cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Age-Related Changes on Working Memory Functional Activity
Creators: name: Steffener, Jason
name: Brickman, Adam M.
name: Rakitin, Brian C.
name: Gazes, Yunglin
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Neurology
Aging
Memory in old age
Magnetic resonance imaging

description: This work investigated associations of age-related brain atrophy and functional neural networks identified using multivariate analyses of BOLD fMRI data in young and elder participants (young, N=37; mean age=25; elders, N=15; mean age=74). Two networks were involved in retaining increasing loads of verbal information in working memory. Network utilizations were used to test associations between function and indices of grey matter volume changes using voxel based morphometry. Global changes in brain volume were not associated with the secondary network. Lower regional grey matter volume in the left pre-central gyrus within the primary network was associated with increased secondary network utilization independent of age group. Decreased regional grey matter volume was associated with increased age only in the elders. Increased secondary network expression was associated with increased slope of reaction times across memory load, in the elders. These results support the theory of neural compensation, that elder participants recruit additional neural resources to maintain task performance in the face of age-related decreases in regional grey matter volume.
The use of 3D tools to improve the transformation of the archaeological record into a virtual reconstruction. EMtools and EMviq open source software
Creators: name: Demetrescu, Emanuel
name: Fanini, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentation of the EMtools and EMviq tools for the transformation of the archaeological record into virtual reconstruction. The presentation was made within the conference Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research ARCHEO.FOSS XIV | 2020.
The Effects of Patient Function and Dependence on Costs of Care in Alzheimer's Disease
Creators: name: Zhu, Carolyn W.
name: Leibman, Christopher
name: McLaughlin, Trent
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Blacker, Deborah
name: Sano, Mary
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Neurology
Alzheimer's disease--Patients
Medical care, Cost of
Geriatrics

description: OBJECTIVES: To estimate incremental effects of patients' dependence and function on costs of care during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to compare strengths of their relationships with different cost components. DESIGN: Multicenter, cross-sectional, observational study. SETTING: Three university hospitals in the United States. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred seventy-nine community-living patients with probable AD, with modified Mini-Mental State Examination scores of 30 or higher. MEASUREMENTS: Patients' dependence was measured using the Dependence Scale (DS). Functional capacity was measured using the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale (BDRS). Total cost was measured by summing direct medical costs and informal costs. Direct medical costs included costs of hospitalization, outpatient treatment and procedures, assistive devices, and medications. Informal costs were estimated from time spent helping with basic and instrumental activities of daily living for up to three caregivers per patient using national average hourly earnings as wage rate. RESULTS: DS and BDRS were associated with higher total cost; a 1-point increase in DS was associated with a $1,832 increase in total cost, and a 1-point increase in BDRS was associated with a $3,333 increase. Examining component costs separately identified potential differences between DS and BDRS. A 1-point increase in BDRS was associated with a $1,406 increase in direct medical cost. A 1-point increase in DS was associated with a $1,690 increase in informal cost. CONCLUSION: Patients' dependence and function related differently to direct medical and informal cost, suggesting that measures of function and dependence provided unique information for explaining variations in cost of care for patients with AD, highlighting the value in measuring both constructs.
USING INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Creators: name: Khatamova, Ziyodaxon
name: Yo'ldashaliyeva, Gulhayo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The usage of various roles and games in foreign language instruction can help promote enthusiasm in language learning. Working in pairs or small groups allows students to communicate with one another. Within the approaches offered, role-playing, projects, and video scenarios can substantially broaden our creative horizons.
Werner state structure and entanglement classification
Creators: name: Lyons, David W.
name: Skelton, Abigail M.
name: Walck, Scott N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present applications of the representation theory of Lie groups to the analysis of structure and local unitary classification of Werner states, sometimes called the {\em decoherence-free} states, which are states of $n$ quantum bits left unchanged by local transformations that are the same on each particle. We introduce a multiqubit generalization of the singlet state, and a construction that assembles these into Werner states.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, minor changes and corrections for version 2
Exploring fluoroborate anions for sodium battery technologies
Creators: name: DUNCAN, DALE THOMAS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400404
subject: Electrochemical energy storage and conversion
classificationCode: 340305
subject: Physical properties of materials

description: Fluoroborate anions are investigated in electrolytes for sodium battery technologies in this study. The anions are shown to exhibit improved physical and electrochemical properties in comparison to conventional electrolyte materials. Electrolyte safety is improved by synthesising novel ionic liquids with the fluoroborates, involving comprehensive understanding of their physical properties which are sufficient for sodium electrochemistry. The novel ionic liquid [N2(2O2O1)3][B(hfip)4] is further investigated to understand the ion-speciation of the electrolyte which finds the highly concentrated electrolyte to exhibit superior electrochemical behaviour due to labile Na+-ion interactions. This work shows [B(hfip)4]- to be a promising electrolyte anion for sodium batteries.
