cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
True and false positive HIV point of care test results in a prospective multinational study of at-risk African women: implications for large-scale repeat HIV testing in HIV prevention programs.
Creators: name: Scoville, Caitlin W
name: Kasaro, Margaret P
name: Palanee-Phillips, Thesla
name: Mugo, Nelly R
name: Louw, Cheryl
name: Morrison, Susan
name: Deese, Jennifer
name: Smit, Jenni
name: Kotze, Philip
name: Reddy, Krishnaveni
name: Batting, Joanne
name: Hofmeyr, G Justus
name: Pleaner, Melanie
name: Baeten, Jared M
name: Ahmed, Khatija
name: Beesham, Ivana
name: Wanga, Valentine
name: Morrison, Charles
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth
name: Stringer, Jeffrey S A
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description:
BACKGROUND: Accurate HIV point of care testing is the cornerstone of prevention and treatment efforts globally, though false (both negative and positive) results are expected to occur. SETTING: We assessed the spectrum of true and false positive HIV results in a large prospective study of HIV incidence in African women using three contraceptive methods tested longitudinally in Eswatini, Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. METHODS: HIV serologic testing was conducted quarterly using two parallel rapid HIV tests. When one or both tests were positive, additional confirmatory testing was conducted, including HIV enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). RESULTS: 7730 women contributed 48,234 visits: true positive results occurred at 412 visits (0.9%) and false positives at 96 visits (0.2%). Of 412 women with HIV seroconversion, 10 had discordant (i.e., one negative and one positive) rapid tests and 13 had undetectable HIV RNA levels. Of 62 women with false positive rapid HIV results, most had discordant rapid testing but six (9.7%) had dually-positive rapid results and four (6.5%) had false positive or indeterminate EIA results. The positive predictive value of dual positive rapid results was 98.3%. CONCLUSION: Although the majority of rapid test results were accurate, false positive results were expected and occurred in this population of initially HIV seronegative individuals tested repeatedly and prospectively. When HIV infection occurred, not all cases had textbook laboratory results. Our findings highlight the importance of confirmatory testing, particularly for individuals undergoing repeat testing and in settings where the point prevalence is expected to be low.
An Adaptive Moving Finite Element Method for Steady Low Mach Number Compressible Combustion Problems
Creators: name: Sun, Zhen
name: Braack, Malte
name: Lang, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q31, 76N15, 65M60

description: This work surveys an r-adaptive moving mesh finite element method for the numerical solution of premixed laminar flame problems. Since the model of chemically reacting flow involves many different modes with diverse length scales, the computation of such a problem is often extremely time-consuming. Importantly, to capture the significant characteristics of the flame structure when using detailed chemistry, a much more stringent requirement on the spatial resolution of the interior layers of some intermediate species is necessary. Here, we propose a moving mesh method in which the mesh is obtained from the solution of so-called moving mesh partial differential equations. Such equations result from the variational formulation of a minimization problem for a given target functional that characterizes the inherent difficulty in the numerical approximation of the underlying physical equations. Adaptive mesh movement has emerged as an area of intense research in mesh adaptation in the last decade. With this approach points are only allowed to be shifted in space leaving the topology of the grid unchanged. In contrast to methods with local refinement, data structure hence is unchanged and load balancing is not an issue as grid points remain on the processor where they are. We will demonstrate the high potential of moving mesh methods for effectively optimizing the distribution of grid points to reach the required resolution for chemically reacting flows with extremely thin boundary layers.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures
HNF1A Deficiency Impairs Beta-cell Fate, Granule Maturation and Function
Creators: Gonzalez, Bryan Jose
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cytology
Insulin
Pancreatic beta cells
Biology
Genes

description: Mutations in HNF1A cause Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young type 3, the second most frequent form of diabetes caused by single gene mutation. We generated human stem cell-derived pancreatic endocrine cells with clinically pathogenic mutations in HNF1A and show that HNF1A deficiency impairs endocrine cell fate, insulin granule maturation and the secretion of insulin in response to glucose. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals that HNF1A orchestrates a network of genes involved in β-cell fate, granule maturation, glucose metabolism, calcium ion binding and hormone exocytosis. In both patients and stem cell-derived β-cells, HNF1A deficiency altered the stoichiometry of secreted insulin to c-peptide. Sulfonylurea, used in the treatment of these patients, restored both insulin secretion and stoichiometry. The uncoupling of insulin and c-peptide secretion as described here questions the common practice of using c-peptide as a proxy to evaluate β-cell function. We also demonstrate that correction of the HNF1A mutations restores function, providing a path to cell-based replacement therapy.
On the Integrability and Chaotic behaviour of an ecological model
Creators: name: Joy, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A three species food chain model is studied analytically as well as numerically. Integrability of the model is studied using Painleve analysis while chaotic behaviour is studied using numerical techniques, such as calculation of Lyapunov exponents, plotting the bifurcation diagram and phase plots. We correct and critically comment on the wrong results reported recently on this ecological model, in a paper by Rai ([1995] ``Modelling ecological systems'', Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 5, 537-543).
description: 11 Pages LaTeX file, 3 Figures (PS files); To appear in Int. J. Bif. & Chaos, February, 1997
Linking high-z and low-z: Are We Observing the Progenitors of the Milky Way with JWST?
Creators: name: Rusta, Elka
name: Salvadori, Stefania
name: Gelli, Viola
name: Koutsouridou, Ioanna
name: Marconi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent JWST observation of the Firefly Sparkle at $z=8.3$ offers a unique opportunity to link the high- and the low-$z$ Universe. Indeed, the claim of it being a Milky Way (MW) type of assembly at the cosmic dawn opens the possibility of interpreting the observation with locally calibrated galaxy-formation models. Here, we use the MW-evolution model NEFERTITI to perform forward modeling of our Galaxy's progenitors at high-$z$. We build a set of mock spectra for the MW building blocks to make predictions for JWST and to interpret the Firefly Sparkle observation. First, we find that the most massive MW progenitor becomes detectable in a deep survey like JADES from $z\approx 8.2$, meaning that we could have already observed MW-analogs that still need interpretation. Second, we provide predictions for the number of detectable MW progenitors in lensed surveys like CANUCS, and interpret the Firefly Sparkle as a group of MW building blocks. Both the number of detections and the observed NIRCam photometry are consistent with our predictions. By identifying the MW progenitors whose mock photometry best fits the data, we find bursty and extended star-formation histories, lasting $> 150-300$~Myr, and estimate their properties: $M_h \approx 10^{8-9} \, M_{\odot}$, $ M_\star \approx 10^{6.2-7.5}\, M_{\odot}$, $ SFR \approx 0.04-0.20 \, M_{\odot} yr^{-1}$ and $ Z_{gas} \approx 0.04 - 0.24 \, Z_{\odot}$. Uncovering the properties of MW-analogs at cosmic dawn by combining JWST observations and locally-constrained models, will allow us to understand our Galaxy's formation, linking the high- and low-$z$ perspectives.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Addressing Fecal Contamination in Rural Kenyan Households: The Roles of Environmental Interventions and Animal Ownership
Creators: name: Stewart, Christine P.
name: Mboya, John
name: Rao, Gouthami
name: Mureithi, Maryanne
name: Colford, John M.
name: Pickering, Amy J.
name: Wolfe, Marlene K.
name: Lin, Audrie
name: Swarthout, Jenna M.
name: Arnold, Benjamin F.
name: Dentz, Holly N.
name: Arnold, Charles D.
name: Clasen, Thomas
name: Null, Clair
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Year: 2024

description:
Combined water, sanitation, and handwashing (WSH) interventions could reduce fecal contamination along more transmission pathways than single interventions alone. We measured Escherichia coli levels in 3909 drinking water samples, 2691 child hand rinses, and 2422 toy ball rinses collected from households enrolled in a 2-year cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating single and combined WSH interventions. Water treatment with chlorine reduced E. coli in drinking water. A combined WSH intervention improved water quality by the same magnitude but did not affect E. coli levels on hands or toys. One potential explanation for the limited impact of the sanitation intervention (upgraded latrines) is failure to address dog and livestock fecal contamination. Small ruminant (goat or sheep) ownership was associated with increased E. coli levels in stored water and on child hands. Cattle and poultry ownership was protective against child stunting, and domesticated animal ownership was not associated with child diarrhea. Our findings do not support restricting household animal ownership to prevent child diarrheal disease or stunting but do support calls for WSH infrastructure that can more effectively reduce household fecal contamination.
Lacticaseibacillus daqingensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lacticaseibacillus
Lacticaseibacillus daqingensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LACTICASEIBACILLUS DAQINGENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lacticaseibacillus daqingensis (da.qing.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. daqingensis, pertaining to Daqing, a city in in Heilongjiang Province, PR China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus daqingensis Long et al. 2020, 14 VP.
 L. daqingensis grows at 10 - 37°C but not at 5° and 45°C [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.74 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 58.0.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 143-4(a) T = NCIMB 15173 T = CCM 8948 T = JCM 33273 T = CCTCC 2018390 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOH00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110842.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on pages 2847-2848, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Approach to stationarity for the KPZ fixed point with boundaries
Creators: name: Prolhac, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current fluctuations for the one-dimensional totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP) connected to reservoirs of particles, and their large scale limit to the KPZ fixed point in finite volume, are studied using exact methods. Focusing on the maximal current phase for TASEP, corresponding to infinite boundary slopes for the KPZ height field, we obtain for general initial condition an exact expression for the late time correction to stationarity, involving extreme value statistics of Brownian paths. In the special cases of stationary and narrow wedge initial conditions, a combination of Bethe ansatz and numerical conjectures alternatively provide fully explicit exact expressions.
description: 6+12 pages, 3+6 figures
HIV Biomedical Prevention Science and the Business of Gender and Sexual Diversity
Creators: Perez-Brumer, Amaya Gabriela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Public health
subject: Medical ethics
subject: HIV infections—Prevention
subject: HIV infections--Research
subject: Sexual minorities
subject: Transgender people
subject: HIV infections--Economic aspects

description: This dissertation examines the political economy of HIV biomedical prevention research—largely designed in the global North but conducted in the global South—and its implications for people of diverse genders and sexualities. As a recognized global leader in HIV biomedical prevention research among people categorized as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women, Peru offers a key site in which to explore the increasing focus on gender and sexual identity as a strategic area for extractive research practices. This phenomenon has become particularly visible in the epidemic’s 4th decade, which has emphasized the pursuit of biomedical prevention strategies. Building on nine years of previous experience working inside HIV biomedical prevention studies, this project involved 24 months of ethnographic research, including participant observation; 110 interviews with scientists, study staff, and research subjects; 10 focus groups; and analyses of relevant scientific publications. This study presents four key findings. First, US and Peruvian researchers’ historical and continued entanglement primed Peru to become a hotbed of HIV biomedical prevention research. In this context, population categories imported from the global North have served as powerful tools to sustain a booming local research market, which produces data that aligns with the global demands of the HIV industry. Second, on the ground, research begets more research rather than institutionalized HIV prevention technologies, creating a sustained enterprise in which issues of compensation, value, and labor shape the science. The commodification of gender and sexually diverse identities operates here in two ways: as a mechanism to access particular kinds of bodies and associated HIV risk data, and as a mechanism by which to claim expertise in the HIV prevention research industry for both researchers and community members. Third, Peruvians classified as MSM and transgender women are afforded only temporary access to cutting-edge strategies to prevent HIV, limited to study participation. The result is a sustained pool of people in need of HIV care primed to support the HIV biomedical research economy. Finally, this project illuminates a key paradox within the industry’s contemporary focus on gender and sexual diversity in HIV prevention science. This focus creates the impression that progressive health politics marked the field, while obscuring and absolving ongoing forms of exploitation and unequal gains embedded within it.
