cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vision-based Robotic Grasping From Object Localization, Object Pose Estimation to Grasp Estimation for Parallel Grippers: A Review
Creators: name: Du, Guoguang
name: Wang, Kai
name: Lian, Shiguo
name: Zhao, Kaiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a comprehensive survey on vision-based robotic grasping. We conclude three key tasks during vision-based robotic grasping, which are object localization, object pose estimation and grasp estimation. In detail, the object localization task contains object localization without classification, object detection and object instance segmentation. This task provides the regions of the target object in the input data. The object pose estimation task mainly refers to estimating the 6D object pose and includes correspondence-based methods, template-based methods and voting-based methods, which affords the generation of grasp poses for known objects. The grasp estimation task includes 2D planar grasp methods and 6DoF grasp methods, where the former is constrained to grasp from one direction. These three tasks could accomplish the robotic grasping with different combinations. Lots of object pose estimation methods need not object localization, and they conduct object localization and object pose estimation jointly. Lots of grasp estimation methods need not object localization and object pose estimation, and they conduct grasp estimation in an end-to-end manner. Both traditional methods and latest deep learning-based methods based on the RGB-D image inputs are reviewed elaborately in this survey. Related datasets and comparisons between state-of-the-art methods are summarized as well. In addition, challenges about vision-based robotic grasping and future directions in addressing these challenges are also pointed out.
description: This is a pre-print of an article published in Artificial Intelligence Review. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09888-5. Related refs are summarized at: https://github.com/GeorgeDu/vision-based-robotic-grasping
Genetic Mechanisms of Regulated Stochastic Gene Expression
Creators: Horta, Adan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Olfactory receptor genes
subject: Gene expression
subject: Cadherins
subject: Human genetics--Variation

description: The adaptability and robustness of the central nervous system is partially explained by the vast diversity of neuronal identities. Molecular mechanisms generating such heterogeneity have evolved through multiple independent pathways. The olfactory sensory system provides a unique and tractable platform for investigating at least two orthogonal gene expression systems that generate neuronal diversity through stochastic promoter choice: olfactory receptor genes and clustered protocadherins. Olfactory sensory neuron identity is defined by the specific olfactory receptor (OR) gene chosen. Greater than 1300 OR genes are scattered throughout the mouse genome, and expression of an OR defines a unique sensory neuron class that responds to a selective set of odorants. This work further delineated an unprecedented network interchromosomal (trans) interactions indispensable for singular OR choice. In a largely orthogonal gene expression system, I sought to understand the molecular mechanisms governing stochastic protocadherin choice. Clustered protocadherins are an evolutionary- conserved system that is involved in cell-cell identification through a series of homo- and heterophilic interactions. This work uncovered a methylation-dependent mechanism for generating stochastic gene expression in the context of cis-regulatory elements. Overall, this work highlighted divergent cis and trans transcriptional regulatory mechanisms for generating stochastic gene expression and neuronal diversity.
Equivalence of Projections as Gauge Equivalence on Noncommutative Space
Creators: name: Furuuchi, Kazuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Projections play crucial roles in the ADHM construction on noncommutative $\R^4$. In this article a framework for the description of equivalence relations between projections is proposed. We treat the equivalence of projections as ``gauge equivalence'' on noncommutative space. We find an interesting application of this framework to the study of U(2) instanton on noncommutative $\R^4$: A zero winding number configuration with a hole at the origin is ``gauge equivalent'' to the noncommutative analog of the BPST instanton. Thus the ``gauge transformation'' in this case can be understood as a noncommutative resolution of the singular gauge transformation in ordinary $\R^4$.
description: 19 pages, AMSLaTeX, v2: refined explanations, typos corrected
Pathological Behavior of Arithmetic Invariants of Unipotent Groups
Creators: name: Rosengarten, Zev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that all of the nice behavior for Tamagawa numbers, Tate-Shafarevich sets, and other arithmetic invariants of pseudo-reductive groups over global function fields proved in \cite{rospred} fails in general for non-commutative unipotent groups. We also give some positive results which show that Tamagawa numbers do exhibit some reasonable behavior for arbitrary connected linear algebraic groups over global function fields.
description: 37 pages; This is the second half of a preprint arXiv:1806.10723 submitted earlier; we have broken it up in order to make the arXiv versions conform to the published ones
Motherhood or abortion: pregnancy resolution decisions of Australian teenagers
Creators: name: Evans, Ann
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2001
Subjects: teenage pregnancy
abortion
termination
pregnancy resolution
motherhood
Australia
NSW
ACT

description: Australia has a lower teenage fertility rate than other industrialised English-speaking countries. However, with over 11,000 births and 12,000 abortions to teenagers each year, the resolution of teenage pregnancy is an issue faced by many young Australian women. ¶ This research seeks to explore the factors that discriminate between those who terminate and those who continue a teenage pregnancy. To achieve this aim a survey was conducted on young ever-pregnant women throughout New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. The survey sought information on young women’s characteristics on three different levels: individual; institutional; and societal or cultural. ¶ The findings suggest that, at each of the three levels proposed, there are factors that discriminate between young women who choose abortion and those who choose motherhood. At the individual level, attitudes to abortion and career aspirations were found to affect pregnancy resolution. At the institutional level factors relating to education, family, relationships and religion were found to discriminate between the two groups. Finally, at the cultural level, ethnicity and area of residence were found to be associated with pregnancy resolution, in addition to modifying the effect of characteristics at other levels.
title: Anacyclus pyrethrum (L.) Link var. depressus (Ball.) Maire
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Traumas Faciais e Lesão por Projétil de Arma de Fogo : Manejo, Tratamento e Consequências
Creators: name: Rafael Bueno Menezes
name: Luiz Messias Pires Sousa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: As lesões perfurocontusas por arma de fogo (PAF) apresentam características distintas entre as feridas de entrada e saída, fornecendo informações cruciais para a investigação forense e o tratamento médico. Trauma em região da face, tem sido cada vez mais comum devido a crescente na violência urbana ultimamente. Com isso, as lesões maxilofaciais causadas por arma de fogo têm se tornado rotina nos hospitais de emergência representando um grave problema de saúde pública. O tratamento dos ferimentos penetrantes em face é um desafio em consequência do difícil acesso, comprometimento de estruturas nobres, e risco de fatalidade. Em região de infraorbitária direita causando edema, lesão perfuro-contusa em região malar direita, acuidade visual, motricidade ocular extrínseca de supraversão e infraversão prejudicadas e exoftalmia do olho direito, sendo estabelecido um tratamento em conjunto entre as especialidades de cirurgia e traumatologia bucomaxilofacial e oftalmologia, para remoção do artefato, desbridamento local, remoção de tecido granulomatoso e síntese da conjuntiva ocular e tecidual. Diante do caso clínico apresentado, nota-se que os pacientes com ferimentos por arma de fogo em regiões maxilofaciais, devem ser avaliados por uma equipe multiprofissional, dando ênfase à diminuição das sequelas funcionais e estéticas e às taxas de morbimortalidade. Geralmente maior e mais irregular que a ferida de entrada, com bordas evertidas (viradas para fora). Pode apresentar lacerações e fraturas ósseas, devido à deformação do projétil ao atravessar os tecidos. É de comum pedir uma tomografia para definir uma conduta médica segura e aplicada.
Detection and Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Influencing Stem Growth Efficiency in Radiata Pine
Creators: name: Emebiri, Livinus Chinenye
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1997
Subjects: genetic mapping
quantitative trait loci
stem growth
radiata pine
needle-to-stem unit ratio
NESTUR

