bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Moments of the weighted Cantor measures
Authors: Harding Steven N. , Riasanovsky Alexander W. N. 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Based on the seminal work of Hutchinson, we investigate properties of α-weighted Cantor measures whose support is a fractal contained in the unit interval. Here, α is a vector of nonnegative weights summing to 1, and the corresponding weighted Cantor measure μα
is the unique Borel probability measure on [0, 1] satisfying

μ

α

(
E
)
=

∑

n
=
0

N
-
1

α

n

μ

α

(

ϕ

n

-
1

(
E
)
)

{\mu ^\alpha }(E) = \sum\nolimits_{n = 0}^{N - 1} {{\alpha _n}{\mu ^\alpha }(\varphi _n^{ - 1}(E))}

where ϕn
: x ↦ (x + n)/N. In Sections 1 and 2 we examine several general properties of the measure μα
and the associated Legendre polynomials in

L

μ

α

2

L_{{\mu ^\alpha }}^2

[0, 1]. In Section 3, we (1) compute the Laplacian and moment generating function of μα
, (2) characterize precisely when the moments Im
= ∫[0,1]
xm dμα
exhibit either polynomial or exponential decay, and (3) describe an algorithm which estimates the first m moments within uniform error ε in O((log log(1/ε)) · m log m). We also state analogous results in the natural case where α is palindromic for the measure να
attained by shifting μα
to [−1/2, 1/2].
Oral supplementation with geranium oil or anise oil ameliorates depressed rat-related symptoms through oils antioxidant effects
Authors: El-Shamy Karima A. , Koriem Khaled M. M. , Fadl Nevein N. , El-Azma Marwa H. A. , Arbid Mahmoud S. S. , Morsy Fatma A. , El-Zayat Salwa R. , Hosny Eman N. , Youness Eman R. 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Background
Depression is a psychiatric disease condition and the chronic mild stress (CMS) model is a well-known and valuable animal model of depression. Geranium oil and anise oil were chosen for such a study. The aim of this research was to establish the geranium oil and anise oil effect to ameliorate CMS-related symptoms.

Methods
This research included 80 male albino rats each group of 10 rats and the animals were divided into two major groups: normal and CMS. The normal group was subdivided into four (control, geranium oil, anise oil and venlafaxine drug) subgroups treated orally with saline, geranium oil, anise oil and venlafaxine drug, respectively, for 4 weeks. The CMS group was subdivided into four (CMS without any treatment, CMS + geranium oil, CMS + anise oil and CMS + venlafaxine drug) subgroups treated orally with geranium oil, anise oil and venlafaxine drug, respectively, for 4 weeks.

Results
The sucrose consumption in sucrose preference test, the distance traveled test and center square entries test were decreased, while center square duration test, immobility time in tail suspension test and floating time in forced swimming test were increased in CMS. The superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione-S-transferase, glutathione reductase and catalase levels decreased but malondialdehyde and nitric oxide levels increased in brain cerebral cortex and hippocampus areas in CMS. The oral intake of geranium oil and anise oil pushes all these parameters to approach the control levels. These results were supported by histopathological investigations of both brain cerebral cortex and hippocampus tissues.

Conclusions
Geranium oil and anise oil ameliorate CMS-related symptoms and this effect were related to the antioxidant effects of oils.
Zur Begreifbarkeit der Ausdehnung von Zeit und Raum
Authors: Prauss Gerold 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
This article concerns the unsolved riddle of the continuum of the extension of time and space. It becomes solvable if one takes the two different relationships that can exist between extension and point as a basis: the primary relationship in the synthetic continuum and the secondary relationship in the analytical continuum. Time and space can then be deduced from the primary relationship between extension and point as each special extension. And this deduction corresponds exactly to the synthesis of time and space that Kant seeks to develop.
Explaining Temporal Phenomenology: Hume’s Extensionalism and Kant’s Apriorism
Authors: Bardon Adrian 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
The empiricist needs to explain the origin, in perception, of the idea of time. Kant believed the only answer was a kind of idealism about time. This essay examines Hume’s extensionalism as a possible answer to Kant. Extensionalism allegedly accounts for the experience of time via the manner of presentation of experiences, rather than the content of experience.
Über die Detektierbarkeit von Objekten in Bildern mittels quantisierter neuronaler Netze
Authors: Mitschke Norbert , Heizmann Michael 
Published: September 2019

