cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The definition of environment and its relation to the quenching of galaxies at z=1-2 in a hierarchical Universe
Creators: name: Fossati, Matteo
name: Wilman, David J.
name: Fontanot, Fabio
name: De Lucia, Gabriella
name: Monaco, Pierluigi
name: Hirschmann, Michaela
name: Mendel, J. Trevor
name: Beifiori, Alessandra
name: Contini, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A well calibrated method to describe the environment of galaxies at all redshifts is essential for the study of structure formation. Such a calibration should include well understood correlations with halo mass, and the possibility to identify galaxies which dominate their potential well (centrals), and their satellites. Focusing on z = 1 and 2 we propose a method of environmental calibration which can be applied to the next generation of low to medium resolution spectroscopic surveys. Using an up-to-date semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, we measure the local density of galaxies in fixed apertures on different scales. There is a clear correlation of density with halo mass for satellite galaxies, while a significant population of low mass centrals is found at high densities in the neighbourhood of massive haloes. In this case the density simply traces the mass of the most massive halo within the aperture. To identify central and satellite galaxies, we apply an observationally motivated stellar mass rank method which is both highly pure and complete, especially in the more massive haloes where such a division is most meaningful. Finally we examine a test case for the recovery of environmental trends: the passive fraction of galaxies and its dependence on stellar and halo mass for centrals and satellites. With careful calibration, observationally defined quantities do a good job of recovering known trends in the model. This result stands even with reduced redshift accuracy, provided the sample is deep enough to preserve a wide dynamic range of density.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Validation of the national Danish ablation database: a retrospective, registry-based validation study
Creators: name: Lindgren, Filip Lyng
name: Christensen, Sofie Brix
name: Lundbye-Christensen, Søren
name: Kragholm, Kristian
name: Johannessen, Arne
name: Jacobsen, Peter Karl
name: Kristiansen, Steen Buus
name: Hansen, Peter Steen
name: Djurhuus, Mogens Stig
name: Gang, Uffe Jakob Ortved
name: Jørgensen, Ole Dan
name: Riahi, Sam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Aim. To validate the National Danish Ablation Database (NDAD) by investigating to what extent data in NDAD correspond to medical records. Type of study. Non-blinded, registry-based, retrospective, validation study. Material and methods. A sample of patients who underwent ablation for atrial fibrillation in Denmark between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016 were included. By utilizing medical records as gold standard, positive predictive (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) for NDAD were assessed and presented as five main categories: arrhythmia characteristics, demographics, cardiac history, complications, and medication. PPV’s and NPV’s exceeding 90% were considered as high agreement. Results. 597 patients (71.0% males) were included in the study. Median age was 63.1 (IQR: 54.9–68.4) years. The median PPV and NPV estimates across all variables were respectively 90.4% (95% CI: 68%–95.2%) (PPV) and 99.4% (95% CI: 98.4%–99.8%) (NPV) at baseline, and 91.7% (95% CI: 67.4%–95.4%) (PPV) and 99.3% (98.2%–99.3%) (NPV) at follow-up. Conclusion. The data registered in NDAD agrees to a great extent with the patients’ medical records, suggesting NDAD is a database with high validity. As a result of low complication rate, the PPV- and NPV-estimates among complication variables were prone to somewhat greater uncertainty compared to the rest.
Digitale Langzeitarchivierung am Museum
Creators: name: Nasarek, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Longterm Preservation

description: Am Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg entstehen die verschiedensten Typen von digitalen Dokumenten und Objekten: von Verwaltungsdokumenten des Registrariats und Protokollen der Restaurierung, über Ausstellungskonzeptionen und 3D-Scans aus den Sammlungen, oder Digitalisaten der Bibliothek, Archive und Nachlässe, bis hin zu Webseiten und Computerspiele der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit oder Datenbanken aus Forschungsprojekten – jedes digitale Erzeugnisse ist der Gefahr ausgesetzt durch Verschleiß des Speichermediums oder voranschreitende Technik unlesbar zu werden. 
Das Germanische Nationalmuseum entwickelt daher in einem bis August 2024 andauernden Projekt ein Konzept zur integrativen digitalen Langzeitarchivierung um die Substanzerhaltung und Benutzbarkeit der digitalen Objekte in sämtlichen Abteilungen zu gewährleisten. Der Vortrag zeigt den derzeitigen Stand dieses Projektes und abstrahiert die Erkenntnisse, um sie für ein breites Publikum zugänglich zu machen. 
Nach einer kurzen Einführung in digitale Langzeitarchivierung zeigt der Vortrag welche Herausforderungen durch die Struktur und die Aufgaben der unterschiedlichen Abteilungen entstehen.  Die verschiedenen Geschäftsgänge führen auch zu verschiedenen Lebenszyklen von Digitalisaten. So sind Dokumente im historischen Archiv abgeschlossen, während Leigabenbegleitblätter der Restaurierung mindestens zwei Zustände haben (zu Beginn des Leihvorgangs und zu dessen Ende).  Auch die Komplexität der digitalen Dokumente kann je nach Abteilung variieren. Digitalisate des Registrariats sind oftmals auf wenige Scans mit wenigen Metadaten beschränkt, während Digitalisate der Bibliothek hunderte Einzelbilder umfassen können, die dazu noch Struktur- und detaillierte Metadaten in bestimmten Standards benötigen um als Buch dargestellt werden zu können. Darüber hinaus enthält das digitale Langzeitarchiv nicht nur Bild- oder Textdaten, sondern durchaus auch proprietäre und komplexe Formate, von der mit Ebenen versehenden Photoshop-Datei bis zu den hauseigenen WissKI-Instanzen oder digital Stories. Diese benötigen eigene Routinen zur Langzeitsicherung.
Im Vortrag wird auch darauf eingegangen, welche technischen und infrastrukturellen Maßnahmen ergriffen werden müssen, um grundsätzlich langzeitarchivfähige Formate zu erstellen und diese zu verwalten. Eine besondere Rolle spielt hier wie signifikante Eigenschaften für die digitalen Dokumente ermittelt werden und wie das digitale Langzeitarchiv in vorhandene Strukturen eingebunden werden kann.(Die Icons sind von https://www.flaticon.com/ und können nicht ohne Nennung oder ensprechende Lizenz verwendet werden)
The Longitudinal Study of Turnover and the Cost of Turnover in Emergency Medical Services
Creators: name: Hubble, Michael W.
name: Patterson, P. Daniel
name: Castle, Nicholas
name: Engberg, John
name: Jones, Cheryl B.
name: Carr, Matthew
name: Weaver, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Few studies have examined employee turnover and associated costs in emergency medical services (EMS). The purpose of this study was to quantify the mean annual rate of turnover, total median cost of turnover, and median cost per termination in a diverse sample of EMS agencies.
Additional file 3 of Gravidity and malaria trends interact to modify P. falciparum densities and detectability in pregnancy: a 3-year prospective multi-site observational study
Creators: name: Matambisso, Glória
name: Brokhattingen, Nanna
name: Maculuve, Sónia
name: Cisteró, Pau
name: Mbeve, Henriques
name: Escoda, Anna
name: Miguel, Judice
name: Buetas, Elena
name: de Jong, Ianthe
name: Cuna, Boaventura
name: Melembe, Cardoso
name: Ndimande, Nelo
name: Porras, Gemma
name: Chen, Haily
name: Tetteh, Kevin K. A.
name: Drakeley, Chris
name: Gamain, Benoit
name: Chitnis, Chetan
name: Chauhan, Virander
name: Quintó, Llorenç
name: Galatas, Beatriz
name: Macete, Eusébio
name: Mayor, Alfredo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Table S1. Characteristics of study participants. Table S2. Interactions between centers and study variables on parasitological outcomes. Table S3. Interactions between gravidity and temporal trends on parasitological outcomes. Table S4. P. falciparum parasite rates, density and detectability between centers. Table S5. Annual changes in parasitological outcomes in pregnant women from Ilha Josina. Table S6. Annual changes in antibody levels by site and gravidity group.
Hierarchiewandel im Niger‐Delta: Über den Generationenkonflikt bei den Ogoni und Ijaw
Creators: name: Beitzer, Paul
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2013

description: Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Ursachen der Gewaltintensivierung des Konfliktes im Niger‐Delta, in dem die sozialen Bewegungen der Region und die Allianz zwischen nigerianischer Regierung und transnationalen Ölkonzernen einander gegenüber stehen. Der Artikel bedient sich dabei des Konzepts der „moralischen Ethnizität“ mit dem Ziel, die Analyse nicht nur auf ökonomische Konkurrenzverhältnisse zwischen den unterschiedlichen Konfliktparteien zu reduzieren. Anhand zweier Beispiele wird deutlich, dass neben dem „politischen Tribalismus“ vor allem auch komplexe politische und sozio‐kulturelle Veränderungen innerhalb der ethnischen Gruppen des Niger‐Deltas stattfinden, die zur Gewaltintensivierung des Konfliktes beitragen.
Rezension von KOKOT, Waltraud/GIORDANO, Christian/GANDELSMAN‐TRIER, Mijal (eds.). 2013. Diaspora as a Resource – Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space.
Creators: name: Waldburger, Daniela
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2013

description: Rezension: KOKOT, Waltraud/GIORDANO, Christian/GANDELSMAN‐TRIER, Mijal (eds.). 2013. Diaspora as a Resource – Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space. Berlin/Zürich: LIT. (= Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien/Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology/ Etudes dʹAnthropologie Sociale de lʹUniversité de Fribourg. Bd. 36) 312 Seiten. ISBN 978‐3‐643‐80145‐6.
title: Hans Rudolf Müller, 23. September 1906-23. Juli 1940
title: Abschiedsworte bei der militärischen Bestattung, Freitag, den 26. Juli 1940, im Krematorium Zürich
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: 340 Recht
subject: 355 Militärwissenschaft
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Müller, Hans Rudolf

description: Enthält: Ansprache von Feldprediger Hauptmann Habicht; Ansprache von Hauptmann I. Gst. E. Muheim als Kamerad des Verstorbenen; Ansprache des Oberst Karl Brunner, Kdt Gebirgs-Inf.-Rgt. 12
An Evaluation of Emergency Medical Services Stroke Protocols and Scene Times
Creators: name: Patel, Mehul D.
name: Suchindran, Chirayath M.
name: Rose, Kathryn M.
name: Moss, Chailee
name: Brice, Jane H.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Rosamond, Wayne D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Acute stroke patients require immediate medical attention. Therefore, American Stroke Association guidelines recommend that for suspected stroke cases, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel spend less than 15 minutes (min) on-scene at least 90% of the time. However, not all EMS providers include specific scene time limits in their stroke patient care protocols.
First dark matter search results from the PandaX-I experiment
Creators: name: PandaX Collaboration
name: Xiao, Mengjiao
name: Xiao, Xiang
name: Zhao, Li
name: Cao, Xiguang
name: Chen, Xun
name: Chen, Yunhua
name: Cui, Xiangyi
name: Fang, Deqing
name: Fu, Changbo
name: Giboni, Karl L.
name: Gong, Haowei
name: Guo, Guodong
name: Hu, Jie
name: Huang, Xingtao
name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Ju, Yonglin
name: Lei, Siao
name: Li, Shaoli
name: Lin, Qing
name: Liu, Huaxuan
name: Liu, Jianglai
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Lorenzon, Wolfgang
name: Ma, Yugang
name: Mao, Yajun
name: Ni, Kaixuan
name: Pushkin, Kirill
name: Ren, Xiangxiang
name: Schubnell, Michael
name: Shen, Manbing
name: Stephenson, Scott
name: Tan, Andi
name: Tarle, Greg
name: Wang, Hongwei
name: Wang, Jimin
name: Wang, Meng
name: Wang, Xuming
name: Wang, Zhou
name: Wei, Yuehuan
name: Wu, Shiyong
name: Xie, Pengwei
name: You, Yinghui
name: Zeng, Xionghui
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Zhu, Zhonghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first dark-matter (DM) search results from PandaX-I, a low threshold dual-phase xenon experiment operating at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In the 37-kg liquid xenon target with 17.4 live-days of exposure, no DM particle candidate event was found. This result sets a stringent limit for low-mass DM particles and disfavors the interpretation of previously-reported positive experimental results. The minimum upper limit, $3.7\times10^{-44}$\,cm$^2$, for the spin-independent isoscalar DM-particle-nucleon scattering cross section is obtained at a DM-particle mass of 49\,GeV/c$^2$ at 90\% confidence level.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, final version as appeared in the journal publication
Down syndrome serum screening also identifies an increased risk for multicystic dysplastic kidney, two-vessel cord, and hydrocele
Creators: name: Hoffman, Jodi D.
name: Collins, Jamie
name: Mackinnon, Brenda L.
name: Sullivan, Lisa M.
name: Berkowitz, Richard L.
name: Porter, T. Flint
name: D'Alton, Mary E.
name: Timor-Tritsch, Ilan E.
name: Comstock, Christine H.
name: Craigo, Sabrina D.
name: Bukowski, Radek
name: Malone, Fergal D.
name: Wolfe, Honor M.
name: Gross, Susan J.
name: Carr, Stephen R.
name: Bianchi, Diana W.
name: Dugoff, Lorraine
name: Nyberg, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The FASTER trial compared 1st and 2nd trimester screening methods for aneuploidy. We examined relationships between maternal serum markers and common congenital anomalies in the pediatric outcome data set of 36,837 subjects.
Additional file 4 of Gravidity and malaria trends interact to modify P. falciparum densities and detectability in pregnancy: a 3-year prospective multi-site observational study
Creators: name: Matambisso, Glória
name: Brokhattingen, Nanna
name: Maculuve, Sónia
name: Cisteró, Pau
name: Mbeve, Henriques
name: Escoda, Anna
name: Miguel, Judice
name: Buetas, Elena
name: de Jong, Ianthe
name: Cuna, Boaventura
name: Melembe, Cardoso
name: Ndimande, Nelo
name: Porras, Gemma
name: Chen, Haily
name: Tetteh, Kevin K. A.
name: Drakeley, Chris
name: Gamain, Benoit
name: Chitnis, Chetan
name: Chauhan, Virander
name: Quintó, Llorenç
name: Galatas, Beatriz
name: Macete, Eusébio
name: Mayor, Alfredo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Supplementary results (P. falciparum parasite densities).
Rezension von JANSEN, Jan C./OSTERHAMMEL, Jürgen. 2013. Dekolonisation. Das Ende der Imperien.
Creators: name: Sonderegger, Arno
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2013

description: Rezension: JANSEN, Jan C./ OSTERHAMMEL, Jürgen. 2013. Dekolonisation. Das Ende der Imperien. München: C.H. Beck. 144 S. ISBN 978‐3‐406‐65464‐0
A Randomized Trial of a Prenatal Genetic Testing Interactive Computerized Information Aid
Creators: name: Mullen, Rebecca
name: Levine, Robert
name: Grobman, William A.
name: Bailey, Stacy Cooper
name: Wolf, Michael
name: Bergeron, Ashley R.
name: Yee, Lynn M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: To determine whether an interactive computer program could improve patient knowledge regarding genetic screening and diagnostic concepts.
Energy spread and current-current correlation in quantum systems
Creators: name: Yan, Yonghong
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Zhao, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider energy (heat) transport in quantum systems, and establish a relationship between energy spread and energy current-current correlation function. The energy current-current correlation is related to thermal conductivity by the Green-Kubo formula, and thus this relationship allows us to study conductivity directly from the energy spread process. As an example, we investigate a spinless fermion model; the numerical results confirm the relationship.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Geographic and Sociodemographic Disparities in Drive Times to Joint Commission–Certified Primary Stroke Centers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Creators: name: Asimos, Andrew W.
name: Khan, Jenna A.
name: Fehrs, Laura J.
name: Casper, Michele
name: Clarkson, Lydia
name: Schieb, Linda
name: Mettam, Laurie H.
name: George, Mary
name: Williams, G. Ishmael
name: Enright, Dianne
name: Heidari, Khosrow
name: Huston, Sara L.
name: Greer, Sophia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: IntroductionTimely access to facilities that provide acute stroke care is necessary to reduce disabilities and death from stroke. We examined geographic and sociodemographic disparities in drive times to Joint Commission–certified primary stroke centers (JCPSCs) and other hospitals with stroke care quality improvement initiatives in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.MethodsWe defined boundaries for 30- and 60-minute drive-time areas to JCPSCs and other hospitals by using geographic information systems (GIS) mapping technology and calculated the proportions of the population living in these drive-time areas by sociodemographic characteristics. Age-adjusted county-level stroke death rates were overlaid onto the drive-time areas.ResultsApproximately 55% of the population lived within a 30-minute drive time to a JCPSC; 77% lived within a 60-minute drive time. Disparities in percentage of the population within 30-minute drive times were found by race/ethnicity, education, income, and urban/rural status; the disparity was largest between urban areas (70% lived within 30-minute drive time) and rural areas (26%). The rural coastal plains had the largest concentration of counties with high stroke death rates and the fewest JCPSCs.ConclusionMany areas in this tri-state region lack timely access to JCPSCs. Alternative strategies are needed to expand provision of quality acute stroke care in this region. GIS modeling is valuable for examining and strategically planning the distribution of hospitals providing acute stroke care.
Kolonialismus und Entwicklung
Creators: name: Schlauß, David
name: Schicho, Walter
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2014

description: Historische Zugänge zu Entwicklung und Entwicklungshilfe haben von Seiten der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften erst in jüngerer Zeit Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Der Wissenschaftliche Diskurs ist geprägt durch zwei konträre Ansätze: Einerseits wird der Gegensatz zwischen kolonialem und postkolonialem Entwicklungsregime hervorgehoben, andererseits liefern vor allem die historischen Untersuchungen zahlreiche Belege für Kontinuität. Während das Argument des Bruchs zwischen zwei Perioden nicht zuletzt dazu dient, den Bereich der Entwicklungshilfe als positives Phänomen gegen das Negativum Kolonialismus abzuheben, macht die Befassung mit Kontinuität hinsichtlich Akteure, Instrumente und Konzepte Hintergründe und Wurzeln aktuellen Handelns sichtbar und verstehbar. Koloniales wie entwicklungsrelevantes Handeln ist gleichermaßen auf eine Kontrolle des Nordens über die Gesellschaften des Südens ausgerichtet. Während im kolonialen Kontext wirtschaftliche, politische und soziale Ungleichheit in Diskurs und Handeln offen und direkt zum Ausdruck kam, ist der rezente Entwicklungsdiskurs zunehmend durch opaque Ausdruckweisen geprägt, die den Fortbestand von Kontrolle und Asymmetrie hinter Schlagworten und euphemistischen Formulierungen verbergen.
Valvular heart diseases in immigrants and Swedish-born individuals: a national cohort study
Creators: name: Wändell, Per
name: Li, Xinjun
name: Carlsson, Axel C.
name: Sundquist, Jan
name: Sundquist, Kristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Objectives. The aim of this study was to analyse the risk of valvular heart diseases among foreign-born individuals in Sweden. Design. This was a nationwide study of individuals aged 18 years of age and older (N = 6,118,649; 2,970,055 men and 3,148,594 women). Valvular heart diseases were defined as at least one registered diagnosis in the National Patient Register between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2012. Cox regression analysis was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) with 99% confidence intervals (CI) of incident valvular heart diseases in foreign-born individuals compared to Swedish natives. The Cox regression models were adjusted for age, co-morbidities, and sociodemographic factors. Sub-categories were chronic rheumatic valvular heart diseases and non-rheumatic valvular heart diseases. Results. There were 64,979 male cases and 59,075 female cases. Fully adjusted HRs (99% CI) were among immigrant men 0.86 (0.82–0.89) and immigrant women 0.96 (0.92–1.00). For chronic rheumatic valvular disease among immigrant men and women, the HRs were 1.62 (1.37–1.92) and 1.75 (1.52–2.00), respectively, and, for non-rheumatic valvular disease among immigrant men 0.83 (0.80–0.87) and immigrant women 0.92 (0.88–0.96). Increased risks for chronic rheumatic valvular disease were found among men from Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, Africa and Asia and among women from Western, Eastern and Central Europe and Africa, Latin America and Asia. Conclusions. We observed lower risks in general of valvular heart disease, but higher risks of chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease in immigrants, which is important in the clinical situation.
A note on suprema of canonical processes based on random variables with regular moments
Creators: name: Latała, Rafał
name: Tkocz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G50, 60E15, 60G17

description: We derive two-sided bounds for expected values of suprema of canonical processes based on random variables with moments growing regularly. We also discuss a Sudakov-type minoration principle for canonical processes.
description: 19 pages
Ein Bauer, ein Gouverneur und ein Pflug: Entwicklungsdiskurs und Kolonialliteratur im Frankreich der 1930er Jahre.
Creators: name: Kopf, Martina
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2014

description: 1931 und 1935 erschienen mit Les Paysans noirs (Die schwarzen Bauern) und Terre noire (Schwarze Erde) in Frankreich zwei Romane, die sich jeweils mit der Transformation ländlicher Gemeinschaften in Westafrika durch die Einführung europäischer Technologie zugunsten einer Steigerung der lokalen Produktion beschäftigen. Die Autoren, Robert Delavignette und Oswald Durand, waren als Angehörige der Kolonialverwaltung in die Umsetzung diese Maßnahmen ländlicher Entwicklung involviert, denen sie literarisch ein Denkmal schufen. In diesem Artikel untersuche ich Querverbindungen zwischen kultureller Produktion, kolonialer Propaganda und Politik sowie dem sich in der Zwischenkriegszeit in Europa formierenden Diskurs über die Entwicklung Afrikas. Sie bildeten den Kontext für die Entstehung und den damaligen Erfolg der beiden Romane. Der erste Abschnitt widmet sich der Gesellschaft für Kolonialautoren in Paris, die als Interessensverband diese Querverbindungen diskursiv und institutionell herstellte. In einer öffentlich geführten Debatte „erfanden“ und konstituierten ihre VertreterInnen „Kolonialliteratur“ als eigenes Genre, das die französische Öffentlichkeit über Modernisierungsprozesse in den Kolonien informieren sollte. Die von Kolonialminister Albert Sarraut formulierte Politik der „mise en valeur“ der französischen Kolonien fand – so mein Argument – ihre Entsprechung in einer Veränderung der Erzählkultur über Afrika. Wie diese Erzählkultur in ihrem Anspruch, das moderne Afrika zu repräsentieren, Entwicklungsdenken und koloniale Interessen verhandelte, analysiere ich beispielhaft an Terre noire (1935), Durands Erzählung über die Einführung des Pflugs in Guinea. Ich interpretiere den Roman als eine koloniale Version eines „Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe“-Narrativs, wie es später in Entwicklungszusammenhängen populär wurde. Zugleich ist er paradigmatisch dafür, wie der Diskurs über Entwicklung durch technologischen Fortschritt – repräsentiert durch den Pflug – den Diskurs über die „mission civilisatrice“ und die damit verbundenen Werte der französischen Revolution in seiner legitimierenden Funktion einverleibt und beerbt. Indem ich Terre noire den vier Jahre zuvor veröffentlichten Roman Les paysans noirs gegenüber stelle, mache ich deutlich, dass Durands sich als „fortschrittlich“ gebende Erzählung tatsächlich einen Rückschritt gegenüber zeitgenössischen Positionen im Diskurs über koloniale Entwicklung darstellte.
Implementing the MOVE! Weight-Management Program in the Veterans Health Administration, 2007-2010: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Kahwati, LC
name: Kinsinger, LS
name: Haynes-Maslow, L
name: Weiner, BJ
name: Campbell, MK
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: IntroductionOne-third of US veterans receiving care at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical facilities are obese and, therefore, at higher risk for developing multiple chronic diseases. To address this problem, the VHA designed and nationally disseminated an evidence-based weight-management program (MOVE!). The objective of this study was to examine the organizational factors that aided or inhibited the implementation of MOVE! in 10 VHA medical facilities.MethodsUsing a multiple, holistic case study design, we conducted 68 interviews with medical center program coordinators, physicians formally appointed as program champions, managers directly responsible for overseeing the program, clinicians from the program's multidisciplinary team, and primary care physicians identified by program coordinators as local opinion leaders. Qualitative data analysis involved coding, memorandum writing, and construction of data displays.ResultsOrganizational readiness for change and having an innovation champion were most consistently the 2 factors associated with MOVE! implementation. Other organizational factors, such as management support and resource availability, were barriers to implementation or exerted mixed effects on implementation. Barriers did not prevent facilities from implementing MOVE! However, they were obstacles that had to be overcome, worked around, or accepted as limits on the program's scope or scale.ConclusionPolicy-directed implementation of clinical weight-management programs in health care facilities is challenging, especially when no new resources are available. Instituting powerful, mutually reinforcing organizational policies and practices may be necessary for consistent, high-quality implementation.
Additional file 1 of Vault differences in eyes implanted with spherical and toric implantable collamer lenses: an inter-eye analysis
Creators: name: Sánchez Trancón, Angel
name: Cerpa Manito, Santiago
name: Torrado Sierra, Oscar
name: Baptista, António Manuel
name: Serra, Pedro Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Bivariate correlation analysis between vault, measured in eyes implanted with spherical ICL and toric ICL and independent variables.
Strategies Proposed by Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Partnerships to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Creators: name: Bors, P
name: Strunk, S
name: Leviton, L
name: Brownson, RC
name: Ohri-Vachaspati, P
name: Brenan, L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: IntroductionHealthy Kids, Healthy Communities (HKHC) is an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to prevent obesity among high-risk children by changing local policies, systems, and environments. In 2009, 105 community partnerships applied for funding from HKHC. Later that year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released recommended community strategies to prevent obesity by changing environments and policies. The objective of this analysis was to describe the strategies proposed by the 41 HKHC partnerships that received funding and compare them to the CDC recommendations.MethodsWe analyzed the funded proposals to assess the types and prevalence of the strategies proposed and mapped them onto the CDC recommendations.ResultsThe most prevalent strategies proposed by HKHC-funded partnerships were providing incentives to retailers to locate and serve healthier foods in underserved areas, improving mechanisms for purchasing food from farms, enhancing infrastructure that supports walking and cycling, and improving access to outdoor recreational facilities.ConclusionThe strategies proposed by HKHC partnerships were well aligned with the CDC recommendations. The popular strategies proposed by HKHC partnerships were those for which there were existing examples of successful implementation. Our analysis provides an example of how information from communities, obtained through grant-writing efforts, can be used to assess the status of the field, guide future research, and provide direction for future investments.
An Evaluation Framework for Obesity Prevention Policy Interventions
Creators: name: Payne, G
name: Thompson, D
name: Sommers, J
name: Vu, M
name: Leeman, J
name: Jernigan, J
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: As the emphasis on preventing obesity has grown, so have calls for interventions that extend beyond individual behaviors and address changes in environments and policies. Despite the need for policy action, little is known about policy approaches that are most effective at preventing obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others are funding the implementation and evaluation of new obesity prevention policies, presenting a distinct opportunity to learn from these practice-based initiatives and build the body of evidence-based approaches. However, contributions from this policy activity are limited by the incomplete and inconsistent evaluation data collected on policy processes and outcomes. We present a framework developed by the CDC-funded Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation that public health practitioners can use to evaluate policy interventions and identify the practice-based evidence needed to fill the gaps in effective policy approaches to obesity prevention.
Regularized theta lifts and (1,1)-currents on GSpin Shimura varieties. I
Creators: name: Garcia, Luis E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F27, 11F67, 11G18, 14G35

description: We introduce a regularized theta lift for reductive dual pairs of the form $(Sp_4,O(V))$ with $V$ a quadratic vector space over a totally real number field $F$. The lift takes values in the space of $(1,1)$-currents on the Shimura variety attached to $GSpin(V)$, and we prove that its values are cohomologous to currents given by integration on special divisors against automorphic Green functions. In the second part to this paper, we will show how to evaluate the regularized theta lift on differential forms obtained as usual (non-regularized) theta lifts.
description: 40 pages
Role of magnetic degrees of freedom in a scenario of phase transformations in steel
Creators: name: Razumov, I. K.
name: Boukhvalov, D. V.
name: Petrik, M. V.
name: Urtsev, V. N.
name: Shmakov, A. V.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Gornostyrev, Yu. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diversity of mesostructures formed in steel at cooling from a high-temperature austenite ("gamma") phase is determined by the interplay of shear reconstructions of crystal lattice and diffusion of carbon. Combining first-principles calculations with large-scale phase-field simulations we demonstrate a decisive role of magnetic degrees of freedom in the formation of energy relief along the Bain path of "gamma"-"alpha" transformation and, thus, in this interplay. We show that there is the main factor, namely, the magnetic state of iron and its evolution with temperature which controls the change in character of the transformation. Based on the computational results we propose a simple model which reproduces, in good agreement with experiment, the most important curves of the phase transformation in Fe-C, namely, the lines relevant to a start of ferrite, bainite, and martensite transformations. Phase-field simulations within the model describe qualitatively typical patterns at these transformations.
Look at the Sky : the bird Simurgh in text and image in Iran (1010-1650)
Creators: name: Castro Royo, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: Simurgh
Persian literature
Persian art
Mythology
Art history
Zoroastrianism
Persian manuscripts
Manuscripts
Metalwork
Dragon
Iconography
Sufism

description: This research focuses on the mythological bird Sīmurgh and her representations in literature and art in the Persianate world from 1010 to 1650. Sīmurgh is generally overlooked in both art and literature, and she has not been the subject of monographic study. This dissertation proposes a combination of approaches from literary and art historical analyses to offer a complete picture of the importance of this bird for the arts and culture of the Persianate world. The results of the research show that Sīmurgh is a multifaceted subject: she is a narrative character, a mystical symbol, and a decorative motif. There is no division between these aspects; rather, they coexist. The dissertation is divided in two parts. The first five chapters are dedicated to the study of the role of Sīmurgh in literature. The chapters are divided by genre: epic poetry, encyclopaedic works, and Sufi-mystical poetry. The following four chapters that form the second part of this dissertation analyse the iconography of Sīmurgh. They first investigate the possible origins of her visual representation up until c. 1300s. Following, a chapter is dedicated to the critical stage in which text and image became related and a recognisable iconography was established for the literary character of Sīmurgh. The dissertation ends with a chapter that discusses a following stage in which the iconography of Sīmurgh detached itself from the narrative text and started to function as decoration.
ICD harm and benefit: risk scores applied to the Swedish ICD-treated LQTS population
Creators: name: Sundström, Emilia
name: Jensen, Steen M.
name: Diamant, Ulla-Britt
name: Wiklund, Urban
name: Rydberg, Annika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Objectives. The use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in long QT syndrome (LQTS) patients is essential in high-risk patients. However, it is sometimes used in patients without high-risk profiles for whom the expected benefit may be lower than the risk of ICD harm. Here, we evaluated ICD benefit and harm by assessing risk according to risk scores and pre-ICD clinical characteristics. Design. We studied 109 Swedish LQTS patients drawn from the Swedish ICD and Pacemaker Registry with data collected from medical records. In addition to clinical characteristics, we used two risk scores to assess pre-ICD risk, and evaluated ICD benefit and harm. Results. Twenty percent of all patients received ≥1 appropriate shock with a first appropriate shock incidence rate of 4.3 per 100 person-years. A long QTc (≥550 ms) and double mutations were significantly associated with appropriate shock. Low risk scores among patients without pre-ICD aborted cardiac arrest were not significantly associated with low risk of first appropriate shock. The incidence rates of a first inappropriate shock and first complication were 3.0 and 7.6 per 100 person-years, respectively. Conclusion. Our findings on ICD harm emphasize the importance of careful individual pre-ICD consideration. When we applied two risk scores to patients without pre-ICD aborted cardiac arrest, we could not validate their ability to identify patients with low risk of appropriate shocks and patients who were assessed as having a low risk still received appropriate shocks. This further supports the complexity of risk stratification and the difficulty of using risk scores.
Weak-value amplification as an optimal metrological protocol
Creators: name: Alves, G. Bié
name: Escher, B. M.
name: Filho, R. L. de Matos
name: Zagury, N.
name: Davidovich, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The implementation of weak-value amplification requires the pre- and post-selection of states of a quantum system, followed by the observation of the response of the meter, which interacts weakly with the system. Data acquisition from the meter is conditioned to successful post-selection events. Here we derive an optimal post-selection procedure for estimating the coupling constant between system and meter, and show that it leads both to weak-value amplification and to the saturation of the quantum Fisher information, under conditions fulfilled by all previously reported experiments on the amplification of weak signals. For most of the pre-selected states, full information on the coupling constant can be extracted from the meter data set alone, while for a small fraction of the space of pre-selected states, it must be obtained from the post-selection statistics.
Supplementary Methods and Figures from Judgement bias may be explained by shifts in stimulus response curves
Creators: name: Strang, Caroline
name: Muth, Felicity
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Methods and Figures
Evaluation of Consumer Understanding of Different Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels, 2010–2011
Creators: name: Bragg, Marie A.
name: Seamans, Marissa J.
name: Novak, Nicole
name: Roberto, Christina A.
name: Mechulan, Regine L.
name: Brownell, Kelly D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: IntroductionGovernments throughout the world are using or considering various front-of-package (FOP) food labeling systems to provide nutrition information to consumers. Our web-based study tested consumer understanding of different FOP labeling systems.MethodsAdult participants (N = 480) were randomized to 1 of 5 groups to evaluate FOP labels: 1) no label; 2) multiple traffic light (MTL); 3) MTL plus daily caloric requirement icon (MTL+caloric intake); 4) traffic light with specific nutrients to limit based on food category (TL+SNL); or 5) the Choices logo. Total percentage correct quiz scores were created reflecting participants’ ability to select the healthier of 2 foods and estimate amounts of saturated fat, sugar, and sodium in foods. Participants also rated products on taste, healthfulness, and how likely they were to purchase the product. Quiz scores and product perceptions were compared with 1-way analysis of variance followed by post-hoc Tukey tests.ResultsThe MTL+caloric intake group (mean [standard deviation], 73.3% [6.9%]) and Choices group (72.5% [13.2%]) significantly outperformed the no label group (67.8% [10.3%]) and the TL+SNL group (65.8% [7.3%]) in selecting the more healthful product on the healthier product quiz. The MTL and MTL+caloric intake groups achieved average scores of more than 90% on the saturated fat, sugar, and sodium quizzes, which were significantly better than the no label and Choices group average scores, which were between 34% and 47%.ConclusionAn MTL+caloric intake label and the Choices symbol hold promise as FOP labeling systems and require further testing in different environments and population subgroups.
Wirtschaftliche Inwertsetzung – la mise en valeur – und soziale Entwicklung. Der Entwicklungsdiskurs der kolonialen Verwaltung von Französisch Westafrika (AOF) zwischen 1920 und 1960.
Creators: name: Schicho, Walter
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2014

description: Die französische Kolonialpolitik zwischen 1920 und 1960 versuchte mit Hilfe zentraler Planung die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Kolonien zu steuern. Das Ziel war einerseits eine größere Unabhängigkeit Frankreichs von Rohstoffimporten aus Drittstaaten, andererseits eine effizientere Kontrolle der kolonisierten Völker. Soziale Maßnahmen, wie vor allem Gesundheitsvorsorge und „angepasste Bildung“, dienten der Sicherung und Disziplinierung von Arbeitskraft sowie der Abschwächung des Widerstands in den Kolonien, der noch bis gegen Ende der 1920er Jahre immer wieder durch Militäreinsatz niedergeschlagen wurde. „Entwicklung“ verband im kolonialen Diskurs den wirtschaftlichen Nutzen der Metropole mit einem – von Frankreich geplanten – Fortschritt der Kolonisierten. In der Untersuchung werden drei größere Planungsvorhaben angesprochen: Die „mise en valeur“ Kolonialminister Sarrauts in den 1920er Jahren, die Sozialpolitik der Volksfrontregierung 1936 bis 38 und die spätkolonialen Entwicklungsfonds nach 1945. Die Umsetzung der Pläne erwies sich jedoch in allen drei Fällen als schwierig bis unmöglich, was einerseits auf die Einstellung und Kompetenz der Akteure, andererseits auf das Fehlen ausreichender finanzieller Mittel zurückgeführt werden kann. Charakteristisch für das koloniale Entwicklungsdispositiv ist der krasse Unterschied zwischen Diskurs und Handeln, eine Eigenschaft, die auch das postkoloniale Entwicklungsregime kennzeichnet. Darüber hinaus zeigt die Analyse von Dokumenten aus dem französischen Kolonialarchiv noch weitere Komponenten, wie Fokussierung auf bäuerliche Produktion, Wachstum und globale Integration als Voraussetzung für Entwicklung, Vorrang der Technologie vor sozialer Entwicklung, der Topos vom gemeinsamen Vorteil sowie der Topos der „kommunistischen Gefahr“, die sich über das Ende der Kolonialregierung hinaus auch im globalen aid business erkennen lassen.
Anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects of berberine-loaded liquid crystalline nanoparticles
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Amlan
name: Paudel, Keshav Raj
name: Wang, Chao
name: De Rubis, Gabriele
name: Chellappan, Dinesh Kumar
name: Hansbro, Philip Michael
name: Samuel, Chrishan S.
name: Dua, Kamal
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: barberine
nanoparticles
anti-inflammatory
anti-fibrotic
bone marrow derived dendritic cells
bone marrow derived macrophages
human dermal fibroblast

description: EXCLI Journal; 22:Doc1104; ISSN 1611-2156
Additional file 1 of The link between intrauterine adhesions and impaired reproductive performance: a systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Hooker, Angelo B.
name: de Leeuw, Robert A.
name: Emanuel, Mark Hans
name: Mijatovic, Velja
name: Brolmann, Hans A. M.
name: Huirne, Judith A.F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Additional table 1. Included studies in this review.
Koloniale Bildung im Kontext des Entwicklungsdiskurses
Creators: name: Schild, Marlene
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2014

description: Der folgende Beitrag geht von der Voraussetzung des „Kolonialismus als männlich dominiertes Unternehmen“ aus. Gender fungiert im Kontext der kolonialen Expansion als wichtige Ordnungskategorie, die Machtausübung, Ausgrenzung und Unterdrückung ermöglichte. Für die kritische Auseinandersetzung werden Konzepte von Häuslichkeit und Geschlecht in kolonialpädagogischen Diskursen aus vergeschlechtlichter Perspektive diskutiert. Die Grundlage dafür bildet eine Analyse von Texten der kolonialpädagogischen Zeitschrift Oversea Education. Die Verknüpfung von auf Frauen und Mädchen bezogenen Bildungsentwürfen mit kolonialpolitischen Strukturen wird anhand zweier Diskursstränge gezeigt. „Hausfrauen und Häuslichkeit“ sowie „Kernfamilie und Konstruktion von Mütterlichkeit“. Die Verbindung der Schlüsselkonzepte mit kolonialen Vorstellungen von „Entwicklung“ ermöglicht es, die Funktionen und Positionen für Frauen zu verstehen, wie sie die Kolonisierenden und die Kolonisierten entwarfen. Ab 1940 wird eine deutliche Veränderung des Bildungsdiskurses sichtbar, mit einer Hinwendung zu weiblicher Berufstätigkeit, allerdings selektiv auf „typisch weibliche“, arbeitsintensive und schlecht bezahlte Tätigkeiten fokussierend, sowie der verstärkten Einbindung von Frauen in den Entwicklungsdiskurs. Entwicklung wurde sichtbar anhand eines Wechsels von „domestic science“ zu „home economics“. Zugleich kam es zu einem vermehrten Einsatz europäischer Frauen, die allerdings häufig eingebundene Akteure einer männlichen Kolonialpolitik waren.