cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Breakdown of local information processing may underlie isoflurane anesthesia effects
Creators: name: Wollstadt, Patricia
name: Sellers, Kristin K.
name: Rudelt, Lucas
name: Priesemann, Viola
name: Hutt, Axel
name: Fröhlich, Flavio
name: Wibral, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The disruption of coupling between brain areas has been suggested as the mechanism underlying loss of consciousness in anesthesia. This hypothesis has been tested previously by measuring the information transfer between brain areas, and by taking reduced information transfer as a proxy for decoupling. Yet, information transfer is a function of the amount of information available in the information source-such that transfer decreases even for unchanged coupling when less source information is available. Therefore, we asked whether impaired local information processing leads to a loss of information transfer. An important prediction of this alternative hypothesis is that changes in locally available information (signal entropy) should be at least as pronounced as changes in information transfer. We tested this prediction by recording local field potentials in two ferrets after administration of isoflurane in concentrations of 0.0 %, 0.5 %, and 1.0 %. We found strong decreases in the source entropy under isoflurane in area V1 and the prefrontal cortex (PFC)-as predicted by our alternative hypothesis. The decrease in source entropy was stronger in PFC. Information transfer between V1 and PFC was reduced bidirectionally, but with a stronger decrease from PFC to V1. This links the stronger decrease in information transfer to the stronger decrease in source entropy, suggesting reduced source entropy reduces information transfer. This conclusion fits the observation that the synaptic targets of isoflurane are located in local cortical circuits rather than on the synapses formed by interareal axonal projections. Thus, changes in information transfer under isoflurane seem to be a consequence of changes in local processing more than of decoupling between brain areas. We suggest that source entropy changes must be considered whenever interpreting changes in information transfer as decoupling.
description: 48 pages, 11 Figures
Efecto del sistema techo verde – tanque de almacenamiento en el pico de escorrentía en un sector del Barrio Manga, en Cartagena de Indias
Creators: name: Ramírez Wong, Verónica Esther
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drenaje pluvial
Recursos hídricos
Techo verde
Precipitación
Escorrentia urbana

description: Tesis (Ingeniero Civil).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias E Ingenierías. Programa de Ingeniería Civil, 2020
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto determinar la amortiguación de los picos de escorrentía producidos en un sector del barrio Manga de la ciudad de Cartagena, mediante la implementación de un sistema Techo Verde – Tanque de Almacenamiento, utilizando mediciones tomadas de una prueba piloto del sistema, como datos para el modelo que se hará en HEC-HMS; con el fin de recomendarlo como complemento del sistema de drenaje urbano existente.
Flow equivalence and orbit equivalence for shifts of finite type and isomorphism of their groupoids
Creators: name: Carlsen, Toke Meier
name: Eilers, Søren
name: Ortega, Eduard
name: Restorff, Gunnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10 (Primary), 16S99, 22A33, 37A55, 46L55 (Secondary)

description: We give conditions for when continuous orbit equivalence of one-sided shift spaces implies flow equivalence of the associated two-sided shift spaces. Using groupoid techniques, we prove that this is always the case for shifts of finite type. This generalises a result of Matsumoto and Matui from the irreducible to the general case. We also prove that a pair of one-sided shift spaces of finite type are continuously orbit equivalent if and only if their groupoids are isomorphic, and that the corresponding two-sided shifts are flow equivalent if and only if the groupoids are stably isomorphic. As applications we show that two finite directed graphs with no sinks and no sources are move equivalent if and only if the corresponding graph $C^*$-algebras are stably isomorphic by a diagonal-preserving isomorphism (if and only if the corresponding Leavitt path algebras are stably isomorphic by a diagonal-preserving isomorphism), and that two topological Markov chains are flow equivalent if and only if there is a diagonal-preserving isomorphism between the stabilisations of the corresponding Cuntz-Krieger algebras (the latter generalises a result of Matsumoto and Matui about irreducible topological Markov chains to a result about general topological Markov chains). We also show that for general shift spaces, strongly continuous orbit equivalence implies two-sided conjugacy.
description: 25 pages. Minor changes have been made and the list of references has been updated. This is the version that will be published
Sistematización de la estrategia Gestoras de Cambio Comunitario desde la línea de formación en salud sexual y reproductiva desarrollada por la fundación Julie Zurek de Ardila (JZA) en el barrio La Esperanza durante el año 2019
Creators: name: Montes Ruiz, Andrea Carolina
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trabajo social - Casos
Derechos sexuales

description: Tesis (Trabajadora Social) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación. Programa de Trabajo Social, 2020
description: La siguiente sistematización tiene la finalidad de presentar un análisis, reflexión e interpretación crítica de la estrategia “Gestoras de cambio comunitario” desde la línea de formación en salud sexual y reproductiva desarrollada por la fundación Julie Zurek de Ardila en el barrio la Esperanza durante el año 2019. La metodología implementada tiene un carácter investigativo-participativo con la intención de reconocer a las niñas, adolescentes y demás personas involucradas como participantes y co-creadoras directas del proceso de sistematización permitiendo que la experiencia sea reconocida desde sus sentidos y significaciones propias. Los principales hallazgos del análisis de la estrategia están orientados a partir de las categorías centrales de la sistematización: proceso metodológico y construcción de ciudadanías desde el grupo de Julies formadas en temas de salud sexual y reproductiva, quienes se perciben como agentes multiplicadoras de los conocimientos adquiridos brindando la oportunidad de reconocerse como ciudadanas que le apuestan a la construcción de espacios participativos e inclusivos en sus comunidades.
Brachypeza simondiana Kocyan & Schuit. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Brachypeza
Brachypeza simondiana

description: Brachypeza simondiana (Gagnep.) Kocyan & Schuit., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Ornithochilus simondianus Gagnepain (1950: 632).
 Homotypic synonym: Pteroceras simondianum (Gagnep.) Averyanov (1988: 432).
 Heterotypic synonyms: Pteroceras insularum Averyanov (1988: 426); Thrixspermum insularum (Aver.) Averyanov (1990: 723).
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Schuiteman, André, 2014, New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae), pp. 61-85 in Phytotaxa 161 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5128794
Geometric and electronic properties of size-selected metal clusters on surfaces
Creators: name: Irawan, Thomas Christoph Eng Fuk
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Metal clusters
subject: Size-selected clusters
subject: Metal island
subject: STM
subject: UPS
subject: 530

description: Within this thesis, we present a project regarding metallic clusters on surfaces. We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate their geometric structure and scanning tunneling spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy to study their electronic properties. A new cluster deposition machine built within a priority program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) [1] allows the investigation of size-selected clusters on surfaces. In a first set of experiments, we produced clusters by metal island growth on rare-gas multi-layers and investigated several combinations of different cluster materials on vari-ous rare gases on miscellaneous substrates. On a rare gas film of 60-monolayer thickness, the clusters are electronically decoupled from the substrate. This leads to a change of the reference energy, which is no longer the FERMI energy but the vacuum energy of the substrate. In this sense, we use the term free clusters on substrate. In a second part, after the successful setup and initial operation of the cluster deposition machine, we use a magnetron sputter gas aggregation cluster source [2] and a semi-continuous time-of-flight mass selector [3] to deposit mass-selected silver clusters (number of atoms n = 40, 55, 80, ...,923, and 2130) onto different substrates. In particular, mass-selected silver clusters with closed icosahedral shells deposited on a gold surface functionalized with a C60 monolayer show very interesting results. Despite of using five different silver cluster sizes between 55 and 923 atoms, we observed for all samples clusters with almost the same average cluster height of 1.7 nm. In addition, for Ag561 and Ag923 clusters we observed also larger clusters that roughly agree with the expected cluster sizes. Our present hypothesis is that the clusters deposited at room temperature, exhibit rather a metastable than an equilibrium shape. [1] DFG priority program SPP 1153: Clusters in Contact with Surfaces - Electronic Structure and Magnetism, website: http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/surface/ag-berndt/spp/index.html. [2] H. HABERLAND, M. MALL, M. MOSELER, Y. QIANG, Th. REINERS, and Y. THURNER: Filling of micron-sized contact holes with copper by energetic cluster impact, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 12, 2925 (1994). [3] B. v. ISSENDORFF and R. E. PALMER: A new high transmission infinite range mass selector for cluster and nanoparticle beams, Review of Scientific Instruments 70, 4497 (1999).
Inter-Commission B2-B5 WG Activities and Plans "Laboratory Astrophysics Databases: from the provider to the user: encouraging FAIRness"
Creators: name: Dubernet, Marie-Lise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Data
Atoms
Molecules
FAIR
Open Access

description: This presentation gives an overview of the goals and work of the inter-commission B2-B5 working group “Laboratory Astrophysics Data Compilation, Validation and Standardization : from the Laboratory to FAIR usage in the Astronomical Community” that was created in November 2021. It provides an introduction for the session’s talks, which will present some concrete examples in different communities. Through a general discussion at the end of the session, several key points will be addressed including the different models that can be envisaged for organization at the international level, and how an efficient and robust workflow for between data producers and data users can be achieved.
220. A systematic review and meta-analysis on the value of serial ANCA titer evaluation
Creators: name: Al-Soudi1, Aram
name: Yosta Vegting2
name: Paul Klarenbeek1, 3
name: Hilhorst2, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vasculitis
ANCA
Abstracts
Giant Cell Arthritis
MPA
GPA
EGPA
Takayasu
IgA vasculitis

description: Background: ANCA-vasculitis (AAV) patients frequently suffer from relapses and risk subsequent organ damage. There is much debate on the value of serial ANCA titer evaluation to monitor disease activity. We aimed to evaluate the association between ANCA rises and disease flares at (I) moment of the rise, (II) within 6 months or (III) within a year from the rise. Methods: 3 databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE and COCHRANE) were searched from 1993 through 2021. We included studies that reported flare incidence within 12 months after an ANCA rise measured by ELISA in peripheral blood of AAV patients in remission. Quality assessment was performed using QUADAS-2. Finally, a meta-analysis was carried out to estimate average OR using a random effects model. Results: 20 unique studies were included. The methodological quality was limited due to risk of selection bias. An ANCA rise often preceded a disease flare within 6 months (OR 4.45, 95% CI 1.87-10.58) and less often within 12 months (OR 2.88, 95% CI 1.21-6.88), while it was not indicative of a concurrent flare (OR 0.13, 95% CI 0.02-0.18). Once a flare is diagnosed, ANCA is significantly more often present than not (OR 10.80, 95% CI 3.82-30.55). As expected based on clinical variability, there was substantial heterogeneity across studies in all analyses (I2 = 70%-87%). Conclusions: An ANCA measurement upon clinical suspicion of a disease flare aids diagnosis. Patients with a rise in ANCA are at risk of encountering disease flares in the upcoming 6 or 12 months. Disclosures: This work was supported by the Dutch Kidney Foundation [Grant number 19OK007 to MH and YV] and ZonMW [VENI grant number 91617058 to PK]
Andrés Caicedo, la legitimación de un envejecido el senex negativizado en la sobrevaloración del puer
Creators: name: Romero Mendoza, Sugey
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2008
Subjects: Caicedo, Andrés - Crítica e interpretación
Colombia - Biografías

description: Tesis (Profesional en Lingüística y Literatura) – Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Lingüística y Literatura, 2008
description: El presente trabajo puede ser identificarse como una lectura mitoanalítica de la obra de Andrés Caicedo que, además, toma en cuenta los factores sociales y económicos que han trastocado los modos de reconocimiento de la idea de juventud hasta hacer que encuentre su sentido en un juego de máscara donde se exige ser eternamente joven.
New contributions to spatial partitioning and parallel global illumination algorithms
Creators: name: Garmann, Robert
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: dynamic load balancing
subject: dynamic partitioning
subject: Dynamische Lastverteilung
subject: Dynamisches Partitionieren
subject: Globale Beleuchtung
subject: global illumination
subject: graph partitioning
subject: hierarchical radiosity
subject: hierarchical radiosity algorithm
subject: HRA
subject: orthogonal recursive bisection
subject: parallel computing
subject: Parallelverarbeitung
subject: rendering
subject: 004

description: Diese Dissertation ist an der Schnittstelle zweier Disziplinen der Informatik angesiedelt: Computergrafik (Globale Beleuchtung) und Paralleles Rechnen (Dynamisches Partitionieren). Einerseits wird der Hierarchische Radiosity Algorithmus (HRA) - ein berühmter und effizienter Algorithmus zur globalen Beleuchtungssimulation - bzgl. seiner Parallelisierungsfähigkeit untersucht. Andererseits wird ein Werkzeug aus der Gattung der orthogonalen rekursiven Zweiteilungsverfahren zur dynamischen Partitionierung räumlich abgebildeter Aufgaben entwickelt sowie theoretisch und experimentell analysiert. Der HRA ist eine spezielle Instanz von Algorithmen, die als eine Ansammlung von räumlich abgebildeten Aufgaben formuliert werden können. Als Beweis der Praktikabilität unseres Werkzeugs wenden wir das Werkzeug auf den HRA an und beobachten ein gut skalierbares Verhalten und nützliche Werte bzgl. der Steigerung der Berechnungsgeschwindigkeit.
description: This thesis resides around the interface of two disciplines in computer science: computer graphics (global illumination) and parallel computing (dynamic partitioning). On the one hand the hierarchical radiosity algorithm (HRA) - a famous and efficient global illumination algorithm - is examined with respect to its capability of being parallelized. On the other hand a dynamic orthogonal recursive bisection tool for the dynamic partitioning of spatially mapped tasks is developped and analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The HRA is a special instance of algorithms that can be formulated as a collection of spatially mapped tasks. As a proof of practicability of our tool we apply the tool to the HRA and observe a well scalable behaviour and useful speedup values.
Heteroderes opacoflavus Platia & Ahmed 2016
Creators: name: Hoffmannova, Johana
name: Packova, Gabriela
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
name: Akhter, Muhammad Atique
name: Kundrata, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Heteroderes
Heteroderes opacoflavus

description: Heteroderes opacoflavus Platia & Ahmed, 2016
Heteroderes opacoflavus Platia & Ahmed, 2016: 10.
Distribution. Pakistan (Platia & Ahmed 2016).
Literature. Platia & Ahmed (2016: 10): original description, figure of male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Hoffmannova, Johana, Packova, Gabriela, Prosvirov, Alexander S., Akhter, Muhammad Atique & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan, pp. 281-305 in Zootaxa 5270 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7864780
Brachypeza unguiculata Kocyan & Schuit. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Brachypeza
Brachypeza unguiculata

