cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating color texture descriptors under large variations of controlled lighting conditions
Creators: name: Cusano, Claudio
name: Napoletano, Paolo
name: Schettini, Raimondo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recognition of color texture under varying lighting conditions is still an open issue. Several features have been proposed for this purpose, ranging from traditional statistical descriptors to features extracted with neural networks. Still, it is not completely clear under what circumstances a feature performs better than the others. In this paper we report an extensive comparison of old and new texture features, with and without a color normalization step, with a particular focus on how they are affected by small and large variation in the lighting conditions. The evaluation is performed on a new texture database including 68 samples of raw food acquired under 46 conditions that present single and combined variations of light color, direction and intensity. The database allows to systematically investigate the robustness of texture descriptors across a large range of variations of imaging conditions.
description: Submitted to the Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Eucochlis depressa Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Vetigastropoda
Eucochlidae
Eucochlis

description: Eucochlis depressa n.sp. PI. l3 figs 7-11 Description. Shell minute, turbiniform, compressed, moderately phaneromphalous. Protoconch of}l;4 whorls with fine growth lines. Teleoconch of 2~ strongly convex whorls with narrowly and evenly spaced sharp collabral cords and weak spiral lirae, collabral cords (about 52 in the last whorl) strong, oblique, prosocline, 40° from axis, suture deep. Aperture almost rectangular, lips thin, outer lip strongly retracted. Types. Holotype (F78451) and 2 figured paratypes (F78452 -3). There are 2 unfigured additional specimens (F78435) from the type locality. Type locality. Approximately 250 m west of Babbinboon Lane, in Swains Gully, 15 km south-west of Somerton, NSW (Locality 25). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, 130 m above the base of the Namoi Formation. Geographic distribution. Type locality only. Geological age. Middle Tournaisian. Etymology. Derived from the Latin depressus meaning low-lying, sunk down; referring to depressed shell. Remarks. This species is characterised by an exceptionally depressed last whorl with strongly retracted outer lip.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
The synchrotron component study in a spectral energy distribution of blazars
Creators: name: Mingaliev, M.
name: Sotnikova, Yu.
name: Mufakharov, T.
name: Erkenov, A.
name: Udovitskiy, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the synchrotron component of the spectral energy distribution (SED) on the sample of 877 blazars using the ASDC SED Builder Tool with available broadband data from the literature. Our sample includes 423 flat-spectrum radio sources (FSRQs), 361 BL Lac objects and candidates, and 93 blazars of uncertain type. We have made an estimation of the synchrotron peak frequency ($ν_{peak}^{s}$) for the 875 objects and further classified them as high, intermediate and low synchrotron peaked sources (HSPs/ISPs/LSPs). There are 42 HSPs with $ν_{peak}^{s} > 10^{16.5}$ Hz, 222 ISPs with $10^{14.5} < ν_{peak}^{s} < 10^{16.5}$ Hz, and 611 LSPs with $ν_{peak}^{s} < 10^{14.5}$ Hz in our sample. We have calculated an average value of $ν_{peak}^{s}$ to be $10^{13.4 \pm 1.0}$ Hz for FSRQs and $10^{14.6 \pm 1.4}$ Hz for BL Lacs. We found out that $ν_{peak}^{s}$ and the flux density at 4.8 GHz have a different distribution (as indicated by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test at significance level 0.05) for the FSRQ and BL Lac blazars, and for the RBL and XBL types of BL Lacs. Distribution of $ν_{peak}^{s}$ values is broader for BL Lacs, than for FSRQs. There are no ultra-high energy peaked objects (with $ν_{peak}^{s} > 10^{19}$ Hz) in our BL Lac sample according to our estimations. The significant part of FSRQs (41%) and small part of BL Lacs (9%) in our sample could be considered as candidates to the very-low synchrotron peaked blazars (with $ν_{peak}^{s} < 10^{13}$ Hz). Our foundations confirm results of the previous studies made on samples with significantly smaller number of objects.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Will appear in Astrophysical Bulletin, Volume 70, Issue 3, 2015
Periodontal disease and atherosclerotic vascular disease: Does the evidence support an independent association?: A scientific statement from the American heart association
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: A link between oral health and cardiovascular disease has been proposed for more than a century. Recently, concern about possible links between periodontal disease (PD) and atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD) has intensified and is driving an active field of investigation into possible association and causality. The 2 disorders share several common risk factors, including cigarette smoking, age, and diabetes mellitus. Patients and providers are increasingly presented with claims that PD treatment strategies offer ASVD protection; these claims are often endorsed by professional and industrial stakeholders. The focus of this review is to assess whether available data support an independent association between ASVD and PD and whether PD treatment might modify ASVD risks or outcomes. It also presents mechanistic details of both PD and ASVD relevant to this topic. The correlation of PD with ASVD outcomes and surrogate markers is discussed, as well as the correlation of response to PD therapy with ASVD event rates. Methodological issues that complicate studies of this association are outlined, with an emphasis on the terms and metrics that would be applicable in future studies. Observational studies to date support an association between PD and ASVD independent of known confounders. They do not, however, support a causative relationship. Although periodontal interventions result in a reduction in systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in short-term studies, there is no evidence that they prevent ASVD or modify its outcomes.
Anti-Fall: A Non-intrusive and Real-time Fall Detector Leveraging CSI from Commodity WiFi Devices
Creators: name: Zhang, Daqing
name: Wang, Hao
name: Wang, Yasha
name: Ma, Junyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fall is one of the major health threats and obstacles to independent living for elders, timely and reliable fall detection is crucial for mitigating the effects of falls. In this paper, leveraging the fine-grained Channel State Information (CSI) and multi-antenna setting in commodity WiFi devices, we design and implement a real-time, non-intrusive, and low-cost indoor fall detector, called Anti-Fall. For the first time, the CSI phase difference over two antennas is identified as the salient feature to reliably segment the fall and fall-like activities, both phase and amplitude information of CSI is then exploited to accurately separate the fall from other fall-like activities. Experimental results in two indoor scenarios demonstrate that Anti-Fall consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art approach WiFall, with 10% higher detection rate and 10% less false alarm rate on average.
description: 13 pages,8 figures,corrected version, ICOST conference
Evidence for defect-mediated tunneling in hexagonal boron nitride-based junctions
Creators: name: Chandni, U.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Eisenstein, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate tunneling in metal-insulator-metal junctions employing few atomic layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as the insulating barrier. While the low-bias tunnel resistance increases nearly exponentially with barrier thickness, subtle features are seen in the current-voltage curves, indicating marked influence of the intrinsic defects present in the hBN insulator on the tunneling transport. In particular, single electron charging events are observed, which are more evident in thicker-barrier devices where direct tunneling is substantially low. Furthermore, we find that annealing the devices modifies the defect states and hence the tunneling signatures.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Вопросы устойчивого развития общества,Выпуск 4 МКСС 2023
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: Вопросы устойчивого развития общества,Выпуск 4 МКСС 2023
Hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease: A statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: For more than 50 million American women, and millions of women in other countries who are over the age of 50 years, the decision whether or not to use estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) for chronic disease prevention is often a difficult one. Established benefits of treatment for menopausal symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis must be weighed against documented risks of therapy, including venous thromboembolic events (VTE), gallbladder disease, and a possible increased risk of breast cancer. Unopposed ERT is also associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer in women with a uterus. Therefore, it is typically combined with a progestin and is referred to as hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The impact of ERT/HRT on cardiovascular disease (CVD) is of great public health importance, because CVD is the leading cause of death and a major contributor to disability in women.1 The purpose of this advisory is to summarize the currently available data concerning potential CVD benefits and risks associated with ERT/HRT and to provide updated clinical recommendations regarding its use in the secondary and primary prevention of CVD.
Il catasto da strumento di conoscenza “strutturale” a strumento di informazione “funzionale” delle risorse territoriali
Creators: name: Marinelli, Nicola
name: Marone, Enrico
name: Menghini, Silvio
name: Bernetti, Iacopo
name:  ,
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXVIII Incontro di Studio (Viterbo)
Clinical investigations to evaluate high-risk orthopaedic devices: systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Smith, James
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Orthopedics
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties

description: We will systematically review the clinical studies that have been used to evaluate orthopaedic medical devices that are CE-marked for use in Europe. We will summarise the evidence available pre and post-CE mark (and FDA clearance if applicable) and conduct meta-analysis to compare to information in registry reports where possible. Co-authors: Christophe Combescure, Christophe Barea, Anne Lübbeke (all University of Geneva) This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 965246
[F.08.1.033.] Pierre Laval. Allocutions et discours
Creators: name: Le Pen, Jean-Marie (1928-....)
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Société d'études et de relations publiques
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/034703926/id
http://www.idref.fr/027439232/id
http://www.idref.fr/027229165/id

description: ""@fr
Diversity Education Intervention Effectiveness
Creators: name: Quigley-McBride, Adele
name: More, Kimberly
name: Tittler, Meredith
name: More, Curt
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This is study addressing the influence of a dialogues/discussion-based class on explicit and implicit attitudes towards racial minorities and gender, and whether active learning mediates these effects.
Utility Fair Rate Allocation in LTE/802.11 Networks
Creators: name: Partov, Bahar
name: Leith, Douglas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider proportional fair rate allocation in a heterogeneous network with a mix of LTE and 802.11 cells which supports multipath and multihomed operation (simultaneous connection of a user device to multiple LTE BSs and 802.11 APs). We show that the utility fair optimisation problem is non-convex but that a global optimum can be found by solving a sequence of convex optimisations in a distributed fashion. The result is a principled approach to offload from LTE to 802.11 and for exploiting LTE/802.11 path diversity to meet user traffic demands.
description: 13 pages, submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Parenting Practices in Diverse Family Structures: Examination of Adolescents’ Development and Adjustment
Creators: name: Murry, Velma McBride
name: Lippold, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This article explored the implications of diverse family structures on adolescents’ adjustment, with an emphasis on whether and, if so, how diverse family structures influence and predict developmental outcomes. Family relationships within the family unit are a stronger predictor of adolescents’ development than the particular family structure. Transitions in families that result in notable reductions in effective parenting practices and economic well‐being will negatively affect youth, regardless of family structure. Family processes that promote optimal growth and development among youth in traditional two‐parent, heterosexual households work similarly for those growing up in nontraditional family structures. A conceptual model to advance this field of research is offered, and implications for research and policy are discussed.
La tutela del paesaggio: percorsi giuridici
Creators: name: Ferrucci, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: From Law n. 1497/1939 to Law by decree n.157/2006 it is possible to single out numerous legislative measures which gradually modified and enlarged the juridical conception of landscape, with the aim of determining the more suitable instruments for its preservation and defence. In 1939 the landscape had an essentially aesthetic juridical connotation, thus the instruments for its protection were recognized in bonds and territorial landscape planning. From the ‘80s, the concept of landscape widened, being it considered as the “shape and characteristic of the territory”. It is in the 90s and in the following years, thanks also to the International regulations, that landscape is seen as cultural goods, being the result of a synergy and interactions of different factors, such as nature, man, traditions.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 50 (2007)
Wormholes without exotic matter in Einstein-Cartan theory
Creators: name: Bronnikov, K. A.
name: Galiakhmetov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possible existence of static traversable wormholes without invoking exotic matter in the framework of the Einstein--Cartan theory. A family of exact static, spherically symmetric wormhole solutions with an arbitrary throat radius, with flat or AdS asymptotic behavior, has been obtained with sources in the form of two noninteracting scalar fields with nonzero potentials. Both scalar fields are canonical (that is, satisfy the weak energy condition), one is minimally and the other nonminimally coupled to gravity, and the latter is a source of torsion.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Spin Superfluidity in the $ν=0$ Quantum Hall State of Graphene
Creators: name: Takei, So
name: Yacoby, Amir
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A proposal to detect the purported canted antiferromagnet order for the $ν=0$ quantum Hall state of graphene based on a two-terminal spin transport setup is theoretically discussed. In the presence of a magnetic field normal to the graphene plane, a dynamic and inhomogeneous texture of the Néel vector lying within the plane should mediate (nearly dissipationless) superfluid transport of spin angular momentum polarized along the $z$ axis, which could serve as a strong support for the canted antiferromagnet scenario. Spin injection and detection can be achieved by coupling two spin-polarized edge channels of the $|ν|=2$ quantum Hall state on two opposite ends of the $ν=0$ region. A simple kinetic theory and Onsager reciprocity are invoked to model the spin injection and detection processes, and the transport of spin through the antiferromagnet is accounted for using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology.
description: 5 pages; 5 figures
La valutazione di scenari di sviluppo del sistema della viabilità regionale: un approccio integrato
Creators: name: Torrieri, Francesca
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The evaluation of the economic feasibility of large scale scenarios poses certain questions as to how to estimate costs and benefits related to the interventions characterizing future developments. Road infrastructures, although being a driver of growth and transformation, have always represented a significant element of modification of both the urban and extra-urban territory. This consideration leads to conclude that a cost benefits analysis limited only to the transportation component would not be appropriate to the subject matter. In fact, the impacts that may derive from an infrastructural project can be identified not only in connection with the specific project, but also in connection with the relations created with the territorial system where the project is carried out. The scope of the present work is to propose a methodology for evaluating costs and benefits in a strategic stage, taking into account the multidimensionality of the problem and of the issues related to the scale of plan.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 47 (2005)
Eucochlis umbiliparva Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Vetigastropoda
Eucochlidae
Eucochlis

description: Eucochlis umbiliparva n.sp. PI. l3, figs 4-6 Description. Shell-minute, turbiniform, minutely phaneromphalous. Protoconch of}l;4 smooth whorls with fine growth lines. Teleoconch of 3~ strong convex whorls between deeply impressed sutures, with approximately 42 gently prosocline collabral cords evenly spaced in the last whorl, spiral threads restricted on the base. Aperture simple, almost rectangular, lips slightly thickened, parietal inductura wanting, outer lip nearly straight prosocline or very slightly concave forward. Types. Holotype (F78448) and 2 figured paratypes (F78449 -50). There are 5 unfigured additional specimens (F78436). [table omitted] Type locality. 1.8 km east from the southern end of Glenbawn Dam wall, 13 km north-east of Aberdeen, NSW (Locality 31). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, upper part of the Dangarfield Formation. Additional material. 1 specimen from 'Marohn' (Locality 28) and 1 from Glenbawn (Locality 29). Geographic distribution. Glenbawn area. Geological age. Late Tournaisian. Etymology. Derived from the Latin umbilicus meaning centre, parvus meaning little, small; referring to a small umbilicus.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on pages 89-90, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Quizz: Targeted crowdsourcing with a billion (potential) users
Creators: name: Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G.
name: Gabrilovich, Evgeniy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe Quizz, a gamified crowdsourcing system that simultaneously assesses the knowledge of users and acquires new knowledge from them. Quizz operates by asking users to complete short quizzes on specific topics; as a user answers the quiz questions, Quizz estimates the user's competence. To acquire new knowledge, Quizz also incorporates questions for which we do not have a known answer; the answers given by competent users provide useful signals for selecting the correct answers for these questions. Quizz actively tries to identify knowledgeable users on the Internet by running advertising campaigns, effectively leveraging the targeting capabilities of existing, publicly available, ad placement services. Quizz quantifies the contributions of the users using information theory and sends feedback to the advertisingsystem about each user. The feedback allows the ad targeting mechanism to further optimize ad placement. Our experiments, which involve over ten thousand users, confirm that we can crowdsource knowledge curation for niche and specialized topics, as the advertising network can automatically identify users with the desired expertise and interest in the given topic. We present controlled experiments that examine the effect of various incentive mechanisms, highlighting the need for having short-term rewards as goals, which incentivize the users to contribute. Finally, our cost-quality analysis indicates that the cost of our approach is below that of hiring workers through paid-crowdsourcing platforms, while offering the additional advantage of giving access to billions of potential users all over the planet, and being able to reach users with specialized expertise that is not typically available through existing labor marketplaces.
description: WWW '14 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World Wide Web. 11 pages
Interpretation of CT studies: single-screen workstation versus film alternator
Creators: name: Smith, Michael
name: Warshauer, David M.
name: Hemminger, Bradley M.
name: Perry, J. Randolph
name: Zito, Alexander J.
name: Muller, Keith E.
name: Mauro, Matthew A.
name: Beard, David V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: A prototype single-screen workstation with a 2,048 x 2,560-pixel high-brightness monitor, 0.11-second image display time, and simple ergonomic design was compared to a conventional horizontal film alternator in diagnostic interpretation of chest computed tomography (CT) studies. Four radiologists used either the workstation or film alternator in interpretation of studies obtained in 10 patients. A counterbalanced within-subject repeated measures experimental design was used. Response times were analyzed for both methods of interpretation. Grades of excellent, acceptable, and unacceptable were assigned by a blinded "grader" to reports of the radiologists. The average time needed for an interpretation at the workstation was 5.65 minutes. No interpretations were graded unacceptable. Retrospective power analysis showed that 16 observers rather than four would have been required to show that use of the workstation was faster than the alternator. With this 95% confidence interval, the workstation interpretation time is clinically equivalent to that with the alternator. These data show that this type of workstation has practical application in interpretation of CT, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound studies.
Cross-Domain and Cross-Language Reuse: Insights into Challenges and Opportunities
Creators: name: Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Experimental Material for the paper entitled Cross-Domain and Cross-Language Reuse: Insights into Challenges and Opportunities Includes: - Documentation of the experimental objects - a pdf file - The index used for the experiment - an excel file
L'inquinamento da atrazina delle acque sotterranee. Un confronto tra metodi alternativi per la stima monetaria del danno ambientale
Creators: name: Marangon, Francesco
name: Tempesta, Tiziano
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Groundwater is the main clean drinking water resource in Italy. Many groundwater contamination events have caused health damage. These events have rarely been evaluated. We used Contingent Valuation and Averting Costs methods in order to put a monetary value on the atrazine contamination of groundwater. Our survey was conducted in a municipality in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in North East Italy. We found that Averting Costs underestimate contamination damage with respect to the contingent valuation, but the difference in not statistically significant. The results highlight the opportunity of further researches in this field in order to verify if the approaches of private appraisal, although not theoretically correct, could be a good proxy of the consumer surplus.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 44 (2004)
Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies generated by domain wall networks
Creators: name: Sousa, L.
name: Avelino, P. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a numerical tool for the fast computation of the temperature and polarization power spectra generated by domain wall networks, by extending the publicly available CMBACT code --- that calculates the CMB signatures generated by active sources --- to also describe domain wall networks. In order to achieve this, we adapt the Unconnected Segment model for cosmic strings to also describe domain wall networks, and use it to model the energy-momentum of domain wall networks throughout their cosmological history. We use this new tool to compute and study the TT, EE, TE and BB power spectra generated by standard domain wall networks, and derive a conservative constraint on the energy scale of the domain wall-forming phase transition of $\upeta <0.92\,\,{\rm MeV}$ (which is a slight improvement over the original Zel'dovich bound of $1\,\,{\rm MeV}$).
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to PRD
Thiazolidinedione Use, Fluid Retention, and Congestive Heart Failure: A consensus statement from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: "Diabetes is a chronic, progressively worsening disease associated with a variety of microvascular and macrovascular complications. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in these patients (1,2). During the past decade, numerous drugs have been introduced for the treatment of type 2 diabetes that, used in monotherapy or in combination therapy, are effective in lowering blood glucose to achieve glycemic goals and in reducing diabetes-related end-organ disease. Two such drugs, rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, belong to the class called thiazolidinediones (TZDs) (3). Troglitazone, the first agent of this class to be approved, was effective in controlling glycemia but was removed from the market because of serious liver toxicity. Both rosiglitazone and pioglitazone are indicated either as monotherapy or in combination with a sulfonylurea, metformin, or insulin when diet, exercise, and a single agent do not result in adequate glycemic control (4) (package insert Avandia [rosiglitazone maleate; GlaxoSmithKline] and Actos (5) [pioglitazone hydrochloride; Takeda Pharmaceuticals]). In addition to lowering blood glucose, both drugs may benefit cardiovascular parameters, such as lipids, blood pressure, inflammatory biomarkers, endothelial function, and fibrinolytic status (6,7). These beneficial effects of TZDs on glycemia and cardiovascular risk factors have made them attractive agents in patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for CVD. There is a growing recognition, however, that edema can occur in patients treated with either drug. Because people with diabetes are at increased risk for CVD and many have preexisting heart disease, the edema that sometimes accompanies the use of a TZD can be cause for concern, as it may be a harbinger or sign of congestive heart failure (CHF). An analysis of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with the diagnosis of diabetes and CHF indicated that the number of these patients discharged on TZDs had increased from 7.2% to 16.2% over a 3-year period (8). As the number of patients taking these drugs to control glycemia increases, practitioners should be aware of the safety profile of TZDs in patients with and without underlying heart disease."
Analisi della produzione e consumo della carne di coniglio: un modello di equilibrio parziale
Creators: name: Polidori, Roberto
name: Bettocchi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Within the Italian animal breeding sector, rabbit is one of the most important species and it is of great interest also at international level. The rabbit breeding sector is characterized by high variability of market prices which fluctuate in the short term as well as in the medium and long term. This trend is determined by technical factors but also by the business climate and structural problems. The fluctuation of market prices causes problems for the breeders in combining the supply with the demand. Therefore, the breeders are interested in having knowledge of the relationship of price and quantity produced, in order to plan their production. The partial equilibrium model identifies the above mentioned relationship and determine the quantity of meat that should be supplied on the market so that the producer’s price equals the cost of production.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 44 (2004)
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee
Creators: name: Price, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences

description: Plasticity is a key trait when an individual’s role in the social environment, and hence its optimum phenotype, fluctuates unpredictably. Plasticity is especially important in primitively eusocial insects where small colony sizes and little morphological caste differentiation mean that individuals may find themselves switching from non-reproductive to reproductive roles. To understand the scope of this plasticity, workers of the primitively eusocial sweat bee Lasioglossum malachurum were experimentally promoted to the reproductive role (worker-queens) and their performance compared with foundress-queens. We focussed on how their developmental trajectory as workers influenced three key traits: group productivity, monopolization of reproduction, and social control of foraging nest-mates. No significant difference was found between the number of offspring produced by worker-queens and foundress-queens. Genotyping of larvae showed that worker-queens monopolised reproduction in their nests to the same extent as foundress queens. However, non-reproductives foraged less and produced a smaller total offspring biomass when the reproductive was a promoted worker: offspring of worker-queens were all males, which are the cheaper sex to produce. Greater investment in each offspring as group size increased suggests a limit to both worker-queen and foundress-queen fecundity when a greater quantity of pollen arrives at the nest. The data presented here suggest a remarkable level of plasticity and represent one of the first quantitative studies of worker reproductive plasticity in a non-model primitively eusocial species.
Subleading Terms in the Collinear Limit of Yang-Mills Amplitudes
Creators: name: Stieberger, Stephan
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For two massless particles i and j, the collinear limit is a special kinematic configuration in which the particles propagate with parallel four-momentum vectors, with the total momentum P distributed as p_i=xP and p_j=(1-x)P, so that s_{ij}=(p_i+p_j)^2=P^2=0. In Yang-Mills theory, if i and j are among N gauge bosons participating in a scattering process, it is well known that the partial amplitudes associated to the (single trace) group factors with adjacent i and j are singular in the collinear limit and factorize at the leading order into N-1-particle amplitudes times the universal, x-dependent Altarelli-Parisi factors. We give a precise definition of the collinear limit and show that at the tree level, the subleading, non-singular terms are related to the amplitudes with a single graviton inserted instead of two collinear gauge bosons. To that end, we argue that in one-graviton Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes, the graviton with momentum P can be replaced by a pair of collinear gauge bosons carrying arbitrary momentum fractions xP and (1-x)P.
description: 8 pages
Family of explicitly diagonalizable weighted Hankel matrices generalizing the Hilbert matrix
Creators: name: Stovicek, Pavel
name: Kalvoda, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B35, 47B37, 47A10, 33C45

description: A three-parameter family $B=B(a,b,c)$ of weighted Hankel matrices is introduced with the entries \[ B_{j,k}=\frac{Γ(j+k+a)}{Γ(j+k+b+c)}\,\sqrt{\frac{Γ(j+b)Γ(j+c)Γ(k+b)Γ(k+c)}{Γ(j+a)\, j!\,Γ(k+a)\, k!}}\,, \] $j,k\in\mathbb{Z}_{+}$, supposing $a$, $b$, $c$ are positive and $a
Molecular-scale remnants of the liquid-gas transition in supercritical polar fluids
Creators: name: Sokhan, V. P.
name: Jones, A.
name: Cipcigan, F. S.
name: Crain, J.
name: Martyna, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electronically coarse-grained model for water reveals a persistent vestige of the liquid-gas transition deep into the supercritical region. A crossover in the density dependence of the molecular dipole arises from the onset of non-percolating hydrogen bonds. The crossover points coincide with the Widom line in the scaling region but extend further, tracking the heat capacity maxima, offering evidence for liquid- and gas-like state points in a "one-phase" fluid. The effect is present even in dipole-limit models suggesting that it is common for all molecular liquids exhibiting dipole enhancement in the liquid phase.
description: A Letter with Supp. Material
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - Analisi emergetica del sistema di gestione dei rifiuti nella provincia di Cagliari
Creators: name: Tiezzi, Enzo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
Nanogels as Pharmaceutical Carriers: Finite Networks of Infinite Capabilities
Creators: name: Kabanov, Alexander V.
name: Vinogradov, Serguei V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Nanogels are swollen nanosized networks composed of hydrophilic or amphiphilic polymer chains. They are developed as carriers for the transport of drugs, and can be designed to spontaneously incorporate biologically active molecules through formation of salt bonds, hydrogen bonds, or hydrophobic interactions. Polyelectrolyte nanogels can readily incorporate oppositely charged low‐molecular‐mass drugs and biomacromolecules such as oligo‐ and polynucleotides (siRNA, DNA) as well as proteins. The guest molecules interact electrostatically with the ionic polymer chains of the gel and become bound within the finite nanogel. Multiple chemical functionalities can be employed in the nanogels to introduce imaging labels and to allow targeted drug delivery. The latter can be achieved, for example, with degradable or cleavable cross‐links. Recent studies suggest that nanogels have a very promising future in biomedical applications
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - I fenicotteri: riconversione di un sito industriale e riqualificazione di un Water-Front ad elevata frequenza ambientale
Creators: name: Ferrara, Guido
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
[OBSOLETE] OCTOPUS Database v.2: Database field description tables
Creators: name: Codilean, Alexandru T.
name: Munack, Henry
name: Saktura, Wanchese M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: OCTOPUS database, cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, 10Be, 26Al, optically stimulated luminescence, OSL, thermoluminescence, TL, radiocarbon dating

description: This document includes field description tables for data hosted in the OCTOPUS v.2 database. OCTOPUS v.2 is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web-enabled database that allows users to visualise, query, and download cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al, luminescence, and radiocarbon ages and denudation rates associated with erosional landscapes, Quaternary depositional landforms and archaeological records, along with associated geospatial (vector and raster) data layers. The database follows the FAIR data principles and is based on open-source software deployed on Google Cloud Platform. Data stored in the database can be visualised, queried, and downloaded via a custom-built web interface and via desktop GIS applications that support OGC data access protocols. OCTOPUS can export data to various formats directly, including GML, JSON, Google Earth KLM and KMZ, and ESRI shapefile.
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - Programma integrato Edilia: ristrutturazione del complesso industriale dismesso della SEM Molini Sardi S.p.A. in Cagliari
Creators: name: Martino, Mauro Di
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
La stima del valore di opzione e del valore di esistenza delle risorse naturali: il caso del «Pinus leucodermis» del Pollino
Creators: name: Romano, Severino
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The economic evaluation of ecosystem services dates back as early as the fifties. Only recently, however, the assessment of non-use values has received duly attention in benefit-cost analysis. In this paper, after a review of the current state of the art of existence and option values theory, we estimate such values for Pinus leucodermis in the Pollino National Park, using close-ended single-bounded technique. The results are consistent with theoretical expectations. Moreover, their magnitude is non trivial: the option price is 81,000 ITL, while the existernce value is 123,000 ITL.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 41 (2002)
Towards a Mg lattice clock: Observation of the $^1S_{0}-$$^3P_{0}$ transition and determination of the magic wavelength
Creators: name: Kulosa, A. P.
name: Fim, D.
name: Zipfel, K. H.
name: Rühmann, S.
name: Sauer, S.
name: Jha, N.
name: Gibble, K.
name: Ertmer, W.
name: Rasel, E. M.
name: Safronova, M. S.
name: Safronova, U. I.
name: Porsev, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We optically excite the electronic state $3s3p~^3P_{0}$ in $^{24}$Mg atoms, laser-cooled and trapped in a magic-wavelength lattice. An applied magnetic field enhances the coupling of the light to the otherwise strictly forbidden transition. We determine the magic wavelength, the quadratic magnetic Zeeman shift and the transition frequency to be 468.463(207)$\,$nm, -206.6(2.0)$\,$MHz/T$^2$ and 655 058 646 691(101)$\,$kHz, respectively. These are compared with theoretical predictions and results from complementary experiments. We also developed a high-precision relativistic structure model for magnesium, give an improved theoretical value for the blackbody radiation shift and discuss a clock based on bosonic magnesium.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Yang-Mills theories and quadratic forms
Creators: name: Ananth, Sudarshan
name: Brink, Lars
name: Mali, Mahendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Hamiltonian of (N=1;d=10) super Yang-Mills can be expressed as a quadratic form in a very similar manner to that of the (N=4;d=4) theory. We find a similar quadratic form structure for pure Yang-Mills theory but this feature, in the non-supersymmetric case, seems to be unique to four dimensions. We discuss some consequences of this feature.
description: 12 pages
Symplectic and contact differential graded algebras
Creators: name: Ekholm, Tobias
name: Oancea, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D40, 53D42, 57R17

description: We define Hamiltonian simplex differential graded algebras (DGA) with differentials that deform the high energy symplectic homology differential and wrapped Floer homology differential in the cases of closed and open strings in a Weinstein manifold, respectively. The order $m$ term in the differential is induced by varying natural degree $m$ co-products over an $(m-1)$-simplex, where the operations near the boundary of the simplex are trivial. We show that the Hamiltonian simplex DGA is quasi-isomorphic to the (non-equivariant) contact homology algebra and to the Legendrian homology algebra of the ideal boundary in the closed and open string cases, respectively.
description: 58 pages, 8 figures
Diagnosis and treatment of adult asthma patients in Serbia: a 2022 experts group position statement
Creators: name: Vukoja, Marija
name: Kopitovic, Ivan
name: Lazic, Zorica
name: Milenkovic, Branislava
name: Stankovic, Ivana
name: Tomic-Spiric, Vesna
name: Zvezdin, Biljana
name: Hromis, Sanja
name: Cekerevac, Ivan
name: Ilic, Aleksandra
name: Vukcevic, Miodrag
name: Dimic-Janjic, Sanja
name: Stjepanovic, Mihailo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Asthma is the most common non-communicable chronic lung condition across all ages. Epidemiological data indicate that many asthma patients in Serbia remain undiagnosed and untreated. The implementation of recent global advances in asthma management is limited due to the lack of a systematic approach, drug availability and regulatory affairs. In addition, the global coronavirus disease pandemic has posed a significant challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for treating adult asthma patients in Serbia. We performed PubMed database search on published asthma clinical trials and guidelines from 1 January 2015 to 10 March 2020. The consensus process incorporated a modified Delphi method that included two rounds of e-mail questionnaires and three rounds of national asthma expert meetings. We focus on 1) objective diagnosis of asthma, 2) the implementation of up-to-date therapeutic options, and 3) the identification and referral of severe asthma patients to newly established severe asthma centers. Regional specificities and variations in healthcare systems require the adaptation of evidence-based knowledge. Practical, clinically oriented algorithms designed to overcome local barriers in healthcare delivery may facilitate timely and adequate asthma diagnosis and the local implementation of current advances in asthma management.
An den Rändern
Creators: name: Cleff, Michael
name: Leismann, Burkhard
name: Möning, Roland
name: Del Pilar, Sandra
name: Christin, Barbara
name: Schlüter, Christian
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Year: 2017
Subjects: Michael Cleff
Burkhard Leismann
Roland Mönig
Sandra del Pilar
Barbara Christin
Christian Schlüter
Kunst
Zeitgenössische Kunst
Ausstellung
Kunstausstellung
Katalog
Kunstmuseum Ahlen
Plastik
keramische Plastik
Skulptur
keramische Skulptur
Keramik
Zeichnung
Fotografie
art
contemporary art
exhibition
art exhibition
catalogue
catalog
sculpture
ceramic sculpture
ceramics
drawing
photography

description: Der Katalog erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung von Michael Cleffs Arbeiten im Herbst 2017 im Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Es werden die drei Werkgruppen Plastik, Zeichnung und Fotografie vorgestellt. Die Ausstellung und alle Arbeiten hat der Essener Fotograf Christian Schlüter dokumentiert. Zu Cleffs Plastiken und Installationen hat Roland Mönig, Leiter des Saarlandmuseums in Saarbrücken, eine Einführung unter dem Titel Ausweitung der Randzone verfasst. Das zeichnerische Werk wurde von der Kunsthistorikerin und Künstlerin Sandra del Pilar in dem Kapitel Michael Cleff: Zeit der Materie besprochen. Die Künstlerin und Hochschullehrerin Barbara Christin setzt sich mit den fotografischen Arbeiten auseinander: Im Material – Fotografien von Michael Cleff. Die Übersetzung ins Englische besorgte John Brogden. Dieser Katalog erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung: This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition: Michael Cleff An den Rändern. On Margins. Kunstmuseum Ahlen/Westfalen 6. August – 1. Oktober 2017 www.kunstmuseum-ahlen.de
Asymptotic Stability of the Lane-Emden Solutions for the Viscous Gaseous Star Problem with Degenerate Density Dependent Viscosities
Creators: name: Luo, Tao
name: Xin, Zhouping
name: Zeng, Huihui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The nonlinear asymptotic stability of Lane-Emden solutions is proved in this paper for spherically symmetric motions of viscous gaseous stars with the density dependent shear and bulk viscosities which vanish at the vacuum, when the adiabatic exponent $γ$ lies in the stability regime $(4/3, 2)$, by establishing the global-in-time regularity uniformly up to the vacuum boundary for the vacuum free boundary problem of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson systems with spherical symmetry, which ensures the global existence of strong solutions capturing the precise physical behavior that the sound speed is $C^{{1}/{2}}$-H$\ddot{\rm o}$lder continuous across the vacuum boundary, the large time asymptotic uniform convergence of the evolving vacuum boundary, density and velocity to those of Lane-Emden solutions with detailed convergence rates, and the detailed large time behavior of solutions near the vacuum boundary. The results obtained in this paper extend those in \cite{LXZ} of the authors for the constant viscosities to the case of density dependent viscosities which are degenerate at vacuum states.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.03906