Dynamical phases and intermittency of the dissipative quantum Ising model
Creators: name: Ates, Cenap
name: Olmos, Beatriz
name: Garrahan, Juan P.
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the concept of a dynamical, activity order parameter to study the Ising model in a transverse magnetic field coupled to a Markovian bath. For a certain range of values of the spin-spin coupling, magnetic field and dissipation rate, we identify a first order dynamical phase transition between active and inactive {\em dynamical phases}. We demonstrate that dynamical phase-coexistence becomes manifest in an intermittent behavior of the bath quanta emission. Moreover, we establish the connection between the dynamical order parameter that quantifies the activity, and the longitudinal magnetization that serves as static order parameter. The system we consider can be implemented in current experiments with Rydberg atoms and trapped ions.
Open access but persistent divide: what are we missing of the challenges of African biomedical journal editors?
Creators: name: Kamadjeu, Raoul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Africa is undoubtedly a major beneficiary of the open access movement; however, its contribution to open access remains extremely limited. In 2019, 196 out of 13,773 journals indexed in the DOAJ, were from Africa, down from 219 in 2011. The persistent North-South divide and the lack of representation of the big South in the open access conversation should be a cause for concern for the open access movement. Beyond the structural and environment challenges to research in Africa, the speaker will provide an overview of the challenges in developing a publishing industry in African including the views of the open access movement towards African journals. He will also discuss the need to reflect on the lack of geographical diversity in the open access movement, both in terms of content contribution and voices, and will explore how the open access movement could respond.
Primary Care Expenditures before the Onset of Alzheimer's Disease
Creators: name: Albert, Steven M.
name: Glied, Sherry A.
name: Andrews, Howard F.
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Neurology
Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Care
Medical care, Cost of

description: Objective: To investigate primary care expenditures in the period before diagnosis of AD. Methods: In a population-based sample of Medicare enrollees in New York City, person-level 1996 Medicare claims, summed over primary care encounters, were examined for people who developed AD in 1997 to 1998 and those who did not. Results: People who developed AD were more likely to use Medicare outpatient and ambulatory care 1 to 2 years before diagnosis. Compared with respondents who did not develop AD, the excess cost for men was $1,167 (85% higher) and for women $239 (26% higher). Among elderly people ≥75 years in the United States, the prodromal period of AD was associated with an excess Medicare-based primary care cost of $128.5 to $194.7 million. Conclusion: In addition to huge costs associated with AD after diagnosis, prediagnosis costs are an unrecognized source of expenditures related to the disease.
Assessing weak hydrogen binding on Ca+ centers: An accurate many-body study with large basis sets
Creators: name: Purwanto, Wirawan
name: Krakauer, Henry
name: Virgus, Yudistira
name: Zhang, Shiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak H2 physisorption energies present a significant challenge to even the best correlated theoretical many-body methods. We use the phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method to accurately predict the binding energy of Ca+ - 4H2. Attention has recently focused on this model chemistry to test the reliability of electronic structure methods for H2 binding on dispersed alkaline earth metal centers. A modified Cholesky decomposition is implemented to realize the Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation efficiently with large Gaussian basis sets. We employ the largest correlation-consistent Gaussian type basis sets available, up to cc-pCV5Z for Ca, to accurately extrapolate to the complete basis limit. The calculated potential energy curve exhibits binding with a double-well structure.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to JCP
Seeing again : geometry, cartography and visions in the work of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-C.1354)
Creators: name: Zutic, Danijela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: My thesis considers the work of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1354), a fourteenth century priest and visionary who created the Palatinus Latinus MS 1993 between the 1330s and the 1340s as a complex geometrical program. Set against erratic textual content, the images in the Palatinus are combinations of mathematical forms, collection of figures and zodiac symbols. Among 52 images, the ymago et similitudo Dei, ecclesia universalis (image and likeness of God, universal church) folio 24r, emerges as an example where the sequence of circles, lines, animals and faces reveals a synergy of cosmological and cartographic elements. This graphic system outlines a fourteenth century vision of the idealized Church. In my thesis, I argue that in order to bring out the relationships between the various elements and make them meaningful, Opicinus, through repetition, initiates a form of diagrammatic thinking that references the familiar to recreate a contemplative journey through which the drawn elements make evident the almost infinite flexibility of perception. In this fashion, the Palatinus and its visual content appear as a type of structured fiction in which the literal, physical world is mediated by mathematics. The image, converting invisible matter through visible means, draws attention to a peculiar kind of action. The ymago et similitudo Dei, ecclesia universalis, as well as most images in the Palatinus manuscript, force an eye, thus a viewer, to make discoveries instead of reconfirming what s/he knows, or rather recognizes. Through this process the schematic image becomes a tool that emanates authority through apprehensive perception, measured expectation and spiritual healing. What becomes clear by integrating aesthetic, scientific and theological modules is that observing and inventing creates a productive environment outside of the simple reflective mode. The work (the Palatinus) and how it might function comes into view as a result of the demands the images make on the viewer.
Tropimenelytron viaticum PACE 1998
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tropimenelytron
Tropimenelytron viaticum

description: Tropimenelytron viaticum PACE, 1998 PeliopteraPelioptera (Tropimenelytron) viatica PACE, 1998: 938 Tropimenelytron viaticum; SMETANA, 2004: 418 1 ♂, China: W-Hubei, Daba Shan pass E of Mt. Da Shennongjia, 12 km NW Muyuping, 19.VII. 2001, 1950 m, leg. A. Smetana (MNHU). Distribuzione: Specie finora nota solo del Sichuan.  Tropimenelytron qinlingmontis n. sp. (Figg. 30 e 101-104) Materiale tipico: Holotypus ♂, China: Shaanxi, Qin Ling Shan, 33°45'N 107°56'E, autoroute Km 93 S of Zhouzhi, 108 Km SW Xian, mountain forest, sifted, 1650 m, 1-2.IX.1995, leg. A. Pütz (SMTD). Paratypi: 11 es., stessa provenienza (SMTD). Descrizione: Lunghezza 3,3 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo-bruno, capo nero, pronoto bruno, antenne brune con i due antennomeri basali giallo-bruni, zampe giallo-rossicce. Secondo antennomero più corto del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto lungo quanto largo, quinto a decimo trasversi. Occhi lunghi quanto le tempie. Reticolazione del capo forte, quella del pronoto superficiale, quella delle elitre evidente, quella dell’addome molto trasversa e ben visibile. Granulosità del capo saliente, quella di pronoto ed elitre fitta e superficiale, quella dell’addome evidente. Edeago figg. 102-103, spermateca fig. 104, sesto urotergo libero del ♂ fig. 101. Comparazioni: La nuova specie presenta la parte prossimale della spermateca piegata brevemente e non descrivente due spire come in T. tuberiventristuberiventris (EPPELSHEIM, 1879). L’edeago è lungo e non tozzo come quello di tuberiventris. Etimologia: Il nome della nuova specie deriva da quello del Monte Qin Ling.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2011, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Athetini, Prima Parte, Generi Lasiosomina, Hydrosmecta, Amischa, Alomaina, Paraloconota, Bellatheta, Nepalota, Pelioptera, Tropimenelytron, Berca e Amphibolusa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 155-192 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 61 (1) on pages 179-180, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.61.1.155-192
description: {"references": ["PACE, R. 1998: Aleocharinae della Cina: Parte II. - Revue suisse de Zoologie 105 (2): 395 - 463.", "SMETANA, A. 2004: Aleocharinae, pp. 353 - 494. - In: LOBL, I. & SMETANA, A. (editors). - Catalogue of"]}
The Differential Impact of Unique Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms for the Dementia Caregiver: How and Why Do Patients' Individual Symptom Clusters Impact Caregiver Depressive Symptoms?
Creators: name: Ornstein, Katherine
name: Gaugler, Joseph E.
name: Devanand, Devangere P.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Zhu, Carolyn W.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Geriatric psychiatry
Caregivers--Mental health
Dementia--Patients--Care
Depression, Mental

description: OBJECTIVE: The behavioral and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (BPSD) are highly burdensome to caregivers. While BPSD consist of a wide variety of patient behaviors including depression, physical aggression, and paranoid delusions, it remains unclear whether specific symptoms have a differential impact on caregivers. The aims of this study were 1) to assess how individual BPSD, categorized based on how they may affect caregivers, impact depressive symptoms for dementia patient caregivers and 2) to test the pathways by which BPSD clusters impact caregiver depressive symptoms. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of data from a longitudinal study of patients with Alzheimer disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. SETTING: Multiple U.S. dementia clinics. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred sixty patient-caregiver dyads. METHODS: Using multivariate generalized estimating equation logistic models, we analyzed the relationship between four BPSD clusters (patient depressive symptoms, accusatory/aggressive behaviors, nonthreatening psychotic symptoms, and difficult to manage behaviors) and caregiver depressive symptoms and assessed mediators of these relationships. RESULTS: Only the presence of patient depressive symptoms was associated with caregiver depression (odds ratio: 1.55; 95% confidence interval: 1.14-2.1). This relationship was mediated by caregiver report of both the symptom's impact on the patient and perceived burden to caregivers. CONCLUSION: Patient depressive symptoms may be the most important driver of the relationship between BPSD and caregiver depression. Research in this field should further test the effects of individual BPSD and also consider how symptoms may negatively impact caregivers by increasing burden and evoking empathy for the patient.
The Effects of Stimulus Degradation after 48 Hours of Total Sleep Deprivation
Creators: name: Rakitin, Brian C.
name: Tucker, Adrienne
name: Basner, Robert C.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Neurology
Visual perception
Perception
Sleep deprivation

description: Study Objectives: To test the hypothesis that total sleep deprivation (TSD) slows stimulus detection and evaluation processes. Towards that end we manipulate degradation of the imperative stimulus, a manipulation well established to affect the processes of interest, in a delayed letter recognition (DLR) task and the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT), and predicted that after TSD the ordinary reaction time (RT) slowing effect of stimulus degradation would be increased. These hypotheses were only partially confirmed (see below). Design: Participants were exposed to 48 h of total sleep loss. The PVT and DLR were administered to the same participants. The PVT was administered 8 times —every 6 h from 12:00 on Day 1. The DLR was administered twice, at 09:00 of Day 1 and 48 h later. Setting: Participants were continuously monitored in a sleep laboratory. Subjects: 26 healthy young adults enrolled. Due to dropouts and technical failures, the final n's were 20 for the DLR and 21 for the PVT. Measurements and Results: General linear mixed models were employed. In the DLR task there was no interaction between TSD and degradation on any variable. There was, however, a significant interaction between TSD and degradation on mean reaction time in the PVT (P = 0.01). Conclusions: As in our previous reports, we observe the specificity with which total sleep deprivation affects cognitive processes. One aspect of visual processing, stimulus detection, was affected by total sleep deprivation and made a significant contribution to the performance impairments observed. Another aspect of visual processing, stimulus evaluation, remained unaffected after 2 days and nights of total sleep loss.
The rare decay $B_c \rightarrow D_s^* μ^+ μ^-$ in a family non-nuiversal model
Creators: name: Lin-xia, Lu
name: Guo-fang, Zhang
name: Shuai-wei, Wang
name: Zhi-qing, Zhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the form factors calculated in the three-point QCD sum rules approach, we calculate the new physics contributions to the physical observables of $B_c \to D_s^* μ^+μ^-$ decay in the family non-universal $Z^{\prime}$ model. Under the consideration of three cases of the new physics parameters, we find that: (a) the $Z^{\prime}$ boson can provide large contributions to the differential decay rates; (b) the FBA could be increased by about 47%, 38%, and 110% at most in S1, S2, and ELV, respectively. In addition, the zero crossing could be shifted in all the cases; (c) when $\hat{s}>0.08$, the value of $P_L$ could be changed from -1 in the SM to -0.5 in S1, and -0.6 in S2, 0 in ELV, respectively; (d) The new physics corrections to $P_T$ would decrease the SM prediction about 25% for the cases of S1 and S2, 100% for the case of ELV.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Euscelidia gutianensis Shi 1995
Creators: name: Dikow, Torsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Euscelidia
Euscelidia gutianensis

description: Euscelidia gutianensis Shi, 1995 Euscelidia gutianensis Shi, 1995: 228. Type material - The ^ holotype is deposited in the IZAS. The specimen has not been examined. Type locality: China, Zhejiang Province, Mt. Gutian, 29 18'N 118 12'E. A B C D E Remarks: Two features given in the short English description might be useful to distinguish the species from others. These are (1) ‘scutum yellow with 3 black longitudinal stripes dorsally’ and (2) ‘hind femora with wide black ring near apex’. I have not examined material of this species and therefore no further comments about this species can be made. The type locality is plotted in Fig. 1.
description: Published as part of Dikow, Torsten, 2003, Revision of the genus Euscelidia Westwood, 1850 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae), pp. 1-131 in African Invertebrates 44 (2) on pages 67-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7911189
description: {"references": ["SHI, Y. 1995. Diptera: Asilidae. In: Zhu, T., ed., Insects and macrofungi of Gutianshan, Zhejiang. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House. pp. 227 - 229."]}
Diffusion or Impedance: Obstacles to Innovation in Medieval Ceramics
Creators: name: Orton, Clive
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 9, 21-34
description: This paper puts forward general ideas about innovation and its diffusion, and the points of view of an industrial psychologist and a prehistorian are examined and set in context by reference to the economic historian Braudel. The general theory is demonstrated by its application to two case studies - tin-glazed ware and stoneware - and leads to a model for technological innovation in medieval and early post-medieval ceramics.