description: Needle-to-stem unit rate (NESTUR) is a stem growth index of conifer seedling trees that measures the efficiency of stemwood production per unit of needle growth. Five experiments were carried out in this thesis using progenies of two unrelated full-sib radiata pine crosses. The initial experiment (experiment 1) applied the bulked segregant analysis technique to determine whether RAPD analysis could be successfully extended to the development of molecular markers for NESTUR in radiata pine. The NESTUR values of 174 progenies of the full-sib family 12038 x 10946 were determined. Based on the genotypic analysis of the individuals, two quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling NESTUR were identified at ANOVA P-levels of 0.01-0.001. An absence of RAPD fragment markers generated by primers OPE-06 and OPA-10 was associated with low NESTUR values, while primer UBC-333 generated a 550 bp band that was associated with high NESTUR values. Linkage to components of NESTUR (increments in stem diameter and stem volume) was demonstrated for one of the QTL, while the other was unique to NESTUR, and not shared with the components. There was a significant interaction between the two QTLs. Presence of OPA-101200 locus appeared to inhibit expression of the QTL linked to UBC-333 [subscript 550]. ¶ ...
Memorized Sparse Backpropagation
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiyuan
name: Yang, Pengcheng
name: Ren, Xuancheng
name: Su, Qi
name: Sun, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural network learning is usually time-consuming since backpropagation needs to compute full gradients and backpropagate them across multiple layers. Despite its success of existing works in accelerating propagation through sparseness, the relevant theoretical characteristics remain under-researched and empirical studies found that they suffer from the loss of information contained in unpropagated gradients. To tackle these problems, this paper presents a unified sparse backpropagation framework and provides a detailed analysis of its theoretical characteristics. Analysis reveals that when applied to a multilayer perceptron, our framework essentially performs gradient descent using an estimated gradient similar enough to the true gradient, resulting in convergence in probability under certain conditions. Furthermore, a simple yet effective algorithm named memorized sparse backpropagation (MSBP) is proposed to remedy the problem of information loss by storing unpropagated gradients in memory for learning in the next steps. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MSBP is effective to alleviate the information loss in traditional sparse backpropagation while achieving comparable acceleration.
description: Accepted to Neurocomputing
title: Don't Worry, I'm a Professional: A study of safety practitioners and their risky recreations
Creators: name: Gray, Katrina
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: self-identity
subject: safety practitioners

description: Portrayals of those who work in ‘safety’ increasingly conjure images of danger-avoiding crusaders on a quest to prevent exposure to even the most trivial of risks. “Bureaucratic”, “petty”, and “fun police” are just a few of the labels that have been applied to the modern-day safety practitioner, perpetuating a mostly unflattering stereotype. But just how accurate is this characterisation? How do safety practitioners view themselves? These questions were explored via investigating the behaviours and discourses of safety practitioners in the context of their participation in recreational activities that are commonly deemed ‘risky’. Firstly, the proportion of persons who have participated in risky activities is compared for a sample of Australian safety practitioners against a sample of non-safety practitioners. The way in which risky activity participants explain and rationalise the risks of their pursuits to others is then examined in order to identify points of similarity and difference between the groups studied. By means of original quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interview) research, evidence is presented that poses a direct challenge to the safety practitioner stereotype – at least outside of the workplace. It is concluded, with caution, that safety practitioners are more likely to have participated in one or more of a defined set of risky recreational activities than members of the broader population. Clear differences are also established between safety practitioners and others in how they tend to describe the risks related to their activities. These differences are observed across two related dimensions, termed and defined in this thesis as ‘Risk Management/Control Focus’ and ‘Otherness’. The project raises interesting questions about the self-identity of safety practitioners and the influence this may have on how they think about risk and engage with risk in their recreational lives. Further research is necessary, however, to validate the findings of this study, to understand the underlying reasons why a relationship may exist between work as a safety practitioner and recreational activity, and to better appreciate the practical implications of improved knowledge in this area.
We need to aim at the top: Factors associated with cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers
Creators: name: Vrhovec, Simon
name: Markelj, Blaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cyberattacks pose a significant business risk to organizations. Although there is ample literature focusing on why people pose a major risk to organizational cybersecurity and how to deal with it, there is surprisingly little we know about cyber and information security decision-makers who are essentially the people in charge of setting up and maintaining organizational cybersecurity. In this paper, we study cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers, and investigate factors associated with it. We conducted an online survey among Slovenian cyber and information security decision-makers (N=283) to (1) determine whether their cybersecurity awareness is associated with adoption of antimalware solutions in their organizations, and (2) explore which organizational factors and personal characteristics are associated with their cybersecurity awareness. Our findings indicate that awareness of well-known threats and solutions seems to be quite low for individuals in decision-making roles. They also provide insights into which threats and solutions are cyber and information security decision-makers the least aware of. We uncovered that awareness of certain threats and solutions is positively associated with either adoption of advanced antimalware solutions with EDR/XDR capabilities or adoption of SOC. Additionally, we identified significant organizational factors (organizational role type) and personal characteristics (gender, age, experience with information security and experience with IT) related to cybersecurity awareness of cyber and information security decision-makers. Organization size and formal education were not significant. These results offer insights that can be leveraged in targeted cybersecurity training tailored to the needs of groups of cyber and information security decision-makers based on these key factors.
On Single-Deletion-Correcting Codes
Creators: name: Sloane, N. J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 94B60, 94A55

description: This paper gives a brief survey of binary single-deletion-correcting codes. The Varshamov-Tenengolts codes appear to be optimal, but many interesting unsolved problems remain. The connections with shift-register sequences also remain somewhat mysterious.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure. Dedicated to Dijen Ray-Chaudhuri on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Dreams and nightmares of a 'White Australia' : the discourse of assimilation in selected works of fiction from the 1950s and 1960s
Creators: name: Elder, Catriona
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1999
Subjects: assimilation
social relations
Aboriginal people
white people
white Australia
anxiety
Australia
white nation
the half-caste
assimilation colonization

description: This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in terms of Aboriginal people’s and white people’s social relations, in a small selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation. They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses: inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young adults of mixed heritage and land ownership. The crux of my argument is that in the 1950s and early 1960s the dominant cultural imagining of Australia was as a white nation. In white discourses of assimilation to fulfil the dream of whiteness, the Aboriginal people – the not-white – had to be included in or eliminated from this imagined white community. Fictional stories of assimilation were a key site for the representation of this process, that is, they produced discourses of ‘assimilation colonization’. The focus for this process were Aboriginal people of mixed ancestry, who came to be represented as ‘the half-caste’ in assimilation discourse. The novels I analyse work as ‘conduct books’. They aim to shape white reactions to the inclusion of Aboriginal people, in particular the half-caste, into ‘white Australia’. This inclusion, assimilation, was an ambivalent project – both pleasurable and unsettling – pleasurable because it worked to legitimate white colonization (Aboriginal presence as erased) and unsettling because it challenged the idea of a pure ‘white Australia’.
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum SUBSP. ARGENTORATENSIS 2020, COMB. NOV
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lactiplantibacillus
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum

description: DESCRIPTION OF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS PLANTARUM SUBSP. ARGENTORATENSIS COMB. NOV
 Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis (ar.gen. to.ra.ten′ sis. N.L. masc. adj. argentoratensis, of or pertaining to Argentoratus, the Roman name of the City of Strasbourg in Alsace, France).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. argentoratensis Bringel et al. 2005, 1633 VP
 Strains of this species differ from L. plantarum subsp. plantarum strains due to the absence of melezitose fermentation [229]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.20 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 45.
Isolated from starchy food, fermenting food of plant origin, timothy, orchardgrass and elephant grass silage, fermented Uttapam batter, fermented idli batter.
 The type strain is DKO 22 T = CCUG 50787 T = CIP 108320 T = DSM 16365 T = JCM 16169 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZFR00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ 640078.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2825, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Dietary Bioactive Compound-Mediated Signaling in Prostate Cancer: An Integrated Mendelian Randomization and Transcriptomic Study
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhongji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Table S1: Instrument variables for exposure;

Table S2: Prostate cancer related genes screened by MR;

Table S3: Results of MR Egger intercept horizontal pleiotropy test;

Table S4: Results of heterogeneity test;

Table S5: Characteristics of the four prostate cancer RNA sequencing datasets;

Table S6: Identification of DEGs;

Table S7: Candidate drug predicted using DSigDB;

Table S8: Docking results of available proteins with small molecules
On-Line AdaTron Learning of Unlearnable Rules
Creators: name: Inoue, Jun-ichi
name: Nishimori, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the on-line AdaTron learning of linearly non-separable rules by a simple perceptron. Training examples are provided by a perceptron with a non-monotonic transfer function which reduces to the usual monotonic relation in a certain limit. We find that, although the on-line AdaTron learning is a powerful algorithm for the learnable rule, it does not give the best possible generalization error for unlearnable problems. Optimization of the learning rate is shown to greatly improve the performance of the AdaTron algorithm, leading to the best possible generalization error for a wide range of the parameter which controls the shape of the transfer function.)
description: RevTeX 17 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.E
Inference for Discrete Time Stochastic Processes using Aggregated Survey Data
Creators: name: Davis, Brett Andrew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Aggregated data
cross-sectional survey
longitudinal survey
marginal probability
Markov chain
non-homogeneous
partial odds
stochastic process
transition probability
weighted least squares

description: We consider a longitudinal system in which transitions between the states are governed by a discrete time finite state space stochastic process X. Our aim, using aggregated sample survey data of the form typically collected by official statistical agencies, is to undertake model based inference for the underlying process X. We will develop inferential techniques for continuing sample surveys of two distinct types. First, longitudinal surveys in which the same individuals are sampled in each cycle of the survey. Second, cross-sectional surveys which sample the same population in successive cycles but with no attempt to track particular individuals from one cycle to the next. Some of the basic results have appeared in Davis et al (2001) and Davis et al (2002).¶ ...
Noise Amplification in Frictional Systems: Oscillatory Instabilities
Creators: name: Chattoraj, Joyjit
name: Gendelman, Oleg
name: Ciamarra, Massimo Pica
name: Procaccia, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was discovered recently that frictional granular materials can exhibit an important mechanism for instabilities, i.e the appearance of pairs of complex eigenvalues in their stability matrix. The consequence is an oscillatory exponential growth of small perturbations which are tamed by dynamical nonlinearities. The amplification can be giant, many orders of magnitude, and it ends with a catastrophic system-spanning plastic event. Here we follow up on this discovery, explore the scaling laws characterizing the onset of the instability, the scenarios of the development of the instability with and without damping, and the nature of the eventual system spanning events. The possible relevance to earthquake physics and to the transition from static to dynamic friction is discussed.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1901.02376
Microscopic description of induced fission in a configuration interaction approach
Creators: name: Uzawa, K.
name: Hagino, K.
name: Bertsch, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Even though more than 80 years have passed since the discovery of fission, its microscopic understanding has still been unclear. To clarify the underlying mechanics of induced fission, we analyze the distribution of a fission width using a miscropic framework based on a configuration-interaction approach. The distribution is known to follow a chi-squared distribution, which is characterized by the effective number of decay channels, $ν$. We introduce an effective Hamitonian for the space of compound nucleus states and estimate $ν$ from the rank of the imaginary part of the effective Hamiltonian. Applying the model to $^{235}$U(n,f), we succesfully reproduce the empirical value of $ν=2.3\pm1.1$. We also find that $ν$ is insensitve to the number of fission channels, which is consistent with an experimental finding.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of FUSION23
Additional file 6: of A feasibility study with embedded pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation in patients with periodontitis
Creators: name: Holliday, Richard
name: Preshaw, Philip
name: Ryan, Vicky
name: Sniehotta, Falko
name: McDonald, Suzanne
name: Bauld, Linda
name: McColl, Elaine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: 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: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Oral hygiene instruction TiDieR checklist. A TiDieR checklist for the oral hygiene instruction intervention. (DOCX 14 kb)
On Adelic Strings
Creators: name: Dragovich, Branko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New approach to p-adic and adelic strings, which takes into account that not only world sheet but also Minkowski space-time and string momenta can be p-adic and adelic, is formulated. p-Adic and adelic string amplitudes are considered within Feynman's path integral formalism. The adelic Veneziano amplitude is calculated. Some discreteness of string momenta is obtained. Also, adelic coupling constant is equal to unity.
description: 9 pages
Genetic analysis of novel regulators of neuronal migration in Caenorhabditis elegans: the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway, a chromatin-binding factor ZFP-1 (AF10) and endogenous RNAi
Creators: Kennedy, Lisa Michelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental biology