description: Brachypeza unguiculata (Lindl.) Kocyan & Schuit., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Sarcochilus unguiculatus Lindley (1840: 67).
 Homotypic synonyms: Thrixspermum unguiculatum (Lindl.) Reichenbach (1868: 122); Pteroceras unguiculatum (Lindl.) Pedersen (1992: 388).
 Heterotypic synonym: Aerides diurna Teijsmann & Binnendijk (1864: 19); Phalaenopsis ruckeri Reichenbach (1881: 562); Sarcochilus aureus Hooker (1891: 35); Thrixspermum aureum (Hook.f.) Kuntze (1891: 682); Phalaenopsis fugax Kränzlin (1893: 360); Sarcochilus phalaenopsis Schlechter (1911a: 203); Pteroceras phalaenopsis (Schltr.) Garay (1972: 194).
 Note: The following taxa, currently treated as species of Pteroceras, differ in the rachis characters from the type of the genus and are probably more closely related to Grosourdya and Brachypeza. In their muricatehirsute inflorescence, they agree with Grosourdya, whereas floral characters are more similar to Brachypeza. In the absence of DNA-based evidence we have decided not to transfer these species to either Brachypeza or Grosourdya: Pteroceras asperatum (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt, P. hirsutum (Hook.f.) Holttum, P. indicum Punekar, P. johorense (Holttum) Holttum, P. monsooniae Sasidh. & Sujanapal, P. muluense Schuit. & de Vogel, P. muriculatum (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt, P. nabawanense J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb, P. philippinense (Ames) Garay, and P. spathibrachiatum (J.J.Sm.) Garay.
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Schuiteman, André, 2014, New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae), pp. 61-85 in Phytotaxa 161 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5128794
La inversión extranjera En Cartagena a principios del siglo xx: empresas y empresarios durante la expansión urbana (1910-1920)
Creators: name: Villadiego Pardo, Cesar Hernando
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2020
Subjects: Emigración e inmigración - Cartagena (Bolívar, Colombia) - Historia, 1910 - 1920
Extranjeros - Cartagena (Bolívar, Colombia) - Historia, 1910 - 1920

description: Tesis (Historiador) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Programa de Historia, 2020
description: El presente artículo, analiza de qué forma los empresarios y las empresas extranjeras contribuyeron en el proceso de expansión urbana de principios de siglo XX en Cartagena. Igualmente se detallan los cambios urbanísticos que se dieron en la ciudad producto del desarrollo portuario y los procesos de saneamiento presionados desde la comunidad internacional, además se reconoce el papel de extranjeros asentados en la ciudad, que mediante sus actividades económicas y comerciales participaron de las dinámicas económicas internas, la generación de sociedades comerciales cuyos apellidos sobresalen en la historiografía sobre la modernización de la ciudad, como los Mainero, El arquitecto Gaston Lelarge, reconocido en todo el país y personajes provenientes de Europa, Sirio-libaneses y asiáticos. El estudio se realizó mediante el análisis de fuentes de archivo, por lo cual se revisó, la prensa oficial y comercial del periodo con el fin de verificar los personajes y las inversiones realizadas. En tal sentido, se destaca el caso del Belga Alexandre Horlaint, que participo de varios proyectos urbanísticos, como lo fueron, la ampliación del tranvía y la intención de construir el ferrocarril entre Toluviejo, Tolú y Sincelejo. Con la importancia del puerto y las modificaciones estructurales de orden urbano, la participación de personas e intereses extranjeros permitieron no solo la apropiación de recursos provenientes de otras latitudes, además de la consolidación de la figura del inmigrante como contribuyente en los procesos de modernización.
Spin-orbit precession for eccentric black hole binaries at first order in the mass ratio
Creators: name: Akcay, Sarp
name: Dempsey, David
name: Dolan, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider spin-orbit ("geodetic") precession for a compact binary in strong-field gravity. Specifically, we compute $ψ$, the ratio of the accumulated spin-precession and orbital angles over one radial period, for a spinning compact body of mass $m_1$ and spin $s_1$, with $s_1 \ll G m_1^2/c$, orbiting a non-rotating black hole. We show that $ψ$ can be computed for eccentric orbits in both the gravitational self-force and post-Newtonian frameworks, and that the results appear to be consistent. We present a post-Newtonian expansion for $ψ$ at next-to-next-to-leading order, and a Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force calculation for $ψ$ at first order in the mass ratio. The latter provides new numerical data in the strong-field regime to inform the Effective One-Body model of the gravitational two-body problem. We conclude that $ψ$ complements the Detweiler redshift $z$ as a key invariant quantity characterizing eccentric orbits in the gravitational two-body problem.
description: Matches the published version in CQG
Agile Software Project Management Practices and Success Rates of Monitoring and Evaluation Software Projects in the NGO Sector – the case of PRIME: a scrum software project
Creators: name: Bizuayehu, Girum
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Motivation towards the use of agile project management approach is an important step for adopting agile project management, however a spectrum of agile facades from the team's agile mindset to the business stakeholder's readiness are all relevant parameters that are needed to be measured for validating the implementation of a successful agile project management. This study selected PRIME project's Monitoring and Evaluation assisting software project that adopted Scrum – an agile software project management method, as its project management approach. With primary objective of identifying the effectiveness of the adopted management approach, the research analyzed the level of the agile use and the success of the project that can be attributed to the stated method. The study used a primary data source using a structured questionnaire that are adopted from a standard Scrum metrics to measure the level and maturity of scrum implementation in the project. In addition, the success of the project has been analyzed to identify the relevance of the adopted method to the success of the project. Using a purposive sampling technique, the researcher selected respondents who assumed various roles in the software project. The findings indicated a moderate or medium maturity level in the process adoption and there is also an observed link between the level and maturity of the Scrum method used and the project's success. Being a case study and constrained by the time resource, the research has limitation in strengthening the analysis by using qualitative methods as additional research approach. Future researcher may use this to further widen the research horizon. In addition, other similar organization's agile use and project success may be added as a comparative study to further strengthen.
All those Ramsey classes (Ramsey classes with closures and forbidden homomorphisms)
Creators: name: Hubička, Jan
name: Nešetřil, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2; F.4.1
subject: 05D10 (Primary), 03C15, 03E02, 22F50 (Secondary)

