cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characterizing cognitive profiles in diverse middle‐aged and older Hispanics/Latinos: Study of Latinos‐Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (HCHS/SOL)
Creators: name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Gonzalez, Kevin
name: Graves, Lisa V.
name: Lamar, Melissa
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: González, Hector M.
name: Isasi, Carmen R.
name: Tarraf, Wassim
name: Daviglus, Martha
name: Zeng, Donglin
name: Bondi, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: Introduction: We investigated cognitive profiles among diverse, middle-aged and older Hispanic/Latino adults in the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA) cohort using a cross-sectional observational study design.
Methods: Based on weighted descriptive statistics, the average baseline age of the target population was 56.4 years, slightly more than half were women (54.6%), and 38.4% reported less than a high school education. We used latent profile analysis of demographically adjusted z scores on SOL-INCA neurocognitive tests spanning domains of verbal memory, language, processing speed, and executive function.
Results: Statistical fit assessment indices combined with clinical interpretation suggested five profiles: (1) a Higher Global group performing in the average-to-high-average range across all cognitive and instrumental activity of daily living (IADL) tests (13.8%); (2) a Higher Memory group with relatively high performance on memory tests but average performance across all other cognitive/IADL tests (24.6%); (3) a Lower Memory group with relatively low performance on memory tests but average performance across all other cognitive/IADL tests (32.8%); (4) a Lower Executive Function group with relatively low performance on executive function and processing speed tests but average-to-low-average performance across all other cognitive/IADL tests (16.6%); and (5) a Lower Global group performing low-average-to-mildly impaired across all cognitive/IADL tests (12.1%).
Discussion: Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in the cognitive profiles of a representative, community-dwelling sample of diverse Hispanic/Latino adults. Our analyses yielded cognitive profiles that may assist efforts to better understand the early cognitive changes that may portend Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among diverse Hispanics/Latinos.
Highlights: The present study characterized cognitive profiles among diverse middle-aged and older Hispanic/Latino adults.Latent profile analysis of neurocognitive test scores was the primary analysis conducted.The target population consists of middle-aged and older Hispanic/Latino adults enrolled in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos and ancillary Study of Latinos - Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging.
title: Английский язык: химия и экология в современном мире
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет промышленных технологий и дизайна
Year: 2019

description: Цель данного пособия - дать основные рекомендации по изучению программного материала курса английского языка в Санкт-Петербургском государственном университете промышленных технологий и дизайна. Данное пособие включает материалы для аудиторных занятий по дисциплине «Иностранный язык» для бакалавров второго курса очного отделения, контрольные работы и краткие справочные материалы по грамматике английского языка. Кроме того, в пособие включены тексты для дополнительного чтения и материалы для самостоятельной работы студентов. Предназначено для обучающихся второго курса дневной формы обучения, осваивающих образовательные программы бакалавриата по направлению химия и экология.
Poliovirus-Neutralizing Antibody Seroprevalence and Vaccine Habits in a Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreak Region in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018: The Impact on the Global Eradication Initiative
Creators: name: Rimoin, Anne W.
name: Tambu, Merly
name: Mukadi, Patrick
name: Gerber, Sue K.
name: Musene, Kamy
name: Sinai, Cyrus Shannon
name: Salet, Frank
name: Nzaji, Michel Kambamba
name: Dzogang, Camille
name: Fuller, Trevon
name: Gadoth, Adva
name: Spencer, D’Andre
name: Kaba, Didine
name: Ngoie-Mwamba, Guillaume
name: Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean Jacques
name: Hoff, Nicole A.
name: Tangney, Sylvia
name: Nyembwe, Michel
name: Mbala, Placide
name: Halbrook, Megan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Despite the successes in wild-type polio eradication, poor vaccine coverage in the DRC has led to the occurrence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks. This cross-sectional population-based survey provides an update to previous poliovirus-neutralizing antibody seroprevalence studies in the DRC and quantifies risk factors for under-immunization and parental knowledge that guide vaccine decision making. Among the 964 children between 6 and 35 months in our survey, 43.8% (95% CI: 40.6-47.0%), 41.1% (38.0-44.2%), and 38.0% (34.9-41.0%) had protective neutralizing titers to polio types 1, 2, and 3, respectively. We found that 60.7% of parents reported knowing about polio, yet 25.6% reported knowing how it spreads. Our data supported the conclusion that polio outreach efforts were successfully connecting with communities-79.4% of participants had someone come to their home with information about polio, and 88.5% had heard of a polio vaccination campaign. Additionally, the odds of seroreactivity to only serotype 2 were far greater in health zones that had a history of supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) compared to health zones that did not. While SIAs may be reaching under-vaccinated communities as a whole, these results are a continuation of the downward trend of seroprevalence rates in this region.
A White-light Flare Powered by Magnetic Reconnection in the Lower Solar Atmosphere
Creators: name: Song, Yongliang
name: Tian, Hui
name: Zhu, Xiaoshuai
name: Chen, Yajie
name: Zhang, Mei
name: Zhang, Jingwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White-light flares (WLFs), first observed in 1859, refer to a type of solar flares showing an obvious enhancement of the visible continuum emission. This type of enhancement often occurs in most energetic flares, and is usually interpreted as a consequence of efficient heating in the lower solar atmosphere through non-thermal electrons propagating downward from the energy release site in the corona. However, this coronal-reconnection model has difficulty in explaining the recently discovered small WLFs. Here we report a C2.3 white-light flare, which are associated with several observational phenomena: fast decrease in opposite-polarity photospheric magnetic fluxes, disappearance of two adjacent pores, significant heating of the lower chromosphere, negligible increase of hard X-ray flux, and an associated U-shaped magnetic field configuration. All these suggest that this white-light flare is powered by magnetic reconnection in the lower part of the solar atmosphere rather than by reconnection higher up in the corona.
description: 14 pages,5 figures,accepted for publication by ApJL
Cycloramphidae Bonaparte 1850
Creators: name: Dorigo, Thiago Arnt
name: Vrcibradic, Davor
name: Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Cycloramphidae

description: Family Cycloramphidae   Lima et al. (2010) considered Heyer’s (1983) record of Cycloramphus lutzorum Heyer, 1983 for the state of Rio de Janeiro as dubious, and implicitly restricted the species (which they rediscovered after nearly two decades without records) to the states of São Paulo and Paraná. Therefore, we remove C. lutzorum from the list of amphibians of Rio de Janeiro.
description: Published as part of Dorigo, Thiago Arnt, Vrcibradic, Davor & Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte, 2018, The amphibians of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an updated and commented list, pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.05, http://zenodo.org/record/4614090
title: False Positives and Shallow Eclipsing Binaries in Transiting Exoplanet Surveys
Creators: name: Rowden, Pamela M.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), ESA’s M3 mission, is due to launch in 2026. It will aim to detect transits by exoplanets around bright nearby stars and, where possible, to characterise those stars using asteroseismology. With 24 cameras arranged in four overlapping groups, PLATO will have an excellent signal to noise ratio, making the detection of an Earth-like planet in an Earth-like orbit around a Sun-like star a real possibility. However, the pixel size is large: at 15", there is an increased risk of blends with background eclipsing binaries. This work aims to quantify that risk. Data from Kepler has been used to calibrate the distribution of planets and eclipsing binaries detectable in a transiting exoplanet survey using the population synthesis code, BiSEPS. The calibrated synthetic populations have then been used to predict the numbers of exoplanets and eclipsing binaries mimicking planets that PLATO is likely to detect. Other forms of false positive, such as instrumental effects and stellar variability, are beyond the current scope of this project. My work offers insights into short period (P < 10 day) eclipsing binaries detectable in transiting exoplanet surveys, both in terms of initial mass ratio distribution and initial period distribution. From confirmed Kepler planets in Kepler Data Release 25, I derive two intrinsic exoplanet distributions which bracket the likely true distribution. These distributions converge at planet radius 0 < log R/R⊕ < 0.2. For the two proposed Long Look fields from Rauer et al. (2014), I find that more exoplanets are likely to be detected in the Southern field, while more blended eclipsing binaries are likely to contaminate observations of the Northern field. My methods can be extended to other transiting exoplanet surveys, by incorporating the detection parameters of the relevant observatory into the code.
Causal Claims and Causal Explanation in International Studies
Creators: name: Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). School of International Service
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Many discussions of causation, especially those in the social sciences, are hampered by their reliance on an impoverished conception where the necessary and essential mark of a causal connection is systematic cross-case covariation. This leads to an observational understanding of causation as connected to general patterns, as well as a thorough-going conflation of causal claims and causal explanations. If we think of a causal explanation as a response to a specific kind of practical problem-situation in which the task is how to accomplish something and we shift to a manipulationist understanding of causation, many things become clearer. In particular, we see that the various efforts to conduct real-world open-system evaluations of casual claims are often misguided, inasmuch as such evaluations are often mistaken for causal explanations of observed outcomes.
Cauchy data space and multisymplectic formulation of conformal classical field theories
Creators: name: Esen, Ogul
name: de León, Manuel
name: Sardón, Cristina
name: Zając, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we inspect the dynamics of classical field theories with a local conformal behavior. Our interest in the multisymplectic setting comes from its suitable description of field theories, and the conformal character has been added to account for field theories that are scale invariant, flat spaces, and because some conformal fields can be exactly solved or classified. In particular, we will solve the example of a conformal scalar field using the geometric Hamilton-Jacobi theory that is explicitly proposed for conformal fields on a multisymplectic manifold. To complete the geometric approach to study field theories, we propose the Hamilton-Jacobi theory for conformal fields in a Cauchy data space, in which space and time are split separately and the dynamics is depicted in an infinite-dimensional manifold.
Sustaining Development As We Know It : Limits to Downward Accountability in Post-2015 International Development Policy
Creators: name: Esser, Daniel
name: Ha, Yoonbin
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A review of the literature on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) published during the past fifteen years demonstrates that accountabilities have constituted one of this global framework’s weaknesses. In response, we develop four dimensions of accountability in global development governance and apply them to the emerging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the MDGs’ successors. We focus on the extent to which the SDGs change accountabilities of bilateral donors and multilateral aid organizations to national recipient governments and to local beneficiaries. We find that compared to the MDGs, national governments had markedly more influence on the content of the SDGs. At the same time, despite UN-sponsored efforts to seek input from the public, post-2015 agenda-setting in global development governance continues being determined by policy elites. We conclude with a call for strengthening and institutionalizing downstream accountabilities as building blocks for global transparency and international aid effectiveness.
Three-Dimensional-Printed GelMA-KerMA Composite Patches as an Innovative Platform for Potential Tissue Engineering of Tympanic Membrane Perforations
Creators: name: Topuzogulları, Murat
name: Insel, Mert Akin
name: Sahin, Ali
name: Koyuncu, Ayse Ceren Calikoglu
name: Tinaz, Gulgun Bosgelmez
name: Kaya, Elif
name: Yildirim, Ridvan
name: Baykara, Dilruba
name: Narayan, Roger
name: Bedir, Tuba
name: Ustundag, Cem Bulent
name: Gunduz, Oguzhan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Tympanic membrane (TM) perforations, primarily induced by middle ear infections, the introduction of foreign objects into the ear, and acoustic trauma, lead to hearing abnormalities and ear infections. We describe the design and fabrication of a novel composite patch containing photocrosslinkable gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) and keratin methacryloyl (KerMA) hydrogels. GelMA-KerMA patches containing conical microneedles in their design were developed using the digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing approach. Following this, the patches were biofunctionalized by applying a coaxial coating with PVA nanoparticles loaded with gentamicin (GEN) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) with the Electrohydrodynamic Atomization (EHDA) method. The developed nanoparticle-coated 3D-printed patches were evaluated in terms of their chemical, morphological, mechanical, swelling, and degradation behavior. In addition, the GEN and FGF-2 release profiles, antimicrobial properties, and biocompatibility of the patches were examined in vitro. The morphological assessment verified the successful fabrication and nanoparticle coating of the 3D-printed GelMA-KerMA patches. The outcomes of antibacterial tests demonstrated that GEN@PVA/GelMA-KerMA patches exhibited substantial antibacterial efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli. Furthermore, cell culture studies revealed that GelMA-KerMA patches were biocompatible with human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hADMSC) and supported cell attachment and proliferation without any cytotoxicity. These findings indicated that biofunctional 3D-printed GelMA-KerMA patches have the potential to be a promising therapeutic approach for addressing TM perforations.
title: Analysis of Serological Surveillance Data: Patterns of Blood Borne Infection and Heterogeneity in People who Inject Drugs
Creators: name: Harris, Ross Jeremy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: A large proportion of blood-borne viruses (BBV) are transmitted via injecting drug use. Understanding patterns of risk and monitoring trends over time in people who inject drugs (PWID) is therefore a crucial part of developing public health policy. Risks of infection with hepatitis C and B (HCV, HBV) and HIV in PWID are investigated using serial cross-sectional surveillance data, in particular via force of infection (FOI) models. Standard models are extended to include a wealth of covariate data. Individual variability is considered via bivariate shared frailty models and correlations between infections. Gamma, inverse Gaussian and time-varying frailty models are fitted to investigate how variability in risk evolves throughout injecting career. Finally, models are extended to the trivariate case and different forms of component frailty models are proposed. Recent initiates were found to be at high risk of infection, in particular in London and the North West. Subsequently the FOI is broadly constant, and similar across different regions. Frailty models indicate that there is substantial individual variability in risk, although this declines over the course of injecting career. Females have higher overall risks of HCV and HBV, but are less heterogeneous than males. Including covariate data on demographics and a number of risk factors only resulted in modest reductions in frailty variance. Correlations between HCV-HBV and HBV-HIV associations were stronger than for HCV-HIV; trivariate models including additional pairwise components for HCV-HBV and HBV-HIV provided an improvement in model fit compared to a shared frailty model. Many of the results in this thesis point towards greater variation in risk at initiation, potentially due to the varied circumstances in which individuals start injecting, followed by more comparable risks in those with established injecting behaviour. The relative importance of injecting and sexual risk may explain patterns of risk and correlation in the three infections.
Sustaining Development As We Know It : Limits to Downward Accountability in Post-2015 International Development Policy
Creators: name: Esser, Daniel
name: Ha, Yoonbin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A review of the literature on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) published during the past fifteen years demonstrates that accountabilities have constituted one of this global framework’s weaknesses. In response, we develop four dimensions of accountability in global development governance and apply them to the emerging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the MDGs’ successors. We focus on the extent to which the SDGs change accountabilities of bilateral donors and multilateral aid organizations to national recipient governments and to local beneficiaries. We find that compared to the MDGs, national governments had markedly more influence on the content of the SDGs. At the same time, despite UN-sponsored efforts to seek input from the public, post-2015 agenda-setting in global development governance continues being determined by policy elites. We conclude with a call for strengthening and institutionalizing downstream accountabilities as building blocks for global transparency and international aid effectiveness.
title: Безопасность жизнедеятельности. Ч.1. Оценка безопасности на рабочем месте
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет промышленных технологий и дизайна
Year: 2019

description: В учебном пособии изложены теоретические основы и практические способы оценки безопасности на рабочем месте, необходимые для курса лекций и лабораторных работ учебной дисциплины «Безопасность жизнедеятельности». Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов всех направлений, специальностей, компетенций и форм обучения, составлено в соответствии с программой дисциплины «Безопасность жизнедеятельности» и может быть использовано для теоретической и практической подготовки студентов, а также их самостоятельной работы и повышения квалификации руководителей производства первичных подразделений.
Hemiphractidae Peters 1862
Creators: name: Dorigo, Thiago Arnt
name: Vrcibradic, Davor
name: Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hemiphractidae

description: Family Hemiphractidae   Fritziana ulei was resurrected from synonymy with Fritziana fissilis by Folly et al. (2014).
description: Published as part of Dorigo, Thiago Arnt, Vrcibradic, Davor & Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte, 2018, The amphibians of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an updated and commented list, pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.05, http://zenodo.org/record/4614090
Diversity and Inclusivity in Rheumatology Publications
Creators: name: Lim, S. Sam
name: Feldman, Candace H.
name: Solomon, Daniel H.
name: Sawalha, Amr H.
name: Perl, Andras
name: Allen, Kelli D.
name: Williams, Edith M.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: With a steadfast advancement in scientific methods,
technologies, and bioinformatics tools, an exciting era of exponential
growth in medical knowledge is upon us. In rheumatology,
we are enthusiastic about the potential benefits that scientific
developments can bring to our patients. We predict significant
improvements in quality of life, better diagnostics and therapeutics,
and potentially the eradication of some chronic autoimmune
diseases in the near future.
Wave packet construction in two-dimensional quantum billiards: Blueprints for the square, equilateral triangle, and circular cases
Creators: name: Doncheski, M. A.
name: Heppelmann, S.
name: Robinett, R. W.
name: Tussey, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present quasi-analytical and numerical calculations of Gaussian wave packet solutions of the Schrödinger equation for two-dimensional infinite well and quantum billiard problems with equilateral triangle, square, and circular footprints. These cases correspond to N=3, N=4, and $N \to \infty$ regular polygonal billiards and infinite wells, respectively. In each case the energy eigenvalues and wavefunctions are given in terms of familiar special functions. For the first two systems, we obtain closed form expressions for the expansion coefficients for localized Gaussian wavepackets in terms of the eigenstates of the particular geometry. For the circular case, we discuss numerical approaches. We use these results to discuss the short-time, quasi-classical evolution in these geometries and the structure of wave packet revivals. We also show how related half-well problems can be easily solved in each of the three cases.
description: 46 pages, 6 embedded .eps figures
title: Public Funding for Popular Musicians: What is it good for? The case of Momentum
Creators: name: Gable, Olivia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: In 2013, Arts Council England (ACE) deviated from its tradition of predominantly supporting ‘high’ or prestigious art by launching the Momentum music fund for popular musicians. Momentum is administered by PRS Foundation (PRSF) and provides grants of £5,000-15,000 to popular musicians for recording, touring and marketing costs. ACE created Momentum amidst a political environment that emphasised narrow understandings of value, focusing on economic value or the ability to improve social issues. Simultaneously, the music industries have undergone unprecedented changes since the creation of the internet and digital technology, altering cultural workers’ practices. My research therefore aimed to develop a nuanced understanding of value at the intersection of public funding and the popular music market through the case of Momentum. This multi-perspective research drew upon ethnographic interviews with funded musicians, semi-structured interviews with artist managers, PRSF and ACE staff, observations of assessment panels, analysis of documents and quantitative analysis of application data. Here, I show that ACE and PRSF valued Momentum in terms of priorities of funding talent, excellence and increased diversity. ACE derived value from association with funding popular musicians, and PRSF integrated diversity priorities throughout Momentum’s assessment process, which bled into other PRSF funds. Artist managers were investigated as cultural intermediaries, both in helping musicians secure funding and through pivotal roles in artist development. For popular musicians, value was linked to their identities as independent or unsigned musicians, their definitions of success and whether they considered music their profession. The findings of this research present a starting point for analysing the value of funding for popular musicians, a largely unexplored area of research. As arts funding remains under threat of cuts, the findings of this research will be highly relevant to public funders and to PRSF, the Music Managers Forum, popular musicians and professionals working with them.
The double-layered chemical structure in DB white dwarfs
Creators: name: Althaus, L. G.
name: Corsico, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structure and evolution of white dwarf stars with helium-rich atmospheres (DB) in a self-consistent way with the predictions of time-dependent element diffusion. Our treatment of diffusion includes gravitational settling and chemical and thermal diffusion. OPAL radiative opacities for arbitrary metallicity and carbon-and oxygen-rich compositions are employed. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of the diffusion-modeled double-layered chemical structure. This structure, which is characterized by a pure helium envelope atop an intermediate remnant shell rich in helium, carbon and oxygen, is expected for pulsating DB white dwarfs, assuming that they are descendants of hydrogen-deficient PG1159 post-AGB stars. We find that, depending on the stellar mass, if DB white dwarf progenitors are formed with a helium content smaller than \approx 10^-3 M_*, a single-layered configuration is expected to emerge during the DB pulsation instability strip. We also explore the consequences of diffusively evolving chemical stratifications on the adiabatic pulsational properties of our DB white dwarf models. In this context, we find that the evolving shape of the chemical profile translates into a distinct behaviour of the theoretical period distribution as compared with the case in which the shape of the profile is assumed to be fixed during the evolution across the instability strip. Finally, we extend the scope of the calculations to the domain of the helium-rich carbon-contaminated DQ white dwarfs. In particular, we speculate that DQ white dwarfs with low detected carbon abundances would not be descendants of the PG1159 stars.
description: 10 Pages, including 11 Postscript figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Unchanging Core of Brazilian State Capitalism, 1985-2015
Creators: name: Taylor, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Amidst the current economic crisis in Brazil, it is often forgotten that the structure of the Brazilian economy, and especially the strong role of the state as an economic actor, predates the Workers’ Party administrations (2003-present) and has been a fixture of the democratic regime. This paper describes the basic mechanics of state capitalism under democracy in Brazil, and the powerful tools that it offers to policymakers, as well as the equally important constraints that inhibit change. The paper advances two central arguments. The first is that state capitalism in Brazil is much broader than the state’s role in business alone. State capitalism is not merely, or even centrally, about the degree to which the state owns firms. Indeed, it is the very breadth of the state’s role across multiple dimensions of the economy that has helped to sustain state capitalism against challengers. The second argument is that the interlocking aspects of these dimensions help to explain their continuity overall, even under democracy: linkages and mutually supporting ties between macro level policies, between fiscally oblique instruments in micro policies, and between taxation, labor, pension and social policies.
A Pilot Study of Pembrolizumab in Combination With Y90 Radioembolization in Subjects With Poor Prognosis Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Creators: name: Johnson, Matthew S
name: Keane, Barry
name: Mauro, David M
name: Yu, Menggang
name: O’Neil, Bert
name: Helft, Paul R
name: Harris, William P
name: Sanoff, Hanna K
name: Yu, Shawn
name: McRee, Autumn Jackson
name: Somasundaram, Ashwin
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Combination checkpoint inhibition therapy with yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization represents an emerging area of interest in the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCRN GI15-225 is an open-label, single-arm multicenter, pilot study (NCT03099564).
METHODS: Eligible patients had poor prognosis, localized HCC defined as having portal vein thrombus, multifocal disease, and/or diffuse disease that were not eligible for liver transplant or surgical resection. Patients received pembrolizumab 200 mg intravenously every 3 weeks in conjunction with glass yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization TheraSphere. Primary endpoint was 6-month progression-free survival (PFS6) per RECIST 1.1. Secondary endpoints included time to progression (TTP), objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and safety/tolerability.
RESULTS: Between October 23, 2017 and November 24, 2020, 29 patients were enrolled: 2 were excluded per protocol. Fifteen of the remaining 27 patients were free of progression at 6 months (55.6%; 95% CI, 35.3-74.5) with median PFS 9.95 months (95% CI, 4.14-15.24) and OS 27.30 months (95% CI, 10.15-39.52). One patient was not evaluable for response due to death; among the remaining 26 patients, ORR was 30.8% (95% CI, 14.3-51.8) and DCR was 84.6% (95% CI, 65.1-95.6).
CONCLUSION: In patients with localized, poor prognosis HCC, pembrolizumab in addition to glass Y90 radioembolization demonstrated promising efficacy and safety consistent with prior observations (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03099564; IRB Approved: 16-3255 approved July 12, 2016).
Hylidae Rafinesque 1815
Creators: name: Dorigo, Thiago Arnt
name: Vrcibradic, Davor
name: Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylidae

description: Family Hylidae   Aplastodiscus callipygius (Cruz & Peixoto, 1985) was synonymized with A. albosignatus (a species absent from the list of Rocha et al., 2004) by Berneck et al. (2016).Thus, we substituted the former name by the latter in our list.
 Bokermannohyla clepsydra (Lutz, 1925) is known only from its type locality in the state of São Paulo (Frost, 2017) and is thus herein removed from the list.
 Scinax dolloi (Werner, 1903) is a problematic taxon, as this name is not currently associated to any known frog population (Frost, 2017). Nevertheless, Caramaschi et al. (2013) concluded that its type locality (not given in the original description of Werner, 1903) is Maringá, in the Municipality of Itatiaia,and thus we included this species on the list.
description: Published as part of Dorigo, Thiago Arnt, Vrcibradic, Davor & Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte, 2018, The amphibians of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an updated and commented list, pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.05, http://zenodo.org/record/4614090
Red giant variables: OGLE--II and MACHO
Creators: name: Kiss, L. L.
name: Lah, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the recent impact of microlensing projects on our understanding of pulsating red giant stars. Discussed are red giant stars' pulsation properties (period--luminosity relations, period changes, mode switchings), Red Giant Branch pulsations, metallicity effects and the use of red giant variables to explore galactic structure.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop "Stellar pulsation and evolution", 2005. Monte Porzio Catone, Italy. Eds.: A. R. Walker and G. Bono
Spin-triplet pairing state evidenced by half-quantum flux in a noncentrosymmetric superconductor
Creators: name: Xu, Xiaoying
name: Li, Yufan
name: Chien, C. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prime category of superconducting materials in which to look for spin-triplet pairing and topological superconductivity are superconductors without inversion symmetry. It is predicted that the breaking of parity symmetry gives rise to an admixture of spin-singlet / spin-triplet pairing states; a triplet pairing component, being substantial, seems all but guaranteed. However, the experimental confirmation of pair mixing in any particular material remains elusive. In this work, we perform phase-sensitive experiment to examine the pairing state of noncentrosymmetric superconductor $α-$BiPd. The Little-Parks effect observed in mesoscopic polycrystalline $α-$BiPd ring devices reveals the presence of half-integer magnetic flux quantization, which provides a decisive evidence for the spin-triplet pairing state. We find mixed half-quantum fluxes and integer-quantum fluxes, consistent with the scenario of singlet-triplet pair mixing.
Practical Significance of Rural Investigation of the Communist Party of China after Reform and opening up
Creators: name: LI Yan
name: LI Xiaoe
name: YANG Peng
name: LI Yan
name: LI Xiaoe
name: YANG Peng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: After reform and opening up, Communist Party of China, Rural social investigation, Significance

description: Conducting rural social investigation is the excellent tradition of the Communist Party of China. Since the reform and opening up, the Communist Party of China has undertaken several times of rural investigation, fully grasped the first-hand data of rural development situation of China, and formulated scientific policies and measures. These promote tremendous changes in rural development. Rural investigation of the Communist Party of China covers a wide range of topics, including politics, economy, education, science and technology, health care, sanitation, and population. Undertaking detailed investigation in rural areas is of great significance for development of rural society, scientific administration of the Communist Party of China, and the construction of the socialist society with Chinese characteristics.
The Unchanging Core of Brazilian State Capitalism, 1985-2015
Creators: name: Taylor, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). School of International Service
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Amidst the current economic crisis in Brazil, it is often forgotten that the structure of the Brazilian economy, and especially the strong role of the state as an economic actor, predates the Workers’ Party administrations (2003-present) and has been a fixture of the democratic regime. This paper describes the basic mechanics of state capitalism under democracy in Brazil, and the powerful tools that it offers to policymakers, as well as the equally important constraints that inhibit change. The paper advances two central arguments. The first is that state capitalism in Brazil is much broader than the state’s role in business alone. State capitalism is not merely, or even centrally, about the degree to which the state owns firms. Indeed, it is the very breadth of the state’s role across multiple dimensions of the economy that has helped to sustain state capitalism against challengers. The second argument is that the interlocking aspects of these dimensions help to explain their continuity overall, even under democracy: linkages and mutually supporting ties between macro level policies, between fiscally oblique instruments in micro policies, and between taxation, labor, pension and social policies.
Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies of graphite edges
Creators: name: Niimi, Y.
name: Matsui, T.
name: Kambara, H.
name: Tagami, K.
name: Tsukada, M.
name: Fukuyama, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied experimentally and theoretically the electronic local density of states (LDOS) near single step edges at the surface of exfoliated graphite. In scanning tunneling microscopy measurements, we observed the $(\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}) R 30^{\circ}$ and honeycomb superstructures extending over 3$-$4 nm both from the zigzag and armchair edges. Calculations based on a density-functional derived non-orthogonal tight-binding model show that these superstructures can coexist if the two types of edges admix each other in real graphite step edges. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements near the zigzag edge reveal a clear peak in the LDOS at an energy below the Fermi energy by 20 meV. No such a peak was observed near the armchair edge. We concluded that this peak corresponds to the "edge state" theoretically predicted for graphene ribbons, since a similar prominent LDOS peak due to the edge state is obtained by the first principles calculations.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, APF9, Appl. Surf. Sci. \bf{241}, 43 (2005)
title: Второй иностранный язык (немецкий): практическая грамматика (морфология)
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет промышленных технологий и дизайна
Year: 2019

description: Учебное издание соответствует содержанию дисциплины Б1.В.ДВ.1.1 Второй иностранный язык направления подготовки 42.03.02 Журналистика.
Empirical Analysis on Sociological Factors for Underdevelopment of Rural Sports
Creators: name: WANG Xianyi
name: TIAN Na
name: HUANG Junfei
name: WANG Xianyi
name: TIAN Na
name: HUANG Junfei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Gannan, Rural sports, Sociological factors

description: Rural sports are weak parts in sports development of China. In the social environment of new socialist countryside construction and new urbanization advancing side by side, rural sports have great opportunities and serious challenges. Taking sports of Gannan old revolutionary base area as an example, this paper analyzed factors influencing rural sports from the sociological perspective, to provide measures and recommendations for sustainable development of rural sports.
Scale-genesis by Dark Matter and Its Gravitational Wave Signal
Creators: name: Kang, Zhaofeng
name: Zhu, Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical scale invariance (CSI) may shed light on the weak scale origin, but the realistic CSI extension to the standard model requires a bosonic trigger. We propose a scalar Dark Matter(DM) field $X$ as the trigger, establishing a strong connection between the successful radiative breaking of CSI and DM phenomenologies. The latter forces the breaking scale to $\sim {\cal O}(\rm TeV)$. It brightens the test prospect of this scenario via gravitational wave, a sharp prediction of CSI phase transition (CSIPT), which is first order and has strong supercooling. Moreover, we carefully deal with some techniques which are commonly used to analyze CSIPT but maybe missed. In particular, we clarify the imprecision of Witten's formula used in the single field case to calculate the bubble nucleation rate and stress that the essence of Witten's approximation is the validity of high temperature expansion.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures, Few references added, Discussions added, Slight modifications in some section
Use of primary health care and participation in colorectal cancer screening – a Danish national register-based study
Creators: name: Clarke, Rebecca Beatrix
name: Therkildsen, Christina
name: Gram, Mie Agermose
name: Andersen, Klaus Kaae
name: Mørch, Lina Steinrud
name: Tybjerg, Anne Julie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Use of primary health care and participation in colorectal cancer screening – a Danish national register-based study
Spin Readout and Initialization in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Friesen, Mark
name: Tahan, Charles
name: Joynt, Robert
name: Eriksson, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron spin qubits in semiconductors are attractive from the viewpoint of long coherence times. However, single spin measurement is challenging. Several promising schemes incorporate ancillary tunnel couplings that may provide unwanted channels for decoherence. Here, we propose a novel spin-charge transduction scheme, converting spin information to orbital information within a single quantum dot by microwave excitation. The same quantum dot can be used for rapid initialization, gating, and readout. We present detailed modeling of such a device in silicon to confirm its feasibility.
description: Published version
Assessing market (dis)integration in early modern China and Europe
Creators: name: Bernhofen, Daniel
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of industrialization. Our empirical strategy focuses on the dynamics of price convergence and accounts for general equilibrium effects arising from common shocks and network effects. Using monthly grain prices for 1740-1820 our analysis uncovers a secular process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels from Western Europe we conclude that in terms of market integration the Great Divergence was well under way decades before the start of the 19th century.
Comfortable Housing Projects for Tibetan Farmers and Herdsmen from the Perspective of Poverty Alleviation
Creators: name: HE Yan
name: Dejizhuoga
name: HE Yan
name: Dejizhuoga
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Poverty alleviation, Comfortable housing projects, Farmers and herdsmen, Income increase

description: Through questionnaire survey and field interview of farmers and herdsmen, this paper studied the comfortable housing projects implemented since 2006 in Namling County of Shigatse City. Taking the comfortable housing projects in Namling County as an example, this paper elaborated the relationship between the poverty alleviation and the comfortable housing projects for farmers and herdsmen and discussed the necessities for implementing comfortable housing projects in the context of the poverty alleviation. There are some problems at the same time of social, economic and ecological benefits of implementing the comfortable housing projects for farmers and herdsmen. Finally, it came up with pertinent recommendations for strengthening and improving the construction of comfortable housing projects in Namling County.
Study on the Growth Adaptability of Ligustrum L. Plants in Southeast Tibet
Creators: name: TANG Jia
name: CHEN Zhilan
name: FANG  Jiangping
name: TANG Jia
name: CHEN Zhilan
name: FANG  Jiangping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Ligustrum lucidum Ait., Growth adaptability, Urban greening

description: In this study, we choose the street green space in Bayi District, Mainling Town of Mainling County and Zhamu Town of Bomê County in Nyingchi City as investigation sites. In each investigation site, we select the undamaged plant communities of moderate density as objects of investigation and record, and establish the investigation database. Based on the habitat records and natural ecological conditions, we analyze the growth adaptability of Ligustrum L. plants in Southeast Tibet and the key influencing factors. It is found that the Ligustrum L. plants introduced in Southeast Tibet mainly include Ligustrum lucidum Ait., Ligustrum quihoui Carr. and Ligustrum vicaryi. The growth adaptability of Ligustrum lucidum Ait. plants is divided into high level, middle level and low level. According to the investigation results, the frequency of Ligustrum lucidum Ait. plants with good growth status is greater than 65%. In general, the plants are fond of light, and have certain tolerance to cold. They can be cultivated in open field and show good growth adaptability in Southeast Tibet, so these plants can be further applied.
Hylodidae Gunther 1858
Creators: name: Dorigo, Thiago Arnt
name: Vrcibradic, Davor
name: Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylodidae

description: Family Hylodidae   Crossodactylus boulengeri was resurrected from synonymy with C. dispar (Pimenta et al., 2014).
description: Published as part of Dorigo, Thiago Arnt, Vrcibradic, Davor & Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte, 2018, The amphibians of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: an updated and commented list, pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 6, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.05, http://zenodo.org/record/4614090
Localized eigenmodes of the covariant lattice Laplacian
Creators: name: Greensite, J.
name: Olejnik, S.
name: Polikarpov, M. I.
name: Syritsyn, S. N.
name: Zakharov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically the eigenmode spectrum of the covariant lattice Laplacian, in the fundamental SU(2) color group representation. It is found that eigenmodes at the lower and upper ends of the spectrum are localized, and that the localization volume scales. In contrast, the eigenmodes of the lattice Faddeev-Popov operator are all extended rather than localized (as required for confinement) despite the similarity of the kinetic and Faddeev-Popov operators.
description: Talk presented by J. Greensite at Lattice2005 (Topology and Confinement), Dublin, July 25-30, 2005; 6 pages, 4 figures, uses PoS.cls; to appear in Proceedings of Science