cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Landscape genetics of Cronartium ribicola
Creators: name: Brar, Simren
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: White pine blister rust, Cronartium ribicola (Basidiomycota, Pucciniales), is a macrocyclic (5 different spore types) heteroecious (requires two hosts) rust that alternates on Ribes spp. It is an exotic pathogen in North America and cause high levels of mortality of pine in the subsection Strobus (white pines). To better understand the epidemiology of the pathogen, the population structure of white pine blister rust in North America was investigated. Thirty one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have been developed to genotype 1341 individuals from 76 populations from across North America including samples from diverse landscapes. In western Canada, sampling was structured to contrast different landscapes and pine hosts. Distance-based and Bayesian likelihood methods indicated the presence of two major genetic clusters: ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ in North America, separated by the Great Plains that act as a barrier to gene flow. The eastern cluster had greater genetic diversity than the western cluster, which confirms that multiple introductions occurred in eastern North America in contrast to a single introduction in the west. Two populations, New Mexico and Minnesota were each found to form a separate cluster in some assignment analyses and the distance-based analyses clearly placed them outside of the main clusters. Both of these populations displayed the hallmarks of a founder effect, i.e. low genetic diversity and/or inbreeding. The pathogen was discovered in New Mexico in the 1970’s, almost a century later than the populations in the two major clusters. Although white pine blister rust has been present for longer in Minnesota, the population parameters strongly suggest a founder effect and a barrier to gene flow between Minnesota and the populations within the eastern cluster. However, no landscape, host, or other patterns could be correlated with these clusters. A rare SNP was detected in Smithers, a population with high levels of inbreeding located at the northern most extent of the rust. Understanding the population structure will provide great knowledge of the rust for breeding programs and deployment of rust resistant pines.
LHC constraints on Yukawa unification in SO(10)
Creators: name: Badziak, Marcin
name: Sakurai, Kazuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LHC constraints on the recently proposed SUSY SO(10) GUT model with top-bottom-tau Yukawa unification are investigated. In this model, various phenomenological constraints are in concord with the Yukawa unification thanks to the negative sign of μ, D-term splitting in the soft scalar masses and non-universal gaugino masses generated by a non-zero F-term in a 24-dimensional representation of SU(5) \subset SO(10). After discussing the impact of the CP-odd Higgs boson mass bound on this model, we provide a detailed analysis of the recent direct SUSY searches performed by ATLAS and investigate the constraints on this SO(10) model. At 95% confidence level, the lower limit on the gluino mass is found to be 675 GeV. Assuming an integrated luminosity of 10 fb^{-1}, this bound may be extended to 1.1 TeV if the right-handed down squark is lighter than about 1 TeV.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures, comments and references added, some refinements to the text, version to be published
Improved estimation in cumulative link models
Creators: name: Kosmidis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62F03, 62F10, 62F12, 62J12

description: For the estimation of cumulative link models for ordinal data, the bias-reducing adjusted score equations in \citet{firth:93} are obtained, whose solution ensures an estimator with smaller asymptotic bias than the maximum likelihood estimator. Their form suggests a parameter-dependent adjustment of the multinomial counts, which, in turn suggests the solution of the adjusted score equations through iterated maximum likelihood fits on adjusted counts, greatly facilitating implementation. Like the maximum likelihood estimator, the reduced-bias estimator is found to respect the invariance properties that make cumulative link models a good choice for the analysis of categorical data. Its additional finiteness and optimal frequentist properties, along with the adequate behaviour of related asymptotic inferential procedures make the reduced-bias estimator attractive as a default choice for practical applications. Furthermore, the proposed estimator enjoys certain shrinkage properties that are defensible from an experimental point of view relating to the nature of ordinal data.
MPEC 2025-F204 : 2025 FP12
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FP12

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions in hybrid structures involving cuprate high-T_c superconductors
Creators: name: Takei, So
name: Fregoso, Benjamin M.