Simultaneous HPLC-PDA determination of commonly prescribed antidepressants and caffeine in sludge from sewage treatment plants and river sediments in the Itaipu reservoir region, Paraná, Brazil
Creators: name: Junior, Ismael L. Costa
name: Machado, Christiane S.
name: Pletsch, Adelmo L.
name: Torres, Yohandra R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Antidepressants are widely used in current times; therefore, they pose a potential risk to ecosystems through the disposal of domestic sewage, even after processing in treatment plants. This study proposes a fast method for the simultaneous determination of commonly used antidepressants (citalopram, venlafaxine, fluoxetine, sertraline, and amitriptyline) and caffeine as an anthropic marker, based on microwave-assisted solvent extraction followed by quantification using HPLC-DAD. The analytical method was validated and considered satisfactory for the simultaneous determination of the analytes in sewage sludge and sediments. No interferences were observed in the retention times of the analytes under study, indicating selectivity. Nevertheless, the study of the matrix effect revealed interference of the sludge and sediment matrices in the sensitivity and accuracy of the analytical method; therefore, calibration by standard addition was employed. The linearity was adequate for the concentration range of 50–800 ng mL−1, with detection and quantification limits of 15–100 ng g−1 and 100–250 ng g−1, respectively. Precision was estimated to be less than 8% in terms of the coefficient of variation. Accuracy was assessed by fortification of sediment and sludge samples at three concentration levels and the recovery range varied from 60 to 99%. The developed and validated method was applied to samples of sewage sludge and sediments obtained from the Itaipu Reservoir region. The results confirm the presence of the analytes in the sewage sludge and indicate that treatment plant residue is a route of insertion of micropollutants into the local environment, because the antidepressants were also found in river sediments.
Euscelidia popa Dikow 2003, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dikow, Torsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Euscelidia
Euscelidia popa

description: Euscelidia popa sp. n. Fig. 60 Etymology: Noun in apposition that refers to the type locality Mt. Popa, Myanmar. Diagnosis: The species is distinguished from congeners by the overall yellow to gold pruinosity and setae and the densely arranged microtrichia on the wings. Description: Head: Black; fc gold pruinose, fc gib indistinct, mystax yellow, many macrosetae; prob and plp brownish-black, prob with white setae, plp with yellow and brown setae; oc tr apruinose; occ yellow pruinose, setae yellow; Antennae - scp brown, brown setae ventrally; ped brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; pped ventrally light brown, brown dorsally, white pruinose; apsel brown. Thorax: Black; ppro peg large, yellow pruinose; sct bluish-black, antero-laterally red, gold pruinose, apruinose indistinct spots laterally, yellow setae scattered on surface; macrosetae: black, 1 npl s, 1 spal s; mesopleura gold pruinose; sctl gold pruinose, ds sctl s and sctl s long, yellow; Legs - light brown to brown; fem light brown, setae white, meta fem slightly clubbed, club with brown setae; pro and meso tib light brown, yellow stripe anteriorly, meta tib in proximal half light brown, distal half brown, yellow stripe anteriorly; first tar yellow, brown distad, remaining tar brown, black setae; emp short, nearly a quarter of length of clw; Wings - densely covered with microtrichia, cells c, sc, proximal half of r 1, br, and bm dark brown, R 2+3 bent anteriorly and R 4 bent posteriorly (distal tip of cell r 2 widened); ptero distinct, brown; cell d terminating in 2 veins, cell a 1 nearly closed; hlt light brown. Abdomen: Dark brown; T predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long yellow setae laterally, T2 with yellow setae laterally, remaining T with yellow or brown setae, S grey pruinose; ơ terminalia - ơơ specimens unknown. Type material - The ^ holotype is labelled ‘Upper Burma [Myanmar] Mt. Popa 600– 1000 m, X. u. XI. 37 [x.–xi.1937] leg. G. Heinrich (yellow label) / Brit. Mus. 1939-186 / HOLOTYPE Euscelidia popa sp. nov. det. T. Dikow 2001 (red label)’. The specimen is directly mounted, is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the BMNH. Type locality and distribution (Fig. 60): Myanmar, Mount Popa, 20 53'N 95 14'E. Myanmar. Remarks: Despite the fact this species is only known from a single female I decided to describe it as a new species because it is easily distinguished from all other Oriental species by the overall gold and yellow appearance.
description: Published as part of Dikow, Torsten, 2003, Revision of the genus Euscelidia Westwood, 1850 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae), pp. 1-131 in African Invertebrates 44 (2) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7911189
Charles Tilly and promoting democracy in the "graveyard of the empires" : interpersonal trust networks, categorical inequalities and autonomous clusters of power in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Asey, Ahmad Farid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is concerned with illuminating our understanding of the struggles of democracy in Afghanistan through examining some of its obscure, conflicting and neglected dimensions. It utilizes Charles Tilly’s conceptual framework on democratization to postulate that, in order to entrench and sustain the fledgling Afghan democracy and its political institutions, three necessary processes of democratization will have to concurrently take place. These essential dynamics, or alterations as Tilly would like to refer to them, are, in the context of this paper, carving out a political space for, and integrating, the faith-based Civil Society Organizations as the local interpersonal trust networks; insulating public politics from gender-based categorical inequalities; and, de-warlordizing the Afghan politics as a way of decreasing the autonomy of these centres of power. The normative perspective underlying this thesis is that democracy promotion could work in Afghanistan and certain adjustments, mainly Tilly’s alterations, could create conditions that would be conducive to the promotion of democracy in the country.
Leptogaster piliensis Dikow 2003, comb. n.
Creators: name: Dikow, Torsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Leptogaster
Leptogaster piliensis

description: Leptogaster piliensis (Oldroyd, 1972), comb. n. Euscelidia piliensis Oldroyd, 1972: 215; Joseph & Parui 1983: 278. Type material - The holotype of undeterminable gender is labelled ‘P. I.: LUZON CAMARINES SUR Mt. Isarog, Pili 600 m, 15.IV.1965 / H. M. Torrevillas Collector BISHOP / 77 / Not same as that figured as setifer antennae 3 shape of scutum (handwritten) / Euscelidia piliensis sp. n det. H. Oldroyd 1971 HOLOTYPE (handwritten except for ‘det. H. Oldroyd 19’) / Bishop Museum Holotype No. No. 9668 (red label with black margin) / Leptogaster piliensis (Oldroyd, 1972) det. T. Dikow 2001’. The specimen is directly mounted, is in poor condition (right pped, all left tarsi, and abdomen broken, thorax cracked), and is deposited in the BPBM. A ^ paratype is labelled ‘ P. I.: Luzon CAMARINES SUR Mt. Isarog, Pili 600 m, 15.IV.1965 / H. M. Torrevillas Collector BISHOP / Leptogaster piliensis (Oldroyd, 1972) det. T. Dikow 2001’. The specimen is double mounted, is in good condition, and is deposited in the BMNH. Type locality: Philippines, Luzon Island, Mount Isarog National Park, Mt. Isarog (600 m), 13 39'N 123 22'E. Remarks: The species does not belong to Euscelidia. There is a minute vertical cylindrical structure on the pronotum that is similar to the ppro peg found in Euscelidia, but I consider this not homologous with the feature described and illustrated above (Fig. 3). Oldroyd’s drawing (1972: 213, Fig. 9) of the ơ terminalia shows also a shape never found in Euscelidia (sur with two equally developed lobes that are separated proximally).
description: Published as part of Dikow, Torsten, 2003, Revision of the genus Euscelidia Westwood, 1850 (Diptera: Asilidae: Leptogastrinae), pp. 1-131 in African Invertebrates 44 (2) on page 121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7911189
description: {"references": ["JOSEPH, A. N. T. & PARUI, P. 1983. A review of the Asilidae (Diptera) from the Oriental Region. Oriental Insects 17: 269 - 339."]}
The Frequency and Associated Risk Factors for Dementia in Patients with Parkinson's Disease
Creators: name: Marder, Karen
name: Tang, Mingxin
name: Cote, Lucien J.
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Neurology
Parkinson's disease--Patients
Dementia

description: Objectives: To estimate the frequency and determine the risk factors for incident dementia in community-dwelling patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and in control subjects. Design: Prospective cohort study. During a 3.5-year period, 140 patients with idiopathic PD without evidence of dementia and 572 nondemented control subjects were identified in the community of Washington Heights—Inwood in New York, NY. All subjects underwent neurological and neuropsychological evaluations and follow-up examinations. Results: Twenty-seven patients with PD (19.2%) became demented throughout 2 years, as compared with 87 (15.2%) of the control subjects. The relative risk (RR) for the development of dementia with PD was 1.7 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1 to 2.7) after adjusting for age, education, and gender. Predictive features of incident dementia were an extrapyramidal score greater than 25 (RR, 3.56; 95% CI, 1.4 to 8.9) and a Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score greater than 10 (RR, 3.55; 95% CI, 1.6 to 7.9). Conclusion: Patients with PD, especially those with severe extrapyramidal signs, have almost twice the risk for the development of dementia than do community-dwelling control subjects.
Supersymmetry on Curved Spaces and Holography
Creators: name: Klare, Claudius
name: Tomasiello, Alessandro
name: Zaffaroni, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superconformal and supersymmetric theories on Euclidean four- and three-manifolds with a view toward holographic applications. Preserved supersymmetry for asymptotically locally AdS solutions implies the existence of a (charged) "conformal Killing spinor" on the boundary. We study the geometry behind the existence of such spinors. We show in particular that, in dimension four, they exist on any complex manifold. This implies that a superconformal theory has at least one supercharge on any such space, if we allow for a background field (in general complex) for the R-symmetry. We also show that this is actually true for any supersymmetric theory with an R-symmetry. We also analyze the three-dimensional case and provide examples of supersymmetric theories on Sasaki spaces.
description: 27 pages; references added
Light Quark Masses in Multi-Quark Interactions
Creators: name: Osipov, A. A.
name: Hiller, B.
name: Blin, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest and discuss in detail a multi-quark three flavor Lagrangian of the Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio type, which includes a set of effective interactions proportional to the current quark masses. It is shown that within the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking regime, the masses of the pseudo Goldstone bosons and their chiral partners, members of the low lying scalar nonet, are in perfect agreement with current phenomenological expectations. The role of the new interactions is analyzed.
description: 8 pages, published version
Looking at Cross-Fits
Creators: name: H Brown, Duncan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 9, 35-42
description: Ceramic cross-fits have long been recognised as an aid to the interpretation of dumping processes and site stratigraphy. Where they occur in vertical sequence, presenting all the relevant data can be difficult for the ceramic is t and confusing for the reader. Expressing this information in table form is often not a flexible enough approach to allow every aspect of a sequence to be appreciated. This article offers a graphic technique which allows a pattern of cross-fits to be examined and presented in a number of ways. This method not only increases the readers' understanding and the ceramic is ts research options, it also enhances a publication with the inclusion of diagrams of dynamic, elegant and mysteriously technical mien.
Fingerprinting Higgs Suspects at the LHC
Creators: name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: Grojean, Christophe
name: Muhlleitner, M.
name: Trott, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline a method for characterizing deviations from the properties of a Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson. We apply it to current data in order to characterize up to which degree the SM Higgs boson interpretation is consistent with experiment. We find that the SM Higgs boson is consistent with the current data set at the 82 % confidence level, based on data of excess events reported by CMS and ATLAS, which are interpreted to be related to the mass scale mh = 124-126 GeV, and on published CL_s exclusion regions. We perform a global fit in terms of two parameters characterizing the deviation from the SM value in the gauge and fermion couplings of a Higgs boson. We find two minima in the global fit and identify observables that can remove this degeneracy. An update for Moriond 2012 data is included in the Appendix, which finds that the SM Higgs boson is now consistent with the current data set at only the 94 % confidence level (which corresponds to ~ 2 sigma tension compared to the best fit point).
description: 23 pp, V2 Moriond 2012 update, typos fixed
A New Mechanism for Generating a Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry
Creators: name: Kovchegov, Yuri V.
name: Sievert, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mechanism for generating a single transverse spin asymmetry (STSA) in polarized proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions in the high-energy scattering approximation. In this framework the STSA originates from the q->q G splitting in the projectile (proton) light-cone wave function followed by a perturbative (C-odd) odderon interaction, together with a C-even interaction, between the projectile and the target. We show that some aspects of the obtained expression for the STSA of the produced quarks are in qualitative agreement with experiment: STSA decreases with decreasing projectile x_F and is a non-monotonic function of the transverse momentum k_T. In our framework the STSA peaks at k_T near the saturation scale Q_s. Our mechanism predicts that the quark STSA in proton-nucleus collisions should be much smaller than in proton-proton collisions. We also observe that in our formalism the STSA for prompt photons is zero.
description: 28 pages, 17 figues; v2: minor corrections, a subsection, discussion and references added; v3: minor corrections and a new figure added; v4: minor corrections; v5: minor corrections in figures
title: Preface
title: Flood-risk analysis and integrated management
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bubeck, Philip
name: Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.
name: de Moel, Hans
name: Kreibich, Heidi
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 910 Geografie, Reisen

description: kein abstract
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 609
The Apolipoprotein Epsilon 4 Allele in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Creators: name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Ottman, Ruth
name: Tatemichi, Thomas K.
name: Tang, Mingxin
name: Maestre, Gladys
name: Ngai, Colleen I.
name: Tycko, Benjamin
name: Ginsberg, Henry N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Neurology
subject: Apolipoprotein E
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Patients
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Apolipoproein E (APO-E) binds to the β-amyloid peptide and is present in senile neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The ε4 isoform of APO-E has been associated with both sporadic and familial late-onset AD, implying a causal role. Among patients and control subjects similar in age, gender, and ethnic group from the New York City community of Washington Heights-Inwood, we found that the odds ratio (OR) for AD associated with homozygosity for APO-ε4 was 17.9 (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.6–69.8) and that associated with heterozygosity for APO-ε4 was 4.2 (95% CI, 1.8–9.5), compared with persons with other APO-E genotypes. The association was stronger among patients with sporadic disease (OR = 10.3; 95% CI, 3.4–31.1) than among those with a family history of dementia in a first-degree relative (OR = 0.9; 95% CI, 0.1–13.5). The association between APO-ε4 and AD did not differ according to age at onset (<65 vs ≥65), but appeared to vary across the 3 ethnic groups investigated (black, Hispanic, and white). Our data confirm the association between AD and APO-ε4 and support the hypothesis that the APO-ε4 allele either confers genetic susceptibility to AD or may be in linkage disequilibrium with another susceptibility locus. Ethnic variability in the allelic frequency of APO-ε4 in the elderly warrants further investigation.
