cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Living Document I: Belgian mental health (care) data repository
Creators: name: Van Hoof, Elke
name: De Laet, Hannah
name: Loix, Ellen
name: Philips, Evelien
name: Snoeck, Sylvia
name: Van den Cruyce, Nele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Covid-19 has had a big impact on many aspects of our life, including mental health. Since the start of the pandemic, a whole body of Belgian research has been performed on the relation between covid-19 and mental health (care). The mental health & covid-19 working group of the superior health council lists these studies in order to provide advice to policy makers and the general public. The first advisory report focused on international literature on contagious outbreaks, since not many studies on covid-19 and, especially, not many Belgian studies were published yet. This advice can be found here: https://www.health.belgium.be/en/report-9589-mental-health-and-covid-19 As part of the work performed in the first advisory report, the Policy Coordination Working group has asked the Superior Health Council to list all Belgian studies investigating the relation between covid-19 and mental health and/or mental health care and to provide regular updates. The superior Health Council, therefore, started the project of the Belgian mental health data repository. This repository will consist of ongoing studies, preliminary results, accepted and published articles with a Belgian population. For each study, an overview will be given of the authors (including contact details), status (ongoing, published,..), different methodological factors used in the study (e.g. type of population, type of data collection, …) and a short description of the study. The Belgian Mental Health Data Repository will allow for other researchers, policy makers, health care providers and the general public to have a better idea of and easier access to the mental health studies in Belgium. Additionally, more in-depth analyses across studies can be facilitated leading to better insights into the impact of covid-19 on mental health. An update of the living document will be published weekly.
description: Working group mental health & covid-19 within the Superior Health Council
title: Magnesium Ion Inhibition of Calcium Carbonate Precipitation and its Relation to Water Quality
Creators: name: Hassett, John J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: The effect of Mg++ ion on the solubility of calcium carbonate was determined using P. K. Weyls "carbonate saturometer."
The amount of calcium carbonate precipitated or dissolved was measured for five series of waters when equilibrated with solid carbonate.
It was found that the effect of Mg++ ion on solubility depend upon the nature of the solid phase: surface area, coprecipitated Mg++, minerology, etc.
Pure low area calcite showed an increase in solubility which could be explained by ion-pair formation, while its other carbonates departed from this behavior.
title: The Influence of Climate on Biomass and Mineralomass of a Crested Wheatgrass Community in Northern Utah
Creators: name: Shinn, Randall S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: Aboveground biomass, litter biomass and root biomass of a crested wheatrgrass (Agropyron desertorum [Fisch.] Schult.) dominated community were inventoried in the fall of 1971, 1972, and 1973. In addition, energy, nitrogen, fats and ash determinations were made on the materials collected in 1972 and 1973.
The sampling methods used generated data sufficiently precise to detect significant differences (α = .10) among biomass components among years. The chemical contents of the components were similar in the fall of 1972 and the fall of 1973 despite the large differences in growing season precipitation.
A simple linear regression formula was generated from which aboveground biomass was predicted using individual plant volume as the independent variable. Regression techniques were tried in an effort to use aboveground biomass to predict root and litter biomass. This approach proved unsuccessful because of high variability within the data.
Changes in the biomass of the components were analyzed with respect to differing precipitation regimes. Aboveground biomass responded positively and linearly to increasing growing season precipitation. Litter biomass decreased as current growing season precipitation increased. However, litter increased as a function of increasing previous-growing-season precipitation. Root biomass decreased with increasing previous-growing-season precipitation. It was found that both litter:shoot and root:shoot ratios decreased as a function of increasing growing season precipitation.
Evidence for the accelerated expansion of the Universe from weak lensing tomography with COSMOS
Creators: name: Schrabback, Tim
name: Hartlap, Jan
name: Joachimi, Benjamin
name: Kilbinger, Martin
name: Simon, Patrick
name: Benabed, Karim
name: Bradač, Maruša
name: Eifler, Tim
name: Erben, Thomas
name: Fassnacht, Christopher D.
