cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
TIGIT+ iTregs elicited by human regulatory macrophages control T cell immunity
Creators: name: Riquelme, Paloma
name: Haarer, Jan
name: Kammler, Anja Nadine
name: Walter, Lisa
name: Tomiuk, S.
name: Ahrens, Norbert
name: Wege, Anja K.
name: Goecze, Ivan
name: Zecher, D.
name: Banas, Bernhard
name: Spang, Rainer
name: Fandrich, F.
name: Lutz, M. B.
name: Sawitzki, B.
name: Schlitt, Hans-Jürgen
name: Ochando, Jordi
name: Geissler, Edward K.
name: Hutchinson, J. A.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: BUTYROPHILIN-LIKE MOLECULE; DONOR DENDRITIC CELLS; FOXP3 EXPRESSION; GLYCODELIN-A; BONE-MARROW; TRANSPLANTATION; TOLERANCE; RESPONSES; PROGENITORS; RECEPTORS;
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Human regulatory macrophages (Mreg) have shown early clinical promise as a cell-based adjunct immunosuppressive therapy in solid organ transplantation. It is hypothesised that recipient CD4(+) T cell responses are actively regulated through direct allorecognition of donor-derived Mregs. Here we show that human Mregs convert allogeneic CD4(+) T cells to IL-10-producing, TIGIT(+) FoxP3(+)-induced regulatory T cells that non-specifically suppress bystander T cells and inhibit dendritic cell maturation. Differentiation of Mreg-induced Tregs relies on multiple non-redundant mechanisms that are not exclusive to interaction of Mregs and T cells, including signals mediated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, TGF-beta, retinoic acid, Notch and progestagen-associated endometrial protein. Preoperative administration of donor-derived Mregs to living-donor kidney transplant recipients results in an acute increase in circulating TIGIT(+) Tregs. These results suggest a feed-forward mechanism by which Mreg treatment promotes allograft acceptance through rapid induction of direct-pathway Tregs.
title: Методика обучения биологии. Ч.3. Человек и его здоровье
title: Учебно-методическое пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Богданов Н.А.
name:  Теремов А.В.
name:  Пятунина С.К.
name:  Перелович Н.В.
name:  Петросова Р.А.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2019

description: Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для студентов-бакалавров, обучающихся по направлению «Педагогическое образование: Биология». В пособии представлены разработки лабораторно-практических занятий по дисциплине «Теория и методика обучения биологии». Специально подобранные аудиторные и внеаудиторные задания помогут студентам подготовиться к проведению уроков по разделу «Человек и его здоровье» школьного курса биологии.
description: Educational-methodical manual is intended for undergraduate students enrolled in the direction "Pedagogical education: Biology". The textbook presents the development of laboratory-practical employments on discipline "Theory and methods of teaching biology". Specially selected classroom and extracurricular assignments will help students to prepare for lessons on the topic "Man and his health" a school course of biology.
Genome based two distinct SNP profile of SARS-CoV2 in an Indian case of COVID re-infectionReinfection or Reactivation: Genome based two distinct SNP profile of SARS-CoV2 re-positivity in an Indian case
Creators: name: Dhar, Mahesh S.
name: Asokachandran Vivekanand
name: BHARATHRAM UPPILI
name: Nishu Tyagi
name: Sharma, Pooja
name: Simmi Tiwari
name: RadhaKrishnan VS
name: Marwal, Robin
name: Akshay Kanakan
name: Azka Manzoor Khan
name: Pandey, Rajesh
name: Jais, Manoj
name: Sanjib Gogoi
name: Shewale, Ajit
name: Tushar Nale
name: Kabra, Sandhya
name: Faruq, Mohammed
name: Sujeet Singh
name: Anurag Agrawal
name: Partha Rakshit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pathogenesis
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 60503 Microbial Genetics

description: Supplementary data of the variant analysis
Off-shell invariants of linearized $4D, \mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity in the harmonic approach
Creators: name: Ivanov, Evgeny
name: Zaigraev, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the harmonic superspace approach, we construct, at the linearized level, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric curvatures generalizing scalar curvature, Ricci curvature and Weyl tensor. These supercurvatures are the building blocks of various linearized $4D, \, \mathcal{N}=2$ Einstein supergravity invariants. The supercurvatures involving the scalar and Ricci curvatures are analytic harmonic ${\cal N}=2$ superfields, while the Weyl supertensor is a chiral $\mathcal{N}=2$ superfield. As the basic distinguished feature of our construction, all these objects are expressed through the fundamental analytic gauge prepotentials $h^{++M}, M= (α\dotα, +α, +\dotα, 5)$. The related characteristic features are the heavy use of harmonic derivatives and harmonic zero-curvature equations. On a number of instructive examples, we describe the component reduction of the superfield invariants constructed.
description: 0 + 36 pages, some claryfing comments and references added, typos corrected; published version
D 4.2 Assembled innovative LIPUS stimulation set-ups
Creators: name: Andrea Cafarelli
name: Francesco Fontana
name: Irene Bernardeschi
name: Leonardo Ricotti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In this Deliverable, the highly controlled in vitro LIPUS stimulation prototypes are described. In section 2.1, both the low-frequency (38 kHz) and high frequency (500 kHz – 5 MHz) stimulation set-ups identified as SYSTEM 1 are presented. They will be used for ensuring the control of the US dose at the target and identifying (off-line) the optimum US parameters able to trigger beneficial bioeffects in terms of cartilage regeneration. In section 2.2, the assembled SYSTEM 2 set-up and its components is reported. It will allow investigating intracellular phenomena occurring during LIPUS stimulation in real-time.
Only few details on the two systems are reported in this Deliverable, which is public, to not jeopardise possible future IP protection. Full details on the different components have been reported in Deliverable D4.1. Furthermore, all additional and confidential information on the two systems is reported in Deliverable 4.3 (which is confidential).
On Bisimulations for Description Logics
Creators: name: Divroodi, Ali Rezaei
name: Nguyen, Linh Anh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study bisimulations for useful description logics. The simplest among the considered logics is $\mathcal{ALC}_{reg}$ (a variant of PDL). The others extend that logic with inverse roles, nominals, quantified number restrictions, the universal role, and/or the concept constructor for expressing the local reflexivity of a role. They also allow role axioms. We give results about invariance of concepts, TBoxes and ABoxes, preservation of RBoxes and knowledge bases, and the Hennessy-Milner property w.r.t. bisimulations in the considered description logics. Using the invariance results we compare the expressiveness of the considered description logics w.r.t. concepts, TBoxes and ABoxes. Our results about separating the expressiveness of description logics are naturally extended to the case when instead of $\mathcal{ALC}_{reg}$ we have any sublogic of $\mathcal{ALC}_{reg}$ that extends $\mathcal{ALC}$. We also provide results on the largest auto-bisimulations and quotient interpretations w.r.t. such equivalence relations. Such results are useful for minimizing interpretations and concept learning in description logics. To deal with minimizing interpretations for the case when the considered logic allows quantified number restrictions and/or the constructor for the local reflexivity of a role, we introduce a new notion called QS-interpretation, which is needed for obtaining expected results. By adapting Hopcroft's automaton minimization algorithm and the Paige-Tarjan algorithm, we give efficient algorithms for computing the partition corresponding to the largest auto-bisimulation of a finite interpretation.
description: 42 pages
Valorisation d’un mélange de schiste et de déchets plastiques dans la construction routière
Creators: name: Boudlal, Omar
name: Kechemir, Anissa
name: Khattaoui, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: La présente étude s’inscrit dans le cadre général du recyclage et de la valorisation des matériaux locaux. Elle a pour objectif principal, la réutilisation des déchets plastiques additionnés aux granulats naturels de schiste dans la construction routière. Les résultats obtenus sont très intéressants et peuvent ouvrir un large éventail de réutilisation des matériaux étudiés dans le domaine du génie civil en général et dans la construction routière en particulier. Cette pratique peut constituer une alternative propre, et rentable limitant d’une part l’extraction abusive des matériaux alluvionnaires et d’autre part les décharges anarchiques et illicites nuisibles pour l’environnement.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Application of X-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinement to quantify mineral composition including crystalline silica in respirable dust
Creators: name: Halvorsen, Johanne Østereng
name: Stacey, Peter
name: Graff, Pål
name: Gjengedal, Elin Lovise Folven
name: Ervik, Torunn K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study aimed to test the use of Rietveld refinement on respirable aerosol samples to determine the phase of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) and other minerals. The results from the Rietveld refinement were compared to an external standard method and gravimetrical measurements. Laboratory samples consisting of α-quartz, feldspar, and calcite with variable proportions and total mass loadings were made and analyzed using the NIOSH 7500 Silica, Crystalline, by XRD (filter redeposition) method, followed by Rietveld refinement. Field samples of respirable dust, from construction sites working with concrete, brick, and other materials were included. To correct for amorphous content and unidentified phases, an internal standard was added to the field samples, which were treated like laboratory samples. Rietveld refinement was successfully used for quantification of RCS in laboratory and field samples. The method showed comparable results to the NIOSH 7500 method for quartz and remained linear for laboratory samples up to 20 mg. The lowest quantified amounts of quartz in the laboratory samples were 5 µg. The two methods yielded similar results for RCS in field samples with a total mass of up to 15 mg and a quartz content of 1.8 wt% to 11 wt%. A total sample mass of above 0.5 mg was required for optimal quantification of crystalline phases by Rietveld refinement. The method proved useful in determining RCS and other crystalline components in field samples and corrected for interferences even with a complex matrix and high mass loading.
