cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evidence for interacting dark energy from BOSS
Creators: name: Ferreira, Elisa G. M.
name: Quintin, Jerome
name: Costa, André A.
name: Abdalla, E.
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The result presented by the BOSS-SDSS Collaboration measuring the baryon acoustic oscillations of the Lyman-$α$ forest from high-redshift quasars indicates a $2.5σ$ departure from the standard $Λ$-cold-dark-matter model. This is the first time that the evolution of dark energy at high redshifts has been measured, and the current results cannot be explained by simple generalizations of the cosmological constant. We show here that a simple phenomenological interaction in the dark sector provides a good explanation for this deviation, naturally accommodating the Hubble parameter obtained by BOSS, $H(z=2.34)=222 \pm 7 ~\mathrm{km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$. By performing a global fit of the parameters with the inclusion of this new data set together with the Planck data for the interacting model, we are able to show that some interacting models have constraints for $H(2.34)$ and $D_\mathrm{A}(2.34)$ that are compatible with the ones obtained by the BOSS Collaboration, showing a better concordance than $Λ$CDM. We also show that the interacting models that have a small positive coupling constant, which helps alleviate the coincidence problem, are compatible with the cosmological observations. Adding the likelihood of these new baryon acoustic oscillations data shows an improvement in the global fit, although it is not statistically significant. The coupling constant could not be fully constrained by the data sets used, but the dark energy equation of state shows a slight preference for a value different from a cosmological constant.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added; v3: extended analysis, conclusions unchanged; v4: figures improved, replaced to match published version
Minimum Constraint Removal Problem for Line Segments is NP-hard
Creators: name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.0; A.0
subject: 68-XX

description: In the minimum constraint removal ($MCR$), there is no feasible path to move from the starting point towards the goal and, the minimum constraints should be removed in order to find a collision-free path. It has been proved that $MCR$ problem is $NP-hard$ when constraints have arbitrary shapes or even they are in shape of convex polygons. However, it has a simple linear solution when constraints are lines and the problem is open for other cases yet. In this paper, using a reduction from Subset Sum problem, in three steps, we show that the problem is NP-hard for both weighted and unweighted line segments.
A Characteristic Mapping Method for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations
Creators: name: Yin, Xi-Yuan
name: Schneider, Kai
name: Nave, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M25

description: We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian Characteristic Mapping (CM) method for solving the three-dimensional (3D) incompressible Euler equations. This method evolves advected quantities by discretizing the flow map associated with the velocity field. Using the properties of the Lie group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms SDiff, long-time deformations are computed from a composition of short-time submaps which can be accurately evolved on coarse grids. This method is a fundamental extension to the CM method for two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations [51]. We take a geometric approach in the 3D case where the vorticity is not a scalar advected quantity, but can be computed as a differential 2-form through the pullback of the initial condition by the characteristic map. This formulation is based on the Kelvin circulation theorem and gives point-wise a Lagrangian description of the vorticity field. We demonstrate through numerical experiments the validity of the method and show that energy is not dissipated through artificial viscosity and small scales of the solution are preserved. We provide error estimates and numerical convergence tests showing that the method is globally third-order accurate.
Purification of SLC25A13 from Expi293FTM Cells
Creators: name: David B. Sauer
name: Huanyu Li
name: Sagar Raturi
name: Andreea Scacioc
name: Tina Bohstedt
name: Abilasha Balakrishnan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Protocol

description: This protocol is used to purify the SLC transporter expressed in Expi293FTM Cells using detergent solubilization followed by a series of different chromatographic methods. Depending on the nature of the expression construct and experimental requirements, the GFP tag can be removed using a proteolytic reaction.
Stellar populations of the bulges of four spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Morelli, L.
name: Pizzella, A.
name: Corsini, E. M.
name: Bontà, E. Dalla
name: Coccato, L.
name: Méndez-Abreu, J.
