cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparative Analysis of Briquetting Most Viable Biomass Waste to Substitute Charcoal in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Anteneh Belay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Agricultural residues seem to be the most promising energy resources for developing countries. However, the majority of them have low energy density. One of the favorable technologies for enhancing that property is charcoal Briquetting. A large amount of agricultural and solid wastes are left in the field after harvest. The primary objective of the study was to investigate the comparative analysis of resource availability, physico-chemical properties and performance of biomass charcoal produce from the most promising wastes. Specific objective was to develop and characterizing composite charcoal briquettes, investigate factors affecting densification of composite charcoal briquettes and compare resources availability, physic-chemical property and performance of charcoal briquettes with wood charcoal.
(400693) George Latham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Conditional speed of branching Brownian motion, skeleton decomposition and application to random obstacles
Creators: name: Öz, Mehmet
name: Çağlar, Mine
name: Engländer, János
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60K37, 60F10

description: We study a branching Brownian motion $Z$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, among obstacles scattered according to a Poisson random measure with a radially decaying intensity. Obstacles are balls with constant radius and each one works as a trap for the whole motion when hit by a particle. Considering a general offspring distribution, we derive the decay rate of the annealed probability that none of the particles of $Z$ hits a trap, asymptotically in time $t$. This proves to be a rich problem motivating the proof of a more general result about the speed of branching Brownian motion conditioned on non-extinction. We provide an appropriate "skeleton" decomposition for the underlying Galton-Watson process when supercritical and show that the "doomed" particles do not contribute to the asymptotic decay rate.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure; typos corrected, argument revised in subsection 4.1, results unchanged
(400694) Maud Sim
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Identification of infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorder using multiparameter multiscale white matter connectivity networks: Identification of Infants at High-Risk for ASD
Creators: name: Wee, Chong-Yaw
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Jin, Yan
name: Thung, Kim-Han
name: Ni, Dong
name: Shi, Feng
name: Yap, Pew-Thian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a wide range of disabilities that cause life-long cognitive impairment and social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Early diagnosis and medical intervention are important for improving the life quality of autistic patients. However, in the current practice, diagnosis often has to be delayed until the behavioral symptoms become evident during childhood. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of using machine learning techniques for identifying high-risk ASD infants at as early as six months after birth. This is based on the observation that ASD-induced abnormalities in white matter (WM) tracts and whole-brain connectivity have already started to appear within 24 months after birth. In particular, we propose a novel multikernel support vector machine classification framework by using the connectivity features gathered from WM connectivity networks, which are generated via multiscale regions of interest (ROIs) and multiple diffusion statistics such as fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, and average fiber length. Our proposed framework achieves an accuracy of 76% and an area of 0.80 under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), in comparison to the accuracy of 70% and the AUC of 70% provided by the best single-parameter single-scale network. The improvement in accuracy is mainly due to the complementary information provided by multiparameter multiscale networks. In addition, our framework also provides the potential imaging connectomic markers and an objective means for early ASD diagnosis.
Manifold regularized multitask feature learning for multimodality disease classification: Manifold Regularized Multitask Feature Learning
Creators: name: Jie, Biao
name: Zhang, Daoqiang
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Cheng, Bo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Multimodality based methods have shown great advantages in classification of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its prodromal stage, that is, mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Recently, multitask feature selection methods are typically used for joint selection of common features across multiple modalities. However, one disadvantage of existing multimodality based methods is that they ignore the useful data distribution information in each modality, which is essential for subsequent classification. Accordingly, in this paper we propose a manifold regularized multitask feature learning method to preserve both the intrinsic relatedness among multiple modalities of data and the data distribution information in each modality. Specifically, we denote the feature learning on each modality as a single task, and use group-sparsity regularizer to capture the intrinsic relatedness among multiple tasks (i.e., modalities) and jointly select the common features from multiple tasks. Furthermore, we introduce a new manifold-based Laplacian regularizer to preserve the data distribution information from each task. Finally, we use the multikernel support vector machine method to fuse multimodality data for eventual classification. Conversely, we also extend our method to the semisupervised setting, where only partial data are labeled. We evaluate our method using the baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) data of subjects from AD neuroimaging initiative database. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can not only achieve improved classification performance, but also help to discover the disease-related brain regions useful for disease diagnosis.
Electric Supplementary File from Synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymers with polydimethylsiloxane side chains and their application in organic field-effect transistors.
Creators: name: Inori Ohnishi
name: Hashimoto, Kazuhito
name: Tajima, Keisuke
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis

description: Synthetic details of the polymers, UV-vis absorption, XRD patterns and typical output and transfer curves of OFET devices.
Ground-state energies and charge radii of $^{4}$He, $^{16}$O, $^{40}$Ca, and $^{56}$Ni in the unitary-model-operator approach
Creators: name: Miyagi, Takayuki
name: Abe, Takashi
name: Okamoto, Ryoji
name: Otsuka, Takaharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nuclear ground-state properties by using the unitary-model-operator approach (UMOA). Recently, the particle-basis formalism has been introduced in the UMOA and enables us to employ the charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon interaction. We evaluate the ground-state energies and charge radii of $^{4}$He, $^{16}$O, $^{40}$Ca, and $^{56}$Ni with the charge-dependent Bonn potential. The ground-state energy is dominated by the contributions from the one- and two-body cluster terms, while, for the radius, the one-particle-one-hole excitations are more important than the two-particle-two-hole excitations. The calculated results reproduce the trend of experimental data of the saturation property for finite nuclei.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, published in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys
(400689) Denis [D.] Lyell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electric Supplementary File from Synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymers with polydimethylsiloxane side chains and their application in organic field-effect transistors
Creators: name: Inori Ohnishi
name: Hashimoto, Kazuhito
name: Tajima, Keisuke
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis

description: Synthetic details of the polymers, UV-vis absorption, XRD patterns and typical output and transfer curves of OFET devices.
Reliability of an fMRI paradigm for emotional processing in a multisite longitudinal study
Creators: name: McGlashan, Thomas H.
name: Goodyear, Bradley
name: Olvet, Doreen
name: Cadenhead, Kristin S.
name: Mirzakhanian, Heline
name: Belger, Aysenil
name: Thermenos, Heidi
name: Tsuang, Ming T.
name: Addington, Jean
name: Hamann, Stephan
name: Constable, Todd
name: Mathalon, Daniel H.
name: Gee, Dylan G.
name: van Erp, Theo G.M.
name: McEwen, Sarah C.
name: Walker, Elaine F.
name: Woods, Scott W.
name: Bearden, Carrie E.
name: Haut, Kristen M.
name: Cannon, Tyrone D.
name: Cornblatt, Barbara A.
name: Forsyth, Jennifer K.
name: Seidman, Larry J.
name: Perkins, Diana O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Multisite neuroimaging studies can facilitate the investigation of brain-related changes in many contexts, including patient groups that are relatively rare in the general population. Though multisite studies have characterized the reliability of brain activation during working memory and motor functional magnetic resonance imaging tasks, emotion processing tasks, pertinent to many clinical populations, remain less explored. A traveling participants study was conducted with eight healthy volunteers scanned twice on consecutive days at each of the eight North American Longitudinal Prodrome Study sites. Tests derived from generalizability theory showed excellent reliability in the amygdala ( Eρ2 = 0.82), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG; Eρ2 = 0.83), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; Eρ2 = 0.76), insula ( Eρ2 = 0.85), and fusiform gyrus ( Eρ2 = 0.91) for maximum activation and fair to excellent reliability in the amygdala ( Eρ2 = 0.44), IFG ( Eρ2 = 0.48), ACC ( Eρ2 = 0.55), insula ( Eρ2 = 0.42), and fusiform gyrus ( Eρ2 = 0.83) for mean activation across sites and test days. For the amygdala, habituation ( Eρ2 = 0.71) was more stable than mean activation. In a second investigation, data from 111 healthy individuals across sites were aggregated in a voxelwise, quantitative meta-analysis. When compared with a mixed effects model controlling for site, both approaches identified robust activation in regions consistent with expected results based on prior single-site research. Overall, regions central to emotion processing showed strong reliability in the traveling participants study and robust activation in the aggregation study. These results support the reliability of blood oxygen level-dependent signal in emotion processing areas across different sites and scanners and may inform future efforts to increase efficiency and enhance knowledge of rare conditions in the population through multisite neuroimaging paradigms.
Spatiotemporal patterns of cortical fiber density in developing infants, and their relationship with cortical thickness: Cortical Fiber Density in Infants
Creators: name: Li, Gang
name: Ni, Dong
name: Liu, Tianming
name: Lin, Weili
name: Gilmore, John H.
name: Shen, Dinggang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The intrinsic relationship between the convoluted cortical folding and the underlying complex whiter matter fiber connections has received increasing attention in current neuroscience studies. Recently, the axonal pushing hypothesis of cortical folding has been proposed to explain the finding that the axonal fibers (derived from diffusion tensor images) connecting to gyri are significantly denser than those connecting to sulci in both adult human and non-human primate brains. However, it is still unclear about the spatiotemporal patterns of the fiber density on the cortical surface of the developing infant brains from birth to 2 years of age, which is the most dynamic phase of postnatal brain development. In this paper, for the first time, we systemically characterized the spatial distributions and longitudinal developmental trajectories of the cortical fiber density in the first 2 postnatal years, via joint analysis of longitudinal structural and diffusion tensor imaging from 33 healthy infants. We found that the cortical fiber density increases dramatically in the first year and then keeps relatively stable in the second year. Moreover, we revealed that the cortical fiber density on gyral regions was significantly higher at 0, 1, and 2 years of age than that on sulcal regions in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes. Meanwhile, the cortical fiber density was strongly positively correlated with cortical thickness at several 3-hinge junction regions of gyri. These results significantly advanced our understanding of the intrinsic relationship between the cortical folding, cortical thickness and axonal wiring during early postnatal stages.
Volume changes and brain-behavior relationships in white matter and subcortical gray matter in children with prenatal alcohol exposure: Volume Changes and Brain-Behavior in Children with PAE
Creators: name: May, Philip A.
name: Jones, Kenneth L.
name: Sowell, Elizabeth R.
name: Adnams, Colleen M.
name: Lebel, Catherine
name: Kan, Eric C.
name: Riley, Edward P.
name: Mattson, Sarah N.
name: Gautam, Prapti
name: Narr, Katherine L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) may have cognitive, behavioral and brain abnormalities. Here, we compare rates of white matter and subcortical gray matter volume change in PAE and control children, and examine relationships between annual volume change and arithmetic ability, behavior, and executive function. Participants (n=75 PAE/64 control; age: 7.1–15.9 years) each received two structural magnetic resonance scans, ~2 years apart. Assessments included Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF). Subcortical white and gray volumes were extracted for each hemisphere. Group volume differences were tested using false discovery rate (FDR, q<0.05). Analyses examined group-by-age interactions and group-score interactions for correlations between change in volume and raw behavioral scores. Results showed that subjects with PAE had smaller volumes than control subjects across the brain. Significant group-score interactions were found in temporal and parietal regions for WISC arithmetic scores and in frontal and parietal regions for behavioral measures. Poorer cognitive/ behavioral outcomes were associated with larger volume increases in PAE, while control subjects generally showed no significant correlations. In contrast with previous results demonstrating different trajectories of cortical volume change in PAE, our results show similar rates of subcortical volume growth in subjects with PAE and control subjects. We also demonstrate abnormal brain-behavior relationships in subjects with PAE, suggesting different use of brain resources. Our results are encouraging in that, due to the stable volume differences, there may be an extended window of opportunity for intervention in children with PAE.
Hemispherical power asymmetry in intensity and polarization for Planck PR4 data
Creators: name: C. Gimeno-Amo
name: Barreiro, R. B.
name: Martínez-González, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cosmic Microwave Background
Planck Mission
Hemispherical Power Asymmetry
Polarization
Inpainting

description: WMAP and Planck temperature data show evidence of several anomalies hinting that the large-scale anisotropies are not fully compatible with the statistical isotropy assumption, one of the fundamentals of the standard model of cosmology. In particular, a “hemispherical power asymmetry” has been found using different estimators with a significance close to 3σ. In this work we perform an analysis of this asymmetry using the local-variance estimator, and the Planck fourth release (PR4) data, which provides an improved data set with reduced systematics and noise, especially in polarization. Additionaly, we have implemented an alternative inpainting approach, which is necessary to reduce the E/B mixing.
(400690) Margaret Beatrice Lyell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: NOAA FISHERIES SMALLTOOTH SAWFISH MONITORING SURVEY-FY22 Relative Abundance and Essential Fish Habitat Studies for Smalltooth Sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in Southwest Florida, USA
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: NOAA smalltooth sawfish monitoring survey-FY22: Relative abundance and essential fish habitat studies for smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in southwest Florida, USA
Creators: name: Carlson, John
name: Kroetz, Andrea
name: Grubbs, R. Dean
Publisher: name: Panama City Laboratory
Year: 2023

description: Sustainable Fisheries Division contribution ; SFD-2023-01
Self-reported physical activity levels of the 2017 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) conference delegates and their exercise referral practices
Creators: name: Fibbins, Hamish
name: Czosnek, Louise
name: Stanton, Robert
name: Davison, Kade
name: Lederman, Oscar
name: Morell, Rachel
name: Ward, Philip
name: Rosenbaum, Simon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Physical activity (PA) significantly improves physical health and clinical symptoms across mental disorders. Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) are trained to lead PA interventions for people with mental illness, but referrals to AEPs are low. Aims: To determine the knowledge and attitudes of delegates attending the 2017 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) conference toward physical health monitoring and exercise interventions for people with mental illness. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of RANZCP delegates investigated knowledge and attitudes toward PA for people with mental illness, self-reported PA, and their understanding of AEP’s role within mental health settings. A subgroup of delegates underwent fitness assessments. Results: Seventy-three delegates completed surveys and 24 underwent fitness assessments. Delegates demonstrated good knowledge regarding associations between PA and cardiovascular disease risk. Delegates were less knowledgeable of AEP’s role within mental health settings. Forty-six participants (63%) did not meet the Australian recommended guidelines for PA. No association between referrals to AEPs and self-reported PA or fitness measures were evident. Conclusions: Promoting PA participation for mental health professionals, coupled with education on the important role AEPs play in the multidisciplinary treatment of mental health consumers is vital to improve health outcomes for this vulnerable group.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of planet detections and astrophysical false positives
Creators: name: Sullivan, Peter W.
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Berta-Thompson, Zachory K.
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Deming, Drake
name: Dressing, Courtney D.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Levine, Alan M.
name: McCullough, Peter R.
name: Morton, Timothy
name: Ricker, George R.
name: Vanderspek, Roland
name: Woods, Deborah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will detect along with the eclipsing binary stars that produce false-positive photometric signals. The predictions are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the nearby population of stars, occurrence rates of planets derived from Kepler, and models for the photometric performance and sky coverage of the TESS cameras. We expect that TESS will find approximately 1700 transiting planets from 200,000 pre-selected target stars. This includes 556 planets smaller than twice the size of Earth, of which 419 are hosted by M dwarf stars and 137 are hosted by FGK dwarfs. Approximately 130 of the $R < 2~R_\oplus$ planets will have host stars brighter than K = 9. Approximately 48 of the planets with $R < 2~R_\oplus$ lie within or near the habitable zone ($0.2 < S/S_\oplus < 2$), and between 2-7 such planets have host stars brighter than K = 9. We also expect approximately 1100 detections of planets with radii 2-4 R_Earth, and 67 planets larger than $4~R_\oplus$. Additional planets larger than $2~R_\oplus$ can be detected around stars that are not among the pre-selected target stars, because TESS will also deliver full-frame images at a 30-minute cadence. The planet detections are accompanied by over one thousand astrophysical false positives. We discuss how TESS data and ground-based observations can be used to distinguish the false positives from genuine planets. We also discuss the prospects for follow-up observations to measure the masses and atmospheres of the TESS planets.
description: Corrected errors in Figs. 3 and 18 as documented in https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/837/1/99
Doppler-free intermodulated fluorescence spectroscopy of $^4He$ $2^3P-3^{1,3}D$ transitions at 588 nm with a one-watt compact laser system
Creators: name: Luo, Pei-Ling
name: Hu, Jinmeng
name: Feng, Yan
name: Wang, Li-Bang
name: Shy, Jow-Tsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have demonstrated Doppler-free intermodulated fluorescence spectroscopy of helium $2^3P-3^{1,3}D$ transitions in an rf discharged sealed-off cell using a compact laser system at 588 nm. An external cavity diode laser at 1176 nm was constructed to seed a Raman fiber amplifier. Laser power of more than one watt at 588 nm was produced by frequency doubling of the fiber amplifier output using a MgO:PPLN crystal. A doubling efficiency of 23 % was achieved. The power-dependent spectra of the $2^3P-3^3D$ transitions were investigated. Furthermore, the Doppler-free spectrum of the spin-forbidden $2^3P-3^1D$ transitions was observed for the first time. Our results are crucial towards precision test of QED atomic calculations, especially for improving the determination of the helium $3^1D-3^3D$ separation.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
(400687) Kate Harriette Latham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Filtrated Algebraic Subspace Clustering
Creators: name: Tsakiris, Manolis C.
name: Vidal, Rene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Subspace clustering is the problem of clustering data that lie close to a union of linear subspaces. In the abstract form of the problem, where no noise or other corruptions are present, the data are assumed to lie in general position inside the algebraic variety of a union of subspaces, and the objective is to decompose the variety into its constituent subspaces. Prior algebraic-geometric approaches to this problem require the subspaces to be of equal dimension, or the number of subspaces to be known. Subspaces of arbitrary dimensions can still be recovered in closed form, in terms of all homogeneous polynomials of degree $m$ that vanish on their union, when an upper bound m on the number of the subspaces is given. In this paper, we propose an alternative, provably correct, algorithm for addressing a union of at most $m$ arbitrary-dimensional subspaces, based on the idea of descending filtrations of subspace arrangements. Our algorithm uses the gradient of a vanishing polynomial at a point in the variety to find a hyperplane containing the subspace S passing through that point. By intersecting the variety with this hyperplane, we obtain a subvariety that contains S, and recursively applying the procedure until no non-trivial vanishing polynomial exists, our algorithm eventually identifies S. By repeating this procedure for other points, our algorithm eventually identifies all the subspaces by returning a basis for their orthogonal complement. Finally, we develop a variant of the abstract algorithm, suitable for computations with noisy data. We show by experiments on synthetic and real data that the proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods on several occasions, thus demonstrating the merit of the idea of filtrations.
Land administration in Bohemia in space and time through map applications
Creators: name: Janata, Tomáš
name: Marková, Markéta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The paper focuses on the development of territorial possession, the formation of tenure units and their hierarchy over time and, in general, on a gradual transformation of medieval forms of ownership into the modern society of the 19th and 20th centuries. This is performed on the example of the historical territory of Bohemia using modern tools of digital cartography and geographic information systems.
Antipsychotic treatment – a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies
Creators: name: Bjornestad, Jone
name: Lavik, Kristina O.
name: Davidson, Larry
name: Hjeltnes, Aslak
name: Moltu, Christian
name: Veseth, Marius
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Background: The literature on antipsychotic medication in psychosis lack systematization of the empirical knowledge base on patients’ subjective experiences of using antipsychotic drugs. Such investigations are pivotal to inform large-scale trials with clinically relevant hypotheses and to illuminate clinical implications for different sub-groups of individuals. Aims: To re-analyze and summarize existing qualitative research literature on patient perspectives of using antipsychotic medication. Method: A systematic literature search was performed in September 2018 (Protocol registration no. CRD42017074394). Using an existing framework of meta-analyzing qualitative research, full text evaluation was conducted for 41 articles. Thirty-two articles were included for the final synthesis. Results: Four meta-themes were identified: (1) short-term benefits; (2) adverse effects and coping processes; (3) surrender and autonomy; (4) long-term compromise of functional recovery. Conclusions: While largely positive about acute and short-term use, patients are more skeptical about using antipsychotic drugs in the longer term. The latter specifically relates to processes of functional and social recovery. The clinical conversations about antipsychotic medication need to include evaluations of contexts of patient experience level, patient autonomy processes, patient values and risk preferences, and patient knowledge and knowledge needs in addition to assessing the severity of symptoms of psychosis.
Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study
Creators: name: Mosley, Thomas H.
name: Wyatt, Sharon B.
name: Liu, Kiang
name: Adeyemo, Adebowale
name: Keating, Brendan J.
name: Kang, Sun J.
name: Rotimi, Charles N.
name: Dries, Daniel L.
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Tayo, Bamidele O.
name: Rotter, Jerome I.
name: Palmas, Walter
name: Li, Yali
name: Townsend, Raymond R.
name: Redline, Susan
name: Polak, Josef F.
name: Farlow, Deborah N.
name: Kutlar, Abdullah
name: Cooper, Richard S.
name: Penman, Alan D.
name: Fox, Ervin R.
name: Ramachandran, Vasan S.
name: Sun, Yan V.
name: Hirschorn, Joel N.
name: Young, J. Hunter
name: Lyon, Helen N.
name: Fabsitz, Richard R.
name: Doumatey, Ayo P.
name: Ganesh, Santhi
name: Morrison, Alanna C.
name: Musani, Solomon K.
name: Dreisbach, Albert W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The prevalence of hypertension in African Americans (AAs) is higher than in other US groups; yet, few have performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in AA. Among people of European descent, GWASs have identified genetic variants at 13 loci that are associated with blood pressure. It is unknown if these variants confer susceptibility in people of African ancestry. Here, we examined genome-wide and candidate gene associations with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) using the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) consortium consisting of 8591 AAs. Genotypes included genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data utilizing the Affymetrix 6.0 array with imputation to 2.5 million HapMap SNPs and candidate gene SNP data utilizing a 50K cardiovascular gene-centric array (ITMAT-Broad-CARe [IBC] array). For Affymetrix data, the strongest signal for DBP was rs10474346 (P= 3.6 × 10−8) located near GPR98 and ARRDC3. For SBP, the strongest signal was rs2258119 in C21orf91 (P= 4.7 × 10−8). The top IBC association for SBP was rs2012318 (P= 6.4 × 10−6) near SLC25A42 and for DBP was rs2523586 (P= 1.3 × 10−6) near HLA-B. None of the top variants replicated in additional AA (n = 11 882) or European-American (n = 69 899) cohorts. We replicated previously reported European-American blood pressure SNPs in our AA samples (SH2B3, P= 0.009; TBX3-TBX5, P= 0.03; and CSK-ULK3, P= 0.0004). These genetic loci represent the best evidence of genetic influences on SBP and DBP in AAs to date. More broadly, this work supports that notion that blood pressure among AAs is a trait with genetic underpinnings but also with significant complexity.
(400688) James VL Lyell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The influence of charged-induced variations in the local permittivity on the static and dynamic properties of polyelectrolyte solutions
Creators: name: Fahrenberger, Florian
name: Hickey, Owen A.
name: Smiatek, Jens
name: Holm, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a large body of literature investigating the static and dynamic properties of polyelectrolytes due both to their widespread application in industrial processes and their ubiquitous presence in biology. Because of their highly charged nature, polyelectrolytes tend to alter the local dielectric permittivity of the solution within a few nanometers of their backbone. This effect has, however, been almost entirely ignored in both simulations and theoretical work. In this article we apply our recently developed electrostatic solver based on Maxwell's equations to examine the effects of the permittivity reduction in the vicinity of the polyelectrolyte. We first verify our new approach by calculating and comparing ion distributions around a linear fixed polyelectrolyte and find both quantitative and qualitative changes in the ion distribution. Further simulations with an applied electric field show that the reduction in the local dielectric constant increases the mobility of the chains by approximately ten percent. More importantly, variations in the local dielectric constant lead to qualitatively different behavior of the conductivity.
Study protocol: A scoping review of exercise interventions addressing falls efficacy in community-dwelling older adults.
Creators: name: Hao, Hannathon Tang Jia
name: Kum, Callista
name: Jiaying, Ho
name: Teng, Hazel Ting Xu
name: Boonsinsukh, Rumpa
name: Soh, Shawn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physiotherapy

description: Scoping review protocol
Supplementary Materials from Increasing cell–device adherence using cultured insect cells for receptor-based biosensors.
Creators: name: Daigo Terutsuki
name: Mitsuno, Hidefumi
name: Sakurai, Takeshi
name: Okamoto, Yuki
name: Tixier-Mita, Agnès
name: Toshiyoshi, Hiroshi
name: Mita, Yoshio
name: Kanzaki, Ryohei
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: The supplementary materials provide details of measured points of an adhesive interface, evaluation results of cell growth on aluminium, all cross-sectional SEM images of attached BmOR3 cells on Al2O3 layers, brightness value analysis of cell membrane using ImageJ, and cross-section images of BmOR3 cells on aluminium layer.
A thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies of Addis Ababa University Department of medical laboratory technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master in clinical laboratory science (Clinical Laboratory Management and quality Assurance)
Creators: name: Fikremariam Bayuh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a highly contagious virus which is 50-100 times more infectious than HIV but have similar mode of transmission. Chronic HBV infection remains a major health threat. The prevalence of HBV infection among an antenatal population may be a reliable indicator of HBV prevalence rate in the general population. However, the knowledge, attitude, practice and the prevalence of HBV infection among pregnant women are not studied well in developing countries like Ethiopia.

Objective: To assess the magnitude of Hepatitis B surface antigen and level of knowledge, attitude practices related to Hepatitis B infection among pregnant women attending three Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A Spectral Canonical Electrostatic Algorithm
Creators: name: Webb, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studying single-particle dynamics over many periods of oscillations is a well-understood problem solved using symplectic integration. Such integration schemes derive their update sequence from an approximate Hamiltonian, guaranteeing that the geometric structure of the underlying problem is preserved. Simulating a self-consistent system over many oscillations can introduce numerical artifacts such as grid heating. This unphysical heating stems from using non-symplectic methods on Hamiltonian systems. With this guidance, we derive an electrostatic algorithm using a discrete form of Hamilton's Principle. The resulting algorithm, a gridless spectral electrostatic macroparticle model, does not exhibit the unphysical heating typical of most particle-in-cell methods. We present results of this using a two-body problem as an example of the algorithm's energy- and momentum-conserving properties.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, submitted to LPAW Special Edition of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Supplementary Materials from Increasing cell–device adherence using cultured insect cells for receptor-based biosensors
Creators: name: Daigo Terutsuki
name: Mitsuno, Hidefumi
name: Sakurai, Takeshi
name: Okamoto, Yuki
name: Tixier-Mita, Agnès
name: Toshiyoshi, Hiroshi
name: Mita, Yoshio
name: Kanzaki, Ryohei
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: The supplementary materials provide details of measured points of an adhesive interface, evaluation results of cell growth on aluminium, all cross-sectional SEM images of attached BmOR3 cells on Al2O3 layers, brightness value analysis of cell membrane using ImageJ, and cross-section images of BmOR3 cells on aluminium layer.
(400683) Christian Clunie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of breast cancer identifies two novel susceptibility loci at 6q14 and 20q11
Creators: name: Buring, Julie E.
name: Rhie, Suhn Kyong
name: Cox, Angela
name: Bernstein, Leslie
name: Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise
name: Beckmann, Matthias W.
name: Eccles, Diana
name: Chang-Claude, Jenny
name: Beckmann, Lars
name: Carpenter, Jane E.
name: Aittomäki, Kristiina
name: Baglietto, Laura
name: Blomqvist, Carl
name: Ambrosone, Christine B.
name: Stram, Daniel O.
name: Bandera, Elisa V.
name: Couch, Fergus J.
name: Millikan, Robert C.
name: Buys, Saundra S.
name: Campa, Daniele
name: Chasman, Daniel I.
name: Chen, Gary K.
name: Bui, Quang M.
name: Berg, Christine D.
name: Siddiq, Afshan
name: Lindström, Sara
name: Chen, Constance
name: Michailidou, Kyriaki
name: Amiano, Pilar
name: Brauch, Hiltrud
name: Apicella, Carmel
name: Brinton, Louise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of breast cancer defined by hormone receptor status have revealed loci contributing to susceptibility of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative subtypes. To identify additional genetic variants for ER-negative breast cancer, we conducted the largest meta-analysis of ER-negative disease to date, comprising 4754 ER-negative cases and 31 663 controls from three GWAS: NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3) (2188 ER-negative cases; 25 519 controls of European ancestry), Triple Negative Breast Cancer Consortium (TNBCC) (1562 triple negative cases; 3399 controls of European ancestry) and African American Breast Cancer Consortium (AABC) (1004 ER-negative cases; 2745 controls). We performed in silico replication of 86 SNPs at P ≤ 1 × 10-5 in an additional 11 209 breast cancer cases (946 with ER-negative disease) and 16 057 controls of Japanese, Latino and European ancestry. We identified two novel loci for breast cancer at 20q11 and 6q14. SNP rs2284378 at 20q11 was associated with ER-negative breast cancer (combined two-stage OR = 1.16; P = 1.1 × 10−8) but showed a weaker association with overall breast cancer (OR = 1.08, P = 1.3 × 10–6) based on 17 869 cases and 43 745 controls and no association with ER-positive disease (OR = 1.01, P = 0.67) based on 9965 cases and 22 902 controls. Similarly, rs17530068 at 6q14 was associated with breast cancer (OR = 1.12; P = 1.1 × 10−9), and with both ER-positive (OR = 1.09; P = 1.5 × 10−5) and ER-negative (OR = 1.16, P = 2.5 × 10−7) disease. We also confirmed three known loci associated with ER-negative (19p13) and both ER-negative and ER-positive breast cancer (6q25 and 12p11). Our results highlight the value of large-scale collaborative studies to identify novel breast cancer risk loci.
Review of evidence for adaptation to sperm competition in three major domesticates from Sperm competition as an under-appreciated factor in domestication.
Creators: name: Ardern Hulme-Beaman
name: Searle, Jeremy B.
name: Stockley, Paula
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Here we provide a brief review of evidence for sperm competition in dogs, cats and pigs. The evidence indicates that there are different levels of promiscuity between these domesticates and their wild counterparts. We further go on to illustrate that there is significant evidence that this promiscuity and changes in mating behaviour has resulted in adaptations that are likely associated with selective pressures for sperm competition in the domestic animals, but not in their wild counterparts.
Genome-wide meta-analysis of common variant differences between men and women
Creators: name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Colonna, Vincenza
name: Frayling, Timothy M.
name: Bandinelli, Stefania
name: Esko, Tõnu
name: Erdmann, Jeanette
name: Hofman, Albert
name: Barroso, Inês
name: Gonzalez, Juan R.
name: Beckmann, Jacques S.
name: Barbalic, Maja
name: Jerončić, Ana
name: Heid, Iris M.
name: William Rayner, Nigel
name: Boraska, Vesna
name: Girotto, Giorgia
name: Hua Zhao, Jing
name: Toniolo, Daniela
name: Corre, Tanguy
name: Albrecht, Eva
name: Nyholt, Dale R.
name: Ang, Wei
name: Fischer, Krista
name: Hoffmann, Wolfgang
name: Heath, Andrew C.
name: Harris, Tamara B.
name: Biffar, Reiner
name: Southam, Lorraine
name: Perry, John R.B.
name: Campbell, Harry
name: Horikoshi, Momoko
name: Boomsma, Dorret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The male-to-female sex ratio at birth is constant across world populations with an average of 1.06 (106 male to 100 female live births) for populations of European descent. The sex ratio is considered to be affected by numerous biological and environmental factors and to have a heritable component. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of common allele modest effects at autosomal and chromosome X variants that could explain the observed sex ratio at birth. We conducted a large-scale genome-wide association scan (GWAS) meta-analysis across 51 studies, comprising overall 114 863 individuals (61 094 women and 53 769 men) of European ancestry and 2 623 828 common (minor allele frequency >0.05) single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Allele frequencies were compared between men and women for directly-typed and imputed variants within each study. Forward-time simulations for unlinked, neutral, autosomal, common loci were performed under the demographic model for European populations with a fixed sex ratio and a random mating scheme to assess the probability of detecting significant allele frequency differences. We do not detect any genome-wide significant (P < 5 × 10−8) common SNP differences between men and women in this well-powered meta-analysis. The simulated data provided results entirely consistent with these findings. This large-scale investigation across ∼115 000 individuals shows no detectable contribution from common genetic variants to the observed skew in the sex ratio. The absence of sex-specific differences is useful in guiding genetic association study design, for example when using mixed controls for sex-biased traits.