cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the robustness of bucket brigade quantum RAM
Creators: name: Arunachalam, Srinivasan
name: Gheorghiu, Vlad
name: Jochym-O'Connor, Tomas
name: Mosca, Michele
name: Srinivasan, Priyaa Varshinee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the robustness of the bucket brigade quantum random access memory model introduced by Giovannetti, Lloyd, and Maccone [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160501 (2008)]. Due to a result of Regev and Schiff [ICALP '08 pp. 773], we show that for a class of error models the error rate per gate in the bucket brigade quantum memory has to be of order $o(2^{-n/2})$ (where $N=2^n$ is the size of the memory) whenever the memory is used as an oracle for the quantum searching problem. We conjecture that this is the case for any realistic error model that will be encountered in practice, and that for algorithms with super-polynomially many oracle queries the error rate must be super-polynomially small, which further motivates the need for quantum error correction. By contrast, for algorithms such as matrix inversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502 (2009)] or quantum machine learning [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130503 (2014)] that only require a polynomial number of queries, the error rate only needs to be polynomially small and quantum error correction may not be required. We introduce a circuit model for the quantum bucket brigade architecture and argue that quantum error correction for the circuit causes the quantum bucket brigade architecture to lose its primary advantage of a small number of "active" gates, since all components have to be actively error corrected.
description: Replaced with the published version. 13 pages, 9 figures
Online repository: Mikkelsen, L et al., Comparative performance of national civil registration and vital statistics systems, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Creators: name: Mikkelsen, Lene
name: Hooper, Jess
name: ADAIR, TIMOTHY
name: Badr, Azza
name: Lopez, Alan
Publisher: name: University of Melbourne
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420308
subject: Health informatics and information systems
classificationCode: 420207
subject: Major global burdens of disease

description: Online repository for article Mikkelsen, L., Hooper, J., Adair, T., Badr, A., Lopez, A.D., Comparative performance of national civil registration and vital statistics systems: a global assessment. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Exposure Assessment Techniques Applied to the Highly Censored Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill Personal Measurements
Creators: name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Ramachandran, G.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The GuLF Long-term Follow-up Study (GuLF STUDY) is investigating potential adverse health effects of workers involved in the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill response and cleanup (OSRC). Over 93% of the 160 000 personal air measurements taken on OSRC workers were below the limit of detection (LOD), as reported by the analytic labs. At this high level of censoring, our ability to develop exposure estimates was limited. The primary objective here was to reduce the number of measurements below the labs' reported LODs to reflect the analytic methods' true LODs, thereby facilitating the use of a relatively unbiased and precise Bayesian method to develop exposure estimates for study exposure groups (EGs). The estimates informed a job-exposure matrix to characterize exposure of study participants. A second objective was to develop descriptive statistics for relevant EGs that did not meet the Bayesian criteria of sample size ≥5 and censoring ≤80% to achieve the aforementioned level of bias and precision. One of the analytic labs recalculated the measurements using the analytic method's LOD; the second lab provided raw analytical data, allowing us to recalculate the data values that fell between the originally reported LOD and the analytical method's LOD. We developed rules for developing Bayesian estimates for EGs with >80% censoring. The remaining EGs were 100% censored. An order-based statistical method (OBSM) was developed to estimate exposures that considered the number of measurements, geometric standard deviation, and average LOD of the censored samples for N ≥ 20. For N < 20, substitution of ½ of the LOD was assigned. Recalculation of the measurements lowered overall censoring from 93.2 to 60.5% and of the THC measurements, from 83.1 to 11.2%. A total of 71% of the EGs met the ≤15% relative bias and <65% imprecision goal. Another 15% had censoring >80% but enough non-censored measurements to apply Bayesian methods. We used the OBSM for 3% of the estimates and the simple substitution method for 11%. The methods presented here substantially reduced the degree of censoring in the dataset and increased the number of EGs meeting our Bayesian method's desired performance goal. The OBSM allowed for a systematic and consistent approach impacting only the lowest of the exposure estimates. This approach should be considered when dealing with highly censored datasets.
Ising-nematic order in the bilinear-biquadratic model for the iron pnictides
Creators: name: Ergueta, Patricia Bilbao
name: Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements in the iron pnictides which show a strong anisotropy of spin excitations in directions perpendicular and parallel to the ordering wave-vector even above the magnetic transition temperature $T_N$, we study the frustrated Heisenberg model with a biquadratic spin-spin exchange interaction. Using the Dyson-Maleev (DM) representation, which proves appropriate for all temperature regimes, we find that the spin-spin dynamical structure factors are in excellent agreement with experiment, exhibiting breaking of the $C_4$ symmetry even into the paramagnetic region $T_N
Additional file 5 of Decoding key cell sub-populations and molecular alterations in glioblastoma at recurrence by single-cell analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Sun, Qian
name: Wang, Weiwen
name: Liu, Baohui
name: Gu, Ying
name: Chen, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Fig. S5. Comparative analysis portrays the variation of non-tumor cells across longitudinal GBM samples. A–E Bar plots depicting the enriched GO terms of upregulated genes in oligodendrocyte (A), neuron (B), astrocyte (C), myeloid (D), and T cell (E) from recurrent samples compared with primary samples. F Spatial transcriptomic images showing the expression scores of two myeloid DEG signatures (the first DEG signature is from the comparison of myeloid in MES subtype to those from other subtypes, the second is from the comparison of myeloid in MES subtype to those from normal brain tissue).
Estimation of Airborne Vapor Concentrations of Oil Dispersants COREXIT™ EC9527A and EC9500A, Volatile Components Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response and Clean-up Operations
Creators: name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Arnold, S.F.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Engel, L.S.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) drilling unit explosion above the Macondo oil well on 20 April 2010 caused the release of approximately 4.9 million barrels (779 million L) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As part of a larger spill response and clean-up effort, approximately 1.84 million gallons (6.81 million L) of chemical dispersants COREXIT™ EC9500A and COREXIT™ EC9527A were applied to the resultant oil slicks through spraying on the water surface by plane and by vessel and through injection at the release source near the seabed. The GuLF STUDY is investigating the health effects of workers involved in the oil spill response and clean-up after the DWH explosion, and estimates of possible exposure to chemical dispersants were needed. Exposures were estimated to the volatile components of COREXIT™ EC9500A [petroleum distillates, hydrotreated light, and propylene glycol (PG)] and of COREXIT™ EC9527A [2-butoxyethanol (2-BE) and PG] using two of AIHA IHMOD2.0© mathematical modeling tools along with the dispersants' chemical and physical properties. Monte Carlo simulations were used to reflect uncertainty in input parameters with both the two-box, constant emission model and the near and mid field plume model for indoor and outdoor activities, respectively. Possible exposure scenarios considered various evaporation rates, sizes of the dispersant pool, wind speeds, and ventilation rates. For the two-box model, mean near field exposure estimates to 2-BE ranged from 0.9 to 5.7 ppm, while mean far field estimated exposures ranged from 0.3 to 3.5 ppm. Estimates of mean near field plume model exposures ranged from 0.01 to 3.7 ppm at 2.5 ft from the source, and <0.01 to 0.3 ppm at 10 ft from the source. Estimated exposures to PG were approximately 10% of the calculated 2-BE exposures and exposures to petroleum distillates about 40% higher than the 2-BE estimates. Results indicate that compared with current occupational exposure guidelines, overexposure to petroleum distillates and PG probably did not occur in our study, but under some conditions, for short periods, exposure to 2-BE may have exceeded the limits for peak exposures. These estimates were developed for use in job-exposure matrices to estimate exposures of workers having contact with dispersant vapors for the GuLF STUDY.
The Galactic Dynamo and Superbubbles
Creators: name: Kulsrud, Russell M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous galactic dynamo theories of the origin of the magnetic field in our galaxy, the subject of flux-freezing has been omitted. As a consequence, the equation of mass flow has generally also been omitted, particularly in the halo where the galactic gravitational field will operate on the mass flow. In this paper it has been shown that this neglect could have serious consequences for the results obtained from those galactic dynamo simulations that include the halo. A modification of these dynamo theories is proposed which involves the expulsion of very small bits of the magnetic field lines, rather than the wholesale expulsion of the complete magnetic lines encapsulated in the previous theories. This expulsion is accomplished by a spike instability that arises from superbubbles, when they break out of the galactic disc and their shell fragment. This leads to a {\it cut } in the lines of force that still remain in the disc. Subsequently, normal disc turbulence rotates the {\it cut} lines and thus dissipates their mean flux removing them from a role in the dynamo theory. This new process takes a length of time comparable, but a little longer than the previous growth time of the disc dynamo, but avoids the previous difficulties associated with flux-freezing and flux expulsion.
description: 30 pages 3 figures (JPP in Press)
The lost bodies in sports, Taiwan: the history of sports for individuals with physical disabilities between 1945 and 2007
Creators: name: Huang, Cheng-Hao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: This thesis presents a history of sports for individuals with physical disabilities in Taiwan between 1945 and 2007. A Foucauldian lens is adopted. Primary data was collected from personal archives of key informants who had lived experience with the developments during this period and with whom interviews were also conducted.  Materials were organised using Foucauldian genealogy and analysis was conducting using the lens of biopower to investigate how the bodies of people with physical disabilities were organised in relation to power in the rehabilitation and sporting context. The research portrays how, between 1945 and 1971, the epidemics of poliomyelitis left a large number of children in Taiwan paralysed, and most of them were segregated in institutions. These children became a social problem, and in these institutions, rehabilitation was regarded as physical education and thus became the hallmark of the special education at this time. Development in sports for the disabled occurred between 1972 to 1992, as the authorities began to pay attention to sports for these individuals and it was employed as a tool to encourage them to contribute to the greater national good. Between 1993 and 2007, the status of individuals with physical disabilities entered a liminal state in which they were neither fully included nor excluded in the sports for the disabled in Taiwan. The thesis concludes by highlighting how the Taiwanese State’s approach to individuals with physical disabilities targeted them as a social problem that needed to be managed, and sports were employed as techniques to fulfil this goal. The disabled body then becomes a pawn in the State’s power game which transformed over time, and it was made docile through the techniques of normalisation that are central to engagement with rehabilitation, physical education and sport.
Additional file 1 of Three-year weight change and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality among Iranian adults: over a decade of follow-up in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Creators: name: Deravi, Niloofar
name: Moazzeni, Seyyed Saeed
name: Hasheminia, Mitra
name: Hizomi Arani, Reyhane
name: Azizi, Fereidoun
name: Hadaegh, Farzad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics of the respondents and non-respondents: the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, Iran, 1999-2018.
Interventions Aimed at Decreasing Obesity in Children Younger Than 2 Years: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Yin, H. Shonna
name: Rothman, Russell L.
name: Barkin, Shari L.
name: Sanders, Lee M.
name: Perrin, Eliana M.
name: Ciampa, Philip J.
name: Kumar, Disha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To assess the evidence for interventions designed to prevent or reduce overweight and obesity in children younger than 2 years.
A central limit theorem for products of random matrices and GOE statistics for the Anderson model on long boxes
Creators: name: Sadel, Christian
name: Virág, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider products of random matrices that are small, independent identically distributed perturbations of a fixed matrix $T_0$. Focusing on the eigenvalues of $T_0$ of a particular size we obtain a limit to a SDE in a critical scaling. Previous results required $T_0$ to be a (conjugated) unitary matrix so it could not have eigenvalues of different modulus. From the result we can also obtain a limit SDE for the Markov process given by the action of the random products on the flag manifold. Applying the result to random Schrödinger operators we can improve some result by Valko and Virag showing GOE statistics for the rescaled eigenvalue process of a sequence of Anderson models on long boxes. In particular we solve a problem posed in their work.
description: new version, parts rearranged
Assessing Exposures from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response and Clean-up
Creators: name: Engel, L.S.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Arnold, S.F.
name: Christenbury, K.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Pratt, G.C.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Ng, M.G.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Cherrie, J.W.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Blair, A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The GuLF Study is investigating adverse health effects from work on the response and clean-up after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil release. An essential and necessary component of that study was the exposure assessment. Bayesian statistical methods and over 135 000 measurements of total hydrocarbons (THC), benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene, and n-hexane (BTEX-H) were used to estimate inhalation exposures to these chemicals for >3400 exposure groups (EGs) formed from three exposure determinants: job/activity/task, location, and time period. Recognized deterministic models were used to estimate airborne exposures to particulate matter sized 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5) and dispersant aerosols and vapors. Dermal exposures were estimated for these same oil-related substances using a model modified especially for this study from a previously published model. Exposures to oil mist were assessed using professional judgment. Estimated daily THC arithmetic means (AMs) were in the low ppm range (<25 ppm), whereas BTEX-H exposures estimates were generally <1000 ppb. Potential 1-h PM2.5 air concentrations experienced by some workers may have been as high as 550 μg m-3. Dispersant aerosol air concentrations were very low (maximum predicted 1-h concentrations were generally <50 μg m-3), but vapor concentrations may have exceeded occupational exposure excursion guidelines for 2-butoxyethanol under certain circumstances. The daily AMs of dermal exposure estimates showed large contrasts among the study participants. The estimates are being used to evaluate exposure-response relationships in the GuLF Study.
Additional file 2 of Three-year weight change and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality among Iranian adults: over a decade of follow-up in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Creators: name: Deravi, Niloofar
name: Moazzeni, Seyyed Saeed
name: Hasheminia, Mitra
name: Hizomi Arani, Reyhane
name: Azizi, Fereidoun
name: Hadaegh, Farzad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multivariable hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of association between weight change categories and all-cause mortality among those without cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer at baseline or first follow-up: the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, Iran, 1999-2018.
On Fourier coefficients of certain residual representations of symplectic groups
Creators: name: Jiang, Dihua
name: Liu, Baiying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the theory of automorphic descents developed by Ginzburg, Rallis and Soudry in [GRS11], the structure of Fourier coefficients of the residual representations of certain special Eisenstein series plays important roles. Started from [JLZ13], the authors are looking for more general residual representations, which may yield more general theory of automorphic descents. In this paper, we investigate the structure of Fourier coefficients of certain residual representations of symplectic groups, corresponding to certain interesting families of global Arthur parameters. On one hand, the results partially confirm a conjecture proposed by the first named author in [J14] on relations between the global Arthur parameters and the structure of Fourier coefficients of the automorphic representations in the corresponding global Arthur packets. On the other hand, the results of this paper can be regarded as a first step towards more general automorphic descents for symplectic groups, which will be considered in our future work.
description: 44 pages. Final version. To appear in Pacific J. of Math
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Parental Asthma Coaching to Improve Outcomes Among Urban Minority Children
Creators: name: Fisher, Edwin B.
name: Garbutt, Jane
name: Trinkaus, Kathryn
name: Nelson, Kyle A.
name: Highstein, Gabriele R.
name: Strunk, Robert C.
name: Smith, Sharon R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Investigate if asthma coaching reduces emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations and increases outpatient asthma monitoring (AM) visits.
Exposure Group Development in Support of the NIEHS GuLF Study
Creators: name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Blair, A.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Stewart, P.A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: In the GuLF Study, a study investigating possible adverse health effects associated with work on the oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we used a job-exposure matrix (JEM) approach to estimate exposures. The JEM linked interview responses of study participants to measurement data through exposure groups (EGs). Here we describe a systematic process used to develop transparent and precise EGs that allowed characterization of exposure levels among the large number of OSRC activities performed across the Gulf of Mexico over time and space. EGs were identified by exposure determinants available to us in our measurement database, from a substantial body of other spill-related information, and from responses provided by study participants in a detailed interview. These determinants included: job/activity/task, vessel and type of vessel, weathering of the released oil, area of the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf coast state, and time period. Over 3000 EGs were developed for inhalation exposure and applied to each of 6 JEMs of oil-related substances (total hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, total xylene, and n-hexane). Subsets of those EGs were used for characterization of exposures to dispersants, particulate matter, and oil mist. The EGs allowed assignment to study participants of exposure estimates developed from measurement data or from estimation models through linkage in the JEM for the investigation of exposure-response relationships.
Characterization of metric spaces whose free space is isometric to $\ell_1$
Creators: name: Dalet, Aude
name: Kaufmann, Pedro L.
name: Procházka, Antonín
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B04, 46B20

description: We characterize metric spaces whose Lipschitz free space is isometric to $\ell_1$. In particular, the Lipschitz free space over an ultrametric space is not isometric to $\ell_1(Γ)$ for any set $Γ$. We give a lower bound for the Banach-Mazur distance in the finite case.
Cost-effectiveness of Preventive Oral Health Care in Medical Offices for Young Medicaid Enrollees
Creators: name: Kranz, Ashley M.
name: Stearns, Sally C.
name: Quiñonez, Rocio B.
name: Rozier, R. Gary
name: Pahel, Bhavna T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Dental caries is the most common preventable chronic disease among preschool children. The pediatric primary care setting provides an alternative site to deliver preventive oral health. This study estimates the cost-effectiveness of a medical office-based preventive oral health program in North Carolina (“Into the Mouths of Babes,” IMB).
iMERMAID: SMART SYSTEM TO SAFEGUARD THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Creators: name: Permann-Doubkova, Marcela
name: Armengaud, Eric
name: Uroševič, Vladimir
name: Pontie, Maxime
name: Christoforou, Eleni
name: Hadjioannou, Louis
name: Flourentzou, Nicolas
name: Barletta, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Smart monitoring and remediation systems are being developed within the HORIZON EUROPE project IMERMAID (Project number: 101112824) to address the high risk of environmental chemical contamination in coastal areas. Of special concern is the safeguardance of the Mediterranean Sea basin from contaminants of emerging concerns (CoECs)

 In particular, iMERMAID builds and demonstrates next-generation monitoring technologies, including very sensitive target analysis using electrochemical sensor that include a) electrochemical sensors to monitor organic micropollutants such as pesticides or pharmaceuticals (University of Angers – UA, France) b) sensors to monitor heavy metals based on the stripping voltammetry technique (University of Florence, UNIFI, Italy) as well as c) sensor to monitor oil compounds based on membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) (Biosense Institute – BIOS, Serbia). Electrochemical sensors (ECS) enhance analytical performance by eliminating slow preparation and expensive reagents, providing affordable, portable, and easy-to-use tools at a low cost.

 Remediation technologies demonstrate another aspect of the IMERMAID project but are not the focus of this poster. These include a) microfluidic water treatment system based on the principles of photocatalysis to treat micropollutants (EDEN, France) b) selective recovery system for recovery of dissolved heavy metals (4D Scavanger from Weeefiner, Finland) c) Pulsed Discharged Plasma (PDP) capable of breaking down toxic organic compounds (IRIS, Italy) and finally d) technology to convert reclaimed Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes to Nano-Filtration (NF) membranes used for water treatment (ENIG, Tunisia).

 Last but not least the project also develops a technological platform and integrates chemical pollutant sensing framework in line with existing methodologies under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and under the WFD, based on sensors and intelligent water monitoring models for water bodies at different scales using open satellite data. 

 The iMERMAID technologies target to develop standardised systems for Marine observation and open data, with knowledge sharing capabilities for the public. The developed solutions will be made available to stakeholders through a public dashboard with user-friendly  guidelines,  computer  tools,  and recommendations.
Letting Children Sip: Understanding Why Parents Allow Alcohol Use by Elementary School–aged Children
Creators: name: Bowling, J. Michael
name: Jackson, Christine
name: Dickinson, Denise M.
name: Ennett, Susan T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Early onset alcohol use is a risk factor for problem drinking during adolescence. This study investigated pro-sipping beliefs among parents and the relations between these beliefs, parents’ alcohol-specific attitude and practices, and children’s reports of alcohol use initiation.
Additional file 3 of Three-year weight change and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality among Iranian adults: over a decade of follow-up in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Creators: name: Deravi, Niloofar
name: Moazzeni, Seyyed Saeed
name: Hasheminia, Mitra
name: Hizomi Arani, Reyhane
name: Azizi, Fereidoun
name: Hadaegh, Farzad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Multivariable hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of association between weight change categories and cardiovascular (CV) mortality among those without history of CVD at baseline. Model 1: adjusted for age and sex; Model 2: further adjusted for Body mass index, educational level, Smoking status, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and history of CVD at baseline.
No-faster-than-light-signaling implies linear evolutions. A re-derivation
Creators: name: Bassi, Angelo
name: Hejazi, Kasra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a growing interest, both from the theoretical as well as experimental side, to test the validity of the quantum superposition principle, and of theories which explicitly violate it by adding nonlinear terms to the Schrödinger equation. We review the original argument elaborated by Gisin (1989 Helv. Phys. Acta 62 363), which shows that the non-superluminal-signaling condition implies that the dynamics of the density matrix must be linear. This places very strong constraints on the permissible modifications of the Schrödinger equation, since they have to give rise, at the statistical level, to a linear evolution for the density matrix. The derivation is done in a heuristic way here and is appropriate for the students familiar with the textbook quantum mechanics and the language of density matrices.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Goldstone Gauginos
Creators: name: Alves, Daniele S. M.
name: Galloway, Jamison
name: McCullough, Matthew
name: Weiner, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of supersymmetry with Dirac gauginos provide an attractive scenario for physics beyond the standard model. The "supersoft" radiative corrections and suppressed SUSY production at colliders provide for more natural theories and an understanding of why no new states have been seen. Unfortunately, these models are handicapped by a tachyon which is naturally present in existing models of Dirac gauginos. We argue that this tachyon is absent, with the phenomenological successes of the model preserved, if the right handed gaugino is a (pseudo-)Goldstone field of a spontaneously broken anomalous flavor symmetry.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor changes to text, references added and updated
Estimates of Inhalation Exposures to Oil-Related Components on the Supporting Vessels During the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Creators: name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Blair, A.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Huynh, T.B.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) involved over 9000 large and small vessels deployed in waters of the Gulf of Mexico across four states (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi). For the GuLF STUDY, we developed exposure estimates of oil-related components for many work groups to capture a wide range of OSRC operations on these vessels, such as supporting the four rig vessels charged with stopping the spill at the wellhead; skimming oil; in situ burning of oil; absorbing and containing oil by boom; and environmental monitoring. Work groups were developed by: (i) vessel activity; (ii) location (area of the Gulf or state); and (iii) time period. Using Bayesian methods, we computed exposure estimates for these groups for: total hydrocarbons measured as total petroleum hydrocarbons (THC), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and n-hexane (BTEX-H). Estimates of the arithmetic means for THC ranged from 0.10 ppm [95% credible interval (CI) 0.04, 0.38 ppm] in time periods 2 and 3 (16 July-30 September 2010) to 15.06 ppm (95% CI 10.74, 22.41 ppm) in time period 1a (22 April-15 May 2010). BTEX-H estimates were substantially lower (in the parts per billion range). Exposure levels generally fell over time and differed statistically by activity, location, and time for some groups. These exposure estimates have been used to develop job-exposure matrices for the GuLF STUDY.
Additional file 1 of The use of legal empowerment to improve access to quality health services: a scoping review
Creators: name: Joshi, Anuradha
name: Schaaf, Marta
name: Zayed, Dina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Articles included in the review.
Lyman-alpha emitters gone missing: evidence for late reionization?
Creators: name: Choudhury, Tirthankar Roy
name: Puchwein, Ewald
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Bolton, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine high resolution hydrodynamical simulations with an intermediate resolution, dark matter only simulation and an analytical model for the growth of ionized regions to estimate the large scale distribution and redshift evolution of the visibility of Lyman-alpha emission in 6<=z<=8 galaxies. The inhomogeneous distribution of neutral hydrogen during the reionization process results in significant fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha transmissivity on large scales. The transmissivity depends not only on the ionized fraction of the intergalactic medium by volume and the amplitude of the local ionizing background, but is also rather sensitive to the evolution of the relative velocity shift of the Lyman-alpha emission line due to resonant scattering. We reproduce a decline in the space density of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies as rapid as observed with a rather rapidly evolving neutral fraction between z=6-8, and a typical Lyman-alpha line velocity offset of 100 km/s redward of systemic at z=6 which decreases toward higher redshift. The new (02/2015) Planck results indicate such a recent end to reionization is no longer disfavoured by constraints from the cosmic microwave background.
description: Accepted by MNRAS. Revised to match the accepted version. Main conclusions unchanged
Endnote 20 Workshop for Windows
Creators: name: HKU Libraries, Learning and Research Services
Publisher: name: HKU Data Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: Endnote 20 is a citation management software and the HKU site license covers current HKU staff and students.
 Through this workshop, you will learn how to: Create an EndNote 20 library Build your Endnote 20 library by exporting citations from FIND@HKUL, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar Create in-text citations and reference list in Word document using Cite While You Write Manage EndNote 20 library by creating groups
Additional file 1 of Supervised smoking facility access, harm reduction practices, and substance use changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a community-engaged cross-sectional study
Creators: name: van Draanen, Jenna
name: Hamilton, Jonah
name: Morgan, Jeffrey
name: Maxwell, Scott
name: Taylor, Tara
name: Richardson, Lindsey
name: Nolan, Seonaid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Appendix A. Inhalation Tent Survey.
Probing multivalent particle–surface interactions using a quartz crystal resonator
Creators: name: Da-Silva-Granja, Carlos
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The rise in market-approved cellular therapies demands for advancements in process analytical technology (PAT) capable of fulfilling the requirements of this new industry. Unlike conventional biopharmaceuticals, cell-based therapies (CBT) are complex “live” products, with a high degree of inherent biological variability. This exacerbates the need for in-process monitoring and control of critical product attributes, in order to guarantee safety, efficacious and continuous supply of this CBT. There are therefore mutual industrial and regulatory motivations for high throughput, non-invasive and non-destructive sensors, amenable to integration in an enclosed automated cell culture system. While a plethora of analytical methods is available for direct characterization of cellular parameters, only a few satisfy the requirements for online quality monitoring of industrial-scale bioprocesses. [Continues.]
Statistical distribution of the Wigner-Smith time-delay matrix moments for chaotic cavities
Creators: name: Cunden, Fabio Deelan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the joint distribution of the moments $\mathrm{Tr}\, Q^κ$ ($κ\geq0$) of the Wigner-Smith matrix for a chaotic cavity supporting a large number of scattering channels $n$. This distribution turns out to be asymptotically Gaussian, and we compute explicitly averages and covariances. The results are in a compact form and have been verified numerically. The general methodology of proof and computations has a wide range of applications.
description: 5 pages, 1 table, 2 figures
Additional file 2 of The use of legal empowerment to improve access to quality health services: a scoping review
Creators: name: Joshi, Anuradha
name: Schaaf, Marta
name: Zayed, Dina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Annex 2. Articles reviewed.
Dimension-independent likelihood-informed MCMC
Creators: name: Cui, Tiangang
name: Law, Kody J. H.
name: Marzouk, Youssef M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many Bayesian inference problems require exploring the posterior distribution of high-dimensional parameters that represent the discretization of an underlying function. This work introduces a family of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers that can adapt to the particular structure of a posterior distribution over functions. Two distinct lines of research intersect in the methods developed here. First, we introduce a general class of operator-weighted proposal distributions that are well defined on function space, such that the performance of the resulting MCMC samplers is independent of the discretization of the function. Second, by exploiting local Hessian information and any associated low-dimensional structure in the change from prior to posterior distributions, we develop an inhomogeneous discretization scheme for the Langevin stochastic differential equation that yields operator-weighted proposals adapted to the non-Gaussian structure of the posterior. The resulting dimension-independent, likelihood-informed (DILI) MCMC samplers may be useful for a large class of high-dimensional problems where the target probability measure has a density with respect to a Gaussian reference measure. Two nonlinear inverse problems are used to demonstrate the efficiency of these DILI samplers: an elliptic PDE coefficient inverse problem and path reconstruction in a conditioned diffusion.
MPEC 2024-R278 : 2024 RD13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RD13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Minkowski Sum of Polytopes Defined by Their Vertices
Creators: name: Delos, Vincent
name: Teissandier, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Minkowski sums are of theoretical interest and have applications in fields related to industrial backgrounds. In this paper we focus on the specific case of summing polytopes as we want to solve the tolerance analysis problem described in [1]. Our approach is based on the use of linear programming and is solvable in polynomial time. The algorithm we developed can be implemented and parallelized in a very easy way.
A Rotation Sampling Plan for ESCS Quarterly Hog Surveys
Creators: name: Gleason, C. P.
name: Gleason, C. P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Rotation sampling
subject: successive sampling
subject: panel studies
subject: regression or ratio estimation
subject: change estimation
subject: double sampling

description: A rotation sampling plan to estimate hog inventories is presented and a composite double sampling regression or ratio estimator is compared to a single time direct expansion estimator.
La promotion des énergies renouvelables au Maroc comme levier de l'attractivité des investissements direct étrangers : une analyse empirique
Creators: name: KAFI, Sami
name: ELBAYED, Hicham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Investissement Direct étranger ; Energie renouvelable ; Attractivité territoriale ; Transition énergétique ; Développement durable.

description: Dans un contexte marqué par une crise écologique en conjonction avec d'intenses tensions géopolitiques liées aux ressources fossiles, la question de la transition énergétique se profile comme un enjeu de premier plan, tout en étant paradoxal. L'instauration de normes environnementales peut simultanément constituer un élément décourageant pour les investissements engendrant des émissions polluantes, mais également attirer d'autres formes d'investissement. À cet égard, le Maroc a opté pour la promotion des énergies renouvelables, les érigeant en levier pour susciter l'intérêt des investissements étrangers. Cet article ambitionne d'analyser la corrélation entre l'attrait des investissements directs étrangers (IDE) au Maroc, en mettant l'accent sur les mécanismes déployés dans le cadre de la transition énergétique au moyen des sources d'énergie renouvelable. Le cœur de cette analyse repose sur une démarche économétrique, exploitant la méthodologie ARDL, dans le but d'examiner les liens entre les IDE et les variables essentielles du processus de transition énergétique au Maroc, et ce afin de sonder les retombées de cette transition sur les flux d'IDE.
Methods for the Analysis of 26 Million VOC Area Measurements during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Clean-up
Creators: name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Blair, A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The NIEHS GuLF STUDY is an epidemiologic study of the health of workers who participated in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and clean-up effort. Even with a large database of approximately 28 000 personal samples that were analyzed for total hydrocarbons (THCs) and other oil-related chemicals, resulting in nearly 160 000 full-shift personal measurements, there were still exposure scenarios where the number of measurements was too limited to rigorously assess exposures. Also available were over 26 million volatile organic compounds (VOCs) area air measurements of approximately 1-min duration, collected from direct-reading instruments on 38 large vessels generally located near the leaking well. This paper presents a strategy for converting the VOC database into hourly average air concentrations by vessel as the first step of a larger process designed to use these data to supplement full-shift THC personal exposure measurements. We applied a Bayesian method to account for measurements with values below the analytic instrument's limit of detection while processing the large database into average instrument-hour concentrations and then hourly concentrations across instruments on each day of measurement on each of the vessels. To illustrate this process, we present results on the drilling rig ship, the Discoverer Enterprise. The methods reduced the 26 million measurements to 21 900 hourly averages, which later contributed to the development of additional full-shift THC observations. The approach used here can be applied by occupational health professionals with large datasets of direct-reading instruments to better understand workplace exposures.
Endnote 20 Workshop for Windows
Creators: name: HKU Libraries, Learning and Research Services
Publisher: name: HKU Data Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: Endnote 20 is a citation management software and the HKU site license covers current HKU staff and students.
 Through this workshop, you will learn how to: Create an EndNote 20 library Build your Endnote 20 library by exporting citations from FIND@HKUL, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar Create in-text citations and reference list in Word document using Cite While You Write Manage EndNote 20 library by creating groups
Additional file 2 of Supervised smoking facility access, harm reduction practices, and substance use changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a community-engaged cross-sectional study
Creators: name: van Draanen, Jenna
name: Hamilton, Jonah
name: Morgan, Jeffrey
name: Maxwell, Scott
name: Taylor, Tara
name: Richardson, Lindsey
name: Nolan, Seonaid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Appendix B. Posters created to facilitate community engagement and shared interpretation of study findings.
Polygenic Risk, Rapid Childhood Growth, and the Development of Obesity: Evidence From a 4-Decade Longitudinal Study
Creators: name: Harrington, HonaLee
name: Moffitt, Terrie E.
name: Biddle, Andrea K.
name: Williams, Benjamin
name: Caspi, Avshalom
name: Evans, James P.
name: Blumenthal, James A.
name: Houts, Renate
name: Belsky, Daniel W.
name: Bennett, Gary G.
name: Poulton, Richie
name: Sugden, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To test how genomic loci identified in genome-wide association studies influence the development of obesity.
Unser Freund Jesus ist Christus
Creators: name: Stowasser, Martin
name: Jantsch, Franz
name: Broer, Ingo
name: Stark, Axel Harald
name: Batlogg, Andreas
name: Mühlberger, Sigrid
name: Bsteh, Petrus
name: Högl, Hans
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 23 Nr. 1 (1992): Diakonia, Band 23, Heft 1
Small data scattering for semi-relativistic equations with Hartree type nonlinearity
Creators: name: Herr, Sebastian
name: Tesfahun, Achenef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q55

description: We prove that the initial value problem for the equation \[ - i\partial_t u + \sqrt{m^2-Δ} \, u= (\frac{e^{-μ_0 |x|}}{|x|} \ast |u|^2)u \ \text{in} \ \mathbb R^{1+3}, \quad m\ge 0, \ μ_0 >0\] is globally well-posed and the solution scatters to free waves asymptotically as $t \to \pm \infty$ if we start with initial data which is small in $H^s(\mathbb R^{3})$ for $s>\frac12$, and if $m>0$. Moreover, if the initial data is radially symmetric we can improve the above result to $m\ge 0$ and $s>0$, which is almost optimal, in the sense that $L^2(\mathbb R^{3})$ is the critical space for the equation. The main ingredients in the proof are certain endpoint Strichartz estimates, $L^2(\mathbb R^{1+3})$ bilinear estimates for free waves and the application of the $U^p$ and $V^p$ function spaces.
description: 19 pages