cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Open Science certification: turning PhD students into open science ambassadors in research laboratories
Creators: name: Larre-Perez, Margaux
name: Breton, Elise
name: Poulain, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: open science; research libraries; open science skills; young researchers;

description: This presentation was given during session 12: "FAIR and Open: from theory to practice" at the 52th LIBER annual conference in Budapest on Friday, July 7, 2023.

 Abstract:
 While training young scientists on Open Science principles is undoubtedly a crucial role of research libraries today, the authors believe that providing graduate students with the skills to foster open science practices themselves will be a key element of open science dissemination in research laboratories. With this aim in mind, in 2021, they launched the Open Science Certification within the Libraries of the University Paris Cité. The Open Science Certification is a unique program in France aimed at coupling theoretical knowledge of Open Science tenants with practical, community-led training sessions for PhD students of all disciplines (https://u-paris.fr/bibliotheques/certification-science-ouverte/). The Open Science Certification is offered in French and English for international PhD students. The Certification first requires students to follow a mandatory training path through the available open science training cycle offered to all Université Paris Cité PhD students. Moreover, they simultaneously take part in several dissemination-oriented activities during the academic year. In particular, a monthly interdisciplinary Journal Club on current topics in Open Science is led by students themselves (and moderated by a research librarian) to enable exchanges between students from a large variety of disciplines and backgrounds. In addition, the Certification students follow specific training on developing an open science news aggregator, with the requirement of building their own tool to complete the training. Finally, the Certification students give a presentation showcasing an application of open science principles to their PhD research project. The presentations are evaluated by a jury of research librarians and university professors whose goal is to offer guidance for the completion of the project. The Open Science certification is currently in its second year and gaining momentum, with around twenty PhD students enrolled in 2022-2023 and a dozen of graduates from 2021-2022. The authors will discuss how the wide range of disciplines represented within the Certification students stimulates a constant improvement of the program covered within the Certification every year. It also makes each promotion unique in its perspective and application of open science principles as students actively participate in an interdisciplinary definition of the Certification content. The authors will also offer perspectives on the evolution of the Certification format and how it positions itself within the current open science training offered in France and Europe.
Declaration of Intention of Fred Ruckriem
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Fred Ruckriem Applicant age: 50Occupation: farmerCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 9 February 1866Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: City of Paris City of residence at time of declaration: Absecon, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 8 February 1917
Applications of gauge duality in robust principal component analysis and semidefinite programming
Creators: name: Ma, Shiqian
name: Yang, Junfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Gauge duality theory was originated by Freund [Math. Programming, 38(1):47-67, 1987] and was recently further investigated by Friedlander, Mac{ê}do and Pong [SIAM J. Optm., 24(4):1999-2022, 2014]. When solving some matrix optimization problems via gauge dual, one is usually able to avoid full matrix decompositions such as singular value and/or eigenvalue decompositions. In such an approach, a gauge dual problem is solved in the first stage, and then an optimal solution to the primal problem can be recovered from the dual optimal solution obtained in the first stage. Recently, this theory has been applied to a class of \emph{semidefinite programming} (SDP) problems with promising numerical results [Friedlander and Mac{ê}do, SIAM J. Sci. Comp., to appear, 2016]. In this paper, we establish some theoretical results on applying the gauge duality theory to robust \emph{principal component analysis} (PCA) and general SDP. For each problem, we present its gauge dual problem, characterize the optimality conditions for the primal-dual gauge pair, and validate a way to recover a primal optimal solution from a dual one. These results are extensions of [Friedlander and Mac{ê}do, SIAM J. Sci. Comp., to appear, 2016] from nuclear norm regularization to robust PCA and from a special class of SDP which requires the coefficient matrix in the linear objective to be positive definite to SDP problems without this restriction. Our results provide further understanding in the potential advantages and disadvantages of the gauge duality theory.
description: Accepted for publication in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics
Green's Functions for Translation Invariant Star Products
Creators: name: Lizzi, Fedele
name: Rivera, Manolo
name: Vitale, Patrizia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the Green functions for a scalar field theory with quartic interactions for which the fields are multiplied with a generic translation invariant star product. Our analysis involves both noncommutative products, for which there is the canonical commutation relation among coordinates, and nonlocal commutative products. We give explicit expressions for the one-loop corrections to the two and four point functions. We find that the phenomenon of ultraviolet/infrared mixing is always a consequence of the presence of noncommuting variables. The commutative part of the product does not have the mixing.
description: 18 Pages
Declaration of Intention of August Sechafer
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1923

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: August Sechafer Applicant age: 28Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 1st July 1895Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Sirvia Ventana City of residence at time of declaration: Mays Landing NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 31st December 1923
Facilitators of HCV treatment adherence among people who inject drugs: a systematic qualitative review and implications for scale up of direct acting antivirals
Creators: name: Tucker, Joseph
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background While the public health benefits of new HCV treatments depend on treatment adherence, particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID), several social and medical factors can jeopardize treatment adherence. The aim of this study is to examine the qualitative literature on facilitators to HCV treatment adherence among PWID. Methods We searched six databases to identify qualitative research studies on HCV treatment adherence facilitators among PWID. Two reviewers independently extracted and analyzed data using PRISMA guidelines and the CASP tool to evaluate study quality. Results From ten studies representing data from 525 participants, three major themes emerged across studies: logistical facilitators within health systems enhanced HCV treatment adherence, positive social interactions between PWID and staff provided positive feedback during treatment, and HCV treatment may complicate the addiction recovery process. Conclusions Although PWID face several barriers to adherence, we identified treatment adherence facilitators that could be incorporated into clinical practice.
Declaration of Intention of Jan Petryk
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Jan Petryk Applicant age:40Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin:AustriaDate of Birth: 13 June 1876Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Pennsylvania City of residence at time of declaration: Nesco NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:9 May 1917
Addressing the accumulation of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and other very persistent, very mobile (vPvM) substances
Creators: name: Arp, Hans Peter H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PMT
vPvM
PFAS
TFA
drinking water

description: Presented at the ATV meeting in Nyborg, Denmark. Jan 23,2023. Theme: The next pollution threat - what can we do to be at the forefront? The presentation presents of trifluoracetic acid and other very persistent, very mobile (vPvM) substances represents a large emerging group of substances that will continue to increase in variety and concentration, until ambitious action is taken to be at the forefront.
A piezoelectric Euler-Bernoulli beam with dynamic boundary control: stability and dissipative FEM
Creators: name: Miletic, Maja
name: Arnold, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B35, 65M60, 35P20, 74S05, 93D15

description: We present a mathematical and numerical analysis on a control model for the time evolution of a multi-layered piezoelectric cantilever with tip mass and moment of inertia, as developed by Kugi and Thull [31]. This closed-loop control system consists of the inhomogeneous Euler-Bernoulli beam equation coupled to an ODE system that is designed to track both the position and angle of the tip mass for a given reference trajectory. This dynamic controller only employs first order spatial derivatives, in order to make the system technically realizable with piezoelectric sensors. From the literature it is known that it is asymptotically stable [31]. But in a refined analysis we first prove that this system is not exponentially stable. In the second part of this paper, we construct a dissipative finite element method, based on piecewise cubic Hermitian shape functions and a Crank-Nicolson time discretization. For both the spatial semi-discretization and the full x - t-discretization we prove that the numerical method is structure preserving, i.e. it dissipates energy, analogous to the continuous case. Finally, we derive error bounds for both cases and illustrate the predicted convergence rates in a simulation example.
Large deviations for the two-dimensional two-component plasma
Creators: name: Leblé, Thomas
name: Serfaty, Sylvia
name: Zeitouni, Ofer
name: Wu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive a large deviations principle for the two-dimensional two-component plasma in a box. As a consequence, we obtain a variational representation for the free energy, and also show that the macroscopic empirical measure of either positive or negative charges converges to the uniform measure. An appendix, written by Wei Wu, discusses applications to the supercritical complex Gaussian multiplicative chaos.
description: 53 pages. With an appendix by Wei Wu
Declaration of Intention of Antonio Tortello
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Antonio Tortello Applicant age:33Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin:ItalyDate of Birth: 15th April 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Tormnia City of residence at time of declaration: Pomona NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 19th June 1917
Référentiel des compétences en science ouverte - DGDBM Université Paris Cité
Creators: name: Breton, Elise
name: Dion, Charlotte
name: Gallet, Mathilde
name: Hily-Blant, Anne-Louise
name: Larre-Perez, Margaux
name: Le Picard, Anne-Claire
name: Paulin, Véronique
name: Poulain, Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: science ouverte
référentiel
compétences
open science
open access
accès ouvert
données ouvertes
open data
logiciels libres
open source
intégrité scientifique

description: Ce référentiel de compétences en science ouverte a été créé par la Direction des bibliothèques et musées (DGDBM) d'Université Paris Cité. L'objectif était de définir des compétences attendues à chaque niveau de diplôme, en relation avec la science ouverte, afin d'y adosser le programme des formations proposées par la DGDBM.
 Les compétences sont cumulatives : ainsi, les compétences acquises au niveau master sont également attendues au niveau doctorat et au niveau enseignant-chercheur (idem pour les compétences niveau doctorat également attendues au niveau enseignant-chercheur).
 Les compétences indiquées sont théoriques et doivent être adaptées au contexte et à la discipline.
 Ce référentiel peut être librement réutilisé par d'autres établissements qui souhaiteraient s'en inspirer.
Device-independent two-party cryptography secure against sequential attacks
Creators: name: Kaniewski, Jędrzej
name: Wehner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of two-party cryptography is to enable two parties, Alice and Bob, to solve common tasks without the need for mutual trust. Examples of such tasks are private access to a database, and secure identification. Quantum communication enables security for all of these problems in the noisy-storage model by sending more signals than the adversary can store in a certain time frame. Here, we initiate the study of device-independent protocols for two-party cryptography in the noisy-storage model. Specifically, we present a relatively easy to implement protocol for a cryptographic building block known as weak string erasure and prove its security even if the devices used in the protocol are prepared by the dishonest party. Device-independent two-party cryptography is made challenging by the fact that Alice and Bob do not trust each other, which requires new techniques to establish security. We fully analyse the case of memoryless devices (for which sequential attacks are optimal) and the case of sequential attacks for arbitrary devices. The key ingredient of the proof, which might be of independent interest, is an explicit (and tight) relation between the violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality observed by Alice and Bob and uncertainty generated by Alice against Bob who is forced to measure his system before finding out Alice's setting (guessing with postmeasurement information). In particular, we show that security is possible for arbitrarily small violation.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, published version
Declaration of Intention of Edward Bournique
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Edward Bournique Applicant age: 47Occupation: Laundry BusinessCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 12 March 1869Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: La Gascogne City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 19 February 1917
The Giraffe Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS) II. Metallicity distributions and alpha element abundances at fixed Galactic latitude
Creators: name: Gonzalez, O. A.
name: Zoccali, M.
name: Vasquez, S.
name: Hill, V.
name: Rejkuba, M.
name: Valenti, E.
name: Rojas-Arriagada, A.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Babusiaux, C.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Brown, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution (R$\sim$22,500) spectra for 400 red clump giants, in four fields within $\rm -4.8^{\circ} \lesssim b \lesssim -3.4^{\circ}$ and $\rm -10^{\circ} \lesssim l \lesssim +10^{\circ}$, were obtained within the GIRAFFE Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS) project. To this sample we added another $\sim$ 400 stars in Baade's Window, observed with the identical instrumental configuration. We constructed the metallicity distributions for the entire sample, as well as for each field individually, in order to investigate the presence of gradients or field-to-field variations in the shape of the distributions. The metallicity distributions in the five fields are consistent with being drawn from a single parent population, indicating the absence of a gradient along the major axis of the Galactic bar. The global metallicity distribution is well fitted by two Gaussians. The metal poor component is rather broad, with a mean at $\rm =-0.31$ dex and $σ=0.31$ dex. The metal-rich one is narrower, with mean $\rm =+0.26$ and $σ=0.2$ dex. The [Mg/Fe] ratio follows a tight trend with [Fe/H], with enhancement with respect to solar in the metal-poor regime, similar to the one observed for giant stars in the local thick disc. [Ca/Fe] abundances follow a similar trend, but with a considerably larger scatter than [Mg/Fe]. A decrease in [Mg/Fe] is observed at $\rm [Fe/H]=-0.44$ dex. This \textit{knee} is in agreement with our previous bulge study of K-giants along the minor axis, but is 0.1 dex lower in metallicity than the one reported for the Bulge micro lensed dwarf and sub-giant stars. We found no variation in $α$-element abundance distributions between different fields.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Recombination-mediated escape from primary CD8+ T cells in acute HIV-1 infection
Creators: name: Goonetilleke, Nilu
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background A major immune evasion mechanism of HIV-1 is the accumulation of non-synonymous mutations in and around T cell epitopes, resulting in loss of T cell recognition and virus escape. Results Here we analyze primary CD8+ T cell responses and virus escape in a HLA B*81 expressing subject who was infected with two T/F viruses from a single donor. In addition to classic escape through non-synonymous mutation/s, we also observed rapid selection of multiple recombinant viruses that conferred escape from T cells specific for two epitopes in Nef. Conclusions Our study shows that recombination between multiple T/F viruses provide greater options for acute escape from CD8+ T cell responses than seen in cases of single T/F virus infection. This process may contribute to the rapid disease progression in patients infected by multiple T/F viruses.
Immune interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Booysen, Petro
name: Wilkinson, Katalin A
name: Sheerin, Dylan
name: Waters, Robyn
name: Coussens, Anna K
name: Wilkinson, Robert J
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Model organisms
subject: Model organisms

description: SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are major infectious causes of death, with meta-analyses and population-based studies finding increased mortality in co-infected patients simultaneously diagnosed with COVID-19 and tuberculosis (TB). There is a need to understand the immune interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and Mtb which impacts poor outcomes for those co-infected. We performed a PubMed and preprint search using keywords [SARS-CoV-2] AND [tuberculosis] AND [Immune response], including publications after January 2020, excluding reviews or opinions. Abstracts were evaluated by authors for inclusion of data specifically investigating the innate and/or acquired immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and Mtb in humans and animal models, immunopathological responses in co-infection and both trials and investigations of potential protection against SARS-CoV-2 by Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG). Of the 248 articles identified, 39 were included. Incidence of co-infection is discussed, considering in areas with a high burden of TB, where reported co-infection is likely underestimated. We evaluated evidence of the clinical association between COVID-19 and TB, discuss differences and similarities in immune responses in humans and in murine studies, and the implications of co-infection. SARS-CoV-2 and Mtb have both been shown to modulate immune responses, particularly of monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and T cells. Co-infection may result in impaired immunity to SARS-CoV-2, with an exacerbated inflammatory response, while T cell responses to Mtb may be modulated by SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, there has been no proven potential COVID-19 clinical benefit of BCG despite numerous large-scale clinical trials.
CROSS CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN TODAY'S GLOBALIZED ERA
Creators: name: HT. Mohan Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Globalization
Multinational Flexibility
Virtual Team
Cultural Diversity
Conflict

description: We live in a world with an abundant array of diversity. Diversity is evident in people, the environment, and all forms of life. Advancements in technology have made the world seem smaller and increased the interaction between people from different cultures. The rapid globalization has a significant impact on the work, employees, and organizations bringing them frequently with clients, suppliers and peer that they never work before. In an era of globalization, organization faces unique challenges in coordinating among clients, developers, designers’ workers from different countries. The major challenges are to develop practices, which balance global competitiveness, multinational flexibility and the building of a worldwide learning capability. This balance will require organizations to develop the cultural sensitivity and ability to manage and leverage learning to build future capabilities. While offering opportunities, globalization also poses significant challenges to employees especially when different cultures are involved as a team. Multicultural teams have their culture as a set of shared values and beliefs. Beliefs are people’s perceptions’ of how things are done in their countries. They are reported as “practices” in a particular culture. Values are people’s perceptions about the way things should be done. They are their preferred practices and people’s beliefs. In a global context the management and development of people inevitably leads to considerations of diversity and related challenges. Attitudes towards working have changed dramatically in recent years and there is currently much more emphasis on multi-cultural working. Many organizations have found that multicultural team integration can be problematic and at times performance is not always at the level required or expected. With an ongoing increase of multicultural teams, leaders in multinational organizations must be aware of cultural diversity issues in order to function effectively and achieve high levels of team performance. This paper will focus on issues like Virtual team, communication in globalized world, resolving conflict and some effective tips for managing cross cultural diversity in the globalized world. Data has been collected from secondary sources.
Declaration of Intention of Vincenzo Vettese
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Vincenzo Vettese Applicant age: 38Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: ItalyDate of Birth: 8th December 1878Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Bulgaria City of residence at time of declaration: Pomona NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 19th June 1917
Declaration of Intention of Wilhelm Waldemar Krause
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1916

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Wilhelm Waldemar Krause Applicant age: 34Occupation: bartenderCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 20 August 1882Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: America City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic CityDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:12 December 1916
Differences in service utilization and barriers among Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites with drug use disorders
Creators: name: Howard, Matthew O.
name: Vaughn, Michael G
name: Glass, Joseph E
name: Delva, Jorge
name: Perron, Brian E
name: Mowbray, Orion P
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background Treatment for drug use disorders (DUD) can be effective, but only a small proportion of people with DUD seek or receive treatment. Research on racial and ethnic treatment differences and disparities remains unclear. Understanding racial and ethnic differences and disparities in drug treatment is necessary in order to develop a more effective referral system and to improve the accessibility of treatment. The purpose of the current study was to explore the role of race and ethnicity in service utilization. Methods Using data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), this study examined racial and ethnic differences in use of 14 types of treatment services for DUD and 27 different treatment barriers among persons who met lifetime criteria for a DUD. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to examine service utilization and barriers among the racial and ethnic groups, while adjusting for other sociodemographic and clinical variables. Results and discussion Among Blacks, Hispanics and Whites in the overall NESARC sample, approximately 10.5% met criteria for at least one lifetime drug use disorder. Approximately 16.2% of persons with a lifetime DUD received at least one type of service. Overall, this study indicated that Whites were less likely to report receiving help for drug-related problems than Blacks, Blacks used a greater number of different types of services, and no racial and ethnic differences were observed with respect to perceived barriers to drug treatment. However, by examining types of services separately, a complex picture of racial and ethnic differences emerges. Most notably, Whites were most likely to use professional services, whereas Blacks were most likely to use 12-step and clergy. The service use pattern of Hispanics most resembled that of Whites. Conclusion While structural barriers to accessing treatment were observed, broad-based educational programs and interventions that are appropriately targeted to racial and ethnic groups remains an important area for prevention and treatment.
Declaration of Intention of Ernst Schonemann
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Ernst Schonemann Applicant age: 19Occupation: ClerkCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 27th December 1897Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:New Amsterdam City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date:27th November 1917
Light Higgsino as the tail of the $μ$-$B_μ$ solution
Creators: name: Asano, Masaki
name: Yokozaki, Norimi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge mediation predicts 10 TeV or heavier squarks because such a heavy stop is required to explain the observed 125 GeV Higgs boson mass without a large trilinear soft mass term in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Although such a high scale cannot be searched by the LHC directly, gauge mediation also predicts a hierarchy $μ^2 \ll B_μ$ by a simple and naive solution of the $μ$ problem. We point out that this simple and naive way of generating the $μ$ ($B_μ$) term works in the case of 10 TeV or heavier squarks with a slight breaking of a GUT relation among messenger B-terms (or supersymmetric mass terms). Furthermore, the upper bound on the Higgsino mass is obtained from the observed Higgs boson mass, perturbativity of a relevant coupling, and conditions avoiding tachyonic sneutrinos and stop. It turns out that the light Higgsino of O(100) GeV is a promising signal of gauge mediation.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, typo corrected, references added
Nonlinear system identification employing automatic differentiation
Creators: name: Schumann-Bischoff, Jan
name: Luther, Stefan
name: Parlitz, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An optimization based state and parameter estimation method is presented where the required Jacobian matrix of the cost function is computed via automatic differentiation. Automatic differentiation evaluates the programming code of the cost function and provides exact values of the derivatives. In contrast to numerical differentiation it is not suffering from approximation errors and compared to symbolic differentiation it is more convenient to use, because no closed analytic expressions are required. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to generalize the parameter estimation scheme to delay differential equations, where estimating the delay time requires attention.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Environmental risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infections and the impact of latent infections on allostatic load in residents of Central North Carolina
Creators: name: Hudgens, Edward
name: Klein, Elizabeth
name: Wade, Timothy J
name: Egorov, Andrey I
name: Styles, Jennifer
name: Sams, Elizabeth
name: Converse, Reagan
name: Griffin, Shannon M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Toxoplasma gondii infection can be acquired through ingestion of infectious tissue cysts in undercooked meat or environmental oocysts excreted by cats. This cross-sectional study assessed environmental risk factors for T. gondii infections and an association between latent infections and a measure of physiologic dysregulation known as allostatic load.
                Methods
                Serum samples from 206 adults in the Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina area were tested for immunoglobulin (IgG) responses to T. gondii using commercial ELISA kits. Allostatic load was estimated as a sum of 15 serum biomarkers of metabolic, neuroendocrine and immune functions dichotomized at distribution-based cutoffs. Vegetated land cover within 500 m of residences was estimated using 1 m resolution data from US EPA’s EnviroAtlas.
                Results
                Handling soil with bare hands at least weekly and currently owning a cat were associated with 5.3 (95% confidence limits 1.4; 20.7) and 10.0 (2.0; 50.6) adjusted odds ratios (aOR) of T. gondii seropositivity, respectively. There was also a significant positive interaction effect of handling soil and owning cats on seropositivity. An interquartile range increase in weighted mean vegetated land cover within 500 m of residence was associated with 3.7 (1.5; 9.1) aOR of T. gondii seropositivity. Greater age and consumption of undercooked pork were other significant predictors of seropositivity. In turn, T. gondii seropositivity was associated with 61% (13%; 130%) greater adjusted mean allostatic load compared to seronegative individuals. In contrast, greater vegetated land cover around residence was associated with significantly reduced allostatic load in both seronegative (p < 0.0001) and seropositive (p = 0.004) individuals.
                Conclusions
                Residents of greener areas may be at a higher risk of acquiring T. gondii infections through inadvertent ingestion of soil contaminated with cat feces. T. gondii infections may partially offset health benefits of exposure to the natural living environment.
Declaration of Intention of Anton Frank
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Anton Frank Applicant age: 23Occupation: butcherCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 16 January 1894Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Graf Waldersec City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 8 Febuary 1917
Declaration of Intention of Joseph Puglise
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1916

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by:Joseph Puglise Applicant age:23Occupation:laborerCountry of Origin:ItalyDate of Birth: 16 September 1883Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: unknown City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:25 October 1916
Das Bild der Bibliotheken, Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare im deutschen Fernsehen
Creators: name: Engelkenmeier, Ute
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Inhaltsanalyse
subject: Bibliothek
subject: Bibliothekarin
subject: Bibliothekar
subject: Fernsehen
subject: Image
subject: content analysis
subject: library
subject: librarian
subject: television
subject: image
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
subject: AN 66100
subject: AN 66900

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Darlegung des Bildes der Bibliotheken und der Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare im deutschen Fernsehen. Im theoretischen Teil wird das Themenfeld Bibliothek und Bibliothekarin/Bibliothekar kursorisch umrissen, sowie der Forschungsstand kurz dargelegt. Im empirischen Teil folgt eine Inhaltsanalyse von Fernsehsendungen der Gegenwart, die Sendungen aus den Jahren 2015 und 2016 betrachtet. Die ausgehende Forschungsfrage, wie Bibliotheken, Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare in Fernsehsendungen der Gegenwart dargestellt werden, wird anhand der Methode der standardisierten Inhaltsanalyse untersucht. Dabei werden neben quantitativen analytischen Methoden auch Verfahren der qualitativen Analyse eingesetzt. Die Ergebnisse geben ein durchaus differenziertes Bild je nach fiktionalen Genres und nicht-fiktionalen Formaten. Dabei ist in Gesamtbewertung das Bild von Bibliotheken neutral bis eher positiv und das Bild der Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare überwiegend positiv in den zugrundeliegenden Sendungen.
description: The aim of this work is to unfold the image of libraries and librarians on German television. In the theoretical part, the topics library and librarian are outlined cursory, as well as a brief description of the current state of research. In the empirical part, a content analysis of television broadcasts follows, which looks at broadcasts from the years 2015 and 2016. The outgoing research question of how libraries and librarians are portrayed in contemporary television broadcasts will be examined using the method of standardized content analysis. In addition to quantitative analytical methods, methods of qualitative analysis are also used. The results show a quite differentiated picture of libraries and librarians according to fictional genres and non-fictional formats. Overall, the picture of libraries is neutral to rather positive, and the image of the librarians is predominantly positive in the underlying broadcasts.
Mercificazione e sorveglianza della ricerca e della didattica. Il mondo (della protezione dei dati personali) non basta
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Privacy
Personal data protection
University
School
Digital platform
Surveillance
Commodification
Capitalism
Monopoly
Infrastractures

description: La presentazione ha lo scopo di offrire uno sguardo sul dibattito attinente al potere che le grandi piattaforme del capitalismo digitale esercitano su scuola e università. Il diritto alla protezione dei dati personali costituisce uno degli strumenti giuridici volti a preservare l'autonomia della scuola e dell'università nonché la libertà di pensiero di studenti, docenti e ricercatori, ma non è uno strumento sufficiente. Senza interventi organici su più normative - ad es. sul piano della proprietà intellettuale -, senza investimenti in infrastrutture pubbliche basate su standard aperti, senza una solida formazione degli studenti e dei docenti nel campo della cittadinanza digitale, il potere delle grandi piattaforme commerciali è destinato ad aumentare.
description: Bicocca Privacy Day 2023 https://www.unimib.it/eventi/bicocca-privacy-day-2023
Flavored axion-monodromy inflation
Creators: name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Ramos, Raymundo
name: Wang, Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hierarchy of fermion masses in the standard model may arise via the breaking of discrete gauge symmetries. The renormalizable interactions of the flavor-symmetry-breaking potential can have accidental global symmetries that are spontaneously broken, leading to pseudo-goldstone bosons that may drive inflation. We consider two-field, axion-monodromy inflation models in which the inflaton is identified with a linear combination of pseudo-goldstone bosons of the flavor sector. We show that the resulting models are nontrivially constrained by current cosmological data as well as the requirements of viable flavor model building.
description: 19 pages LaTeX, 2 pdf figures
Declaration of Intention of Fillip Weismuller
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Fillip Weismuller Applicant age: 53Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin:HungaryDate of Birth: 2nd August 1863Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Deuthland City of residence at time of declaration: Oceanville NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 12th June 1917
Ghana’s National Health insurance scheme and maternal and child health: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Huang, Carolyn
name: Speizer, Ilene
name: Fordham, Corinne
name: Singh, Kavita
name: Barrington, Clare
name: Otchere, Frank
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Ghana is attracting global attention for efforts to provide health insurance to all citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). With the program’s strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the program is that members will have increased use of relevant services. Methods This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data from a baseline assessment for the Maternal and Newborn errals Evaluation from the Northern and Central Regions to describe women’s experiences with the NHIS and to study associations between insurance and skilled facility delivery, antenatal care and early care-seeking for sick children. The assessment included a quantitative household survey (n = 1267 women), a quantitative community leader survey (n = 62), qualitative birth narratives with mothers (n = 20) and fathers (n = 18), key informant interviews with health care workers (n = 5) and focus groups (n = 3) with community leaders and stakeholders. The key independent variables for the quantitative analyses were health insurance coverage during the past three years (categorized as all three years, 1–2 years or no coverage) and health insurance during the exact time of pregnancy. Results Quantitative findings indicate that insurance coverage during the past three years and insurance during pregnancy were associated with greater use of facility delivery but not ANC. Respondents with insurance were also significantly more likely to indicate that an illness need not be severe for them to take a sick child for care. The NHIS does appear to enable pregnant women to access services and allow caregivers to seek care early for sick children, but both the quantitative and qualitative assessments also indicated that the poor and least educated were less likely to have insurance than their wealthier and more educated counterparts. Findings from the qualitative interviews uncovered specific challenges women faced regarding registration for the NHIS and other barriers such lack of understanding of who and what services were covered for free. Conclusion Efforts should be undertaken so all individuals understand the NHIS policy including who is eligible for free services and what services are covered. Increasing access to health insurance will enable Ghana to further improve maternal and child health outcomes.
Quantum Hydrodynamic Theory for Plasmonics: Impact of the Electron Density Tail
Creators: name: Ciracì, Cristian
name: Della Sala, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiscale plasmonic systems e.g. extended metallic nanostructures with sub-nanometer inter-distances) play a key role in the development of next-generation nano-photonic devices. An accurate modeling of the optical interactions in these systems requires an accurate description of both quantum effects and far-field properties. Classical electromagnetism can only describe the latter, while Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) can provide a full first-principles quantum treatment. However, TD-DFT becomes computationally prohibitive for sizes that exceed few nanometers, which are irrelevant for practical applications. In this article, we introduce a method based on the quantum hydrodynamic theory (QHT), which includes non-local contributions of the kinetic energy and the correct asymptotic description of the electron density. We show that our QHT method can predict both plasmon energy and spill-out effects in metal nanoparticles in excellent agreement with TD-DFT predictions, thus allowing a reliable and efficient calculations of both quantum and far-field properties in multiscale plasmonic systems.
Declaration of Intention of Miss Caroline Markloff
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Miss Caroline Markloff Applicant age: 37Occupation: HousewifeCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 15 August, 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: RelianceCity of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 25 February, 1925
Epidemiologic comparison of ankle injuries presenting to US emergency departments versus high school and collegiate athletic training settings
Creators: name: Wiersma, Alexandria J
name: Fields, Sarah K
name: Kerr, Zachary Y
name: Brou, Lina
name: Comstock, R. D
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Ankle sprains account for a large proportion of injuries presenting to both United States (US) emergency departments (EDs) as well as high school (HS) and collegiate school athletic training settings. The epidemiologic differences across these settings by both sport and diagnosis have not been well differentiated.
                Ankle injury data from 3 national surveillance datasets. Athletic training setting data from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance Program was from academic years 2009/10 through 2013/14 and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (ED setting) data was from calendar years 2009 through 2013. Data was analyzed for patients 14–22 years old participating in 12 sports (male football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and wrestling, and female softball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, and field hockey). We calculated sport-specific injury rates, proportions, and rate ratios (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
                Results
                During the study period, the surveillance systems captured 20,261 ankle injuries presenting to EDs plus 5546 HS and 2725 collegiate injuries presenting to school athletic training settings. Rates were higher in collegiate compared to HS athletes presenting in the athletic training setting. Football accounted for the largest proportion of ankle injuries presenting to HS (31.2%) and college (41.0%) athletic training settings; male basketball accounted for the largest proportion presenting to EDs among both HS (41.0%) and college (65.8%) aged patients. Sprains/strains accounted for over 80% of injuries in all three settings. Fractures accounted for a larger proportion of ankle injuries presenting to EDs (9.5%) compared to HS (3.8%) and college (0.8%) athletic training settings. There was no change in injury rates during the study period across the three settings.
                Conclusions
                Injury rates and patterns varied by sport and presentation setting, with athletic trainers evaluating more ankle injuries overall in the collegiate setting compared to the high school setting. Ankle injuries presenting to EDs were more commonly fractures, suggesting that more severe injuries present to this setting. Understanding the epidemiology of such patterns will help readers interpret differences in publications reporting data from varied clinical settings.
Declaration of Intention of Karl Frederick Honing
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Karl Frederick Honing Applicant age:33Occupation: InspectorCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 8th January 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: America City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic CIty NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 26th May 1917
Declaration of Intention of Bernhard Rothschild
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1916

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Bernhard RothschildApplicant age: 26Occupation: clerkCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 27 August 1890Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Prinz Oscar City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 12 December 1916
Measurements of the top quark mass using the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC
Creators: name: Menke, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest measurements of the top quark mass obtained by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC for centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV are presented. The mass of the top quark is measured using several methods and channels, including the reconstructed invariant mass distribution of the top quark and shapes of top quark decay distributions. Measurements based on the inclusive tt-bar cross section and novel observables based on the differential cross section in the tt-bar + 1 jet channel are also discussed. The results of the various channels are combined and compared to the world average.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, talk given on behalf of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at DIS2015, 27 April - 1 May 2015, Dallas, TX