cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prestige, Preference, and Preservation: Language Policies for Nahuatl and Guarani, from Empire to Nation
Creators: name: Wang, Harvey
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Language policy
subject: Mexico
subject: Paraguay
subject: Indigenous peoples--Languages
subject: Nahuatl language
subject: Guarani language

description: The Spanish colonization of the Americas has ultimately created a situation where no indigenous language is favored. In this thesis, I provide a comparative history of the language policies governing two indigenous languages, Nahuatl and Guarani, from the colonial period to the present. These languages were chosen because of their historic and demographic significance; Nahuatl was the language of the Aztec Empire and Guarani still remains the majority language of Paraguay. While much has been written about both languages, their histories have not been compared. My research was purely bibliographical. I consulted primary and secondary sources in English, Spanish, Nahuatl and Guarani; the thesis is a synthesis of these various histories, historical documents, and laws. My research has shown that Nahuatl and Guarani were subjected to similar policies, even after the independence of Mexico and Paraguay. In fact, Guarani’s policies were even less tolerant than Mexico’s at certain points in history. However, Nahuatl and Guarani’s policies were not always intolerant. Bans on both languages were lifted, relaxed, and overlooked by those in power many times when these languages were useful in gaining popular appeal. Even in times of official intolerance, there were impracticalities in enforcing such policies, depending on the situation of each country. Therefore, policy alone cannot account for the current disparity between each language’s vitality. Understanding the history of each language can allow us to identify the key actions for reversing language shift.
Anti-Salmonella Activity of an Ethanol Extract of Ardisia elliptica Fruits in Chicken
Creators: name: Methin Phadungkit
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: Ardisia elliptica, anti-Salmonella activity, broiler chicken

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 1, 47-50
WP3/WP4 2024-06 (June 6th and 13th) Meeting on MHW - all presentations and summaries
Creators: name: McAdam, Ronan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Meeting organised by: Ronan McAdam  

 

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Effect of Alginate Film on Release Characteristics of Diclofenac Tablets Prepared using Non-aqueous Binder
Creators: name: Thaned Pongjanyakul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: alginate film, diclofinac sodium, coating

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 1, 51-60
Effect of Cadmium and Selenium on Hepatic Antioxidative Enzymes of Hamsters
Creators: name: Wana Sirisangtrakul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: cadmium, selenium, antioxidant, hamster, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reduction, catalase, glutathione

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 1, 61-70
A Combinatorial Formula for Certain Elements of Upper Cluster Algebras
Creators: name: Lee, Kyungyong
name: Li, Li
name: Mills, Matthew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: We develop an elementary formula for certain non-trivial elements of upper cluster algebras. These elements have positive coefficients. We show that when the cluster algebra is acyclic these elements form a basis. Using this formula, we show that each non-acyclic skew-symmetric cluster algebra of rank 3 is properly contained in its upper cluster algebra.
Probing bulk flow with nearby SNe Ia data
Creators: name: Appleby, Stephen
name: Shafieloo, Arman
name: Johnson, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the isotropy of the local Universe using low redshift supernova data from various catalogs and the non-parametric method of smoothed residuals. Using a recently developed catalog which combines supernova data from various surveys, we show that the isotropic hypothesis of a Universe with zero velocity perturbation can be rejected with moderate significance, with $p$-value $\sim 0.07$ out to redshift $z < 0.045$. We estimate the direction of maximal anisotropy on the sky for various pre-existing catalogs and show that it remains relatively unaffected by the light curve fitting procedure. However the recovered direction is biased by the underlying distribution of data points on the sky. We estimate both the uncertainty and bias in the direction by creating mock data containing a randomly oriented bulk flow and using our method to reconstruct its direction. We conclude that the inhomogeneous nature of the data introduces a directional bias in galactic latitude of approximately $|Δb_{\rm max}| \sim 18^{\circ}$ for the supernova catalog considered in this work, and after correcting for this effect we infer the direction of maximum anisotropy as $(b,\ell) = (20^{\circ}, 276^{\circ}) \pm (12^{\circ},29^{\circ})$ in galactic coordinates. Finally we compare the anisotropic signal in the data to mock realisations in which large scale velocity perturbations are consistently accounted for at the level of linear perturbation theory. We show that including the effect of the velocity perturbation in our mock catalogs degrades the significance of the anisotropy considerably, with $p$-value increasing to $\sim 0.29$. One can conclude from our analysis that there is a moderate deviation from isotropy in the supernova data, but the signal is consistent with a large scale bulk velocity expected within $Λ$CDM.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, discussions extended, main results unchanged, matches published version in ApJ
Singular Links and Yang-Baxter State Models
Creators: name: Caprau, Carmen
name: Okano, Tsutomu
name: Orton, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57M15

