cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disociación ideoafectiva vs rasgos de personalidad
Creators: name: Yarnoz Goñi, Nora
name: Goñi Navarro, Ana
name: Rolando Urbizu, Raquel
name: Luna Tolosa, María Elena
name: Vaquero Puyuelo, David
name: Serrano Ferrer, Ana
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Non-contact Friction and Relaxational Dynamics of Surface Defects
Creators: name: She, Jian-Huang
name: Balatsky, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motion of cantilever near sample surfaces exhibits additional friction even before two bodies come into mechanical contact. Called non-contact friction (NCF), this friction is of great practical importance to the ultrasensitive force detection measurements. Observed large NCF of a micron-scale cantilever found anomalously large damping that exceeds theoretical predictions by 8-11 orders of magnitude. This finding points to contribution beyond fluctuating electromagnetic fields within van der Waals approach. Recent experiments reported by Saitoh et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 236103 (2010)) also found nontrivial distance dependence of NCF. Motivated by these observations, we propose a mechanism based on the coupling of cantilever to the relaxation dynamics of surface defects. We assume that the surface defects couple to the cantilever tip via spin-spin coupling and their spin relaxation dynamics gives rise to the backaction terms and modifies both the friction coefficient and the spring constant. We explain the magnitude, as well as the distance dependence of the friction due to these backaction terms. Reasonable agreement is found with the experiments.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
El trastorno bipolar en edad avanzada: rendimiento cognitivo y rehabilitación funcional.
Creators: name: Montejo, Laura
name: Torrent, Carla
name: Bonín, Caterina Del Mar
name: Jiménez, Esther
name: Solé, Brisa
name: Sánchez-Moreno, José
name: Rodríguez, Manuel Arturo
name: Martínez-Arán, Anabel
name: Vieta, Eduard
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Quantization of Lorentzian 3d Gravity by Partial Gauge Fixing
Creators: name: Barbosa, Rodrigo M. S.
name: Constantinidis, Clisthenis P
name: Oporto, Zui
name: Piguet, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: D = 2+1 gravity with a cosmological constant has been shown by Bonzom and Livine to present a Barbero-Immirzi like ambiguity depending on a parameter. We make use of this fact to show that, for positive cosmological constant, the Lorentzian theory can be partially gauge fixed and reduced to an SU(2) Chern-Simons theory. We then review the already known quantization of the latter in the framework of Loop Quantization for the case of space being topogically a cylinder. We finally construct, in the same setting, a quantum observable which, although non-trivial at the quantum level, corresponds to a null classical quantity.
description: Notation defect fixed on pages 5 (bottom) and 6 (around Eqs. 3.1)-- 19 pages, Latex
Recurrent syncope in patients with a pacemaker and bradyarrhythmia
Creators: name: Davidsen, Julie Majormoen
name: Skals, Regitze
name: Dalgaard, Frederik
name: Tayal, Bhupendar
name: Torp-Pedersen, Christian
name: Søgaard, Peter
name: Lee, Christina Ji-Young
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Background. Pacemakers are used to treat syncope in patients with bradyarrhythmia; however, the risk of recurrent syncope has only been investigated in few and smaller studies. Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of recurrent syncope after pacemaker implantation in patients with bradyarrhythmia and prior syncope. Methods. This retrospective, population-based cohort study included patients with a prior syncope and implantation of a pacemaker using data from the Danish nationwide registers from 1996 to 2017. Cumulative incidence and cox regression was used to estimate the 5-year incidence and the risk of recurrent syncope, respectively. Results. In total, 11,126 patients (median age: 78 years, interquartile range: 69–85, 56% male) were included and the 5-year cumulative incidence of recurrent syncope was 19.6% (95% confidence interval (CI): 18.8–20.3%). Sinus node dysfunction (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.29, 95%CI: 1.17–1.42) and unspecified type of bradyarrhythmia (HR: 1.32, 95%CI: 1.15–1.52) were associated with an increased risk of syncope compared to advanced atrioventricular (AV) block. Male sex (HR: 1.22, 95%CI: 1.22–1.34), cerebrovascular disease (HR: 1.17, 95%CI: 1.05–1.30), and prior number of syncopes were significantly associated with a higher HR of recurrent syncope. Conclusion. Almost one-in-five patients with bradyarrhythmia and prior syncope who had a pacemaker implanted had a recurrent syncope within five years. A higher risk of syncope was observed among patients with sinus node dysfunction and unspecified type of bradyarrhythmia compared to AV block. Male sex, cerebrovascular disease, and prior number of syncopes were associated risk factors of recurrent syncope.
