cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MOESM1 of Virtual Reality Social Prediction Improvement and Rehabilitation Intensive Training (VR-SPIRIT) for paediatric patients with congenital cerebellar diseases: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: NiccolÃ² Butti
name: Biffi, Emilia
name: Genova, Chiara
name: Romaniello, Romina
name: Redaelli, Davide
name: Reni, Gianluigi
name: Borgatti, Renato
name: Urgesi, Cosimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) Checklist.
Machine and Deep Learning Applications in Particle Physics
Creators: name: Bourilkov, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The many ways in which machine and deep learning are transforming the analysis and simulation of data in particle physics are reviewed. The main methods based on boosted decision trees and various types of neural networks are introduced, and cutting-edge applications in the experimental and theoretical/phenomenological domains are highlighted. After describing the challenges in the application of these novel analysis techniques, the review concludes by discussing the interactions between physics and machine learning as a two-way street enriching both disciplines and helping to meet the present and future challenges of data-intensive science at the energy and intensity frontiers.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures, preprint of an article to be published in IJMPA
title: The closure of the Neotethys in two episodes: first. as a result of Jurassic to Early Cretaceous obduction and second, as a result of Early Palaeocene collision; a comparison of surface geology and tomography (Central Internal Hellenides, Greece)
Creators: name: Scherreiks, Rudolph
name: BouDagher-Fadel , Camille
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: This contribution concerns Neotethys palaeogeography in the Central Internal Hellenides. Neotethys oceanic crust is represented in the Vardar zone of the Hellenides by the ophiolites of the Almopias sub-zone. Contrary to numerous tectonic models in the literature, we show that the Almopias ocean closed in two episodes.
The variable quiescence of Cen X-4
Creators: name: Campana, S.
name: Israel, G. L.
name: Stella, L.
name: Gastaldello, F.
name: Mereghetti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cen X-4 is one of the best studied low-mass neutron star transients in quiescence. Thanks to XMM-Newton large throughput, Cen X-4 was observed at the highest signal to noise ever. This allowed us to disclose rapid (>100 s), large (45+/-7 rms in the 10^{-4}-1 Hz range) intensity variability, especially at low energies. In order to highlight the cause of this variability, we divided the data into intensity intervals and fit the resulting spectra with the canonical model for neutron star transients in quiescence, i.e. an absorbed power law plus a neutron star atmosphere. The fit is consistent with a variable column density plus variability in (at least) one of the spectral models. Variations in the neutron star atmosphere might suggest that accretion onto the neutron star surface is occuring in quiescence; variations in the power law tail should support the view of an active millisecond radio pulsar emitting X-rays at the shock between a radio pulsar wind and inflowing matter from the companion star.
description: 5 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ
Impact of long-range interactions on the disordered vortex lattice
Creators: name: Koopmann, J. A. G.
name: Geshkenbein, V. B.
name: Blatter, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction between the vortex lines in a type-II superconductor is mediated by currents. In the absence of transverse screening this interaction is long-ranged, stiffening up the vortex lattice as expressed by the dispersive elastic moduli. The effect of disorder is strongly reduced, resulting in a mean-squared displacement correlator = characterized by a mere logarithmic growth with distance. Finite screening cuts the interaction on the scale of the London penetration depth λand limits the above behavior to distances R \propto ln^{2σ} (R/a_0). The logarithmic growth (2σ=1) in the perturbative regime at small distances [A.I. Larkin and Yu.N. Ovchinnikov, J. Low Temp. Phys. 34, 409 (1979)] crosses over to a sub-logarithmic growth with 2σ=0.348 at large distances.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Stieltjes Bochner spaces and applications to the study of parabolic equations
Creators: name: Fernández, Francisco J.
name: Tojo, F. Adrián F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28B05, 46G10, 35D30, 35K65, 65N06

description: This work is devoted to the mathematical analysis of Stieltjes Bochner spaces and their applications to the resolution of a parabolic equation with Stieltjes time derivative. This novel formulation allows us to study parabolic equations that present impulses at certain times or lapses where the system does not evolve at all and presents an elliptic behavior. We prove several theoretical results related to existence of solution, and propose a full algorithm for its computation, illustrated with some realistic numerical examples related to population dynamics.
description: Preprint
Thermodynamics, Spectral Distribution and the Nature of Dark Energy
Creators: name: Lima, J. A. S.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent astronomical observations suggest that the bulk of energy in the Universe is repulsive and appears like a dark component with negative pressure ($ω\equiv p_x/ρ_x < 0$). In this work we investigate thermodynamic and statistical properties of such a component. It is found that its energy and temperature grow during the evolution of the Universe since work is done on the system. Under the hypothesis of a null chemical potential, the case of phantom energy ($ω< -1$) seems to be physically meaningless because its entropy is negative. It is also proved that the wavelengths of the $ω$-quanta decrease in an expanding Universe. This unexpected behavior explains how their energy may be continuously stored in the course of expansion. The spectrum and the associated Wien-type law favors a fermionic nature with $ω$ naturally restricted to the interval $-1 \leqslant ω< -1/2$. Our analysis also implies that the ultimate fate of the Universe may be considerably modified. If a dark energy dominated Universe expands forever, it will become increasingly hot.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physics Letters B
Selective Perceptions and the Politics of Agricultural Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Shaffer, James D.
name: Shaffer, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Public Economics

description: Policy analysis and policy debate make a difference in the formulation of public policy. However, policy analysis and debate are often biased or incomplete. People are inconsistent as to the "legal and moral rights" they invoke and apply to different policy issues. We are much like the horse wearing blinders. For example, many of those who supported the Declaration of Independence, with its ringing endorsement of equality among men, held slaves and perceived no conflict between their beliefs and behavior. The perception of equality and its application in political-economic life was highly selective. Still later, the Civil War was fought over different perceptions of politically or morally acceptable definitions of property rights.
MOESM1 of Evaluation of oral care protocols practice by dentists in Rio de Janeiro towards HIV/AIDS individuals
Creators: name: Silva-Boghossian, Carina
name: Boscardini, Brenda
name: Pereira, Claudia
name: Moreira, Edson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. Adaptation of the online questionnaire created on Google Forms and employed in the study.
Plant Patents & Public Research Priorities
Creators: name: Stallmann, Judith I.
name: Stallmann, Judith I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Political Economy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The potential negative impacts of public patenting are enormous. Although the current political climate favors private sector activity and "no new taxes," there is a strong case to be made for public sector breeding. These political slogans do not take into account the many cases where the market does not provide incentives for the private sector to invest in breeding. Cash-starved university research programs facing increased demand for their services find private contracts increasingly attractive. The better alternative is for state and federal executives and legislatures to appropriate sufficient funds.
Chirped optical X-shaped pulses in material media
Creators: name: Zamboni-Rached, Michel
name: Hernandez-Figueroa, Hugo E.
name: Recami, Erasmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the properties of chirped optical X-shaped pulses propagating in material media without boundaries. We show that such ("superluminal") pulses may recover their transverse and longitudinal shape after some propagation distance, while the ordinary chirped gaussian-pulses can recover their longitudinal shape only (since gaussian pulses suffer a progressive spreading during their propagation). We therefore propose the use of chirped optical X-type pulses to overcome the problems of both dispersion and diffraction during the pulse propagation.
description: Replaced with a much larger and deepened version (the number of pages going on from 4 to 24; plus 4 Figures added)
MOESM1 of “To mean something to someone”: sport-for-development as a lever for social inclusion
Creators: name: Veken, Karen Van Der
name: Emelien Lauwerier
name: Willems, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Overview of data collected in the case study KAA Gent Foundation
Avoided Antiferromagnetic Order and Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn$_5$
Creators: name: Bianchi, A.
name: Movshovich, R.
name: Vekhter, I.
name: Pagliuso, P. G.
name: Sarrao, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured specific heat and resistivity of heavy fermion CeCoIn5 between the superconducting critical field $H_{c2} = 5 T$ and 9 T, with field in the [001] direction, and at temperatures down to 50mK. At 5T the data show Non Fermi Liquid behavior down to the lowest temperatures. At field above 8T the data exhibit crossover from the Fermi liquid to a Non Fermi Liquid behavior. We analyzed the scaling properties of the specific heat, and compared both resistivity and the specific heat with the predictions of a spin-fluctuation theory. Our analysis leads us to suggest that the NFL behavior is due to incipient antiferromagnetism (AF) in CeCoIn5, with the quantum critical point in the vicinity of the $H_{c2}$. Below $H_{c2}$ the AF phase which competes with the paramagnetic ground state is superseded by the superconducting transition.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Joint Computation and Communication Design for UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing in IoT
Creators: name: Zhang, Tiankui
name: Xu, Yu
name: Loo, Jonathan
name: Yang, Dingcheng
name: Xiao, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period. In this paper, each TD has a certain latency-critical computation task in each time slot to complete. Three computation strategies can be available to each TD. First, each TD can operate local computing by itself. Second, each TD can partially offload task bits to the UAV for computing. Third, each TD can choose to offload task bits to access point (AP) via UAV relaying. We propose a new optimization problem formulation that aims to minimize the total energy consumption including communication-related energy, computation-related energy and UAV's flight energy by optimizing the bits allocation, time slot scheduling and power allocation as well as UAV trajectory design. As the formulated problem is non-convex and difficult to find the optimal solution, we solve the problem by two parts, and obtain the near optimal solution with within a dozen of iterations. Finally, numerical results are given to validate the proposed algorithm, which is verified to be efficient and superior to the other benchmark cases.
description: 10 pages
The Casimir operator of a metric connection with skew-symmetric torsion
Creators: name: Agricola, Ilka
name: Friedrich, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 81T30

description: For any triple $(M^n, g, \nabla)$ consisting of a Riemannian manifold and a metric connection with skew-symmetric torsion we introduce an elliptic, second order operator $Ω$ acting on spinor fields. In case of a reductive space and its canonical connection our construction yields the Casimir operator of the isometry group. Several non-homogeneous geometries (Sasakian, nearly Kähler, cocalibrated $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures) admit unique connections with skew-symmetric torsion. We study the corresponding Casimir operator and compare its kernel with the space of $\nabla$-parallel spinors.
description: Latex2e, 15 pages
Majorana-Kondo interplay in T-shaped double quantum dots
Creators: name: Weymann, Ireneusz
name: Wójcik, Krzysztof P.
name: Majek, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport behavior of a double quantum dot side-attached to a topological superconducting wire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes is studied theoretically in the strong correlation regime. It is shown that Majorana modes can leak to the whole nanostructure, giving rise to a subtle interplay between the two-stage Kondo screening and the half-fermionic nature of Majorana quasiparticles. In particular, the coupling to the topological wire is found to reduce the effective exchange interaction between the two quantum dots in the absence of normal leads. Interestingly, it also results in an enhancement of the second-stage Kondo temperature when the normal leads are attached. Moreover, it is shown that the second stage of the Kondo effect can become significantly modified in one of the spin channels due to the interference with the Majorana zero-energy mode, yielding the low-temperature conductance equal to $G=G_0/4$, where $G_0 = 2e^2/h$, instead of $G=0$ in the absence of the topological superconducting wire. We also identify a nontrivial spin-charge ${\rm SU}(2)$ symmetry present in the system at a particular point in parameter space, despite lack of the spin nor charge conservation. Finally, we discuss the consequences of a finite overlap between two Majorana modes, as relevant for short Majorana wires.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B
Free energy of a static quark anti-quark pair and the renormalized Polyakov loop in three flavor QCD
Creators: name: Petreczky, P.
name: Petrov, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the free energy of a static quark anti-quark pair at finite temperature in three flavor QCD with degenerate quark masses using N_tau=4 and 6 lattices with Asqtad staggered fermion action. The static free energy was calculated for different values of the quark mass and the entropy contribution at large distances has been extracted. We also calculate the renormalized Polyakov loop following the approach by Kaczmarek et al.
description: RevTeX, 7 pages, 8 figures; Minor corrections, added reference
Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) umbraculus Ueckermann & Loots
Creators: name: Ueckermann, Edward A.
name: Zannou, Ignace D.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
name: Oliveira, Anibal R.
name: Hanna, Rachid
name: Yaninek, John S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Typhlodromus
Typhlodromus umbraculus

description: Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) umbraculus Ueckermann & Loots
(Fig. 50)
 Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) umbraculus Ueckermann & Loots, 1988: 33, Moraes et al., 2004: 356; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 157.
 Amblydromella (Aphanoseia) umbraculus, Denmark & Welbourn, 2002: 309.
FEMALE. (Specimens measured— South Africa: holotype and 1 paratype). Idiosomal setal pattern 12A:8A/ JV:ZV.
Dorsum. Dorsal shield 339 [327] long and 177 [168] wide; reticulate. With 5 pairs of solenostomes. Setae j1 18 [18], j3 17 [16], j4 11 [12], j5 12 [11], j6 13 [13], J2 16 [15], J5 11 [10], z2 11 [12], z3 14 [16], z4 14 [15], z5 12 [12], Z4 17 [18], Z5 42 [42], s4 15 [15], s6 18 [16], S2 18 [17], S4 21 [19], S5 17 [18], r3 18 [18], R1 14 [13]. Setae smooth, stout and blunt; except Z5, serrate and knobbed.