name: Parmiggiani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Key information to understand the formation and evolution of disk galaxies are imprinted in the stellar populations of their bulges. This paper has the purpose to make available new measurements of the stellar population properties of the bulges of four spiral galaxies. Both the central values and radial profiles of the line strength of some of the most common Lick indices are measured along the major- and minor- axis of the bulge-dominated region of the sample galaxies. The corresponding age, metallicity, and α/Fe ratio are derived by using the simple stellar population synthesis model predictions. The central values and the gradients of the stellar population properties of ESO-LV1890070, ESO-LV4460170, and ESO-LV 5140100 are consistent with previous findings for bulges of spiral galaxies. On the contrary, the bulge of ESO-LV 4500200 shows peculiar chemical properties possibly due to the presence of a central kinematically-decoupled component. The negative metallicity gradient found in our bulges sample indicates a relevant role for the dissipative collapse in bulge formation. However, the shallow gradients found for the age and α/Fe ratio suggests that merging can not be completely ruled out for the sample bulges. This is confirmed by the properties of ESO-LV 4500200 which can hardly be explained without invoking the capture of external material.
description: 11 pages. 7 figures, AN in press. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1203.4284
Distributions and determinants of mercury concentrations in toenails among American young adults: the CARDIA Trace Element Study
Creators: name: Morris, J. Steve
name: Jordan, Joanne M.
name: Liu, Kiang
name: Xun, Pengcheng
name: He, Ka
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Since data on mercury (Hg) levels in Caucasians and African Americans (AAs) of both genders are lacking, this study aims to present toenail Hg distributions and explore the potential determinants using data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Trace Element Study.
Ionising radiation and risk of death from leukaemia and lymphoma in radiation-monitored workers (INWORKS): an international cohort study
Creators: name: Thierry-Chef, Isabelle
name: Hamra, Ghassan B
name: Cardis, Elisabeth
name: O'Hagan, Jacqueline A
name: Leuraud, Klervi
name: Schubauer-Berigan, Mary K
name: Haylock, Richard
name: Gillies, Michael
name: Kesminiene, Ausrele
name: Moissonnier, Monika
name: Daniels, Robert D
name: Laurier, Dominique
name: Richardson, David B
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: SummaryBackgroundThere is much uncertainty about the risks of leukaemia and lymphoma after repeated or protracted low-dose radiation exposure typical of occupational, environmental, and diagnostic medical settings. We quantified associations between protracted low-dose radiation exposures and leukaemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma mortality among radiation-monitored adults employed in France, the UK, and the USA.MethodsWe assembled a cohort of 308 297 radiation-monitored workers employed for at least 1 year by the Atomic Energy Commission, AREVA Nuclear Cycle, or the National Electricity Company in France, the Departments of Energy and Defence in the USA, and nuclear industry employers included in the National Registry for Radiation Workers in the UK. The cohort was followed up for a total of 8·22 million person-years. We ascertained deaths caused by leukaemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. We used Poisson regression to quantify associations between estimated red bone marrow absorbed dose and leukaemia and lymphoma mortality.FindingsDoses were accrued at very low rates (mean 1·1 mGy per year, SD 2·6). The excess relative risk of leukaemia mortality (excluding chronic lymphocytic leukaemia) was 2·96 per Gy (90% CI 1·17–5·21; lagged 2 years), most notably because of an association between radiation dose and mortality from chronic myeloid leukaemia (excess relative risk per Gy 10·45, 90% CI 4·48–19·65).InterpretationThis study provides strong evidence of positive associations between protracted low-dose radiation exposure and leukaemia.FundingCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, AREVA, Electricité de France, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US Department of Energy, US Department of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina, Public Health England.
Cuatro aspectos clave para evaluar a los postulantes al cargo de fiscal nacional
Creators: name: Figueroa Ossa, Ulda Omar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 180119 Law and Society

description: "...El rol que desempeñe la persona escogida en la definición de la política criminal de los próximosaños será de vital importancia para los desafíos que debe asumir el Ministerio Público con miras acumplir adecuadamente las tareas que le encarga la Constitución y satisfacer las expectativas de laciudadanía en la persecución penal de los delitos..."
Arrenurus incisicauda Nayar 1969
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus incisicauda

description: Arrenurus incisicauda Nayar, 1969
Species incerta (K. O. Viets 1987).