Good models and policies of elderly care in urban areas: A case study of Nong Hoi Sub-district municipality, Muang District, Chiang Mai Province
Creators: name: Polwasit Lhakard
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: Elderly care model
healthcare policies
community

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 1, 148-158
Pollution par précipitation des carbonates de calcium des eaux saumâtres selon les zones de métastabilité
Creators: name: Louadj, A.
name: Naceur, M.W.
name: Elfil, H.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Les substances en suspension, véhiculées par les eaux, sont susceptibles de former des dépôts. L’origine de ces dépôts correspond toujours à une remise en cause des équilibres chimiques en solution. Le dépôt de carbonate de calcium constitue un problème majeur, l’utilisation des anti-tartres peut être efficace mais elle engendre des effets indésirables vis-à-vis à l’environnement, l’économie et l’énergie consommée. L'étude de ces problèmes nous amène à "l’équilibres calco-carboniques". De nombreux facteurs régissent cet équilibre, une modification de certains paramètres tels que le pH, la concentration en CO2 dissous ou la température peut provoquer la rupture de l'équilibre calco-carbonique et entraîner le phénomène d'entartrage. La sursaturation de la solution est calculée en fonction de la dureté et le pH de l’eau, ce qui a permis de limiter les différentes zones de, corrosion, entartrage, ainsi que la phase métastable. La phase métastable se caractérise par une solution sursaturée qui permet au carbonate de calcium de préserver un statut de non apparition de cristal. La majorité des méthodes d’estimation du caractère incrustant de l’eau évalue sa composition par rapport aux conditions d’équilibre thermodynamique de la forme la plus stable qui est la calcite, alors que la présence des précurseurs de germination, le CCA ou le CCM est indispensable à toute précipitation pour des sursaturations supérieures à 6,4.10-8, ces précurseurs déterminent le type de la germination, soit elle est d’une prédominance homogène ou bien hétérogène. La méthode du pH critique nous permet de suivre l’évolution de la germination et le calcul de l’indice de saturation de langelier modifié (MLSI) selon les précurseurs de la germination.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Property $(T_B)$ and Property $(F_B)$ restricted to a representation without non-zero invariant vectors
Creators: name: Tanaka, Mamoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 46B04, 47H10

description: In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for which a finitely generated group has a property like Kazhdan's Property $(T)$ restricted to one isometric representation on a strictly convex Banach space without non-zero invariant vectors. Similarly, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for which a finitely generated group has a property like Property $(FH)$ restricted to the set of the affine isometric actions whose linear part are one isometric representation on a strictly convex Banach space without non-zero invariant vectors. If the Banach space is the $\ell^p$ space ($1
description: 17 pages
title: Stability of Subsidized Childcare Policy Brief
Creators: name: Aranda Balcazar, Rodrigo
name: Ribar, David
Publisher: name: Georgia Policy Labs
Year: 2022

description: Georgia’s Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program subsidizes childcare for children in families with low incomes
and in vulnerable circumstances while their parents work or pursue training. We investigated stability in the CAPS program
by examining continuous, uninterrupted periods (i.e., spells) of children holding CAPS scholarships, receiving subsidized care from the same provider, and holding scholarships but not using them. We found that program experiences for most children are stable.
Philosophical praxis and the menace of street urchins in Nigeria
Creators: name: Christopher Akpan, Dorathy Akpan
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: Philosophical praxis
street urchins
dialogic
philosophico-outreach therapy

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 1, 159-170
Random complex dynamics and devil's coliseums
Creators: name: Sumi, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 30D05

description: We investigate the random dynamics of polynomial maps on the Riemann sphere and the dynamics of semigroups of polynomial maps on the Riemann sphere. In particular, the dynamics of a semigroup $G$ of polynomials whose planar postcritical set is bounded and the associated random dynamics are studied. In general, the Julia set of such a $G$ may be disconnected. We show that if $G$ is such a semigroup, then regarding the associated random dynamics, the chaos of the averaged system disappears in the $C^{0}$ sense, and the function $T_{\infty}$ of probability of tending to $\infty$ is Hölder continuous on the Riemann sphere and varies only on the Julia set of $G$. Moreover, the function $T_{\infty}$ has a kind of monotonicity. It turns out that $T_{\infty}$ is a complex analogue of the devil's staircase, and we call $T_{\infty}$ a "devil's coliseum." We investigate the details of $T_{\infty}$ when $G$ is generated by two polynomials. In this case, $T_{\infty}$ varies precisely on the Julia set of $G$, which is a thin fractal set. Moreover, under this condition, we investigate the pointwise Hölder exponents of $T_{\infty}$ by using some geometric observations, ergodic theory, potential theory and function theory. In particular, we show that for almost every point $z$ in the Julia set of $G$ with respect to an invariant measure, $T_{\infty}$ is not differentiable at $z.$ We find many new phenomena of random complex dynamics which cannot hold in the usual iteration dynamics of a single polynomial, and we systematically investigate them.
description: Published in Nonlinearity 28 (2015) 1135-1161. See also http://www.math.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/~sumi/
Fissuration en mode mixte des bois tropicaux avec la méthode de la grille
Creators: name: Odounga, Bernard
name: Moutou Pitti, Rostand
name: Toussaint, Evelyne
name: Grédiac, Michel
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’objectif de ce papier est d’étudier la fissuration des essences tropicales gabonaises telles que le Milicia excelsa (iroko), l’Aucoumea klaineana (okoumé) et le Pterocarpus soyauxii (padouk) par une méthode de mesure sans contact. Le taux de restitution d'énergie critique est calculé avec une éprouvette modifiée Mixed Mode Crack Growth (MMCG). Les essais sont effectués en mode mixte pour des taux de mixité de 15° et 30°. Les courbes force-déplacement, le processus de croissance de la fissure ainsi que l'ouverture de fissure sont déduits des images enregistrées. Ces images sont traitées par la méthode de la grille. Le taux de restitution d'énergie est estimé par la méthode de la complaisance. Les résultats montrent une influence de la densité sur les taux de restitution d’énergie et le rapport GI/GII indique une évolution constante.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Nursing students' attitudes toward, and willingness to participate in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in the Canadian context : survey development
Creators: name: Schroeder, Jocelyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Background: In 2016 Canada passed legislation which legalised Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), allowing eligible Canadians the ability to receive a lethal substance to end their life under certain circumstances. Nurses in Canada have a significant role in providing care to clients before, during, and after a MAiD death. Nurses’ and nursing students’ experiences with MAiD thus far have been complex. The purpose of this study was to develop a survey to assess nursing students’ attitudes toward and willingness to participate in MAiD in the unique Canadian context. Methods: This study created and initially validated a survey that can be used at a future date to assess nursing students’ and their attitudes toward, and willingness to participate in, MAiD. This study utilized item generation techniques, a Delphi method with panel of expert nursing faculty, and a cognitive interview focus group with nursing students to prioritize, refine, and validate the survey questions. Results: The final survey consisted of 45 questions including four case studies. Categories of the survey included questions relating to: participant demographics, experiences with end-of-life and MAiD, knowledge of MAiD, agreement/disagreement with MAiD, influences of beliefs about MAiD, willingness to participate in roles related to MAiD, and clinical case scenarios. Discussion: This study provided a significant step in being able to assess nursing students’ attitudes toward MAiD in Canada, and the results aligned with existing literature. Each category of the survey proved to be an important area of future study, with several controversies providing a focus for future research.
Viral processes by random walks on random regular graphs
Creators: name: Abdullah, Mohammed
name: Cooper, Colin
name: Draief, Moez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the SIR epidemic model with infections carried by $k$ particles making independent random walks on a random regular graph. Here we assume $k\leq n^ε$, where $n$ is the number of vertices in the random graph, and $ε$ is some sufficiently small constant. We give an edge-weighted graph reduction of the dynamics of the process that allows us to apply standard results of Erdős-Rényi random graphs on the particle set. In particular, we show how the parameters of the model give two thresholds: In the subcritical regime, $O(\ln k)$ particles are infected. In the supercritical regime, for a constant $β\in(0,1)$ determined by the parameters of the model, $βk$ get infected with probability $β$, and $O(\ln k)$ get infected with probability $(1-β)$. Finally, there is a regime in which all $k$ particles are infected. Furthermore, the edge weights give information about when a particle becomes infected. We exploit this to give a completion time of the process for the SI case.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP1000 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The MeerKAT Fornax Survey. III. Ram-pressure stripping of the tidally interacting galaxy NGC 1427A in the Fornax cluster
Creators: name: Serra, P.
name: Oosterloo, T. A.
name: Kamphuis, P.
name: Jozsa, G. I. G.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: Bryan, G. L.
name: van Gorkom, J. H.
name: Iodice, E.
name: Kleiner, D.
name: Loni, A.
name: Loubser, S. I.
name: Maccagni, F. M.
name: Molnar, D.
name: Peletier, R.
name: Pisano, D. J.
name: Ramatsoku, M.
name: Smith, M. W. L.
name: Verheijen, M. A. W.
