cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prinerigone vagans
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Prinerigone
Prinerigone vagans

description: Prinerigone vagans (Audouin, 1826)
MATERIAL: 1 Ƌ (MSNV), PAKISTAN, Karakorum, Baltistan, Shalabot, 1700 m a.s.l.; 15.VIII.1976; leg. G. Osella. – 1 Ƌ (MSNV), Northern Areas, Skardu District, Skardu, Pakova, 2300 m a.s.l.; 27.VII.1976; leg. G. Osella. – 1 Ƌ (MSNV), Skardu, Lake Satpara, 2700 m a.s.l.; 1.VII.1976; leg. G. Osella. – 3 Ƌ (MSNV), Ghangche District, Khaplu, Sciaiak Channel, 2400 m a.s.l.; 10.VII.1976; leg. G. Osella.
REMARKS: The species is here recorded from the Himalayas and Pakistan for the first time.
RANGE: Old World.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, Linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Pakistan and India, pp. 561-598 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (3) on page 586, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117817, http://zenodo.org/record/6312018
Home Mirror Therapy: A Randomized Control Study Comparing Unimanual and Bimanual Mirror Therapy for Improved Arm and Hand Function Post-stroke
Creators: Geller, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Occupational therapy
Cerebral infarction
Cerebrovascular disease--Patients--Rehabilitation
Physical therapy
Medical rehabilitation--Research

description: Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States. The majority of stroke survivors have persistent arm dysfunction, which impedes their daily task performance. Mirror therapy (MT) as an adjunct to occupational therapy (OT) has been shown to be effective in upper extremity (UE) recovery post-stroke. Two protocols, unimanual mirror therapy (UMT) and bimanual mirror therapy (BMT), have been used in OT practice; however, research specifically comparing these two intervention protocols is absent. The purpose of this study was to compare: (a) home-based UMT and BMT protocols, and (b) both MT protocols to home-based traditional occupational therapy (TOT) regarding upper limb recovery post-stroke. Twenty-two chronic stroke participants were randomized into one of three groups: UMT, BMT, or TOT. The Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), ABILHAND, grip strength, and the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) were administered pre- and post-intervention. Participants received outpatient OT 2 days/week for 45 minutes, plus a home program 30 minutes a day, 5 days/week for 6 weeks. A repeated measure ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis Test, and Wilcoxon Ranked-Signed Test were used to compare the three groups, and 95% confidence intervals (CI) and effect sizes were calculated. There was a main effect of time for all groups, except for SIS-strength and activities of daily living (ADL); however, no group differences were noted on any of the measures. When comparing UMT and BMT, the effect size for all measures, except for grip strength, favored UMT. In comparing both mirror groups to TOT, UMT had a moderate to large effect size on the ARAT, FMA, and ABILHAND, as compared to the small effect size for BMT. Furthermore, 95% CI data for the ABILHAND showed clinical significance in favor of UMT compared to TOT, but not for BMT. This study showed that all groups improved over time and UMT may be more beneficial for UE recovery in chronic stroke individuals, compared to either BMT or TOT. However, given the small sample size, future studies comparing the two mirror protocols are necessary for more definitive conclusions to better inform clinicians of the optimal mode of MT treatment.
Well-posedness and controllability of Kawahara equation in weighted Sobolev spaces
Creators: name: Filho, Roberto de A. Capistrano
name: Gomes, Milena de S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the Kawahara equation, a fifth order Korteweg-de Vries type equation, posed on a bounded interval. The first result of the article is related to the well-posedness in weighted Sobolev spaces, which one was shown using a general version of the Lax--Milgram Theorem. With respect to the control problems, we will prove two results. First, if the control region is a neighborhood of the right endpoint, an exact controllability result in weighted Sobolev spaces is established. Lastly, we show that the Kawahara equation is controllable by regions on $L^2$ Sobolev space, the so-called regional controllability, that is, the state function is exact controlled on the left part of the complement of the control region and null controlled on the right part of the complement of the control region.
description: 22 pages. To appear in Nonlinear Analysis. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1401.6833
Tchatkalophantes baltistan V. & Tanasevitch 2011, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Tchatkalophantes
Tchatkalophantes baltistan

description: Tchatkalophantes baltistan sp. n. Figs 86-88
HOLOTYPE: 1 ♀ (MSNV), PAKISTAN, Karakorum, Baltistan, Shalabot, 1700 m a.s.l.; 15.VIII.1976; leg. G. Osella.
FIGS 86-88
 Tchatkalophantes baltistan sp. n., ♀ holotype. (86-88) Epigyne, ventral, dorsal (upside down) and lateral views, respectively.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is taken from the name of the country of origin.
DESCRIPTION: Female. Total length 1.96. Carapace 0.78 long, 0.60 wide, unmodified, pale brown, almost yellow. Chelicerae 0.35 long, unmodified. Legs mostly lost, yellow. Leg I 3.42 (0.93+0.23+0.88+0.83+0.55), FeI 0.90 long. Chaetotaxy: FeI: 0-1-0-0; TiI: 2-1-1-0, TiII: 2-0-1-0, III-IV:?; MtI: 1-0-0-0, II-IV:? TmI 0.25. Abdomen 1.30 long, 0.90 wide, dorsally dark grey, with irregularly arranged small white spots. Epigyne (Figs 86-88): Aperture wide. Proscape with a narrow base, stepwise widening in middle part, bifurcated distally. Posterior median plate triangular.
Male unknown.
 TAXONOMIC REMARKS: The new species is similar to the Mongolian T. hyperauritus (Loksa, 1965) and differs by a shallower depression in the distal part of the proscape, as well as by the shape of the posterior median plate: in T. baltistan sp. n. it wider than high vs higher than wide in T. hyperauritus.
DISTRIBUTION: Known from the type locality only.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, Linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Pakistan and India, pp. 561-598 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (3) on pages 587-588, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117817, http://zenodo.org/record/6312018
The Sky is our Roof, the Earth our Floor: Orang Rimba Customs and Religion in the Bukit Duabelas Region of Jambi, Sumatra
Creators: name: Sager, Steven
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: orang rimba, kubu, malay, suku anak dalam, bukit duabelas, jambi, sumatra, indonesia, religion, ethnicity

description: This is an ethnographic study of the Orang Rimba ('people of the forest'), a Malay-speaking minority group who traditionally lived throughout the lowland rainforests of Jambi, Sumatra. The Orang Rimba have much in common with surrounding Malay peoples, including a similar local dialect and variants of regional Malay customs and beliefs. They are different from the Malay and other Austronesian peoples in that they have a unique, mobile, flexible economy that traditionally shifts in and out of periods of swidden gardening and a very nomadic life based on digging for wild yams, largely upon death. They have an egalitarian social system based on sharing and reciprocity, which occurs within the context of a system of relationships in which women have great rights over forest resources and extraordinary distribution rights. They are also unique for their traditional non-Islamic religious beliefs, which they believe are crucial towards maintaining their way of life in the forest based on maintaining separation with the outside world. ... ¶ This thesis explores how the Orang Rimba maintain their distinct social identity as 'the people of the forest' through an examination of their customs, beliefs and religion (adat), and their belief and ritual surrounding fruits and the annual season of fruits, a primary season in the lowland dipterocarp forests of Sumatra. Throughout the thesis, I explore some of the key concepts, structural categories (forest-village, upstream-downstream, mobility-sedentism, hot-cold, and reason-passion), and metaphor that run through their system of beliefs and religion, and how some of these beliefs influence their social, moral and cosmological orders, relations amongst themselves, and with the outside world. ...
Additional file 5 of Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival
Creators: name: Chen, Yalei
name: Sadasivan, Sudha M.
name: She, Ruicong
name: Datta, Indrani
name: Taneja, Kanika
name: Chitale, Dhananjay
name: Gupta, Nilesh
name: Davis, Melissa B.
name: Newman, Lisa A.
name: Rogers, Craig G.
name: Paris, Pamela L.
name: Li, Jia
name: Rybicki, Benjamin A.
name: Levin, Albert M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. Pdf format. Association of regional chromosomal African ancestry with SCNAs among African Americans in the six regions where African Americans had higher magnitude SCNAs relative to European Americans in both prostate and breast tumors. The table provides a description of these chromosomal regions - length, SCNA type (deletion or amplification), cytoband, beta coefficient, standard error, test statistic, and p-value for the AA breast and prostate tumors.
Tapinocyboides bengalensis V. & Tanasevitch 2011, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Tapinocyboides
Tapinocyboides bengalensis

description: Tapinocyboides bengalensis sp. n. Figs 81-85
HOLOTYPE: Ƌ, INDIA, West Bengal, Darjeeling District, Tonglu, 3100 m a.s.l., near top, under stones; 16.X.1978; leg. C. Besuchet & I. Löbl [16a].
ETYMOLOGY: The species name, an adjective, refers to the Indian State where the new species was found.
DIAGNOSIS: The new species is characterized by the peculiar shape of the split palpal tibia.
DESCRIPTION: Male. Total length 1.40. Carapace 0.63 long, 0.53 wide, unmodified, pale brown, sulci absent. Chelicerae 0.25 long, unmodified. Legs yellow. Leg I 1.73 long (0.50+0.15+0.38+0.37+0.33), IV 1.72 long (0.52+0.17+0.43+0.35+ 0.25). Chaetotaxy 1.1.1.1, length of spines about same as diameter of segment or a little longer. TmI 0.32. Metatarsus IV without trichobothrium. Palp (Figs 81-85): Tibia dorsally deeply divided by a narrow cleft into two parts. Paracymbium simple, U-shaped. Distal suprategular apophysis weakly sclerotized, relatively short, wide and rounded, with a pale thin tooth near it base. Median membrane well developed, protruded forward, distally extended. Radical part of embolic division flat, elongated. Embolus thin, long and coiled, with a narrow membranous edge. Abdomen 0.80 long, 0.55 wide, grey.
Female unknown.
FIGS 81-85
 Tapinocyboides bengalensis sp. n., Ƌ holotype. (81-83) Right palp, retrolateral, prolateral and dorso-prolateral views, respectively. (84) Palpal tibia, dorsal view. (85) Distal suprategular apophysis and median membrane.
 TAXONOMIC REMARKS: This new species is probably not congeneric with the type species Tapinocyboides pygmaeus (Menge, 1869) because it has no “lamella” sensu Merrett (1963) in the embolic division and no sulci on the male carapace. Therefore so it is assigned to this genus only provisionally. In the absence of a female, and/or other possible congeners, the taxonomic position of this species is unclear.
DISTRIBUTION: Known from the type locality only.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2011, Linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Pakistan and India, pp. 561-598 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (3) on pages 586-587, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.117817, http://zenodo.org/record/6312018
Numerical study of scars in a chaotic billiard
Creators: name: Li, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically the scaling properties of scars in stadium billiard. Using the semiclassical criterion, we have searched systematically the scars of the same type through a very wide range, from ground state to as high as the 1 millionth state. We have analyzed the integrated probability density along the periodic orbit. The numerical results confirm that the average intensity of certain types of scars is independent of $\hbar$ rather than scales with $\sqrt{\hbar}$. Our findings confirm the theoretical predictions of Robnik (1989).
description: 7 pages in Revtex 3.1, 5 PS figures available upon request. To appear in Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 55, No. 5, 1997
Holography, Locality and Symmetries of the Universe
Creators: Xiao, Xiao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: It is an interesting question that, with a well tested duality between the quantum gravity in anti de Sitter space and a quantum field theory in one lower dimension, whether quantum gravity in a cosmological background has a well defined dual description. In large 1/N  limit, this duality could be a correspondence between an approximately local gravity theory describing cosmology and a quantum field theory. In dS/CFT, the quantum field theory is a Euclidean CFT living at the conformal boundary of de Sitter space, in large N limit, we should expect the local observables in de Sitter cosmology be recovered from the CFT. We explicitly develop this construction for scalar fields and derive the operator map at lowest order of 1/N expansion.
      Having addressed the fundamental question of how local fields in de Sitter cosmology arise via holography, we focus on the theory of cosmological perturbations that is described in terms of local field theory. The curvature perturbations during inflation, which originated from quantum fluctuations of inflaton and which induced the CMB inhomogeneity we see today, as well as the large scale structure, can be described as Goldstone boson fields which nonlinearly realize a subset of general coordinate transformations as residual symmetries. This fact puts strong constraints on the behavior of the cosmological correlation functions, and a series of consistency relations constraining the soft limits of these correlation functions can be derived as Ward identities.
Additional file 6 of Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival
Creators: name: Chen, Yalei
name: Sadasivan, Sudha M.
name: She, Ruicong
name: Datta, Indrani
name: Taneja, Kanika
name: Chitale, Dhananjay
name: Gupta, Nilesh
name: Davis, Melissa B.
name: Newman, Lisa A.
name: Rogers, Craig G.
name: Paris, Pamela L.
name: Li, Jia
name: Rybicki, Benjamin A.
name: Levin, Albert M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6: Table S5. Pdf format. Distribution of breast and prostate cancer race-differentiated SCNA defined patient groups by race and breast cancer TNBC subtype status.
Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects. Findings from a case survey meta-analysis
Creators: name: Newig, Jens
name: Jager, Nicolas W.
name: Kochskämper, Elisa
name: Challies, Edward
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Theory on participatory and collaborative governance maintains that learning is essential to achieve good environmental outcomes. Empirical research has mostly produced individual case studies, and reliable evidence on both antecedents and environmental outcomes of learning remains sparse. Given conceptual ambiguities in the literature, we define governance-related learning in a threefold way: learning as deliberation; as knowledge- and capacity-building; and as informing environmental outputs. We develop nine propositions that explain learning through factors characterizing governance process and context, and three propositions explaining environmental outcomes of learning. We test these propositions drawing on the ‘SCAPE’ database of 307 published case studies of environmental decision-making, using multiple regression models. Results show that learning in all three modes is explained to some extent by a combination of process- and context-related factors. Most factors matter for learning, but with stark differences across the three modes of learning, thus demonstrating the relevance of this differentiated approach. Learning modes build on one another: Deliberation is seen to explain both capacity building and informed outputs, while informed outputs are also explained by capacity building. Contrary to our expectations, none of the learning variables was found to significantly affect environmental outcomes when considered alongside the process- and context-related variables.
Ecology and conservation of the swift parrot - an endangered austral migrant
Creators: name: Saunders, Debra
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: swift parrot, lathamus discolor, migration, austral, migrant, winter habitat, movement, climate, drought, foraging, environmental history, conservation, recovery plan, management

description: The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor, Psittacidae) is an endangered, austral migrant that inhabits forests and woodlands of south-eastern Australia. With a small population size (2500 birds), broad winter distribution (1 250 000 km2) and often cryptic nature, the swift parrot is a challenging species to study. In autumn they migrate north from their Tasmanian breeding grounds in search of suitable food resources throughout their winter range on mainland Australia. They are therefore dependent on a combination of suitable wintering, migration and breeding habitats. Although they spend a large proportion of their lives within winter habitats, the spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat use in this part of their range is poorly understood. This thesis aims to provide a greater understanding of large-scale winter habitat use by swift parrots, in both historic and current contexts, and provide a basis for future conservation management. ...¶ During drought swift parrot abundance was significantly correlated with rainfall, whereby most of the population either concentrated in a few regions or migrated longer distances (up to 1000km) to drought refuges in wetter coastal areas. However, swift parrot abundance was not associated with specific climate variables during years of average to high rainfall throughout most of their range. Instead they appeared to prefer habitats within particular regions. Importantly this study emphasises that conservation measures need to be implemented throughout the distribution of migratory species, including drought refuge habitats and areas outside conservation reserves.
A special constant and series with zeta values and harmonic numbers
Creators: name: Boyadzhiev, Khristo N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B34, 11M06, 33B15, 40C15

description: In this paper we demonstrate the importance of a mathematical constant which is the value of several interesting numerical series involving harmonic numbers, zeta values, and logarithms. We also evaluate in closed form a number of numerical and power series.
description: 19 pages
Extending the Asteroseismic Calibration of the Stellar Rossby Number
Creators: name: Metcalfe, Travis S.
name: Corsaro, Enrico
name: Bonanno, Alfio
name: Creevey, Orlagh L.
name: van Saders, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stellar Rossby number (Ro) is a dimensionless quantity that is used in the description of fluid flows. It characterizes the relative importance of Coriolis forces on convective motions, which is central to understanding magnetic stellar evolution. Here we present an expanded sample of Kepler asteroseismic targets to help calibrate the relation between Ro and Gaia color, and we extend the relation to redder colors using observations of the mean activity levels and rotation periods for a sample of brighter stars from the Mount Wilson survey. Our quadratic fit to the combined sample is nearly linear between 0.55 < G_BP-G_RP < 1.2, and can be used to estimate Ro for stars with spectral types between F5 and K3. The strong deviation from linearity in the original calibration may reflect an observational bias against the detection of solar-like oscillations at higher activity levels for the coolest stars.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, AAS Journals accepted
A Note on Optimal Unimodular Lattices
Creators: name: Conway, J. H.
name: Sloane, N. J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11H31 (11H06)

description: The highest possible minimal norm of a unimodular lattice is determined in dimensions n <= 33. There are precisely five odd 32-dimensional lattices with the highest possible minimal norm (compared with more than 8*10^20 in dimension 33). Unimodular lattices with no roots exist if and only if n >= 23, n not = 25.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 7 of Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival
Creators: name: Chen, Yalei
name: Sadasivan, Sudha M.
name: She, Ruicong
name: Datta, Indrani
name: Taneja, Kanika
name: Chitale, Dhananjay
name: Gupta, Nilesh
name: Davis, Melissa B.
name: Newman, Lisa A.
name: Rogers, Craig G.
name: Paris, Pamela L.
name: Li, Jia
name: Rybicki, Benjamin A.
name: Levin, Albert M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7: Table S6. Pdf format. Differentially expressed genes in the six consistently race-differentiated SCNAs across breast and prostate tumors.
Seismic Receiver and Noise Correlation Based Studies in Australia
Creators: name: Saygin, Erdinc
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Seismic tomography, Ambient noise correlations, Australian Crust

description: This thesis is directed at exploiting information in the coda of seismic phases and the ambient noise field to provide new constraints on the structure of the Australian Continent. ¶ The exploitation of the immediate coda following the onset of P waves from a distant earthquake using radial receiver functions is now a well established method. The 40 sec interval following P contains reverberations and conversions, by deconvolving the radial component trace with the vertical components, the conversions are emphasized by canceling the part of the response that are common to both components. A member of different styles of such deconvolution, are investigated and a variant of the multitaper method is adopted for subsequent applications. ... ¶ The second part of the thesis is directed at the exploitation of ambient noise or seismic coda to gain information on the Green's function between seismic stations. ¶ ...
Beyond Familiar Territory: Dissertation: De-centering the Centre (An analysis of visual strategies in the art of Robert Smithson, Alfredo Jaar and the Bark Petitions of Yirrkala); and Studio Report: A Sculptural Response to Mapping, Mining, and Consumption
Creators: name: Schwarz, Janien (Nien)
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1999
Subjects: sculpture, art, mining, geology, maps, Robert Smithson, Alfredo Jaar, bark petitions, Yirrkala, ecology, consumerism

description: Dissertation: "Beyond Familiar Territory" researches various visual and conceptual strategies that facilitate connection between urban-based audiences and peripheral areas of ground where the extraction of mineral resources occurs. The Dissertation is a comparative analysis of selected works by Robert Smithson, Alfredo Jaar, and the Bark Petitions of the Yirrkala people in North East Arnhem Land. The focus is on how these artists have endeavoured to challenge urban audiences, disrupt the perceived hierarchy between centre and periphery, and bridge gaps between urban sites of mineral consumption and overlooked sites of mineral extraction. ¶ "Beyond Familiar Territory" takes the form of this Dissertation (33%), and an exhibition of works at the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) from 6 February to 21 March, 1999, which, together with the Studio report, documents the outcome of the Studio Practice Component (67%).¶ ...
Enumeration of Flats of the Extended Catalan and Shi Arrangements with Species
Creators: name: Nakashima, Norihiro
name: Tsujie, Shuhei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A18, 05A19, 05C22, 52C35

description: The number of flats of a hyperplane arrangement is considered as a generalization of the Bell number and the Stirling number of the second kind. Robert Gill gave the exponential generating function of the number of flats of the extended Catalan arrangements, using species. In this article, we introduce the species of flats of the extended Catalan and Shi arrangements and they are given by iterated substitution of species of sets and lists. Moreover, we enumerate the flats of these arrangements in terms of infinite matrices.
description: 19 pages
Impact of liposomal bupivacaine on opioid use, hospital length of stay, discharge status, and hospitalization costs in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty
Creators: name: Asche, Carl V.
name: Dagenais, Simon
name: Amiee Kang
name: Jinma Ren
name: Maurer, Brian T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Aims: Effective postsurgical analgesia hastens recovery, reduces hospital length of stay (LOS), and decreases hospitalization costs for total hip arthroplasty (THA). Improving these outcomes is critical for value-based surgical bundled payment programs such as the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement and similar programs for commercial insurance providers. This study compared clinical outcomes and hospitalization costs for patients undergoing THA with and without liposomal bupivacaine (LB). Materials and methods: This retrospective, comparative cohort study used data from the Premier Healthcare Database from the 10 hospitals with highest use of LB for THA from January 2011 through April 2017. A cohort undergoing THA with LB at those hospitals was compared with a propensity-score matched cohort at those hospitals who had THA without LB. Descriptive, univariate, and multivariable analyses compared post-surgical inpatient opioid consumption, hospital LOS, discharge status, same-hospital readmissions, and total hospitalization costs. Analyses were performed using the Pearson Chi-square test (categorical variables) and Wilcoxon or Student t-test (continuous variables). Results: For patients with Medicare (with LB, n = 3622; without LB, n = 3610) and commercial insurance (with LB, n = 2648; without LB, n = 2709), use of LB was associated with lower post-surgical inpatient opioid consumption (105 and 81 mg, respectively; p p p p ≥ 0.103). Total hospitalization costs were $561 lower with LB in the Medicare population (p p = 0.7697). Limitations: Hospitalization costs were estimated from the hospital chargemaster. Findings from these 10 hospitals may not represent other US hospitals. Conclusions: At select hospitals, THA with LB was associated with reduced post-surgical inpatient opioid consumption, shorter hospital LOS, increased likelihood of home discharge, and lower hospitalization costs. Post-surgical pain management with LB may help hospitals in value-based bundled payment programs.
Irreducible Representations of an Algebra underlying Hidden Symmetries of a class of Quasi Exactly Solvable Systems of Equations
Creators: name: Brihaye, Y.
name: Giller, S.
name: Kosinski, P.
name: Nuyts, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The set of linear, differential operators preserving the vector space of couples of polynomials of degrees n and n-2 in one real variable leads to an abstract associative graded algebra A(2). The irreducible, finite dimensional representations of this algebra are classified into five infinite discrete sets and one exceptional case. Their matrix elements are given explicitely. The results are related to the theory of quasi exactly solvable equations.
description: 38 pages, latex
Entropic considerations on the Universe and Universe-Black Hole Systems
Creators: name: Hadi, H.
name: Darabi, F.
name: Heydarzade, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entropic considerations on the Universe system and the Universe-Black hole system, filled by cosmological constant or exotic quintessence-like and phantom-like fields having negative pressure, using their relevant entropic bounds. It turns out that for both systems these considerations single out the cosmological constant, among the negative pressure candidate fields, as the viable cosmological field.
description: 10 pages
Noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds with genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations
Creators: name: Ozbagci, Burak
name: Stipsicz, András I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds which admit genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations over S^2. The fibrations are necessarily hyperelliptic, and the resulting 4-manifolds are not even homotopy equivalent to complex surfaces. Furthermore, these examples show that fiber sums of holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations do not necessarily admit complex structures.
Some clinicians are using AI to write health records. What do you need to know?
Creators: name: Carter, Stacy
name: Magrabi, Farah
name: Aquino, Yves Saint James
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025

description: Imagine this. You’ve finally summoned up the courage to see a GP about an embarrassing problem. You sit down. The GP says: before we start, I’m using my computer to record my appointments. It’s AI – it will write a summary for the notes and a letter to the specialist. Is that OK?Wait – AI writing our medical records? Why would we want that?Records are essential for safe and effective health care. Clinicians must make good records to keep their registration. Health services must provide good record systems to be accredited. Records are also legal documents: they can be important in insurance claims or legal actions.But writing stuff down (or dictating notes or letters) takes time. During appointments, clinicians can have their attention divided between good record-keeping and good communication with the patient. Sometimes clinicians need to work on records after hours, at the end of an already-long day.So there’s understandable excitement, from all kinds of health-care professionals, about “ambient AI” or “digital scribes”.
Theoretical and experimental study of the orientational ordering in the field-induced intermediaite phase from the SmC*FI2 phase in chiral smectic liquid crystals
Creators: name: Dhaouadi, H.
name: Riahi, O.
name: Zgueb, R.
name: Trabelsi, F.
name: Othman, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under an electric field, chiral smectic liquid crystals transit usually to the unwound SmC* phase where the helical structure is completely unrolled. Sometimes the sample transits initially towards an intermediate polar state before the total destruction of the helix. Based on the extension of the H-T model, a theoretical study of these field-induced phase transitions was carried out. Two hypotheses of the dynamics that give rise to the appearance of the intermediate phase have been discussed. The results of a numerical analysis confirm the known experimental results; the intermediate phase has a three-layer periodicity structure.
Generalized Maximum Entropy, Convexity and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Sears, Timothy
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Maximum entropy, Bregman divergence, exponential family, deformed logarithm, escort distribution, non-negative matrix factorization.

description: This thesis identiﬁes and extends techniques that can be linked to the principle of maximum entropy (maxent) and applied to parameter estimation in machine learning and statistics. Entropy functions based on deformed logarithms are used to construct Bregman divergences, and together these represent a generalization of relative entropy. The framework is analyzed using convex analysis to charac- terize generalized forms of exponential family distributions. Various connections to the existing machine learning literature are discussed and the techniques are applied to the problem of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF).
Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Architecture and Devotion in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Creators: Boivin, Katherine Morris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Art
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Middle Ages
subject: History

description: This dissertation explores the spatiality of the parochial complex in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the dynamic interrelation of architecture, figural art, and devotional practice. Among the spaces of the parish church of St. Jakob, the neighboring charnel-house chapel of St. Michael, and the urban cemetery between unfolded an intricate thematic program whose leitmotif was a miracle-working blood relic. Scholars are beginning to reassess the role of architecture in structuring and creating meaning among the seemingly disparate elements of medieval multi-media church programs. This meaning was not only contained in individual artworks but was also expressed in the interrelation among different pieces. The parochial complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber was bookended by two elevated chapels: the pilgrimage chapel of the west end of St. Jakob contained the altarpiece of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider; the free-standing octagonal cemetery chapel of St. Michael housed a Riemenschneider altarpiece of the Holy Cross. Between these spaces stretched an intricate network of associations that promised the faithful resurrection and salvation. Chapter one considers the potential for patrons to convey meaning through the choice of recognizable architectural models. Chapter two studies the power of local campaigns and spatial compositions to stage pilgrimage and to promise divine protection to the faithful. Chapter three demonstrates the ability of architecture to draw simultaneously on local referents and on distant prototypes in order to communicate ideas. Finally, chapter four explores the interconnections among the spaces of an architectural complex and among the elements of its multi-media figural program.
Chromosomal Evolution of Delena cancerides
Creators: name: Sharp, Hayley Evette
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: chromosomes, speciation, spider

description: The huntsman spider Delena cancerides is known to be highly chromosomally variable, and to have reduced recombination near fusions. However, this species has previously only been interpreted with reference to the classical models of chromosomal speciation, the expectations of which it does not fit well. Broad-scale sampling of this spider has revealed extensive chromosomal diversity and complexity. Twenty one chromosomally differentiated populations (karyomorphs) of this spider have now been described, including those with the putatively ancestral configuration of all telocentric bivalents at meiosis (tII), and many that are saturated for Robertsonian fusions. These include up to six different karyomorphs with metacentric bivalents (mII), eight karyomorphs that form a chain of chromosomes at male meiosis, and six karyomorphs that form two separate but co-segregating chains.¶ A computer simulation was used to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of this chromosomal diversity, which indicated that fusions are likely to have accumulated gradually, possibly due to meiotic drive. Historical phylogeographic analyses have shown that deep cryptic divisions exist which are concordant with the chromosomal diversity.¶ Hybridization experiments have suggested that many hybrid zones between karyomorphs of this species are tension zones, and that genetic incompatibilities are likely to play an important role in generating partial reproductive isolation of karyomorphs. Furthermore, several hybrid zones appear to have been modified by staggered clines. The staggering of clines is thought to ameliorate reproductive isolation mechanisms that are dependent on epistatic fitness interactions, and so may prevent diverging populations progressing towards speciation. ¶Therefore, on the basis of the available evidence, D. cancerides may fit the recombination suppression model of chromosomal speciation, although it may be unlikely that the karyomorphs will progress towards full species status. Hence, this species may in the future make a highly informative model organism for investigating the early stages of genetic reproductive isolation associated with chromosomal rearrangements.
Homeostasis of Adipose Tissue Macrophages
Creators: Edwin, Ethan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biology
Adipose tissues
Macrophages
Ontogeny
Phenotype

description: Adipose tissue macrophages are a heterogeneous component of adipose tissue with poorly defined ontogeny. I test the hypothesis that macrophage populations in murine adipose have distinct ontogenies that determine their functions. In Aim 1, I identify resident and recruited adipose macrophage populations using three complementary cell-tracking techniques. In Aim 2, I characterize the transcriptomes of resident and recruited adipose macrophages. In Aim 3, I increase the expression of either a macrophage recruitment factor or a macrophage growth factor in adipose. Overall, I conclude that there are distinct populations of resident and recruited macrophages in adipose and that macrophage ontogeny is an important factor that determines phenotype.
Private Hierarchical Clustering and Efficient Approximation
Creators: name: Meng, Xianrui
name: Papadopoulos, Dimitrios
name: Oprea, Alina
name: Triandopoulos, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In collaborative learning, multiple parties contribute their datasets to jointly deduce global machine learning models for numerous predictive tasks. Despite its efficacy, this learning paradigm fails to encompass critical application domains that involve highly sensitive data, such as healthcare and security analytics, where privacy risks limit entities to individually train models using only their own datasets. In this work, we target privacy-preserving collaborative hierarchical clustering. We introduce a formal security definition that aims to achieve the balance between utility and privacy and present a two-party protocol that provably satisfies it. We then extend our protocol with: (i) an optimized version for the single-linkage clustering, and (ii) scalable approximation variants. We implement all our schemes and experimentally evaluate their performance and accuracy on synthetic and real datasets, obtaining very encouraging results. For example, end-to-end execution of our secure approximate protocol for over 1M 10-dimensional data samples requires 35sec of computation and achieves 97.09% accuracy.
Optimisation of Iterative Multi-user Receivers using Analytical Tools
Creators: name: Shepherd, David Peter
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: EXIT chart, CDMA, multi-user detector, turbo codes, iterative receiver

description: The objective of this thesis is to develop tools for the analysis and optimization of an iterative receiver. These tools can be applied to most soft-in soft-out (SISO) receiver components. For illustration purposes we consider a multi-user DS-CDMA system with forward error correction that employs iterative multi-user detection based on soft interference cancellation and single user decoding. Optimized power levels combined with adaptive scheduling allows for efficient utilization of receiver resources for heavily loaded systems.¶ Metric transfer analysis has been shown to be an accurate method of predicting the convergence behavior of iterative receivers. EXtrinsic Information (EXIT), fidelity (FT) and variance (VT) transfer analysis are well-known methods, however the relationship between the different approaches has not been explored in detail. We compare the metrics numerically and analytically and derive functions to closely approximate the relationship between them. The result allows for easy translation between EXIT, FT and VT methods. Furthermore, we extend the $J$ function, which describes mutual information as a function of variance, to fidelity and symbol error variance, the Rayleigh fading channel model and a channel estimate. ... ¶
Enlightenment was the choice: Doctor Who and the Democratisation of Science
Creators: name: Orthia, Lindy
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Doctor Who, science communication, democratisation of science

description: The democratisation of science - shifting science governance, work opportunities and ideologies away from the exclusive domains of elite minorities and into the hands of the people - is an important aim of science communication. If communication products such as television series can influence people's relationships with science in terms of their career choices, belief systems and feelings of ownership over science, then it is important for science communicators to understand what television series are saying about science. In this thesis I examine representations of science in the long-running science fiction television series, 'Doctor Who'. In particular I analyse the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of this representation to assess its consistency with four goals for the democratisation of science: goals that I name franchise (lay empowerment in science governance), equality (equal access to opportunities in science workplaces and careers), progress (democratic choice about the role of technology in our lives and our societies) and enlightenment (democratic freedom to choose our beliefs and worldviews about the universe). Analysing the more than 200 'Doctor Who' serials broadcast between 1963 and 2008, I first give an overview of broad trends in the way the program has dealt with science themes and characters across four decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s), finding significant changes over that period. I then analyse in greater theoretical depth three ways that debates about the democratisation of science manifest within 'Doctor Who'. I show that the program varies in the degree to which it is consistent with the goals for the democratisation of science. ...
New Universality of Lyapunov Spectra in Hamiltonian Systems
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new universality of Lyapunov spectra {λ_i} is shown for Hamiltonian systems. The universality appears in middle energy regime and is different from another universality which can be reproduced by random matrices in the following two points. One is that the new universality appears in a limited range of large i/N rather than the whole range, where N is degrees of freedom. The other is Lyapunov spectra do not behave linearly while random matrices give linear behavior even on 3D lattice. Quadratic terms with smaller nonlinear terms of potential functions play an intrinsic role in the new universality.
description: 19 pages, 16 Encapsulated Postscript figures, LaTeX (100 kb)
Young wall realization of crystal graphs for U_q(C_n^{(1)})
Creators: name: Hong, Jin
name: Kang, Seok-Jin
name: Lee, Hyeonmi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37

description: We give a realization of crystal graphs for basic representations of the quantum affine algebra U_q(C_n^{(1)}) using combinatorics of Young walls. The notion of splitting blocks plays a crucial role in the construction of crystal graphs.
The GLOBE Series : dealing with environmental challenges
Creators: name: Marshall, David W. I.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: GLOBE (GLobal Opportunities for Business and the Environment) is a series of international Conferences and Trade Fairs designed to advance global sustainable development by encouraging practical solutions to environmental challenges and promoting related business opportunities and responsibilities. The GLOBE Series focuses foremost on the role of industry in the achievement of sustainable development, and promotes the innovation of industry-driven solutions to environmental challenges that are in keeping with proven business strategy. The Trade Fair is a marketplace for the environment industry, promoting both the sale of state-of-the-art environmental products, services and technologies, as well as the strategic alliances essential in global trade. The Conference is a meeting place for the presentation of practical solutions and case studies demonstrating the principles of sustainable development. GLOBE'90, the first event in this series, was convened in March of 1990. It proved an international success with participation from over 70 countries. GLOBE'92, to be held from March 16-22, 1992, will explore the ways in which technological know-how, market forces and cross-sectoral cooperation can be mobilized to address environmental challenges. The importance and increasing relevance of the GLOBE Series is underscored by its inclusion in Canada's recently developed Green Plan