name: High, F. William
name: Hilbert, Stefan
name: Hildebrandt, Hendrik
name: Hoekstra, Henk
name: Kuijken, Konrad
name: Marshall, Phil
name: Mellier, Yannick
name: Morganson, Eric
name: Schneider, Peter
name: Semboloni, Elisabetta
name: Van Waerbeke, Ludovic
name: Velander, Malin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a tomographic cosmological weak lensing analysis of the HST COSMOS Survey. Applying our lensing-optimized data reduction, principal component interpolation for the ACS PSF, and improved modelling of charge-transfer inefficiency, we measure a lensing signal which is consistent with pure gravitational modes and no significant shape systematics. We carefully estimate the statistical uncertainty from simulated COSMOS-like fields obtained from ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation. We test our pipeline on simulated space-based data, recalibrate non-linear power spectrum corrections using the ray-tracing, employ photometric redshifts to reduce potential contamination by intrinsic galaxy alignments, and marginalize over systematic uncertainties. We find that the lensing signal scales with redshift as expected from General Relativity for a concordance LCDM cosmology, including the full cross-correlations between different redshift bins. For a flat LCDM cosmology, we measure sigma_8(Omega_m/0.3)^0.51=0.75+-0.08 from lensing, in perfect agreement with WMAP-5, yielding joint constraints Omega_m=0.266+0.025-0.023, sigma_8=0.802+0.028-0.029 (all 68% conf.). Dropping the assumption of flatness and using HST Key Project and BBN priors only, we find a negative deceleration parameter q_0 at 94.3% conf. from the tomographic lensing analysis, providing independent evidence for the accelerated expansion of the Universe. For a flat wCDM cosmology and prior w in [-2,0], we obtain w
description: 26 pages, 25 figures, matches version accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Data: Flower visiting species within New Zealand commercial Avocado orchard blocks sampled over two years in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Creators: name: Howlett, B. G.
name: Pattemore, D. E.
name: Read, S. F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Avocado, flower visitors, bees, non-bees

description: This data are counts of individual bee and non–bee insects observed visiting the flowers of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) ‘Hass’ trees in commercial orchards located in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand (37° 46' 56" S; 176° 19' 10" E). The data was collected from 8 orchard blocks, each located on a different farm and separated by distances of at least four kilometres. All farms were surveyed across two years. A total of 5732 insects were observed, 2490 in the 2014 season and 3242 in the 2015 season. Insects from six orders were recorded. The most abundant species were honey bees (Apis mellifera) (n= 4865; 84.9%) followed by Australian Brown Blow Flies (Calliphora stygia) (n= 330; 5.8%) and Flower Longhorn Beetles (Zorion guttigerum) (n= 330; 5.3%). Others insects represented 4.1% of individuals observed (n=236).
Inferred summer precipitation for southern Ontario back to AD 610, as reconstructed from ring widths of Thuja occidentalis
Creators: Buckley, Brendan M.
Wilson, Robert J. S.
Kelly, Peter E.
Larson, Douglas W.
Cook, Edward R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Thuja occidentalis
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Dendroclimatology
Climatology

description: We present a network of seven ring-width chronologies of eastern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) from the Niagara Escarpment in southern Ontario, Canada. Using principal component regression, a 350-year June-July precipitation reconstruction (SOR) is developed for the region. Prior to the 20th century, the SOR series shows reasonable coherence, particularly at the decadal scale, with an independent tree-ring-based reconstruction of the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) for roughly the same region. A weakening of the tree-growth  climate relationship in recent decades results in a regression model explaining 21% of the variance in the original climate series when the recent data are used for calibration. We therefore compromise with a model, calibrated for the period 19001960, which explains 33% of the variance. The model, while not terribly strong, does pass verification tests, indicating some degree of predictive skill. The longest chronology in our network, the 2787-year Flowerpot Island (FLOW) chronology, also exhibits common variability with the PDSI reconstruction, particularly on decadal and longer time scales and was used to infer hydroclimatic conditions back to AD 610. The combined information of the SOR, PDSI, and FLOW series suggests that dry conditions existed for the periods 17001725, 17501800, and 18401900, and wet conditions for the periods 16751700, 17301750, and 18101840. Over longer time scales, the FLOW chronology shows that summer precipitation was particularly variable during the 7th, 9th, 13th, and 16th centuries.
Rotating mesons in the presence of higher derivative corrections from gauge-string duality
Creators: name: Ali-Akbari, M.
name: Fadafan, K. Bitaghsir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a rotating quark-antiquark $(q\bar{q})$ pair in $\mathcal{N}=4$ thermal plasma. By using AdS/CFT correspondence, the properties of this system have been investigated. We study variation of rotating string radius at the boundary as a function of the tip of U-shape string and angular velocity of rotating meson. We also extend the results to the higher derivative corrections i.e. ${\cal{R}}^2$ and ${\cal{R}}^4$ which correspond to finite coupling corrections on the rotating quark-antiquark system in the hot plasma. In ${\cal{R}}^4$ case and for fixed angular velocity as $λ^{-1}$ decreases the string endpoints get more and more separated. To study ${\cal{R}}^2$ corrections, rotating quark-antiquark system in Gauss-Bonnet background has been considered. We summarize the effects of these corrections in the conclusion section.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, NPB version, corrections to the effects of higher derivative terms
Additional file 1 of Stable long-term outcomes after cochlear implantation in subjects with TMPRSS3 associated hearing loss: a retrospective multicentre study
Creators: name: Fehrmann, M. L. A.
name: Huinck, W. J.
name: Thijssen, M. E. G.
name: Haer-Wigman, L.
name: Yntema, H. G.
name: Rotteveel, L. J. C.
name: Widdershoven, J. C. C.
name: Goderie, T.
name: van Dooren, M. F.
name: Hoefsloot, E. H.
name: van der Schroeff, M. P.
name: Mylanus, E. A. M.
name: Lanting, C. P.
name: Pennings, R. J. E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Classification of the implanted electrode types in the TMPRSS3-groep.
title: The Influence of a Fluctuating Water Table on Arsenic Mobility in a Western U.S. Aquifer
Creators: name: Abu-Ramaileh, Allia Maher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Arsenic (As) concentrations in groundwater that exceed the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) (10 μg/L) for drinking water have been reported throughout the United States, with higher occurrences in the Southwestern basin-fill aquifers. Levels of As above the MCL were measured in wells throughout the Cache Valley Basin, Utah. The As is naturally occurring in geologic material from the soil surface to depths of groundwater. This study reports on the mechanisms of retention and solubilization of As through these zones using geochemical modeling and microcosm studies.
Two cores (NP 9 and NP 13) were collected from the soil surface to the depth of groundwater and sectioned based on observed redoximorphic features. Pore water was analyzed for As and iron( Fe) redox species, general water quality parameters and solid phase As, Fe and Mn using sequential extractions. These data were used in PHREEQC and MINTEQ geochemical models to predict mechanisms of As retention. Microcosm studies were performed using sediments from the water table zone. The sediments were exposed to oxidized, reduced, and poisoned conditions over time to evaluate the effect of the seasonal fluctuating water table on As release.
Modeling results indicated As(V) was dominantly sorbed to hydrous ferric oxides (HFO) throughout both profiles. Although much less As(V) was sorbed to CaCO3, the percentage associated with calcite was 1.7 to 3.3% and 6 to 59% in the surface and water table zones for NP 9 and NP 13, respectively. As(III) solubility was controlled by the formation of an As-S mineral, orpiment.
Microcosm findings, over 113-day incubation, concluded that regardless of treatment condition, As is released. For reduced samples As in solution was primarily As(III), while oxidized and poisoned samples only released As(V). The release of As under every condition, and the lack of reduced As and Fe in the poisoned samples, indicates that As release is abiotically controlled, while reduction is microbially driven. Carbonate minerals were the source of As(V) under treatment conditions as determined using an acetate extraction. Desorption of As(V) from carbonate minerals and the reduction of As(V) to As(III) played a significant role in explaining solution phase As(III) concentrations.
A new scheme for the running coupling constant in gauge theories using Wilson loops
Creators: name: Bilgici, Erek
name: Flachi, Antonino
name: Itou, Etsuko
name: Kurachi, Masafumi
name: Lin, C. -J David
name: Matsufuru, Hideo
name: Ohki, Hiroshi
name: Onogi, Tetsuya
name: Yamazaki, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new renormalization scheme of the running coupling constant in general gauge theories using the Wilson loops. The renormalized coupling constant is obtained from the Creutz ratio in lattice simulations and the corresponding perturbative coefficient at the leading order. The latter can be calculated by adopting the zeta-function resummation techniques. We perform a benchmark test of our scheme in quenched QCD with the plaquette gauge action. The running of the coupling constant is determined by applying the step-scaling procedure. Using several methods to improve the statistical accuracy, we show that the running coupling constant can be determined in a wide range of energy scales with relatively small number of gauge configurations.
description: 30pages, figs and comments added,reference added(v3)
Transiting Extrasolar Planet with a Companion: Effects of Orbital Eccentricity and Inclination
Creators: name: Sato, Masanao
name: Asada, Hideki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuing work initiated in an earlier publication [Sato and Asada, PASJ, 61, L29 (2009)], we consider light curves influenced by the orbital inclination and eccentricity of a companion in orbit around a transiting extrasolar planet (in a planet-satellite system or a hypothetical true binary). We show that the semimajor axis, eccentricity and inclination angle of a `moon' orbit around the host planet can be determined by transit method alone. For this purpose, we present a formulation for the parameter determinations in a small-eccentricity approximation as well as in the exact form. As a result, the semimajor axis is expressed in terms of observables such as brightness changes, transit durations and intervals in light curves. We discuss also a narrow region of parameters that produce a mutual transit by an extrasolar satellite.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures, 1 table; orbital inclination included, parameter region considered; accepted for publication in PASJ
Coronal properties of the EQ Peg binary system
Creators: name: Liefke, C.
name: Ness, J. -U.
name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
name: Maggio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The activity indicators of M dwarfs are distinctly different for early and late types. The coronae of early M dwarfs display high X-ray luminosities and temperatures, a pronounced inverse FIP effect, and frequent flaring to the extent that no quiescent level can be defined in many cases. For late M dwarfs, fewer but more violent flares have been observed, and the quiescent X-ray luminosity is much lower. To probe the relationship between coronal properties with spectral type of active M dwarfs, we analyze the M3.5 and M4.5 components of the EQ Peg binary system in comparison with other active M dwarfs of spectral types M0.5 to M5.5. We investigate the timing behavior of both components of the EQ Peg system, reconstruct their differential emission measure, and investigate the coronal abundance ratios based on emission-measure independent line ratios from their Chandra HETGS spectra. Finally we test for density variations in different states of activity. The X-ray luminosity of EQ Peg A (M3.5) is by a factor of 6-10 brighter than that of EQ Peg B (M4.5). Like most other active M dwarfs, the EQ Peg system shows an inverse FIP effect. The abundances of both components are consistent within the errors; however, there seems to be a tendency toward the inverse FIP effect being less pronounced in the less active EQ Peg B when comparing the quiescent state of the two stars. This trend is supported by our comparison with other M dwarfs. As the X-ray luminosity decreases with later spectral type, so do coronal temperatures and flare rate. The amplitude of the observed abundance anomalies, i.e. the inverse FIP effect, declines; however, clear deviations from solar abundances remain.
description: 14 pages, accepted by A&A
Statistical estimation and comparison of group-specific bivariate correlation coefficients in family-type clustered studies
Creators: name: Luo, Jingqin
name: Gao, Feng
name: Liu, Jingxia
name: Wang, Guoqiao
name: Chen, Ling
name: Fagan, Anne M.
name: Day, Gregory S.
name: Vöglein, Jonathan
name: Chhatwal, Jasmeer P.
name: Xiong, Chengjie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Bivariate correlation coefficients (BCCs) are often calculated to gauge the relationship between two variables in medical research. In a family-type clustered design where multiple participants from same units/families are enrolled, BCCs can be defined and estimated at various hierarchical levels (subject level, family level and marginal BCC). Heterogeneity usually exists between subject groups and, as a result, subject level BCCs may differ between subject groups. In the framework of bivariate linear mixed effects modeling, we define and estimate BCCs at various hierarchical levels in a family-type clustered design, accommodating subject group heterogeneity. Simplified and modified asymptotic confidence intervals are constructed to the BCC differences and Wald type tests are conducted. A real-world family-type clustered study of Alzheimer disease (AD) is analyzed to estimate and compare BCCs among well-established AD biomarkers between mutation carriers and non-carriers in autosomal dominant AD asymptomatic individuals. Extensive simulation studies are conducted across a wide range of scenarios to evaluate the performance of the proposed estimators and the type-I error rate and power of the proposed statistical tests. Abbreviations: BCC: bivariate correlation coefficient; BLM: bivariate linear mixed effects model; CI: confidence interval; AD: Alzheimer’s disease; DIAN: The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network; SA: simple asymptotic; MA: modified asymptotic
title: An Evaluation of Group Activity Schedules to Train Children with Autism to Play Hide-and-Seek with their Typically Developing Peers
Creators: name: Akers, Jessica S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Children with autism spectrum disorders often have deficits in the area of social skills. Because of this deficit many children with autism avoid engaging in play activities with typically developing peers. The purpose of this study was to identify the utility of a photographic activity schedule, with embedded scripts, to teach three children with autism to play a complex social game with typically developing peers. In this study we used activity schedules to train children with autism to play hide-and-seek in a group with typically developing peers. All participants were prompted using physical guidance to follow the activity schedules to play hide-and-seek. Two activity schedules were present during teaching sessions, one was the seeker schedule and the other was the hider schedule. Each group member played the role of the seeker once and then the game ended. All of the participants were able to follow the activity schedules to play hide-andseek. We then systematically faded the activity schedules to the least intrusive version necessary. We were able to fade all of the scripts and several components of the activity schedules. For two of the three participants with autism we were able to fade the schedule from two binders to a visual cue displaying the order of the seekers. For the third participant we were able to fade one binder and the majority of the components in the second binder. The participants were able to continue to play hide-and-seek with the faded versions of the schedules in a novel environment and 2-weeks after treatment concluded.
A search for VHE counterparts of Galactic Fermi bright sources and MeV to TeV spectral characterization
Creators: name: Tam, P. H. Thomas
name: Wagner, Stefan
name: Tibolla, Omar
name: Chaves, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center, active galactic nuclei (AGN), radio galaxies, starburst galaxies, and possibly star-forming regions as well. At lower energies, observations using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi provide a rich set of data which can be used to study the behavior of cosmic accelerators in the MeV to TeV energy bands. In particular, the improved angular resolution of current telescopes in both bands compared to previous instruments significantly reduces source confusion and facilitates the identification of associated counterparts at lower energies. In this paper, a comprehensive search for VHE gamma-ray sources which are spatially coincident with Galactic Fermi/LAT bright sources is performed, and the available MeV to TeV spectra of coincident sources are compared. It is found that bright LAT GeV sources are correlated with TeV sources, in contrast to previous studies using EGRET data. Moreover, a single spectral component seems unable to describe the MeV to TeV spectra of many coincident GeV/TeV sources. It has been suggested that gamma-ray pulsars may be accompanied by VHE gamma-ray emitting nebulae, a hypothesis that can be tested with VHE observations of these pulsars.
description: Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press, 17 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables
Additional file 1 of Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2C (UBE2C) is a prognostic indicator for cholangiocarcinoma
Creators: name: Ong, Khaa Hoo
name: Lai, Hong-Yue
name: Sun, Ding-Ping
name: Chen, Tzu-Ju
name: Huang, Steven Kuan-Hua
name: Tian, Yu-Feng
name: Chou, Chia-Lin
name: Shiue, Yow-Ling
name: Chan, Ti-Chun
name: Li, Chien-Feng
name: Kuo, Yu-Hsuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The top 200 genes positively correlated with UBE2C. Table S2. The top 200 genes negatively correlated with UBE2C.
Intensification of Premonsoon Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and Its Impacts on Myanmar
Creators: Wang, Shih-Yu
Buckley, Brendan M.
Yoon, Jin-Ho
Fosu, Boniface
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Atmosphere

description: We analyze multiple global reanalysis and precipitation datasets in order to explain the dynamic mechanisms that lead to an observed intensification of the monsoon trough and associated tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the Bay of Bengal (BOB) during the premonsoon month of May. We find that post-1979 increases in both premonsoon precipitation and TC intensity are a result of enhanced large-scale monsoon circulation, characterized by lower-level cyclonic and upper-level anticyclonic anomalies. Such circulation anomalies are manifest of the tropospheric expansion that is caused by regional warming. The deepened monsoon trough in the BOB not only affects TC frequency and timing, but also acts to direct more cyclones towards Myanmar. We propose that increasing sea surface temperature in the BOB has contributed to an increase in cyclone intensity. Our analyses of the Community Earth System Model single-forcing experiments suggest that tropospheric warming and a deepening of the monsoon trough can be explained by two discreet anthropogenic causes--an increase in absorption due to aerosol loading and an increase in the land-ocean thermal contrast that results from increased greenhouse gases. The ensuing circulation changes provide favorable conditions for TCs to grow and to track eastward towards Myanmar.
Bringing Toric Codes to the next dimension
Creators: name: Soprunov, Ivan
name: Soprunova, Evgenia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 94B27, 14G50, 52B20

description: This paper is concerned with the minimum distance computation for higher dimensional toric codes defined by lattice polytopes. We show that the minimum distance is multiplicative with respect to taking the product of polytopes, and behaves in a simple way when one builds a k-dilate of a pyramid over a polytope. This allows us to construct a large class of examples of higher dimensional toric codes where we can compute the minimum distance explicitly.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; Major changes in the section on parameters, new examples.
title: The Effects of Social Norms Feedback on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Skin Carotenoids Among College Students
Creators: name: Bailey, Troy A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: During college, students establish nutritional habits that may last a lifetime. Fruit and vegetable consumption often decreases during the first few years of college and the vast majority of college-­‐aged students are not meeting current recommendations. Social norms theory has been shown to be an effective method for influencing behaviors in this population. This study was designed to test whether or not providing students with normative and manipulated social norms feedback could influence fruit and vegetable intakes among college-­‐aged students as evidenced by changes in skin carotenoid levels and food frequency questionnaire reports.
Participants (n=244) were randomly assigned to a control group or given either normative feedback or manipulated social norms feedback regarding their skin carotenoid levels in comparison to their peers, with carotenoid levels being an objective measurement of fruit and vegetable intake. Those receiving manipulated feedback were given an artificially low carotenoid score implying that peer consumption was greater than their own.
Results indicated no significant within-­‐participant changes in fruit and vegetable intakes reported in the FFQ (P=.635). While there was no change in the control groups skin carotenoid levels (P=.996), there was a borderline significant increase among those receiving normative feedback (P=.066) and a significant increase among those receiving manipulated social norms feedback (P
The results of this study suggest that manipulated social norms feedback can increase skin carotenoid levels. The observed increases may indicate higher carotenoid containing fruit and vegetable consumption. These findings imply that social norms feedback may potentially be used as a strategy to promote and influence greater fruit and vegetable consumption among college students.
The Killing of a Generation of Yemeni Children – An Unfortunate Outcome or the Objective Itself?
Creators: name: Stefanovska, Dragana
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Humanitarian disaster
subject: Yemen
subject: Saudi Arabia
subject: Demographic engineering
subject: Genocide

description: The humanitarian situation induced in Yemen since 2015 is likely the event of our lifetimes by which future generations will judge our humanity. The paradox of this humanitarian catastrophe is that unlike other historical man-made disasters of comparable scale, the Yemeni catastrophe is happening before the eyes of the world, yet no one is taking full responsibility to resolve it. This is the outcome of a narrative which presents the situation in Yemen as resulting from a myriad of factors – mostly man-made, yet none of them fully deliberate. If something was not caused intentionally, it is more challenging to demand of those who are causing it to cease their actions. Yet, refusing to turn our heads away from this tragedy by convincing ourselves the disaster in Yemen is the result of a web of factors too complex to understand, is the least we owe to the Yemeni people. This study analyzes in-depth the actions of the Saudi-led Coalition, and in arguing this actor is most responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, it does not really introduce many new highlights to the general understanding of this event. Nonetheless, its main contribution is in its introduction of a novel purpose, which it argues, drives Saudi actions in Yemen. This is the first study which interprets Saudi methods of warfare in Yemen as not stemming out of pure ‘military’ purposes related to the current (2014-) conflict, but from a historical Saudi perception of Yemen as a “demographic threat”. This Thesis demonstrates that if Saudi Arabia was pursuing its officially stated purposes for involvement, and/or other popularly embraced explanations of its goals in Yemen, we would have seen a different military strategy and methods of warfare, resulting in an outcome different from what we are seeing in Yemen after more than six years of Saudi engagement. Instead, the result of Saudi engagement in Yemen is the killing of an “entire generation of children” under five – which this study argues, is more compatible with a Saudi goal to induce a population decline, stemming from its perception of Yemen as a “demographic threat”, rather than being explainable with the Saudi desire to restore the Hadi government and protect its security.
Infinitesimal Variations of Hodge Structure at Infinity
Creators: name: Fernandez, Javier
name: Cattani, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D07, 32G20

description: By analyzing the local and infinitesimal behavior of degenerating polarized variations of Hodge structure the notion of infinitesimal variation of Hodge structure at infinity is introduced. It is shown that all such structures can be integrated to polarized variations of Hodge structure and that, conversely, all are limits of infinitesimal variations of Hodge structure (IVHS) at finite points. As an illustration of the rich information encoded in this new structure, some instances of the maximal dimension problem for this type of infinitesimal variation are presented and contrasted with the "classical" case of IVHS at finite points.
Water quality studies in Osoyoos Lake, B.C.
Creators: name: Booth, Donald Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Osoyoos Lake problem is one of excessive algal populations creating nuisance conditions for recreation and agriculture. During the summer of 19 68 (May 28 to October 14) an extensive water sampling program was carried out to determine phytoplankton communities present and some of the physical and chemical factors influencing their growth. The lake was monitored using a system of three transects at predetermined sections across the lake and four fixed sampling locations on each transect. The sites on each transect were sampled at intervals of approximately two weeks. Mud samples were collected at each site once a month. Samples were also collected on a two week basis from various waters which eventually enter Osoyoos Lake. The purpose of this was to gain some indication of nutrients contributed to the lake by inflowing waters. Osoyoos Lake gave rise to a major blue-green alga bloom which persisted throughout June and July. This Anabaena flos-aquae bloom was followed by smaller populations of Fragilaria crotonensis, Dinobryon sertularia, a late summer pulse of A. flos-aquae, and at the southern end of the lake considerably large populations of Melosira italiea and Oscillatoria acutissima. A discussion of the geological, physical, chemical and morphological factors possibly combining to create such growths in the lake is presented. It was generally concluded that high levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium and dissolved solids were favouring the enhancement of eutrophication in Osoyoos Lake. Climate, lake morphology and the edaphic factor were also favourable to productivity. There is evidence to support the statement that sewage effluent and industrial wastes are sources of phosphorus and nitrogen build-up in the lake. In addition to these sources, sewage seepage, agricultural drainage and nitrogen fixation are believed to be contributing to the accumulation of lake nitrogen. The continuous application of water to the fertilized orchards surrounding the basin is thought to be instrumental in leaching fertilizers and minerals natural to the land into the lake at an accelerated pace.
Anisotropic dark energy stars
Creators: name: Ghezzi, Cristian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of compact object coupled to inhomogeneous anisotropic dark energy is studied. It is assumed a variable dark energy that suffers a phase transition at a critical density. The anisotropic Lambda-Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations are integrated to know the structure of these objects. The anisotropy is concentrated on a thin shell where the phase transition takes place, while the rest of the star remains isotropic. The family of solutions obtained depends on the coupling parameter between the dark energy and the fermion matter. The solutions share several features in common with the gravastar model. There is a critical coupling parameter that gives non-singular black hole solutions. The mass-radius relations are studied as well as the internal structure of the compact objects. The hydrodynamic stability of the models is analyzed using a standard test from the mass-radius relation. For each permissible value of the coupling parameter there is a maximum mass, so the existence of black holes is unavoidable within this model.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, final manuscript, Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science
title: Precision of the PET activity range during irradiation with ¹⁰C, ¹¹C, and ¹²C beams
Creators: name: Kostyleva, D
name: Purushothaman, S
name: Dendooven, P
name: Haettner, E
name: Geissel, H
name: Ozoemelam, I
name: Schuy, C
name: Weber, U
name: Boscolo, D
name: Dickel, T
name: Drozd, V
name: Graeff, C
name: Franczak, B
name: Hornung, C
name: Horst, F
name: Kazantseva, E
name: Kuzminchuk-Feuerstein, N
name: Mukha, I
name: Nociforo, C
name: Pietri, S
name: Reidel, C A
name: Roesch, H
name: Tanaka, Y K
name: Weick, H
name: Zhao, J
name: Durante, M
name: Parodi, K
name: Scheidenberger, C
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2023

description: Objective. Beams of stable ions have been a well-established tool for radiotherapy for many decades. In the case of ion beam therapy with stable ¹²C ions, the positron emitters ¹⁰,¹¹C are produced via projectile and target fragmentation, and their decays enable visualization of the beam via positron emission tomography (PET). However, the PET activity peak matches the Bragg peak only roughly and PET counting statistics is low. These issues can be mitigated by using a short-lived positron emitter as a therapeutic beam. Approach. An experiment studying the precision of the measurement of ranges of positron-emitting carbon isotopes by means of PET has been performed at the FRS fragment-separator facility of GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany. The PET scanner used in the experiment is a dual-panel version of a Siemens Biograph mCT PET scanner. Main results. High-quality in-beam PET images and activity distributions have been measured from the in-flight produced positron emitting isotopes ¹¹C and ¹⁰C implanted into homogeneous PMMA phantoms. Taking advantage of the high statistics obtained in this experiment, we investigated the time evolution of the uncertainty of the range determined by means of PET during the course of irradiation, and show that the uncertainty improves with the inverse square root of the number of PET counts. The uncertainty is thus fully determined by the PET counting statistics. During the delivery of 1.6 × 10⁷ ions in 4 spills for a total duration of 19.2 s, the PET activity range uncertainty for ¹⁰C, ¹¹C and ¹²C is 0.04 mm, 0.7 mm and 1.3 mm, respectively. The gain in precision related to the PET counting statistics is thus much larger when going from ¹¹C to ¹⁰C than when going from ¹²C to ¹¹C. The much better precision for ¹⁰C is due to its much shorter half-life, which, contrary to the case of ¹¹C, also enables to include the in-spill data in the image formation. Significance. Our results can be used to estimate the contribution from PET counting statistics to the precision of range determination in a particular carbon therapy situation, taking into account the irradiation scenario, the required dose and the PET scanner characteristics.
title: Factors Influencing the Ecology of Greater Sage-Grouse Inhabiting the Bear Lake Plateau and Valley, Idaho and Utah
Creators: name: Cardinal, Casey J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse) are a sagebrush obligate species and as such an indicator of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitat quality and quantity. Sage-grouse populations have declined across western North America. This decline has been attributed to habitat loss and degradation of the sagebrush ecosystem. To determine factors that may cause localized declines in sage-grouse populations, managers may need site-specific information on the ecology and habitat use patterns of meta-populations. This information is currently lacking for sage-grouse populations that inhabit the Bear Lake Plateau and Valley (BLPV), encompassing parts of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. I captured, radio-marked and monitored 153 sage-grouse in the BLPV from 2010–2012 to assess nest success, brood survival, mortality factors, and habitat use. Reproductive success was lower than range-wide averages, with especially low success in 2011. Nesting and brood rearing both showed higher success rates in 2012. Survival was very similar to estimates found elsewhere. Females had higher survival rates than males, and yearlings had higher survival probability than adults. Sage-grouse mortality was highest in summer and spring, and lowest in fall. Individual sage-grouse completed large scale movements, often using habitats in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Important factors in sage-grouse habitat selection included distance to major road, distance to habitat edge, distance to vertical structure (i.e., communication towers, wind turbines, and transmission lines), and vegetation cover types. Sage-grouse tended to avoid major road and vertical structures (i.e., communication towers, wind turbines, and transmission lines). They also selected habitat further away from habitat edge. Vegetation types preferred by sage-grouse included shrubland habitats, wet meadows, and grassland. MaxEnt models did not place highest importance on sagebrush habitats, which are critical for sage-grouse presence. This could have occurred because the vegetation layers used in the model did not assess habitat quality. Models produced using the ten landscape variables and BLPV sage-grouse locations ranked good to excellent fits. State-defined habitat covered a larger extent than MaxEnt predicted habitat. MaxEnt predicted habitat areas may be used to further refine state identified core areas to assist in prioritization of conservation efforts to protect the BLPV sage-grouse population.
Nonequilibrium liquid theory for sheared granular liquids
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Hisao
name: Chong, Song-Ho
name: Otsuki, Michio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A noneqilibrium liquid theory for uniformly sheared granular liquids is developed starting from the SLLOD Liouville equation. We derive a generalized Green-Kubo formula and also demonstrate that the formulation is essentially independent of the choice of initial condition.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Un atlante digitale per i borghi delle aree interne
Creators: name: Colaprice, Vincenzo
name: Barbuti, Nicola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: L’attenzione sempre maggiore riservata ai borghi delle aree interne ha sollecitato una domanda crescente di analisi, studio e comprensione di questi luoghi e delle possibilità di rigenerazione a partire dal patrimonio culturale. Attraverso lo sviluppo di un atlante digitale dei borghi è possibile realizzare sistemi di mappatura che consentono di restituire una fotografia della reale condizione in cui versano i borghi.
Additional file 1 of Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of an anthracene derivative
Creators: name: Khan, Darya
name: Xiaotao, Zhang
name: Jameel, Muhammad Hasnain
name: Agam, Mohd Arif Bin
name: Roslan, Muhammad Sufi Bin
name: Bajaber, Majed A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Schema S1. The first step of the reaction. Schema S2. The second step of the reaction. Schema S3. The middle molecule step. Schema S4. The final molecule step. Table S1. Summary of the properties of typical anthracene derivatives, especially EOPPA, compared to relative molecules. Figure S1. (a) 1H NMR, and (b) MS (EI): m/z 471 (M+) results of EOPPA. Figure S2. Thermo gravimetric analysis and Cyclic Voltammeters curve (CV) of EOPPA. Figure S3. The photographic image of an OFET device, and typical transfer curves of EOPPA. Figure S4. OM images of EOPPA.
Intensification of premonsoon tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on Myanmar
Creators: Wang, Shih-Yu
Buckley, Brendan M.
Yoon, Jin-Ho
Fosu, Boniface
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cyclones
subject: Global warming
subject: Monsoons
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyze multiple global reanalysis and precipitation datasets in order to explain the dynamic mechanisms that lead to an observed intensification of the monsoon trough and associated tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the Bay of Bengal (BOB) during the premonsoon month of May. We find that post-1979 increases in both premonsoon precipitation and TC intensity are a result of enhanced large-scale monsoon circulation, characterized by lower-level cyclonic and upper-level anticyclonic anomalies. Such circulation anomalies are manifest of the tropospheric expansion that is caused by regional warming. The deepened monsoon trough in the BOB not only affects TC frequency and timing, but also acts to direct more cyclones towards Myanmar. We propose that increasing sea surface temperature in the BOB has contributed to an increase in cyclone intensity. Our analyses of the Community Earth System Model single-forcing experiments suggest that tropospheric warming and a deepening of the monsoon trough can be explained by two discreet anthropogenic causes—an increase in absorption due to aerosol loading and an increase in the land-ocean thermal contrast that results from increased greenhouse gases. The ensuing circulation changes provide favorable conditions for TCs to grow and to track eastward towards Myanmar.