cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of luminosity distributions of strong lensing galaxies: subtraction of diffuse lensed signal
Creators: name: Biernaux, Judith
name: Magain, Pierre
name: Hauret, Clementine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong gravitational lensing gives access to the total mass distribution of galaxies. It can unveil a great deal of information about the lenses dark matter content when combined with the study of the lenses light profile. However, gravitational lensing galaxies, by definition, appear surrounded by point-like and diffuse lensed signal that is irrelevant to the lens flux. Therefore, the observer is most often restricted to studying the innermost portions of the galaxy, where classical fitting methods show some instabilities. We aim at subtracting that lensed signal and at characterising some lenses light profile by computing their shape parameters. Our objective is to evaluate the total integrated flux in an aperture the size of the Einstein ring in order to obtain a robust estimate of the quantity of ordinary matter in each system. We are expanding the work we started in a previous paper that consisted in subtracting point-like lensed images and in independently measuring each shape parameter. We improve it by designing a subtraction of the diffuse lensed signal, based only on one simple hypothesis of symmetry. This extra step improves our study of the shape parameters and we refine it even more by upgrading our half-light radius measurement. We also calculate the impact of our specific image processing on the error bars. The diffuse lensed signal subtraction makes it possible to study a larger portion of relevant galactic flux, as the radius of the fitting region increases by on average 17\%. We retrieve new half-light radii values that are on average 11\% smaller than in our previous work, although the uncertainties overlap in most cases. This shows that not taking the diffuse lensed signal into account may lead to a significant overestimate of the half-light radius. We are also able to measure the flux within the Einstein radius and to compute secure error bars to all of our results.
Stratified Unified Ranked Set Samplingfor Asymmetric Distributions
Creators: name: Chainarong Peanpaylun
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: simple random sampling, ranked set sampling, unified ranked set sampling,stratified unified ranked set sampling

description: Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 7, 1, 30 to 33
Evaluation of capacity reduction factors for the design of reinforced concrete structural elements case study: Indonesia
Creators: name: Santoso, Grace Kurniawati
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: Although there has been many changes in the development of the safety provisions for the Indonesian codes of practice since 1971, most of the changes have either been compromised or combined with the corresponding codes of the developed countries. For example, the current Indonesian concrete code (SKSNI) has adopted many factors from the American Concrete Institute (ACI 318) code, the British Standard (BSI,1985) code, the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ,1994) code and the Dutch code (GBV, 1985). 
Comments amongst the practicing engineers as the end user on the existing code often refer to the inconsistencies of the code provisions and the field practices in Indonesia. As Indonesia is a country with an unbalanced distribution of skills and knowledge between the main island Java and other islands, providing an unified national standard without referring to the regional practices adversely affects the safety levels. This thesis attempts to demonstrate the inconsistencies in the provisions of the current Indonesian concrete code (SKSNI T-15, 1991) and the field practices in the main island Java. An extensive probability analysis has been carried out based on the statistical field data collected from several projects and material testing institutions for the demonstration of the aims of the thesis. From the probabilistic analyses of the statistical data, load and resistance factors for some important structural actions (viz, flexure, compression, flexural shear and punching shear) have been evaluated and compared with the provisions of the SKSNI, ACI 318 and AS 3600-1988. Gravity load (dead and live loads) and lateral load (dead, live and earthquake loads) combinations have been considered in the evaluation of the load and resistance factors for the selected structural actions. The thesis proposes the evaluated load and resistance factors as rational provisions reflecting the field practices of the Java island and recommendations that similar studies be carried out to reflect the regional practices in the safety provisions of the Indonesian concrete code.
Bifurcation structure of a swept source laser
Creators: name: Kovalev, Anton V.
name: Dmitriev, Pavel S.
name: Vladimirov, Andrei G.
name: Pimenov, Alexander
name: Huyet, Guillaume
name: Viktorov, ##!Error: Attribute  Unknown!##
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Frequency swept souce
subject: bifurcation structure
subject: 42.55.Px
subject: 42.65.Sf
subject: 42.60.Mi
subject: 42.55.Ah
subject: 02.30.Ks

description: We numerically analyze a delay differential equation model of a short-cavity semiconductor laser with an intracavity frequency swept filter and reveal a complex bifurcation structure responsible for the asymmetry of the output characteristics of this laser. We show that depending on the direction of the frequency sweep of a narrowband filter, there exist two bursting cycles determined by different parts of a continuous-wave solutions branch.
A transcriptomic analysis of neuropathic pain in the anterior cingulate cortex after nerve injury
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu
name: Jiang, Shiwei
name: Liao, Fei
name: Huang, Zhifeng
name: Yang, Xin
name: Zou, Yu
name: He, Xin
name: Guo, Qulian
name: Huang, Changsheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a core brain region processing pain emotion. In this study, we performed RNA sequencing analysis to reveal transcriptomic profiles of the ACC in a rat chronic constriction injury (CCI) model. A total of 1628 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified by comparing sham-operated rats with rats of 12 hours, 1, 3, 7, and 14 days after surgery, respectively. Although these inflammatory-related DEGs were generally increased after CCI, different kinetics of time-series expression were observed with the development of neuropathic pain affection. Specifically, the expression of Ccl5, Cxcl9 and Cxcl13 continued to increase following CCI. The expression of Ccl2, Ccl3, Ccl4, Ccl6, and Ccl7 were initially upregulated after CCI and subsequently decreased after 12 hours. Similarly, the expression of Rac2, Cd68, Icam-1, Ptprc, Itgb2, and Fcgr2b increased after 12 hours but reduced after 1 day. However, the expression of the above genes increased again 7 days after CCI, when the neuropathic pain affection had developed. Furthermore, gene ontology analysis, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment and interaction network analyses further showed a high connectivity degree among these chemokine targeting genes. Similar expressional changes in these genes were found in the rat spinal dorsal horn responsible for nociception processing. Taken together, our results indicated chemokines and their targeting genes in the ACC may be differentially involved in the initiation and maintenance of neuropathic pain affection. These genes may be a target for not only the nociception but also the pain affection following nerve injury.
Longitudinal fibular deficiency: lower limb function and quality of life of children and young people
Creators: name: Pate, Joshua
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis builds upon the small evidence-base for longitudinal fibular deficiency in children and young people, specifically in terms of lower limb function and quality of life. To date, research on individuals with longitudinal fibular deficiency has focused on impairments of body functions and structures with minimal investigation of activity limitations and participation restrictions. Studies suggest that affected adults have similar quality of life to published normative values, but little is known about quality of life and lower limb function of children and young people with this condition. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was undertaken exploring these outcomes in 17 affected children compared to 213 unaffected peers. Children and young people reported, on average, significantly reduced lower limb function and quality of life compared to unaffected peers. Knee function in younger children was significantly reduced, however, in young adults it was closer to normal. Ankle function was reduced in children and young people when compared to unaffected peers. Early and individualised clinical assessment of these outcomes appears to be warranted. Further research assessing the effectiveness of treatment interventions, longitudinal studies assessing individual changes over time, and qualitative investigations of a child's function and quality of life are recommended.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Root lodging is a physical stress that changes gene expression from sucrose accumulation to degradation in sorghum
Creators: name: Mizuno, Hiroshi
name: Kasuga, Shigemitsu
name: Kawahigashi, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Comparison of sizes and weightsÂ in intact and lodged sorghum. Average plant height, stem diameter, raw stem weight, and raw panicle weight of 36 intact plants and 12 lodged plants are shown. (PDF 27Â kb)
Rayleigh Quotient Iteration with a Multigrid in Energy Preconditioner for Massively Parallel Neutron Transport
Creators: name: Slaybaugh, R. N.
name: Evans, T. M.
name: Davidson, G. G.