Peritreme. Extending to level of j1.
Venter. Sternal shield smooth, with 2 pairs of setae (JV3 on integument); posterior margin with a median lobe; distances between ST1-ST3 60 [57], ST2-ST2 50 [50]. Genital shield smooth; distance between ST5- ST5 48 [50]. Ventrianal shield smooth, pentagonal, with anterior margin slightly convex, 105 [100] long, 83 [79] wide at level of ZV2, 79 [79] wide at level of anus, with 4 pairs of pre-anal setae (one member of setae JV3 missing in holotype); elliptical pre-anal pores posteromesad of JV2. With 2 pairs of metapodal shields. Caudoventral setae smooth and sharp-tipped, except JV5, knobbed.
Chelicera. Movable digit 23 [22] long, apparently with 2 teeth; fixed digit 20 long, apparently with 4 teeth.
Spermatheca. Calyx bell-shaped, 9 [9] long.
Legs. Macrosetae knobbed; Sge IV 11 [11], Sti IV 15 [15], St IV 18 [27]. Chaetotaxy: genu II: 2-2/0, 2/0- 1or 2-2/1, 2/0-1 one leg II of holotype); genu III: 1-2/1, 2/0-1.
 Specimens examined. South Africa: Holotype female, Limpopo Province, Magoebaskloof, on an unidentified plant, 26-V-1983, E.A. Ueckermann; 1 paratype female, Limpopo Province, Magoebaskloof, on Dicliptera clinopodia, 26-V-1983, E.A. Ueckermann.
 World distribution. South Africa.
description: Published as part of Ueckermann, Edward A., Zannou, Ignace D., De Moraes, Gilberto J., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2008, Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Typhlodromini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 1901 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1901.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5134045
title: Orbital forcing of Triassic megamonsoon activity documented in lacustrinesediments from Ordos Basin, China
Creators: name: Chu, Runjian
name: Wu, Huaichun
name: Zhu, Rukai
name: Fang, Qiang
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China (1); Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration Development, PetroChina, Beijing, China (2)

The “hothouse” Triassic climate provides a key window to study megamonsoon systems. However, high-quality paleoclimate proxy records are rarely reported from the Tethys realm, where the seasonal meridional migration of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) should be the most remarkable. Here, continuous and well-dated proxy records are used to study monsoon activity in the northeastern Tethys from the Middle Triassic lacustrine sediments (Ch7 black shale, Yanchang Formation) in the Ordos Basin (China). The proxies, including natural gamma-ray intensity, magnetic susceptibility, and element concentrations and ratios (U, K, Zr/Al, Zr/Rb and Sr/Rb), document a strong precession signal in the sediments. We propose that the periodic deposition of the Ch7 black shale occurred in response to intensifications in a monsoon-driven climate enhanced by the early Ladinian warming event. Climate variability in the Ordos Basin (~25°N) reflects the harmonics of ~100 kyr, ~20 kyr and ~10 kyr cycles and is highly coherent with solar insolation at 9° latitude, suggesting that this monsoon system might have been modulated by tropical solar insolation. The dominance of tropical climate processes in this midlatitude monsoon region can be attributed to the dramatic dynamics of the ITCZ and intense monsoon circulation in the Tethys realm.
MOESM1 of Patients’ experiences of discontentment one year after total knee arthroplasty- a qualitative study
Creators: name: Mahdi, Aamir
name: Svantesson, Mia
name: Wretenberg, Per
name: Hälleberg-Nyman, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Interview guide which was developed for this study and used by the main authors.
MOESM3 of A survey of retail prices of antimicrobial products used in small-scale chicken farms in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen Dung
name: Truong, Bao
name: Nguyen Cuong
name: Nguyen Van
name: Phu, Doan
name: Kiet, Bach
name: Chalalai Rueanghiran
name: Vo Hien
name: Thwaites, Guy
name: Rushton, Jonathan
name: Carrique-Mas, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Table summarizing retail costs of one Animal Daily Dose administered to 1â€‰kg chicken (ADDkg) for 213 products containing one or two AAI each.
Defect generation and dynamics during quenching in finite size homogeneous ion chains
Creators: name: Pedregosa-Gutierrez, J.
name: Mukherjee, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An equally spaced linear chain of ions provides a test-bed for studying the defect formation in a finite size 1D system. In particular, defect formation related to topological phase transition from a linear configuration to a zig-zag one is of interest here. A semi-empirical expression provides an excellent agreement to the numerical results. The non-adiabatic transition between the chain and zig-zag topologies for a finite size system of 30 ions shows clear distinction from non-uniformly distributed ion chain. Thus the underlying Homogeneous Kibble-Zurek model can be tested in presently accessible ion trap experiments. Furthermore, our study indicates collective defect behaviour appearing through the correlation length measurements.
Interpretation of the Global Anisotropy in the Radio Polarizations of Cosmologically Distant Sources
Creators: name: Jain, Pankaj
name: Sarala, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed statistical study of the observed anisotropy in radio polarizations from distant extragalactic objects. This anisotropy was earlier found by Birch (1982) and reconfirmed by Jain and Ralston (1999) in a larger data set. A very strong signal was seen after imposing the cut $|RM-\bar{RM}|>6$ rad/m$^2$, where $RM$ is the rotation measure and $\bar{RM}$ its mean value. In this paper we show that there are several indications that this anisotropy cannot be attributed to bias in the data. We also find that a generalized statistic shows a very strong signal in the entire data without imposing the RM dependent cut. Finally we argue that an anisotropic background pseudoscalar field can explain the observations.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Empirical anti-tuberculous therapy for massive pericardial effusion of unknown etiology
Creators: name: Wang, Chenyu
name: Fang, Ligang
name: Zhu, Wenling
name: Lin, Xue
name: Guo, Xiaoxiao
name: Chen, Antian
name: Zhang, Lihua
name: Liu, Yingxian
name: Lai, Jinzhi
name: Wu, Wei
name: Li, Ling
name: Yang, Jing
name: Yan, Xiaowei
name: Zhang, Shuyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of empirical anti-tuberculous therapy (ATT) in patients with massive pericardial effusion (MPE) of unknown etiology in China. In-hospital patients with MPE were assessed retrospectively. Based on thorough examination excluding neoplastic, autoimmune, and nontuberculous infectious diseases, patients who had no evidence of tuberculosis (TB) were treated with empirical ATT (Group A) or not treated with empirical ATT (Group C), whereas those who had evidence of TB were treated with standard ATT (Group B). Clinical outcomes and mitigation of MPE were compared among the three groups to identify the effectiveness of ATT. The survival free of composite endpoint was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. A total of 185 eligible patients were recruited: 77 in Group A, 80 in Group B and 28 in Group C. The average follow-up was 52.9 ± 30.7, 49.4 ± 29.7 and 51.8 ± 30.2 months for Groups A, B and C, respectively. The incidence of composite endpoint was 23.3%, 24.4% and 85.7% in Groups A, B and C, respectively (P < 0.0001). However, the clinical recovery rate was greater in Group B compared with Group A (P = 0.027). No significant difference in the safety profile of ATT was noted between Groups A and B. MPE did not spontaneously decrease in 85.7% of patients in Group C. Empirical ATT should be considered in MPE of unknown etiology in countries with a high burden of TB.
Additional file 2: of Anti-SIRT1 autoantibody is elevated in ankylosing spondylitis: a potential disease biomarker
Creators: name: Hu, Qiongyi
name: Sun, Yue
name: Li, Yuan
name: Shi, Hui
name: Teng, Jialin
name: Liu, Honglei
name: Cheng, Xiaobing
name: Ye, Junna
name: Su, Yutong
name: Yin, Yufeng
name: Liu, Mengru
name: Wang, Jiucun
name: Yang, Chengde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Characteristics of AS patients and healthy donors in the protein microarray. (DOCX 14 kb)
Artistic mobility and cultural transfer: Prince Eugene of Savoy’s Belvedere Palace in imperial Vienna
Creators: name: Chakalova, Christina Margarete
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Migrating artists and artwork achieved the successful fashioning of the Belvedere, Prince Eugene of Savoy's (1663-1736) magnificent summer palace in Vienna designed by the leading architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668-1745) and constructed between 1697 and 1723. A manifestation of global artistic patronage, the large estate suited Prince Eugene to conduct affairs as the president of the Imperial War Council while serving Emperors Leopold I (reigned 1658-1705), Joseph I (reigned 1705-1711) and Charles VI (reigned 1711-1740). The prince did so in the presence of early modern Europe’s grandest collection of European easel and ceiling paintings, which he displayed prominently amidst rare Asian porcelain and imported Indian textiles. Prince Eugene also hired Italian specialists to paint elaborate figurative and illusionistic frescos in situ, which complemented the monumental stuccos and an impressive collection of scientific instruments and a library, divided between his city palace and the Belvedere, with over 15,000 books and precious manuscripts. The prince even imported exotic animals and plant species to the palace gardens conceived in the French Baroque manner. My dissertation is the first study to investigate the significance of the vast collection of artwork and foreign curiosities which crossed cultural boundaries and political borders to reach the Belvedere. Its splendid outfitting attests to Prince Eugene’s own intellect, immense wealth, elite status, and prominent political position. By reconstructing the marvelous and astounding display of international artistic objects and exotic specimens at the Belvedere, which communicated directly with viewers and elevated the surroundings, my dissertation enhances scholarship on the reciprocity between art, politics, globalization, and cultural transmission in early modern central Europe.
On what Terms and why the Thermodynamic Properties of Polymer Solutions Depend on Chain Length up to the Melt
Creators: name: Schneider, A.
name: Schuld, N.
name: Bercea, M.
name: Wolf, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical considerations based on chain connectivity and conformational variability of polymers have lead to an uncomplicated relation for the dependence of the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, chi, on the volume fraction of the polymer, phi, and on its number of segments, N. The validity of this expression is being tested extensively by means of vapor pressure measurements and inverse gas chromatography (complemented by osmotic and light scattering data from literature) for solutions of poly(dimethylsiloxane) in the thermodynamically vastly different solvents n-octane (n-C8), toluene (TL), and methylethylketone (MEK) over the entire range of composition for at least six different molecular masses of the polymer. The new approach is capable to model the measured chi (phi, N) very well, irrespective of the thermodynamic quality of the solvent, in contrast to traditional expressions, which are often restricted to good solvents but fail for bad ones and vice versa. At constant polymer concentration the chi values result lowest for n-C8 (best solvent) and highest for MEK (theta solvent); the data for TL fall between. The influences of N depend strongly on the thermodynamic quality of the solvent and are not restricted to dilute solutions. For good solvents chi increases with rising N. The effect is most pronounced for n-C8, where the different curves for chi (phi) fan out considerably. The influences of N become less distinct for TL, and for MEK they vanish at the (endothermal) theta temperature. For worse than theta conditions, the chi values of the long chains become less than that of short ones. This change in the sign of N-influences is in agreement with the present concept of conformational relaxation.
rf-SQUID measurements of anomalous Josephson effect
Creators: name: Guarcello, Claudio
name: Citro, Roberta
name: Durante, Ofelia
name: Bergeret, F. Sebastián
name: Iorio, Andrea
name: Sanz-Fernández, Cristina
name: Strambini, Elia
name: Giazotto, Francesco
name: Braggio, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the response of an rf-SQUID formed by anomalous Josephson junctions embedded in a superconducting ring with a non-negligible inductance. We demonstrate that a properly sweeping in-plane magnetic field can cause both the total flux and the current circulating in the device to modulate and to behave hysteretically. The bistable response of the system is analyzed as a function of the anomalous phase shift at different values of the screening parameter, in order to highlight the parameter range within which a hysteretic behavior can be observed. The magnetic flux piercing the SQUID ring is demonstrated to further modulate the hysteretical response of the system. Moreover, we show that the anomalous phase shift can be conveniently determined through the measurement of the out-of-plane magnetic field at which the device switches to the voltage state and the number of trapped flux quanta changes. Finally, we compare the response of two different device configurations, namely, a SQUID including only one or two anomalous junctions. In view of these results, the proposed device can be effectively used to detect and measure the anomalous Josephson effect.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Amelogenesis and tribosphenic molars: patterns and variation.
Creators: name: Horacek , Ivan
name: Hanouskova , Pavla
name: Kallistova, Anna
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Natural sciences

description: (1) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (UCSB) Department of Zoology, Charles University, Vinicna 7, Cz 128 44 Prague, Czech Republic; (2) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (UCSB), USA

 The tribosphenic molar presents phylotypic stage of the mammalian dental evolution. A study of its enamel microarchitecture in several clades (Chiroptera, Afrosoricida, Eulipotyphla, Didelphomorhia, Cetartiodactyla) revealed, apart of considerable taxon-specific variation, a set of structural (i-iii) and developmental (iv-x) characteristics common to all: (i) patterning crown shape by shearing crests of major cusps, the basic structural modules of tribosphenic design, (ii) heterotopy of enamel thickness at individual modules (thick enamel on the convex vs. its lack on concave sides of shearing crests), (iii) radial prismatic enamel (PE)......
U.S. Agriculture in the New International Order
Creators: name: Tweeten, Luther G.
name: Zulauf, Carl R.
name: Rask, Norman
name: Tweeten, Luther G.
name: Zulauf, Carl R.
name: Rask, Norman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: RECENT events in Central and Eastern Europe are part of a continuing, world-wide political and economic realignment that is important to U.S. food and agricultural industries. The realignment has greater long-run significance for U.S. agriculture than either the new farm bill or the GATT negotiations.
MOESM1 of Simultaneous reduction of flow and fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) versus reduction of flow first or FiO2 first in patients ready to be weaned from high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (SLOWH trial)
Creators: name: Kim, Min
name: Lee, Yeon
name: Park, Jong
name: Cho, Young-Jae
name: Yoon, Ho
name: Choon-Taek Lee
name: Lee, Jae
name: Kim, Eun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Tracing Noble Gas Radionuclides in the Environment
Creators: name: Collon, P.
name: Kutschera, W.
name: Lu, Z. -T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Trace analysis of radionuclides is an essential and versatile tool in modern science and technology. Due to their ideal geophysical and geochemical properties, long-lived noble gas radionuclides, in particular, 39Ar (t1/2 = 269 yr), 81Kr (t1/2 = 2.3x10^5 yr) and 85Kr (t1/2 = 10.8 yr), have long been recognized to have a wide range of important applications in Earth sciences. In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of practical analytical methods, and has led to applications of these isotopes in the hydrosphere (tracing the flow of groundwater and ocean water). In this article, we introduce the applications of these isotopes and review three leading analytical methods: Low-Level Counting (LLC), Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) and Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA).
Identifying time dependence in network growth
Creators: name: Falkenberg, Max
name: Lee, Jong-Hyeok
name: Amano, Shun-ichi
name: Ogawa, Ken-ichiro
name: Yano, Kazuo
name: Miyake, Yoshihiro
name: Evans, Tim S.
name: Christensen, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Identifying power-law scaling in real networks - indicative of preferential attachment - has proved controversial. Critics argue that measuring the temporal evolution of a network directly is better than measuring the degree distribution when looking for preferential attachment. However, many of the established methods do not account for any potential time-dependence in the attachment kernels of growing networks, or methods assume that node degree is the key observable determining network evolution. In this paper, we argue that these assumptions may lead to misleading conclusions about the evolution of growing networks. We illustrate this by introducing a simple adaptation of the Barab{á}si-Albert model, the "k2 model", where new nodes attach to nodes in the existing network in proportion to the number of nodes one or two steps from the target node. The k2 model results in time dependent degree distributions and attachment kernels, despite initially appearing to grow as linear preferential attachment, and without the need to include explicit time dependence in key network parameters (such as the average out-degree). We show that similar effects are seen in several real world networks where constant network growth rules do not describe their evolution. This implies that measurements of specific degree distributions in real networks are also likely to change over time.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
PDE3-inhibitor enoximone prevented mechanical ventilation in patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
Creators: name: Beute, Jan
name: Boermans, Pieter
name: Benraad, Bart
name: Telman, Jan
name: Diamant, Zuzana
name: KleinJan, Alex
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Standard care in severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia complicated by severe dyspnea and respiratory failure, consists of symptom reduction, ultimately supported by mechanical ventilation. Patients with severe SARS-CoV-2, a prominent feature of COVID-19, show several similar symptoms to Critical Asthma Syndrome (CAS) patients, such as pulmonary edema, mucus plugging of distal airways, decreased tissue oxygenation, (emergent) exhaustion due to severe dyspnea and respiratory failure. Prior application of elective phosphodiesterase (PDE)3-inhibitors milrinone and enoximone in patients with CAS yielded rapid symptomatic relief and reverted the need for mechanical ventilation, due to their bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory properties. Based on these observations, we hypothesized that enoximone may be beneficial in the treatment of patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and prominent CAS-features. In this case report enoximone was administered to four consecutive patients (1 M; 3 F; 46–70 y) with emergent respiratory failure due to SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Clinical outcome was compared with three controls who received standard care only. After an intravenous bolus of enoximone 20 mg followed by 10 mg/h via perfusor, a rapid symptomatic relief was observed: two out of four patients recovered within a few hours, the other two (with comorbid COPD GOLD II/III) responded within 24–36 h. Compared to the controls, in the enoximone-treated patients respiratory failure and further COVID-19-related deterioration was reverted and mechanical ventilation was prevented, leading to reduced hospital/ICU time. Our preliminary observations suggest that early intervention with the selective PDE3-inhibitor enoximone may help to revert respiratory failure as well as avert mechanical ventilation, and reduces ICU/hospital time in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Our findings warrant further research on the therapeutic potential of PDE3-inhibition, alone or in combination with other anti-COVID-19 strategies.