Records from the study area: Kerala—Nayar (1969b)
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Reciprocal Relations in Dissipationless Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Melnikovsky, Lev A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hidden symmetry in dissipationless terms of arbitrary hydrodynamics equations is recognized. We demonstrate that all fluxes are generated by a single function and derive conventional Euler equations using proposed formalism.
description: 3 pages, contribution for the JETP special issue in honor of A.F. Andreev's 75th birthday
Gibbs sampling for mixtures in order of appearance: the ordered allocation sampler
Creators: name: De Blasi, Pierpaolo
name: Gil-Leyva, María F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Gibbs sampling methods are standard tools to perform posterior inference for mixture models. These have been broadly classified into two categories: marginal and conditional methods. While conditional samplers are more widely applicable than marginal ones, they may suffer from slow mixing in infinite mixtures, where some form of truncation, either deterministic or random, is required. In mixtures with random number of components, the exploration of parameter spaces of different dimensions can also be challenging. We tackle these issues by expressing the mixture components in the random order of appearance in an exchangeable sequence directed by the mixing distribution. We derive a sampler that is straightforward to implement for mixing distributions with tractable size-biased ordered weights, and that can be readily adapted to mixture models for which marginal samplers are not available. In infinite mixtures, no form of truncation is necessary. As for finite mixtures with random dimension, a simple updating of the number of components is obtained by a blocking argument, thus, easing challenges found in trans-dimensional moves via Metropolis-Hastings steps. Additionally, sampling occurs in the space of ordered partitions with blocks labelled in the least element order, which endows the sampler with good mixing properties. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in a simulation study.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Genetic Screening
Creators: name: Evans, J. P.
name: Tarini, B.
name: Press, N. A.
name: Burke, W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Current approaches to genetic screening include newborn screening to identify infants who would benefit from early treatment, reproductive genetic screening to assist reproductive decision making, and family history assessment to identify individuals who would benefit from additional prevention measures. Although the traditional goal of screening is to identify early disease or risk in order to implement preventive therapy, genetic screening has always included an atypical element—information relevant to reproductive decisions. New technologies offer increasingly comprehensive identification of genetic conditions and susceptibilities. Tests based on these technologies are generating a different approach to screening that seeks to inform individuals about all of their genetic traits and susceptibilities for purposes that incorporate rapid diagnosis, family planning, and expediting of research, as well as the traditional screening goal of improving prevention. Use of these tests in population screening will increase the challenges already encountered in genetic screening programs, including false-positive and ambiguous test results, overdiagnosis, and incidental findings. Whether this approach is desirable requires further empiric research, but it also requires careful deliberation on the part of all concerned, including genomic researchers, clinicians, public health officials, health care payers, and especially those who will be the recipients of this novel screening approach.
Purification of SLC25A12 from Expi293FTM Cells
Creators: name: David B. Sauer
name: Huanyu Li
name: Sagar Raturi
name: Andreea Scacioc
name: Tina Bohstedt
name: Abilasha Balakrishnan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Protocol

description: This protocol is used to purify the SLC transporter expressed in Expi293FTM Cells using detergent solubilization followed by a series of different chromatographic methods. Depending on the nature of the expression construct and experimental requirements, the GFP tag can be removed using a proteolytic reaction.
Does the Alcohol Make Them Do It? Dating Violence Perpetration and Drinking Among Youth
Creators: name: Johnson, R. M.
name: LaValley, M.
name: Rothman, E. F.
name: McNaughton Reyes, L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Strong evidence links alcohol use to partner violence perpetration among adults, but the relation between youth alcohol use and dating violence perpetration (DVP) is not as well studied. The authors used meta-analytic procedures to evaluate current knowledge on the association between alcohol use and DVP among youth. The authors reviewed 28 studies published in 1985–2010; most (82%) were cross-sectional. Alcohol use was measured in 3 main ways: 1) frequency or quantity of use, 2) frequency of heavy episodic drinking, or 3) problem use. Collectively, results support the conclusion that higher levels of alcohol use are positively associated with youth DVP. With fixed-effects models, the combined odds ratios for DVP for frequency/quantity, heavy episodic drinking, and problem use were 1.23 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.16, 1.31), 1.47 (95% CI: 1.17, 1.85), and 2.33 (95% CI: 1.94, 2.80), respectively. This association persisted even after accounting for heterogeneity and publication bias. No studies were designed to assess the immediate temporal association between drinking and DVP. Future research should assess whether there are acute or pharmacologic effects of alcohol use on youth DVP. Furthermore, few studies have been hypothesis driven, controlled for potential confounding, or examined potential effect measure modification. Studies designed to investigate the youth alcohol–DVP link specifically, and whether results vary by individuals’ gender, developmental stage, or culture, are needed.
Change-of-variable formula for the bi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion in Brownian time
Creators: name: Zeineddine, Raghid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05, 60G15, 60H05, 60H07

description: Let X^{1}, X^{2} be two independent (two-sided) fractional Brownian motions having the same Hurst parameter H in (0,1), and let Y be a standard (one-sided) Brownian motion independent of (X^{1},X^{2}). In dimension 2, fractional Brownian motion in Brownian motion time (of index H) is, by definition, the process Z_t:= (Z^1_t, Z^2_t)= (X^{1}_{Y_t},X^{2}_{Y_t}). The main result of the present paper is an Ito's type formula for f(Z_t), when f:\R^2\to\R is smooth and H in [ 1/6,1). When H>1/6, the change-of-variable formula we obtain is similar to that of the classical calculus. In the critical case H=1/6, our change-of-variable formula is in law and involves the third partial derivatives of f as well as an extra Brownian motion independent of (X^1,X^2,Y). We also discuss the case H<1/6.
description: version2
On asymptotic stability of the 3D Boussinesq equations without thermal conduction
Creators: name: Dong, Lihua
name: Sun, Yongzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the asymptotic stability of solution to Boussinesq equations without thermal conduction with the initial data near a specific stationary solution in the three--dimensional domain $Ω= \mathbb{R}^{2}\times (0,1)$. It is shown that the solution starting from a small perturbation to the stationary solution converges to it with explicit algebraic rates as time tends to infinity.
description: 35 pages
A Pooled Analysis of Magnetic Fields, Wire Codes, and Childhood Leukemia
Creators: name: Sheppard, Asher R.
name: Greenland, Sander
name: Kelsh, Michael A.
name: Kaune, William T.
name: Poole, Charles
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: We obtained original individual data from 15 studies of magnetic fields or wire codes and childhood leukemia, and we estimated magnetic field exposure for subjects with sufficient data to do so. Summary estimates from 12 studies that supplied magnetic field measures exhibited little or no association of magnetic fields with leukemia when comparing 0.1-0.2 and 0.2-0.3 microtesla (μT) categories with the 0-0.1 μT category, but the Mantel-Haenszel summary odds ratio comparing >0.3 μT to 0-0.1 μT was 1.7 (95% confidence limits = 1.2, 2.3). Similar results were obtained using covariate adjustment and spline regression. The study-specific relations appeared consistent despite the numerous methodologic differences among the studies. The association of wire codes with leukemia varied considerably across studies, with odds ratio estimates for very high current vs low current configurations ranging from 0.7 to 3.0 (homogeneity P = 0.005). Based on a survey of household magnetic fields, an estimate of the U.S. population attributable fraction of childhood leukemia associated with residential exposure is 3% (95% confidence limits = -2%, 8%). Our results contradict the idea that the magnetic field association with leukemia is less consistent than the wire code association with leukemia, although analysis of the four studies with both measures indicates that the wire code association is not explained by measured fields. The results also suggest that appreciable magnetic field effects, if any, may be concentrated among relatively high and uncommon exposures, and that studies of highly exposed populations would be needed to clarify the relation of magnetic fields to childhood leukemia.
Maternal DDT Exposures in Relation to Fetal and 5-Year Growth
Creators: name: Baker, Rebecca J.
name: Koepsell, Thomas D.
name: Greenfield, Teri A.
name: Teplin, Stuart W.
name: Charles, M Judith
name: Jusko, Todd A.
name: Willman, Eric J.
name: Hertz-Picciotto, Irva
name: Checkoway, Harvey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organo-chlorine pesticide still used in areas of the world where malaria vector control is needed. Few studies have examined in utero exposures to DDT in relation to fetal and early childhood growth in populations with substantial exposure to DDT. Furthermore, only a portion of these studies have investigated in utero exposures and growth during childhood.
Computation of the homology of the complexes of finite Verma modules for $K'_4$
Creators: name: Bagnoli, Lucia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the homology of the complexes of finite Verma modules over the annihilation superalgebra $\mathcal A(K'_{4})$, associated with the conformal superalgebra $K'_{4}$, obtained in \cite{K4}. We use the computation of the homology in order to provide an explicit realization of all the irreducible quotients of finite Verma modules over $\mathcal A(K'_{4})$.
description: 50 pages
of Sparse Proteomics Analysis â a compressed sensing-based approach for feature selection and classification of high-dimensional proteomics mass spectrometry data
Creators: name: Conrad, Tim
name: Genzel, Martin
name: Cvetkovic, Nada
name: Wulkow, Niklas
name: Leichtle, Alexander
name: Vybiral, Jan
name: Kutyniok, Gitta
name: SchĂźtte, Christof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: of Sparse Proteomics Analysis â a compressed sensing-based approach for feature selection and classification of high-dimensional proteomics mass spectrometry data
Professor Dr. Conrad Keller (1848-1930)
Creators: name: Schlaginhaufen, Otto
Publisher: name: Aschmann & Scheller
Year: 1930
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Keller, Conrad
subject: Zürich

description: Sonderdruck aus: Mitteilungen der Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft in Zürich, Band 30 (1929/30), Seiten 1-4
Outcome-Dependent Sampling: An Efficient Sampling and Inference Procedure for Studies With a Continuous Outcome
Creators: name: Salonen, Jukka T.
name: Korrick, Susan A.
name: Longnecker, Matthew P.
name: Rissanen, Tiina H.
name: Zhou, Haibo
name: Hu, Howard
name: Chen, Jianwei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: To characterize the relation between an exposure and a continuous outcome, the sampling of subjects can be done much as it is in a case-control study, such that the sample is enriched with subjects who are especially informative. In an outcome dependent sampling (ODS) design, observations made on a judiciously chosen subset of the base population can provide nearly the same statistical efficiency as observing the entire base population. Reaping the benefits of such sampling, however, requires use of an analysis that accounts for the ODS design. In this report, the authors examined the statistical efficiency of a plain random sample analyzed with standard methods, compared with that of data collected with an ODS design and analyzed by either of two appropriate methods. In addition, three real datasets were analyzed using an ODS approach. The results demonstrate the improved statistical efficiency obtained by using an ODS approach and its applicability in a wide range of settings. An ODS design, coupled with an appropriate analysis, can offer a cost-efficient approach to studying the determinants of a continuous outcome.
Ewald, Sister Maria Liguori, St. Jerome. Homilies 60-96 (col. The Fathers of the Church, vol. 57). Ed. CUA Press. Vol. de X+303 ps. 150x220. Washington 1966
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 1 (1968)
Reality of the quantum state: Towards a stronger ψ-ontology theorem
Creators: name: Mansfield, Shane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pusey-Barrett-Rudolph (PBR) no-go theorem provides an argument for the reality of the quantum state by ruling out ψ-epistemic ontological theories, in which the quantum state is of a statistical nature. It applies under an assumption of preparation independence, the validity of which has been subject to debate. We propose two plausible and less restrictive alternatives: a weaker notion allowing for classical correlations, and an even weaker, physically motivated notion of independence, which merely prohibits the possibility of superluminal causal influences in the preparation process. The latter is a minimal requirement for enabling a reasonable treatment of subsystems in any theory. It is demonstrated by means of an explicit ψ-epistemic ontological model that the argument of PBR becomes invalid under the alternative notions of independence. As an intermediate step, we recover a result which is valid in the presence of classical correlations. Finally, we obtain a theorem which holds under the minimal requirement, approximating the result of PBR. For this, we consider experiments involving randomly sampled preparations and derive bounds on the degree of ψ epistemicity that is consistent with the quantum-mechanical predictions. The approximation is exact in the limit as the sample space of preparations becomes infinite.
description: rewordings and typos edited to agree with published version
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): Explanation and Elaboration
Creators: name: Pocock, Stuart J.
name: Schlesselman, James J.
name: Altman, Douglas G.
name: Gøtzsche, Peter C.
name: von Elm, Erik
name: Egger, Matthias
name: Mulrow, Cynthia D.
name: Poole, Charles
name: Vandenbroucke, Jan P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Much medical research is observational. The reporting of observational studies is often of insufficient quality. Poor reporting hampers the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a study and the generalisability of its results. Taking into account empirical evidence and theoretical considerations, a group of methodologists, researchers, and editors developed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) recommendations to improve the quality of reporting of observational studies. The STROBE Statement consists of a checklist of 22 items, which relate to the title, abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion sections of articles. Eighteen items are common to cohort studies, case-control studies and cross-sectional studies and four are specific to each of the three study designs. The STROBE Statement provides guidance to authors about how to improve the reporting of observational studies and facilitates critical appraisal and interpretation of studies by reviewers, journal editors and readers. This explanatory and elaboration document is intended to enhance the use, understanding, and dissemination of the STROBE Statement. The meaning and rationale for each checklist item are presented. For each item, one or several published examples and, where possible, references to relevant empirical studies and methodological literature are provided. Examples of useful flow diagrams are also included. The STROBE Statement, this document, and the associated Web site (http://www.strobe-statement.org/) should be helpful resources to improve reporting of observational research.
of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation and evaluation in a local healthcare setting
Creators: name: Harris, Claire
name: Allen, Kelly
name: Waller, Cara
name: Dyer, Tim
name: Brooke, Vanessa
name: Garrubba, Marie
name: Melder, Angela
name: Voutier, Catherine
name: Gust, Anthony
name: Farjou, Dina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: of Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation and evaluation in a local healthcare setting
Are Nested Case-Control Studies Biased?
Creators: name: Langholz, Bryan
name: Richardson, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: It has been recently asserted that the nested case-control study design, in which case-control sets are sampled from cohort risk sets, can introduce bias (“study design bias”) when there are lagged exposures. The bases for this claim include a theoretic and an “empirical evaluation” argument. Both of these arguments are examined and found to be incorrect. Appropriate methods to explore the performance of nested case-control study designs, analysis methods, and compute power and sample size from an existing cohort are described. This empirical evaluation approach relies on simulating case-control outcomes from risk sets in the cohort from which the case-control study is to be performed. Because it is based on the underlying cohort structure, the empirical evaluation can provide an assessment that is tailored to the specific characteristics of the study under consideration. The methods are illustrated using samples from the Colorado Plateau uranium miners cohort.
Deep learning for inverse problems with unknown operator
Creators: name: del Alamo, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65J22, 62G05, 68T07

description: We consider ill-posed inverse problems where the forward operator $T$ is unknown, and instead we have access to training data consisting of functions $f_i$ and their noisy images $Tf_i$. This is a practically relevant and challenging problem which current methods are able to solve only under strong assumptions on the training set. Here we propose a new method that requires minimal assumptions on the data, and prove reconstruction rates that depend on the number of training points and the noise level. We show that, in the regime of "many" training data, the method is minimax optimal. The proposed method employs a type of convolutional neural networks (U-nets) and empirical risk minimization in order to "fit" the unknown operator. In a nutshell, our approach is based on two ideas: the first is to relate U-nets to multiscale decompositions such as wavelets, thereby linking them to the existing theory, and the second is to use the hierarchical structure of U-nets and the low number of parameters of convolutional neural nets to prove entropy bounds that are practically useful. A significant difference with the existing works on neural networks in nonparametric statistics is that we use them to approximate operators and not functions, which we argue is mathematically more natural and technically more convenient.
description: 46 pages, 2 figures
On modules for double affine Lie algebras
Creators: name: Jing, Naihuan
name: Wang, Chunhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 17B67, Secondary: 17B10, 17B65

description: Imaginary Verma modules, parabolic imaginary Verma modules, and Verma modules at level zero for double affine Lie algebras are constructed using three different triangular decompositions. Their relations are investigated, and several results are generalized from the affine Lie algebras. In particular, imaginary highest weight modules, integrable modules, and irreducibility criterion are also studied.
description: 15 pages, 15 refs
Kloppenburg, Frei Boaventura, O. F. M., Concílio Vaticano II, vol. V (Quarta sessão: Set.Dez. 1965). Ed. Vozes. Vol. de 580 ps. 150x220. Petrópolis, R. J. 1966
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 1 (1968)
Compact equations for the envelope theory
Creators: name: Cimino, Lorenzo
name: Semay, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The envelope theory is a method to easily obtain approximate, but reliable, solutions for some quantum many-body problems. Quite general Hamiltonians can be considered for systems composed of an arbitrary number of different particles in $D$ dimensions. In the case of identical particles, a compact set of 3 equations can be written to find the eigensolutions. This set provides also a nice interpretation and a starting point to improve the method. It is shown here that a similar set of 7 equations can be determined for a system containing an arbitrary number of two different particles.
description: Improved presentation. References updated. Conclusions unchanged. To appear in Braz. J. Phys
title: Methodist Politics in Ireland, 1861-1914
Creators: name: Kathryn Morris, Nicola
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The period 1861-1914 was one of significant upheaval in Irish politics, culminating with the passage of the third Home Rule bill in 1912-14. This also coincided with a period of particular religious influence in British politics, known as the 'nonconformist conscience', whereby pressure was exerted on the government to act in manner consistent with evangelical Protestant principles. This study will explore Methodist responses to political developments in the between the first administration of William Gladstone in 1868 and the outbreak of th~ First Ã‚Â·World War in 1914. This will be achieved through the examination of a variety of primary sources: denominational newspapers; official documents; personal correspondence; and pamphlet literature. It will examine who were the Methodists of Ireland between 1868-1914, and how they reacted to outside pressure. This demographic analysis will reveal the strength of Methodism in Ireland, its geographical distribution and the electoral influence of its members. It will seek to explore the relationship between the Irish and British Methodist Connexions, both with regard to theological and ecclesiological developments and to their political outlook. It will challenge the view that there was a homogeneous Irish Protestant bloc with a unanimous political voice in the late nineteenth century. This will be done through particular reference to the Irish Church Act of 1868, the Education Act of 1870 and the three Home Rule crises of 1885, 1893, and 1912-14. The developing attitude of Irish Methodists to politics will be explored as they seek to resolve the tension between morality and politics and construct alliances to further their political vision.
Bayesian Methods for Correcting Misclassification: An Example from Birth Defects Epidemiology
Creators: name: Honein, Margaret A.
name: Shaw, Gary M.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: MacLehose, Richard F.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Romitti, Paul A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) and cleft palate only (CPO) are common congenital malformations. Numerous epidemiologic studies have shown an increased risk for orofacial clefts among children whose mothers smoked during early pregnancy; however, there is concern that the results of these studies may have been biased because of exposure misclassification. The purpose of this study is to use previous research on the reliability of self-reported cigarette smoking to produce corrected point estimates (and associated credible intervals) of the effect of maternal smoking on children’s risk of clefts.
Hydrodynamics for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional granular gas
Creators: name: Brey, J. Javier
name: Buzón, V.
name: Maynar, P.
name: de Soria, M. I. García
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional gas of smooth inelastic hard spheres are derived from the Boltzmann equation for the model, using a generalization of the Chapman-Enskog method. The heat and momentum fluxes are calculated to Navier-Stokes order, and the associated transport coefficients are explicitly determined as functions of the coefficient of normal restitution and the velocity parameter involved in the definition of the model. Also an Euler transport term contributing to the energy transport equation is considered. This term arises from the gradient expansion of the rate of change of the temperature due to the inelasticity of collisions, and vanishes for elastic systems. The hydrodynamic equations are particularized for the relevant case of a system in the homogeneous steady state. The relationship with previous works is analyzed.
On the detection of spectral ripples from the Recombination Epoch
Creators: name: Rao, Mayuri Sathyanarayana
name: Subrahmanyan, Ravi
name: Shankar, N Udaya
name: Chluba, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photons emitted during the epochs of Hydrogen ($500 \lesssim z \lesssim 1600$) and Helium recombination ($1600 \lesssim z \lesssim 3500$ for HeII $\rightarrow$ HeI, $5000 \lesssim z \lesssim 8000$ for HeIII $\rightarrow$ HeII) are predicted to appear as broad, weak spectral distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background. We present a feasibility study for a ground-based experimental detection of these recombination lines, which would provide an observational constraint on the thermal ionization history of the Universe, uniquely probing astrophysical cosmology beyond the last scattering surface. We find that an octave band in the 2--6 GHz window is optimal for such an experiment, both maximizing signal-to-noise ratio and including sufficient line spectral structure. At these frequencies the predicted signal appears as an additive quasi-sinusoidal component with amplitude about $8$ nK that is embedded in a sky spectrum some nine orders of magnitude brighter. We discuss an algorithm to detect these tiny spectral fluctuations in the sky spectrum by foreground modeling. We introduce a \textit{Maximally Smooth} function capable of describing the foreground spectrum and distinguishing the signal of interest. With Bayesian statistical tests and mock data we estimate that a detection of the predicted distortions is possible with 90\% confidence by observing for 255 days with an array of 128 radiometers using cryogenically cooled state-of-the-art receivers. We conclude that detection is in principle feasible in realistic observing times; we propose APSERa---Array of Precision Spectrometers for the Epoch of Recombination---a dedicated radio telescope to detect these recombination lines.
description: 33 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ, comments welcome
Ruiz Bueno, D., Origenes. Contra Celso (vol. 271 da B. A. C.). La Editorial Católica, S. A. Vol. de 635 ps. 135x200. Madrid 1967
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 1 (1968)
Latency Models for Analyses of Protracted Exposures
Creators: name: Richardson, David B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The effect of an increment of exposure on disease risk may vary with time since exposure. If the pattern of temporal variation is simple (e.g., a peak then decline in excess risk of disease) then this may be modeled efficiently via a parametric latency function. Estimation of the parameters for such a model can be difficult because the parameters are not a function of a simple summary of the exposure history. Typically such parameters are estimated via an iterative search that requires calculating a different time-weighted exposure for each combination of the latency function parameters. This paper describes a simple approach to fitting logistic regression models that include a parametric latency function. This approach is illustrated using data from a study of the association between radon exposure and lung cancer mortality among underground uranium miners. This approach should facilitate fitting models to assess variation with time since exposure in the effect of a protracted environmental or occupational exposure.
Counterfactual Explainable Recommendation
Creators: name: Tan, Juntao
name: Xu, Shuyuan
name: Ge, Yingqiang
name: Li, Yunqi
name: Chen, Xu
name: Zhang, Yongfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: By providing explanations for users and system designers to facilitate better understanding and decision making, explainable recommendation has been an important research problem. In this paper, we propose Counterfactual Explainable Recommendation (CountER), which takes the insights of counterfactual reasoning from causal inference for explainable recommendation. CountER is able to formulate the complexity and the strength of explanations, and it adopts a counterfactual learning framework to seek simple (low complexity) and effective (high strength) explanations for the model decision. Technically, for each item recommended to each user, CountER formulates a joint optimization problem to generate minimal changes on the item aspects so as to create a counterfactual item, such that the recommendation decision on the counterfactual item is reversed. These altered aspects constitute the explanation of why the original item is recommended. The counterfactual explanation helps both the users for better understanding and the system designers for better model debugging. Another contribution of the work is the evaluation of explainable recommendation, which has been a challenging task. Fortunately, counterfactual explanations are very suitable for standard quantitative evaluation. To measure the explanation quality, we design two types of evaluation metrics, one from user's perspective (i.e. why the user likes the item), and the other from model's perspective (i.e. why the item is recommended by the model). We apply our counterfactual learning algorithm on a black-box recommender system and evaluate the generated explanations on five real-world datasets. Results show that our model generates more accurate and effective explanations than state-of-the-art explainable recommendation models.
description: In proceeding of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021)
Vários, La revision de vida. Folheto de 32 ps. 106x155; - Cursillo de Iniciación al primer ano del plan de formacion-accion. Folheto de 81 ps. 106x155; - 11 encuestas sobre la encíclica Populorum progressio
Creators: name: Marques, José Silva
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 1 (1968)
Purification of SLC19A1 from Expi293FTM Cells
Creators: name: David B. Sauer
name: Huanyu Li
name: Sagar Raturi
name: Andreea Scacioc
name: Tina Bohstedt
name: Abilasha Balakrishnan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Protocol

description: This protocol is used to purify the SLC transporter expressed in Expi293FTM Cells using detergent solubilization followed by a series of different chromatographic methods. Depending on the nature of the expression construct and experimental requirements, the GFP tag can be removed using a proteolytic reaction.
Maternal Body Mass Index and Daughters’ Age at Menarche
Creators: name: Keim, Sarah A.
name: Klebanoff, Mark A.
name: Branum, Amy M.
name: Zemel, Babette S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The role of inter-generational influences on age at menarche has not been explored far beyond the association between mothers’ and daughters’ menarcheal ages. Small size at birth and childhood obesity have been associated with younger age at menarche, but the influence of maternal overweight or obesity on daughters’ age at menarche has not been thoroughly examined.
Идентификация смесей растительных масел с помощью колориметрических параметров
Creators: name: Frolov, Dmitry I.
name: A.G., Oskina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90805 Food Processing
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: For mixtures of sunflower oil and cottonseed or rapeseed oil, mathematical discriminant analysis was applied and differences in color parameters and content of pigments such as chlorophyll and beta-carotene were demonstrated. The proposed method aims to provide quality control and easy detection of adulteration of sunflower oil by vegetable oils. The significance of individual indicators for modeling was assessed. The models were tested with the results of other independent samples.
Rahner, K., Mision y Gracia. I. El Siglo XX, siglo de gracia? Ed. Dinor. Vol. de 265 ps. 120x185. San Sebastián 1966
Creators: name: Marques, José Silva
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1968

description: Theologica, v. 3 n. 1 (1968)