name: Galitski, Victor
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of inducing topological superconductivity with cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) is studied for various heterostructures. We first consider a ballistic planar junction between a HTSC and a metallic ferromagnet. We assume that inversion symmetry breaking at the tunnel barrier gives rise to Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the barrier and allows equal-spin triplet superconductivity to exist in the ferromagnet. Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations are obtained by explicitly modeling the barrier, and taking account of the transport anisotropy in the HTSC. By making use of the self-consistent boundary conditions and solutions for the barrier and HTSC regions, an effective equation of motion for the ferromagnet is obtained where Andreev scattering at the barrier is incorporated as a boundary condition for the ferromagnetic region. For a ferromagnet layer deposited on a (100) facet of the HTSC, triplet p-wave superconductivity is induced. For the layer deposited on a (110) facet, the induced gap does not have the p-wave orbital character, but has an even orbital symmetry and an odd dependence on energy. For the layer on the (001) facet, an exotic f-wave superconductivity is induced. We also consider the induced triplet gap in a one-dimensional half-metallic nanowire deposited on a (001) facet of a HTSC. We find that for a wire axis along the a-axis, a robust triplet p-wave gap is induced. For a wire oriented 45 degrees away from the a-axis the induced triplet p-wave gap vanishes. For the appropriately oriented wire, the induced p-wave gap should give rise to Majorana fermions at the ends of the half-metallic wire. Based on our result, topological superconductivity in a semi-conductor nanowire may also be possible given that it is oriented along the a-axis of the HTSC.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Adjusted Plus-Minus for NHL Players using Ridge Regression with Goals, Shots, Fenwick, and Corsi
Creators: name: Macdonald, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P99

description: Regression-based adjusted plus-minus statistics were developed in basketball and have recently come to hockey. The purpose of these statistics is to provide an estimate of each player's contribution to his team, independent of the strength of his teammates, the strength of his opponents, and other variables that are out of his control. One of the main downsides of the ordinary least squares regression models is that the estimates have large error bounds. Since certain pairs of teammates play together frequently, collinearity is present in the data and is one reason for the large errors. In hockey, the relative lack of scoring compared to basketball is another reason. To deal with these issues, we use ridge regression, a method that is commonly used in lieu of ordinary least squares regression when collinearity is present in the data. We also create models that use not only goals, but also shots, Fenwick rating (shots plus missed shots), and Corsi rating (shots, missed shots, and blocked shots). One benefit of using these statistics is that there are roughly ten times as many shots as goals, so there is much more data when using these statistics and the resulting estimates have smaller error bounds. The results of our ridge regression models are estimates of the offensive and defensive contributions of forwards and defensemen during even strength, power play, and short handed situations, in terms of goals per 60 minutes. The estimates are independent of strength of teammates, strength of opponents, and the zone in which a player's shift begins.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables
The structural and functional importance of the CD34 family in lung function and vascular cell biology
Creators: name: Debruin, Erin Jacquelyn Frohwerk
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Despite the widespread use of CD34-family sialomucins (CD34, podocalyxin (Podxl) and endoglycan) as vascular endothelial cell (EC) markers, there is remarkably little known of their role in vascular development and functions with the exception of vessel lumen formation in the developing mouse embryo (Podxl) and vessel patency during tumor angiogenesis and inflammation (CD34). Because germ-line deletion of Podxl in mice causes perinatal death, we generated mice that conditionally delete Podxl in vascular endothelial cells (PodxlΔEC mice) to study the role of podocalyxin in adult mouse vessels. Although PodxlΔEC adult mice are viable and thrive, we discovered increased basal and inflammationinduced pulmonary vascular permeability. Furthermore, PodxlΔEC mouse adult lungs display airspace enlargement with increased collagen deposition and exhibit a gene expression profile similar to regenerating lung. To study whether endothelial cell morphology influences the defective lung architecture and the vascular permeability phenotype in PodxlΔEC mice, we isolated primary vascular ECs from lung tissue. PodxlΔEC ECs display enhanced adhesion to fibronectin (FN) in a static adhesion assay. When plated on matrix-coated transwells, PodxlΔEC EC spread normally on FN but display defective spreading on laminin and collagen I. Thus, expression of Podxl in EC is required for normal lung architecture and function in adult mice and adhesion of EC to extracellular matrix components. Although its expression has not been well characterized, in humans, endoglycan expression has been reported in vascularized tissues. In mouse blood vessels, we showed that vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMC), but not EC, express the highest levels of endoglycan. Using a mouse aortic smooth muscle line (MOVAS-1) we found that forced expression of endoglycan enhances basal but not platelet derived growth factor (PDGF)ββ-dependent vSMC migration in vitro. Further studies to understand the role of endoglycan in primary vSMC showed that endoglycan is upregulated with differentiation to a contractile phenotype, but is not influenced by inflammatory stimuli or mitogenic factors. The findings of this thesis suggest that the CD34 family regulates vascular development and function with a role for podocalyxin in EC-matrix adhesion relevant to normal lung function and a role for endoglycan in SMC differentiation and migration.
5 ОЙЛИК ОҚ НАСИЛСИЗ КАЛАМУШЛАРДА НОСТЕРОИД ЯЛИҒЛАНИШГА ҚАРШИ ДОРИ ВОСИ ҚЎЛАНИЛГАНДА ТАЛОҚДА ЮЗАГА МОРФОМЕТРИК ЎЗГАРИШЛАР
Creators: name: Саидов, Акмал
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ушбу тадқиқотда 5 ойлик оқ зотсиз каламушларда v-гуруҳга бўлинган ҳолда  ялиғланишга қарши дори воситалари қўланилган . Бу ялиғланишнга қарши дори воситалар 10 кун давомида берилган 10 кундан кейин декапи тация килиниб ажратиб олиган талоқнинг макроскопик тузулиши, микроскопик тузулиши гемотоксилин эозин ва вангизон усулларида бўялиб олинган натижалари ва талоқ тўкимасининг микроморфометрик усуллардан фойдаланган ҳолда олинган маълумотлар келтирилган.
APPLICATION OF MULTIVARIATE MULTIVARIATE METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF THE TUMOUR MICROENVIRONMENT IN PATIENTS WITH GASTRIC CANCER
Creators: name: Zúñiga, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460501
subject: Data engineering and data science

description: Master's thesis. Advanced Multivariate Analysis and Big Data. University of Salamanca. Spain. 2021Gastric cancer (GC) is the third leading cancer killer worldwide. In most cases, patients are diagnosed at advanced stages where the effectiveness of available drugs is very limited and therefore survival is low, usually less than one year. It is now known that the tumour microenvironment (TME), made up of immune cell populations among other cell types, largely defines the development and evolution of the tumour, as well as its response to treatment. Recent research has shown that tumour-associated macrophages, or TAMs, play a major role in the development of solid tumours. The potential use of TAMs as therapeutic targets for the development of immunotherapy-based drugs is currently a very active field of research. This paper presents an exploratory multivariate analysis integrating omics data and clinical information from the stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) cohort of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium for the study of TME based on tumour stage and the number of lymphoid nodes involved. The results show clear differences in the composition of MSCT based on tumour stage but not in the number of lymphoid nodes. Furthermore, the analyses performed allow us to visualise how TAMs are orchestrated according to tumour progression and their relationship with other cell types that favour tumour progression.
Effect of electric field on the hysteresis and switching behavior of the MoS$_2$/Au(111) heterojunction
Creators: name: anvari, roozbeh
name: Wang, Wennie
name: Akinwande, Deji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:  It can be said that the interface is the device. A holistic understanding of interfacial interactions and electronic structureof 2D materials with electrodes is far from complete, but is necessary for tailored electronic devices, including in mem-ristors for neuromorphic computing. Here, we develop a computational protocol to study the hysteretic behavior andcharge carrier transport mechanisms of the MoS2/Au(111) junction under applied electric fields using first-principlescalculations. We show that even in the absence of defects, formation of conducting bridges or significant atomic recon-struction, the pristine MoS2/Au(111) junction shows hysteresis in the induced polarization, the electron barrier heights,and the carrier transport. A primary finding from our calculations is the modulation of the Schottky barrier and electrontunneling barrier as a mechanism behind the resistive switching mechanism of the pristine MoS2/Au(111) junction. Wealso show that changes of interfacial dipole moments with external electric field contributes to the memory effect bylowering the electron barriers. Our results indicate that in the absence of defects, electric-field induced relaxation ofthe interlayer spacing and clustering of Mo-atoms provides the means for spontaneous polarization. Based on this un-derstanding of the MoS2/Au(111) junction, we propose that a back-to-back double Schottky barrier ferroelectric tunneljunction (FTJ) diode can be used to model the characteristics of MoS2/Au(111) heterojunction. Our study has implica-tions for revealing the physical origins of the onset of hysteretic properties of heterostructures based on low-dimensionalmaterials, providing a more complete understanding of the mechanisms in resistive switching.
