cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The associations of parity and maternal age with small-for-gestational-age, preterm, and neonatal and infant mortality: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sania, Ayesha
name: Vaidya, Anjana
name: Christian, Parul
name: Mongkolchati, Aroonsri
name: Barros, Fernando
name: Ntozini, Robert
name: Tielsch, James
name: Caulfield, Laura E
name: Katz, Joanne
name: Fawzi, Wafaie
name: Adair, Linda
name: Silveira, Mariangela F
name: Vogel, Joshua P
name: Humphrey, Jean
name: Black, Robert E
name: Huybregts, Lieven
name: Osrin, David
name: Lee, Anne CC
name: Kozuki, Naoko
name: Roberfroid, Dominique
name: Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) Small-for-Gestational-Age-Preterm Birth Working Group
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background Previous studies have reported on adverse neonatal outcomes associated with parity and maternal age. Many of these studies have relied on cross-sectional data, from which drawing causal inference is complex. We explore the associations between parity/maternal age and adverse neonatal outcomes using data from cohort studies conducted in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods Data from 14 cohort studies were included. Parity (nulliparous, parity 1-2, parity ≥3) and maternal age (<18 years, 18-<35 years, ≥35 years) categories were matched with each other to create exposure categories, with those who are parity 1-2 and age 18-<35 years as the reference. Outcomes included small-for-gestational-age (SGA), preterm, neonatal and infant mortality. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) were calculated per study and meta-analyzed. Results Nulliparous, age <18 year women, compared with women who were parity 1-2 and age 18-<35 years had the highest odds of SGA (pooled adjusted OR: 1.80), preterm (pooled aOR: 1.52), neonatal mortality (pooled aOR: 2.07), and infant mortality (pooled aOR: 1.49). Increased odds were also noted for SGA and neonatal mortality for nulliparous/age 18-<35 years, preterm, neonatal, and infant mortality for parity ≥3/age 18-<35 years, and preterm and neonatal mortality for parity ≥3/≥35 years. Conclusions Nulliparous women <18 years of age have the highest odds of adverse neonatal outcomes. Family planning has traditionally been the least successful in addressing young age as a risk factor; a renewed focus must be placed on finding effective interventions that delay age at first birth. Higher odds of adverse outcomes are also seen among parity ≥3 / age ≥35 mothers, suggesting that reproductive health interventions need to address the entirety of a woman’s reproductive period. Funding Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (810-2054) by a grant to the US Fund for UNICEF to support the activities of the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group.
Rubus tereticaulis Ph. J. Müller
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: R. tereticaulis Ph. J. Müller Ssp.saxetanus (Sudre) R. Keller und ssp. Fischer-Oosteri (Sudre) R. Keller - l: Les Marecottes (Coquoz).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Schaltbare mono- und multinukleare Eisen-Molekülkomplexe mit Hauptgruppenmetallbrücken
Creators: name: Jung, Stefan
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multinuclear
subject: spin-crossover
subject: Multinuklear
subject: Mößbauer
subject: Spincrossover
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: [no abstract]
Analytical modeling of thin film neutron converters and its application to thermal neutron gas detectors
Creators: name: Piscitelli, Francesco
name: Van Esch, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple model is explored mainly analytically to calculate and understand the PHS of single and multi-layer thermal neutron detectors and to help optimize the design in different circumstances. Several theorems are deduced that can help guide the design.
A Method for Analyzing Censored Survival Phenotype with Gene Expression Data
Creators: name: Li, Ker-Chau
name: Chen, Chun-Houh
name: Wu, Tongtong
name: Yuan, Shinsheng
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Survival time is an important clinical trait for many disease studies. Previous works have shown certain relationship between patients' gene expression profiles and survival time. However, due to the censoring effects of survival time and the high dimensionality of gene expression data, effective and unbiased selection of a gene expression signature to predict survival probabilities requires further study. Method We propose a method for an integrated study of survival time and gene expression. This method can be summarized as a two-step procedure: in the first step, a moderate number of genes are pre-selected using correlation or liquid association (LA). Imputation and transformation methods are employed for the correlation/LA calculation. In the second step, the dimension of the predictors is further reduced using the modified sliced inverse regression for censored data (censorSIR). Results The new method is tested via both simulated and real data. For the real data application, we employed a set of 295 breast cancer patients and found a linear combination of 22 gene expression profiles that are significantly correlated with patients' survival rate. Conclusion By an appropriate combination of feature selection and dimension reduction, we find a method of identifying gene expression signatures which is effective for survival prediction.
Kommunale Rechnungslegung : eine kritische Würdigung von Rechnungszwecken, -zielen und -inhalten
Creators: name: Kiaman, Oliver
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Municipal accounting
subject: double-entry bookkeeping
subject: purpose of accounting
subject: Kommunale Rechnungslegung
subject: kommunale Doppik
subject: Zwecke der Rechnungslegung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::650 | Management

description: [no abstract]
A statistical classification of the unassociated gamma-ray sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog
Creators: name: Mao, Zhu
name: Yu, Yun-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With assistance of the identified/associated sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog, we analyze and resolve the spatial distribution and the distributions of the gamma-ray spectral and variability indices of the remaining 575 unassociated Fermi LAT sources. Consequently, it is suggested that the unassociated sources could statistically consist of Galactic supernova remnants/pulsar wind nebulae, BL Lacertae objects, flat spectrum radio quasars, and other types of active galaxies with fractions of 25%, 29%, 41%, and 5%, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA)
[DeWitt Clinton's report on possible sources of water supply for New York City]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1833
Subjects: Waterworks--New York (State)--New York.
Water-supply engineering--New York (State)--New York.

description: Clinton's report analyzes the various plans for supplying New York City with additional water. His final recommendation is to take water from the Croton River via aqueduct. Other reports are appended to this report
The Effect of Chirp on Pulse Compression at a Group Velocity Horizon
Creators: name: Babushkin, Ihar
name: Amiranashvili, Shalva
name: Bree, Carsten
name: Morgner, Uwe
name: Steinmeyer, Günter
name: Demircan, Ayhan
Publisher: name: Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: chirp
subject: Pulse compression
subject: ultrafast optics
subject: Waveguides
subject: Adiabatic engines
subject: Light velocity
subject: Phase matching
subject: Phase modulation
subject: Solitons
subject: Adiabatic compression
subject: Cross phase modulation
subject: Fundamental solitons
subject: Nonlinear interactions
subject: Optical switching applications
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Group-velocity matched cross-phase modulation between a fundamental soliton and a dispersive wave packet has been previously suggested for optical switching applications similar to an optical transistor. Moreover, the nonlinear interaction in the resulting group-velocity horizon can be exploited for adiabatic compression of the soliton down into the few-cycle regime. Here, we study the delicate phase- and frequency-matching mechanism of soliton/dispersive wave interaction by controlling the input chirp of the dispersive wave. We demonstrate that such a modification of the dispersive wave can significantly alter the soliton dynamics. In particular, we show that it allows a decrease of the fiber length needed for the best compression and, to some extent, control of the trajectory of the soliton. The mechanism of such an influence is related to the modification of the phase-matching condition between the soliton and dispersive wave.
Blind Calibration in Compressed Sensing using Message Passing Algorithms
Creators: name: Schülke, Christophe
name: Caltagirone, Francesco
name: Krzakala, Florent
name: Zdeborová, Lenka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compressed sensing (CS) is a concept that allows to acquire compressible signals with a small number of measurements. As such it is very attractive for hardware implementations. Therefore, correct calibration of the hardware is a central is- sue. In this paper we study the so-called blind calibration, i.e. when the training signals that are available to perform the calibration are sparse but unknown. We extend the approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm used in CS to the case of blind calibration. In the calibration-AMP, both the gains on the sensors and the elements of the signals are treated as unknowns. Our algorithm is also applica- ble to settings in which the sensors distort the measurements in other ways than multiplication by a gain, unlike previously suggested blind calibration algorithms based on convex relaxations. We study numerically the phase diagram of the blind calibration problem, and show that even in cases where convex relaxation is pos- sible, our algorithm requires a smaller number of measurements and/or signals in order to perform well.
Making ballots more user friendly : recommendations based on a survey experiment = Stimmzettel nutzerfreundlicher gestalten : Empfehlungen auf Grundlage eines Survey-Experimentes
Creators: name: Nyhuis, Dominic
name: Jankowski, Michael
name: Münchow, Felix
name: Harmening, Morten
name: Bruns, Jannik
name: Holly, Max
name: Karacic, Josip
name: Hönnige, Christoph
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ballots
subject: Discrete choice experiments
subject: Experiments
subject: Local elections
subject: Survey experiments
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::320 | Politik

description: This paper takes the considerable variation in ballot design as a point of departure to ask which ballot features are preferred by voters. Using a discrete choice experiment as part of an online survey of 1200 German participants, we asked respondents to choose among fictious ballots that differed in terms of the information about the electoral system, information about the candidates, and the ballot design. The results show that respondents are opposed to lengthy explanations of the electoral system, but they are also critical when the explanation is too brief. Providing the candidates’ occupations and ages is welcomed, whereas candidate addresses are viewed with more skepticism. Overall, comprehension is the most important criterion for ballot evaluation. Based on the results, we discuss features of good ballots and present an example of a well-designed ballot. © 2020, The Author(s).
description: Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt die große empirische Vielfalt in der Gestaltung von Stimmzetteln zum Anlass, um sich mit Frage zu beschäftigen, welche Stimmzettelmerkmale von Wählerinnen und Wählern gewünscht werden. Dazu greift die Studie auf ein Discrete-Choice-Experiment im Rahmen eines Online-Surveys mit rund 1200 deutschen Teilnehmenden zurück. Im Experiment entscheiden sich die Teilnehmenden zwischen fiktiven Stimmzetteln, die sich im Hinblick auf die Informationen zum Wahlsystem, die Informationen zu den Kandidierenden und das Design unterschieden. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass die Teilnehmenden einer zu ausführlichen, aber auch einer zu knappen Erläuterung des Wahlsystems kritisch gegenüberstehen. Weiterhin schätzen die Teilnehmenden die Angabe von Beruf und Alter der Kandidierenden, während die Angabe von Kandidatenadressen skeptischer bewertet wird. Zudem kann festgestellt werden, dass die Verständlichkeit das wichtigste Kriterium für die Bewertung von Stimmzetteln ist. Auf Grundlage der Befunde werden Merkmale geeigneter Stimmzettel herausgearbeitet und ein gelungener Stimmzettel vorgestellt.
Non-standard scaling law of fluctuations in finite-size systems of globally coupled oscillators
Creators: name: Nishikawa, Isao
name: Tanaka, Gouhei
name: Aihara, Kazuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Universal scaling laws form one of the central issues in physics. A non-standard scaling law or a breakdown of a standard scaling law, on the other hand, can often lead to the finding of a new universality class in physical systems. Recently, we found that a statistical quantity related to fluctuations follows a non-standard scaling law with respect to system size in a synchronized state of globally coupled non-identical phase oscillators [Nishikawa et al., Chaos $\boldsymbol{22}$, 013133 (2012)]. However, it is still unclear how widely this non-standard scaling law is observed. In the present paper, we discuss the conditions required for the unusual scaling law in globally coupled oscillator systems, and we validate the conditions by numerical simulations of several different models.
Quark and Leptonic Mixing Patterns from the Breakdown of a Common Discrete Flavor Symmetry
Creators: name: Holthausen, Martin
name: Lim, Kher Sham
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: Assuming the Majorana nature of neutrinos, we recently performed a scan of leptonic mixing patterns derived from finite discrete groups of order less than 1536. Here we show that the 3 groups identified there as giving predictions close to experiment, also contain another class of abelian subgroups that predict an interesting leading order quark mixing pattern where only the Cabibbo angle is generated at leading order. We further broaden our study by assuming that neutrinos are Dirac particles and find 4 groups of order up to 200 that can predict acceptable quark and leptonic mixing angles. Since large flavor groups allow for a multitude of leading order mixing patterns, we define a measure that is suitable to compare the predictivity of a given flavor group taking this fact into account. We give the result of this measure for a wide range of discrete flavor groups and identify the group (Z_18 \times Z_6) \rtimes S_3 as being most predictive in the sense of this measure. We further discuss alternative measures and their implications.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Rubus hirtus Waldst. et Kit.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: R. hirtus Waldst. et Kit. l: Les Marecottes (Coquoz); Outre-Rhöne, bis 1540 m (Garns). Var. offensus (Ph. J. Müller) R. Keller - l: Outre-Rhone (Garns). Ssp. Guentheri (Weihe et Nees) R. Keller - l: Salvan (Schmidely). Ssp.nigricatus (Ph.J. Müller et Lefevre) R. Keller - l: Les Marecottes (Coquoz). Forma quinquefoliolatus R. Keller - l: Planajeur bei Salvan (Coquoz). Ssp. glaucinellus (Sudre) R. Keller f. pseudo-Villarsianus R. Keller - l: Leizettes (Coquoz). Ssp.Kaltenbachii(Metsch) R.Keller var.rubiginosus (Ph. J. Müller) R. Keller - l: Les Marecottes (Coquoz). Ssp. trachyadenes (Sudre) R. Keller - l: Outre-Rhone (Garns).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Revealing the Microscopic Real-Space Excursion of a Laser-Driven Electron
Creators: name: Kurz, Heiko G.
name: Kretschmar, Martin
name: Binhammer, Thomas
name: Nagy, Tamas
name: Ristau, Detlev
name: Lein, Manfred
name: Morgner, Uwe
name: Kovacev, Milutin
Publisher: name: College Park : American Physical Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: high-harmonic-generation
subject: rare-gases
subject: radiation
subject: ionization
subject: pulses
subject: time
subject: interferometry
subject: molecules
subject: dynamics
subject: orbitals
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: High-order harmonic spectroscopy allows one to extract information on fundamental quantum processes, such as the exit time in the tunneling of an electron through a barrier with attosecond time resolution and molecular structure with angstrom spatial resolution. Here, we study the spatial motion of the electron during high-order harmonic generation in an in situ pump-probe measurement using high-density liquid water droplets as a target. We show that molecules adjacent to the emitting electron-ion pair can disrupt the electron's trajectory when positioned within the range of the maximum electronic excursion distance. This allows us to use the parent ion and the neighboring molecules as boundaries for the electronic motion to measure the maximum electronic excursion distance during the high-order harmonic generation process. Our analysis of the process is relevant for optimizing high-harmonic yields in dense media.
Kupfer-katalysierte oxidative Decarbonylierung chiraler Aldehyde und Untersuchungen zur Umpolung von Allyl-Palladium-Komplexen
Creators: name: Kipke, Andreas
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Decarbonylation
subject: nitroxide
subject: palladium catalysis
subject: Decarbonylierung
subject: TEMPO
subject: N-Alkoxyamin
subject: Palladiumkatalyse
subject: Umpolung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: [no abstract]
How can science be well-ordered in times of crisis? Learning from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Creators: name: Reydon, Thomas A. C.
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Common good
subject: Well-ordered science
subject: Betacoronavirus
subject: Coronavirus infection
subject: human
subject: methodology
subject: organization and management
subject: pandemic
subject: physiology
subject: research
subject: virus pneumonia
subject: Coronavirus Infections
subject: Humans
subject: Pandemics
subject: Pneumonia, Viral
subject: Research
subject: Research Design
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::900 | Geschichte und Geografie

description: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic constituted a crisis situation in which science was very far from Kitcher’s ideal of well-ordered science. I suggest that this could and should have been different. Kitcher’s ideal should play a role in assessing the allocation of research resources in future crisis situations, as it provides a way to balance highly divergent interests and incorporate the common good into decision-making processes on research. © 2020, The Author(s).
Multicolour-metallicity Relations from Globular Clusters in NGC 4486 (M87)
Creators: name: Forte, Juan C.
name: Faifer, Favio R.
name: Vega, E. Irene
name: Bassino, Lilia P.
name: Castelli, Analia V. Smith
name: Cellone, Sergio A.
name: Geisler, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Gemini griz photometry for 521 globular cluster (GC) candidates in a 5.5 x 5.5 arcmin field centered 3.8 arcmin to the south and 0.9 arcmin to the west of the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4486. All these objects have previously published (C-T1) photometry. We also present new (C-T1) photometry for 338 globulars, within 1.7 arcmin in galactocentric radius, which have (g-z) colors in the photometric system adopted by the Virgo Cluster Survey of the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the Hubble Space Telescope. These photometric data are used to define a self-consistent multicolor grid (avoiding polynomial fits) and preliminary calibrated in terms of two chemical abundance scales. The resulting multicolor color-chemical abundance relations are used to test GC chemical abundance distributions. This is accomplished by modelling the ten GC color histograms that can be defined in terms of the Cgriz bands. Our results suggest that the best fit to the GC observed color histograms is consistent with a genuinely bimodal chemical abundance distribution NGC(Z). On the other side, each (blue and red) GC subpopulation follows a distinct color-color relation.
description: 12 pages, 21 figures, 8 tables. Accepted to be published in MNRAS
[Deed for land in Windor Terrace, Brooklyn]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1900
Subjects: Landowners--New York (State)--New York.
Real property--New York (State)--New York.
Deeds--New York (State)--New York--Specimens.

description: Deed from sellers George and Apolonia Riegel to buyer Emma B. Riegel for land in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
Tiotropium might improve survival in subjects with COPD at high risk of mortality
Creators: name: Burgel, Pierre-Régis
name: Paillasseur, Jean-Louis
name: Roche, Nicolas
name: Furtwaengler, Armin
name: Liu, Yufeng
name: Liu, Dacheng
name: Dusser, Daniel
name: Decramer, Marc
name: Metzdorf, Norbert
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background Inhaled therapies reduce risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, but their effect on mortality is less well established. We hypothesized that heterogeneity in baseline mortality risk influenced the results of drug trials assessing mortality in COPD. Methods The 5706 patients with COPD from the Understanding Potential Long-term Impacts on Function with Tiotropium (UPLIFT®) study that had complete clinical information for variables associated with mortality (age, forced expiratory volume in 1 s, St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire, pack-years and body mass index) were classified by cluster analysis. Baseline risk of mortality between clusters, and impact of tiotropium were evaluated during the 4-yr follow up. Results Four clusters were identified, including low-risk (low mortality rate) patients (n = 2339; 41%; cluster 2), and high-risk patients (n = 1022; 18%; cluster 3), who had a 2.6- and a six-fold increase in all-cause and respiratory mortality compared with cluster 2, respectively. Tiotropium reduced exacerbations in all clusters, and reduced hospitalizations in high-risk patients (p < 0.05). The beneficial effect of tiotropium on all-cause mortality in the overall population (hazard ratio, 0.87; 95% confidence interval, 0.75–1.00, p = 0.054) was explained by a 21% reduction in cluster 3 (p = 0.07), with no effect in other clusters. Conclusions Large variations in baseline risks of mortality existed among patients in the UPLIFT® study. Inclusion of numerous low-risk patients may have reduced the ability to show beneficial effect on mortality. Future clinical trials should consider selective inclusion of high-risk patients.
GPU Acclerated Automated Feature Extraction from Satellite Images
Creators: name: Tejaswi, K. Phani
name: Rao, D. Shanmukha
name: Nair, Thara
name: Prasad, A. V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The availability of large volumes of remote sensing data insists on higher degree of automation in feature extraction, making it a need of the hour.The huge quantum of data that needs to be processed entails accelerated processing to be enabled.GPUs, which were originally designed to provide efficient visualization, are being massively employed for computation intensive parallel processing environments. Image processing in general and hence automated feature extraction, is highly computation intensive, where performance improvements have a direct impact on societal needs. In this context, an algorithm has been formulated for automated feature extraction from a panchromatic or multispectral image based on image processing techniques. Two Laplacian of Guassian (LoG) masks were applied on the image individually followed by detection of zero crossing points and extracting the pixels based on their standard deviation with the surrounding pixels. The two extracted images with different LoG masks were combined together which resulted in an image with the extracted features and edges. Finally the user is at liberty to apply the image smoothing step depending on the noise content in the extracted image. The image is passed through a hybrid median filter to remove the salt and pepper noise from the image. This paper discusses the aforesaid algorithm for automated feature extraction, necessity of deployment of GPUs for the same; system-level challenges and quantifies the benefits of integrating GPUs in such environment. The results demonstrate that substantial enhancement in performance margin can be achieved with the best utilization of GPU resources and an efficient parallelization strategy. Performance results in comparison with the conventional computing scenario have provided a speedup of 20x, on realization of this parallelizing strategy.
Rekombinante Produktion eines Kollagen-mimetischen Proteins in Komagataella phaffii (syn. Pichia pastoris)
Creators: name: Schneider-Barthold, Caroline
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Collagen-mimetic protein
subject: ECM
subject: methanol induction
subject: methanol sensor
subject: Kollagen-mimetisches Protein
subject: extrazelluläre Matrix
subject: Fermentation
subject: Methanolsensor
subject: Pichia pastoris
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::660 | Technische Chemie

description: [no abstract]
Effects of CEO power: evidence from labor-friendly practice, customer relationships, and investment efficiency
Creators: name: Bristy, Humyra
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores some of the key corporate governance debates and provides empirical evidence on those issues. It consists of three studies. The first study explores the benefits and costs of granting more power to Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and examines whether a firm with a powerful CEO is associated with a greater investment in labor-friendly policy. A sample of 18,814 firm-year observations from 1996–2016 is used to examine this nexus, with the result showing that firms with powerful CEOs invest less in labor-friendly programs. However, this effect is attenuated for firms in some industries, such as those that are highly competitive, those with a high level of innovation intensity, and those with high labor bargaining power. Policies emphasizing friendliness towards employees are found to enhance firm value in highly competitive industries, in innovation-intensive industries, and in union-intensive industries. The findings thus underscore the importance of industry heterogeneity in understanding the relationship between CEO power and labor-friendly policy. The second study examines the impact of supplier firms’ investment in labor-welfare programs on customer–supplier relationships. Based on a sample of 17,190 United States (US) firm-year observations from 1996–2016, the study finds that suppliers’ employee-friendly practices foster customer–supplier relationship longevity, particularly when suppliers produce a unique product, market competition is high, customers’ switching cost is low, and customers are employee friendly. Further analysis shows that the relationships between suppliers and customers, built through investment in employee-friendly policy, pays off when the market suffers a negative shock. Hence, the result suggests that suppliers’ employee friendliness is a key determinant of customer–supplier relationship longevity. In the third study, the association between CEO power and investment efficiency is examined, distinguishing two different situations, overinvestment and underinvestment. It is found that CEO power distorts firm investment efficiency and that this result is attributed to overinvestment. Moreover, asymmetric information explains the CEO power–investment efficiency nexus. Further analysis shows that the negative effect of CEO power on firm investment efficiency and overinvestment is reduced by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).
Satisfying the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen criterion with massive particles
Creators: name: Peise, Jan
name: Kruse, I.
name: Lange, K.
name: Lücke, Bernd
name: Pezze, L.
name: Arlt, Jan J.
name: Ertmer, Wolfgang
name: Hammerer, Klemens
name: Santos, Luis
name: Smerzi, A.
name: Klempt, Carsten
Publisher: name: London : Macmillan Publishers Limited
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Atomic and molecular physics
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) questioned the completeness of quantum mechanics by devising a quantum state of two massive particles with maximally correlated space and momentum coordinates. The EPR criterion qualifies such continuous-variable entangled states, where a measurement of one subsystem seemingly allows for a prediction of the second subsystem beyond the Heisenberg uncertainty relation. Up to now, continuous-variable EPR correlations have only been created with photons, while the demonstration of such strongly correlated states with massive particles is still outstanding. Here we report on the creation of an EPR-correlated two-mode squeezed state in an ultracold atomic ensemble. The state shows an EPR entanglement parameter of 0.18(3), which is 2.4 s.d. below the threshold 1/4 of the EPR criterion. We also present a full tomographic reconstruction of the underlying many-particle quantum state. The state presents a resource for tests of quantum nonlocality and a wide variety of applications in the field of continuous-variable quantum information and metrology.
Soft Mode in cubic PbTiO3 by Hyper-Raman Scattering
Creators: name: Hlinka, J.
name: Hehlen, B.
name: Kania, A.
name: Gregora, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyper-Raman scattering experiments allowed collecting the spectra of the lowest F1u-symmetry mode of PbTiO3 crystal in the paraelectric phase up to 930K as well as down to about 1K above the phase transition. It is realized that this mode is fully responsible for the Curie-Weiss behavior of its dielectric permittivity above Tc. Near the phase transition, this phonon frequency softens down to 17 cm-1 and its spectrum can be well modeled as a response of a single damped harmonic oscillator. It is concluded that PbTiO3 constitutes a clean example of a soft mode-driven ferroelectric system.
Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among in-school adolescents in Beijing: results from the 2003 Beijing Global School-Based Health Survey
Creators: name: Rudatsikira, Emmanuel
name: Hazemba, Alice
name: Muula, Adamson S
name: Siziya, Seter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Bullying has public health importance. It has been reported that both the victims and perpetrators of bullying are more likely to have suicidal ideation and other suicidal behaviours. Moreover, bullying can be a precursor for school violence and can contribute to poor academic performance. The purpose of the study was to raise awareness on the subject in China. We, therefore conducted an analysis of secondary data to determine the prevalence and correlates of having been bullied among in-school adolescents. Methods The data was taken from the Beijing Global School-Based Health Survey conducted in 2003. A weighted analysis to reduce bias due to differing patterns of non-response was conducted using statistical software (SPSS version 14.0). We conducted a backward logistic regression analysis to determine independent predictors for being bullied. Results Out of a total of 2,348 in-school adolescents who participated in the survey, 20% (23% males, and 17% females) reported having been bullied. Risk factors for having been bullied were loneliness (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.44; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.42–1.45), being worried (AOR = 1.30; 95% CI 1.29–1.32), being sad or having feelings of hopelessness (AOR = 1.21; 95% CI 1.19–1.22), smoking cigarettes (AOR = 1.09; 95% CI 1.08–1.11), drinking alcohol (AOR = 1.31; 95% CI 1.29–1.32), and being truant (AOR = 1.24; 95% CI 1.22–1.27). Meanwhile protective factors were having close friends (AOR = 0.84; 95% CI 0.83–0.86), receiving parental supervision (AOR = 0.80; 95% CI 0.80–0.81), and ever been drunk (AOR = 0.86; 95% CI 0.84–0.87). Conclusion We believe the results of this study will raise awareness among school health practitioners and administrators, paediatric psychiatrists and psychologists on the prevalence and correlates of bullying among adolescents in Beijing, China.
Jovialityjollities and HappinessZTZ and CelebrateCelebrationsChannel aim to improve beneficial impacts for all
Creators: name: JenG Jovialityjollities
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jovialityjollities; HappinessZTZ; CelebrateCelebrationsChannel; alleviate bleakness; heal the world; joyous celebratory moments; mutually beneficial options social impact; diversifying and unifying; global enjoyment

description: Jovialityjollities public benefit tries to have beneficial effect that can be artistic and technological. Although situations may seem dire and difficult, hopefully perhaps showcasing participation in distinctive and unifying peaceful joyous theme activities, such as organizing items of preference into Menorah shapes and/or Tree shapes and/or Kinara shapes and also having option to discuss their own Joyous HappyHoliday theme traditions activities, can encourage doing acts of kindnesses for all, alleviate bleakness for all, and be uplifting to environments. Jovialityjollities To Heal The World Alleviate Bleakness For All projects aim to showcase peaceful joyous celebratory moments for all and achieve socially relevant impacts by using diversifying and unifying joyous theme activities. Jovialityjollities is the first and only ensemble collections to arrange items into myriads of Menorah shapes and arrange items into Tree shapes. Jovialityjollities projects of people participating in distinctive and unifying joyful peaceful HappyHoliday theme activity of arranging items into Menorah shape and/or a Tree shape and/or discussing their joyous Holiday moments is unique and has not been done and currently can bolster social impact of encouraging doing acts of kindnesses for all and alleviating bleakness for all by showcasing participation in unifying peaceful enjoyable activities. Accordingly, it seems global enjoyment activities and showcasing safely celebrating happiness for all can alleviate bleakness for all, help improve societal issues, and be uplifting and healing to environments. Seemingly, Mutually Beneficial social impacts can come in many forms and shapes. Perhaps interviewing and showcasing people participating in distinctive and unifying activities of peaceful joyous HappyHoliday theme activities kid-centric, such as forming objects/items into Menorah shapes and forming objects/items into Tree shapes, can provide social impact entertainment options that can help heal the world.
Provider and client perspectives on maternity care in Namibia: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Viadro, Claire
name: Kalimugogo, Pearl
name: Wesson, Jennifer
name: Katjiuanjo, Puumue
name: Carlough, Martha
name: Hamunime, Ndapewa
name: McQuide, Pamela
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Disrespectful and abusive maternity care is a complex phenomenon. In Namibia, HIV and high maternal mortality ratios make it vital to understand factors affecting maternity care quality. We report on two studies commissioned by Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services. A health worker study examined cultural and structural factors that influence maternity care workers’ attitudes and practices, and a maternal and neonatal mortality study explored community perceptions about maternity care.
                Methods
                The health worker study involved medical officers, matrons, and registered or enrolled nurses working in Namibia’s 35 district and referral hospitals. The study included a survey (N = 281) and 19 focus group discussions. The community study conducted 12 focus groups in five southern regions with recently delivered mothers and relatives.
                Results
                Most participants in the health worker study were experienced maternity care nurses. One-third (31%) of survey respondents reported witnessing or knowing of client mistreatment at their hospital, about half (49%) agreed that “sometimes you have to yell at a woman in labor,” and a third (30%) agreed that pinching or slapping a laboring woman can make her push harder. Nurses were much more likely to agree with these statements than medical officers. Health workers’ commitment to babies’ welfare and stressful workloads were the two primary reasons cited to justify “harsh” behaviors. Respondents who were dissatisfied with their workload were twice as likely to approve of pinching or slapping. Half of the nurses surveyed (versus 14% of medical officers) reported providing care above or beneath their scope of work. The community focus group study identified 14 negative practices affecting clients’ maternity care experiences, including both systemic and health-worker-related practices.
                Conclusions
                Namibia’s public sector hospital maternity units confront health workers and clients with structural and cultural impediments to quality care. Negative interactions between health workers and laboring women were reported as common, despite high health worker commitment to babies’ welfare. Key recommendations include multicomponent interventions that address heavy workloads and other structural factors, educate communities and the media about maternity care and health workers’ roles, incorporate client-centered care into preservice education, and ensure ongoing health worker mentoring and supervision.
Optische In-situ-Analytik photoautotropher Mikroorganismen in einem entwickelten geschlossenen Einweg-Photobioreaktorsystem
Creators: name: Zagermann, Serge Alexander
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cyanobacteria
subject: closed photobioreactor
subject: spectroscopy
subject: polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)
subject: quantification
subject: Cyanobakterien
subject: geschlossener Photobioreaktor
subject: Spektroskopie
subject: in situ
subject: Nostoc muscorum
subject: Polyhydroxybutyrat (PHB)
subject: Raman
subject: Partial least squares Regression (PLS)
subject: Quantifizierung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: [no abstract]
Neue Applikationen der Enzymaufreinigung
Creators: name: Schreiber, Sarah
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Enzymes
subject: biocatalysis
subject: depth filter
subject: protein purification
subject: periodic counter-current chromatography
subject: Enzyme
subject: Biokatalyse,Tiefenfilter
subject: Proteinaufreinigung
subject: Periodic Counter-Current Chromatographie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::660 | Technische Chemie

description: [no abstract]
Cyber-Physical Security: A Game Theory Model of Humans Interacting over Control Systems
Creators: name: Backhaus, Scott
name: Bent, Russell
name: Bono, James
name: Lee, Ritchie
name: Tracey, Brendan
name: Wolpert, David
name: Xie, Dongping
name: Yildiz, Yildiray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent years have seen increased interest in the design and deployment of smart grid devices and control algorithms. Each of these smart communicating devices represents a potential access point for an intruder spurring research into intruder prevention and detection. However, no security measures are complete, and intruding attackers will compromise smart grid devices leading to the attacker and the system operator interacting via the grid and its control systems. The outcome of these machine-mediated human-human interactions will depend on the design of the physical and control systems mediating the interactions. If these outcomes can be predicted via simulation, they can be used as a tool for designing attack-resilient grids and control systems. However, accurate predictions require good models of not just the physical and control systems, but also of the human decision making. In this manuscript, we present an approach to develop such tools, i.e. models of the decisions of the cyber-physical intruder who is attacking the systems and the system operator who is defending it, and demonstrate its usefulness for design.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids pending
Dianthus caesius
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: R. caesius L. l: Trient (J.). - 3:Sembrancher-Champsec (J.); Val de Nendaz (J.). - 4:Binntal (J., Binz). Forma eglandulosus Favrat - l: Bouveret (Mercier). Forma mollifolius Sudre - l: Vernayaz (Coquoz). - 2: Ob Fully (Garns); Leukerbad (Wilczek).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
AuScope Technical Workshop 2022: FAIR & upgrading our geonetwork metadata
Creators: name: Fazio, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR principles
metadata standards
iso19139:2007 XML standard
iso19115-3:2018 XML standard

description: In this talk I outline the FAIR principles, practical reasons for their implementation, how to convert geonetwork geospatial metadata catalogue entries from the iso19139:2007 XML schema implementation to iso19115-3:2018 and how this has benefits in terms of FAIR principles.
description: Funder: AuScope Ltd.
Accumulation of chlorophyll and essential oils in photomixotrophic cell cultures of Citrus sp
Creators: name: Reil, Gerold
name: Berger, Ralf Günter
Publisher: name: Berlin : De Gruyter
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Cell Culture
subject: Citrus
subject: Limonene
subject: Oligoprenoids
subject: Photomixotrophy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Heterotrophically or photomixotrophically initiated callus cultures of Citrus paradisi, C. limon and C.aurantifolia were grown on different nutrient media and under different light regimes. Calli of C.paradisi that contained > 140 mg chlorophyll per kg wet weight accumulated about 40 volatile mono- and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, oxigenated terpenes and aliphatic aldehydes. Upon five subcultivations the best yielding callus contained about 5% (186 mg × kg-1 wet wt) of the volatiles found in peel tissue (exo/mesocarp section), and about the twentyfold amount of that found in the fleshy endocarp. The composition of the essential oils from most of the cell cultures equalled grapefruit peel oil, but was shifted to a more fruit flesh-like composition, after the concentration of gellan gum in the medium was increased from 3 to 9 g per L. C. limon produced 11 monoterpenes and n-nonanal (40 mg × kg-1 wet wt max.), and C.aurantifolia yielded limonene only (4.4 mg × kg-1 wet wt max.). For all of the indicated species chlorophyll content and accumulation of volatiles were positively correlated. Addition of exogenous valencene to suspended cells of C.paradisi led to a stable concentration of the conversion product nootkatone. This stably maintained level suggested that a decreased catabolism of available carbon sources might have accounted for the significant accumulation of essential oil constituents.
On the properties of the mean orbital pseudo-metric
Creators: name: Cai, Fangzhou
name: Kwietniak, Dominik
name: Li, Jian
name: Pourmand, Habibeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a topological dynamical system $(X,T)$, we study properties of the mean orbital pseudo-metric $\bar E$ defined by \[ \bar E(x,y)= \limsup_{n\to\infty } \min_{σ\in S_n}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}d(T^k(x),T^{σ(k)}(y)), \] where $x,y\in X$ and $S_n$ is the permutation group of $\{0,1,\ldots,n-1\}$. Let $\hatω_T(x)$ denote the set of measures quasi-generated by a point $x\in X$. We show that the map $x\mapsto\hatω_T(x)$ is uniformly continuous if $X$ is endowed with the pseudo-metric $\bar E$ and the space of compact subsets of the set of invariant measures is considered with the Hausdorff distance. We also obtain a new characterisation of $\bar E$-continuity, which connects it to other properties studied in the literature, like continuous pointwise ergodicity introduced by Downarowicz and Weiss. Finally, we apply our results to reprove some known results on $\bar E$-continuous and mean equicontinuous systems.