cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The free splitting complex of a free group I: Hyperbolicity
Creators: name: Handel, Michael
name: Mosher, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65 (Primary) 57M07 (Secondary)

description: We prove that the free splitting complex of a finite rank free group, also known as Hatcher's sphere complex, is hyperbolic.
description: 85 pages, including index and glossary. Many figures in the free splitting complex, in the guise of commutative diagrams of maps between free splittings. Changes from Version 1 to Version 2: Corrected an error in the proof of Proposition 6.5, Step 2. Revamped the theory of free splitting units in Section 5
title: Alexander Gavrilovič Golovkin
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Alexander Gavrilovič Golovkin as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Discovering Genome-Wide Tag SNPs Based on the Mutual Information of the Variants
Creators: name: Elmas, Abdulkadir
name: Ou Yang, Tai-Hsien
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Anastassiou, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genomics--Data processing
subject: Human genetics--Data processing
subject: Chromosomes
subject: Gene mapping
subject: Single nucleotide polymorphisms
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Classification

description: Exploring linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns among the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites can improve the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of genomic association studies, whereby representative (tag) SNPs are identified to sufficiently represent the genomic diversity in populations. There has been considerable amount of effort in developing efficient algorithms to select tag SNPs from the growing large-scale data sets. Methods using the classical pairwise-LD and multi-locus LD measures have been proposed that aim to reduce the computational complexity and to increase the accuracy, respectively. The present work solves the tag SNP selection problem by efficiently balancing the computational complexity and accuracy, and improves the coverage in genomic diversity in a cost-effective manner. The employed algorithm makes use of mutual information to explore the multi-locus association between SNPs and can handle different data types and conditions. Experiments with benchmark HapMap data sets show comparable or better performance against the state-of-the-art algorithms. In particular, as a novel application, the genome-wide SNP tagging is performed in the 1000 Genomes Project data sets, and produced a well-annotated database of tagging variants that capture the common genotype diversity in 2,504 samples from 26 human populations. Compared to conventional methods, the algorithm requires as input only the genotype (or haplotype) sequences, can scale up to genome-wide analyses, and produces accurate solutions with more information-rich output, providing an improved platform for researchers towards the subsequent association studies.
Fundamental limitations to gain enhancement in periodic media and waveguides
Creators: name: Grgić, Jure
name: Ott, Johan Raunkjær
name: Wang, Fengwen
name: Sigmund, Ole
name: Jauho, Antti-Pekka
name: Mørk, Jesper
name: Mortensen, N. Asger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common strategy to compensate for losses in optical nanostructures is to add gain material in the system. By exploiting slow-light effects it is expected that the gain may be enhanced beyond its bulk value. Here we show that this route cannot be followed uncritically: inclusion of gain inevitably modifies the underlying dispersion law, and thereby may degrade the slow-light properties underlying the device operation and the anticipated gain enhancement itself. This degradation is generic; we demonstrate it for three different systems of current interest (coupled resonator optical waveguides, Bragg stacks, and photonic crystal waveguides). Nevertheless, a small amount of added gain may be beneficial.
Satellite Climate Data Records: Development, Applications, and Societal Benefits
Creators: name: Yang, Wenze
name: John, Viju O.
name: Zhao, Xuepeng
name: Lu, Hui
name: Knapp, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: climate data record
satellite
remote sensing

description: This review paper discusses how to develop, produce, sustain, and serve satellite climate data records (CDRs) in the context of transitioning research to operation (R2O). Requirements and critical procedures of producing various CDRs, including Fundamental CDRs (FCDRs), Thematic CDRs (TCDRs), Interim CDRs (ICDRs), and climate information records (CIRs) are discussed in detail, including radiance/reflectance and the essential climate variables (ECVs) of land, ocean, and atmosphere. Major international CDR initiatives, programs, and projects are summarized. Societal benefits of CDRs in various user sectors, including Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Energy, Heath, Water, Transportation, and Tourism are also briefly discussed. The challenges and opportunities for CDR development, production and service are also addressed. It is essential to maintain credible CDR products by allowing free access to products and keeping the production process transparent by making source code and documentation available with the dataset.
Using Risk to Assess the Legal Violence of Mandatory Detention
Creators: name: Koulish, Robert
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: immigration
crimmigration
mandatory detention
risk
risk classification assessment (RCA)
structural violence

description: Immigration mandatory detention is a particularly harsh example of the structural violence embedded in immigration enforcement. It deprives liberty without bond for immigrants with prior crimes, and assigns many individuals to the harsh conditions associated with unnecessary and even wrongful detention. Mandatory detention has been justified on the grounds that mandatory detainees are a danger to public safety. This article puts to the test this presumption of dangerousness among mandatory detainees, and finds, to the contrary, that immigrants with prior charges or convictions are no more dangerous than any other category of individuals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Using the risk classification assessment (RCA) tool, which the author is the first to obtain through the Freedom of Information Act, the article contributes to the growing criticism of mandatory detention, providing evidence that many of those in mandatory detention should probably have never been detained.
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Advantages of Synthetic Noise and Machine Learning for Analyzing Radioecological Data Sets
Creators: name: Shuryak, Igor
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Radioactive pollution
subject: Medical radiology

description: The ecological effects of accidental or malicious radioactive contamination are insufficiently understood because of the hazards and difficulties associated with conducting studies in radioactively-polluted areas. Data sets from severely contaminated locations can therefore be small. Moreover, many potentially important factors, such as soil concentrations of toxic chemicals, pH, and temperature, can be correlated with radiation levels and with each other. In such situations, commonly-used statistical techniques like generalized linear models (GLMs) may not be able to provide useful information about how radiation and/or these other variables affect the outcome (e.g. abundance of the studied organisms). Ensemble machine learning methods such as random forests offer powerful alternatives. We propose that analysis of small radioecological data sets by GLMs and/or machine learning can be made more informative by using the following techniques: (1) adding synthetic noise variables to provide benchmarks for distinguishing the performances of valuable predictors from irrelevant ones; (2) adding noise directly to the predictors and/or to the outcome to test the robustness of analysis results against random data fluctuations; (3) adding artificial effects to selected predictors to test the sensitivity of the analysis methods in detecting predictor effects; (4) running a selected machine learning method multiple times (with different random-number seeds) to test the robustness of the detected “signal”; (5) using several machine learning methods to test the “signal’s” sensitivity to differences in analysis techniques. Here, we applied these approaches to simulated data, and to two published examples of small radioecological data sets: (I) counts of fungal taxa in samples of soil contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear power plan accident (Ukraine), and (II) bacterial abundance in soil samples under a ruptured nuclear waste storage tank (USA). We show that the proposed techniques were advantageous compared with the methodology used in the original publications where the data sets were presented. Specifically, our approach identified a negative effect of radioactive contamination in data set I, and suggested that in data set II stable chromium could have been a stronger limiting factor for bacterial abundance than the radionuclides 137Cs and 99Tc. This new information, which was extracted from these data sets using the proposed techniques, can potentially enhance the design of radioactive waste bioremediation.
title: Caspar Gottschling
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Caspar Gottschling as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Prediction of Emerging Technologies Based on Analysis of the U.S. Patent Citation Network
Creators: name: Érdi, Péter
name: Makovi, Kinga
name: Somogyvári, Zoltán
name: Strandburg, Katherine
name: Tobochnik, Jan
name: Volf, Péter
name: Zalányi, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The network of patents connected by citations is an evolving graph, which provides a representation of the innovation process. A patent citing another implies that the cited patent reflects a piece of previously existing knowledge that the citing patent builds upon. A methodology presented here (i) identifies actual clusters of patents: i.e. technological branches, and (ii) gives predictions about the temporal changes of the structure of the clusters. A predictor, called the {citation vector}, is defined for characterizing technological development to show how a patent cited by other patents belongs to various industrial fields. The clustering technique adopted is able to detect the new emerging recombinations, and predicts emerging new technology clusters. The predictive ability of our new method is illustrated on the example of USPTO subcategory 11, Agriculture, Food, Textiles. A cluster of patents is determined based on citation data up to 1991, which shows significant overlap of the class 442 formed at the beginning of 1997. These new tools of predictive analytics could support policy decision making processes in science and technology, and help formulate recommendations for action.
Environmental Factors Affecting Where People Geocache
Creators: name: Golbeck, Jennifer
name: Neustaedter, Carman
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: geocaching
leisure activities
outdoors
physical activity

