cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The cost of sex bias in schools and society
Creators: name: Sadker, David
name: Sadker, Myrna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The losses that both girls and boys suffer because of sex bias in society and in education are summarized in this report. For both girls and boys, statements based on research in these fields are :listed in the academic, psychological and physical realms, and career and family relationships.
Testing for Cointegration Rank Using Bayes Factors
Creators: name: Sugita, Katsuhiro
name: Sugita, Katsuhiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Cointegration
subject: MCMC
subject: Bayes factor

description: This paper proposes Bayesian methods for estimating the cointegration rank using Bayes factors. We consider natural conjugate priors for computing Bayes factors. First, we estimate the cointegrating vectors for each possible rank. Then, we compute the Bayes factors for each rank against 0 rank. Monte Carlo simulations show that using Bayes factor with conjugate priors produces fairly good results. We apply the method to demand for money in the US.
XMM-Newton and optical follow-up observations of SDSS J093249.57+472523.0 and SDSS J102347.67+003841.2
Creators: name: Homer, Lee
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Chen, Bing
name: Henden, Arne
name: Schmidt, Gary
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Brinkmann, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report follow-up XMM-Newton and ground-based optical observations of the unusual X-ray binary SDSS J102347.67+003841.2 (=FIRST J102347.6+003841), and a new candidate intermediate polar found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J093249.57+472523.0. SDSS J1023 was observed in its low-state, with similar magnitude/color (V=17.4 and B=17.9), and smooth orbital modulation as seen in most previous observations. We further refine the ephemeris (for photometric minimum) to: HJD(TT)_min= 2453081.8546(3) + E* 0.198094(1) d. It is easily detected in X-rays at an unabsorbed flux (0.01-10.0 keV) of 5x10e-13 erg/cm^2/s. Fitting a variety of models we find that: (i) either a hot (kT>~15 keV) optically thin plasma emission model (bremsstrahlung or MEKAL) or a simple power law can provide adequate fits to the data; (ii) these models prefer a low column density ~10e19 cm^-2; (iii) a neutron star atmosphere plus power law model (as found for quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries) can also produce a good fit (for plausible distances), though only for a much higher column of about 4x10e20 cm^-2 and a very cool atmosphere kT
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (page formatting corrected)
The intellectual exchange : excellence and equity in college teaching
Creators: name: Sadker, David
name: Sadker, Myrna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This report focuses on pedgagogical technique within the context of the rapid expansion and demographic changes in college and university enrollments and how, coupled with budgetary entrenchment, these forces have left institutions of higher education dedicated to providing quality education in a state of crisis. Teaching is seen to be the key factor responsible for student learning and satisfaction with college, and the use of a teaching method called the interactive classroom is suggested as an appropriate methodology for raising educational quality and satisfaction for both teachers and students. The pedagogical cycle of the interactive classroom, consisting of four stages, and the benefits derived from each are described and discussed. The first stage, the introduction, is outlined and includes an illustrative example of such a segment from a freshman history class. This is followed by a similar analysis of the second stage: the questioning process by the instructor to the students. Third, the student response stage of the interactive classroom is discussed. Finally, the instructor's response, or feedback, is examined. The paper concludes with recommendations for improving the quality and raising the importance of the teaching profession.
The intellectual exchange : excellence and equity in college teaching
Creators: name: Sadker, David
name: Sadker, Myrna
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This report focuses on pedgagogical technique within the context of the rapid expansion and demographic changes in college and university enrollments and how, coupled with budgetary entrenchment, these forces have left institutions of higher education dedicated to providing quality education in a state of crisis. Teaching is seen to be the key factor responsible for student learning and satisfaction with college, and the use of a teaching method called the interactive classroom is suggested as an appropriate methodology for raising educational quality and satisfaction for both teachers and students. The pedagogical cycle of the interactive classroom, consisting of four stages, and the benefits derived from each are described and discussed. The first stage, the introduction, is outlined and includes an illustrative example of such a segment from a freshman history class. This is followed by a similar analysis of the second stage: the questioning process by the instructor to the students. Third, the student response stage of the interactive classroom is discussed. Finally, the instructor's response, or feedback, is examined. The paper concludes with recommendations for improving the quality and raising the importance of the teaching profession.
Additional file 1 of Methods for accounting for neighbourhood self-selection in physical activity and dietary behaviour research: a systematic review
Creators: name: Lamb, Karen E.
name: Lukar E. Thornton
name: King, Tania L.
name: Ball, Kylie
name: White, Simon R.
name: Bentley, Rebecca
name: Coffee, Neil T.
name: Daniel, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Search terms considered in initial search.
Using reservoir computer to predict and prevent extreme events
Creators: name: Pyragas, Viktoras
name: Pyragas, Kestutis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a reservoir computer is an effective tool for model-free prediction of extreme events in deterministic chaotic systems. This prediction allows us to suppress unwanted extreme events, by applying weak control perturbations to the system at times preceding expected extreme events. The effectiveness of such a prediction and prevention strategy is demonstrated for a system of globally coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons and for a system of two almost identical unidirectionally coupled chaotic oscillators.
Congenital toxoplasmosis in Austria : prenatal screening for prevention is cost-saving
Creators: name: Prusa, Andrea-Romana
name: Kasper, David C.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Walter, Evelyn
name: Hayde, Michael
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: BACKGROUND: Primary infection of Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy can be transmitted to the unborn child and may have serious consequences, including retinochoroiditis, hydrocephaly, cerebral calcifications, encephalitis, splenomegaly, hearing loss, blindness, and death. Austria, a country with moderate seroprevalence, instituted mandatory prenatal screening for toxoplasma infection to minimize the effects of congenital transmission. This work compares the societal costs of congenital toxoplasmosis under the Austrian national prenatal screening program with the societal costs that would have occurred in a No-Screening scenario. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We retrospectively investigated data from the Austrian Toxoplasmosis Register for birth cohorts from 1992 to 2008, including pediatric long-term follow-up until May 2013. We constructed a decision-analytic model to compare lifetime societal costs of prenatal screening with lifetime societal costs estimated in a No-Screening scenario. We included costs of treatment, lifetime care, accommodation of injuries, loss of life, and lost earnings that would have occurred in a No-Screening scenario and compared them with the actual costs of screening, treatment, lifetime care, accommodation, loss of life, and lost earnings. We replicated that analysis excluding loss of life and lost earnings to estimate the budgetary impact alone. Our model calculated total lifetime costs of €103 per birth under prenatal screening as carried out in Austria, saving €323 per birth compared with No-Screening. Without screening and treatment, lifetime societal costs for all affected children would have been €35 million per year; the implementation costs of the Austrian program are less than €2 million per year. Calculating only the budgetary impact, the national program was still cost-saving by more than €15 million per year and saved €258 million in 17 years. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Cost savings under a national program of prenatal screening for toxoplasma infection and treatment are outstanding. Our results are of relevance for health care providers by supplying economic data based on a unique national dataset including long-term follow-up of affected infants.
Additional file 9 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S2. PARIS induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration rescued by PINK1 and parkin.
Anisepyris foveapertus Santos, 2008: 331 (In Santos & Azevedo 2008
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris foveapertus

description: Anisepyris foveapertus Santos, 2008: 331 (In Santos & Azevedo, 2008)
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2000282)
 Holotype: ♀ (# MZSP 00282), BRASIL, B[ahi] A, Porto Seguro, Est [ação] Ecol [ógica] Pau Brasil, 16°23’17.6”S 39°10’55”W, 20.v.2002. Möricke, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col.
 Paratypes: 1 ♀ (# MZSP 00283), same data as holotype; 1 ♀ (# MZSP 00284), BRASIL, E[spírito] S[anto], Linhares, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] Sooretama, 19°00’11.5”S 40°07’08”W, 21-24.iii.2002, Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on pages 328-329, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Experimental demonstration of a non-destructive controlled-NOT quantum gate for two independent photon-qubits
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhi
name: Zhang, An-Ning
name: Chen, Yu-Ao
name: Zhang, Han
name: Du, Jiangfeng
name: Yang, Tao
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Universal logic gates for two quantum bits (qubits) form an essential ingredient of quantum information processing. However, the photons, one of the best candidates for qubits, suffer from the lack of strong nonlinear coupling required for quantum logic operations. Here we show how this drawback can be overcome by reporting a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of a non-destructive controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate for two independent photons using only linear optical elements in conjunction with single-photon sources and conditional dynamics. Moreover, we have exploited the CNOT gate to discriminate all the four Bell-states in a teleportation experiment.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted
Grand Unification of Quark and Lepton FCNCs
Creators: name: Ciuchini, M.
name: Masiero, A.
name: Silvestrini, L.
name: Vempati, S. K.
name: Vives, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Supersymmetric Grand Unified theories with soft breaking terms arising at the Planck scale, it is generally possible to link flavor changing neutral current and CP violating processes occurring in the leptonic and hadronic sectors. We study the correlation between flavor changing squark and slepton mass insertions in models à la SU(5). We show that the constraints coming from lepton flavor violation exhibit a strong impact on CP-violating B decays.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Virtual screening, molecular docking studies and DFT calculations of FDA approved compounds similar to the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) efavirenz
Creators: name: Jordaan, Maryam A.
name: Ebenezer, Oluwakemi
name: Damoyi, Nkululeko
name: Shapi, Michael
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed as the causative virus of COVID-19 disease, which is currently a worldwide pandemic. Efavirenz, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), is one of the most potent chemical compounds proposed to treat COVID-19 infection. We, therefore, performed virtual screening on FDA approved drugs that are similar to the efavirenz moiety. Subsequently, the compounds were subjected to screening by analyzing their drug-likeness, such as Lipinski's rule of five and ADMET properties. Molecular docking study revealed that Met165, His41, His163, and Phe140 were important interacting residues for COVID-19 main protease receptor-ligand interaction. Five top-ranked compounds, podophyllotoxin, oxacillin, lovastatin, simvastatin, and gefitinib, were selected by virtual screening and docking studies. The highest occupied molecular (HOMO) orbital, lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) and en?ergy gap values was calculated using density functional theory (DFT). The results of the study showed that lovastatin and simvastatin might be considered as lead compounds for further development for COVID-19 main protease inhibitors.
Apenesia atlantica Correa & Azevedo 2006
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia atlantica

description: Apenesia atlantica Corrêa & Azevedo, 2006: 441
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2055659)
 Holotype: ♂ (# MZSP 55659), BRASIL, R [io de] J[aneiro], S[an]ta Maria Madalena, Parque Estadual de Desengano, 21°59’03”S 41°57’08”W, 16-19. iv.2002, Malaise, A.M. Penteado-Dias e eq[uipe] col.
 Paratypes: 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00518), same data as holotype; 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00519) same data except Möricke.; 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00520) same data except 21°59’03.9”S 41°57’08.4”W, 19-22.iv.2002, Malaise, A.M. Penteado-Dias e eq[uipe] col.; 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00511), BRASIL, E[spírito] S[anto], S[an]ta Teresa, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] S[an]ta Lúcia, 867 m, 19°58’37.3”S 40°32’22.5”W, arm[adilha] Malaise, Bosque 1, 06-09.iv.2001, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col.; 5 ♂ (# MZSP 00512-00515, 00517), same data except 638 m, 19°58’25.2”S 40°32’44.6”W, Varredura, 07-11.iv.2001; 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00516) same data except 19°58’10.5”S 40°32’10.3”W, arm[adilha] Malaise, ponto 5, 09-12.iv.2001, C.O. Azevedo e equipe col.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on page 329, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Apenesia exigua Correa & Azevedo 2006
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia exigua

description: Apenesia exigua Corrêa & Azevedo, 2006: 444
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2055656)
 Holotype: ♂ (# MZSP 55656), BRASIL, E[spírito] S[anto], Santa Teresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica] S[an] ta Lúcia, 19°58’21.1”S 40°32’05.5”W, 07.iv.2001, Varredura, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on page 330, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Dense Gas in a Giant Molecular Filament
Creators: name: Wang, Y.
name: Beuther, H.
name: Schneider, N.
name: Meidt, S. E.
name: Linz, H.
name: Ragan, S.
name: Zucker, C.
name: Battersby, C.
name: Soler, J. D.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Bigiel, F.
name: Colombo, D.
name: Henning, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent surveys of the Galactic plane in the dust continuum and CO emission lines reveal that large ($\gtrsim 50$~pc) and massive ($\gtrsim 10^5$~$M_\odot$) filaments, know as giant molecular filaments (GMFs), may be linked to galactic dynamics and trace the mid-plane of the gravitational potential in the Milky Way. We have imaged one entire GMF located at $l\sim$52--54$^\circ$ longitude, GMF54 ($\sim$68~pc long), in the empirical dense gas tracers using the HCN(1--0), HNC(1--0), HCO$^+$(1--0) lines, and their $^{13}$C isotopologue transitions, as well as the N$_2$H$^+$(1--0) line. We study the dense gas distribution, the column density probability density functions (N-PDFs) and the line ratios within the GMF. The dense gas molecular transitions follow the extended structure of the filament with area filling factors between 0.06 and 0.28 with respect to $^{13}$CO(1--0). We constructed the N-PDFs of H$_2$ for each of the dense gas tracers based on their column densities and assumed uniform abundance. The N-PDFs of the dense gas tracers appear curved in log-log representation, and the HCO$^+$ N-PDF has the largest log-normal width and flattest power-law slope index. Studying the N-PDFs for sub-regions of GMF54, we found an evolutionary trend in the N-PDFs that high-mass star forming and Photon-Dominate Regions (PDRs) have flatter power-law indices. The integrated intensity ratios of the molecular lines in GMF54 are comparable to those in nearby galaxies. In particular, the N$_2$H$^+$/$^{13}$CO ratio, which traces the dense gas fraction, has similar values in GMF54 and all nearby galaxies except ULIRGs.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A
Bosonic representation of one-dimensional Heisenberg ferrimagnets
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy structure and the thermodynamics of ferrimagnetic Heisenberg chains of alternating spins S and s are described in terms of the Schwinger bosons and modified spin waves. In the Schwinger representation, we average the local constraints on the bosons and diagonalize the Hamiltonian at the Hartree-Fock level. In the Holstein-Primakoff representation, we optimize the free energy in two different ways introducing an additional constraint on the staggered magnetization. A new modified spin-wave scheme, which employs a Lagrange multiplier keeping the native energy structure free from temperature and thus differs from the original Takahashi Scheme, is particularly stressed as an excellent language to interpret one-dimensional quantum ferrimagnetism. Other types of one-dimensional ferrimagnets and the antiferromagnetic limit S=s are also mentioned.
description: to be published in Phys. Rev. B 69, No. 6, 0644XX (2004)
DIRC for a Higher Luminosity B Factory
Creators: name: Hadig, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DIRC, a novel type of Cherenkov ring imaging device, is the primary hadronic particle identification system for the BaBar detector at the asymmetric B-factory Pep-II at SLAC. It is based on total internal reflection and uses long, rectangular bars made from synthetic fused silica as Cherenkov radiators and light guides. BaBar began taking data with colliding beams in late spring 1999. This paper describes the challenges for the DIRC in a higher luminosity environment and shows solutions to these challenges.
description: 16 pages
A new picture on (3+1)D topological mass mechanism
Creators: name: Ventura, O. S.
name: Amaral, R. L. P. G.
name: Costa, J. V.
name: Buffon, L. O.
name: Lemes, V. E. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a class of mappings between the fields of the Cremmer-Sherk and pure BF models in 4D. These mappings are established by two distinct procedures. First a mapping of their actions is produced iteratively resulting in an expansion of the fields of one model in terms of progressively higher derivatives of the other model fields. Secondly an exact mapping is introduced by mapping their quantum correlation functions. The equivalence of both procedures is shown by resorting to the invariance under field scale transformations of the topological action. Related equivalences in 5D and 3D are discussed. A cohomological argument is presented to provide consistency of the iterative mapping.
description: 13 pages
An Equity-Based Research Agenda to Promote Social Inclusion and Belonging for People With IDD.
Creators: name: Lineberry, Sarah
name: Rossetti, Zach
name: Bogenschutz, Matthew
name: Johnson, Khalilah Robinson
name: Shikarpurya, Sehrish
name: Hall, Sarah
name: Rand, Joseph
name: Ticha, Renata
Publisher: name: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
Year: 2024

description:
Having a sense of social inclusion and belonging, typically characterized by our personal relationships and community participation, is the central essence of life for most people, yet it remains elusive for many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This article summarizes the work of a diverse group of researchers and advocates to propose 6 big-picture, equity-based goals to drive future research in the field: (1) understanding the role of intersectionality, (2) understanding intimate relationships, (3) promoting formation of communities of care to support social inclusion, (4) understanding life course trajectories of social inclusion, (5) understanding social inclusion in virtual spaces, and (6) understanding how to promote social inclusion in the entire research process.
Additional file 8 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S1. Ubiquitous expression of PARIS in Drosophila does not affect 5-HT neurons or cause muscle degeneration.
Congenital toxoplasmosis in Austria : prenatal screening for prevention is cost-saving
Creators: name: Prusa, Andrea-Romana
name: Kasper, David C.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Walter, Evelyn
name: Hayde, Michael
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: BACKGROUND: Primary infection of Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy can be transmitted to the unborn child and may have serious consequences, including retinochoroiditis, hydrocephaly, cerebral calcifications, encephalitis, splenomegaly, hearing loss, blindness, and death. Austria, a country with moderate seroprevalence, instituted mandatory prenatal screening for toxoplasma infection to minimize the effects of congenital transmission. This work compares the societal costs of congenital toxoplasmosis under the Austrian national prenatal screening program with the societal costs that would have occurred in a No-Screening scenario. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We retrospectively investigated data from the Austrian Toxoplasmosis Register for birth cohorts from 1992 to 2008, including pediatric long-term follow-up until May 2013. We constructed a decision-analytic model to compare lifetime societal costs of prenatal screening with lifetime societal costs estimated in a No-Screening scenario. We included costs of treatment, lifetime care, accommodation of injuries, loss of life, and lost earnings that would have occurred in a No-Screening scenario and compared them with the actual costs of screening, treatment, lifetime care, accommodation, loss of life, and lost earnings. We replicated that analysis excluding loss of life and lost earnings to estimate the budgetary impact alone. Our model calculated total lifetime costs of €103 per birth under prenatal screening as carried out in Austria, saving €323 per birth compared with No-Screening. Without screening and treatment, lifetime societal costs for all affected children would have been €35 million per year; the implementation costs of the Austrian program are less than €2 million per year. Calculating only the budgetary impact, the national program was still cost-saving by more than €15 million per year and saved €258 million in 17 years. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Cost savings under a national program of prenatal screening for toxoplasma infection and treatment are outstanding. Our results are of relevance for health care providers by supplying economic data based on a unique national dataset including long-term follow-up of affected infants.
An investigation into reusable cutlery : a triple bottom line assessment
Creators: name: Sehn, Jonathan
name: Chan, Hong Ting
name: Chan, Hong Kei
name: Wang, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Due to a significant amount of waste generated through the use of disposable cutlery at the Student Union Building (SUB), a “green” vending machine has been proposed to reduce waste. This paper discusses the triple bottom line assessment of two reusable cutlery options, a bamboo cutlery set manufactured by Bamboo Studio and a plastic Spork manufactured by Light My Fire. A full investigation into these two products will result in a final recommendation to sell one of two products in “green” vending machines located in the new Student Union Building. The triple bottom line assessment consists of an environmental, economic, and social evaluation. The environmental indicators include the materials used, transportation, energy consumption, and compostability. The economic assessment consists of a financial cost analysis while the social assessment discusses the ethical and human rights implications, social impacts of the selected product on future SUB users, and the products ability to raise awareness of sustainability. Furthermore, we conducted a small-scale student survey. Due to the limited surveyed population, the findings may not reflect the overall outlook of the entire student population. This report presents the results of the triple bottom line assessment of the two selected brands, which indicates that the bamboo cutlery is preferable considering the environmental and social aspects. Conclusively several recommendations were provided including the discontinuation of the supply of all disposable utensils at the SUB, the Bamboo Studio Cutlery set as the retail product, and the price to be set to $1.50. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