name: Wilson, P. P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three complementary methods have been implemented in the code Denovo that accelerate neutral particle transport calculations with methods that use leadership-class computers fully and effectively: a multigroup block (MG) Krylov solver, a Rayleigh quotient iteration (RQI) eigenvalue solver, and a multigrid in energy preconditioner. The multigroup Krylov solver converges more quickly than Gauss Seidel and enables energy decomposition such that Denovo can scale to hundreds of thousands of cores. The new multigrid in energy preconditioner reduces iteration count for many problem types and takes advantage of the new energy decomposition such that it can scale efficiently. These two tools are useful on their own, but together they enable the RQI eigenvalue solver to work. Each individual method has been described before, but this is the first time they have been demonstrated to work together effectively. RQI should converge in fewer iterations than power iteration (PI) for large and challenging problems. RQI creates shifted systems that would not be tractable without the MG Krylov solver. It also creates ill-conditioned matrices that cannot converge without the multigrid in energy preconditioner. Using these methods together, RQI converged in fewer iterations and in less time than all PI calculations for a full pressurized water reactor core. It also scaled reasonably well out to 275,968 cores.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.00907
Psychological wellbeing and help-seeking among fly-In fly-out employees in the Western Australian mining industry
Creators: name: Milne, Philippa
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The psychosocial health outcomes for fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers can been strongly influenced by whether or not they seek help and support. Yet there is an apparent puzzle whereby an increase in psychological distress can lead to a decrease in help-seeking. This may be due to an employee's heightened perceptions of mental health stigma, although research is yet to explain the underlying causes. Despite public interest and recent parliamentary inquiries into the mental health of fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) employees in the Australian mining industry, there is currently little empirical evidence to help explain this issue. Concerns about FIFO employee mental health and anecdotal reports of increased prevalence in this group have precipitated some empirical assessments using valid measures of mental health symptoms. The importance of examining mental health among the FIFO workforce and what factors influence this, and those variables that subsequently explain help-seeking among FIFO employees has been highlighted by some previous research. Drawing on the Process Theory of Help-Seeking, the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Jobs-Demands Resources model, this study surveyed the psychological wellbeing and help-seeking intentions of 629 FIFO employees in the Western Australian mining industry. A quantitative research strategy was employed, with a questionnaire survey used to collect FIFO workers' perceptions on adjustment, psychological wellbeing, stigma, help-seeking and job demands. The structural relationships between study variables were analysed to test the study hypotheses through the use of structural equation modelling (SEM). The thesis investigated (i) the mediating role of stigma on the links between adjustment, psychological distress and help-seeking, and (ii) the moderating role of job demands on these processes. The results showed that the demands of high-compression work rosters and long work hours affected how well FIFO workers could adjust and, in turn, contributed to psychological distress, signalling a need for prevention strategies to better protect the wellbeing of the mining workforce. The results also demonstrated that adjustment, psychological wellbeing and stigma all influenced employee help-seeking. This is a significant finding because it helps to predicate intervention and prevention strategies. In other words, the study contains practical implications for treating the psychological distress of FIFO mining employees, an area severely lacking in empirical research. Overall, the results of this thesis makes a contribution in terms of theory, research, and prevention and early intervention programs.
Inversion of the Toeplitz-block Toeplitz matrices and the structure of the corresponding inverse matrices
Creators: name: Sakhnovich, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A09, 15B05, 94A99

description: The results on the inversion of convolution operators and Toeplitz matrices in the 1-D (one dimensional) case are classical and have numerous applications. We consider a 2-D case of Toeplitz-block Toeplitz matrices, describe a minimal information, which is necessary to recover the inverse matrices, and give a complete characterisation of the inverse matrices.
description: The ideas and proofs given in this paper are easily modified for the case of convolution operators (see some results on the inversion of the 2-D convolution operators in arXiv:1701.08559, where we mostly omit the proofs). However, the results obtained for the Toeplitz-block Toeplitz matrices are more complete
Efficient simulations of Hartree--Fock equations by an accelerated gradient descent method
Creators: name: Ohno, Y.
name: Del Maestro, A.
name: Lakoba, T. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop convergence acceleration procedures that enable a gradient descent-type iteration method to efficiently simulate Hartree--Fock equations for atoms interacting both with each other and with an external potential. Our development focuses on three aspects: (i) optimization of a parameter in the preconditioning operator; (ii) adoption of a technique that eliminates the slowest-decaying mode to the case of many equations (describing many atoms); and (iii) a novel extension of the above technique that allows one to eliminate multiple modes simultaneously. We illustrate performance of the numerical method for the 2D model of the first layer of helium atoms above a graphene sheet. We demonstrate that incorporation of aspects (i) and (ii) above into the ``plain" gradient descent method accelerates it by at least two orders of magnitude, and often by much more. Aspect (iii) -- a multiple-mode elimination -- may bring further improvement to the convergence rate compared to aspect (ii), the single-mode elimination. Both single- and multiple-mode elimination techniques are shown to significantly outperform the well-known Anderson Acceleration. We believe that our acceleration techniques can also be gainfully employed by other numerical methods, especially those handling hard-core-type interaction potentials.
description: main text (39 pages); supplement appended (7 pages)
Influences on the adoption rate of on-farm technology and innovation
Creators: name: Pope, Cheryl Elizabeth
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 300305
subject: Animal reproduction and breeding
classificationCode: 300399
subject: Animal production not elsewhere classified

description:  This research project examines the influences on the adoption rate of on -farm technology and innovation and investigates the particular case of adoption of breeding and selection techniques in the Australian Merino sheep industry. There is a significant body of economic evidence that indicates that the uptake of technology is essential for international competitiveness, growth in productivity and survival of individual sheep enterprises. There is also evidence that some producers are adopting new technologies and achieving substantial increases in productivity and profitability while at an industry level productivity improvements lag behind declines in terms of trade. 
This study uses an integrated model. Existing material was gathered from evaluation and review of the national sheep extension program - Merino Breeding and Selection, to which some case study material from workshop participants was added. Common themes linking the practice of technology adoption with theoretical understanding were synthesised. 
The paradigms driving agricultural extension have changed. Successful programs have replaced paternalistic approaches with collaborative, multidisciplinary and flexible models. Evaluation of extension effectiveness requires a multi- level approach and the policy stance of service providers needs to reflect practices that have been proven in theory and practice. 
Currently government extension revolves around groups, and single issues as a method to maximize the number of people reached. More effective extension is likely to recognize whole of enterprise effects and have the flexibility to evolve in response to stakeholder and research inputs. Extension services will be delivered by professionals with skills embracing concepts from science and the social sciences.
Additional file 10 of Analysis of the hybrid genomes of two field isolates of the soil-borne fungal species Verticillium longisporum
Creators: name: Fogelqvist, Johan
name: Tzelepis, Georgios
name: Sarosh Bejai
name: IlbĂ¤Ck, Jonas
name: Schwelm, Arne
name: Dixelius, Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Candidate effectors (<400 aa) with cysteine rich residues in VL2. (PDF 76Â kb)
title: ADCO, Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0358
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0358, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Septième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1665), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 29 (G 134), 996 folios, f. 0358, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Close binary central stars and the abundance discrepancy - new extreme objects
Creators: name: Wesson, R.
name: Jones, D.
name: García-Rojas, J.
name: Corradi, R. L. M.
name: Boffin, H. M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work (Corradi et al. 2015, Jones et al. 2016) has shown that the phenomenon of extreme abundance discrepancies, where recombination line abundances exceed collisionally excited line abundances by factors of 10 or more, seem to be strongly associated with planetary nebulae with close binary central stars. To further investigate, we have obtained spectra of a sample of nebulae with known close binary central stars, using FORS2 on the VLT, and we have discovered several new extreme abundance discrepancy objects. We did not find any non-extreme discrepancies, suggesting that a very high fraction of nebulae with close binary central stars also have an extreme abundance discrepancy.
description: 4 pages. To appear in proceedings of IAU symposium 323 (Planetary nebulae: multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution)
Additional file 1: of Factors influencing deliveries at health facilities in a rural Maasai Community in Magadi sub-County, Kenya
Creators: name: Karanja, Sarah
name: Gichuki, Richard
name: Igunza, Patrick
name: Muhula, Samuel
name: Ofware, Peter
name: Lesiamon, Josephine
name: Lepantas Leshore
name: Kyomuhangi-Igbodipe, Lenny
name: Josephat Nyagero
name: Binkin, Nancy
name: Ojakaa, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Household questionnaire. The questionnaire used to collect data from women of reproductive age and also heads of the household. (DOC 114Â kb)
Direct revegetation techniques for coal tailings dam no. 3 at Saraji coal mine Central Queensland
Creators: name: Radloff, Bradley John
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 410303
subject: Bioremediation

description:  Coal tailings are produced as a waste product from washing the fine < 2 mm fraction of mined coal to add value to the saleable product. After washing, slurried tailings are pumped to holding dams for disposal and desiccation. Once full the core of these dams dry slowly limiting vehicular access for reprocessing or rehabilitation works. In areas where evaporation exceeds rainfall, a dry surface crust, susceptible to generating wind blown dust, develops during this desiccation phase. A revegetation strategy involving establishing vegetation directly on coal tailings was therefore developed, to reduce wind blown dust hazards whilst maintaining the potential for later coal extraction. The field studies for the project were  depth. In the wetland plant available water was adequate for plant growth but the material was poorly aerated where moisture content was high. ... This thesis demonstrated the establishment of salt tolerant vegetation was possible on tailings dam number three at Saraji Mine and, therefore, revegetation with the view of minimising dust and maintaining access was feasible. Treatments that facilitated vegetation establishment in the field were those that decreased salinity and increased plant available water (mulching and irrigation). Nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser additions were shown to be necessary in the glasshouse. Given that low plant available water and high salinity were the major limitations plant growth, provided follow up fertiliser is applied, trees and deep rooted vegetation should continue to survive and grow once their roots are have developed sufficiently to access the higher moisture/lower salinity sub -surface tailings. With increased vegetative biomass, the volume of leaf litter produced and dropped onto the tailing surface would increase and "self mulching" could occur. Further monitoring to investigate the longer term "self mulching" potential, C. glauca water usage rates and changes in species composition are recommended.
Entanglement-enhanced phase estimation without prior phase information
Creators: name: Colangelo, G.
name: Ciurana, F. Martin
name: Puentes, G.
name: Mitchell, M. W.
name: Sewell, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of planar quantum squeezed (PQS) states by quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement of a cold ensemble of $^{87}$Rb atoms. Precise calibration of the QND measurement allows us to infer the conditional covariance matrix describing the $F_y$ and $F_z$ components of the PQS, revealing the dual squeezing characteristic of PQS. PQS states have been proposed for single-shot phase estimation without prior knowledge of the likely values of the phase. We show that for an arbitrary phase, the generated PQS gives a metrological advantage of at least 3.1 dB relative to classical states. The PQS also beats traditional squeezed states generated with the same QND resources, except for a narrow range of phase values. Using spin squeezing inequalities, we show that spin-spin entanglement is responsible for the metrological advantage.
description: 7 pages; 5 figures
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Enhanced response rate to pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in high grade serous ovarian carcinomas harbouring BRCA1 and BRCA2 aberrations
Creators: name: Hollis, Robert
name: Meynert, Alison
name: Churchman, Michael
name: Tzyvia Rye
name: Mackean, Melanie
name: Nussey, Fiona
name: Arends, Mark
name: Sims, Andrew
name: Semple, Colin
name: C. Simon Herrington
name: Gourley, Charlie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Sum of squares differences (SSD) between our SNV spectrum and the fresh frozen TCGA SNV spectrum at various allele frequency threshold for variant filtering. (DOCX 53 kb)
Repository of European/international population-based, cohorts, patients' cohorts, control trials, ordered by region
Creators: name: Marín, Desirée Gutiérrez
name: Marcon, Yannick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Website repository, Repository, Public Data, Initiatives, Cohorts, Patients' cohorts, Population-based cohorts, Clinical Trial

description: This report contains a concise description of the online repository of the SYNCHROS project (Deliverable 1.2). Intended readers and users of this document are project team members who are involved in the project work, for instance as authors of deliverables, WP-leaders, authors of web-articles, bloggers or anyone who is in charge of external communication and dissemination. The document contains the following information: Description of overall structure and content of the repository. Technical characteristics of the repository construction. Details on how to use the data management site. An overview of the public repository.