description: Outdoor leisure activities are important for public health as well as family cohesiveness, yet environmental factors may easily affect someone’s ability to participate in such activities. We explored this with a focus on the social web-based treasure hunt game called Geocaching. We collected data on all US and Canadian geocaches from OpenCaching.com and conducted an online survey with twenty geocachers as a follow-up to our data analysis. Data analysis showed that geocaches were more often found in areas that were wealthier, better educated, younger, and more urban, and had higher population density and better weather. Survey results showed similar trends: Most people actively thought about where they would cache and tried to minimize risks, despite cache hiders thinking less about these concerns. These results further emphasize the importance of environmental factors when it comes to participation in outdoor activities and leads to Human–Computer Interaction design implications for location-based online social activities.
Three pure inorganic materials based on Strandberg-type phosphomolybdate and different transition metal linkers
Creators: name: Wang, Chunxiao
name: Shi, Jie
name: Yu, Kai
name: Zhou, Baibin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Three inorganic materials based on Strandberg polyoxoanion, Na10[Ag(P2Mo5O23)]2·8H2O (1), Na8[{Cu(H2O)4}(HP2Mo5O23)2]·8H2O (2) and Na8[{Co(H2O)4}(HP2Mo5O23)2]·6H2O (3), were hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, IR, TG, and single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. The compounds are based on the [P2Mo5O23]6− cluster and transition metal linkers. Compound 1 is a 1-D wave-like chain connected by Ag+ bridges. Compounds 2 and 3 are isostructural dimers bonded by {Cu(H2O)4} or {Co(H2O)4} linkers. The 1-D chain and dimeric clusters of 1-3 are further extended to 3-D supramolecular networks via hydrogen bonds and supramolecular interactions. Channels with different sizes are observed in 1-3, in which isolated Na+ and lattice water molecule fill the channels via intermolecular interactions. Weak interactions play important roles in stabilizing the three 3-D networks. Electrochemical and electrocatalytic properties of 1-3 have been investigated.
Indian immigrant women's post-divorce experience
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Supriya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The post-divorce experience has been the topic of much research in Western, industrialized nations. Little is known about the experiences of women from non-Western countries who have immigrated to Western countries. This study explores the post-divorce experiences of immigrant women from India who came to Canada with their husbands and subsequently got divorced. This study examines the economic, social, and residential changes these women faced after their divorces; the resources they used to cope with the changes; and the effects of their religions on their attitudes towards divorce. Qualitative data were collected via face-to-face interviews. Six women from Hindu and Sikh backgrounds, residing in the Greater Vancouver area, took part in this study. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data. As expected from previous findings, participants experienced a significant decrease in their incomes; their social networks diminished; and most left their marital residence. Most participants did not receive their share of the marital property, which is a key contrast to the experience of non-Indian women from the Western world. Contrary to previous studies that suggested South Asian women experience banishment from their families, every participant stated that she received full support from her family. The last finding concerns the influence of religion on the way these women perceived divorce. All participants emphasized individual spirituality, as well as education, to be more influential than the religious prescription of divorce in how they perceived divorce. This study is an exploratory study and it is limited by the small sample size.
The Transnational Turn in African Literature of French Expression: Imagining Other Utopic Spaces in the Globalized Age
Creators: name: Orlando, Valérie K.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: Afropolitanism
La littérature-monde
cosmopolitanism
transnational literature
African literature
Maghrebi
Francophone literature

description: This article focuses on African literature published since 2000 by authors of French expression. While contemporary authors’ subjects are varied—ranging from climate change, human rights, to ethnic cleansing—they also imagine new “what ifs” and other utopic spaces and places that extend beyond postcolonial, Africa-as-victim paradigms. Literarily, authors such as Abdelaziz Belkhodja (Tunisia) and Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti) have effectuated a transnational turn. In this literary transnational turn, Africa is open to new interpretations by the African author that are very different from the more essentialist-based, literary-philosophical movements such as Negritude and pan-Africanism; cornerstones of the postcolonial literary frameworks of the past. Belkhodja and Waberi offer original narratives for Africa that, while describing their countries as utopias, also traverse the very dystopic realities of our time.
Neutrino Oscillation in Matter and Parameters $s_{13},δ_{CP}$
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
name: Henley, Ernest M.
name: Johnson, Mikkel B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the dependence of $ν_μ$ to $ν_{e}$ conversion on parameters $θ_{13}$ and $δ_{CP}$ for several experimental facilities studying neutrino oscillations. We use the S-Matrix theory to estimate $\bar{ν_e}$ disappearance and compare estimates based on an older theory being used to extract $θ_{13}$ from the Double Chooz, Daya Bay, and RENO data, to assist in extracting an accurate value for $θ_{13}$ from these projects. We use values of $θ_{13}$ within known limits, and estimate the dependence of $ν_μ$ - $ν_{e}$ CP violation (CPV) probability on $δ_{CP}$ in order to suggest new experiments to measure CPV for neutrinos moving in matter.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1105.2741
Adaptive Appraisals of Anxiety Moderate the Association between Cortisol Reactivity and Performance in Salary Negotiations
Creators: name: Robinson, Modupe N.
name: Fridman, Ilona
name: Mor, Shira
name: Crum, Alia J.
name: Morris, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Negotiation--Psychological aspects
subject: Anxiety
subject: Stress (Psychology)--Physiological aspects
subject: Stress (Psychology)
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Medical sciences

description: Prior research suggests that stress can be harmful in high-stakes contexts such as negotiations. However, few studies actually measure stress physiologically during negotiations, nor do studies offer interventions to combat the potential negative effects of heightened physiological responses in negotiation contexts. In the current research, we offer evidence that the negative effects of cortisol increases on negotiation performance can be reduced through a reappraisal of anxiety manipulation. We experimentally induced adaptive appraisals by randomly assigning 97 male and female participants to receive either instructions to appraise their anxiety as beneficial to the negotiation or no specific instructions on how to appraise the situation. We also measured participants’ cortisol responses prior to and following the negotiation. Results revealed that cortisol increases were positively related to negotiation performance for participants who were told to view anxiety as beneficial, and not detrimental, for negotiation performance (appraisal condition). In contrast, cortisol increases were negatively related to negotiation performance for participants given no instructions on appraising their anxiety (control condition). These findings offer a means through which to combat the potentially deleterious effects of heightened cortisol reactivity on negotiation outcomes.
Expression of Calgranulin Genes S100A8, S100A9 and S100A12 Is Modulated by n-3 PUFA during Inflammation in Adipose Tissue and Mononuclear Cells
Creators: name: Shah, Rachana D.
name: Xue, Chenyi
name: Zhang, Hanrui
name: Tuteja, Sony
name: Li, Mingyao
name: Reilly, Muredach Patrick
name: Ferguson, Jane F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Inflammation
Monocytes
Adipose tissues
Biochemistry

description: Calgranulin genes (S100A8, S100A9 and S100A12) play key immune response roles in inflammatory disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n-3 PUFA) may have systemic and adipose tissue-specific anti-inflammatory and cardio-protective action. Interactions between calgranulins and the unsaturated fatty acid arachidonic acid (AA) have been reported, yet little is known about the relationship between calgranulins and the LC n-3 PUFA eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). We explored tissue-specific action of calgranulins in the setting of evoked endotoxemia and n-3 PUFA supplementation. Expression of calgranulins in adipose tissue in vivo was assessed by RNA sequencing (RNASeq) before and after n-3 PUFA supplementation and evoked endotoxemia in the fenofibrate and omega-3 fatty acid modulation of endotoxemia (FFAME) Study. Subjects received n-3 PUFA (n = 8; 3600mg/day EPA/DHA) or matched placebo (n = 6) for 6–8 weeks, before completing an endotoxin challenge (LPS 0.6 ng/kg). Calgranulin genes were up-regulated post-LPS, with greater increase in n-3 PUFA (S100A8 15-fold, p = 0.003; S100A9 7-fold, p = 0.003; S100A12 28-fold, p = 0.01) compared to placebo (S100A8 2-fold, p = 0.01; S100A9 1.4-fold, p = 0.4; S100A12 5-fold, p = 0.06). In an independent evoked endotoxemia study, calgranulin gene expression correlated with the systemic inflammatory response. Through in vivo and in vitro interrogation we highlight differential responses in adipocytes and mononuclear cells during inflammation, with n-3 PUFA leading to increased calgranulin expression in adipose, but decreased expression in circulating cells. In conclusion, we present a novel relationship between n-3 PUFA anti-inflammatory action in vivo and cell-specific modulation of calgranulin expression during innate immune activation.
title: Martin Sylvius Grabe
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Martin Sylvius Grabe as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
title: Old Dominion University Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Degree Program: Graduate and Employer Survey
Creators: name: Bauman, Deborah Blythe
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: The purpose of this study was to survey Old Dominion University dental hygiene master's degree graduates and their employers to assess the overall quality of the graduates' education. Individuals who graduated between May 1976 and December 1981 (N =29) were sent a self-designed questionnaire to obtain evaluative data about the ODU dental hygiene master's degree program. The graduates were asked to identify strengths and weaknesses of the ODU master's degree program, the role competencies required for their current position, and the degree to which they were prepared for their current job by the master's degree program. Concurrently, employers were asked to complete a similar questionnaire designed to evaluate the role competencies held by the graduate and the overall quality of the master's degree program, and to suggest curriculum revisions according to the role competencies required in the employment setting. Results of this study suggested that the graduates and their current employers are satisfied with the role competency of the graduates; however, the graduates desired increased career options. Findings also suggested that competence in computer utilization, management, and business administration is expected in the employment setting and not taught in the master's degree program.
Landsat ETM+ and SRTM Data Provide Near Real-Time Monitoring of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Habitats in Africa
Creators: name: Jantz, Samuel M.
name: Pintea, Lilian
name: Nackoney, Janet
name: Hansen, Matthew C.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: chimpanzee
conservation
habitat suitability monitoring
MaxEnt, random forests
species distribution model

description: All four chimpanzee sub-species populations are declining due to multiple factors including human-caused habitat loss. Effective conservation efforts are therefore needed to ensure their long-term survival. Habitat suitability models serve as useful tools for conservation planning by depicting relative environmental suitability in geographic space over time. Previous studies mapping chimpanzee habitat suitability have been limited to small regions or coarse spatial and temporal resolutions. Here, we used Random Forests regression to downscale a coarse resolution habitat suitability calibration dataset to estimate habitat suitability over the entire chimpanzee range at 30-m resolution. Our model predicted habitat suitability well with an r2 of 0.82 (±0.002) based on 50-fold cross validation where 75% of the data was used for model calibration and 25% for model testing; however, there was considerable variation in the predictive capability among the four sub-species modeled individually. We tested the influence of several variables derived from Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) that included metrics of forest canopy and structure for four three-year time periods between 2000 and 2012. Elevation, Landsat ETM+ band 5 and Landsat derived canopy cover were the strongest predictors; highly suitable areas were associated with dense tree canopy cover for all but the Nigeria-Cameroon and Central Chimpanzee sub-species. Because the models were sensitive to such temporally based predictors, our results are the first to highlight the value of integrating continuously updated variables derived from satellite remote sensing into temporally dynamic habitat suitability models to support near real-time monitoring of habitat status and decision support systems.
Security Constraints for Placement of Latency Sensitive 5G MEC Applications
Creators: name: Carlinet, Yannick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is one of the key enablers in 5G, offering to external parties computing capabilities very close to the end users. To attain this objective, the 5G operator needs to provide distributed computing infrastructure tightly integrated with its network. In this paper, we propose a model for MEC infrastructure and MEC applications together with the definition of the problem of optimal application placement taking into account various constraints including security imposed by technical and business conditions. Data models for virtualized MEC infrastructure based on virtual machines and MEC standardization are proposed. Furthermore, the implementation of the proposed data models for MEC applications orchestration on the OpenStack platform is presented.
Weak convergence of the Stratonovich integral with respect to a class of Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Harnett, Daniel
name: Nualart, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05 (Primary) 60H05, 60H07 (Secondary)

description: For a Gaussian process $X$ and smooth function $f$, we consider a Stratonovich integral of $f(X)$, defined as the weak limit, if it exists, of a sequence of Riemann sums. We give covariance conditions on $X$ such that the sequence converges in law. This gives a change-of-variable formula in law with a correction term which is an Itô integral of $f"'$ with respect to a Gaussian martingale independent of $X$. The proof uses Malliavin calculus and a central limit theorem from [10]. This formula was known for fBm with $H=1/6$ [9]. We extend this to a larger class of Gaussian processes.
description: 39 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1105.4841
Pathogenic Mutations in Cancer-Predisposing Genes: A Survey of 300 Patients with Whole-Genome Sequencing and Lifetime Electronic Health Records
Creators: name: He, Karen Y.
name: Zhao, Yiqing
name: McPherson, Elizabeth W.
name: Li, Quan
name: Wang, Kai
name: Xia, Fan
name: Weng, Chunhua
name: He, Max M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human genetics
subject: Cancer--Genetic aspects
subject: Human genetics--Data processing
subject: Medical records--Data processing
subject: Genomics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: It is unclear whether and how whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data can be used to implement genomic medicine. Our objective is to retrospectively evaluate whether WGS can facilitate improving prevention and care for patients with susceptibility to cancer syndromes.

Methods and Findings: We analyzed genetic mutations in 60 autosomal dominant cancer-predisposition genes in 300 deceased patients with WGS data and nearly complete long-term (over 30 years) medical records. To infer biological insights from massive amounts of WGS data and comprehensive clinical data in a short period of time, we developed an in-house analysis pipeline within the SeqHBase software framework to quickly identify pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants. The clinical data of the patients who carried pathogenic and/or likely pathogenic variants were further reviewed to assess their clinical conditions using their lifetime EHRs. Among the 300 participants, 5 (1.7%) carried pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 5 cancer-predisposing genes: one in APC, BRCA1, BRCA2, NF1, and TP53 each. When assessing the clinical data, each of the 5 patients had one or more different types of cancers, fully consistent with their genetic profiles. Among these 5 patients, 2 died due to cancer while the others had multiple disorders later in their lifetimes; however, they may have benefited from early diagnosis and treatment for healthier lives, had the patients had genetic testing in their earlier lifetimes.

Conclusions: We demonstrated a case study where the discovery of pathogenic or likely pathogenic germline mutations from population-wide WGS correlates with clinical outcome. The use of WGS may have clinical impacts to improve healthcare delivery.
title: Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Photochemistry of the α-Al2O3-PETN Interface
Creators: name: Tsyshevsky, Roman V.
name: Zverev, Anton
name: Mitrofanov, Anatoly
name: Rashkeev, Sergey N.
name: Kuklja, Maija M.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: singlet-triplet exciton
electronically excited and charged state
decomposition barrier
initiation of detonation
explosives
F-centers
oxygen vacancy

description: Optical absorption measurements are combined with electronic structure calculations to explore photochemistry of an α-Al2O3-PETN interface formed by a nitroester (pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, C5H8N4O12) and a wide band gap aluminum oxide (α-Al2O3) substrate. The first principles modeling is used to deconstruct and interpret the α-Al2O3-PETN absorption spectrum that has distinct peaks attributed to surface F0-centers and surface—PETN transitions. We predict the low energy α-Al2O3 F0-center—PETN transition, producing the excited triplet state, and α-Al2O3 F0-center—PETN charge transfer, generating the PETN anion radical. This implies that irradiation by commonly used lasers can easily initiate photodecomposition of both excited and charged PETN at the interface. The feasible mechanism of the photodecomposition is proposed.
FRW Cosmology with Non-positively Defined Higgs Potentials
Creators: name: Aref'eva, I. Ya.
name: Bulatov, N. V.
name: Gorbachev, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the classical aspects of dynamics of scalar models with non-positive Higgs potentials in the FRW cosmology. These models appear as effective local models in non-local models related with string field theories. After a suitable field redefinition these models have the form of local Higgs models with a negative extra cosmological term and the total Higgs potential is non-positively defined and has rather small coupling constant. The non-positivity of the potential leads to the fact that on some stage of evolution the expansion mode gives place to the mode of contraction, due to that the stage of reheating is absent. In these models the hard regime of inflation gives place to inflation near the hill top and the area of the slow roll inflation is very small. Meanwhile one can obtain enough e-foldings before the contraction to make the model under consideration admissible to describe inflation.
description: 40 pages, 20 figures, typos corrected
Phylogeny and phylogeography based on the complete coding sequences of the viral matrix protein Z of haemorrhagic fever Mammarenaviruses in South America
Creators: name: Santiago de Lima Garcia, Rômulo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Phylogeny and comparative analysis
Computational ecology and phylogenetics
Biogeography and phylogeography

description: Many mammarenavirus are the etiologic agents of viral haemorrhagic fever disease and coexist in eight South America countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colom?bia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela). In this work, phylogeographic reconstructions of 96 sequences of mammarenavirus were performed.
A 30+ Year AVHRR LAI and FAPAR Climate Data Record: Algorithm Description and Validation
Creators: name: Claverie, Martin
name: Matthews, Jessica L.
name: Vermote, Eric F.
name: Justice, Christopher O.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: LAI
FAPAR
AVHRR
MODIS
climate data record
land product validation

description: In- land surface models, which are used to evaluate the role of vegetation in the context of global climate change and variability, LAI and FAPAR play a key role, specifically with respect to the carbon and water cycles. The AVHRR-based LAI/FAPAR dataset offers daily temporal resolution, an improvement over previous products. This climate data record is based on a carefully calibrated and corrected land surface reflectance dataset to provide a high-quality, consistent time-series suitable for climate studies. It spans from mid-1981 to the present. Further, this operational dataset is available in near real-time allowing use for monitoring purposes. The algorithm relies on artificial neural networks calibrated using the MODIS LAI/FAPAR dataset. Evaluation based on cross-comparison with MODIS products and in situ data show the dataset is consistent and reliable with overall uncertainties of 1.03 and 0.15 for LAI and FAPAR, respectively. However, a clear saturation effect is observed in the broadleaf forest biomes with high LAI (>4.5) and FAPAR (>0.8) values.
Compelling evidence of renormalons in QCD from high order perturbative expansions
Creators: name: Bauer, Clemens
name: Bali, Gunnar S.
name: Pineda, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the static self-energy of SU(3) gauge theory in four spacetime dimensions to order α^{20} in the strong coupling constant. We employ lattice regularization to enable a numerical simulation within the framework of stochastic perturbation theory. We find perfect agreement with the factorial growth of high order coefficients predicted by the conjectured renormalon picture based on the operator product expansion.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (v2: 1 figure added, 1 reference added, improved readability)
The Next Step in Governance: The Need for Global Micro-Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Expanding International Production
Creators: name: Sauvant, Karl P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation
subject: Investments--Law and legislation
subject: International business enterprises
subject: Law and economics
subject: Non-governmental organizations
subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Economics

description: While this chapter suggests that international micro-regulation is necessary, and that governments and other players have to attend to this need, more regulation – and that of a multilateral kind – is understandably controversial. The discussion below recognizes that sentiment, as shown in the section that sets out the advantages of the current ad hoc approach. The objective is to raise an issue -- more through examples than anything else -- rather than to offer full-fledged solutions or conclusions. Indeed, one of the points that require attention is precisely the trade-offs relating to the advantages and disadvantages of a government-led systematic approach leading to mandatory international instruments, on the one hand, and a market-driven ad hoc approach leading to voluntary international arrangements, on the other. In either case, though, the challenge is to adapt to the realities of a globalizing world economy and the integrated international production system that is at its core.
Crystal Dislocations
Creators: name: Armstrong, Ronald W.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: dislocations
crystals
polycrystals
nanopolycrystals
X-ray topography
transmission electron microscopy
optical microscopy
crystal growth
crystal strength properties
electrical properties

description: Crystal dislocations were invisible until the mid-20th century although their presence had been inferred; the atomic and molecular scale dimensions had prevented earlier discovery. Now they are normally known to be just about everywhere, for example, in the softest molecularly-bonded crystals as well as within the hardest covalently-bonded diamonds. The advent of advanced techniques of atomic-scale probing has facilitated modern observations of dislocations in every crystal structure-type, particularly by X-ray diffraction topography and transmission electron microscopy. The present Special Issue provides a flavor of their ubiquitous presences, their characterizations and, especially, their influence on mechanical and electrical properties.
National FDI policy competition and the changing international investment regime
Creators: name: Sauvant, Karl P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation
subject: Investments--Law and legislation
subject: International business enterprises
subject: Investments, Foreign
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Economics

description: Dr. SKB Asante was the leading in-house expert on matters related to investment policymaking, both at the national and international levels, at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations. Regarding the national level, he brought his knowledge to bear on the Centre’s technical assistance programme, advising countries on how to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and benefit from it. In issues regarding the international level, Dr. Asante was actively involved in the negotiations on the United Nations Code of Conduct, not only in terms of advising delegates on highly complex technical questions in the negotiations, but also in terms of insightfully publishing on that subject. This contribution to this Festschrift focuses therefore on national and international investment policy issues. At the national level, the focus is on policies aimed at competing for, and benefiting more from, FDI, as well as policies supporting outward FDI. At the international level, the focus is on the rise of bilateral investment treaties and the changing perspectives of developed and developing countries on the international investment regime. It discusses not only where we stand today in these areas, but it identifies also some of the challenges we face. These challenges arise from the growth of FDI, which is the culmination of the emergence of an integrated international production system established by multinational enterprises (MNEs) through a myriad of equity and non-equity relationships and the evolution of national and international investment policies. The growth of FDI, an integrated international production system, and the global value chains associated with it was possible because of an enabling policy framework, both at the national and international levels. The hallmarks of this framework are that countries not only allow FDI to take place, but actively seek to attract and protect it through international investment agreements, especially bilateral investment treaties.
A Schwarz lemma for Kähler affine metrics and the canonical potential of a proper convex cone
Creators: name: Fox, Daniel J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is an account of some aspects of the geometry of Kähler affine metrics based on considering them as smooth metric measure spaces and applying the comparison geometry of Bakry-Emery Ricci tensors. Such techniques yield a version for Kähler affine metrics of Yau's Schwarz lemma for volume forms. By a theorem of Cheng and Yau there is a canonical Kähler affine Einstein metric on a proper convex domain, and the Schwarz lemma gives a direct proof of its uniqueness up to homothety. The potential for this metric is a function canonically associated to the cone, characterized by the property that its level sets are hyperbolic affine spheres foliating the cone. It is shown that for an $n$-dimensional cone a rescaling of the canonical potential is an $n$-normal barrier function in the sense of interior point methods for conic programming. It is explained also how to construct from the canonical potential Monge-Ampère metrics of both Riemannian and Lorentzian signatures, and a mean curvature zero conical Lagrangian submanifold of the flat para-Kähler space.
description: Minor corrections. References added
title: Johann Valentin Siegel
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Johann Valentin Siegel as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
CURRENT SCENARIOOF PHARMACEUTICAL & HERBAL MEDICINES & FUTURE PROSPECTUS WORLD WIDE:AN OVERVIEW
Creators: name: Ankita S.Sarnaik, Pragati S.Shinde, Swati P.Deshmukh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Plants are knowingly or unknowingly helping the living beings since the beginning of civilization.Although new and new diseases are getting discovered day by day, creator had provided us with most of the cure in the form of medicinal plants. Herbs as a raw material.India is the country of herbs, and the Indian traditional treatment system was also based on herbs and medicinal plant that is known as Ayurveda. India is the well-known mine of well-recorded herbal plants with their medicinal Use. Herbal medicine is also called botanical medicines or phytomedicine. Herb are extract from natural origin which is derived from algae fungi and linches and higher pants such as leaves stem fruit flower seeds and roots etc. Herbal drug Industry is undergoing a major change with respect to domestic and global requirements.Herbal medicine and treatment with herbs are not new to humanity, and it has been in practice since thousands of years back and still going on. Nutraceuticals is the fastest growing herbal components due to increase in day to day lifestyle concern among global population. Along with the increased global and domestic essentiality of evidence based reports on safety, efficacy and kinetics of herbal products, scientific technicality and involvement of trained human resource should be promoted in the site of herbal drug Manufacturing. This review focuses on the recent various important challenges in quality evaluation of medicinal plants in the authenticity, efficacy,Toxicity and consistency.In a survey report of the world Health Organization, it was found that the 80% population of the world rely on traditional herbal medicine for primary health-care need.

Keywords: Folk medicines, chronic disease, medicines Herbal Technology, Herbal drugs, Herbs, AYUSH, Herbal drug, Nutraceuticals , Drug industry
Molecular Theory of Detonation Initiation: Insight from First Principles Modeling of the Decomposition Mechanisms of Organic Nitro Energetic Materials
Creators: name: Tsyshevsky, Roman V.
name: Sharia, Onise
name: Kuklja, Maija M.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2016
Subjects: sensitivity
PETN
HMX
TATB
DADNE
BNFF

description: This review presents a concept, which assumes that thermal decomposition processes play a major role in defining the sensitivity of organic energetic materials to detonation initiation. As a science and engineering community we are still far away from having a comprehensive molecular detonation initiation theory in a widely agreed upon form. However, recent advances in experimental and theoretical methods allow for a constructive and rigorous approach to design and test the theory or at least some of its fundamental building blocks. In this review, we analyzed a set of select experimental and theoretical articles, which were augmented by our own first principles modeling and simulations, to reveal new trends in energetic materials and to refine known existing correlations between their structures, properties, and functions. Our consideration is intentionally limited to the processes of thermally stimulated chemical reactions at the earliest stage of decomposition of molecules and materials containing defects.