cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stability of admission diagnoses; data from a specialized in-patient treatment facility for dual diagnosis
Creators: name: Düring, Signe Wegmann
name: Nordgaard, Julie
name: Solvej Mårtensson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: We investigated the stability of diagnoses during admission over an 11-year period in patients admitted to a highly specialized integrated dual diagnosis treatment facility in Denmark using diagnosis coded in patient charts. Admission and discharge diagnoses from patient files were examined for stability of primary diagnosis and association with year of admission, age, sex, and duration of admission, in 1570 patients from 2007 to 2017. A vast proportion (69.6%) of the patients retained their diagnosis during a 3-month admission. Stability was highest for schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses and lowest for unspecified diagnosis. Type of primary diagnosis, age, and length of admission was associated with lower likelihood of a stable primary diagnosis. Long-term admission for psychiatric patients with substance use disorder (SUD) was significantly associated with stability of diagnosis. The finding calls for longer observation of dual diagnosis patients to ensure that relevant diagnosis is given, and consequently that the appropriate clinical treatment such as psychopharmacological as well as non-pharmacological intervention can be applied.
The Lifecycle of Exchange-traded Derivatives
Creators: name: Cavanaugh, Grant
name: Penick, Michael
name: Cavanaugh, Grant
name: Penick, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: Using a comprehensive dataset covering most derivatives trades reported to US exchanges since 1954, we present distributional estimates of the rate at which derivative trading volumes rise and fall. Our results suggest that the lifecycle of cleared derivatives changed fundamentally in the 2000’s. In that decade, derivatives with low trading volumes moved to modest volumes with increased probability. Prior to that, low volume contracts were more likely to remain stuck at low volumes or be delisted altogether. This additional resilience from low levels of trading meant that the expected trading volume for a new cleared derivative after ten years of trading actually grew between the 1990’s and 2000’s, despite the fact that a larger percentage of contracts traded at low volume in any given year. These findings suggest that trends in futures markets growth first noted in Silber [1981] and Carlton [1984] and subsequently cited widely in literature on derivatives innovation are less relevant than in the past. We also discuss the relative influence of exchange, product type, and decade of trading on volume patterns. We find that trading volumes varied more decade to decade than from exchange to exchange or product type to product type. Looking in detail at trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, an exchange that shifted abruptly to electronic trading, we find evidence that the widespread adoption of electronic trading was the driver behind the shift in the lifecycle of derivatives across US exchanges in the last decade.
Euxenus punctatus LeConte
Creators: name: Janicki, Julia
name: Young, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Euxenus
Euxenus punctatus

description: Euxenus punctatus LeConte
(Fig. 7–8)
 Euxenus punctatus LeConte 1876: 409.
 Description. Length 0.8–1.2 mm (head excluded). Body short, oval, convex, nearly glabrous, shining. Integument light to dark brown. Vestiture consisting of a few scattered, short, erect, almost invisible setae. Head retractile. Rostrum sinuate apically. Frons weakly convex, surface weakly punctate, reticulate. Pronotal width 1.4–1.5X length, widest at base; surface convex, with distinct, small, close, evenly spaced punctures; broadly angulate basally, with prominent basal transverse carina; laterally with two carinae on basal 1/2, these separated by distinct row of punctures, with upper carina distinct and elevated, lower carina less developed. Scutellum very small, almost invisible. Elytra about as wide as long, widest near middle, length 1.4–1.6X pronotal length; broadly rounded apically and laterally; striae punctate in irregular double rows; interstriae smooth. Abdomen very short. Pygidium vertical.
 Diagnosis. Euxenus punctatus is the smallest primitive weevil species found in Wisconsin. It can be distinguished from other anthribids by the small size, compact, glabrous body, and by the retractile head. It can be distinguished from other species of Euxenus by elytral striae 2–7 with fields of confused punctures instead of uniseriate punctures, and by the microreticulate pronotal surface between the punctures.
 Natural history. Valentine (1998) reared E. punctatus from the fungus Hypoxylon perforatum growing on dead twigs of common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea). He also observed this species on ridges of a reddish-brown pyrenomycete growing on dead, debarked branches that were partially buried in leaf litter. In Wisconsin, it has been found near a slime mold plasmodium.
 Phenology. In Wisconsin, adults have been collected in July.
 Collecting methods. The two Wisconsin specimens examined during this study from two counties represent a NEW STATE RECORD. One specimen was found near a slime mold plasmodium under bark of a fallen tree in a southern-mesic forest; the other was found at a point where one log was sitting atop another, at the edge of a small wooded patch near Helena Marsh, in the early afternoon.
description: Published as part of Janicki, Julia & Young, Daniel K., 2017, Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (579) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169237
Inverse Compton X-rays from the radio galaxy 3C 219
Creators: name: Comastri, A.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Dallacasa, D.
name: Bondi, M.
name: Pedani, M.
name: Setti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results from a Chandra observation of the powerful nearby (z=0.1744) radio galaxy 3C 219. We find evidence for non-thermal X-ray emission from the radio lobes which fits fairly well with a combination of inverse Compton scattering of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and of nuclear photons with the relativistic electrons in the lobes. The comparison between radio synchrotron and IC emission yields a magnetic field strength significantly lower (about a factor 3) than that calculated under minimum energy conditions; the source energetics is then dominated by the relativistic particles.
description: 5 pages, 2 color figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS pink pages
Facial Expression Restoration Based on Improved Graph Convolutional Networks
Creators: name: Liu, Zhilei
name: Li, Le
name: Wu, Yunpeng
name: Zhang, Cuicui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Facial expression analysis in the wild is challenging when the facial image is with low resolution or partial occlusion. Considering the correlations among different facial local regions under different facial expressions, this paper proposes a novel facial expression restoration method based on generative adversarial network by integrating an improved graph convolutional network (IGCN) and region relation modeling block (RRMB). Unlike conventional graph convolutional networks taking vectors as input features, IGCN can use tensors of face patches as inputs. It is better to retain the structure information of face patches. The proposed RRMB is designed to address facial generative tasks including inpainting and super-resolution with facial action units detection, which aims to restore facial expression as the ground-truth. Extensive experiments conducted on BP4D and DISFA benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method through quantitative and qualitative evaluations.
description: Accepted by MMM2020
Allandrus LeConte 1876
Creators: name: Janicki, Julia
name: Young, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Allandrus

description: Genus Allandrus LeConte
 Allandrus LeConte 1876: 396.
 Type species. Allandrus bifasciatus LeConte 1876, by monotypy.
 Generic diagnosis. Allandrus can be recognized by the widely separated eyes, with the minimum interocular distance always greater than the minimum width of the rostrum near the base, the flat, spatulate and apically flared rostrum that is narrower at the base than apex, transverse antebasal pronotal carina, and by the reticulate-punctate pronotal surface.
description: Published as part of Janicki, Julia & Young, Daniel K., 2017, Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (579) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169237
Predictors of cognitive function in pediatric brain tumor patients: pre-surgery through 24-month follow-up
Creators: name: Fraley, Claire E.
name: Thigpen, Jennifer C.
name: Pearson, Matthew M.
name: Kuttesch, John F.
name: Desjardins, Leandra
name: Hoskinson, Kristen R.
name: Alvarado-Gonzalez, Abraham
name: Esbenshade, Adam J.
name: Devang Pastakia
name: Friedman, Debra L.
name: Wellons, John C.
name: McNally, Colleen M.
name: Siciliano, Rachel E.
name: Compas, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of cognitive assessment from pre-surgery through 2-year follow-up in a sample of pediatric brain tumor (BT) patients. We sought to investigate cognitive function over the course of diagnosis and treatment, and as a function of presenting problems, tumor location, treatment type, and tumor severity. Using a prospective, longitudinal design, standardized IQ measures were administered to pediatric BT patients (ages 6–16) prior to surgery (n = 25), 6 months post-diagnosis (n = 24), and 24 months post-diagnosis (n = 23). Group differences emerged based on tumor severity and treatment type at multiple time points, including prior to surgical intervention; children with high grade tumors performed more poorly than children with low grade tumors, and children receiving surgery plus adjuvant therapy performed more poorly than children who received surgery only. When considered together, an analysis of covariance demonstrated that tumor grade significantly accounted for variability in cognitive functioning, while treatment type did not. Although there is overlap clinically between tumor severity and treatment received, results suggest that tumor severity is an important factor contributing to variability in cognitive functioning and should also be considered when monitoring risk for cognitive deficits in children diagnosed with BT.
Peer-Effects on Childhood Obesity
Creators: name: Asirvatham, Jebaraj
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
name: Asirvatham, Jebaraj
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: peer-effects
subject: obesity
subject: overweight
subject: childhood obesity

description: This study investigates whether peers are a contributing factor in the increase in childhood obesity rates, and whether peer effects vary by race, gender and residential neighborhood. We control for the commercial food environment around schools and residence when estimating peer effects given that the food environment constitutes an important set of factors that have not been adequately measured and accounted for in previous studies. We find that the weight of peers within the same grade in a school significantly impacts body mass index (BMI) z-score of an individual student. A typical student’s BMI z-score increases when facing heavier peers and it decreases when facing lighter peers. The results show differential peer-effects across race and gender, but more so by gender than by race.
Psychometric properties of the Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale parent and self-reports in a Norwegian clinical sample of adolescents treated for ADHD
Creators: name: Anne-Lise Juul Haugan
name: Sund, Anne Mari
name: Thomsen, Per Hove
name: Lydersen, Stian
name: Nøvik, Torunn Stene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To analyze the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale parent and self-reports (WFIRS-P and WFIRS-S) in adolescents with ADHD. 102 clinically referred patients, of which 86% were enrolled in an ongoing RCT program (Clinical trials NCT02937142), were diagnosed with ADHD according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version IV (DSM-IV). The conceptual framework of the WFIRS-P and the WFIRS-S was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability was estimated using Cronbach’s alpha, convergent and divergent validity was assessed using correlations with the Children’s Global Assessment Scale (C-GAS) and the ADHD Rating Scale-IV (ADHD-RS-IV). CFA supported the original factor structure of the questionnaires, both a first-order and a second-order model revealed acceptable model fit. Internal consistency was satisfactory across domains. The parent-adolescent agreement was moderate. The correlations between the C-GAS and the total scores of the WFIRS-P and WFIRS-S were low to moderate (r = –0.29 to −0.38). The ADHD-RS-IV correlated moderately (r = 0.49) with WFIRS-P, the correlation with WFIRS-S was weak (r = 0.28) supporting divergent validity. In multiple regression analyses, the ADHD-RS total score was the strongest predictor of the total score in both the WFIRS questionnaires, with internalizing disorder showing an additional small contribution. Age, gender and full-scale IQ gave no additional contribution in explaining the variance. The findings support the use of the Norwegian version of the WFIRS-S and the WFIRS-P in the evaluation of functional impairment in adolescents with ADHD.
Additional file 1 of Subcutaneous envafolimab monotherapy in patients with advanced defective mismatch repair/microsatellite instability high solid tumors
Creators: name: Li, Jian
name: Deng, Yanhong
name: Zhang, Weijie
name: Zhou, Ai-Ping
name: Guo, Weijian
name: Yang, Jianwei
name: Yuan, Ying
name: Zhu, Liangjun
name: Qin, Shukui
name: Xiang, Silong
name: Lu, Haolan
name: Gong, John
name: Xu, Ting
name: Liu, David
name: Shen, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Exclusion criteria. Table S2. Algorithm for identifying immune-related adverse events. Table S3. Summary of immune-related adverse events. Figure S1. Duration of response, assessed by the blinded independent review committee, for the population with other solid tumors. Figure S2. Kaplan-Meier curves showing progression-free survival, assessed by the blinded independent review committee, for the overall study population and the primary efficacy population (PEP).
Unveiling the molecular interactions and antimicrobial activity of cetyl pyridinium bromide in ternary systems with short tetraalkylammonium bromide salts
Creators: name: Negi, Kiran
name: Chauhan, Suvarcha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Physicochemical properties of a surfactant cetyl pyridinium bromide (CPB) (0.2–2 mmol kg−1) has been investigated by the addition of greener additives, that is, aqueous tetraalkylammonium bromide (TAAB) salts at different concentrations (0.005, 0.010 and 0.015 mol kg−1) by employing techniques viz: conductivity, fluorescence and UV–visible spectra. In contrast to spectroscopic analysis, which was conducted at room temperature (298.15 K), conductivity measurements were made at various temperatures (298.15, 303.15, 308, and 313.15 K). The obtained electrical conductivity data has been used to compute the critical micelle concentration (cmc), which was also obtained from the UV–Visible and fluorescence methods. It is important to mention that the cmc values obtained from these methods are found to be in good agreement. Various thermodynamic parameters (ΔGmo, ΔHmo, and ΔSmo) have been calculated using conductivity data, the interpretation of which reveals that the interactions between CPB and TAAB are found to be both electrostatic and hydrophobic, however, hydrophobic interactions are found to be dominant in the ternary system. Additionally, the impact of TAAB on the antimicrobial activities of CPB has been evaluated by measuring the zone of inhibition, which explains why the CPB-TAAB system is more effective against gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus) than gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi).
Uniform bounds on harmonic Beltrami differentials and Weil-Petersson curvatures
Creators: name: Bridgeman, Martin
name: Wu, Yunhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30F60, 53C21, 32G15

description: In this article we show that for every finite area hyperbolic surface $X$ of type $(g,n)$ and any harmonic Beltrami differential $μ$ on $X$, then the magnitude of $μ$ at any point of small injectivity radius is uniform bounded from above by the ratio of the Weil-Petersson norm of $μ$ over the square root of the systole of $X$ up to a uniform positive constant multiplication. We apply the uniform bound above to show that the Weil-Petersson Ricci curvature, restricted at any hyperbolic surface of short systole in the moduli space, is uniformly bounded from below by the negative reciprocal of the systole up to a uniform positive constant multiplication. As an application, we show that the average total Weil-Petersson scalar curvature over the moduli space is uniformly comparable to $-g$ as the genus $g$ goes to infinity.
description: Any commments are welcome
title: John Hume : origins of a Derry icon 1960-74
Creators: name: Keenan, Daniel James
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: John Hume held executive office for just five months out of a political career lasting more than 30 years. Yet he became one of the most influential politicians of the past 50 years and was instrumental in changing the course of politics not just in Northern Ireland, but also Dublin, London and Washington. This thesis examines Hume’s political origins from his earliest appearances in public life in the 1960s and how he rejected much of the received political ideology which endured for 40 years after the Partition of Ireland. It explores how Hume synthesised and entwined various strands of fresh thought and formed a distinctive approach which he made his own. It explains his rise from relative obscurity using a thematic approach. A chapter explores the “hidden history” of Hume’s Derry and its formative effect on him. Another chapter details Hume’s efforts to supplant the Nationalist Party and, along with five others, to create a new political force to further his distinctive approach to the Irish question. The third chapter examines in detail Hume’s efforts to reformulate the Northern Ireland policy of the Irish government and a fourth details his efforts to harness the power of the US. Hume’s troubled and arguably counter-productive relations with unionists in Northern Ireland are explored in chapter five and an explanation is offered as to why Hume failed to convince so many unionists of his case. It plots the changes in Hume’s approach which occurred in response to the eruption of the Troubles. The final chapter examines Hume’s relations with the British government and cites his insistence that London, as a sovereign power, involve itself fully in the search for a settlement. Throughout, constant reference is made to Hume’s Derry origins and the centrality of the city’s history and politics in his political make up.
The Role of Price Information in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Rural Peru
Creators: name: Nakasone, Eduardo
name: Nakasone, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper presents new experimental evidence on the role of price information in agricultural markets. For this purpose, I set up a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) in the central highlands of Peru. A group of farmers in randomly selected villages got access to detailed price information for the most relevant local crops in six regional markets through cell phone SMS. The information was delivered throughout the four-month period immediately after harvest, where they sell most of their production. I find that the beneficiaries got higher sales prices for their products, compared to households in the control group. The effect is robust to different specifications. I also find that this effect was mostly driven by increases in the prices for relatively more perishable crops, for which information could be more valuable. Additionally, information made farmers more likely to sell their production (extensive margin). Albeit not statistically significant, the estimate for sales on the intensive margin are positive and quite large. Finally, I also investigate the possibility of information spillovers by examining marketing outcomes of households who did not receive the information but lived in villages where others did. I do not find any significant effects among households in this group.
Systematic Hog Price Management: Selective Hedging and Long-Term Risk Sharing Packer Contracts
Creators: name: Lawrence, John
name: Wang, Zhi
name: Lawrence, John
name: Wang, Zhi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: In addition to futures and options markets, long-term risk sharing hog procurement contracts offered by packers provide some degree of price risk protection for pork producers. The window contract and a moving average hedging strategy generated similar average returns and level of profit risk protection. The cost-plus contract provided a greater degree of risk protection from prices below cost of production and uses a ledger account to ensure that prices average the same as the cash market over the long run.
Allandrus LeConte 1876
Creators: name: Janicki, Julia
name: Young, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Allandrus

description: Key to the Wisconsin Species of Adult Allandrus
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description: Published as part of Janicki, Julia & Young, Daniel K., 2017, Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (579) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169237
A detailed study of the Abelian-projected SU(2) flux tube and its dual Ginzburg-Landau analysis
Creators: name: Koma, Y.
name: Koma, M.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Suzuki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The color-electric flux tube of Abelian-projected (AP) SU(2) lattice gauge theory in the maximally Abelian gauge (MAG) is revisited. It is shown that the lattice Gribov copy effect in the MAG is crucial for the monopole-related parts of the flux-tube profiles. Taking into account both the gauge fixing procedure and the effect of finite quark-antiquark distance properly, the scaling property of the flux-tube profile is confirmed. The quantitative relation between the measured AP flux tube and the flux-tube solution of the U(1) dual Abelian Higgs (DAH) model is also discussed. The fitting of the AP flux tube in terms of the DAH flux tube indicates that the vacuum can be classified as weakly type-I dual superconductor.
description: 24 pages, 13 eps figures, revtex4, minor rewordings, Acknowledgements completed, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Search for Neutron Star Binaries in the Local Group Galaxies Using LISA
Creators: name: Seto, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the prospects of LISA for detecting neutron star binaries (NSBs) in the local group galaxies such as LMC and M31. Using the recently estimated merger rate $ {\rm 1540 \, Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$ and inversely applying the conventional arguments based on the $B$-band galaxy luminosities, we estimate the frequency distributions of NSBs in the local galaxies. We find that, after 10 year observation with its current design sensitivity, LISA might detect $\sim 5$ NSBs both in LMC and M31 with signal-to-noise ratios larger than 10. Some of the NSBs might be three-dimensionally localized well within LMC. These binaries will be useful for studying various topics including the origin of r-process elements.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Generation of photon-number entangled soliton pairs through interactions
Creators: name: Lee, R. -K.
name: Lai, Y.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two new simple schemes for generating macroscopic (many-photon) continuous-variable entangled states by means of continuous interactions (rather than collisions) between solitons in optical fibers are proposed. First, quantum fluctuations around two time-separated single-component temporal solitons are considered. Almost perfect correlation between the photon-number fluctuations can be achieved after propagating a certain distance, with a suitable initial separation between the solitons. The photon-number correlation can also be achieved in a pair of vectorial solitons with two polarization components. In the latter case, the photon-number-entangled pulses can be easily separated by a polarization beam splitter. These results offer novel possibilities to produce entangled sources for quantum communication and computation.
description: 4 pages
Effects of Competition and Space on Country Elevator Grading Practices and Prices
Creators: name: Elliott, Wes
name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Kenkel, Phil
name: Elliott, Wes
name: Adam, Brian D.
name: Kenkel, Phil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Kenkel and Anderson (1977) found that grade information recorded on scale tickets by Oklahoma elevators tended to overestimate test-weight and underestimate dockage and other undesirable grade factors for hard red winter wheat in the 1995 and 1996 harvest
Allandrus bifasciatus LeConte 1876
Creators: name: Janicki, Julia
name: Young, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Allandrus
Allandrus bifasciatus

description: Allandrus bifasciatus LeConte
(Fig. 9–10)
 Allandrus bifasciatus LeConte 1876: 396.
 Description. Length (head excluded) 2.6–3.5 mm. Body elongate. Integument black; elytra reddish to dark brown. Vestiture consisting of a mixture of white, light brown, and dark brown to black setae; elytra with predominantly dark setae with white setae in scattered small patches. Rostrum of male with keellike, sharply elevated longitudinal carina, that of female with carina evident but not elevated; surface with dense, deep punctures. Frons convex and broad, with dense, deep punctures. Antennae of male 2.0X longer than those of female. Eyes entire, slightly oval. Pronotum about as wide as long, widest at lateral extension of transverse carina, transverse carina antebasal, strongly, sharply elevated, rather strongly emarginate; disc convex, surface even and very weakly impressed before middle, with dense, deep punctures that are internally reticulate. Elytral length 1.6X width, length 2.0X pronotal length; surface of disc generally nearly even, with obscure basal swellings; striae deeply impressed, with moderate punctures; interstriae flat, densely and minutely punctate. Pretarsus with each claw cleft, inner tooth minute. Sexual dimorphism present in tibiae: prothoracic tibiae of male strongly curved and bent.
 Diagnosis. Allandrus bifasciatus can be distinguished from A. brevicornis by the suprascrobal carina that surpasses the antennal scrobe, nearly even elytral surface with obscure basal swellings, the long antennae, high median keel or carina on the rostrum, and by the strongly curved and bent prothoracic tibiae in the males. It can be distinguished from A. populi by the presence of a small, medial tooth on each pretarsal claw.
 Natural history. This species is a specialist on Tilia species (Blatchley and Leng 1916; Majka et al. 2007), including American basswood (Tilia americana).
 Phenology. In Wisconsin, adults have been collected July – September.
 Collecting methods. In Wisconsin, 49 specimens were examined during this study from 11 counties. They can be readily collected by beating live or dead branches of American basswood (Tilia americana).
description: Published as part of Janicki, Julia & Young, Daniel K., 2017, Nemonychidae and Anthribidae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-36 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (579) on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169237
Exploring the antimicrobial potential of 4,5,7-trihydroxyflavanone (THF) against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum infections: in vitro and in silico investigations
Creators: name: Hyderi, Zeeshan
name: Nagarajan, Hemavathy
name: Priya, S. Jaya
name: Jeyakanthan, Jeyaraman
name: Ravi, Arumugam Veera
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Enterococcus gallinarum and other Enterococcus species commonly inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract. While the pathogenicity of Enterococcus gallinarum remains incompletely understood, its infections are alarmingly severein humans, as evidenced by numerous cases. Formerly, Vancomycin was the preferred drug, but recent findings indicate that clinical isolates of Enterococcus gallinarum are resistant, leading to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) strains. The escalation of drug resistance is often linked to overexpressed virulence factors, some of which are implicated in biofilm formation in Enterococcus infections. Henceforth, this research investigates the potential of phytocompounds to combat E. gallinarum infection, employing both in vitro and in silico methodologies. In vitro techniques were employed to assess the efficacy of various phytocompounds, ultimately identifying 4,5,7-trihydroxyflavanone (THF) as particularly effective in inhibiting microbial growth. THF displayed over 80% antibacterial activity at 200 µg/ml against E. gallinarum. Subsequent qualitative and quantitative hemolysin assays implicated hemolysin as a target of THF. Molecular docking analysis of THF and Hemolysin A revealed a strong binding affinity. Notably, residues Asn18, Asp85, and His199 formed hydrogen bonds, while His22 and His86 were involved in robust π-π stacking and π-cation interactions with THF. Overall, this study highlights THF's potential in combating E. gallinarum infections.
Design and Pricing of Short Term Hog Marketing Contracts
Creators: name: Unterschultz, James
name: Novak, Frank
name: Bresee, Donald
name: Unterschultz, James
name: Novak, Frank
name: Bresee, Donald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Risk research has not addressed the theoretical and empirical implications of window contracts in the hog industry. Short term window contracts are modeled here as portfolios of puts and calls. A confidence interval approach and a break even approach are used to determine the price window. An empirical simulation found that the price window varied with market conditions. No one window strategy evaluated here stood out as superior in all risk measurement criteria: increased mean revenues, lowered standard deviation of revenues, reduced frequency of large losses and reduced maximum loss.
Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model
Creators: name: Menon, Anirudha
name: Pardini, Tom
name: Singh, Rajiv R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an effective spin model derived perturbatively from random transverse-field Ising model on the pyrochlore lattice. The model consists of spin-configurations on the pyrochlore lattice, restricted to the spin-ice subspace, with spins interacting with random Ising exchange couplings as well as ring exchanges along the hexagons of the lattice. This model is studied by exact diagonalization upto N=64 site systems. We calculate spin-glass correlation functions and local entanglement entropy $S_T$ between spins in a single tetrahedron and the rest of the system. We find that the model undergoes two phase transitions. At weak randomness the model is in a quantum spin-ice phase where $S_T=\ln{6}$. Increasing randomness first leads to a frozen phase, with long-range spin-glass order and $S_T=\ln{2}$ corresponding to the Cat states associated with Ising order. Further increase in randomness leads to a random resonating-hexagon phase with a frozen backbone of spins and a broad distribution of entanglement entropies. The implications of these studies for non-Kramers rare-earth pyrochlores are discussed.
description: 6 pages and 7 figures
Search for new physics in e^\pm q contact interactions at HERA
Creators: name: H1 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep-inelastic e^\pm p scattering at high squared momentum transfer Q^2 up to 30000 GeV^2 is used to search for eq contact interactions associated to scales far beyond the HERA centre of mass energy. The neutral current cross section measurements d sigma / d Q^2, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 16.4 pb^-1 of e^- p data and 100.8 pb^-1 of e^+ p data, are well described by the Standard Model and are analysed to set constraints on new phenomena. For conventional contact interactions lower limits are set on compositeness scales Lambda ranging between 1.6 - 5.5 TeV. Couplings and masses of leptoquarks and squarks in R-parity violating supersymmetry are constrained to M / lambda > 0.3 - 1.4 TeV. A search for low scale quantum gravity effects in models with large extra dimensions provides limits on the effective Planck scale of M_S > 0.8 TeV. A form factor analysis yields a bound on the radius of light quarks of R_q < 1.0 x 10^-18 m.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures and 5 tables
title: Baugrundverbesserung mittels Kunstharzsäulen zur Nachgründung sich setzender Gebäude
Creators: name: Neidhart, Thomas
name: Caicedo, José
name: Bergforth, Axel
name: Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Geotechnik E.V. (DGGT)
Publisher: name: Aktiv Druck & Verlag GmbH
Year: 2024

description: Im Beitrag werden neben der Herstellung und Wirkungsweise auch die Ergebnisse von Versuchen im Maßstab 1:1 an neuartigen Kunstharzsäulen vorgestellt, die als ein minimalinvasives Injektionsverfahren speziell zur Nachgründung und Stabilisierung bestehender Bauwerke auf setzungsempfindlichen Untergrund mit geringer Tragfähigkeit entwickelt wurde.
Effective modeling of the chromatin structure by coarse-grained methods
Creators: name: Tuszynska, Irina
name: Bednarz, Paweł
name: Wilczynski, Bartek
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The interphase chromatin structure is extremely complex, precise and dynamic. Experimental methods can only show the frequency of interaction of the various parts of the chromatin. Therefore, it is extremely important to develop theoretical methods to predict the chromatin structure. In this publication, we implemented an extended version of the SBS model described by Barbieri et al. and created the ChroMC program that is easy to use and freely available (https://github.com/regulomics/chroMC) to other users. We also describe the necessary factors for the effective modeling of the chromatin structure in Drosophila melanogaster. We compared results of chromatin structure predictions using two methods: Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamic. Our simulations suggest that incorporating black, non-reactive chromatin is necessary for successful prediction of chromatin structure, while the loop extrusion model with a long range attraction potential or Lennard-Jones (with local attraction force) as well as using Hi-C data as input are not essential for the basic structure reconstruction. We also proposed a new way to calculate the similarity of the properties of contact maps including the calculation of local similarity.
Galaxy Clustering and Dark Energy
Creators: name: Munshi, Dipak
name: Porciani, Cristiano
name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of galaxy clustering in various cosmological models with quintessence. We investigate how the analytical predictions vary with change of dark energy equation of state $w_X$. Comparing these predictions against available data we discuss to what extent the problems of galaxy biasing can be modelled. This will be key in constraining the dark energy equation of state with future galaxy surveys. We use a compilation of various surveys to study the number density and amplitude of galaxy clustering from observations of the local universe at $z \sim 0$ to that of the Lyman break galaxies and Ly-$α$ emitters at $z \sim 4.9$. We find that there is a degeneracy between the dark energy equation of state and the way galaxies populate dark matter haloes; objects are more biased in models with more negative values of dark energy equation of state $w_X$. We conclude that, while future all sky CMB observations will determine cosmological parameters with unprecedented precision, and cross correlation of weak lensing experiments and galaxy surveys will provide a cleaner and accurate picture of bias associated with collapsed objects, the rate of growth of large scale structure in such surveys can potentially constrain the equation of state of dark energy and the potential of the scalar field associated with quintessence. In particular, we show that the abundance and spatial distribution of galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts strongly depend on the dark energy equation of state. When accurate measurement of galaxy clustering at high-redshit becomes possible, it will provide constraints on dark energy that are independent and complementary to type Ia supernova studies.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. Slightly modified version published in MNRAS
Noise Trader Sentiment and Futures Price Behavior: An Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The noise trader sentiment model of DeLong, Shleifer, Summers, and Waldman (1990a) is applied to futures markets. The theoretical results predict that overly optimistic (pessimistic) noise traders result in market prices that are greater (less) than fundamental value. Thus, returns can be predicted using the level of noise trader sentiment. The null rational expectations hypothesis is tested against the noise trader alternative using a commercial market sentiment index as a proxy for noise trader sentiment. Fama-MacBeth cross-sectional regressions test if noise traders create a systematic bias in futures prices. The time-series predictability of futures returns using known sentiment levels is tested in a Cumby-Modest market timing framework and a more general causality specification. The empirical results suggest that noise traders do not create a systematic bias in futures prices, and market returns are not predictable using the level of noise trader sentiment.
MPEC 2024-B48 : 2024 BY
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 BY

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.
Additional file of Rapid four-component synthesis of dihydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazoles using nano-eggshell/Ti(IV) as a highly compatible natural based catalyst
Creators: name: Arefeh Dehghani Tafti
name: Mirjalili, Bi Bi Fatemeh
name: Abdolhamid Bamoniri
name: Naeimeh Salehi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file of Rapid four-component synthesis of dihydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazoles using nano-eggshell/Ti(IV) as a highly compatible natural based catalyst
Overlapping Andreev states in semiconducting nanowires: competition of 1D and 3D propagation
Creators: name: Kornich, Viktoriia
name: Barakov, Hristo S.
name: Nazarov, Yuli V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent proposals of devices with overlapping Andreev bound states (ABS) open up the opportunities to control and fine-tune their spectrum, that can be used in various applications. In this Article, we study the ABS in a device consisting of a semiconducting nanowire covered with three superconducting leads. The ABS are formed at two junctions where the wire is not covered. They overlap in the wire where the electron propagation is 1D, and in one of the leads where the propagation is 3D. We identify a number of regimes where these two overlaps either dominate or compete, depending on the junction separation $L$ as compared to the correlation lengths $ξ_{\rm w}$, $ξ_{\rm s}$ in the wire and in the lead, respectively. We utilize a simple model of 1D electron spectrum in the nanowire and take into account the quality of the contact between the nanowire and the superconducting lead. We present the spectra for different $L$, detailing the transition from a single-ABS in the regime of strong 1D hybridization to two almost independent ABS hybridized at the degeneracy points, in the regime of weak 1D hybridization. We present the details of merging the upper ABS with the continuous spectrum upon decreasing $L$. We study in detail the effect of quantum interference due to the phase accumulated during the electron passage between the junctions. We develop a perturbation theory for analytical treatment of hybridization. We address an interesting separate case of fully transparent junctions. We derive and exemplify a perturbation theory suitable for the competition regime demonstrating the interference of 1D and two 3D transmission amplitudes.
Gauge-invariant Hamiltonian dynamics of cylindrical gravitational waves
Creators: name: Kouletsis, Ioannis
name: Hajicek, Petr
name: Bicak, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of cylindrical gravitational waves is employed to work out and check a recent proposal in Ref. [11] how a diffeomorphism-invariant Hamiltonian dynamics is to be constructed. The starting point is the action by Ashtekar and Pierri because it contains the boundary term that makes it differentiable for non-trivial variations at infinity. With the help of parametrization at infinity, the notion of gauge transformation is clearly separated from that of asymptotic symmetry. The symplectic geometry of asymptotic symmetries and asymptotic time is described and the role of the asymptotic structures in defining a zero-motion frame for the Hamiltonian dynamics of Dirac observables is explained. Complete sets of Dirac observables associated with the asymptotic fields are found and the action of the asymptotic symmetries on them is calculated. The construction of the corresponding quantum theory is sketched: the Fock space, operators of asymptotic fields, the Hamiltonian and the scattering matrix are determined.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure