cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The importance of finite-temperature exchange-correlation for warm dense matter calculations
Creators: name: Karasiev, Valentin V.
name: Calderín, Lázaro
name: Trickey, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of explicit temperature dependence in the exchange-correlation (XC) free-energy functional upon calculated properties of matter in the warm dense regime are investigated. The comparison is between the KSDT finite-temperature local density approximation (TLDA) XC functional [Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ \textbf{112}, 076403 (2014)] parametrized from restricted path integral Monte Carlo data on the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) and the conventional Monte Carlo parametrization ground-state LDA XC functional (Perdew-Zunger, "PZ") evaluated with $T$-dependent densities. Both Kohn-Sham (KS) and orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) are used, depending upon computational resource demands. Compared to the PZ functional, the KSDT functional generally lowers the direct-current (DC) electrical conductivity of low density Al, yielding improved agreement with experiment. The greatest lowering is about 15\% for T= 15 kK. Correspondingly, the KS band structure of low-density fcc Al from KSDT exhibits a clear increase in inter-band separation above the Fermi level compared to the PZ bands. In some density-temperature regimes, the Deuterium equations of state obtained from the two XC functionals exhibit pressure differences as large as 4\% and a 6\% range of differences. However, the Hydrogen principal Hugoniot is insensitive to explicit XC $T$-dependence because of cancellation between the energy and pressure-volume work difference terms in the Rankine-Hugoniot equation. Finally, the temperature at which the HEG becomes unstable is $T\geq$ 7200 K for $T$-dependent XC, a result that the ground-state XC underestimates by about 1000 K.
การศึกษาผลกระทบต่อความอุดมสมบูรณ์ของดินและคุณภาพน้ำผิวดินของการปลูกกาแฟอาราบิก้าภายใต้ร่มเงาไม้ใหญ่
Creators: name: นุชจรินทร์ จันทร์แจ่ม
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: กาแฟอาราบิก้า
ความอุดมสมบูรณ์ของดิน
คุณภาพของแหล่งน้ำ

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 7, 4, 408-417
The Rodin-Ohno hypothesis that two enzyme superfamilies descended from one ancestral gene: an unlikely scenario for the origins of translation that will not be dismissed
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Rivera, Katiria
name: Weinreb, Violetta
name: Jimenez-Rodriguez, Mariel
name: Li, Li
name: Collier, Martha
name: Carter, Charles
name: Erdogan, Ozgün
name: Williams, Tishan
name: Chandrasekharan, S Niranj
name: Kuhlman, Brian
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background Because amino acid activation is rate-limiting for uncatalyzed protein synthesis, it is a key puzzle in understanding the origin of the genetic code. Two unrelated classes (I and II) of contemporary aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) now translate the code. Observing that codons for the most highly conserved, Class I catalytic peptides, when read in the reverse direction, are very nearly anticodons for Class II defining catalytic peptides, Rodin and Ohno proposed that the two superfamilies descended from opposite strands of the same ancestral gene. This unusual hypothesis languished for a decade, perhaps because it appeared to be unfalsifiable. Results The proposed sense/antisense alignment makes important predictions. Fragments that align in antiparallel orientations, and contain the respective active sites, should catalyze the same two reactions catalyzed by contemporary synthetases. Recent experiments confirmed that prediction. Invariant cores from both classes, called Urzymes after Ur = primitive, authentic, plus enzyme and representing ~20% of the contemporary structures, can be expressed and exhibit high, proportionate rate accelerations for both amino-acid activation and tRNA acylation. A major fraction (60%) of the catalytic rate acceleration by contemporary synthetases resides in segments that align sense/antisense. Bioinformatic evidence for sense/antisense ancestry extends to codons specifying the invariant secondary and tertiary structures outside the active sites of the two synthetase classes. Peptides from a designed, 46-residue gene constrained by Rosetta to encode Class I and II ATP binding sites with fully complementary sequences both accelerate amino acid activation by ATP ~400 fold. Conclusions Biochemical and bioinformatic results substantially enhance the posterior probability that ancestors of the two synthetase classes arose from opposite strands of the same ancestral gene. The remarkable acceleration by short peptides of the rate-limiting step in uncatalyzed protein synthesis, together with the synergy of synthetase Urzymes and their cognate tRNAs, introduce a new paradigm for the origin of protein catalysts, emphasize the potential relevance of an operational RNA code embedded in the tRNA acceptor stems, and challenge the RNA-World hypothesis. Reviewers This article was reviewed by Dr. Paul Schimmel (nominated by Laura Landweber), Dr. Eugene Koonin and Professor David Ardell.
High-resolution dielectric study reveals pore size-dependent orientational order of a discotic liquid crystal confined in tubular nanopores
Creators: name: Calus, Sylwia
name: Kityk, Andriy V.
name: Borowik, Lech
name: Lefort, Ronan
name: Morineau, Denis
name: Krause, Christina
name: Schoenhals, Andreas
name: Busch, Mark
name: Huber, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a high-resolution dielectric study on a pyrene-based discotic liquid crystal (DLC) in the bulk state and confined in parallel tubular nanopores of monolithic silica and alumina membranes. The positive dielectric anisotropy of the DLC molecule at low frequencies (in the quasi-static case) allows us to explore the thermotropic collective orientational order. A face-on arrangement of the molecular discs on the pore walls and a corresponding radial arrangement of the molecules is found. In contrast to the bulk, the isotropic-to-columnar transition of the confined DLC is continuous, shifts with decreasing pore diameter to lower temperatures and exhibits a pronounced hysteresis between cooling and heating. These findings corroborate conclusions from previous neutron and X-ray scattering experiments as well as optical birefringence measurements. Our study also indicates that the relative simple dielectric technique presented here is a quite efficient method in order to study the thermotropic orientational order of DLC based nanocomposites.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
Creators: name: HUMPHREY, DAVID JAMES
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2006