description: The generation of functional neural circuitries requires neuronal migration, a central component of proper nervous system development. When defective, it can lead to devastating conditions including epilepsy and mental retardation. In the nematode C. elegans, neurons undergo both short- and long-range migrations that are regulated by conserved pathways. In my thesis study, I explore novel roles for both the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway and RNAi factors in neuronal migration by using the embryonic anterior migrations of the hermaphrodite-specific neurons (HSNs) of C. elegans as a model. I demonstrate that the insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway modulates the activity of the conserved DAF-16/FOXO transcription factor non-autonomously in the hypodermis to regulate HSN migration. Furthermore, I identify PAK-1, a p21-activated kinase, as a downstream target of DAF-16 in the hypodermis. This study is the first to demonstrate a non-autonomous role for both FOXO and Pak1 in neuronal migration. I also implicate a conserved PHD zinc finger protein ZFP-1/AF10 and endogenous RNAi in the regulation of HSN migration. I determine that ZFP-1 affects HSN migration in part through its negative effect on the transcription of the conserved insulin/IGF-1 signaling kinase gene pdk-1 and the modulation of downstream DAF-16 activity. This study expands the limited understanding of the normal developmental roles of both ZFP-1/AF10 and RNAi. Combined, this thesis highlights a requirement for the coordinated activities of DAF-16/FOXO, ZFP-1/AF10 and endogenous RNAi in the establishment of proper neuronal positioning during development.
Heavy metal levels in grasses and legumes grown on Highland Valley Copper Mine tailings and the effect of artificial weathering on tailings growth production capability
Creators: name: Hackinen, Coleen Marie, 1957-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Samples of agronomic grasses and legumes grown on copper mine tailings under two surficial amendment regimes and two fertilizer treatments were analyzed for Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, N, Ni, P, and Zn. These values were compared to National Research Council and Agriculture Canada diet recommendations for beef cattle. Foliar Ca, Fe, Mn, Ni and P concentrations were satisfactory. Copper and molybdenum concentrations were well above normal levels. Copper concentrations in the legumes and grasses averaged 63 and 44 mg/kg, respectively. Mean molybdenum concentrations were found to be 52 mg/kg in the grasses and 237 mg/kg in the legumes. Cu:Mo ratios in all species violated recommended dietary guidelines for beef cattle. Fluctuations in Cu:Mo ratios were attributable mainly to variations in foliar Cu. Most species were subjected to severe grazing by rodents, producing abnormal growth habits. As a result, assessment of relative species success was difficult. Grazing stress may also have affected foliar elemental levels. Tailings material was artificially weathered by leaching with 0.3 N acetic acid for seven weeks in a Soxhlet extraction chamber. Leached and unleached samples were analyzed for pH, 0.1 N HCl available Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, and Zn, acid ammonium oxalate extractable Mo, total elemental levels and mineralogical composition. As a result of leaching, the pH of the tailings was reduced from 6.6 to 3.5. Declines in available Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, and Mo were noted after leaching. No qualitative changes in tailings mineralogy were detected after artificial weathering. During leaching, three general elemental release patterns were observed. These were attributed to the sequential dissolution of readily soluble salts and carbonates, followed by the degradation of micas, pyroxenes, amphiboles and host ore minerals. The relatively inert minerals, such as quartz, some aluminosilicates and oxyhydroxides of Fe and Al represented the third group. At present, the tailings are unsuitable as a forage production area for beef cattle as a result of toxic Cu:Mo ratios in the foliage. Based on chemical changes induced by artificial weathering, it is probable that forage grown on the tailings will become less toxic over time. Various management practices may be employed to accelerate improvement in growth medium parameters.
On-line learning of non-monotonic rules by simple perceptron
Creators: name: Inoue, Jun-ichi
name: Nishimori, Hidetoshi
name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generalization ability of a simple perceptron which learns unlearnable rules. The rules are presented by a teacher perceptron with a non-monotonic transfer function. The student is trained in the on-line mode. The asymptotic behaviour of the generalization error is estimated under various conditions. Several learning strategies are proposed and improved to obtain the theoretical lower bound of the generalization error.
description: LaTeX 20 pages using IOP LaTeX preprint style file, 14 figures
Statistical detection of a tidal stream associated with the globular cluster M68 using Gaia data
Creators: name: Palau, C. G.
name: Miralda-Escudé, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method to search for tidal streams and to fit their orbits based on maximum likelihood is presented and applied to the Gaia data. Tests of the method are performed showing how a simulated stream produced by tidal stripping of a star cluster is recovered when added to a simulation of the Gaia catalogue. The method can be applied to search for streams associated with known progenitors or to do blind searches in a general catalogue. As the first example, we apply the method to the globular cluster M68 and detect its clear tidal stream stretching over the whole North Galactic hemisphere, and passing within 5 kpc of the Sun. This is one of the closest tidal streams to us detected so far, and is highly promising to provide new constraints on the Milky Way gravitational potential, for which we present preliminary fits finding a slightly oblate dark halo consistent with other observations. We identify the M68 tidal stream with the previously discovered Fjörm stream by Ibata et al. The tidal stream is confirmed to contain stars that are consistent with the HR-diagram of M68. We provide a list of 115 stars that are most likely to be stream members, and should be prime targets for follow-up spectroscopic studies.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
Lactiplantibacillus daoliensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lactiplantibacillus
Lactiplantibacillus daoliensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS DAOLIENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lactiplantibacillus daoliensis (dao.li.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. daoliensis, pertaining to Daoli, a district in Harbin city, China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus daoliensis Liu and Gu 2019, 3258 VP
 Characteristics are similar to L. pingfangensis but the strain does not grow at 37 °C [233]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.63 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 43.7.
Isolated from fermented Chinese cabbage.
 The type strain is 116-1AT= LMG 31171 T = NCIMB 15181 T = CCM 8934 T.
Genome sequence accession number: BJDH00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: LC438516.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on pages 2825-2826, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
GBEC: Geometry-Based Hand-Eye Calibration
Creators: name: Liu, Yihao
name: Zhang, Jiaming
name: She, Zhangcong
name: Kheradmand, Amir
name: Armand, Mehran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hand-eye calibration is the problem of solving the transformation from the end-effector of a robot to the sensor attached to it. Commonly employed techniques, such as AXXB or AXZB formulations, rely on regression methods that require collecting pose data from different robot configurations, which can produce low accuracy and repeatability. However, the derived transformation should solely depend on the geometry of the end-effector and the sensor attachment. We propose Geometry-Based End-Effector Calibration (GBEC) that enhances the repeatability and accuracy of the derived transformation compared to traditional hand-eye calibrations. To demonstrate improvements, we apply the approach to two different robot-assisted procedures: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and femoroplasty. We also discuss the generalizability of GBEC for camera-in-hand and marker-in-hand sensor mounting methods. In the experiments, we perform GBEC between the robot end-effector and an optical tracker's rigid body marker attached to the TMS coil or femoroplasty drill guide. Previous research documents low repeatability and accuracy of the conventional methods for robot-assisted TMS hand-eye calibration. When compared to some existing methods, the proposed method relies solely on the geometry of the flange and the pose of the rigid-body marker, making it independent of workspace constraints or robot accuracy, without sacrificing the orthogonality of the rotation matrix. Our results validate the accuracy and applicability of the approach, providing a new and generalizable methodology for obtaining the transformation from the end-effector to a sensor.
description: This paper has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2024 as a contributed paper
Additional file 2: of Combined blockade of MEK and PI3KCA as an effective antitumor strategy in HER2 gene amplified human colorectal cancer models
Creators: name: Belli, Valentina
name: Matrone, Nunzia
name: Napolitano, Stefania
name: Migliardi, Giorgia
name: Cottino, Francesca
name: Bertotti, Andrea
name: Trusolino, Livio
name: Martinelli, Erika
name: Morgillo, Floriana
name: Ciardiello, Davide
name: Falco, Vincenzo De
name: Giunta, Emilio
name: Bracale, Umberto
name: Ciardiello, Fortunato
name: Troiani, Teresa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Evaluation of protein expression level in parental (SW48 and LIM1215) and in HER2-amplified human colon cancer cell lines. Legend: Negative symbol (-) no protein expression detected; Positive symbols: (+) expression and (++) over-expression levels of each protein detected. Table S2. Antitumor efficacy of oxaliplatin plus trastuzumab followed by maintenance treatment in human HER2-amplified colon cancer xenograft. (DOCX 613 kb)
Digital Skills for FAIR and open science - Report of the EOSC Skills & Training Working Group
Creators: name: Van Gelder, Celia W.G.
name: Psomopoulos, Fotis
name: Melo, Ana M. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC
professional skills
training
data stewardship

description: Presentation entitled: Digital Skills for FAIR and open science - Report of the EOSC Training & Skills Working Group.
 Presented on June 2, 2021 at the EOSC Workshop, as part of the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2021
Quasi-Hopf Superalgebras and Elliptic Quantum Supergroups
Creators: name: Zhang, Yao-Zhong
name: Gould, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the quasi-Hopf superalgebras which are $Z_2$ graded versions of Drinfeld's quasi-Hopf algebras. We describe the realization of elliptic quantum supergroups as quasi-triangular quasi-Hopf superalgebras obtained from twisting the normal quantum supergroups by twistors which satisfy the graded shifted cocycle condition, thus generalizing the quasi-Hopf twisting procedure to the supersymmetric case. Two types of elliptic quantum supergroups are defined, that is the face type $B_{q,λ}(G)$ and the vertex type $A_{q,p}[\hat{sl(n|n)}]$ (and $A_{q,p}[\hat{gl(n|n)}]$), where $G$ is any Kac-Moody superalgebra with symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix. It appears that the vertex type twistor can be constructed only for $U_q[\hat{sl(n|n)}]$ in a non-standard system of simple roots, all of which are fermionic.
description: 22 pages, Latex file
On the Fly Robotic-Assisted Medical Instrument Planning and Execution Using Mixed Reality
Creators: name: Ai, Letian
name: Liu, Yihao
name: Armand, Mehran
name: Kheradmand, Amir
name: Martin-Gomez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic-assisted medical systems (RAMS) have gained significant attention for their advantages in alleviating surgeons' fatigue and improving patients' outcomes. These systems comprise a range of human-computer interactions, including medical scene monitoring, anatomical target planning, and robot manipulation. However, despite its versatility and effectiveness, RAMS demands expertise in robotics, leading to a high learning cost for the operator. In this work, we introduce a novel framework using mixed reality technologies to ease the use of RAMS. The proposed framework achieves real-time planning and execution of medical instruments by providing 3D anatomical image overlay, human-robot collision detection, and robot programming interface. These features, integrated with an easy-to-use calibration method for head-mounted display, improve the effectiveness of human-robot interactions. To assess the feasibility of the framework, two medical applications are presented in this work: 1) coil placement during transcranial magnetic stimulation and 2) drill and injector device positioning during femoroplasty. Results from these use cases demonstrate its potential to extend to a wider range of medical scenarios.
description: This paper has been accepted to IEEE ICRA 2024 as a contributed paper
p-Adic and Adelic Free Relativistic Particle
Creators: name: Djordjevic, G. S.
name: Dragovich, B.
name: Nesic, LJ.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider spectral problem for a free relativistic particle in p-adic and adelic quantum mechanics. In particular, we found p-adic and adelic eigenfunctions. Within adelic approach there exist quantum states that exhibit discrete structure of spacetime at the Planck scale.
description: 9 pages
The use of unconsolidated runoff material in coal waste dump reclamation
Creators: name: Kennedy, Alan J.
name: Kovach, William
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The effects of using unconsolidated runoff material collected from interceptor ditches as an amendment to soil material on waste dumps was investigated on study plots at Byron Creek Collieries from 1983 to 1986. Thirty-two plots representing replicates of two treatments of runoff material Incorporation were established in random block design on a "typical" coal waste dump. Data were collected on soil quality, vegetation cover and biomass, and tree survival and growth. Results from three years of study indicate the following conclusions. 1. Unconsolidated runoff material appears to improve texture and moisture holding capacity of the soil. 2. Revegetation potential is increased by using unconsolidated runoff material as a soil amendment. 3. Mortality of outplanted trees is reduced on sites incorporated with unconsolidated runoff material. Further evaluation of the study plots is required to determine long term effects of this amendment on reclamation success.
title: The pathogenic interplay between periodontal disease and inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Martins De Mello Neto, Joao M
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: periodontitis
subject: inflammatory bowel disease
subject: cytokines
subject: dextran sulphate

description: Aims: The present thesis aimed to study the interplay between periodontal disease and inflammatory bowel disease using a model where both diseases could co-exist in the same animal. Our specific aims were: 1) systematically review (SR) studies that evaluated the immunological traits of patients with both Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and periodontal disease; 2) investigate the impact of dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis (DIC) on histopathological and immunological outcomes in the periodontal tissues of Wistar rats; 3) investigate whether ligature-induced periodontitis (LIP) could affect the expression of Th1/Th2-related cytokines in the colon of Wistar rats; and 4) investigate the impact of non-surgical periodontal treatment (NSPT) on the expression of cytokines and chemokines in the intestine and gingival tissues of Wistar rats with DIC and LIP. [...]