cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sufficient Magic: Queer Prison Comix as Liberation Praxis
Creators: name: Morse, Nicole
Publisher: name: Ohio State University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: LGBTQ
trans
ABO Comix
prison comics
prison art
abolition
transgender

description: Prison art has many functions, from representation to healing to rehabilitation, and it can make use of many different kinds of media, including comix. For prison abolitionists, prison art is most powerful when it is connected to larger struggles against the criminal punishment system, and comix offer unique affordances to abolitionist movements. From cells to movement blur to the gutter, comix enable artists to interrogate carcerality and gendered oppression simultaneously. Through close readings of comix and correspondence with artists and organizers, this article examines the world-making praxis of incarcerated trans artists who are creating and distributing original comix with the abolitionist organization ABO Comix. While most scholarship on prison art explores state-sanctioned programs, ABO Comix is independent from the prison system, producing alternative possibilities as well as unique challenges for artists and organizers. In comix by trans artist Krysta Morningstarr* as well as other artists, incarcerated LGBTQ artists use comix as a form of world-making, mutual aid, and collective praxis within and beyond the prison borders.
Additional file 1 of Chopstick technique versus cross technique in LESS hysterectomy (CCLEH study): a prospective randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Dou, Yuya
name: Deng, Li
name: Tang, Shuai
name: Yao, Yuanyang
name: Liang, Xiaolong
name: Hu, Qunying
name: Wang, Yanzhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Angiogenic and inflammatory biomarkers in the differentiation of pulmonary hypertension
Creators: name: Säleby, Joanna
name: Bouzina, Habib
name: Lundgren, Jakob
name: Rådegran, Göran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Objectives. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious condition where diagnosis often is delayed due to unspecific symptoms. New methods to diagnose and differentiate PH earlier would therefore be of great value. The aim of this study was therefore to evaluate the relationship between circulating angiogenic and inflammatory biomarkers and various hemodynamic variables in relation to different causes of PH. Design. Plasma samples from 63 patients at diagnosis were extracted from Lund Cardio Pulmonary Register, separated into pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, n = 22), chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH, n = 15) and left heart disease (LHD) with (n = 21) and without (n = 5) PH. Blood samples from eight control subjects devoid of PH were additionally evaluated. Plasma concentrations of angiogenic (PlGF, Tie2, VEGF-A, VEGF-D, bFGF, sFlt-1) and inflammatory (IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α) biomarkers were analysed and related to hemodynamic variables. Results. SFlt-1 (p p p p Conclusions. Our findings indicate that sFlt-1 and VEGF-A may be future tools when discriminating PH from non-PH. Moreover, TNF-α may differentiate PAH and VEGF- D may differentiate LHD with PH, from the other groups with PH, as well as controls. SFlt-1 may furthermore play a role as a future marker of disease severity.
Science is the way, or can (only) religion fix climate change?
Creators: name: Macedo, Pedro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This essay was written for the curricular unit “Seminar of Science of Sustainability and Climate Change” under the PhD Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies (8th edition, 2016/2017 academic year). Delivered 13th March, 2017. Also presented orally in the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (ce3c) 4th Annual Meeting 2018 - Frontiers in E3, 9th July in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0202
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0202, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0202, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
DAG-WGAN: Causal Structure Learning With Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Petkov, Hristo
name: Hanley, Colin
name: Dong, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The combinatorial search space presents a significant challenge to learning causality from data. Recently, the problem has been formulated into a continuous optimization framework with an acyclicity constraint, allowing for the exploration of deep generative models to better capture data sample distributions and support the discovery of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) that faithfully represent the underlying data distribution. However, so far no study has investigated the use of Wasserstein distance for causal structure learning via generative models. This paper proposes a new model named DAG-WGAN, which combines the Wasserstein-based adversarial loss, an auto-encoder architecture together with an acyclicity constraint. DAG-WGAN simultaneously learns causal structures and improves its data generation capability by leveraging the strength from the Wasserstein distance metric. Compared with other models, it scales well and handles both continuous and discrete data. Our experiments have evaluated DAG-WGAN against the state-of-the-art and demonstrated its good performance.
