cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Making Mommies: Law, Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the Complications of Pre-Motherhood
Creators: name: Mutcherson, Kimberly M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: “The major threats from coming advances in reproductive technology are not medical but political, social and philosophical.” Debate and concern about the ability to manipulate human life through the use of reproductive technologies is not new. As the use of technology slowly spreads, it becomes necessary to critically evaluate how calls to regulate this technology, by constraining access to or limiting particular uses of particular technologies, will impact long-standing conundrums about reproduction, parenting, and the law. To that end, this Article focuses on three topics: 1) the potential for legal regulation of pre- implantation genetic diagnosis, also known as PGD; 2) the relationship between such future regulation and the existing legal landscape attendant to parenting, procreation, and pregnancy; 3) and the specific consequences for women of legal incursion into PGD decision-making. PGD refers to a process of testing embryos prior to implantation in order to determine various genetic characteristics. Pre-implantation testing is frequently employed to determine whether the future child will have a particular disease or disability, but testing can also be used simply to determine sex.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2008)
AGN feedback in galaxy groups: a joint GMRT/X-ray study
Creators: name: Giacintucci, S.
name: Vrtilek, J. M.
name: O'Sullivan, E.
name: Raychaudhury, S.
name: David, L. P.
name: Venturi, T.
name: Athreya, R.
name: Gitti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ongoing study of 18 nearby galaxy groups, chosen for the availability of Chandra and/or XMM-Newton data and evidence for AGN/hot intragroup gas interaction. We have obtained 235 and 610 MHz observations at the GMRT for all the groups, and 327 and 150 MHz for a few. We discuss two interesting cases - NGC 5044 and AWM 4 - which exhibit different kinds of AGN/hot gas interaction. With the help of these examples we show how joining low-frequency radio data (to track the history of AGN outbursts through emission from aged electron populations) with X-ray data (to determine the state of hot gas, its disturbances, heating and cooling) can provide a unique insight into the nature of the feedback mechanism in galaxy groups.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of the conference "The Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters", June 2009, Madison Wisconsin
Family Law Cases as Law Reform Litigation: Unrecognized Parents and the Story of Alison D. v. Virginia M.
Creators: name: Goldberg, Suzanne B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Although the gap between law and lived experience comes as no surprise to most people, the divergence is especially striking-and disturbing-in the area of family law. Legal training quickly reveals that love is not a foundational element of family law, yet it can still be jarring to find that love has little, if any, bearing on the contours of the legal family. Love, after all, does not account for who can and cannot marry. Nor does the past love of an unmarried couple trigger the protections of divorce should the couple separate. When children are involved, we might be especially inclined to think that love should carry some weight in determining whether a parent- child relationship will be recognized. Yet even here, again, love is often not relevant to the analysis. While an adult might feel like a parent, be treated like a parent, and be “Mom” or “Dad” to the child, in many states that adult will not actually be a parent within the law, absent adoption or biological parentage. For families in those states, a non-legal parent may have no legal recourse if a couple separates and the “legal” parent bars him or her from seeing the child. As a matter of law, the non-legal parent and child in this situation are no closer than strangers.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2008)
From coupled elementary units to the complexity of the glass transition
Creators: name: Rehwald, C.
name: Rubner, O.
name: Heuer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supercooled liquids display fascinating properties upon cooling such as the emergence of dynamic length scales. Different models strongly vary with respect to the choice of the elementary subsystems (CRR) as well as their mutual coupling. Here we show via computer simulations of a glass former that both ingredients can be identified via analysis of finite-size effects within the continuous-time random walk framework. The CRR already contain complete information about thermodynamics and diffusivity whereas the coupling determines structural relaxation and the emergence of dynamic length scales.
The Cultural Property Claim within the Same-Sex Marriage Controversy
Creators: name: Poirier, Marc R.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Partisans in the contemporary controversy over same-sex marriage and marriage equality often use the rhetoric of “access” and “exclusion” to frame their positions. These terms are also used to stake out positions on how to resolve conflicts over congestible natural resources. This Article takes the terms at face value and asks whether and how the marriage equality/same-sex marriage controversy might usefully be described in terms of a controversy over a contested and potentially congestible shared resource. “Access” and “exclusion” are property language, after all. This Article will argue that the traditionalist’ claim that same-sex couples should be excluded from marriage is the same kind of claim as is often made by Native American, indigenous, and other culturally- subordinated groups to certain cultural resources-a right to exclude others in order to protect sacred objects, places, and rituals, so as to preserve and perpetuate group identity over time. This description may help progressives gain a new, and perhaps better, understanding of the sense often expressed by traditionalists of the harm they believe would accrue by allowing same- sex couples access to the institution of marriage.2 The Article explores the details of the traditionalist position understood as a cultural property claim and then sketches out a number of progressive responses to the traditionalists’ cultural property claim.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2008)
Intra-uterine exposure to lower maternal haemoglobin concentration is associated with impaired cognitive function in stunted adolescents: results from a 17-year longitudinal cohort study in Indonesia
Creators: name: Asrullah, Muhammad
name: Hositanisita, Hastrin
name: L’Hoir, Monique
name: Muslimatun, Siti
name: Feskens, Edith JM
name: Melse-Boonstra, Alida
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: The long-term impact of maternal anaemia on cognitive performance remains unknown. Indonesian longitudinal cohort data of 363 paired pregnant mothers and their 10–14-year-old offspring were used to investigate the association between maternal haemoglobin (Hb) concentration and their offspring’s cognitive function (assessed by Raven’s Progressive Matrices test) during adolescence. The weighted anaemia prevalence was 49.3% in pregnant mothers and 22.2% in adolescents. Adolescents who were stunted, anaemic, or living in a rural area had significantly lower cognitive scores than their counterparts. Maternal Hb was not associated with adolescent cognitive function (β: 0.14; 95%CI: −0.052–0.340). However, the effect of maternal Hb concentration on offspring’s cognitive function was modified by stunting status (β, stunted: 0.44; 95%CI: 0.05–0.82; non-stunted: 0.01; 95%CI: −0.02–0.24). This study shows adverse cognitive outcomes at adolescent age are likely multi-causal and can be partially explained by intra-uterine exposure to low maternal Hb concentrations.
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Creators: name: Davis, Martha F.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Far from a dead letter, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is currently pending in both houses of Congress. When Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) reintroduced the ERA in the Senate on March 27, 2007, he particularly stressed the economic disparities faced by women and the importance of a national effort to address them. Likewise, the principal co- sponsor in the House of Representatives, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)–a proud relation, through marriage, of feminist Alice Paul who drafted the original ERA in 19233-stated that “[w]omen are under- represented in government and business, earn less than men, and are nearly twice as poor in old age. It is time to stop stalling and finish what we started 84 years ago.” The data cited by Representative Maloney are well known. Women make up a small fraction of government positions relative to their absolute numbers in the population. As of January 2008, there were sixteen women in the U.S. Senate, seventy women in the U.S. House of Representatives, and seventy-four women holding statewide elective executive offices. These figures include, among others, eight governors, four attorneys general, eleven state treasurers, and one railroad commissioner. Less than one-quarter of state legislators are women. Women also lag behind men in corporate representation, as women held only 14.8% of all Fortune 500 board seats in 2007 and only 15.4%-a decrease from 2006-of corporate officer positions. Not surprisingly, the gender wage gap persists. According to the most recent analysis, the median weekly earnings ratio of women’s to men’s wages was 80.2 in 2007, and the ratio of women’s to men’s annual earnings was 76.9 in 2005. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research observed that the median weekly earnings ratio has “hovered around 80.0 since 2003,” the median annual earnings ratio has remained “virtually unchanged from 2001,” and “[p]rogress in closing the gender wage gap has slowed considerably since 1990.” Finally, the institute also observed that “older men outearn older women almost two to one,” and “[o]lder women are almost twice as likely to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) government assistance as older men.”
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2008)
Optimizing Fault-Tolerant Quality-Guaranteed Sensor Deployments for UAV Localization in Critical Areas via Computational Geometry
Creators: name: Esposito, Marco
name: Mancini, Toni
name: Tronci, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.8; J.6

description: The increasing spreading of small commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, aka drones) presents serious threats for critical areas such as airports, power plants, governmental and military facilities. In fact, such UAVs can easily disturb or jam radio communications, collide with other flying objects, perform espionage activity, and carry offensive payloads, e.g., weapons or explosives. A central problem when designing surveillance solutions for the localization of unauthorized UAVs in critical areas is to decide how many triangulating sensors to use, and where to deploy them to optimise both coverage and cost effectiveness.
 In this article, we compute deployments of triangulating sensors for UAV localization, optimizing a given blend of metrics, namely: coverage under multiple sensing quality levels, cost-effectiveness, fault-tolerance. We focus on large, complex 3D regions, which exhibit obstacles (e.g., buildings), varying terrain elevation, different coverage priorities, constraints on possible sensors placement. Our novel approach relies on computational geometry and statistical model checking, and enables the effective use of off-the-shelf AI-based black-box optimizers. Moreover, our method allows us to compute a closed-form, analytical representation of the region uncovered by a sensor deployment, which provides the means for rigorous, formal certification of the quality of the latter.
 We show the practical feasibility of our approach by computing optimal sensor deployments for UAV localization in two large, complex 3D critical regions, the Rome Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport (FCO) and the Vienna International Center (VIC), using NOMAD as our state-of-the-art underlying optimization engine. Results show that we can compute optimal sensor deployments within a few hours on a standard workstation and within minutes on a small parallel infrastructure.
Should a Trip from Illinois to Tennessee Change a Woman into a Man: Proposal for a Uniform Interstate Sex Reassignment Recognition Act
Creators: name: Newlin, Alice
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: In Illinois, a transgender woman’ who has had sex reassignment surgery can request an amendment to her birth certificate to change her legally-recognized sex (legal sex)2 from the sex assigned at birth to one she chooses later in life. Though she was born male, she can become legally female by amending her birth records. She is able to marry a man, adopt a female name, and incorporate her female identity into her legal life.4 However, were this woman to leave Illinois and enter Tennessee, she would .5 become legally male once again. Though she may have breasts, a vagina, a husband, and an Illinois birth certificate stamped “female,” this person would always be considered legally male in Tennessee. Her sexual identity, her marriage, and her physical body become irrelevant. In Tennessee, a person identified as male at birth is male for life. States traditionally determine their own marriage requirements and issue their own birth certificates.6 The resulting disparate treatment of transgender people across jurisdictions in the United States has created both practical and constitutional concerns7 that warrant the implementation of a uniform system for sex reassignment recognition nationally.8 Individuals are constantly being classified as either male or female, through mechanisms as diverse as employment records, birth records, driver’s licenses, passports, restrooms, and interactions with law enforcement. Transgender people may present gender-signifying characteristics or documentation that are contrary or inconsistent, complicating these routine interactions.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2008)
Cuidando da Saúde: diálogos sobre a política de atenção integral para a população LGBT
Creators: name: Pereira, Marcos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychological methodology, design and analysis

description: Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia – Mestrado, do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, como requisito parcial à obtenção do Título de Mestre em Psicologia Aplicada.
Disciplinary Case Study: The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)
Creators: name: Conzett, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: research data management

description: This disciplinary case study was carried out by LIBER's Research Data Management Working Group and focuses on Research Data Management support for language and linguistics provided by the University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
title: Using “Omics” to Discover Predictive Biomarkers in Women at High Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Birth
Creators: name: Care, Angharad
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) is a complex pregnancy syndrome that remains poorly understood and is associated with significant perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current research suggests that there are multiple disordered physiological processes that trigger a final common pathway of early labour, rather than a single specific cause. It is this heterogeneity that has hindered the discovery of a single predictive biomarker and existing screening methods for sPTB prediction are insufficient to detect all women at risk. Consequently, our inability to identify women at risk inhibits efforts of prevention, which cannot be achieved without better understanding of causation or a more robust way of accurately discriminating those at high risk. The development in “omics” technology has led to exciting breakthroughs in other areas of medicine and offers new avenues of investigation for sPTB prediction. The primary aim of the thesis was to establish a way of combining different types of ‘omics’ analysis from the same individual in a pilot study to identify candidate biomarker predictors or pathways. Three different “omic” methodologies; genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics, were used to analyse blood taken from asymptomatic women high-risk for sPTB at 16 and 20 weeks of pregnancy. Lastly, I investigated if there are distinct differences in biomarkers between PPROM and sPTB subgroups of spontaneous preterm birth. On an individual omics level only transcriptomics showed an association with sPTB. Gene set enrichment in this population demonstrates that the selenoamino acid pathway differentiates asymptomatic high-risk women. Hierarchical clustering in a non-linear distance matrix differentiated all but one of the sPTB and PPROM cases. More studies are required to validate the findings from our analysis. Data from each omics discipline was combined together in a single data matrix and machine learning analyses applied. The area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) values for Linear discriminant analysis (0.90), Genetic expression programming (0.70), K-Means (1.00), Linear support vector machine (0.96), Support vector machine with a Gaussian Kernel (0.96), Probabilistic neural network (1.00) and Random Forest (0.96) demonstrate that most machine learning methods perform well on our dataset. Sample sizes needed to reach excellent (AUC = 0.9) vs. moderate (AUC = 0.7) prediction performance were found to be within realistic ranges. This study provides a conceptual analytical framework for the prediction of sPTB. For a larger cohort prediction power is excellent, making individualized preterm prediction a realistic possibility.
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 1: Beyond the Turing Test
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Marko A.
name: Pepe, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since the Turing test was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, the primary goal of artificial intelligence has been predicated on the ability for computers to imitate human behavior. However, the majority of uses for the computer can be said to fall outside the domain of human abilities and it is exactly outside of this domain where computers have demonstrated their greatest contribution to intelligence. Another goal for artificial intelligence is one that is not predicated on human mimicry, but instead, on human amplification. This article surveys various systems that contribute to the advancement of human and social intelligence.
Testing spectral models for stellar populations with star clusters: II. Results
Creators: name: Delgado, Rosa M. Gonzalez
name: Fernandes, Roberto Cid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High spectral resolution evolutionary synthesis models have become a routinely used ingredient in extragalactic work, and as such deserve thorough testing. Star clusters are ideal laboratories for such tests. This paper applies the spectral fitting methodology outlined in Paper I to a sample of clusters, mainly from the Magellanic Clouds and spanning a wide range in age and metallicity, fitting their integrated light spectra with a suite of modern evolutionary synthesis models for single stellar population. The combinations of model plus spectral library employed in this investigation are Galaxev/STELIB, Vazdekis/MILES, SED@/GRANADA, and Galaxev/MILES+GRANADA, which provide a representative sample of models currently available for spectral fitting work. A series of empirical tests are performed with these models, comparing the quality of the spectral fits and the values of age, metallicity and extinction obtained with each of them. A comparison is also made between the properties derived from these spectral fits and literature data on these nearby, well studied clusters. These comparisons are done with the general goal of providing useful feedback for model makers, as well as guidance to the users of such models. We find that new generation of models using the GRANADA and MILES libraries are superior to STELIB-based models both in terms of spectral fit quality and regarding the accuracy with which age and metallicity are retrieved. Accuracies of about 0.1 dex in age and 0.3 dex in metallicity can be achieved as long as the models are not extrapolated beyond their expected range of validity.
description: accepted to MNRAS
Twisted Mass Finite Volume Effects
Creators: name: Colangelo, Gilberto
name: Wenger, Urs
name: Wu, Jackson M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate finite volume effects on the pion masses and decay constant in twisted mass lattice QCD (tmLQCD) at finite lattice spacing. We show that the lighter neutral pion in tmLQCD gives rise to finite volume effects that are exponentially enhanced when compared to those arising from the heavier charged pions. We demonstrate that the recent two flavour twisted mass lattice data can be better fitted when twisted mass effects in finite volume corrections are taken into account.
description: 17 pages, revtex
Loop Quantum Cosmology: An Overview
Creators: name: Ashtekar, Abhay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief overview of loop quantum cosmology of homogeneous isotropic models is presented with emphasis on the origin of and subtleties associated with the resolution of big bang and big crunch singularities. These results bear out the remarkable intuition that John Wheeler had. Discussion is organized at two levels. The the main text provides a bird's eye view of the subject that should be accessible to non-experts. Appendices address conceptual and technical issues that are often raised by experts in loop quantum gravity and string theory.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of the Bad Honef Workshop entitled \emph{Quantum Gravity: Challenges and Perspectives}, dedicated to the memory of John A. Wheeler
title: Digital interactive experience- and game-based fall interventions for community-dwelling healthy older adults : a cross-disciplinary systematic review
Creators: name: Ciemer, Celina
name: Kröper, Lisa
name: Klotzbier, Thomas J.
name: Ghellal, Sabiha
name: Schott, Nadja
Publisher: name: Universität Stuttgart
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Introduction: Falls pose significant health risks to older adults, impacting their quality of life. Preventive strategies are crucial, as research shows that fall prevention interventions can effectively reduce fall risks. However, these interventions often suffer from low adherence and uptake. Digital, interactive interventions, incorporating experience-, and game-related aspects, offer a promising solution, making this topic inherently cross-disciplinary. Objective: This review aims to assess the current landscape of digital interactive experience and game-based fall interventions for community-dwelling, healthy older adults. It focuses on integrating Human Movement Science and User Experience & Game Design perspectives, emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of this research.
Methods: We employed a cross-disciplinary literature search framework, searching the databases ACM-DL, IEEE-Xplore, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. The review focused on healthy community-dwelling older adults (50+), including those at risk of falling. Excluded were studies involving chronic diseases, non-age-related impairments, other age groups, or individuals receiving care. Only digital, interactive fall prevention interventions without commercial software were considered. Studies published between 2000–2024 were included. A qualitative thematic synthesis was conducted, focusing on four categories: Objectives (O), Design and Development (D), Types of Intervention (T), and Evaluation Methods (E).
Results: The search yielded 2,747 results, with 59 articles included in the final synthesis. Objectives were mainly driven by a combination of HMS and UXG rather than a single aspect. In Design and Development it was observed that concept-based design was scarce, with most being procedure-based. Descriptions of interventions frequently lacked specificity, particularly in-depth experience-related terminology and exercise descriptions. Evaluation methods were found to be more frequently informed by both HMS and UXG, although only four studies used a mixed-method approach to explore their interplay. Among included articles, most aspects incorporated both HMS and UXG across all four categories: O( n = 37), D( n = 37), T( n = 54), and E( n = 21).
Conclusion: The review underscores the importance of digital interactive experience- and game-based fall prevention interventions. It highlights the need for enhanced cross-disciplinary collaboration between HMS and UXG to address gaps, such as the lack of a shared thesaurus and standardized guidelines, which are vital for improving transparency, reproducibility, and the refinement of these interventions.
The Imprecise Draftsmanship of the Lautenberg Amendment and the Resulting Problems for the Judiciary
Creators: name: Schneider, Melanie C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: In 1996, Congress passed the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban (“Lautenberg Amendment”), a controversial amendment to the Gun Control Act that makes it unlawful for individuals previously convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense to possess a firearm. Legislative history shows that Congress intended to address state criminal laws that prosecute domestic violence as only a misdemeanor, which allows offenders to continue to possess firearms. Statutory interpretation is the only remaining avenue to challenge the Lautenberg Amendment and the courts’ improper interpretation of its meaning. In the rush of the legislative process, Congress hastily enacted Senator Lautenberg’s amendment, and this sheds light on the resulting problems for the judiciary, which is forced to interpret unclear statutory language. Congress has not corrected the Lautenberg Amendment, enacted over a decade ago. Further, numerous constitutional challenges to the Lautenberg Amendment have already failed.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2008)
Bayesian testing of many hypotheses $\times$ many genes: A study of sleep apnea
Creators: name: Jensen, Shane T.
name: Erkan, Ibrahim
name: Arnardottir, Erna S.
name: Small, Dylan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Substantial statistical research has recently been devoted to the analysis of large-scale microarray experiments which provide a measure of the simultaneous expression of thousands of genes in a particular condition. A typical goal is the comparison of gene expression between two conditions (e.g., diseased vs. nondiseased) to detect genes which show differential expression. Classical hypothesis testing procedures have been applied to this problem and more recent work has employed sophisticated models that allow for the sharing of information across genes. However, many recent gene expression studies have an experimental design with several conditions that requires an even more involved hypothesis testing approach. In this paper, we use a hierarchical Bayesian model to address the situation where there are many hypotheses that must be simultaneously tested for each gene. In addition to having many hypotheses within each gene, our analysis also addresses the more typical multiple comparison issue of testing many genes simultaneously. We illustrate our approach with an application to a study of genes involved in obstructive sleep apnea in humans.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS241 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Aspidura trachyprocta Cope.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Aspidura
Aspidura trachyprocta

description: * Aspidura trachyprocta Cope.
Nuwera Ellia v. d Hh. Dr. Sarasin. [2]
Zwei erwachsene ♀, beide mit ganz glatten Afterseitenschuppen, das eine mit nahezu einfarbig brauner Ober- und stark geﬂeckter Unterseite, das andere mit schwarzen Streifen und Punkten oben und nahezu ungeﬂeckt unten.
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 678, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
When the theoretical confronted the practical : Zapatista territorial autonomy as opposition to the cooperation of state and capitalism
Creators: name: Herlich Garber, Elijah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: On January 1st, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared war on the Mexican government in an act of militant opposition to a long history of land dispossession, privatization, and exploitation carried out through the collaboration of the state and private interests in Eastern Chiapas that culminated in the reforms to Article 27 and the implementation of NAFTA. Following the initial uprising on January 1st, and with greater urgency in the following years, the Zapatistas declared their autonomy, which entailed independence from the Mexican government both territorially and organizationally as a way for the creating and practicing ways of living that would otherwise be impeded by the state and capitalism. In this thesis, I argue that through its essential connection to territorial autonomy, the Zapatista political philosophy of power to be provides a significant counter to the Lockean understanding of how land, freedom, and power are connected, which takes private property and its protection by the state as an essential component to creating freedom through territory. Additionally, I argue that despite substantial similarities between the Zapatista movement and prominent European and Mexican notions of Anarchism, there are notable tensions that emerge from theoretical differences on the nature of human-land relations but also from the tendency of some anarchists to dismiss the Zapatista movement or attempt to subsume it under the label of Anarchism without appreciating its distinctiveness and the political potential that its distinctiveness holds. I thus argue that if we turn to Richard J.F. Day’s anarchistic logic of affinity, solidarity between non-state, anti-capitalist movements becomes more feasible, since the revolutionary subject within that logic links with similar struggles or movements, yet is also never totalized. I conclude my discussion of Anarchism and the Zapatistas by arguing that this anarchistic logic of affinity can be found in the work of Glen Coulthard on self-affirming praxis and of Taiaiake Alfred on Anarcho-Indigenism, both of which embrace the possibilities for movement building that allows for affinity without subsumption.
Do No Harm: An Analysis of the Legal and Social Consequences of Child Visitation Determinations for Incarcerated Perpetrators of Extreme Acts of Violence Against Women
Creators: name: Conner, Dana Harrington
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: The right of an individual in the “care, custody, and management of his or her children is one of the interests that “form the core of our definition of ‘liberty.” The Supreme Court of the United States has held consistently that the liberty interest guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes an individual’s right to raise his or her children. Directly connected to this liberty interest in rearing one’s children is a parent’s freedom from government interference. Legal scholars and students of the law have expanded upon this reasoning to argue in support of incarcerated parents’ interest in a continuing relationship with their children-specifically, an entitlement to prison visitation. Unlike the recognized parental liberty right in rearing one’s child, a parent’s right to visitation remains the subject of open debate. Courts have found that imprisonment alone is an insufficient basis upon which to deny a parent continued contact with his or her child. At the same time, courts also suggest that incarceration does not create an automatic right to visitation. While research suggests prison visitation can benefit parent-child bonding, which is essential to the healthy development of children, it also indicates that the nature of the parent-child bond is a significant factor to be considered in determining visitation rights.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2008)
“The Toughest Job”: Adkins v. Rumsfeld, Gender, Incentives, and the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act
Creators: name: Decker, Brian R.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Not much is written about Jessica Miller. She was a student of psychology, was born in 1982 or early 1983, and spent at least part of her childhood in Pike County, Kentucky. The last part is assumed because she is said to have married her “childhood sweetheart” and Pike County is the childhood home of her ex-husband, James Blake Miller (Blake). Blake has been the subject of much more publicity: a 2004 Los Angeles Times photograph captured a close-up of him: a Marine weary in the midst of the battle for Fallujah, Iraq. In the picture, a battered combat helmet frames a face caked with dirt and blood, Blake’s eyes are locked in the classic soldier’s thousand-yard stare, and a cigarette dangles from his lower lip. When the photo made the pages of a hundred U.S. newspapers and the cover of Time Magazine, Blake became an icon nicknamed “the Marlboro Man.” After he returned from his tour, Jessica helped diagnose him with post-traumatic stress disorder-which is the only reason the public knows she studied psychology.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2008)
The parastatistics of braided Majorana fermions
Creators: name: Toppan, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the parastatistics of braided Majorana fermions obtained in the framework of a graded Hopf algebra endowed with a braided tensor product. The braiding property is encoded in a $t$-dependent $4\times 4$ braiding matrix $B_t$ related to the Alexander-Conway polynomial. The nonvanishing complex parameter t defines the braided parastatistics. At $t = 1$ ordinary fermions are recovered. The values of $t$ at roots of unity are organized into levels which specify the maximal number of braided Majorana fermions in a multiparticle sector. Generic values of $t$ and the $t =-1$ root of unity mimick the behaviour of ordinary bosons.
description: 7 pages; contribution to the proceedings of the 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Strasbourg, 18-22 July 2022
Flirting with the PDA: Congress Must Give Birth to Accommodation Rights that Protect Pregnant Working Women
Creators: name: De La Piedra, Daniela M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Amanda Reeves began working for Swift Transportation Company, Inc. (Swift) as a truck driver on August 9, 2002. When she applied for the job, the employer advised her that the position required occasional physical activity, such as bending, twisting, climbing, squatting, crouching, and balancing, and that she would be required to push and pull contents weighing up to 200 pounds. Reeves was physically able to meet the demands of the position when she was hired, and the employer recognized that she was qualified for the job . On November 2, 2002, Reeves learned that she was pregnant, and her doctors determined that she was able to continue working, but restricted her to light work. The employer responded by informing her that there were no available light duty positions and sent her home. Reeves continued to ask for light duty work, but the employer insisted that there was nothing available. After two weeks of daily inquiries for light duty work, her employment was terminated on November 14, 2002. On January 7, 2003, Reeves filed a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging violations of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). During the lawsuit, Swift maintained that only employees injured on the job received light duty work, and since Reeves was not alleging a job-related injury, light duty work in the form of administrative duties, such as filing and answering phones, could not be made available to her. Without a hearing, the circuit court affirmed the district court’s decision that Swift’s light duty policy did not amount to pregnancy discrimination and that Reeves did not prove pretext or intent to discriminate. In fact, the court noted that Reeves’s complaint asked the court to grant her preferential treatment, rather than equal treatment, which conflicts with the requirements of the PDA.”
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2008)
VVIQ
Creators: name: Marks, David Francis
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 1973

description: The original version of the VVIQ was published in 1973. The questionnaire was a necessary step in the demonstration that individual differences in reported mental imagery vividness functioned to moderate recall.Thus people reporting vivid imagery ere found able to recall information presented in pictures with greater accuracy than people reporting imagery that was vague and dim. This finding has been supported in multiple studies showing objective differences in cognition, affect, motor skill and behaviour associated with VVIQ or VMIQ scores.
Strangeness Electromagnetic Production on Nucleons and Nuclei
Creators: name: Bydzovsky, Petr
name: Sotona, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isobar models for the electromagnetic production of kaons are discussed with emphasis on the K^+ photoproduction at very small kaon angles and K^0 photoproduction on deuteron. Distorted-wave impuls approximation calculations of the cross sections for the electroproduction of hypernuclei are presented on the case of the ^{12}B_Λproduction.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, talk presented at the 10th Int. Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics, Tokai, Japan, Sept. 14 - 18, 2009
title: Conscent PE mating disruption system is an effective alternative to methyl bromide for the control of stored product moths
Creators: name: Hassan, M. N.
name: Al-Zaidi, S.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: consent PE
subject: mating disruption
subject: pheromone
subject: Plodia interpunctella
subject: Ephestia kuehniella
subject: Ephestia cautella
subject: Ephestia elutella

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 425; 118
Race, Culture, and Adoption: Lessons from Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield
Creators: name: Maldonado, Solangel
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Jennie Bell, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a federally recognized tribe, was facing some difficult decisions. She was twenty-four years old, a single mother of two, and she was pregnant with twins by a man who was married to another woman and had two children of his own. Unemployed and not able to raise the twins herself, she turned to her family and other Choctaws on the reservation where she resided. Although her aunt offered to adopt one of the twins (the girl), no one was able or willing to take both children. Reluctant to separate the twins, Jennie, now seven months pregnant, continued her search for an adoptive family. Orrey Curtiss Holyfield, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Vivian Joan (“Joan”), had been trying to adopt for some time but had been repeatedly rejected by licensed adoption agencies because of their advanced age and Orrey’s poor health. At their attorney’s suggestion, they decided to pursue an independent adoption-one in which the birth parents place the child directly with the adoptive family with the help of an attorney, doctor, or clergy official rather than through a licensed agency. The Holyfields put the word out, and on Joan’s forty-fifth birthday, a member of their church and teacher on the Choctaw reservation called to ask if they were interested in adopting Choctaw twins. They immediately said yes. This Article uses the Supreme Court’s seminal opinion in Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, best known for its affirmance of tribal sovereignty over adoptive placements of tribal children, to explore questions of racial and cultural identity and the meaning and role of race in adoptions. The Article proceeds in three parts. Part I focuses on the story behind the Supreme Court’s decision as recounted by Joan Holyfield and the attorneys who represented the Holyfields, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (the Tribe), and the children. Specifically, Part I explores how Jennie’s decision to place her children with the Holyfields, a non-tribal, Caucasian family, led to a four-year litigation involving the Mississippi state courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Choctaw Tribal Court. It analyzes the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Indian Child Welfare Act and its determination that tribal interests can trump individual tribal parents’ interests in selecting an adoptive family for their children. This Part also examines the Choctaw Tribal Court’s attempt to balance children’s best interests against tribal interests.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2008)
Performance of externally validated machine learning models based on histopathology images for the diagnosis, classification, prognosis, or treatment outcome prediction in female breast cancer: A systematic review
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Ricardo
name: Nejat, Peyman
name: Saha, Ashirbani
name: Campbell, Clinton J. V.
name: Norgan, Andrew P.
name: Lokker, Cynthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Numerous machine learning (ML) models have been developed for breast cancer using various types of data. Successful external validation (EV) of ML models is important evidence of their generalizability. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the performance of externally validated ML models based on histopathology images for diagnosis, classification, prognosis, or treatment outcome prediction in female breast cancer. A systematic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, IEEE, MICCAI, and SPIE conferences was performed for studies published between January 2010 and February 2022. The Prediction Model Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (PROBAST) was employed, and the results were narratively described. Of the 2011 non-duplicated citations, 8 journal articles and 2 conference proceedings met inclusion criteria. Three studies externally validated ML models for diagnosis, 4 for classification, 2 for prognosis, and 1 for both classification and prognosis. Most studies used Convolutional Neural Networks and one used logistic regression algorithms. For diagnostic/classification models, the most common performance metrics reported in the EV were accuracy and area under the curve, which were greater than 87% and 90%, respectively, using pathologists' annotations as ground truth. The hazard ratios in the EV of prognostic ML models were between 1.7 (95% CI, 1.2-2.6) and 1.8 (95% CI, 1.3-2.7) to predict distant disease-free survival; 1.91 (95% CI, 1.11-3.29) for recurrence, and between 0.09 (95% CI, 0.01-0.70) and 0.65 (95% CI, 0.43-0.98) for overall survival, using clinical data as ground truth. Despite EV being an important step before the clinical application of a ML model, it hasn't been performed routinely. The large variability in the training/validation datasets, methods, performance metrics, and reported information limited the comparison of the models and the analysis of their results (...)
(Mis)Appropriated Liberty: Identity, Gender Justice, and Muslim Personal Law Reform in India
Creators: name: Choudhury, Cyra Akila
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2008

description: Muslim women in India often find themselves caught between loyalties to their religious or ethnic communities and a desire for greater freedom and equality as women within those communities. They face significant constraints in reconciling these conflicting influences, and a great many of them do it in the context of poverty. As Zoya Hasan notes, “Muslim women are triply disadvantaged-as members of a minority, as women, and most of all as poor women.” On one hand, traditionalists within Muslim communities in India seek to universalize and ossify interpretations and practices of Islam that maintain women’s status as second-class members with far fewer rights than men. Resistance to conservative interpretations of Islam is cast as disloyalty and can call into question the very identity of a Muslim woman within her community. On the other hand, loyalty to religious interpretations and to principles that are clearly gender-biased calls into question Muslim women’s commitment to emancipation and gender justice. These experiences are exacerbated for women who are economically impoverished.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2008)