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2304 on 15.02.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: This thesis comprises an original work of fiction, entitled Liberty Horses, and a commentary which explores and compares postmodern English and American fiction, locating my own creative writing practice in that field of contemporary writing. My original work of fiction, Liberty Horses, is divided into two parts, being `Part One: Liberty Horses' and `Part Two: Dreamland'. The critical section of this thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter One, `American Postmodernism', shows how American writers, such as Richard Brautigan, William Gaddis and Don DeLillo, continually re-interpreted American fiction in regard to its Anglo-American tradition and explored the nature of Consumerism and Corporatism within American society and how such writers refuted the implications and ideals of the American Dream. Chapter Two, `English Postmodernism', examines the development of postmodern theories within English fiction. In particular it discusses the ideas of History and Myth, as employed by such writers as Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Peter Ackroyd, Angela Carter and Christine Brooke-Rose. The chapter also discusses the part played by the Booker Prize in the rise in commercial popularity of these writers as well as the acceptance of postmodern writing within a wider readership. Chapter Three, `The Making of Liberty Horses', explores the ideas which went into the creation of my novel, namely the image of the circus, paranoia and social, political and sexual impotence, as well as the writers, including Patricia Duncker, Richard Brautigan and Don DeLillo and other artists, namely Andy Warhol, David Lynch and Wim Wenders, who directly influenced the work
Extended self-similarity of atmospheric boundary layer wind fields in mesoscale regime: Is it real?
Creators: name: Kiliyanpilakkil, V. P.
name: Basu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we study the scaling properties of multi-year observed and atmospheric model-generated wind time series. We have found that the extended self-similarity holds for the observed series, and remarkably, the scaling exponents corresponding to the meoscale range closely match the well-accepted inertial-range turbulence values. However, the scaling results from the simulated time series are significantly different.
Shape (but not volume) changes in the thalami in Parkinson disease
Creators: name: Lewis, Mechelle
name: Huang, Xuemei
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Recent pathological studies have suggested that thalamic degeneration may represent a site of non-dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Our objective was to determine if changes in the thalami could be non-invasively detected in structural MRI images obtained from subjects with Parkinson disease (PD), compared to age-matched controls. Results No significant differences in volume were detected in the thalami between eighteen normal subjects and eighteen PD subjects groups. However significant (p < 0.03) shape differences were detected between the Left vs. Right thalami in PD, between the left thalami in PD and controls, and between the right thalami in PD and controls using a recently-developed, spherical harmonic-based representation. Conclusion Systematic changes in thalamic shape can be non-invasively assessed in PD in vivo. Shape changes, in addition to volume changes, may represent a new avenue to assess the progress of neurodegenerative processes. Although not directly discernable at the resolution of standard MRI, previous pathological studies would suggest that the shape changes detected in this study represent degeneration in the centre median-parafascicular (CM-Pf) complex, an area known to represent selective non-dopaminergic degeneration in PD.
การประเมินความสัมพันธ์ทางพันธุกรรมและการจำแนกบัวสายและลูกผสมด้วยแฮตอาร์เอพีดี
Creators: name: สุรกฤษฏิ์ สุขสกุล
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: บัวสาย
แฮตอาร์เอพีดี
ความสัมพันธ์ทางพันธุกรรม
การจำแนก

