cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clinical effects of Emblica officinalis fruit consumption on cardiovascular disease risk factors : a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Brown, Paul D. S.
name: Ketter, Nicole
name: Vis-Dunbar, Mathew
name: Sakakibara, Brodie M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: Emblica officinalis (EO) fruit consumption has been found to have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular disease (CVD) physiological risk factors in preliminary clinical intervention trials; however, questions remain regarding the overall effectiveness of EO on CVD risk. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to: 1) systematically describe the clinical research examining EO; and 2) quantitatively assess the effects of EO on CVD physiological risk factors. Methods The Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar electronic platforms were searched for relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published until April 7, 2021. Studies were included if they involved adults (age ≥ 18 years) ingesting a form of EO fruit; included blood lipids, blood pressure, and/or inflammatory biomarkers as outcomes; had clearly defined intervention and control treatments with pre- and post-intervention data; were peer-reviewed; and were written in English. Studies were excluded if they compared EO with another risk reduction intervention without a usual care control group. RCTs were assessed for methodological quality using the Cochrane risk-of-bias version 2 (ROB2) tool, qualitatively described, and quantitatively evaluated using random and fixed effect meta-analysis models. Results A total of nine RCTs (n = 535 participants) were included for review. Included studies followed parallel-group (n = 6) and crossover (n = 3) designs, with EO dosage ranging from 500 mg/day to 1500 mg/day, and treatment duration ranging from 14 to 84 days. Meta-analyses revealed EO to have a significant composite effect at lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C; Mean difference (MD) = -15.08 mg/dL [95% Confidence interval (CI) = -25.43 to -4.73], I2 = 77%, prediction interval = -48.29 to 18.13), very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C; MD = -5.43 mg/dL [95% CI = -8.37 to -2.49], I2 = 44%), triglycerides (TG; MD = -22.35 mg/dL [95% CI = -39.71 to -4.99], I2 = 62%, prediction interval = -73.47 to 28.77), and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP; MD = -1.70 mg/L [95% CI = -2.06 to -1.33], I2 = 0%) compared with placebo. Conclusions Due to statistical and clinical heterogeneity in the limited number of clinical trials to date, the promising effects of EO on physiologic CVD risk factors in this review should be interpreted with caution. Further research is needed to determine if EO offers an efficacious option for primary or secondary prevention of CVD as either monotherapy or adjunct to evidence-based dietary patterns and/or standard pharmacotherapy.
Trichromia columbiana
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Trichromia
Trichromia columbiana

description: Trichromia columbiana (Gaede, 1928)
Paranerita columbiana Gaede, 1928b: 31.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Nariño], Tumaco u[nd] Pasto.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 195, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Two Problems on Bipartite Graphs
Creators: name: Bush, Albert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Erdos proved the well-known result that every graph has a spanning, bipartite subgraph such that every vertex has degree at least half of its original degree.  Bollobas and Scott conjectured that one can get a slightly weaker result if we require the subgraph to be not only spanning and bipartite, but also balanced.  We prove this conjecture for graphs of maximum degree 3. 

The majority of the paper however, will focus on graph tiling.  Graph tiling (or sometimes referred to as graph packing) is where, given a graph H, we find a spanning subgraph of some larger graph G that consists entirely of disjoint copies of H.  With the Regularity Lemma and the Blow-up Lemma as our main tools, we prove an asymptotic minimum degree condition for an arbitrary bipartite graph G to be tiled by another arbitrary bipartite graph H.  This proves a conjecture of Zhao and also implies an asymptotic version of a result of Kuhn and Osthus for bipartite graphs.
Migrated toothpick as cause of liver abscess
Creators: name: Guglielmi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Abscess delineation
subject: Localisation
subject: Abscess
subject: Foreign bodies

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 78 years
description: Clinical History: A 78-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a 1-week history of fever (38-40ÃÂ°C) and intermittent right upper quadrant pain, accompanied by diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Physical examination demonstrated abdominal tenderness in the right upper ab... Final Diagnosis: Liver abscess secondary to perforation by an ingested toothpick
Multistability in Bursting Patterns in a Model of a Multifunctional Central Pattern Generator.
Creators: name: Brooks, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: A multifunctional central pattern generator (CPG) can produce bursting polyrhythms that determine locomotive activity in an animal: for example, swimming and crawling in a leech. Each rhythm corresponds to a specific attractor of the CPG. We employ a Hodgkin-Huxley type model of a bursting leech heart interneuron, and connect three such neurons by fast inhibitory synapses to form a ring. This network motif exhibits multistable co-existing bursting rhythms. The problem of determining rhythmic outcomes is reduced to an analysis of fixed points of Poincare mappings and their attractor basins, in a phase plane defined by the interneurons' phase differences along bursting orbits. Using computer assisted analysis, we examine stability, bifurcations of attractors, and transformations of their basins in the phase plane. These structures determine the global bursting rhythms emitted by the CPG. By varying the coupling synaptic strength, we examine the dynamics and patterns produced by inhibitory networks.
Supplementary document for Giant Enhancement of the Faraday Effect in a Magnetoplasmonic Nanocomposite - 5606581.pdf
Creators: name: Tomilin, Sergey
name: Karavaynikov, Andrey
name: Lyashko, Sergey Dmitrievich
name: Milyukova, Elena Totosovna
name: Tomilina, Olga
name: YANOVSKY, Alexandr
name: Belotelov, Vladimir
name: Berzhansky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Optical properties of the nanocomposite
Analysis of Geometric Selection of the Data-Error Covariance Inflation for ES-MDA
Creators: name: Emerick, Alexandre A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation (ES-MDA) is becoming a popular assisted history matching method. In its standard form, the method requires the specification of the number of iterations in advance. If the selected number of iterations is not enough, the entire data assimilation must be restarted. Moreover, ES-MDA also requires the selection of data-error covariance inflations. The typical choice is to select constant values. However, previous works indicate that starting with large inflation and gradually decreasing during the data assimilation steps may improve the quality of the final models.
 This paper presents an analysis of the use of geometrically decreasing sequences of the data-error covariance inflations. In particular, the paper investigates a recently introduced procedure based on the singular values of a sensitivity matrix computed from the prior ensemble. The paper also introduces a novel procedure to select the inflation factors. The performance of the data assimilation schemes is evaluated in three reservoir history-matching problems with increasing level of complexity. The first problem is a small synthetic case which illustrates that the standard ES-MDA scheme with constant inflation may result in overcorrection of the permeability field and that a geometric sequence can alleviate this problem. The second problem is a recently published benchmark and the third one is a field case with real production data. The data assimilation schemes are compared in terms of a data-mismatch and a model-change norm. The first norm evaluates the ability of the models to reproduce the observed data. The second norm evaluates the amount of changes in the prior model. The results indicate that geometric inflations can generate solutions with good balance between the two norms.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures
Modelling the 3D high-resolution spectral properties of WASP-121b and WASP-189b
Creators: name: Lee, Elspeth K.H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The large scale heights and dayside atmospheric temperatures make ultra hot Jupiters (UHJs) a favourite target for low and high resolution spectral observations. We investigate the 3D atmospheric properties of the UHJs WASP-121b and WASP-189b using the Exo-FMS GCM model (Lee et al. 2021, MNRAS, 506). The radiative-transfer (RT) scheme for the GCMs was upgraded to include several near-UV (NUV) absorbing species such as Fe, Fe+ and SiO, following the 1D radiative-convective equilibrium modelling results by Lothringer et al. (2020, ApJL, 1). We then run the GCM models for both planets for 3050 days, taking the last 50 day average as the final result. The GCM outputs are then post-processed for transmission and emission spectra using the 3D Monte Carlo RT model gCMCRT (Lee et al. 2022, arXiv:2110.15640) at low-resolution and compared to available observational data. We then process the GCM models at high spectral resolution including Doppler shifting of lines due to winds and planetary rotation for the HARPS instrument for WASP-189b following Prinoth et al. (2022, NatAst, in press). WASP-121b is then processed at high resolution at optical wavelengths as a full phase curve.
description: SNSF funding through Ambizione Fellowship project: PZ00P2_193448
Trichromia persimilis
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Trichromia
Trichromia persimilis

description: Trichromia persimilis (Rothschild, 1909)
Neritos persimilis Rothschild, 1909b: 293.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Peru, [Puno], La Oroya, Rio Inambari.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 9 males and 3 females. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “La Oroya, R. Inambari, S.E. Peru, 3100 ft, Dec 05 wet season (G. Ockenden)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Neritos persimilis Type Rothsch[ild]” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Trichromia persimilis ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Improving Binary Millisecond Pulsar Distances with Gaia
Creators: name: Mingarelli, Chiara M. F.
name: Anderson, Lauren
name: Bedell, Megan
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Moran, Abigail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improved distance measurements to millisecond pulsars can enhance pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity to gravitational-waves, improve tests of general relativity with binary pulsars, improve constraints on fuzzy dark matter, and more. Here we report the parallax and distance measurements to seven Gaia DR2 objects associated with seven International PTA pulsars: J0437-4715, J1012+5307, J1024-0719, J1732-5049, J1910+1256, J1843-1113, and J1949+3106. By multiplying the posteriors of the PTA-based parallax measurements with the Gaia parallax measurement to the pulsar's companion, we improve the distance measurements from a few percent to a factor of five, and a tentative detection of a binary companion to J1843-1113. We also find an order of magnitude improvement in the parallax measurement to J1949+3106.
description: Updated results, resubmitted to ApJ. See Moran et al. (2022) for Gaia DR3 results
Trichromia lophosticta
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Trichromia
Trichromia lophosticta

description: Trichromia lophosticta (Schaus, 1911)
Paranerita lophosticta Schaus, 1911b: 614.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Costa Rica, [Limon], Sixola [River].
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 17 273 designated by Watson (1971: 54) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Examining differential success in recruitment using respondent driven sampling (RDS) in a multi-site study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
Creators: name: Sang, Jordan M.
name: Gholamian, Bita
name: Wang, Lu
name: Barath, Justin
name: Noor, Syed W.
name: Lachowsky, Nathan J.
name: Hart, Trevor A.
name: Cox, Joseph
name: Lambert, Gilles
name: Grace, Daniel
name: Skakoon-Sparling, Shayna
name: Lal, Allan
name: Parlette, Abbie
name: Apelian, Herak
name: Jollimore, Jody
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Moore, David M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: The Engage Study is a longitudinal biobehavioral cohort study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Baseline data (2,449 participants) were collected from February 2017 - August 2019 using respondent-driven sampling (RDS). Recruitment in Montreal required fewer seeds, had a much shorter recruitment period, and recruited the largest sample. Methods To better understand why RDS recruitment was more successful in Montreal compared to other sites, we conducted an analysis to examine RDS recruitment characteristics for GBM in each of the three study sites, explore demographic characteristics and measures of homophily, that is, the tendency of individuals to recruit other study participants who are like themselves, and compared motivations for study participation. Results Montreal had the greatest proportion of participants over the age of 45 (29.1% in Montreal, 24.6% in Vancouver, and 21.0% in Toronto) and the highest homophily for this age group, but homophily was high across the three cities. Montreal also reported the lowest percentage of participants with an annual income greater or equal to $60,000 (7.9% in Montreal, 13.1% in Vancouver and 10.6% in Toronto), but homophily was similar across all three cities. The majority of participants indicated interest in sexual health and HIV as the main reason for participating (36.1% in Montreal, 34.7% in Vancouver, and 29.8% in Toronto). Financial interest as the main reason for participation was low (12.7% in Montreal, 10.6% in Vancouver, and 5.7% in Toronto). Conclusion Taken together, although we found some differences in study demographic characteristics and homophily scores, we were unable to fully explain the different recruitment success based on the data available. Our study underlines the fact that success of RDS implementation may vary by unknown factors, and that researchers should be proactive and flexible to account for variability.
Supplementary document for Giant Enhancement of the Faraday Effect in a Magnetoplasmonic Nanocomposite - 5606581.pdf
Creators: name: Tomilin, Sergey
name: Karavaynikov, Andrey
name: Lyashko, Sergey Dmitrievich
name: Milyukova, Elena Totosovna
name: Tomilina, Olga
name: YANOVSKY, Alexandr
name: Belotelov, Vladimir
name: Berzhansky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Optical properties of the nanocomposite
Data-Space Inversion with Ensemble Smoother
Creators: name: Lima, Mateus M.
name: Emerick, Alexandre A.
name: Ortiz, Carlos E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Reservoir engineers use large-scale numerical models to predict the production performance in oil and gas fields. However, these models are constructed based on scarce and often inaccurate data, making their predictions highly uncertain. On the other hand, measurements of pressure and flow rates are constantly collected during the operation of the field. The assimilation of these data into the reservoir models (history matching) helps to mitigate uncertainty and improve their predictive capacity. History matching is a nonlinear inverse problem, which is typically handled using optimization and Monte Carlo methods. In practice, however, generating a set of properly history-matched models that preserve the geological realism is very challenging, especially in cases with complicated prior description, such as models with fractures and complex facies distributions. Recently, a new data-space inversion (DSI) approach was introduced in the literature as an alternative to the model-space inversion used in history matching. The essential idea is to update directly the predictions from a prior ensemble of models to account for the observed production history without updating the corresponding models. The present paper introduces a DSI implementation based on the use of an iterative ensemble smoother and demonstrates with examples that the new implementation is computationally faster and more robust than the earlier method based on principal component analysis. The new DSI is also applied to estimate the production forecast in a real field with long production history and a large number of wells. For this field problem, the new DSI obtained forecasts comparable with a more traditional ensemble-based history matching.
description: 33 pages, 14 figures
An Application of Armitage Trend Test to Genome-wide Association Studies
Creators: name: Scott, Nigel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Genome-wide Association (GWA) studies have become a widely used method for analyzing genetic data. It is useful in detecting associations that may exist between particular alleles and diseases of interest. This thesis investigates the dataset provided from problem 1 of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 16 (GAW 16). The dataset consists of GWA data from the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (NARAC). The thesis attempts to determine a set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) that are associated significantly with rheumatoid arthritis. Moreover, this thesis also attempts to address the question of whether the one-sided alternative hypothesis that the minor allele is positively associated with the disease or the two-sided alternative hypothesis that the genotypes at a locus are associated with the disease is appropriate, or put another way, the question of whether examining both alternative hypotheses yield more information.
On Intraclass Correlation Coefficients
Creators: name: Yu, Jianhui
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This paper uses Maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate the common correlation coefficients for multivariate datasets. We discuss a graphical tool, Q-Q plot, to test equality of the common intraclass correlation coefficients. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Cram‚r-von Mises test are used to check if the intraclass correlation coefficients are the same among populations. Bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods are applied to construct the confidence interval of the common intraclass correlation coefficients.
Question Classification with Deep Contextualized Transformer
Creators: name: Luo, Haozheng
name: Liu, Ningwei
name: Feng, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The latest work for Question and Answer problems is to use the Stanford Parse Tree. We build on prior work and develop a new method to handle the Question and Answer problem with the Deep Contextualized Transformer to manage some aberrant expressions. We also conduct extensive evaluations of the SQuAD and SwDA dataset and show significant improvement over QA problem classification of industry needs. We also investigate the impact of different models for the accuracy and efficiency of the problem answers. It shows that our new method is more effective for solving QA problems with higher accuracy
description: Advances in Information and Communication: Proceedings of the 2021 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), Volume 2
Trichromia carminata
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Trichromia
Trichromia carminata

description: Trichromia carminata (Schaus, 1905)
Paranerita carminata Schaus, 1905: 227.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Jean, Maroni River.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female no. 8627 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Accelerated Failure Time Model via Kendall Estimating Equation
Creators: name: Lu, Yinghua
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis, we study two methods for inference of parameters in the accelerated failure time model with right censoring data. One is the Wald-type method, which involves parameter estimation. The other one is empirical likelihood method, which is based on the asymptotic distribution of likelihood ratio. We employ a monotone censored data version of Kendall estimating equation, and construct confidence intervals from both methods. In the simulation studies, we compare the empirical likelihood (EL) and the Wald-type procedure in terms of coverage accuracy and average length of confidence intervals. It is concluded that the empirical likelihood method has a better performance. We also compare the EL for Kendall?s rank regression estimator with the EL for other well known estimators and find advantages of the EL for Kendall estimator for small size sample. Finally, a real clinical trial data is used for the purpose of illustration.
Method for Improving the Efficiency of Image Super-Resolution Algorithms Based on Kalman Filters
Creators: name: Dobson, William
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The Kalman Filter has many applications in control and signal processing but may also be used to reconstruct a higher resolution image from a sequence of lower resolution images (or frames). If the sequence of low resolution frames is recorded by a moving camera or sensor, where the motion can be accurately modeled, then the Kalman filter may be used to update pixels within a higher resolution frame to achieve a more detailed result. This thesis outlines current methods of implementing this algorithm on a scene of interest and introduces possible improvements for the speed and efficiency of this method by use of block operations on the low resolution frames. The effects of noise on camera motion and various blur models are examined using experimental data to illustrate the differences between the methods discussed.
Übersicht zur Entwicklung der energiebedingten Emissionen und Brennstoffeinsätze in Deutschland 1990 - 2017
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Energiebedingte Emissionen
subject: Luftschadstoff
subject: Freisetzung von Treibhausgasen
subject: Luftschadstoffausstoß
subject: Brennstoffeinsatz
subject: Klima | Energie

description: „Energiebedingte Emissionen“ sind Treibhausgase und Luftschadstoffe, die durch die Umwandlung von Energieträgern in elektrische und / oder thermische Energie (Strom- und Wärmeproduktion) freigesetzt werden. In dieser Veröffentlichung hat das ⁠UBA⁠ für die Jahre 1990 bis 2017 Grafiken und Tabellen zusammengestellt, die die energiebedingten Emissionen für Treibhausgase und ausgewählte Luftschadstoffe und die Menge der dafür eingesetzten Brennstoffe nach Sektoren aufgeschlüsselt darstellen.
Comparative Studies between Robotic Laparoscopic Myomectomy and Abdominal Myomectomy with Factors Affecting Short-Term Surgical Outcomes
Creators: name: Fomo, Amy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study is to compare short-term surgical outcomes of robotic and abdominal myomectomy and to analyze the factors affecting the total operative time, estimated blood loss and length of hospital stay from a retrospective study of a consecutive case series of 122 pa-tients with symptomatic leiomyomata. Wilcoxon, t tests, multiple linear and logistic regressions analyses were performed. Patients in abdominal group had larger number of leiomyomata, larger tumor size and BMI. The operative time was longer in robotic group and was affected by the size and number of tumors, parity and interaction between parity and BMI. Estimated blood loss was lower in robotic group and was affected by the size and number of tumors .The pre-dicted odds of staying one day or less in the hospital for robotic group was 193.5 times the odds for abdominal group and was affected by the size and number of tumors.
$F$-nilpotent rings and permanence properties
Creators: name: Kenkel, Jennifer
name: Maddox, Kyle
name: Polstra, Thomas
name: Simpson, Austyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We explore the singularity classes $F$-nilpotent, weakly $F$-nilpotent, and generalized weakly $F$-nilpotent under faithfully flat local ring maps. As an application, we show that the loci of primes in a Noetherian ring of prime characteristic which define either weakly $F$-nilpotent or $F$-nilpotent local rings are open with respect to the Zariski topology whenever $R$ is $F$-finite or essentially of finite type over an excellent local ring.
description: Improvements to the article have been made
Reasonable access : important characteristics and perceived quality of legal and illegal sources of cannabis for medical purposes in Canada
Creators: name: Capler, N. R.
name: Balneaves, Lynda G.
name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: Throughout the past two decades of legal medical cannabis in Canada, individuals have experienced challenges related to accessing legal sources of cannabis for medical purposes. The objective of our study was to examine the sources of cannabis accessed by individuals authorized to use medical cannabis and to identify possible reasons for their use of illegal sources. Methods Individuals who participated in the Cannabis Access Regulations Study (CANARY), a national cross-sectional survey launched in 2014, and indicated they were currently authorized to use cannabis for medical purposes in Canada were included in this study. We assessed differences between participants accessing cannabis from only legal sources versus from illegal sources in relation to sociodemographic characteristics, health-related factors, and characteristics of medical cannabis they considered important. A secondary analysis assessed differences in satisfaction with various dimensions of cannabis products and services provided by legal versus illegal sources. Results Half of the 237 study participants accessed cannabis from illegal sources. Individuals accessing cannabis from illegal sources were significantly more likely to value pesticide-free products, access to a variety of strains, ability to select strain and dosage, ability to observe and smell cannabis, availability in a dispensary, and availability in small quantities than did individuals accessing cannabis from only legal sources (all p < 0.05). Additionally, participants gave significantly higher satisfaction scores to illegal sources than to legal sources on service-related dimensions of cannabis access (all p < 0.05). Conclusion Our findings contribute to an understanding of reasonable access to medical cannabis from a patient perspective and how to assess whether it has been achieved. Characteristics of cannabis products and services valued by patients and appropriate to their needs should be incorporated into legal medical cannabis programs to promote the use of legal medical sources. While pertaining specifically to medical use of cannabis in Canada, the findings of this study may also be instructive for understanding the use of illegal cannabis sources for non-medical purposes in Canada and provide insight for other jurisdictions implementing cannabis regulations for both medical and non-medical purposes.
Analysis of the Total Food Folate Intake Data from the National Health and Nutrition Exa-amination Survey (Nhanes) Using Generalized Linear Model
Creators: name: Lee, Kyung
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The National health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) is a respected nation-wide program in charge of assessing the health and nutritional status of adults and children in United States. Recent cal research found that folic acid play an important role in preventing baby birth defects. In this paper, we use the generalized estimating equation (GEE) method to study the generalized linear model (GLM) with compound symmetric correlation matrix for the NHANES data and investigate significant factors to ence the intake of food folic acid.
Analyzing Gene Expression Data in Terms of Gene Sets: Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Creators: name: Li, Wei
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The DNA microarray biotechnology simultaneously monitors the expression of thousands of genes and aims to identify genes that are differently expressed under different conditions. From the statistical point of view, it can be restated as identify genes strongly associated with the response or covariant of interest. The Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) method is one method which
focuses the analysis at the functional related gene sets level instead of single genes. It helps
biologists to interpret the DNA microarray data by their previous biological knowledge of the
genes in a gene set. GSEA has been shown to efficiently identify gene sets containing known
disease-related genes in the real experiments. Here we want to evaluate the statistical power of
this method by simulation studies. The results show that the the power of GSEA is good enough
to identify the gene sets highly associated with the response or covariant of interest.
Improving Heavy Dijet Resonance Searches Using Jet Substructure at the LHC
Creators: name: Nayak, Aruna Kumar
name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
name: Samui, Tousik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for new physics at high energy accelerators has been at the crossroads with very little hint of signals suggesting otherwise. The challenges at a hadronic machine such as the LHC is compounded by the fact that final states are swamped with jets which one needs to understand and unravel. A positive step in this direction would be to separate the jets in terms of their gluonic and quark identities, much in a similar spirit of distinguishing heavy quark jets from light quark jets that has helped in improving searches for both neutral and charged Higgs bosons at the LHC. In this work, we utilise this information using the jet substructure techniques to comment on possible improvements in sensitivity as well as discrimination of new resonances in the all hadronic mode that would be crucial in pinning down new physics signals at HL-LHC, HE-LHC and any future 100 TeV hadron collider.
description: 24 pages, 4 tables, 8 figures, published version
Some Contributions in Statistical Discrimination of Different Pathogens Using Observations through FTIR
Creators: name: Wang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) has been use to discriminate different pathogens by signals from cells infected with these versus normal cells as references. To do the statistical analysis, Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) was utilized to distinguish any two kinds of virus?infected cells and normal cells. Validation using Bootstrap method and Cross?validations were employed to calculate the shrinkages of Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) and specificities corresponding to 80%, 90%, and 95% sensitivities. The result shows that our procedure can significantly discriminate these pathogens when we compare infected cells with the normal cells. On the height of this success, PLSR was applied again to simultaneously compare two kinds of virus?infected cells and the normal cells. The shrinkage of Volume Under the Surface (VUS) was calculated to do the evaluation of model diagnostic performance. The high value of VUS demonstrates that our method can effectively differentiate virus?infected cells and normal cells.
Digital Fluidity: Reimagining Shakespearean Waters in Virtual Reality (rejected abstract)
Creators: name: Mummelthei, Victoria
Publisher: name: Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts, IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies, University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Year: 2025
Subjects: shakespeare
virtual reality
fluidity

description: Rejected abstract for Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts, IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies, University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025 (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/24/waters-fluidity-and-crossing-in-shakespeare-and-early-modern-texts).
title: Kontrol'nye spiski dlja izucenija i ocenki sostojanija promyslennych ob'ektov s opasnymi dlja vody vescestvami i preparatami v celljulozno-bumaznoj promyslennosti
title: Контрольный список № ЦИ. 1: Данные производственного
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Papierindustrie
subject: Zellstoffindustrie
subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Wasserverunreinigung
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: paper industry
subject: pulp industry
subject: pulp production
subject: water protection
subject: water pollution
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Diese branchenspezifischen Checklisten bilden einen Leitfaden für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen in der Zellulose- und Papierindustrie. Dabei bieten sie eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Handlungsfelder sowie einen nach Produktionsbereichen aufgeteilten Bereich um potentielle Risikoquellen und Modernisierungsziele zu identifizieren. Quelle: Bericht
description: Эти отраслевые контрольные листы представляют собой руководство по проверке и оценке состояния установок с вредными для водных ресурсов материалами и растворами в целлюлозно-бумажной промышленности. При этом они предлагают обзор различных сфер деятельности, а также сферы, разделенной по производственным отраслям, для идентификации потенциальных источников риска и целей модернизации.
Worst-Case Convergence Time of ML Algorithms via Extreme Value Theory
Creators: name: Tizpaz-Niari, Saeid
name: Sankaranarayanan, Sriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper leverages the statistics of extreme values to predict the worst-case convergence times of machine learning algorithms. Timing is a critical non-functional property of ML systems, and providing the worst-case converge times is essential to guarantee the availability of ML and its services. However, timing properties such as worst-case convergence times (WCCT) are difficult to verify since (1) they are not encoded in the syntax or semantics of underlying programming languages of AI, (2) their evaluations depend on both algorithmic implementations and underlying systems, and (3) their measurements involve uncertainty and noise. Therefore, prevalent formal methods and statistical models fail to provide rich information on the amounts and likelihood of WCCT.
 Our key observation is that the timing information we seek represents the extreme tail of execution times. Therefore, extreme value theory (EVT), a statistical discipline that focuses on understanding and predicting the distribution of extreme values in the tail of outcomes, provides an ideal framework to model and analyze WCCT in the training and inference phases of ML paradigm. Building upon the mathematical tools from EVT, we propose a practical framework to predict the worst-case timing properties of ML. Over a set of linear ML training algorithms, we show that EVT achieves a better accuracy for predicting WCCTs than relevant statistical methods such as the Bayesian factor. On the set of larger machine learning training algorithms and deep neural network inference, we show the feasibility and usefulness of EVT models to accurately predict WCCTs, their expected return periods, and their likelihood.
description: In 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering: Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2024)
Trichromia metapyria
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Trichromia
Trichromia metapyria

description: Trichromia metapyria (Dognin, 1907)
Paranerita metapyria Dognin, 1907: 229.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Laurent du Maroni.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 30 489 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Theoretical and Numerical Study of Tikhonov's Regularization and Morozov's Discrepancy Principle
Creators: name: Whitney, MaryGeorge
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: A concept of a well-posed problem was initially introduced by J. Hadamard in 1923, who expressed the idea that every mathematical model should have a unique solution, stable with respect to noise in the input data. If at least one of those properties is violated, the problem is ill-posed (and unstable). There are numerous examples of ill- posed problems in computational mathematics and applications. Classical numerical algorithms, when used for an ill-posed model, turn out to be divergent. Hence one has to develop special regularization techniques, which take advantage of an a priori information (normally available), in order to solve an ill-posed problem in a stable fashion. In this thesis, theoretical and numerical investigation of Tikhonov's (variational) regularization is presented. The regularization parameter is computed by the discrepancy principle of Morozov, and a first-kind integral equation is used for numerical simulations.
Polluting White Dwarfs with Oort Cloud Comets
Creators: name: Pham, Dang
name: Rein, Hanno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations point to old white dwarfs (WDs) accreting metals at a relatively constant rate over 8~Gyrs. Exo-Oort clouds around WDs have been proposed as potential reservoirs of materials, with galactic tide as a mechanism to deliver distant comets to the WD's Roche limit. In this work, we characterise the dynamics of comets around a WD with a companion having semi-major axes on the orders of 10 - 100 AU. We develop simulation techniques capable of integrating a large number ($10^8$) of objects over a 1 Gyr timescale. Our simulations include galactic tide and are capable of resolving close-interactions with a massive companion. Through simulations, we study the accretion rate of exo-Oort cloud comets into a WD's Roche limit. We also characterise the dynamics of precession and scattering induced on a comet by a massive companion. We find that (i) WD pollution by an exo-Oort cloud can be sustained over a Gyr timescale, (ii) an exo-Oort cloud with structure like our own Solar System's is capable of delivering materials into an isolated WD with pollution rate $\sim 10^8 \mathrm{~g~s^{-1}}$, (iii) adding a planetary-mass companion reduces the pollution rate to $\sim 10^7 \mathrm{~g~s^{-1}}$, and (iv) if the companion is stellar-mass, with $M_p \gtrsim 0.1 M_\odot$, the pollution rate reduces to $\sim 3 \times 10^5 \mathrm{~g~s^{-1}}$ due to a combination of precession induced on a comet by the companion, a strong scattering barrier, and low-likelihood of direct collisions of comets with the companion.
description: 19 content pages, 4 appendices, 18 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS; doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae986
Comparing Cognitive Decision Models of Iowa Gambling Task in Indivituals Following Temporal Lobectomy
Creators: name: Jeyarajah, Jenny
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This study examined the theoretical basis for decision making behavior of patients with right or left temporal lobectomy and a control group when they participated in the Iowa Gambling Task. Two cognitive decision models, Expectancy Valence Model and Strategy Switching Heuristic Choice Model, were compared for best fit. The best fitting model was then chosen to provide the basis for parameter estimation (sources of decision making, i.e. cognitive, motivational, and response processes) and interpretation. Both models outperformed the baseline model. However comparison of G2 means between the two cognitive decision models showed the expectancy valence model having a higher mean and thus a better model between the two. Decision parameters were analyzed for the expectancy valence model. The analysis revealed that the parameters were not significant between the three groups. The data was simulated from the baseline model to determine whether the models are different from baseline.
Adding epitope compatibility to deceased donor kidney allocation criteria : recommendations from a pan-Canadian online public deliberation
Creators: name: Edwards, Louisa
name: Bentley, Colene
name: Burgess, Michael M.
name: Sapir-Pichhadze, Ruth
name: Hartell, David
name: Keown, Paul A.
name: Bryan, Stirling
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: The widening supply–demand imbalance for kidneys necessitates finding ways to reduce rejection and improve transplant outcomes. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) epitope compatibility between donor and recipient may minimize premature graft loss and prolong survival, but incorporating this strategy to deceased donor allocation criteria prioritizes transplant outcomes over wait times. An online public deliberation was held to identify acceptable trade-offs when implementing epitope compatibility to guide Canadian policymakers and health professionals in deciding how best to allocate kidneys fairly. Methods Invitations were mailed to 35,000 randomly-selected Canadian households, with over-sampling of rural/remote locations. Participants were selected for socio-demographic diversity and geographic representation. Five two-hour online sessions were held from November–December 2021. Participants received an information booklet and heard from expert speakers prior to deliberating on how to fairly implement epitope compatibility for transplant candidates and governance issues. Participants collectively generated and voted on recommendations. In the final session, kidney donation and allocation policymakers engaged with participants. Sessions were recorded and transcribed. Results Thirty-two individuals participated and generated nine recommendations. There was consensus on adding epitope compatibility to the existing deceased donor kidney allocation criteria. However, participants recommended including safeguards/flexibility around this (e.g., mitigating declining health). They called for a transition period to epitope compatibility, including an ongoing comprehensive public education program. Participants unanimously recommended regular monitoring and public sharing of epitope-based transplant outcomes. Conclusions Participants supported adding epitope compatibility to kidney allocation criteria, but advised safeguards and flexibility around implementation. These recommendations provide guidance to policymakers about incorporating epitope-based deceased donor allocation criteria.
Genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from blood of active Tuberculosis patients
Creators: name: Sankar, Mani
name: Jitendra Singh
name: Munawwar, Arshi
name: Kabra, Sushil Kumar
name: Sood, Rita
name: Praneeth Moka
name: Sarman Singh
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacteremia is a key event in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and development of extrapulmonary TB. Genotyping of M. tuberculosis isolates is useful for surveying the dynamics of TB infection, identifying new outbreaks, and preventing the disease. We attempted to estimate the prevalence of M. tuberculosis bacteremia and its genotypes.

Conclusion
CAS lineage was predominantly found among mycobacteremia patients. This pattern is not different from the predominance of mycobacterial isolates genotyped from pulmonary TB cases.
Weak Primary Decomposition of Modules Over a Commutative Ring
Creators: name: Stalvey, Harrison
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This paper presents the theory of weak primary decomposition of modules over a commutative ring. A generalization of the classic well-known theory of primary decomposition, weak primary decomposition is a consequence of the notions of weakly associated prime ideals and nearly nilpotent elements, which were introduced by N. Bourbaki. We begin by discussing basic facts about classic primary decomposition. Then we prove the results on weak primary decomposition, which are parallel to the classic case. Lastly, we define and generalize the Compatibility property of primary decomposition.