description: We employ a solution of the Yang-Baxter equation to construct invariants for knot-like objects. Specifically, we consider a Yang-Baxter state model for the sl(n) polynomial of classical links and extend it to oriented singular links and balanced oriented 4-valent knotted graphs with rigid vertices. We also define a representation of the singular braid monoid into a matrix algebra, and seek conditions for extending further the invariant to contain topological knotted graphs. In addition, we show that the resulting Yang-Baxter-type invariant for singular links yields a version of the Murakami-Ohtsuki-Yamada state model for the sl(n) polynomial for classical links.
description: 22 pages, many figures; this is the journal version of the paper
Primary language and the electronic health record patient portal: Barriers to use among Spanish-speaking adults with asthma
Creators: name: Localio, Anna M.
name: Klusaritz, Heather
name: Morales, Knashawn H.
name: Ruggieri, Dominique G.
name: Han, Xiaoyan
name: Apter, Andrea J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess electronic health record patient portal use among Spanish-speaking patients with asthma compared to English-speaking patients and identify barriers to use. Using data collected for a PCORI-funded randomized controlled trial to increase patient portal use in low-income adults with uncontrolled asthma, we estimated the association between portal use, measured using surveys and actual user login data, and primary language. Open-ended survey responses were grouped into common themes. Among 301 adults with asthma: age 18-87, 90% female, 17% Spanish speakers; 44% had no portal use during the study. Spanish speakers were less likely to have ever heard of the patient portal than English speakers (p=.001) and reported more difficulty navigating the portal (p<.001). Spanish speakers with low health literacy had less portal use (31%) than their English-speaking counterparts (51%) (p=.02). Compared to high-literacy English speakers, the odds of using the portal for low-literacy Spanish speakers were 0.34 (95% CI 0.14, 0.84) (p=.02). Three-quarters of Spanish speakers cited barriers to portal use compared to one-quarter of English speakers, and many suggested creating a Spanish version to improve user-friendliness. English-only patient portals may not meet the needs of Spanish-speaking patients with uncontrolled asthma. Health systems serving Spanish-speaking communities should implement patient portals in Spanish.
Antiferromagnetism of Zn$_2$VO(PO$_4)_2$ and the dilution with Ti$^{4+}$
Creators: name: Yogi, A.
name: Ahmed, N.
name: Nath, R.
name: Tsirlin, A. A.
name: Kundu, S.
name: Mahajan, A. V.
name: Sichelschmidt, J.
name: Roy, B.
name: Furukawa, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report static and dynamic properties of the antiferromagnetic compound Zn$_{2}$(VO)(PO$_{4}$)$_{2}$, and the consequences of non-magnetic Ti$^{4+}$ doping at the V$^{4+}$ site. $^{31}$P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and spin-lattice relaxation rate ($1/T_1$) consistently show the formation of the long-range antiferromagnetic order below $T_N= 3.8-3.9$\,K. The critical exponent $β=0.33 \pm 0.02$ estimated from the temperature dependence of the sublattice magnetization measured by $^{31}$P NMR at 9.4\,MHz is consistent with universality classes of three-dimensional spin models. The isotropic and axial hyperfine couplings between the $^{31}$P nuclei and V$^{4+}$ spins are $A_{\rm hf}^{\rm iso} = (9221 \pm 100)$ Oe/$μ_{\rm B}$ and $A_{\rm hf}^{\rm ax} = (1010 \pm 50)$ Oe/$μ_{\rm B}$, respectively. Magnetic susceptibility data above 6.5\,K and heat capacity data above 4.5\,K are well described by quantum Monte-Carlo simulations for the Heisenberg model on the square lattice with $J\simeq 7.7$\,K. This value of $J$ is consistent with the values obtained from the NMR shift, $1/T_1$ and electron spin resonance (ESR) intensity analysis. Doping Zn$_2$VO(PO$_4)_2$ with non-magnetic Ti$^{4+}$ leads to a marginal increase in the $J$ value and the overall dilution of the spin lattice. In contrast to the recent \textit{ab initio} results, we find neither evidence for the monoclinic structural distortion nor signatures of the magnetic one-dimensionality for doped samples with up to 15\% of Ti$^{4+}$. The Néel temperature $T_{\rm N}$ decreases linearly with increasing the amount of the non-magnetic dopant.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Celecoxib on an Avoidance of Gastrointestinal Adverse Events in Patients with Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Supon Limwattananon
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Celecoxib, Gastrointestinal Events, Osteoarthritis