Zusammenfassung
Infolge von sinkenden Hardwarepreisen und der zunehmenden Automatisierung in Produktionsprozessen wird maschinelles Lernen für industrielle Sichtprüfungsaufgaben immer interessanter. In diesem Beitrag wird die Detektierbarkeit von Objekten in Bildern mit verschiedenen Auflösungen mittels eines neuronalen Netzes untersucht. Die verwendeten Datensätze beinhalten die Erkennung von Defekten in Leiterplatten, Ziffern von Hausnummern und Verkehrsschildern. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Information über das Vorhandensein eines Objekts bis zu einer bestimmten Schwelle beim Heruntertasten nicht verschwindet. Dadurch kann die Auflösung des Eingabebildes des Detektors reduziert werden, ohne hohe Verluste bei der Detektion hinnehmen zu müssen, was den Ressourcenbedarf der Inferenz reduziert. Dies erleichtert die Implementierung des Detektors auf kleineren Geräten wie bspw. einem FPGA erheblich. Für die untersuchten Datensätze ist so eine Reduktion der Seitenlängen der Eingangsbilder um bis zu

50

%

50\hspace{0.1667em}\%

möglich und wird nur durch Bilder, die relativ kleine Objekte enthalten, begrenzt.
Health indication of electric motors using a hybrid modeling approach
Authors: Bergs Christoph , Khalil Mohamed , Hildebrandt Marcel , Heizmann Michael , Wüchner Roland , Bletzinger Kai-Uwe , Tresp Volker 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Health assessment of electric motors is a research topic of high relevance in the area of structural mechanics. In the early days, the health state of an electric motor was mainly determined by empirical knowledge. But this paradigm is shifting to advanced methods of predicting the health of single components of an electric motor using its physical simulation models from the design phase. However, the process of creating the models to become usable during operation is laborious and in many cases no simulation or even 3D-CAD models from the design phase are available. This article focuses on a combination of a physics-based and data-driven estimation of the motor health, especially for motors where no information from the design phase is available. In particular, the advancements of the development of the hybrid fusion method moSAIc are presented. moSAIc allows to transfer the knowledge inherent in physical degradation models of motors to unknown derivatives. The experiments show that the accuracy and robustness of moSAIc is significantly better compared to results of earlier stages.
N,N,N′,N′-Tetramethylethylene-diaminium-N,N′-disulfonic acid trifluoroacetate and pyridinium-N-sulfonic acid hydrogen sulfate as highly effective dual-functional catalysts for the preparation of N,N′-alkylidene bisamides
Authors: Kordrostami Zahra , Zare Abdolkarim , Karami Mostafa 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
In this research, Brønsted-acidic ionic liquids N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylene-diaminium-N,N′-disulfonic acid trifluoroacetate ([TMEDSA][TFA]2) and pyridinium-N-sulfonic acid hydrogen sulfate ([Py-SO3H][HSO4]) have been introduced as dual-functional catalysts for the green, simple and effective preparation of N,N′-alkylidene bisamides by the reaction of primary amides (2 eq.) with arylaldehydes (1 eq.) under solvent-free conditions. The reaction results and conditions of the catalysts have been compared with the previously reported ones. [TMEDSA][TFA]2 and [Py-SO3H][HSO4] were superior to the previously reported catalysts in terms of two or more of these factors: reaction times (10–45 min), yields (86–98%), temperature and the reaction conditions. Additionally, a plausible and attractive mechanism based on dual functionality of the catalysts has been proposed.
Robust Control in Human Reaching Movements: A Model-Free Strategy to Compensate for Unpredictable Disturbances
Authors: Crevecoeur Frédéric , Scott Stephen H. , Cluff Tyler 
Published: September 2019

