cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Histone Modifications in Endometriosis Highlights New Therapeutic Opportunities
Creators: name: Psilopatis, Iason
name: Vrettou, Kleio
name: Fleckenstein, Florian Nima
name: Theocharis, Stamatios
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: histone
subject: deacetylase
subject: inhibitor
subject: endometriosis
subject: therapy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Endometriosis is a chronic disorder of the female reproductive system which afflicts a great number of women worldwide. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) prevent the relaxation of chromatin, thereby positively or negatively modulating gene transcription. The current review aims at studying the impact of histone modifications and their therapeutic targeting in endometriosis. In order to identify relevant studies, a literature review was conducted using the MEDLINE and LIVIVO databases. The current manuscript represents the most comprehensive, up-to-date review of the literature focusing on the particular role of HDACs and their inhibitors in the context of endometriosis. HDAC1, HDAC2, HDAC3, Sirtuin 1, and Sirtuin 3, are the five most studied HDAC enzymes which seem to, at least partly, influence the pathophysiology of endometriosis. Both well-established and novel HDACIs could possibly represent modern, efficacious anti-endometriotic drug agents. Altogether, histone modifications and their therapeutic targeting have been proven to have a strong impact on endometriosis.
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Year: 2020
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High-accuracy large-scale DFT calculations using localized orbitals in complex electronic systems: The case of graphene-metal interfaces
Creators: name: Romero-Muñiz, Carlos
name: Nakata, Ayako
name: Pou, Pablo
name: Bowler, David R.
name: Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi
name: Pérez, Rubén
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of interesting systems without a high-accuracy quantum description. In this work, we calculate the electronic and structural properties of a graphene-metal system significantly larger than in previous plane-wave calculations with the same accuracy. For this task we use a localised basis set with the \textsc{Conquest} code, both in their primitive, pseudo-atomic orbital form, and using a recent multi-site approach. This multi-site scheme allows us to maintain accuracy while saving computational time and memory requirements, even in our exemplar complex system of graphene grown on Rh(111) with and without intercalated atomic oxygen. This system offers a rich scenario that will serve as a benchmark, demonstrating that highly accurate simulations in cells with over 3000 atoms are feasible with modest computational resources.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Theor. Comput
Increased plasma level of terminal complement complex in AMD patients: potential functional consequences for RPE cells
Creators: name: Busch, Catharina
name: Rau, Saskia
name: Sekulic, Andjela
name: Perie, Luce
name: Huber, Christian
name: Gehrke, Miranda
name: Joussen, Antonia M.
name: Zipfel, Peter F.
name: Wildner, Gerhild
name: Skerka, Christine
name: Strauß, Olaf
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: retinal pigment epithelium
subject: terminal complement complex
subject: age-related macular degeneration
subject: AMD serum
subject: genetic risk factors
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose: Polymorphisms in complement genes are risk-associated for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Functional analysis revealed a common deficiency to control the alternative complement pathway by risk-associated gene polymorphisms. Thus, we investigated the levels of terminal complement complex (TCC) in the plasma of wet AMD patients with defined genotypes and the impact of the complement activation of their plasma on second-messenger signaling, gene expression, and cytokine/chemokine secretion in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. Design: Collection of plasma from patients with wet AMD (n = 87: 62% female and 38% male; median age 77 years) and controls (n = 86: 39% female and 61% male; median age 58 years), grouped for risk factor smoking and genetic risk alleles CFH 402HH and ARMS2 rs3750846, determination of TCC levels in the plasma, in vitro analysis on RPE function during exposure to patients' or control plasma as a complement source. Methods: Genotyping, measurement of TCC concentrations, ARPE-19 cell culture, Ca2+ imaging, gene expression by qPCR, secretion by multiplex bead analysis of cell culture supernatants. Main outcome measures: TCC concentration in plasma, intracellular free Ca2+, relative mRNA levels, cytokine secretion. Results: TCC levels in the plasma of AMD patients were five times higher than in non-AMD controls but did not differ in plasma from carriers of the two risk alleles. Complement-evoked Ca2+ elevations in RPE cells differed between patients and controls with a significant correlation between TCC levels and peak amplitudes. Comparing the Ca2+ signals, only between the plasma of smokers and non-smokers, as well as heterozygous (CFH 402YH) and CFH 402HH patients, revealed differences in the late phase. Pre-stimulation with complement patients' plasma led to sensitization for complement reactions by RPE cells. Gene expression for surface molecules protective against TCC and pro-inflammatory cytokines increased after exposure to patients' plasma. Patients' plasma stimulated the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the RPE. Conclusion: TCC levels were higher in AMD patients but did not depend on genetic risk factors. The Ca2+ responses to patients' plasma as second-messenger represent a shift of RPE cells to a pro-inflammatory phenotype and protection against TCC. We conclude a substantial role of high TCC plasma levels in AMD pathology.
To Eat or Not to Eat—A Qualitative Exploration and Typology of Restrictive Dietary Practices among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Creators: name: Bandelin-Franke, Lena
name: Schenk, Liane
name: Baer, Nadja-Raphaela
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: restrictive dietary practice
subject: dietary refrain
subject: restriction
subject: dietary behavior
subject: food choice
subject: fasting
subject: healthy ageing
subject: qualitative research
subject: qualitative typology
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Favorable diets often include restrictive practices that have proven health benefits, even if initiated later in life. The aim of this qualitative study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of Restrictive Dietary Practices (RDPs) among a sample of middle-aged and older German adults (aged 59-78 years). We conducted 24 narrative in-depth interviews and analyzed the data using qualitative content analysis (Kuckartz). Following an inductive thematic approach, a typology was reconstructed comprising four typical RDP characteristics: I. The Holistically Restraining Type, II. The Dissonant-savoring Restraining Type, III. The Reactively Restraining Type, and IV. The Unintentionally Restraining Type. These types differed regarding the practical implementation of, e.g., restrictive food choice into everyday routines, barriers to do so, as well as with respect to attitudes and motives underlying RDPs. The major motives for adopting a RDP involved health, well-being, ethical, and ecological concerns. The most prominent barriers to a 'successful' adoption of RDPs were the enjoyment of food and the desire for spontaneity and freedom of (food) choice. Our study offers an in-depth understanding of the aspects that shape the widespread practice of dietary restriction among middle-aged and older adults. Lifeworld-related changes in RDPs and possible 'type shiftings' are discussed as well as the meaning and chances of RDPs for public health promotion.
Splitting the hinge mode of higher-order topological insulators
Creators: name: Queiroz, Raquel
name: Stern, Ady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface of a higher order topological insulator (HOTI) comprises a two-dimensional topological insulator (TI) with broken inversion symmetry, whose mass is determined by the microscopic details of the surface such as surface potentials and termination. It hosts a helical mode pinned to selected hinges where the surface gap changes its sign. We study the effect of perturbations that break time-reversal and particle-conservation on this helical mode, such as a Zeeman field and a proximate superconductor. We find that in contrast to the helical modes of inversion symmetric TIs, which are gapped by these couplings, the helical modes at the hinges can remain gapless and spatially split. When this happens, the Zeeman field splits the helical mode into a chiral mode surrounding the magnetized region; and a superconductor results in a helical Majorana mode surrounding the superconducting region. The combination of the two might lead to the gapping of one of the chiral Majorana modes, and leave a single one-dimensional chiral Majorana around the superconducting island. We propose that the different topological states can be measured in electrical transport.
description: added supplementary information
Budgetary Institutions and Fiscal Consolidation in Ghana: Lessons for Transition Economies in Africa
Creators: name: Tsekpo, Anthony
name: Tsekpo, Anthony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: International Development

description: To halt the deterioration of their national economy most African governments embarked on IMF and World Bank supported Structural Adjustment Programmes. These programmes have been criticised as neglecting social costs and promoting export-led growth in the context of unfavourable terms of trade. More recently, their lack of attention to institutional development has been emphasised. This paper focused on the budgetary institutions and procedures during structural adjustment in Ghana. The paper concludes that budgetary institutions are more hierarchical in Ghana. However, the hierarchical process had a minimal impact on fiscal consolidation for a number of reasons. The reasons include increased expenditure during consolidation, difficulty of dealing with losers after initial success, tendency to allow donor support to lead government spending and the lack of institutional capacity to assess overall impact of fiscal procedures on consolidation effort. While drawing the attention of countries with similar structural difficulties to these lessons, the paper concludes that fiscal policy will produce positive impact when budgetary institutions, procedures and outcomes are designed to influence other institutions in support of increased productivity.
Cichoń's Diagram and Localisation Cardinals
Creators: name: Goldstern, Martin
name: Klausner, Lukas Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E17 (Primary) 03E35, 03E40 (Secondary)

description: We reimplement the creature forcing construction used by Fischer et al. (arXiv:1402.0367) to separate Cichoń's diagram into five cardinals as a countable support product. Using the fact that it is of countable support, we augment our construction by adding uncountably many additional cardinal characteristics, sometimes referred to as localisation cardinals.
description: 67 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1: of Using 360-degrees interactive videos in patient trauma treatment education: design, development and evaluation aspects
Creators: name: Herault, Romain
name: Lincke, Alisa
name: Milrad, Marcelo
name: Elin-Sofie ForsgĂ¤Rde
name: Elmqvist, Carina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix A. Video Coding Scheme. Appendix B. 360 interactive video-Usability questionnaire. Appendix C. Prototype log data analysis. Table S1. Most interested video scenes. Table S2. Time spend on answering the questions in 360 video. (DOCX 1605 kb)
Promoting direct and ultrafast precipitation of the α phase in the metastable Ti-10V-6Cu alloy
Creators: name: Pan, Shiwei
name: Qian, Feng
name: Xu, Shun
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Chen, Kai
name: Ying, Jiayao
name: Fan, Qunbo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Direct aging of water-quenched metastable β-titanium alloys usually follows the sequence: rapid growth of ωiso and then slow transformation into α. To inhibit ωiso growth and promote α nucleation, 6% pre-deformation was introduced in Ti-10V-6Cu alloy before 500°C/60s aging. An ultrafast α-formation and a few α-free kink-bands are observed, indicating the alteration of the precipitation sequence. For α-nucleation without ωiso as the sites, it shows that O' nanodomains induced by stress accumulation around slip bands mediate the ultrafast nucleation of hcp-α structure, while dislocation pipe diffusion accelerates the necessary phase separation. This provides new insights into regulating precipitation kinetics of age-hardenable β-titanium alloys.
Changes in Floquet state structure at avoided crossings: delocalization and harmonic generation
Creators: name: Timberlake, T.
name: Reichl, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Avoided crossings are common in the quasienergy spectra of strongly driven nonlinear quantum wells. In this paper we examine the sinusoidally driven particle in a square potential well to show that avoided crossings can alter the structure of Floquet states in this system. Two types of avoided crossings are identified: on type leads only to temporary changes (as a function of driving field strength) in Floquet state structure while the second type can lead to permanent delocalization of the Floquet states. Radiation spectra from these latter states show significant increase in high harmonic generation as the system passes through the avoided crossing.
description: 8 pages with 10 figures submitted to Physical Review A
Additional file 1: of Genetic and immunological biomarkers predict metastatic disease recurrence in stage III colon cancer
Creators: name: Sperlich, Andreas
name: Balmert, Alexander
name: Doll, Dietrich
name: Bauer, Sabine
name: Franke, Fabian
name: Keller, Gisela
name: Wilhelm, Dirk
name: Mur, Anna
name: Respondek, Michael
name: Friess, Helmut
name: Nitsche, Ulrich
name: Klaus-Peter Janssen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Data in support. (PDF 387 kb)
Nothopoda taiwanensis Huang & Wang 2009
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Nothopoda
Nothopoda taiwanensis

description: Nothopoda taiwanensis Huang & Wang, 2009: 10
— Holotype female (NMNS), Melastoma candidum D. Don (Melastomataceae), Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan, P. R. China (25°10'N, 121°34'E, 680 m).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
From Anisotropy to Omega
Creators: name: Melchiorri, Alessandro
name: Griffiths, Louise M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent measurement of the acoustic peak by the BOOMERanG and MAXIMA experiments in the CMB anisotropy angular power spectrum, many analyses have found that the geometry of the Universe is very close to flat, but slightly closed models are favoured. In this paper we will briefly review how the CMB anisotropies depend on the curvature, explaining any assumptions we could make and showing that this skewness towards closed models can be easily explained by degeneracies in the cosmological parameters. While it is difficult to give independent constraints on the cosmological constant and/or different forms of dark energies, we will also show that combining CMB measurements with other observational data will introduce new and tighter constraints, like $Ω_Λ> 0$ at high significance.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, corrected some typos
Genetic characterization of varicella-zoster and HIV-1 viruses from the cerebrospinal fluid of a co-infected encephalitic patient, Ghana
Creators: name: El-Duah, Philip
name: Sylverken, Augustina Angelina
name: Owusu, Michael
name: Amoako, Yaw Ampem
name: Yeboah, Richmond
name: Gorman, Richmond
name: Nyarko-Afriyie, Emmanuella
name: Schneider, Julia
name: Jones, Terry C.
name: Bonney, Joseph
name: Adade, Titus
name: Yeboah, Eric Smart
name: Binger, Tabea
name: Corman, Victor Max
name: Drosten, Christian
name: Phillips, Richard Odame
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Varicella-zoster virus
subject: Chickenpox
subject: HIV
subject: Coinfection
subject: Encephalitis
subject: Ghana
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Encephalitis is a serious disease of the brain characterized by prodromal and specific neurological symptoms. HIV infections offer opportunistic viruses, such as Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), the chance to cause encephalitis in patients. There is a lack of information on the genetic diversity of VZV in Ghana and other parts of Africa which requires sequencing and characterization studies to address. The active evolution of HIV-1 in West Africa also requires continuous surveillance for the emergence of new genetic forms. Case presentation: VZV was detected in the CSF sample of an 11-year-old patient presenting with symptoms of encephalitis by real-time PCR diagnostics. To identify possible unknown aetiological pathogens, next-generation sequencing was performed, and revealed an HIV-1 co-infection. Alignments of concatenated HIV-1 genome fragments in the gag, pol, vif, env and nef regions and a near-complete VZV genome were analyzed by Bayesian inference, and phylogenetic trees were generated. The VZV sequence belongs to clade 5 and the HIV-1 sequence is a member of the CRF02_AG predominant circulating recombinant form in Ghana. Conclusions: Diagnostic tests for CSF HIV would be useful where possible in patients presenting with encephalitis due to VZV and other opportunistic viruses in Kumasi to shed light on the role of HIV in encephalitis cases in Ghana. This report reaffirms the role of the CRF02_AG circulating recombinant form in HIV infections in Ghana and also gives a preliminary genetic characterization of VZV in Kumasi, Ghana.
The Change of the Financial System and Developmental State in Korea
Creators: name: Lee, Kang-Kook
name: Lee, Kang-Kook
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Development

description: This study examines the role of institutions and their change related to the rapid economic development and the 1997 Korean financial crisis. In Korea, the government built a state-led financial system through the 1960s and 1970s and a specific government-bank-business relationship based on it. It promoted economic growth by allocating financial resources controlled by it to targeted industries or firms, with discipline over business achieved through these institutions. However, as the economy developed, this financial system and the relationship between the government and business changed. While the government's control of finance weakened, the economic power of chaebols grew stronger, and their relationship changed from dominance and discipline with co-operation to regulation and conflicts. Accordingly, former institutions could not work well, but there was no proper reformulation of them and they failed to evolve to match these changes. The banks failed to monitor business and the problems in banks and chaebols, including the bad corporate governance, grew serious. Subsequently, the rapid and incautious financial liberalization with these problems led the Korean economy into economic crisis in 1997. Institutional reforms and new institution building are urgently required, but must be adopted under adverse circumstances.
The Liberalization of Food Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Seppala, Pekka
name: Seppala, Pekka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: International Development

description: Liberalization of food marketings has been implemented as a part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we assess the i) the aims of the reform policy, ii) the implementation of specific reform measures, iii) the politics of reform, and iv) the impacts of reform.The study highlights the diversity in initial circumstances: during the end of 1970s, state governed marketing boards and cooperatives marketed food crops in most countries but state intervention was generally limited to certain key crops and, on these crops, the level of intervention was further limited by actual policies on crop collection coverage. Pre-reform policies were directed by the aims of nation building and food security and, for this purpose, provided subsidies for both producers and consumers. These subsidies, together with the high costs of marketing operations, caused huge financial problems to governments.Marketing reforms have been implemented at the levels of pricing policies, institutional set-up and macro-economic environment. Several governments embarked on liberalization policies with doubts but during recent years, even the most hesitant countries have also implemented reforms. In certain countries, the liberalization of key food crops touched a delicate political issue with complex vested interests. Behind the debate of cheap food for urban consumers existed a whole range of factors like the patrimonial linkages of marketing boards, regional politics, and the interests of large-scale millers and estate producers. In the economic liberalization debate, political issues are largely simplified and marketing boards are crudely evaluated in terms of economic efficiency.The study compares countries which always relied on private food marketing to countries which liberalized food marketing in 1992 and those still retaining state interventions. The data shows that best growth rates for the production of key food crops are in the countries with more liberal food marketing regimes. However, differences within country groups are significant. Variations can partly be explained by the nature of key crops, with rice subjected to import competition while tubers and plantains are not affected by competition. Maize production in eastern and southern Africa has been the focus of a detailed case-study because of the complexity of its extreme politization.Marketing reform has had relatively little impact on food production which is still growing slower than the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its major impact has been the diminished demands on fiscal balance. As liberalization releases government resources for other uses, these should be directed to measures to increase agricultural production: land reforms, input subsidies and the construction of feeder roads. Marketing, milling and consumer support of food crops should be targeted to the crops that are mainly consumed by the poor.
title: Age and Growth of Larval and Juvenile Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias Undulatus, from the Middle Atlantic Bight and Estuarine Waters of Virginia
Creators: name: Nixon, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1993

description: Sagittal otoliths were used to determine the age and growth of 605 larval and juvenile Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, collected in the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) and estuarine waters of Virginia. A Laird-Gompertz model (r2 = 0.95) was used to describe the growth of croaker up to 65 mm standard length (SL) and 142 days (t): S1(t) = 2.657 Exp {4.656 [1-Exp (-0.008lt)]}; SL(t) = standard length at day t. Generally, croaker collected inshore were larger and older than those collected offshore, indicating estuarine immigration from offshore spawning grounds. Back-calculated hatch-dates indicated spawning over an 8- month period from 05 July 1987 to 10 February 1988 with 82% of spawning occurring from August to October. Regression analysis indicated that early-spawned larvae (before October) grew more than 41 % faster than late-spawned larvae (after September). Lapillar and sagittal otoliths were compared with light microscopy and found that lapillar otoliths underestimated age and were inadequate as a surrogate to sagittal otoliths in age determination. A fourth order polynomial best described (r2 = 0.99) the relationship between SL and sagittal otolith maximum diameter (OMD). Contrary to the literature for other species, faster growing croaker had more than 12% larger otoliths than same size slower growing fish.
A Covariant Method for Calculating Helicity Amplitudes
Creators: name: Vega, R.
name: Wudka, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an alternative approach for calculating helicity amplitudes for processes involving both massless and massive fermions. With this method one can easily obtain covariant expressions for the helicity amplitudes. The final expressions involve only four vector products and are independent of the basis for gamma matrices or specific form of the spinors. We use the method to obtain the helicity amplitudes for several processes involving top quark production.
description: 17 pages, 2 postscript figures, uses Latex2e and associated macros. Tex and Postcript files available via anonymous ftp at ftp://smuphy.physics.smu.edu/pub/vega/ , get hel*.*
Oziella sibirica Chetverikov 2012
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Phytoptidae
Oziella
Oziella sibirica

description: Oziella sibirica Chetverikov, 2012: 45
— Holotype female (SPSU), Republic of Buryatia, Barguzinsky District, Maximiha village; from Carex macroura, in a fir-dominated (Abies sibirica) forest, on the bank of Lake Baikal, Russia (53°26'64''N, 108°73'55''E).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Physics of mirror photons
Creators: name: Foot, R.
name: Ignatiev, A. Yu.
name: Volkas, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics of kinetic mixing between ordinary and mirror photons is discussed. An important role is played by four linear combinations we dub the physical photon, the sterile photon, the physical mirror photon, and the sterile mirror photon. Because of the mass degeneracy between the two gauge bosons, quantum coherence effects are important. The physical photon becomes a certain coherent superposition of the bare ordinary photon and the bare mirror photon. Similarly, the physical mirror photon is another, but {\it not orthogonal}, coherent superposition. We discuss the physics of the interaction between physical mirror photons and ordinary matter. Observational signatures for some hybrid ordinary/mirror binary astrophysical systems are qualitatively discussed. We show that a small amount of ordinary matter at the center of a mirror star may make the mirror star observable. We speculate that the recently reported halo white dwarfs might actually be mirror halo stars.
description: RevTeX, 14 pages including 2 figures; Changes to exposition, terminology and referencing; phenomenological conclusions unchanged
ENSURING FARMER INPUT INTO THE RESEARCH PROCESS WITHIN AN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING: THE CASE OF SEMI-ARID BOTSWANA
Creators: name: Norman, D
name: Modiakgotla, E
name: Norman, D
name: Modiakgotla, E
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: This paper addresses issues of institutionalising participatory approaches to research. Experience in Botswana has led to careful consideration of the roles of different types of trial and the distinction between experimental and nonexperimental variables in each. Examples from Botswana distinguish between "high leverage" interventions which address critical constraints in the farming system but whose implementation may require major changes in farmer practice, and "low" or "non-leverage" interventions which have restricted impact but are easier to implement. Requests to test the latter arise from on-station research, whereas a principal objective of on-farm research is to seek solutions to the former. The paper also describes institutional changes designed to enhance the accountability and credibility of research, and to enhance the speed and accuracy of technology recommendations which are essential to the institutionalisation of participatory approaches.
Mehr Open Science Wagen!
Creators: name: Schöch, Christof
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Praktiken der Open Science sind in verschiedenen Bereichen der Wissenschaft unterschiedlich gut etabliert. In einigen Bereichen sind Publikationswege die Norm, bei denen für Leser:innen und/oder Autor:innen keine Kosten entstehen (Diamond Open Access), in anderen ist das nicht der Fall. In einigen Bereichen gehört es zunehmend zur guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis, die einer Publikation zugrunde liegenden Daten und den für die Analyse der Daten verwendeten Programmiercode ebenfalls frei verfügbar zu machen (Open Data bzw. Open Source), in anderen Bereichen ist das nicht der Fall oder stehen Daten und Analysemethoden im Fokus, die sich nicht ohne Weiteres algorithmisch abbilden lassen. In einigen Bereichen werden Lehrmaterialien sehr häufig offen und kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt (Open Educational Resources), in anderen Bereichen ist das die Ausnahme. Insgesamt ist aber deutlich erkennbar, dass bezüglich der Policy-Entwicklungen (bspw. auf der EU-Ebene), der einschlägigen Infrastrukturen (bspw. Publikationsplattformen), der Kompetenzvermittlung (bspw. in der Graduiertenausbildung) oder auch der "best practices" in der Forschung das Thema Open Science in allen Bereichen zukünftig weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen wird. Die erheblichen Vorteile sprechen dafür, u.a. mit Blick auf die höhere Sichtbarkeit der Ergebnisse, auf einfachere Nachnutzung von Daten und auf bessere Überprüfbarkeit von Forschung. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde im Vortrag über aktuelle Entwicklungen berichtet und wurden Wege zu mehr Open Science aufgezeigt. Die Präsentation zum Vortrag ist frei verfügbar und kann unter folgendem Link eingesehen werden: https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/doccolloq/ bzw. ist auf Zenodo archiviert: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10571779.
Potnia dubia
Creators: name: Flynn, Dawn J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Membracidae
Potnia
Potnia dubia

description: Potnia dubia (Fowler, 1894c: 45):
Chiriqui: (Fowler 1894c: 45 as Ochropepla dubia: Volcán de Chiriquí).
description: Published as part of Flynn, Dawn J., 2024, Updated checklist of treehoppers of Panama (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with plant associations, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 5415 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10688361
TipESM: Exploring Tipping Points and Their Impacts Using Earth System Models - Excellence and Impact
Creators: name: Yang, Shuting
name: Bearzotti, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document comprises Part B of the TipESM Grant Agreement 101137673. This excerpt includes the project's Excellence and Impact. 

The decision to publish Part B of the TIpESM Grant Agreement 101137673 was made during the the General Assembly which took place in Copenhagen on 24 January 2024.
Confined knowledge flows in transitional justice
Creators: name: Salehi, Mariam
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: knowledge production
subject: transitional justice
subject: governing technology
subject: power
subject: Tunisia
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: The article contributes to literature that critically scrutinizes knowledge production and transfer in conflict and intervention contexts. Drawing on original research on the Tunisian transitional justice process, it contributes an empirically grounded picture to the study of co-production of governance orders and security knowledges through transnational assemblages. These transnational assemblages are formed by complex coalitions of actors from the Global North and South, and the socio-material context they operate in. The article shows how security knowledge is produced, channelled, and steered into confined knowledge flows as transitional justice processes unfold. It then shows the ambivalent nature and different qualities of confined knowledge flows as they may be enabling and limiting, exclusionary and protective, and implicated with power relations. By doing so, it contributes to the understanding of how the (neo-)liberal politics of transitional justice are reproduced.
Pangacarus formosanus Huang & Wang 2009
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Pangacarus
Pangacarus formosanus

description: Pangacarus formosanus Huang & Wang, 2009: 10
— Holotype female (NMNS), Callicarpa formosana Rolfe (Verbenaceae), Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan, P. R. China (25°10'N, 121°34'E, 685 m).
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Next Generation CD44v6-Specific CAR-NK Cells Effective against Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Raftery, Martin J.
name: Franzén, Alexander Sebastian
name: Radecke, Clarissa
name: Boulifa, Abdelhadi
name: Schönrich, Günther
name: Stintzing, Sebastian
name: Blohmer, Jens-Uwe
name: Pecher, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: cancer
subject: immunotherapy
subject: CAR
subject: CAR-NK
subject: TNBC
subject: CD44v6
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: There is a medical need to develop new and effective therapies against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) cells are a promising alternative to CAR-T cell therapy for cancer. A search for a suitable target in TNBC identified CD44v6, an adhesion molecule expressed in lymphomas, leukemias and solid tumors that is implicated in tumorigenesis and metastases. We have developed a next-generation CAR targeting CD44v6 that incorporates IL-15 superagonist and checkpoint inhibitor molecules. We could show that CD44v6 CAR-NK cells demonstrated effective cytotoxicity against TNBC in 3D spheroid models. The IL-15 superagonist was specifically released upon recognition of CD44v6 on TNBC and contributed to the cytotoxic attack. PD1 ligands are upregulated in TNBC and contribute to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Competitive inhibition of PD1 neutralized inhibition by PD1 ligands expressed on TNBC. In total, CD44v6 CAR-NK cells are resistant to TME immunosuppression and offer a new therapeutic option for the treatment of BC, including TNBC.
Additional file 1: of Expression of renal cell markers and detection of 3p loss links endolymphatic sac tumor to renal cell carcinoma and warrants careful evaluation to avoid diagnostic pitfalls
Creators: name: Jester, Rachel
name: Iya Znoyko
name: Garnovskaya, Maria
name: Rozier, Joseph
name: Kegl, Ryan
name: Patel, Sunil
name: Tran, Tuan
name: Abedalthagafi, Malak
name: Horbinski, Craig
name: Richardson, Mary
name: Daynna Wolff
name: Razvan Lapadat
name: Moore, William
name: Rodriguez, Fausto
name: Mull, Jason
name: Olar, Adriana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Pathway and protein interactions in endolymphatic sac tumor. (PDF 52855 kb)
Modulation of Democracy: Partisan Communication During and After Election Campaigns
Creators: name: Castanho Silva, Bruno
name: Schürmann, Lennart
name: Proksch, Sven-Oliver
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: European politics
subject: text analysis
subject: social media
subject: legislative behaviour
subject: sentiment analysis
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: It is well known that politicians speak differently when campaigning. The shadow of elections may affect candidates' change in tone during campaigns. However, to date, we lack a systematic study of the changes in communication patterns between campaign and non-campaign periods. In this study, we examine the sentiment expressed in 4.3 million tweets posted by members of national parliaments in the EU27 from 2018 to 2020. Our results show that (1) the opposition, even populists and Eurosceptics, send more positive messages during campaigns, (2) parties trailing in the polls communicate more negatively, and (3) that the changes are similar in national and European elections. These findings show the need to look beyond campaign times to understand parties' appeals and highlight the promises of social media data to move beyond traditional analyses of manifestos and speeches.
Additional file 2: of Sperm imprinting integrity in seminoma patients?
Creators: name: CĂŠline Bruno
name: Blagoskonov, Oxana
name: Barberet, Julie
name: Guilleman, Magali
name: Daniel, Sandrine
name: Tournier, Benjamin
name: Binquet, Christine
name: CĂŠcile Choux
name: Fauque, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S2. Comparison of sperm DNA methylation between oligozoospermic controls (O) and normozoospermic controls (N), after adjusting for age, for each CpG site of the deregulated imprinted genes. (DOCX 29Â kb)
Impact of non-equilibrium fluctuations on pre-thermal dynamical phase transitions in long-range interacting spin chains
Creators: name: Lerose, Alessio
name: Zunkovic, Bojan
name: Marino, Jamir
name: Gambassi, Andrea
name: Silva, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-equilibrium phase diagram and the dynamical phase transitions occurring during the pre-thermalization of non-integrable quantum spin chains, subject to either quantum quenches or linear ramps of a relevant control parameter. We consider spin systems in which long-range ferromagnetic interactions compete with short-range, integrability-breaking terms. We capture the pre-thermal stages of the non-equilibrium evolution via a time-dependent spin wave expansion at leading order in the spin waves density. In order to access regimes with strong integrability breaking, instead, we perform numerical simulations based on the time-dependent variational principle with matrix product states. By investigating a large class of quantum spin models, we demonstrate that non-equilibrium fluctuations can significantly affect the dynamics near critical points of the phase diagram, resulting in a chaotic evolution of the collective order parameter, akin to the dynamics of a classical particle in a multiple-well potential subject to quantum friction. We also elucidate the signature of this novel dynamical phase on the time-dependent correlation functions of the local order parameter. We finally establish a connection with the notion of dynamical quantum phase transition associated with a possible non-analytic behavior of the return probability amplitude, or Loschmidt echo, showing that the latter displays cusps whenever the order parameter vanishes during its real-time evolution.
description: 31 pages, 21 figures
Paniculatus curcasis Xue & Zhang 2009
Creators: name: LIU, DONG
name: YI, TIAN-CI
name: XU, YUN
name: ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Eriophyidae
Paniculatus
Paniculatus curcasis

description: Paniculatus curcasis Xue & Zhang, 2009: 55
— Holotype female (NZAC), from Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae), Malang, Java, Indonesia.
description: Published as part of LIU, DONG, YI, TIAN-CI, XU, YUN & ZHANG, ZHI-QIANG, 2013, Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 3663 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3663.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5630595
Determining the Equation of State of the Expanding Universe Using a New Independent Variable
Creators: name: Nakamura, Takashi
name: Chiba, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To determine the equation of state of the universe, we propose to use a new independent variable $R\equiv (H_0/c)(d_L(z)/(1+z))$, where $H_0$ and $d_L(z)$ are the present Hubble parameter and the luminosity distance, respectively. For the flat universe suggested from the observation of the anisotropy of cosmic microwave background, the density and the pressure are expressed as $ρ/ρ_0=4(df/dR)^2/f^6$ and $p/ρ_0=-4/3(d^2f/dR^2)/f^5$ where $ρ_0$ is the present density and $f(R)=1/\sqrt{1+z(R)}$. In $(R, f)$ plane the sign as well as the strength of the pressure is in proportion to the curvature of the curve $f(R)$. We propose to adopt a Pade-like expression of $f(R)=1/\sqrt{u}$ with $u\equiv 1+\sum\limits_{n=1}^{N}u_nR^n$. For flat $Λ$ model the expansion up to N=7 has at most an error $< 0.2%$ for $z < 1.7$ and any value of $Λ$. We also propose a general method to determine the equation of state of the universe which has $N-1$ free parameters. If the number of parameters are smaller than $N-1$, there is a consistency check of the equation of state so that we may confirm or refute each model.
description: 12 pages, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal
A Conceptual replication of the differential price framing effect in the field
Creators: name: Köcher, Sören
name: Husemann-Kopetzky, Markus
name: Schirmbeck, Marie
name: Hess, Melina
name: Gmeindl, Fabian
name: Hess, Samuel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Price Framing
subject: Conceptual Replication
subject: Partitioned Pricing
subject: Consumer Choice
subject: Field Experiment
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: Across a series of 10 laboratory and online studies, Allard, Hardisty, and Griffin (2019) demonstrated an increased preference for premium, higher-priced products over standard products when consumers were presented with the additional cost of the higher-priced option (i.e., differential price framing; e.g., “for $20 more”) rather than with its total price (i.e., inclusive price framing; e.g., “for $60 total”); a phenomenon referred to as the differential price framing effect. In this paper, we conceptually replicate this effect in a field experiment that focuses on the application of a differential price framing strategy to a specific product format; namely, multipacks of identical products. Consistent with the differential price framing effect, the present study shows—based on 45,626 add-to-cart events and 30,426 completed product purchases on an online retailer’s website—that the choice shares of higher-priced options increase when a differential price framing strategy is used. However, compared to non-consequential add-to-cart activities, this bias is considerably less pronounced in actual purchase patterns.