cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2: of Preoperative education with image illustrations enhances the effect of tetracaine mucilage in alleviating postoperative catheter-related bladder discomfort: a prospective, randomized, controlled study
Creators: name: Zhou, Li
name: Zhou, Le
name: Tian, Leilei
name: Zhu, Daojun
name: Chen, Ziwen
name: Zheng, Chang
name: Zhou, Ting
name: Zeng, Xianzheng
name: Jiang, Xiaojuan
name: Jiang, Chunling
name: Bo, Lulong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S2. The number of patients received rescue sufentanil in each group. (DOCX 63 kb)
The role of contacts in molecular electronics
Creators: name: Cuniberti, G.
name: Grossmann, F.
name: Gutierrez, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular electronic devices are the upmost destiny of the miniaturization trend of electronic components. Although not yet reproducible on large scale, molecular devices are since recently subject of intense studies both experimentally and theoretically, which agree in pointing out the extreme sensitivity of such devices on the nature and quality of the contacts. This chapter intends to provide a general theoretical framework for modelling electronic transport at the molecular scale by describing the implementation of a hybrid method based on Green function theory and density functional algorithms. In order to show the presence of contact-dependent features in the molecular conductance, we discuss three archetypal molecular devices, which are intended to focus on the importance of the different sub-parts of a molecular two-terminal setup.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
The Structure of Research and Transfer Policies in International Agriculture: Evidence and Implications
Creators: name: Lee, David R.
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Lee, David R.
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This paper addresses the well-known paradoxes of high rates of protection, underinvestment in agricultural research, and relatively high productivity that characterize developed country agriculture, while developing country agriculture is typically characterized by taxation of the sector, research underinvestment, and low sectoral productivity. The paper tests the proposition emergiog from political economy theory that productive policies (e.g., research) and redistributive policies (e.g., subsidies) can be viewed as complementary in that the latter compensate producers who lose from the price-reducing effects of the former. The economic relationships between agricultural research expenditure, total policy transfers, sector productivity, and other variables are examined for a sample of developed and developing countries. The results confirm the complementarity hypothesis and show that increased relative rates of research expenditure are associated with higher agricultural productivity, higher country incomes, and higher rates of agricultural protection found in developed countries. The reverse is shown to occur in lowincome countries. The results suggest that both policy and trade reforms in developed countries and increased agricultural research allocation and sector productivity in developing countries may be harder to accomplish than previously thought due to the complementarity phenomenon.
Cutting the Agricultural Price Pie: Power or Justice
Creators: name: Rabinowicz, Ewa
name: Rabinowicz, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Agricultural protection varies considerably among different commodities. To understand inter-industry protection within agriculture, the price-setting neotiation procedure involving producers and consumers. This type of price setting gives farmers an excellent opportunity to affect relative prices. The question is whether the stronger groups have used this situation to affect relative prices to their advantage. Four different price-setting principles are discussed in this paper: inertia, fairness, monopolistic price discrimination, and power. The model is tested by pooling cross-section (13 commodities) and time-series data (1973-83). Fairness and inertia together are the major explanation of the trend in relative prices at the negotiation level. In spite of their strong influence on the price-setting procedure, powerful groups are not missing the situation to their advantage. It is not possible for a farm organization to build its image on the notion of solidarity and at the same time exploit weaker groups. Neither is it possible for farmers to exploit consumers by behaving as price discriminating monopolists and keep the credibility of their organization intact.
Additional file 10 of Expression characteristics of pineal miRNAs at ovine different reproductive stages and the identification of miRNAs targeting the AANAT gene
Creators: name: Di, Ran
name: Liu, Qiu-Yue
name: Song, Shu-Hui
name: Tian, Dong-Mei
name: He, Jian-Ning
name: Ge, Ying
name: Wang, Xiang-Yu
name: Hu, Wen-Ping
name: Mwacharo, Joram-Mwashigadi
name: Pan, Zhang-Yuan
name: Wang, Jian-Dong
name: Ma, Qing
name: Cao, Gui-Ling
name: Jin, Hui-Hui
name: Liang, Xiao-Jun
name: Chu, Ming-Xing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Mature sequences of miRNAs and inserted sequences in the pcDNA6.2-GW/EmGFP-miR vector.
A gobal fit to the anomalous magnetic moment, b->s gamma and Higgs limits in the constrained MSSM
Creators: name: de Boer, W.
name: Huber, M.
name: Sander, C.
name: Kazakov, D. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New data on the anomalous magnetic moment a_mu of the muon together with the b->s gamma decay rate are considered within the supergravity inspired constrained minimal supersymmetric model. We perform a global statistical chi^2 analysis of these data and show that the allowed region of parameter space is bounded from below by the Higgs limit, which depends on the trilinear coupling and from above by the anomalous magnetic moment a_mu. The newest b->s gamma data deviate 1.7 sigma from recent SM calculations and prefer a similar parameter region as the 2.6 sigma deviation from a_mu.
description: 12 pages, 7 figs. Refs. updated
Properties of low sulfur leached spodumene as supplementary cementitious material in ordinary Portland cement
Creators: name: Woskowski, Julia
name: Neumann, Andreas
name: Roggendorf, Hans
name: Wehrspohn, Ralf B.
name: Stöberl, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 550

description: In the context of the increasing demand for lithium, the extraction of lithium from spodumene is being pursued. During the processing of spodumene, large quantities of leached spodumene concentrate (LSC) are produced as a by-product. To avoid the deposition of the material, potential reuse of the material within the cement industry is investigated. XRD and XRF analyses show that the LSC consists predominantly of leached spodumene and thus of an Al2O3 and SiO2 containing material. The pozzolanic composition of the material suggests a reusability of the material as supplementary cementitious material (SCM) within the cement industry. To test this approach, the hydration properties of LSC powders in combination with OPC cement are investigated. The chemical and mineralogical composition was determined using X-ray methods, followed by the assessment of the hydration behavior of LSC by puzzolanity testing and calorimeter of the heat flow. The tests show that a low-sulfur LSC (up to 1.8 %) is very reactive for mixtures of up to 20 % and produces high mechanical strengths in combination with an OPC. The influence of different raw material sources and process-related fluctuations on the conversion rate from α to β spodumene is negligible.
Impact of the EC's Rebalancing Strategy on Developing Countries: The Case of Feed
Creators: name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Schmitz, Peter Michael
name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Schmitz, Peter Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
International Development

description: This paper analyses the effects of a rebalancing policy for the EC feed sector on the less developed countries. The theoretical part of the study reveals that evaluation of changing world market prices from the developing countries' perspective depends on the trade position of the LDCs in the relevant markets, on home-made distortions in the poor countries, as well as an the degree of insulation of domestic markets from the world market. These findings are supported by the empirical results presented in the paper. Using the sequential approach based on the Hicksian compensated curves of the new welfare economics, the efficiency effects due to a rebalancing policy in the EC feed sector are calculated for 16 developing countries/regions. These countries/regions cover about 98 percent of the developing world. The results show that, depending on the assumed world price transmission elasticity as well as on the application or absence of national agricultural policies in the countries considered, the developing world as a group would have to bear new welfare losses of between US$519 million and US$789 million. These welfare effects would not be spread evenly over the countries under consideration. While most developing countries and regions would experience a substantial decrease in their net economic welfare, some countries would enjoy considerable welfare gains.
Nihon zu
日本圖
Creators: name: Nakano, Kozaemon
Publisher: name: [place of publication unknown] : Published by Nakano Kozaemon
Year: 2021

description: 16 leaves of maps and 51 leaves of description of itineraries of places in Japan and overseas. Roads, towns, castles, provinces are depicted; also shows water routes and distances between stations. Provinces arranged to suit page size. Orientation: west. Most maps cover two pages, back-to-back. Cover attached; cover title: 日本分形圖 Nihon bunkeizu (Atlas of Japan). Four pages illustrated in Kurita, no. 15.
AN OVERVIEW ON IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURE – HORTICULTURE SUB SECTOR IN AFGHANISTAN’S ECONOMY
Creators: name: Jabar, Ahmad Fahim Jabari Inb Abdul
Publisher: name: Academic research in educational sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: Afghanistan
Agriculture
farmer
agriculture products
marketing
management
Economic

description: This article present a case study of Afghanistan’s climate for agriculture along with abundant water resources. Agriculture and farming in Afghanistan is still traditional and need modernization and mechanization. The farmers are still using animal power like; oxen, donkey, horse, and buffalo for ploughing, land preparation, and cultivation, especially in remote areas and some poor & small land-holders even use shovel & simple tools. Only small number of farmers, especially rich farmers they have tractors, thrashers & other small & simple farming machineries, while the majority farmers of Afghanistan are still using the old farming system and they produce small quantity of agriculture products mainly wheat, corn, rice & some vegetable , which could be sufficient for their family consumption only for 3-6 months, while for the rest of the time they used to buy flour & other required food commodities from local markets or from neighbouring farmers.
EC Enlargement and Trade Liberalization in the Vegetable Oils Market
Creators: name: Croci-Angelini, Elisabetta
name: Tarditi, Secondo
name: Croci-Angelini, Elisabetta
name: Tarditi, Secondo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Relations/Trade

description: The third EC enlargement to include Spain and Portugal raised substantial problems in the international olive oil market, where the EC-10 accounted for 48 percent of production and 52 percent of consumption and the new EC members for 30 percent and 24 percent, respectively. Olive oil was highly supported in the EC-10, where producer prices were more than twice the international prices. Extending (from 1986 to 1991) the EC-10 price support to Spanish and Portuguese producers would have meant huge EC-12 budgetary costs and a complete price collapse of the tiny world market. This paper presents three simulations of the world market by means of a multi-product and multiregional price equilibrium model of the oils and fats sector: (1) the impact of the EC enlargement to include Spain and Portugal without CAP changes; (2) the impact of the EC-12 offer in the GATT negotiations implying a 30-percent decrease in domestic support for olive oil, butter, animal fats, and a 6-percent import tariff for oilseeds and other vegetable oils; and (3) the decrease in the producer price support of olive oil that would be needed to offset the impact of enlargement on the EC-12 trade balance.
Disentangling the roles of bracken fronds and litter on natural seedling recruitment in fire-disturbed tropical montane habitats
Creators: name: Lopez, Cecilia L.
name: Mayta, Cesar
name: Fuentes, Alfredo F.
name: Villegas, Mariana
name: Jímenez, Emili Antonia
name: Vasquez, Victor
name: Hensen, Isabell
name: Gallegos Ayala, Silvia Cecilia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Tropical montane forests are diverse ecosystems often affected by uncontrolled human-induced fires causing tree mortality and creating large deforested areas. After fires, Pteridium spp. ferns (bracken) often dominate, and forest regeneration in these areas is slow. In this study, we evaluated the effects of bracken fronds and litter, as well as the micro-environmental conditions created by the fern, on the density and species diversity of naturally recruiting seedlings. At eight sites, 120 experimental plots were established among forest and bracken-dominated areas with the following treatments: (a) fronds and litter intact (F+L+); (b) fronds intact and litter removed (F+L-); (c) fronds removed and litter intact (F-L+); and (d) fronds and litter removed (F-L-). After one year, all seedlings were registered, identified and classified according to their life-form (tree, shrub, herb, vine), dispersal vector (wind- or animal-dispersed) and successional status (early-, mid-, and late-successional). For all treatments we assessed 12 micro-environmental variables. We identified 3649 naturally-recruiting seedlings corresponding to 278 species from 70 families. We found positive effects of bracken fronds particularly on tree seedling recruitment: treatments with fronds had greater densities of both animal- and wind-dispersed tree seedlings, 1.8 and 1.4 fold higher, respectively, compared to treatments without fronds. Similarly, the density of early-, mid- and late-successional tree species was 1.3, 1.7 and 1.9 times higher in treatments with than without fronds. Furthermore, species diversity of early-, mid- and late-successional tree species was higher in the treatments with fronds. The environmental conditions generated by bracken presence, such as photosynthetically active radiation, soil temperature, live bracken biomass and litter depth, had positive effects on seedling density of all, animal-dispersed and early-successional tree species, and negative effects on seedling recruitment of other life-forms, notably from early successional stages. To promote forest regeneration in bracken-dominated areas, active restoration measures such as direct seed addition and transplants of nursery-raised seedlings of mid- and late-successional species should be considered. Since bracken can hinder the establishment of some life forms and species but favor others, it is recommended to include a trait-based approach to understand species responses to environmental factors and select species that are optimally adapted to bracken-dominated habitat conditions to promote forest regeneration.
Capturing static and dynamic correlation with $Δ\text{NO}$-MP2 and $Δ\text{NO}$-CCSD
Creators: name: Hollett, Joshua W.
name: Loos, Pierre-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $Δ\text{NO}$ method for static correlation is combined with second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) to account for dynamic correlation. The MP2 and CCSD expressions are adapted from finite-temperature CCSD, which includes orbital occupancies and vacancies, and expanded orbital summations. Correlation is partitioned with the aid of damping factors incorporated into the MP2 and CCSD residual equations. Potential energy curves for a selection of diatomics are in good agreement with extrapolated full configuration interaction results (exFCI), and on par with conventional multireference approaches.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Entangling atoms in bad cavities
Creators: name: Sorensen, Anders S.
name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to produce entangled spin squeezed states of a large number of atoms inside an optical cavity. By illuminating the atoms with bichromatic light, the coupling to the cavity induces pairwise exchange of excitations which entangles the atoms. Unlike most proposals for entangling atoms by cavity QED, our proposal does not require the strong coupling regime g^2/κΓ>> 1, where g is the atom cavity coupling strength, κis the cavity decay rate, and Γis the decay rate of the atoms. In this work the important parameter is Ng^2/κΓ, where N is the number of atoms, and our proposal permits the production of entanglement in bad cavities as long as they contain a large number of atoms.
description: 8 pages, including 3 figures, submitted to PRA. Ver 2: minor changes
MOESM1 of Prediction mapping of human leptospirosis using ANN, GWR, SVM and GLM approaches
Creators: name: Mohammadinia, Ali
name: Saeidian, Bahram
name: Biswajeet Pradhan
name: Ghaemi, Zeinab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. The results of trial and error approach for ANN. The results of trial and error approach for finding the optimal numbers of hidden layers and nodes in layers in final MLP architecture were presented.
Exploring the cost effectiveness of land conservation auctions and payment policies
Creators: name: Connor, Jeffery D.
name: Ward, John R.
name: Bryan, Brett
name: Connor, Jeffery D.
name: Ward, John R.
name: Bryan, Brett
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: auctions
subject: biodiversity
subject: cost effectiveness
subject: environmental economics
subject: environmental policy

description: This article evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the Catchment Care Australian conservation auction. It provides evidence of auction cost effectiveness, and estimates cost savings from two discrete components: (i) the opportunity cost revelation incentive provided by the auction mechanism, and (ii) the improved environmental targeting capacity that results from development of a scientifically based environmental benefits assessment capacity. Results show that there are potentially very large returns associated with the latter component that have been overlooked in the literature. Additionally, transaction costs involved with administering the case study conservation auction and the prior non-auction payment policy are compared. We find that the administration costs for the auction were greater than or equal to those associated with the prior policy. Estimates of relative cost effectiveness across policies are shown to be sensitive to the methods of comparison. In this case study, there is inelastic supply of the last units of environmental benefit. This inelasticity results in large estimated auction comparative cost advantage when the benefit metric is the estimated cost required to achieve auction aggregate environmental benefit. Estimated benefit of the auction is much less when measured as environmental benefits attainable with alternative payment policies subject to the auction budget constraint.
Additional file 1 of DL-3-n-butylphthalide improved physical and learning and memory performance of rodents exposed to acute and chronic hypobaric hypoxia
Creators: name: Xu, Gang
name: Shi, Yi-Kun
name: Sun, Bin-Da
name: Liu, Lu
name: E., Guo-Ji
name: He, Shu
name: Zhang, Jian-Yang
name: Liu, Bao
name: Hu, Qiu
name: Chen, Jian
name: Gao, Yu-Qi
name: Zhang, Er-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Structure of DL-3-n-butylphthalide.
Long-term Success of Family Firms: Investigating Specific Aspects of Firm-level Entrepreneurship and Individual-level Antecedents
Creators: name: Sieger, Philipp
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2011
Subjects: 330 Economics
650 Management & public relations

description: Long-term success of family firms is of utmost social and economic importance. Three of its determinants are in the center of this Dissertation: firmlevel entrepreneurial orientation (EO), managers' entrepreneurial behavior, and value-creating attitudes of non-family employees. Each determinant and respective research gaps are addressed by one paper of this cumulative dissertation. Referring to firm-level EO, scholars claim that EO is a main antecedent to firms' both short- and long-term success. However, family firms seem to be successful across generations despite rather low levels of EO. The first paper addresses this paradox by investigating EO patterns of long-lived family firms in three Swiss case studies. The main finding is that the key to success is not to be as entrepreneurially as possible all the time, but to continuously adapt the EO profile depending on internal and external factors. Moreover, the paper suggest new subcategories to different EO dimensions. With regard to entrepreneurial behavior of managers, there is a lack of knowledge how individual-level and organizational level factors affect its evolvement. The second paper addresses this gap by investigating a sample of 403 middle-level managers from both family and non-family firms. It introduces psychological ownership of managers as individual-level antecedent and investigates the interaction with organizational factors. As a central insight, management support is found to strengthen the psychological ownership-entrepreneurial behavior relationship. The third paper is based on the fact that employees' justice perceptions are established antecedents of value-creating employee attitudes such as affective commitment and job satisfaction. Even though family firms are susceptible to nonfamily employees´ perceptions of injustice, corresponding research is scarce. Moreover, the mechanism connecting justice perceptions and positive outcomes is still unclear. Addressing these gaps, the analysis of a sample of 310 non-family employees reveals that psychological ownership is a mediator in the relationships between distributive justice perceptions and both affective commitment and job satisfaction. Altogether, the three papers offer valuable contributions to family business literature with respect to EO, entrepreneurial behavior, and value-creating employee attitudes. Thus, they increase current understanding about important determinants of family firms' long-term success, while opening up numerous ways of future research.
Optimal management of annual ryegrass ( Lolium rigidum Gaud.) in phase rotations in the Western Australian Wheatbelt
Creators: name: Doole, Graeme J.
name: Doole, Graeme J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: annual ryegrass
subject: herbicide resistance
subject: multiple-phase optimal control

description: Lucerne ( Medicago sativa L.) helps to prevent soil salinisation in the Western Australian Wheatbelt by reducing recharge to saline water tables. There is broad consensus, though, that it is not sufficiently profitable to motivate producers to plant it at the intensity at which considerable off-site benefits would be conferred. This paper employs a multiple-phase optimal control model to explore the value of this perennial pasture for the management of herbicide-resistant annual ryegrass ( Lolium rigidum Gaud.) in a crop–pasture rotation, given the difficulty of observing this value in practice. The availability of selective herbicides for efficient weed control is found to determine whether or not it is profitable to adopt lucerne pasture under optimal management. Herbicide resistance requires producers to employ costly, non-selective treatments for in-crop weed control. Thus, it motivates the adoption of perennial pasture in which cost-effective forms of control can be implemented. Moreover, this result is robust to feasible changes in the current economic environment.
Out of Equilibrium Dynamics of Supersymmetry at High Energy Density
Creators: name: Baacke, J.
name: Cormier, D.
name: de Vega, H. J.
name: Heitmann, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the out of equilibrium dynamics of global chiral supersymmetry at finite energy density. We concentrate on two specific models. The first is the massive Wess-Zumino model which we study in a selfconsistent one-loop approximation. We find that for energy densities above a certain threshold, the fields are driven dynamically to a point in field space at which the fermionic component of the superfield is massless. The state, however is found to be unstable, indicating a breakdown of the one-loop approximation. To investigate further, we consider an O(N) massive chiral model which is solved exactly in the large $N$ limit. For sufficiently high energy densities, we find that for late times the fields reach a nonperturbative minimum of the effective potential degenerate with the perturbative minimum. This minimum is a true attractor for O(N) invariant states at high energy densities, and this provides a mechanism for determining which of the otherwise degenerate vacua is chosen by the dynamics. The final state for large energy density is a cloud of massless particles (both bosons and fermions) around this new nonperturbative supersymmetric minimum. By introducing boson masses which softly break the supersymmetry, we demonstrate a see-saw mechanism for generating small fermion masses. We discuss some of the cosmological implications of our results.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures
Where expectation meets attention: the dynamic interplay between optimism bias and attention bias
Creators: name: Kress, Laura
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2018
Subjects: 150 Psychology
610 Medicine & health

description: Optimism bias and positive attention bias are crucial components of healthy information processing. Even though recent theories (e.g., the combined cognitive biases hypothesis) suggest that different cognitive biases usually interact and mutually enforce each other, optimism bias and positive attention bias have mostly been examined separately. However, investigating dynamic interactions between the two biases can uncover how they maintain over time and thereby contribute to mental health. Thus, the goal of the current thesis was to investigate the interplay between optimism and attention bias and its underlying neural mechanisms. First, an integrative theoretical framework suggesting that optimism bias and positive attention bias mutually enforce each other and recruit a common neural network (e.g., comprising of the anterior cingulate cortex [ACC] and the limbic system) is presented. Furthermore, this framework proposes that biased memory processes may influence the optimism-attention interplay. Based on the ideas derived from this framework, two empirical studies have been conducted to demonstrate the influence of optimistic expectancies on attention deployment. In both studies, induced optimistic (and pessimistic) expectancies guided attention to expected rewarding (and punishing) information, whereas processing of unexpected information enhanced activity in the brain´s salience and executive control network (e.g., comprising of the insula, ACC, and posterior parietal cortex). Notably, these effects were stronger for optimistic than for pessimistic expectancies, supporting the idea that optimistic expectancies are particularly powerful in biasing attention to rewarding information. A subsequent empirical study additionally revealed that paying attention to positive information in turn enhances optimism bias. Specifically, performing a two-week attention bias modification training toward accepting and away from rejecting face stimuli increased optimism bias whereas performing a neutral control attention training did not. In sum, the studies reported in this thesis provide first empirical support for mutual optimism-attention interactions that can explain how the two biases maintain over time. Importantly, such dynamic optimism-attention interactions may instigate an upward spiral of positivity that protects mental health.
FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF IMMUNE STATUS IN INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE PARANASAL SINUSES IN TWIN CHILDREN
Creators: name: Sh. A. Alimova
name: F. S. Ikramova
name: U. I. Nurov
Publisher: name: Academic research in educational sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: twin children
cytokines
non-specific protective factors
inflammatory diseases of the paranasal sinuses

description: The Aim of this work was to study the functional activity of monocytes, neutrophils and cytokines in twin children with Inflammatory diseases of the paranasal sinuses in comparison with non-twins. It was found that with various rhinosinusitis in children, phagocytic activity of monocytes in blood decrease, which causes the development of a chronic purulent focus and is characterized by an increase in monocytes with viral inclusions. In patients with Inflammatory diseases of the paranasal sinuses, the activity of non-specific protective factors of the body is significantly reduced, which is expressed in a decrease phagocytic activity of monocytes and an increase monocyte with viral inclusions, which is more evidently in twin children than in non-twin children. Serum cytokines in children with Inflammatory diseases of the paranasal sinuses were significantly increased in relation to the data of healthy children. In children-twins and non twins, the parameters of anti-inflammatory cytokines changed in different directions.
Gauge Fields and Scalars in Rolling Tachyon Backgrounds
Creators: name: Mehen, Thomas
name: Wecht, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of gauge and scalar fields on unstable D-branes with rolling tachyons. Assuming an FRW metric on the brane, we find a solution of the tachyon equation of motion which is valid for arbitrary tachyon potentials and scale factors. The equations of motion for a U(1) gauge field and a scalar field in this background are derived. These fields see an effective metric which differs from the original FRW metric. The field equations receive large corrections due to the curvature of the effective metric as well as the time variation of the gauge coupling. The equations of state for these fields resemble those of nonrelativistic matter rather than those of massless particles.
description: 7 pages, uses Revtex4. Revised version, to appear in JHEP
CMB sky for an off-center observer in a local void I: framework for forecasts
Creators: name: Nistane, Viraj
name: Cusin, Giulia
name: Kunz, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Universe is not perfectly homogeneous, the large scale structure forms overdense regions and voids. In this paper, we consider the possibility that we occupy a special position in our Universe, close to the center of a local underdense region that we model as an LTB void embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic Universe. The CMB sky measured by an off-center observer in this void is not statistically isotropic. In addition to the non-stochastic CMB anisotropies due to the geometry of the model, we also observe a lensing-like distortion of the CMB anisotropies. In this article, we propose a framework to forecast the precision with which we can measure the amplitude of the lensing-like deformation of the CMB temperature anisotropies. For illustrative purposes, we apply this method to a couple of large-scale void models differing over the matter density profile and we show that the CMB temperature data from the Planck satellite is potentially capable to detect the effect for the large voids chosen here. A companion paper will be dedicated to a systematic exploration of different realistic void models.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, updated to match version published in JCAP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0607334, arXiv:astro-ph/0512006 by other authors
MOESM6 of Analysis of official deceased organ donation data casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform
Creators: name: Robertson, Matthew
name: Hinde, Raymond
name: Lavee, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6. Additional sources and considerations regarding China’s deceased organ donation system.
Additional file 1 of Tolvaptan therapy of Chinese cirrhotic patients with ascites after insufficient diuretic routine medication responses: a phase III clinical trial
Creators: name: Tang, Jieting
name: Wang, Yongfeng
name: Han, Tao
name: Mao, Qing
name: Cheng, Jun
name: Ding, Huiguo
name: Shang, Jia
name: Zhang, Qin
name: Niu, Junqi
name: Ji, Feng
name: Chen, Chengwei
name: Jia, Jidong
name: Jiang, Xiangjun
name: Lv, Nonghua
name: Gao, Yueqiu
name: Wang, Zhenghua
name: Wei, Zhong
name: Chen, Yingxuan
name: Zeng, Minde
name: Mao, Yimin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Exclusion criteria of the study.
Energy Barriers and Activated Dynamics in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid
Creators: name: Doliwa, Burkhard
name: Heuer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation of the potential energy landscape (PEL) topography to relaxation dynamics of a small model glass former of Lennard-Jones type. The mechanism under investigation is the hopping betweem superstructures of PEL mimima, called metabasins (MB). From the mean durations $\tauphi$ of visits to MBs, we derive effective depths of these objects by the relation $\Eapp=\d\ln\tauphi/\dβ$, where $β=1/\kB T$. Since the apparent activation energies $\Eapp$ are of purely dynamical origin, we look for a quantitative relation to PEL structure. A consequence of the rugged nature of MBs is that escapes from MBs are not single hops between PEL minima, but complicated multi-minima sequences. We introduce the concept of return probabilities to the bottom of MBs in order to judge whether the attraction range of a MB was left. We then compute the energy barriers that were surmounted. These turn out to be in good agreement with the effective depths $\Eapp$, calculated from dynamics. Barriers are identified with the help of a new method, which accurately performs a descent along the ridge between two minima. A comparison to another method is given. We analyze the population of transition regions between minima, called basin borders. No indication for the mechanism of diffusion to change around the mode-coupling transition can be found. We discuss the question whether the one-dimensional reaction paths connecting two minima are relevant for the calculation of reaction rates at the temperatures under study.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures
Unmixing symmetries
Creators: name: Johnson, Calvin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-lying spectra of atomic nuclei display diverse behaviors, for example rotational bands, which can be described phenomenologically by simple symmetry groups such as spatial SU(3). This leads to the idea of dynamical symmetry, where the Hamiltonian commutes with the Casimir operator(s) of a group, and is block-diagonal in subspaces defined by the group's irreducible representations or irreps. Detailed microscopic calculations, however, show these symmetries are in fact often strongly mixed and the wave function fragmented across many irreps. More commonly the fragmentation across members of a band are similar, or a quasi-dynamical symmetry. In this Letter I explicitly, albeit numerically, construct unitary transformations from a quasi-dynamical symmetry to a dynamical symmetry, adapting the similarity renormalization group, or SRG. The standard SRG produces unsatisfactory results, forcing the induced dynamical symmetry to be dominated by high-weight irreps irrespective of the original decomposition. Using spectral distribution theory to rederive and diagnose standard SRG, I introduce a new form of SRG. The new SRG transforms a quasi-dynamical symmetry to a dynamical symmetry, that is, unmixes the mixed symmetries, with intuitively more appealing results.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Estimating Non-Market Environmental Benefits of the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program: a choice modeling approach
Creators: name: Wang, Xuehong
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Wang, Xuehong
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: choice modelling
subject: environmental benefits
subject: China

description: The non-use values of the environmental benefits derived from the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program in the Loess Plateau region were estimated using a choice modeling survey both on-site in Xi’an and Ansai and off-site in Beijing. Separate choice models were estimated for the three sites and the results compared. No significant differences were found for the implicit price estimates derived from the multinomial logit (MNL) model, the nested logit (NL) model and the random parameter logit (RPL) model for each data set and across all the samples. Based on the results from the MNL models, the estimates of values for the environmental improvements provided by the Program among the sampled urban households are statistically the same across the three places.
Coulomb expectation values in $D=3$ and $D=3-2ε$ dimensions
Creators: name: Adkins, Gregory S.
name: Alam, Md Faisal
name: Larison, Conor
name: Sun, Ruosi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the quantum Coulomb problem for two-body bound states, in $D=3$ and $D=3-2ε$ dimensions, in detail, and give an extensive list of expectation values that arise in the evaluation of QED corrections to bound state energies. We describe the techniques used to obtain these expectation values and give general formulas for the evaluation of integrals involving associated Laguerre polynomials. In addition, we give formulas for the evaluation of integrals involving subtracted associated Laguerre polynomials--those with low powers of the variable subtracted off--that arise when evaluating divergent expectation values. We present perturbative results (in the parameter $ε$) that show how bound state energies and wave functions in $D=3-2ε$ dimensions differ from their $D=3$ dimensional counterparts and use these formulas to find regularized expressions for divergent expectation values such as $\big \langle \bar V^3 \big \rangle$ and $\big \langle (\bar V')^2 \big \rangle$ where $\bar V$ is the $D$-dimensional Coulomb potential. We evaluate a number of finite $D$-dimensional expectation values such as $\big \langle r^{-2+4ε} \partial_r^2 \big \rangle$ and $\big \langle r^{4ε} p^4 \big \rangle$ that have $ε\rightarrow 0$ limits that differ from their three-dimensional counterparts $\big \langle r^{-2} \partial_r^2 \big \rangle$ and $\big \langle p^4 \big \rangle$. We explore the use of recursion relations, the Feynman-Hellmann theorem, and momentum space brackets combined with $D$-dimensional Fourier transformation for the evaluation of $D$-dimensional expectation values. The results of this paper are useful when using dimensional regularization in the calculation of properties of Coulomb bound systems.
description: 41 pages, 2 figures; v2 includes a sample calculation
Uncertain Reasoning in Justification Logic
Creators: name: Kokkinis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2016
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
510 Mathematics

description: This thesis studies the combination of two well known formal systems for knowledge representation: probabilistic logic and justification logic. Our aim is to design a formal framework that allows the analysis of epistemic situations with incomplete information. In order to achieve this we introduce two probabilistic justification logics, which are defined by adding probability operators to the minimal justification logic J. We prove soundness and completeness theorems for our logics and establish decidability procedures. Both our logics rely on an infinitary rule so that strong completeness can be achieved. One of the most interesting mathematical results for our logics is the fact that adding only one iteration of the probability operator to the justification logic J does not increase the computational complexity of the logic.
The Fourth SM Family Enhancement to the Golden Mode at the Upgraded Tevatron
Creators: name: Cakir, O.
name: Sultansoy, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the observability for a Higgs boson at upgraded Tevatron via the modes gg->h->ZZ->4l (l=e,mu). We find that the signal can be observed at an integrated luminosity of 30 fb^(-1) if the fourth SM family exists.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Transformative deliberative moments among ex-combattants in Colombia
Creators: name: Jaramillo, María Clara
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2014
Subjects: 320 Political science

description: This dissertation presents the concept of Deliberative Transformative Moment and the instrument to identify it, in a further attempt to bridge the gap between deliberation theory and practice. A transformative moment in the deliberative process occurs when the level of deliberation is either lifted from low to high or drops from high to low. In order to identify such a moment, one has to look at the context and dynamics of the group discussion. This broadening of the unit of analysis is a big difference from other existing instruments to measure the level of deliberation, such as the Deliberative Quality Index –DQI, which focuses primarily on the individual speech acts. Consistent with the theoretical framework of consociational and deliberation approaches, the observed discussions took place among two deeply divided groups, Colombian ex-combatants from both the extreme left and the extreme right. Moving beyond a pure Habermasian perspective, this study finds that besides pure rational arguments, there are some contexts in which personal stories, jokes and self-interests, acting as justification of arguments, have either a positive or a negative impact on deliberative transformative moments. Although this research has a strongly qualitative orientation, reliability tests scored high, giving it strength as a reliable and valid research method that shedding some light on the sort of speech acts that enhance deliberation and those that detract from it.
Additional file 1 of Clinical characteristics and prognosis of ovarian clear cell carcinoma: a 10-year retrospective study
Creators: name: Zhu, Chenchen
name: Zhu, Jing
name: Qian, Lili
name: Liu, Hanyuan
name: Shen, Zhen
name: Wu, Dabao
name: Zhao, Weidong
name: Xiao, Weihua
name: Zhou, Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: sTable1. Clinical characteristics of patients with/without endometriosis. a. Mean ± standard deviation, range; NA. Not available. sTable2. The treatment and survival outcomes of the 14 patients with OCCC who had a recurrence. sTable3. The prognostic outcomes of patients with OCCC at the stage of IC. sTable4. The comparison of survival time between patients with OCCC at stage IC1 and IC2/3. sTable5. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with overall survival among patients at early stage (n = 37). a. Based on 5000 bootstrap samples. b. Interval. The interval of initial postoperative chemotherapy (days). ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists class; SCS: Surgical complexity score. sTable6. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with overall survival among patients at advanced stage (n = 12). a. Based on 5000 bootstrap samples. b. Interval. The interval of initial postoperative chemotherapy (days). ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists class; SCS: Surgical complexity score. sTable7. Power calculation and multiple hypothesis correction of the analysis of overall survival among the 49 patients with OCCC at early and advanced stage. sTable8. Power calculation and multiple hypothesis correction of the analysis of progression free survival among the 49 patients with OCCC at early and advanced stage.