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 2, 15-29
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Inhaled Corticosteroids for Mild and Moderate Asthma in Thai Health Care Context
Creators: name: Chulapom Limwattananon
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Inhaled Corticosteroids, Mild and Moderate Asthma

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 2, 30-43
Self-learning Evaluation from Direct Experience in Isan Culture and Health among Pharmacy Student, Mahasarakham University
Creators: name: Bhuddhipong Satayavongthip
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2005
Subjects: Student-centered learning, Isan culture, Health, Pharmacy

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 2, 44-49
High-Frequency Voronoi Noise Reduced by Smoothed Mesh Motion
Creators: name: Duffell, Paul C.
name: MacFadyen, Andrew I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a technique for improving the performance of hydrodynamics codes which employ a moving Voronoi mesh. Currently, such codes are susceptible to high-frequency noise produced by rapid adjustments in the grid topology on the smallest scales. The treatment for this grid noise is simple; instead of moving the mesh-generating marker points with the local fluid velocity, this velocity field is smoothed on small scales, so that neighboring marker points generally have similar velocities. We demonstrate significant improvement gained by this adjustment in several code tests relevant to the physics which moving-mesh codes are designed to capture.
description: MNRAS Accepted
Primary language and the electronic health record patient portal: Barriers to use among Spanish-speaking adults with asthma
Creators: name: Localio, Anna M.
name: Klusaritz, Heather
name: Morales, Knashawn H.
name: Ruggieri, Dominique G.
name: Han, Xiaoyan
name: Apter, Andrea J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess electronic health record patient portal use among Spanish-speaking patients with asthma compared to English-speaking patients and identify barriers to use. Using data collected for a PCORI-funded randomized controlled trial to increase patient portal use in low-income adults with uncontrolled asthma, we estimated the association between portal use, measured using surveys and actual user login data, and primary language. Open-ended survey responses were grouped into common themes. Among 301 adults with asthma: age 18-87, 90% female, 17% Spanish speakers; 44% had no portal use during the study. Spanish speakers were less likely to have ever heard of the patient portal than English speakers (p=.001) and reported more difficulty navigating the portal (p<.001). Spanish speakers with low health literacy had less portal use (31%) than their English-speaking counterparts (51%) (p=.02). Compared to high-literacy English speakers, the odds of using the portal for low-literacy Spanish speakers were 0.34 (95% CI 0.14, 0.84) (p=.02). Three-quarters of Spanish speakers cited barriers to portal use compared to one-quarter of English speakers, and many suggested creating a Spanish version to improve user-friendliness. English-only patient portals may not meet the needs of Spanish-speaking patients with uncontrolled asthma. Health systems serving Spanish-speaking communities should implement patient portals in Spanish.
Fast and Reliable Time Delay Estimation of Strong Lens Systems Using Method of Smoothing and Cross-Correlation
Creators: name: Aghamousa, Amir
name: Shafieloo, Arman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observable time delays between the multiple images of strong lensing systems with time variable sources can provide us with some valuable information to probe the expansion history of the Universe. Estimation of these time delays can be very challenging due to complexities of the observed data where there are seasonal gaps, various noises and systematics such as unknown microlensing effects. In this paper we introduce a novel approach to estimate the time delays for strong lensing systems implementing various statistical methods of data analysis including the method of smoothing and cross-correlation. The method we introduce in this paper has been recently used in TDC0 and TDC1 Strong Lens Time Delay Challenges and has shown its power in reliable and precise estimation of time delays dealing with data with different complexities.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, discussions extended, references added, results unchanged, matches final version published in ApJ
The Impact of Amnesty Laws on Civil-Military Relations in Brazil and Chile
Creators: name: Gallagher, Sean
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Civil-military relations
subject: Brazil
subject: Chile
subject: Amnesty--Law and legislation
subject: Trials (Crimes against humanity)

description: At the point of each country’s transition from military rule to democratically-elected, civilian leadership in 1990, Brazil appeared to be better positioned than Chile to consolidate its democracy. The former dictator Augusto Pinochet remained Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army and had written military prerogatives into the constitution. In contrast, the Brazilian military could only influence the Brazilian constitution indirectly as it was being written by civilians. In both countries, amnesty laws protected members of the military from prosecution for crimes committed under military rule. Today, the Chilean military’s political role is nonexistent, while officers of the Brazilian military participate in political debates and even attempt to influence election administration. Chile has prosecuted thousands of members of the military for crimes committed during military rule, circumventing the amnesty law, while Brazil has prosecuted none. I argue that these prosecutions contributed to civilian control over the military in Chile, and are not just a byproduct of overall advances in civilian control. Chile’s court structure permitted individual prosecutions to serve as intermediate focal points that allowed civilians and the military in Chile to negotiate a new, less political role for the military in Chile. Brazil’s legislative structure, coupled with the role of precedents and binding decisions in the judicial system, removed these intermediate focal points. Circumventing the amnesty law and prosecuting human rights abuses in Chile established a norm of military subordination to civilian control, while the Brazilian military used the amnesty law to remain involved in political affairs.
Maternal asthma during pregnancy and extremes of body mass index increase the risk of perinatal mortality: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Das, Jui
name: Andrews, Christine
name: Flenady, Vicki
name: Clifton, Vicki L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Asthma during pregnancy and extremes of body mass index (BMI) are independently associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes but the impact of the two conditions combined are currently unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of maternal BMI to adverse birth outcomes in pregnancies complicated by asthma. The study utilized the routinely collected perinatal data on births at the Mater Mother’s Hospital Brisbane, Australia, from January 2008 to December 2019. BMI was grouped as underweight (<18.5), normal weight (18.5-<24.99), overweight (25-29.99), and obese (≥30) and the population split by the presence and absence of maternal asthma. The comparison group was normal BMI, non-asthmatic pregnant women. A modified Poisson regression with robust variance was used to estimate the relative risk. In a retrospective cohort study of 110,057 pregnant women, 17.08% of women had asthma. Asthma and BMI were associated with an increased risk of poor fetal and neonatal outcomes. Asthma significantly increased the risk of stillbirth in underweight [adjusted RR: 2.22 (95% CI: 1.25-3.94] and obese [1.74 (1.11-2.71)]; neonatal death in underweight [3.41 (1.89-6.16)] and obese [2.22 (1.37-3.59)] and perinatal death in underweight [2.34 (1.50-3.66)] and obese [1.92 (1.38-2.67)] women. Admission to the neonatal intensive care unit was increased in neonates of underweight [1.65 (1.44-1.89)] and obese [1.26 (1.14-1.40)] asthmatic women. Extremes of BMI, specifically underweight and obesity, increased the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among asthmatic women highlighting the importance of accounting for BMI during pre-conception and pregnancy related management of asthmatic women.
The "Runs" Theorem
Creators: name: Bannai, Hideo
name: I, Tomohiro
name: Inenaga, Shunsuke
name: Nakashima, Yuto
name: Takeda, Masayuki
name: Tsuruta, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We give a new characterization of maximal repetitions (or runs) in strings based on Lyndon words. The characterization leads to a proof of what was known as the "runs" conjecture (Kolpakov \& Kucherov (FOCS '99)), which states that the maximum number of runs $ρ(n)$ in a string of length $n$ is less than $n$. The proof is remarkably simple, considering the numerous endeavors to tackle this problem in the last 15 years, and significantly improves our understanding of how runs can occur in strings. In addition, we obtain an upper bound of $3n$ for the maximum sum of exponents $σ(n)$ of runs in a string of length $n$, improving on the best known bound of $4.1n$ by Crochemore et al. (JDA 2012), as well as other improved bounds on related problems. The characterization also gives rise to a new, conceptually simple linear-time algorithm for computing all the runs in a string. A notable characteristic of our algorithm is that, unlike all existing linear-time algorithms, it does not utilize the Lempel-Ziv factorization of the string. We also establish a relationship between runs and nodes of the Lyndon tree, which gives a simple optimal solution to the 2-Period Query problem that was recently solved by Kociumaka et al. (SODA 2015).
description: simple proof with some more bounds
Clinical outcomes and economic impact of transcatheter mitral leaflet repair in heart failure patients
Creators: name: Asgar, Anita W.
name: Khairy, Paul
name: Marie-Claude Guertin
name: Cournoyer, Daniel
name: Ducharme, Anique
name: Bonan, Raoul
name: Basmadjian, Arsene
name: Tardif, Jean-Claude
name: Cohen, David J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Background: Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common valvular heart disorder requiring intervention once it becomes severe. Transcatheter mitral repair with the MitraClip device is a safe and effective therapy for selected patients denied surgery. The authors sought to evaluate the clinical outcomes and economic impact of this therapy compared to medical management in heart-failure patients with symptomatic mitral regurgitation. Methods and results: The study was comprised of two phases; an observational study of patients with heart failure and mitral regurgitation treated with either medical therapy or the MitraClip, and an economic model. Results of the observational study were used to estimate parameters for the decision model, which estimated costs, and benefits in a hypothetical cohort of patients with heart failure and moderate-to-severe mitral regurgitation treated with either standard medical therapy or MitraClip. The cohort of patients treated with the MitraClip was propensity matched to a population of heart failure patients, and their outcomes compared. At a mean follow-up of 22 months, all-cause mortality was 21% in the MitraClip cohort and 42% in the medical management cohort (p = .007). The decision model demonstrated that MitraClip increased life expectancy from 1.87–3.60 years and quality-adjusted life years (QALY) from 1.13–2.76 years. The incremental cost was $52,500 Canadian dollars, corresponding to an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of $32,300.00 per QALY gained. Results were sensitive to the survival benefit. Conclusion: In heart failure patients with symptomatic moderate–severe mitral regurgitation, therapy with the MitraClip is associated with superior survival and is cost-effective compared to medical therapy.
The Fight for Clean Air: Gender and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles and Mexico City
Creators: name: Moreno, Eliza
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women
subject: Environmental justice
subject: California--Los Angeles
subject: Mexico--Mexico City

description: In the neighborhoods that are most polluted and overlooked, how are the bodies on the margins misshapen by the environmental injustices? How have the women, some who are mothers to children with asthma, have taken on the fight to combat environmental justice in their communities? What do we learn from centering women and thinking critically about gender when assessing the disproportionate impact of climate change on the most vulnerable members of communities in megacities?
THE IMPACT OF ASSET QUALITY ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN INDIA
Creators: name: ABHISHEK KUMAR JHA
name: Dr. ANKUR AGARWAL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Asset Quality, Financial Performance, Commercial Banks.

description: Abstract

Commercial banks play a critical role in determining a country's economic stability and progress. There are various factors determining the economic stability and progress of the commercial banks. The quality of assets is one the prominent factors influencing the financial performance of the banks. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of asset quality on the financial performance of the commercial banks. For the purposes of this study the financial performance of commercial banks served as the dependent variable. The asset quality of the commercial banks served as the independent variable. The study used a descriptive research approach to show how the independent variable explained the variance in the dependent variable. A multiple linear regression analysis was applied for the analysis.  The results revealed that underwriting standards significantly predicted return on assets, net income to total assets and return on equity. Credit Risk Management Policies, and Procedures significantly predicted net income to total assets. The risk identification significantly predicted net income to total assets, net interest margin and return on equity. The Diversification of Portfolio significantly predicted capital adequacy, efficiency ratio and return on equity. Investment policies, procedures and practices significantly predicted return on assets. Internal Controls and Management Information Systems significantly predicted NPAs, return on assets, net income to total assets and net interest margin and efficiency ratio. The Operational Management Efficiency significantly predicted NPAs.
Constraining dark sector perturbations I: cosmic shear and CMB lensing
Creators: name: Battye, Richard A.
name: Moss, Adam
name: Pearson, Jonathan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present current and future constraints on equations of state for dark sector perturbations. The equations of state considered are those corresponding to a generalized scalar field model and time-diffeomorphism invariant $L(g)$ theories that are equivalent to models of a relativistic elastic medium and also Lorentz violating massive gravity. We develop a theoretical understanding of the observable impact of these models. In order to constrain these models we use CMB temperature data from Planck, BAO measurements, CMB lensing data from Planck and the South Pole Telescope, and weak galaxy lensing data from CFHTLenS. We find non-trivial exclusions on the range of parameters, although the data remains compatible with $w=-1$. We gauge how future experiments will help to constrain the parameters. This is done via a likelihood analysis for CMB experiments such as CoRE and PRISM, and tomographic galaxy weak lensing surveys, focussing in on the potential discriminatory power of Euclid on mildly non-linear scales.
description: 26 pages; 13 figures (matches published version)
The Logics of Violence and Corruption in Organized Crime: The Case of Brazil
Creators: name: Montini, Isabella
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Latin America
subject: Violence
subject: Organized Crime
subject: Brazil

description: Strong regional variation in the organization of different criminal groups makes Brazil a central case to study criminal violence. In Rio de Janeiro, for instance, there are several competing organized criminal groups (OCGs) fighting against each other, as well as against the state, whereas in São Paulo, there is one hegemonic OCG. In a game-theoretical supposition in which two criminal organizations, B and C are competing for a territory or trading route and an external actor, for instance, a police agent (A) is present, both groups might try to seek support from A. A will, in turn, take the opportunity to increase their profit by accepting bribery in exchange for support. In this short paper, we will argue that previous models in the literature that try to explain variation in homicide rates in regions affected by criminal violence fail to account for collusive agreements between the state and criminal groups. Our theory predicts that, in areas where competition between different OCGs is high, the ability to collude with the state for illicit compliance and support helps OCGs to establish territorial control. In line with previous findings of the literature, this study suggests that 1) the ability to maintain collusive agreements with law enforcement actors favors territorial control from OCGs; 2) in areas controlled by OCGs, there is a trade-off between corruption and violence, in which actors will tend to prefer collusion in a long-time horizon; and 3) hegemonic OCGs are less affected by external shocks and provide a more stable governance model.
THE IMPACT OF ASSET QUALITY ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN INDIA
Creators: name: ABHISHEK KUMAR JHA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Asset Quality, Financial Performance, Commercial Banks.

description: Abstract

Commercial banks play a critical role in determining a country's economic stability and progress. There are various factors determining the economic stability and progress of the commercial banks. The quality of assets is one the prominent factors influencing the financial performance of the banks. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of asset quality on the financial performance of the commercial banks. For the purposes of this study the financial performance of commercial banks served as the dependent variable. The asset quality of the commercial banks served as the independent variable. The study used a descriptive research approach to show how the independent variable explained the variance in the dependent variable. A multiple linear regression analysis was applied for the analysis.  The results revealed that underwriting standards significantly predicted return on assets, net income to total assets and return on equity. Credit Risk Management Policies, and Procedures significantly predicted net income to total assets. The risk identification significantly predicted net income to total assets, net interest margin and return on equity. The Diversification of Portfolio significantly predicted capital adequacy, efficiency ratio and return on equity. Investment policies, procedures and practices significantly predicted return on assets. Internal Controls and Management Information Systems significantly predicted NPAs, return on assets, net income to total assets and net interest margin and efficiency ratio. The Operational Management Efficiency significantly predicted NPAs.
Brentuximab vedotin in relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma post-autologous stem cell transplant: a cost-effectiveness analysis in Scotland
Creators: name: Parker, Christopher
name: Woods, Beth
name: Eaton, James
name: Esprit Ma
name: Selby, Ross
name: Benson, Eugene
name: Engstrom, Andreas
name: Sajosi, Peter
name: Briggs, Andrew
name: Vijayveer Bonthapally
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: To evaluate cost-effectiveness of brentuximab vedotin in patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma who have received autologous stem cell transplantation, from a Scottish healthcare payer perspective. Methods: A Microsoft Excel-based partitioned survival model comprising three health states (progression-free survival [PFS], post-progression survival, and death) was developed. Relevant comparators were chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy (C/R) and C/R with intent to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT). Data were obtained from the pivotal phase II single-arm trial in 102 patients (SG035-0003; NCT00848926), a systematic literature review and clinical expert opinions (where empirical evidence was unavailable). PFS and overall survival for brentuximab vedotin were estimated using 5-year follow-up data from SG035-0003, and extrapolated using event rates observed for comparator treatments from published survival data. Resource use included drug acquisition and administration; alloSCT; treatment of adverse events; and long-term follow-up. Deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were conducted to evaluate the impact of uncertainty. Results: In the base case, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for brentuximab vedotin was £38,769 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) vs C/R, whereas C/R with intent to alloSCT was dominated by brentuximab vedotin. ICERs for brentuximab vedotin generated by the deterministic sensitivity analysis ranged between £32,000–£54,000 per QALY. Including productivity benefits reduced the ICER to £28,881 per QALY. Limitations: Limitations include lack of comparative data from this single arm study and the heterogeneous population. Inconsistent baseline characteristic reporting across studies prevented complete assessment of heterogeneity and the extent of potential bias in clinical and cost-effectiveness estimates. Conclusions: Although the base case ICER is above the threshold usually applied in Scotland, it is relatively low compared with other orphan drugs, and lower than the ICER generated using a previous data cut of SG035-0003 that informed a positive recommendation from the Scottish Medicines Consortium, under its decision-making framework for assessment of ultra-orphan medicines.
Medical resource utilization and costs among Australian patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C: results of a retrospective observational study
Creators: name: McElroy, Heather J.
name: Roberts, Stuart K.
name: Thompson, Alex J.
name: Angus, Peter W.
name: McKenna, Sarah Jane
name: Warren, Emma
name: Musgrave, Sharon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Objective: To evaluate medical resource utilization (MRU) and associated costs among Australian patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C (GT1 CHC), including both untreated patients and those receiving treatment with first-generation protease inhibitor-based regimens (telaprevir, boceprevir with pegylated interferon and ribavirin). Methods: Medical records were reviewed for a stratified random sample of GT1 CHC patients first attending two liver clinics between 2011–2013 (principal population; PP), supplemented by all GT1 CHC patients attending one transplant clinic in the same period (transplant population; TP). CHC-related MRU and associated costs are reported for the PP by treatment status (treated/not treated) stratified by baseline fibrosis grade; and for the TP for the pre-transplant, year of transplant and post-transplant periods. Results: A total 1636 patients were screened and 590 patients (36.1%) were included. Comprehensive MRU data were collected for 276 PP patients (F0–1 n = 59, F2 n = 58, F3 n = 53, F4 n = 106; mean follow-up = 17.3 months). Thirty-eight (13.8%) were treatment-experienced prior to enrolment; 55 (19.9%) received triple therapy during the study. Data were collected for 112 TP patients (mean follow-up = 29.9 months), 33 (29.5%) received a transplant during the study, and 51 (45.5%) beforehand. The annual direct medical costs, excluding drug costs, were higher among treated PP vs untreated PP (AU$: $1,954 vs $1,202); and year of transplant TP vs pre-/post-transplant TP (AU$: pre-transplant $32,407, transplant $155,138, post-transplant $7,358). Limitations: To aid interpretation of results, note that only patients with GT1 CHC who are actively managed are included, and MRU data were collected specifically from liver outpatient clinics. That said, movement of patients between hospitals is rare, and any uncaptured MRU is expected to be minimal. Conclusions: CHC-related MRU increases substantially with disease severity. These real-world MRU data for GT1 CHC will be valuable in assessing the impact of new hepatitis C treatments.
The History of R-Process Enrichment in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Shen, Sijing
name: Cooke, Ryan
name: Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
name: Madau, Piero
name: Mayer, Lucio
name: Guedes, Javiera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the production sites and the enrichment history of $r$-process elements in the Galaxy, as traced by the [Eu/Fe] ratio, using the high resolution, cosmological zoom-in simulation `Eris'. At $z=0$, Eris represents a close analog to the Milky Way, making it the ideal laboratory to understand the chemical evolution of our Galaxy. Eris formally traces the production of oxygen and iron due to Type-Ia and Type-II supernovae. We include in post-processing the production of $r$-process elements from compact binary mergers. Unlike previous studies, we find that the nucleosynthetic products from compact binary mergers can be incorporated into stars of very low metallicity and at early times, even with a minimum delay time of 100 Myr. This conclusion is relatively insensitive to modest variations in the merger rate, minimum delay time, and the delay time distribution. By implementing a first-order prescription for metal-mixing, we can further improve the agreement between our model and the data for the chemical evolution of both [$α$/Fe] and [Eu/Fe].We argue that compact binary mergers could be the dominant source of $r$-process nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Mental health indices may fully mediate the relationship between morningness–eveningness and disease control among adult asthma patients
Creators: name: Mokros, Łukasz
name: Witusik, Andrzej
name: Szydłowska, Dorota
name: Jankowski, Konrad S.
name: Kuna, Piotr
name: Pietras, Tadeusz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the association between morningness–eveningness and disease control with consideration of mental state as a mediator and the control of confounding factors among adult asthma patients. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, which included a nonrandom sample of N = 66 patients from an outpatient unit with a confirmed asthma diagnosis, who gave an informed consent and completed a set of questionnaires: a survey comprising questions about sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the Asthma Control Test (ACT), the Composite Scale of Morningness (CSM), and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). Mediation models were created separately for each GHQ-28 dimension (somatic symptoms, anxiety/insomnia, social dysfunction and depressive symptoms), for a total score and for four GHQ-28 dimensions together, considered as mediators. Results: Low morning affect was related to poor disease symptom control among patients with asthma. The effect was fully mediated by non-psychotic mental health indices. Evening-time preference was associated with a rise in asthma control, and mediated by somatic symptoms and anxiety/insomnia, when controlled for morning affect. Conclusions: The current study underlines the significance of assessment of both individual morningness–eveningness preference and mental health in the management of asthma symptoms.
Time and Band Limiting for Matrix Valued Functions, an Example
Creators: name: Grünbaum, F. Alberto
name: Pacharoni, Inés
name: Zurrián, Ignacio Nahuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45, 22E45, 33C47

description: The main purpose of this paper is to extend to a situation involving matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and spherical functions, a result that traces its origin and its importance to work of Claude Shannon in laying the mathematical foundations of information theory and to a remarkable series of papers by D. Slepian, H. Landau and H. Pollak. To our knowledge, this is the first example showing in a non-commutative setup that a bispectral property implies that the corresponding global operator of "time and band limiting" admits a commuting local operator. This is a noncommutative analog of the famous prolate spheroidal wave operator.
The economic burden of common adverse events associated with metastatic colorectal cancer treatment in the United States
Creators: name: Latremouille-Viau, Dominick
name: Chang, Jane
name: Guerin, Annie
name: Shi, Sherry
name: Wang, Ed
name: Yu, Justin
name: Ngai, Christopher
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Aims: Adverse events (AEs) associated with treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) may compromise the course of treatment, impact quality-of-life, and increase healthcare resource utilization. This study assessed the direct healthcare costs of common AEs among mCRC patients in the US. Methods: Adult mCRC patients treated with chemotherapy or targeted therapies were identified from administrative claims databases (2009–2014). Up to the first three mCRC treatment episodes per patient were considered and categorized as with or without the AE system/organ category during the episode. Total healthcare costs (2014 USD) were measured by treatment episode and reported on a monthly basis. Treatment episodes with the AE category were matched by treatment type and line of treatment to those without the AE category. Adjusted total cost differences were estimated by comparing costs during treatment episodes with vs without the AE category using multivariate regression models; p-values were estimated with bootstrap. Results: A total of 4158 patients with ≥1 mCRC treatment episode were included (mean age = 59 years; 58% male; 60% with liver and 14% with lung metastases; 2,261 [54%] with a second and 1,115 [27%] with a third episode). On average, two treatment episodes were observed per patient with an average length of 166 days per episode. Adjusted monthly total cost difference by AE category included hematologic ($1,480), respiratory ($1,253), endocrine/metabolic ($1,213), central nervous system (CNS; $1,136), and cardiovascular ($1,036; all p Limitations: Claims do not include information on the cause of AEs, and potentially less severe AEs may not have been reported by the physician when billing the medical service. This study aimed to assess the association between costs and AEs and not the causation of AEs by treatment. Conclusions: The most costly AEs among mCRC patients were hematologic, followed by respiratory, endocrine/metabolic, CNS, and cardiovascular.
Generalized energy equipartition in harmonic oscillators driven by active baths
Creators: name: Maggi, Claudio
name: Paoluzzi, Matteo
name: Pellicciotta, Nicola
name: Lepore, Alessia
name: Angelani, Luca
name: Di Leonardo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study experimentally and numerically the dynamics of colloidal beads confined by a harmonic potential in a bath of swimming E. coli bacteria. The resulting dynamics is well approximated by a Langevin equation for an overdamped oscillator driven by the combination of a white thermal noise and an exponentially correlated active noise. This scenario leads to a simple generalization of the equipartition theorem resulting in the coexistence of two different effective temperatures that govern dynamics along the flat and the curved directions in the potential landscape.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures