cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sexual Orientation Differences in the Association Between Cancer Diagnosis and Mental Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Fernandez, Pablo
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Background: Since the early 1960s, survival rates among cancer survivors have been increasing. Surviving cancer can be a stressful experience due to the multifaceted changes that come with diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Therefore, studying the mental health of cancer survivors is vital for their well-being. Among queer groups (including those identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual), poor mental health is more prevalent than among heterosexuals. However, cancer survivorship among queer populations is not well studied. This study examines the association between cancer survivorship and poor mental health, focusing on potential sexual orientation differences.
Methods: Data are from the 2019-2021 National Health Interview Survey. Participants identified as straight (n=65,006), gay or lesbian (n=1,271), or bisexual (n=1,100). Diagnosis of anxiety and depression as well as the frequency of anxiety and depressive symptoms were regressed on cancer survivorship (assessed based on cancer diagnosis) using logistic models. Using a subsample of 2019 rotating core participants, we assessed anxiety, using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scale, and depression, using the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) symptoms, to account for a potential lack of diagnosis. Models were adjusted for sociodemographic covariates and were stratified by sex.
Results: After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics there was no significant association between cancer diagnosis and mental health in the overall sample. However, when examining sexual identity-specific estimates, among bisexual males, cancer survivors had higher odds of “daily” anxiety [OR=8.07 CI (1.23,52.81)] and “weekly or monthly” depressive symptoms [OR=15.23 CI (3.17, 73.22)]. While among bisexual females, cancer survivors had significantly higher odds of anxiety diagnosis [OR=3.03 CI (1.37, 6.71)] than those who never had cancer. Moreover, bisexual male cancer survivors had higher GAD-7 [β =10.39 (4.03, 16.75)] and PHQ-8 [β =13.59 (6.03, 21.16)] scores than those who never had cancer. No other significant associations were found for other sexual identity groups. Our test for effect modification based on sexual identity on the association between cancer diagnosis and mental health outcomes suggested that the association between cancer diagnosis and mental health outcomes were similar across sexual identity groups. The p-values ranged from 0.11 to 0.92.
Conclusion: Bisexual cancer survivors may experience poorer mental health than those who have not had cancer, suggesting a potential need for more targeted mental health intervention and cancer survivorship support. However, small sample sizes suggest that additional work with larger samples of cancer survivors is needed to corroborate these findings.
Baulès, R., L’ÉvangiIe puissance de Dieu. Commentaire de l’épitre aux Romains. Ed. Du Cerf. Vol. de 334 ps. 135x215. Paris 1968
Creators: name: Carreira, José Nunes
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 2 (1970)
Massoutiera mzabi
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenodactylidae
Massoutiera
Massoutiera mzabi

description: Massoutiera mzabi (Lataste, 1881). Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., 6:314. TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria, Ghardaia. DISTRIBUTION: S.E. Algeria; S.W. Libya; N. Niger; N. Chad. COMMENT: Includes rothschildi and harterti; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:522, and Corbet, 1978: 160. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410033003002001 as M. mzabi. 5301410033003001001 as M. harterti. 5301410033003003001 as M. rothschildi.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp."]}
Distance to boundary and minimum-error discrimination
Creators: name: Haapasalo, Erkka
name: Sedlak, Michal
name: Ziman, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of boundariness capturing the most efficient way of expressing a given element of a convex set as a probability mixture of its boundary elements. In other words, this number measures (without the need of any explicit topology) how far the given element is from the boundary. It is shown that one of the elements from the boundary can be always chosen to be an extremal element. We focus on evaluation of this quantity for quantum sets of states, channels and observables. We show that boundariness is intimately related to (semi)norms that provide an operational interpretation of this quantity. In particular, the minimum error probability for discrimination of a pair of quantum devices is lower bounded by the boundariness of each of them. We proved that for states and observables this bound is saturated and conjectured this feature for channels. The boundariness is zero for infinite-dimensional quantum objects as in this case all the elements are boundary elements.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures (final version)
Association Between Annual Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability and Stroke in Postmenopausal Women: Data From the Women's Health Initiative
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Aragaki, Aaron K.
name: LaMonte, Michael J.
name: Bavry, Anthony A.
name: Allison, Matthew
name: Manson, JoAnn E.
name: Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia
name: Psaty, Bruce M.
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cerebrovascular disease
Systolic blood pressure
Blood pressure
Women--Health and hygiene
Medicine

description: Accumulating evidence suggests that increased visit-to-visit variability (VVV) of blood pressure is associated with stroke. No study has examined the association between VVV of blood pressure and stroke in postmenopausal women, and scarce data exist as to whether this relation is independent of the temporal trend of blood pressure. We examined the association of VVV of blood pressure with stroke in 58228 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative. Duplicate blood pressure readings, which were averaged, were taken at baseline and at each annual visit. VVV was defined as the SD for the participant's mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) across visits (SD) and about the participant's regression line with SBP regressed across visits (SDreg). Over a median follow-up of 5.4 years, 997 strokes occurred. In an adjusted model including mean SBP over time, the hazard ratios (95% CI) of stroke for higher quartiles of SD of SBP compared with the lowest quartile (referent) were 1.39 (1.03–1.89) for quartile 2, 1.52 (1.13–2.03) for quartile 3, and 1.72 (1.28–2.32) for quartile 4 (P trend <0.001). The relation was similar for SDreg of SBP quartiles in a model that additionally adjusted for the temporal trend in SBP (P trend <0.001). The associations did not differ by stroke type (ischemic versus hemorrhagic). There was a significant interaction between mean SBP and SDreg on stroke with the strongest association seen below 120 mmHg. In postmenopausal women, greater VVV of SBP was associated with increased risk of stroke, particularly in the lowest range of mean SBP.
Visualization of superposition states and Raman processes with two-dimensional atomic deflection
Creators: name: Abovyan, Gor A.
name: Djotyan, Gagik P.
name: Kryuchkyan, Gagik Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deflection of atoms in Λ-type configuration passing through two crossed standing light waves is proposed for probing and visualization of atomic superposition states. For this goal, we use both the large-dispersive and Raman-resonant regimes of atom-field interaction giving rise to a position-dependent phase shifts of fields and perform double simultaneous spatial measurements on an atom. In this way, it is demonstrated that the deflection spatial patterns of atoms in Λ-configuration passing through modes of standing waves are essentially modified if the atoms are initially prepared in a coherent superposition of its low levels states as well as when the superposition states are created during the process of deflection. The similar results take place for the joint momentum distribution of atoms. Further, considering both one-photon and two-photon excitation regimes of Λ-atoms we also illustrate that the two-dimensional patterns of defected atoms qualitatively reflects the efficiency of the Raman processes.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Endothelial cell activation, reduced endothelial cell reparative capacity, and impaired endothelial-dependent vasodilation after anger provocation
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Rosenberg, Leah B.
name: Chaplin, William
name: Zhao, Shuqing
name: Golkin, Emma Goldensohn
name: Cholankeril, Matthew
name: Fu, Jie
name: Hong, Sang Bin
name: Jelic, Sanja
name: Burg, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Risk factors
Endothelial cells
Anger
Stem cells
Medicine

description: The experience of anger increases the acute and long-term risks of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events [1] and [2]. The mechanism(s) whereby anger is associated with increased CVD risk remains to be fully characterized. One promising candidate mechanism is endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial dysfunction, as evidenced by impaired endothelial-dependent vasodilation, is an early pathogenic process underlying atherosclerosis development and CVD onset. More recent investigations have elucidated the cellular pathways underlying endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial cell (EC) injury can be assessed by measuring circulating levels of EC-derived microparticles (EMPs), which are phospholipid rich, submicron particles derived and released from the membranes of activated or apoptotic ECs [3]. In addition, the discovery of circulating, bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) capable of EC repair and regeneration [4] suggests that endothelial function represents a balance between ongoing injury and repair.

We previously reported that anger provocation acutely impairs arterial vasomotion in apparently healthy individuals [5]. We conducted a study to examine the acute effects of anger provocation not only on arterial vasodilation but also on levels of EMPs and bone marrow-derived EPCs. To our knowledge, this is the first report concerning the adverse effects of anger provocation on cellular pathways underlying EC health.
Precursors and Outbursts of A 0535+26 in 2009-2011 observed by the MAXI/GSC and the Swift/BAT
Creators: name: Nakajima, Motoki
name: Mihara, Tatehiro
name: Sugizaki, Mutsumi
name: Serino, Motoko
name: Matsuoka, Masaru
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Makishima, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the 3-year active period from 2008 September to 2011 November, the outburst behavior of the Be/X-ray binary A 0535+26 was continuously monitored with the MAXI/GSC and the Swift/BAT. The source exhibited nine outbursts, every binary revolution of 111.1 days, of which two are categorized into the giant (type-II) outbursts. The recurrence period of these outbursts is found to be $\sim115$ days, significantly longer than the orbital period of 111.1 days. With the MAXI/GSC, a low-level active period, or a "precursor", was detected prior to at least four giant outbursts. The precursor recurrence period agrees with that of the giant outbursts. The period difference of the giant outbursts from the orbital period is possibly related with some structures in the circumstellar disc formed around the Be companion. Two scenarios, one based on a one-armed disc structure and the other a Be-disc precession, are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in PASJ
Dicrocoeliidae (Looss, 1899) Odhner 1910
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Dicrocoeliidae

description: Family Dicrocoeliidae (Looss, 1899) Odhner, 1910   Infidum Travassos, 1916
 Infidum infidum (Faria, 1910) Travassos, 1916
 Hosts and records: Eunectes notaeus Cope, 1862 (Ch), Hydrodynastes gigas (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) (Ch, ER), Philodryas psammophideus Günther, 1872 (F), Bothrops neuwedii diporus Cope 1862 (C).
Site of infection: gall bladder.
 References: Caubisens Poumarou (1968), Martínez et al. (1996). Infidum similis Travassos, 1916
 Host and record: Philodryas olfersii (Liechtenstein, 1823) (S).
Site of infection: gall bladder.
Reference: Caubisens Poumarou (1968).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
Allostery without conformation change: modelling protein dynamics at multiple scales
Creators: name: McLeish, Tom C B
name: Rogers, Thomas L
name: Wilson, Mark R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The original ideas of Cooper and Dryden, that allosteric signalling can be induced between distant binding sites on proteins without any change in mean structural conformation, has proved to be a remarkably prescient insight into the rich structure of protein dynamics. It represents an alternative to the celebrated Monod-Wyman-Changeux mechanism and proposes that modulation of the amplitude of thermal fluctuations around a mean structure, rather than shifts in the structure itself, give rise to allostery in ligand binding. In a complementary approach to experiments on real proteins, here we take a theoretical route to identify the necessary structural components of this mechanism. By reviewing and extending an approach that moves from very coarse-grained to more detailed models, we show that, a fundamental requirement for a body supporting fluctuation-induced allostery is a strongly inhomogeneous elastic modulus. This requirement is reflected in many real proteins, where a good approximation of the elastic structure maps strongly coherent domains onto rigid blocks connected by more flexible interface regions.
description: 20 Pages, 8 figures
On the Performance of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming
Creators: name: Firouzbakht, Koorosh
name: Noubir, Guevara
name: Salehi, Masoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We employ a game theoretic approach to formulate communication between two nodes over a wireless link in the presence of an adversary. We define a constrained, two-player, zero-sum game between a transmitter/receiver pair with adaptive transmission parameters and an adversary with average and maximum power constraints. In this model, the transmitter's goal is to maximize the achievable expected performance of the communication link, defined by a utility function, while the jammer's goal is to minimize the same utility function. Inspired by capacity/rate as a performance measure, we define a general utility function and a payoff matrix which may be applied to a variety of jamming problems. We show the existence of a threshold such that if the jammer's average power exceeds this threshold, the expected payoff of the transmitter at Nash Equilibrium (NE) is the same as the case when the jammer uses its maximum allowable power all the time. We provide analytical and numerical results for transmitter and jammer optimal strategies and a closed form expression for the expected value of the game at the NE. As a special case, we investigate the maximum achievable transmission rate of a rate-adaptive, packetized, wireless AWGN communication link under different jamming scenarios and show that randomization can significantly assist a smart jammer with limited average power.
A Comparison between the Zero Forcing Number and the Strong Metric Dimension of Graphs
Creators: name: Kang, Cong X.
name: Yi, Eunjeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05C50, 05C05, 05C38

description: The \emph{zero forcing number}, $Z(G)$, of a graph $G$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $S$ of black vertices (whereas vertices in $V(G)-S$ are colored white) such that $V(G)$ is turned black after finitely many applications of "the color-change rule": a white vertex is converted black if it is the only white neighbor of a black vertex. The \emph{strong metric dimension}, $sdim(G)$, of a graph $G$ is the minimum among cardinalities of all strong resolving sets: $W \subseteq V(G)$ is a \emph{strong resolving set} of $G$ if for any $u, v \in V(G)$, there exists an $x \in W$ such that either $u$ lies on an $x-v$ geodesic or $v$ lies on an $x-u$ geodesic. In this paper, we prove that $Z(G) \le sdim(G)+3r(G)$ for a connected graph $G$, where $r(G)$ is the cycle rank of $G$. Further, we prove the sharp bound $Z(G) \leq sdim(G)$ when $G$ is a tree or a unicyclic graph, and we characterize trees $T$ attaining $Z(T)=sdim(T)$. It is easy to see that $sdim(T+e)-sdim(T)$ can be arbitrarily large for a tree $T$; we prove that $sdim(T+e) \ge sdim(T)-2$ and show that the bound is sharp.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Modelling Gamma Ray Emission and Pair Production in High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interactions
Creators: name: Ridgers, C. P.
name: Kirk, J. G.
name: Duclous, R.
name: Blackburn, T.
name: Brady, C. S.
name: Bennett, K.
name: Arber, T. D.
name: Bell, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In high-intensity (> 10^21W/cm^2) laser-matter interactions gamma-ray photon emission by the electrons can strongly affect the electron's dynamics and copious numbers of electron-positron pairs can be produced by the emitted photons. We show how these processes can be included in simulations by coupling a Monte-Carlo algorithm describing the emission to a particle-in-cell code. The Monte-Carlo algorithm includes quantum corrections to the photon emission, which we show must be included if the pair production rate is to be correctly determined. The accuracy, convergence and energy conservation properties of the Monte-Carlo algorithm are analysed in simple test problems.
Camphorosma monspeliaca L.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Camphorosma
Camphorosma monspeliaca

description: Camphorosma monspeliaca L.
Camphorosma monspeliaca L., Sp. Pl. 1: 122 (1753).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 47,500 km 2, AOO 64 km 2. The species is common in the southern parts of the territory and shows no sign of decline.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (southern districts): Adamovka, Akbulak, Belyaevka, Dombarovskii, Gai, Ilek, Kuvandyk, Orenburg, Sol' - Iletsk, Svetlyi, Tashla Districts (Fig. 56).
Previous reports: Iljin (1930), Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs on saline lands. It is frequent in the Region.
The species is distributed in South and Eastern (southern part) Europe and Central Asia.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1951-04)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Cryptogonimidae Ciurea 1933
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Cryptogonimidae

description: Family Cryptogonimidae Ciurea, 1933   Acanthostomum Looss, 1899
 Acanthostomum brauni Mañé Garzón & Gil, 1961
 Host and records: Phrynops hilarii (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) (experimental and natural host) (BA).
Site of infection: intestine.
 Life cycle: Hi1: Heleobia castellanosae (Gaillard) (natural host) from Zoological Garden of Buenos Aires city and H. piscium (d'Orbigny) (experimental host). Hi2: Cnesterodon decemmaculatus (Jenyns) (experimental and natural host), Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard) and Phalloceros caudimaculatus (Hensel) from Zoological Garden of Buenos Aires city (natural hosts).
Reference: Ostrowski de Núñez (1987).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
A Method of Developing Analytical Multipartite Delocalization Measures for Mixed W-like States
Creators: name: Smyth, Cathal
name: Scholes, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method of developing analytical measures of $k$-partite delocalization in arbitrary $n$-body W-like states, otherwise known as mixed states in the single excitation subspace. These measures calculate the distance of a state to its closest reference state with $k-1$ entanglement. We find that the reference state is determined by the purity of the state undergoing measurement. Measures with up to 6-body delocalization for a 6-body system are derived in full, while an algorithm for general $k$-partite measures is given.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Improving Energy Efficiency of School Buildings with Solar-Assisted Cooling for the Maldives
Creators: name: Fathhee, Ahmed
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Anthropogenic activities are responsible for the impact of global climate change because of burning fossil fuels releasing harmful gases into the environment. As a result, the global temperature has risen about 1.18 °C since 1880, causing the global sea level to rise by 178 mm over the past century. This is a threat to countries that are closer to the ocean, especially the low-lying countries such as the Maldives. It is predicted if the sea level keeps rising, most of these islands could be below sea level by 2030.
The Maldives has a tropical climate requiring cooling to achieve thermal comfort. Electricity is used to provide cooling which is generated by burning fossil fuels. Due to the need for more buildings and the effects of global warming, the demand for cooling has increased, ultimately increasing the emissions.
Therefore, this paper investigated the methods to minimize the building cooling demand by creating a building model of a school in Feydhoo, Addu City, Maldives using DesignBuilder software. Also, to analyze the potential of using solar technology in providing cooling for the building, a clean energy source reducing emissions. The base model of the building showed that annual electricity consumption for cooling would be about 200.14 MWh. Based on the base model, multiple building models were created to understand the best option that can lower the cooling demand of the building. The results showed that having a super-insulated timber construction could be a better option by using improved double-glazed low-E windows and an improved cooling system with a COP of 3.2. This lowered the cooling energy demand to about 103.71 MWh.
Based on these results, a solar thermal cooling system was simulated using Polysun software which shows that solar thermal collectors were not able to provide the required cooling to run the chiller system. Hence, another option was explored where DesignBuilder software was used to model a solar PV array system to provide cooling for the building. But by using a better air conditioning system (VRF system coupled with a DOAS) to provide fresh conditioned air into the building, improving the indoor air quality. The results showed that the new PV array system was able to provide the electricity required not for cooling but for other electrical requirements (total of 163.31 MWh). It also resulted in a surplus of 1 MWh of electricity exported to the utility grid, achieving a net-positive energy building.
Randomness-Efficient Curve Sampling
Creators: name: Guo, Zeyu
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2014
Subjects: explicit construction
extractor
Computer Science
pseudorandomness

description: Curve samplers are sampling algorithms that proceed by viewing the domain as a vector space over a finite field, and randomly picking a low-degree curve in it as the sample. Curve samplers exhibit a nice property besides the sampling property: the restriction of low-degree polynomials over the domain to the sampled curve is still low-degree. This property is often used in combination with the sampling property and has found many applications, including PCP constructions, local decoding of codes, and algebraic PRG constructions.

The randomness complexity of curve samplers is a crucial parameter for its applications. It is known that (non-explicit) curve samplers using O(log N + log(1/δ)) random bits exist, where N is the domain size and δ is the confidence error. The question of explicitly constructing randomness-efficient curve samplers was first raised in [TU06] where they obtained curve samplers with near-optimal randomness complexity.

In this thesis, we present an explicit construction of low-degree curve samplers with optimal randomness complexity (up to a constant factor) that sample curves of degree (m logq(1/δ))O(1) in Fqm. Our construction is a delicate combination of several components, including extractor machinery, limited independence, iterated sampling, and list-recoverable codes.
A New Language: Apophatic Discourse in John Donne's "Devotions"
Creators: name: Farris, Jessica M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Not much ink has been spilled over John Donne’s relationship to negative, or apophatic, theology. A few scholars have written about apophatic discourse in Donne’s poetry and sermons, but, in general, the subject continues to be overlooked. This thesis seeks to (re)start the conversation by shedding light on Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, a text which has yet to be linked to the negative tradition despite its clear engagement in apophatic discourse. Indeed, throughout Devotions, Donne wields several apophatic strategies when speaking of God including via negativa, predicates of action, linguistic regress, paradox, and a consistent reliance upon metaphorical language. Each of these strategies uphold the two guiding principles of negative theology: the epistemic thesis which asserts that God is incomprehensible, and the semantic thesis which asserts that God is unspeakable therefore can only stand as the subject term in negative propositions. Significantly, my objective is not merely to qualify Devotions as an example of apophatic discourse; I also intend to contemplate the implications of qualifying it as such, namely how Devotions challenges the long-held assumption that apophasis requires the user to relinquish the body. Across the text, Donne’s apophasis does not lead him to un-body; on the contrary, the body gains new importance as Donne imagines the risen body, the interpersonal body, the body that cannot be lost because it is an inextricable facet of selfhood. Again, my hope is that this thesis will (re)start or (re)energize the conversation around Donne’s relationship to negative theology, a relationship that is much richer and more extensive than current scholarship suggests.
title: Der Prinzenraub; 1795
title: ein Trauerspiel in dreyen Aufzügen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Demler, Michael
name: Demler, Michael
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Enth. Vorbericht zum Prinzenraub, Personenverzeichnis zu beiden Stücken, und Text des Singsspiels
Recombination-Mediated Telomere Maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Not Dependent on the Shu Complex
Creators: name: Van Mourik, Paula M.
name: De Jong, Jannie
name: Agpalo, Danielle
name: Claussin, Clémence
name: Rothstein, Rodney Joel
name: Chang, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Telomere
subject: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
subject: Genetic recombination
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental biology

description: In cells lacking telomerase, telomeres shorten progressively during each cell division due to incomplete end-replication. When the telomeres become very short, cells enter a state that blocks cell division, termed senescence. A subset of these cells can overcome senescence and maintain their telomeres using telomerase-independent mechanisms. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, these cells are called ‘survivors’ and are dependent on Rad52-dependent homologous recombination and Pol32-dependent break-induced replication. There are two main types of survivors: type I and type II. The type I survivors require Rad51 and maintain telomeres by amplification of subtelomeric elements, while the type II survivors are Rad51-independent, but require the MRX complex and Sgs1 to amplify the C1–3A/TG1–3 telomeric sequences. Rad52, Pol32, Rad51, and Sgs1 are also important to prevent accelerated senescence, indicating that recombination processes are important at telomeres even before the formation of survivors. The Shu complex, which consists of Shu1, Shu2, Psy3, and Csm2, promotes Rad51-dependent homologous recombination and has been suggested to be important for break-induced replication. It also promotes the formation of recombination intermediates that are processed by the Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 complex, as mutations in the SHU genes can suppress various sgs1, top3, and rmi1 mutant phenotypes. Given the importance of recombination processes during senescence and survivor formation, and the involvement of the Shu complex in many of the same processes during DNA repair, we hypothesized that the Shu complex may also have functions at telomeres. Surprisingly, we find that this is not the case: the Shu complex does not affect the rate of senescence, does not influence survivor formation, and deletion of SHU1 does not suppress the rapid senescence and type II survivor formation defect of a telomerase-negative sgs1 mutant. Altogether, our data suggest that the Shu complex is not important for recombination processes at telomeres.
Coefficient of Restitution for Viscoelastic Materials
Creators: name: Kim, Sangrak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical expression of the coefficient of restitution for viscoelastic materials is derived for the viscous-dominant case, such as collisions of polymeric melt. The recently proposed normal impact force model between two colliding viscoelastic droplets is employed. To analytically solve the nonlinear differential equation of deformation caused by the other droplet, a perturbation method is applied. By combining the forward collision and the inverse collision, we can get an analytical expression for the coefficient of restitution, which can also be used to further analyze other properties related with the viscoelasticity.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Linking accretion flow and particle acceleration in jets - II. Self-similar jet models with full relativistic MHD gravitational mass
Creators: name: Polko, Peter
name: Meier, David L.
name: Markoff, Sera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new, semi-analytic formalism to model the acceleration and collimation of relativistic jets in a gravitational potential. The gravitational energy density includes the kinetic, thermal, and electromagnetic mass contributions. The solutions are close to self-similar throughout the integration, from very close to the black hole to the region where gravity is unimportant. The field lines are tied to the conditions very close to the central object and eventually overcollimate, possibly leading to a collimation shock. This collimation shock could provide the conditions for diffusive shock acceleration, leading to the observed electron populations with a power-law energy distribution in jets. We provide the derivation, a detailed analysis of a solution, and describe the effects the parameters have on the properties of the solutions, such as the Lorentz factor and location of the collimation shock. We also discuss the deviations from self-similarity. By comparing the new gravity term with the gravity term obtained from a non-relativistic formalism in a previous work, we show they are equivalent in the non-relativistic limit. This equivalence shows the approach taken in that work is valid and allows us to comment on its limitations.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Das Image von Coaching in der Kommunalverwaltung: Ergebnisse einer quantitativen Studie
Creators: name: Stiewe, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Coaching
subject: Image
subject: Öffentlicher Dienst
subject: coaching
subject: image
subject: local government
subject: 300
subject: Coaching
subject: Image
subject: Öffentlicher Dienst
subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Mechanism of Notch Pathway Activation and Its Role in the Regulation of Olfactory Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Kidd, Simon
name: Lieber, Toby
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Olfactory receptors
subject: Notch genes
subject: Adaptation (Physiology)
subject: Drosophila melanogaster--Genetics
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The neural plasticity of sensory systems is being increasingly recognized as playing a role in learning and memory. We have previously shown that Notch, part of an evolutionarily conserved intercellular signaling pathway, is required in adult Drosophila melanogaster olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) for the structural and functional plasticity of olfactory glomeruli that is induced by chronic odor exposure. In this paper we address how long-term exposure to odor activates Notch and how Notch in conjunction with chronic odor mediates olfactory plasticity. We show that upon chronic odor exposure a non-canonical Notch pathway mediates an increase in the volume of glomeruli by a mechanism that is autonomous to ORNs. In addition to activating a pathway that is autonomous to ORNs, chronic odor exposure also activates the Notch ligand Delta in second order projection neurons (PNs), but this does not appear to require acetylcholine receptor activation in PNs. Delta on PNs then feeds back to activate canonical Notch signaling in ORNs, which restricts the extent of the odor induced increase in glomerular volume. Surprisingly, even though the pathway that mediates the increase in glomerular volume is autonomous to ORNs, nonproductive transsynaptic Delta/Notch interactions that do not activate the canonical pathway can block the increase in volume. In conjunction with chronic odor, the canonical Notch pathway also enhances cholinergic activation of PNs. We present evidence suggesting that this is due to increased acetylcholine release from ORNs. In regulating physiological plasticity, Notch functions solely by the canonical pathway, suggesting that there is no direct connection between morphological and physiological plasticity.
Diffuse Interstellar Bands: How Are They Related to Known Gas-Phase Constituents of the ISM?
Creators: name: Welty, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief review of recent work relating the DIBs to other gas-phase constituents of the ISM, we explore correlations between DIB equivalent widths and the column densities of various atomic and molecular species, drawn from a large database constructed for that purpose. The tightness and slopes of the correlations can provide information on how the DIBs might be related to those species (physically, chemically, spatially) and on various properties of the DIB carriers. Deviations from the mean relationships can reveal dependences of DIB strengths on other parameters, regional variations in DIB behavior, and individual sight lines where unusual environmental conditions affect the DIBs. Variations in DIB profiles (e.g., wings, substructure) and relative strengths may be related to differences in physical conditions inferred from atomic and/or molecular absorption lines.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; to appear in "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands" (proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 297)
Detailed description of methods and further biological results from Unsupervised learning of control signals and their encodings in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Fieseler, Charles
name: Zimmer, Manuel
name: J. Nathan Kutz
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This supplementary material has further equations, derivations, and figures on the performance of the main sparse regression algorithm on simulated data. In addition, the full pipeline is applied to additional biological datasets, including encodings of transition signals in known and unknown neurons.
Pectinator Blyth 1855
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenodactylidae
Pectinator

description: Pectinator Blyth, 1855. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 24: 294. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410033004000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 594, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Effect of Glutaraldehyde on biofilm associated wild type Salmonella
Creators: name: Osland, Ane Mohr
name: Oastler, Claire
name: Brook, Emma
name: Gosling, Becky
name: Mardjan Arvand
name: Richter, Anja M.
name: Konrat, Katharina
name: Asal, Basma
name: Vestby, Lene K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: OHEJP project: Poster for Eurobiofilms 2022 showing results from WP3.3
The Silk Road Health Project: How Mobility and Migration Status Influence HIV Risks among Male Migrant Workers in Central Asia
Creators: name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Shaw, Stacey A.
name: Mergenova, Gaukhar
name: Terlikbayeva, Assel
name: Primbetova, Sholpan
name: Ma, Xin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
name: Ismayilova, Leyla
name: Hunt, Timothy
name: West, Brooke
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Beyrer, Chris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: HIV infections--Risk factors
Migrant agricultural laborers--Health and hygiene
Medical sciences
Molecular biology
Epidemiology

description: Objectives
We examined whether mobility, migrant status, and risk environments are associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV risk behaviors (e.g. sex trading, multiple partners, and unprotected sex).

Methods
We used Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) to recruit external male migrant market vendors from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan as well internal migrant and non-migrant market vendors from Kazakhstan. We conducted multivariate logistic regressions to examine the effects of mobility combined with the interaction between mobility and migration status on STIs and sexual risk behaviors, when controlling for risk environment characteristics.

Results
Mobility was associated with increased risk for biologically-confirmed STIs, sex trading, and unprotected sex among non-migrants, but not among internal or external migrants. Condom use rates were low among all three groups, particularly external migrants. Risk environment factors of low-income status, debt, homelessness, and limited access to medical care were associated with unprotected sex among external migrants.

Conclusion
Study findings underscore the role mobility and risk environments play in shaping HIV/STI risks. They highlight the need to consider mobility in the context of migration status and other risk environment factors in developing effective prevention strategies for this population.
Utopian Thought and Architectural Design
Creators: name: Faith, Anthony L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: This thesis proposes that architectural utopian ideas are the foundation for societal change. The communities that form from utopian ideas act as test sites for societal values on a microscale (Gondolf 1985). When communities work together on a utopian vision through dialogue, they avoid the pitfall of one person’s utopian vision being blanketed over the world (Schneekloth 1998). Utopian communities solve problems through experimentation that create different ways of living which act as visions that can provide hope (ibid). Ruth Levitas, author of The Concept of Utopia, defines utopia as “the expression of the desire for a better way of living” (Gizem Deniz Guneri 2019,155). In this thesis I articulate a framework for understanding utopian societies in sociological terms, as a place or idea created with clearly stated design principles. Utopian communities have clear boundaries and ideological principles that favor the wellbeing of the group above that of the individual (Gondolf 1985). Moreover, social mechanisms in the form of designed social conventions are the traits of successful utopian communities (ibid).
The natural settings of utopian artists' retreats and craft schools contribute to creativity, community connection, and an increased appreciation for these natural settings. A comparison of four creative places, Black Mountain College (NC), Haystack Mountain School for Crafts (ME), Pilchuck Glass School (WA), and MacDowell (NH) are used to identify the positive characteristics of natural settings.
Using these precedents and associated literature on utopian communities. I have collected a series of features that contribute to the ideal environmental, architectural, and organizational design practices of utopian communities. This thesis then employs a research through design methodology to illustrate and test these features through a single, prototypical project. The findings of this thesis include a list of opportunities and challenges presented by this project, which can be broadly applied to similar endeavors.
When Looking Up Leads to Feeling Down: Situational Moderators of the Effects of Social Comparisons on Social Media
Creators: name: Eamiello, Madison L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Social media use is ubiquitous, especially among young adults. Negative consequences of social media use has been associated with engaging in upward social comparisons with others on social media. The current paper presents a series of two studies that seek to understand the nuances of social comparisons as they occur while browsing social media. In Study 1 (N = 161) we tested whether upward social comparisons would be less harmful when the comparer focuses on the similarities, rather than differences, with the comparison target. We observed a marginal interaction indicating that when thinking about similarities with the target, upward comparisons were slightly less detrimental to self-evaluations, than when thinking about differences. Study 2 (N = 320) tested other potential moderators of upward social comparisons suggested by traditional theories of social comparison to see if they would apply to a social media context. We predicted when a participant rates the comparison target to be more similar (vs. different) and distant (vs. close) and the domain to be more attainable (vs. less attainable), upward social comparisons will be less harmful to self-evaluations. Neither similarity nor closeness were significant moderators. Multilevel models showed a significant interaction between upward comparisons and attainability on self-evaluations (p < .001). Simple slopes indicated viewing the domain as attainable amplified the harmful effects of upward social comparisons on self-evaluations compared to viewing the domain as less attainable. These results are contrary to our predictions and suggest that traditional theories of social comparisons may not apply to a social media context. We also investigated how the target of the social comparison would impact the experience of the social comparison and its impact on self-evaluations. Results from Study 2 showed that participants who made comparisons with distant others (celebrities/strangers) were more likely to have higher upward social comparison scores, lower levels of similarity and closeness and view the domain as less attainable. These results display when we could expect harmful consequences following making a social comparison with a celebrity or stranger while viewing Instagram, posts. Study limitations and advantages are discussed along with future research to be explored.