cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dusicyon australis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Dusicyon
Dusicyon australis

description: Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792). Anim. Kingdom, p. 144. TYPE LOCALITY: Falkland Islands (U.K.). DISTRIBUTION: Falkland Islands. COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon; see Cabrera, 1958:229, and Van Gelder, 1978:7. Exterminated by the end of the 19th century (AL).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.", "Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10."]}
Towards Generating App Feature Descriptions Automatically with LLMs: the Setapp Case Study, Running Example
Creators: name: Peteliev, Yevhenii
name: Synytsia, Ivan
name: Stulova, Nataliia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The source files of the running example used in the paper "Towards Generating App Feature Descriptions Automatically with LLMs: the Setapp Case Study":

README.md

Setapp_XCOrganizer_BundleFeatures.json - human-written descriptions of top 4 app features (ground truth)

XCOrganizer_BundleInfo.txt - raw string data extracted from the middle-level app artifacts of the app

XCOrganizer_BundleFeatures.json - LLM-generated descriptions of top 4 app features
title: Francisco Pimentel
Creators: name: Conceição, Margarida Tavares da
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: Entrada biográfica sobre Francisco Pimentel na plataforma eViterbo
description: Conceição, Margarida Tavares da. 2024. Francisco Pimentel. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
An Enduring Somatic Threat Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to Acute Life-Threatening Medical Events
Creators: name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects
subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
subject: Myocardial infarction--Psychological aspects
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Medicine

description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 12–25% of survivors of acute life-threatening medical events such as heart attack, stroke, and cancer, and is associated with recurrence of cardiac events and mortality in heart attack survivors. This article reviews the current state of knowledge about PTSD after such events, and proposes an Enduring Somatic Threat (EST) model of PTSD due to acute life-threatening medical events to address underappreciated differences between PTSD due to past, discrete/external traumatic events (such as combat) and PTSD due to acute manifestations of chronic disease that are enduring/internal in nature (such as heart attack and stroke). The differences include the external versus internal/somatic source of the threat, the past versus present/future temporal focus of threatening cognitions, the different types and consequences of avoidance behavior, and the different character and consequences of hyperarousal. Although important differences between the two types of PTSD exist, the EST model proposes that the underlying fear of mortality maintains PTSD symptoms due to both discrete/external and ongoing/somatic events. Finally, this article offers a research agenda for testing the EST model, with a particular focus on areas that may improve cardiovascular prognosis and health behaviors in survivors of heart attack and stroke.
Performance Analysis of Tyler's Covariance Estimator
Creators: name: Soloveychik, Ilya
name: Wiesel, Ami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper analyzes the performance of Tyler's M-estimator of the scatter matrix in elliptical populations. We focus on the non-asymptotic setting and derive the estimation error bounds depending on the number of samples n and the dimension p. We show that under quite mild conditions the squared Frobenius norm of the error of the inverse estimator decays like p^2/n with high probability.
Fitting Voronoi Diagrams to Planar Tesselations
Creators: name: Aloupis, Greg
name: Pérez-Rosés, Hebert
name: Pineda-Villavicencio, Guillermo
name: Taslakian, Perouz
name: Trinchet, Dannier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2; F.2.m
subject: 52C45, 65D18, 68U05

description: Given a tesselation of the plane, defined by a planar straight-line graph $G$, we want to find a minimal set $S$ of points in the plane, such that the Voronoi diagram associated with $S$ "fits" \ $G$. This is the Generalized Inverse Voronoi Problem (GIVP), defined in \cite{Trin07} and rediscovered recently in \cite{Baner12}. Here we give an algorithm that solves this problem with a number of points that is linear in the size of $G$, assuming that the smallest angle in $G$ is constant.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Presented at IWOCA 2013 (Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms), Rouen, France, July 2013
An alternative formulation of Classical Mechanics based on an analogy with Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Teruel, Ginés R. Pérez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study new Legendre transforms in classical mechanics and investigate some of their general properties. The behaviour of the new functions is analyzed under coordinate transformations.When invariance under different kinds of transformations are considered, the new formulation is found to be completly equivalent to the usual Lagrangian formulation, recovering well established results like the conservation of the angular momentum. Furthermore, a natural generalization of the Poisson Bracket is found to be inherent to the formalism introduced. On the other hand, we find that with a convenient redefinition of the Lagrangian, $\mathcal{L}^{\prime}=-\mathcal{L}$, it is possible to establish an exact one-to-one mathematical correspondence between the thermodynamic potentials and the new potentials of classical mechanics
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1960-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
The association of reduced lung function with blood pressure variability in African Americans: data from the Jackson Heart Study
Creators: name: Booth III, John N.
name: Redmond, Nicole
name: Sims, Mario
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: African Americans--Health and hygiene
Pulmonary function tests
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Background
African Americans (AAs) have lower lung function, higher blood pressure variability (BPV) and increased risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with whites. The mechanism through which reduced lung-function is associated with increased CVD risk is unclear.

Methods
We evaluated the association between percent predicted lung-function and 24-hour BPV in 1008 AAs enrolled in the Jackson Heart Study who underwent ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Lung-function was assessed as forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC) and the ratio of FEV1-to-FVC during a pulmonary function test using a dry rolling sealed spirometer and grouped into gender-specific quartiles. The pairwise associations of these three lung-function measures with two measures of 24-hour BPV, (1) day-night standard deviation (SDdn) and (2) average real variability (ARV) were examined for systolic BP (SBP) and, separately, diastolic BP (DBP).

Results
SDdn of SBP was not associated with FEV1 (mean ± standard deviation from lowest-to-highest quartile: 9.5 ± 2.5, 9.4 ± 2.4, 9.1 ± 2.3, 9.3 ± 2.6; p-trend = 0.111). After age and sex adjustment, the difference in SDdn of SBP was 0.0 (95 % CI −0.4,0.4), −0.4 (95 % CI −0.8,0.1) and −0.3 (95 % CI −0.7,0.1) in the three progressively higher versus lowest quartiles of FEV1 (p-trend = 0.041). Differences in SDdn of SBP across FEV1 quartiles were not statistically significant after further multivariable adjustment. After multivariable adjustment, no association was present between FEV1 and ARV of SBP or SDdn and ARV of DBP or when evaluating the association of FVC and FEV1-to-FVC with 24-hour BPV.

Conclusion
Lung-function was not associated with increased 24-hour BPV.
title: Die Bereitwilligkeit des Propheten Jeremiä das Creutz Christi auf sich zu nehmen; [1748]
title: aus Jer. XI. 18. 19. 20. bewiesen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bauer, Friedrich Ernst
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Erscheinungsjahr ermittelt aus der Widmung. - Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Wittenberg gedruckt bey Johann Wilhelm Boßögel. - In Fraktur
Interactive Employment Model to Assimilate the Deaf persons in workplace by using ICT
Creators: name: Ali, Syed Asif
name: Soomro, Safeeulah
name: Memon, Abdul Ghafoor
name: Ahmed, Mashooque
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to be social liability on their family and in the society as awhile. Now days in developing countries it is difficult for normal persons to get suitable jobs. Whenever we are talking about disabled, it is more difficult to assimilate deaf persons in workplace. Threats of unemployment of disabled person are almost double that of people without disabilities. Number of able deaf persons is unable to get suitable job due to several reasons like lack of facilities for deaf persons and lack of awareness from normal persons side which create barrier in searching job for deaf persons. This research work emphasis on the special need and training required for the deaf individual sand to make and train them how to move in workplace with different social and technical barrier. In recent era technology play important role in each and every part of life. Using the facility of Information and communication Technology we can easily assimilate deaf in workplace. The proposed model helps deaf persons to adjust in their jobs.
Band-matched transport layers and intrinsically stable perovskite solar cells for application to perovskite Si tandem cells
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Rudra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90605 Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Hybrid perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer low-cost alternatives to the commercially established silicon solar cells. In this thesis, we present the material and device optimizations of the subcells that can be used to fabricate tandem cells: Methylammonium Lead Halide (MAPbI3) based perovskite solar cells and Silicon/metal oxide type-II heterojunction based solar cells. Specifically, we focus on (a) improving the Voc of (MAPbI3) solar cells using band-matched polymer hole transporting layers (HTL), (b) improving the intrinsic stability of MAPbI3 by introducing Acetamidinium (AA) cation in the matrix, (c) studying the effect of Magnesium and Bromine substitution in MAPbI3, and (d) developing a Silicon/Cu2O type-II heterojunction solar cell that can act as a bottom cell in the proposed perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell.
A distance on curves modulo rigid transformations
Creators: name: Eldering, Jaap
name: Vankerschaver, Joris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58E30 (Primary), 49Q10, 53A04 (Secondary)

description: We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations). Given two curves, the distance between them is defined as the infimum of an energy functional which, roughly speaking, measures the extent to which the jet field of the first curve needs to be rotated to match up with the jet field of the second curve. We show that this energy functional attains a global minimum on the appropriate function space, and we derive a set of first-order ODEs for the minimizer.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure; final version as published with minor typos corrected
Hypothesis A Highly Advanced Civilization as the Creator of Self-Regulating Agents Governing the Expansion of the Universe
Creators: name: Сучков, Василий Михайлович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Type III civilization
dark energy
quantum gravity
astroengineering
entropy regulation

description: Hypothesis: A Highly Advanced Civilization as the Creator of Self-Regulating Agents Governing the Expansion of the Universe. This is a continuation of my publication.
Salsola paulsenii Litv.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Salsola
Salsola paulsenii

description: Salsola paulsenii Litv.
Distribution
SE Europe (Astrakhan Region, Kalmyk Republic), Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran, NW China.
Notes
Collected by Antonov in 1852 “ near Orsk town ”, but this record was not confirmed by later specimens. At that time, Orenburg Region was a very remote location and one of the outposts of the Russian Empire. The exact location of these records cannot be properly established and the species was seemingly collected by Antonov in northern Kazakhstan.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Modified Friedmann Equation from Nonminimally Coupled Theories of Gravity
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
name: Páramos, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study how nonminimally coupled theories of gravity modify the usual Friedmann equation, and develop two methods to treat these. The ambiguity in the form of the Lagrangian density of a perfect fluid is emphasized, and the impact of different dominant matter species is assessed. The Cosmological Constant problem is also discussed.
description: 12 pages
The effect of enhanced depression care on adherence to risk-reducing behaviors after acute coronary syndromes: Findings from the COPES trial
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Rieckmann, Nina
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Coronary heart disease--Risk factors
Coronary heart disease--Patients
Blood pressure
Depression, Mental--Treatment
Medicine

description: Background: The presence of depression after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with worse prognosis and lower adherence to risk-reducing behaviors. We reported earlier that an enhanced depression care intervention reduces depression symptoms and major adverse cardiac events. This study evaluates the impact of the depression intervention on health behavior and blood pressure control. Methods: Between 2005 and 2008, 157 patients who remained persistently depressed 3 months after ACS were randomized to a 6-month depression intervention (initial patient preference for problem-solving therapy and/or pharmacotherapy, followed by stepped care; 80 patients) or to usual care (77 patients). At randomization, and then 2, 4, and 6 months later, patients were asked if they (1) missed taking their aspirin; (2) followed a heart healthy diet; (3) exercised regularly; and (4) used tobacco products. Blood pressure was measured before randomization and 6 months later. Results: At the end of the intervention, there was no significant improvement in the percentage of intervention compared to control group patients who adhered to aspirin (+3% versus −1%, P = .23), followed a healthy diet (+10% versus +8%, P = .39), exercised regularly (+5% versus +4%, P = .65), abstained from tobacco (−3% versus −1%, P = .77), or had controlled blood pressure (+6% versus +16%, P = .26). Conclusion: Despite improving depression, enhanced depression care after an ACS did not improve health behavior or blood pressure control compared to usual care. Research is needed to test whether adding an adherence intervention to enhanced depression care can improve adherence and cardiovascular prognosis in depressed patients post-ACS.
Xylosalsola arbuscula Tzvel.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Xylosalsola
Xylosalsola arbuscula

description: Xylosalsola arbuscula (Pall.) Tzvel.
Distribution
SE Europe (Astrakhan and Volgograd Regions), Central Asia.
Notes
Collected by Antonov in 1852 “ near Orsk town ” (LE), but not confirmed by later gatherings. The nearest localities are known in Central Kazakhstan. So far, this conspicuous plant has not been observed during floristic work in Orenburg Region (Ryabinina 1998, Knjazev 2009).
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Measurement of Direct-Photon Production and Neutral Pion Double Helicity Asymmetry in Ultra-Relativistic p + p Collisions
Creators: name: Zaudtke, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: π0
direct photon
helicity
asymmetry
cross section
polarization
p+p
run03

description: The measurement of the cross section of inclusive direct-photon production in elementary p+p collisions is of paramount interest not only because of its sensitivity to the gluon density but also for other reasons. In this thesis two independent analyses are presented: the measurement of the inclusive direct-photon production cross section and the measurement of the double helicity asymmetry in inclusive π0 production both at mid-rapidity in ultra-relativistic p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV.
The Unreasonable Success of Quantum Probability I: Quantum Measurements as Uniform Fluctuations
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
name: de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a 'uniform tension-reduction' (UTR) model, which allows to represent the probabilities associated with an arbitrary measurement situation and use it to explain the emergence of quantum probabilities (the Born rule) as 'uniform' fluctuations on this measurement situation. The model exploits the geometry of simplexes to represent the states, in a way that the measurement probabilities can be derived as the 'Lebesgue measure' of suitably defined convex subregions of the simplexes. We consider a very simple and evocative physical realization of the abstract model, using a material point particle which is acted upon by elastic membranes, which by breaking and collapsing produce the different possible outcomes. This easy to visualize mechanical realization allows one to gain considerable insight into the possible hidden structure of an arbitrary measurement process. We also show that the UTR-model can be further generalized into a 'general tension-reduction' (GTR) model, describing conditions of lack of knowledge generated by 'non-uniform' fluctuations. In this ampler framework, particularly suitable to describe experiments in cognitive science, we define and motivate a notion of 'universal measurement', describing the most general possible condition of lack of knowledge in a measurement, emphasizing that the uniform fluctuations characterizing quantum measurements can also be understood as an average over all possible forms of non-uniform fluctuations which can be actualized in a measurement context. This means that the Born rule of quantum mechanics can be understood as a first order approximation of a more general non-uniform theory, thus explaining part of the great success of quantum probability in the description of different domains of reality. This is the first part of a two-part article.
description: 50 pages, 10 figures
Entanglement distribution over 300 km of fiber
Creators: name: Inagaki, Takahiro
name: Matsuda, Nobuyuki
name: Tadanaga, Osamu
name: Asobe, Masaki
name: Takesue, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the distribution of time bin entangled photon pairs over 300 km of optical fiber. We realized this by using a high speed and high signal to noise ratio entanglement generation and evaluation setup that consists of periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides and superconducting single photon detectors. The observed two-photon interference fringes exhibited a visibility of 84 %. We confirmed the violation of Bell's inequality by 2.9 standard deviations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
title: Nestedness and Modularity of Avian Metacommunities Across Gradients of Chesapeake Bay Island Characteristics
Creators: name: Bowers, Grant Walter
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Islands are not only great models for understanding the ways in which communities are linked by the dispersal of their members to form metacommunities, but are of particular interest to conservationists. One important aspect of metacommunity structure is the degree of nestedness—whether or not less speciose communities are perfect subsets of more speciose communities. Another important metric of metacommunity structure is modularity—the degree to which communities belong to modules composed of other communities that share the same species but have little species overlap with communities from different modules. Environmental gradients have received insufficient attention as predictors of metacommunity nestedness and modularity. I examined bird metacommunities on small islands within the Chesapeake Bay, USA. These islands serve as natural laboratories, representing a gradient of sizes, degrees of isolation, and variation in habitat type. My objective was to determine which, if any, of these variables best predicted patterns of nestedness and modularity. Presence-absence data were collected from thirteen islands in the southern end of Chesapeake Bay from June to August of 2021. Three matrices were developed (ranked by island size, isolation, and habitat type, respectively) and evaluated for both nestedness and modularity. Island size produced the greatest degree of nestedness, even when accounting for variation in species richness across islands.

None of the island characteristics exhibited patterns of modularity. Weighted matrices were developed based on the naturally uneven distributions of islands across these gradients and produced similar results to the non-weighted matrices. These results suggest that, on a broad scale, avian metacommunities across small (<10,000 ha), nearshore (<10 km) islands will display a nested structure along a gradient of island size, meaning the largest islands contain representatives from most species in the system, and smaller islands are largely redundant in species composition.
Age and the difference between awake ambulatory blood pressure and office blood pressure: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Joji
name: Ishikawa, Yukiko
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Blood pressure--Measurement
Fear of doctors
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medicine

description: Background: Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) (ABP) is a better predictor of adverse cardiovascular events than office BP (OBP). Owing to the extensive literature on the ‘white coat effect’, it is widely believed that ABP tends to be lower than OBP, with statements to this effect in Joint National Committee VII. However, recent evidence suggests that the difference varies systematically with age. Methods: We searched PubMed to identify population studies, published before April 2009, which assessed OBP and either ABP or home BP (HBP). On account of significant heterogeneity in the outcomes, random effect models were used for the meta-analyses. Results: OBP increased with age more steeply than awake ABP. OBP became higher than awake systolic/diastolic ABP at the age of 51.3/42.7 years in men (13 studies, N=3562) and 51.9/42.3 years in women (11 studies, N=2585). In the data in which OBP and HBP were measured (eight studies, N=4916), OBP was higher than HBP at all ages. In the data in which OBP, awake ABP, and HBP were all measured (two studies, N=895), awake ABP was higher than HBP at younger ages, becoming similar at the older age. Conclusion: OBP tends to be higher than awake ABP only after the age of 50 years for systolic and after the age of 45 years for diastolic BP, but is lower than ABP at younger ages; in contrast OBP tends to exceed HBP at all ages.
title: Beschreibung des Vorgebürges der Guten Hoffnung, und derer darauf wohnenden Hottentotten; 1745
title: Worinnen von der natürlichen Beschaffenheit des Landes, von den Gebräuchen der Einwohner, ingleichen von der Einrichtung dasiger Holländischer Colonien zuverlässige Nachricht gegeben wird
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kolb, Peter
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Von der dt. Orig.-Ausg. in Folio von 1719 "Caput bonae spei hodiernum, das ist vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung" erschien eine gekürzte franz. Übers. Nach dieser Ausg. wurde vorliegendes Werk ins Dt. zurückübers.
Magnetic focusing in atomic, nuclear and hadronic processes
Creators: name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Processes with oppositely charged spinor particles in initial and/or final states in homogeneous magnetic field B are subject to focusing effects in their relative motion, which yield the amplifying factors in probabilities growing as $eB$. In addition the increasing energy of some Landau levels influences the phase space. As a result some processes in the proper spin states can be enlarged as $\sim \frac{eB}{κ^2}$, where $κ^2$ is the characteristic 2d phase space factor available without magnetic field. Several examples, including neutron $β$ decay, positronium decay and $e^+e^-$ pair production, are quantitatively considered.
description: 18 pages
An Interview with APPLE Lecture Speaker Professor Alister Cumming
Creators: name: Lin, Rongchan
name: Seong, Yuna P.
name: Box, Catherine Marie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Second language acquisition--Ability testing
Pragmatics
Applied linguistics
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: On April 11, 2014, the TESOL/AL Web Journal (represented by Rongchan Lin, Yuna Seong, and Catherine Box) had the opportunity to sit down with Professor Alister Cumming, guest speaker for the 2014 Applied Linguistics & Language Education (APPLE) Lecture Series, hosted annually by the TESOL/Applied Linguistics Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Cumming was kind enough to take the time, during a very busy day, to speak about his research, his work on assessing writing, his thoughts on dynamic assessment, and his advice for new scholars working in the TESOL/AL fields. Professor Cumming is professor in the Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies (CERLL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His research and teaching focus on writing in second languages, language assessment, language program evaluation and policies, and research methods. His most recent books include Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context (2012, Routledge), A Synthesis of Research on Second Language Writing in English (with Ilona Leki & Tony Silva, 2008, Routledge), and Goals for Academic Writing (2006, John Bejamins). Professor Cumming is currently the Executive Director of Language Learning, a journal he edited in the 1990s. For the past five years he has chaired the TOEFL Committee of Examiners at Educational Testing Service in Princeton. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1988, MA and BA from the University of British Columbia in 1979 and 1975 respectively, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 2009. From 2014 to 2017 he will hold a Changjiang Scholarship at Beijing Foreign Studies University. We thank Professor Cumming for his participation in a lively interview. We also thank Fred Tsutagawa for videotaping and Dr. Kirby Grabowski for coordinating the APPLE Lecture Series Interview.
Brachial Artery Diameter and the Right Ventricle : The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis-Right Ventricle Study
Creators: name: Dibble, Christopher T.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Bagiella, Emilia
name: Chahal, Harjit
name: Ventetuolo, Corey E.
name: Herrington, David M.
name: Lima, Joao A. C.
name: Bluemke, David A.
name: Kawut, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Heart--Right ventricle
Arm--Blood-vessels
Lungs--Blood-vessels
Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Medicine

description: Background: Endothelial dysfunction is associated with left ventricular morphology and long-term cardiovascular outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between both baseline brachial artery diameter and peripheral endothelial function (assessed by brachial artery ultrasonography) and right ventricular (RV) mass, RV end-diastolic volume (RVEDV), and RV ejection fraction (RVEF). Methods: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) performed cardiac MRI and brachial artery ultrasonography on participants without clinical cardiovascular disease. Baseline brachial artery diameter and flow-mediated dilation were assessed. Results: The mean age was 60.9 years, and 49.4% of subjects were men (n = 2,425). In adjusted models, larger brachial artery diameter was strongly associated with greater RV mass (β = 0.55 g, P < .001), larger RVEDV (β = 3.99 mL, P < .001), and decreased RVEF (β = −0.46%, P = .03). These relationships persisted after further adjustment for the respective left ventricular parameters. Flow-mediated dilation was not associated with RV mass or RVEF and was only weakly associated with RVEDV. Conclusions: Brachial artery diameter is associated with greater RV mass and RVEDV, as well as lower RVEF. Changes in the systemic arterial circulation may have pathophysiologic links to pulmonary vascular dysfunction or abnormalities in RV perfusion.
Quantum group approach to steady states of boundary-driven open quantum systems
Creators: name: Ilievski, Enej
name: Žunkovič, Bojan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic approach for constructing steady state density operators of Markovian dissipative evolution for open quantum chain models with integrable bulk interaction and boundary incoherent driving. The construction is based on fundamental solutions of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation pertaining to quantum algebra symmetries and their quantizations (q-deformations). In particular, we facilitate a matrix-product state description, by resorting to generic spin-s infinite-dimensional solutions associated with non-compact spins, serving as ancillary degrees of freedom. After formally deriving already known solutions for the anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain from first symmetry principles, we obtain a class of solutions belonging to interacting quantum gases with SU(N)-symmetric Hamiltonians, using a restricted set of incoherent boundary jump processes, and point out how new non-trivial generalizations emerge from twists of quantum group structures. Finally, we discuss possibilities of analytic calculation of observables by employing algebraic properties of associated auxiliary vertex operators.
description: 36 pages
Dusicyon culpaeus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Dusicyon
Dusicyon culpaeus

description: Dusicyon culpaeus (Molina, 1782). Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 293. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Santiago Prov. DISTRIBUTION: From Tierra del Fuego along the Andes of Chile and Argentina, the highlands of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex; see Cabrera, 1958:230; Van Gelder, 1978:7. Pseudalopex has been considered a synonym of Dusicyon by Cabrera, 1958:229, and Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 166; a subgenus of Dusicyon by Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179: 176; a subgenus of Canis by Langguth, 1975:193, and Van Gelder, 1978:7. Includes culpaeolus (part) and inca (part), mismatched skin and skull; see Langguth, 1967, Neotropica, 13:21-28. AL considers Pseudalopex a distinct genus. Type locality restricted by Cabrera, 1931, J. Mammal., 12:62. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
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Implementation of Automata Theory to Improve the Learning Disability
Creators: name: Ali, Syed Asif
name: Soomro, Safeeullah
name: Memon, Abdul Ghafoor
name: Baqi, Abdul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are various types of disability egress in world like blindness, deafness, and Physical disabilities. It is quite difficult to deal with people with disability. Learning disability (LD) is types of disability totally different from general disability. To deal children with learning disability is difficult for both parents and teacher. As parent deal with only single child so it bit easy. But teacher deals with different students at a time so its more difficult to deal with group of students with learning disability. If there is more students with learning disability so it is necessary that first all identify the type of learning disability in group of students. Some students have learning disability of mathematics; some have learning disability of other subjects. By using theory of Automata it easy to analysis the level of disability among all students then deal with them accordingly. For these purpose deterministic automata is the best practice. Teacher deals with deterministic students in class and check there response. In this research deterministic automata is use to facilitated the teacher which help teacher in identification of students with learning disability.
title: Raúl de Faria e Maia
Creators: name: Barata, João de Almeida
name: Faria, Alice Santiago
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2024

description: Entrada biográfica sobre Raúl de Faria e Maia, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Barata, João de Almeira, Faria, Alice Santiago. 2024. Raúl de Faria e Maia in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
edTPA: You, Too, Shall Pass
Creators: name: McConville, Justine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Teachers--Training of
Student teachers--Evaluation
Teachers--Certification--Standards
Education

description: EdTPA was more than an assessment of teacher preparedness. It was more than a reflective writing task. It was a measurement of one’s own sanity and will to reach the light at the end of a tremendously redundant tunnel. After a few months of sifting through this assessment and its three tasks, I had to question, were the writers of edTPA conspiring to lure young educators away from careers in education, perhaps due to a deficit in other industries such as plumbing or politics? Maybe it was a weeding-out experiment designed to prevent anyone who does not have the wherewithal to complete it from becoming a teacher, since such failure, I guess, is supposed to suggest that one should not be trusted to educate the youth.
title: Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component
Creators: name: Börger, Marie
name: Bublitz, Tabata
name: Dyckmans, Jens
name: Wachendorf, Christine
name: Jörgensen, Rainer Georg
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: microbial biomass
subject: ¹⁵ N/¹⁴ N ratio
subject: ¹³C/¹²C ratio
subject: CO₂ mineralization
subject: particulate organic matter
subject: microbial necromass
subject: 570
subject: Biomasse
subject: Bodenchemie
subject: Kohlenstoff
subject: Mineralisation
subject: Partikulärer organischer Stoff
subject: Streu

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Random partitions in statistical mechanics
Creators: name: Ercolani, Nicholas M.
name: Jansen, Sabine
name: Ueltschi, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60F05, 60K35, 82B05

description: We consider a family of distributions on spatial random partitions that provide a coupling between different models of interest: the ideal Bose gas; the zero-range process; particle clustering; and spatial permutations. These distributions are invariant for a "chain of Chinese restaurants" stochastic process. We obtain results for the distribution of the size of the largest component.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures
Network and Plage Indices from Kodaikanal Ca-K Data
Creators: name: Raju, K. P.
name: Singh, Jagdev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ca II K filtergrams from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory have been used to study the solar activity. The images are dominated by the chromospheric network and plages. Programs have been developed to obtain the network and plage indices from the daily images as functions of solar latitude and time. Preliminary results from the analysis are reported here. The network and plage indices were found to follow the sunspot cycle. A secondary peak is found during the declining activity period in both the indices. A comparison of network indices from the northern and the southern hemispheres shows that the former is more active than latter. However such an asymmetry is not clearly seen in the case of plage index.
Development of Textured Magnesium Oxide Templates on Amorphous Polymer Surfaces Using Ion-Beam-Assisted-Deposition
Creators: name: Elliot, Alan J.
name: Vallejo, Ronald N.
name: Lu, Rongtao
name: Wu, Judy Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biaxially textured MgO templates have been successfully fabricated on several amorphous polymer films including Kapton tapes, polyimide, Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), and photoresist films using ion-beam-assisted-deposition (IBAD). With a Y2O3 buffer layer on polymer surfaces, roughening of the polymer surfaces due to preferential ion beam sputtering can be effectively reduced to meet the surface compatibility requirement for IBAD-MgO texturing. In-plane full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of ~10.7 degrees and out-of-plane FWHM ~ 3.5 degrees have been obtained on homoepitaxial MgO films grown on top of the IBAD-MgO template. This method provides a practical route for fabricating epitaxial devices on polymers needed for flexible optoelectronics.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
edTPA? Good Grief!
Creators: name: McKenna, Amanda
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Student teachers--Evaluation
Teachers--Certification--Standards
Teachers--Training of
Education

description: Over the course of six months, edTPA went from being an abstract jumble of letters thrown around to describe some assessment that we were going to have to do at some point before graduation (yes, the conversations were that uncertain) to a very concrete mountain that each member of my cohort was expected to climb triumphantly, in spite of the fact that the road to the top was still in the process of being built. In the beginning, I tried to pretend it didn’t exist, in the middle I found myself grappling with how to best fit into a model that didn’t seem to appreciate who I was as a teacher, and in the end I accepted that I had to jump through the hoop of fire at the end of the road if I wanted the medal of state certification hung round my neck. In psychology, they’d say I went through the five stages of grief and loss—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Now how’s that for a resounding endorsement for edTPA?
Policy Briefing: Adopting a Strategic Approach to Tackling Litter
Creators: name: Farmer, Andrew
name: Orthodoxou, Demetra
name: Baldwin, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Litter, Planning, Soil, Marine, Waste, Circular Economy, Crime,

description: Litter is a serious problem that causes significant environmental and social impacts. Littering is not new, but plastic litter is a serious concern because of its abundance and longevity. Measures to tackle litter have been in place for many years, yet people and organisations still litter Action is needed by institutions at EU, national and local level Current strategies and plans to deal with litter are of limited scope due to the limited competences of the organisations involved. Further, the measures adopted are often limited in their implementation. This briefing proposes a hierarchical approach to tackling litter firstly implementing a suite of measures to prevent or reduce it secondly measures to remove it thirdly measures to reduce the harm/impact of the litter that remains, such as ensuring use of material which are not long lasting in the environment. This integrates with the waste hierarchy and recognises the real world problem that litter is waste over which no one has control, and which is not addressed by the waste hierarchy.
The statistical mechanics of self-gravitating Keplerian disks
Creators: name: Touma, Jihad
name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the dynamics and thermodynamics of collisionless particle disks orbiting a massive central body, in the case where the disk mass is small compared to the central mass, the self-gravity of the disk dominates the non-Keplerian force, and the spread in semi-major axes is small. We show that with plausible approximations such disks have logarithmic two-body interactions and a compact phase space, and therefore exhibit thermodynamics that are simpler than most other gravitating systems, which require a confining box and artificial softening of the potential at small scales to be thermodynamically well-behaved. We solve for the microcanonical axisymmetric thermal equilibria and demonstrate the existence of a symmetry-breaking bifurcation into lopsided equilibria. We discuss the relation between thermal and dynamical instability in these systems and draw connections to astrophysical settings, as well as to the wider subject of the statistical mechanics of particles with logarithmic long-range interactions, such as point vortices in two-dimensional fluids.
description: J. Phys. A (Fast Track Communication), published (minor changes from v1), 32 pages, 4 figures