name: Zabel, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present MeerKAT Fornax Survey HI observations of NGC 1427A, a blue irregular galaxy with a stellar mass of 2e+9 Msun located near the centre of the Fornax galaxy cluster. Thanks to the excellent resolution (1 to 6 kpc spatially, 1.4 km/s in velocity) and HI column density sensitivity (4e+19/cm^2 to 1e+18/cm^2 depending on resolution), our data deliver new insights on the long-debated interaction of this galaxy with the cluster environment. We confirm the presence of a broad, one-sided, starless HI tail stretching from the outer regions of the stellar body and pointing away from the cluster centre. We find the tail to have 50% more HI (4e+8 Msun) and to be 3 times longer (70 kpc) than in previous observations. In fact, we detect scattered HI clouds out to 300 kpc from the galaxy in the direction of the tail -- possibly the most ancient remnant of the passage of NGC 1427A through the intracluster medium of Fornax. Both the velocity gradient along the HI tail and the peculiar kinematics of HI in the outer region of the stellar body are consistent with the effect of ram pressure given the line-of-sight motion of the galaxy within the cluster. However, several properties cannot be explained solely by ram pressure and suggest an ongoing tidal interaction. This includes: the close match between dense HI and stars within the disturbed stellar body; the abundant kinematically-anomalous HI; and the inversion of the HI velocity gradient near the base of the HI tail. We rule out an interaction with the cluster tidal field, and conclude that NGC 1427A is the result of a high-speed galaxy encounter or of a merger started at least 300 Myr ago, where ram pressure shapes the distribution and kinematics of the HI in the perturbed outer stellar body and in the tidal tails.
description: Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted. Data available at the MeerKAT Fornax Survey website, https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/meerkatfornaxsurvey
Preliminary study on the ejection of microplastics from different types of face masks
Creators: name: Esmeralda, V. Glen
name: Patterson, Jamila
name: Shelciya, S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Face masks are strongly believed to be the best precaution to reduce the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which resulted in an unprecedented surge in the production and use of personal respiratory protective equipment. Unfortunately, this surge led to improper disposal of used masks. This study aimed to assess the occurrence of microplastics (MPs) in used and unused surgical and cloth masks and N95 respirators. Respective samples were kept in a rotary shaker with distilled water in an Erlenmeyer flask for 5 hr to assess the release of MPs. Surgical masks showed a greater occurrence of microplastics release; an average of 18.27 items/mask were released from used and discarded surgical masks and 10.87 items/mask were released from unused new masks Fibers and fragments smaller than 0.5 mm in size were found to have a predominant presence in all the observed facemasks and respirators. The ATR-FTIR analysis of all the masks and respirators revealed the presence of four different polymers, namely polyethylene (PE) 46%, polypropylene (PP) 27%, polyamide (PA) 15% and polystyrene (PS) 12%. The microplastics released by face masks and N95 respirators can be carried by the environment or directly inhaled during use. As a result, using masks and N95 respirators repeatedly could expose individuals to microplastics. The proper use of face masks and N95 respirators and proper disposal practices should be maintained to prevent human and environmental exposures to MPs. MPs have been shown to affect individuals at the cellular to systems level, and additional research on the effects of MPs on human health is needed.
Comportement mécanique d'un tronçon en té d'assemblage boulonné avec et sans précontrainte
Creators: name: Merad Boudia, Sofiane
name: Benyelles, Chemseddine
name: Boumechra, Nadir
name: Missoum, Abdelghani
name: Bouchaïr, Abdelhamid
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Le présent article a pour but d'étudier le comportement mécanique de la zone tendue d’assemblages boulonnés par platine d'about. Elle est modélisée par des tronçons en té caractérisés par une longueur efficace permettant d’obtenir la résistance et la rigidité. Le diamètre et la position des boulons, l’épaisseur de la semelle du tronçon ainsi que la précontrainte dans les boulons influent sur sa résistance, son mode de ruine et sa rigidité. Un modèle numérique a été développé afin d'évaluer les performances mécaniques d'un tronçon en té comportant deux rangées de boulons avec et sans précontrainte. L'évolution des efforts internes dans les boulons et des efforts de levier sont présentés. Le modèle est validé en comparant sa courbe globale force-déplacement avec celle obtenue par essais expérimentaux disponibles dans la bibliographie.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Testing volume integrals of travel-time sensitivity kernels for flows
Creators: name: Svanda, Michal
name: Chmurny, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Helioseismic inversions rely largely on sensitivity kernels, 3-D spatial functions describing how do the changes in the solar interior translate into the changes of helioseismic observables. These sensitivity kernels come in most cases from the forward modelling utilising state-of-the-art solar models.
 Aims: We aim to test the sensitivity kernels by comparing their volume integrals with measured values from helioseismic travel times.
