cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis – What should the young (and not so young) radiologist know about it?
Creators: name: Fileva, Nevena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Inflammation
subject: Education and training
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the evolution of the diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis for the pediatric population. To summarize the most common differential diagnosis and look for an algorithm on how to identify...
Additional file 1 of Lifestyle is associated with thyroid function in subclinical hypothyroidism: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Wu, Kejun
name: Zhou, Yu
name: Ke, Sujie
name: Huang, Jingze
name: Gao, Xuelin
name: Li, Beibei
name: Lin, Xiaoying
name: Liu, Xiaohong
name: Liu, Xiaoying
name: Ma, Li
name: Wang, Linxi
name: Wu, Li
name: Wu, Lijuan
name: Xie, Chengwen
name: Xu, Junjun
name: Wang, Yanping
name: Liu, Libin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
M_b and f_B from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET with Nf=2 light quarks
Creators: name: Blossier, Benoît
name: Bulava, John
name: Della Morte, Michele
name: Donnellan, Michael
name: Fritzsch, Patrick
name: Garron, Nicolas
name: Heitger, Jochen
name: von Hippel, Georg
name: Simma, Hubert
name: Sommer, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated analysis of the non-perturbatively renormalized b-quark mass and B meson decay constant based on CLS lattices with two dynamical non-perturbatively improved Wilson quarks. This update incorporates additional light quark masses and lattice spacings in large physical volume to improve chiral extrapolations and to reach the continuum limit. We use Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) including 1/m_b terms with non-perturbative coefficients based on the matching of QCD and HQET developed by the ALPHA collaboration during the past years.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Lattice 2011, July 10-16, 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California
Eigen Energy Values and Eigen Functions of a Particle in an Infinite Square Well Potential by Laplace Transforms
Creators: name: Gupta, Rohit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Quantum physics not elsewhere classified
Quantum information, computation and communication

description: Abstract- Quantum mechanics is one of the branches of physics and is a fundamental theory which explains the nature of atoms and subatomic particles at the smallest scale of energy. In this mechanics, physical problems are solved by algebraic and analytic methods. By applying Laplace Transforms we can find the general solutions of one dimensional Schrodinger’s timeindependent wave equation for a particle in an infinite square well potential. In this paper, we will discuss the Eigen energy values and Eigen functions of a particle in an infinite square well potential. We will find that general solutions (Eigen functions) of one dimensional Schrodinger’s time- independent wave equation for a particle in an infinite square well potential have very interesting characteristics that each Eigen function is associated with a particular value of energy (Eigen energy value) of the particle confined inside an infinite square well potential.
Load sharing schemes in multiple induction motor drive applications using volts per hertz control
Creators: name: Iyer, Jaishankar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Multi induction-motor (IM) drives are commonly used to share a mechanical load in a wide range of industrial applications. In many existing auxiliary applications, the traditional low-cost Volts-per-Hertz (V/F) drives are typically used in speed control mode to simultaneously operate several IMs. In multi-machine load-sharing applications, it is preferred to have number of identical IMs to share the load equally. Under ideal conditions, the identical IMs would operate with equal loading. However, in practice deviations of the load sharing among the IMs is possible due to many factors including variations in internal or external parameters and operating conditions of each individual IM. Such deviations may result in disproportionate sharing of the mechanical load and even overloading one or several machines while some machines may be under-loaded. The basic low-cost variable frequency drives (VFDs) with traditional open-loop V/F control scheme fail to share the load under such conditions. In this Thesis, two new methods are proposed to address the load sharing problems under an internal disturbances (such as rotor resistance variations) and external disturbances (such as wheel slippage due to snow/water/oil etc.). The new methods are shown to be effective in sharing the load under disturbances. Moreover, the proposed methodologies may be readily extended to an arbitrary number of motors driving a common mechanical load, and are easy to implement with traditional/existing low-cost VFDs, which may be advantageous for many existing or legacy applications.
Putting Theory into Practice: Using a Human Rights Framework and Grassroots Organizing to Build a National Revolutionary Movement
Creators: name: Mandell, Bekah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Socialism
subject: Race relations
subject: Emigration and immigration
subject: Revolutions
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social classes
subject: Poor whites
subject: Human rights

description: This Essay proposes to use the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory and Marxism to chart a way forward and away from the Tea Party's racist dream and toward revolution. This Essay will show how the ruling class uses race and immigration status to isolate, alienate, dehumanize, and divide poor and working class people. Those tactics work to keep working people (particularly Whites) dreaming the impossible dream that someday their oppressors—the ruling class—will offer them the sweet relief and prosperity they so desperately desire. This Essay will demonstrate that while these tactics prevent the poor and working classes from developing the shared struggle, organization, and consequent class-consciousness that are necessary for a movement to overthrow the chains of exploitation and build a revolution, they can be overcome by using a grassroots organizing strategy and human rights framework. The second section of this essay will briefly outline the history of the ruling class's divide and conquer strategy. The third section will explain how the divide and conquer tactics play out in the contemporary United States. The final section will make the case for overcoming those tactics with an anti-oppression grassroots organizing strategy based on human rights principles informed by both Marxism and Critical Race Theory (CRT). This Essay will demonstrate that this strategy is the most effective way to undermine the ruling class hegemony, and overcome their divide and conquer tactics, and allows working people to develop the class-consciousness necessary to overthrow the bonds of capitalist exploitation.
Energetic electron precipitation and their atmospheric effect
Creators: name: Mironova, Irina
name: Sinnhuber, Miriam
name: Rozanov, Eugene
Publisher: name: EDP Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Energetic particle precipitation induces ionization of the atmosphere which initiates a chain of reaction cycles affecting atmospheric composition and dynamics potentially down to surface weather systems. Ionization rates are retrieved based on yield functions or pre-calculated monoenergetic electron flux and energy spectra of precipitated energetic particles. Usually, information about energy spectra is obtained from satellites, balloons, and various ground-based observations. In all cases, some assumptions about spectral distribution for the entire energy range have to be made. As ionization rates are widely used in chemistry-climate models to estimate the atmospheric response to particle forcing, evaluation of the energy spectra is a key task in the solar-terrestrial studies. In this paper, it is shown that possible uncertainties of the ionization rates retrieval based on different spectral functions can lead to large disagreements in the ionization rates, with implications for the modelled response of atmospheric composition and dynamics to electron precipitation.
A Critical Concern: Pediatrician Self-care After Disasters
Creators: name: Madrid, Paula
name: Schacher, Stephanie J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Disaster relief
Disasters--Psychological aspects
Emergency medical personnel--Mental health
Medical personnel--Mental health
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: As of this writing, health care in the areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina has shifted from emergency to primary care mode. Disasters take a heavy toll not only on victims but also on professionals and volunteers who experience the immediate, short-term, and long- term impact through their patients. The impact may occur because of the helping professional’s effort to empathize with and be compassionate to patients. There is a rich literature that discusses the risks and impact of vicarious traumatization on psychotherapists, rescue workers, and health care providers who work with survivors, including those who have experienced community traumas such as natural disasters, state-sponsored terrorism, torture, mass murder, and acts of war.
The psychological impact of working with those who have suffered trauma has been variously referred to as “vicarious traumatization,” “compassion fatigue,” or, more simply, “burnout.” Vicarious traumatization is described as the emotional and psychological reactions that are triggered by the experience of empathic engagement with patients who are survivors of trauma. This reaction is considered an inescapable aspect of trauma work. Community traumas involve multiple threats to and actual losses of life but also can cause the breakdown of social structures such as family, communities, employment, and housing, thereby dealing a blow to the basic structure of social life by damaging connections between people and their sense of community.
A large percentage of health care providers had to evacuate their homes and offices after Katrina and lost their livelihoods and sense of community. It is also likely that many experienced the loss of loved ones. As a result, the emotional toll on health care professionals continuing to treat a traumatized and dislocated population is likely to be significant.
Lost and Found, Grand Central, New York City
Creators: name: Marcus, Sharon
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: I wanted to get lost in Grand Central Station. Not an easy task, given my inclination always to know where I'm going and when I'll get there. And a wish almost certain to be denied, given the spirit of the place I had chosen.
Money: Kind of Natural
Creators: name: Vooys, Sarah
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Money
subject: Institutions
subject: Economics
subject: Social Kinds as Natural Kinds
subject: Objective and Subjective Ontology
subject: Education--Philosophy of
subject: Economics

description: In this thesis I determine what is required in an account of money. I compare John’s Searle’s idea of institutions, as ontologically subjective, to Francesco Guala’s idea of an institution as a functional, rule-based equilibrium. I find both, as accounts of money, to be inadequate on their own. In response, I develop a new account of money which has functional components akin to Guala’s but with the addition of intentionality. This adds mind-dependence back into the account of money but, if Khalidi’s theory of social kinds is correct, my account of money is still open to scientific investigation, because it might be kind of natural.
Concurrency Control for Adaptive Indexing
Creators: name: Graefe, Goetz
name: Halim, Felix
name: Idreos, Stratos
name: Kuno, Harumi
name: Manegold, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adaptive indexing initializes and optimizes indexes incrementally, as a side effect of query processing. The goal is to achieve the benefits of indexes while hiding or minimizing the costs of index creation. However, index-optimizing side effects seem to turn read-only queries into update transactions that might, for example, create lock contention. This paper studies concurrency control in the context of adaptive indexing. We show that the design and implementation of adaptive indexing rigorously separates index structures from index contents; this relaxes the constraints and requirements during adaptive indexing compared to those of traditional index updates. Our design adapts to the fact that an adaptive index is refined continuously, and exploits any concurrency opportunities in a dynamic way. A detailed experimental analysis demonstrates that (a) adaptive indexing maintains its adaptive properties even when running concurrent queries, (b) adaptive indexing can exploit the opportunity for parallelism due to concurrent queries, (c) the number of concurrency conflicts and any concurrency administration overheads follow an adaptive behavior, decreasing as the workload evolves and adapting to the workload needs.
description: VLDB2012
title: The "Local" (meat?) hunter? Backbone or bain.... ...of the game wildlife rancher...?
title: The local (meat?) hunter? Backbone or bain.... ...of the game wildlife rancher...?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: The local meat hunter: backbone or bain of the game rancher's business
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Palos, Stephen
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: Making the most of the "bread & milk shopper" requires appreciating their importance, providing for their needs, keeping them "low maintenance", maximising the "basket" and ensuring they select animals which meet management objectives of the ranch. This presentation aims to explore the value of the most basic "customer" of the Wildlife Rancher. Coming from a "Greek South African" up-bringing the presentation will be in "Café Speak" and aims to take a light hearted and amusing view of an incredibly important aspect of the business, encouraging fresh thoughts on the subject and perhaps some specific initiatives by representative organisations to further develop the relationship between the rancher and the meat hunter. Studies in South Africa indicate that the local meat hunter brings in excess of 70% of the revenue to the Wildlife Rancher's gate. But average take per animal is far lower than what international trophy hunters bring. Different too is the expected hunting method or style, and the expectations in relation to services and accommodation. Extreme contrast exists from the most ethical, humble traditionalist (with a tiny "bag" in mind) to big groups of well heeled "corporate hunters" who aim to "whack em & stack em" in between raucous partying, and everything possible in between; each bringing pros & cons!
Peruvian Stratus Clouds and the Tropical Pacific Circulation: A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCM Study
Creators: name: Ma, Chung-Chun
name: Mechoso, Carlos R.
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Arakawa, Akio
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Clouds
Atmosphere

description: Extensive and persistent stratus cloud decks are prominent climatic features off the Peruvian coast. They are believed to play a key role in the coupled atmosphere-ocean processes that determine the sea surface temperature (SST) throughout the eastern tropical Pacific. This notion is examined and further developed using a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model (GCM): a control simulation, in which the simulated amount of Peruvian stratus clouds is unrealistically low, is compared with an experiment in which a stratus cloud deck is prescribed to persistently cover the ocean off the Peruvian coast. Beneath the prescribed cloud deck SSTs are reduced by up to 5 K, as expected from decreased solar radiation reaching the surface. In addition, there is significant cooling over much of the eastern tropical Pacific south of the equator, and even along the equator well into the central Pacific. The prescribed stratus deck largely alleviates the coupled GCM's warm bias in SST in the southeastern Pacific, which is common to most contemporary coupled GCMS, and produces a distribution of SST with more realistic interhemispheric asymmetries. Examination of differences between SST evolutions in the enhanced stratus experiment and the control circulation reveals that the remote ocean cooling is not due to a single mechanism. The cooling immediately to the west and north of the region with the prescribed stratus deck is primarily associated with increased evaporation as the southeast trades strengthen. The cooling along the equator in the central Pacific is mainly due to increased oceanic cold advection. The results of this study suggest that the Peruvian stratus clouds are important in modulating the circulation of the tropical Pacific. The "double ITCZ" syndrome of the coupled GCM, however, does not appear to be solely due to underpredicted stratus cloud cover and requires consideration of other processes in the coupled GCM.
title: Measuring Empathy in Female Hygiene Students
Creators: name: Mason, Patricia R.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1979

description: The aim of this investigation was to assess empathy in female dental hygiene admissions candidates and first and second year dental hygiene students. A convenience sample of subjects from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia; the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, were included within the study.

Data were organized according to a 3 x 3 factorial research design with educational setting and student status as the non-manipulated independent variables. The dependent variable, empathy, was measured by the Hogan Empathy Scale.

Three group, two-way analysis of variance yielded no statistically significant empathy differences among levels of dental hygiene students. Results indicated a statistically significant empathy difference among dental hygiene students from the three educational settings. Additionally, no statistically significant interaction was observed among levels of dental hygiene students and their educational setting as measured by empathy scores. All comparisons were at the 0.05 level of significance.
title: Imaging diagnosis of movement disorders: beauty of simplicity.
Creators: name: BARRANCO ACOSTA, SARA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Seizure disorders
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Dementia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To remember and classify the different movement disorders and their defining clinical characteristics. To review the image findings of movement...
Modeling Kepler Observations of Solar-like Oscillations in the Red-giant Star HD 186355
Creators: name: Jiang, Chen
name: Jiang, Biwei
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen
name: Bedding, Timothy R.
name: Stello, Dennis
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Fandsen, Søren
name: Kjeldsen, Hans
name: Karoff, Christoffer
name: Mosser, Benoit
name: Demarque, Pierre
name: Fanelli, Michael N.
name: Kinemuchi, Karen
name: Mullally, Fergal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analysed oscillations of the red giant star HD 186355 observed by the NASA Kepler satellite. The data consist of the first five quarters of science operations of Kepler, which cover about 13 months. The high-precision time-series data allow us to accurately extract the oscillation frequencies from the power spectrum. We find the frequency of the maximum oscillation power, ν_max, and the mean large frequency separation, Δν, are around 106 and 9.4 μHz respectively. A regular pattern of radial and non-radial oscillation modes is identified by stacking the power spectra in an echelle diagram. We use the scaling relations of Δν and ν_max to estimate the preliminary asteroseismic mass, which is confirmed with the modelling result (M = 1.45 \pm 0.05 M_sun) using the Yale Rotating stellar Evolution Code (YREC7). In addition, we constrain the effective temperature, luminosity and radius from comparisons between observational constraints and models. A number of mixed l = 1 modes are also detected and taken into account in our model comparisons. We find a mean observational period spacing for these mixed modes of about 58 s, suggesting that this red giant branch star is in the shell hydrogen-burning phase.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables
Who spanks infants and toddlers? Evidence from the fragile families and child well-being study
Creators: name: MacKenzie, Michael J.
name: Nicklas, Eric P.
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Families

description: We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCW), a birth cohort study of children in 18 medium to large U.S. cities, to examine the prevalence and determinants of spanking among infants and toddlers (at mean age 14 months). Taking advantage of the large and diverse sample in FFCW, we conduct separate analyses for children of African American (N = 1710), Hispanic (N = 853), and white non-Hispanic (N = 812) mothers. Overall, about 15% of children are spanked at 12 months, with this share rising to 40% by 18 months and nearly 50% for children age 20 months or older. We find that there are marked differences in the use of spanking across the three racial/ethnic groups, with children of African American mothers more likely to be spanked and at a younger age. Moreover, while some predictors of spanking are seen across all three groups, others vary. Mothers who are young, who report more parental stress, or report their child has a more difficult temperament are more likely to spank across all three groups. However, being a boy increases the risk of spanking only within African American families. First-born children are at elevated risk of spanking to at least some extent in all groups, but much more so within Hispanic families. In addition, maternal employment is associated with a greater likelihood of spanking in Hispanic families. Although spanking at these young ages is not necessarily indicative of maltreatment, it may be a marker for families who are at elevated risk of maltreatment. As such, our findings, by highlighting some risk factors that are common across groups as well as some that are more important for particular groups, may have implications for child abuse prevention.
Quantum Speedup by Quantum Annealing
Creators: name: Nagaj, Daniel
name: Somma, Rolando D.
name: Kieferova, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the glued-trees problem of Childs et. al. in the adiabatic model of quantum computing and provide an annealing schedule to solve an oracular problem exponentially faster than classically possible. The Hamiltonians involved in the quantum annealing do not suffer from the so-called sign problem. Unlike the typical scenario, our schedule is efficient even though the minimum energy gap of the Hamiltonians is exponentially small in the problem size. We discuss generalizations based on initial-state randomization to avoid some slowdowns in adiabatic quantum computing due to small gaps.
description: 7 pages
Diagnosing Human Papillomavirus of the Female Lower Genital Tract: Failure of the Pap Smear as a Sole Screening Test
Creators: name: Lonky, Neal M.
name: Mahoney, Antoinette
name: Sauer, Mark V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Obstetrics
Gynecology

description: Of 197 patients referred for colposcopy who underwent repeat Pap smears and colposcopic biopsies (when indicated), histologic evidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection involving the endocervix, cervix, or vagina or all three sites was documented in 109 biopsies. Sixty-six (61%) had normal Pap smears at the time of colposcopy. Despite a specificity of 92% for detecting HPV, the Pap smear demonstrated a low sensitivity (39%), with a positive and negative predictive test value of 88% and 50%, respectively. In patients with biopsies revealing HPV infection without associated dysplasia, false negative Pap smears were found most often in women with strictly vaginal HPV (74%) (P < 0.05), followed by those with coexistent cervical and vaginal HPV (65%), and then by those with solely cervical HPV (51%). We question the use of the Pap smear for the detection of lower genital tract HPV, particularly in patients with only vaginal involvement, especially when the smear is repeated at the time of colposcopy. Benefits and disadvantages of other screening tests for HPV are discussed.
Additional file 6 of c-Jun promotes neuroblastoma cell differentiation by inhibiting APC formation via CDC16 and reduces neuroblastoma malignancy
Creators: name: Wang, Yunyun
name: Huang, Jingjing
name: Song, Zhenhua
name: Zhang, Shuo
name: Guo, Haojie
name: Leng, Qi
name: Fang, Na
name: Ji, Shaoping
name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Marine Biology
Cancer
Hematology

description: Supplementary Figure Legend
MPEC 2023-H149 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 April 23)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Catch rain: people working together to restore land and rivers
title: Inspiring change in wildlife, livestock and land management in rural communities: stories from Zimbabwe & Zambia
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Huelin, Astrid
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: Rural communities in Zimbabwe and Zambia are being inspired to work together to restore land and rivers by changing wildlife, livestock and land management practices. There is improved rural community resilience & prosperity in the face of climate change. The Catchment Approach is low input, simple, practical & duplicatable. The results seen are due to community ownership and empowerment to manage their own wildlife, livestock and land resources for the long term. Stories from Zimbabwe: In 2012, The Mwalanga River in Sizinda Community Matabeleland North, started flowing above ground from December to December. For 20 years this river only flowed during the rainy season. Grasslands are being restored, perennial grasses are increasing and wildlife and livestock are being managed with solutions focused thinking. Ngarazi Village of Chief Chisunga area in Mushumbi Pools have set aside a 6000 hectare community conservancy. Recognising the need to improve rainwater infiltration into the soil the community is applying simple regenerative agricultural techniques to manage their area. Muhlanguleni, Chilonga and Gondoweni villages of Chief Sengwe area, Mazvingo Province, Zimbabwe are excited to start changing wildlife, livestock and land management practices to restore their grasslands to health. Stories from Zambia: Communities of the Kafue floodplains are creating solid social management structures to manage their wildlife, livestock, land and rivers.
Meeting Mental Health Needs Following a Natural Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
Creators: name: Madrid, Paula
name: Grant, Roy F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mental health services
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Disaster victims--Mental health services
Disaster victims--Mental health

description: Hurricane Katrina had a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of Louisiana and Mississippi families. Housing was destroyed, jobs were lost, and family members were separated, sometimes in different states and without communication. Postdisaster stress reactions were common, with vulnerable individuals most affected. Mental health services were not adequate to meet immediate needs, and postdisaster mental health issues often emerge over time. This article describes the mental health needs of dislocated and evacuee children and families and the steps that were taken to develop mental health programs that would be sustainable over time to meet this new level of need.
Developmental Programming of Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease in Offspring Exposed to Maternal Obesity and Dietary Intervention
Creators: name: Paul, Heather
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Maternal obesity
subject: Developmental programming
subject: Prebiotics
subject: Metabolomics
subject: Gut microbiota
subject: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
subject: Obesity
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Biochemistry

description: Increased risk of developing obesity and related metabolic dysfunction has been linked to an adverse early-life environment as well as dysbiosis of gut microbiota, yet the precise molecular mechanisms involved in the establishment of disease susceptibility in offspring, and their link with the gut microbiota, remain elusive. This dissertation examines the impact of diet-induced maternal obesity on maternal metabolism and offspring susceptibility to obesity and fatty liver in a preclinical model of maternal diet-induced obesity and the potential protective effect of a maternal dietary fibre intervention. Specifically, the objectives of this thesis include 1) examining the maternal metabolic and gut microbial impact of prebiotic fibre supplementation in pregnant and lactating rats and the impact on offspring early-life obesity; 2) identifying the differences in metabolic and gut microbial adaptations to pregnancy and lactation in lean versus diet-induced obese rats; and 3) determining the potential of maternal prebiotic fibre supplementation to protect against later-life obesity and fatty liver in offspring following long-term exposure to an obesogenic diet. Our results first provide strong evidence in support of the hypothesis that maternal obesity and consumption of an obesogenic diet during pregnancy and lactation can program increased susceptibility to obesity and metabolic disease in offspring, the effects of which can be unmasked via long-term exposure to a high-fat/sucrose diet. This programming may be associated with specific shifts in maternal metabolism and gut microbial profiles. Second, we show that supplementation of a maternal high-fat/sucrose diet with the prebiotic fibre oligofructose alters maternal metabolism in a manner that attenuates early-life obesity in offspring, an outcome that is most likely mediated via prebiotic-induced shifts in the gut microbiota, in particular increased Bifidobacterium spp. abundance. Finally, we show that this supplementation attenuates the detrimental long-term programming effects of diet-induced maternal obesity, reducing hepatic steatosis and improving glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in adult offspring. Overall, maternal prebiotic fibre supplementation, in the context of maternal obesity, may represent an intervention during pregnancy and lactation that could help attenuate the propagation of obesity and related metabolic diseases across generations.
Role of Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling on Decoherence and Relaxation of Central Spins in Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Sinitsyn, N. A.
name: Li, Yan
name: Crooker, S. A.
name: Saxena, A.
name: Smith, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain-induced gradients of local electric fields in semiconductor quantum dots can couple to the quadrupole moments of nuclear spins. We develop a theory describing the influence of this quadrupolar coupling (QC) on the spin correlators of electron and hole "central" spins localized in such dots. We show that when the QC strength is comparable to or larger than the hyperfine coupling strength between nuclei and the central spin, the relaxation rate of the central spin is strongly enhanced and can be exponential. We demonstrate a good agreement with recent experiments on spin relaxation in hole-doped (In,Ga)As self-assembled quantum dots.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Venous Excess Doppler ultrasound assessment and loop diuretic efficiency in acute cardiorenal syndrome
Creators: name: Abu-Naeima, Eslam
name: Fatthy, Moataz
name: Shalaby, Mahmoud Amin Abu-Sheaishaa
name: Ayeldeen, Ghada
name: Verbrugge, Frederik H.
name: Rola, Philippe
name: Beaubien-Souligny, William
name: Fayed, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
General forms of the Menshov-Rademacher, Orlicz, and Tandori theorems on orthogonal series
Creators: name: Mikhailets, Vladimir A.
name: Murach, Aleksandr A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 40A30 (Primary) 46E40 (Secondary)

description: We prove that the classical Menshov-Rademacher, Orlicz, and Tandori theorems remain true for orthogonal series given in the direct integrals of measurable collections of Hilbert spaces. In particular, these theorems are true for the spaces L_{2}(X,dμ;H) of vector-valued functions, where (X,μ) is an arbitrary measure space, and H is a real or complex Hilbert space of an arbitrary dimension.
description: in English, translation of the 1-st (Russian) version, 12 pages
Mountain Torques and Northern Hemisphere Low-Frequency Variability. Part II: Hemispheric Aspects
Creators: name: Lott, François
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Ghil, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: Important aspects of low-frequency variability (LFV) are regional in character, while the mountain torques of the Rockies and the Himalayas evolve quite independently of each other. The hemispheric analysis of Part I is complemented therefore herein by an analysis of the relationships between individual mountain torques and sectorial LFV patterns in the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis. In the 20–30-day band, relationships are found between the Rockies (Himalayas) torque and the dominant patterns of LFV over the Pacific (Eurasia). The composites of the atmospheric flow fields that accompany the Rockies (Himalayas) torque in this band exhibit similarities with known low-frequency oscillations that dominate the Pacific and North American (European and North Atlantic) sectors during certain winters. The composites keyed to the 20–30-day Rockies torque affect the persistent North Pacific (PNP) pattern that controls the extension of the midlatitude jet stream over the eastern Pacific. Furthermore, the unfiltered torques for the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Rockies anticipate the onset of the two dominant winter Pacific circulation regimes that correlate strongly with the PNP pattern. The composites keyed to the 20–30-day Himalayas torque affect the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern, which controls the intensity of the North Atlantic jet stream. Furthermore, the unfiltered torques for the NH and the Himalayas anticipate the breaks of the two dominant winter Atlantic circulation regimes, which correlate strongly with the NAO pattern. These analyses also show that the 20–30-day Rockies (Himalayas) torques produce substantial atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) changes, which are nearly in phase with and larger in amplitude than the AAM changes associated with the midlatitude eastern Pacific (North Atlantic) jet stream variations seen in the composite maps. This result suggests that the Rockies (Himalayas) torque variations drive, at least partially, but actively the changes in the eastern Pacific (North Atlantic) jet stream. These results are consistent with the Himalayas and the Rockies torques contributing separately to changes in the two leading hemispheric EOFs that were described in Part I; the two are associated with a hemispheric index cycle and the Arctic Oscillation, respectively.
title: 3-T MR arthrography of the wrist: anatomy and pathological findings
Creators: name: Zdjelar, Adrian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Arthrography
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Anatomy
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the anatomy of the intrinsic carpal ligaments and the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC). To describe the pathological conditions involving these structures and their imaging findings using 3 Tesla MRI...
Crocodile farming: a fresh approach
Creators: name: Reader, Robert
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: South Africa Crocodile Farmers are generally in a favourable position regarding the farming of this protected natural resource. It has eliminated the risks of the potentials of extinction of this prehistoric animal and ensured sustainable farming practises through good farming practises. The situation is now that this animal can be traded in theory similar to any stock domestic animals. Traceability is however a future requirement and we are measured by end consumer. The demand for high quality skins is still there and farmers can obtain good margins on these skins. The other grades are where the demand is met with low prices but eventually all skins are consumed in the manufacturing environment but here we are price takers. Can we do better? The following are matters which require further discussion: · At what price is it still economically to produce second grade skins? · Rising energy cost has forced crocodile farmers to look for alternative ways of effectively heating and cooling facilities · Structure design- Indoor/intensive farming or external/semi extensive farming · Integrated systems versus specific concentration · Probiotic · Free food/chicken mortalities, dry mix or combination · Abattoir or not · Export of wet or tanned skins · Quality or quantity · DEAT or Agriculture · Own Breeder Stock or hatchling/yearling purchasing · Agent or own marketing · The role of cooperation · Lessons from the poultry Industry
The Assembly History of Disk Galaxies: II. Probing the Emerging Tully-Fisher Relation During 1
Creators: name: Miller, Sarah H.
name: Ellis, Richard S.
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Bundy, Kevin
name: Newman, Andrew B.
name: Treu, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through extended integrations using the recently-installed deep depletion CCD on the red arm of the Keck I Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, we present new measurements of the resolved spectra of 70 morphologically-selected star-forming galaxies with i_AB<24.1 in the redshift range 12. Remarkably, we find a well-defined Tully-Fisher relation with up to 60% increase in scatter and stellar mass zero-point shift constraint of 0.02+/-0.02 dex since z~1.7, compared to the local relation. Although our sample is incomplete in terms of either a fixed stellar mass or star formation rate limit, we discuss the implications that typical star-forming disk galaxies evolve to arrive on a well-defined Tully-Fisher relation within a surprisingly short period of cosmic history.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication at ApJ
Mountain torques and atmospheric oscillations
Creators: name: Lott, François
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Ghil, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Mountains
Atmospheric tides
Atmosphere

description: Theoretical work and general circulation model (GCM) experiments suggest that the midlatitude jet stream's interaction with large‐scale topography can drive intraseasonal oscillations in large‐scale atmospheric circulation patterns. In support of this theory, we present new observational evidence that mountain‐induced torques play a key role in 15–30‐day oscillations of the Northern Hemisphere circulation's dominant patterns. The affected patterns include the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Pacific‐North‐American (PNA) pattern. Positive torques both accelerate and anticipate the midlatitude westerly winds at these periodicities. Moreover, torque anomalies anticipate the onsets of weather regimes over the Pacific, as well as the break‐ups of hemispheric‐scale regimes.
Discovery of Bright Galactic R Coronae Borealis and DY Persei Variables: Rare Gems Mined from ACVS
Creators: name: Miller, A. A.
name: Richards, J. W.
name: Bloom, J. S.
name: Cenko, S. B.
name: Silverman, J. M.
name: Starr, D. L.
name: Stassun, K. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a machine-learning (ML) based search for new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars and DY Persei-like stars (DYPers) in the Galaxy using cataloged light curves from the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) Catalog of Variable Stars (ACVS). RCB stars - a rare class of hydrogen-deficient carbon-rich supergiants - are of great interest owing to the insights they can provide on the late stages of stellar evolution. DYPers are possibly the low-temperature, low-luminosity analogs to the RCB phenomenon, though additional examples are needed to fully establish this connection. While RCB stars and DYPers are traditionally identified by epochs of extreme dimming that occur without regularity, the ML search framework more fully captures the richness and diversity of their photometric behavior. We demonstrate that our ML method can use newly discovered RCB stars to identify additional candidates within the same data set. Our search yields 15 candidates that we consider likely RCB stars/DYPers: new spectroscopic observations confirm that four of these candidates are RCB stars and four are DYPers. Our discovery of four new DYPers increases the number of known Galactic DYPers from two to six; noteworthy is that one of the new DYPers has a measured parallax and is m ~ 7 mag, making it the brightest known DYPer to date. Future observations of these new DYPers should prove instrumental in establishing the RCB connection. We consider these results, derived from a machine-learned probabilistic classification catalog, as an important proof-of-concept for the efficient discovery of rare sources with time-domain surveys.
description: 18 pages, 2 new figures, accepted for publication in ApJ