description: We prove the Ramsey property for classes of ordered structures with closures and given local properties. This generalises earlier results: the Nešetřil-Rödl Theorem, the Ramsey property of partial orders and metric spaces as well as the authors' Ramsey lift of bowtie-free graphs. We use this framework to solve several open problems and give new examples of Ramsey classes. Among others, we find Ramsey lifts of convexly ordered $S$-metric spaces and prove the Ramsey theorem for finite models (i.e. structures with both functions and relations) thus providing the ultimate generalisation of the structural Ramsey theorem. Both of these results are natural, and easy to state, yet their proofs involve most of the theory developed here. We also characterise Ramsey lifts of classes of structures defined by finitely many forbidden homomorphisms and extend this to special cases of classes with closures. This has numerous applications. For example, we find Ramsey lifts of many Cherlin-Shelah-Shi classes.
description: 91 pages, 21 figures. Accepted to Advances in Mathematics. Reformatted to match journal recommendations. Changed numbering of Theorems. Theorem 2.1 in the previous draft is now Theorem 2.11. Theorem 2.2 in the previous draft is now Theorem 2.18
Hierarchical Multistage Gaussian Signaling Games in Noncooperative Communication and Control Systems
Creators: name: Sayin, Muhammed O.
name: Akyol, Emrah
name: Basar, Tamer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We analyze in this paper finite horizon hierarchical signaling games between (information provider) senders and (decision maker) receivers in a dynamic environment. The underlying information evolves in time while sender and receiver interact repeatedly. Different from the classical communication (control) models, however, the sender (sensor) and the receiver (controller) have different objectives and there is a hierarchy between the players such that the sender leads the game by announcing his policies beforehand. He needs to anticipate the reaction of the receiver and the impact of the actions on the horizon while controlling the transparency of the disclosed information at each interaction. With quadratic cost functions and multivariate Gaussian processes, evolving according to first order auto-regressive models, we show that memoryless "linear" sender signaling rules are optimal (in the sense of game-theoretic hierarchical equilibrium) within the general class of measurable policies in the noncooperative communication context. In the noncooperative control context, we also analyze the hierarchical equilibrium for linear signaling rules and provide an algorithm to compute the optimal linear signaling rules numerically with global optimality guarantees.
218. C-Reactive Protein to Albumin Ratio is Associated with Disease Activity in Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis
Creators: name: Atas1, Dilek Barutcu
name: Sahin2, Gizem Kumru
name: Sule Sengul2
name: Bulent Kaya3
name: Paydas3, Saime
name: Alibaz-Oner4, Fatma
name: Haner Direskeneli4
name: Tuglular1, Serhan
name: Asicioglu1, Ebru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vasculitis
ANCA
Abstracts
Giant Cell Arthritis
MPA
GPA
EGPA
Takayasu
IgA vasculitis

description: 4Marmara University, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul
MPEC 2023-S210 : 2022 SL49
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Análisis de la competitividad en la pequeña y mediana industria manufacturera agroindustrial alimentaria en la ciudad de Cartagena
Creators: name: Cardona Pájaro, Yomaida
name: Cervantes González, Martha Cecilia
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2000
Subjects: Microempresas
Pequeña y mediana empresa
Industria manufacturera