Variations on the magnetic torque acting on a wire
Creators: name: Bonati, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relation M = mu x B is presented in all elementary courses on electromagnetism but it is usually given just for the simple case of a rectangular wire. We will present a completely general but elementary proof of this relation together with two more advanced proof methods. We will then provide some extensions: non-closed wires and non-uniform magnetic field.
description: 11 pages, 1 eps figure. In the published version the title was changed in "Variations in the magnetic torque acting on a wire"
Dominik Orth, Heinz-Peter Preußer (Hg.), Mauerschau – Die DDR als Film. Beiträge zur Historisierung eines verschwundenen Staates, Berlin, Boston (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2020
Creators: name: Corbin, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Dominik Orth, Heinz-Peter Preußer (Hg.), Mauerschau – Die DDR als Film. Beiträge zur Historisierung eines verschwundenen Staates, Berlin, Boston (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2020, VI–312 S., zahlr. Abb. , ISBN 978-3-11-062724-4, EUR 99,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
The optical/UV excess of isolated neutron stars in the RCS model
Creators: name: Tong, H.
name: Xu, R. X.
name: Song, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray dim isolated neutron stars (XDINSs) are peculiar pulsar-like objects, characterized by their very well Planck-like spectrum. In studying their spectral energy distributions, the optical/UV excess is a long standing problem. Recently, Kaplan et al. (2011) have measured the optical/UV excess for all seven sources, which is understandable in the resonant cyclotron scattering (RCS) model previously addressed. The RCS model calculations show that the RCS process can account for the observed optical/UV excess for most sources . The flat spectrum of RX J2143.0+0654 may due to contribution from bremsstrahlung emission of the electron system in addition to the RCS process.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Quantumness beyond quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Sanz, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bohmian mechanics allows us to understand quantum systems in the light of other quantum traits than the well-known ones (coherence, diffraction, interference, tunneling, discreteness, entanglement, etc.). Here the discussion focusses precisely on two of these interesting aspects, which arise when quantum mechanics is though within this theoretical framework: the non-crossing property, which allows for distinguishability without erasing interference patterns, and the possibility to define quantum probability tubes, along which the probability remains constant all the way. Furthermore, taking into account this hydrodynamic-like description as a link, it is also shown how this knowledge (concepts and ideas) can be straightforwardly transferred to other fields of physics (for example, the transmission of light along waveguides).
description: 11 pages, 4 figures; based on a talk at the Conference "Emergent Quantum Mechanics" / 5th Heinz von Foerster Congress (Vienna, Nov 11-13, 2011)
Youth Experiences in Residential Treatment
Creators: name: Gregson, Margaux
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Youth
subject: Mental Health
subject: residential treatment

description: This research project examines youth experiences in residential treatment. A descriptive phenomenological approach was utilized in this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 9 youth between the ages of 18 and 26. Consistent with the descriptive phenomenological method, analysis focused on identifying themes in each interview. These themes were then compared across interviews and common themes were identified. These included main thematic categories of factors influencing participants’ experiences, staff and peer relationships, program experiences, emotions and impact of treatment. Sub themes within each of these categories also emerged from the interviews. Primary findings indicated that more research needs to be done on understanding youth readiness for change, peer relationships in residential treatment settings, how young people conceptualize successful treatment outcomes, and how being an adolescent impacts ability to form relationships with staff. Challenging emotions are experienced in treatment and require attention as well both from research and program staff
Composition and activities of microbial communities in Alberta’s oil sands
Creators: name: Wong, Man Ling
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Microbial
subject: Community
subject: Composition
subject: Activities
subject: Alberta
subject: oil sands

description: Fossil fuels will probably be our main source of energy in the foreseeable future. The fossil fuel that is currently receiving the most attention is oil sands. A focus of many companies with oil sands operations is to look for more environmentally friendly and still economically feasible methods to produce this resource. This thesis focuses on determining the microbial communities in Alberta’s oil sands and their activities with the intention of eventually utilizing this information for improved production strategies. The microbial communities from oil sands outcrops, mined oil sands and oil sands cores were assessed in detail. Oil sands at different depths had diverse microbial communities, while the subsamples obtained from the same environment also displayed varied populations. All oil sands microbial communities have thermophilic genera with enhanced potential in bitumen biodegradation. The combination of oxygen, high temperatures and the absence of light was shown to greatly stimulate bitumen biodegradation.
Quality factors of deformed dielectric cavities
Creators: name: White, Michael M.
name: Creagh, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis is provided of the degradation that arises in the quality factor of a whispering gallery mode when a circular or spherical dielectric cavity is deformed. The large quality factors of such resonators are important to their use in applications such as sensors, wavelength filters or lasers. Yet a straightforward analysis of the effect of shape deformation on quality factors cannot given because the underlying complex ray data demanded by a standard eikonal approximation frequently does not exist. In this paper we exploit an approach that has been successfully used elsewhere to describe the strong directional emission of such systems, based on a perturbative treatment of the relevant complex ray families. Applicable when the radial perturbation is formally of the order of a wavelength, the resulting approximation successfully describes changes to the quality factor using the ray geometry in a neighbourhood of a discrete set of escaping rays guiding the directions of maximum emitted intensity.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Central sensitization and chronic pain personality profile: is there new evidence? A case-control study
Creators: name: Doreste, Andrea
name: López-Ruiz, Marina
name: Pujol, Jesús
name: Losilla, Josep Maria
name: Ojeda, Fabiola
name: Blanco-Hinojo, Laura
name: Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard
name: Gutiérrez, Teresa
name: Monfort, Jordi
name: Deus, Joan
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Mosaic of Spaces: Social Integration of Chinese Immigrant Women in Toronto
Creators: name: Lee, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: WomenÕs Studies
subject: Chinese immigrant women
subject: Social integration
subject: Social space
subject: Symbolic space
subject: social capital
subject: Social work education
subject: Toronto
subject: Canada

description: This study investigates how Chinese immigrant women subjectively experience their social integration in Canada and the way it is constituted socially and symbolically, based on a secondary qualitative data analysis. Spatial and social constructionist theories inform the analysis of five in-depth interviews with Chinese immigrant women in Toronto. Social integration is a process built through a myriad of social interactions in a gender-related mosaic of spaces. An initial typology of spaces is thematically characterized by its cast of actors, power relations and differences in social, cultural and multiple forms of capital. The functions of each space in increasing the immigrants’ set of capital to become participants and contributors in Canadian society are illustrated. Viewing physical and social spaces as mutable with creative potential, implications of a spatial typology in facilitating immigrant social integration are discussed in terms of social work theory, practice, and education.
Orbits in a non-Kerr Dynamical System
Creators: name: Contopoulos, G.
name: Lukes-Gerakopoulos, G.
name: Apostolatos, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the orbits in a Manko-Novikov type metric (MN) which is a perturbed Kerr metric. There are periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic orbits, which are found in configuration space and on a surface of section for various values of the energy E and the z-component of the angular momentum Lz. For relatively large Lz there are two permissible regions of non-plunging motion bounded by two closed curves of zero velocity (CZV), while in the Kerr metric there is only one closed CZV of non-plunging motion. The inner permissible region of the MN metric contains mainly chaotic orbits, but it contains also a large island of stability. We find the positions of the main periodic orbits as functions of Lz and E, and their bifurcations. Around the main periodic orbit of the outer region there are islands of stability that do not appear in the Kerr metric. In a realistic binary system, because of the gravitational radiation, the energy E and the angular momentum Lz of an inspiraling compact object decrease and therefore the orbit of the object is non-geodesic. In fact in an EMRI system the energy E and the angular momentum Lz decrease adiabatically and therefore the motion of the inspiraling object is characterized by the fundamental frequencies which are drifting slowly in time. In the Kerr metric the ratio of the fundamental frequencies changes strictly monotonically in time. However, in the MN metric when an orbit is trapped inside an island the ratio of the fundamental frequencies remains constant for some time. Hence, if such a phenomenon is observed this will indicate that the system is non integrable and therefore the central object is not a Kerr black hole.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures
Pierre Mounier, Les humanités numériques. Une histoire critique, Paris (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme) 2018
Creators: name: Kembellec, Gérald
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Pierre Mounier, Les humanités numériques. Une histoire critique, Paris (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme) 2018, 176 p., ISBN 978-2-7351-2255-4, EUR 13,50.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
