cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fiat poena ruat iustitiam? Investigating endorsement of retribution and its role in mens rea attribution
Creators: name: Nadler, Roland Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In the past decade, a proliferation of discussion at the intersection of law and neuroscience has highlighted the significance of public attitudes toward punishment, with claims frequently made regarding the popularity or prospects of retributivism – the position in punishment theory that privileges desert as the basis of punitive action. However, no well-validated instrument for measuring endorsement of retribution has been available to ground the discussion in empirical data, and little attention has been paid to the possibility that an individual’s views on retributivism may interact with judgments about intention and knowledge underwriting the imputation of mens rea (“guilty mind”). In Chapter 1, I construct and validate a new Endorsement of Retribution scale. In Chapter 2, I detail the design and results of a study that employs the new scale, investigating the relationship between participants’ Endorsement of Retribution scores and their likelihood of judging that a hypothetical defendant’s actions met a specific standard of guilt. The data from this study provided no support for the hypothesis that Endorsement of Retribution score is associated with an increased tendency to convict for legally irrelevant reasons. Moreover, highly retributive respondents were no more likely than other respondents to vote guilty for any reason, legally relevant or not. However, respondents were vastly more likely to convict an ostensibly nefarious character than an ostensibly morally upstanding one, regardless of retributive inclinations. These results highlight a previously acknowledged need to address the problem of cognitive biases in the reasoning that jurors are called upon to perform, while also serving as a reminder that the causal roots of such biases defy simple single-factor explanations, and partly dispelling the worry that attitudes about punishment constitute a major contributor in this regard.
Defining “low-carb” in the scientific literature: A scoping review of clinical studies
Creators: name: Chacón, Violeta
name: Cara, Kelly C.
name: Chung, Mei
name: Wallace, Taylor C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: There remains a lack of scientific consensus on what level of carbohydrate intake constitutes low-carbohydrate diets. We conducted a scoping review to understand how low-carbohydrate diets were defined in the peer-reviewed literature. We followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement scoping review extension. Three electronic databases were searched for clinical studies in English. We identified 508 articles (317 randomized controlled, 99 cross-over, 33 before-and-after, 12 non-randomized, and 47 other clinical trials). Most examined effects of low-carbohydrate diets in healthy adults (62.4%), 40 to 59 years old (55.5%), with obesity or overweight (66.1%). The majority reported effects on weight or body composition (29.9%), diabetes (18.7%), or cardiovascular risk factors (12.9%) as primary outcomes. Most articles (56.9%) reported percent of energy from carbohydrates, and of those, 60.3% defined low-carbohydrate diets as being ≤30% of energy from carbohydrates. Some articles (22.9%) reported grams of carbohydrates per day, and of those, most defined low-carbohydrate diets as being under ∼100 grams of carbohydrates per day. Systematic reviews and dose-response meta-regressions utilizing patient-level data on carbohydrate intake, status markers (e.g., RQ/ketones), and health outcomes would be useful in informing consensus around a standardized definition.
Exclusion Principle for Quantum Dense Coding
Creators: name: Prabhu, R.
name: Pati, Arun Kumar
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the classical capacity of quantum states, as quantified by its ability to perform dense coding, respects an exclusion principle, for arbitrary pure or mixed three-party states in any dimension. This states that no two bipartite states which are reduced states of a common tripartite quantum state can have simultaneous quantum advantage in dense coding. The exclusion principle is robust against noise. Such principle also holds for arbitrary number of parties. This exclusion principle is independent of the content and distribution of entanglement in the multipartite state. We also find a strict monogamy relation for multi-port classical capacities of multi-party quantum states in arbitrary dimensions. In the scenario of two senders and a single receiver, we show that if two of them wish to send classical information to a single receiver independently, then the corresponding dense coding capacities satisfy the monogamy relation, similar to the one for quantum correlations.
description: v2: 6 pages, RevTeX 4, title changed, previous results unchanged, new results added
Quantum interferometry with and without an external phase reference
Creators: name: Jarzyna, Marcin
name: Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the role of an external phase reference in quantum interferometry. We point out inconsistencies in the literature with regard to the use of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) in phase estimation interferometric schemes. We discuss the interferometric schemes with and without an external phase reference and show a proper way to use QFI in both situations.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures (formulas corrected, conclusions unchanged)
Negative Call Prices
Creators: name: Ruf, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We show that the existence of an equivalent local martingale measure for asset prices does not prevent negative prices for European calls written on positive stock prices. In particular, we illustrate that many standard no-arbitrage arguments implicitly rely on conditions stronger than the No Free Lunch With Vanishing Risk (NFLVR) assumption. The discrepancy between replicating prices and market prices for a contingent claim may be observed in a model satisfying NFLVR since certain trading strategies of buying one portfolio and selling another one are often excluded by standard admissibility constraints.
description: minor changes. Accepted for publication in Annals of Finance
Volatile transport on inhomogeneous surfaces: I. Analytic expressions, with application to Pluto's day
Creators: name: Young, Leslie A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytic expression for the variation in surface and sub-surface temperature is developed for worlds whose surface pressures are nearly constant with latitude and longitude and whose atmospheres are in vapor-pressure equilibrium with the dominant surface volatiles. Such worlds include the current Pluto and Triton, and other volatile-covered Kuiper Belt Objects during some portion of their heliocentric orbit. The expressions also apply on worlds with negligible horizontal heat flow, such as asteroids. Temperature variations in volatile-covered or bare areas as a function of time is derived in terms of three thermal parameters relating to (1) the thermal wave within the substrate, (2) the energy needed to heat an isothermal volatile slab, and (3) the buffering by the latent heat needed to change the atmospheric surface pressure. For Pluto's current surface pressure (~17 microbar), atmospheric buffering dominates over subsurface effects on diurnal timescales, and should keep the surface pressure over a Pluto day constant to within 0.2%.
description: 37 pages (double spaced), 3 figures, 3 tables. Resubmitted to Icarus June 21, 2012. Accepted
Pothos beccarianus Engl.
Creators: name: Wong, Sin Yeng
name: Joling, Jyloerica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Pothos
Pothos beccarianus

description: Pothos beccarianus Engl. Material examined. MALAYSIA – Pedalaman • Beaufort, Bukit Montonior; [05°20′56″N, 115°48′10″E]; 27 October 1975; Dewol & Karim SAN 80276 (SAN) • Keningau, Ulu Sungai Tinagalan Forest Reserve; 05°5′35″N, 116°18′12″E; 20 November 1985; Fidilis Krispinus SAN 113123 (SAN) • Keningau, Tulid Area, Ulu Sungai Sembauan, 05°19′15″N, 116°25′27″E; 20 September 1988 Fidilis Krispinus SAN 125636 (SAN) – Sandakan • Kinabatangan, Penangah Forest Reserve, 05°01′45″N, 116°43′14″E; 27 April 1987; Joseph B., Maidil & Gambio SAN 119084 (SAN). Identification. Pothos beccarianus is endemic to Borneo (not yet recorded from Kalimantan) and belongs to the Goniurus supergroup. Pothos beccarianus is recognized for its frequently long, pubescent inflorescences with the flowers set directly on the spadix axis and not on a swollen pad. This species is variable in size and the development of its inflorescence is closely linked to the vigour of the plant or even of an individual branch (300% size difference). Pothos beccarianus has two different types of inflorescences colour, yellow (common) and dark pink (rare) (Boyce and Hay 2001). Distribution and ecology. Southwestern and northeastern Sabah. Primary to variously disturbed lowland to hill forest, on slopes and ridgetops, very occasionally in kerangas, 135–820 m elev.
description: Published as part of Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), pp. 931-974 in Check List 17 (3) on page 955, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.931
description: {"references": ["Boyce PC, Hay A (2001) A taxonomic revision of Araceae tribe Potheae (Pothos, Pothoidium and Pedicellarum) for Malesia, Australia and the tropical Western Pacific). Telopea 122: 449 - 571."]}
Analysis of the $Σ_Q$ baryons in the nuclear matter with the QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we extend our previous work to study the $Σ$-type heavy baryons $Σ_c$ and $Σ_b$ in the nuclear matter using the QCD sum rules, and obtain three coupled QCD sum rules for the masses $M_{Σ_Q}^*$, vector self-energies $Σ_v$ and pole residues $λ^*_{Σ_Q}$ in the nuclear matter. Then we take into account the effects of the unequal pole residues from different spinor structures, and normalize the masses from the QCD sum rules in the vacuum to the experimental data, and obtain the mass-shifts $δM_{Σ_c}=-123\,\rm{MeV}$ and $δM_{Σ_b}=-375\,\rm{MeV}$ in the nuclear matter.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, revised version
Lower bounds for nodal sets of Dirichlet and Neumann eigenfunctions
Creators: name: Ariturk, Sinan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J50 (Primary) 35P20 (Secondary)

description: Let ϕ be a Dirichlet or Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. We prove lower bounds for the size of the nodal set {ϕ=0}.
description: 7 pages
title: Socio-economic and cultural objective setting for supporting the effective use of indicators for integrated management of marine and coastal ecosystems
Creators: name: Diedrich, Amy
name: Tintoré, J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The success of integrated management approaches such as marine spatial planning and integrated coastal-zonezone management (ICZM) in improving, conserving, and protecting ecosystems has been limited by the challenge associated with translating scientific information into management action. One of the reasons science can fail to provoke management responses is that research is often conducted without appropriate consideration of the socio-economic and cultural (SEC) and political contexts of the ecosystem that is being managed. Although science cannot make management decisions, which often result from a combination of objective information and value judgements, it can provide valuable data to inform and monitor the consequences of management actions. However, it is critical that this information be orientated towards addressing priority objectives from SEC and political perspectives, in addition to ecological objectives, if it is to be effective in generating appropriate actions at the governance level. Indicators have been receiving considerable attention in recent years as one potential solution to bridging the science–policy gap through the provision of viable, interpretable scientific information that responds to specific management objectives. The aim of this presentation is to emphasize the critical role of SEC objective setting and prioritization as a primary step towards the effective use of indicators for provoking management actions that support ecosystem management goals. The discussion will be contextualized using the case study of the Balearic Islands’ ICZM indicators and LIMCosta projects, which are being implemented through partnerships between the scientific community, government, civil society, and the Chamber of Commerce.
Large Randall-Sundrum II Black Holes
Creators: name: Abdolrahimi, Shohreh
name: Cattoën, Céline
name: Page, Don N.
name: Yaghoobpour-Tari, Shima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a novel numerical spectral method, we have constructed an AdS_5-CFT_4 solution to the Einstein equation with a negative cosmological constant Lambda that is asymptotically conformal to the Schwarzschild metric. This method is independent of the Ricci-DeTurck-flow method used by Figueras, Lucietti, and Wiseman. We have perturbed the solution to get large static black hole solutions to the Randall-Sundrum II (RSII) braneworld model. Our solution agrees closely with that of Figueras et al. and also allows us to deduce the new results that to first order in 1/(-Lambda M^2), the Hawking temperature and entropy of an RSII static black hole have the same values as the Schwarzschild metric with the same mass, but the horizon area is increased by about 4.7/(-Lambda).
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, revtex4-1
Lagrangian of Self-dual Gauge Fields in Various Formulations
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lagrangian of self-dual gauge theory in various formulations are reviewed. From these results we see a simple rule and use it to present some new non-covariant Lagrangian based on the decomposition of spacetime into $D=D_1+D_2+D_3$. Our prescription could be easily extended to more complex decomposition of spacetime and some more examples are presented therefore. The self-dual property of the new Lagrangian is proved in detail. We also show that the new non-covariant actions give field equations with 6d Lorentz invariance.
description: Latex, 27 pages,9 tables. V4: Modify Lagrangian (3.1) and prove its self-duality
Satellite Galaxy Number Density Profiles in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Guo, Quan
name: Cole, Shaun
name: Eke, Vincent
name: Frenk, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spatial distribution of satellite galaxies around isolated primaries using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic and photometric galaxy catalogues. We select isolated primaries from the spectroscopic sample and search for potential satellites in the much deeper photometric sample. For specific luminosity primaries we obtain robust statistical results by stacking as many as ~50, 000 galaxy systems. We find no evidence for any anistropy in the satellite galaxy distribution relative to the major axes of the primaries. We derive accurate projected number density profiles of satellites down to 4 magnitudes fainter than their primaries. We find the normalized satellite profiles generally have a universal form and can be well fitted by projected NFW profiles. The NFW concentration parameter increases with decreasing satellite luminosity while being independent of the luminosity of the primary except for very bright primaries. The profiles of the faintest satellites show deviations from the NFW form with an excess at small galactocentric projected distances. In addition, we quantify how the radial distribution of satellites depends on the colour of the satellites and on the colour and concentration of their primaries.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Pothos longivaginatus Alderw.
Creators: name: Wong, Sin Yeng
name: Joling, Jyloerica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Pothos
Pothos longivaginatus

description: Pothos longivaginatus Alderw. Material examined. MALAYSIA – Tawau • Tawau, Elphinstone Province, [04°18′N, 117°54′E]; October 1922; A. D. E. Elmer 21822 (L). Identification. Pothos longivaginatus is distinguished by the long petiolar sheath, almost reaching the geniculum. The leaf blade is thickly leathery, obliquely lanceolate, unequal on boths sides. The peduncle is longer than the petiole with a sessile spadix (Alderwerelt 1920). Distribution and ecology. Northwestern and eastern Sabah. Mixed dipterocarp forest on slopes, ridges and streambanks on clay, sandstone, and shale, 23–1525 m elev.
description: Published as part of Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), pp. 931-974 in Check List 17 (3) on page 957, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.931
description: {"references": ["Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh CRWK van (1920) New or noteworthy Malayan Araceae I. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg III 1: 359 - 389."]}
title: Marine Scotland Science: Contribution of bathymetric surveys to marineplanning for renewable energy developments
Creators: name: Hayes, P. J.
name: Davies, I. M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Marine Scotland Science (MSS) has been asked to assist the emerging wave and tidal energy industries by providing regional datasets from selected areas around Scotland. One aspect of the work undertaken by MSS was to survey the bathymetry of the Pentland Firth, where tidal streams can attain 12 knots. Bathymetric data were collected using the FRV “Scotia” with a Reson Seabat 7125-B multibeam echosounder system. Transect lines were spaced ensuring 50–100% coverage for the majority of the survey area. In total, 235 km2 were surveyed in the Pentland Firth from 18 July to 5 August 2009. The data were post-processed using industry standard software by Netsurvey Ltd. A quantitative approach was developed to make the best use of the bathymetric dataset. Within Arc GIS, the bathymetric data were used to create shape files with 10-m-depth intervals and 5-degree gradient intervals. A separate shapefile was created with buffer zones running parallel to the coastline, extending offshore at 1 km intervals. Each of the layers created was classified, clipped to the same size, and brought together into one shapefile in a geodatabase. This allows the data to be queried according to the seabed depth, seabed gradient, and distance offshore. Areas of the seabed suitable for demonstration through to full-scale commercial deployments can be calculated, based on developers’ operating tolerances for depth, gradient, and distance offshore.
Community-based benchmarking improves spike rate inference from two-photon calcium imaging data
Creators: name: Berens, Philipp
name: Freeman, Jeremy
name: Deneux, Thomas
name: Chenkov, Nikolay
name: McColgan, Thomas
name: Speiser, Artur
name: Macke, Jakob H.
name: Turaga, Srinivas C.
name: Mineault, Patrick
name: Rupprecht, Peter
name: Gerhard, Stephan
name: Friedrich, Rainer W.
name: Friedrich, Johannes
name: Paninski, Liam
name: Pachitariu, Marius
name: Harris, Kenneth
name: Bolte, Ben
name: Machado, Timothy Aloysius
name: Ringach, Dario
name: Stone, Jasmine
name: Rogerson, Luke E.
name: Sofroniew, Nicolas J.
name: Reimer, Jacob
name: Froudarakis, Emmanouil
name: Euler, Thomas
name: Roson, Miroslav Roman
name: Theis, Lucas
name: Tolias, Andreas S.
name: Bethge, Matthias
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational biology
subject: Algorithms
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computer science

description: In recent years, two-photon calcium imaging has become a standard tool to probe the function of neural circuits and to study computations in neuronal populations. However, the acquired signal is only an indirect measurement of neural activity due to the comparatively slow dynamics of fluorescent calcium indicators. Different algorithms for estimating spike rates from noisy calcium measurements have been proposed in the past, but it is an open question how far performance can be improved. Here, we report the results of the spikefinder challenge, launched to catalyze the development of new spike rate inference algorithms through crowd-sourcing. We present ten of the submitted algorithms which show improved performance compared to previously evaluated methods. Interestingly, the top-performing algorithms are based on a wide range of principles from deep neural networks to generative models, yet provide highly correlated estimates of the neural activity. The competition shows that benchmark challenges can drive algorithmic developments in neuroscience.
Calibration of Photomultiplier Tubes for the Fluorescence Detector of Telescope Array Experiment using a Rayleigh Scattered Laser Beam
Creators: name: Kawana, Shingo
name: Sakurai, Nobuyuki
name: Fujii, Toshihiro
name: Fukushima, Masaki
name: Inoue, Naoya
name: Matthews, John N.
name: Ogio, Shoichi
name: Sagawa, Hiroyuki
name: Taketa, Akimichi
name: Takita, Masato
name: Thomas, Stan B.
name: Tokuno, Hisao
name: Tsunesada, Yoshiki
name: Udo, Shigeharu
name: Wiencke, Lawrence R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed photometric calibration of the PhotoMultiplier Tube (PMT) and readout electronics used for the new fluorescence detectors of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment using Rayleigh scattered photons from a pulsed nitrogen laser beam. The experimental setup, measurement procedure, and results of calibration are described. The total systematic uncertainty of the calibration is estimated to be 7.2%. An additional uncertainty of 3.7% is introduced by the transport of the calibrated PMTs from the laboratory to the TA experimental site.
description: 43 pages, 15 figures
Halo Growth and Merger Rates as a Cosmological Test
Creators: name: Amoura, Yuba
name: Drakos, Nicole E.
name: Berrouet, Anael
name: Taylor, James E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter haloes grow at a rate that depends on the value of the cosmological parameters $σ_8$ and $Ω_{\rm m}$ through the initial power spectrum and the linear growth factor. While halo abundance is routinely used to constrain these parameters, through cluster abundance studies, the halo growth rate is not. In recent work, we proposed constraining the cosmological parameters using observational estimates of the overall dynamical "age" of clusters, expressed, for instance, by their half-mass assembly redshift $z_{50}$. Here we explore the prospects for using the instantaneous growth rate, as estimated from the halo merger rate, from the average growth rate over the last dynamical time, or from the fraction of systems with recent episodes of major growth. We show that the merger rate is mainly sensitive to the amplitude of fluctuations $σ_8$, while the rates of recent growth provide constraints in the $Ω_{\rm m}$-$σ_8$ plane that are almost orthogonal to those provided by abundance studies. Data collected for forthcoming cluster abundance studies, or studies of the galaxy merger rate in current and future galaxy surveys, may thus provide additional constraints on the cosmological parameters complementary to those already derived from halo abundance.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, 1 table and two figures in appendix
Risk behaviors and HIV care continuum outcomes among criminal justice-involved HIV-infected transgender women and cisgender men: Data from the Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain Harmonization Initiative
Creators: name: Beckwith, Curt G.
name: Kuo, Irene
name: Fredericksen, Rob J.
name: Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren
name: Cunningham, William E.
name: Springer, Sandra A.
name: Loeliger, Kelsey B.
name: Franks, Julie C.
name: Christopoulos, Katerina
name: Lorvick, Jennifer
name: Kahana, Shoshana Y.
name: Young, Rebekah
name: Seal, David W.
name: Zawitz, Chad
name: Delaney, Joseph A.
name: Crane, Heidi M.
name: Biggs, Mary L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: HIV-positive persons--Care
Medicine
Transgender people
Continuum of care
Prisoners--Health and hygiene

description: Background
Transgender persons are highly victimized, marginalized, disproportionately experience incarceration, and have alarmingly increased rates of HIV infection compared to cis-gender persons. Few studies have examined the HIV care continuum outcomes among transgender women (TW), particularly TW who are involved with the criminal justice (CJ) system.

Methods
To improve our understanding of HIV care continuum outcomes and risk behaviors among HIV-infected TW who are involved with the CJ system, we analyzed data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse-supported Seek, Test, Treat, Retain (STTR) Data Harmonization Initiative. Baseline data were pooled and analyzed from three U.S. STTR studies to examine HIV risk and care continuum indicators among CJ-involved HIV-infected TW compared to cisgender men (CM), matched on age (within 5 years) and study at a ratio of 1:5.

Results
Eighty-eight TW and 440 CM were included in the study. Among matched participants, TW were more likely to report crack and cocaine use compared to CM (40%,16% respectively, p<0.001); both TW and CM reported high rates of condomless sex (58%, 64%, respectively); TW were more likely than CM to have more than one sexual partner (OR = 2.9, 95% CI: 1.6, 5.2; p<0.001) and have engaged in exchange sex (OR = 3.9, 95% CI: 2.3, 6.6; p<0.001). There were no significant differences between TW and CM in the percentage currently taking ART (52%, 49%, respectively), the mean percent adherence to ART (77% for both groups), and the proportion who achieved viral suppression (61%, 58%, respectively).

Conclusions
HIV-infected CJ-involved TW and CM had similar use of ART and viral suppression but TW were more likely than matched CM to engage in exchange sex, have multiple sexual partners, and use crack/cocaine. TW and CM had similarly high rates of condomless sex and use of other drugs. TW require tailored risk reduction interventions, however both CJ-involved TW and CM require focused attention to reduce HIV risk and improve HIV continuum of care outcomes.
title: Institutional and regulatory reform to contribute to the achievement of development objectives in the marine environment
Creators: name: McKie, J. C.
name: Davies, I. M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Wave and tidal stream power generation is a high priority for the Scottish Government in meeting its target of 50% of the energy demand in Scotland to be met from renewable resources by 2020. Activities necessary to achieve this ambitious target include a spatial plan-led approach to development, and effective and efficient regulatory processes. A regulatory system review demonstrated that the consenting/licensing process has been complicated and multi-stranded, involving separate applications to several governmental regulators. Each regulator operated their own consultation processes, resulting in some consultees (statutory and other) receiving multiple approaches from regulators for comment on the same project. The Scottish Marine Act (2010) introduces a single Marine Licence to be issued by a single new body, Marine Scotland. The Marine Licence will incorporate the requirements under the various items of legislation which previously have been progressed independently. The regulatory processes therefore have been centralized within a single regulator who will establish a single point of contact (“one-stop-shop”) for project developers. It will also allow an approach to regulation in which a case officer will take responsibility for the processing and progression of all elements of work leading to the granting or refusal of a Marine Licence. Further supporting activities include the preparation of a licensing and environmental impact assessment (EIA) guidance manual for developers and regulators, and environmental monitoring guidelines.
Pothos mirabilis Merr.
Creators: name: Wong, Sin Yeng
name: Joling, Jyloerica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Pothos
Pothos mirabilis

description: Pothos mirabilis Merr. Figure 5F Material examined. MALAYSIA – Sandakan • Sandakan, Myburgh Prov.; [05°51′19″N, 117°53′4″E]; October 1921; A. D. E. Elmer 20364 (L) • Sandakan, Labuk Sugut, below Bukit Panandawan; 06°10′53″N, 117°35′48″E; 25 September 1984; G. Aban SAN 66890 (SAN). Identification. Pothos mirabilis is endemic to Sabah and is unique from its flower, its enormously elongated and twisted pendent spathe. Pothos mirabilis is allied to Pothos volans P.C.Boyce & A.Hay and Pothos wallichii Hook. f. due to its inflorescences are mostly produced from the tips of leafy shoots and this together with the long slender peduncle (Boyce 2000). Distribution and ecology. Endemic to Sabah. Lowland forest on yellow sandy loam, 20–300 m elev.
description: Published as part of Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), pp. 931-974 in Check List 17 (3) on page 957, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.931
description: {"references": ["Boyce PC (2000) The genus Pothos (Araceae: Pothoideae: Potheae) of Thailand and Indochina. Blumea 45: 147 - 204."]}
Viscosity of non equilibrium hot $\&$ dense QCD drop formed at LHC
Creators: name: García, J. R. Alvarado
name: Bautista, I.
name: Téllez, A. Fernández
name: Fierro, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the bulk, $ζ$, and shear, $η$, viscosity over entropy density, $s$, for the QCD matter formed in small collision systems at LHC. We consider a scenario of the String Percolation Model by proposing a global form of the color reduction factor that describes both the thermodynamic limit and its maximum deviation due to small-bounded effects. Our method involves estimations at vanishing baryon-chemical potential, assuming local equilibrium for string clusters in the initial state. To compute $η/s$, we employed a kinetic approach that accounts QCD states as an ideal gas of partons, while $ζ/s$ is computed by using two different approaches: a simple kinetic formula and the causal dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics formulation. Our results align with Lattice QCD computations and Bayesian methods and are consistent with holographic conjecture bounds. Furthermore, our findings support the notion of a strongly interacting medium, similar to that observed in nuclear collisions, albeit with a phase transition occurring outside the thermodynamic limit.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
title: Integrated coastal zone management: bridging the land-water divide
Creators: name: Ouellette, Marc
name: Hardy, Matthew
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The coastal zone is an area of high ecological complexity and productivity given its intrinsic connectivity between habitats and processes of freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems. It is also an area of complex anthropogenic interactions with variable social, economic, and cultural components. Furthermore, it is the zone where aquatic ecosystems are the most vulnerable to cumulative pressures caused by human activities of various types and intensity, where management lies within a complex jurisdictional backdrop. Thus, the coastal zone is a complex mosaic of variable zones of influences and ecosystem component vulnerabilities along the landwater interface. Canada is a maritime nation. It is bordered by the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans, it has the world’s longest coastline (at ca. 244 000 km), and also borders interior freshwater ”seas”, the Great Lakes. Eight out of our ten provinces border oceans, as do our three Territories. Given this backdrop, integrated coastal management seems a formidable challenge, but it is possible and it is critical that we do it strategically and efficiently with the best available information at present. Under the Health of the Oceans Initiative, four Centres of Expertise have been established within the Oceans Sector of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in order to better understand and address national integrated coastal and oceans management issues. An overview of the objectives of the CoE on Coastal Management is presented with a focused update on its efforts in the development of ecosystem-based approaches, in relation to cumulative effects, and risk analysis decision-making tools.
Stanley-Reisner resolution of constant weight linear codes
Creators: name: Johnsen, Trygve
name: Verdure, Hugues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94B05, 05E45, 05B35, 13F55

description: Given a constant weight linear code, we investigate its weight hierarchy and the Stanley-Reisner resolution of its associated matroid regarded as a simplicial complex. We also exhibit conditions on the higher weights sufficient to conclude that the code is of constant weight
title: Use of reality models (architecture) for integrated coastal zone management
Creators: name: Torsethaugen, Knut
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Coastal areas are a limited resource with dynamic physical and biological properties and varying social and economical restraints and management. Cost-efficient and sustainable use of coastal areas is therefore a complex and interwoven issue. One challenge is how actors involved in coastal development can digest, accumulated and use “state-of-art” knowledge from political, social, economic and natural science in their daily work? How to bridge the gap between advanced science and local coastal zone management?
Fluctuations in meta-population exclusion processes
Creators: name: Galla, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a meta-population version of models of asymmetric exclusion models, consisting of a spatial arrangement of patches. Patches are of a specific size, indicating the maximal number of particles they can hold. We use an expansion in the inverse patch size to calculate the spectral properties of fluctuations in such systems. This provides a systematic derivation from first principles of effective Langevin descriptions discussed in the literature. We apply our approach to the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process, to variants with an overall constraint on the total particle number and to a two-species exclusion model. The theory provides semi-analytical results, these are confirmed in numerical simulations, and give good approximations to conventional exclusion models. These are recovered when the patch size is set to unity.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures; accepted by J. Stat. Mech
Population-specific genetic modification of Huntington's disease in Venezuela
Creators: name: Chao, Michael J.
name: Kim, Kyung-Hee
name: Shin, Jun Wan
name: Lucente, Diane
name: Wheeler, Vanessa
name: Li, Hong
name: Roach, Jared C.
name: Hood, Leroy
name: Wexler, Nancy S.
name: Jardim, Laura B.
name: Holmans, Peter
name: Jones, Lesley
name: Orth, Michael
name: Kwak, Seung
name: MacDonald, Marcy
name: Gusella, James
name: Lee, Jong Min
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Huntington's disease
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Therapeutics--Research
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neurogenetics

description: Modifiers of Mendelian disorders can provide insights into disease mechanisms and guide therapeutic strategies. A recent genome-wide association (GWA) study discovered genetic modifiers of Huntington's disease (HD) onset in Europeans. Here, we performed whole genome sequencing and GWA analysis of a Venezuelan HD cluster whose families were crucial for the original mapping of the HD gene defect. The Venezuelan HD subjects develop motor symptoms earlier than their European counterparts, implying the potential for population-specific modifiers. The main Venezuelan HD family inherits HTT haplotype hap.03, which differs subtly at the sequence level from European HD hap.03, suggesting a different ancestral origin but not explaining the earlier age at onset in these Venezuelans. GWA analysis of the Venezuelan HD cluster suggests both population-specific and population-shared genetic modifiers. Genome-wide significant signals at 7p21.2–21.1 and suggestive association signals at 4p14 and 17q21.2 are evident only in Venezuelan HD, but genome-wide significant association signals at the established European chromosome 15 modifier locus are improved when Venezuelan HD data are included in the meta-analysis. Venezuelan-specific association signals on chromosome 7 center on SOSTDC1, which encodes a bone morphogenetic protein antagonist. The corresponding SNPs are associated with reduced expression of SOSTDC1 in non-Venezuelan tissue samples, suggesting that interaction of reduced SOSTDC1 expression with a population-specific genetic or environmental factor may be responsible for modification of HD onset in Venezuela. Detection of population-specific modification in Venezuelan HD supports the value of distinct disease populations in revealing novel aspects of a disease and population-relevant therapeutic strategies.
Soft interaction model and the LHC data
Creators: name: Gotsman, E.
name: Levin, E.
name: Maor, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most models for soft interactions which were proposed prior to the measurements at the LHC, are only marginally compatible with LHC data, our GLM model has the same deficiency. In this paper we investigate possible causes of the problem, by considering separate fits to the high energy ($W > 500\, GeV$), and low energy ($W < 500\, GeV$) data. Our new results are moderately higher than our previous predictions. Our results for total and elastic cross sections are systematically lower that the recent Totem and Alice published values, while our results for the inelastic and forward slope agree with the data. If with additional experimental data, the errors are reduced, while the central cross section values remain unchanged, we will need to reconsider the physics on which our model is built.
description: 12 pp, 12 figures in .eps files
In the name of love : David Lurie’s romanticized violence in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Creators: name: Diehl, Lindsay Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The thesis argues that the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, David Lurie, enacts a limited worldview, which is indicative of a colonialist mentality informed by scholarly interests in Romanticism. It thus asserts that Disgrace opens a space to explore how certain legacies, or vestiges, of Romanticism are implicated in systems of oppression: colonialism, patriarchy, racism, sexism, and speciesism. Specifically, I am interested in the extent to which these Romantic vestiges constitute a fantasy for Lurie, allowing him to participate in these systems of oppression, while also providing him with a means to understand himself as sensible and empathetic. As such, my project seeks to demonstrate that the novel presents a challenge to Romantic tendencies that oversimplify materially complex realities. Further, I argue that Lurie’s fantasy relies upon cultural dualisms that privilege reason over nature, man over woman, white over black, and hu(man) over animal, resulting in a construction of ‘the human’ that is masculine, white, and of the mind. That is, his fantasy calls attention to a construction of ‘the human’ that is implicitly hostile to Others. Therefore, this thesis interrogates Lurie’s objectification of women and animals to demonstrate that Romantic tendencies can function as a veiling mechanism, allowing Lurie to perceive their bodies as mere supports to his fantasy. Moreover I contend that critics’ sympathetic readings of Lurie serve to minimize the violence he commits against feminized and animalized bodies within the novel, and that this failure to critically engage with Lurie’s Romantic self-justifications evinces vestiges of Romanticism that continue to inform and maintain relationships of domination and exploitation.
Extrinsic hyperspheres in manifolds with special holonomy
Creators: name: Jentsch, Tillmann
name: Moroianu, Andrei
name: Semmelmann, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C26, 53C35, 53C10, 53C15

description: We describe extrinsic hyperspheres and totally geodesic hypersurfaces in manifolds with special holonomy. In particular we prove the nonexistence of extrinsic hyperspheres in quaternion-Kaehler manifolds. We develop a new approach to extrinsic hyperspheres based on the classification of special Killing forms.
description: published version
Pothos ovatifolius Engl.
Creators: name: Wong, Sin Yeng
name: Joling, Jyloerica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Pothos
Pothos ovatifolius

description: Pothos ovatifolius Engl. Figure 5G Material examined. MALAYSIA – Pantai Barat • Tambunan Distr., road to Kg Tondulu, Kg Tondulu valley; Boyce 1422 (K) • Tambunan Distr., Kg Kangeran road, Bt. Lapan, 1.5 hours by car from Kg Kangeran; Boyce 1423 (K). Identification. This species belongs to the Allopothos supergroup (Boyce and Hay 2001) and can be distinguished by its leaf blade stiffly chartaceous to coriaceous, (3–)8.5–27 × (2.5–) 7–27 cm, spreading, oblong ovate to very broadly ovate, oblique, sometimes profoundly so, base broadly rounded to narrowly cordate. Distribution and ecology. Found in small, scattered populations in wet river valleys in Sabah. This species is not common in northern Borneo. Primary to degraded secondary lowland to lower montane forest, 70–1400 m elev.
description: Published as part of Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), pp. 931-974 in Check List 17 (3) on page 957, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.931
description: {"references": ["Boyce PC, Hay A (2001) A taxonomic revision of Araceae tribe Potheae (Pothos, Pothoidium and Pedicellarum) for Malesia, Australia and the tropical Western Pacific). Telopea 122: 449 - 571."]}
Zon-Cohen singularity and negative inverse temperature in a trapped particle limit
Creators: name: Nemoto, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Brownian particle on a moving periodic potential. We focus on the statistical properties of the work done by the potential and the heat dissipated by the particle. When the period and the depth of the potential are both large, by using a boundary layer analysis, we calculate a cumulant generating function and a biased distribution function. The result allows us to understand a Zon-Cohen singularity for an extended fluctuation theorem from a view point of rare trajectories characterized by a negative inverse temperature of the biased distribution function.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Pursegloveia imbakensis H. Okada, Tsukaya & M. Suleiman
Creators: name: Wong, Sin Yeng
name: Joling, Jyloerica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Araceae
Pursegloveia
Pursegloveia imbakensis

description: Pursegloveia imbakensis H.Okada, Tsukaya & M.Suleiman Material examined. MALAYSIA – Sandakan • Tongod, Imbak Canyon Conservation Area, Kuli Water Fall; 8 Aug. 2015; Tsukaya, H., Okada, H., Hayashi, T. & Suleiman, M. TOH-113 (holo BORH). Identification. Similar to Pursegloveia minima (H.Okada) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce in having stamens with shallow cavity but differing in the horseshoe-shaped staminate flowers and shining dark green leaves 20–30 cm long vs. chain-shaped staminate flowers and shining green leaves 4–7 cm long in P. minima (Okada et al. 2020). Distribution and ecology. Known only from the type locality at Kuli Waterfall, Imbak Canyon Conservation Area. Observed only on a large rock just below Kuli Waterfall (Okada et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), pp. 931-974 in Check List 17 (3) on page 958, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.931
description: {"references": ["Okada H, Tsukaya H, Suleiman M (2020). A new species of Purse- gloveia (Schismatoglottideae, Araceae) from Imbak Canyon, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 71: 157 - 161."]}