description: 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIFU 2022)
COVID-19 AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IN BALTIMORE
Creators: name: Knott, Cheryl
name: Scott, Sally
Publisher: name: NNIP
Year: 2024

description: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed stark disparities in health and housing, highlighting the importance of stable and affordable housing for all. The National Fair Housing Alliance's (NFHA) Keys Unlock Dream Initiative (KUDI) seeks to provide greater access to homeownership for underserved communities affected by redlining and disinvestment. By advancing equity-building solutions based on sound, robust research, KUDI aims to reduce the racial wealth and homeownership gaps. NFHA is proud to support community-driven organizations working to increase opportunities for Baltimore residents. Let's continue to partner toward a future where everyone has access to safe, affordable, and fair housing.
Regulating MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell adhesion on laser-patterned surfaces with micro- and nanotopography
Creators: name: Kanidi, M.
name: Papadimitropoulou, A.
name: Charalampous, C.
name: Chakim, Z.
name: Tsekenis, G.
name: Sinani, A.
name: Riziotis, C.
name: Kandyla, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer observed in women. Communication with the tumor microenvironment allows invading breast cancer cells, such as triple negative breast cancer cells, to adapt to specific substrates. The substrate topography modulates the cellular behavior, among other factors. A number of different materials and micro/nanofabrication techniques have been employed to develop substrates for cell culturing. Silicon-based substrates present a lot of advantages as they are amenable to a wide range of processing techniques and they permit rigorous control over the surface structure. We investigate and compare the response of triple negative breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) on laser-patterned silicon substrates with two different topographical scales, i.e., the micro- and the nanoscale, in the absence of any other biochemical modification. We develop silicon surfaces with distinct morphological characteristics by employing two laser systems with different pulse durations (nanosecond and femtosecond) and different processing environments (vacuum, SF6 gas, and water). Our findings demonstrate that surfaces with micro-topography are repellent, while surfaces with nano-topography are attractive for MDA-MB-231 cell adherence.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0274
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0274, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0274, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Analysis of imidazoles and triazoles in biological samples after MicroExtraction by packed sorbent
Creators: name: Campestre, Cristina
name: Locatelli, Marcello
name: Guglielmi, Paolo
name: Luca, Elisa De
name: Bellagamba, Giuseppe
name: Menta, Sergio
name: Gokhan Zengin
name: Celia, Christian
name: Marzio, Luisa Di
name: Carradori, Simone
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper reports the MEPS-HPLC-DAD method for the simultaneous determination of 12 azole drugs (bifonazole, butoconazole, clotrimazole, econazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, miconazole, posaconazole, ravuconazole, terconazole, tioconazole and voriconazole) administered to treat different systemic and topical fungal infections, in biological samples. Azole drugs separation was performed in 36 min. The analytical method was validated in the ranges as follows: 0.02–5 μg mL−1 for ravuconazole; 0.2–5 μg mL−1 for terconazole; 0.05–5 μg mL−1 for the other compounds. Human plasma and urine were used as biological samples during the analysis, while benzyl-4-hydroxybenzoate was used as an internal standard. The precision (RSD%) and trueness (Bias%) values fulfill with International Guidelines requirements. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first HPLC-DAD procedure coupled to MEPS, which provides the simultaneous analysis of 12 azole drugs, available in the market, in human plasma and urine. Moreover, the method was successfully applied for the quantitative determination of two model drugs (itraconazole and miconazole) after oral administration in real samples.
Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life
Creators: name: Marsh, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics have significant implications for the origins of life. The reasons for this are closely related to a generalized version of the second law of thermodynamics recently found for entropy production during irreversible evolution of a given system such as self-replicating RNA. This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to these developments.
description: To appear in the Canadian Journal of Physics: 20 pages, 3 figures
Cauchy's Logico-Linguistic Slip, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and a Semantic Dilemma Concerning "Quantum Gravity"
Creators: name: Majhi, Abhishek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance of language in physics has gained emphasis in recent times, on the one hand through Hilbert's views that concern formalism and intuition applied for outer inquiry, and on the other hand through Brouwer's point of view that concerns intuition applied for inner inquiry or, as I call, self-inquiry. It is to demonstrate the essence of such investigations, especially self-inquiry (inward intuition), I find it compelling to report that a careful analysis of Cauchy's statements for the definition of derivative, as applied in physics, unveils the connection to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as a condition for the failure of classical mechanics. Such logico-linguistic, or semantically driven, self-inquiry of physics can provide new insights to physicists in the pursuit of truth and reality, for example, in the context of Schroedinger equation. I point out an explicit dilemma that plagues the semantics of physics, as far as general relativity and quantum mechanics are concerned, which needs to be taken into account during any attempt to pen down a theory of "quantum gravity".
description: 8 pages, almost identical to the published version
Diving into Knowledge Graphs for Patents: Open Challenges and Benefits
Creators: name: Dessi, Danilo
name: Dessi, Rima
Publisher: name: Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Patent Domain
subject: Knowledge Graph
subject: Intellectual Property
subject: 004

description: Textual documents are the means of sharing information and preserving knowledge for a large variety of domains. The patent domain is also using such a paradigm which is becoming difficult to maintain and is limiting the potentialities of using advanced AI systems for domain analysis. To overcome this issue, it is more and more frequent to find approaches to transform textual representations into Knowledge Graphs (KGs). In this position paper, we discuss KGs within the patent domain, present its challenges, and envision the benefits of such technologies for this domain. In addition, this paper provides insights of such KGs by reproducing an existing pipeline to create KGs and applying it to patents in the computer science domain.
Synthesis, biological activity and multiscale molecular modeling studies for coumaryl-carboxamide derivatives as selective carbonic anhydrase IX inhibitors
Creators: name: Kurt, Belma Zengin
name: Sonmez, Fatih
name: Durdagi, Serdar
name: Busecan Aksoydan
name: Salmas, Ramin Ekhteiari
name: Angeli, Andrea
name: Kucukislamoglu, Mustafa
name: Supuran, Claudiu T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: New coumaryl-carboxamide derivatives with the thiourea moiety as a linker between the alkyl chains and/or the heterocycle nucleus were synthesized and their inhibitory activity against the human carbonic anhydrase (hCA) isoforms hCA I, II, VII and IX were evaluated. While the hCA I, II and VII isoforms were not inhibited by the investigated compounds, the tumour-associated isoform hCA IX was inhibited in the high nanomolar range. 2-Oxo-N-((2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)ethyl)carbamothioyl)-2H-chromene-3-carboxamide (e11) exhibited a selective inhibitory action against hCA IX with the Ki of 107.9 nM. In order to better understand the inhibitory profiles of studied molecules, multiscale molecular modeling approaches were used. Different molecular docking algorithms were used to investigate binding poses and predicted binding energies of studied compounds at the active sites of the CA I, II, VII and IX isoforms.
Comprehensive P vs NP -- Or, P as she is NP; the new guide of the conversion in polynomial-time and exponential-time.
Creators: name: Wright, Nicholas R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Computation Theory and Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80299 Computation Theory and Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: 80201 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
subject: 80401 Coding and Information Theory
subject: 80203 Computational Logic and Formal Languages
subject: Theoretical Computer Science

description: We use the whole order approach to solve the problem of P versus NP. The relation of the whole order within a beautiful order is imperative to understanding the total order. We also show several techniques observed by the minimum element, we call a logical minimum. The perfect zero-knowledge technique will deliver exactly the same. We conclude with a demonstration of the halting problem.
The External Heating of Dust in a Homogeneous Spherical Shell
Creators: name: Dwek, Eli
name: Arendt, Richard
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

description: We present a procedure for calculating the heating of, and the infrared emission from, dust in a homogeneous spherical shell surrounded by a spherically symmetric source of radiation. The results are applicable to newly formed dust either in supernova ejecta or in the circumstellar medium that has been swept up by the expanding shock wave. They can also be applied to the heating and IR emission from dust in clumps or clouds embedded in a homogeneous radiation field.