Probing deconfinement in a chiral effective model with Polyakov loop at imaginary chemical potential
Creators: name: Morita, Kenji
name: Skokov, Vladimir
name: Friman, Bengt
name: Redlich, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase structure of the two-flavor Polyakov-loop extended Nambu-Jona-Lashinio model is explored at finite temperature and imaginary chemical potential with a particular emphasis on the confinement-deconfinement transition. We point out that the confined phase is characterized by a $\cos3μ_I/T$ dependence of the chiral condensate on the imaginary chemical potential while in the deconfined phase this dependence is given by $\cosμ_I/T$ and accompanied by a cusp structure induced by the Z(3) transition. We demonstrate that the phase structure of the model strongly depends on the choice of the Polyakov loop potential $\mathcal{U}$. Furthermore, we find that by changing the four fermion coupling constant $G_s$, the location of the critical endpoint of the deconfinement transition can be moved into the real chemical potential region. We propose a new parameter characterizing the confinement-deconfinement transition.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Dynamics of Time Dependent Immiscible Injection Flows in Porous Media
Creators: name: Lins, Tiago
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Immiscible flow
subject: Time-dependent flow
subject: Porous Media
subject: Hele-Shaw cell
subject: Viscous fingering
subject: Flow instability

description: The viscosity contrast between fluids in a porous medium often leads to the formation of instabilities at the interface between the fluids, known as viscous fingering. In many applications, better control over this phenomenon is necessary. The occurrence of viscous fingering between immiscible fluids in a porous medium is examined based on time-dependent injection policies. Linear Stability Analysis and Non-Linear simulations are used to track the growth of viscous instability. The Immersed Interface Method and the Level Set Method are adopted to model the dynamics of an interface numerically. Using these tools, this work focuses on three types of injection schemes: monotonic, cyclic and control injections. Previous studies on the topic are confirmed, while novel approaches are explored. The behavior of the interface is investigated qualitatively and quantitatively. Cyclic injection schemes and monotonic injection schemes were shown to reduce instabilities compared to constant injection schemes, while controlled injection has been demonstrated to limit and even remove previously developed instabilities. Although many injection policies can enhance viscous fingering, certain types of injection scheme can attenuate such instabilities, making displacement more efficient.
Measurement of electrical resistance at the skin surface over Jing-well acupuncture points in chronic pain states
Creators: name: Turner, Linda Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this project was to investigate an energy-based model of chronic pain. Given skepticism about the domain of energy-based healing as treatment for chronic pain, it has been suggested that research can only be furthered by the use of laboratory methods that allow for rigorous and controlled studies of the hypothesized biological pathways. A review of the literature established several measurement devices that could be used to measure the human energy field (biofield) but only an ohmmeter measuring electrical resistance at 24 Jing-well points showed promising biometrics. A reliability study conducted within this larger study demonstrated an impressive mean Cronbach’s alpha of .88 for the ohmmeter used in this study. Participants in the experimental group with rheumatoid arthritis and a pain level of at least 3 (0-10 scale) were compared to participants in the control group who had no medical diagnosis and were pain free. The measurements from the ohmmeter were compared to heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, Pain Catastrophization Scale, McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire, and Profile of Mood States. There were significant differences between the experimental group and the control group on conventional markers of pain except heart rate variability. Similarly, there were significant differences between Jing-well measurements for the acupuncture points labeled ‘Bladder’, ‘Gall Bladder’ and ‘Small Intestine’ thus differentiating between the experimental and control groups. Ingesting an analgesic did not lead to significant between group changes in acupuncture point activity after one hour. Electrical resistance at all Jing-well points was highly correlated suggesting that they tap into a global level of physiological activation. Electrical resistance at acupuncture points was significantly correlated with total pain (McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire) and some acupuncture point activity was correlated with the ‘Tension/Anxiety’ and ‘Friendly’ dimensions of the Profile of Mood States. In summary, it was concluded that the ohmmeter and its measurements possessed criterion validity for distinguishing pain from no pain states. This research protocol appears to be suitable for further validation research on the criterion validity of energy-based models of disease and can be seen as a bridge between Western and Chinese medicine.