Convergence and Rate Analysis of Neural Networks for Sparse Approximation
Creators: name: Balavoine, Aurèle
name: Romberg, Justin
name: Rozell, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an analysis of the Locally Competitive Algorithm (LCA), a Hopfield-style neural network that efficiently solves sparse approximation problems (e.g., approximating a vector from a dictionary using just a few non-zero coefficients). This class of problems plays a significant role in both theories of neural coding and applications in signal processing. However, the LCA lacks analysis of its convergence properties and previous results on neural networks for nonsmooth optimization do not apply to the specifics of the LCA architecture. We show that the LCA has desirable convergence properties, such as stability and global convergence to the optimum of the objective function when it is unique. Under some mild conditions, the support of the solution is also proven to be reached in finite time. Furthermore, some restrictions on the problem specifics allow us to characterize the convergence rate of the system by showing that the LCA converges exponentially fast with an analytically bounded convergence rate. We support our analysis with several illustrative simulations.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures The statement and proof of Theorem 3 have been corrected in this version
The Columbia University Scale for Psychopathology in Alzheimer's Disease
Creators: name: Devanand, Devangere P.
name: Miller, Lisa
name: Richards, Marcus
name: Marder, Karen
name: Bell, Karen L.
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Neurology
Alzheimer's disease--Patients
Psychology, Pathological

description: The Columbia University Scale for Psychopathology in Alzheimer's disease is a new screening instrument developed for use by clinicians or trained lay interviewers. Interrater reliability was established between a psychiatrist and a lay interviewer in 20 patients. In an independent sample of 91 outpatients with very mild to moderate probable Alzheimer's disease, caregiver informants reported that depressed mood was common (46.2%) but rarely persistent (2.2%), and that sleep disturbance occurred frequently (41.8%) but was never severe (0%). There were significant but weak associations between the presence of specific subtypes of delusions and severity of dementia. Although a variety of delusional symptoms were reported, they were frequently transient and patients often accepted the truth if corrected by the caregiver. As a result, few patients met broad or narrow operational criteria used to define delusions. Prior studies may have overestimated the prevalence of psychotic features in Alzheimer's disease by not employing standard definitional criteria. The findings also indicate that new methodology such as that employed in this instrument needs to be evaluated more widely.
The development of stochastic vestibular stimulation and its application to dynamic vestibular evoked responses
Creators: name: Dakin, Christopher James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The vestibular system provides sensory information regarding linear and angular motion of the head for tasks such as spatial navigation and postural stabilization. In these dynamic environments examination of vestibular signals is experimentally difficult given current techniques. Recently, continuous stochastic stimuli have shown promise in addressing some limitations in current vestibular probes and might provide a useful tool for investigating the dynamic behaviour of the vestibular system. The purpose of this thesis is a) to develop further the stochastic stimulus format by examining the customizability of the stimulus bandwidth and the stimulus’ effectiveness in extracting dynamic responses, and b) to use these advancements to explore dynamic vestibular function during locomotion and head rotation. Exploration of the customizability of stimulus bandwidth revealed that a single broad bandwidth stimulus provides similar information to the sum of a series of sinusoidal stimuli or narrow bandwidth stimuli, but in much less time, and that stimulus bandwidth can be modified, by removing frequencies below 2 Hz, to attenuate the postural perturbation created by the stimulus. In a dynamic context the stochastic stimulus was also shown to be very effective in extracting the time varying modulation of vestibular-evoked responses during motion by identifying phase-dependent vestibular responses in the gastrocnemius during locomotion. The stochastic stimulus was then used to examine vestibular modulation and suppression during locomotion and vestibular spatial transformation during head turn. During locomotion, phase-dependent modulation of vestibular responses was observed in muscles of the leg and hip. In some muscles around the ankles these responses are attenuated with increasing cadence and walking speed. Lastly the transmission and spatial transformation of these vestibular-evoked responses are not hindered by motion and the spatial transformation occurs in nearly real time during head rotation. In general, the stochastic stimulus can be customized to reduce postural sway and is effective in extracting the dynamic modulation of vestibular influence on muscle activation. The identification of widespread phase-dependent vestibular coupling in the lower limbs and continuous spatial transformation of vestibular signals demonstrates that the stochastic waveform is an effective tool for the investigation of human vestibular physiology in dynamic contexts.