cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Omalizumab in patients with severe asthma and persistent sputum eosinophilia
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Manali
name: Kjarsgaard, Melanie
name: Radford, Katherine
name: Huang, Chynna
name: Leigh, Richard
name: Dorscheid, Delbert R
name: Lemiere, Catherine
name: Boulet, Louis-Philippe
name: Waserman, Susan
name: Martin, James
name: Nair, Parameswaran
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2019

description: Abstract Omalizumab, a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody targeting the IgE molecule, is the first biologic approved for moderate-to-severe allergic asthmatics, who remain uncontrolled despite high dose inhaled corticosteroid and bronchodilators. Steroid-sparing effect of omalizumab has not been demonstrated in asthmatics with persistent airway eosinophilia in a randomised controlled trial till date. From this double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-centred, randomized parallel group design, we report that omalizumab is possibly inadequate to control sputum eosinophilia, and therefore may not have a steroid-sparing effect, especially in those maintained on oral corticosteroids daily. This needs to be confirmed or refuted in a larger trial, which may be a challenge with respect to recruitment, since there are currently three additional biologics available to prescribe. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT02049294, Registered 30th January 2014, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02049294
DEP Bulletin:Volume 37 Issue 24
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
title: Zur Behebung der Klimaprobleme in Kirchen. Die Ausstattung im Fokus
title: Tagungsbericht zur interdisziplinären Denkmalpflegetagung „Klimazone Kirche“ der HAWK in Hildesheim im Januar 2019
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Weyer, Angela
Publisher: name: HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
Year: 2019
Subjects: conservation
indoor climate
cultural property

description: Vom 16. bis 18. Januar 2019 veranstaltete das Hornemann Institut und die Fakultät Bauen und Erhalten der HAWK in Kooperation mit dem Verband der Restauratoren die interdisziplinäre Tagung "Klimazone Kirche. Präventive Konser¬vierung der Ausstattung“, zu der über 200 Fachleute aus Restaurierung, Denkmalpflege, Architektur, Ingenieurwesen und Bauphysik anreisten. Viele arbeiten für kirchliche Bauämter, die sich seit Jahren im Balanceakt zwischen Kirchennutzung, energieeffizientem Heizen und Erhalt der kulturhis¬torisch bedeutenden Ausstattung befinden. Sie hoffen auf verstärkte Forschungsinitiativen, die praktische Lösungen für die besondere Situation der Kirchen und ihrer Ausstattung herausarbeiten, denn häufig werden Schäden von mehreren Ursachen hervorgerufen, die sich zum Teil gegenseitig bedingen oder sogar verstärken. Ziel der Tagung war es, den aktuellen Stand des Wissens über die bauphysikalischen Prozesse fachübergreifend und praxisorientiert zu vermitteln sowie konkrete Informationen über Mess- und Monitoring-Möglichkeiten zu geben, also letztlich den Kenntnisstand hinsichtlich des Gefährdungspotentials und der Strategien zu deren Vermeidung zu erweitern.
Chapter 3: Gender and Social Hierarchy
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature

description: This chapter looks at how gender inequity can intersect with, repeat, and clarify inequities of social rank and authority that might seem independent of gender. The social hierarchy, as conceived in estates literature, frames and motivates tale-telling from the General Prologue onward. Certain ideological contiguities between estates literature and romance invite in this chapter more consideration than in other chapters of Chaucer's diversely positioned narrators in relation to their tales.
The impact of soluble dietary fibre on blood glucose, insulin and gut hormones in obese human subjects
Creators: name: Juneja, Prateek
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) has been on the rise and the evidence suggests that soluble dietary fibres may be helpful for obesity management and T2D prevention. Polyglycoplex (PGX), a novel, viscous polysaccharide, has been shown in several studies to promote weight loss and exert positive effects on postprandial glycemia and satiety hormone secretions. Furthermore, recent evidence suggests a role of dietary fibres in appetite glycemic control, which may be partly mediated by gut hormones such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), amylin, leptin, ghrelin, peptide YY (PYY) and pancreatic polypeptide (PP). These substances may aid weight loss and the maintenance of a constant plasma insulin level, which is important for obese and T2D patients. Healthy, overweight individuals (Body Mass Index (BMI) > 27 kg/m2) were recruited for this study. Participants were randomized for 13 weeks to receive supplements, containing either 750 mg of PGX (Treatment group, n=76) or 750 mg of cellulose (Placebo group, n=72). The participants were asked to take six capsules with water before each meal. At baseline (week 0) and at week 13 of the study, after 12 hours of overnight fasting, participants consumed a test meal. Participants did not consume PGX or placebo capsules prior to breakfast on the days of a meal tolerance test. Blood samples were collected at time 0, and at 15, 30, 45, 60, 120, and 240 min after the test meal. Although previous studies carried out on the granular form of PGX suggest that it may promote acute effects of weight loss and reductions in postprandial glycemia, in this specific study, capsulated PGX did not show a statistically significant effect on body weight, BMI, blood glucose, insulin, or other hormones, in comparison with placebo. Nevertheless, PGX had statistically significant improvements for GIP and showed some positive trends in changes of leptin over ghrelin through the cross-sectional analysis. A recent study showed that PGX capsules may be more suitable for maintaining body weight and blood glucose levels due to its delayed effects and convenience.
Energy spectra of vortex distributions in two-dimensional quantum turbulence
Creators: name: Bradley, Ashton S.
name: Anderson, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically explore key concepts of two-dimensional turbulence in a homogeneous compressible superfluid described by a dissipative two-dimensional Gross-Pitaeveskii equation. Such a fluid supports quantized vortices that have a size characterized by the healing length $ξ$. We show that for the divergence-free portion of the superfluid velocity field, the kinetic energy spectrum over wavenumber $k$ may be decomposed into an ultraviolet regime ($k\gg ξ^{-1}$) having a universal $k^{-3}$ scaling arising from the vortex core structure, and an infrared regime ($k\llξ^{-1}$) with a spectrum that arises purely from the configuration of the vortices. The Novikov power-law distribution of intervortex distances with exponent -1/3 for vortices of the same sign of circulation leads to an infrared kinetic energy spectrum with a Kolmogorov $k^{-5/3}$ power law, consistent with the existence of an inertial range. The presence of these $k^{-3}$ and $k^{-5/3}$ power laws, together with the constraint of continuity at the smallest configurational scale $k\approxξ^{-1}$, allows us to derive a new analytical expression for the Kolmogorov constant that we test against a numerical simulation of a forced homogeneous compressible two-dimensional superfluid. The numerical simulation corroborates our analysis of the spectral features of the kinetic energy distribution, once we introduce the concept of a {\em clustered fraction} consisting of the fraction of vortices that have the same sign of circulation as their nearest neighboring vortices. Our analysis presents a new approach to understanding two-dimensional quantum turbulence and interpreting similarities and differences with classical two-dimensional turbulence, and suggests new methods to characterize vortex turbulence in two-dimensional quantum fluids via vortex position and circulation measurements.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
An Assessment of Marketing Loan Program Options
Creators: name: Hanthorn, Michael.
name: Glauber, Joseph W.
name: Hanthorn, Michael.
name: Glauber, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Marketing loans
subject: wheat
subject: feed grains
subject: soybeans
subject: rice
subject: cotton
subject: sunflowers
subject: cottonseed
subject: cost estimates
subject: demand response
subject: generic certificates

description: The Secretary of Agriculture did not implement marketing loans for 1987 crops of wheat, feed grains, and soybeans. Marketing loans were not implemented for wheat and feed grains because other less costly policy tools are lowering domestic prices as much as marketing loans could. For soybeans, if world prices were significantly below U.S. prices, a marketing loan could lower domestic prices, but at a substantial cost. The demand response to marketing loans for these crops would be small in the short run. Implementation of marketing loans for rice and upland cotton has allowed the United States to regain the share of world trade for these commodities during the 1986/87 marketing year that it enjoyed in the early 1980's. But CCC outlays for rice and upland cotton associated with marketing loans are estimated to have exceeded $635 million.
Chapter 4: Subtle Clerks and Uncanny Women
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature

description: The wonders of Chaucer's tales, his flying horse and healing sword, shape-shifting fairy, beloved elfqueen, and illusionist clerk, draw on some of the most familiar manifestations of magic in romance. Magic is a generic marker that signals the inferiority of romance in the hierarchy of genres. The persistent claim leveled against romance magic is that it evades the genuine concerns
of the world in favor of seductive falsehoods. In Insular Romance I have argued that the "lying wonders" of romance can comment on political and social concerns,- here I argue that magic becomes in romance a means of expressing gender difference. Participating in the cultural construction of gender and at the same time moving against its restraints, the deployment of magic in romance is far from irrelevant to worldly concerns.
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with a Spin Qubit
Creators: name: Petersson, K. D.
name: McFaul, L. W.
name: Schroer, M. D.
name: Jung, M.
name: Taylor, J. M.
name: Houck, A. A.
name: Petta, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circuit quantum electrodynamics allows spatially separated superconducting qubits to interact via a "quantum bus", enabling two-qubit entanglement and the implementation of simple quantum algorithms. We combine the circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture with spin qubits by coupling an InAs nanowire double quantum dot to a superconducting cavity. We drive single spin rotations using electric dipole spin resonance and demonstrate that photons trapped in the cavity are sensitive to single spin dynamics. The hybrid quantum system allows measurements of the spin lifetime and the observation of coherent spin rotations. Our results demonstrate that a spin-cavity coupling strength of 1 MHz is feasible.
description: Related papers at http://pettagroup.princeton.edu/
Quantifizierung und Optimierung von Deponiestabilisaten aus calciumreichen Braunkohlenfilteraschen unter Verwendung statistischer Versuchsplanung
Creators: name: Ranneberg, Mirko
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 691

