cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Randall-Sundrum scenario with a small curvature and Drell-Yan process at the LHC
Creators: name: Kisselev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Randall-Sundrum-like scenario with the small curvature kappa (RSSC model) is studied in detail in comparison with the original RS1 model. In the framework of the RSSC model, the p_t distributions for the dilepton production at the LHC are calculated. Both dielectron and dimuon events are taken into account. The important feature of calculations is the account of the widths of massive graviton excitations. For the summary statistics taken at 7 TeV (L = 5 fb^(-1)) and 8 TeV (L = 20 fb^(-1)), the exclusion limit on the 5-dimensional gravity scale M_5 is set to be 6.84 TeV at 95% C.L. For sqrt(s) = 13 TeV and integrated luminosity 30 fb^(-1), the LHC search limit is found to be 10.16 TeV. These bounds on M_5 are independent of kappa (up to powerlike corrections), provided kappa << M_5.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Health care provider perspectives on pregnancy and parenting in HIV-positive individuals in South Africa
Creators: name: Moodley, Jennifer
name: Cooper, Diane
name: Mantell, Joanne E.
name: Stern, Erin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Reproductive health services
HIV-positive persons
Medical sciences

description: Background: Within the health system, limited attention is given to supporting the fertility and parenting desires on HIV-positive people. In this study, we explore health care providers’ knowledge and perspectives on safer conception and alternate parenting strategies for HIV-positive people. Methods: Between November 2007 and January 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 health care workers involved in providing HIV and/or antiretroviral services at public sector clinics in Cape Town, South Africa. Views on sexual and reproductive health services, pregnancy, childbearing and parenting in HIV-positive men and women were explored using a semi-structured interview guide. Data were analyzed using a thematic approach. Results: Providers recognized the sexual and reproductive rights of HIV-positive individuals, but struggled with the tension between supporting these rights and concerns about spreading infection. Limited knowledge of safer conception methods constrained their ability to counsel and support clients in realizing fertility desires. Providers believed that parenting alternatives that do not maintain biological and cultural linkage are unlikely to be acceptable options. Conclusions: Health care provider training and support is critical to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and meeting the fertility desires of HIV-positive people.
Gastro-intestinal stromal tumor (GIST) complicating a colonic interposition: a novel case report
Creators: name: Badshah, Maaz
name: Riaz, Haris
name: Korsten, Mark
name: Dhala, Atiya
name: Park, Yeun-Hee A.
name: Abadi, Maria
name: Badshah, Mashood
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Medicine

description: Background: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a rare tumor comprising 0.1-0.3% of all gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies. Stomach followed by small intestine is the most common sites of involvement, implicated in 95% of the cases. We present a case of GIST complicating a colonic interposition. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first reported case of GIST complicating a colonic interposition. Case presentation: A 47 year old African American male presented to the emergency department with intermittent, severe chest pain. Past medical history was significant for alkali (NaOH) ingestion during 1980 for which esophageal resection and a colonic pull-through was performed. A CXR revealed a widened mediastinum and CT scan chest revealed showed a large (11.4 ˟ 8.3 ˟ 12.1 cm) vascular mediastinal mass. At endoscopy, a large, ulcerated, cratered and friable mass was found at 29cm extending to 36cm at which point the lower anastomosis of the colonic pull through was present. Multiple endoscopic biopsies were obtained which showed that the tumor was immunoreactive with CD117, CD34 and DOG1 while markers of carcinoma, melanoma and lymphoma were negative. In light of the pathology report, the immunohistochemistry and the CT scans, the tumor was classified as a stage 4 GIST of colonic interposition. Conclusions: GIST can complicate unusual locations such as colonic interposition and should be kept in the differential diagnosis of such unusual presentations.
Wh-Questions: Linguistic Factors That Contribute to the Sequence of Acquisition
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
name: Merkin, Susan
name: Wootten, Janet
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Cognition in children
Language acquisition
Developmental psychology

description: The language development of 7 children was observed longitudinally from 2 to 3 years of age. The sequence in which these children learned to ask the forms of wh-questions with verbs was what, where, and who before how, why, and when, which is the same sequence that has been observed in other studies of the acquisition of first and second language. This sequence has been explained most often in terms of constraints on abstract thought in cognitive development. The purpose of the present study was to identify and describe other factors that contribute to the cognitive requirements for acquisition, and to examine how these factors covary developmentally with the meaning of the different wh-forms. Specifically, 3 kinds of linguistic constraints were observed to differentiate among wh-questions and contribute to their sequence of acquisition: (a) the syntactic functions of different wh-forms; (b) the selection of verbs in wh-questions; and (c) the use of wh-questions in discourse.
Spherically symmetric static solutions in a non-local infrared modification of General Relativity
Creators: name: Kehagias, Alex
name: Maggiore, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss static spherically symmetric solutions in a recently proposed non-local infrared modification of Einstein equations induced by a term $m^2g_{μν}\Box^{-1} R$, where $m$ is a mass scale. We find that, contrary to what happens in usual theories of massive gravity, in this non-local theory there is no vDVZ discontinuity and classical non-linearities do not become large below a Vainshtein radius parametrically larger than the Schwarzschild radius $r_S$. Rather on the contrary, in the regime $r\ll m^{-1}$ the corrections to the metric generated by a static body in GR are of the form $1+{\cal O}(m^2r^2)$ and become smaller and smaller toward smaller values of $r$. The modification to the GR solutions only show up at $r > m^{-1}$. For $m={\cal O}(H_0)$, as required for having interesting cosmological consequences, the non-local theory therefore recovers all successes of GR at the solar system and lab scales.
description: 29 pages, 5 figures. v2: expanded discussion of conceptual aspects. The version to appear in JHEP
Billionaires and Growth
Creators: name: Bagchi, Sutirtha
name: Svejnar, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Economic development
Income distribution
Wealth
Economics

description: A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine’s listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality and poverty. Our results suggest that wealth inequality has a negative relationship with economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some billionaires acquired wealth through political connections, the relationship between politically connected wealth inequality and economic growth is negative, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant relationship.
title: Circular-Rescript Sr. Königl. Majestät in Preussen an Dero Ministers an auswärtigen Höfen, d. d. Berlin den 18. Octobr. 1756. in Antwort, auf dasjenige, so die Kayserin Königin, unter dem 20. Sept. ejusd. an die Ihrige erlassen hat; [1756]
title: Berlin, 1756
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Friedrich II., Preußen, König
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: Kopftitel
Sequential Monte Carlo for Sampling Balanced and Compact Redistricting Plans
Creators: name: McCartan, Cory
name: Imai, Kosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Random sampling of graph partitions under constraints has become a popular tool for evaluating legislative redistricting plans. Analysts detect partisan gerrymandering by comparing a proposed redistricting plan with an ensemble of sampled alternative plans. For successful application, sampling methods must scale to maps with a moderate or large number of districts, incorporate realistic legal constraints, and accurately and efficiently sample from a selected target distribution. Unfortunately, most existing methods struggle in at least one of these areas. We present a new Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm that generates a sample of redistricting plans converging to a realistic target distribution. Because it draws many plans in parallel, the SMC algorithm can efficiently explore the relevant space of redistricting plans better than the existing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms that generate plans sequentially. Our algorithm can simultaneously incorporate several constraints commonly imposed in real-world redistricting problems, including equal population, compactness, and preservation of administrative boundaries. We validate the accuracy of the proposed algorithm by using a small map where all redistricting plans can be enumerated. We then apply the SMC algorithm to evaluate the partisan implications of several maps submitted by relevant parties in a recent high-profile redistricting case in the state of Pennsylvania. We find that the proposed algorithm converges faster and with fewer samples than a comparable MCMC algorithm. Open-source software is available for implementing the proposed methodology.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, plus appendices; revised validation section, discussion, and appendices
A Multi-Wavelength Analysis of NGC 4178: A Bulgeless Galaxy with an AGN
Creators: name: Secrest, Nathan
name: Satyapal, Shobita
name: Moran, Sean
name: Cheung, Teddy
name: Giroletti, Marcello
name: Gliozzi, Mario
name: Bergmann, Marcel
name: Seth, Anil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present {\it Gemini} longslit optical spectroscopy and VLA radio observations of the nuclear region of NGC 4178, a late-type bulgeless disk galaxy recently confirmed to host an AGN through infrared and X-ray observations. Our observations reveal that the dynamical center of the galaxy is coincident with the location of the {\it Chandra} X-ray point source discovered in a previous work, providing further support for the presence of an AGN. While the X-ray and IR observations provide robust evidence for an AGN, the optical spectrum shows no evidence for the AGN, underscoring the need for the penetrative power of mid-IR and X-ray observations in finding buried or weak AGNs in this class of galaxy. Finally, the upper limit to the radio flux, together with our previous X-ray and IR results, is consistent with the scenario in which NGC 4178 harbors a deeply buried AGN accreting at a high rate.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Ollivier curvature of random geometric graphs converges to Ricci curvature of their Riemannian manifolds
Creators: name: van der Hoorn, Pim
name: Lippner, Gabor
name: Trugenberger, Carlo
name: Krioukov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60D05 (primary), 05C80 (secondary)

description: Curvature is a fundamental geometric characteristic of smooth spaces. In recent years different notions of curvature have been developed for combinatorial discrete objects such as graphs. However, the connections between such discrete notions of curvature and their smooth counterparts remain lurking and moot. In particular, it is not rigorously known if any notion of graph curvature converges to any traditional notion of curvature of smooth space. Here we prove that in proper settings the Ollivier-Ricci curvature of random geometric graphs in Riemannian manifolds converges to the Ricci curvature of the manifold. This is the first rigorous result linking curvature of random graphs to curvature of smooth spaces. Our results hold for different notions of graph distances, including the rescaled shortest path distance, and for different graph densities. With the scaling of the average degree, as a function of the graph size, ranging from nearly logarithmic to nearly linear.
Creating Cinema's Reading Publics: The Emergence of Film Journalism in Bombay
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Debashree
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Film critics
Film criticism
South Asians
Journalism

description: This article interrogates the modes and effects of the emergence of film journalism as a new critical discourse in India's late colonial public sphere and the concomitant surfacing of the intriguing figure of the film critic. I assert that film journalism distributed the pleasures of cinema, and simultaneously sought to redefine its cultural status. The film critic, as a new breed of public professional, reified both the affective and ideological power of cinema. Through case studies I analyze how cinema related to nationalist politics and Bombay’s public sphere via autodidactic film fans and celebrity film critics.
25 Years of Housing Progress in Rural America
Creators: name: Bird, Ronald
name: Kampe, Ronald
name: Bird, Ronald
name: Kampe, Ronald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Metro
subject: nonmetro
subject: tenure
subject: housing conditions
subject: housing construction
subject: Federal financing
subject: poor
subject: aged
subject: blacks

description: U.S. housing conditions improved markedly from 1950 to 1975, especially in nonmetropolitan areas: nonmetro homeownership increased from 60 to 72 percent; the proportion occupying substandard units declined from 59 to 8 percent; crowded conditions declined from 19 to 6 percent; the percentage occupying centrally heated homes rose from 23 to 58 percent; and those living in single family homes valued at more than $12,000 (constant dollars) rose from 13 to 29 percent, while those living in homes valued at less than $4,000 declined from 36 to 15 percent. Several factors played an important role in this improvement; the rise in household incomes, construction of new housing far exceeding net household formations, and activity of Federal, State, and local governments. Despite improvements, 1.9 million households occupied nonmetro substandard units in 1975. The poor, the blacks, and the aged still occupy a large proportion of the poor housing.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1919-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
A new gauge slice for the relative Bauer-Furuta invariants
Creators: name: Khandhawit, Tirasan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study Manolescu's construction of the relative Bauer-Furuta invariants arising from the Seiberg-Witten equations on 4-manifolds with boundary. The main goal is to introduce a new gauge fixing condition in order to apply the finite dimensional approximation technique. We also hope to provide a framework to extend Manolescu's construction to general 4-manifolds.
description: 18 pages. Minor revision according to referee's suggestion
Number of Triangulations of a Möbius Strip
Creators: name: Véronique, Bazier-Matte
name: Ruiyan, Huang
name: Hanyi, Luo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: Consider a Möbius strip with $n$ chosen points on its edge. A triangulation is a maximal collection of arcs among these points and cuts the strip into triangles. In this paper, we proved the number of all triangulations that one can obtain from a Möbius strip with $n$ chosen points on its edge is given by $4^{n-1}+\binom{2n-2}{n-1}$, then we made the connection with the number of clusters in the quasi-cluster algebra arising from the Möbius strip.
Allocapnia curiosa Frison 1942
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Kondratieff, Boris C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Allocapnia
Allocapnia curiosa

description: Allocapnia curiosa Frison (Figs. 1-6) Allocapnia curiosa Frison 1942:268. Holotype ♂ (Illinois Natural History Survey), Kanetown [Preston Co.], West Virginia Allocapnia curiosa: Ross & Ricker, 1971:39. Material examined. Kentucky: Jackson Co., Peter Branch Middle Fork Rockcastle River, below Robinson Creek, 10 February 1998, B.C. Kondratieff, R.K. Kirchner, 9♂, 1♀ (CSUC). Virginia: Tazewell Co., East Fork Cove Creek, Rt. 662, 15 February 1982, B.C. Kondratieff, 2♂ (CSUC). West Virginia: Mercer Co., Camp Creek, I-77, 26 February 1999, B.C. Kondratieff, R. F. Kirchner, 5♂, 1♀ (CSUC). Pocahontas Co., Hills Creek Falls, Hills Creek Scenic Area, Hwy 39, 16 March 1980, R.F. Kirchner, R.M. Meyer, 3♂ (BPS). Male epiproct. Apical segment of upper limb ca. 210- 215 μm long, bearing a pair of basolateral ear- like projections and a dense median patch of wave-like spikes (Figs. 1-3). Median spike patch ca. 187-194 μm long and narrowly divided along entire length by groove, ear-like projections without spikes; apical segment ca. 138-146 μm wide across ear- like projections and narrowed to ca. 60 μm at apex. Basal segment of upper limb ca. 283 μm long and ca. 85-94 μm wide for most of length. Lateral areas of basal segment bearing irregular row of setae and a median groove but otherwise unadorned. Lower limb ca. 167-175 μm wide proximal to apical spoon. Male tergal process. Prominent raised structures on abdominal terga 7 and 8 (Figs. 1, 4-6). Process of tergum 7 conical, apex covered with scale-like structures; process of tergum 8 thin, narrowly notched, lobes bent slightly forward in lateral aspect and covered dorsally with scale-like structures; width of tergum 8 process ca. 177 μm. Anterior face of tergum 8 process bearing a low, rounded, median knob.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Kondratieff, Boris C., 2012, Epiproct And Dorsal Process Structure In The Allocapnia Forbesi Frison, A. Pygmaea (Burmeister), And A. Rickeri Frison Species Groups (Plecoptera: Capniidae), And Inclusion Of A. Minima (Newport) In A New Species Group, pp. 45-77 in Illiesia 8 (5) on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760725
description: {"references": ["Frison, T. H. 1942. Studies of North American Plecoptera with special reference to the fauna of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 22: 235 - 355.", "Ross, H. H. & W. E. Ricker. 1971. The classification, evolution, and dispersal of the winter stonefly genus Allocapnia. Illinois Biological Monographs 45: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 166 pp."]}
Low risk of attrition among adults on antiretroviral therapy in the Rwandan national program: a retrospective cohort analysis of 6, 12, and 18 month outcomes
Creators: name: Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Harriet
name: Jakubowski, Aleksandra
name: Mugisha, Veronicah
name: Basinga, Paulin
name: Asiimwe, Anita
name: Nash, Denis
name: Elul, Batya O.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Highly active antiretroviral therapy
Mortality
Patient compliance
Public health
Epidemiology

description: Background: We report levels and determinants of attrition in Rwanda, one of the few African countries with universal ART access. Methods: We analyzed data abstracted from health facility records of a nationally representative sample of adults [≥18 years] who initiated ART 6, 12, and 18 months prior to data collection; and collected facility characteristics with a health facility assessment questionnaire. Weighted proportions and rates of attrition [loss to follow-up or death] were calculated, and patient- and health facility-level factors associated with attrition examined using Cox proportional hazard models. Results: 1678 adults initiated ART 6, 12 and 18 months prior to data collection, with 1508 person-years [PY] on ART. Attrition was 6.8% [95% confidence interval [CI] 6.0-7.8]: 2.9% [2.4-3.5] recorded deaths and 3.9% [3.4-4.5] lost to follow-up. Population attrition rate was 7.5/100PY [6.1-9.3]. Adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] for attrition was 4.2 [3.0-5.7] among adults enrolled from in-patient wards [vs 2.2 [1.6-3.0] from PMTCT, ref: VCT]. Compared to adults who initiated ART 18 months earlier, aHR for adults who initiated ART 12 and 6 months earlier was 1.8 [1.3-2.5] and 1.3 [0.9-1.9] respectively. Male aHR was 1.4 [1.0-1.8]. AHR of adults enrolled at urban health facilities was 1.4 [1.1-1.8, ref: rural health facilities]. AHR for adults with CD4+ ≥200 cells/μL vs <200 cells/μL was 0.8 [0.6-1.0]; and adults attending facilities with performance-based financing since 2004–2006 [vs. 2007–2008] had aHR 0.8 [0.6-0.9]. Conclusions: Attrition was low in the Rwandan national program. The above patient and facility correlates of attrition can be the focus of interventions to sustain high retention.
Galois groups of large fields with simple theory (with an appendix by Philip Dittmann)
Creators: name: Pillay, Anand
name: Walsberg, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that $K$ is an infinite field which is large (in the sense of Pop) and whose first order theory is simple. We show that $K$ is {\em bounded}, namely has only finitely many separable extensions of any given finite degree. We also show that any genus $0$ curve over $K$ has a $K$-point and if $K$ is additionally perfect then $K$ has trivial Brauer group. These results give evidence towards the conjecture that large simple fields are bounded PAC. Combining our results with a theorem of Lubotzky and van den Dries we show that there is a bounded $\mathrm{PAC}$ field $L$ with the same absolute Galois group as $K$. In the appendix we show that if $K$ is large and $\mathrm{NSOP}_\infty$ and $v$ is a non-trivial valuation on $K$ then $(K,v)$ has separably closed Henselization, so in particular the residue field of $(K,v)$ is algebraically closed and the value group is divisible. The appendix also shows that formally real and formally $p$-adic fields are $\mathrm{SOP}_\infty$ (without assuming largeness).
description: New version with a new appendix answering a question raised in the previous version
Soluble amyloid beta levels are elevated in the white matter of Alzheimer’s patients, independent of cortical plaque severity
Creators: name: Collins-Praino, Lyndsey
name: Francis, Yitshak
name: Griffith, Erica Y.
name: Wiegman, Anne
name: Urbach, Jonathan
name: Lawton, Arlene
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Cortes, Etty Paola
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Canoll, Peter D.
name: Goldman, James E.
name: Brickman, Adam M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Amyloid beta-protein
subject: Pathology
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Patients
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and the leading cause of dementia. In addition to grey matter pathology, white matter changes are now recognized as an important pathological feature in the emergence of the disease. Despite growing recognition of the importance of white matter abnormalities in the pathogenesis of AD, the causes of white matter degeneration are still unknown. While multiple studies propose Wallerian-like degeneration as the source of white matter change, others suggest that primary white matter pathology may be due, at least in part, to other mechanisms, including local effects of toxic Aβ peptides. In the current study, we investigated levels of soluble amyloid-beta (Aβ) in white matter of AD patients (n=12) compared with controls (n=10). Fresh frozen white matter samples were obtained from anterior (Brodmann area 9) and posterior (Brodmann area 1, 2 and 3) areas of post-mortem AD and control brains. ELISA was used to examine levels of soluble Aβ -42 and Aβ -40. Total cortical neuritic plaque severity rating was derived from individual ratings in the following areas of cortex: mid-frontal, superior temporal, pre-central, inferior parietal, hippocampus (CA1), subiculum, entorhinal cortex, transentorhinal cortex, inferior temporal, amygdala and basal forebrain. Compared with controls, AD samples had higher white matter levels of both soluble Aβ -42 and Aβ -40. While no regional white matter differences were found in Aβ -40, Aβ -42 levels were higher in anterior regions than in posterior regions across both groups. After statistically controlling for total cortical neuritic plaque severity, differences in both soluble Aβ -42 and Aβ -40 between the groups remained, suggesting that white matter Aβ peptides accumulate independent of overall grey matter fibrillar amyloid pathology and are not simply a reflection of overall amyloid burden. These results shed light on one potential mechanism through which white matter degeneration may occur in AD. Given that white matter degeneration may be an early marker of disease, preceding grey matter atrophy, understanding the mechanisms and risk factors that may lead to white matter loss could help to identify those at high risk and to intervene earlier in the pathogenic process.
POST-9/11 AMERICAN MUSLIMS: THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND INITIATIVES
Creators: name: Mariam Abdullah, Alsharari
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: American Muslims, demographic diversity, religious affiliation, United States population, Muslim communities.

description: American Muslim communities are diverse, growing, and play an increasingly significant role in the United States. Estimating their numbers is challenging due to limitations on gathering religious affiliation data by government agencies. However, estimates suggest a population of two to seven million American Muslims, constituting a minority but still significant percentage of the total population. This demographic diversity underscores the importance of understanding the experiences and needs of American Muslims as an integral part of the nation's social fabric.
JRC EuroVoc Indexer JEX - A freely available multi-label categorisation tool
Creators: name: Steinberger, Ralf
name: Ebrahim, Mohamed
name: Turchi, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1; H.3.6

description: EuroVoc (2012) is a highly multilingual thesaurus consisting of over 6,700 hierarchically organised subject domains used by European Institutions and many authorities in Member States of the European Union (EU) for the classification and retrieval of official documents. JEX is JRC-developed multi-label classification software that learns from manually labelled data to automatically assign EuroVoc descriptors to new documents in a profile-based category-ranking task. The JEX release consists of trained classifiers for 22 official EU languages, of parallel training data in the same languages, of an interface that allows viewing and amending the assignment results, and of a module that allows users to re-train the tool on their own document collections. JEX allows advanced users to change the document representation so as to possibly improve the categorisation result through linguistic pre-processing. JEX can be used as a tool for interactive EuroVoc descriptor assignment to increase speed and consistency of the human categorisation process, or it can be used fully automatically. The output of JEX is a language-independent EuroVoc feature vector lending itself also as input to various other Language Technology tasks, including cross-lingual clustering and classification, cross-lingual plagiarism detection, sentence selection and ranking, and more.
"likelihoods_ANA-SUSY-2018-06_3L-RJ-mimic.tar.gz" of "Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2020

description: Archive of full likelihoods in the HistFactory JSON format described in SUSY-2018-06. The background-only fit is found in the file named 'BkgOnly.json'. A set of patches for various signal points is provided in the file 'patchset.json'
description: A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell $W$ and $Z$ bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 13 TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139/fb. A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique with easily reproducible laboratory-frame variables, is performed. The two excesses observed in the 2015-2016 data recursive jigsaw analysis in the low-mass three-lepton phase space are reproduced. Results with the full dataset are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. They are interpreted to set exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on simplified models of chargino-neutralino pair production for masses up to 345 GeV.
Cladistic and quantitative shape analyses of five new syntopic Sarsamphiascus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): problems and solutions for diosaccin systematics and taxonomy
Creators: name: Karanovic, Tomislav
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Five new species of the genus Sarsamphiascus Huys, 2009 were collected from a small Korean beach, which is a record for the number of syntopic copepod congeners. They differ in numerous macro-morphological characters, some of which extend generic boundaries, and are classified in two species groups. Diossacins are widely regarded as taxonomically problematic, and the new discovery presents an opportunity to test characters commonly used in their systematics through a cladistic analysis. Another aim is to test with landmark-based geometric morphometrics the extent of inter- and intraspecific variability of characters with reported significant variation but commonly used in diosaccin taxonomy. The cladistic analysis, based on 14 binary characters, reveals at least three distinct clades among five new species, which, in addition to significant size differences, probably facilitates their syntopy. Some characters previously used to distinguish species groups in Sarsamphiascus, and to distinguish this genus from other diosaccins, are exposed as symplesiomorphies, suggesting that some of these groups might not be monophyletic. Studies of alternative characters are suggested, including cuticular organs on somites, which are surveyed for the first time in this genus. Principal component analysis (PCA) of nine landmarks on the female fifth leg exopod reveals that 70% of variability can be explained by the first two eigenvectors and that in morphospace there is no overlap between Korean species, despite a significant intraspecific variability. Discriminant function analysis with cross-validation shows highly significant results, both in parametric tests and after 10,000 permutation runs, correctly classifying all specimens for all species pairs and suggesting the fifth leg exopod as an ideal taxonomic character here. Evolutionary integration of the morphometric data is tested by plotting PCA scores onto the cladistic tree; randomized permutation test suggests an absence of statistically significant phylogenetic signal. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:31913865-E23D-4E76-97B0-2F6D791E717A
Calibration of the Polarimetric GNSS-R Sensor in the Rongowai Mission
Creators: name: Bai, Dinan
name: Ruf, Christopher S.
name: Moller, Delwyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarimetric GNSS-R systems, equipped with an additional polarization channel, offer enhanced capabilities for separating vegetation and surface scattering effects, thereby improving GNSS-R land remote sensing applications such as soil moisture retrieval in vegetated and forested areas and biomass estimation. However, the effectiveness of these applications relies on accurate calibration of the polarimetric GNSS-R sensor. In the Rongowai mission, a newly developed Next Generation GNSS-R Receiver (NGRx) is installed on a domestic Air New Zealand airplane to collect data during its commercial flights. The NGRx processes multi-GNSS satellite signals simultaneously and utilizes a dual-channel (LHCP and RHCP) antenna, thereby improving spatial coverage and retrieval accuracy. The dual-polarized antenna also provides the possibility to examine the polarimetric GNSS-R system. In this article, a new methodology is developed to calibrate the Level-1 power measurement and the on-board antenna cross-pol gain by comparing measurements from inland lakes and ocean with modeled results. The calibration results in a 34% decrease in the uncertainty in co-pol reflectivity retrieval. The retrieved cross-pol and co-pol reflectivity after calibration are examined by their statistical distribution and spatial mapping with 1.5 km resolution, with multi-land surface types and incidence angles. These results validate the effectiveness of the calibration method and pave the way for future terrestrial science applications.
Exploring the Antibacterial Potential of Delphinium denudatum and Citrus limon Against Klebsiella pneumoniae: In Vitro and Computational Insights into Key Virulence Enzymes
Creators: name: Jain, Monika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Klebsiella pneumoniae
subject: Limonin
subject: Panicutine
subject: Infectious disease

description: This contains the Docking, Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation related files and Experimental files of GC-MS and MTT assay.
Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Hydrophyllaceae and Namaceae, with a special reference to Phacelia and Wigandia
Creators: name: Maria-Anna Vasile
name: Jeiter, Julius
name: Weigend, Maximilian
name: Luebert, Federico
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study aimed to examine the systematic position of South American species of Phacelia (Hydrophyllaceae) and Wigandia (Namaceae) and the historical biogeography of Hydrophyllaceae and Namaceae using molecular dating and ancestral area reconstruction. To this end, we constructed two datasets, one with a plastid (ndhF) and one with a nuclear marker (ITS), using previously published and newly generated sequences. We inferred the phylogeny of Hydrophyllaceae and Namaceae implementing both likelihood and Bayesian methods. We also estimated divergence times and ancestral areas for all major clades using a relaxed Bayesian uncorrelated molecular clock and the dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis (DEC) approach, respectively. The South American representatives of Phacelia are placed in three different clades of the genus and two colonizations of South America by North American species took place in the Miocene and at least one in the late Pliocene. Wigandia forms a well-supported monophylum with interspecific relationships partly unresolved. Within Namaceae a colonization of South America by North American species occurred during the Oligocene–Miocene transition. The MRCA of Wigandia was distributed in North and Central America in late Oligocene. Long-distance dispersal may have been necessary for the colonization of South America by Namaceae during the Oligocene–Miocene transition, when North and South America were not connected.
Automated and Distributed Statistical Analysis of Economic Agent-Based Models
Creators: name: Vandin, Andrea
name: Giachini, Daniele
name: Lamperti, Francesco
name: Chiaromonte, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel approach to the statistical analysis of stochastic simulation models and, especially, agent-based models (ABMs). Our main goal is to provide fully automated, model-independent and tool-supported techniques and algorithms to inspect simulations and perform counterfactual analysis. Our approach: (i) is easy-to-use by the modeller, (ii) improves reproducibility of results, (iii) optimizes running time given the modeller's machine, (iv) automatically chooses the number of required simulations and simulation steps to reach user-specified statistical confidence, and (v) automates a variety of statistical tests. In particular, our techniques are designed to distinguish the transient dynamics of the model from its steady-state behaviour (if any), estimate properties in both 'phases', and provide indications on the (non-)ergodic nature of the simulated processes - which, in turn, allows one to gauge the reliability of a steady-state analysis. Estimates are equipped with statistical guarantees, allowing for robust comparisons across computational experiments. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we apply it to two models from the literature: a large-scale macro-financial ABM and a small scale prediction market model. Compared to prior analyses of these models, we obtain new insights and we are able to identify and fix some erroneous conclusions.
Allocapnia forbesi Frison 1929
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Kondratieff, Boris C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Allocapnia
Allocapnia forbesi

description: Allocapnia forbesi Frison (Figs. 7-12) Allocapnia forbesi Frison 1929:397. Holotype ♂ (Illinois Natural History Survey), tributary North Hicks Branch, Herod [Pope Co.], Illinois Allocapnia forbesi cornuta Frison 1935:363. Holotype ♂ (Illinois Natural History Survey), Hills Branch Creek, Dixon Springs [Pope Co.], Illinois, syn. Illies, 1966:123. Allocapnia forbesi: Ross & Ricker, 1971:35. Material examined. Kentucky: Adair Co., tributary Big Creek, Hwy 268, west of Milltown, 3 March 2001, B.C. Kondratieff, R.F. Kirchner, R. E. Zuellig, 7♂ (CSUC). Marion Co., Conley Creek, Hwy 49, 3 March 2001, B.C. Kondratieff, R.F. Kirchner, R.E. Zuellig, 2♂ (CSUC). Ohio: Hamilton Co., Cincinnati, French Park, 31 January 1953, A. R. Gaufin, 1♂ (BPS). Male epiproct. Apical segment of upper limb ca. 180 μm long, swollen at midlength but not bearing ear- like lobes; median field of apical segment bearing a patch of wave-like spikes ca. 178 μm long and narrowly divided along entire length by groove (Figs. 7-10); greatest width of apical segment ca. 162 μm, narrowed to apical width of ca. 87 μm (Fig. 9). Basal segment of upper limb ca. 437 μm long and ca. 89 μm wide at narrowest point near midlength (Fig. 8). Lateral areas of basal segment appearing bare; median area with longitudinal groove. Lower limb ca. 139 μm wide proximal to apical spoon. Male tergal process. Prominent raised structures on abdominal terga 7 and 8 (Figs. 7, 10-12). Process of tergum 7 somewhat conical, but broadly rounded on dorsum (Fig. 11); apex without scale-like structures. Process of tergum 8 broadly and deeply notched with lobes resting on a narrow, plateau-like structure (Figs. 8, 10, 12); dorsal outline of lobes subtriangular and covered over most of surface with scale-like structures; basal width of notch ca. 42 μm, dorsal width across lobes ca. 211 μm.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Kondratieff, Boris C., 2012, Epiproct And Dorsal Process Structure In The Allocapnia Forbesi Frison, A. Pygmaea (Burmeister), And A. Rickeri Frison Species Groups (Plecoptera: Capniidae), And Inclusion Of A. Minima (Newport) In A New Species Group, pp. 45-77 in Illiesia 8 (5) on pages 47-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760725
description: {"references": ["Frison, T. H. 1929. Fall and winter stoneflies or Plecoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 18: 340 - 409.", "Frison, T. H. 1935. The stoneflies, or Plecoptera, of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Natural History Survey, 22: 281 - 471.", "Ross, H. H. & W. E. Ricker. 1971. The classification, evolution, and dispersal of the winter stonefly genus Allocapnia. Illinois Biological Monographs 45: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 166 pp."]}
Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana
Creators: name: Kanmiki, Edmund
name: Bawah, Ayaga A.
name: Agorinya, Isaiah
name: Achana, Fabian
name: Awoonor-Williams, John
name: Oduro, Abraham
name: Phillips, James F.
name: Akazili, James
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Children--Mortality
subject: Rural women--Health and hygiene
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Public health
subject: Epidemiology

description: Background: In spite of global decline in under-five mortality, the goal of achieving MDG 4 still remains largely unattained in low and middle income countries as the year 2015 closes-in. To accelerate the pace of mortality decline, proven interventions with high impact need to be implemented to help achieve the goal of drastically reducing childhood mortality. This paper explores the association between socio-economic and demographic factors and under-five mortality in an impoverished region in rural northern Ghana.
Methods: We used survey data on 3975 women aged 15–49 who have ever given birth. First, chi-square test was used to test the association of social, economic and demographic characteristics of mothers with the experience of under-five death. Subsequently, we ran a logistic regression model to estimate the relative association of factors that influence childhood mortality after excluding variables that were not significant at the bivariate level.
Results: Factors that significantly predict under-five mortality included mothers’ educational level, presence of co-wives, age and marital status. Mothers who have achieved primary or junior high school education were 45% less likely to experience under-five death than mothers with no formal education at all (OR = 0.55, p < 0.001). Monogamous women were 22% less likely to experience under-five deaths than mothers in polygamous marriages (OR = 0.78, p = 0.01). Similarly, mothers who were between the ages of 35 and 49 were about eleven times more likely to experience under-five deaths than those below the age of 20 years (OR = 11.44, p < 0.001). Also, women who were married had a 27% less likelihood (OR = 0.73, p = 0.01) of experiencing an under-five death than those who were single, divorced or widowed.
Conclusion: Taken independently, maternal education, age, marital status and presence of co-wives are associated with childhood mortality. The relationship of these indicators with women’s autonomy, health seeking behavior, and other factors that affect child survival merit further investigation so that interventions could be designed to foster reductions in child mortality by considering the needs and welfare of women including the need for female education, autonomy and socioeconomic well-being.
Echimys G. Cuvier 1809
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Echimyidae
Echimys

description: Echimys G. Cuvier, 1809. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 24:394. COMMENT: Formerly included armatus which is the type species of the genus Makalata Husson, 1978:445. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410029005000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 587, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls."]}
title: Religion and Critique – Jacques Ellul’s Concept in the Perspective of General Pedagogy
Creators: name: Humeniuk, Monika
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2019

description: For general pedagogy, the concept of Jacques Ellul is an important example of solving the tension between religious and critical-emancipation engagement, which are usually involved in the theory of education in a separate way. We are able to give many examples of educational trends or ideologies that are within religious education and that dogmatically defend against criticism, as well as critical education, which in principle distrusts communities that are based on confessional devotion to religious principles and practices. Hence the Ellul’s concept that links Christianity and anarchy, from the perspective of general pedagogy is an important complement to its efforts to create a map of directions and currents of contemporary pedagogy.