description: This document is created in the context of the SYNCHROS project. SYNCHROS (SYNergies for Cohorts in Health: integrating the Role of all Stakeholders) is an EU-funded Coordination and Support Action (H2020, ref. no. 825884), aimed at developing a sustainable strategy for the integration and harmonisation of health cohort initiatives and networks across Europe and internationally. Through intensive collaboration with stakeholders (e.g. researchers, funding bodies, coordinators of cohort harmonisation and integration initiatives, policy-makers), SYNCHROS aims to create a strategic agenda for an enhanced international coordination and sustainable recommendations for better collaboration of cohorts globally, towards the development of stratified or personalised medicine.
Prognostic and therapeutic significance of a novel ferroptosis related signature in colorectal cancer patients
Creators: name: Du, Songtao
name: Zeng, Furong
name: Sun, Huiyan
name: Liu, Yanlong
name: Han, Peng
name: Zhang, Bomiao
name: Xue, Weinan
name: Deng, Guangtong
name: Yin, Mingzhu
name: Cui, Binbin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Increasing studies have highlighted the importance of ferroptosis in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, how to use ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs) to predict the prognosis and guide the treatment of CRC remains unknown. To build a prognostic prediction model using the GEO and TCGA databases and explored a therapeutic strategy for CRC patients based on FRGs. A total of 60 FRGs were identified and three of them including ACACA, GSS, and NFS1 were associated with the prognosis of CRC. Using Lasso regression analysis, an FRGs signature was constructed and validated as an independent prognostic predictor. Then we developed a nomogram based on the FRGs signature and clinical prognostic factors to predict the prognosis of CRC patients, which was better than the traditional TNM staging system. Single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) was further performed for the functional analysis and suggested that JAK-STAT signaling, Ras signaling pathway, MAPK signaling pathway, and PI3K-Akt signaling pathway were significantly enriched in CRC patients with higher FRGs risk score. Interestingly, CRC cells with higher FRGs risk score were more sensitive to RSL3. Knocking down GSS and NFS1 increased the FRGs risk score and the sensitivity of CRC cells to RSL3. For the clinic use, we screened 75 FDA-approved cancer drugs and found that Fludarabine phosphate could decrease the expression of GSS and NFS1 most. Fludarabine phosphate, in combination with RSL3, showed a strong synergistic effect on CRC cells. Together, this study identified a potent prognostic model and provided an alternative individualized treatment for CRC patients.
Additional file 1 of Sequence motif finder using memetic algorithm
Creators: name: Jader Caldonazzo Garbelini
name: AndrĂŠ Kashiwabara
name: Sanches, Danilo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Simulated datasets details. This file contains the description of the simulated datasets used in this paper. (PDF 114 kb)
Non-Minimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Curvature in an Inflationary Universe
Creators: name: Calmet, Xavier
name: Kuntz, Iberê
name: Moss, Ian G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the absence of new physics around $10^{10}$ GeV, the electroweak vacuum is at best metastable. This represents a major challenge for high scale inflationary models as, during the early rapid expansion of the universe, it seems difficult to understand how the Higgs vacuum would not decay to the true lower vacuum of the theory with catastrophic consequences if inflation took place at a scale above $10^{10}$ GeV. In this paper we show that the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs boson to curvature could solve this problem by generating a direct coupling of the Higgs boson to the inflationary potential thereby stabilizing the electroweak vacuum. For specific values of the Higgs field initial condition and of its non-minimal coupling, inflation can drive the Higgs field to the electroweak vacuum quickly during inflation.
description: 11 pages
Inflationary preheating dynamics with ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Zache, Torsten V.
name: Kasper, Valentin
name: Berges, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the amplification of loop corrections in quantum many-body systems through dynamical instabilities. As an example, we investigate both analytically and numerically a two-component ultracold atom system in one spatial dimension. The model features a tachyonic instability, which incorporates characteristic aspects of the mechanisms for particle production in early-universe inflaton models. We establish a direct correspondence between measureable macroscopic growth rates for occupation numbers of the ultracold Bose gas and the underlying microscopic processes in terms of Feynman loop diagrams. We analyze several existing ultracold atom setups featuring dynamical instabilities and propose optimized protocols for their experimental realization. We demonstrate that relevant dynamical processes can be enhanced using a seeding procedure for unstable modes and clarify the role of initial quantum fluctuations and the generation of a non-linear secondary stage for the amplification of modes.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling
Creators: name: Ojewale, Victor
name: Steed, Ryan
name: Vecchione, Briana
name: Birhane, Abeba
name: Raji, Inioluwa Deborah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Audits are critical mechanisms for identifying the risks and limitations of deployed artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, the effective execution of AI audits remains incredibly difficult, and practitioners often need to make use of various tools to support their efforts. Drawing on interviews with 35 AI audit practitioners and a landscape analysis of 435 tools, we compare the current ecosystem of AI audit tooling to practitioner needs. While many tools are designed to help set standards and evaluate AI systems, they often fall short in supporting accountability. We outline challenges practitioners faced in their efforts to use AI audit tools and highlight areas for future tool development beyond evaluation -- from harms discovery to advocacy. We conclude that the available resources do not currently support the full scope of AI audit practitioners' needs and recommend that the field move beyond tools for just evaluation and towards more comprehensive infrastructure for AI accountability.
description: Ojewale, V., Steed, R., Vecchione, B., Birhane, A., & Raji, I. D. (2025). Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), April 26--May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 29 pages
The patterns, and individual contexts of heart health behavioural change
Creators: name: Ray, Robin
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion

description:  Voluntary health screening clinics have been made available to people in rural areas over many years, however what health changes do these people make as a result of the screening process? A group of Central Queensland adults, who voluntarily undertook heart risk screening, supported by client -centred health goal setting, participated in a follow up study, post screening. The participants were contacted using telephone interviews, at six and twelve month intervals, to ascertain what health behavioural changes, if any, had occurred. Self reported information was sought concerning perceptions of personal health, present health behaviour and the factors in participants' lifestyles which supported or inhibited positive health behaviour. Qualitative analysis of the data was undertaken to determine the types of changes made and the reported contextual issues affecting health behaviour, both individually and collectively. 
Participants' perceptions of contextual factors that influence health behaviours and their ability to engage in and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviours were identified. While some of these factors had been identified in other studies, very little information on this topic, has been reported and no research has been undertaken involving participants from the Central Queensland region. Knowledge from this study will contribute to enhancing health promotional programs, so that programs will meet more of the needs of those whom they seek to influence.
Extended states with Poisson spectral statistics
Creators: name: Mondal, Triparna
name: Sadhukhan, Suchetana
name: Shukla, Pragya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrary to prevailing notion we find that the spectrum associated with the extended states in a complex system may belong to the Poisson universality class if the system is subjected to a specific set of constraints. Our results are based on an exact theoretical as well as numerical analysis of column constrained chiral ensembles with circulant off-diagonal blocks and are relevant for a complete understanding of the eigenfunction localization and related physical properties.
description: 3 Figures
Additional file 1: of Pyroglutamate and Isoaspartate modified Amyloid-Beta in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Moro, Maria
name: Phillips, Andrew
name: Gaimster, Katie
name: Paul, Christian
name: Amritpal Mudher
name: Nicoll, James
name: Boche, Delphine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Contains all supplemental information mentioned in this manuscript. Table S1. Characteristics of the old control and AD cohorts. Figure S1. Representation of the correlations between pE3-Aβ and phospho-TAU in OC and AD groups together. (DOC 203 kb)
Mixed blessings: Christianity and history in women's lives on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Dureau, Christine May
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis considers the ethnographic history of Simbo, a small island in the western Solomon Islands. The particular focus is upon the significance of conversion to Christianity and subsequent Christian practice, in shaping social and cultural issues and practices in the 1990s. Women's lives, in particular those aspects concerned with kinship, are the lens through which historical changes are viewed. By juxtaposing the structures suggested by indigenous lifecycle categories and the differentiation inherent in individual biographical material, I try to reflect the regularities and continuities within Simbo society as well as the variability and unpredictability of sociality at any given moment. At the same time, the mutability of structure is reflected in the transformed significance of institutions and ostensibly similar practices. -- The period under scrutiny is that between c. 1900-1990, which covers social practices and events from immediately prior to pacification and the Methodist Mission's establishment in the New Georgia Group in 1902 up until the present. I argue that since pacification, the progressive development of indigenous Christianity has been the major determinant of Simbo responses to the world system. This is not to argue that pacification represented the first intrusion of Europe or the beginning of social transformations. Constructions of indigenous societies as having been static entities before contact with Europe are critiqued. Pacification, after more than a century of contact with Europe, had revolutionary implications because of its significance from local worldviews, as much as for its demonstration of British political "legitimacy". -- Christianity, then, cannot be divorced from the reality of political and economic subordination throughout the twentieth century. Nor, however, can it be simpHstically treated as merely the ideological face of expanding capitalism. Following J. Comaroff and J.L. Comaroff, I treat the non-material aspects of social life as being as significant as the material. From its earliest days, the Methodist Mission both facilitated and hampered the interests of government and traders. But it is not only mission personnel who are important here. Simbo people have consistently shaped and deployed their own Christian frameworks. If they never resisted it, they have certainly transformed what was imposed on them ninety years ago from ideology to lived hegemony.
Nonlinear continuous-wave optical propagation in nematic liquid crystals: interplay between reorientational and thermal effects
Creators: name: Alberucci, Alessandro
name: Laudyn, Urszula A.
name: Piccardi, Armando
name: Kwasny, Michal
name: Klus, Bartlomiej
name: Karpierz, Miroslaw A.
name: Assanto, Gaetano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thanks to their unique properties, nematic liquid crystals feature a variety of mechanisms for light-matter interactions. For continuous-wave optical excitations, the two dominant contributions stem from reorientational and thermal nonlinearities. We thoroughly analyze the competing roles of these two nonlinear responses with reference to self-focusing/defocusing and, eventually, the formation of nonlinear diffraction-free wavepackets, the so-called spatial optical solitons. To this extent we refer to dye-doped nematic liquid crystals in planar cells and continuous-wave beams at two distinct wavelengths in order to adjust the relative weights of the two responses. The theoretical analysis is complemented by numerical simulations in the highly nonlocal approximation and compared to experimental results.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRE
MicroRNA-665-3p exacerbates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice
Creators: name: Yu, Yuanjie
name: Tian, Tian
name: Tan, Shiyun
name: Wu, Pengbo
name: Guo, Yitian
name: Li, Ming
name: Huang, Mengjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Oxidative stress and chronic inflammation are major culprits of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). MicroRNA-665-3p (miR-665-3p) is implicated in regulating inflammation and oxidative stress; however, its role and molecular basis in NAFLD remain elusive. Herein, we measured a significant upregulation of miR-665-3p level in the liver and primary hepatocytes upon high fat diet (HFD) or 0.5 mmol/L palmitic acid plus 1.0 mmol/L oleic acid stimulation, and the elevated miR-665-3p expression aggravated oxidative stress, inflammation and NAFLD progression in mice. In contrast, miR-665-3p inhibition by the miR-665-3p antagomir significantly prevented HFD-induced oxidative stress, inflammation and hepatic dysfunction in vivo. Manipulation of miR-665-3p in primary hepatocytes also caused similar phenotypic alterations in vitro. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that miR-665-3p directly bound to the 3ʹ-untranslated region of fibronectin type III domain-containing 5 (FNDC5) to downregulate its expression and inactivated the downstream AMP-activated protein kinase alpha (AMPKα) pathway, thereby facilitating oxidative stress, inflammation and NAFLD progression. Our findings identify miR-665-3p as an endogenous positive regulator of NAFLD via inactivating FNDC5/AMPKα pathway, and inhibiting miR-665-3p may provide novel therapeutic strategies to treat NAFLD.