description: Tesis (Administrador de Empresas).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Programa de Administración de Empresas, 2000
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto definir el nivel de competitividad de la pequeña y mediana industria manufacturera agroindustrial alimentaria en la ciudad de Cartagena con el fin de analizar su posición competitiva.
Grosourdya Reichenbach 1864
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Grosourdya

description: GROSOURDYA   Grosourdya Reichenbach (1864: 297). Type species: Grosourdya elegans Rchb. f.
 Ascochilopsis Carr (1929: 21) Type species: Ascochilopsis myosurus (Ridl.) Car.
 Ascochilus Ridley (1896: 374) Type species: Ascochilus siamensis Ridl.
 In our analysis, Grosourdya (Fig. 1C) is paraphyletic unless the species of Ascochilus, Ascochilopsis and certain species of Biermannia (not including the type of the genus) are included in it. In this alliance, it is demonstrated again that floral characters previously used in taxonomy of this subtribe, such as the presence of a column foot, spur, or motile lip, are not reliable indicators of affinity or generic status. Species of Grosourdya are all small, short-stemmed plants with leaves arranged in a fan; wiry and stiff inflorescences are finely muricate, and their ephemeral flowers open in succession.
 The rare Peninsular Malaysian taxa Biermannia flava (Carr) Garay, B. laciniata (Carr) Garay and B. sarcanthoides (Ridl.) Garay are misplaced in Biermannia on account of the inflorescence morphology as they lack the sharply delimited cavities on the rachis. However, they would probably be misplaced in Grosourdya as well, due to the abbreviated, glabrous inflorescences and narrow tepals. Carr may well have been correct in assigning them to Chamaeanthus. They differ from the type species of Chamaeanthus, C. brachystachys Schltr., mainly in the relatively shorter column-foot. As this is a variable character in several genera in Aeridinae, e.g. Brachypeza, Grosourdya and Phalaenopsis, probably not much weight should be attached to this difference.
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Schuiteman, André, 2014, New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae), pp. 61-85 in Phytotaxa 161 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5128794
title: Mode 2: Theory or Social Diagnosis?
title: A comment on Janus Hansen "Mode 2, Systems Differentiation and the Significance of Politico-Cultural Variety"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kurath, Monika
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: Janus Hansen’s essay examines in how far the Mode 2 concept (Gibbons et al. 1994, Nowotny et al. 2001) is applicable as a theoretical or analytical concept for a cross-national comparison of public engagement practices. Influenced by reflections on socially robust knowledge production and the role of science in society by Gibbons and Nowotny et al., Hansen begins his essay with the observation of a rising demand for public engagement (Gibbons et al. 1994, Nowotny et al. 2001). In the course of the article he confronts the Mode 2 concept with competing sociological approaches, in particular Luhmann’s systems theoretical approach (Luhmann 1984) and Jasanoff’s concept of political culture (Jasanoff 2005).
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Currents and Radiation from the large $D$ Black Hole Membrane
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Sayantani
name: Mandal, Anup Kumar
name: Mandlik, Mangesh
name: Mehta, Umang
name: Minwalla, Shiraz
name: Sharma, Utkarsh
name: Thakur, Somyadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been demonstrated that black hole dynamics in a large number of dimensions $D$ reduces to the dynamics of a codimension one membrane propagating in flat space. In this paper we define a stress tensor and charge current on this membrane and explicitly determine these currents at low orders in the expansion in $\frac{1}{D}$. We demonstrate that dynamical membrane equations of motion derived in earlier work are simply conservation equations for our stress tensor and charge current. Through the paper we focus on solutions of the membrane equations which vary on a time scale of order unity. Even though the charge current and stress tensor are not parametrically small in such solutions, we show that the radiation sourced by the corresponding membrane currents is generically of order $\frac{1}{D^D}$. In this regime it follows that the `near horizon' membrane degrees of freedom are decoupled from asymptotic flat space at every perturbative order in the $\frac{1}{D}$ expansion. We also define an entropy current on the membrane and use the Hawking area theorem to demonstrate that the divergence of the entropy current is point wise non negative. We view this result as a local form of the second law of thermodynamics for membrane motion.
description: 104 pages plus 69 pages appendix, 1 figure, Minor corrections
New limit for the half-life of double beta decay of $^{94}$Zr to the first excited state of $^{94}$Mo
Creators: name: Dokania, N.
name: Nanal, V.
name: Gupta, G.
name: Pal, S.
name: Pillay, R. G.
name: Rath, P. K.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
name: Garai, A.
name: Krishnamoorthy, H.
name: Ghosh, C.
name: Raina, P. K.
name: Bhushan, K. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay is a phenomenon of fundamental interest in particle physics. The decay rates of double beta decay transitions to the excited states can provide input for Nuclear Transition Matrix Element calculations for the relevant two neutrino double beta decay process. It can be useful as supplementary information for the calculation of Nuclear Transition Matrix Element for the neutrinoless double beta decay process. In the present work, double beta decay of $^{94}$Zr to the $2^{+}_{1}$ excited state of $^{94}$Mo at 871.1 keV is studied using a low background $\sim$ 230 cm$^3$ HPGe detector. No evidence of this decay was found with a 232 g.y exposure of natural Zirconium. The lower half-life limit obtained for the double beta decay of $\rm^{94}Zr$ to the $2^{+}_{1}$ excited state of $\rm^{94}Mo$ is $T_{1/2} (0ν+ 2ν)> 3.4 \times 10^{19}$ y at 90% C.L., an improvement by a factor of $\sim$ 4 over the existing experimental limit at 90\% C.L. The sensitivity is estimated to be $T_{1/2} (0ν+ 2ν) > 2.0\times10^{19}$ y at 90% C.L. using the Feldman-Cousins method.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, Accepted in Eur. Phys. J. A
Beyond the Standard Model Lectures
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We cover some current topics in Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology, with an emphasis on collider (particularly Large Hadron Collider) phenomenology. We begin with a review of the Standard Model and some unresolved mysteries that it leaves. Then, we shall heuristically introduce supersymmetry, grand unified theories and extra dimensions as paradigms for expanding the Standard Model. The collider phenomenology of such models is too rich and complex to review, but we give some key examples of how the new states associated with the models might be inferred in Large Hadron Collider events. Before concluding, we finish with a brief description of a quantum field theory approximation that can be used in some cases to reduce model dependence: effective field theory. We show how this can be employed to explain recent measurements of decays of $B$ mesons, which disagree with Standard Model predictions.
description: These notes are BSM lectures given at the 2016 European School of High-Energy Physics, in Skeikampen, Norway and in 2018 at Maratea Italy (v3), to over 100 experimental PhD students. A large portion of these notes is based on Prof F Quevedo's excellent Cambridge Part III "Supersymmetry and extra dimensions" course arXiv:1011.1491. Submitted for publication in a CERN Yellow Report (YR)
Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms for Budgeted Multiple Play Bandits
Creators: name: Luedtke, Alexander
name: Kaufmann, Emilie
name: Chambaz, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a generalization of the multi-armed bandit problem with multiple plays where there is a cost associated with pulling each arm and the agent has a budget at each time that dictates how much she can expect to spend. We derive an asymptotic regret lower bound for any uniformly efficient algorithm in our setting. We then study a variant of Thompson sampling for Bernoulli rewards and a variant of KL-UCB for both single-parameter exponential families and bounded, finitely supported rewards. We show these algorithms are asymptotically optimal, both in rateand leading problem-dependent constants, including in the thick margin setting where multiple arms fall on the decision boundary.
Grosourdya bigibba Kocyan & Schuit. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Grosourdya
Grosourdya bigibba

description: Grosourdya bigibba (Schltr.) Kocyan & Schuit., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Thrixspermum bigibbum Schlechter (1911b: 58).
 Homotypic synonyms: Sarcochilus bigibbus (Schltr.) Smith (1926: 63); Biermannia bigibba (Schltr.) Garay (1972: 162).
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Schuiteman, André, 2014, New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae), pp. 61-85 in Phytotaxa 161 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5128794
216. Baseline soluble immune checkpoints predict relapse risk in PR3-ANCA vasculitis following rituximab induction therapy
Creators: name: Kronbichler1, Andreas
name: Gamerith2, Gabriele
name: Mildner2, Finn
name: Wolf2, Dominik
name: Merkel3, Peter
name: Harris4, Kristina
name: Cooney4, Laura
name: Lim4, Noha
name: Spiera5, Robert
name: Philip Seo6,
name: Langford7, Carol
name: Hoffman7, Gary
name: E William St. Clair8
name: Fervenza9, Fernando
name: Monach10, Paul
name: Ytterberg9, Steven
name: Duvuru Geetha6
name: Specks9, Ulrich
name: Stone11, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vasculitis
ANCA
Abstracts
Giant Cell Arthritis
MPA
GPA
EGPA
Takayasu
IgA vasculitis

description: Background: We investigated whether soluble immune checkpoints (sICPs) predict treatment-resistance, relapse risk, and risk of infections in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). Methods: Plasma levels of sICPs were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay from samples obtained at baseline and during follow-up from patients with AAV in the RAVE trial and were correlated with selected clinical outcomes. Log rank test was used to evaluate survival benefits. Optimal cut-off values of the marker molecules were calculated using Yeldons J. Results: Among 95 patients receiving rituximab as induction therapy, lower soluble (s)Lag-3 (< 90 pg/mL) and higher sCD27 (> 3000 pg/mL) were predictive of not achieving remission. Among patients with remission, 32.9% relapsed with a median relapse free survival of 5.64 months. Low baseline values of sTim-3 (< 1200 pg/mL), sCD27 (< 1250 pg/mL), and sBTLA (< 1000 pg/mL) were associated with disease relapse (see Figure 1). In addition, patients with high levels of at least one of these marker were prone to infectious complications. These findings were restricted to patients with proteinase 3 (PR3)-ANCA vasculitis and not observed in patients with myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA vasculitis. Moreover, these relationships do not hold for the group of patients randomised to receive cyclophosphamide/azathioprine. Conclusions: Rituximab-treated patients achieved remission less frequently when sLag-3 was low and sCD27 was high. Higher expression of sTim-3, sCD27, and sBTLA at baseline was associated with a lower risk of relapse in PR3-ANCA vasculitis following rituximab. These results will require confirmation in future studies, but may contribute to personalized medicine in AAV. Disclosures: AK received Consultancy Fees from Otsuka, Alexion, Vifor Pharma, UriSalt and Catalyst Biosciences. Figure 1. Kaplan-Meier curves for the duration of complete remission in rituximab treated patients in months from the time point of complete remission achievement. Relapse defined the event. The combination of those three markers using the predefined cut offs in RTX treated patients. p = 0.0000008 n= 25; 12 % relapsed n= 21; 14.3 % relapsed n= 14; 50 % relapsed n= 13; 84.6 % relapsed
Devaluation, Balance of Payment and Output Dynamics in Developing Countries: (The Case of Ethiopia)
Creators: name: Yigermal, Maru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The objective of the study is to investigate the theoretical and empirical relationship between currency devaluation, balance of payment and output in Ethiopia. The study employed Johnson co-integration analysis, and Granger causality tests. The analysis was made using impulse response function and variance decomposition by adopting Structural Vector autoregressive (SVAR) and Vector Error correction model (VECM). The models were estimated using quarterly data for the period ranging between 2000/2001Q1 to 2016/17Q4. The study found that devaluation has negative impact on the balance of payment. A great variation in real GDP emanates from the balance of payment variation and the variation in exchange rate comes from real GDP. This designates, in the long run, the balance of payment affects exchange rate through real output. Therefore, there is a linkage between exchange rate, the balance of payment and output. The contractionary effect of devaluation on output comes in different ways. First, devaluation increases money supply, a rise in the money supply has inflationary pressure on market prices and this intern forces output to decline. Second, devaluation increases interest rate, an increase in interest rate forces output to decline. Third, devaluation reduces foreign asset reserve, a reduction in foreign asset reserve leads to a fall in the balance of payment. A reduction in the balance of payment led to a decrease in output. Finally, devaluation increases external debt burden. The study recommends that before devaluating its currency the government should consider a policy that encourages productivity, diversification of the export sectors and expansion of import substituting industries which are alternative policies for devaluation.
Link cobordisms and functoriality in link Floer homology
Creators: name: Zemke, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct cobordism maps on link Floer homology associated to decorated link cobordisms. The maps are defined on a curved chain homotopy type invariant. We describe the construction, and prove invariance. We also make a comparison with the graph TQFT for Heegaard Floer homology.
description: 112 pages. To appear in Journal of Topology
Central Configurations and Mutual Differences
Creators: name: Ferrario, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70F10

description: Central configurations are solutions of the equations $λm_j\boldsymbol{q}_j = \frac{\partial U}{\partial \boldsymbol{q}_j}$, where $U$ denotes the potential function and each $\boldsymbol{q}_j$ is a point in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $E\cong {\mathbb R}^d$, for $j=1,\ldots, n$. We show that the vector of the mutual differences $\boldsymbol{q}_{ij} = \boldsymbol{q}_i - \boldsymbol{q}_j$ satisfies the equation $-\fracλα \boldsymbol{q} = P_m(Ψ(\boldsymbol{q}))$, where $P_m$ is the orthogonal projection over the spaces of $1$-cocycles and $Ψ(\boldsymbol{q}) = \frac{\boldsymbol{q}}{|\boldsymbol{q}|^{α+2}}$. It is shown that differences $\boldsymbol{q}_{ij}$ of central configurations are critical points of an analogue of $U$, defined on the space of $1$-cochains in the Euclidean space $E$, and restricted to the subspace of $1$-cocycles. Some generalizations of well known facts follow almost immediately from this approach.
Grosourdya decipiens Kocyan & Schuit. 2013, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kocyan, Alexander
name: Schuiteman, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Grosourdya
Grosourdya decipiens

description: Grosourdya decipiens (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit., comb. nov.
 Basionym: Sarcochilus decipiens Smith (1920: 106).
 Homotypic synonyms: Pteroceras decipiens (J.J.Sm.) Bakh. f. (1963: 69); Biermannia decipiens (J.J.Sm.) Garay (1972: 162).
description: Published as part of Kocyan, Alexander & Schuiteman, André, 2014, New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae), pp. 61-85 in Phytotaxa 161 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.161.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5128794