description: Deponiestabilisate aus calciumreicher BFA und REA-Wasser weisen trotz vergleichbarer chemisch-mineralogischer Zusammensetzung unterschiedliche bautechnische Eigenschaften auf. Zur Bestimmung der Ursachen wurden BFA, BFA mit 15 Gew.% WSA und REA-Wässer aus Kraftwerken des Mitteldeutschen Reviers sowie daraus hergestellte Deponiestabilisate physikalisch, chemisch und mineralogisch charakterisiert. Anschließend wurde, durch Variation der Einflussgrößen mit statistischer Versuchsplanung, die 28-Tage-Druckfestigkeit von Deponiestabilisaten optimiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Festigkeiten der Stabilisate hauptsächlich von der Korngrößenverteilung, der chemischen Zusammensetzung, dem quantitativen Phasenbestand sowie der chemischen Zusammensetzung des amorphen Anteils der zur Stabilisatherstellung verwendeten Ausgangsaschen abhängen. Durch Anpassung der Faktoren Freikalk-Gehalt, Feststoffgehalt des REA-Wassers, spezifische Oberfläche und Anmachwassergehalt bei der Herstellung konnte ein Deponiestabilisat erzeugt werden, dass eine 28-Tage-Druckfestigkeit von 31,6 N/mm2 hat.
description: Despite a comparable chemical-mineralogical composition, landfill stabilisates from calcium-rich lignite fly ash and FGD water have different technical properties. In order to determine the causes, lignite fly ashes, lignite fly ashes with 15 wt. % fluidized bed ashes and FGD water from power plants of the Central German coal mining district as well as landfill stabilisates produced therefrom were characterised physically, chemically and mineralogically. Subsequently, the 28-day compressive strength of landfill stabilisates was optimised by varying the relevant parameters with design of experiments. The results show that the compressive strength of the investigated landfill stabilisates depends mainly on the particle size distribution, the chemical composition, the quantitative phase composition and the chemical composition of the amorphous phase of the initial ashes used to produce the landfill stabilisate. By varying the factors lime content, solids content of the FGD water, specific surface area and water content during production, it was possible to produce a landfill stabilisate with a 28-day compressive strength of 31.6 N/mm2.
Katsuwonus pelamis : a case study in thunniform propulsion
Creators: name: Ben-Zvi, Micha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Thunniform propulsion is considered a case study in convergent evolution. Independently derived at least four times (whales, lamnid sharks, tunas and ichthyosaurs) it is characterized by uniquely high lift based thrust and efficient performance. As such it has been the focus of a great deal of study from not only biologists but engineers and physicists as well. Unfortunately direct physical measurement of this phenomenon is notoriously difficult to obtain. Therefore the majority of the research on the topic so far has consisted of either theoretical modeling or experimental testing with low bio-fidelity. The purpose of this study was to create a test apparatus that would more accurately mimic thunniform propulsion as seen in the study organism skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis). Such factors as motion parameters and swimming speeds as well as caudal fin size, shape and material properties were all taken into account and matched with in-vivo measurements. Instantaneous lateral and in-flow force measurements were taken throughout testing over a range of motion regimes. Overall, general motion parameter requirements for thrust generation were determined and quantified. Thrust production, of up to 0.42 N with a coefficient of thrust of approximately 0.2, was found to be in line with whole body drag estimates at tested conditions. Efficiency measurements however, were found to be extremely low (max of 35%) when compared to estimates in the literature of up to 90%. Quasi-static analysis was also conducted and shown to under-predict true thrust values by approximately 50%. A maximum coefficient of lift value was found to be approximately 0.55 at an angle of attack of 25° using this method.
D5.2: Worldwide HPC and AI technologies and market landscape
Creators: name: Evangelia Athanasaki
name: Norbert Meyer
name: Andreas Johansson
name: Christelle Piechurski
name: Dirk Pleiter
name: Ezhilmathi Krishnasamy
name: Mikael Johansson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure

description: This report gives an overview of the Edge Computing paradigm and its applications. Indeed, with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, many electronic devices and sensors produce a vast volume of data which should be processed in a timely manner and this novel computing model is nowadays seen as a pertinent answer to this open challenge. This report thus explains why Edge Computing is needed and how the edge architecture is typically structured. It further presents the technologies that help this cutting-edge model to function properly. Since Edge Computing involves a heterogeneous architecture, it requires to adapt to a few technological recommendations for optimal performance. In this context, this report reviews the latest hardware technology trends tied to Edge Computing developments, and points out technical challenges implementing this innovative computing model. In particular, we analyse how High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing infrastructures can be efficiently organised to design an Edge Computing-based framework able to tackle cutting-edge issues solved by Artificial Intelligence techniques. Finally, this report presents selected real-world applications of the Edge Computing paradigm across multiple domains affecting our daily life, i.e. healthcare, smart city and grids, industry 4.0 and public safety.
Entanglement-assisted tomography of a quantum target
Creators: name: De Pasquale, A.
name: Facchi, P.
name: Giovannetti, V.
name: Yuasa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the efficiency of quantum tomographic reconstruction where the system under investigation (quantum target) is indirectly monitored by looking at the state of a quantum probe that has been scattered off the target. In particular we focus on the state tomography of a qubit through a one-dimensional scattering of a probe qubit, with a Heisenberg-type interaction. Via direct evaluation of the associated quantum Cramér-Rao bounds, we compare the accuracy efficiency that one can get by adopting entanglement-assisted strategies with that achievable when entanglement resources are not available. Even though sub-shot noise accuracy levels are not attainable, we show that quantum correlations play a significant role in the estimation. A comparison with the accuracy levels obtainable by direct estimation (not through a probe) of the quantum target is also performed.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Chapter 1: Masculinity in Romance
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature

description: Masculinity is a persistent concern in Chaucer's tales deriving from romance, although it often seems a subtext to more evidently political and social issues. My first concern is to suggest how romances use gender difference to establish masculine identity. After a brief look at the function of difference in elaborating masculinity, this chapter turns to two complications in that paradigm.
Phase space analysis of fragmentation and role of mass asymmetry
Creators: name: Kaur, Varinderjit
name: Kumar, Suneel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) picture, we aim to understand heavy-ion collisions in terms of participant spectator matter leading to various fragments of different sizes. The study is performed for symmetric as well as asymmetric reaction at E = 200 MeV/nucleon for central collisions. Our results highlight the importance of fragmentation criterion in terms of light mass fargments which are a part of participant matter and intermediate mass fragments which are coming from the spectator region.
description: not published
Chapter 5: Adventure
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature

description: Adventure is the critical term most specific to romance, indicating the arbitrary, the random, and the unmotivated that divide the experience of romance from the clear necessities of epic struggle, the transcendent assurance of hagiography, and the instructive designs of chronicle. The French noun aventure has from before the twelfth century implications of fate and foreordination, as does its use in English, but its dominant later medieval meanings revolve around chance and accident (see Godefroy, Kurath). Romance draws on both senses of the noun in foregrounding the unexplained strangeness of adventurous encounters yet intimating that they have a hidden design.
Brain white matter structure and language ability in preschool-aged children
Creators: name: Walton, Matthew
name: Dewey, Deborah
name: Lebel, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2018

description: Brain alterations are associated with reading and language difficulties in older children, but little research has investigated relationships between early language skills and brain white matter structure during the preschool period. We studied 68 children aged 3.0-5.6 years who underwent diffusion tensor imaging and participated in assessments of Phonological Processing and Speeded Naming. Tract-based spatial statistics and tractography revealed relationships between Phonological Processing and diffusion parameters in bilateral ventral white matter pathways and the corpus callosum. Phonological Processing was positively correlated with fractional anisotropy and negatively correlated with mean diffusivity. The relationships observed in left ventral pathways are consistent with studies in older children, and demonstrate that structural markers for language performance are apparent as young as 3 years of age. Our findings in right hemisphere areas that are not as commonly found in adult studies suggest that young children rely on a widespread network for language processing that becomes more specialized with age.
Matrix Models for Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Theories with an ADE Classification
Creators: name: Gulotta, Daniel R.
name: Ang, J. P.
name: Herzog, Christopher P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider N=3 supersymmetric Chern-Simons (CS) theories that contain product U(N) gauge groups and bifundamental matter fields. Using the matrix model of Kapustin, Willett and Yaakov, we examine the Euclidean partition function of these theories on an S^3 in the large N limit. We show that the only such CS theories for which the long range forces between the eigenvalues cancel have quivers which are in one-to-one correspondence with the simply laced affine Dynkin diagrams. As the A_n series was studied in detail before, in this paper we compute the partition function for the D_4 quiver. The D_4 example gives further evidence for a conjecture that the saddle point eigenvalue distribution is determined by the distribution of gauge invariant chiral operators. We also see that the partition function is invariant under a generalized Seiberg duality for CS theories.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures; v2 refs added; v3 conventions in figure 3 altered, version to appear in JHEP
Controlling chemical reactions of a single particle
Creators: name: Ratschbacher, Lothar
name: Zipkes, Christoph
name: Sias, Carlo
name: Köhl, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The control of chemical reactions is a recurring theme in physics and chemistry. Traditionally, chemical reactions have been investigated by tuning thermodynamic parameters, such as temperature or pressure. More recently, physical methods such as laser or magnetic field control have emerged to provide completely new experimental possibilities, in particular in the realm of cold collisions. The control of reaction pathways is also a critical component to implement molecular quantum information processing. For these undertakings, single particles provide a clean and well-controlled experimental system. Here, we report on the experimental tuning of the exchange reaction rates of a single trapped ion with ultracold neutral atoms by exerting control over both their quantum states. We observe the influence of the hyperfine interaction on chemical reaction rates and branching ratios, and monitor the kinematics of the reaction products. These investigations advance chemistry with single trapped particles towards achieving quantum-limited control of chemical reactions and indicate limits for buffer gas cooling of single ion clocks.
The smell of baking bread : an inexpensive means of improving the quality of life for long-term care residents?
Creators: name: Clay, Jaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The provision of additional mealtime food aroma (baked bread) to long-term care residents was researched as a non-intrusive method of improving quality of life factors including weight, appetite, enjoyment of life, well-being and depression. A questionnaire was used to assess the effects of the intervention on personal appearance, appetite, overall health benefits and quality of life. The background for the study originated with Yeh et al. (2000) who used a pharmacological drug as an intervention to improve quality of life factors. Results included a statistically significant improvement in well-being factors potentially related to the improvement in the built environment for residents, employees, family members and volunteers.
Anisotropic response of the moving vortex lattice in superconducting Mo$_{(1-x)}$Ge$_{x}$ amorphous films
Creators: name: Dolz, M. I.
name: Shalóm, D. E.
name: Pastoriza, H.
name: López, D. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed magnetic susceptibility measurements in Mo$_{(1-x)}$Ge$_x$ amorphous thin films biased with an electrical current using anisotropic coils. We tested the symmetry of the vortex response changing the relative orientation between the bias current and the susceptibility coils. We found a region in the DC current - temperature phase diagram where the dynamical vortex structures behave anisotropically. In this region the shielding capability of the superconducting currents measured by the susceptibility coils is less effective along the direction of vortex motion compared to the transverse direction. This anisotropic response is found in the same region where the peak effect in the critical current is developed. On rising temperature the isotropic behavior is recovered.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Longipronotum benmaddoxi Jepson & Khramov & Ohl 2018, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Jepson, James E.
name: Khramov, Alexander V.
name: Ohl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Mantispidae
Longipronotum
Longipronotum benmaddoxi

description: Longipronotum benmaddoxi (Jepson et al., 2018) comb. nov.
Longicollum benmaddoxi Jepson et al., 2018: 565
At present, this is the only species referred to the genus Longipronotum nom. nov.
description: Published as part of Jepson, James E., Khramov, Alexander V. & Ohl, Michael, 2018, A substitute name for a genus of fossil mantispid (Insecta: Neuroptera: Mesomantispinae) from the Jurassic of Kazakhstan, pp. 400 in Zootaxa 4455 (2) on page 400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1457165
Chapter 1: Romances of Land and Lineage
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: English literature

description: The romances of English heroes differ thematically from the medieval fictions most familiar to twentieth-century readers. The Old French romances of love and adventure emphasize love's power to transform heroic identity, and trace love's role in precipitating crises between private identity and public expectations. The romances of English heroes instead present external, political crises that are met by a fully worthy and capable hero who senses no problematic conflict between his own desires and those of his society. In this respect they may seem close to epic, but none of their heroes is entirely a representative of his community, bent on winning its survival even at the expense of his own life. The English hero is self-interested; his goals are personal, typically involving his protection of feudal rights a n d the honor of his family. This pattern, in turn, resembles that of the Old French gestes des révoltés, whose rebel barons defy their lords in defense of private rights. But in the insular works, adherence to legality and tradition always brings success and stasis, while the gestes des révoltés move inexorably toward chaos, misfortune, and disillusion — "a torn , ambiguous world, where the norms of feudal society are no longer conducive to existence." In contrast to the gestes des révoltés, the romances of English heroes have faith in traditional systems and confidence that justice will prevail.
Principal Impact on Developing Professional Learning Communities in New Middle Schools
Creators: name: O'Neill, Shawn
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Professional Learning Communities, Principal Leadership, Middle Schools
subject: Education--Administration
subject: Education--Secondary

description: The positive effects of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) on teaching quality and student success are well-documented (DuFour & Eaker, 1998; DuFour, Eaker, &, DuFour, 2005; Hord, 1997, 2004). The problem is that even with overwhelming research to support this claim, not all schools are organized as PLCs. The purpose of this case study (Merriam, 1998, 2009) was to investigate the understanding, development, and planned sustainability of Professional Learning Communities in three new middle schools in a Large Urban School Board from the perspective of the principal. Qualitative data were collected through two rounds of semi-structured interviews, participant provided documents, field notes, and researcher reflections. The study revealed that while principals had similar understandings of PLCs due to system coherence, activation of this knowledge was more problematic. A major finding was that in order to develop Professional Learning Communities, principals need more practical knowledge about how to develop and sustain them. Lessons learned from of this study on the development of PLCs in new middle schools may be transferable to similar environments and could provide guidance for current or prospective principals.
Dipole low-order g mode instability of metal-poor low-mass main-sequence stars due to the $\varepsilon$-mechanism
Creators: name: Sonoi, Takafumi
name: Shibahashi, Hiromoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyzed vibrational stability of metal-poor low-mass main-sequence stars due to the $\varepsilon$-mechanism. Since outer convection zones of the metal-poor stars is limited only to the very outer layers, the uncertainty in treatment of convection does not affect the result significantly. We found that the dipole g$_1$- and g$_2$-modes certainly become unstable due to the $\varepsilon$-mechanism for $Z\la 6\times 10^{-4}$. Besides that, we found that as the metallicity decreases the mass range of the $\varepsilon$-mechanism instability extends toward higher mass.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
D7.3: Best Practice Guides for New Emerging Architectures
Creators: name: Hayk Shoukourian
name: Ole W. Saastad
name: Sebastian Lührs
name: Jorge Barbosa
name: João Bispo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure

description: The Work Package 7 – "Applications Enabling and Support" provides excellent support to researchers of European academic and commercial sectors in achieving an effective and efficient usage of the available high-end IT infrastructures in Europe represented by PRACE Tier-0/Tier-1 as well as European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) petascale and pre-exascale systems. For doing so, this work package, in parallel to various application enabling services for preparatory access and industry, offers a series of Best Practice Guides (BPGs) covering a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the discussion of architectural peculiarities of systems to contemporary tools, compilers, libraries, programming techniques and best practices assisting to application porting, profiling, and overall tuning. The target audience of these BPGs are both users and application support teams at supercomputing sites who are enabling and maintaining large-scale HPC applications.
The successful series of BPGs has been initiated already at the start of PRACE-1IP, and has been strongly continued throughout subsequent implementation phases of the PRACE project. In PRACE-6IP, this series has been further extended towards new systems and technologies. More specifically, the new guides in 6IP provide an update on modern processors and accelerators, discuss currently existing major large-scale application porting and code-optimization activities in Europe as well as provide further best practices for application migration and efficient use of EuroHPC pre-exascale system LUMI hosted at CSC, Finland.
This document outlines the details of the BPG development process and briefly describes the guides developed within PRACE-6IP.
Pilgrim Dark Energy
Creators: name: Wei, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
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: In the present work, we reconsider the idea of holographic dark energy. One of its key points is the formation of the black hole. And then, we propose the so-called "pilgrim dark energy" based on the speculation that the repulsive force contributed by the phantom-like dark energy ($w
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, revtex4; v2: references added, Class. Quant. Grav. in press; v3: published version
A Network Access Control Mechanism Based on Behavior Profiles
Creators: name: Frias-Martinez, Vanessa
name: Sherrick, Joseph
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Current network access control (NAC) technologies manage the access of new devices into a network to prevent rogue devices from attacking network hosts or services. Typically, new devices are checked against a set of manually defined policies (rules) before being granted access by the NAC enforcer. The main difficulty with this approach lies in the generation and update of new policies manually as time elapses and all devices have to reestablish their access rights. The BB-NAC mechanism was the first to introduce a novel behavior-based network access control architecture based on behavior profiles and not rules, where behavior-based access control policies were automatically generated. As originally presented, BB-NAC relied on manually pre-determined clusters of behavior which required human intervention and prevented the fully automation of the mechanism. In this paper, we present an enhanced BB-NAC mechanism that fully automatizes the creation of clusters of behavior. The access control is enhanced with the incorporation of automatic behavior clustering, which improves the intrusion detection capabilities by allowing for a more fine-grained definition of normal behavior. Apart from the lack of automatic clustering, the original BB-NAC overlooked the evolution of the mechanism as new behavior profiles were computed over time. As part of our enhancements, we also present an incremental-learning algorithm that automatically updates the behavior-based access control policies. We show that the algorithm is resilient to compromised or fabricated profiles trying to manipulate the policies. We provide extensive experiments with real user profiles computed with their network flows processed from Cisco NetFlow logs captured at our host institution. Our results show that behavior-based access control policies enhance conventional NAC technologies. Specifically, we achieve true rejection rates of 95% for anomalous user profiles separated by one standard deviation from the normal user network behavior. In addition, we also show that the enhanced mechanism can differentiate between normal changes in the behavior profiles (concept drift) and attacks.
Carboniferous Syn-rift to Post-rift Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, Sverdrup Basin, Northern Axel Heiberg Island
Creators: name: Bhargava, Anirudh
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Facies analysis of the Serpukhovian to Kasimovian succession within the Sverdrup Basin on northern Axel Heiberg Island has led to the recognition of a syn-rift to post-rift transition along the northern margin of the basin. The basin was under fault-controlled subsidence during the Serpukhovian as show by numerous half-grabens which record siliciclastic sedimentation. Four new depocentres have been identified in the areas immediately southeast of Aurland Fiord on Axel Heiberg Island. Facies analysis of one of these depocentres suggests deposition in a normal fault-bounded half-graben. The post-rift stage is represented by a Bashkirian to Kasimovian succession that consists solely of open marine carbonates deposited on a gently-sloping carbonate ramp. The carbonate ramp indicates significantly lower rates of subsidence – a shift from higher rates during the Serpukhovian – and a passive subsidence regime. Crockerland was not a source of sediment into the Sverdup Basin at that time, as suggested by the absence of siliciclastic sediments. The diachronous distribution of syn-rift deposits in the Sverdrup Basin provides evidence for an asymmetrical mode of rifting caused by simple shear extension. A rifting front was initiated in the north during the Visean, propagated southward during the Serpukhovian, and ultimately reached the southern margin by the Bashkirian. The rifting was controlled by the collapse of the Ellesmerian Orogeny, upon which the Sverdrup Basin developed. The half-grabens developed through the extensional inversion of the Ellesmerian thrust sheets from the north to south resulting from an overall reversal from a compressional to an extensional stress regime.
The Writing Lesson of 1381
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: English literature