Structurally Dependent Fano Resonances in the Infrared Spectra of Phonons in Few-Layer Graphene
Creators: name: Li, Zhiqiang
name: Lui, Chun Hung
name: Cappelluti, Emmanuele
name: Benfatto, Lara
name: Mak, Kin Fai
name: Carr, G. Larry
name: Shan, Jie
name: Heinz, Tony F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The in-plane optical phonons around 200 meV in few-layer graphene are investigated utilizing infrared absorption spectroscopy. The phonon spectra exhibit unusual asymmetric features characteristic of Fano resonances, which depend critically on the layer thickness and stacking order of the sample. The phonon intensities in samples with rhombohedral (ABC) stacking are significantly higher than those with Bernal (AB) stacking. These observations reflect the strong coupling between phonons and interband electronic transitions in these systems and the distinctive variation in the joint density of electronic states in samples of differing thickness and stacking order.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, supplementary material included
Trastornos del sueño en el trastorno del espectro autista sin discapacidad intelectual: relación con la función ejecutiva y los síntomas psiquiátricos.
Creators: name: Gisbert Gustemps, Laura
name: Lugo Marín, Jorge
name: Setién Ramos, Imanol
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
On the critical slowing down exponents of mode coupling theory
Creators: name: Caltagirone, F.
name: Ferrari, U.
name: Leuzzi, L.
name: Parisi, G.
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, F.
name: Rizzo, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is provided to compute the parameter exponent $λ$ yielding the dynamic exponents of critical slowing down in mode coupling theory. It is independent from the dynamic approach and based on the formulation of an effective static field theory. Expressions of $λ$ in terms of third order coefficients of the action expansion or, equivalently, in term of six point cumulants are provided. Applications are reported to a number of mean-field models: with hard and soft variables and both fully-connected and dilute interactions. Comparisons with existing results for Potts glass model, ROM, hard and soft-spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and p-spin models are presented.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Olivier Lahaie, Le nerf de la guerre. Berlin 1918–1919. Un agent secret français spécialisé dans la guerre économique finance la révolution spartakiste. Préface de Bernard Besson, Paris (L’Harmattan) 2020
Creators: name: Keßler, Mario
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Olivier Lahaie, Le nerf de la guerre. Berlin 1918–1919. Un agent secret français spécialisé dans la guerre économique finance la révolution spartakiste. Préface de Bernard Besson, Paris (L’Harmattan) 2020, 532 p., ISBN 978-2-343-19416-5, EUR 40,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
Resting-State Functional Connections of the Amygdala in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder
Creators: name: KONDURU, NITHYA
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: fMRI
subject: Depression
subject: functional connectivity
subject: Resting state

description: Major Depressive Disease (MDD) is a potentially life-threatening mood disorder characterized by depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, decreased energy, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, poor concentration and thoughts of death or suicide. Despite our increasing understanding of the neurobiology associated with MDD, the illness burden continues to rise as there is no breakthrough in antidepressant treatment or in the identification of specific locus of brain dysfunction in MDD. Of these, the amygdala has been considered an important locus of dysfunction. Studies to date, however, have been inconsistent with regards to how dysfunction of the amygdala contributes to MDD, possibly due to the inconsideration of important risk factors. This thesis used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the functional connections of amygdala in a large sample of MDD patients compared to healthy subjects. Childhood trauma and serotonin polymorphism risk factors were incorporated into the analysis. Reduced resting state functional connectivity of the amygdala with VLPFC, OFC, caudate, insula, precuneus and cerebellum were observed in patients with MDD compared to healthy subjects. In subgroup analysis, MDD with high-risk serotonin polymorphisms was associated with reduced resting state functional connectivity with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsal posterior cingulate cortex, superior temporal, and some occipital regions. Furthermore, MDD with Severe childhood trauma was associated with reduced connectivity with the ventral lateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, parahippocampal gyrus, ventral anterior cingulate and thalamus. The results of this thesis clarify the differential contribution of the amygdala to the dysfunctional brain circuitry in MDD with or without risk factors. These findings have the potential to enhance our understanding of inter-individual differences in illness course and treatment response profiles of patients with MDD and also for biomarker identification in MDD based on risk factors.
Additional file 1 of Effect of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics on depression: results from a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Qin
name: Chen, Bing
name: Zhang, Jinghui
name: Dong, Jingyi
name: Ma, Jianglin
name: Zhang, Yuyan
name: Jin, Kangyu
name: Lu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Search Strategy. Supplementary Table 2. Summary of β diversity in the included studies. Supplementary Table 3. GRADE summary of studies. Supplementary Figure 1. The change of inflammatory indicators including IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α. Supplementary Figure 2. Risk of bias graph assessed by Cochrane Collaboration’s Risk of bias Tool 2. (a) displayed the domain and overall judgements of risk of bias study-by-study, and (b) showed the percentage of risk of bias assessments at each level of risk of bias per domain. Supplementary Figure 3. Funnel plot that examined publication bias. Supplementary Figure 4. A sensitivity analysis that tested the robustness of the outcomes.
