undergraduate students investigates the relationship between individual learner factors, including personality, cognitive and affective engagement, and the value of providing either tailored, generic or no hints on academic performance in an EVW. Results suggest that extravert and agreeable personality traits are positively linked to academic performance and affective and cognitive engagement levels. Contrary to our hypothesis, participants who were provided with hints did not perform better than the control group in performance. Further studies are needed to gain deeper insights to design appropriate support strategies within EVW.
Invitation to the Bethe ansatz
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Reiho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the algebraic Bethe ansatz for the Heisenberg model. The exposition includes some of recent advancements with emphasis on a relation with the rigged configurations. We also provide somewhat thorough review of the crystal bases and the rigged configurations. In particular, we provide the inverse scattering transform for the type $D^{(1)}_n$ box-ball systems. We also provide a reformulation of a result of arXiv:0711.4185.
description: 76 pages. Main text in Japanese. English abstract at the final page
Additional file 1 of Biochemical and molecular characterization of a novel glycerol dehydratase from Klebsiella pneumoniae 2e with high tolerance against crude glycerol impurities
Creators: name: Lin, Zifeng
name: Xiao, Yuting
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Li, Le
name: Dong, Congying
name: Ma, Jiangshan
name: Liu, Gao-Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for PCR in this study.
To wait, or too late? modeling the effects of delayed Ofatumumab treatment in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: Montgomery, Stephen Maxwell
name: Green, Luke
name: Karoui, Hajer
name: Nicholas, Richard
name: Loh, Jaclyn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Several disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) reduce relapse rates and slow disease progression. RRMS DMTs have varying efficacy and administration routes; DMTs prescribed first may not be the most effective on relapses or disease progression. Here, we aimed to quantify the benefit of initiating ofatumumab, a high-efficacy DMT, earlier in the treatment pathway. Aggregate data from a real-world cohort of patients with RRMS, who were eligible for dimethyl fumarate (DMF) or ofatumumab treatment within the UK National Health Service (N = 615), were used to produce a simulated patient cohort. The cohort was tracked through a discrete event simulation (DES) model, based on the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), with a lifetime time horizon. Outcomes assessed were: mean number of relapses, time to wheelchair (EDSS ≥7) and time to death. Two modelling approaches were used. The first compared outcomes between two treatment sequences (base case: ofatumumab to natalizumab versus DMF to ofatumumab). The second incorporated a time-specific delay of 1–5 years for switching from DMF to ofatumumab; the difference in outcomes as a function of increasing delay to ofatumumab are reported. Compared with delayed ofatumumab, fewer relapses and increased time to wheelchair were predicted for earlier ofatumumab in the treatment-sequence approach (mean relapses over the lifetime time horizon: 8.63 versus 9.00; time to wheelchair: 17.55 versus 16.60 years). Time to death was similar for both sequences. At Year 10, a numerically greater proportion of patients receiving earlier ofatumumab had mild disease (EDSS 0–3: 44.12% versus 40.06%). Greater differences, reflecting poorer outcomes, were predicted for relapses and time to wheelchair with increasing delays to ofatumumab treatment. The DES model provided a means by which the magnitude of benefit associated with earlier ofatumumab initiation could be quantified; fewer relapses and a prolonged time to wheelchair were predicted.
Topological Principles of Control in Dynamical Network Systems
Creators: name: Kim, Jason
name: Soffer, Jonathan M.
name: Kahn, Ari E.
name: Vettel, Jean M.
name: Pasqualetti, Fabio
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Networked systems display complex patterns of interactions between a large number of components. In physical networks, these interactions often occur along structural connections that link components in a hard-wired connection topology, supporting a variety of system-wide dynamical behaviors such as synchronization. While descriptions of these behaviors are important, they are only a first step towards understanding the relationship between network topology and system behavior, and harnessing that relationship to optimally control the system's function. Here, we use linear network control theory to analytically relate the topology of a subset of structural connections (those linking driver nodes to non-driver nodes) to the minimum energy required to control networked systems. As opposed to the numerical computations of control energy, our accurate closed-form expressions yield general structural features in networks that require significantly more or less energy to control, providing topological principles for the design and modification of network behavior. To illustrate the utility of the mathematics, we apply this approach to high-resolution connectomes recently reconstructed from drosophila, mouse, and human brains. We use these principles to show that connectomes of increasingly complex species are wired to reduce control energy. We then use the analytical expressions we derive to perform targeted manipulation of the brain's control profile by removing single edges in the network, a manipulation that is accessible to current clinical techniques in patients with neurological disorders. Cross-species comparisons suggest an advantage of the human brain in supporting diverse network dynamics with small energetic costs, while remaining unexpectedly robust to perturbations. Our results ground the expectation of a system's dynamical behavior in its network architecture.