description: One of the many fields that constitute "the third estate" as a historical category is writing. We know the rebels of England's 1381 rising through chronicles, court records, charters, poems, and so on. Yet the rebels remain outside representation in that they do not represent themselves for the written record. They are reimagined by those who write. Maintaining a largely oral culture alongside an increasingly literate higher culture, England's lower strata appear in written records as incoherent and irrational creatures or as models of submission and faith, variously constructed by various writers' own positions and preoccupations. The distortion of records does not render them useless. Historians have striven to recover the rebels' actions and motives by reading chronicle accounts against one another, searching court rolls for proceedings earlier brought on behalf of villeins against lords, interrogating the records of perhaps spurious accusations and confessions subsequent to the revolt, and recognizing in other ways that all histories are interpretive and incomplete accounts. From my own partial position—partial, that is, in being both disposed toward literary analysis and limited by a professional training in literature—I would like to examine the written absences that historians work to overcome and to propose that absence is an important feature of the rebels' cultural status.
Poly(glycerol adipate) - indomethacin conjugates for modified drug release
Creators: name: Wersig, Tom
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 615

description: Polymer-Wirkstoff-Konjugate sind Prodrugs. Der Wirkstoff ist über einen spaltbaren Linker an das Polymer gekoppelt und wird unter spezifischen Bedingungen freigesetzt. Das lineare, biologisch abbaubare Polymer Poly(glyceroladipat) (PGA) wurde durch enzymatische Polykondensation unter Verwendung von Lipase B aus Candida antarctica (CAL-B) synthetisiert. Die freien Hydroxylgruppen wurden in unterschiedlichem Maße mit dem entzündungshemmenden Wirkstoff Indomethacin verestert (Steglich Veresterung). Die neuen Polymere eigneten sich für die Formulierung von Nano- und Mikropartikulären Systemen sowie der Herstellung vorgeformter Implantate. Alle Formulierungen zeichneten sich durch kontrollierte Freisetzung ohne Burst Release aus. Die Polymere wiesen reduzierte hämolytische Aktivität sowie verringerte Zelltoxizität im Vergleich zum ungebundenen Indomethacin auf. Die ausgezeichnete Verträglichkeit ausgewählter hochmodifizierter Nanopartikelformulierungen wurde nach Fluoreszenzmarkierung im Mausmodell belegt.
description: In general, polymer-drug conjugates may be referred to as prodrugs. The drug is covalently bound via a cleavable linker and remains inactive during its delivery and is activated by specific conditions in the target site. The linear biodegradable polymer poly(glycerol adipate) (PGA) was synthesized by enzymatic polycondensation using lipase B from Candida antarctica (CAL-B). These hydroxyl groups have been esterified to varying degrees with the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin (Steglich esterification). The new polymers were suitable for the formulation of nano- and microparticulate systems as well as for the production of preformed implants. All formulations showed controlled release without burst release. The polymers had reduced hemolytic activity as well as decreased cell toxicity compared to unbound indomethacin. The excellent tolerability of selected highly modified nanoparticle formulations has been demonstrated after fluorescent labeling in the mouse model.
Multiscale segmentation through a radial basis neural network
Creators: name: Zong, Xuli
name: Meyer-Baese, Anke
name: Laine, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Medicine
Biomedical engineering