Ideación suicida en médicos durante la primera ola de la pandemia, ¿Una perspectiva de género?
Creators: name: Irigoyen, María
name: Giner, Lucas
name: De La Vega, Diego
name: Carballo, Juan José
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Technology Development for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Balanced Receivers
Creators: name: Kooi, J. W.
name: Chamberlin, R. A.
name: Monje, R.
name: Force, B.
name: Miller, D.
name: Phillips, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) is located on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at an altitude of 4.2 km. The existing suite of facility heterodyne receivers covering the submillimeter band is rapidly aging and in need of replacement. To facilitate deep integrations and automated spectral line surveys, a family of remote programmable, synthesized, dual-frequency balanced receivers covering the astronomical important 180 - 720 GHz atmospheric windows is in an advanced stage of development. Installation of the first set of receivers is expected in the spring of 2012. Dual-frequency observation will be an important mode of operation offered by the new facility instrumentation. Two band observations are accomplished by separating the H and V polarizations of the incoming signal and routing them via folded optics to the appropriate polarization sensitive balanced mixer. Scientifically this observation mode facilitates pointing for the higher receiver band under mediocre weather conditions and a doubling of scientific throughput (2 x 4 GHz) under good weather conditions.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures; IEEE Terahertz Science & Technology, January 2012, Volume 2, Issue 1
Trends and drivers of water clarity in shallow, prairie lakes of southern Alberta
Creators: name: Maheux, Heather Marie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: shallow lakes
subject: regime shift
subject: paleolimnology

description: This research examined water clarity in shallow, prairie lakes of southern Alberta. A combination of water column analyses from 20 lakes and paleolimnological analyses from ten of them were used to examine how water clarity has changed since 1850 and to identify possible explanations for the observed changes. Pigment data from sediment cores showed the lakes experienced accelerated eutrophication since 1850, but that the onset was not synchronous across lakes. The lakes showed evidence that regime shifts between clear and turbid lake regimes since 1850 were possible. Evidence was based based on paleolimnolgical analyses using pigment data and additional sediment core proxies (e.g. fossils, isotopes). Water quality data from 20 lakes did not provide additional support for the existence of alternate regimes based on multimodal distribution between regimes or dual relationships between nutrients and water clarity. Salinity and major ion composition may help explain why some lakes did not provide additional support for the existence of alternate clear and turbid regimes. In most lakes, turbidity was dominated by inorganic matter, rather than phytoplankton, and this was more prevalent in the more saline lakes. High proportions of heterocystous cyanobacteria from four of the 20 shallow lakes provided some evidence for nitrogen limitation in the lakes. It is possible that additional lakes were also nutrient limited. As a result, models that use nutrient-chlorophyll relationships developed in non-saline lakes do not accurately capture turbidity dynamics in the saline, shallow lakes on southern Alberta’s prairie.
Hans-Christof Kraus (Hg.), Fritz Hartung – Korrespondenz eines Historikers zwischen Kaiserreich und zweiter Nachkriegszeit, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2019
Creators: name: Schöttler, Peter
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Hans-Christof Kraus (Hg.), Fritz Hartung – Korrespondenz eines Historikers zwischen Kaiserreich und zweiter Nachkriegszeit, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 2019, XIV–889 S. (Deutsche Geschichtsquellen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, 76), ISBN 978-3-428-15731-0, EUR 119,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
Índices inflamatorios en una unidad de hospitalización de agudos: estudio descriptivo
Creators: name: Llorca-Bofí, Vicent
name: Arteaga-Henríquez, Gara
name: Elias, Aina
name: Buil-Reiné, Esther
name: Adrados-Pérez, Marina
name: Sánchez, Marta
name: Gisbert-Solà, Arnau
name: Pàmpols-Pérez, Samuel
name: Nicolaou Subires, Eugenia
name: Albert, Carla
name: Ibarra, Lucia
name: Mur, Maria
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Manejo del adolescente con depresión mayor desde una unidad de agudos de psiquiatría.