Additional file 1 of Phylogenomic analysis and development of molecular markers for the determination of twelve plum cultivars (Prunus, Rosaceae)
Creators: name: Xu, Yicen
name: Fang, Bo
name: Li, Jingling
name: Wang, Yuanwei
name: Liu, Jingting
name: Liu, Chang
name: Yu, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: TableS1. Summary of sequencing data quality. Table S2. Gene composition in the plastomes of twelve plum cultivars. Table S3. Length of introns and exons inthe plastomes of twelve plumcultivars. Table S4. Statistics on simple sequencerepeats (SSRs) in the twelve plastomes. TableS5. The list of accession numbers of the plastome sequences used in thephylogenetic analyses of the Prunus. FigureS1. Genome map of P. salicina ‘Wanshuang plum’ plastome. Figure S2. Genome map of P. salicina ‘Wuyuecui’ plastome. Figure S3. Genome map of P. salicina ‘Oishiwase’ plastome. Figure S4. Genome map of P. simonii 'Weiwang' plastome. Figure S5. Genome map of P. domestica 'Richard Early' plastome. Figure S6. Genome map of P. salicina 'Yinhong plum' plastome. Figure S7. Genome map of P. salicina ' Fengtang plum' plastome. Figure S8. Genome map of P. salicina ' Cuihong plum' plastome. Figure S9. Genome map of P. cerasifera 'Hollywood' plastome. Figure S10. Genome map of P. domestica 'Bingtang plum' plastome. Figure S11. Genome map of P. salicina 'No.2 Guofeng' plastome. Figure S12. Phylogenetic relationshipsof species from Prunus (Rosaceae)inferred using Maximum likelihood (ML) method. Figure S13. The gel electrophoresis results of the amplificationof DNA barcodes using designed primer LZ01. Figure S14. The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification ofDNA barcodes using designed primer LZ02. FigureS15. The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodesusing designed primer LZ03. Figure S16.The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodes usingdesigned primer LZ04. Figure S17.The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodes usingdesigned primer LZ05. Figure S18.The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodes usingdesigned primer LZ06. Figure S19.The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodes usingdesigned primer LZ07. Figure S20.The gel electrophoresis results of the amplification of DNA barcodes usingdesigned primer LZ08. Figure S21.The alignment of amplicons produced by designed LZ01 primer. Figure S22. The alignment of ampliconsproduced by designed LZ02 primer. FigureS23. The alignment of amplicons produced by designed LZ03 primer. Figure S24. The alignment of ampliconsproduced by designed LZ04 primer. FigureS25. The alignment of amplicons produced by designed LZ05 primer. Figure S26. The alignment of ampliconsproduced by designed LZ06 primer. FigureS27. The alignment of amplicons produced by designed LZ07 primer. Figure S28. The alignment of ampliconsproduced by designed LZ08 primer.
Lead Glazing Technique from a Medieval Kiln Site at Hanley Swan, Warwickshire
Creators: name: Hurst, Derek
name: Freestone, Ian C
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 20, 13-18
description: Fieldwork has recently located the site of a kiln at Hanley Swan in Worcestershire. This was partially excavated, and among the finds there were sherds of pottery with a white coating. Analysis by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction confirms that the coatings are unmatured pottery glaze. Lead oxide had been applied, without admixed material, and the glaze formed by reaction with the body.
Additional file 1 of Clinical characteristic of prodromal symptoms between bipolar I and II disorder among Chinese patients: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Zhao, Qian
name: Guo, Tong
name: Li, Yang
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Lyu, Nan
name: Wilson, Amanda
name: Zhu, Xuequan
name: Li, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Topological Quantum Glassiness
Creators: name: Castelnovo, Claudio
name: Chamon, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum tunneling often allows pathways to relaxation past energy barriers which are otherwise hard to overcome classically at low temperatures. However, this is not always the case. In this paper we provide simple exactly solvable examples where the barriers each system encounters on its approach to lower and lower energy states become increasingly large and eventually scale with the system size. If the environment couples locally to the physical degrees of freedom in the system, tunnelling under large barriers requires processes whose order in perturbation theory is proportional to the width of the barrier. This results in quantum relaxation rates that are exponentially suppressed in system size: For these quantum systems, no physical bath can provide a mechanism for relaxation that is not dynamically arrested at low temperatures. The examples discussed here are drawn from three dimensional generalizations of Kitaev's toric code, originally devised in the context of topological quantum computing. They are devoid of any local order parameters or symmetry breaking and are thus examples of topological quantum glasses. We construct systems that have slow dynamics similar to either strong or fragile glasses. The example with fragile-like relaxation is interesting in that the topological defects are neither open strings or regular open membranes, but fractal objects with dimension $d^* = ln 3/ ln 2$.
description: (18 pages, 4 figures, v2: typos and updated figure); Philosophical Magazine (2011)
Master's thesis. Advanced Multivariate Analysis and Big Data. University of Salamanca. Spain. 2021
Creators: name: Zúñiga, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460501
subject: Data engineering and data science

description: Gastric cancer (GC) is the third leading cancer killer worldwide. In most cases, patients are diagnosed at advanced stages where the effectiveness of available drugs is very limited and therefore survival is low, usually less than one year. It is now known that the tumour microenvironment (TME), made up of immune cell populations among other cell types, largely defines the development and evolution of the tumour, as well as its response to treatment. Recent research has shown that tumour-associated macrophages, or TAMs, play a major role in the development of solid tumours. The potential use of TAMs as therapeutic targets for the development of immunotherapy-based drugs is currently a very active field of research. This paper presents an exploratory multivariate analysis integrating omics data and clinical information from the stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD) cohort of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium for the study of TME based on tumour stage and the number of lymphoid nodes involved. The results show clear differences in the composition of MSCT based on tumour stage but not in the number of lymphoid nodes. Furthermore, the analyses performed allow us to visualise how TAMs are orchestrated according to tumour progression and their relationship with other cell types that favour tumour progression.
Glazed Eleventh-Century Wall Tiles from London
Creators: name: Betts, IM
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 20, 19-24
description: Recent excavation and research has brought to light a small group of early medieval glazed wall tiles which appear to be unique to important religious sites in London. The form and provenance of these tiles is discussed and suggestions are made about their possible origin and their relationship with late Anglo-Saxon and early medieval tiles found in London.
Escala sobre Competencias Profesionales en Educación Sexual y Coeducación (COPES) // Scale on Professional Competences in Sex Education and Coeducation (PCOSE)
Creators: name: Heras-Sevilla, Davinia
name: Barriuso-Ortega, Sonia
name: Alonso-Martínez, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: En este documento se muestra la Escala sobre Competencias Profesionales en Educación Sexual yCoeducación (COPES). // This document shows the Scale on Professional Competences in Sex Education andCoeducation (PCOSE)
Additional file 2 of Gut fungi enhances immunosuppressive function of myeloid-derived suppressor cells by activating PKM2-dependent glycolysis to promote colorectal tumorigenesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiyong
name: Zheng, Yaojun
name: Chen, Ying
name: Yin, Yuxin
name: Chen, Yuxi
name: Chen, Qianyu
name: Hou, Yayi
name: Shen, Sunan
name: Lv, Mingming
name: Wang, Tingting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Raw data of this paper
Bloch-Zener Oscillations in Graphene and Topological Insulators
Creators: name: Krueckl, Viktor
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that superlattices based on zero-gap semiconductors such as graphene and mercury telluride exhibit characteristic Bloch--Zener oscillations that emerge from the coherent superposition of Bloch oscillations and multiple Zener tunneling between the electron and hole branch. We demonstrate this mechanism by means of wave packet dynamics in various spatially periodically modulated nanoribbons subject to an external bias field. The associated Bloch frequencies exhibit a peculiar periodic bias dependence which we explain within a two-band model. Supported by extensive numerical transport calculations, we show that this effect gives rise to distinct current oscillations observable in the I-V characteristics of graphene and mercury telluride superlattices.
Stroke risk in African Americans with subclinical auditory dysfuntion evidenced by Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions: the Jackson heart study
Creators: name: Sorrel, Jonathan E.
name: Spankovich, Christopher
name: Bishop, Charles E.
name: Su, Dan
name: Valle, Karen
name: Schweinfurth, John M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) are sensitive to early indices of cochlear pathology. Pathology to the cochlea is in part mediated by ischaemic related mechanisms. We propose that DPOAEs may provide an objective measure of cardiovascular risk. Design: Cross-sectional. Study sample: The relationships between stroke risk and DPOAEs of 1,107 individuals from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), an all-African-American cohort, were assessed. Linear regression models were used for analysis among all participants and delimited to normal hearing, defined as either a pure-tone threshold average of 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz (PTA4) ≤ 25 dBHL or pure-tone thresholds for all individual tested frequencies for each ear (500, 1000, 2000, 4000, and 8000 Hz) ≤ 25 dBHL. Results: We observed a significant inverse relationship between DPOAE amplitudes and stroke risk scores in the pooled cohort and in the subgroups with normal hearing defined by pure tone thresholds. Participants in the high-risk group had significantly lower DPOAE amplitudes than those in the low stroke risk group. Conclusions: Our results indicate that auditory dysfunction as measured by DPOAEs are related to stroke risk. Further prospective studies are needed to determine if DPOAEs could be used as a predictive tool for cardiovascular disease.
The great exodus : sojourn, nostalgia, return, and identity formation of Chinese mainlanders in Taiwan, 1940s-2000s
Creators: name: Yang, Meng-Hsuan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, the world witnessed a massive wave of political migrants out of mainland China in the wake of the Nationalist debacle and the Chinese Communist victory. Approximately 900,000 to 1 million people followed Chiang Kai-shek’s regime across the sea to Taiwan. Most were low-ranking Nationalist soldiers and civil servants. There were also refugees from different walks of life, ordinary people drawn into the vortex of the Chinese civil war and ended up in Taiwan by sheer historical chance. The legacy of the great exodus continues to have important implications for Sino-American relations, as well as Taiwan’s deepening democracy and quest for national identity nowadays. Nonetheless, the crux of the story remains poorly understood because of the ways in which the history of the Chinese civil war and the history of post-war Taiwan are framed in the existing literature. The civil war migrants and their descendants are referred to as “mainlanders” or waishengren in Taiwan. This dissertation examines the civil war migrants (or first generation waishengren) from the moment they left mainland China to their eventual return decades later. The research focuses on the transformation of the migrants’ mentalités—from “reluctant sojourners” in the 1950s to “cultural nostalgia” from the 1960s to the 1980s, and to “narrating the exodus” from the late 1980s and the early 1990s onwards. The study demonstrates the importance of the great exodus in shaping the lives and the worldviews of waishengren and the development of state-society relations and communal relations in post-war Taiwan. It also offers ways to rethink existing frameworks in the study of Chinese migration, and contributes to the project of theorizing diaspora. More importantly, using waishengren as an example, the dissertation argues that identity formation is a convoluted historical process engendered by people moving diachronically through time and physically through geographic localities. The mainlander identity is a product of a particular historical trajectory and actual lived experiences. The articulation of these experiences was mediated by the politics of remembrance and collective memory in response to changing sociopolitical contexts and shifting power relations.
Supplementary Figures from Record of Foraminifera Test Composition throughout the Phanerozoic
Creators: name: Faulkner, Katherine
name: Lowery, Christopher
name: Martindale, Rowan
name: Simpson, Carl
name: Fraass, Andrew Jeffrey
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Figures showing: Fig. 1 with singletons removed, diversity and proportion graphs based on original wall-type names, and generalised linear model broken down into eras (Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic).
Results of Neutron Activation Analysis on Tating Ware and the Mayen Industry
Creators: name: Stilke, H
name: Hein, A
name: Mommsen, H
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 20, 25-32
description: Early medieval Tating Ware has been considered from different aspects for more than 80 years. This paper will give a short survey of the discussion but it will focus on the least resolved question about the ware, namely the question of provenience. Recent research has drawn attention to Mayen as the production centre of Tating Ware. Neutron Activation Analyses carried out on samples from Mayen and Tating Ware from different locations showed that most of the Tating Ware belonged to a main group which was not produced in Mayen. Only one sample, a variant of the classic ware, was produced in Mayen.
Universal Two-Body Spectra of Ultracold Harmonically Trapped Atoms in Two and Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Zinner, N. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the spectrum of two ultracold harmonically trapped atoms interacting via short-range interactions. The Green's function approach is used to unify the two and three dimensional cases. We derive criteria for the universality of the spectrum, i.e. its independence of the details of the short-range interaction. The results in three dimensions are examplified for narrow s-wave Feshbach resonances and we show how effective range corrections can modify the rearrangement of the level structure. However, this requires extremely narrow resonances or very tight traps that are not currently experimentally available. In the two-dimensional case we discuss the p-wave channel in detail and demonstrate how the non-universality of the spectrum arises within the Green's function approach. We then show that the spectrum is not particularly sensitive to the short-distance details in the case when the two-body interaction has a bound state.
description: 20 pages including appendices, 6 figures, one-column accepted version
Five years of Flemish Research Data Network  People, policy & infrastructure
Creators: name: Van den Eynden, Veerle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Open Science
Research data management

description: Presentation about the organisation, governance, goals and achievements of the Flemish Research Data Network, during the period 2020 - 2025, given to the Swiss Research Data Support Network, during their spring meeting on 27 March 2025. 

Swiss Research Data Support Network – spring meeting

27 March 2025
The Late Medieval Pottery Industry on the North Suffolk Border
Creators: name: Anderson, Sue
name: Breen, AM
name: Caruth, Joanna
name: Gill, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 20, 3-12
description: Recent excavations at West Street, Rickinghall Inferior, revealed a late medieval pottery kiln and associated products. This discovery has enabled limited comparative work to be carried out on the previously discovered kilns of similar date in the neighbouring parishes of Hopton, Wattisfield and Hinderclay. Descriptions of fabric types from other Waveney Valley kiln groups are presented, and the form types are discussed in relation to the Late Medieval and Transitional (LMT) pottery tradition in East Anglia.
Additional file 4 of Transcriptome and proteome analysis of walnut (Juglans regia L.) fruit in response to infection by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
Creators: name: Fang, Hongcheng
name: Liu, Xia
name: Dong, Yuhui
name: Feng, Shan
name: Zhou, Rui
name: Wang, Changxi
name: Ma, Xinmei
name: Liu, Jianning
name: Yang, Ke Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. The significant GO terms of genes in darkturquoise module.
Middle Meuse Valley Ceramics of Huy-Type: A Preliminary Analysis
Creators: name: Giertz, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 20, 33-64
description: This paper focuses on a sequence of domestic pottery excavated at the Place St Severin site in Huy, Belgium. Macroscopic examination of selected context groups spanning the 8th to 11th centuries assisted in the identification of a predominant group of wares, which share diagnostic features with pottery found in production contexts in Huy. This cluster of presumed local wares is named Huy-type wares and classified with regard to the main fabric types represented. The wide repertoire of Carolingian Huy-type wares is indicated, while their gradual development from the Middle Meuse valley and perhaps in Stamford, Lincolnshire, are briefly discussed with special reference to late-Carolingian red-painted and early glazed ware.
Connectivity in cortical networks during word reading
Creators: name: Bedo, Nicolas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The neural processes underlying word reading remain much of a mystery. In particular, the flow of information within and between language networks during word reading has not been adequately explored. The present study investigated local spectral power changes and functional and effective (causal) connectivity at each stage of word reading. EEG was used to record brain activity from healthy volunteers (n = 15), during a reading task. Independent component analysis yielded multiple sources of activation previously identified with fMRI and PET as being crucial to word reading. A combination of event-related spectral perturbation and phase synchrony analyses was performed on these independent components. Additionally, analyses of transfer entropy were conducted to investigate the possible causal information flow between sites of interest. Results confirm the VWFA as a central hub for word reading, showing a progression of theta band phase synchrony with early visual areas and then later with high-level language processing areas. Transfer entropy analyses largely converged with the theta synchrony results, again emphasizing the VWFA as a crucial node in the reading network, initially receiving information from early visual cortex, and then sending information to high-level areas. These results highlight the interplay between local and long-distance neural dynamics involved at each stage of processing during reading. Additionally, these measures of functional and causal connectivity may be used as a benchmark for comparison with clinical populations (e.g. individuals with certain kinds of dyslexia), such that disturbances in connectivity may provide insight as to underlying neurological problems.
Measurement and simulation of half-integer Shapiro steps in graphene-based SQUIDs
Creators: name: Taylor, Max
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2025

description: Graphene-based superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) were
 measured in a current-biased regime with and without irradiation by a
 microwave (MW) signal. The charge carrier concentration in graphene can be
 varied with electrostatic gating, tuning the transparencies of the
 Josephson junctions (JJs) in the SQUIDs. The junctions in these devices
 are fabricated with graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride where
 the NbTi superconducting electrodes make highly transparent
 one-dimensional contacts with the graphene. They are expected to
 facilitate ballistic transport of charge carriers, implying a
 non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR) similarly to
 superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) JJs. A characteristic
 feature of the non-sinusoidal CPR is the appearance of half-integer
 Shapiro steps when the CPR is highly skewed. Half-integer Shapiro steps
 should also be visible when an amount of magnetic flux equal to a
 half-integer multiple of the magnetic flux quantum is present in the SQUID
 loop. This sets this investigation apart from other work, which are
 focused on individual graphene-based JJs. As superconducting circuits
 become more complex, it will be important to understand the behaviour of
 circuit components beyond single junctions.

 These phenomena were explored both with the graphene SQUIDs and with a
 numerical simulation of the resistively and capacitively shunted junction
 (RCSJ) model. The simulation used a skewed CPR which could be varied based
 on the transparency of the JJs, applicable to ballistic SNS junctions.

 Simulation results confirmed the expected behaviours of devices with a
 skewed CPR and is a promising avenue for exploring further fractional
 Shapiro steps. The experimental measurements of the graphene SQUIDs found
 half-integer Shapiro steps, giving evidence of a ballistic tuneable CPR in
 these graphene-based devices and establishing a precedent for further
 investigation.
A Lorentzian Quantum Geometry
Creators: name: Finster, Felix
name: Grotz, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a formulation of a Lorentzian quantum geometry based on the framework of causal fermion systems. After giving the general definition of causal fermion systems, we deduce space-time as a topological space with an underlying causal structure. Restricting attention to systems of spin dimension two, we derive the objects of our quantum geometry: the spin space, the tangent space endowed with a Lorentzian metric, connection and curvature. In order to get the correspondence to differential geometry, we construct examples of causal fermion systems by regularizing Dirac sea configurations in Minkowski space and on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. When removing the regularization, the objects of our quantum geometry reduce precisely to the common objects of Lorentzian spin geometry, up to higher order curvature corrections.
description: 65 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, many small improvements (published version)
Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions from Dispersion Relations: Coupled Partial Waves
Creators: name: Albaladejo, M.
name: Oller, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider nucleon-nucleon interactions from chiral effective field theory applying the N/D method. The case of coupled partial waves is now treated, extending Ref. [1] where the uncoupled case was studied. As a result three N/D elastic-like equations have to be solved for every set of three independent partial waves coupled. As in the previous reference the input for this method is the discontinuity along the left-hand cut of the nucleon-nucleon partial wave amplitudes. It can be calculated perturbatively in chiral perturbation theory because it involves only irreducible two-nucleon intermediate states. We apply here our method to the leading order result consisting of one-pion exchange as the source for the discontinuity along the left-hand cut. The linear integral equations for the N/D method must be solved in the presence of L - 1 constraints, with L the orbital angular momentum, in order to satisfy the proper threshold behavior for L>= 2. We dedicate special attention to satisfy the requirements of unitarity in coupled channels. We also focus on the specific issue of the deuteron pole position in the 3S1-3D1 scattering. Our final amplitudes are based on dispersion relations and chiral effective field theory, being independent of any explicit regulator. They are amenable to a systematic improvement order by order in the chiral expansion.
description: 11 pages. Extends the work of uncoupled partial waves of M. Albaladejo and J. A. Oller, Phys. Rev. C 84, 054009 (2011) to the case of coupled partial waves. This version matches the published version. Discussion about the deuteron enlarged. Some references added
Additional file 3 of Transcriptome and proteome analysis of walnut (Juglans regia L.) fruit in response to infection by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
Creators: name: Fang, Hongcheng
name: Liu, Xia
name: Dong, Yuhui
name: Feng, Shan
name: Zhou, Rui
name: Wang, Changxi
name: Ma, Xinmei
name: Liu, Jianning
name: Yang, Ke Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. The significant KEGG pathways of DEGs in F26 vs F423 at each infection stage.
Lost in transition : determining HIV prevalence and related vulnerabilities among young people surviving abduction and displacement in post-conflict northern Uganda
Creators: name: Patel, Sheetal Harish
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Background: Little is known about HIV infection and the related vulnerabilities of young people living in resource-scarce, post-emergency transit camps that are now home to thousands of IDPs following two decades of war in northern Uganda. This population in transition provided a unique opportunity to assess the influence of conflict on HIV infection among young people in post-conflict settings. Methods: In 2010, a cross-sectional demographic and behavioural survey was conducted with a purposively selected sample of 384 transit camp residents aged 15 to 29, in two of Gulu District’s sub-counties. Biological specimens were collected for HIV rapid testing in-field and confirmatory laboratory testing. Multivariable logistic regression identified independent predictors for HIV infection among the sample and stratified by gender. Additionally, a bivariate analysis was conducted comparing HIV risk profiles of former abductees to non-abductees. Results: Of the 384 participants sampled, 192 (50%) were female and 107 (27.9%) were abductees. HIV prevalence was alarmingly high, at 12.8% overall; 15.6% among females; 9.9% among males, and; 12.1% among abductees. Sample sub-groups revealed no significant differences in proportions positive. The strongest predictor of HIV infection among young people was non-consensual sexual debut (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR]: 9.88, 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 1.70, 18.06). Among females, having practiced dry sex was the strongest predictor (AOR: 7.62, 95%CI: 1.56, 16.95), and among males, non-consensual sexual debut was the strongest predictor (AOR: 3.24, 95%CI: 1.37, 7.67). Finally, in bivariate analysis comparing abductees to non-abductees, limited differences in risk profiles were demonstrated. Conclusions: This study sought to fill a lacuna in epidemiological evidence and provide the Ugandan government and NGOs with the data necessary to inform timely and appropriate responses to HIV among young people in post-conflict transition. Study findings serve to recommend a gradual cessation of post-emergency aid and the design of interventions based on well-identified needs rather than circumstantial categorization. Additionally, development of population-specific responses sensitive to local contexts and sufficient to address the underlying causes of complex risk factors influencing the spread of HIV will reach beyond traditional prevention programming in a manner more effectively beneficial to young people in post-conflict settings.