cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Optical/Near-Infrared Extinction Law In Highly Reddened Regions
Creators: name: Hosek, M. W.
name: Lu, J. R.
name: Anderson, J.
name: Do, T.
name: Schlafly, E. F.
name: Ghez, A. M.
name: Clarkson, W. I.
name: Morris, M. R.
name: Albers, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A precise extinction law is a critical input when interpreting observations of highly reddened sources such as young star clusters and the Galactic Center (GC). We use Hubble Space Telescope observations of a region of moderate extinction and a region of high extinction to measure the optical and near-infrared extinction law (0.8 $μ$m -- 2.2 $μ$m). The moderate extinction region is the young massive cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd1; A$_{Ks} \sim$ 0.6 mag), where 453 proper motion-selected main-sequence stars are used to measure the shape of the extinction law. To quantify the shape we define the parameter $\mathcal{S}_{1/λ}$, which behaves similarly to a color excess ratio but is continuous as a function of wavelength. The high extinction region is the GC (A$_{Ks} \sim$ 2.5 mag), where 819 red clump stars are used to determine the normalization of the law. The best-fit extinction law is able to reproduce the Wd1 main sequence colors, which previous laws misestimate by 10%-30%. The law is inconsistent with a single power law, even when only the near-infrared filters are considered, and has A$_{F125W}$/A$_{Ks}$ and A$_{F814W}$/A$_{Ks}$ values that are 18% and 24% larger than the commonly used \citet{Nishiyama:2009fc} law, respectively. Using the law we recalculate the Wd1 distance to be 3896 $\pm$ 328 pc from published observations of eclipsing binary W13. This new extinction law should be used for highly reddened populations in the Milky Way, such as the Quintuplet cluster and Young Nuclear Cluster. A python code is provided to generate the law for future use.
description: 32 pages, 20 figures; submitted to ApJ
Machine Learning: A Historical and Methodological Analysis
Creators: name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
name: Michalski, Ryszard S.
name: Mitchell, Tom M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning has always been an integral part of artificial intelligence, and its methodology has evolved in concert with the major concerns of the field. In response to the difficulties of encoding ever-increasing volumes of knowledge in modern AI systems, many researchers have recently turned their attention to machine learning as a means to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck. This article presents a taxonomic analysis of machine learning organized primarily by learning strategies and secondarily by knowledge representation and application areas. A historical survey outlining the development of various approaches to machine learning is presented from early neural networks to present knowledge-intensive techniques.
Unavoidable sets and harmonic measures living on small sets
Creators: name: Hansen, Wolfhard
name: Netuka, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31A12, 31B05, 31B15, 31D05, 60J45, 60J65, 60J25, 28A78

description: Given a connected open set $U\ne\emptyset$ in $ R^d$, $d\ge 2$, a relatively closed set $A$ in $U$ is called \emph{unavoidable in $U$}, if Brownian motion, starting in $x\in U\setminus A$ and killed when leaving $U$, hits $A$ almost surely or, equivalently, if the harmonic measure for $x$ with respect to $U\setminus A$ has mass $1$ on $A$. First a new criterion for unavoidable sets is proven which facilitates the construction of smaller and smaller unavoidable sets in $U$. Starting with an arbitrary champagne subdomain of $U$ (which is obtained omitting a locally finite union of pairwise disjoint closed balls $\overline B(z, r_z)$, $z\in Z$, satisfying $\sup_{z\in Z} r_z/\mbox{dist}(z,U^c)<1$), a combination of the criterion and the existence of small nonpolar compact sets of Cantor type yields a set $A$ on which harmonic measures for $U\setminus A$ are living and which has Hausdorff dimension $d-2$ and, if $d=2$, logarithmic Hausdorff dimension $1$. This can be done as well for Riesz potentials (isotropic $α$-stable processes) on Euclidean space and for censored stable processes on $C^{1,1}$ open subsets. Finally, in the very general setting of a balayage space $(X,\mathcal W)$ on which the function $1$ is harmonic (which covers not only large classes of second order partial differential equations, but also non-local situations as, for example, given by Riesz potentials, isotropic unimodal Lévy processes or censored stable processes) a construction of champagne subsets $X\setminus A$ of $X$ with small unavoidable sets $A$ is given which generalizes (and partially improves) recent constructions in the classical case.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0515
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0515, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0515, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
ProteinBERT: A universal deep-learning model of protein sequence and function
Creators: name: Ofer, Dan
name: Brandes, Nadav
name: Linial, Michal
name: Rappoport, Nadav
name: Yam Peleg
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: Self-supervised deep language modeling has shown unprecedented success across natural language tasks, and has recently been repurposed to biological sequences. However, existing models and pretraining methods are designed and optimized for text analysis.
 We introduce ProteinBERT, a deep language model specifically designed for proteins. Our pretraining scheme consists of masked language modeling combined with a novel task of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation prediction.
 We introduce novel architectural elements that make the model highly efficient and flexible to very large sequence lengths. The architecture of ProteinBERT consists of both local and global representations, allowing end-to-end processing of these types of inputs and outputs. ProteinBERT obtains state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks covering diverse protein properties (including protein structure, post translational modifications and biophysical attributes), despite using a far smaller model than competing deep-learning methods. Overall, ProteinBERT provides an efficient framework for rapidly training protein predictors, even with limited labeled data.

 Code and pretrained model weights are available at https://github.com/nadavbra/protein_bert.
Effect of initial configuration on network-based recommendation
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Jiang, Luo-Luo
name: Su, Ri-Qi
name: Zhang, Yi-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, based on a weighted object network, we propose a recommendation algorithm, which is sensitive to the configuration of initial resource distribution. Even under the simplest case with binary resource, the current algorithm has remarkably higher accuracy than the widely applied global ranking method and collaborative filtering. Furthermore, we introduce a free parameter $β$ to regulate the initial configuration of resource. The numerical results indicate that decreasing the initial resource located on popular objects can further improve the algorithmic accuracy. More significantly, we argue that a better algorithm should simultaneously have higher accuracy and be more personal. According to a newly proposed measure about the degree of personalization, we demonstrate that a degree-dependent initial configuration can outperform the uniform case for both accuracy and personalization strength.
description: 4 pages and 3 figures
Expanders with respect to Hadamard spaces and random graphs
Creators: name: Mendel, Manor
name: Naor, Assaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is shown that there exists a sequence of 3-regular graphs $\{G_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ and a Hadamard space $X$ such that $\{G_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ forms an expander sequence with respect to $X$, yet random regular graphs are not expanders with respect to $X$. This answers a question of \cite{NS11}. $\{G_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ are also shown to be expanders with respect to random regular graphs, yielding a deterministic sublinear time constant factor approximation algorithm for computing the average squared distance in subsets of a random graph. The proof uses the Euclidean cone over a random graph, an auxiliary continuous geometric object that allows for the implementation of martingale methods.
description: incorporated Referees' comments
Structural behavior of supercritical fluids under confinement
Creators: name: Ghosh, Kanka
name: Krishnamurthy, C. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The location of the Frenkel line (FL) of a Lennard-Jones fluid which demarcates two distinct physical states, liquidlike and gaslike within the supercritical regime, has been established through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the velocity auto-correlation (VACF) and Radial distribution Function (RDF). We, in this article, explore the changes in the structural features of supercritical LJ-fluid under partial confinement using atomistic walls. The study is carried out across the FL through a series of MD simulations considering a set of thermodynamics states in the supercritical regime of Argon well above the critical point. Confinement is partial, with atomistic walls located normal to z and extending to "infinity" along the x and y directions. In the "liquidlike" regime of the supercritical phase, particles are distributed in distinct layers along the z with layer spacing less than one atomic diameter and the lateral RDF showing amorphous-like structure for specific spacings (packing frustration). Increasing the rigidity of the atomistic walls is found to lead to stronger layering and increased structural order. For confinement with reflective walls, layers are found to form with one atomic diameter spacing and the lateral RDF showing close-packed structure for the smaller confinements. Translational order parameter and excess entropy assessment confirm the ordering taking place for atomistic wall and reflective wall confinements. In the "gaslike" regime of the supercritical phase, particle distribution along the spacing and the lateral RDF exhibit features not significantly different from that due to the normal gas regime. The heterogeneity across FL, found to be present both in bulk and confined systems, might cause the breakdown of the universal scaling between structure and dynamics of fluids necessitating the determination of a unique relationship between them.
Chemical modelling of glycolaldehyde and ethylene glycol in star-forming regions
Creators: name: Coutens, A.
name: Viti, S.
name: Rawlings, J. M. C.
name: Beltrán, M. T.
name: Holdship, J.
name: Jiménez-Serra, I.
name: Quénard, D.
name: Rivilla, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glycolaldehyde (HOCH$_2$CHO) and ethylene glycol ((CH$_2$OH)$_2$) are two complex organic molecules detected in the hot cores and hot corinos of several star-forming regions. The ethylene glycol/glycolaldehyde abundance ratio seems to show an increase with the source luminosity. In the literature, several surface-chemistry formation mechanisms have been proposed for these two species. With the UCLCHEM chemical code, we explored the different scenarios and compared the predictions for a range of sources of different luminosities with the observations. None of the scenarios reproduce perfectly the trend. A better agreement is, however, found for a formation through recombination of two HCO radicals followed by successive hydrogenations. The reaction between HCO and CH$_2$OH could also contribute to the formation of glycolaldehyde in addition to the hydrogenation pathway. The predictions are improved when a trend of decreasing H$_2$ density within the core region with T $\geq$ 100 K as a function of luminosity, is included in the model. Destruction reactions of complex organic molecules in the gas phase would also need to be investigated, since they can affect the abundance ratios once the species have desorbed in the warm inner regions of the star-forming regions.
description: Accepted in MNRAS
Nucleon Charges and Electromagnetic Form Factors from 2+1+1-Flavor Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Cohen, Saul D.
name: Gupta, Rajan
name: Joseph, Anosh
name: Lin, Huey-Wen
name: Yoon, Boram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present lattice-QCD results on the nucleon isovector axial, scalar and tensor charges, the isovector electromagnetic Dirac and Pauli form factors, and the connected parts of the isoscalar charges. The calculations have been done using two ensembles of HISQ lattices generated by the MILC Collaboration with 2+1+1 dynamical flavors at a lattice spacing of 0.12 fm and with light-quark masses corresponding to pions with masses 310 and 220 MeV. We perform a systematic study including excited-state degrees of freedom and examine the dependence of the extracted nucleon matrix elements on source-sink separation. This study demonstrates with high-statistics data that including excited-state contributions and generating data at multiple separations is necessary to remove contamination that would otherwise lead to systematic error. We also determine the renormalization constants of the associated quark bilinear operators in the RI-sMOM scheme and make comparisons of our renormalized results with previous dynamical-lattice calculations.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables; NPR further revised and some clarifications in response to referee comments
Chronic pain following stroke: current treatment and perceived effect
Creators: name: Haslam, Brendon
name: Butler, David
name: Kim, AS
name: Carey, Leeanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Chronic pain is common following stroke, however there is little known about the treatments for pain that are being accessed by stroke survivors, nor their perceived effectiveness. Objectives: The objectives were to: i) identify the number and type of treatments for pain currently used by stroke survivors with chronic pain; and ii) examine the self-perceived effectiveness of medication and non-medication treatments for pain. Methods: Cross-sectional survey. Participants with stroke and self-reported chronic pain completed an online survey that measured demographics, stroke related factors, intensity of pain, treatments for pain, and perceived effect of medication and non-medication treatments for pain. Results: Of 322 stroke survivors who completed the survey, the majority (90.1%) reported current use of pain treatment(s). Medications were accessed by 257 (79.8%), with the most common being anti-inflammatories (39.8%), anticonvulsants (29.5%) and antidepressants (24.8%). Paracetamol (12.1%) was the most common non-prescribed medication used. Polypharmacy was high, with 129 (40.1%) reporting taking 2 or more medications. Medication treatments were self-reported to be effective in 47.1% of those taking medication. Non-medication treatments were accessed by 208 (64.6%), with Physical Therapy/Physiotherapy being most common (48.1%), followed by Occupational Therapy (15.5%) and Psychology (11.8%). Use of multiple non-medication treatments was reported by 85 (26.4%). Non-medication treatments were reported to be effective by 52.4% of those receiving them. Conclusions: Survey findings indicate that stroke survivors with chronic pain demonstrate high utilization of pain treatments, despite the perception that treatment is often ineffective. This highlights the need to develop effective pain interventions for stroke survivors.
Machine Intelligence and Robotics Report of the NASA Study Group
Creators: name: Sagan, Carl
name: Rajashekar  Reddy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The NASA Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) has established the goal of providing a technology base so that NASA can accomplish future missions with a several-orders-of-magnitude increase in mission effectiveness at reduced cost. To realize this goal, a highly focused program must be established advancing technologies that promise substantial increases in capability and/or substantial cost savings. The Study Group on Machine Intelligence and Robotics was established to assist NASA technology program planners to determine the potential in these areas. Thus, the Study Group had the f o l l o w i n g objectives: (1) To identify opportunities for the application of machine intelligence and robotics in N A S A missions and systems. (2) To estimate the benefits of successful adoption of machine intelligence and robotics techniques and to prepare forecasts of their g r o w t h potential. (3) To recommend program options for research, advanced development and implementation of machine intelligence and robot technology for use in program planning, ( 4 ) To broaden communication among NASA Centers and universities and other research organizations currently engaged in machine intelligence and robotics research.
Finding Planets Around White Dwarf Remnants of Massive Stars
Creators: name: Gould, Andrew
name: Kilic, Mukremin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planet frequency shows a strong positive correlation with host mass from the hydrogen-burning limit to M ~ 2Msun. No search has yet been conducted for planets of higher-mass hosts because all existing techniques are insensitive to these planets. We show that infrared observations of the white-dwarf (WD) remnants of massive stars 3Msun < M < 7Msun would be sensitive to these planets for reasons that are closely connected to the insensitivity of other methods. We identify 49 reasonably bright, young, massive WDs from the Palomar-Green survey and discuss methods for detecting planets and for distinguishing between planet and disk explanations for any excess flux observed. The young, bright, massive WD sample could be expanded by a factor 4-5 by surveying the remainder of the sky for bright UV-excess objects.
description: ApJ Letters, accepted. Changes from version1 in sections 4 and 5
Implementation of infinite-range exterior complex scaling to the time-dependent complete-active-space self-consistent-field method
Creators: name: Orimo, Yuki
name: Sato, Takeshi
name: Scrinzi, Armin
name: Ishikawa, Kenichi L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical implementation of the infinite-range exterior complex scaling (irECS) [Phys. Rev. A 81, 053845 (2010)] as an efficient absorbing boundary to the time-dependent complete-active-space self-consistent field (TD-CASSCF) method [Phys. Rev. A 94, 023405 (2016)] for multielectron atoms subject to an intense laser pulse. We introduce Gauss-Laguerre-Radau quadrature points to construct discrete variable representation basis functions in the last radial finite element extending to infinity. This implementation is applied to strong-field ionization and high-harmonic generation in He, Be, and Ne atoms. It efficiently prevents unphysical reflection of photoelectron wave packets at the simulation boundary, enabling accurate simulations with substantially reduced computational cost, even under significant (~ 50%) double ionization. For the case of a simulation of high-harmonic generation from Ne, for example, 80% cost reduction is achieved, compared to a mask-function absorption boundary.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Mobility-induced persistent chimera states
Creators: name: Petrungaro, Gabriela
name: Uriu, Koichiro
name: Morelli, Luis G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of mobile, locally coupled identical oscillators in the presence of coupling delays. We find different kinds of chimera states, in which coherent in-phase and anti-phase domains coexist with incoherent domains. These chimera states are dynamic and can persist for long times for intermediate mobility values. We discuss the mechanisms leading to the formation of these chimera states in different mobility regimes. This finding could be relevant for natural and technological systems composed of mobile communicating agents.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, draft version
Shrinkage Estimation of the Power Spectrum Covariance Matrix
Creators: name: Pope, Adrian C.
name: Szapudi, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation. The shrinkage technique optimally combines an empirical estimate of the covariance with a model (the target) to minimize the total mean squared error compared to the true underlying covariance. We test this technique on N-body simulations and evaluate its performance by estimating cosmological parameters. Using a simple diagonal target, we show that the shrinkage estimator significantly outperforms both the empirical covariance and the target individually when using a small number of simulations. We find that reducing noise in the covariance estimate is essential for properly estimating the values of cosmological parameters as well as their confidence intervals. We extend our method to the jackknife covariance estimator and again find significant improvement, though simulations give better results. Even for thousands of simulations we still find evidence that our method improves estimation of the covariance matrix. Because our method is simple, requires negligible additional numerical effort, and produces superior results, we always advocate shrinkage estimation for the covariance of the power spectrum and other large-scale structure measurements when purely theoretical modeling of the covariance is insufficient.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures (1 new), MNRAS, accepted. Changes to match accepted version, including an additional explanatory section with 1 figure
Machine assisted proofs of properties of Avalon programs
Creators: name: Wing, Jeannette Marie.
name: Gong, Chun
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Proving the correctness of programs by hand is hard and error-prone. How can mechanical theorem proving aids such as the Larch Prover (LP) help in the proofs of complex programs? We address this question by applying LP, a proof checker based on rewrite-rule theory, to the proof of an Avalon/C++ program. Avalon/C++ is a programming language that supports concurrency and fault-tolerance through transaction-based computations. Since reasoning about an Avalon/C++ program requires reasoning about histories, i.e., sequences of operations, and not just initial and final states, proofs of correctness are non-trivial. For the Avalon/C++ queue example, we present a formal Larch Shared Language specification, which we also used as input to LP. We discuss the LP-assisted proofs we performed of the representation invariant and the queue's key correctness condition, give detailed statistics of our proofs, and draw some conclusions based on our experience with LP."
Dusty disks at the bottom of the IMF
Creators: name: Scholz, Aleks
name: Jayawardhana, Ray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 'Isolated planetary mass objects' (IPMOs) have masses close to or below the Deuterium-burning mass limit (~15 Jupiter masses) -- at the bottom of the stellar initial mass function. We present an exploratory survey for disks in this mass regime, based on a dedicated observing campaign with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Our targets include the full sample of spectroscopically confirmed IPMOs in the Sigma Orionis cluster, a total of 18 sources. In the mass range 8... 20 MJup, we identify 4 objects with >3sigma colour excess at a wavelength of 8.0mu, interpreted as emission from dusty disks. We thus establish that a substantial fraction of IPMOs harbour disks with lifetimes of at least 2-4 Myr (the likely age of the cluster), indicating an origin from core collapse and fragmentation processes. The disk frequency in the IPMO sample is 29% (16-45%) at 8.0mu, very similar to what has been found for stars and brown dwarfs (~30%). The object SOri70, a candidate 3 MJup object in this cluster, shows IRAC colours in excess of the typical values for field T dwarfs (on a 2sigma level), possibly due to disk emission or low gravity. This is a new indication for youth and thus an extremely low mass for SOri70.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Using Joinpoint regression for drug utilization research: Tutorial and case study of prescription opioid use in the United States
Creators: name: Goodin, A.
name: Hincapie-Castillo, J.M.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year: 2023

description: Purpose: Drug utilization researchers are often interested in evaluating prescribing and medication use patterns and trends over a specified period of time. Joinpoint regression is a useful methodology to identify any deviations in secular trends without a preconceived notion of where these break points might occur. This article provides a tutorial on the use of joinpoint regression, within Joinpoint software, for the analysis of drug utilization data. Methods: The statistical considerations for whether a joinpoint regression analytical technique is a suitable approach are discussed. Then, we offer a tutorial as an introduction on conducting joinpoint regression (within Joinpoint software) through a step-by-step application, which is a case study developed using opioid prescribing data from the United States. Data were obtained from public files available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2018. The tutorial provides parameters and sample data needed to replicate the case study and it concludes with general considerations for the reporting of results using joinpoint regression in drug utilization research. Results: The case study evaluated the trend of opioid prescribing in the United States from 2006 to 2018, where time points of significant variation (one in 2012 and another in 2016) are detected and interpreted. Conclusions: Joinpoint regression is a helpful methodology for drug utilization for the purposes of conducting descriptive analyses. This tool also assists with corroborating assumptions and identifying parameters for fitting other models such as interrupted time series. The technique and accompanying software are user-friendly; however, researchers interested in using joinpoint regression should exercise caution and follow best practices for correct measurement of drug utilization.
A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers to Treatment Among HPV-Positive Women in a Cervical Cancer Screening Study in Western Kenya
Creators: name: Isaacson, S.
name: Huchko, M.J.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Novak, C.
name: Oketch, S.
name: Adewumi, K.
Publisher: name: NLM (Medline)
Year: 2023

description: BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening through self-collected high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has increased screening uptake, particularly in low-resource settings. Improvement ultimately depends, however, on women with positive results accessing follow-up treatment. Identifying the barriers to timely treatment is needed to tailor service delivery for maximum impact. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative study was conducted within a self-collected HPV screening trial in Migori County, Kenya. HPV-positive women were referred for no-cost cryotherapy treatment at the county hospital. Women not attending within 60 days of receiving HPV-positive results were randomly selected for in-depth interviews (IDIs). IDIs were coded and analyzed to develop an analytical framework and identify treatment barriers. RESULTS: Eighty-one women were interviewed. IDIs showed a poor understanding of HPV and cervical cancer, impacting comprehension of screening results and treatment instructions. All 81 had not undergone treatment but reported intending to in the future. Eight reported seeking treatment unsuccessfully or not qualifying, primarily due to pregnancy. Transportation costs and long distances to the hospital were the most reported barriers to treatment. Other obstacles included work, household obligations, and fear of treatment. Impacts of social influences were mixed; some women reported their husbands prevented seeking treatment, others reported their husbands provided financial or emotional support. Few women experienced peer support. CONCLUSIONS: Women faced many barriers to treatment following HPV screening in rural Kenya. Transportation barriers highlight a need for local treatment capacity or screen-and-treat approaches. Ensuring women understand their results and how to seek treatment is essential to improving cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings.
Statistical Analysis of Semiclassical Dispersion Corrections
Creators: name: Weymuth, Thomas
name: Proppe, Jonny
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiclassical dispersion corrections developed by Grimme and coworkers have become indispensable in applications of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. We present an in-depth assessment of the fit parameters present in semiclassical (D3-type) dispersion corrections by means of a statistically rigorous analysis. We find that the choice of the cost function generally has a small effect on the empirical parameters of D3-type dispersion corrections with respect to the reference set under consideration. Only in a few cases, the choice of cost function has a surprisingly large effect on the total dispersion energies. In particular, the weighting scheme in the cost function can significantly affect the reliability of predictions. In order to obtain unbiased (data-independent) uncertainty estimates for both the empirical fit parameters and the corresponding predictions, we carried out a nonparametric bootstrap analysis. The mean prediction uncertainty obtained by bootstrapping is not much larger than previously reported error measures. On the basis of a jackknife analysis, we find that the original reference set is slightly skewed, but our results also suggest that this feature hardly affects the prediction of dispersion energies. However, a rigorous analysis of error accumulation arising from different parameterizations reveals that error cancellation does not necessarily occur, leading to a monotonically increasing deviation in the dispersion energy with increasing molecule size. We discuss this issue in detail at the prominent example of the C60 buckycatcher. We find deviations between individual parameterizations of several tens of kcal/mol in some cases. Hence, in combination with any calculation of dispersion energies, we recommend to always determine the associated uncertainties for which we will provide a software tool.
description: 34 pages, 7 figures, 10 tables
Evidence For The Magnetic Breakout Model in an Equatorial Coronal-Hole Jet
Creators: name: Kumar, Pankaj
name: Karpen, Judith T.
name: Antiochos, Spiro K.
name: Wyper, Peter F.
name: DeVore, C. Richard
name: DeForest, Craig E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small, impulsive jets commonly occur throughout the solar corona, but are especially visible in coronal holes. Evidence is mounting that jets are part of a continuum of eruptions that extends to much larger coronal mass ejections and eruptive flares. Because coronal-hole jets originate in relatively simple magnetic structures, they offer an ideal testbed for theories of energy buildup and release in the full range of solar eruptions. We analyzed an equatorial coronal-hole jet observed by SDO/AIA on 09 January 2014, in which the magnetic-field structure was consistent with the embedded-bipole topology that we identified and modeled previously as an origin of coronal jets. In addition, this event contained a mini-filament, which led to important insights into the energy storage and release mechanisms. SDO/HMI magnetograms revealed footpoint motions in the primary minority-polarity region at the eruption site, but show negligible flux emergence or cancellation for at least 16 hours before the eruption. Therefore, the free energy powering this jet probably came from magnetic shear concentrated at the polarity inversion line within the embedded bipole. We find that the observed activity sequence and its interpretation closely match the predictions of the breakout jet model, strongly supporting the hypothesis that the breakout model can explain solar eruptions on a wide range of scales.
description: ApJ (in press), 14 pages, 12 figures
Dynamics of Non-renormalizable Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Delaunay, C.
name: Grojean, C.
name: Wells, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the complete one-loop finite temperature effective potential for electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model with a Higgs potential supplemented by higher dimensional operators as generated for instance in composite Higgs and Little Higgs models. We detail the resolution of several issues that arise, such as the cancellation of infrared divergences at higher order and imaginary contributions to the potential. We follow the dynamics of the phase transition, including the nucleation of bubbles and the effects of supercooling. We characterize the region of parameter space consistent with a strong first-order phase transition which may be relevant to electroweak baryogenesis. Finally, we investigate the prospects of present and future gravity wave detectors to see the effects of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures
Virtuelle Massen-Bewegung
Creators: name: Klinke, Leo
Publisher: name: Ausgrabungen und Funde in Westfalen-Lippe
Year: 2021

description: -
description: Ausgrabungen und Funde in Westfalen-Lippe, Ausgrabungen und Funde in Westfalen-Lippe 15 (2020/2021)
The effectiveness of pay-it-forward in addressing HPV vaccine delay and increasing uptake among 15–18-year-old adolescent girls compared to user-paid vaccination: a study protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial in China
Creators: name: Song, W.
name: Li, Y.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Du, H.
name: Gong, W.
name: Xu, X.
name: Qiu, S.
name: Jit, M.
name: Yang, F.
name: Tucker, J.D.
name: Tang, W.
name: Li, J.
name: Pang, L.
name: Li, C.
name: Lin, L.
name: Wu, D.
name: Qin, C.
name: Yim, V.W.-C.
name: Tang, S.
name: He, Y.
name: Smith, J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2023

description: Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination could prevent cervical and other HPV-associated cancers attributable to vaccine-associated HPV types. However, HPV vaccination coverage among women aged 9–18 years old is low in China. Common barriers include poor financial affordability, minimal public engagement, and low confidence in domestically produced HPV vaccines. Pay-it-forward offers an individual a free or subsidized service then an opportunity to voluntarily donate and/or create a postcard message to support future people. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of pay-it-forward as compared to standard-of-care self-paid vaccination to improve HPV vaccine uptake among adolescent girls aged 15–18 years, who are left out in the current pilot free HPV vaccination task force in some parts of China. Methods: This is a two-arm randomized controlled trial in Chengdu, China. Eligible adolescent girls (via caregivers) will be randomly selected and recruited through four community health centers (one in the most developed urban areas, one in higher middle-income and one in lower middle-income suburban areas, and one in the least developed rural areas) using the resident registration list. A total of 320 participants will be randomized into two study arms (user-paid versus pay-it-forward vaccination) in a 1:1 ratio. The intervention assignment will be blinded to recruiters and participants using envelop concealment until the research assistants open the envelop to determine which treatment to deliver to each individual. The primary outcome of the study will be HPV vaccine uptake by administrative data. Secondary outcomes include costs, vaccine hesitancy, and the completion rates of the 3-dose HPV vaccination series. Discussion: This study will investigate an innovative pay-it-forward strategy’s effectiveness and economic costs to improve HPV vaccination among 15–18-year-old adolescent girls. Study findings will have implications for increasing HPV vaccine uptake in places where HPV vaccines are provided for a fee. Trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR), ChiCTR2200055542. Registered on 11 January 2022.
title: ADCO, Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0044r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0044r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0044r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Molesme
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q334044
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137389344
Impact of the Overall Electrical Filter Shaping in Next-Generation 25G and 50G PON
Creators: name: Torres-Ferrera, Pablo
name: Ferrero, Valter
name: Valvo, Maurizio
name: Gaudino, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Next-generation high-speed passive optical network (HS-PON) transceivers supporting 25, 50 and 100 Gb/s are under the early stage of their standardization process. One key aspect of this process is the choice of the best modulation format. To this end, performance comparisons among several modulation formats against different physical constraints have been presented in literature and are still being carried out. In our contribution, we performed an exhaustive analysis on the impact of transceivers electrical frequency response shape on the performance of 2-levels pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-2), 4-levels PAM (PAM-4), electrical and optical duobinary modulation formats with adaptive equalizer at the receiver side. We show by means of numerical simulations that the specification of the typically used -3dB bandwidth is not sufficient, since also out-of-band electrical frequency response specifications (such as the -20dB bandwidth) has a huge impact on the performance of the analyzed modulation formats. The normalized graphs given at the end of the paper in terms of -3dB and -20 dB bandwidths can thus be useful for the design of the next generation of HS-PON transceivers.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
M/G/k with Exponential Setup
Creators: name: Anshul  Gandhi
name: Harchol-Balter, Mor
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the M/G/k queueing system with setup times. This particular queueing model is common in manufacturing systems, where idle machines are turned off to save on operating costs, as well as in server farms, where idle servers are turned off to conserve power. While recent literature has analyzed the M/M/k system with exponential setup times, no closedform solutions were obtained. We provide the first analytical closed form expressions for the mean response time, limiting distribution of the system states, as well as the z-transform for the number of jobs in system for the M/M/k system with exponential setup times. In particular, we prove the following decomposition property: the mean response time of the M/M/k system with exponential setup times differs from the mean response time of an M/M/k system without setup times, by a constant factor, which is the mean of the exponential setup time. Using matrix analytic methods and simulations, we show that the above decomposition property may also hold for the M/G/k system with exponential setup times.
A Possible Alignment Between the Orbits of Planetary Systems and their Visual Binary Companions
Creators: name: Christian, Sam
name: Vanderburg, Andrew
name: Becker, Juliette
name: Yahalomi, Daniel
name: Pearce, Logan
name: Zhou, George
name: Collins, Karen
name: Kraus, Adam
name: TESS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Exoplanets
planet-star interactions

description: Astronomers do not have a complete picture of the effects of wide-binary companions (semimajor axes greater than 100 AU) on the formation and evolution of exoplanets. We investigate these effects using new data from Gaia EDR3 and the TESS mission to characterize wide-binary systems with transiting exoplanets. We identify a sample of 67 systems of transiting exoplanet candidates (with well-determined, edge-on orbital inclinations) that reside in wide visual binary systems. We derive limits on orbital parameters for the wide-binary systems and measure the minimum difference in orbital inclination between the binary and planet orbits. We determine that there appears to be a statistically significant difference in the inclination distribution of wide-binary stars with transiting planets compared to a control sample (p=0.0048). This implies that there is an overabundance of planets in binary systems whose orbits are aligned with those of the binary. The overabundance of aligned systems appears to primarily have semimajor axes less than 700 AU. We investigate some effects that could cause the alignment and conclude that a torque caused by a misaligned binary companion is the most promising explanation.
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