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 7, 4, 418-426
A novel inflammatory biomarker, GlycA, associates with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis and cardio-metabolic risk in BMI-matched controls
Creators: name: Bartlett, David B.
name: Bateman, Lori A.
name: AbouAssi, Hiba
name: Huebner, Janet L.
name: Winegar, Deborah A.
name: Huffman, Kim M.
name: Otvos, James D.
name: Tune, K.N.
name: Kraus, William E.
name: Connelly, Margery A.
name: Kraus, Virginia B.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background RA and CVD both have inflammation as part of the underlying biology. Our objective was to explore the relationships of GlycA, a measure of glycosylated acute phase proteins, with inflammation and cardiometabolic risk in RA, and explore whether these relationships were similar to those for persons without RA. Methods Plasma GlycA was determined for 50 individuals with mild-moderate RA disease activity and 39 controls matched for age, gender, and body mass index (BMI). Regression analyses were performed to assess relationships between GlycA and important markers of traditional inflammation and cardio-metabolic health: inflammatory cytokines, disease activity, measures of adiposity and insulin resistance. Results On average, RA activity was low (DAS-28 = 3.0 ± 1.4). Traditional inflammatory markers, ESR, hsCRP, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-18 and TNF-α were greater in RA versus controls (P < 0.05 for all). GlycA concentrations were significantly elevated in RA versus controls (P = 0.036). In RA, greater GlycA associated with disease activity (DAS-28; RDAS-28 = 0.5) and inflammation (RESR = 0.7, RhsCRP = 0.7, RIL-6 = 0.3: P < 0.05 for all); in BMI-matched controls, these inflammatory associations were absent or weaker (hsCRP), but GlycA was related to IL-18 (RhsCRP = 0.3, RIL-18 = 0.4: P < 0.05). In RA, greater GlycA associated with more total abdominal adiposity and less muscle density (Rabdominal-adiposity = 0.3, Rmuscle-density = −0.3, P < 0.05 for both). In BMI-matched controls, GlycA associated with more cardio-metabolic markers: BMI, waist circumference, adiposity measures and insulin resistance (R = 0.3-0.6, P < 0.05 for all). Conclusions GlycA provides an integrated measure of inflammation with contributions from traditional inflammatory markers and cardio-metabolic sources, dominated by inflammatory markers in persons with RA and cardio-metabolic factors in those without.
การวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลผู้ทิ้งงานก่อสร้างของส่วนราชการตามเอกสารของกรมบัญชีกลาง
Creators: name: บุญรักษ์ แวนบอเซอร์
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: ผู้ทิ้งงาน
สำนักงานคณะกรรมการการศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน
ผู้รับจ้าง

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 7, 4, 427-441
Test of the notch technique for determining the radial sensitivity of the optical model potential
Creators: name: Yang, Lei
name: Lin, Cheng-Jian
name: Jia, Hui-ming
name: Xu, Xin-Xing
name: Ma, Nan-Ru
name: Sun, Li-Jie
name: Yang, Feng
name: Zhang, Huan-Qiao
name: Li, Zu-Hua
name: Wang, Dong-Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detailed investigations on the notch technique are performed on the ideal data generated by the optical model potential parameters extracted from the 16O+208Pb system at the laboratory energy of 129.5 MeV, to study the sensitivities of this technique on the model parameters as well as the experimental data. It is found that, for the perturbation parameters, a sufficient large reduced fraction and an appropriate small perturbation width are necessary to determine the accurate radial sensitivity; while for the potential parameters, almost no dependence was observed. For the experimental measurements, the number of data points has little influence for the heavy target system, and the relative inner information of the nuclear potential can be derived when the measurement extended to a lower cross section.
Implications, consequences and interpretations of generalized entropy in the cosmological setups
Creators: name: Moradpour, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it was argued (Eur. Phys. J. C {\bf73}, 2487 (2013)) that the total entropy of a gravitational system should be related to the volume of system instead of the system surface. Here, we show that this new proposal cannot satisfy the unified first law of thermodynamics and the Friedmans equation simultaneously, unless the effects of dark energy candidate on the horizon entropy are considered. In fact, our study shows that some types of dark energy candidate may admit this proposal. Some general properties of required dark energy are also addressed. Moreover, our investigation shows that this new proposal for entropy, while combined with the second law of thermodynamics (as the backbone of Verlinde's proposal), helps us in providing a thermodynamic interpretation for the difference between the surface and bulk degrees of freedom which, according to Padmanabhan's proposal, leads to the emergence of spacetime and thus the universe expansion. In fact, our investigation shows that the entropy changes of system may be equal to the difference between the surface and bulk degrees of freedom falling from surface into the system volume. Briefly, our results signal us that this new proposal for entropy may be in agreement with the thermodynamics laws, the Friedmann equation, Padmanabhan's holographic proposal for the emergence of spacetime and therefore the universe expansion. In fact, this new definition of entropy may be used to make a bridge between Verlinde's and Padmanabhan's proposals.
description: accepted by IJTP
Testing neutrino decay scenarios with IceCube data
Creators: name: Pagliaroli, G.
name: Palladino, A.
name: Vissani, F.
name: Villante, F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the hypothesis of non-radiative neutrinos decay using the latest IceCube data. Namely, we calculate the track-to-shower ratio expected in IceCube for the normal and inverted neutrino mass hierarchy taking into account the uncertainties in neutrino oscillation parameters. We show that the subset of data with energy above 60 TeV actually excludes the possibility of a neutrinos decay at the 1 sigma level of significance for both neutrino mass hierarchies.
Scottish and International Review of the Uses of Electronic Monitoring
Creators: name: Graham, Hannah
name: McIvor, Gill
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Schottland , Elektronisch überwachter Hausarrest , Fußfessel ,
subject: 360

description: Review providing a bounded overview of Scottish and international evidence and experience of the uses, purposes and impact of electronic monitoring.
The Need for a New Power to Search Children for Alcohol: A review of the evidence
Creators: name: Murray, Kath
name: McVie, Susan
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Schottland , Kind , Alkoholmissbrauch , Kontrolle , Polizei
subject: 360

description: The aim of this report is to inform the Scottish Government consultation on the proposal to introduce a statutory power to search young people under the age of 18 for alcohol. The report provides data and analysis on underage drinking trends in Scotland, and on how police officers use their powers of stop and search, and seizure in relation to underage drinking.
Adults with autism spectrum disorders exhibit decreased sensitivity to reward parameters when making effort-based decisions
Creators: name: Aloi, Joseph
name: Bodfish, James W
name: Damiano, Cara R
name: Dichter, Gabriel
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract: Background: Efficient effort expenditure to obtain rewards is critical for optimal goal-directed behavior and learning. Clinical observation suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may show dysregulated reward-based effort expenditure, but no behavioral study to date has assessed effort-based decision-making in ASD. Methods: The current study compared a group of adults with ASD to a group of typically developing adults on the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT), a behavioral measure of effort-based decision-making. In this task, participants were provided with the probability of receiving a monetary reward on a particular trial and asked to choose between either an “easy task” (less motoric effort) for a small, stable reward or a “hard task” (greater motoric effort) for a variable but consistently larger reward. Results: Participants with ASD chose the hard task more frequently than did the control group, yet were less influenced by differences in reward value and probability than the control group. Additionally, effort-based decision-making was related to repetitive behavior symptoms across both groups. Conclusions: These results suggest that individuals with ASD may be more willing to expend effort to obtain a monetary reward regardless of the reward contingencies. More broadly, results suggest that behavioral choices may be less influenced by information about reward contingencies in individuals with ASD. This atypical pattern of effort-based decision-making may be relevant for understanding the heightened reward motivation for circumscribed interests in ASD.
Service responses for older high-risk drug users: a literature review
Creators: name: Atkinson, Colin
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Schottland , Alter , Drogenmissbrauch , Hilfe
subject: 360

description: This report identifies and reviews the academic literature on service responses for older high-risk drug users. It aims to identify the key literature on the older high-risk drug user, distil from this literature the main characteristics of older drug users and their needs, and provide an account of the service responses to older drug users to inform planning and policy for Scotland’s older drug using population.
The Yang-Baxter relation and gauge invariance
Creators: name: Kashaev, Rinat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 16T25

description: Starting from a quantum dilogarithm over a Pontryagin self-dual LCA group $A$, we construct an operator solution of the Yang-Baxter equation generalizing the solution of the Faddeev-Volkov model. Based on a specific choice of a subgroup $B\subset A$ and by using the Weil transformation, we also give a new non-operator interpretation of the Yang-Baxter relation. That allows us to construct a lattice QFT-model of IRF-type with gauge invariance under independent $B$-translations of local `spin' variables.
description: 16 pages
A systematic review of interventions for promoting active transportation to school
Creators: name: Vaughn, Amber
name: Ward, Dianne
name: Evenson, Kelly
name: Chillón, Palma
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Active transportation to school is an important contributor to the total physical activity of children and adolescents. However, active school travel has declined over time, and interventions are needed to reverse this trend. The purpose of this paper is to review intervention studies related to active school transportation to guide future intervention research. Methods A systematic review was conducted to identify intervention studies of active transportation to school published in the scientific literature through January 2010. Five electronic databases and a manual search were conducted. Detailed information was extracted, including a quantitative assessment comparing the effect sizes, and a qualitative assessment using an established evaluation tool. Results We identified 14 interventions that focused on active transportation to school. These interventions mainly focused on primary school children in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Almost all the interventions used quasi-experimental designs (10/14), and most of the interventions reported a small effect size on active transportation (6/14). Conclusion More research with higher quality study designs and measures should be conducted to further evaluate interventions and to determine the most successful strategies for increasing active transportation to school.
A Review of the Evidence on Hate Crime and Prejudice: Report for the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion
Creators: name: McBride, Maureen
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Schottland , Hate crime
subject: 360

description: The SCCJR was commissioned to explore the nature of evidence on hate crime in Scotland in order to support the work of the Advisory Group on Hate Crime and Prejudice. This report summarises key sources of information as well as addresses some issues around the definition and understanding of hate crime as a social phenomenon. In addition, as part of this project, a series of key stakeholders comprising national and local organisations were surveyed to explore organisational data collection, usage and perceived gaps in information.
Subhalo accretion through filaments
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Roberto E.
name: Padilla, Nelson D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We track subhalo orbits of galaxy and group sized halos in cosmological simulations. We identify filamentary structures around halos and we use these to define a sample of subhalos accreted from filaments as well as a control sample of subhalos accreted from other directions. We use these samples to study differences in satellite orbits produced by filamentary accretion. Our results depend on host halo mass. We find that for low masses, subhalos accreted from filaments show $\sim10\%$ shorter lifetimes compared to the control sample, they show a tendency towards more radial orbits, reach halo central regions earlier, and are more likely to merge with the host. For higher mass halos this lifetime difference dissipates and even reverses for cluster sized halos. This behavior appears to be connected to the fact that more massive hosts are connected to stronger filaments with higher velocity coherence and density, with slightly more radial subhalo orbits. Because subhalos tend to follow the coherent flow of the filament, it is possible that such thick filaments are enough to shield the subhalo from the effect of dynamical friction at least during their first infall. We also identify subhalo pairs/clumps which merge with one another after accretion. They survive as a clump for only a very short time, which is even shorter for higher subhalo masses, suggesting that the Magellanic Clouds and other Local group satellite associations, may have entered the MW virial radius very recently and probably are in their first infall. Filaments boost the accretion of satellite associations.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: In memoriam Julius Heider, Ing., 1891-1945
title: Gedenkworte gesprochen an der Bestattungsfeier am 27. Oktober 1945 im Zürcher Krematorium
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schmid, P.
name: Farner, Gustav Adolf
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Heider, Julius
subject: Basel
subject: Zürich
subject: Grafologe
subject: Grafologie

description: Enthält: Gedenkworte gesprochen an der Bestattungsfeier am 27. Oktober 1945 im Zürcher Krematorium von Pfarrer P. Schmid, St. Peter ; und von Dr. med. G. A. Farner.
Costs of diagnostic and preoperative workup with and without breast MRI in older women with a breast cancer diagnosis
Creators: name: Henderson, Louise
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Breast cancer in the U.S. - estimated at 232,670 incident cases in 2014 - has the highest aggregate economic burden of care relative to other female cancers. Yet, the amount of cost attributed to diagnostic/preoperative work up has not been characterized. We examined the costs of imaging and biopsy among women enrolled in Medicare who did and did not receive diagnostic/preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Methods Using Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)- Medicare data, we compared the per capita costs (PCC) based on amount paid, between diagnosis date and primary surgical treatment for a breast cancer diagnosis (2005–2009) with and without diagnostic/preoperative MRI. We compared the groups with and without MRI using multivariable models, adjusting for woman and tumor characteristics. Results Of the 53,653 women in the cohort, within the diagnostic/preoperative window, 20 % (N = 10,776) received diagnostic/preoperative MRI. Total unadjusted median costs were almost double for women with MRI vs. without ($2,251 vs. $1,152). Adjusted costs were higher among women receiving MRI, with significant differences in total costs ($1,065), imaging costs ($928), and biopsies costs ($138). Conclusion Costs of diagnostic/preoperative workups among women with MRI are higher than those without. Using these cost estimates in comparative effectiveness models should be considered when assessing the benefits and harms of diagnostic/preoperative MRI.
Testing deviations from $Λ$CDM with growth rate measurements from 6 Large Scale Structure Surveys at $\mathbf{z=0.06}$ to 1
Creators: name: Alam, Shadab
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Silvestri, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use measurements from the Planck satellite mission and galaxy redshift surveys over the last decade to test three of the basic assumptions of the standard model of cosmology, $Λ$CDM: the spatial curvature of the universe, the nature of dark energy and the laws of gravity on large scales. We obtain improved constraints on several scenarios that violate one or more of these assumptions. We measure $w_0=-0.94\pm0.17$ (18\% measurement) and $1+w_a=1.16\pm0.36$ (31\% measurement) for models with a time-dependent equation of state, which is an improvement over current best constraints \citep{Aubourg2014}. In the context of modified gravity, we consider popular scalar tensor models as well as a parametrization of the growth factor. In the case of one-parameter $f(R)$ gravity models with a $Λ$CDM background, we constrain $B_0 < 1.36 \times 10^{-5} $ (1$σ$ C.L.), which is an improvement by a factor of 4 on the current best \citep{XU2015}. We provide the very first constraint on the coupling parameters of general scalar-tensor theory and stringent constraint on the only free coupling parameter of Chameleon models. We also derive constraints on extended Chameleon models, improving the constraint on the coupling by a factor of 6 on the current best \citep{Hojjati2011} . We also measure $γ= 0.612 \pm 0.072$ (11.7\% measurement) for growth index parametrization. We improve all the current constraints by combining results from various galaxy redshift surveys in a coherent way, which includes a careful treatment of scale-dependence introduced by modified gravity.
description: citation updates, 13 pages, 13 figures (submitted to MNRAS) , video summary on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDO2cySQnw&feature=youtu.be
Eine Webanwendung zur Planung und Auswertung von A/B-Tests auf Basis des Chi-Quadrat-Unabhängigkeitstests
Creators: name: Frost, Oliver
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A/B-Tests
subject: Chi-Quadrat-Unabhängigkeitstest
subject: Webanwendung
subject: Teststärkeanalyse
subject: Effektstärke
subject: A/B tests
subject: web application
subject: power analysis
subject: effect size
subject: Chi-square test of independence
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: In dieser Arbeit stelle ich eine für die Scout24 AG entwickelte Webanwendung vor, mit der sich A/B-Tests auf Basis des Chi-Quadrat-Unabhängigkeitstests planen und auswerten lassen. Die Anwendung enthält vier verschiedene Formen der Teststärkeanalyse, darunter die von Erdfelder (1984) vorgestellte Kompromissanalyse, sowie einen Auswertungsbereich, in dem neben dem p-Wert ein Effektmaß (Cohens w) samt Konfidenzintervall ausgegeben wird. Bei der Entwicklung wurde besonderes Augenmerk darauf gelegt, dass die Bedienung der Anwendung durch Personen ohne inferenzstatistisches Fachwissen erfolgen kann.
description: In this paper I present a web application for planning and evaluating A/B tests based on the chi-square test of independence. The application provides four different forms of power analysis, including Erdfelder's (1984) compromise analysis, and an evaluation section showing the p-value and an effect size (Cohen's w) with a confidence interval. During development, special attention was paid to the fact that the application can be operated by people without statistical expertise.
Christopher Colwill1 (rec.): Wojciech Lewandowski, Od faszystowskiej dystopii do anarchistycznej utopii. Idee polityczne w powieści graficznej V jak Vendetta Alana Moore’a i Davida Lloyda, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2019, ss. 323.
Creators: name: Colwill, Christopher
Publisher: name: Świat Idei i Polityki
Year: 2019

description: Świat Idei i Polityki, Tom 18 (2019): Świat Idei i Polityki
Paweł Malendowicz (rec.): Marcin Wałdoch, Chojnicki czerwiec ’89: studium lokalne fali uderzeniowej procesu demokratyzacji, Stowarzyszenie Arcana Historii, Chojnice 2017, ss. 182
Creators: name: Malendowicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: Świat Idei i Polityki
Year: 2019

description: Świat Idei i Polityki, Tom 18 (2019): Świat Idei i Polityki
Rapid automatized naming as an index of genetic liability to autism
Creators: name: Piven, Joseph
name: Losh, Molly
name: Esserman, Denise
Publisher: name: Springer US
Year: 2010

description: Abstract This study investigated rapid automatized naming (RAN) ability in high functioning individuals with autism and parents of individuals with autism. Findings revealed parallel patterns of performance in parents and individuals with autism, where both groups had longer naming times than controls. Significant parent-child correlations were also detected, along with associations with language and personality features of the broad autism phenotype (retrospective reports of early language delay, socially reticent personality). Together, findings point towards RAN as a potential marker of genetic liability to autism.
Killing-Yano forms and Killing tensors on a warped space
Creators: name: Krtous, Pavel
name: Kubiznak, David
name: Kolar, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate several criteria under which the symmetries associated with the Killing and Killing-Yano tensors on the base space can be lifted to the symmetries of the full warped geometry. The procedure is explicitly illustrated on several examples, providing new prototypes of spacetimes admitting such tensors. In particular, we study a warped product of two Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes and show that it gives rise to a new class of highly symmetric vacuum (with cosmological constant) black hole solutions that inherit many of the properties of the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS geometry.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Automatic Data Layout Optimizations for GPUs
Creators: name: Kofler, Klaus
name: Cosenza, Biagio
name: Fahringer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: GPU
subject: OpenCL
subject: Array-of-Structures
subject: Structure-of-Arrays
subject: AoS
subject: SoA
subject: memory
subject: data layout
subject: graph-based model

description: Memory optimizations have became increasingly important in order to fully exploit the computational power of modern GPUs. The data arrangement has a big impact on the performance, and it is very hard for GPU programmers to identify a well-suited data layout. Classical data layout transformations include grouping together data fields that have similar access patterns, or transforming Array-of-Structures (AoS) to Structure-of-Arrays (SoA). This paper presents an optimization infrastructure to automatically determine an improved data layout for OpenCL programs written in AoS layout. Our framework consists of two separate algorithms: The first one constructs a graph-based model, which is used to split the AoS input struct into several clusters of fields, based on hardware dependent parameters. The second algorithm selects a good per-cluster data layout (e.g., SoA, AoS or an intermediate layout) using a decision tree. Results show that the combination of both algorithms is able to deliver higher performance than the individual algorithms. The layouts proposed by our framework result in speedups of up to 2.22, 1.89 and 2.83 on an AMD FirePro S9000, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and NVIDIA Tesla k20m, respectively, over different AoS sample programs, and up to 1.18 over a manually optimized program.
2013-5 Micro-narrative surveys in Indonesia - PLOS NTD 2016
Creators: name: Krentel, Alison
name: Titaley, Christiana
name: Lynam, Timothy
name: Damayanti, Rita
name: Suharno, Nugroho
name: Bradley, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: compliance
subject: coverage
subject: endgame
subject: implementation research
subject: Indonesia
subject: lymphatic filariasis
subject: MDA
subject: micro-narrative
subject: mixed methods
subject: survey

description: The accompanying datasets, codebooks and questionnaires related to findings described in the paper entitled "Improving coverage and compliance in mass drug administration for the elimination of LF in two 'endgame' districts in Indonesia using micronarrative surveys". This project was funded by GSK Global Programs.
Neutral Impurities in a Bose-Einstein Condensate for Simulation of the Fröhlich-Polaron
Creators: name: Hohmann, Michael
name: Kindermann, Farina
name: Gänger, Benjamin
name: Lausch, Tobias
name: Mayer, Daniel
name: Schmidt, Felix
name: Widera, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental system to study the Bose polaron by immersion of single, well-controllable neutral Cs impurities into a Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We show that, by proper optical traps, independent control over impurity and BEC allows for precision relative positioning of the two sub-systems as well as for independent read-out. We furthermore estimate that measuring the polaron binding energy of Fröhlich-type Bose polarons in the low and intermediate coupling regime is feasible with our experimental constraints and limitations discussed.
Systematic comparison of digital maturity assessment models
Creators: name: Cognet, Bruno
name: Pernot, Jean-Philippe
name: Rivest, Louis
name: Danjou, Christophe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Assessing the digital maturity of companies is essential to prepare for digital transformation in the context of Industry 4.0. Several digital maturity assessment models have emerged in the past few years to support this evaluation. One obstacle for companies is the impossibility of easily comparing themselves to one another quantitatively or qualitatively. This paper introduces a new way to compare digital maturity models through a quantitative framework that is compatible with a wide variety of models. Comparisons are performed in the space of the keywords used to characterize key performance indicators (KPIs) that are reverse engineered from the models. The matches are encoded in a keyword matrix that is used to automatically compute the match level of KPI pairs. The framework has been validated on 13 state-of-the-art maturity models whose analysis resulted in the identification of 451 KPIs characterized using 263 keywords structured according to 12 dimensions and 58 subdimensions.
The impact of a decision aid about heart disease prevention on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for prevention: a pilot randomized trial
Creators: name: Sheridan, Stacey
name: Simpson, Ross, Jr.
name: Pignone, Michael
name: Shadle, John
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2006

description: Abstract Background Low utilization of effective coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention strategies may be due to many factors, but chief among them is the lack of patient involvement in prevention decisions. We undertook this study to test the effectiveness of an individually-tailored, computerized decision aid about CHD on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for CHD prevention. Methods We conducted a pilot randomized trial in a convenience sample of adults with no previous history of cardiovascular disease to test the effectiveness of an individually-tailored, computerized decision aid about CHD prevention against a risk factor list that patients could present to their doctor. Results We enrolled 75 adults. Mean age was 53. 59% were female, 73% white, and 23% African-American. 66% had some college education. 43% had a 10-year CHD risk of 0–5%, 25% a risk of 6–10%, 24% a risk of 11–20%, and 5% a risk of > 20%. 78% had at least one option to reduce their CHD risk, but only 45% accurately identified the strategies best supported by evidence. 41 patients received the decision aid, 34 received usual care. In unadjusted analysis, the decision aid increased the proportion of patients who discussed CHD risk reduction with their doctor from 24% to 40% (absolute difference 16%; 95% CI -4% to +37%) and increased the proportion who had a specific plan to reduce their risk from 24% to 37% (absolute difference 13%; 95% CI -7% to +34%). In pre-post testing, the decision aid also appeared to increase the proportion of patients with plans to intervene on their CHD risk (absolute increase ranging from 21% to 47% for planned medication use and 5% to 16% for planned behavioral interventions). Conclusion Our study confirms patients' limited knowledge about their CHD risk and effective risk reduction options and provides preliminary evidence that an individually-tailored decision aid about CHD prevention might be expected to increase patients' discussions about CHD prevention with their doctor and their plans for CHD risk reduction. These findings should be replicated in studies with a larger sample size and patients at overall higher risk of CHD. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00315978
Practice Abstracts BRANCHES PROJECT H2020 - PA53
Creators: name: Berglund, Nora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biobased side streams, ag-riculture, forestry, digital marketplace, circular bioe-conomy, nutrient recycling

description: KiertoaSuomesta.fi - MARKETPLACE FOR BIOBASED SIDE STREAMS (Finland)
description: BRANCHES will produce and share more than 50 case studies, considered Best Practices. The selected case studies will be summarized in Practice Abstracts (PAs), documents tailored for practitioners, shared through the project media and collected on this webpage. The numbering of the PAs only refers to chronological order of uploading. Enjoy your reading!
Quantum-Critical Fluctuations in 2D Metals: Strange Metals and Superconductivity in Antiferromagnets and in Cuprates
Creators: name: Varma, Chandra M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous transport and thermodynamic properties in the quantum-critical region, in the cuprates, and in the quasi-two dimensional Fe-based superconductors and heavy-fermion compounds, have the same temperature dependences. This can occur only if, despite their vast microscopic differences, a common statistical mechanical model describes their phase transitions. The antiferromagnetic (AFM)-ic models for the latter two, just as the loop-current model for the cuprates, map to the dissipative XY model. The solution of this model in 2+1 D reveals that the critical fluctuations are determined by topological excitations, vortices and a variety of instantons, and not by renormalized spin-wave theories of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson type, adapted by Moriya, Hertz and others for quantum-criticality. The absorptive part of the fluctuations is a separable function of momentum ${\bf q}$, measured from the ordering vector, and of the frequency $ω$ and the temperature $T$ which scale as $\tanh(ω/2T)$ at criticality. Direct measurements of the fluctuations by neutron scattering in the quasi-two-dimensional heavy fermion and Fe-based compounds, near their antiferromagnetic quantum critical point, are consistent with this form. Such fluctuations, together with the vertex coupling them to fermions, lead to a marginal fermi-liquid, with the imaginary part of the self-energy $\propto max(ω, T)$ for all momenta, a resistivity $\propto T$, a $T \ln T$ contribution to the specific heat, and other singular fermi-liquid properties common to these diverse compounds, as well as to d-wave superconductivity. This is explicitly verified, in the cuprates, by analysis of the pairing and the normal self-energy directly extracted from the recent high resolution angle resolved photoemission measurements.
description: Invited review on special issue on Correlated Fermions in J. Phys. C. Improved version
Emotion dysregulation as a transdiagnostic mechanism of opioid misuse and suicidality among chronic pain patients
Creators: name: Riquino, Michael R
name: Priddy, Sarah E
name: Garland, Eric L
name: Howard, Matthew O.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Chronic pain is a prevalent condition that causes functional impairment and emotional suffering. To allay pain-induced suffering, opioids are often prescribed for chronic pain management. Yet, chronic pain patients on opioid therapy are at heightened risk for opioid misuse—behaviors that can lead to addiction and overdose. Relatedly, chronic pain patients are at elevated risk for suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviors.
                Main body
                Opioid misuse and suicidality are maladaptive processes aimed at alleviating the negative emotional hyperreactivity, hedonic hyporeactivity, and emotion dysregulation experienced by chronic pain patients on opioid therapy. In this review, we explore the role of emotion dysregulation in chronic pain. We then describe why emotionally dysregulated chronic pain patients are vulnerable to opioid misuse and suicidality in response to these negative affective states.
                Conclusion
                Emotion dysregulation is an important and malleable treatment target with the potential to reduce or prevent opioid misuse and suicidality among opioid-treated chronic pain patients.
On determinant representations of scalar products and form factors in the SoV approach: the XXX case
Creators: name: Kitanine, N.
name: Maillet, J. M.
name: Niccoli, G.
name: Terras, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present article we study the form factors of quantum integrable lattice models solvable by the separation of variables (SoV) method. It was recently shown that these models admit universal determinant representations for the scalar products of the so-called separate states (a class which includes in particular all the eigenstates of the transfer matrix). These results permit to obtain simple expressions for the matrix elements of local operators (form factors). However, these representations have been obtained up to now only for the completely inhomogeneous versions of the lattice models considered. In this article we give a simple algebraic procedure to rewrite the scalar products (and hence the form factors) for the SoV related models as Izergin or Slavnov type determinants. This new form leads to simple expressions for the form factors in the homogeneous and thermodynamic limits. To make the presentation of our method clear, we have chosen to explain it first for the simple case of the $XXX$ Heisenberg chain with anti-periodic boundary conditions. We would nevertheless like to stress that the approach presented in this article applies as well to a wide range of models solved in the SoV framework.
description: 46 pages