Supplementary Material for: Characterisation of “Positive” Behaviours in Primary Progressive Aphasias
Creators: name: Midorikawa, A.
name: Kumfor, F.
name: Leyton, C.E.
name: Foxe, D.
name: Landin-Romero, R.
name: Hodges, J.R.
name: Piguet, O.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background/Aims: Although some patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) exhibit novel or improved skills after the onset of dementia, these changes have yet to be quantified. Therefore, this study systematically explored and identified the emergence of positive behaviours after dementia onset. Methods: This study included 48 carers of patients with PPA: 12 nonfluent/agrammatic PPA (nfvPPA), 22 semantic variant PPA (svPPA), and 14 logopenic variant PPA (lvPPA). The presence and frequency of positive behaviour changes after dementia onset were established using the Hypersensory and Social/Emotional Scale (HSS). Results: Scores on Sensitivity to Details, Visuospatial Activities, and Music Activities differed significantly among the groups. More specifically, svPPA was associated with increased visuospatial activity, but only in the mild stage of the disease; nfvPPA was associated with increased visuospatial activity and decreased music activity, while lvPPA exhibited the reverse profile. Conclusions: The results demonstrate that subsets of PPA patients show novel or increased positive behaviours following dementia onset, and differences among subtypes may be helpful for improving diagnostic accuracy. Additionally, harnessing these skills may improve the quality of life of both patients and carers.
FARMER MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER IRRIGATION IN ASIA: HYDROG OGICAL POTENTIALITY OF INTENSIVE FARMER-MANAGED TUBEWELL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Sattar, M
name: Haq, K
name: Sattar, M
name: Haq, K
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: A FIELD STUDY was conducted in IO farmer-managed deep and shallow tubewell irrigated areas of Barind Tract Groundwater Basin, Bogra, Bangladesh. This had the specific objectives of: (i) assessing the groundwater recharge in the study area, (ii) evaluating the fluctuation of groundwa­ter table of aquifers and its response on rainfall and river water levels in the vicinity, (iii) evaluating the aquifer characteristics and properties, and (iv) recommending the safe utilization of tubewells based on discharge-drawdown relationship and well spacing for sustainable groundwater man­agement in crop production. The study indicated that the intensity of tubewells at present are 5 per square kilometer (km2) with an average discharge capacity of about 56 liters per second (lps). The average irrigated acreage of all the tubewells was 0.83 hectare/lps under the rice crop which was much above the national average (0.40 ha/lps). During the JO years from 1977 to 1986, the groundwater table was lowered indicating the highest lowering upto 7 .87 meters (m) in the month of March. This was below the operation level of shallow tubewells. A multiple regression relationship with groundwater table (Y) as dependable variable, and rainfall (XI) and river stage (X2) as independent variables was accomplished. The study revealed that there is a significant direct relationship among rainfall, groundwater table fluctuation and stream flow. The lithological investigations indicated that 100 percent screenable materials were available from a depth of 12 m and beyond. The average transmissivity and storage coefficient values were4,388 square meters per day (m2/day) and 0.000587, respectively, which indicated that the study area has potential for tubewell utilization. A model for safe well spacing was developed between discharge versus spacing of wells. The findings indicated that for shallow wells with a discharge rate from 11 to 20 lps, the spacing was in the range of 122 to 250 m. However, for deep tubewells with discharge capacities of 47 to 54 lps the spacing was in the range of 300 to 390 m for safe and sustainable utilization of groundwater.
Impact of System Correlation Matrix Bordering on the MU-MIMO Ergodic Sum-Rate Capacity in the Presence of the Multipath Fading Channel
Creators: name: Gvozdarev, Aleksey S.
name: Alischyuk, Aleksandra
name: Kazakova, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The research analyzes the problem of capacity analysis of the multi-user massive multi-input multi-output systems with a banded correlation model. The presented study impacts the analytical statistical description with closed form expression of the ergodic sum-rate capacity of the system functioning in presence of multipath fading channel with complex Nakagami-m statistics of the complex transmission coefficients. Numerical verification of the derived expressions was performed and demonstrated excellent correspondence with simulation. The research demonstrated that the system correlation matrix (in case when exponential model is considered) can be bordered up to pentadiagonal structure without introducing any discrepancies in to the sum-rate capacity.
