cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Singular behavior of ^1P_1^{+-} quarkonium and positronium annihilation decays and relevance of relative energy
Creators: name: Gromes, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a four dimensional approach, we show that the singularities for small gluon momenta, which arise in the usual three dimensional treatment of the annihilation decay, disappear if all poles in the relative energy are taken into account correctly in the integration. We obtain an explicit formula for the decay width which involves a non locality originating from the kinetic energy. We calculate not only the familiar logarithmic dependence on the binding energy, but also the constant to be added to the logarithm. For positronium this differs from an earlier result in the literature and leads to a modified life time. In QCD there is a non abelian loop graph which contributes to the decay amplitude to the same order as the tree graph. Contrary to the original version, which contained some errors, the constant turns out to be large and negative. For reasonable parameters, this negative constant practically cancels the positive logarithm, so that the whole approach of expanding with respect to the binding energy breaks down.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, errors corrected
Blockchain for 5G and Beyond Networks: A State of the Art Survey
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dinh C
name: Pathirana, Pubudu N
name: Ding, Ming
name: Seneviratne, Aruna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are on the way to be deployed around the world. The 5G technologies target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines with drastic improvements in terms of high quality of service, increased network capacity and enhanced system throughput. Despite all these advantages that 5G will bring about, there are still major challenges to be addressed, including decentralization, transparency, risks of data interoperability, network privacy and security vulnerabilities. Blockchain can offer innovative solutions to effectively solve the challenges in 5G networks. Driven by the dramatically increased capacities of the 5G networks and the recent breakthroughs in the blockchain technology, blockchain-based 5G services are expected to witness a rapid development and bring substantial benefits to future society. In this paper, we provide a state-of-art survey on the integration of blockchain with 5G networks and beyond. Our key focus is on the discussions on the potential of blockchain for enabling key 5G technologies, including cloud/edge computing, Software Defined Networks, Network Function Virtualization, Network Slicing, and D2D communications. We then explore the opportunities of blockchain to important 5G services, ranging from spectrum management, network virtualization, resource management to interference management, federated learning, privacy and security provision. The recent advances in the applications of blockchain in 5G Internet of Things are also surveyed in various domains, i.e. smart healthcare, smart city, smart transportation, smart grid and UAVs. The main findings derived from the survey are then summarized, and possible research challenges with open issues are also identified. Lastly, we complete this survey by shedding new light on future directions of research on this newly emerging area.
description: 45 pages, submitted to IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials for possible publication
Evolution of Disparities in Outpatient Ophthalmic Care at a Tertiary Care Center in California at the Beginning of and One Year into the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
Creators: name: Shen, Andrew A.
name: Gutierrez, Karen G.
name: Villegas, Natacha C.
name: Moss, Heather E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: To compare disparities in outpatient ophthalmic care during early and later periods of the COVID-19 public health emergency. This cross-sectional study compared non-peri-operative outpatient ophthalmology visits by unique patients at an adult ophthalmology practice affiliated with a tertiary-care academic medical center in the Western US during three time periods: pre-COVID (3/15/19-4/15/19), early-COVID (3/15/20-4/15/20), and late-COVID (3/15/21-4/15/21). Differences in participant demographics, barriers to care, visit modality (telehealth, in person), and subspeciality of care were studied using unadjusted and adjusted models. There were 3095, 1172 and 3338 unique patient-visits during pre-COVID, early-COVID and late-COVID (overall age 59.5 ± 20.5 years, 57% female, 41.8% White, 25.9% Asian, 16.1% Hispanic). There were disparities in patient age (55.4 ± 21.8 vs. 60.2 ± 19.9 years), race (21.9% vs. 26.9% Asian), ethnicity (18.3% Hispanic vs. 15.2% Hispanic), and insurance (35.9% vs. 45.1% Medicare) as well as changes in modality (14.2% vs. 0% telehealth) and subspecialty (61.6% vs. 70.1% internal exam specialty) in early-COVID vs. pre-COVID (p < .05 for all). In late-COVID, only insurance (42.7% vs. 45.1% Medicare) and modality of care (1.8% vs. 0% telehealth) persisted as differences compared to pre-COVID. There were disparities in patients receiving outpatient ophthalmology care during early-COVID that returned close to pre-COVID baseline one year later. These results suggest that there has not been a lasting positive or negative disruptive effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on disparities in outpatient ophthalmic care.
Trends in Volume and Charges of Retinal Tear Patients in the Emergency Department
Creators: name: Taneja, Kamil
name: Diaz, Michael Joseph
name: Taneja, Tanisha
name: Patel, Karan
name: Batchu, Sai
name: Oak, Solomon
name: Zhang, Alex
name: Joshi, Aditya
name: Patel, Urvish K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: To characterize retinal tears (RTs) and calculate the economic burden of RTs that present to the emergency department (ED) in the US. We used a large national ED database to retrospectively analyze RTs that presented to the ED from 2006 to 2019. Using extrapolation methods, national of the RT patient ED volume, demographics, comorbidities, disposition, inpatient (IP) charges, and ED charges were calculated. During the period between 2006 and 2019, 15841 ED encounters had RT listed as the primary diagnosis. The average annual RT ED encounters was 2,640 ± 856 and comprised an average of 6.4 × 10−5% of all ED visits annually. The number and ED percentage of RT encounters did not change during this time period (p = .22, p = .67, respectively). Most patients were males, Caucasian, paid with private insurance, and admitted to EDs in the Northeast. The most common comorbidities were hypertension (19%), a history of cataracts (15%), and diabetes (7.2%). During this time period, RTs charges added up to more than $79 million and $33 million in the ED and IP settings, respectively. Mean per-encounter ED and IP charges increased by 145% (p = .0008) and 86% (p = .0047), respectively. Despite the stable number of RT patients presenting to the ED, RTs place a significant economic burden to the healthcare system, which increases yearly. We recommend physicians and policy makers to work together to pass laws that could prevent the increasing healthcare charges.
The Inside-Out Church: An Upside-Down Approach to Sacred Space
Creators: name: Campbell, Stuart
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: This Graduation Project imagines a reorientation of sacred space towards the neighborhood. It stems in large part from my previous theological M. Div. studies at Regent College, emphasizing an outward-focusing understanding of space and place, and from my own previous pastoral work at Vancouver’s downtown First Baptist Church, recovering neighborhood parish. From a theological-pastoral perspective, far too often there is in Christian worship first Christian space and then—and only if we’re lucky—community space; however, these two kinds of space rarely overlap. This is because most church architecture fails to realize the essential premise that the church does not exist for herself, but for the sake of the neighborhood. In fact, this failure is directly connected with the many churches that are shuttering their doors in an increasingly “non-religious” (but still spiritual) age in Vancouver: church congregations and church architecture that exist for themselves will eventually peter out by themselves. How, then, can a church building still exist as a church—according to the typology’s standards of beauty, history, and inspiration—and yet still offer a home for others, so that there is a genuine mixing of lives and stories unto dignity and understanding? I argue that it must be by an upside-down approach to church architecture: one that espouses the power of sacred space to be hospitably of and for the neighborhood. As a project of thresholds and community-landing spaces, the Vancouver-sited church, located on a modest plot in Mt. Pleasant, seeks to combine spaces for Christian worship with residential housing, daycare classrooms, kitchen and dining facilities, and café and micro-brewpub community spaces. All these spaces—housed under one shared roof—are crafted with a shared theological-design language that incorporates five key principles: compression and expansion, light from above, indirect natural lighting, stained glass, and expressions of the cross. As these elements find their expression in the various spaces, all aspects of life are given equal theological and spiritual importance, thus invigorating the life of the local congregation in its neighborhood context, “inviting the outside in and thrusting the inside out,” and making a home for all.
Additional file 8 of Genomic analysis of Spanish wheat landraces reveals their variability and potential for breeding
Creators: name: Pascual, Laura
name: Ruiz, Magdalena
name: López-Fernández, Matilde
name: Pérez-Peña, Helena
name: Benavente, Elena
name: Vázquez, José
name: Sansaloni, Carolina
name: Giraldo, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 8. Figure showing the genetic diversity (Hs) distribution across the A, B and D genomes in the different bread wheat populations identified with fastStructure.
ЎЗБЕК ВА ИНГЛИЗ ТИЛЛАРИДАГИ МАҚОЛЛАРДА “ВАТАН” КОНЦЕПТ СИФАТИДА
Creators: name: Адиба Хуснитдиновна Файзиева
Publisher: name: Academic research in educational sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: Она ватан
мақол ва маталлар
ибора
қариндошуруғчиликни билдирувчи бирликлар
типологик таҳлил

description: Мақола инглиз ва ўзбек тилларидаги мақолларда қариндош уруғчилик билан боғлиқ бирликларнинг “Ватан концептини ифодаланишидаги ўрни”ни ўрганиш ва ўзбек, инглиз тилларидаги Ватан мавзусига бағишланган мақолларни қиѐсий – типологик таҳлилга қилишга бағишланган.
title: 02_1167
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
TO STUDY THE ATTITUDE OF THE POPULATION TO TOURISM THROUGH ECONOMETRIC MODEL
Creators: name: Tagayev, Odil Nurmuminovich
name: Bahtiyor Iskandarovich Ashurov
Publisher: name: Academic research in educational sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: tourist demand
perceptions of the population
socio-demographic characteristics

description: The study examines whether the socio-demographics of the local population and public relations can influence their impact on tourism (economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts), as well as their satisfaction with local tourism management. Checks for According to a survey of local residents, the relationship with tourism and the requirements of domestic tour packages were assessed
Membrane and Noncommutativity
Creators: name: Banerjee, Rabin
name: Chakraborty, Biswajit
name: Kumar, Kuldeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the dynamics of an open membrane, both for the free case and when it is coupled to a background three-form, whose boundary is attached to $p$-branes. The role of boundary conditions and constraints in the Nambu-Goto and Polyakov formulations is studied. The low-energy approximation that effectively reduces the membrane to an open string is examined in detail. Noncommutative features of the boundary string coordinates, where the cylindrical membrane is attached to the D$p$-branes, are revealed by algebraic consistency arguments and not by treating boundary conditions as primary constraints, as is usually done. The exact form of the noncommutative algebra is obtained in the low-energy limit.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX, References added, Version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B
Pectinaster filholi Perrier 1885
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Notomyotida
Benthopectinidae
Pectinaster
Pectinaster filholi

description: filholi Perrier, 1885, Pectinaster
Pectinaster filholi Perrier, 1885: 71; 1894: 280, pl. 20, fig. 3a-d. — Clark & Downey 1992: 139.
CURRENT STATUS. — Pectinaster filholi Perrier, 1885.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Atlantic Ocean • 2 syntypes; station 126; Talisman expedition; 1883; 38°37’N, 30°41’W; depth 1258 m; MNHN-IE-2014-218 • 1 syntype; station 96; same as for preceding; 19°19’N, 20°22’W; depth 2330 m; MNHN-IE-2014-182 • 4 syntypes, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-217 • 1 syntype, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-155 • 2 syntypes, same as for preceding; MNHN-IE-2014-183.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 283, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
title: An analysis of GMRES worst case convergence
Creators: name: Arioli, Mario
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2009

description: Krylov space methods minimizing the 2-norm of the residual, such as GMRES, used in solving a linear system with an unsymmetric matrix of order n×n can present pathological cases where the convergence will be achieved only after n-1 steps. Here we will characterize the class of real matrices for which a starting point inducing this worst case convergence exists always
Finding Influential Cores via Normalized Ricci Flows in Directed and Undirected Hypergraphs with Applications
Creators: name: Sengupta, Prithviraj
name: Azarhooshang, Nazanin
name: Albert, Reka
name: DasGupta, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: G.2.2; F.2.2; J.3; J.4
subject: 68W05, 05C65, 68R10, 92-10

description: Many biological and social systems are naturally represented as edge-weighted directed or undirected hypergraphs since they exhibit group interactions involving three or more system units as opposed to pairwise interactions that can be incorporated in graph-theoretic representations. However, finding influential cores in hypergraphs is still not as extensively studied as their graph-theoretic counter-parts. To this end, we develop and implement a hypergraph-curvature guided discrete time diffusion process with suitable topological surgeries and edge-weight re-normalization procedures for both undirected and directed weighted hypergraphs to find influential cores. We successfully apply our framework for directed hypergraphs to seven metabolic hypergraphs and our framework for undirected hypergraphs to two social (co-authorship) hypergraphs to find influential cores, thereby demonstrating the practical feasibility of our approach. In addition, we prove a theorem showing that a certain edge weight re-normalization procedure in a prior research work for Ricci flows for edge-weighted graphs has the undesirable outcome of modifying the edge-weights to negative numbers, thereby rendering the procedure impossible to use. To the best of our knowledge, this seems to be one of the first articles that formulates algorithmic approaches for finding core(s) of (weighted or unweighted) directed hypergraphs.
description: 24 pages
Additional file 9 of Targeted next-generation sequencing identifies novel variants in candidate genes for Parkinson’s disease in Black South African and Nigerian patients
Creators: name: Oluwafemi Oluwole
name: Kuivaniemi, Helena
name: Shameemah Abrahams
name: Haylett, William
name: Vorster, Alvera
name: Heerden, Carel
name: Kenyon, Colin
name: Tabb, David
name: Fawale, Michael
name: Taofiki Sunmonu
name: Abiodun Ajose
name: Olaogun, Matthew
name: Rossouw, Anastasia
name: Hillegondsberg, Ludo
name: Carr, Jonathan
name: Ross, Owen
name: Morenikeji Komolafe
name: Tromp, Gerard
name: Bardien, Soraya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S3. Radar plots for 54 selected rare variants.
Unusual localisation effects in quantum percolation
Creators: name: Schubert, Gerald
name: Weisse, Alexander
name: Fehske, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the quantum site percolation problem on simple cubic lattices, thereby focussing on the statistics of the local density of states and the spatial structure of the single particle wavefunctions. Using the Kernel Polynomial Method we refine previous studies of the metal-insulator transition and demonstrate the non-monotonic energy dependence of the quantum percolation threshold. Remarkably, the data indicates a ``fragmentation'' of the spectrum into extended and localised states. In addition, the observation of a chequerboard-like structure of the wavefunctions at the band centre can be interpreted as anomalous localisation.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Air Pollution and Chronic Eye Disease in Adults: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Millen, Amy E.
name: Dighe, Shruti
name: Kordas, Katarzyna
name: Aminigo, Boma Zelma
name: Zafron, Michelle L.
name: Mu, Lina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: We conducted a scoping review of studies examining ambient air pollution as a risk factor for chronic eye disease influencing the lens, retina, and intraocular pressure in adults. Terms related to air pollution and eye disease outcomes were used to search for publications on Embase, Web of Science Core Collection, Global Health, PubMed, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from January 1, 2010, through April 11, 2022. We identified 27 articles, focusing on the following non-mutually exclusive outcomes: cataract (n = 9), presbyopia (n = 1), retinal vein occlusion or central retinal arteriolar and venular equivalents (n = 5), intraocular pressure (IOP) (n = 3), glaucoma (n = 5), age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (n = 5), diabetic retinopathy (n = 2), and measures of retinal morphology (n = 3). Study designs included cross-sectional (n = 16), case–control (n = 4), and longitudinal (n = 7). Air pollutants were measured in 50% and 95% of the studies on lens and retina or IOP, respectively, and these exposures were assigned to geographic locations. Most research was conducted in global regions with high exposure to air pollution. Consistent associations suggested a possibly increased risk of cataract and retina-associated chronic eye disease with increasing exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5-PM10), NO2, NOx, and SO2. Associations with O3 were less consistent. Accumulating research suggests air pollution may be a modifiable risk factor for chronic eye diseases of the lens and retina. The number of studies on each specific lens- or retina-related outcome is limited. Guidelines regarding the role of air pollution in chronic eye disease do not exist.
Regularization of Electroweak Monopole by Charge Screening and BPS Energy Bound
Creators: name: Zhang, Pengming
name: Zou, Li-Ping
name: Cho, Y. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the electroweak monopole can be regularized with a non-vacuum electromagnetic permittivity. This allows us to set a new BPS bound for the monopole mass, which implies that the mass may not be smaller than 2.98 TeV, more probably 3.75 TeV. We demonstrate that the same method can also regularize the Dirac monopole, which enhances the possibility to construct the Dirac monopole of mass of a few hundred meV in condensed matters. We discuss the physical implications of our result.
Asterina fimbriata Perrier 1875
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Asterinaceae
Asterina
Asterina fimbriata

description: fimbriata Perrier, 1875, Asterina
Asterina fimbriata Perrier, 1875: 307. — Clark & Downey 1992: 181.
CURRENT STATUS. — Asterina fimbriata Perrier, 1875.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Chile • 4 syntypes; Chiloe Island (see remark); MNHN-IE-2014-361.
REMARK Perrier (1875) reports ten individuals, four from Réunion Island (Maillard leg) and six from Chile (Gay leg). Asterina fimbriata occurs along the coasts of Chili and Argentina; Réunion Island is an incorrect locality.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 283, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Inter-Eye Differences of Refractive Errors in a Population-Based Japanese Cohort: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Eye Study
Creators: name: Miki, Atsuya
name: Fuse, Nobuo
name: Fujimoto, Satoko
name: Taira, Makiko
name: Saito, Tomo
name: Okazaki, Tomoyuki
name: Shiraki, Akihiko
name: Sato, Shigeru
name: Kawasaki, Ryo
name: Nakamura, Tomohiro
name: Kinoshita, Kengo
name: Nishida, Kohji
name: Yamamoto, Masayuki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: To investigate the prevalence, associated factors, and inter-eye differences of myopia and astigmatism in an adult Japanese population-based cohort. A total of 4282 participants from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization Eye Study (ToMMo Eye Study) underwent comprehensive ocular examinations as well as extensive physiological tests and a lifestyle questionnaire. The spherical equivalent (SE) and cylinder power were obtained as refractive parameters. The age- and gender-stratified prevalences of high myopia (SE < −5D), myopia (SE < −0.5D), hyperopia (SE > 0.5D), astigmatism (cylinder power < −0.5D), and anisometropia (SE difference >1D) were calculated. Multivariable analyses were performed to identify associated factors for refractive error (RE). Distribution and associated factors of the inter-eye difference in RE were also investigated. The age-adjusted prevalence of high myopia, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and anisometropia was 15.9%, 63.5%, 14.7%, 51.1%, and 14.7%, respectively. Both myopia and high myopia were more prevalent in the younger age group, while astigmatism was more prevalent in the older age group. Age, education, blood pressure, intraocular pressure, and corneal thickness are significantly associated with myopic refraction. Age, gender, intraocular pressure, and corneal thickness are correlated with astigmatism. Older age was associated with against-the-rule astigmatism. Older age, myopia, and longer education showed a significant correlation with large inter-eye differences in SERE. This study demonstrated the high prevalence of myopia in young Japanese, which may be caused by a generational shift. This study also confirmed the influence of age and education on both the prevalence and inter-eye differences of RE.
Heuristic approach to the Schwarzschild geometry
Creators: name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article I present a simple Newtonian heuristic for deriving a weak-field approximation for the spacetime geometry of a point particle. The heuristic is based on Newtonian gravity, the notion of local inertial frames [the Einstein equivalence principle], plus the use of Galilean coordinate transformations to connect the freely falling local inertial frames back to the ``fixed stars''. Because of the heuristic and quasi-Newtonian manner in which the spacetime geometry is obtained, we are at best justified in expecting it to be a weak-field approximation to the true spacetime geometry. However, in the case of a spherically symmetric point mass the result is coincidentally an exact solution of the full vacuum Einstein field equations -- it is the Schwarzschild geometry in Painleve--Gullstrand coordinates. This result is much stronger than the well-known result of Michell and Laplace whereby a Newtonian argument correctly estimates the value of the Schwarzschild radius -- using the heuristic presented in this article one obtains the entire Schwarzschild geometry. The heuristic also gives sensible results -- a Riemann flat geometry -- when applied to a constant gravitational field. Furthermore, a subtle extension of the heuristic correctly reproduces the Reissner--Nordstrom geometry and even the de Sitter geometry. Unfortunately the heuristic construction is not truly generic. For instance, it is incapable of generating the Kerr geometry or anti-de Sitter space. Despite this limitation, the heuristic does have useful pedagogical value in that it provides a simple and direct plausibility argument for the Schwarzschild geometry.
description: 12 pages; uses iopart.cls setstack.sty V2: references added; some clarifying comments; no physics changes. V3: Significant additions in response to feedback. Discussion now includes the constant gravitational field, plus a modified heuristic capable of correctly dealing with the Risssner--Nordstrom geometry and de Sitter space. Limitations of the heuristic also carefully explained
title: Distribution des événements et des finishers en France métropolitaine par région en 2017
Creators: name: Plard, Guichet
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: dateCopyrighted: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/4a43ea4c
description: dateCopyrighted: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/d0ada45b
Additional file 1 of IL-37 protects against airway remodeling by reversing bronchial epithelial–mesenchymal transition via IL-24 signaling pathway in chronic asthma
Creators: name: Feng, Kang-ni
name: Meng, Ping
name: Zou, Xiao-ling
name: Zhang, Min
name: Li, Hai-ke
name: Yang, Hai-ling
name: Li, Hong-tao
name: Zhang, Tian-tuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Interleukin-24 had no significant effect on proliferation, apoptosis, and cell cycle in BEAS-2B cells. (a) The effect of IL-24 on the cell viability of BEAS-2B cells was evaluated by CCK-8 assay followed by stimulation with different concentrations of IL-24 (0.1-100 ng/ml) for 24 h (n=5 wells / group). (b) The cells were stained with calcein AM and PI solution after treatment with 100 ng/ml IL-24 for 24 h. The green color indicates the live cells, and the red color represents the PI-positive nuclei. Scale bar=100 μm (×200). (c and d) After incubation with 10 or 100 ng/ml IL-24 for 24 h, flow cytometry was carried out to examine the cell apoptosis ratio. (e and f) The percentages of G0/G1, S and G2/M status were analyzed by flow cytometry after 10 or 100 ng/ml IL-24 treatment for 24 h. Bar diagrams and data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD) from three replicate experiments. ns, no significant differences. Fig. S2. The effect of IL-24 and IL-37 on migration ability in BEAS-2B cells. (a) The effect of IL-24 on the migration of BEAS-2B cells was determined by wound healing assay. After stimulation with 100 ng/ml IL-24, scratches were captured at 0, 12 and 24 h. Scale bar=100 μm (×100). (b) Quantification of the wound healing assay showed the relative percentage of wound closure area. (c) The effect of IL-24 with or without IL-37 on the migration of BEAS-2B cells were evaluated by wound healing assay. After stimulation with 100 ng/ml IL-24 with or without 100 ng/ml IL-37, the scratches were captured at 0, 12 and 24 h. Scale bar=100 μm (×100). (d) Quantification of wound healing assay showed the percentage of wound closure area. Bar diagrams and data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD) from three replicate experiments. * vs. control group; # vs. IL-24 group. *, #P < 0.05; **, ##P < 0.01; ***, ###P < 0.001.
BIon Configuration with Fuzzy $S^2$ Structure
Creators: name: Chen, Yi-Xin
name: Shao, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some configurations of general dielectric D2-brane with both electric and magnetic fields are investigated. We find two classical stable solutions describing a BIon configuration with $S^2$ structure and a cylindrical tube respectively. Both of them can be regarded as the blown-up objects of the Born-Infeld string. The dependence of the geometry of these configurations on the Born-Infeld fields is analyzed. Also we find that similar BIon configuration exists as a fuzzy object in a system with N D0-branes. Furthermore this configuration is demonstrated to be more stable than the usual dielectric spherical D2-brane.
description: 10 pages, no figure
Characterization and global analysis of a family of Poisson structures
Creators: name: Hernández-Bermejo, Benito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A three-dimensional family of solutions of the Jacobi equations for Poisson systems is characterized. In spite of its general form it is possible the explicit and global determination of its main features, such as the symplectic structure and the construction of the Darboux canonical form. Examples are given.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.03311
Additional file 1 of Translation of bioethics across cultural borders: exploring the adoption of the four-principles approach in palliative care provision on the Chinese mainland
Creators: name: Zhao, Shengyu
name: Birchley, Giles
name: Huxtable, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
On the Resilience of Biometric Authentication Systems against Random Inputs
Creators: name: Zhao, Benjamin Zi Hao
name: Asghar, Hassan Jameel
name: Kaafar, Mohamed Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We assess the security of machine learning based biometric authentication systems against an attacker who submits uniform random inputs, either as feature vectors or raw inputs, in order to find an accepting sample of a target user. The average false positive rate (FPR) of the system, i.e., the rate at which an impostor is incorrectly accepted as the legitimate user, may be interpreted as a measure of the success probability of such an attack. However, we show that the success rate is often higher than the FPR. In particular, for one reconstructed biometric system with an average FPR of 0.03, the success rate was as high as 0.78. This has implications for the security of the system, as an attacker with only the knowledge of the length of the feature space can impersonate the user with less than 2 attempts on average. We provide detailed analysis of why the attack is successful, and validate our results using four different biometric modalities and four different machine learning classifiers. Finally, we propose mitigation techniques that render such attacks ineffective, with little to no effect on the accuracy of the system.
description: Accepted by NDSS2020, 18 pages
The Search for AGN in Distant Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Dowsett, R.
name: Johnson, O.
name: Best, P. N.
name: Almaini, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are undertaking the first systematic study of the prevalence of AGN activity in a large sample of high redshift galaxy clusters. Local clusters contain mainly red elliptical galaxies, and have little or no luminous AGN activity. However, recent studies of some moderate to high redshift clusters have revealed significant numbers of luminous AGN within the cluster. This effect may parallel the Butcher-Oemler effect - the increase in the fraction of blue galaxies in distant clusters compared to local clusters. Our aim is to verify and quantify recent evidence that AGN activity in dense environments increases with redshift, and to evaluate the significance of this effect. As cluster AGN are far less prevalent than field sources, a large sample of over 120 cluster fields at z > 0.1 has been selected from the Chandra archives and is being analysed for excess point sources. The size of the excess, the radial distribution and flux of the sources and the dependence of these on cluster redshift and luminosity will reveal important information about the triggering and fueling of AGN.
description: 2 pages, to appear in proceedings of 'Multi-wavelength AGN surveys', Cozumel, 2003
Self-consistent DFT+$U$+$V$ study of oxygen vacancies in SrTiO$_3$
Creators: name: Ricca, Chiara
name: Timrov, Iurii
name: Cococcioni, Matteo
name: Marzari, Nicola
name: Aschauer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contradictory theoretical results for oxygen vacancies in SrTiO$_3$ (STO) were often related to the peculiar properties of STO, which is a $d^0$ transition metal oxide with mixed ionic-covalent bonding. Here, we apply, for the first time, density functional theory (DFT) within the extended Hubbard DFT+$U$+$V$ approach, including on-site as well as inter-site electronic interactions, to study oxygen-deficient STO with Hubbard $U$ and $V$ parameters computed self-consistently via density-functional perturbation theory. Our results demonstrate that the extended Hubbard functional is a promising approach to study defects in materials with electronic properties similar to STO. Indeed, DFT+$U$+$V$ provides a better description of stoichiometric STO compared to standard DFT or DFT+$U$, the band gap and crystal field splitting being in good agreement with experiments. In turn, also the description of the electronic properties of oxygen vacancies in STO is improved, with formation energies in excellent agreement with experiments as well as results obtained with the most frequently used hybrid functionals, however at a fraction of the computational cost. While our results do not fully resolve the contradictory findings reported in literature, our systematic approach leads to a deeper understanding of their origin, which stems from different cell sizes, STO phases, the exchange-correlation functional, and the treatment of structural relaxations and spin-polarization.
description: 15 pages (+11 SI), 13 figures (+6 SI)
title: Survey of HPC Performance Modelling and Prediction Tools
Creators: name: Allan, R J
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2010
Subjects: computer architecture
performance modelling

description: Parallel and distributed computing systems are designed with performance in mind. Significant past research effort has been invested in the developing approaches for performance modelling and prediction of applications running on HPC systems. This report compares some tools for realistically modelling and predicting computer performance for a range of architectures and applications. We consider current activity worldwide which embraces a range of approaches from high level mathematical modelling to instruction level simulation. The different approaches are contrasted and three tools chosen for further evaluation.
Benthopecten fischeri
Creators: name: Jangoux, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Notomyotida
Benthopectinidae
Benthopecten
Benthopecten fischeri

description: fischeri, Perrier, 1894, Pararchaster
Pararchaster fischeri Perrier, 1894: 263, pl. 20, fig. 2a, b.
Benthopecten fischeri ‒ Clark & Downey 1992: 119.
CURRENT STATUS. — Benthopecten fischeri (Perrier, 1894).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Canary Islands • holotype; station 96; Talisman expedition; 1883; station 73; 25°39’N, 18°36’W; depth 1300 m; MNHN-IE-2014-215.
description: Published as part of Jangoux, Michel, 2022, The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, pp. 259-334 in Zoosystema 44 (11) on page 283, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11, http://zenodo.org/record/6616817
Covariant Gravitational Equations on Brane World with Gauss-Bonnet term
Creators: name: Maeda, Kei-ichi
name: Torii, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the covariant gravitational equations to describe a four-dimensional brane world in the case with the Gauss-Bonnet term in a bulk spacetime, assuming that gravity is confined on the $Z_2$ symmetric brane. It contains some components of five-dimensional Weyl curvature ($E_{μν}$) which describes all effects from the bulk spacetime just as in the case of the Randall-Sundrum second model. Applying this formalism to cosmology, we derive the generalized Friedmann equation and calculate the Weyl curvature term, which is directly obtained from a black hole solution.
description: 14 pages, no figure
Additional file 2 of Translation of bioethics across cultural borders: exploring the adoption of the four-principles approach in palliative care provision on the Chinese mainland
Creators: name: Zhao, Shengyu
name: Birchley, Giles
name: Huxtable, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Additional file 6 of Genomic analysis of Spanish wheat landraces reveals their variability and potential for breeding
Creators: name: Pascual, Laura
name: Ruiz, Magdalena
name: López-Fernández, Matilde
name: Pérez-Peña, Helena
name: Benavente, Elena
name: Vázquez, José
name: Sansaloni, Carolina
name: Giraldo, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 6. Figure showing the genetic diversity (Hs) distribution across the A and B genomes in the different durum wheat populations identified with fastStructure.
(B)orders in Ancient Weaving and Archaic Greek Poetry
Creators: name: Harlizius-Klück, Ellen
name: Fanfani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ancient weaving
archaic Greek poetry

description: In this chapter we offer an investigation of textile terms where they are used for describing intellectual production or knowledge (epistēmē) in ancient texts. We focus on archaic Greek poetry as well as on selected philosophical works and experience from weaving experiments. This study arises from a common interest in the question of how ancient textile production and particularly weaving might have affected the very early discourse on poetry-making and the question of how poetic composition or the composition of texts as a technē might resemble the order of nature. We therefore lay emphasis on the connection of art, technology, and nature that is encompassed by the ancient term technē and embraces weaving as well as forging, writing a poem or a philosophical dialogue. In all such cases, we see a concept of technē at work that refers to a notion of the genesis of cosmic order that has never been explicated. The choice of the passages and the material to be discussed as well as the way the argument is built up reflect two different but complementary approaches to the topic we explore throughout this chapter: one is guided by an interest in ancient mathematics and philosophy and the other draws on literary criticism. Both have a role to play when tracing and contextualizing the (somewhat elusive) technological significance of textile imagery for archaic poetry and prose as well as for philosophy.
Supergravity Duals to the Noncommutative N=4 SYM theory in the Infinite Momentum Frame
Creators: name: Kim, Hongsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work the construction of supergravity duals to the noncommutative ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory in the infinite momentum frame but with constant momentum density is attempted. In the absence of the content of noncommutativity, it has been known for some time that the previous $AdS_{5}/CFT_{4}$ correspondence should be replaced by the $K_{5}/CFT_{4}$ (with $K_{(p+2)}$ denoting the generalized Kaigorodov spacetime) correspondence with the pp-wave propagating on the BPS brane worldvolume. Interestingly enough, putting together the two contents, i.e., the introduction of noncommutativity and at the same time that of the pp-wave along the brane worldvolume, leads to quite nontrivial consequences such as the emergence of ``time-space'' noncommutativity in addition to the ``space-space'' noncommutativity in the manifold on which the dual gauge theory is defined. Taking the gravity decoupling limit, it has been realized that for small $u$, the solutions all reduce to $K_{5}\times S^5$ geometry confirming our expectation that the IR dynamics of the dual gauge theory should be unaffected by the noncommutativity while as $u\to \infty$, the solutions start to deviate significantly from $K_{5}\times S^5$ limit indicating that the UV dynamics of the dual gauge theory would be heavily distorted by the effect of noncommutativity.
description: 21 pages, Latex, One expression changed, a reference added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Lanczos-like algorithm for the time-ordered exponential: The $\ast$-inverse problem
Creators: name: Giscard, Pierre-Louis
name: Pozza, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A24, 47B36, 65F10, 65D15

description: The time-ordered exponential of a time-dependent matrix $\mathsf{A}(t)$ is defined as the function of $\mathsf{A}(t)$ that solves the first-order system of coupled linear differential equations with non-constant coefficients encoded in $\mathsf{A}(t)$. The authors recently proposed the first Lanczos-like algorithm capable of evaluating this function. This algorithm relies on inverses of time-dependent functions with respect to a non-commutative convolution-like product, denoted $\ast$. Yet, the existence of such inverses, crucial to avoid algorithmic breakdowns, still needed to be proved. Here we constructively prove that $\ast$-inverses exist for all non-identically null, smooth, separable functions of two variables. As a corollary, we partially solve the Green's function inverse problem which, given a distribution $G$, asks for the differential operator whose fundamental solution is $G$. Our results are abundantly illustrated by examples.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.03437