cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond Rashomon--Conceptualizing and describing the teaching act
Creators: name: Fanselow, John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1977
Subjects: Teaching
Reflective teaching
Observation (Educational method)
Education

description: In 1966 Arno Bellack and colleagues at Teachers College analyzed interactions in social studies classes. Teachers College Press published the results in 1966 in Th e language of the classroom. Professor Bellack and his colleagues had developed a system to analyze interactions. I adopted it so I could analyze interactions in ESOL classrooms and published the first version of my adaptation in 1977 in the TESOL Quarterly
title: Do Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) Spawn in Response to High River Flow Events?
Creators: name: Jahn, Ginger L.
name: North, Elizabeth W.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Estuarine Turbidity Maximum (ETM) of the upper Chesapeake Bay serves as an important nursery habitat for striped bass (Morone saxatilis) eggs and larvae. Event-scale phenomena alter the physical and biological conditions within the ETM. Pulses in river flow change water temperatures and deliver organic material. Flow events could cue striped bass spawning and stimulate production of prey for their larvae. These hypotheses are being evaluated with field surveys and analyses of historical data. Historical records indicate that the occurrence of pulsed flow events is highly variable; zero to three pulses occurred each year during the spawning season (April-May) from 1993-2005. Water temperatures in April and May were negatively correlated with river flow (1956-2002), suggesting that water temperatures decrease during flow events and then increase as pulsed flow diminishes, potentially providing a cue for spawning. Surveys of striped bass egg and larval abundances and zooplankton abundances were conducted in upper Chesapeake Bay during 2007 and 2008 and were combined with historical data to identify whether pulses, and associated temperature changes, could act as cues for striped bass spawning and stimulate larval food production. Preliminary results of field collections and historical records neither refute nor confirm our hypothesis that striped bass spawn after pulses in river flow. Spawning did occur during times of rising water temperatures after pulses in flow, but not consistently across all systems and years
What Happens to Students Who Take Community College "Dual Enrollment" Courses in High School?
Creators: name: Fink, John
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Yanagiura, Takeshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Community colleges
High school students
Dual enrollment
High school students--Education (Higher)

description: The number of students taking college courses while they are in high school has grown dramatically over the past two decades—particularly at community colleges—but many colleges and states do not track participants’ outcomes. Using student enrollment and degree records from the National Student Clearinghouse, this report is the first to look state by state at who enrolls in community college “dual enrollment” courses and what happens to them after high school.

The study tracked more than 200,000 high school students who first took a community college course in fall 2010 for six years, through summer 2016 (five years after high school). Eighty-eight percent of these students continued in college after high school, and most earned a certificate or degree or transferred from a two-year college to a four-year college within five years. What type of college former dual enrollment students attended after high school and how many completed a college credential varied greatly by state, and many states showed big disparities in credential completion rates between lower and higher income students.

Despite the potential benefits of dual enrollment, the research raises important questions about why student outcomes varied substantially by state and often by income. The authors encourage colleges and states to monitor dual enrollment students, both while they are in high school and after they graduate, using the measures and results presented in this report to benchmark their performance nationally and by state. Working with their high school partners, colleges can examine what strategies are working to help dual enrollment students enroll in college after high school and earn college credentials in a timely fashion, and what additional steps are needed to improve college access and success for all students.
Dorsal GPi/GPe Stimulation Induced Dyskinesia in a Patient with Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Elkouzi, Ahmad
name: Tsuboi, Takashi
name: Burns, Matthew R.
name: Eisinger, Robert S.
name: Patel, Amar
name: Deeb, Wissam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Parkinson's disease
Brain stimulation
Globus pallidus
Movement disorders--Etiology
Neurology

description: Clinical vignette: A 68-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease (PD) had bilateral GPi DBS placed for management of his motor fluctuations. He developed stimulation-induced dyskinesia (SID) with left dorsal GPi stimulation. Clinical dilemma: What do we know about SID in PD patients with GPi DBS? What are the potential strategies used to maximize the DBS therapeutic benefit and minimize the side effects of stimulation? Clinical solution: Avoiding the contact implicated in SID and programming more ventral contacts, using lower voltage, frequency and pulse width and programming in bipolar configuration all appear to help minimize the SID and provide appropriate symptomatic motor control. Gap in knowledge: Little is known about SID in patients with PD who had GPi DBS therapy. More studies using volume of tissue activated and diffusion tensor imaging MRI are needed to localize specific tracts in or around the GPi that may be implicated in SID.
title: A Feature-Based Model for the Identification of Electrical Devices in Smart Environments
Creators: name: Tundis, Andrea
name: Faizan, Ali
name: Mühlhäuser, Max
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Smart Homes (SHs) represent the human side of a Smart Grid (SG). Data mining and analysis of energy data of electrical devices in SHs, e.g., for the dynamic load management, is of fundamental importance for the decision-making process of energy management both from the consumer perspective by saving money and also in terms of energy redistribution and reduction of the carbon dioxide emission, by knowing how the energy demand of a building is composed in the SG. Advanced monitoring and control mechanisms are necessary to deal with the identification of appliances. In this paper, a model for their automatic identification is proposed. It is based on a set of 19 features that are extracted by analyzing energy consumption, time usage and location from a set of device profiles. Then, machine learning approaches are employed by experimenting different classifiers based on such model for the identification of appliances and, finally, an analysis on the feature importance is provided.
Watch this Space
Creators: name: Hall, Timothy Merrick
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Teaching

description: There comes a point in every language teacher’s career when practice in the classroom is incongruent with preconceived, sometimes idealistic expectations. This is due in part to the mismatch between those expectations and the psychological realities of second language learning. Moreover, the vagaries of the classroom environment make it all the more difficult to predict how learning will unfold. And yet we continue to teach, all the while striving to refine our intuitive strategies through experience.
Motherhood? : stories of decision
Creators: name: Mohammed, Tiffani
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Six women participated in this qualitative study investigating how unpartnered women in their early 30’s negotiate the decision of whether or not to pursue motherhood within the context of their life circumstances. Previous research has largely focused on fertility intentions and decision-making processes of married women, and/or those whose ages are within the expected reproduction time frame. This research supports the limited, recent qualitative literature highlighting the experiences of women facing biological pressures, along with influences presented within the circumstances of their lives. Narrative methodology provided the structure for this study and participants were encouraged to share their parenthood decision-making stories with guidance from open-ended questions when necessary. The in-depth narratives of these participants generated several common thematic threads: Relationships (romantic and otherwise); a sense of personal agency; family and peer influences; career and financial influences; a sense of readiness; biological pressures; research, and community support. Findings from this research supports that the parenthood decision can be particularly complicated and confusing for women who are unpartnered in their early 30’s, not only due to their relationship status, but because of competing pressures, ambitions and demands. The stories shared by these participants also reflect the non-linear decision-making process and supports that the decision is based on events and experiences encountered throughout their life journeys. Mental health practitioners can invariably learn from this research, especially when assisting women who are negotiating parenthood while in their early 30’s. Further qualitative and quantitative research could substantiate and add to these findings by deepening the identified thematic threads or capturing additional thematic threads identified by diverse groups of women.
Measurement of CP Asymmetries and Branching Fractions in Charmless Two-Body B-Meson Decays to Pions and Kaons
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present improved measurements of CP-violation parameters in the decays $B^0 \to π^+ π^-$, $B^0 \to K^+ π^-$, and $B^0 \to π^0 π^0$, and of the branching fractions for $B^0 \to π^0 π^0$ and $B^0 \to K^0 π^0$. The results are obtained with the full data set collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ factory at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, corresponding to $467 \pm 5$ million $B\bar B$ pairs. We find the CP-violation parameter values and branching fractions $ S_{π^+π^-} = -0.68 \pm 0.10 \pm 0.03, C_{π^+π^-} = -0.25 \pm 0.08 \pm 0.02, A_{K^-π^+} = -0.107 \pm 0.016 ^{+0.006}_{-0.004}, C_{π^0π^0} = -0.43 \pm 0.26 \pm 0.05, Br(B^0 \to π^0 π^0) = (1.83 \pm 0.21 \pm 0.13) \times 10^{-6}, Br(B^0 \to K^0 π^0) = (10.1 \pm 0.6 \pm 0.4) \times 10^{-6},$ where in each case, the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. We observe CP violation with a significance of 6.7 standard deviations for $B^0 \toπ^+π^-$ and 6.1 standard deviations for $B^0 \to K^+ π^-$, including systematic uncertainties. Constraints on the Unitarity Triangle angle $α$ are determined from the isospin relations among the $B \to ππ$ rates and asymmetries. Considering only the solution preferred by the Standard Model, we find $α$ to be in the range $[71^\circ,109^\circ]$ at the 68% confidence level.
description: 18 pages, 11 postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Large Deviations for a Non-Centered Wishart Matrix
Creators: name: Hardy, Adrien
name: Kuijlaars, Arno B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate an additive perturbation of a complex Wishart random matrix and prove that a large deviation principle holds for the spectral measures. The rate function is associated to a vector equilibrium problem coming from logarithmic potential theory, which in our case is a quadratic map involving the logarithmic energies, or Voiculescu's entropies, of two measures in the presence of an external field and an upper constraint. The proof is based on a two type particles Coulomb gas representation for the eigenvalue distribution, which gives a new insight on why such variational problems should describe the limiting spectral distribution. This representation is available because of a Nikishin structure satisfied by the weights of the multiple orthogonal polynomials hidden in the background.
description: 40 pages
The Consumer Choice of Market for Fresh Fruits: A Study of Attitudinal Factors and Market Attributes
Creators: name: Marques, Juliano M.R.
name: Torres, Ariana P.
name: Behe, Bridget K.
name: Langenhoven, Petrus
name: De Barros Vilas Boas, Luiz Henrique
name: Marques, Juliano M.R.
name: Torres, Ariana P.
name: Behe, Bridget K.
name: Langenhoven, Petrus
name: De Barros Vilas Boas, Luiz Henrique
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: fresh fruit
subject: marketing
subject: product differentiation
subject: attitudinal factors
subject: market channel

description: This study proposes that market attributes and consumer attitudes drive the decision to choose the main marketplace to purchase fresh fruits, defined as the first step in the consumer purchasing behavior. From a survey of 1,658 Americans, we categorized respondents as those purchasing most fresh fruits at chain stores (66%), club/warehouse stores (5%), independent grocery stores (18%), and DTC markets (11%). Results from a multinomial logit regression showed fresh fruit prices was the main attribute of purchasing at chain stores, and a major barrier for independent stores. Atmosphere and access to local fruits was the main attribute for farmers markets.
Bounds on Spectral Dispersion from Fermi-detected Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Nemiroff, Robert J.
name: Connolly, Ryan
name: Holmes, Justin
name: Kostinski, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data from four Fermi-detected gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is used to set limits on spectral dispersion of electromagnetic radiation across the universe. The analysis focuses on photons recorded above 1 GeV for Fermi detected GRB 080916C, GRB 090510A, GRB 090902B, and GRB 090926A because these high-energy photons yield the tightest bounds on light dispersion. It is shown that significant photon bunches in GRB 090510A, possibly classic GRB pulses, are remarkably brief, an order of magnitude shorter in duration than any previously claimed temporal feature in this energy range. Although conceivably a $>3 σ$ fluctuation, when taken at face value, these pulses lead to an order of magnitude tightening of prior limits on photon dispersion. Bound of $Δc / c < 6.94$ x $10^{-21}$ is thus obtained. Given generic dispersion relations where the time delay is proportional to the photon energy to the first or second power, the most stringent limits on the dispersion strengths were $k_1
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted to PRL
Unpacking the Concept of Complexity in Instructed SLA Research: Towards an Acquisitional Definition
Creators: name: Jung, Ji-Yung
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
Second language acquisition--Methodology

description: Over the past few decades, the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has seen a remarkable increase of interest in the study of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), which “investigates second language (L2) learning or acquisition that occurs as a result of teaching” (Loewen, 2014, p. 2). Research insights gained from this subfield are particularly pertinent to adult L2 learners, who, due to biological and cognitive constraints, have difficulty acquiring a target language (TL) solely based on naturalistic input (e.g., Han, 2004; Long, 1990). The ISLA literature shows that there is an array of pedagogical options that can be used to facilitate adult L2 learning, ranging from implicit (e.g., input enhancement, recasts, etc.) to explicit (e.g., consciousness-raising, metalinguistic rule explanation, etc.) techniques. Furthermore, the effectiveness of an instructional treatment seems to depend largely on the nature (i.e., complexity) of the L2 feature (e.g., Ellis, 2002; Spada & Tomita, 2010). However, extant empirical studies have yielded rather mixed findings on the issue regarding which type of L2 feature (i.e., complex or simple) benefits more from which type of instruction (i.e., implicit or explicit), rendering it difficult to provide straightforward guidance to L2 classroom teachers. There are several reasons for the disparities in research findings, such as differences in study designs, settings, learner characteristics, etc., but above anything else, the inconsistent findings can primarily be attributed to the varying conceptualizations of complexity. With an aim to enlighten future research in this line of inquiry, the present discussion emphasizes the need for a more integral definition of complexity. First, some traditional definitions of the concept are briefly reviewed. Next, a more recent, acquisitional perspective (Han & Lew, 2012) is introduced, and finally, a few key aspects of acquisitional complexity are discussed, which offer critical insights for future empirical studies, particularly related to the internal validity of research designs.
Self-Injurious Behaviour in SCA17: A New Clinical Observation
Creators: name: Bonomo, Roberta
name: Latorre, Anna
name: Bhatia, Kailash P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ataxia
Self-mutilation
Impulse
Hyperkinesia
Neurology

description: Background: Self-injurious behaviour has historically been associated with borderline personality disorder. Nevertheless, over recent years, it has been reported in numerous neurological syndromes, especially hyperkinesias. Case report: Two cases of SCA17 manifested self-injurious behaviour, namely repetitive scratching of the skin resulting in severe excoriations. In one of them, the abnormal behaviour was associated with the inability to resist the impulse to commit the act along with relief following the damage. Discussion: This is the first report describing self-injurious behaviour in SCA17, but the mechanisms underlying it are still not clear. Further studies are needed to clarify the pathophysiology of such manifestation in hyperkinetic syndromes.
Examining the Intersection between Task-Based Learning and Technology
Creators: name: Akbar, Farah Sultana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Second language acquisition--Computer-assisted instruction

description: Less than two decades ago most of the activities in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) were created with a “one-size-fits-all” understanding of how computers could enhance language learning. Across the board, the sole rationale for using technology, mostly computer- based, was that it was useful and motivating for learners. The obvious lack of a solid research base for such practice gradually led both CALL researchers to approach the use of technology in language teaching and learning more empirically. Only recently has the field of CALL begun to undergo self-evaluation (Gónzalez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014), and researchers are now claiming that in order for the field to progress, it is necessary to look to SLA principles that make language teaching effective (Chapelle, 1998; Levy, 1999).
Low energy electron/recoil discrimination for directional Dark Matter detection
Creators: name: Billard, J.
name: Mayet, F.
name: Santos, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Even though it could accommodate to a sizeable background contamination, electron/recoil discrimination remains a key and challenging issue as for direction-insensitive detectors. The measurement of the 3D track may be used to discriminate electrons from nuclear recoils. While a high rejection power is expected above 20 keV ionization, a dedicated data analysis is needed at low energy. After identifying discriminant observables, a multivariate analysis, namely a Boosted Decision Tree, is proposed, enabling an efficient event tagging for Dark Matter search. We show that it allows us to optimize rejection while keeping a rather high efficiency which is compulsory for rare event search.With respect to a sequential analysis, the rejection is about 20 times higher with a multivariate analysis, for the same Dark Matter exclusion limit.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
A Discourse on Intemperance; Delivered at Cincinnati, March 1, 1828, Before The Agricultural Society of Hamilton County, and Subsequently Pronounced, by Request, to a Popular Audience.
Creators: name: Drake, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1828

description: Copy of a lecture on intemperance delivered to members of an agricultural society on March 1, 1828, in Cincinnati, OH.
On instantons as Kaluza-Klein modes of M5-branes
Creators: name: Kim, Hee-Cheol
name: Kim, Seok
name: Koh, Eunkyung
name: Lee, Kimyeong
name: Lee, Sungjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Instantons and W-bosons in 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory arise from a circle compactification of the 6d (2,0) theory as Kaluza-Klein modes and winding self-dual strings, respectively. We study an index which counts BPS instantons with electric charges in Coulomb and symmetric phases. We first prove the existence of unique threshold bound state of (noncommutative) U(1) instantons for any instanton number, and also show that charged instantons in the Coulomb phase correctly give the degeneracy of SU(2) self-dual strings. By studying SU(N) self-dual strings in the Coulomb phase, we find novel momentum-carrying degrees on the worldsheet. The total number of these degrees equals the anomaly coefficient of SU(N) (2,0) theory. We finally show that our index can be used to study the symmetric phase of this theory, and provide an interpretation as the superconformal index of the sigma model on instanton moduli space.
description: 54 pages, 2 figures. v2: references added, figure improved, added comments on self-dual string anomaly, added new materials on the symmetric phase index, other minor corrections
Reversible Holmes Tremor due to Middle Cerebral Artery Giant Aneurysm
Creators: name: Poloni, Tino Emanuele
name: Galli, Alberto
name: Carlos, Arenn Faye
name: Riva, Emanuela
name: Medici, Valentina
name: Davin, Annalisa
name: Guaita, Antonio
name: Ceroni, Mauro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tremor
Intracranial aneurysms
Brain--Diseases
Therapeutics, Surgical
Diagnosis, Differential

description: A 40-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of mild but worsening tremor of variable intensity. The patient had a focal, irregular, rest and action tremor of middle amplitude and low frequency (about 4 Hz), limited to his right arm with oscillatory motion around the elbow. It was present inconsistently at rest, particularly during emotional activation, and enhanced by posture maintenance. It was evoked by various positions and tasks. Particularly, the tremor was present during fine motor skills such as writing, and it was increased by drinking and shaving, showing a minimal intentional component. The patient also reported slight loss in manual dexterity in his right hand.
Topspin Networks in Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Duston, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the extension of loop quantum gravity to topspin networks, a proposal which allows topological information to be encoded in spin networks. We will show that this requires minimal changes to the phase space, C*-algebra and Hilbert space of cylindrical functions. We will also discuss the area and Hamiltonian operators, and show how they depend on the topology. This extends the idea of "background independence" in loop quantum gravity to include topology as well as geometry. It is hoped this work will confirm the usefulness of the topspin network formalism and open up several new avenues for research into quantum gravity.
description: 33 pages, significantly updated and improved
Characterizing Thalamo-Cortical Structural Connectivity in Essential Tremor with Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging Tractography
Creators: name: Revuelta, Gonzalo
name: McGill, Corinne
name: Jensen, Jens H.
name: Bonilha, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tremor
subject: Thalamus
subject: Brain--Physiology
subject: Brain--Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Neuromodulation of the cerebello-thalamo-cortical (CTC) circuit via thalamic stimulation is an effective therapy for essential tremor (ET). In order to develop non-invasive neuromodulation approaches, clinically relevant thalamo-cortical connections must be elucidated. Methods: Twenty-eight subjects (18 ET patients and 10 controls) underwent MRI diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI). A deterministic fiber-tracking algorithm based on DKI was used, with a seeding region placed at the ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim—located based on intraoperative physiology) to the ending regions at the supplementary motor area (SMA), pre-SMA, or primary motor cortex. One-tailed t-tests were performed to compare groups, and associations with tremor severity were determined by Pearson correlations. All p-values were adjusted for multiple comparisons using Bonferroni correction. Results: There was a decrease in the mean diffusivity (MD) in patients compared to controls in all three tracts: Vim-M1 (ET 0.87, control 0.96, p < 0.01), Vim-SMA (ET 0.86, control 0.96, p < 0.05), and Vim-pre-SMA (ET 0.87, control 0.95, p < 0.05). There was a significant positive correlation between Tremor Rating Scale score and MK (r = 0.471, p = 0.033) and mean FA (r = 0.438, p = 0.045) for the Vim-SMA tract, and no significant correlation for the Vim-pre-SMA or Vim-M1 tracts was found. Discussion: Patients with ET demonstrated a reinforcement of Vim-cortical connectivity, with higher Vim-SMA connectivity being associated with greater tremor severity. This finding suggests that the Vim-SMA connection is relevant to the underlying pathophysiology of ET, and inhibition of the SMA may be an effective therapeutic approach.
Additional file 1 of Integrated investigation and discovery of therapeutic targets for 3-hydroxybakuchiol against diabetes based on molecular docking studies and cell experiments
Creators: name: Liu, Min
name: Wang, Xinyu
name: Yang, Junsong
name: Qin, Dan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sequences of primers used quantitative real-time PCR. Table S2. Binding energy between HYD and four core targets. Table S3. ADMET parameters of HYD predicted using pkCSM. Figure S1. (A) Cell viability at different concentrations of HYD on C2C12 cells. (B) Effect of HYD on glucose consumption in insulin resistance model (C2C12 cells). ###P < 0.001, vs. the control group; **P< 0.01, ***P < 0.001, vs. the model group. Figure S2. Effect of HYD on the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in insulin resistance model (C2C12 cells). The relative mRNA level of AKT (A), PI3K (B), GS (C), PEPCK (D), G6Pase (E) was measured by qRT-PCR analysis. ###P< 0.001, vs. the control group; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, vs. the model group.
Unknotting numbers and triple point cancelling numbers of torus-covering knots
Creators: name: Nakamura, Inasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is known that any surface knot can be transformed to an unknotted surface knot or a surface knot which has a diagram with no triple points by a finite number of 1-handle additions. The minimum number of such 1-handles is called the unknotting number or the triple point cancelling number, respectively. In this paper, we give upper bounds and lower bounds of unknotting numbers and triple point cancelling numbers of torus-covering knots, which are surface knots in the form of coverings over the standard torus $T$. Upper bounds are given by using $m$-charts on $T$ presenting torus-covering knots, and lower bounds are given by using quandle colorings and quandle cocycle invariants.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures, added Corollary 1.7, to appear in J. Knot Theory Ramifications
Salmonella in slaughterhouse!? What would be the right questions in that situation?
Creators: name: Niine, Tarmo
name: Viltrop, Arvo
name: Nurmoja, Imbi
name: Smith, Richard
name: Burow, Elke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Salmonella
Hepatitis E virus
Slaughterhouse
Biosecurity

description: The BIOPIGEE project (‘Biosecurity practices for pig farming across Europe’) JRP#-WP2-T3 Slaughterhouse biosecurity practices
Siblings of people with autism : the experiences of the non-autistic sibling
Creators: name: McNamara, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Research shows that the relationships people have with their siblings have significant influence on their lives. This applies to sibling groupings of all sizes and constellations including ones where a sibling has a disability. The focus of this research is on the typically-developing siblings of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Historically research on the siblings of people with ASD has focused on the impressions and evaluations of parents and teachers or used quantitative approaches to evaluate their experiences. This has left a gap regarding the stories of people with siblings who have ASD. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of having a sibling with ASD on a person’s life from a qualitative descriptive approach. Semi-structured interviews with five participants illuminate the experience of growing up with a sibling with ASD. The participants described experiencing relational closeness and contrasting distance, differential treatment, and specific roles like caregiver and teacher. Several themes emerged from participant stories including “a sense of normalcy”, difficulty, and feelings of loneliness, depression, anger, resentment, guilt, and fear.
title: Effect of Siberian High on the catch fluctuation of Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, in the Yellow Sea
Creators: name: Kima, Heeyong
name: Hwangb, H.J.
name: Kimc, D.H.
name: Sohnd, M.H.
name: Kime, J.B.
name: Choib, K.H.
name: Yeon, I.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The catch of Pacific cod in the Yellow Sea accounts for more than 50% of the total Pacific cod catches in Korean waters when abundance started to increase. The fluctuation of Pacific cod catch in the Yellow Sea is influenced by changes in hydrographic conditions due to the Siberian High Pressure (SHP). The decadal pattern of the SHP corresponds to that of the Pacific cod catch, which indicates that the catches increase in strong period of the SHP in 1980s and 2000s and decrease in weak period in 1990s. The SHP dominates the cooling of sea surface waters in the Yellow Sea in the winter season. The cooled surface waters sink and then form the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW) that exists at the bottom of the Yellow Sea, even in summer. The main of the YSBCW temperature when Pacific cod catches are made in the Yellow Sea ranged 6 to 10 o C. The isotherms of 10 o C in 1990s were located at the northern area in the Yellow Sea relative to those in 1980s and 2000s. It suggests that Pacific cods in 1990s were restricted within the northern area of the Yellow Sea. The cooling period of sea surface waters corresponds to the main spawning season of Pacific cod in Korean waters. The effect of the SHP on water temperature is an important factor for hatching of the Pacific cod in the Korean waters. The change of the isotherm of 10 o C in December from 1981 to 2007 suggested that temperature condition act as a limiting factor for their hatching.
Strong Valence Fluctuation Effects in Sm$Tr_2$Al$_{20}$($Tr=$Ti, V, Cr)
Creators: name: Sakai, Akito
name: Nakatsuji, Satoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a single crystal study of low temperature magnetism and transport in Sm$Tr_2$Al$_{20}$ ($Tr =$ Ti, V and Cr). Strong valence fluctuation is manifested as Kondo effects including a large Sommerfeld coefficient $γ$, a weak temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility and a $-\ln T$ dependent resistivity. All the systems order antiferromagnetically at $T_{\rm N}=$ 6.4 K (Ti), 2.3 K (V) and 1.8 K (Cr). Systematic change in the susceptibility, specific heat, and resistivity indicates that stronger $c$-$f$ hybridization in SmV$_2$Al$_{20}$ and SmCr$_2$Al$_{20}$ than in SmTi$_2$Al$_{20}$ suppresses $T_{\rm N}$ and induces the valence fluctuations and moreover field insensitive heavy fermion states.
title: Patterns and schedules in hindcasted environments and fish life cycles
Creators: name: Petitgas, Pierre
name: Huret, Martin
name: Léger, Fabien
name: Peck, Myron A.
name: Dickey-Collas, Mark
name: Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Biophysical NPZD (nutrient, phytoplankton, zooplankton, detritus) models are now available to generate long-term hindcasts of climate-forced variability in the physical and lower trophic environment of fish populations. The paper presents a method to evaluate the seasonal and inter-annual variability in the hindcast outputs of NPZD models. First, Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF) are used to extract the major patterns in space and their variability in time for a list of variables that are output of a long-term hindcast run. Then Multi-Factor analysis (MFA) is applied on the amplitudes of the EOFs to characterize the seasonal pattern in all the variables and the variability across years around that pattern. Correlation of the amplitudes to the principal components of the MFA help identify the drivers of the variability. life cycle scheduling of various species is matched with the MFA results to identify the type and magnitude of environmental variability that each life stage is expected to experience and hence identify potential critical periods in the life history. Applications of the procedure are performed in the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay for sprat (Sprattus sprattus), European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sole (Solea solea), resident species in both areas. This generic procedure was also applied to North Sea herring (Clupea harengus).
Instructed SLA and Task-Based Language Teaching
Creators: name: Sun, Haimei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Methodology
Applied linguistics
Language and education

description: Although second language acquisition (SLA) and language teaching are two distinct fields, an increasing number of classroom-based SLA research on the effectiveness of different types of instruction, such as focus on forms, focus on meaning, and focus on form (see Norris & Ortega, 2000 for a review), corrective feedback (e.g., Lyster & Ranta, 1997), input enhancement (e.g., White, 1998), etc., has brought about a burgeoning subfield of SLA known as Instructed SLA (ISLA). ISLA, which is often pitted against naturalistic SLA, “occurs in formal settings where language is intentionally taught and intentionally learned – within a limited amount of time” (Spada, 2015, p. 71). Given ISLA’s immediate and potential relevance to second language (L2) pedagogy, Long (2014) made the first attempt to formulate a cognitive-interactionist theory of ISLA. In what follows, this theory will first be presented and then discussed in relation to its significance to and implications for task-based language teaching (TBLT) and syllabus design.
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among a Selected Group of Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Creators: name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: fruits, vegetables
subject: undergraduate and graduate students
subject: African Americans
subject: ChooseMyPlate
subject: Dietary Guidelines for Americans

description: Students who consumed 1½-2 cups of fruits daily were more likely to be juniors; to live in households with income levels above $50,000; to be married or divorced; or to be employed. Consumption was not influenced by residence, household size, race, or gender. Forty-six percent of respondents did not eat vegetables daily; 48% ate 2-3 cups daily; and 6% consumed more than 3 cups daily. Students who worked were more likely to eat 2-3 cups of vegetables daily. Based on the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a majority of the participants met the minimum daily recommendations for fruits and vegetables.
The HARPS-TERRA project I. Description of the algorithms, performance and new measurements on a few remarkable stars observed by HARPS
Creators: name: Anglada-Escudé, Guillem
name: Butler, R. Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Doppler spectroscopy has uncovered or confirmed all the known planets orbiting nearby stars. Two main techniques are used to obtain precision Doppler measurements at optical wavelengths. The first approach is the gas cell method, which consists on the least-squares matching of the spectrum of Iodine imprinted on the spectrum of the star. The second method relies on the construction of a stabilized spectrograph externally calibrated in wavelength. The most precise stabilized spectrometer in operation is HARPS, operated by ESO in La Silla Observatory/Chile. The Doppler measurements obtained with HARPS are typically obtained using the Cross-Correlation Function technique (CCF). It consists of multiplying the stellar spectrum with a weighted binary mask and finding the minimum of such product as a function of the Doppler shift. It is known that CCF is suboptimal in exploiting the Doppler information in the stellar spectrum. Here, we describe an algorithm to obtain precision RV measurements using least-squares matching of each observed spectrum to a high signal-to-noise ratio template derived from the same observations. Such algorithm is implemented in our software called HARPS-TERRA (Template Enhanced Radial velocity Re-analysis Application). New radial velocity measurements on a representative sample of stars observed by HARPS is used to illustrate the benefits of the proposed method. We show that, compared to CCF, template matching provides a significant improvement in accuracy, specially when applied to M dwarfs.
description: Accepted in ApJ supplement series. Main manuscript contains 40 pages, 17 figures and 6 Tables. Table 7 to 14 (page 41-90) contain the relevant time series. Table 15 contains the HARPS-TERRA, HIRES and PFS RV measurements used in http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0446. Machine readable tables will the provided in the journal version of the manuscript
Naming Genes for Dystonia: DYT-z or Ditzy?
Creators: name: Mencacci, Niccolo E.
name: Jinnah, H. A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dystonia
Human chromosomes--Nomenclature
Human genetics--Variation
Movement disorders
Neurology

description: Dystonias are a clinically and etiologically diverse group of disorders. Numerous genes have now been associated with different dystonia syndromes, and multiple strategies have been proposed for how these genes should be lumped and split into meaningful categories. The traditional approach has been based on the Human Genome Organization’s plan for naming genetic loci for all disorders. For dystonia this involves a DYT prefix followed by a number (e.g., DYT1, DYT2, DYT3, etc.). A more recently proposed approach involves assigning multiple prefixes according to the main elements of the phenotype (e.g., DYT, PARK, CHOR, TREM, etc.) followed by the name of the responsible gene. This article describes these nomenclature systems and summarizes some of their limitations. We focus on dystonia as an example, although the concepts may be applied to all movement disorders.
Spacetime Splitting, Admissible Coordinates and Causality
Creators: name: Bini, D.
name: Chicone, C.
name: Mashhoon, B.
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: To confront relativity theory with observation, it is necessary to split spacetime into its temporal and spatial components. The (1+3) timelike threading approach involves restrictions on the gravitational potentials $(g_{μν})$, while the (3+1) spacelike slicing approach involves restrictions on $(g^{μν})$. These latter coordinate conditions protect chronology within any such coordinate patch. While the threading coordinate conditions can be naturally integrated into the structure of Lorentzian geometry and constitute the standard coordinate conditions in general relativity, this circumstance does not extend to the slicing coordinate conditions. We explore the influence of chronology violation on wave motion. In particular, we consider the propagation of radiation parallel to the rotation axis of stationary Gödel-type universes characterized by parameters $η> 0$ and $λ> 0$ such that for $η< 1$ ($η>1$) chronology is protected (violated). We show that in the WKB approximation such waves can freely propagate only when chronology is protected.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor typos corrected, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Input for the Second Language Classroom: Some Innovations and Insights
Creators: name: Wai Man Lew, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Applied linguistics
Comprehension
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Emotive (Linguistics)

description: The importance of target language (TL) data in the learning environment has been increasingly recognized by instructional practitioners. One contributing factor is the surge of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) research since the 1980s, which has resulted in a variety of input-based insights and approaches. Conceptually, Krashen’s (1982, 1985) Input Hypothesis alludes to the essentialness of making input “comprehensible” enough (i+1). That is, learners’ exposure to input must occur at a level just beyond their current capabilities in order for it to be beneficial for acquisition. Pedagogically, focus on form (FonF) (Long, 1991; Long & Robinson, 1998) techniques such as textual enhancement, input flood, and processing instruction (VanPatten, 1996, 2002, 2004) offer practical means for language instructors to make certain physical or formal features of input more salient to classroom learners within a communicative, meaning-focused context. Such meaning-oriented contexts include, for example, processing input for comprehension as part of a larger pedagogic task. That being the case, the past decade of ISLA research has gradually moved beyond the abovementioned focus on the surface, formal features of input to probe into the more intrinsic attributes of L2 input at the phonological, lexical, grammatical and discourse levels.
A Survey of Shopping Changes under COVID-19
Creators: name: Park, Kristen S.
name: Brumberg, Adam
name: Yonezawa, Koichi
name: Park, Kristen S.
name: Brumberg, Adam
name: Yonezawa, Koichi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: online
subject: shopping behaviors
subject: supermarkets
subject: COVID-19

description: Before COVID-19, less than 7% of annual American grocery sales took place online. We hypothesize that during the COVID-19 pandemic, shoppers have decreased in-person shopping and increased online shopping. We conducted a survey of 780 grocery shoppers in five Northeastern states in May 2020. The percent of groceries purchased online increased from 8.4% pre-COVID-19 to 21.1% during COVID-19, whereas the percent of purchases from physical stores declined from 85.3% to 72.4%. Increases in online purchases resulted from 1) an increase in the number of online users, and 2) an increase in the amount purchased online by pre-COVID-19 online users.
title: Changes In Growth Rates Of Reef Fish In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico: Evidence For Climate Change Or Overharvesting?
Creators: name: Powers, Sean P.
name: Fodrie, F. Joel
name: Shaffer, Nicole
name: Johnson, Matthew
name: Shipp, Robert L.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) faces major changes as a result of climate change and increasing anthropogenic perturbations. The complexity of predicting how the additive and interactive effects of such changes will affect fish populations is daunting. Changes in the overall abundance and composition of fish landings are evident within the Gulf of Mexico. However, more subtle and potential compensatory processes (e.g., individual growth, fecundity, age at maturity) have received comparatively little attention. Theoretically, individuals belonging to populations experiencing overharvesting should benefit by having more resources (space or food) available to them. Such density-dependent processes should increase growth rates. Complicating this theoretical response is the effect of increasing temperatures that may enhance productivity of nGOM waters increasing food supply via bottom-up processes. We examines growth over several decades by measuring incremental otolith growth of three species: two reef associated, red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) and gag (Mycteroperca microlepis), and one estuarine dependent species, red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). Red snapper and gag are both overfished, whereas red drum has recently recovered from two decades of overfishing. Growth of red snapper for the first three years of life increased over the last four decades. For age 1-3 red snapper growth in 2000 was 75% greater than in the 1970s. Neither gag nor red drum demonstrated any change in growth. These results suggest that increases in growth of red snapper are best explained by changes in density-dependent factors (e.g., overharvest or increased habitat) and not density independent factors. (e.g., temperature changes).