description: 2021 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems and Sustainable Groundwater Management: An Endeavor of Proshika Target Groups to Ensure Sustainability of Groundwater Management
Creators: name: Sarker, S
name: Sarker, S
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: PROSHIKA MANOBIK UNNAYAN KENDRA, a nongovernment rural development organization in Bangladesh, initiated its irrigation program based on groundwater in 1980. The projects are being implemented by landless and marginal farmer groups. The major objectives of these projects are to establish rights on groundwater resources, to develop a sustainable alternative project manage­ment system in the irrigation sector, to create a bargaining situation between the landless and landlord farmers, to transfer ownership of the irrigation equipment to the target groups and to promote irrigation project management by women groups as a significant and prospective counterpart in groundwater development. To achieve these objectives in particular, and to ensure the attainment of the goal of rural development in general, Proshika endeavors sustainable groundwater management through rural target groups. Attempts made to realize the objectives outlined above are diverse in nature. This paper focuses on some specific interventions by Proshika with reference to two case studies; i.e., (i) where beneficiaries have adopted management innovations successfully in Bastail-a village in Tangail District, and (ii) where the target group has failed to manage the tubewell in Baoni-a village in Gazipur District.
Digital Mentor: towards a conversational bot to identify hypotheses for software startups
Creators: name: Melegati, Jorge
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2; K.6.3

description: Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive product and services. This context leads to uncertainty regarding the software they are building. Experimentation, a process of testing hypotheses about the product, helps these companies to reduce uncertainty through different evidence-based approaches. The first step in experimentation is to identify the hypotheses to be tested. HyMap is a technique where a facilitator helps a software startup founder to draw a cognitive map representing her understanding of the context and, based on that, create hypotheses about the software to be built. In this paper, we present the Digital Mentor, an working-in-progress conversational bot to help creating a HyMap without the need of a human facilitator. We report the proposed solution consisting of a web application with the backend of a natural language understanding system, the current state of development, the challenges we faced so far and the next steps we plan to move forward.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for presentation at 4th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2022)
Supplementary material title and description from Coevolution in the timing of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron maturation in primates
Creators: name: Charvet, Christine J.
name: Šimić, Goran
name: Kostović, Ivica
name: Kovačević, Vinka
name: Vukšić, Mario
name: Leko, Mirjana Babić
name: Takahashi, Emi
name: Sherwood, Chet C.
name: Marnin D. Wolfe
name: Finlay, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: The cortex of primates is relatively expanded relative to many other mammals, yet little is known about what developmental processes account for the expansion of cortical subtype numbers in primates, including humans. We asked whether GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production occurs for longer than expected in primates than in mice in a sample of 86 developing primate and rodent brains. We use high-resolution structural, diffusion MR scans and histological material to compare the timing of the ganglionic eminences (GE) and cortical proliferative pool (CPP) maturation between humans, macaques, rats and mice. We also compare the timing of post-neurogenetic maturation of GABAergic and pyramidal neurons in primates (i.e. humans, macaques) relative to rats and mice to identify whether delays in neurogenesis are concomitant with delayed post-neurogenetic maturation. We found that the growth of the GE and CPP are both selectively delayed compared with other events in primates. By contrast, the timing of post-neurogenetic GABAergic and pyramidal events (e.g. synaptogenesis) are predictable from the timing of other events in primates and in studied rodents. The extended duration of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production is associated with the amplification of GABAerigc and pyramidal neuron numbers in the human and non-human primate cortex.
Synergistic effects of Al and Mo on coarsening kinetics of Ni-based superalloys at 1200°C
Creators: name: Li, Mingzhe
name: Zhao, Wenyue
name: Ru, Yi
name: Pei, Yanling
name: Li, Shusuo
name: Gong, Shengkai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Cancer
Virology
Computational Biology

description: The interaction effects of γ-strengthening and γ'-former elements have long troubled the alloying design of superalloys, especially improving γ'-thermostability by Al addition against higher temperatures. Here we establish a thermodynamics-based phase-field model to reveal the γ'-coarsening kinetics at 1200°C for well-designed ternary Ni-based superalloys containing γ'-former element Al and γ-strengthening element Mo. The inhibition effect of Al on coarsening is interestingly enhanced by Mo addition to signify their synergistic effects. The contributions of lattice misfit, diffusion coefficients and elemental partitioning are analysed by decoupling coarsening theories. And an estimation method of the coarsening rate controlled by slow-diffusing element is also established. Thermodynamics-based ternary phase-field simulations of superalloys signify the synergistic effect of Al and Mo on inhibiting γ’ coarsening and reveal the interaction between γ-strengthening and γ'-former elements.
Chandra Discovery of a Candidate Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source in MCG+11-11-032
Creators: name: Foord, Adi
name: Civano, Francesca
name: Comerford, Julia M.
name: Elvis, Martin
name: Fabbiano, Giuseppina
name: Liu, Tingting
name: Lusso, Elisabeta
name: Marchesi, Stefano
name: Mezcua, Mar
name: Muller-Sanchez, Francisco
name: Nevin, Rebecca
name: Nyland, Kristina
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: We present a multi-wavelength analysis of MCG+11-11-032, a nearby AGN with the unique classification of both a binary and a dual AGN candidate. With new Chandra observations we aim to resolve any dual AGN system via imaging data, and search for signs of a binary AGN via analysis of the X-ray spectrum. Analyzing the Chandra spectrum, we find no evidence of previously suggested double-peaked Fe Kα lines; the spectrum is instead best fit by an absorbed powerlaw with a single Fe Kα line, as well as an additional line centered at ≈7.5 keV. The Chandra observation reveals faint, soft, and extended X-ray emission, possibly linked to low-level nuclear outflows. Further analysis shows evidence for a compact, hard source -- MCG+11-11-032 X2 -- located 3.27'' from the primary AGN. Modeling MCG+11-11-032 X2 as a compact source, we find that it is relatively luminous (L₂₋₁₀ ₖₑᴠ=1.52+0.96−0.48×10⁴¹ erg s⁻¹), and the location is coincident with an compact and off-nuclear source resolved in Hubble Space Telescope infrared (F105W) and ultraviolet (F621M, F547M) bands. Pairing our X-ray results with a 144 MHz radio detection at the host galaxy location, we observe X-ray and radio properties similar to those of ESO 243-49 HLX-1, suggesting that MCG+11-11-032 X2 may be a hyper-luminous X-ray source. This detection with Chandra highlights the importance of a high-resolution X-ray imager, and how previous binary AGN candidates detected with large-aperture instruments benefit from high-resolution follow-up. Future spatially resolved optical spectra, and deeper X-ray observations, can better constrain the origin of MCG+11-11-032 X2.
Supplementary Figures from Coevolution in the timing of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron maturation in primates
Creators: name: Charvet, Christine J.
name: Šimić, Goran
name: Kostović, Ivica
name: Kovačević, Vinka
name: Vukšić, Mario
name: Leko, Mirjana Babić
name: Takahashi, Emi
name: Sherwood, Chet C.
name: Marnin D. Wolfe
name: Finlay, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: The cortex of primates is relatively expanded relative to many other mammals, yet little is known about what developmental processes account for the expansion of cortical subtype numbers in primates, including humans. We asked whether GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production occurs for longer than expected in primates than in mice in a sample of 86 developing primate and rodent brains. We use high-resolution structural, diffusion MR scans and histological material to compare the timing of the ganglionic eminences (GE) and cortical proliferative pool (CPP) maturation between humans, macaques, rats and mice. We also compare the timing of post-neurogenetic maturation of GABAergic and pyramidal neurons in primates (i.e. humans, macaques) relative to rats and mice to identify whether delays in neurogenesis are concomitant with delayed post-neurogenetic maturation. We found that the growth of the GE and CPP are both selectively delayed compared with other events in primates. By contrast, the timing of post-neurogenetic GABAergic and pyramidal events (e.g. synaptogenesis) are predictable from the timing of other events in primates and in studied rodents. The extended duration of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production is associated with the amplification of GABAerigc and pyramidal neuron numbers in the human and non-human primate cortex.
Continuous Integration of Data Histories into Consistent Namespaces
Creators: name: Burgess, Mark
name: Gerlits, Andras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.3; E.1; H.2.1; H.2.5; H.1.0

description: We describe a policy-based approach to the scaling of shared data services, using a hierarchy of calibrated data pipelines to automate the continuous integration of data flows. While there is no unique solution to the problem of time order, we show how to use a fair interleaving to reproduce reliable `latest version' semantics in a controlled way, by trading locality for temporal resolution. We thus establish an invariant global ordering from a spanning tree over all shards, with controlled scalability. This forms a versioned coordinate system (or versioned namespace) with consistent semantics and self-protecting rate-limited versioning, analogous to publish-subscribe addressing schemes for Content Delivery Network (CDN) or Name Data Networking (NDN) schemes.
Extracting information on black hole horizons
Creators: name: Pugliese, D.
name: Quevedo, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some features of Kerr black hole horizons that are replicated on orbits accessible to outside observers. We use the concepts of horizon confinement and replicas to show that outside the outer horizon there exist photon orbits whose frequencies contain information about the inner horizon and that can, in principle, be detected through the emission spectra of black holes. It is shown that such photon orbits exist close to the rotation axis of the Kerr geometry. We argue that these results could be used to recognize and further investigate black holes and their horizons
description: 7 pages; 2 multipanels figures
Supplementary Tables S1-S3 from Coevolution in the timing of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron maturation in primates
Creators: name: Charvet, Christine J.
name: Šimić, Goran
name: Kostović, Ivica
name: Kovačević, Vinka
name: Vukšić, Mario
name: Leko, Mirjana Babić
name: Takahashi, Emi
name: Sherwood, Chet C.
name: Marnin D. Wolfe
name: Finlay, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: The cortex of primates is relatively expanded relative to many other mammals, yet little is known about what developmental processes account for the expansion of cortical subtype numbers in primates, including humans. We asked whether GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production occurs for longer than expected in primates than in mice in a sample of 86 developing primate and rodent brains. We use high-resolution structural, diffusion MR scans and histological material to compare the timing of the ganglionic eminences (GE) and cortical proliferative pool (CPP) maturation between humans, macaques, rats and mice. We also compare the timing of post-neurogenetic maturation of GABAergic and pyramidal neurons in primates (i.e. humans, macaques) relative to rats and mice to identify whether delays in neurogenesis are concomitant with delayed post-neurogenetic maturation. We found that the growth of the GE and CPP are both selectively delayed compared with other events in primates. By contrast, the timing of post-neurogenetic GABAergic and pyramidal events (e.g. synaptogenesis) are predictable from the timing of other events in primates and in studied rodents. The extended duration of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron production is associated with the amplification of GABAerigc and pyramidal neuron numbers in the human and non-human primate cortex.
Supplementary Table 1 from Evolution of a predator-induced, nonlinear reaction norm
Creators: name: Carter, Mauricio J.
name: Lind, Martin I.
name: Dennis, Stuart R.
name: Hentley, William
name: Beckerman, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: The trait-specific coefficients for the composite selection gradients. Each gradient is standardized to a length of 1
Supplementary methods (S1.1-S1.5), S2 Heritability of inbreeding, tables (S1, S2) and figures (S1,S2) from A father effect explains sex-ratio bias
Creators: name: Malo, Aurelio F.
name: Martinez-Pastor, Felipe
name: Garcia-Gonzalez, Francisco
name: Garde, Julián
name: Ballou, Jonathan D.
name: Lacy, Robert C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary. The ability of fathers to bias offspring sex ratios has traditionally been dismissed given the expectation of an equal proportion of X and Y-chromosome bearing sperm (CBS) in ejaculates due to segregation of sex chromosomes at meiosis. This expectation has been recently refuted. Here we used Peromyscus leucopus to demonstrate that sex ratio is explained by an exclusive effect of the father, and suggest a likely mechanism by which male-driven sex-ratio bias is attained. We identified a male sperm morphological marker that is associated with the mechanism leading to sex ratio bias; differences among males in the sperm nucleus area (a proxy for the sex chromosome that the sperm contains) explain 22% variation in litter sex ratio. We further show the role played by the sperm nucleus area as a mediator in the relationship between individual genetic variation and sex-ratio bias. Fathers with high levels of genetic variation had ejaculates with a higher proportion of sperm with small nuclei area. This, in turn, led to siring a higher proportion of sons (25% increase in sons per 0.1 decrease in the inbreeding coefficient). Our results reveal a plausible mechanism underlying unexplored male-driven sex-ratio biases. We also discuss why this pattern of paternal bias can be adaptive. This research puts to rest the idea that father contribution to sex ratio variation should be disregarded in vertebrates, and will stimulate research on evolutionary constraints to sex ratios—for example, whether fathers and mothers have divergent, coinciding, or neutral sex allocation interests. Finally, these results offer a potential explanation for those intriguing cases in which there are sex ratio biases, such as in humans.
Multi-color solitons and frequency combs in microresonators
Creators: name: Menyuk, Curtis
name: Shandilya, Pradyoth
name: Courtright, Logan
name: Moille, Grégory
name: Srinivasan, Kartik
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
subject: Physics - Optics

description: Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that can be used to obtain combs at new frequencies and when synchronized can be used for low-noise microwave generation and potentially as an element in a chip-scale clockwork. Here, we first derive three-wave equations that describe multi-color solitons that appear in microresonators with a nearly quartic dispersion profile. These solitons are characterized by a single angular group velocity and multiple angular phase velocities. We then use these equations to explain the interleaved frequency combs that are observed at the output of the microresonator. Finally, we used these equations to describe the experimentally-observed soliton-OPO effect. In this effect, the pump frequency comb interacts nonlinearly with a signal frequency comb to create an idler frequency comb in a new frequency range, analogous to an optical parametric oscillation (OPO) process. We determine the conditions under which we expect this effect to occur. We anticipate that the three-wave equations and their extensions will be of use in designing new frequency comb systems and determining their stability and noise performance.
Supplementary Table 2 from Evolution of a predator-induced, nonlinear reaction norm
Creators: name: Carter, Mauricio J.
name: Lind, Martin I.
name: Dennis, Stuart R.
name: Hentley, William
name: Beckerman, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Model comparisons using Deviance Information Criterion (DIC). This method is suggested for Hadfield 2010 to determine the significant estimates from MCMC procedure
ELIXIR INTOXICOM WP1 workshop - FAIRsharing Toxicology Collection
Creators: name: Martens, Marvin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ELIXIR
FAIRsharing
Toxicology

description: This presentation was given at the ELIXIR INTOXICOM WP1 workshop in Utrecht, 29th of May, 2024. It introduces the FAIRsharing Toxicology Community collection.
LDP-IDS: Local Differential Privacy for Infinite Data Streams
Creators: name: Ren, Xuebin
name: Shi, Liang
name: Yu, Weiren
name: Yang, Shusen
name: Zhao, Cong
name: Xu, Zongben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Streaming data collection is essential to real-time data analytics in various IoTs and mobile device-based systems, which, however, may expose end users' privacy. Local differential privacy (LDP) is a promising solution to privacy-preserving data collection and analysis. However, existing few LDP studies over streams are either applicable to finite streams only or suffering from insufficient protection. This paper investigates this problem by proposing LDP-IDS, a novel $w$-event LDP paradigm to provide practical privacy guarantee for infinite streams at users end, and adapting the popular budget division framework in centralized differential privacy (CDP). By constructing a unified error analysi for LDP, we first develop two adatpive budget division-based LDP methods for LDP-IDS that can enhance data utility via leveraging the non-deterministic sparsity in streams. Beyond that, we further propose a novel population division framework that can not only avoid the high sensitivity of LDP noise to budget division but also require significantly less communication. Based on the framework, we also present two adaptive population division methods for LDP-IDS with theoretical analysis. We conduct extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency pf our proposed frameworks and methods. Experimental results demonstrate that, despite the effectiveness of the adaptive budget division methods, the proposed population division framework and methods can further achieve much higher effectiveness and efficiency.
description: accepted to SIGMOD'22
A removable temperature sensors holder for cryogenic Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell
Creators: name: Hanzelka, Pavel
name: Vlcek, Ivan
name: Urban, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A removable holder carrying a set of miniature temperature sensors inside our Rayleigh-Bénard convection cylindrical cell has been developed. The sensors should not disturb the temperature and velocity fields of the buoyancy-driven turbulent flow of our working fluid - cryogenic helium gas (~ 5 K). The cell, 300 mm both in diameter and height, must withstand the overpressure up to 2.5 bar, which is why all its parts are welded together. The holder consists of a pair of identical feedthroughs (each with 6 glass-sealed pins), constantan wires (0.1 mm), Be bronze springs and insulating elements and enables installing up to 6 sensors simultaneously, with the option to replace the damaged ones. We already used two such holders and obtained a map of local temperature and its fluctuations in 12 positions inside the cell.