 Methods: By manipulating the tracking rate, we mimic the additional zonal velocity present in the Dopplergram datacubes. These datacubes are then processed by a standard travel-time measurements pipeline. We investigate the dependence of the east--west travel time averaged over a box around the disc centre on the implanted tracking velocity. The slope of this dependence is directly proportional to the total volume integral of the sensitivity kernel corresponding to the used travel-time geometry.
 Results: We find a very good to acceptable agreement between measurements and models for travel times with ridge filtering applied. The sought dependence indeed resembles a linear function and the slope of it agrees with the expected volume integral from the forward-modelled sensitivity kernel. The agreement is less optimistic for the phase-speed filtered datacubes. A disagreement is particularly large for smallest phase speeds (filters td1--td4), for the larger phase speeds, our result indicate that the measured kernel integrals are systematically larger than expected from the forward modelling. We admit that for large phase-speeds and higher radial modes our testing procedure does not have to be appropriate.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The development of intangible cultural heritage and China's good governance: A case study of Ruili's Tai pottery
Creators: name: Haosheng Duan
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tai Pottery
China's good governance
intangible cultural heritage
Ruili

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 1, 171-179
Assessing fentanyl and methamphetamine in air and on surfaces of transit vehicles
Creators: name: Beaudreau, Marc
name: Srikanth, Pranav
name: Zuidema, Christopher
name: Cohen, Martin A.
name: Seto, Edmund
name: Simpson, Christopher D.
name: Baker, Marissa G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Recently, the misuse of fentanyl and methamphetamine has increased in the United States. These drugs can be consumed via smoking a powder, which can subsequently contaminate air and surfaces with drug residue. With limited access to safe consumption sites, this misuse often occurs in public spaces such as public transit, leading to potential secondhand exposures among transit operators and riders. In the Pacific Northwest, transit operators have reported acute health symptoms and safety concerns regarding these drug exposures. Researchers conducted an exposure assessment, sampling air and surfaces for fentanyl and methamphetamine. A total of 78 air samples and 89 surface samples were collected on 11 buses and 19 train cars from four transit agencies in the Pacific Northwest. Fentanyl was detected above the limit of quantification (LOQ) in 25% of air samples (range of concentrations > LOQ: 0.002 to 0.14 µg/m3) and 38% of surface samples (range of concentrations > LOQ: 0.011 to 0.47 ng/cm2), while methamphetamine was detected in 100% of air samples (range: 0.003 to 2.32 µg/m3) and 98% of surface samples (range of concentrations > LOQ: 0.016 to 6.86 ng/cm2) The highest fentanyl air sample (0.14 µg/m3) was collected in the passenger area of a train for 4 hr, and would exceed the ACGIH® 8-hr TWA TLV® of 0.1 µg/m3 if conditions remained the same for the unsampled period. No surface samples exceed the ACGIH fentanyl surface level TLV (10 ng/cm2). The prevalence of fentanyl and methamphetamine on public transit highlights the need to protect transit operators from secondhand exposure and from the stress of witnessing and responding to smoking events. Future work is needed to evaluate the utility of engineering and administrative controls such as ventilation and cleaning upgrades in reducing exposures on transit, as well as the utility of training and increased workplace support for operators in addressing their health and well-being after observing or responding to drug use events.
Perspectives on late adolescent cyberbullying victimization: Gender differences in behavioural health effects
Creators: name: Aungkana Jattamart And Achaporn Kwangsawad
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cyberbullying
late adolescent victimization
behavioral health
gender differences
social cognitive theory
social media

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 1, 180-194
Noise-induced behaviors in neural mean field dynamics
Creators: name: Touboul, Jonathan
name: Hermann, Geoffroy
name: Faugeras, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The collective behavior of cortical neurons is strongly affected by the presence of noise at the level of individual cells. In order to study these phenomena in large-scale assemblies of neurons, we consider networks of firing-rate neurons with linear intrinsic dynamics and nonlinear coupling, belonging to a few types of cell populations and receiving noisy currents. Asymptotic equations as the number of neurons tends to infinity (mean field equations) are rigorously derived based on a probabilistic approach. These equations are implicit on the probability distribution of the solutions which generally makes their direct analysis difficult. However, in our case, the solutions are Gaussian, and their moments satisfy a closed system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which are much easier to study than the original stochastic network equations, and the statistics of the empirical process uniformly converge towards the solutions of these ODEs. Based on this description, we analytically and numerically study the influence of noise on the collective behaviors, and compare these asymptotic regimes to simulations of the network. We observe that the mean field equations provide an accurate description of the solutions of the network equations for network sizes as small as a few hundreds of neurons. In particular, we observe that the level of noise in the system qualitatively modifies its collective behavior, producing for instance synchronized oscillations of the whole network, desynchronization of oscillating regimes, and stabilization or destabilization of stationary solutions. These results shed a new light on the role of noise in shaping collective dynamics of neurons, and gives us clues for understanding similar phenomena observed in biological networks.
D 7.8 Report on 2nd ADMAIORA workshop and other key communication events
Creators: name: Paola Giulia Cormio
name: Leonardo Ricotti
name: Michele Nardini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This Deliverable describes the key events organised in the second year of the ADMAIORA project, as devised in the preliminary dissemination, communication and exploitation plan. In particular, the second project-related scientific symposium was proposed and accepted for the 47th European Society of Artificial Organs (ESAO) Congress by the Project Coordinator. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the 47th ESAO Congress was postponed to 2021.
Furthermore, a technical webinar was organised within the event Tech Share Day 2020, with a focus on regenerative medicine and artificial organs.
A second non-technical Workshop has also been organised (it will take place in February 2021) by the Project Coordinator in collaboration with IOR, addressing clinical end-users, namely orthopedists, radiologists and other people interested in imaging and diagnostics. Here the speakers will discuss recent developments and potential future applications of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound for osteoarticular applications and beyond, highlighting the challenges yet to be addressed and the possible future impact of this technology, highlighting the links with the ADMAIORA project efforts.
Finally, this Deliverable describes the following additional communication events:
- Two articles describing the ADMAIORA project on a quarterly magazine (Il Notiziario del Malato Reumatico), edited by an association of patients supporting the ADMAIORA project (Associazione Malati Reumatici Emilia Romagna, AMRER);
- A TV interview delivered by Prof. Ricotti to the RAI – Italian State Broadcaster, on ADMAIORA and the new frontiers of regenerative medicine;
- Press release for a scientific paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces;
- Promotional video “ADMAIORA turns 1 year”, promoted on the social networks.
The dynamics of Aut(F_n) on redundant representations
Creators: name: Gelander, Tsachik
name: Minsky, Yair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D40, 57M50

description: We study some dynamical properties of the canonical Aut(F_n)-action on the space R_n(G) of redundant representations of the free group F_n in G, where G is the group of rational points of a simple algebraic group over a local field. We show that this action is always minimal and ergodic, confirming a conjecture of A. Lubotzky. On the other hand for the classical cases where G=SL(2,R) or SL(2,C) we show that the action is not weak mixing, in the sense that the diagonal action on R_n(G)^2 is not ergodic.
description: Some of the statements and arguments rely on the assumption that the algebraic group G is simply connected. This assumption, which was missing in the previous version, is not necessary in the archimedean cases, but it is needed in the non-archimedean cases
A corpus-based investigation of English near-synonyms: Assess, evaluate, and measure
Creators: name: Kietnawin Sridhanyarat And Supakorn Phoocharoensil
Publisher: name: Silpakorn University Research Innovation and Creativity Administration Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: Academic discourses
COCA
corpus linguistics
collocations
near-synonyms

description: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies, 23, 1, 208-219
Modélisation théorique et expérimentale du comportement énergétique et environnemental des matériaux de construction biosourcés
Creators: name: Benhaled, Maroua
name: Ouldboukhitine, Salah-Eddine
name: Amziane, Sofiane
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’utilisation du béton végétal comme le béton de chanvre est devenue de plus en plus répandue dans les constructions en remplacement des matériaux classiques traités sous des procédés industriels dans un contexte environnemental critique. Le béton de chanvre est un matériau de remplissage connu pour ses propriétés hygrothermiques et environnementales ainsi que pour le confort induit par ces performances multiphysiques. L’objectif de cette étude est de quantifier l’impact de ce matériau sur les performances énergétiques du bâtiment selon une approche pluridisciplinaire. La première partie est consacrée à l’état de l’art lié aux usages du béton de chanvre et à ses performances en comparaison aux matériaux classiques du génie civil. Un travail préliminaire qui consiste en une étude bibliographique approfondie portant sur les modèles proposés dans la littérature a été également entrepris. La seconde partie est consacrée à un travail de caractérisation expérimentale sur béton de chanvre permettant d’identifier les paramètres nécessaires au modèle numérique. La troisième partie est dédiée à l’étude du comportement hygrothermique d’une paroi et d’un local en béton de chanvre soumis à des conditions climatiques statiques et dynamiques dans le but d’évaluer l’impact du matériau sur la demande énergétique ainsi que le confort des usagers.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
The geometry of the space-time and motion of the spinning bodies
Creators: name: Trencevski, Kostadin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A04, 53Z05, 51P05

description: In this paper an alternative theory about space-time is given. First some preliminaries about 3-dimensional time and the reasons for its introduction are presented. Alongside the 3-dimensional space (S) the 3-dimensional space of spatial rotations (SR) is considered independently from the 3-dimensional space. Then it is given a model of the universe, based on the Lie groups of real and complex orthogonal 3x3 matrices in this 3+3+3-dimensional space. Special attention is dedicated for introduction and study of the space SxSR, which appears to be isomorphic to SO(3,R)xSO(3,R) or S^3xS^3. The influence of the gravitational acceleration to the spinning bodies is considered. Some important applications of these results about spinning bodies are given, which naturally lead to violation of Newton's third law in its classical formulation. The precession of the spinning axis is also considered.
description: 35 pages
Additional file 1 of The A-to-I editing of KPC1 promotes intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by attenuating proteasomal processing of NF-κB1 p105 to p50
Creators: name: Gao, Chengming
name: Zhou, Guangming
name: Shi, Jie
name: Shi, Peipei
name: Jin, Liang
name: Li, Yuanfeng
name: Wang, Xiaowen
name: Liao, Song
name: Yan, Han
name: Wu, Junjie
name: Lu, Yiming
name: Zhai, Yun
name: Zhang, Jinxu
name: Zhang, Haitao
name: Zhang, Hongxing
name: Yang, Chenning
name: Cao, Pengbo
name: Cheng, Shuqun
name: Zhou, Gangqiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1.
New Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron in a Paramagnetic Insulator
Creators: name: Kim, Y. J.
name: Liu, C. -Y.
name: Lamoreaux, S. K.
name: Visser, G.
name: Kunkler, B.
name: Matlashov, A. N.
name: Long, J. C.
name: Reddy, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of an experimental search for the intrinsic Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of the electron using a solid-state technique. The experiment employs a paramagnetic, insulating gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) that has a large magnetic response at low temperatures. The presence of the eEDM would lead to a small but non-zero magnetization as the GGG sample is subject to a strong electric field. We search for the resulting Stark-induced magnetization with a sensitive magnetometer. Recent progress on the suppression of several sources of background allows the experiment to run free of spurious signals at the level of the statistical uncertainties. We report our first limit on the eEDM of $(-5.57 \pm 7.98 \pm 0.12)\times$10$^{-25}$e$\cdot$cm with 5 days of data averaging.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, Revtex 4.1
Comportement mécanique des mortiers fibres pré fissures stockés dans un environnement acide
Creators: name: Fedaoui-Akmoussi, O.
name: Molez, L.
name: Brahimi, W.
name: Kaci, S.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’étude des bétons fibrés en milieu agressif a fait objet de plusieurs recherches. Notre étude s’est basée sur le comportement des mortiers fibrés pré-fissurés (pré-endommagés) conservés en environnement agressif. Les compositions ont été fabriquées avec un rapport eau-ciment (E/C = 0,5), trois pourcentages en fibres ont été utilisé : 0,25% ; 0,50% et 0,75%. Afin d’évaluer la durabilité et le comportement mécanique deux environnements ont été étudiés : acide sulfurique (H2SO4) et sulfate d’ammonium (NH4SO4). Après 28 jours d’âge, les éprouvettes ont été pré-fissurées à 90 % de la charge de rupture. Les résultats ont montrés que l’immersion dans la solution d’acide sulfurique attaque plus les éprouvettes par rapport à la solution de sulfate d’ammonium. Les mortiers avec 0.75% en fibres présentent des résistances en compression et en flexion élevées pour les différents environnements. Le choix d’utiliser des fibres métalliques offre une possibilité pour améliorer la durabilité des bétons pourvus que les fibres soit bien enrobés et le béton bien confectionné.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Courbes multiples primitives et déformations de courbes lisses
Creators: name: Drezet, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H10, 14C05

description: A primitive multiple curve is a Cohen-Macaulay scheme Y over the field of complex numbers such that the reduced scheme C=Y_red is a smooth curve, and that Y can be locally embedded in a smooth surface. In general such a curve Y cannot be globally embedded in a smooth surface. If Y is a primitive multiple curve of multiplicity n, then there is a canonical filtration of Y C=C_1 ... C_n=Y such that C_i is a primitive multiple curve of multiplicity i. The ideal sheaf I_C of C in Y is a line bundle on C_{n-1}. Let T be a smooth curve and t_0 a closed point of T. Let D-->T be a flat family of projective smooth irreducible curves, and C=D_{t_0}. Then the n-th infinitesimal neighbourhood of C in D is a primitive multiple curve C_n of multiplicity n, embedded in the smooth surface D, and in this case I_C is the trivial line bundle on C_{n-1}. Conversely, we prove that every projective primitive multiple curve Y=C_n such that I_C is the trivial line bundle on C_{n-1} can be obtained in this way.
description: 18 pages, in French