description: 7 figures, Supplement
Recent CMS Results on Diffraction
Creators: name: Benoit, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent CMS results on diffraction are presented. These include the measurements of the soft diffractive cross sections, of the forward rapidity gap cross section, of the diffractive dijet cross section, the measurement of a large rapidity gap in W and Z boson events and the measurement of the pseudorapidity distribution of charged particles in a single diffractive enhanced sample. This last measurement is the first common result of the CMS and TOTEM collaborations. Some prospects of common CMS-TOTEM data taking are also discussed.
description: 27 pages - 14 figures
Welfare regime and familialisation in East Asia: testing the hypothesis of low-fertility equilibrium in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Lui, Wing Shek Adrian
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This project aims to locate East Asian advanced economies in existing welfare regime frameworks according to how their social care responsibilities are distributed among state, market and family. Based on this analysis, the project attempts to explain the socio-economic outcomes based on this welfare regime analysis, focusing on Esping-Andersen's hypothesis of 'low fertility equilibrium' which explains low levels of both female labour market participation and fertility levels in familial welfare schemes. Using Hong Kong as a case study of East Asian welfare regimes, this thesis conducts a comparative analysis to determine whether Hong Kong can be characterised as a familial welfare regime based on the allocation of caring responsibilities across the market, state and household. The thesis examines trends in fertility levels, female labour force participation rates and degree of gender equality in the labour market to answer these questions. It will also identify factors affecting labour force participation and fertility decisions of married women in Hong Kong based on data from the 2011 Hong Kong Population Census to assess whether the hypothesis of ‘low fertility equilibrium’ provides a valid explanation for female labour force participation and fertility rates in Hong Kong. Our findings suggest that Hong Kong can be classified as a familial welfare regime, although familialism is an outcome of residualism, rather than conservatism, as suggested in Esping-Andersen’s theoretical framework. The findings also support the hypothesis of ‘low fertility equilibrium’. This suggests that Hong Kong will need to develop more extensive defamilialisation mechanisms in order to increase both female labour force participation and fertility levels.
Patient characteristics associated with all-cause healthcare costs of alopecia areata in the United States
Creators: name: Gao, Wei
name: Mostaghimi, Arash
name: Gandhi, Kavita
name: Done, Nicolae
name: Ray, Markqayne
name: Signorovitch, James
name: Swallow, Elyse
name: Carley, Christopher
name: Wang, Travis
name: Sikirica, Vanja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: Evidence on the factors of medical costs involved in the care of people with alopecia areata (AA) is limited, but mounting evidence points to significant variation in financial impact for patients with AA in the absence of effective treatments. This study explored drivers of medical costs among privately insured adults and adolescents with AA in the United States. The study found that patients of middle age (45–64 years), located in the Northeast region, with comprehensive health insurance, with greater extent of hair loss, or with other health disorders face greater all-cause medical costs. Adult females of young (18–44 years) and older (65+ years) age also faced greater costs on average. This research confirms high variability in the burden of AA, pointing to population subgroups that may be more affected by the disease and its commonly associated disorders.
Additional file 1 of The proteomics analysis of extracellular vesicles revealed the possible function of heat shock protein 60 in Helicobacter pylori infection
Creators: name: Li, Yujie
name: Cao, Hui
name: Qiu, Dewen
name: Wang, Nan
name: Wang, Yan
name: Wen, Tingting
name: Wang, Jianjun
name: Zhu, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. NTA analysis of purified exosomes from H. pylori infected GES-1 cells. (A) The particle diameter and (B) concentration of exosomes were determined with NTA. Fig. S2. The infection of H. pylori regulates the expression of HSP60 in GC. The expression of HSP60 in gastric ulcer, and stage I and III GC mucosal tissues was determined by western blot.
Robustness of Control Barrier Functions for Safety Critical Control
Creators: name: Xu, Xiangru
name: Tabuada, Paulo
name: Grizzle, Jessy W.
name: Ames, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Barrier functions (also called certificates) have been an important tool for the verification of hybrid systems, and have also played important roles in optimization and multi-objective control. The extension of a barrier function to a controlled system results in a control barrier function. This can be thought of as being analogous to how Sontag extended Lyapunov functions to control Lyapunov functions in order to enable controller synthesis for stabilization tasks. A control barrier function enables controller synthesis for safety requirements specified by forward invariance of a set using a Lyapunov-like condition. This paper develops several important extensions to the notion of a control barrier function. The first involves robustness under perturbations to the vector field defining the system. Input-to-State stability conditions are given that provide for forward invariance, when disturbances are present, of a "relaxation" of set rendered invariant without disturbances. A control barrier function can be combined with a control Lyapunov function in a quadratic program to achieve a control objective subject to safety guarantees. The second result of the paper gives conditions for the control law obtained by solving the quadratic program to be Lipschitz continuous and therefore to gives rise to well-defined solutions of the resulting closed-loop system.
description: Correction to Theorem 3 and some typos of the paper appeared in IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Atlanta, GA, USA, page 54-61, 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.06408