Mycobacterium bovis induces mitophagy to suppress host xenophagy for its intracellular survival
Creators: name: Song, Yinjuan
name: Ge, Xin
name: Chen, Yulan
name: Hussain, Tariq
name: Liang, Zhengmin
name: Dong, Yuhui
name: Wang, Yuanzhi
name: Tang, Chengyuan
name: Zhou, Xiangmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Mitophagy is a selective autophagy mechanism for eliminating damaged mitochondria and plays a crucial role in the immune evasion of some viruses and bacteria. Here, we report that Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) utilizes host mitophagy to suppress host xenophagy to enhance its intracellular survival. M. bovis is the causative agent of animal tuberculosis and human tuberculosis. In the current study, we show that M. bovis induces mitophagy in macrophages, and the induction of mitophagy is impaired by PINK1 knockdown, indicating the PINK1-PRKN/Parkin pathway is involved in the mitophagy induced by M. bovis. Moreover, the survival of M. bovis in macrophages and the lung bacterial burden of mice are restricted by the inhibition of mitophagy and are enhanced by the induction of mitophagy. Confocal microscopy analysis reveals that induction of mitophagy suppresses host xenophagy by competitive utilization of p-TBK1. Overall, our results suggest that induction of mitophagy enhances M. bovis growth while inhibition of mitophagy improves growth restriction. The findings provide a new insight for understanding the intracellular survival mechanism of M. bovis in the host. Abbreviations: BMDM: mouse bone marrow-derived macrophage; BNIP3: BCL2/adenovirus E1B interacting protein 3; BNIP3L/NIX: BCL2/adenovirus E1B interacting protein 3-like; BCL2L13: BCL2-like 13 (apoptosis facilitator); CCCP: carbonyl cyanide m-cholorophenyl hydrazone; FUNDC1: FUN14 domain-containing 1; FKBP8: FKBP506 binding protein 8; HCV: hepatitis C virus; HBV: hepatitis B virus; IFN: interferon; L. monocytogenes: Listeria monocytogenes; M. bovis: Mycobacterium bovis; Mtb: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mdivi-1: mitochondrial division inhibitor 1; PINK1: PTEN-induced putative kinase 1; TBK1: TANK-binding kinase 1; TUFM: Tu translation elongation factor, mitochondrial; TEM: transmission electron microscopy
title: Impact of Geological Conditions and Constructional Features on Indoor Radon
Creators: name: Shommet, Julija
name: Koch, Rein
name: Paap, Leena
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: TTK University of Applied Sciences, Estonia

 Radon is quite widespread in Estonia, due to complicated geological conditions caused by the appearance of tectonic cracks, graptolitic argillite, phosphorite and also uranium in some places. Geological Survey of Estonia mapped radon priority areas and Radon Risk Atlas was published, according to this 1/3 of the entire territory is a radon risk area.
METHODS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILLS
Creators: name: Kuvondikova Shaydo To'lqinovna Navoi State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: As all language learners know, speaking is one of the skills that have to bemastered by students in learning English. Today we need English language almostin all spheres of our lif  e including medicine, law, technology, agriculture   andetc. Improving the speaking abilities of students has always been a concern as it isan essential tool for communicating. There are different techniques to developstudents’speakingability.Thisarticleaimstodiscussanumberofeffectivemethods and techniques as well as Project-Based Learning available for teachers toenhance the students’ speaking skills which allow them to work autonomously andwith creativity. Modern pedagogy is expected to educate oral speech of targetlanguagefast,interestinglyandmoreeffectively.Forthispurpose,thispaperanalyzesimportanceofspeakingskills.Also,itfocusesonintroducingsomeproductivemethodsandactivitiesforteachers.

Keywords:ProjectBasedLearning,SpeakingAbility,Oralspeechskills,pedagogicaltechnologies,communicativeapproach,CmmunicativeLanguageTeaching,Direct Method,TotalPhysical Response
On the smallest poles of topological zeta functions
Creators: name: Segers, Dirk
name: Veys, Willem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 14J17, 32S05 (Primary) 14E15, 14H20 (Secondary)

description: We study the local topological zeta function associated to a complex function that is holomorphic at the origin of C^2 (respectively C^3). We determine all possible poles less than -1/2 (respectively -1). On C^2 our result is a generalization of the fact that the log canonical threshold is never in ]5/6,1[. Similar statements are true for the motivic zeta function.
description: 18 pages, to appear in Compositio Math