Creators: name: Bataller Gilabert, Nuria
name: Díaz Azcano, Patricia
name: Ibáñez Salvador, Delia
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
A propósito de un caso: psicopatología en vasculitis por COVID-19.
Creators: name: Sanagustin, David
name: López, María Teresa
name: Iglesias, María
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Electronic Interface for Hybrid Vibration Energy Harvester
Creators: name: Dimanchev, Marian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Energy Harvesting
subject: Voltage Multiplier
subject: Impedance Matching
subject: Piezoelectric Devices
subject: Electromagnetic Devices
subject: Battery
subject: Environment

description: The utilization of energy from a low frequency vibrational source, as related to a walking human or a moving vehicle, for powering portable electronic devices is becoming a viable alternative to the conventional use of battery-powered devices. The Vibration Energy Harvester (VEH) has become a more intensely researched topic in the last two decades, as a means for effective conversion of vibrational energy into electrical energy. Increasing power output and power density reflect the achievements in the area of vibration energy harvesting. Further improvement in power density is feasible through an increase in harvester component efficiency. An alternative approach for achieving higher power density of harvesting systems is a combination of two different VEHs on one common platform (for example electromagnetic and piezoelectric). An issue with such hybrid systems, not yet addressed in the literature, is the collection of electrical energy output into a single load. At the moment, the current research in Hybrid Vibration Energy Harvesters (Hybrid VEH) involves two electrical loads, i.e., one load for the electromagnetic source and a separate load for the piezoelectric source. The research work of this dissertation is focused on impedance matching and voltage adjustment of coupled piezoelectric and electromagnetic harvesters delivering electrical power into a common load. Simulation results indicate that it is feasible to employ an impedance matching device such as a voltage multiplier circuit. The conducted experimental investigations verify the simulation study. The proposed use of the voltage multiplier may be applied for impedance matching and voltage adjustment of different transducers as reviewed in the dissertation.
I Am Atlas
Creators: name: Lynch, Marc Herman
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Literature--English
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Metafiction
subject: Disembodiment
subject: Novel

description: I Am Atlas is a metafictional novel that investigates disembodiment and body politics. Set within a science fiction universe, the novel follows the story of a man whose family-tragedy unhinges his reality. The novel uses the device of metafiction to analyse the reader’s relationship with text and the displacement that occurs during the reading process. It asks the reader to question conventional notions of physiology and being, while discussing the social constructions that inform their subjectivity. The novel is prefaced by an exegesis entitled “Just Filling Space: An Investigation of Disembodiment in I Am Atlas” that uses postmodernist theory to deconstruct the novel’s approach to issues of disembodiment.
Narratives of conversion and coercion : American prison life writing since 1945
Creators: name: Rolston, Simon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this dissertation, I consider the relationship between the rhetoric of conversion that informs the American prison system and the pervasive use of the conversion narrative in the life writing of American prisoners. I argue that ever since the first penitentiary opened its gates at the beginning of the nineteenth century, prison reformers have relied on the conversion narrative to redefine the rehabilitative goals of the modern prison. Prison reformers, moreover, have historically deployed a variety of strategies—indeterminate sentencing, the “mark system,” the parole board, and the prison file—to ensure that prisoners articulate their experiences behind bars according to a conversion paradigm. Reflecting the master discourse of the American prison system, the prison life writing archive contains myriad versions of the conversion story, particularly in the post-war period when conversion was reconfigured as “rehabilitation” and prisoners had to define themselves as rehabilitated before they could be released from prison. Hence I explore how the ideology of the prison is implicated in the life writing of prisoners and ex-prisoners who have achieved a notable, or notorious, visibility in American culture: Jimmy Santiago Baca (A Place to Stand), Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), and James Carr (Bad). More importantly, I show how these writers complicate any notion that prison life is inherently emancipatory. Some prisoners and ex-prisoners reinscribe the ideology of the American prison system by shaping their narratives according to the conversion paradigm. But others use the conversion narrative (consciously or unconsciously) in ways radically different from those intended by prison reformers. Their creative, frequently subversive deployments of the conversion narrative end up complicating the attempt to define the emancipatory role of prison writing or the teleology of post-prison citizenship.
Werner Konitzer, Johanna Bach, David Palme, Jonas Balzer (Hg.), Vermeintliche Gründe. Ethik und Ethiken im Nationalsozialismus, Frankfurt a. M. (Campus Verlag) 2020
Creators: name: Faye, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Werner Konitzer, Johanna Bach, David Palme, Jonas Balzer (Hg.), Vermeintliche Gründe. Ethik und Ethiken im Nationalsozialismus, Frankfurt a. M. (Campus Verlag) 2020, 488 S. (Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts), ISBN 978-3-593-5103-1, EUR 39,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
Public Broadcasting and the Politics of Media in Ghana: A Case Study of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC)
Creators: name: Anoff-Ntow, Kwame Akuffo
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Journalism
subject: Mass Communications
subject: Journalism
subject: Public Broadcasting
subject: Communication

description: This thesis tells the story of an African, national broadcaster, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, GBC, and its efforts to transition into a public service organization. Since its inception in 1935, GBC has morphed through many forms: from a small, regional radio station, to a “giant media organization” with national footprint broadcasting across several platforms. Having lost its “privileged,” state-sponsored, monopoly status after Ghana’s fourth Republic, GBC is forced to chart a new course as competitive market forces and new communication technologies combine to exert new and unfamiliar pressures on its operations and editorial practices. This thesis focuses on how GBC has fared within this multi-party, competitive market environment, by focusing on the legislative regime that establish and guide its operations, and how through its institutional practice and “culture,” it has responded to the new media ecology. Within such a liberal regime where “public interest” is often interpreted as what the public is interested in, and the marketplace as the place for meeting individual preferences, how GBC is funded becomes an important component to how it conceptualizes and executes its public service mandate. How GBC’s funding sources affect its public service mandate constitute an important question for this study. Through the theoretical lens of political economy, this thesis analyzes institutional texts, interviews and other secondary data to gauge the extent to which GBC has lived up to its constitutional, public service mandate, and concludes that while it has fared well in some sectors, a lot remains to be done. It observes that although geographical and language access has improved, GBC’s scope of programming has not due largely to its excessive reliance on advertising and sponsorship revenue. It concludes that GBC could lose its editorial control over externally generated programs and dilute its public service brand unless it adopts modern day broadcasting practices of commissioning such programs. The study recommends that a leaner, media organization, with a responsive management and technology, driven by well-trained human resource will transform GBC into a communicative space that truly serves as the avenue for democratic expression for its “audience, as citizens, players or consumers” (Syversten, 2010).
Síndrome de Pisa secundario al uso de fármacos antipsicóticos: a propósito de un caso.
Creators: name: Díaz Azcano, Patricia
name: Ibáñez Salvador, Delia
name: Bataller Gilabert, Nuria
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
SASE FEL Storage Ring
Creators: name: Dattoli, G.
name: Di Palma, E.
name: Petralia, A.
name: Rau, J. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of operating a SASE FEL with a Storage Ring. We use a semi-analytical model to obtain the evolution inside the undulator by taking into account the interplay on the laser dynamics due to the induced energy spread and to the radiation damping. We obtain the Renieri's limit for the stationary output power and discuss the possibility of including in our model the effect of the beam instabilities.
description: 5 pages
Hermann Kamp, Sabine Schmitz (Hg.), Erinnerungsorte in Belgien. Instrumente lokaler, regionaler und nationaler Sinnstiftung, Bielefeld (transcript) 2020
Creators: name: Graceffa, Agnès
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2020

description: Hermann Kamp, Sabine Schmitz (Hg.), Erinnerungsorte in Belgien. Instrumente lokaler, regionaler und nationaler Sinnstiftung, Bielefeld (transcript) 2020, 270 p. (Histoire, 144), ISBN 978-3-8376-4515-6, EUR 40,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2020/4
Tumor adrenal con metanefrinas elevadas no siempre es feocromocitoma: a propósito de un caso de interferencia por antidepresivos.
Creators: name: Stoppa, Aldo
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 19 (2021): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Epitaxial Ferromagnetic Nanoislands of Cubic GdN in Hexagonal GaN
Creators: name: Kent, T. F.
name: Yang, J.
name: Yang, L.
name: Mills, M. J.
name: Myers, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic structures of GdN particles encapsulated in a single crystalline GaN matrix were prepared by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. High resolution X-ray diffractometery shows that GdN islands, with rock salt structure are epitaxially oriented to the wurtzite GaN matrix. Scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction allows for the study of island formation dynamics, which occurs after 1.2 monolayers of GdN coverage. Magnetometry reveals two ferromagnetic phases, one due to GdN particles with Curie temperature of 70K and a second, anomalous room temperature phase.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures