cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SCExAO as a precursor to an ELT exoplanet direct imaging instrument
Creators: name: Jovanovic, Nemanja
name: Guyon, Olivier
name: martinache, Frantz
name: Clergeon, Christophe
name: Singh, Garima
name: Vievard, Sebastien
name: Kudo, Tomoyuki
name: Garrel, Vincent
name: Norris, Barnaby
name: Tuthill, Peter
name: Stewart, Paul
name: huby, Elsa
name: Perrin, Guy
name: Lacour, Sylvestre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO (SCExAO) instrument consists of a high performance Phase Induced Amplitude Apodisation (PIAA) coronagraph combined with an extreme Adaptive Optics (AO) system operating in the near-infrared (H band). The extreme AO system driven by the 2000 element deformable mirror will allow for Strehl ratios >90% to be achieved in the H-band when it goes closed loop. This makes the SCExAO instrument a powerful platform for high contrast imaging down to angular separations of the order of 1lambda/D and an ideal testbed for exploring coronagraphic techniques for ELTs. In this paper we report on the recent progress in regards to the development of the instrument, which includes the addition of a visible bench that makes use of the light at shorter wavelengths not currently utilized by SCExAO and closing the loop on the tip/tilt wavefront sensor. We will also discuss several exciting guest instruments which will expand the capabilities of SCExAO over the next few years; namely CHARIS which is a integral field spectrograph as well as VAMPIRES, a visible aperture masking experiment based on polarimetric analysis of circumstellar disks. In addition we will elucidate the unique role extreme AO systems will play in enabling high precision radial velocity spectroscopy for the detection of small companions.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures Proceedings of AO4ELTs3 conference, paper 13396, Florence, Italy, May 2013
Longitudinal psychosocial assessment of office workers in a utility company
Creators: name: TAVARES, Carla S. D.
name: LOURENÇO, Miguel L.
name: COELHO, Denis A.
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: A voluntary psychosocial assessment of office workers in a utility company was carried out using the short version of the Copenhagen Psychococial Questionnaire
(CoPsoQ) in two occasions, one and a half year apart. Initially, 25 workers participated (11 men and 14 women), while 14 of those workers (8 women and 6 men) participated in the second psychosocial assessment. Statistical analysis showed a fairly stable outlook longitudinally, with sustained severe scores in many of the sub-scales. An odds ratios analysis considering gender as exposure factor showed an effect on intensification of severity of workers control over work and esteem for men.
title: Die Aufgabe und Stellung der Statistik bei der neuen Behörde des deutschen Bundes; 1848
title: (der Bundesversammlung überreicht unter dem 23. März 1848)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reden, Friedrich Wilhelm von
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - In Fraktur
Retention Strategies and Factors Associated with Missed Visits Among Low Income Women at Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition in the US (HPTN 064)
Creators: name: Haley, Danielle F.
name: Lucas, Jonathan
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Wang, Jing
name: Hughes, James P.
name: Emel, Lynda
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Frew, Paula M.
name: Justman, Jessica E.
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Watson, Christopher Chauncey
name: Mannheimer, Sharon B.
name: Rompalo, Anne
name: Soto-Torres, Lydia
name: Tims-Cook, Zandraetta
name: Carter, Yvonne
name: Hodder, Sally L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Epidemiology
Public health

description: Women at high-risk for HIV acquisition often face challenges that hinder their retention in HIV prevention trials. These same challenges may contribute to missed clinical care visits among HIV-infected women. This article, informed by the Gelberg-Andersen Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations, identifies factors associated with missed study visits and describes the multifaceted retention strategies used by study sites. HPTN 064 was a multisite, longitudinal HIV seroincidence study in 10 US communities. Eligible women were aged 18–44 years, resided in a census tract/zipcode with high poverty and HIV prevalence, and self-reported ≥1 personal or sex partner behavior related to HIV acquisition. Multivariate analyses of predisposing (e.g., substance use) and enabling (e.g., unmet health care needs) characteristics, and study attributes (i.e., recruitment venue, time of enrollment) identified factors associated with missed study visits. Retention strategies included: community engagement; interpersonal relationship building; reduction of external barriers; staff capacity building; and external tracing. Visit completion was 93% and 94% at 6 and 12 months. Unstable housing and later date of enrollment were associated with increased likelihood of missed study visits. Black race, recruitment from an outdoor venue, and financial responsibility for children were associated with greater likelihood of attendance. Multifaceted retention strategies may reduce missed study visits. Knowledge of factors associated with missed visits may help to focus efforts.
Tamm Plasmon Resonance as Optical Fingerprint of Silver/Bacteria Interaction
Creators: name: Normani, Simone
name: Bertolotti, Pietro
name: Bisio, Francesco
name: Magnozzi, Michele
name: Carboni, Francesco Federico
name: Filattiera, Samuele
name: Perotto, Sara
name: Marangi, Fabio
name: Lanzani, Guglielmo
name: Scotognella, Francesco
name: Paterno, Giuseppe Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Incorporation of responsive elements into photonic crystals is an effective strategy for building up active optical components to be used as sensors, actuators and modulators. In these regards, Tamm Plasmon (TP) modes have arisen recently as powerful optical tools for the manipulation of light-matter interaction and for building sensors/actuators. These emerge at the interface between a dielectric mirror and a plasmonic layer and, interestingly, can be excited at normal incidence angle with relatively high quality factors. Although its field is located at the interface between the dielectric mirror and the metal, recent studies have demonstrated that corrugation at the nanoscale permits to access the TP mode from the outside, opening new exciting perspectives for many real-life applications. Here, we show that the TP resonance obtained by capping a distributed Bragg reflector with a nanostructured layer of silver is sensitive to the presence of bacteria. We observed that nanoscale corrugation is essential for accessing the TP field, while the well-known bio-responsivity of silver nanostructures renders such a localised mode sensible to the presence of Escherichia Coli. Electrodoping experiments confirm the pivotal role of nanostructuration, as well as strengthening our hypothesis that the modifications of the TP mode upon exposure to bacteria are related to the accumulation of negative charge due to the bacterial-driven removal of Ag+ ions from its lattice. Finally, we devised a case study in which we disentangled optically the presence of proliferative and non-proliferative bacteria using the TP resonance as a read-out, thus making these devices as promising simple all-optical probes for bacterial metabolic activity, including their response against drugs and antibiotics.
Medical Humanities Tuberculosis: thinking with Stories during Recent Years
Creators: name: Martini, Mariano
name: Brigo, Francesco
name: Orsini, Davide
Publisher: name: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities
Year: 2023

description: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humanity and is still a major public health problem. Today TB is one of the ten most frequent causes of death in the world. It is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis, isolated by Robert Koch at the end of XIX Century when it was one of the most common diseases in the population.TB has caused millions of deaths in various historical periods. A social disease, TB has featured prominently in Medical Humanities (MH) on account of its great impact on literature, the arts, music etc... There is an excellent relationship between the arts, literature to TB, and the influence and effects of TB on the humanistic disciplines. Art, music, literature are expres- sions of emotions, feelings, passions, but they also talk about empathy. Through our path, we will try to show that the approach to TB should be part of the medical education, through the study of MH and also through listening to a patient’s story.
description: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)
Absolute light yield measurements on SrF$_{2}$ and BaF$_{2}$ doped with rare earth ions
Creators: name: Shendrik, Roman
name: Radzhabov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of absolute light output measurements on strontium and barium fluoride doped with PrF$_3$ and CeF$_3$ are presented and compared with scintillators having well-known light output (NaI-Tl, CsI-Tl, BGO). For pure SrF$_2$ crystal we obtain a value of about 28600 photons/MeV.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Venue-Based Recruitment of Women at Elevated Risk for HIV: An HIV Prevention Trials Network Study
Creators: name: Haley, Danielle F.
name: Golin, Carol
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Hughes, James P.
name: Wang, Jing
name: Isler, Malika Roman
name: Mannheimer, Sharon B.
name: Kuo, Irene
name: Lucas, Jonathan
name: DiNenno, Elizabeth
name: Justman, Jessica E.
name: Frew, Paula M.
name: Emel, Lynda
name: Rompalo, Anne
name: Polk, Sarah
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Rodriquez, Lorenna
name: Soto-Torres, Lydia
name: Hodder, Sally
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Public health
Epidemiology

description: Background: The challenge of identifying and recruiting U.S. women at elevated risk for HIV acquisition impedes prevention studies and services. HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 064 was a U.S. multisite, longitudinal cohort study designed to estimate HIV incidence among women living in communities with prevalent HIV and poverty. Venue-based sampling (VBS) methodologies and participant and venue characteristics are described.

Methods: Eligible women were recruited from 10 U.S. communities with prevalent HIV and poverty using VBS. Participant eligibility criteria included age 18–44 years, residing in a designated census tract/zip code, and self-report of at least one high-risk personal and/or male sexual partner characteristic associated with HIV acquisition (e.g., incarceration history). Ethnography was conducted to finalize recruitment areas and venues.

Results: Eight thousand twenty-nine women were screened and 2,099 women were enrolled (88% black, median age 29 years) over 14 months. The majority of participants were recruited from outdoor venues (58%), retail spaces (18%), and social service organizations (13%). The proportion of women recruited per venue category varied by site. Most participants (73%) had both individual and partner characteristics that qualified them for the study; 14% were eligible based on partner risk only.

Conclusion: VBS is a feasible and effective approach to rapidly recruit a population of women at enhanced risk for HIV in the United States. Such a recruitment approach is needed in order to engage women most at risk and requires strong community engagement.
Letting HIV Transform Academia — Embracing Implementation Science
Creators: name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Philip, Neena M.
name: Justman, Jessica E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Public health
Education, Higher
Education--Philosophy

description: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has had an extraordinary global impact. Even as it has devastated societies, it has also inspired community empowerment, motivated impressive scientific discoveries, and provoked an unprecedented mobilization of vast resources for a single health condition. Not yet fully realized, however, is the epidemic's potential for expanding the core mission of academic institutions to include the pursuit of a wider range of research.
title: Adaptive Positionierung großer Arbeitsobjekte in der industriellen Montage zur Reduktion von physischen Belastungen
Creators: name: Pätzold, Maximilian
Publisher: name: GfA-Press
Year: 2023

description: Das Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft entwickelt am Beispiel der Automobiltürmontage eine adaptive Arbeitsstation zur automatisierten Positionierung großer Arbeitsobjekte, um deren Auswirkung auf Belastung, Beanspruchung und Prozesseffizienz zu untersuchen. Für die Gestaltung des Adaptionsprozesses sind die Einflüsse von Häufigkeit, Genauigkeit und des Zeitpunktes der einzelnen Adaptionsschritte mit einzubeziehen. Zur reaktiven Regelung in Echtzeit bzw. präventiven Steuerung des Systems durch die Adaptionslogik muss eine geeignete Datengrundlage geschaffen werden. Die positive Wirkung einer Repositionierung auf die Expositionszeit in kritischen Flexions- bzw. Extensionswinkeln in Schulter und Nacken wurde in einer Proof of Concept Studie nachgewiesen.
The role of temporal evolution in modeling atmospheric emissions from tropical fires
Creators: name: Marlier, Miriam E.
name: Voulgarakis, Apostolos
name: Shindell, Drew T.
name: Faluvegi, Gregory S.
name: Henry, Candise L.
name: Randerson, James T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Climatic changes
Climatology
Forest fires--Environmental aspects
Atmospheric aerosols
Atmospheric models

description: Fire emissions associated with tropical land use change and maintenance influence atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate. In this study, we explore the effects of representing fire emissions at daily versus monthly resolution in a global composition-climate model. We find that simulations of aerosols are impacted more by the temporal resolution of fire emissions than trace gases such as carbon monoxide or ozone. Daily-resolved datasets concentrate emissions from fire events over shorter time periods and allow them to more realistically interact with model meteorology, reducing how often emissions are concurrently released with precipitation events and in turn increasing peak aerosol concentrations. The magnitude of this effect varies across tropical ecosystem types, ranging from smaller changes in modeling the low intensity, frequent burning typical of savanna ecosystems to larger differences when modeling the short-term, intense fires that characterize deforestation events. The utility of modeling fire emissions at a daily resolution also depends on the application, such as modeling exceedances of particulate matter concentrations over air quality guidelines or simulating regional atmospheric heating patterns.
Main-sequence progenitor configurations of the NN Ser candidate circumbinary planetary system are dynamically unstable
Creators: name: Mustill, Alexander J
name: Marshall, Jonathan P
name: Villaver, Eva
name: Veras, Dimitri
name: Davis, Philip J
name: Horner, Jonathan
name: Wittenmyer, Robert A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of the NN Serpentis post-common envelope binary system have revealed eclipse timing variations that have been attributed to the presence of two Jovian-mass exoplanets. Under the assumption that these planets are real and survived from the binary's Main Sequence state, we reconstruct initial binaries that give rise to the present NN Ser configuration and test the dynamical stability of the original system. Under standard assumptions about binary evolution, we find that survival of the planets through the entire Main Sequence life-time is very unlikely. Hence, we conclude that the planets are not survivors from before the Common Envelope phase, implying that either they formed recently out of material ejected from the primary, or that the observed signals are of non-planetary origin.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
In hot pursuit of a stable wormhole in beyond Horndeski theory
Creators: name: Mironov, S.
name: Rubakov, V.
name: Volkova, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the issue of stability at the linearized level for static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions within a subclass of scalar-tensor theories of beyond Horndeski type. In this class of theories we derive a set of stability conditions ensuring the absence of ghosts and both radial and angular gradient instabilities about a static, spherically-symmetric background. This set of constraints extends the existing one and completes the stability analysis for high energy modes in both parity odd and parity even sectors, while "slow" tachyonic instabilities remain unconstrained. We give an example of beyond Horndeski Lagrangian admitting a wormhole solution which complies with all stability constraints for the high energy modes.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures
Rush hour: Arboreal mammal activity patterns in natural canopy bridges in the Peruvian Amazon
Creators: name: Gregory, Tremaine
name: Carrasco-Rueda, Farah
name: Balbuena, Diego
name: Kolowski, Joseph
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Canopy bridges are an increasingly popular method to mitigate linear infrastructure fragmentation impacts, but little is known about when, over the course of the day and night, they are used. Natural canopy bridges monitored with camera traps provide an excellent source of information on community-wide arboreal mammal activity patterns, which are otherwise challenging to document. Natural bridges represent a hotspot of activity, being bottleneck crossing points over linear infrastructure, and cameras provide 24-hour monitoring capability. We monitored 20 natural canopy bridges over pipeline clearings distributed at two sites in the Peruvian Amazon for over a year using camera traps. Across 11,492 camera trap nights, we recorded 5,165 events of 27 arboreal mammal species, and used these events to describe both overall mammal activity in natural canopy bridges and activity patterns for the most frequently registered species: Aotus nigriceps, Potos flavus, Bassaricyon alleni, Caluromys lanatus, Coendou ichillus, and Sapajus apella. The long duration of our study allowed us to investigate potential changes in activity patterns resulting from seasonality and disturbance associated with pipeline construction, and the inclusion of two study sites allowed comparisons between them. We found substantially more mammalian activity in bridges during the night (87.4%) than the day, with only one of the most frequently registered species being diurnal (S. apella). Changes in activity between disturbance phases and seasons were only apparent for C. ichillus, and comparisons across species revealed differences in activity peaks, such as a unique peak early in the night for A. nigriceps. Our data provide some of the first substantial activity information for the species evaluated and help elucidate temporal patterns of canopy bridge usage to be expected for arboreal Neotropical wildlife. Knowing when to expect bridge use helps both guide the design of mitigation plans for future projects that include natural and artificial canopy bridges and identify the best monitoring methods. Given the high rate of nocturnal activity we observed, we recommend mitigation plans consider limiting human activity on linear infrastructure at night, if possible, and consider the requirements of nocturnal species in bridge designs. We also recommend camera trapping for monitoring.
title: From Medical Officers to Family Doctors: Historical and Training Paths (Historical and Pedagogical Reflections on the Italian Context)
Creators: name: Zurlini, Fabiola
name: Vesprini, Andrea
name: Sani, Roberto
Publisher: name: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities
Year: 2023

description: This article reconstructs the historical path, which passes from medical officers to family doctors - today’s general practitioners - between the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighting the ju- ridical, professional and training aspects, which determined the uniqueness of these figures in a medical context. Even today, these figures are the only ones in the medical context whose training takes place outside the academic area, unlike what happens in other European countries. The key role of general practitioners in the territory and the relationship with patients, family and social context requires a rethinking about their training, taking into account the complexity of General Practice, which cannot be limited only to technical biomedical knowledge. Medical Humanities can play a strategic role for a reform in the training of general practitioners to be hopefully brought back to the academic field, in also defining all those transversal skills at a methodological level for a coherent and effective training at a professional level.
description: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)
Just One Click: The Reality of Internet Retail Contracting
Creators: name: Mann, Ronald
name: Siebeneicher, Travis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Contracts
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Finance

description: This Essay explores the enforceability and presence of pro-seller contract terms in internet retail contracts. Analyzing case law on internet contract enforceability and a survey of 500 firms’ websites, it demonstrates that even the enforceability of many internet contracts is questionable. It then presents new data that suggest that the prevalence of pro-seller contract terms is far less than usually assumed. It suggests that the benefit of making these terms enforceable is outweighed by the loss of user friendliness required for the necessary interface changes. Finally, it uses fresh statistical analyses to determine what relationship, if any, exists between enforceability, pro-seller contract terms, business size, product channel, or product type. Generally, it concludes that the contract literature has likely overestimated the benefit of the pro-seller contract terms and underestimated the role internet contract terms play in informal enforcement; unenforceable terms may still serve as guideposts to dispute resolution.
Inorganic Ingredients in Aelius Promotus’ Dynameron - Relevance to Current Scientific Data
Creators: name: Marselos, Marios
name: Valiakos, Elias
Publisher: name: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities
Year: 2023

description: The Dynameron of Aelius Promotus is a manuscript written in Greek, with 130 chapters devoted to the therapy of various diseases. The author was a physician, who lived in Alexandria, presumably in the turn of the 1st to the 2nd century AD. The 830 recipes of Dynameron contain information for the preparation of composite medicaments, with 484 ingredients of herbal (288), animal (133), or inorganic origin (63). Inorganic ingredients are present in about 700 recipes concerning mostly topical preparations for ailments of the skin, the genitals, the eyes, the ears, the nose and the mouth. These applications are supported by modern scientific data proving the antibacterial action of the inorganic substances used. There are also examples of cataplasms on the chest and the abdomen, intended to treat diseases of the respiratory or the peptic system. Recipes for internal use are rare. Even rarer are recipes for mouthwashes, enemas and fumigations. The inorganic ingredientspresent in Promotus’ Dynameron have been evaluated in comparison with earlier medical authors, like Hippocrates and Dioscorides, and also with the content of other treatises of late antiquity and Byzantium.
description: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)
How well does the Friends-of-Friends algorithm recover group properties from galaxy catalogs limited in both distance and luminosity?
Creators: name: Duarte, Manuel
name: Mamon, Gary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the Friends-of-Friends (FoF) grouping algorithm, which depends on two linking lengths (LLs), plane-of-sky and line-of-sight (LOS), normalized to the mean nearest neighbor separation of field galaxies. We argue, on theoretical grounds, that LLs should be $b_\perp \simeq 0.11$, and $b_\parallel \simeq 1.3$ to recover 95% of all galaxies with projected radii within the virial radius $r_{200}$ and 95% of the galaxies along the LOS. We then predict that 80 to 90% of the galaxies in FoF groups should lie within their parent real-space groups (RSGs), defined within their virial spheres. We test the FoF extraction for 16x16 pairs of LLs, using subsamples of galaxies, doubly complete in distance and luminosity, of a flux-limited mock SDSS galaxy catalog. We find that massive RSGs are more prone to fragmentation, while the fragments typically have low estimated mass, with typically 30% of groups of low and intermediate estimated mass being fragments. Group merging rises drastically with estimated mass. For groups of 3 or more galaxies, galaxy completeness and reliability are both typically better than 80% (after discarding the fragments). Estimated masses of extracted groups are biased low, by up to a factor 4 at low richness, while the inefficiency of mass estimation improves from 0.85 dex to 0.2 dex when moving from low to high multiplicity groups. The optimal LLs depend on the scientific goal for the group catalog. We propose $b_\perp \simeq 0.07$, with $b_\parallel \simeq 1.1$ for studies of environmental effects, $b_\parallel \simeq 2.5$ for cosmographic studies and $b_\parallel \simeq 5$ for followups of individual groups.
description: Revised version resubmitted to MNRAS. 16 pages. Smaller optimal linking lengths. Two extra figures. Comments welcome!
Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Costa, Kassandra Maria
name: Russell, James
name: Konecky, Bronwen
name: Lamb, Henry
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Paleoclimatology
Climatic changes
Meteorology
Atmosphere
Environmental sciences

description: The African Humid Period of the early to mid-Holocene (12,000–5000 years ago) had dramatic ecological and societal consequences, including the expansion of vegetation and civilization into the “green Sahara.” While the humid period itself is well documented throughout northern and equatorial Africa, mechanisms behind observed regional variability in the timing and magnitude of the humid period remain disputed. This paper presents a new hydrogen isotope record from leaf waxes (δD_wax) in a 15,000-year sediment core from Lake Tana, Ethiopia (12°N, 37°E) to provide insight into the timing, duration, and intensity of the African Humid Period over northeastern Africa. δD_wax at Lake Tana ranges between −80‰ and −170‰, with an abrupt transition from D-enriched to D-depleted waxes between 13,000–11,500 years before present (13–11.5 ka). A similarly abrupt transition from D-depleted to D-enriched waxes occurs ca 8.5–8 ka and is followed by generally D-enriched waxes throughout the late Holocene. Trends in δD_wax covary with changes in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation and reflect increased precipitation at Lake Tana during the AHP; however, the transition from D-depleted to D-enriched waxes occurs earlier at Lake Tana (ca 8 ka, vs 5 ka) than in many other regional records, and the amplitude of D-depletion during the AHP is larger at Lake Tana as well. We attribute this early enrichment to a reduction of moisture derived from westerly sources (the Congo Basin and Atlantic Ocean) which we suggest are D-depleted relative to moisture sourced from the east (Indian Ocean) and the north (Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea). Our new record highlights the importance of both the northward migration of the tropical rain belt as well as east-west migration of the Congo Air Boundary to precipitation source and amount during the African Humid Period.
An Empirical Determination of the Intergalactic Background Light Using NIR Deep Galaxy Survey Data out to 5 microns and the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe
Creators: name: Scully, Sean T.
name: Malkan, Matthew A.
name: Stecker, Floyd W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our previous model-independent determination of the intergalactic background light (IBL), based purely on galaxy survey data, out to a wavelength of 5 microns. Our approach enables us to constrain the range of photon densities, based on the uncertainties from observationally determined luminosity densities and colors. We further determine a 68% confidence upper and lower limit on the opacity of the universe to gamma-rays up to energies of 1.6/(1+z) TeV. A comparison of our lower limit redshift-dependent opacity curves to the opacity limits derived from the results of both ground-based air Cherenkov telescope and Fermi-LAT observations of PKS 1424+240 allows us to place a new upper limit on the redshift of this source, independent of IBL modeling.
description: version accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, 23 pages, 4 figures
Characterization of rare and novel AlphaFold structural space
Creators: name: Janani Durairaj
name: Akdel, Mehmet
name: Schwede, Torsten
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: The recent and ongoing releases of millions of highly accurate, computationally predicted, structures as part of the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database has greatly expanded structural coverage of proteomes across species and function. We perform a comparison of structural elements between proteins from the AlphaFold database and experimentally characterised structures from the PDB using “shape-mers”, analogous to sequence k-mers, defined by rotation-invariant moment functions. We then apply natural language processing approaches to these shape-mers to explore the global protein structural space.
 First, we use topic modelling, an unsupervised approach to discover abstract “topics” in structural space. We then applied Word2vec embedding to find shape-mer associations across structural and functional domains. This allows for defining semantic similarity between shape-mers, i.e structural fragments that appear in similar contexts, thus pinpointing very remote homology impossible to see from sequence alone. We focus on high confidence predictions of structural elements (combinations of shape-mers) that are absent or very rare in experimentally characterised structures. We pinpoint areas of protein functional and evolutionary space now expanded by AlphaFold as well as structural regions which could represent novel folds.
 The shape-mer framework enables fast comparison of millions of structures while also defining connected structural elements spanning across a protein which, analogous to sequence motifs, can then be linked to protein function.
title: Hohe National-Versammlung! Eine Volksversammlung aus dem Wahlbezirke Tettnang-Ravensburg-Wangen hält es für Pflicht, gegen der hohen National-Versammlung ihr politischen Ueberzeugungen auszusprechen. ...; [1848]
title: [Friedrichshafen, den 12. Juni 1848]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Concordant or not? Performance and concordance rate analysis of ten prediction algorithms on clinically relevant variants from the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes
Creators: name: Qorri, Erda
name: Takács, Bertalan
name: Enyedi, Márton Zs.
name: Gráf, Alexandra
name: Pintér, Lajos
name: Ernő  Kiss
name: Haracska, Lajos
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: The widespread use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies in clinical diagnostics has resulted in the identification of thousands of novel genomic variants whose clinical significance is uncertain. To address this issue, a variety of computational tools have been developed that facilitate the interpretation of these variants of uncertain significance. However, the vast range of these tools and the ambiguous guidelines often make it challenging for the lay user to choose the appropriate software. In this regard, systematic benchmarking is crucial for evaluating the efficiency of the prediction algorithms and selecting the best-performing ones.
 By using two independent benchmarking datasets composed of missense variants from two routinely screened genes in clinical settings, BRCA1 and BRCA2, we evaluated the performance of ten widely used prediction algorithms. In addition, based on current guidelines for variant interpretation—which encourage the use of computational analysis as supporting evidence only when multiple prediction algorithms are used and are in agreement with each other—we analyzed the true concordance, discordance, and false concordance rates across different pairs of prediction algorithms.
 Our results show that the performance of the prediction algorithms varies widely across the datasets. Furthermore, based on the Area Under the Curve (AUC) and Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) values, the computational tools were categorized into two major categories: best-performing and poor-performing algorithms. Moreover, we also demonstrate that by equally weighing the output of multiple computational tools, the current guidelines allow for poor-performing algorithms to disrupt the congruence of the better-performing algorithms, thus rendering the computational evidence ineffective.
DeepMapping2: Self-Supervised Large-Scale LiDAR Map Optimization
Creators: name: Chen, Chao
name: Liu, Xinhao
name: Li, Yiming
name: Ding, Li
name: Feng, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: LiDAR mapping is important yet challenging in self-driving and mobile robotics. To tackle such a global point cloud registration problem, DeepMapping converts the complex map estimation into a self-supervised training of simple deep networks. Despite its broad convergence range on small datasets, DeepMapping still cannot produce satisfactory results on large-scale datasets with thousands of frames. This is due to the lack of loop closures and exact cross-frame point correspondences, and the slow convergence of its global localization network. We propose DeepMapping2 by adding two novel techniques to address these issues: (1) organization of training batch based on map topology from loop closing, and (2) self-supervised local-to-global point consistency loss leveraging pairwise registration. Our experiments and ablation studies on public datasets (KITTI, NCLT, and Nebula) demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
description: accepted by CVPR 2023
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1929-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Exact cosmological solutions from Hojman conservation quantities
Creators: name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Roshan, Mahmood
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new approach to find exact solutions for cosmological models. By requiring the existence of a symmetry transformation vector for the equations of motion of the given cosmological model (without using either Lagrangian or Hamiltonian), one can find corresponding Hojman conserved quantities. With the help of these conserved quantities, the analysis of the cosmological model can be simplified. In the case of quintessence scalar-tensor models, we show that the Hojman conserved quantities exist for a wide range of V(ϕ)-potentials and allow to find exact solutions for the cosmic scale factor and the scalar field. Finally, we investigate the general cosmological behavior of solutions by adopting a phase-space view.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
The Last Century of Malaria in Ferrara: from the Unification to the Boom Years
Creators: name: De Togni, Aldo
Publisher: name: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities
Year: 2023

description: The Official Authority recognized that Ferrara was completely free from malaria on March 8, 1966. The history of the last cen- tury of malaria in Ferrara, drawing on the reports of the doctors involved in the fight against malaria, retraces the three antima- larial strategies that have followed one another, interspersed with the two World Wars. The changes in the ecological context extremely favorable to malaria, present in a large part of the province of Ferrara, leads the historical reconstruction.
description: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)
title: EDEN - AN EDITOR ENVIRONMENT FOR OBJECT- ORIENTED GRAPHICS EDITING
Creators: name: Fellner, Dieter W.
name: Kappe, F.
Publisher: name: Eurographics Association
Year: 1990

description: Systems allowing the creation and manipulation of graphical information (so-called Graphic Editors) have become essential in various fields of applications. At the same time the typical user of such a system has changed. Not computer experts, but designers, secretaries, technicians, teachers etc. are today's typical users of computer graphics, mostly on microcomputers. Obviously it would be desirable to have a common concept of graphics editing covering many applications. The purpose of this paper is a brief survey of the EDEN project started at the IIGb in 1987: the motivation for the project, the major steps, results, current status and future work is presented here. EDEN (short for EDitor ENvironnient) is a generic concept for object-oriented graphics editing, providing device independence at the workstation and graphics output level as well as an application independent file-format for the storage and exchange between different graphics applications.
description: EG 1990-Technical Papers
The inhomogeneous Suslov problem
Creators: name: García-Naranjo, Luis C.
name: Maciejewski, Andrzej J.
name: Marrero, Juan C.
name: Przybylska, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37C40, 37J60, 70F25, 70E40

description: We consider the Suslov problem of nonholonomic rigid body motion with inhomogeneous constraints. We show that if the direction along which the Suslov constraint is enforced is perpendicular to a principal axis of inertia of the body, then the reduced equations are integrable and, in the generic case, possess a smooth invariant measure. Interestingly, in this generic case, the first integral that permits integration is transcendental and the density of the invariant measure depends on the angular velocities. We also study the Painlevé property of the solutions.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Geophysical signatures of past and present hydration within a young oceanic core complex
Creators: name: Blackman, Donna K.
name: Slagle, Angela L.
name: Guerin, Gilles
name: Harding, Alistair
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology
subject: Oceanography

description: Borehole logging at the Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex provides new information on the relationship between the physical properties and the lithospheric hydration of a slow-spread intrusive crustal section. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Hole U1309D penetrates 1.4 km into the footwall to an exposed detachment fault on the 1.2 Ma flank of the mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N. Downhole variations in seismic velocity and resistivity show a strong correspondence to the degree of alteration, a recorder of past seawater circulation. Average velocity and resistivity are lower, and alteration is more pervasive above a fault around 750 m. Deeper, these properties have higher values except in heavily altered ultramafic zones that are several tens of meters thick. Present circulation inferred from temperature mimics this pattern: advective cooling persists above 750 m, but below, conductive cooling dominates except for small excursions within the ultramafic zones. These alteration-related physical property signatures are probably a characteristic of gabbroic cores at oceanic core complexes.
Teaching Medical History: the Impact of Rare Medical Books Collections on Medical Education. A critical Overview in Italy
Creators: name: Iorio, Silvia
name: Zurlini, Fabiola
Publisher: name: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities
Year: 2023

description: This article illustrates the impact of bibliographic collec- tions of medical history (what we can also call “rare medical books”) on medical education. The authors have carried out an analysis of academic experiences – largely Anglo-American – where these resources have been used on the educational level. These collections represent an underestimated and underutilised educational potential, especially in Italy, despite the considerable historical wealth and heritage of books and literature available.Furthermore, the article highlights some possible methodological strategies for a systematic enhancement of the collections in the context of the didactic curriculum of medical studies: the development of a systematic scientific alliance between professor and librarian for a pedagogical use of the collec- tions; the direct involvement in academic programs through didactic planning of the use of historical-medical library material; and the use of historical-medical bibliographies as tools for research and understanding the evolution of medical knowledge, to date little used in historical-medical teaching. With specific reference to countries such as Italy, defined by a noteworthy wealth of historical-medical book collections, there is a potential that paradoxically still awaits to be ade- quately utilised, with the exception of some pioneering and learned experiences. This situation is due to the lack of peda- gogical pathways and approaches elaborated according to a common strategy among teachers, researchers and librarians.
description: Medicina nei secoli: Journal of history of medicine and medical humanities, Vol. 35 No. 2 (2023)
Eoarchean within-plate basalts from southwest Greenland: COMMENT
Creators: name: Szilas, Kristoffer
name: Hoffmann, J. Elis
name: Münker, Carsten
name: Dziggel, Annika
name: Rosing, Minik T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mineralogy
subject: Geochemistry

description: Jenner et al. (2013) reported the occurrence of, what they interpret as, Earth’s oldest ocean island basalts (OIBs) on the island of Innersuartuut, southwest Greenland. However, this interpretation hinges critically on the incompatible trace element contents of the presented rocks. Compared to Phanerozoic OIBs, the data of Jenner et al. exhibit lower Nb/La and Gd/Yb ratios, have negative Zr-Hf anomalies, and very low U and Th abundances. Thus, the highly incompatible trace elements are depleted relative to Hawaiian OIB and the compositions are completely different from HIMU- (high μ), EM1- (enriched mantle 1), and EM2-type OIB (see Hofmann, 2003).
How to tame the beast: the diverse development of European networks regulating finance and competition
Creators: name: Maggetti, Martino
name: Vagionaki, Thenia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: European regulatory networks are increasingly becoming crucial venues for European governance. They typically emerged as relatively loose groups of national authorities in charge of meta-regulating sectoral policies. However, in the medium term, they experienced dissimilar developmental patterns. On the one hand, some networks (such as the Committee of European Securities Regulators – CESR) have been progressively institutionalized, transformed into European agencies, and acquired considerable regulatory powers, including enforcement. On the other hand, other networks (such as the European Competition Network – ECN) remained more flexible networked organizations embodying a soft coordination approach. This article aims at mapping these divergent patterns and explore their determinants. To do so, we investigate the cases of CESR and ECN with a documentary and interview-based comparative inquiry. Results indicate that agencification has also been a strategy enacted by European institutions, using the financial crisis as a window of opportunity, to regain control over a powerful network – CESR – that came to constitute an increasingly autonomous layer of governance. Contrariwise, as ECN did not spin out of control, its trajectory exhibits a remarkable stability.