title: The ‘placebo effect’ in highland Laos: insights from Akha medicine and shamanism into the problem of ritual efficacy
Creators: name: Ongaro, Giulio
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2019

description: This thesis examines the phenomenon of healing efficacy among the Akha of highland Laos, in light of the science of ‘placebo effects.’ Swidden farmers of Tibeto-Burman language origin, the Akha have a rich ancestral system of oral customs, centred on animism and a robust shamanic tradition. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a remote village, the first part of the dissertation is a detailed investigation of the whole gamut of Akha therapeutic practices. Among its key findings is that rituals for spirit affliction challenge a number of assumptions about healing performances that are widespread in medical anthropology. Specifically, the analysis shows that only few of these rituals engage the sick person’s senses in a way that harness ‘placebo effects’, as prevailing theories would predict. It is argued, however, that the most compelling aspect of efficacy lies at the level of Akha aetiology. The ways of explaining illness and healing – through a distinction between naturalistic and personalistic causes – reveal intriguing parallels with the aetiological picture of symptom perception that is borne out of placebo science. Overall, Akha thought is shown to capture something fundamental about the nature of illness and healing. The final part of the dissertation dwells on the implications of this finding. The material analysed invites a shift in focus from the narrow domain of the patient-healer interaction to the wider social and conceptual framework that underpins the phenomenon of health. It also has direct bearings on the understanding of the ‘placebo effect’, a notion that captures a nexus of contradictions central to modern naturalism. Espousing a kind of anthropology that looks at the ‘other’ for insights into one’s own culture and the human condition, the thesis examines how Akha resolve these contradictions, and what we can learn from them.
A quantum trajectory description of decoherence
Creators: name: Sanz, A. S.
name: Borondo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete theoretical treatment in many problems relevant to physics, chemistry, and biology requires considering the action of the environment over the system of interest. Usually the environment involves a relatively large number of degrees of freedom, this making the problem numerically intractable from a purely quantum-mechanical point of view. To overcome this drawback, a new class of quantum trajectories is proposed. These trajectories, based on the same grounds as Bohmian ones, are solely associated to the system reduced density matrix, since the evolution of the environment degrees of freedom is not considered explicitly. Within this approach, environment effects come into play through a time-dependent damping factor that appears in the system equations of motion. Apart from their evident computational advantage, this type of trajectories also results very insightful to understand the system decoherence. In particular, here we show the usefulness of these trajectories analyzing decoherence effects in interference phenomena, taking as a working model the well-known double-slit experiment.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Strain-induced pseudomagnetic field and quantum oscillations in kagome crystals
Creators: name: Liu, Tianyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A kagome lattice is composed of corner-sharing triangles arranged on a honeycomb lattice such that each honeycomb bond hosts a kagome site while each kagome triangle encloses a honeycomb site. Such close relation implies that the two lattices share common features. We predict here that a kagome crystal, similar to the honeycomb lattice graphene, reacts to elastic strain in a unique way that the bulk electronic states in the vicinity of Dirac points are reorganized by the strain-induced pseudomagnetic field into flat Landau levels, while the degenerate edge states in the undeformed crystal become separated in the energy dimension. When the strain is tuned continuously, the resulting scanning pseudomagnetic field gives rise to quantum oscillations in both density of states (DOS) and electric conductivity.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Apenesia pectinata Correa & Azevedo 2006
Creators: name: Santos, Alvaro Doria dos
name: Onody, Helena Carolina
name: Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia pectinata

description: Apenesia pectinata Corrêa & Azevedo, 2006: 441
(http://hol.osu.edu/spmInfo.html?id=MZSP%2055658)
 Holotype: ♂ (# MZSP 55658), BRASIL, E[spírito] S[anto], Res [erva] Biol [ógica] Sooretama, 19°00’11.5”S 40°07’08”W, 22.iii.2002, Varredura, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col.
 Paratypes: 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00726), BRASIL, B[ahi] A, Porto Seguro, Est [ação] Ecol [ógica] Pau Brasil, 16°23’17.6”S 39°10’55”W, 17.v.2002, Malaise, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col.; 1 ♂ (# MZSP 00727), same data as holotype.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alvaro Doria dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Brandão, Carlos Roberto Ferreira, 2017, Type specimens of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 327-345 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 57 (26) on page 330, DOI: 10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.26, http://zenodo.org/record/4674891
Static and Dynamic Properties of Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Ladders: Fermionic versus Bosonic Approaches
Creators: name: Hori, Hiromitsu
name: Yamamoto, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In terms of spinless fermions via the Jordan-Wigner transformation along a snake-like path and spin waves modified so as to restore the sublattice symmetry, we investigate static and dynamic properties of two-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ladders. The specific heat is finely reproduced by the spinless fermions, whereas the magnetic susceptibility is well described by the modified spin waves. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate is discussed in detail with particular emphasis on its novel field dependence.
description: to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73, No. 3 (2004)
The turn to affect : emotions without subjects, causality without demonstrable cause
Creators: name: Sha, Richard
Publisher: name: The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies
classificationCode: 5299
subject: Other psychology

description: Published as: Chapter 9 in The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism (2017).
Additional file 7 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. Summary of observed versus expected number of TH-Gal4; parkin null transheterozygotes.
Ising chain with topological degeneracy induced by dissipation
Creators: name: Zhang, K. L.
name: Song, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground-state degeneracy of the quantum spin system is a characteristic of nontrivial topology, when it is gapped and robust against disordered perturbation. The corresponding quantum phase transition (QPT) is usually driven by a real parameter. We study a non-Hermitian Ising chain with two transverse fields, one real and another imaginary, based on the exact solution and numerical simulation. We show that topological degeneracy still exists and can be obtained by an imaginary transverse field from a topologically trivial phase of a Hermitian system. The topological degeneracy is robust against the random imaginary field and therefore expected to be immune to disordered dissipation from the spontaneous decay in experiment. The underlying mechanism is the nonlocal symmetry, which emerges only in thermodynamic limit and relates two categories of QPTs in the quantum spin system, rooted from topological order and symmetry breaking, respectively.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Distributed Collision-Free Motion Coordination on a Sphere: A Conic Control Barrier Function Approach
Creators: name: Ibuki, Tatsuya
name: Wilson, Sean
name: Ames, Aaron D.
name: Egerstedt, Magnus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is first formulated. In this formulation, it is shown that motion coordination on a sphere is equivalent to attitude coordination on the 3-dimensional Special Orthogonal group. Then, an angle-based control barrier function that can handle a geodesic distance constraint on a spherical surface is presented. The proposed control barrier function is then extended to a relative motion case and applied to a collision avoidance problem for a rigid body network operating on a sphere. Each rigid body chooses its control input by solving a distributed optimization problem to achieve a nominal distributed motion coordination strategy while satisfying constraints for collision avoidance. The proposed collision-free motion coordination law is validated via simulation.
title: Alternatywne wykorzystanie infrastruktury technicznej w polepszaniu jakości życia w mieście – studium przypadków
Creators: name: Siniecki, Adam
name: Falkowska, Adrianna
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 1, 77-90
Additional file 6 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Genetic rescue of PARIS lethality.
title: Essays in law and urban economics
Creators: name: Tan, Di Song
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2022

description: This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate the impact of the attributes of judges and juries, as well as the structures in which they make their decisions, on major societal outcomes such as urban development and criminal convictions. The first chapter examines how NIMBY-ism (“not in my back yard”) affect housing prices. In the UK, developers who have their plans rejected by local authorities can appeal the rejection via the Planning Inspectorate. Our empirical strategy exploits the quasi-random assignment of inspectors to appeals. This allows us to use inspector leniency as an instrument for whether an appeal is successful. We find that overturning the local authority’s decision does not lead to a large fall in housing prices. This suggests (i) local homeowners could be misinformed about the price impact of marginal local development projects; (ii) house prices are not the primary motive of NIMBY residents’ opposition of local residential developments; or (iii) opposition against development projects being driven by immediate neighbours rather than by the majority of neighbours in the vicinity of a development project. The second chapter uses the 1666 Great Fire of London as a natural experiment to study whether natural disasters can eliminate development frictions and bring about higher quality structures in the rebuilding process. First, using a difference-in-differences (DiD) strategy, we show evidence that the Fire resulted in higher quality structures. Second, using a DiD and an Instrumental Variables strategy, we find evidence that legal rulings arising from the Fire Court (a court specially set up by the English Parliament to hear rebuilding disputes) were able to anchor expectations and facilitate the development of London. In the third chapter, I build a structural model to understand how jury composition interacts with peremptory strikes to affect verdicts. I find that strikes are strategic complements, suggesting a tit-for-tat strategy where lawyers use strike to balance each other out. While the racial composition does favour the prosecutor, increases in the allowed number of strikes do not necessarily benefit her more than the defence.
Neutrino masses twenty-five years later
Creators: name: Valle, J W F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of neutrino mass marks a turning point in elementary particle physics, with important implications for nuclear and astroparticle physics. Here I give a brief update, where I summarize the current status of three-neutrino oscillation parameters from current solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrino data, discuss the case for sterile neutrinos and LSND, and also the importance of tritium and double beta decay experiments probing the absolute scale of neutrino mass. In this opininated look at the present of neutrino physics, I keep an eye in the future, and a perspective of the past, taking the oportunity to highlight Joe Schechter's pioneering contribution, which I have had the fortune to share, as his PhD student back in the early eighties.
description: Invited talk presented at MRST'03 (Joe-Fest), Syracuse, NY, May 2003, 20 pages, uses AIP style files
Presentation: Environmental Factors For Holothuria scabra Sea Cucumber Cultivation
Creators: name: Rahantoknam, Santi Penina Tua
name: Beruatjaan, Mariana Yermina
name: Meyske Angel Rahantoknam
name: Ohoiwutun, Maria Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This material presented in ACHOST 2020
Magnetic-field-induced topological phase transition in Fe-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Se$_3$ heterostructures
Creators: name: Satake, Y.
name: Shiogai, J.
name: Mazur, G. P.
name: Kimura, S.
name: Awaji, S.
name: Fujiwara, K.
name: Nojima, T.
name: Nomura, K.
name: Souma, S.
name: Sato, T.
name: Dietl, T.
name: Tsukazaki, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs) possess a specific topological order of electronic bands, resulting in gapless surface states via bulk-edge correspondence. Exotic phenomena have been realized in ferromagnetic TIs, such as the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with a chiral edge conduction and a quantized value of the Hall resistance ${R_{yx}}$. Here, we report on the emergence of distinct topological phases in paramagnetic Fe-doped (Bi,Sb)${_2}$Se${_3}$ heterostructures with varying structure architecture, doping, and magnetic and electric fields. Starting from a 3D-TI, a two-dimensional insulator appears at layer thicknesses below a critical value, which turns into an Anderson insulator for Fe concentrations sufficiently large to produce localization by magnetic disorder. With applying a magnetic field, a topological transition from the Anderson insulator to the QAH state occurs, which is driven by the formation of an exchange gap owing to a giant Zeeman splitting and reduced magnetic disorder. Topological phase diagram of (Bi,Sb)${_2}$Se${_3}$ allows exploration of intricate interplay of topological protection, magnetic disorder, and exchange splitting.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures and supplementary 30 pages, 11 figures
REU_Report.pdf
Creators: name: Jakupovic, Edis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics
subject: 29901 Biological Physics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Molecular dynamics (MD) trajectory files are now commonly Terabytes in size, which comes with the negative consequence that reading the file and extracting useful data has become a bottleneck in the analysis of MD trajectories. Results in recent works have shown that a message passing interface implementation which reads an HDF5 file in parallel is a promising approach to speeding up trajectory analysis, so the goal of this project was to implement a trajectory reader class, H5MDReader, into MDAnalysis that is capable of reading an H5MD file in parallel through the parallel I/O features of an MPI library. This was done using the h5py Python package, which can handle HDF5 file objects with MPI drivers for parallel reading and writing. The parallel features of H5MDReader have not been thoroughly tested, however the serial capabilities were benchmarked by calculating the RMSD of sample trajectories versus various file formats. The results show that, in serial, H5MDReader takes a substantially longer time to read files than other formats, which requires analysis into where H5MDReader is spending time during I/O.