cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recommendations for How Illinois's Medicaid Managed Care System Can Positively Impact Care for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Creators: name: Cordiano, Kathryn
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: medicaid
subject: pediatrics
subject: special needs
subject: managed care
subject: Medicaid
subject: Managed Care Programs
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Illinois Territory

description: Introduction: Illinois aims to introduce 29,000 Children with Special Healthcare Needs (CSHCN) into its Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) program starting in 2018. In theory, the care coordination and quality-based incentives in MMC could improve care and reduce healthcare costs for this population. However, other states have experienced issues bringing such complex patients into a system that aims to be streamlined and cost-effective. Due to the large medical costs and complexities of CSHCN, improving care for this population in MMC could lead to a significant number of pediatric health improvements and cost savings across Medicaid. This paper aims to draw on experiences from previous implementations and provide recommendations for states considering this transition, specifically around what requirements to include in insurer contracts and how to ensure insurers are meeting their obligations.Methods: Five areas of focus were selected: reduction of racial and income disparities, ability to monitor and ensure network adequacy, ease of transition into and between managed care providers, adequacy of provider payments, and protection of EPSDT benefits. In each area, a literature review was conducted to identify best practices among states who previously went through this transition. These strategies were separated into recommendations for insurer contracts and recommendations for implementation, and apply to all states who are still looking to integrate CSHCN into MMC. These recommendations were then compared to the Illinois model contract with insurers, to create suggestions specific to Illinois.Results: Contract and implementation recommendations for all states, as well as specific suggestions for Illinois, were provided for each focus area. In each focus area, Illinois had already integrated at least one of the reviews recommendations, but was also missing at least one.Conclusion: Across all focus areas, there were three principal recommendations for states looking to introduce CSHCN to MMC. States would ideally provide CSHCN-specific exceptions in MMC contracts when necessary, attempt to align insurer and state goals through incentive updates, and employ comprehensive monitoring systems to oversee insurer behaviors. These recommendations can be used as a platform for discussion between organizations within the Child Health Policy Collaborative to help shape future research and strategies of the collaborative.
Vant SMERSj etterretningskrigen mot Abwehr og SS i forkant av frigjøringen av Øst-Finnmark? Finnmarken – 01. august 2019 / AvaxHome
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Vant SMERSj etterretningskrigen mot Abwehr og SS i forkant av frigjøringen av Øst-Finnmark?
Mening
Finnmarken - regionavisa for Øst-Finnmark 01.08.19
Vadsø, Kirkenes - Norway
Non-perturbative contributions to vector-boson transverse momentum spectra in hadronic collisions
Creators: name: Hautmann, Francesco
name: Scimemi, Ignazio
name: Vladimirov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental measurements of Drell-Yan (DY) vector-boson production are available from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and from lower-energy collider and fixed-target experiments. In the region of low vector-boson transverse momenta $q_T$, which is important for the extraction of the $W$-boson mass at the LHC, QCD contributions from non-perturbative Sudakov form factors and intrinsic transverse momentum distributions become relevant. We study the potential for determining such contributions from fits to LHC and lower-energy experimental data, using the framework of low-$q_T$ factorization for DY differential cross sections in terms of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution functions. We investigate correlations between different sources of TMD non-perturbative effects, and correlations with collinear parton distributions. We stress the relevance of accurate DY measurements at low masses and with fine binning in transverse momentum for improved determinations of long-distance contributions to Sudakov evolution processes and TMDs.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Nonperturbative QCD, gauge-fixing, Gribov copies, and the lattice
Creators: name: Williams, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbative QCD uses the Faddeev-Popov gauge-fixing procedure, which leads to ghosts and the local BRST invariance of the gauge-fixed perturbative QCD action. In the asymptotic regime, where perturbative QCD is relevant, Gribov copies can be neglected. In the nonperturbative regime, one must adopt either a nonlocal Gribov-copy free gauge (e.g., Laplacian gauge) or attempt to maintain local BRST invariance at the expense of admitting Gribov copies. These issues are explored. In addition, we discuss the relationship between recent Dyson-Schwinger based model calculations of the infrared behavior of QCD Green's functions and the lattice calculation of these quantities.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. in the proceedings of the Tokyo-Adelaide Joint Workshop on Quarks, Astrophysics and Space Physics
Knowledge, attitude, and behavior differences regarding alcohol use in a sample of undergraduate students at an urban university
Creators: name: O'Hara, Peggy Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding alcohol use, as elicited through the Alcohol Knowledge and Use Inventory (AKUI), of a sample of undergraduate students at an urban university; to determine significant differences among students categorized by academic class, gender, and age; and to draw implications from the findings for their meaning to college officials responsible for the development and implementation of university policies on alcoholic beverages. Working on the premise that knowledge changes attitudes and attitudes direct behavior, nine hypotheses were developed to determine the relationship between variables: gender, age, and academic class of a student and the student's knowledge, behavior, and attitudes associated with alcohol. The subjects used in the study were undergraduate students from an urban university in Washington, DC. One hundred students randomly selected from each academic class were invited to respond to the Alcohol Knowledge and Use Inventory (AKUI), an instrument designed by the researcher. A total of 183 responses provided data used to test the hypotheses. No significant relationships were found between student knowledge of alcohol effects and gender or academic class, student behavior regarding alcohol use and age or academic class, nor student attitudes associated with alcohol and age or class. Significant relationships were found between student knowledge of alcohol effects and age and between student attitudes and behavior regarding alcohol effects and gender. Female students demonstrated a strong knowledge base and responsible attitudes regarding alcohol use. Their drinking behavior overall did not differ from that of male students, who demonstrated a strong knowledge base and less responsible attitudes. Study conclusions suggest that education about alcohol effects alone may not be sufficient to curtail excessive drinking. Factors such as stress or group pressure must be considered. General information on alcohol effects may not preclude the establishment of drinking behavior among college students, which often begins as early as their junior high school years.
Hydrogen production through the cooperation of a catalyst synthesized in ethanol medium and the effect of the plasma
Creators: name: Izgi, Mehmet Sait
name: Onat, Erhan
name: Kazici, Hilal Çelik
name: Şahin, Ömer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: In the present study, nanostructured Ni-B catalysts were successfully prepared in ethanol medium using the chemical reduction method for hydrogen production from the catalytic hydrolysis of sodium borohydride (NaBH4). Ni-B nanostructures were characterized by several analysis methods including XRD, SEM/EDS, FT-IR and BET. The effects of factors such as solution temperature, NaBH4 loadings, catalyst amount and NaOH concentration on the performance of these catalysts in the production of hydrogen from alkaline NaBH4 solutions were investigated in detail. In addition, the Ni-B catalyst prepared in ethanol medium and subjected to plasma for the hydrogen production from the catalytic hydrolysis of NaBH4 was investigated. The Ni-B catalyst prepared in ethanol medium showed maximum hydrogen production rate (1000 mL min−1gcatalyst−1) which was approximately 2 times higher than the rate obtained from the Ni-B catalyst prepared in water (400 mL min−1gcatalyst−1) and acethone (550 mL min−1gcatalyst−1). The Ni-B nanoparticles showed the best catalytic activity at 333 K with a maximum hydrogen production rate of 7134 mL min−1gcatalyst−1 and activation energy of 46.83 kJmol−1 for the NaBH4 hydrolysis reaction in the Ni-B catalysts prepared in ethanol and subjected to plasma. As the Ni-B catalyst is inexpensive and easy to prepare, it is feasible to use this catalyst in the construction of practical fuel cells for portable and in situ applications.
Vant SMERSj etterretningskrigen mot Abwehr og SS i forkant av frigjøringen av Øst-Finnmark? Finnmarken – 01. august 2019 / AvaxHome
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Vant SMERSj etterretningskrigen mot Abwehr og SS i forkant av frigjøringen av Øst-Finnmark?
Mening
Finnmarken - regionavisa for Øst-Finnmark 01.08.19
Vadsø, Kirkenes - Norway
Optical Incoherence Tomography: a method to generate tomographic retinal cross-sections with non-interferometric imaging systems
Creators: name: Mecê, Pedro
name: Gofas-Salas, Elena
name: Paques, Michel
name: Grieve, Kate
name: Meimon, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Optical tomographic cross-sectional images of biological samples were made possible by interferometric imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Owing to its unprecedented view of the sample, OCT has become a gold standard, namely for human retinal imaging in the clinical environment. In this Letter, we present Optical Incoherence Tomography (OIT): a completely digital method extending the possibility to generate tomographic retinal cross-sections to non-interferometric imaging systems such as en-face AO-ophthalmoscopes. We demonstrate that OIT can be applied to different imaging modalities using back-scattered and multiply-scattered light including systems without inherent optical sectioning. We show that OIT can be further used to guide focus position when the user is "blind" focusing, allowing precise imaging of translucent retinal structures, the vascular plexuses and the retinal pigment epithelium using respectively split detection, motion contrast, and autofluorescence techniques.
description: 4 Figures, 3 Videos
Some functional equations originating from number theory
Creators: name: Jung, Soon-Mo
name: Bae, Jae-Hyeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We will introduce new functional equations (\ref{eq:hana}) and (\ref{eq:hana2}) which are strongly related to well-known formulae (\ref{eq:young}) and (\ref{eq:young2}) of number theory, and investigate the solutions of the equations. Moreover, we will also study some stability problems of those equations.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 5 of High-throughput proteomics fiber typing (ProFiT) for comprehensive characterization of single skeletal muscle fibers
Creators: name: Kallabis, Sebastian
name: Abraham, Lena
name: Müller, Stefan
name: Dzialas, Verena
name: Türk, Clara
name: Wiederstein, Janica Lea
name: Bock, Theresa
name: Nolte, Hendrik
name: Nogara, Leonardo
name: Blaauw, Bert
name: Braun, Thomas
name: Krüger, Marcus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology

description: Additional file 5 : Suppl. Figure 5: In-vivo SILAC reveals similar Lys-6 labeling after 14 days of MYH isoforms and muscle groups. A) Lys-6 labeling of type I muscle fibers from the soleus ranged from 10% to 80%, with the majority of proteins exhibiting 30–-40% Lys-6 labeling. Notably, albumin (ALB) and transferrin (TF) exhibited ~70% Lys-6 labeling; representative SILAC pairs for the albumin peptide TPVSEHVTK substantiated this high Lys-6 labeling. Grey circles indicate the Lys-0 peptide; red circles the Lys-6-labeled peptide. B) On average, liver proteins exhibited higher Lys-6 labeling rates ranging from ~60–85%. Albumin and transferrin had the same Lys-6 labeling rates in liver tissues as in muscle fibers, suggesting that albumin and transferrin are taken up by muscle fibers via the blood system. The same albumin peptide (TPVSEHVTK) showed similar Lys-6 labeling in muscle fibers and liver tissues. C) Selected SILAC pairs of muscle fiber proteins. The grey circle marks a non-labeled “light” Lys-0 peptide and the red circle illustrates the newly synthesized “heavy” Lys-6 peptide. Titin exhibited very similar Lys-6 incorporation rates in type I and IIa fibers (~31%), whereas Myomesin 2 had a lower incorporation rate in type I fibers (~38%) than type IIa fibers ( ~46%). Conversely, isocitrate-dehydrogenase 3b showed a higher Lys-6 labeling rate in type I ( ~54%) than type IIa fibers ( ~44%).
The Nigerian state and the political economy of state intervention
Creators: name: Ukata, Patrick Obeten
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the scope and impact of state intervention on Nigerian society. Using two case studies it shows how dynamic forces--within the Nigerian society and within the state itself--affect the state's formulation and implementation of economic policies. In its effort to assert its autonomy in the 1970s and 1980s, by intervening in the economic development of Nigeria, the state has had to interact with two other important members of the Nigerian society--local business and multinational corporations. The outcome of this interaction is the emergence of a much more complex, volatile, and uncertain "partnership" between the state, multinational corporations, and local business than that suggested by a strictly class-based analysis of the Nigerian state-society relations.
PenRed: An extensible and parallel Monte-Carlo framework for radiation transport based on PENELOPE
Creators: name: Giménez-Alventosa, V.
name: Gómez, V. Giménez
name: Gil, S. Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo methods provide detailed and accurate results for radiation transport simulations. Unfortunately, the high computational cost of these methods limits its usage in real-time applications. Moreover, existing computer codes do not provide a methodology for adapting these kind of simulations to specific problems without advanced knowledge of the corresponding code system, and this restricts their applicability. To help solve these current limitations, we present PenRed, a general-purpose, stand-alone, extensible and modular framework code based on PENELOPE for parallel Monte Carlo simulations of electron-photon transport through matter. It has been implemented in C++ programming language and takes advantage of modern object-oriented technologies. In addition, PenRed offers the capability to read and process DICOM images as well as to construct and simulate image-based voxelized geometries, so as to facilitate its usage in medical applications. Our framework has been successfully verified against the original PENELOPE Fortran code. Furthermore, the implemented parallelism has been tested showing a significant improvement in the simulation time without any loss in precision of results.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures. The update includes the comments and suggestions of the referees
Initial Results from The Spitzer Young Stellar Cluster Survey
Creators: name: Megeath, S. T.
name: Allen, L. E.
name: Gutermuth, R. A.
name: Pipher, J. L.
name: Myers, P. C.
name: Calvet, N.
name: Hartmann, L.
name: Muzerolle, J.
name: Fazio, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report initial results from IRAC observations of four young stellar clusters. These regions are part of a larger Spitzer survey of 31 young stellar groups and clusters within 1 kpc of the Sun. In each of the four clusters, there are between 39 and 85 objects with colors inconsistent with reddened stellar photospheres. We identify these objects as young stars with significant emission from circumstellar dust. Applying an analysis developed in a companion paper (Allen et al. 2004), we classify these objects as either pre-main sequence stars with disks (class II) or protostellar objects (class I). These show that the sites of recent star formation are distributed over multi-parsec size scales. In two clusters, Cepheus C and S140, we find protostars embedded in filamentary dark clouds seen against diffuse emission in the IRAC bands.
description: Accepted to the Spitzer special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Supplement
The Nigerian state and the political economy of state intervention
Creators: name: Ukata, Patrick Obeten
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation examines the scope and impact of state intervention on Nigerian society. Using two case studies it shows how dynamic forces--within the Nigerian society and within the state itself--affect the state's formulation and implementation of economic policies. In its effort to assert its autonomy in the 1970s and 1980s, by intervening in the economic development of Nigeria, the state has had to interact with two other important members of the Nigerian society--local business and multinational corporations. The outcome of this interaction is the emergence of a much more complex, volatile, and uncertain "partnership" between the state, multinational corporations, and local business than that suggested by a strictly class-based analysis of the Nigerian state-society relations.
Effect of a systematic inquiry intervention on the critical thinking skills of a sample of master's degree students
Creators: name: Bates, Dorothy Schweickardt
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the effect of a systematic inquiry intervention, Systematic Inquiry: The Care and Feeding of a Research Idea (SI), on the critical thinking skills, as assessed through the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (CAT), of a sample of master's degree students. An experimental study was conducted using pretest/posttest design. The four hypotheses tested in this study stated that the mean posttest CAT score of the experimental group would be significantly higher than that of the control group. They also stated that there would be significant improvement in the mean posttest score of the experimental group over the mean pretest score of the experimental group and that there would be no significant improvement in the mean posttest score of the control group when they were compared to that group's mean pretest score. The sample was a nonrandom volunteer sample of 44 American University master's degree students which was divided into randomly selected experimental and control groups. Data were collected on gender, age, and educational background of sample members. All sample members were pretested using the CAT, Form A. The experimental group was exposed to SI. Both the experimental and control groups were posttested using the CAT, Form B. Pretest and posttest data were then compared within and between groups. The results supported two of the null hypotheses. These hypotheses were that there would be no significant difference between the experimental group pretest and posttest means and that there would be no significant difference between the experimental group posttest mean and the control group posttest mean. The results supported two of the research hypotheses. These were that the mean pretest CAT score of the experimental group would not differ significantly from the mean pretest CAT score of the control group and that the mean pretest CAT score for the control group would not differ significantly from their mean posttest CAT score. The level set for statistical significance was.05. The conclusion was drawn that SI showed no significant effect on the development of critical thinking skills in the master's degree students studied.
Spontaneous breaking of the lepton number and invisible majoron in a 3-3-1 model
Creators: name: Pires, C. A de S.
name: da Silva, P. S. Rodrigues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we implement the spontaneous breaking of the lepton number in the version II of the 3-3-1 models and study their phenomenological consequences. The main result of this work is that our majoron is invisible even though it belongs to a triplet representation by the 3-3-1 symmetry.
description: discussion on \rho parameter added, refs. added, to appear in EPJC
Additional file 4 of High-throughput proteomics fiber typing (ProFiT) for comprehensive characterization of single skeletal muscle fibers
Creators: name: Kallabis, Sebastian
name: Abraham, Lena
name: Müller, Stefan
name: Dzialas, Verena
name: Türk, Clara
name: Wiederstein, Janica Lea
name: Bock, Theresa
name: Nolte, Hendrik
name: Nogara, Leonardo
name: Blaauw, Bert
name: Braun, Thomas
name: Krüger, Marcus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology

description: Additional file 4: : Suppl. Figure 4: Increased fluorescence of tropomyosin-1 stained EDL type IIb compared to TA type IIb myofibers. A) Co-immunostaining of tropomyosin-1 (TPM1) and myosin-4 in muscle cryosections showing the TA (left to the dashed line) and EDL (right to the dashed line) muscle. Type IIb positive myofibers are marked with “a” (TA) or “b” (EDL). B) Quantitative analysis of the TPM1 fluorescence signal in type IIb positive fibers of the TA or the EDL muscle. Significance was tested by two-sided t-testing (n = 40). C) Co-immunostaining of titin (TTN) and myosin-4 in muscle cryosections showing the TA (left to the dashed line) and EDL (right to the dashed line) muscle. Type IIb positive myofibers are marked with “a” (TA) or “b” (EDL). B) Quantitative analysis of the TTN fluorescence signal in type IIb positive fibers of the TA or the EDL muscle. Significance was tested by two-sided t-testing (n = 30)
Effect of a systematic inquiry intervention on the critical thinking skills of a sample of master's degree students
Creators: name: Bates, Dorothy Schweickardt
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: This study examined the effect of a systematic inquiry intervention, Systematic Inquiry: The Care and Feeding of a Research Idea (SI), on the critical thinking skills, as assessed through the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (CAT), of a sample of master's degree students. An experimental study was conducted using pretest/posttest design. The four hypotheses tested in this study stated that the mean posttest CAT score of the experimental group would be significantly higher than that of the control group. They also stated that there would be significant improvement in the mean posttest score of the experimental group over the mean pretest score of the experimental group and that there would be no significant improvement in the mean posttest score of the control group when they were compared to that group's mean pretest score. The sample was a nonrandom volunteer sample of 44 American University master's degree students which was divided into randomly selected experimental and control groups. Data were collected on gender, age, and educational background of sample members. All sample members were pretested using the CAT, Form A. The experimental group was exposed to SI. Both the experimental and control groups were posttested using the CAT, Form B. Pretest and posttest data were then compared within and between groups. The results supported two of the null hypotheses. These hypotheses were that there would be no significant difference between the experimental group pretest and posttest means and that there would be no significant difference between the experimental group posttest mean and the control group posttest mean. The results supported two of the research hypotheses. These were that the mean pretest CAT score of the experimental group would not differ significantly from the mean pretest CAT score of the control group and that the mean pretest CAT score for the control group would not differ significantly from their mean posttest CAT score. The level set for statistical significance was.05. The conclusion was drawn that SI showed no significant effect on the development of critical thinking skills in the master's degree students studied.
Lattice QCD and the Schwarz alternating procedure
Creators: name: Lüscher, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical simulation algorithm for lattice QCD is described, in which the short- and long-distance effects of the sea quarks are treated separately. The algorithm can be regarded, to some extent, as an implementation at the quantum level of the classical Schwarz alternating procedure for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations. No numerical tests are reported here, but theoretical arguments suggest that the algorithm should work well also at small quark masses.
description: Plain TeX source, 20 pages, figures included
Port-Hamiltonian flexible multibody dynamics
Creators: name: Brugnoli, Andrea
name: Alazar, Daniel
name: Pommier-Budinger, Valérie
name: Matignon, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A new formulation for the modular construction of flexible multibody systems is presented. By rearranging the equations for a flexible floating body and introducing the appropriate canonical momenta, the model is recast into a coupled system of ordinary and partial differential equations in port-Hamiltonian (pH) form. This approach relies on a floating frame description and remains valid under the assumption of small deformations. This allows including mechanical models that cannot be easily formulated in terms of differential forms. Once a pH model is established, a finite element based method is then introduced to discretize the dynamics in a structure-preserving manner. Thanks to the features of the pH framework, complex multibody systems are constructed in a modular way. Constraints are imposed at the velocity level, leading to an index 2 quasi-linear differential-algebraic system. Numerical tests are carried out to assess the validity of the proposed approach.
The Jacobian of a nonorientable Klein surface
Creators: name: Ares-Gastesi, Pablo
name: Biswas, Indranil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using divisors, an analog of the Jacobian for a compact connected nonorientable Klein surface $Y$ is constructed. The Jacobian is identified with the dual of the space of all harmonic real one-forms on $Y$ quotiented by the torsion-free part of the first integral homology of $Y$. Denote by $X$ the double cover of $Y$ given by orientation. The Jacobian of $Y$ is identified with the space of all degree zero holomorphic line bundles $L$ over $X$ with the property that $L$ is isomorphic to $σ^*\bar{L}$, where $σ$ is the involution of $X$.
description: 13 pages
Additional file 13 of Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive
Creators: name: Fernández-González, Antonio J.
name: Cardoni, Martina
name: Cabanás, Carmen Gómez-Lama
name: Valverde-Corredor, Antonio
name: Villadas, Pablo J.
name: Fernández-López, Manuel
name: Mercado-Blanco, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13: Figure S8. Genera showing significant changes in fungal structural (DNA) and functional (RNA) communities of ‘Frantoio’ (panel a) and ‘Picual’ (panel b) rhizosphere after inoculation with Verticillium dahliae. No/green: non-inoculated; Yes/red: Verticillium dahliae-inoculated.
Factors Influencing Corn Fungicide Treatment Decisions
Creators: name: Rosburg, Alicia
name: Menapace, Luisa
name: Rosburg, Alicia
name: Menapace, Luisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: maize
subject: producer beliefs

description: Fungal disease management in U.S. corn production has undergone a major shift in the last 2 decades. The decision to apply fungicide, a management practice that was once rarely considered, is now contemplated annually by many U.S. corn producers. We investigate potential factors underlying the fungicide treatment decision. We use economics, agronomy, and plant pathology literature to develop a conceptual model of the fungicide treatment decision and test the model using a survey of Midwest corn producers. We find the treatment decision is positively related to perceived economic gains, but heuristic factors also have a strong influence.
Long-delay memory for tastes: An assessment of temporal parameters
Creators: name: Bitler, Doris Anne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The longevity of taste memory was assessed in three different paradigms: operant discrimination, conditioned taste aversion, and Pavlovian occasion-setting. Taste memory exhibited long-lived properties only in the taste aversion procedure, even though taste exposure, relative novelty, trial number and reinforcer salience were comparable among the procedures. Memory for tastes serving a discriminative function does not appear to be long lived, suggesting that taste stimuli in general do not possess unique characteristics that allow them to become associated with other stimuli over long delays.
TreePM Method for Two-Dimensional Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Ray, Suryadeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the two-dimensional TreePM method in this paper. The 2d TreePM code is an accurate and efficient technique to carry out large two-dimensional N-body simulations in cosmology. This hybrid code combines the 2d Barnes and Hut Tree method and the 2d Particle-Mesh method. We describe the splitting of force between the PM and the Tree parts. We also estimate error in force for a realistic configuration. Finally, we discuss some tests of the code.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, uses jaa.sty. To be submitted to JAA
Long-delay memory for tastes: An assessment of temporal parameters
Creators: name: Bitler, Doris Anne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The longevity of taste memory was assessed in three different paradigms: operant discrimination, conditioned taste aversion, and Pavlovian occasion-setting. Taste memory exhibited long-lived properties only in the taste aversion procedure, even though taste exposure, relative novelty, trial number and reinforcer salience were comparable among the procedures. Memory for tastes serving a discriminative function does not appear to be long lived, suggesting that taste stimuli in general do not possess unique characteristics that allow them to become associated with other stimuli over long delays.
Glory is Back. Om den første tildelingen av den norske «Medaljen for edel dåd» til sovjetiske sjømenn
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: En av de norske medaljene «For ædel daad» som ble tildelt en gruppe sjømenn fra Sovjetunionen i 1935, befinner seg i samlingen til Vladimir Galanov i den russiske byen Smolensk. Sjømenn fra Sovjetunionen ble tildelt slike medaljer i hvert fall tre ganger: i 1935 ble en gruppe på 9 sjømenn hedret, i 1939 ble 19 sjømenn tildelt medalje, og i 1977 fikk en sovjetisk sjømann medaljen. 
Modeling Joint Dependence of Managed Ecosystems Pests: The Case of the Wheat Stem Sawfly
Creators: name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Weaver, David K.
name: Bekkerman, Anton
name: Weaver, David K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: biological control
subject: copula
subject: harvest decisions
subject: host plant resistance

description: Many invasive and opportunistic pests cause multiple, interdependent adverse outcomes on agricultural production. Often, however, these impacts are modeled independently, which can bias empirical inferences and contribute to inaccurate recommendations. We use a copula function to more accurately model the joint behavior and provide an empirical example of its application to assess the impacts of the wheat stem sawfly (WSS). We use a unique farm-level dataset to estimate the expected losses associated with WSS and then evaluate two popular WSS management strategies. We find that strategies minimizing long-run infestation levels are preferred to those that seek to maximize yield potential in exchange for higher risk of intertemporal infestation.
Action of bases on aldose phenylhydrazones synthesis of new hydrazono-1,4-lactones
Creators: name: Crossman, Jr., Arthur Tyler
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The major accomplishment of the work presented in this thesis is the synthesis of new aldonohydrazono-1,4-lactones. This new type of compounds was formed by peroxidation of aldose phenylhydrazones in basic media. The phenylazo-hydroperoxides, first formed underwent nucleophilic substitution by O-4 to give the new products without showing any sign of epimerization. Aldose phenylhydrazone acetates do not undergo this reaction, but instead eliminate leaving groups to afford azoalkenes (see Scheme I). These two reactions differ markedly from the reactions of aldoses and glycosylamines with bases. Aldoses isomerize in bases to give epimeric aldoses and ketoses and glycosylamines are converted to 1-amino-1-deoxy-ketoses. When treated with oxygen and base the carbon chain of aldoses and glycosylamines is disrupted and two acids (a lower aldonic acid and formic acid) are formed. The difference observed in the behaviour of phenylhydrazones can be explained by their inability to tautomerize. Aldoses and aldosamines possess acidic $\alpha$-hydrogens which are responsible for their tautomerization. They form resononance stabilized enolate and enolamine anions, which afford on protonation enediols and enolamines. Enediols possess two acidic OH protons which can undergo ionization. Ionization of one OH reverses the reaction and gives two epimeric aldoses; whereas ionization of the other, yields a resonance stabilized ion which affords a ketose. Accordingly, aldoses give upon treatment with base two epimeric aldoses and a ketose. Similar treatment of glycosylamines with base yields enolamines, which possesses one OH and one NH group. Since the OH proton is much more acidic than the NH proton, it will preferentially ionize to give a ketose derivative (see Scheme II). Phenylhydrazones on the other hand, possess acidic NH protons, which are significantly more acidic than their $\alpha$ hydrogens. This is because the hydrazonate ions are more stable than the enolhydrazinate ions, formed by ionization of $\alpha$-hydrogens (the hydrazone ion is a hybrid of three resonance forms, whereas the enolhydrazine ion is stabilized by only two forms). Since enediols, enolamines and enolhydrazines are needed for epimerizations and for degradative oxidations, the inability of hydrazones to enolize to any significant extent, prevents them from undergoing these two reactions. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
Fight academic apartheid to advance equality and quality in the sciences. An interview with Prof Rune Nilsen on 23 November 2015. Professor Emeritus in Global Health Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway) on Open Access, University politics and Global health.
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
name: Cutler, Ingrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160503 Communications and Media Policy
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy

description: Europe's Open Access Champions, Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access & what still needs to be done.
Professor Emeritus in Global Health Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway) on Open Access, University politics and Global health.
Charge-dependent flow induced by electromagnetic fields in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Gürsoy, U.
name: Kharzeev, D. E.
name: Marcus, E.
name: Rajagopal, K.
name: Shen, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The colliding heavy ions create extremely strong magnetic and electric fields that significantly affect the evolution of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The knowledge of these fields is essential for establishing the role of topological fluctuations in the QGP through the chiral magnetic effect and related anomaly-induced phenomena. In this talk, we describe our work on the evolution of the QGP in electric and magnetic fields in the framework of hydrodynamics supplemented, in a perturbative fashion, by the dynamical electromagnetism. The evolution of the QGP fluid is described within the iEBE-VISHNU framework. We find that the electromagnetically induced currents result in a charge-odd directed flow $Δv_1$ and a charge-odd $Δv_3$ flow both of which are odd in rapidity. While the predicted magnitude of these charge-odd flows agrees with the data from RHIC and LHC, the sign of the predicted asymmetry between the flows of positive and negative hadrons is opposite to the data.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter 2019 conference
Проблемы и пути решения внедрения инновационных технологий при проектировании и строительстве автомобильных дорог
Creators: name: Sadikov, Ibrahim
name: Aslidin Urokov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Ушбу мақолада автомобиль йўллари тармоғини ривожлантириш учун йўл-техник сиёсати мазмуни ёритилган.
Action of bases on aldose phenylhydrazones synthesis of new hydrazono-1,4-lactones
Creators: name: Crossman, Jr., Arthur Tyler
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry

description: The major accomplishment of the work presented in this thesis is the synthesis of new aldonohydrazono-1,4-lactones. This new type of compounds was formed by peroxidation of aldose phenylhydrazones in basic media. The phenylazo-hydroperoxides, first formed underwent nucleophilic substitution by O-4 to give the new products without showing any sign of epimerization. Aldose phenylhydrazone acetates do not undergo this reaction, but instead eliminate leaving groups to afford azoalkenes (see Scheme I). These two reactions differ markedly from the reactions of aldoses and glycosylamines with bases. Aldoses isomerize in bases to give epimeric aldoses and ketoses and glycosylamines are converted to 1-amino-1-deoxy-ketoses. When treated with oxygen and base the carbon chain of aldoses and glycosylamines is disrupted and two acids (a lower aldonic acid and formic acid) are formed. The difference observed in the behaviour of phenylhydrazones can be explained by their inability to tautomerize. Aldoses and aldosamines possess acidic $\alpha$-hydrogens which are responsible for their tautomerization. They form resononance stabilized enolate and enolamine anions, which afford on protonation enediols and enolamines. Enediols possess two acidic OH protons which can undergo ionization. Ionization of one OH reverses the reaction and gives two epimeric aldoses; whereas ionization of the other, yields a resonance stabilized ion which affords a ketose. Accordingly, aldoses give upon treatment with base two epimeric aldoses and a ketose. Similar treatment of glycosylamines with base yields enolamines, which possesses one OH and one NH group. Since the OH proton is much more acidic than the NH proton, it will preferentially ionize to give a ketose derivative (see Scheme II). Phenylhydrazones on the other hand, possess acidic NH protons, which are significantly more acidic than their $\alpha$ hydrogens. This is because the hydrazonate ions are more stable than the enolhydrazinate ions, formed by ionization of $\alpha$-hydrogens (the hydrazone ion is a hybrid of three resonance forms, whereas the enolhydrazine ion is stabilized by only two forms). Since enediols, enolamines and enolhydrazines are needed for epimerizations and for degradative oxidations, the inability of hydrazones to enolize to any significant extent, prevents them from undergoing these two reactions. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
Additional file 3 of High-throughput proteomics fiber typing (ProFiT) for comprehensive characterization of single skeletal muscle fibers
Creators: name: Kallabis, Sebastian
name: Abraham, Lena
name: Müller, Stefan
name: Dzialas, Verena
name: Türk, Clara
name: Wiederstein, Janica Lea
name: Bock, Theresa
name: Nolte, Hendrik
name: Nogara, Leonardo
name: Blaauw, Bert
name: Braun, Thomas
name: Krüger, Marcus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology

description: Additional file 3: : Suppl. Figureure 3: Overrepresentation of mitochondrial proteins in soleus type IIa fibers reflects increased numbers of mitochondria. A) Volcano plot comparing protein fold-changes (log2-scale) in soleus type I and type IIa fibers (Table S3). Colored circles reflect mitochondrial proteins (blue, MitoCarta2.0-annotated) and OXPHOS complex members. B) The same volcano plot as in A) but showing normalized values for mitochondrial annotated proteins. Respiratory chain complex I, III, IV and V members were selected, and mean intensities were calculated for type I and IIa samples separately. A correction factor was calculated by correlating the average value of type I complex members to the average value of type II members. The mean relative intensity in type I fibers was 0.745 (compared to type IIa).
Genetic and biochemical analysis of alkaline phosphatase from inbred rat strains
Creators: name: Finley, Stephen Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Alkaline phosphatase (AP) was analyzed utilizing electrophoretic techniques and biochemical assays to establish genetic phenotypes and inheritance patterns for the purpose of genetic monitoring of inbred rats. The AP from rat kidney was further tested for functionality differences between the enzyme phenotypes. Cellulose acetate electrophoresis (CAE) revealed that the AP of kidney, liver and small intestine contained three genetic phenotypes distinguished by their migration rates: AA (fast), BB (null), CC (slow). The phenotypes displayed a Mendelian inheritance pattern that was indicative of a single locus with multiple alleles. The AA and CC phenotypes were dominant over the BB phenotype whereas the AA and CC were codominant to each other. The phenotypic variation observed in CAE was due to differences in glycosylation of the enzyme. Kidney AP from selected rat strains was purified and tested to determine if the different phenotypes identified created functional differences in the enzyme. The F$\sb1$ hybrids displayed a single gene overdominance in the V$\sb{\rm max}$/K$\sb{\rm m}$ ratio over the inbred strains when either pH or temperature was varied. Other than overdominance no other functional differences were found between the inbreds animals and the F$\sb1$ hybrids using the kinetic parameters in this study. The average Michaelis constant value was 1.43 mM using $\rho$-nitrophenyl phosphate as the substrate. The average I$\sb{50}$ for the inhibitors, L-homoarginine and imidazole, were 2.06 mM and 8.07 mM respectively. This study demonstrated that the AP enzyme would be a useful biochemical enzyme marker for the genetic monitoring of inbred rats. It also demonstrated that a special case of heterosis was responsible for the difference between the inbred and F$\sb1$ hybrids. Finally, an unusual small intestinal AP variant was found which may prove to be useful as an animal model system for human AP disease in that it resembled the human Kasahara AP variant.