cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: building a strong and resilient healthcare workforce.
Creators: name: Weber, David J
name: Murthy, Rekha K
name: Hsu, Vincent P
name: Haessler, Sarah
name: Shenoy, Erica S
name: Batshon, Lynne Jones
name: Malani, Anurag N
name: Mathew, Trini A
name: Jump, Robin L P
name: Banach, David B
name: Dumyati, Ghinwa
name: Pergam, Steven A
name: Branch-Elliman, Westyn
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Year: 2024

description: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many areas in the United States experienced healthcare personnel (HCP) shortages tied to a variety of factors. Infection prevention programs, in particular, faced increasing workload demands with little opportunity to delegate tasks to others without specific infectious diseases or infection control expertise. Shortages of clinicians providing inpatient care to critically ill patients during the early phase of the pandemic were multifactorial, largely attributed to increasing demands on hospitals to provide care to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and furloughs. HCP shortages and challenges during later surges, including the Omicron variant-associated surges, were largely attributed to HCP infections and associated work restrictions during isolation periods and the need to care for family members, particularly children, with COVID-19. Additionally, the detrimental physical and mental health impact of COVID-19 on HCP has led to attrition, which further exacerbates shortages. Demands increased in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings, which already faced critical staffing challenges difficulty with recruitment, and high rates of turnover. Although individual healthcare organizations and state and federal governments have taken actions to mitigate recurring shortages, additional work and innovation are needed to develop longer-term solutions to improve healthcare workforce resiliency. The critical role of those with specialized training in infection prevention, including healthcare epidemiologists, was well-demonstrated in pandemic preparedness and response. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need to support growth in these fields. This commentary outlines the need to develop the US healthcare workforce in preparation for future pandemics.
On the Black Hole Mass - Bulge Mass Relation
Creators: name: Haering, Nadine
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have re-examined the relation between the mass of the central black holes in nearby galaxies, M_bh, and the stellar mass of the surrounding spheroid or bulge, M_bulge. For a total of 30 galaxies bulge masses were derived through Jeans equation modeling or adopted from dynamical models in the literature. In stellar mass-to-light ratios the spheroids and bulges span a range of a factor of eight. The bulge masses were related to well-determined black hole masses taken from the literature. With these improved values for M_bh, compared to Magorrian et al. (1998), and our redetermination of M_bulge, we find the M_bh-M_bulge relation becomes very tight. We find M_bh ~ M_bulge^(1.12+/-0.06) with an observed scatter of < 0.30 dex, a fraction of which can be attributed to measurement errors. The scatter in this relation is therefore comparable to the scatter in the relations of M_bh with sigma and the stellar concentration. These results confirm and refine the work of Marconi and Hunt (2003). For M_bulge~5x10^10 M_sun the median black hole mass is 0.14% +/- 0.04% of the bulge mass.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 11 pages, 3 figures
Measuring the equation of state of a hard-disc fluid
Creators: name: Brunner, M.
name: Bechinger, C.
name: Herz, U.
name: von Grunberg, H. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use video microscopy to study a two-dimensional (2D) model fluid of charged colloidal particles suspended in water and compute the pressure from the measured particle configurations. Direct experimental control over the particle density by means of optical tweezers allows the precise measurement of pressure as a function of density. We compare our data with theoretical predictions for the equation of state, the pair-correlation function and the compressibility of a hard-disc fluid and find good agreement, both for the fluid and the solid phase. In particular the location of the transition point agrees well with results from Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 7 pages, to appear in EPL, slightly corrected version
Some extensions of an inequality of Vapnik and Chervonenkis
Creators: name: Panchenko, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G20

description: The inequality of Vapnik and Chervonenkis controls the expectation of the function by its sample average uniformly over a VC-major class of functions taking into account the size of the expectation. Using Talagrand's kernel method we prove a similar result for the classes of functions for which Dudley's uniform entropy integral or bracketing entropy integral is finite.
description: 12 pages
The origin of the first and third generation fermion masses in a technicolor scenario
Creators: name: Doff, A.
name: Natale, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the masses of the first and third fermionic generations, which are respectively of the order of a few MeV up to a hundred GeV, are originated in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism leading to masses of the order $αμ$, where $α$ is a small coupling constant and $μ$, in the case of the first fermionic generation, is the scale of the dynamical quark mass ($\approx 250$ MeV). For the third fermion generation $μ$ is the value of the dynamical techniquark mass ($\approx 250$ GeV). We discuss how this possibility can be implemented in a technicolor scenario, and how the mass of the intermediate generation is generated.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures as eps files, Latex; Abridged version of the previous preprint. Title changed. Results remain the same
title: End-to-End Physics Event Generator
Creators: name: Alanazi, Yasir
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: We apply generative adversarial network (GAN) technology to build an event generator that simulates particle production in electron-proton scattering that is free of theoretical assumptions about underlying particle dynamics. The difficulty of efficiently training a GAN event simulator lies in learning the complicated pat- terns of the distributions of the particles physical properties. We develop a GAN that selects a set of transformed features from particle momenta that can be generated easily by the generator, and uses these to produce a set of augmented features that improve the sensitivity of the discriminator. The new Feature-Augmented and Transformed GAN (FAT-GAN) is able to faithfully reproduce the distribution of final state electron momenta in inclusive electron scattering, without the need for input derived from domain-based theoretical assumptions. The developed technology can play a significant role in boosting the science of the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV program and the future Electron-Ion Collider.
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: introduction and overview.
Creators: name: Hsu, Vincent P
name: Malani, Anurag N
name: Batshon, Lynne Jones
name: Banach, David B
name: Weber, David J
name: Branch-Elliman, Westyn
name: Mathew, Trini A
name: Murthy, Rekha K
name: Jump, Robin L P
name: Pergam, Steven A
name: Shenoy, Erica S
name: Haessler, Sarah
name: Dumyati, Ghinwa
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Year: 2024

description: Throughout history, pandemics and their aftereffects have spurred society to make substantial improvements in healthcare. After the Black Death in 14th century Europe, changes were made to elevate standards of care and nutrition that resulted in improved life expectancy. The 1918 influenza pandemic spurred a movement that emphasized public health surveillance and detection of future outbreaks and eventually led to the creation of the World Health Organization Global Influenza Surveillance Network. In the present, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the pre-existing problems within the US healthcare system, which included (1) a lack of capacity to manage a large influx of contagious patients while simultaneously maintaining routine and emergency care to non-COVID patients; (2) a "just in time" supply network that led to shortages and competition among hospitals, nursing homes, and other care sites for essential supplies; and (3) longstanding inequities in the distribution of healthcare and the healthcare workforce. The decades-long shift from domestic manufacturing to a reliance on global supply chains has compounded ongoing gaps in preparedness for supplies such as personal protective equipment and ventilators. Inequities in racial and socioeconomic outcomes highlighted during the pandemic have accelerated the call to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within our communities. The pandemic accelerated cooperation between government entities and the healthcare system, resulting in swift implementation of mitigation measures, new therapies and vaccinations at unprecedented speeds, despite our fragmented healthcare delivery system and political divisions. Still, widespread misinformation or disinformation and political divisions contributed to eroded trust in the public health system and prevented an even uptake of mitigation measures, vaccines and therapeutics, impeding our ability to contain the spread of the virus in this country. Ultimately, the lessons of COVID-19 illustrate the need to better prepare for the next pandemic. Rising microbial resistance, emerging and re-emerging pathogens, increased globalization, an aging population, and climate change are all factors that increase the likelihood of another pandemic.
Hybrid physics-AI outperforms numerical weather prediction for extreme precipitation nowcasting
Creators: name: Das, Puja
name: Posch, August
name: Barber, Nathan
name: Hicks, Michael
name: Vandal, Thomas J.
name: Duffy, Kate
name: Singh, Debjani
name: van Werkhoven, Katie
name: Ganguly, Auroop R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precipitation nowcasting, critical for flood emergency and river management, has remained challenging for decades, although recent developments in deep generative modeling (DGM) suggest the possibility of improvements. River management centers, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, have been using Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models for nowcasting but have struggled with missed detections even from best-in-class NWP models. While decades of prior research achieved limited improvements beyond advection and localized evolution, recent attempts have shown progress from physics-free machine learning (ML) methods and even greater improvements from physics-embedded ML approaches. Developers of DGM for nowcasting have compared their approaches with optical flow (a variant of advection) and meteorologists' judgment but not with NWP models. Further, they have not conducted independent co-evaluations with water resources and river managers. Here, we show that the state-of-the-art physics-embedded deep generative model, specifically NowcastNet, outperforms the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model, the latest generation of NWP, along with advection and persistence, especially for heavy precipitation events. For grid-cell extremes over 16 mm/h, NowcastNet demonstrated a median critical success index (CSI) of 0.30, compared with a median CSI of 0.04 for HRRR. However, despite hydrologically relevant improvements in point-by-point forecasts from NowcastNet, caveats include the overestimation of spatially aggregated precipitation over longer lead times. Our co-evaluation with ML developers, hydrologists, and river managers suggests the possibility of improved flood emergency response and hydropower management.
Study of the multi-species annihilating random walk transition at zero branching rate - cluster scaling behavior in a spin model
Creators: name: Menyhard, Nora
name: Odor, Geza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical and theoretical studies of a one-dimensional spin model with locally broken spin symmetry are presented. The multi-species annihilating random walk transition found at zero branching rate previously is investigated now concerning the cluster behaviour of the underlying spins. Generic power law behaviors are found, besides the phase transition point, also in the active phase with fulfillment of the hyperscaling law. On the other hand scaling laws connecting bulk- and cluster exponents are broken - a possibility in no contradiction with basic scaling assumptions because of the missing absorbing phase.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, final form to appear in PRE Nov.2003
Comparative analysis of enteroendocrine cells and their hormones between mouse intestinal organoids and native tissues
Creators: name: Ohki, Junko
name: Sakashita, Akihiko
name: Aihara, Eitaro
name: Inaba, Akihiko
name: Uchiyama, Hironobu
name: Matsumoto, Masahito
name: Ninomiya, Yuzo
name: Yamane, Takumi
name: Oishi, Yuichi
name: Iwatsuki, Ken
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Endocrine cells in the gastrointestinal tract secrete multiple hormones to maintain homeostasis in the body. In the present study, we generated intestinal organoids from the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum of Neurogenin 3 (Ngn3)-EGFP mice and examined how enteroendocrine cells (EECs) within organoid cultures resemble native epithelial cells in the gut. Transcriptome analysis of EGFP-positive cells from Ngn3-EGFP organoids showed gene expression pattern comparable to EECs in vivo. We also compared mRNAs of five major hormones, namely, ghrelin (Ghrl), cholecystokinin (Cck), Gip, secretin (Sct), and glucagon (Gcg) in organoids and small intestine along the longitudinal axis and found that expression patterns of these hormones in organoids were similar to those in native tissues. These findings suggest that an intestinal organoid culture system can be utilized as a suitable model to study enteroendocrine cell functions in vitro. Statistical analysis of genes preferentially expressed in Ngn3+ vs Ngn3- cells derived from intestinal organoids of Ngn3-EGFP mice.
Applicability of Marshall’s Agglomeration Theory to Indus-trial Clustering in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector: An Exploratory Factor Analysis Approach
Creators: name: Kadokawa, Kazuo
name: Kadokawa, Kazuo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This study explores the results of a location survey of new Japanese manufacturing plants from 1997 to 2004 and reports an industrial cluster in Japan. More specifically, this study identifies an industrial cluster and specifies its advantages based on an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which explores the spatial position of the cluster through spatial variation of factor scores. The major finding of this study is that there exists an industrial cluster factor containing most of the location advantages of a Marshallian industrial cluster, especially the secondary reason of the location choice. In addition, through the spatial analysis of the factor scores, this study identifies two prefectures—Nagano and Niigata—where Marshallian advantages are most effective in attracting plant locations.
Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Poll: AP VoteCast 2020 Georgia Senate Runoff Elections
Creators: name: Associated Press
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Voter registration (2); voter interest (2); voter likelihood (2); vote method (2); Georgia United States Senate runoff election (4); things preventing you from voting in election (1); contacted by campaigns (1); political campaign activity (3); most important issue (1); direction of country (1); confidence in United States presidential election (3); job approval of government officials handling of 2020 presidential election results (3); partisan control of United States Senate (1); support of United States senators for President Donald Trump (2); favorability of politicians (7); President Joe Biden (2); characteristics of candidates for Senate (16); insider stock trading allegations (1); favor and oppose government policies (3); Congress helping different groups financially through coronavirus pandemic (3); civil rights in United States (1); confidence in United States institutions (5); trust in other people (1); voted in previous elections (7); participation with groups and organizations in last 12 months (1); how long have you lived in Georgia (1).
Non-Economic and Economic Factors in the Decision to Obtain a Pap Smear: The Case of Women Residents in the State of Florida
Creators: name: Alexander, Gigi M.
name: Cebula, Richard J.
name: Alexander, Gigi M.
name: Cebula, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: In this unique study of the adult female population in the state of Florida, we found that the percentage of the women 18 to 44 years of age within each county in the state of Florida in 2007 who had received a Pap smear during the past year was a decreasing function of the percentage of women 18 years of age and older who were current smokers, while being an increasing function of the percentage of women 18 years of age and older with an annual income of $25,000 or more, the percentage of adult women under the age of 45 who take a multivitamin daily, the percentage of women age 18 and older who were high school gradu-ates with at least some college education as well, and the percentage of adult women who were classified as leading a sedentary lifestyle. It also appears that the percentage of the women 18 to 44 years of age within each county in the state of Florida in 2007 who had received a Pap smear during the past year was a decreasing function of the percentage of the women 18 years of age and older who were overweight. Based on these findings, certain preliminary general public policy implications are offered in the concluding section of the study.
New Ideas in Constraining Nuclear Forces
Creators: name: Tews, I.
name: Davoudi, Z.
name: Ekström, A.
name: Holt, J. D.
name: Lynn, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, nuclear physics has benefited greatly from the development of powerful ab initio many-body methods and their combination with interactions from chiral effective field theory. With increasing computational power and continuous development of these methods, we are entering an era of precision nuclear physics. Indeed, uncertainties from nuclear Hamiltonians now dominate over uncertainties from many-body methods. This review summarizes the current status of, and future directions in, deriving and constraining nuclear Hamiltonians.
description: 44 pages, 16 figures, Topical Review of ECT* workshop "New Ideas in Constraining Nuclear Forces", published version
Association of physical function with connectivity in the sensorimotor and dorsal attention networks: why examining specific components of physical function matters
Creators: name: Boyd, Madeline C.
name: Jack Rejeski, W.
name: Tomlinson, Chal E.
name: Baker, Laura D.
name: Kritchevsky, Stephen B.
name: Lyday, Robert G.
name: Laurienti, Paul J.
name: Hugenschmidt, Christina E.
name: Burdette, Jonathan H.
name: Simpson, Sean L.
name: Miller, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: Declining physical function with aging is associated with structural and functional brain network organization. Gaining a greater understanding of network associations may be useful for targeting interventions that are designed to slow or prevent such decline. Our previous work demonstrated that the Short Physical Performance Battery (eSPPB) score and body mass index (BMI) exhibited a statistical interaction in their associations with connectivity in the sensorimotor cortex (SMN) and the dorsal attention network (DAN). The current study examined if components of the eSPPB have unique associations with these brain networks. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed on 192 participants in the BNET study, a longitudinal and observational trial of community-dwelling adults aged 70 or older. Functional brain networks were generated for resting state and during a motor imagery task. Regression analyses were performed between eSPPB component scores (gait speed, complex gait speed, static balance, and lower extremity strength) and BMI with SMN and DAN connectivity. Gait speed, complex gait speed, and lower extremity strength significantly interacted with BMI in their association with SMN at rest. Gait speed and complex gait speed were interacted with BMI in the DAN at rest while complex gait speed, static balance, and lower extremity strength interacted with BMI in the DAN during motor imagery. Results demonstrate that different components of physical function, such as balance or gait speed and BMI, are associated with unique aspects of brain network organization. Gaining a greater mechanistic understanding of the associations between low physical function, body mass, and brain physiology may lead to the development of treatments that not only target specific physical function limitations but also specific brain networks.
title: VAIM for Solving Inverse Problems
Creators: name: Almaeen, Manal
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In this work, we propose the Variational Autoencoder Inverse Mapper (VAIM) to solve inverse problems, where there is a demand to accurately restore hidden parameters from indirect observations. VAIM is an autoencoder-based neural network architecture. The encoder and decoder networks approximate the forward and backward mapping, respectively, and a variational latent layer is incorporated into VAIM to learn the posterior parameter distributions with respect to the given observables. VAIM shows promising results on several artificial inverse problems. VAIM further demonstrates preliminary effectiveness in constructing the inverse function mapping quantum correlation functions to observables in a quantum chromodynamics analysis of nucleon structure and hadronization.
Die Funktion der Tropen in Aleksandr Prochanovs literarischer Publizistik
Creators: name: Ghilarducci, Manuel
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Prochanov
subject: Deconstruction
subject: Rhetoric
subject: Politics
subject: Tropes
subject: 890 Literaturen anderer Sprachen
subject: 940 Geschichte Europas

description: This paper investigates the tropological structure of Aleksandr Prochanov’s journalistic writing froma deconstructive perspective. The aimof my analysis is to show that the presence of tropes in Prochanov’s journalism cannot simply be explained as a political-ideological manipulation of literary language, as stated by most of the scholars. In my opinion it is connected to the rhetorical nature of language, i. e. to the possibility to speak and write in images and thus to subvert the relation between signified and signifier. As I show in the analysis of the exemplary text Stalin is not bronze but the speed of light, the tropological structure of the language deconstructs not only the text, but the relationship between the author andthe text andthus leads us to a reinterpretationof the literary journalismas such.
Empirical margin distributions and bounding the generalization error of combined classifiers
Creators: name: Koltchinskii, Vladimir
name: Panchenko, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F20, 62H30

description: We prove new probabilistic upper bounds on generalization error of complex classifiers that are combinations of simple classifiers. Such combinations could be implemented by neural networks or by voting methods of combining the classifiers, such as boosting and bagging. The bounds are in terms of the empirical distribution of the margin of the combined classifier. They are based on the methods of the theory of Gaussian and empirical processes (comparison inequalities, symmetrization method, concentration inequalities) and they improve previous results of Bartlett (1998) on bounding the generalization error of neural networks in terms of l_1-norms of the weights of neurons and of Schapire, Freund, Bartlett and Lee (1998) on bounding the generalization error of boosting. We also obtain rates of convergence in Levy distance of empirical margin distribution to the true margin distribution uniformly over the classes of classifiers and prove the optimality of these rates.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure
An activity-regulated transcriptional program directly drives synaptogenesis
Creators: name: Xu, Bing
name: Herbst, Wendy A.
name: Chen, Hongwen
name: Xiang, Yang Kevin
name: Matus, David Q.
name: Shen, Kang
name: Reddy, Anay R.
name: Yee, Callista
name: Zhang, Wan
name: Boyle, Alan P.
name: Medwig-Kinney, Taylor N.
name: Xiao, Yutong
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: Although the molecular composition and architecture of synapses have been widely explored, much less is known about what genetic programs directly activate synaptic gene expression and how they are modulated. Here, using Caenorhabditis elegans dopaminergic neurons, we reveal that EGL-43/MECOM and FOS-1/FOS control an activity-dependent synaptogenesis program. Loss of either factor severely reduces presynaptic protein expression. Both factors bind directly to promoters of synaptic genes and act together with CUT homeobox transcription factors to activate transcription. egl-43 and fos-1 mutually promote each other’s expression, and increasing the binding affinity of FOS-1 to the egl-43 locus results in increased presynaptic protein expression and synaptic function. EGL-43 regulates the expression of multiple transcription factors, including activity-regulated factors and developmental factors that define multiple aspects of dopaminergic identity. Together, we describe a robust genetic program underlying activity-regulated synapse formation during development.
Scalar density fluctuation at critical end point in NJL model
Creators: name: Fujii, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft mode near the critical end point in the phase diagram of two-flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is investigated within the leading 1/N_c approximation with N_c being the number of the colors. It is explicitly shown by studying the spectral function of the scalar channel that the relevant soft mode is the scalar density fluctuation, which is coupled with the quark number density, while the sigma meson mode stays massive.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Evaluating the Impact of Data Availability on Machine Learning-augmented MPC for a Building Energy Management System
Creators: name: Engel, Jens
name: Schmitt, Thomas
name: Rodemann, Tobias
name: Adamy, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A major challenge in the development of Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based energy management systems (EMSs) for buildings is the availability of an accurate model. One approach to address this is to augment an existing gray-box model with data-driven residual estimators. The efficacy of such estimators, and hence the performance of the EMS, relies on the availability of sufficient and suitable training data. In this work, we evaluate how different data availability scenarios affect estimator and controller performance. To do this, we perform software-in-the-loop (SiL) simulation with a physics-based digital twin using real measurement data. Simulation results show that acceptable estimation and control performance can already be achieved with limited available data, and we confirm that leveraging historical data for pretraining boosts efficacy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. To be published in 2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE) proceedings
Innovation in a Regional Perspective: How Can a Process Approach to Inversion of Authority Enable Innovation?
Creators: name: Brink, Tove
name: Brink, Tove
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The purpose of this article is to extend findings from the 2008 special issue of the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy on the knowledge economy, especially the notion claimed by Siggaard Jensen (2008) on ’inversion of authority’ elaborated according to the notion of innovation enhanced by Weick’s (1995) notion of ‘organizing’. The research aims to reveal how a process approach to organizing knowledge can enable innovation. A high-quality flow of knowledge is required for innovative processes. The case study reveals that organizing a variety of knowledge creates innovative enactment in firm networks. The findings provide a contribution to understanding the implication of a cross-disciplinary approach to innovation theory, and a practical contribution is provided for actually organizing innovative enactment. Moreover, regional policy can employ the organizing of knowledge for policy implications, enabling further innovation on the regional level. Further research has to be conducted for more thorough insight.
Additional file 1 of OTUD7B suppresses Smac mimetic-induced lung cancer cell invasion and migration via deubiquitinating TRAF3
Creators: name: Zhang, Boxiang
name: Yang, Chengcheng
name: Wang, Rui
name: Wu, Jie
name: Zhang, Yunfeng
name: Liu, Dapeng
name: Sun, Xin
name: Li, Xiang
name: Ren, Hong
name: Qin, Sida
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Primer sequences used in this study. Table S2 Antibodies used in this study. Table S3 Characteristics of NSCLC patients.
Oblate to prolate transition of a vesicle in shear flow
Creators: name: Degonville, Maximilien
name: Boedec, Gwenn
name: Leonetti, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vesicles are micrometric soft particles whose the membrane is a two-dimensional incompressible fluid governed by bending resistance leading to a zoology of shapes. The dynamics of deflated vesicles in shear flow with a bottom wall, a first minimal configuration to consider confined vesicles is investigated using numerical simulations. Coexistence under flow of oblate (metastable) and prolate (stable) shapes is studied in details. In particular, we discuss the boundaries of the region of coexistence in the (v, Ca) plane where v is the reduced volume of the vesicle and Ca the Capillary number. We characterize the transition from oblate to prolate and analyse the divergence of the transition time near the critical capillary number. We then analyse lift dynamics of oblate vesicle in the weak flow regime.
description: 9 figures
Spin hierarchy in van der Waals molecule formation via ultracold three-body recombination
Creators: name: Li, Jing-Lun
name: Julienne, Paul S.
name: Denschlag, Johannes Hecker
name: D'Incao, José P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the product-state distribution of weakly bound diatomic van der Waals molecules via ultracold three-body recombination of bosonic alkali atoms. We find a two-level hierarchy of spin propensity rules at zero magnetic field. The primary propensity rule states that nearly all molecular products conserve the total hyperfine spin of reactant atomic pairs, while molecular products not conserving the total spin are highly suppressed. For the dominant molecular products, there is a secondary propensity to conserve certain spin components of the reactant pair such as the atomic hyperfine spins, or the total electronic or nuclear spins. The second propensity varies across species and depends fundamentally on the interplay between effective electronic exchange and hyperfine interactions. The spin sensitivity of product-state distribution can potentially open up new avenues for controlling state-to-state reaction rates in ultracold three-body recombination.
Probing intraband excitations in ZrTe$_5$: a high-pressure infrared and transport study
Creators: name: Santos-Cottin, D.
name: Padlewski, M.
name: Martino, E.
name: David, S. Ben
name: Mardele, F. Le
name: Bachmann, M.
name: Putzke, C.
name: Moll, P. J. W.
name: Zhong, R. D.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Berger, H.
name: Orlita, M.
name: Homes, C. C.
name: Rukelj, Z.
name: Akrap, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zirconium pentatetelluride, ZrTe5, shows remarkable sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure. In this work we address the high-pressure transport and optical properties of this compound, on samples grown by flux and charge vapor transport. The high-pressure resistivity is measured up to 2 GPa, and the infrared transmission up to 9 GPa. The dc conductivity anisotropy is determined using a microstructured sample. Together, the transport and optical measurements allow us to discern band parameters with and without the hydrostatic pressure, in particular the Fermi level, and the effective mass in the less conducting, out-of-plane direction. The results are interpreted within a simple two-band model characterized by a Dirac-like, linear in-plane band dispersion, and a parabolic out-of-plane dispersion.
On Conformal Field Theory and Stochastic Loewner Evolution
Creators: name: Friedrich, Roland
name: Kalkkinen, Jussi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe Stochastic Loewner Evolution on arbitrary Riemann surfaces with boundary using Conformal Field Theory methods. We propose in particular a CFT construction for a probability measure on (clouded) paths, and check it against known restriction properties. The probability measure can be thought of as a section of the determinant bundle over moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Loewner evolutions have a natural description in terms of random walk in the moduli space, and the stochastic diffusion equation translates to the Virasoro action of a certain weight-two operator on a uniformised version of the determinant bundle.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX; v2: added section 4.1, references and minor clarifications, version to appear in NPB
Invasion by Cedrela odorata threatens long distance migration of Galapagos tortoises
Creators: name: Bastille‐Rousseau, Guillaume
name: Blake, Stephen
name: Nieto‐Claudin, Ainoa
name: Rivas‐Torres, Gonzalo
name: Zahawi, Rakan A.
name: Deem, Sharon L.
name: Cabrera, Freddy
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: Invasive alien species are among the most pervasive threats to biodiversity. Invasive species can cause catastrophic reductions in populations of native and endemic species and the collapse of ecosystem function. A second major global conservation concern is the extirpation of large-bodied mobile animals, including long-distance migrants, which often have keystone ecological roles over extensive spatial extents. Here, we report on a potentially catastrophic synergy between these phenomena that threatens the endemic biota of the Galapagos Archipelago. We used GPS telemetry to track 140 migratory journeys by 25 Western Santa Cruz Island Galapagos tortoises. We plotted the spatial interaction between tortoise migrations and recently established non-native forest dominated by the invasive tree Cedrela odorata (Cedrela forest). We qualified (a) the proportion of migratory journeys that traversed Cedrela forest, and (b) the probability that this observed pattern occurred by chance. Tortoise migrations were overwhelmingly restricted to small corridors between Cedrela forest blocks, indicating clear avoidance of those blocks. Just eight of 140 migrations traversed extensive Cedrela stands. Tortoises avoid Cedrela forest during their migrations. Further expansion of Cedrela forest threatens long-distance migration and population viability of critically endangered Galapagos tortoises. Applied research to determine effective management solutions to mitigate Cedrela invasion is a high priority.
Nucleation of a sodium droplet on C60
Creators: name: Roques, J.
name: Calvo, F.
name: Spiegelman, F.
name: Mijoule, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically the progressive coating of C60 by several sodium atoms. Density functional calculations using a nonlocal functional are performed for NaC60 and Na2C60 in various configurations. These data are used to construct an empirical atomistic model in order to treat larger sizes in a statistical and dynamical context. Fluctuating charges are incorporated to account for charge transfer between sodium and carbon atoms. By performing systematic global optimization in the size range 1<=n<=30, we find that Na_nC60 is homogeneously coated at small sizes, and that a growing droplet is formed above n=>8. The separate effects of single ionization and thermalization are also considered, as well as the changes due to a strong external electric field. The present results are discussed in the light of various experimental data.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: September 2018
Creators: name: National Public Radio
name: PBS NewsHour
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: President Donald Trump job approval (1); 2018 Congressional election (1); US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh impact on Congressional vote (1); favorability of Kavanaugh (1); favorability of alleged sexual assault victim Christine Blasey Ford (1); Kavanaugh US Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearings (3); believability of Ford versus Kavanaugh in Senate trials (1); Senate trial and treatment of Kavanaugh and Ford (2); support for Kavanaugh confirmation (1); Senate gender imbalance impact on Ford trial (1).
Statistical Laws in Complex Systems
Creators: name: Altmann, Eduardo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistical laws describe regular patterns observed in diverse scientific domains, ranging from the magnitude of earthquakes (Gutenberg-Richter law) and metabolic rates in organisms (Kleiber's law), to the frequency distribution of words in texts (Zipf's and Herdan-Heaps' laws), and productivity metrics of cities (urban scaling laws). The origins of these laws, their empirical validity, and the insights they provide into underlying systems have been subjects of scientific inquiry for centuries. This monograph provides an unifying approach to the study of statistical laws, critically evaluating their role in the theoretical understanding of complex systems and the different data-analysis methods used to evaluate them. Through a historical review and a unified analysis, we uncover that the persistent controversies on the validity of statistical laws are predominantly rooted not in novel empirical findings but in the discordance among data-analysis techniques, mechanistic models, and the interpretations of statistical laws. Starting with simple examples and progressing to more advanced time-series and statistical methods, this monograph and its accompanying repository provide comprehensive material for researchers interested in analyzing data, testing and comparing different laws, and interpreting results in both existing and new datasets.
description: 152 pages, 29 figures, monograph
Competing endogenous RNA crosstalk at system level
Creators: name: Miotto, Mattia
name: Marinari, Enzo
name: De Martino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression at post-transcriptional level by repressing target RNA molecules. Competition to bind miRNAs tends in turn to correlate their targets, establishing effective RNA-RNA interactions that can influence expression levels, buffer fluctuations and promote signal propagation. Such a potential has been characterized mathematically for small motifs both at steady state and \red{away from stationarity}. Experimental evidence, on the other hand, suggests that competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) crosstalk is rather weak. Extended miRNA-RNA networks could however favour the integration of many crosstalk interactions, leading to significant large-scale effects in spite of the weakness of individual links. To clarify the extent to which crosstalk is sustained by the miRNA interactome, we have studied its emergent systemic features in silico in large-scale miRNA-RNA network reconstructions. We show that, although generically weak, system-level crosstalk patterns (i) are enhanced by transcriptional heterogeneities, (ii) can achieve high-intensity even for RNAs that are not co-regulated, (iii) are robust to variability in transcription rates, and (iv) are significantly non-local, i.e. correlate weakly with miRNA-RNA interaction parameters. Furthermore, RNA levels are generically more stable when crosstalk is strongest. As some of these features appear to be encoded in the network's topology, crosstalk may functionally be favoured by natural selection. These results suggest that, besides their repressive role, miRNAs mediate a weak but resilient and context-independent network of cross-regulatory interactions that interconnect the transcriptome, stabilize expression levels and support system-level responses.
description: 25 pages, includes Supporting Information; to appear in PLoS Comp Biol
2011 Michigan Upper Peninsula Dairy Farm Business Analysis Summary
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Economic Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Production Economics

description: This report summarizes the financial and production records of 14 dairy farms across the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State University’s TelFarm project and Farm Credit Service system in Michigan. Farm records checked for accuracy. While considerable variation in the data exists, average values are reported in the summary tables and discussion that follows.
Renal Response Outcomes of the EuroLupus and National Institutes of Health Cyclophosphamide Dosing Regimens in Childhood‐Onset Proliferative Lupus Nephritis
Creators: name: Rouster‐Stevens, Kelly
name: Soulsby, William
name: Sadun, Rebecca E.
name: Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Lupus Nephritis Working Group
name: Riebschleger, Meredith
name: Wang, Christine S.
name: Pereira, Maria
name: Wenderfer, Scott E.
name: Miller, Kristen R.
name: Hause, Emily
name: Cooper, Jennifer C.
name: Wu, Eveline Y.
name: Ling, Nicole
name: Pyle, Laura
name: Hui‐Yuen, Joyce
name: Lewandowski, Laura B.
name: Bacha, Christine
name: Twilt, Marinka
name: Ardoin, Stacey P.
name: Shalen, Julia
name: Sarkissian, Aliese
name: Zhou, Wenru
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description: OBJECTIVE: We compared clinical characteristics and renal response in patients with childhood-onset proliferative lupus nephritis (LN) treated with the EuroLupus versus National Institutes of Health (NIH) cyclophosphamide (CYC) regimen.
METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted at 11 pediatric centers in North America that reported using both CYC regimens. Data were extracted from the electronic medical record at baseline and 3, 6, and 12 months after treatment initiation with CYC. To evaluate the adjusted association between CYC regimen (EuroLupus vs NIH) and renal response over time, generalized estimating equations with a logit link were used. An interaction between time and CYC regimen was included, and a contrast between CYC regimens at 12 months was used to evaluate the primary outcome.
RESULTS: One hundred forty-five patients (58 EuroLupus, 87 NIH) were included. EuroLupus patients were on average older at the start of current CYC therapy, had longer disease duration, and more commonly had relapsed or refractory LN compared with the NIH group. After multivariable adjustment, there was no significant association between CYC regimen and achieving complete renal response at 12 months (odds ratio [OR] of response for the EuroLupus regimen, reference NIH regimen: 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.29-1.98). There was also no significant association between CYC regimen and achieving at least a partial renal response at 12 months (OR 1.35, 95% CI 0.57-3.19).
CONCLUSION: Our study failed to demonstrate a benefit of the NIH regimen over the EuroLupus CYC regimen in childhood-onset proliferative LN. However, future prospective outcome studies are needed.
Triplicated Trinification
Creators: name: Willenbrock, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauge-coupling unification is just as successful in the standard model with six Higgs doublets as it is in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. However, the gauge couplings unify at 10^14 GeV, which yields rapid proton decay in the SU(5) model. I propose that the grand-unified gauge group is instead SU(3)_c x SU(3)_L x SU(3)_R, in which baryon number is conserved by the gauge interactions.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Minor improvements, references added