description: This paper presents an approach for image segmentation using sub-octave wavelet representations and a dynamic resource-allocating neural network. The algorithm is applied to identify regions of masses in mammographic images of varied degrees of perceptual difficulty. Each mammographic image is first decomposed into overcomplete wavelet representations of sub-octave frequency bands. A feature vector for each pixel through the scale space is constructed from fine to coarse scales. The feature vectors are used to drive a neural network classifier of dynamic resource allocation for segmentation. Sub-octave wavelet representations have an improved capability of characterizing subtle (band-limited) features frequently seen in mammographic images. A radial basis network of dynamic resource allocation is shown to have better adaptation and generalization in a redundant feature space. Experimental results along with statistical analysis are partially compared to a traditional classifier.
NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES AND FATTY ACID PROFILE OF COCONUT CRAB BIRGUS LATRO (DECAPODA: ANOMURA: COENOBITIDAE) FROM NORTH MALUKU, INDONESIA
Creators: name: MUFTI ABD. MURHUM
name: ANIK M HARIYATI
name: ATING YUNIARTI
name: ASEP A PRIHANTO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Birgus latro, Coconut Crab, Decapoda, Fatty Acid, Nutrition, Proximate.

description: Abstract

The Coconut Crab or Robber Crab (Birgus latro, Linnaeus, 1758) is a terrestrial giant hermit crab belonging to a monospecific genus within the Coenobitidae (Anomura). Research on nutritional properties and amino acid composition of this species in the Luwo Island region is still very limited. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the proximate and fatty acid compositions of coconut crabs (B. latro) at different developmental stages, namely juvenile, adolescent, and adult. Proximate analysis reveals variations in moisture content, protein, fat, ash, and carbohydrates, providing insights into the nutritional profile of these crustaceans. Fatty acid analysis highlights the dynamic presence of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, with notable fluctuations in specific fatty acid types across developmental stages. The results indicate that juveniles exhibit lower moisture but higher levels of ash, protein, and fat, suggesting distinct nutritional requirements during early development. Adolescents display potential adaptations in response to changing dietary and physiological needs as they transition into adulthood. Conversely, adults demonstrate higher moisture and ash content, indicating potential differences in dietary habits or metabolic processes in mature coconut crabs. The testing of fatty acid content revealed the presence of 8 types of fatty acids, consisting of 5 saturated fatty acids (C10, C12, C14, C16, and C18) and 3 natural unsaturated fatty acids (C18:1n-9, C18:2n-6, and C18:3n-9). The findings suggest that the nutritional composition of coconut crabs undergoes significant changes throughout their life cycle, reflecting potential metabolic and dietary adaptations. Understanding these variations is essential for assessing the nutritional value and potential applications of coconut crabs in the food industry. Further research is warranted to explore the underlying factors influencing these compositional changes and to elucidate the health implications of consuming coconut crabs at different stages of development.
Chapter 2: Feminine Mimicry and Masquerade
Creators: name: Crane, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature

description: ROMANCES, in contrast to much medieval literature, abound in representations of women. This chapter argues that in their female characters romances work out both a version of femininity generated by masculine courtship and a critique of that version of femininity. Female characters, moreover, themselves stage this critique within the terms of their social construction. Dorigen confronted with Aurelius's suit, the abandoned falcon of the Squire's Tale, the Amazons of the Knight's Tale, and the Wife of Bath's shape-shifting fairy deploy the language and paradigms of conventional femininity to press against their positioning within it. Placing Chaucer's characters in the company of others from a variety of romances clarifies the strategies each woman uses to articulate and question her lot. In each case, respeaking and remanipulating familiar gender paradigms offers ways around them.