Synthesis and bioactivities of diamide derivatives containing a phenazine-1-carboxamide scaffold
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiang
name: Zhang, Min
name: Yu, Linhua
name: Xu, Zhihong
name: Yang, Dan
name: Du, Xiaoying
name: Wu, Qinglai
name: Li, Junkai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Taking natural product phenazine-1-carboxamide (PCN) as a lead compound, a series of novel phenazine-1-carboxylic acid diamide derivatives were designed and synthesised. Their structures were confirmed by 1H-NMR and HRMS. The bioassays showed that some of the target compounds exhibited promising in vitro fungicidal activities, and exhibited excellent and selective herbicidal activities. Particularly, compounds c, h, o and s displayed root length inhibition activities against barnyard grass with the rate of more than 80%. Compound c exhibited the best activity among all the target compounds against barnyard grass stalk length with the IC50 value of 0.158 mmol/L, and compound o exhibited the best and wide spectrum inhibition against barnyard grass root length and rape in both root length and stalk length herbicidal activities with its IC50 values of 0.067, 0.048 and 0.059 mmol/L respectively. The analysis of preliminary Structure-Activity Relationships provides the theoretical basis for further design of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid.
Aortic-Femoral Stiffness Gradient and Cardiovascular Risk in Older Adults.
Creators: name: Meyer, Michelle L
name: Agharazii, Mohsen
name: Chauntry, Aiden
name: Fryer, Simon
name: Stoner, Lee
name: McDonnell, Barry J
name: Pugh, Christopher J A
name: Bahls, Martin
name: Paterson, Craig
name: Faulkner, James
name: Stone, Keeron
name: Fortier, Catherine
name: Zieff, Gabriel
name: Kucharska-Newton, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: The aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient, calculated as the ratio of lower-limb pulse-wave velocity (PWV) to central (aortic) PWV, is a promising tool for assessing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether it predicts incident CVD is unknown.
METHODS: We examined the association of the aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient measures carotid-femoral stiffness gradient (femoral-ankle PWV divided by carotid-femoral PWV) and the heart-femoral stiffness gradient (femoral-ankle PWV divided by heart-femoral PWV), as well as PWV, with incident CVD (coronary disease, stroke, and heart failure) and all-cause mortality among 3109 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study cohort (age, 75±5 years; carotid-femoral PWV, 11.5±3.0 m/s), free of CVD. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CIs.
RESULTS: Over a median 7.4-year follow-up, there were 322 cases of incident CVD and 410 deaths. In fully adjusted models, only top quartiles of carotid-femoral stiffness gradient (quartile 4: HR, 1.43 [95% CI, 1.03-1.97]; and quartile 3: HR, 1.49 [95% CI, 1.08-2.05]) and heart-femoral stiffness gradient (quartile 4: HR, 1.77 [95% CI, 1.27-2.48]; and quartile 3: HR, 1.41 [95% CI, 1.00-2.00]) were significantly associated with a greater risk of incident CVD. Only high aortic stiffness in combination with low lower-limb stiffness was significantly associated with incident CVD (HR, 1.46 [95% CI, 1.06-2.02]) compared with the referent low aortic stiffness and high lower-limb stiffness. No PWVs were significantly associated with incident CVD. No exposures were associated with all-cause mortality.
CONCLUSIONS: The aortic-femoral arterial stiffness gradient may enhance CVD risk assessment in older adults in whom the predictive capacity of traditional risk factors and PWV are attenuated.
Additional file 1: of The P450 gene CYP749A16 is required for tolerance to the sulfonylurea herbicide trifloxysulfuron sodium in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Creators: name: Thyssen, Gregory
name: Naoumkina, Marina
name: McCarty, Jack
name: Jenkins, Johnie
name: Florane, Christopher
name: Li, Ping
name: Fang, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S1. qPCR Genetic marker primers used in this study. Table S2. List of 384 cotton cultivars included in the diversity panel and their genotype at the Gh_D10G1401 locus. Table S3. Specificity of gene fragment for VIGS in NBI reference sequences. Table S4. Gene fragment for VIGS. Table S5. RT-qPCR Primers used in this study. Table S6. Multiple alignment of Gh_D10G1401 from Paymaster HS26 and wild-type cotton, including potential homeologous region on Chr A10. (DOCX 38 kb)
HIV is not a Crime: Exploring Criminalization and Discrimination in a Dual Model of HIV/AIDS Minority Stress
Creators: Breslow, Aaron Samuel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social psychology
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Counseling psychology
subject: HIV infections--Social aspects
subject: AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects
subject: Discrimination
subject: Stress (Psychology)

description: Although scholars have written extensively about the effects of interpersonal HIV stigma on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), there is a dearth of information about the psychological and behavioral impact of structural HIV stigma. The current study builds on previous work investigating the dual roles of structural and interpersonal minority stressors with a national sample of 234 PLWHA by testing an HIV/AIDS-specific expansion of minority stress theory grounded in the psychological mediation framework. Through bivariate correlations and structural equation modeling, the study examined relations between four sets of variables: (1) distal stigma-related stressors (i.e., HIV criminalization by state, HIV-related discrimination), (2) general psychological processes (i.e., social support, cognitive reappraisal), (3) group-specific processes (i.e., HIV criminalization belief, HIV stigma), and (4) mental/behavioral health outcomes (i.e., psychological distress, health-related quality of life). Results provide mixed support for a dual, mediated model of HIV/AIDS minority stress. Findings indicate mixed support for hypothesized associations. HIV criminalization by state yielded a significant negative direct and significant positive indirect association with psychological distress. HIV-related discrimination yielded direct and indirect associations with both health outcomes. With the exception of cognitive reappraisal, mediators demonstrated support for the psychological mediation framework among PLWHA. Implications are discussed in support of future HIV/AIDS minority stress research, as well as clinical and policy interventions.
Sensitive and modular amplicon sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum diversity and resistance for research and public health
Creators: name: Gerlovina, Inna
name: Wiringilimaana, Innocent
name: Parr, Jonathan B.
name: Mayor, Alfredo
name: García-Ulloa, Manuel
name: Ssewanyana, Isaac
name: Nsengimaana, Bienvenu
name: Raman, Jaishree
name: Greenhouse, Bryan
name: Semakuba, Francis Ddumba
name: Aranda-Díaz, Andrés
name: Hathaway, Nicholas
name: Briggs, Jessica
name: Louie, William
name: Bennett, Adam
name: García-Fernández, Carla
name: Tato, Cristina M.
name: Cisteró, Pau
name: Datta, Debayan
name: Murie, Kathryn
name: Kiyaga, Shahiid
name: Da Silva, Clemente
name: Conrad, Melissa D.
name: Esayas, Endashaw
name: Palmer, Brian
name: Gadisa, Endalamaw
name: Tukwasibwe, Stephen
name: Gwarinda, Hazel
name: Katairo, Thomas
name: Rovira-Vallbona, Eduard
name: Neubauer Vickers, Eric
name: Boene, Simone
name: Smith, Jennifer L.
name: Feleke, Sindew Mekasha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
Targeted amplicon sequencing is a powerful and efficient tool for interrogating the Plasmodium falciparum genome, generating actionable data from infections to complement traditional malaria epidemiology. For maximum impact, genomic tools should be multi-purpose, robust, sensitive, and reproducible. We developed, characterized, and implemented MAD4HatTeR, an amplicon sequencing panel based on Multiplex Amplicons for Drug, Diagnostic, Diversity, and Differentiation Haplotypes using Targeted Resequencing, along with a bioinformatic pipeline for data analysis. Additionally, we introduce an analytical approach to detect gene duplications and deletions from amplicon sequencing data. Laboratory control and field samples were used to demonstrate the panel’s high sensitivity and robustness. MAD4HatTeR targets 165 highly diverse loci, focusing on multiallelic microhaplotypes, key markers for drug and diagnostic resistance (including duplications and deletions), and CSP and potential vaccine targets. The panel can also detect non-falciparum Plasmodium species. MAD4HatTeR successfully generated data from low-parasite-density dried blood spot and mosquito midgut samples and detected minor alleles at within-sample allele frequencies as low as 1% with high specificity in high-parasite-density dried blood spot samples. Gene deletions and duplications were reliably detected in mono- and polyclonal controls. Data generated by MAD4HatTeR were highly reproducible across multiple laboratories. The successful implementation of MAD4HatTeR in five laboratories, including three in malaria-endemic African countries, showcases its feasibility and reproducibility in diverse settings. MAD4HatTeR is thus a powerful tool for research and a robust resource for malaria public health surveillance and control.
Lacticaseibacillus hegangensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lacticaseibacillus
Lacticaseibacillus hegangensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LACTICASEIBACILLUS HEGANGENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lacticaseibacillus hegangensis (he.gang.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. hegangensis, pertaining to Hegang, a city in Heilongjiang Province, PR China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus hegangensis Long et al. 2020, 12 VP.
 Properties of L. hegangensis are similar to L. daqingensis [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.50 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 55.5.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 73-4 T = NCIMB 15177 T = CCM 8912 T = CCTCC AB 2018407 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOL00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110833.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2848, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HUMAN HEALTH
Creators: name: Mirzajonova, Munavvar
name: Abdullayeva, Zarina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article explores the profound consequences of climate change on global health. It discusses rising temperatures, extreme weather events, air pollution, and the spread of infectious diseases as key factors affecting human well-being. The article highlights how vulnerable populations, including children, the elderly, and those in low-income regions, are disproportionately affected. It also examines the role of public health interventions, policy measures, and sustainable practices in mitigating these health risks. This work contributes to the growing discourse on climate-related health issues, emphasizing the urgent need for coordinated global action.
Trichotomy for the orbits of a hypercyclic operator on a Banach space
Creators: name: Li, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A16, 37B05

description: We obtain a trichotomy for the orbits of a hypercyclic operator $T$ on a separable Banach space $X$: (1) every vector is mean asymptotic to zero; (2) generic vectors are absolutely mean irregular; (3) every hypercyclic vector is mean divergent to infinity. Examples of weighted backward shifts on $\ell^p$ show that all three cases can happen.
description: 12 papers,to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
Theoretical method for calculation of effective properties of composite materials with reconfigurable microstructure: electric and magnetic phenomena
Creators: name: Snarskii, Andrei
name: Zorinets, Denis
name: Shamonin, Mikhail
name: Kalita, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical approach for calculating effective electric and magnetic properties of composites with field-dependent restructuring of the filler. The theory combines the Bruggeman-Landauer approximation extended to a field-dependent (variable) percolation threshold with the approximate treatment of nonlinearity of material properties. Theoretical results are compared with experiments on magnetorheological elastomers, which in the context of investigated phenomena are often called magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs). In MAEs with soft polymer matrices, the mutual arrangement of inclusions changes in an applied magnetic field. This reorganization of the microstructure leads to unconventionally large changes of electrical and magnetic properties. Obtained theoretical results describe observed phenomena in MAEs well. Qualitative agreement between theory and experiment is demonstrated for the magnetodielectric effect. In the case of magnetic permeability, quantitative agreement is achieved. The theoretical approach presented can be useful for development of field-controlled smart materials and design of smart structures on their basis, because the field dependence of physical properties can be predicted.
title: Crataegus x lavallei Hénricq. ex Lavallée
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Path-Restore: Learning Network Path Selection for Image Restoration
Creators: name: Yu, Ke
name: Wang, Xintao
name: Dong, Chao
name: Tang, Xiaoou
name: Loy, Chen Change
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Very deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have greatly improved the performance on various image restoration tasks. However, this comes at a price of increasing computational burden, hence limiting their practical usages. We observe that some corrupted image regions are inherently easier to restore than others since the distortion and content vary within an image. To leverage this, we propose Path-Restore, a multi-path CNN with a pathfinder that can dynamically select an appropriate route for each image region. We train the pathfinder using reinforcement learning with a difficulty-regulated reward. This reward is related to the performance, complexity and "the difficulty of restoring a region". A policy mask is further investigated to jointly process all the image regions. We conduct experiments on denoising and mixed restoration tasks. The results show that our method achieves comparable or superior performance to existing approaches with less computational cost. In particular, Path-Restore is effective for real-world denoising, where the noise distribution varies across different regions on a single image. Compared to the state-of-the-art RIDNet, our method achieves comparable performance and runs 2.7x faster on the realistic Darmstadt Noise Dataset.
description: IEEE TPAMI 2021. Project page: https://www.mmlab-ntu.com/project/pathrestore/
Budget-Aware Adapters for Multi-Domain Learning
Creators: name: Berriel, Rodrigo
name: Lathuilière, Stéphane
name: Nabi, Moin
name: Klein, Tassilo
name: Oliveira-Santos, Thiago
name: Sebe, Nicu
name: Ricci, Elisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-Domain Learning (MDL) refers to the problem of learning a set of models derived from a common deep architecture, each one specialized to perform a task in a certain domain (e.g., photos, sketches, paintings). This paper tackles MDL with a particular interest in obtaining domain-specific models with an adjustable budget in terms of the number of network parameters and computational complexity. Our intuition is that, as in real applications the number of domains and tasks can be very large, an effective MDL approach should not only focus on accuracy but also on having as few parameters as possible. To implement this idea we derive specialized deep models for each domain by adapting a pre-trained architecture but, differently from other methods, we propose a novel strategy to automatically adjust the computational complexity of the network. To this aim, we introduce Budget-Aware Adapters that select the most relevant feature channels to better handle data from a novel domain. Some constraints on the number of active switches are imposed in order to obtain a network respecting the desired complexity budget. Experimentally, we show that our approach leads to recognition accuracy competitive with state-of-the-art approaches but with much lighter networks both in terms of storage and computation.
description: ICCV 2019
Additional file 1: of Does Hukou origin affect establishment of health records in migrant inflow communities? A nation-wide empirical study in China
Creators: name: Qian, Yangyang
name: Ge, Dandan
name: Zhang, Li
name: Sun, Long
name: Li, Jiajia
name: Zhou, Chengchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Univariate analysis of factors associated with establishing health records in rural and urban migrant population in China, 2015. We presented univariate analysis of different factors associated with establishing health records in rural and urban migrant population respectively in this table. (DOCX 22Â kb)
Fractal Stability Border in Plane Couette Flow
Creators: name: Schmiegel, Armin
name: Eckhardt, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of localised perturbations in plane Couette flow with periodic lateral boundary conditions. For small Reynolds number and small amplitude of the initial state the perturbation decays on a viscous time scale $t \propto Re$. For Reynolds number larger than about 200, chaotic transients appear with life times longer than the viscous one. Depending on the type of the perturbation isolated initial conditions with infinite life time appear for Reynolds numbers larger than about 270--320. In this third regime, the life time as a function of Reynolds number and amplitude is fractal. These results suggest that in the transition region the turbulent dynamics is characterised by a chaotic repeller rather than an attractor.
description: 4 pages, Latex, 4 eps-figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Bimerons create bimerons: proliferation and aggregation induced by currents and magnetic fields
Creators: name: Zhang, Xichao
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Yu, Xiuzhen
name: Mochizuki, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aggregation of topological spin textures at nano and micro scales has practical applications in spintronic technologies. Here, the authors report the in-plane current-induced proliferation and aggregation of bimerons in a bulk chiral magnet. It is found that the spin-transfer torques can induce the proliferation and aggregation of bimerons only in the presence of an appropriate out-of-plane magnetic field. It is also found that a relatively small damping and a relatively large non-adiabatic spin-transfer torque could lead to more pronounced bimeron proliferation and aggregation. Particularly, the current density should be larger than a certain threshold in order to trigger the proliferation; namely, the bimerons may only be driven into translational motion under weak current injection. Besides, the authors find that the aggregate bimerons could relax into a deformed honeycomb bimeron lattice with a few lattice structure defects after the current injection. The results are promising for the development of bio-inspired spintronic devices that use a large number of aggregate bimerons. The findings also provide a platform for studying aggregation-induced effects in spintronic systems, such as the aggregation-induced lattice phase transitions.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
On the Topological Interpretation of Gravitational Anomalies
Creators: name: Perrot, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the mixed gravitational-Yang-Mills anomaly as the coupling between the $K$-theory and $K$-homology of a $C^*$-algebra crossed product. The index theorem of Connes-Moscovici allows to compute the Chern character of the $K$-cycle by local formulae involving connections and curvatures. It gives a topological interpretation to the anomaly, in the sense of noncommutative algebras.
description: 16 pages, LaTex, no figures
Lacticaseibacillus suibinensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lacticaseibacillus
Lacticaseibacillus suibinensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LACTICASEIBACILLUS SUIBINENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lacticaseibacillus suibinensis (sui.bin.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. suibinensis, pertaining to Suibin, a county in Heilongjiang Province, PR China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus suibinensis Long et al. 2020, 12 VP.
 Properties of L. suibiensis are similar to L. daqingensis but L. suibiensis deaminates arginine [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.56 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 53.0.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 247-3 T = NCIMB 15176 T = JCM 33275 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOK00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110834.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2848, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Equivalence Principle, Planck Length and Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi Equation
Creators: name: Faraggi, Alon E.
name: Matone, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Quantum Stationary HJ Equation (QSHJE) that we derived from the equivalence principle, gives rise to initial conditions which cannot be seen in the Schroedinger equation. Existence of the classical limit leads to a dependence of the integration constant $\ell=\ell_1+i\ell_2$ on the Planck length. Solutions of the QSHJE provide a trajectory representation of quantum mechanics which, unlike Bohm's theory, has a non-trivial action even for bound states and no wave guide is present. The quantum potential turns out to be an intrinsic potential energy of the particle which, similarly to the relativistic rest energy, is never vanishing.
description: 1+7 pages, LaTeX. Typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Characterizing the sensitivity of isolated continuous gravitational wave searches to binary orbits
Creators: name: Singh, Avneet
name: Papa, Maria Alessandra
name: Dergachev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Broadband all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves (CW) from isolated neutron stars typically yield a number of significant candidates that are discarded through hierarchical semi-coherent and coherent follow-up searches. However, these searches target purely isolated sources and do not take into account possible phase modulations to the signals due to companion objects in binary orbits. If the source object is in a binary orbit, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a signal will diminish due to the mismatch between the signal waveform and the template waveform used in the search. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of CW searches to signals from sources in binary systems over an exhaustive range of binary orbits. We use Monte-Carlo simulations to constrain the ranges of binary orbital parameters that leave a CW signal from a source in a binary orbit visible in a search for signals from an isolated source (isolated searches), and consequently tighten the parameter space explorable with dedicated searches for signals from sources in binary systems (binary searches).
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables; v1: initial submission; v2: journal submission (minor typos fixed); v3: published version; v4: typos corrected, references updated
Building resilience through adaptive streets: How state DOTs can support local responses to disruptive events. Research brief and recommendations for North Carolina
Creators: name: Combs, Tabitha S.
name: Huntsinger, Leta F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted cities worldwide to reconfigure streets for safe walking, cycling, recreation, and outdoor commerce. While many U.S. cities quickly implemented ‘adaptive streets’ programs using flexible, low-cost materials, North Carolina municipalities’ efforts were comparatively limited in scope and duration. As we move beyond the pandemic, these municipalities seek guidance from local and global experiences to inform swifter responses to future disruptions.


This research identified state-level factors that supported local pandemic-related adaptive streets efforts in two states—Colorado and Massachusetts—and assessed the transferability of those factors to North Carolina.


As a companion to a comprehensive final report, this brief:



highlights key benefits of adaptive streets programs,


overviews COVID-related adaptive streets programs in Massachusetts and Colorado,


summarizes the results of our research on adaptive streets programs in North Carolina, and


provides recommendations to support timely, effective responses to future disruptive events.

An Algebra of Skew Primitive Elements
Creators: name: Kharchenko, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W; 17B

description: We study the various term operations on the set of skew primitive elements of Hopf algebras, generated by skew primitive semi-invariants of an Abelian group of grouplike elements. All 1-linear binary operations are described and trilinear and quadrilinear operations are given a detailed treatment. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of multilinear operations are specified in terms of the property of particular noncommutative polynomials being linearly dependent and of one arithmetic condition. We dub the conjecture that this condition implies, in fact, the linear dependence of the polynomials in question and so is itself sufficient (a proof of this conjecture see in "An existence condition for multilinear quantum operations," Journal of Algebra, 217, 1999, 188-228).
description: 32 pages