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Measuring the maturity of open access: a preliminary study
Open access is an important part of scholarly communication, and it has been a global phenomenon. The growth of open access brings several signif-icant benefits to the general public as well as researchers, ultimately leads to the advancement of science. For the continuous growth and development of open access, it is necessary to measure the degree of maturity of open ac-cess. However, there is not much discussion about the assessment frame-work for open access. This study aims to propose an assessment framework of open access maturity. For the purpose of this study, we conducted an analysis with a total of 24 literatures relevant to the digital maturity, the ma-turity of open data/open science, and major open access initiatives. For digi-tal maturity, 18 articles were analyzed: 10 articles for generic purpose model, and 8 articles for industry-specific model. In addition, three articles on the maturity of open data/open science were analyzed and three major open ac-cess initiatives. In preliminary analysis results, three dimensions with 13 be-longing items were proposed for measuring the maturity of open access. Three dimensions are OA Policy, OA capability, and Openness quality. For OA policy, there are three items such as OA policy document, OA govern-ance, and OA strategy. For OA Capability, finance for OA, people for OA, culture for OA, and collaboration for OA are proposed. For Openness Quali-ty dimension, six items are suggested: submission and review, author rights, user rights, findability, accessibility, and monitoring
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Real-Time Temporal Dynamics of Bicistronic Expression Mediated by Internal Ribosome Entry Site and 2A Cleaving Sequence
Multicistronic elements, such as the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and 2A-like cleavage sequence, serve crucial roles in the eukaryotic ectopic expression of exogenous genes. For utilization of multicistronic elements, the cleavage efficiency and order of elements in multicistronic vectors have been investigated; however, the dynamics of multicistronic element-mediated expression remains unclear. Here, we investigated the dynamics of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) IRES- and porcine teschovirus-1 2A (p2A)-mediated expression. By utilizing real-time fluorescent imaging at a minute-level resolution, we monitored the expression of fluorescent reporters bridged by either EMCV IRES or p2A in two independent cultured cell lines, HEK293 and Neuro2a. We observed significant correlations for the two fluorescent reporters in both multicistronic elements, with a higher correlation coefficient for p2A in HEK293 but similar coefficients for IRES-mediated expression and p2A-mediated expression in Neuro2a. We further analyzed the causal relationship of multicistronic elements by convergent cross mapping (CCM). CCM revealed that in all four conditions examined, the expression of the preceding gene causally affected the dynamics of the subsequent gene. As with the cross correlation, the predictive skill of p2A was higher than that of IRES in HEK293, while the predictive skills of the two multicistronic elements were indistinguishable in Neuro2a. To summarize, we report a significant temporal correlation in both EMCV IRES- and p2A-mediated expression based on the simple bicistronic vector and real-time fluorescent monitoring. The current system also provides a valuable platform to examine the dynamic aspects of expression mediated by diverse multicistronic elements under various physiological conditions.National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) of the Ministry of Science and ICT [NRF-2017R1C1B2008775, NRF-2017R1A4A1015534, NRF-2018M3C7A1022310]; KBRI basic research program through Korea Brain Research Institute - Ministry of Science and ICT [17-BR-04]Open access journalThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
TRAO Survey of Nearby Filamentary Molecular clouds, the Universal Nursery of Stars (TRAO FUNS) I. Dynamics and Chemistry of L1478 in the California Molecular Cloud
"TRAO FUNS" is a project to survey Gould Belt's clouds in molecular lines.
This paper presents its first results on the central region of the California
molecular cloud, L1478. We performed On-The-Fly mapping observations using the
Taedeok Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) 14m single dish telescope equipped
with a 16 multi-beam array covering 1.0 square degree area of this region
using CO (1-0) mainly tracing low density cloud and about 460 square
arcminute area using NH (1-0) mainly tracing dense cores. CS (2-1)
and SO were also used simultaneously to map 440 square
arcminute area of this region. We identified 10 filaments by applying the
dendrogram technique to the CO data-cube and 8 dense NH
cores by using {\sc FellWalker}. Basic physical properties of filaments such as
mass, length, width, velocity field, and velocity dispersion are derived. It is
found that L1478 consists of several filaments with slightly different
velocities. Especially the filaments which are supercritical are found to
contain dense cores detected in NH. Comparison of non-thermal
velocity dispersions derived from CO and NH for the
filaments and dense cores indicates that some of dense cores share similar
kinematics with those of the surrounding filaments while several dense cores
have different kinematics with those of their filaments. This suggests that the
formation mechanism of dense cores and filaments can be different in individual
filaments depending on their morphologies and environments.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
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PS49. Shifted Circadian Phase in Manic Episode was Returned to Normal after Treatment in Bipolar Disorder
The Effects of L-thyroxine Treatment on QT Dispersion in Primary Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism has various cardiovascular manifestation and exhibits electrocardiographic change. The QT dispersion on surface ECG reflects regional variations in myocardial repolarization. The effect of L-thyroxine treatment on ECG parameters, such as QT dispersion, in patients with primary hypothyroidism were investigated. This study involved 18 patients (3 men, 15 women, ages: 48±18 yr) with primary hypothyroidism. All patients were checked with a standard 12-lead ECG before and after L-thyroxine treatment. Various ECG parameters were then measured twice. The mean L-thyroxine treatment duration was 22±2.7 months. The mean thyroid-stimulating hormone levels of patients before and after therapy were 40.2±29.8 µU/mL, 3.6±4.6 µU/mL (p<0.001) and free-T4 levels were 0.44±0.38 ng/dL, 1.51±0.39 ng/dL (p<0.001). After L-thyroxine treatment, QT interval (395±42 vs. 380±24 msec, p<0.05), QTc interval (434±32 vs. 417±23 msec, p<0.05), QT dispersion (45±23 vs. 30±13 msec, p=0.008), QTc dispersion (49±23 vs. 32±14 msec, p=0.005) significantly decreased. There were no significant changes in the PR and RR intervals, as well as the QRS duration. Our findings suggest that the thyroid hormone affects ventricular inhomogenicity, and that L-thyroxine replacement therapy may reduce malignant ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death in primary hypothyroidism
ArmA and RmtB Were the Predominant 16S RMTase Genes Responsible for Aminoglycoside-resistant Isolates in Korea
Pathogenic gram-negatives that produce 16S ribosomal RNA methyltransferases (16S RMTases) have already been distributed all over the world. To investigate the predominance of aminoglycoside resistance associated with 16S RMTases in Korea, we collected a total of 222 amikacin resistant Gram-negative clinical isolates from patient specimens between 1999 and 2015 from three hospital banks across Korea. ArmA and nntB were the predominant 16S RMTase genes responsible for aminoglycoside-resistant isolates circulating in Korean community settings although only one rmtA-producing isolate was detected in 2006.1
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