Current models of motor learning suggest that multiple timescales support adaptation to changes in visual or mechanical properties of the environment. These models capture patterns of learning and memory across a broad range of tasks, yet do not consider the possibility that rapid changes in behavior may occur without adaptation. Such changes in behavior may be desirable when facing transient disturbances, or when unpredictable changes in visual or mechanical properties of the task make it difficult to form an accurate model of the perturbation. Whether humans can modulate control strategies without an accurate model of the perturbation remains unknown. Here we frame this question in the context of robust control (H∞-control), a control strategy that specifically considers unpredictable disturbances by increasing initial movement speed and feedback gains. Correspondingly, we demonstrate in two human reaching experiments including males and females that the occurrence of a single unpredictable disturbance led to an increase in movement speed and in the gain of rapid feedback responses to mechanical disturbances on subsequent movements. This strategy reduced perturbation-related motion regardless of the direction of the perturbation. Furthermore, we found that changes in the control strategy were associated with co-contraction, which amplified the gain of muscle responses to both lengthening and shortening perturbations. These results have important implications for studies on motor adaptation because they highlight that trial-by-trial changes in limb motion also reflected changes in control strategies dissociable from error-based adaptation.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTHumans and animals use internal representations of movement dynamics to anticipate the impact of predictable disturbances. However, we are often confronted with transient or unpredictable disturbances, and it remains unknown whether and how the nervous system handles these disturbances over fast time scales. Here we hypothesized that humans can modulate their control strategy to make reaching movements less sensitive to perturbations. We tested this hypothesis in the framework of robust control, and found changes in movement speed and feedback gains consistent with the model predictions. These changes impacted participants' behavior on a trial-by-trial basis. We conclude that compensation for disturbances over fast time scales involves a robust control strategy, which potentially plays a key role in motor planning and execution.
ForeWomen
Authors: Ponomareff Alexander 
Published: September 2019

In June 1954, Eunice Kathleen Waymon performed on an Atlantic City stage for the first time under the name Nina Simone. This performative self-creation is mirrored in the structure and lyrical content of one of her best-known songs, “Four Women,” in which each verse features Simone singing as a different woman. By examining the similarities between the varying accounts of Waymon’s transformation into Simone, and by conducting a close reading of Simone’s performances of “Four Women,” it is possible to understand Simone’s song as challenging representational politics by pluralizing identities.
This strategic decision was underscored when the rapper Talib Kweli and DJ Hi Tek recreated “Four Women” as “For Women” on their 2000 record Reflection Eternal. “For Women” reproduces the structure and message of Simone’s original. Mimicking the logic of self-creation that Simone embodied both in her life and in “Four Women,” Kweli and Hi-Tek craft a song where Kweli transitions, often mid-verse, between rapping about each of these four women in the third person and taking on the first-person perspective of each woman. Understanding these two examples together illustrates the power and legacy of “Four Women” and its critique of representational politics and of the rigidity of unique subject positions.
Bone mineral density, body composition and metabolic profiles in adult women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and removed gonads using oral or transdermal estrogens
Authors: Gava Giulia , Mancini Ilaria , Orsili Isabella , Bertelloni Silvano , Alvisi Stefania , Seracchioli Renato , Meriggiola Maria Cristina 
Published: September 2019

Objectives
To assess bone health in adult women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) and removed gonads compared with age-matched healthy controls. To evaluate the effects of transdermal oestradiol 2 mg or oral estradiol valerate 2 mg on bone, biochemical and clinical characteristics.

Design
Cohort study.

Methods
Bone, body composition and anthropometric parameters were assessed in 32 adult CAIS and 32 healthy controls. In 28 cases, CAIS evaluations of metabolic, bone and body composition were performed also after a maximum of 6 years of therapy.

Results
Lumbar, femoral and total body bone mineral density (BMD) were significantly lower in those with CAIS when compared with controls. The prevalence of vertebral osteoporosis and osteopenia was significantly higher in the CAIS group (P = 0.038, OR = 9.67, 95% CI: 1.13–82.83 and P = 0.012, OR= 3.85, 95% CI: 1.34–11.16, respectively). Prevalence of femoral osteopenia was significantly higher in the CAIS group (P = 0.0012, OR = 7.93, 95% CI: 2.26–27.9). During follow-up, lumbar BMD significantly increased suggesting a significant effect of treatment on BMD (P = 0.0016), while femoral and total body BMD did not show any significant change. Total body BMD values were positively associated to the duration and route of oestrogen administration and to serum estradiol levels. Transdermal administration of estrogens was associated with better total body BMD in comparison to oral administration.

Conclusions
Our results reinforce the importance of adequate hormonal treatment for women living with CAIS, suggesting a better effect from the transdermal route over the oral route.
Overexpression of BnaAOX1b Confers Tolerance to Osmotic and Salt Stress in Rapeseed
Authors: Yang Hongli , Deng Linbin , Liu Hongfang , Fan Shihang , Hua Wei , Liu Jing 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Alternative oxidases (AOXs) are the terminal oxidase in the cyanide-resistant respiration pathway in plant mitochondria, which play an important role in abiotic stress and are proposed as a functional marker for high tolerant breeding. In this study, ten AOX genes (BnaAOXs) were identified, and CysI and CysII of AOX isoforms were highly conserved in rapeseed. Among them, Bna.AOX1b was mainly expressed in the ovule and displayed varying expression between rapeseed cultivars which showed different salt resistance in seed germination. We identified its mitochondrial localization of this gene. To investigate the function of BnaAOX1b in rapeseed, transgenic rapeseed lines with overexpressed BnaAOX1b were created and seed germination and seedling establishment assays were performed under osmotic, salt, and ABA treatment. The results indicated that overexpression of BnaAOX1b significantly improved seed germination under osmotic and salt stress and weakened ABA sensitivity. In addition, post-germination seedling growth was improved under high salt condition, but showed hypersensitivity to ABA. RNA-sequencing analysis indicated that the genes involved in electron transport or energy pathway were induced and a number of gene responses to salt stress and ABA were regulated in Bna.AOX1b overexpressing seeds. Taken together, our results imply that Bna.AOX1b confers tolerance to osmotic and salt stress in terms of seed germination and seedling establishment by regulating stress responsive genes and the response to ABA, and could be utilized as a candidate gene in transgenic breeding.
Anspruch auf Zugang zu Informationen des Bundeskartellamts aus einem abgeschlossenen Fusionskontrollverfahren nach § 1 IFG
Authors: Wirtz Markus , Schmidt Ulrich 
Published: September 2019

Zusammenfassung
Mit dem vor kurzem veröffentlichten Urteil des BVerwG vom 9. 5. 2019, Az. 7 C 34.17, wurde zum ersten Mal höchstrichterlich die Frage behandelt, ob ein Informationsanspruch nach § 1 Abs. 1 Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) in Bezug auf Informationen des BKartA aus einem Fusionskontrollverfahren besteht. Konkret ging es um den Zugang eines nicht beigeladenen Dritten zum Votum des Berichterstatters. Das BVerwG hat das Bestehen eines Informationsanspruchs wegen des Ausschlussgrunds nach § 3 Nr. 3 lit. b IFG verneint. Dieser Beitrag greift das Urteil auf und geht – abstrahiert von dem der Entscheidung zugrunde liegenden konkreten Sachverhalt – der Frage nach, unter welchen Voraussetzungen ein Anspruch auf Zugang zu Informationen des Bundeskartellamts aus einem Fusionskontrollverfahren besteht.
Invarianza de Medición y Estructural de la Escala Básica de Empatía Breve (BES-B) en Niños y Adolescentes Peruanos
Authors: Merino-Soto Cesar , López-Fernández Verónica , Grimaldo-Muchotrigo Miriam 
Published: September 2019

El objetivo del presente estudio fue examinar la invarianza de medición y la invarianza estructural de una medida de empatía, para niños y adolescentes peruanos. Los participantes fueron 417, provenientes de Lima Metropolitana. Se aplicó la Escala Básica de Empatía Breve (BES-B) de manera estandarizada. El análisis consistió en aplicar el modelamiento de ecuaciones estructurales para evaluar la invarianza de medición y las medias latentes en los constructos de empatía afectiva y cognitiva. Los resultados muestran que la invarianza de medición se mantiene satisfactoriamente de acuerdo al género y la edad; las diferencias en las medias latentes muestran ser entre fuertes o moderadas respecto a la edad y el sexo. Se discuten las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas.
The Importance of Oriental Cults in Antium
Authors: Venetucci Beatrice Palma , Cacciotti Beatrice , Mangiafesta Maria 
Published: September 2019

Summary
This paper discusses the preliminary results of a research project, concerning Egyptian statues and Mithraic monuments, which were probably discovered in Antium and obtained by chance by local collectors or sold by antiquarians after scarcely documented excavations through the 17th–18th centuries.
Mithras in Regio VI, Umbria
Authors: Bastianelli Giovanna 
Published: September 2019

Summary
The presence of Mithras in Regio VI, Umbria, is documented by materials (some inscriptions, two arae, two reliefs, two tauroctonies: one of them fragmentary, the other one almost complete) which were either fortuitously unearthed between the 18th and the 19th century without any further research following, or discovered during unsystematic excavations – in both cases, they ended up lost (or simply forgotten) among the other pieces of family collections. This is how Marquis Eroli and Count Valenti bought, respectively, a relief now kept at the Museo Archelogico in Terni and a fragmentary tauroctony, still visible today in the hall of his ancestral palace in Trevi; Count Ramelli retrieved a tauroctony and some inscriptions in Sentinum: the tauroctony was then walled in the hall of his palace in Fabriano and the inscriptions were collected in the lapidarium of the palace. Finally, Count Marignoli promoted the excavation of the Mithraeum in Spoleto, dug up by Fabio Gori and documented in drawings and watercolors by the architect Silvestri; currently that Mithraeum has been reduced to a shapeless heap of rubble and its materials are not to be found anywhere.
This is definitely a distressing situation which, however, allows us to outline at least a Mithraic geography in Umbria made up of places along the Via Flaminia, east and west, where initiates to the Mithraic cult used to live, from Ocriculum to Interamna Nahars, Montoro, Spoletium, Trebiae, Carsulae and Sentinum, on the junction of the road coming from Helvillum. As for the cultores Mithrae in Regio VI, the few surviving inscriptions speak about them. There are freemen and freedmen, few slaves, some artisans, maybe some landowners or administrators of private and public estates who live and work at in-between towns and villae. They participate in the cult by covering various functions and supporting it financially: the leones in Carsulae collect money to build their leonteum; Sextus Egnatius Primitivus pays out of pocket to rebuild a spelaeum destroyed by an earthquake, while the thirty-five patroni of Sentinum contribute in different ways to the needs of their community.
Workup and Management of Immune-Mediated Colitis in Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Authors: Singh Bhavana Pendurthi , Marshall John L. , He Aiwu Ruth 
Published: September 2019

AbstractAs the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors for several different malignancies becomes more mainstream, their side-effect profile raises new challenges. In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first checkpoint inhibitor for the treatment of advanced melanoma, and since then, checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated efficacy in many other tumor types. Given the frequent use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in a wide range of cancers today, the diagnosis and management of their immune-mediated toxicities need special attention. One of the most common is immune-mediated colitis. Workup and management of immune-mediated colitis can be challenging and is the purpose of this review.Key PointsRate of immune mediated colitis differ from different kind of immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment. To work up immune-mediated colitis, tests to rule out infectious etiologies of diarrhea, colonoscopy and abdominal image will help to differentiate immune mediated colitis from colitis from other etiology. Patients with mild colitis can be managed with supportive therapies alone, but more severe cases may require immunomodulators such as steroid. Refractory cases may require tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, such as infliximab in addition to steroid treatment.