cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Growth, Unemployment, and Poverty in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mirza, Maha Z.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Trade liberalization has been one of the major policy components of the governments of the developing countries in the recent decades. Bangladesh as many other developing nations, has adopted different measures of trade reform policies as an element of International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), as well as to be an integral part of the world wide trend of globalization. Such policy measures include the reduction/rationalization of tariff rate, simplification of import and export trade procedures, relaxation of restrictive trade policies, and reform of financial and monetary policies. Even though, the trade reform measures were anticipated to increase the country's growth and employment, and help alleviating poverty in long run, the results of such reforms are quite mixed indeed. Within a sh01i period of time, the export oriented garment sector in Bangladesh was able to contribute significantly to Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP), foreign exchange earning, and employment. However, some of the import competing industries and the small cottage industries, including the poultry, the salt, and the carton industries are claimed to be affected by the flood of cheaper foreign import particularly resulted by different forms of trade liberalization. It is also recognized that rapid liberalization in Bangladesh's import policy has led to Bangladesh's massive trade deficit with India, and local industries have experienced revenue and employment losses due to the surge of cheaper Indian imports. Another important claim is that the high growth performance of the economy of Bangladesh, as well as the significant progress in poverty reduction in the decades of 1990s, a period which represents heavy liberalization of trade, is not the direct result of reforms in the tradable sectors, as at least two-thirds to three-quarters of the incremental growth in the 1990s are originated from the non-tradable sectors of the economy. Thus, this thesis investigates and analyzes such mixed consequence of trade liberalization in Bangladesh in terms of growth, employment, and poverty.
title: Experience of a tertiary center in Computed Tomography-guided biopsies of the spine for suspicion of spondylodiscitis
Creators: name: Leao, Renata
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Biopsy
subject: Infection

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Vertebral spondylodiscitis is a rare but serious disease that can mimic other conditions. Diabetes mellitus, spinal intervention and the use of immunosuppressive drugs in the management of a variety of conditions arerisk factors for the development...
title: Do large departments make academics more productive? Sorting and agglomeration economies in research (LIEPP Working Paper, n°50)
Creators: name: Bosquet, Clement
name: Combes, Pierre-Philippe
Publisher: name: Sciences Po - LIEPP
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: We study how departments’ characteristics impact academics’ quantity and quality of publications in economics. Individual time-varying characteristics and individual fixed-effects are controlled for. Departments’ characteristics have an explanatory power at least equal to a fourth of that of individual characteristics and possibly as high as theirs. An academic’s quantity and quality of publications in a field increase with the presence of other academics specialised in that field and with the share of the field’s output in the department. By contrast, department’s size, proximity to other large departments, homogeneity in terms of publication performance, presence of colleagues with connections abroad, and composition in terms of positions and age matter at least for some publication measures but only when individual fixed effects are not controlled for. This suggests a role for individual positive sorting where these characteristics only attract more able academics. A residual negative sorting between individuals’ and departments’ unobserved characteristics is simultaneously exhibited.
Role of attractive forces in determining the equilibrium structure and dynamics of simple liquids
Creators: name: Toxvaerd, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular Dynamics simulations of a Lennard-Jones system with different range of attraction show that the attractive forces modify the radial distribution of the particles. For condensed liquids only, the forces within the the first coordination shell (FCS) are important, but for gases and moderate condensed fluids, even the attractive forces outside the FCS play a role. The changes in the distribution caused by neglecting the attractive forces, lead to a too high pressure. The weak long-range attractions damp the dynamics and the diffusion of the particles in gas-, super critical fluid- and in liquid states. The values of self-diffusion coefficients (SDC) agree qualitatively with a modified Cohen-Turnbull model. The SDC-s along the critical isotherm show no anomaly at the critical point in agreement with experimental data.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
title: A Study of Ultrasound-Guided Subacromial Bursal Corticosteroid Injections
Creators: name: Fawcett, Richard
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Sub-acromial bursal (SAB) injection of local anaesthetic and corticosteroid is a well-established treatment of patients with shoulder pain. The efficacy of the intervention has been shown to be of benefit although the numerous studies assessing this...
Electron Acceleration by a Bichromatic Chirped Laser Pulse in Underdense Plasmas
Creators: name: Pocsai, Mihály András
name: Barna, Imre Ferenc
name: Varró, Sándor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical study of laser and plasma based electron acceleration is presented. An effective model has been used, in which the presence of an underdense plasma has been taken account via its index of refraction $n_{m}$. In the confines of this model, the basic phenomena can be studied by numerically solving the classical relativistic equations of motion. The key idea of this paper is the application of chirped, bichromatic laser fields. We investigated the advantages and disadvantages of mixing the second harmonic to the original $λ= 800 \, \mathrm{nm}$ wavelength pulse. We performed calculations both for plane wave and Gaussian pulses.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings to the PIPAMON (2015) conference. Submitted to NIM-B Special Issue (SI:PIPAMON-2015). Accepted for publication: 7th of October, 2015
Ages and abundances in large-scale stellar disks of nearby S0 galaxies
Creators: name: Sil'chenko, O. K.
name: Proshina, I. S.
name: Shulga, A. P.
name: Koposov, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By undertaking deep long-slit spectroscopy with the focal reducer SCORPIO of the Russian 6m telescope, we studied stellar population properties and their variation with radius in 15 nearby S0 galaxies sampling a wide range of luminosities and environments. For the large-scale stellar disks of S0s, we have measured SSP-equivalent metallicities ranging from the solar one down to [Z/H]=-0.4 - -0.7, rather high magnesium-to-iron ratios, [Mg/Fe] > +0.2, and mostly old SSP-equivalent ages. Nine of 15 (60%) galaxies have large-scale stellar disks older than 10 Gyr, and among those we find all the galaxies which reside in denser environments. The isolated galaxies may have intermediate-age stellar disks which are 7-9 Gyr old. Only two galaxies of our sample, NGC 4111 and NGC 7332, reveal SSP-equivalent ages of their disks of 2-3 Gyrs. Just these two young disks appear to be thin, while the other, older disks have scale heights typical for thick stellar disks. The stellar populations in the bulges at radii of 0.5r_eff are on the contrary more metal-rich than the solar metallicity, with the ages homogeneously distributed between 2 and 15 Gyr, being almost always younger than the disks. We conclude that S0 galaxies could not form in groups at z=0.4 as is thought now; a new scenario of the general evolution of disk galaxies is proposed instead.
description: Accepted to the MNRAS
title: Directors as Connectors: The Impact of the External Networks of Directors on Firms (LIEPP Working Paper, n°52)
Creators: name: Do, Quoc-Anh
name: Lee, Yen Teik
name: Nguyen, Bang
Publisher: name: Sciences Po - LIEPP
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The external networks of directors significantly impact firm value and decisions. Surrounding close gubernatorial elections, local firms with directors connected to winners increase value by 4.1% over firms connected to losers. Director network’s value increases with network strength and activities, and is not due to network homophily. Connected firms are more likely to receive state subsidies, loans, and tax credits. They obtain better access to bank loans, borrow more, pay lower interest, invest and employ more, and enjoy better long-term performance. Network benefits are concentrated on connected firms, possibly through quid pro quo deals, and unlikely spread to industry competitors.
title: Feasibility of ultrasound-guided aspiration in patients with suspected septic arthritis of the hip: our experience.
Creators: name: Magnani, Sandro
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Puncture
subject: Infection

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The aim of our study is to assess the feasibility, the degree of success, the procedural time, the costs and the complications of ultrasound-guided (US) arthrocentesis in patients with suspected septic arthritis of the...
title:  'Outside Agitators:' The Role of Foreign Islamists in the Chechen Fight for Independence
Creators: name: Pinkerton Jr., Robert Kent
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: The goal of this thesis is to identify the role of foreign Islamist charities and terrorist groups in the current conflict in Chechnya. The issue of foreign Islamism in Chechnya is introduced through a general history of the region, including the role of religion in both traditional Chechen culture and in the present war. The evolution of Chechen war from a secular to a religious conflict is first examined by looking into the perspectives of various Muslim groups on the Chechen war and other similar conflicts and, conversely, the perspectives of many Chechens on the outsiders who purport to aid them. It is apparent that these foreign Islamists are able to gain as much influence as they are able because of the amount of money at their disposal; thusly, the methods in which such funds are raised and where they eventually end up are explored, citing both original sermons and pamphlets and various press and other print accounts. The nature, methods, and tactics of the various foreign factions and their Chechen followers are discussed, particularly in light of the influence these foreign Islamists appear to have on many the Chechen militants. In conclusion, foreign Islamists have made the war in Chechnya far bloodier, more violent, and more widespread geographically than it would have been had they not intervened and provided the Chechen militants with the arms and money when they needed it the most during the First Chechen War from 1994-96.
Fine scale mapping of genomic introgressions within the Drosophila yakuba clade
Creators: name: Matute, Daniel R.
name: Turissini, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The process of speciation involves populations diverging over time until they are genetically and reproductively isolated. Hybridization between nascent species was long thought to directly oppose speciation. However, the amount of interspecific genetic exchange (introgression) mediated by hybridization remains largely unknown, although recent progress in genome sequencing has made measuring introgression more tractable. A natural place to look for individuals with admixed ancestry (indicative of introgression) is in regions where species co-occur. In west Africa, D. santomea and D. yakuba hybridize on the island of São Tomé, while D. yakuba and D. teissieri hybridize on the nearby island of Bioko. In this report, we quantify the genomic extent of introgression between the three species of the Drosophila yakuba clade (D. yakuba, D. santomea), D. teissieri). We sequenced the genomes of 86 individuals from all three species. We also developed and applied a new statistical framework, using a hidden Markov approach, to identify introgression. We found that introgression has occurred between both species pairs but most introgressed segments are small (on the order of a few kilobases). After ruling out the retention of ancestral polymorphism as an explanation for these similar regions, we find that the sizes of introgressed haplotypes indicate that genetic exchange is not recent (>1,000 generations ago). We additionally show that in both cases, introgression was rarer on X chromosomes than on autosomes which is consistent with sex chromosomes playing a large role in reproductive isolation. Even though the two species pairs have stable contemporary hybrid zones, providing the opportunity for ongoing gene flow, our results indicate that genetic exchange between these species is currently rare.
title: Central skull base osteomyelitis: imaging findings
Creators: name: Sillat, Tarvo
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Head and neck
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the imaging findings and differential diagnoses of central cranial base...
title: Understanding necessity in war and conflict
Creators: name: Bujnoch, Louis
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020

description: The concept of necessity is frequently invoked in the context of war and conflict and in the context of the application of force more broadly. References by politicians, lawyers and military officers to a necessity that compels (non-)action are numerous in circumstances of violent crisis situations such as wars and conflicts. Despite this backdrop, the concept of necessity has, with few exceptions, largely escaped systematic study. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how necessity is understood in the context of war and conflict and investigates the extant concept across five separate knowledge communities - ad bellum & in bello international law, military strategy, Realpolitik and the Just War tradition. Using methodological tools of Begriffsgeschichte this thesis treats necessity as a contested concept and examines how necessity is understood in each respective discourse and elucidate whether necessity has a uniform meaning or is a function of the discourse it is invoked in. This thesis will show that necessity is differently understood in each respective knowledge community and invoked to differing effects and for different purposes, thereby providing a more nuanced explanation of ways in which the (non-)use of force is justified and legitimised.
Moderate Point: Balanced Entropy and Enthalpy Contributions in Soft Matter
Creators: name: He, Baoji
name: Wang, Yanting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various soft materials share some common features, such as significant entropic effect, large fluctuations, sensitivity to thermodynamic conditions, and mesoscopic characteristic spatial and temporal scales. However, no quantitative definitions have yet been provided for soft matter, and the intrinsic mechanisms leading to their common features are unclear. In this work, from the viewpoint of statistical mechanics, we show that soft matter works in the vicinity of a specific thermodynamic state named moderate point, at which entropy and enthalpy contributions among substates along a certain order parameter are well balanced or have a minimal difference. Around the moderate point, the order parameter fluctuation, the associated response function, and the spatial correlation length maximize, which explains the large fluctuation, the sensitivity to thermodynamic conditions, and mesoscopic spatial and temporal scales of soft matter, respectively. Possible applications to switching chemical bonds or allosteric biomachines determining their best working temperatures are also discussed.
description: 20 Pages, 3 figures, 30 references
Dual pairs for non-abelian fluids
Creators: name: Gay-Balmaz, Francois
name: Vizman, Cornelia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is a rigorous study of two dual pairs of momentum maps arising in the context of fluid equations whose configuration Lie group is the group of automorphism of a trivial principal bundle, generically called here non-abelian fluids. It is shown that the actions involved are mutually completely orthogonal, which directly implies the dual pair property.
description: 26 pages
Formation of a TBX20-CASZ1 protein complex is protective against dilated cardiomyopathy and critical for cardiac homeostasis
Creators: name: Greco, Todd M.
name: Temple, Brenda
name: Cristea, Ileana M.
name: Kennedy, Leslie
name: Conlon, Frank L.
name: Herring, Laura E.
name: Kaltenbrun, Erin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: By the age of 40, one in five adults without symptoms of cardiovascular disease are at risk for developing congestive heart failure. Within this population, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) remains one of the leading causes of disease and death, with nearly half of cases genetically determined. Though genetic and high throughput sequencing-based approaches have identified sporadic and inherited mutations in a multitude of genes implicated in cardiomyopathy, how combinations of asymptomatic mutations lead to cardiac failure remains a mystery. Since a number of studies have implicated mutations of the transcription factor TBX20 in congenital heart diseases, we investigated the underlying mechanisms, using an unbiased systems-based screen to identify novel, cardiac-specific binding partners. We demonstrated that TBX20 physically and genetically interacts with the essential transcription factor CASZ1. This interaction is required for survival, as mice heterozygous for both Tbx20 and Casz1 die post-natally as a result of DCM. A Tbx20 mutation associated with human familial DCM sterically interferes with the TBX20-CASZ1 interaction and provides a physical basis for how this human mutation disrupts normal cardiac function. Finally, we employed quantitative proteomic analyses to define the molecular pathways mis-regulated upon disruption of this novel complex. Collectively, our proteomic, biochemical, genetic, and structural studies suggest that the physical interaction between TBX20 and CASZ1 is required for cardiac homeostasis, and further, that reduction or loss of this critical interaction leads to DCM. This work provides strong evidence that DCM can be inherited through a digenic mechanism.
Reproducibility of Build Environments through Space and Time
Creators: name: Malka, Julien
name: Zacchiroli, Stefano
name: Zimmermann, Théo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern software engineering builds up on the composability of software components, that rely on more and more direct and transitive dependencies to build their functionalities. This principle of reusability however makes it harder to reproduce projects' build environments, even though reproducibility of build environments is essential for collaboration, maintenance and component lifetime. In this work, we argue that functional package managers provide the tooling to make build environments reproducible in space and time, and we produce a preliminary evaluation to justify this claim. Using historical data, we show that we are able to reproduce build environments of about 7 million Nix packages, and to rebuild 99.94% of the 14 thousand packages from a 6-year-old Nixpkgs revision.
description: 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) - New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track, Apr 2024, Lisbonne, Portugal
Genetic Programming Theory and Practice: A Fifteen-Year Trajectory
Creators: name: Sipper, Moshe
name: Moore, Jason H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The GPTP workshop series, which began in 2003, has served over the years as a focal meeting for genetic programming (GP) researchers. As such, we think it provides an excellent source for studying the development of GP over the past fifteen years. We thus present herein a trajectory of the thematic developments in the field of GP.
title: Less Food for More Status: Caste Inequality and Conspicuous Consumption in India (LIEPP Working Paper, n°56)
Creators: name: Bellet, Clement
name: Colson-Sihra, Eve
Publisher: name: Sciences Po - LIEPP
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Even under the direst necessity, Indian households do not seem to spend their budget in a rational of survival: households from lower castes choose to consume less food and more visible items than similar households from high castes, and this difference is stronger for the poor. Using variations in upper caste wealth across regions, we show that disadvantaged castes substitute visible consumption for food when upper castes are relatively richer. In regions where Upper Castes are twice richer, low caste households spend up to 8% more on visible and similarly less on food. For households under $2 dollars a day, it corresponds to a daily budget reallocation of 15 dollar cents. We argue that consumption choices can be partly explained by a preference for status, which depends on inequality between caste groups. Importantly, preferences are upward-looking between castes: the high caste is society’s reference group, and households outside of the caste system are not affected by it. Our results are not driven by general equilibrium effects on prices and no similar effect is observed on other expenditures. They underline the relevance of caste-targeted policies in the process of development.
A Uniform Contribution of Core-Collapse and Type Ia Supernovae to the Chemical Enrichment Pattern in the Outskirts of the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Simionescu, A.
name: Werner, N.
name: Urban, O.
name: Allen, S. W.
name: Ichinohe, Y.
name: Zhuravleva, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurements of the abundances of $α$-elements (Mg, Si, and S) extending out to beyond the virial radius of a cluster of galaxies. Our results, based on Suzaku Key Project observations of the Virgo Cluster, show that the chemical composition of the intra-cluster medium is consistent with being constant on large scales, with a flat distribution of the Si/Fe, S/Fe, and Mg/Fe ratios as a function of radius and azimuth out to 1.4 Mpc (1.3 $r_{200}$). Chemical enrichment of the intergalactic medium due solely to core collapse supernovae (SNcc) is excluded with very high significance; instead, the measured metal abundance ratios are generally consistent with the Solar value. The uniform metal abundance ratios observed today are likely the result of an early phase of enrichment and mixing, with both SNcc and type Ia supernovae (SNIa) contributing to the metal budget during the period of peak star formation activity at redshifts of 2-3. We estimate the ratio between the number of SNIa and the total number of supernovae enriching the intergalactic medium to be between 12-37%, broadly consistent with the metal abundance patterns in our own Galaxy or with the SNIa contribution estimated for the cluster cores.
description: accepted for publication in ApJL
Geometric Weil representation: local field case
Creators: name: Lafforgue, Vincent
name: Lysenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R39, 14H60

description: Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic >2, F=k((t)) and Mp(F) denote the metaplectic extension of Sp_{2d}(F). In this paper we propose a geometric analog of the Weil representation of Mp(F). This is a category of certain perverse sheaves on some stack, on which Mp(F) acts by functors. This construction will be used in math.RT/0701170 (and subsequent publications) for a proof of the geometric Langlands functoriality for some dual reductive pairs.
description: LaTeX2e, 37 pages
Cauchy Sequences in Fuzzy Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theorems
Creators: name: Abtahi, Mortaza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54A40, 54H25

description: In this paper, contractive mappings of Ćirić-Matkowski type in fuzzy metric spaces are studied. A class $Ψ_1$ of gauge functions $ψ:(0,1]\to(0,1]$ such that, for any $r\in(0,1)$, there exists $ρ\in(r,1)$ such that $1-r> τ>1-ρ$ implies $ψ(τ)\geq 1-r$, is introduced, and it is shown that fuzzy $ψ$-contractive mappings are fuzzy contractive mappings of Ćirić-Matkowski type. A characterization of Cauchy sequences in fuzzy metric spaces is presented, and it is utilized to establish fixed point theorems. Examples are given to support the results. Our results cover those of Mihet (Fuzzy $ψ$-contractive mappings in non-Archimedean fuzzy metric spaces, Fuzzy Sets Syst.\ 159(2008) 739--744), Wardowski (Fuzzy contractive mappings and fixed points in fuzzy metric spaces, Fuzzy Sets Syst.\ 222(2013) 108--114) and others.
Twisted geometric Satake equivalence
Creators: name: Finkelberg, Michael
name: Lysenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D24 (primary) 22E57, 11R39 (secondary)

description: We generalize the classical Satake equivalence as follows. Let k be an algebraically closed field, set O=k[[t]] and F=k((t)). For an almost simple algebraic group G we classify central extensions of G(F) by the multiplicative group. Any such extension E splits canonically over G(O). Consider the category of G(O)-biinvariant perverse sheaves on E with a given Gm-monodromy . We show that this is a tensor category, which is tensor equivalent to the category of representations of a reductive group. We compute the root datum of this group.
description: 22 pages, a reference to Lusztig is added. Final version to appear in J. of the Institute of Math. of Jussieu
title: Case report: Hodgkin´s lymphoma mimicking chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
Creators: name: Sillat, Tarvo
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Biopsy
subject: Inflammation
subject: Lymphoma

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To present a patient whose initial clinical and imaging findings were suggestive of chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO), but who later was proven to have Hodgkin’s...
Genome-wide association study of red blood cell traits in Hispanics/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Nakamura, Yukio
name: Brown, Lisa
name: Browning, Brian L.
name: Laurie, Cecilia A.
name: Li, Yun
name: Browning, Sharon R.
name: Morrison, Jean V.
name: McHugh, Caitlin P.
name: Kurita, Ryo
name: North, Kari E.
name: Bauer, Daniel E.
name: Chen, Diane D.
name: Sofer, Tamar
name: Schick, Ursula M.
name: Reiner, Alex P.
name: Auer, Paul L.
name: Papanicolaou, George
name: Thornton, Timothy A.
name: Hodonsky, Chani J.
name: Loos, Ruth J. F.
name: Pankratz, Nathan
name: Jain, Deepti
name: Rotter, Jerome I.
name: Liu, Yong Mei
name: Taylor, Kent D.
name: Laurie, Cathy C.
name: Schurmann, Claudia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Prior GWAS have identified loci associated with red blood cell (RBC) traits in populations of European, African, and Asian ancestry. These studies have not included individuals with an Amerindian ancestral background, such as Hispanics/Latinos, nor evaluated the full spectrum of genomic variation beyond single nucleotide variants. Using a custom genotyping array enriched for Amerindian ancestral content and 1000 Genomes imputation, we performed GWAS in 12,502 participants of Hispanic Community Health Study and Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) for hematocrit, hemoglobin, RBC count, RBC distribution width (RDW), and RBC indices. Approximately 60% of previously reported RBC trait loci generalized to HCHS/SOL Hispanics/Latinos, including African ancestral alpha- and beta-globin gene variants. In addition to the known 3.8kb alpha-globin copy number variant, we identified an Amerindian ancestral association in an alpha-globin regulatory region on chromosome 16p13.3 for mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin. We also discovered and replicated three genome-wide significant variants in previously unreported loci for RDW (SLC12A2 rs17764730, PSMB5 rs941718), and hematocrit (PROX1 rs3754140). Among the proxy variants at the SLC12A2 locus we identified rs3812049, located in a bi-directional promoter between SLC12A2 (which encodes a red cell membrane ion-transport protein) and an upstream anti-sense long-noncoding RNA, LINC01184, as the likely causal variant. We further demonstrate that disruption of the regulatory element harboring rs3812049 affects transcription of SLC12A2 and LINC01184 in human erythroid progenitor cells. Together, these results reinforce the importance of genetic study of diverse ancestral populations, in particular Hispanics/Latinos.
Symplectic formulation of the type IIA nongeometric scalar potential
Creators: name: Gao, Xin
name: Shukla, Pramod
name: Sun, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the four-dimensional (4D) scalar potential arising from a generalized type IIA flux superpotential including the (non-)geometric fluxes. First, we show that using a set of peculiar flux combinations, the 4D scalar potential can be formulated into a very compact form. This is what we call as the `symplectic formulation' from which one could easily anticipate the ten-dimensional origin of the effective scalar potential. We support our formulation through an alternate derivation of the scalar potential via considering the Double Field Theory (DFT) reduction on a generic Calabi Yau orientifold. In addition, we also exemplify the insights of our formulation with explicit computations for two concrete toroidal examples using orientifolds of the complex threefolds ${\mathbb T}^6/{({\mathbb Z}_2 \times {\mathbb Z}_2)}$ and ${\mathbb T}^6/{\mathbb Z}_4$.
description: v4: 33 pages, typos fixed in eqn. (4.22) and (4.23), and some cosmetic changes in the title; version to appear in PRD
title: Soft tissue tumor and tumorlike lesions about the knee.
Creators: name: Crespo Rodriguez, Ana
Publisher: name: European Society of Muscoskeletal Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Introduce the etiologic spectrum of soft-tissue masses about the knee with emphasis on the most common entities. Discuss the role of conventional radiography (CR), ultrasonography (US) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and Positron Emission...
Expansion of Iterated Stratonovich Stochastic Integrals of Multiplicity 3 Based on Generalized Multiple Fourier Series Converging in the Mean: General Case of Series Summation
Creators: name: Kuznetsov, Dmitriy F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The article is devoted to the development of the method of expansion and mean-square approximation of iterated Ito stochastic integrals based on generalized multiple Fourier series converging in the mean. We adapt this method for iterated Stratonovich stochastic integrals of multiplicity 3 from the Taylor-Stratonovich expansion. The main result of the article has been derived with using the triple Fourier-Legendre series and triple trigonometric Fourier series for the general case of series summation. Some recent results on the expansion of iterated Stratonovich stochastic integrals of multiplicities 3 to 6 are given. The results of the article can be applied to the numerical integration of Ito stochastic differential equations in accordance with the strong criterion of convergence.
description: 66 pages. Section 8 is extended. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1712.09516; text overlap with arXiv:1712.08991, arXiv:1801.00231, arXiv:1801.03195, arXiv:1712.09746, arXiv:1801.01079
Compatibility of the Theta correspondence with the Whittaker functors
Creators: name: Lafforgue, Vincent
name: Lysenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R39, 14H60

description: We prove that the global geometric theta-lifting functor for the pair (H, G) is compatible with the Whittaker normalization, where (H,G) is one of the pairs (SO_{2n}, Sp_{2n}), (Sp_{2n}, SO_{2n+2}) or (GL_{n},GL_{n+1}). That is, the composition of the theta-lifting functor from H to G with the Whittaker functor for G is isomorphic to the Whittaker functor for H.
description: 13 pages, final version to appear in Bulletin SMF
Effects of translational and rotational degrees of freedom on the properties of model water
Creators: name: Mohorič, T.
name: Hribar-Lee, B.
name: Vlachy, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular dynamics simulations with separate thermostats for rotational and translational motions were used to study the effects of these degrees of freedom on the structure of water at a fixed density. To describe water molecules, we used the SPC/E model. The results indicate that an increase of the rotational temperature, $T_\textrm{R}$, causes a significant breaking of the hydrogen bonds. This is not the case, at least not to such an extent, when the translational temperature, $T_\textrm{T}$, is raised. The probability of finding an empty spherical cavity (no water molecule present) of a given size, strongly decreases with an increase of $T_\textrm{R}$, but this only marginally affects the free energy of the hydrophobe insertion. The excess internal energy increases proportionally with an increase of $T_\textrm{R}$, while an increase of $T_\textrm{T}$ yields a much smaller effect at high temperatures. The diffusion coefficient of water exhibits a non-monotonous behaviour with an increase of the rotational temperature.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Ranking and characterization of established BMI and lipid associated loci as candidates for gene-environment interactions
Creators: name: Chu, Audrey Y.
name: Paré, Guillaume
name: Scott, Robert A.
name: Ong, Ken K.
name: Lindgren, Cecilia
name: Loos, Ruth J. F.
name: Ingelsson, Erik
name: Morris, Andrew P.
name: Hallmans, Göran
name: Winkler, Thomas W.
name: Varga, Tibor V.
name: Mägi, Reedik
name: Wareham, Nicholas J.
name: Chasman, Daniel I.
name: Magnusson, Patrik K. E.
name: Justice, Anne E.
name: Mihailov, Evelin
name: Shungin, Dmitry
name: Franks, Paul W.
name: Rose, Lynda M.
name: Pedersen, Nancy L.
name: Deng, Wei Q.
name: Langenberg, Claudia
name: Ridker, Paul M.
name: Luan, Jian'an
name: Cupples, L. Adrienne
name: Graff, Mariaelisa
name: Forouhi, Nita G.
name: Metspalu, Andres
name: Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Phenotypic variance heterogeneity across genotypes at a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) may reflect underlying gene-environment (G×E) or gene-gene interactions. We modeled variance heterogeneity for blood lipids and BMI in up to 44,211 participants and investigated relationships between variance effects (Pv), G×E interaction effects (with smoking and physical activity), and marginal genetic effects (Pm). Correlations between Pv and Pm were stronger for SNPs with established marginal effects (Spearman’s ρ = 0.401 for triglycerides, and ρ = 0.236 for BMI) compared to all SNPs. When Pv and Pm were compared for all pruned SNPs, only BMI was statistically significant (Spearman’s ρ = 0.010). Overall, SNPs with established marginal effects were overrepresented in the nominally significant part of the Pv distribution (Pbinomial <0.05). SNPs from the top 1% of the Pm distribution for BMI had more significant Pv values (PMann–Whitney= 1.46×10−5), and the odds ratio of SNPs with nominally significant (<0.05) Pm and Pv was 1.33 (95% CI: 1.12, 1.57) for BMI. Moreover, BMI SNPs with nominally significant G×E interaction P-values (Pint<0.05) were enriched with nominally significant Pv values (Pbinomial = 8.63×10−9 and 8.52×10−7 for SNP × smoking and SNP × physical activity, respectively). We conclude that some loci with strong marginal effects may be good candidates for G×E, and variance-based prioritization can be used to identify them.
Non-degeneracy of cohomological traces for general Landau-Ginzburg models
Creators: name: Doryn, Dmitry
name: Lazaroiu, Calin Iuliu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 32C37, 32C81, 2S20, 32Q99

description: We prove non-degeneracy of the cohomological bulk and boundary traces for general open-closed Landau-Ginzburg models associated to a pair $(X,W)$, where $X$ is a non-compact complex manifold with trivial canonical line bundle and $W$ is a complex-valued holomorphic function defined on $X$, assuming only that the critical locus of $W$ is compact (but may not consist of isolated points). These results can be viewed as certain "deformed" versions of Serre duality. The first amounts to a duality property for the hypercohomology of the sheaf Koszul complex of $W$, while the second is equivalent with the statement that a certain power of the shift functor is a Serre functor on the even subcategory of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-graded category of topological D-branes of such models.
description: 29 pages
Geometric Weil representation in characteristic two
Creators: name: Genestier, Alain
name: Lysenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R39, 14H60

description: Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic two. Let R be the ring of Witt vectors of length two over k. We construct a group stack \hat G over k, the metaplectic extension of the Greenberg realization of Sp_{2n}(R). We also construct a geometric analog of the Weil representation of \hat G, this is a triangulated category on which \hat G acts by functors. This triangulated category and the action are geometric in a suitable sense.
description: LaTeX2e, 49 pages, final version to appear in JIMJ
title: Gender Quotas in Hiring Committees: a Boon or a Bane for Women? (LIEPP Working Paper, n°82)
Creators: name: Deschamps, Pierre
Publisher: name: Sciences Po - LIEPP
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Following in the footsteps of similar initiatives at the boardroom level in Norway and other European countries, the French government decided to impose a gender quota in academic hiring committees in 2015. The goal of this paper is to evaluate how this reform changed the way women are ranked by these committees. The reform aﬀected academic disciplines heterogeneously. I contrast the eﬀect of the reform between ﬁelds that were signiﬁcantly aﬀected, and those that already respected the quota before the reform. Drawing on a unique dataset made up of administrative data provided by French universities, I show that the reform signiﬁcantly worsened both the probability of being hired and the ranks of women, with a treatment eﬀect equivalent to a 4 standard deviation drop in h-index. There is evidence that this is driven mainly by the reaction of men to the reform, since the negative eﬀect of the reform is concentrated in committees that are helmed by men.
"CMS-EXO-19-019_PythiaConfigurationsForSignals.tar.gz" of "Search for resonant and nonresonant new phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2021

description: Signal generator configuration
description: A search for physics beyond the standard model (SM) is presented using electron or muon pairs with high invariant mass. A data set of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV recorded in years 2016 to 2018 and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of up to 140 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ is analyzed. No significant deviation is observed with respect to the expectation from the SM backgrounds. Upper limits are set on the ratio of the product of production cross section and branching fraction in a dilepton channel of a new narrow resonance to that of the Z boson and converted into lower limits on the masses of various hypothetical particles. A spin-1 $\mathrm{Z}^{\prime}_{\mathrm{SSM}}$ ($\mathrm{Z}^{\prime}_{\psi}$) particle, arising in the sequential SM (superstring-inspired model) is excluded below a mass of 5.15 (4.56) TeV at 95% confidence level. Lower limits of 2.47--4.78 TeV on the mass of spin-2 gravitons in the Randall-Sundrum are set for values of the dimensionless coupling parameter $k/\overline{M}_{\mathrm{Pl}}$ between 0.01 and 0.1. Limits on the mass of a spin-1 mediator between the SM and dark matter particles ranging from 1.04 to 4.64 TeV are set in multiple signal models. In case of a four-fermion contact interaction, lower limits on the ultraviolet cutoff parameter $\Lambda$ ranging from 23.6 to 36.6,\TeV are set. In the Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali model with large extra dimensions, lower limits on $\Lambda$ ranging from 6.0 to 8.9 TeV are set, depending on the parameter convention. For the first time in the same-flavor final state, lepton flavor universality is tested at high mass comparing the dimuon and dielectron mass spectra, corrected for detector effects. No significant deviation from the SM expectation of unity is observed.
Mechanisms of finite temperature magnetism in the three-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Hirschmeier, Daniel
name: Hafermann, Hartmut
name: Gull, Emanuel
name: Lichtenstein, Alexander I.
name: Antipov, Andrey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the nature of the transition to the antiferromagnetically ordered state in the half-filled three-dimensional Hubbard model using the dual-fermion multiscale approach. Consistent with analytics, in the weak-coupling regime we find that spin-flip excitations across the Fermi surface are important, and that the strong coupling regime is described by Heisenberg physics. In the intermediate interaction, strong correlation regime we find aspects of both local and non-local correlations. We analyze the critical exponents of the transition in the strong coupling regime and find them to be consistent with Heisenberg physics down to an interaction of $U/t=10$.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Geometric Waldspurger periods II
Creators: name: Lysenko, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R39, 14H60

description: In this paper we extend the calculation of the geometric Waldspurger periods from our paper math/0510110 to the case of ramified coverings. We give some applications to the study of Whittaker coefficients of the theta-lifting of automorphic sheaves from PGL_2 to the metaplectic group Mp_2, they agree with our conjectures from arXiv:1211.1596. In the process of the proof, we get some new automorphic sheaves for GL_2 in the ramified setting. We also formulate stronger conjectures about Waldspurger periods and geometric theta-lifting for the dual pair (SL_2, Mp_2).
description: 59 pages, final version, to appear in Representation theory (electronic J. of AMS)
Fundamentals and advances in magnetic hyperthermia
Creators: name: Périgo, Elio Alberto
name: Hemery, Gauvin
name: Sandre, Olivier
name: Ortega, Daniel
name: Garaio, Eneko
name: Plazaola, Fernando
name: Teran, Francisco Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nowadays, magnetic hyperthermia constitutes a complementary approach to cancer treatment. The use of magnetic particles as heating mediators, proposed in the 1950s, provides a novel strategy for improving tumor treatment and, consequently, patient quality of life. This review reports a broad overview about several aspects of magnetic hyperthermia addressing new perspectives and the progress on relevant features such as the ad hoc preparation of magnetic nanoparticles, physical modeling of magnetic heating, methods to determine the heat dissipation power of magnetic colloids including the development of experimental apparatus and the influence of biological matrices on the heating efficiency.
description: 104 pages, 28 figures. Manuscript accepted for publication in Applied Physics Reviews