cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Universal behaviour of the $γ^*γ\to (π^0,η,η')$ transition form factors
Creators: name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Stech, Berthold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photon transition form factors of $π$, $η$ and $η'$ are discussed in view of recent measurements. It is shown that the exact axial anomaly sum rule allows a precise comparison of all three form factors at high-$Q^2$ independent of the different structures and distribution amplitudes of the participating pseudoscalar mesons. We conclude: (i) The $πγ$ form factor reported by Belle is in excellent agreement with the non-strange I=0 component of the $η$ and $η'$ form factors obtained from the BaBar measurements. (ii) Within errors, the $πγ$ form factor from Belle is compatible with the asymptotic pQCD behavior, similar to the $η$ and $η'$ form factors from BaBar. Still, the best fits to the data sets of $πγ$, $ηγ$, and $η'γ$ form factors favor a universal small logarithmic rise $Q^2 F_{Pγ}(Q^2)\sim \log(Q^2)$.
description: 5 pages
title: Beyond the pump bump: Common and uncommon achilles tendon pathologies
Creators: name: Desai, Ishita
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Digital radiography
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review normal Achilles tendon anatomy on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and understand basic pathology and MRI findings of common and uncommon Achilles tendon...
MPEC 2023-H133 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 April 22)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Fermi Bubble as a Source of Cosmic Rays in the Energy Range > 10E15 eV
Creators: name: Cheng, K. S.
name: Chernyshov, D. O.
name: Dogiel, V. A.
name: Ko, C. M.
name: Ip, W. H.
name: Wang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope has recently discovered two giant gamma-ray bubbles which extend north and south of the Galactic center with diameters and heights of the order of $H\sim 10$ kpc. We suggest that the periodic star capture processes by the Galactic supermassive black hole Sgr A$^*$, with a capture rate of $τ_{\rm cap}^{-1}\sim 3\times 10^{-5}$ yr$^{-1}$ and an energy release of $W\sim 3\times 10^{52}$ erg per capture, can result in hot plasma injecting into the Galactic halo at a wind velocity of $u\sim 10^8$ cm s$^{-1}$. The periodic injection of hot plasma can produce a series of shocks. Energetic protons in the bubble are re-accelerated when they interact with these shocks. We show that for energy larger than $E> 10^{15}$ eV, the acceleration process can be better described by the stochastic second-order Fermi acceleration. We propose that hadronic cosmic rays (CRs) within the ``knee'' of the observed CR spectrum are produced by Galactic supernova remnants distributed in the Galactic disk. Re-acceleration of these particles in the Fermi Bubble produces CRs beyond the knee. With a mean CR diffusion coefficient in this energy range in the bubble $D_B\sim 3\times 10^{30}$ cm$^2$ s$^{-1}$, we can reproduce the spectral index of the spectrum beyond the knee and within. The conversion efficiency from shock energy of the bubble into CR energy is about 10\%. This model provides a natural explanation of the observed CR flux, spectral indices, and matching of spectra at the knee.
description: 43 pages, 8 figues, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal; version 2, 45 pages, 8 figures, added references and corrected typos
title: The spatially-distributed agroecosystem-watershed (AgES-W) hydrologic/water quality (H/WQ) model for assessment of conservation effects
title: Hydrology days 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ascough, James C.
name: Green, Timothy R.
name: McMaster, Gregory S.
name: David, Olaf
name: Kipka, Holm
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2015

description: 2015 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 23 - March 25, 2015.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) is a modular, Java-based spatially distributed model which implements hydrologic/water quality (H/WQ) simulation components under the Object Modeling System (OMS3) environmental modeling framework. AgES-W has recently been enhanced with the addition of nitrogen (N) and sediment modeling components refactored from various agroecosystem models including SWAT, WEPP, and RZWQM2. The specific objectives of this study are to: 1) present an overview of major AgES-W processes and simulation components; 2) evaluate the accuracy and applicability of the enhanced AgES-W model for estimation (using a newly developed autocalibration tool) of streamflow and N/sediment loading for the Upper Cedar Creek Watershed (UCCW) in northern Indiana, USA; and 3) discuss the efficacy of AgES-W for assessing spatially targeted agricultural conservation effects on water quantity and quality for the South Fork Watershed (SFW) in central Iowa, USA. AgES-W model performance was assessed using Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency (ENS) and percent bias (PBIAS) model evaluation criteria. Comparisons of simulated and observed daily and average monthly streamflow/N loading and monthly sediment load for different simulation periods resulted in ENS and PBIAS values that were within the range of those reported in the literature for other H/WQ models at a similar scale and time step. Considering that AgES-W was applied with minimal calibration, study results indicate that the model reasonably reproduced the hydrological, N, and sediment dynamics of the target watersheds and should serve as a foundation upon which to better quantify additional water quality indicators (e.g., phosphorus dynamics) at the watershed scale.
Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs By Classifying Text as Argumentative
Creators: name: Biran, Or
name: Rambow, Owen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Computer science

description: In written dialog, discourse participants need to justify claims they make, to convince the reader the claim is true and/or relevant to the discourse. This paper presents a new task (with an associated corpus), namely detecting such justifications. We investigate the nature of such justifications, and observe that the justifications themselves often contain discourse structure. We therefore develop a method to detect the existence of certain types of discourse relations, which helps us classify whether a segment is a justification or not. Our task is novel, and our work is novel in that it uses a large set of connectives (which we call indicators), and in that it uses a large set of discourse relations, without choosing among them.
The charged dust solution of Ruban -- matching to Reissner--Nordström and shell crossings
Creators: name: Krasiński, Andrzej
name: Giono, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximally extended Reissner--Nordström (RN) manifold with $e^2 < m^2$ begs for attaching a material source to it that would preserve the infinite chain of asymptotically flat regions and evolve through the wormhole between the RN singularities. So far, the attempts were discouraging. Here we try one more possible source -- a solution found by Ruban in 1972 that is a charged generalisation of an inhomogeneous Kantowski--Sachs-type dust solution. It can be matched to the RN solution, and the matching surface must stay all the time between the two RN event horizons. However, shell crossings do not allow even half a cycle of oscillation between the maximal and the minimal size.
description: journal reference added
Unorthodox approaches to participation in authoritarian regimes : the making of China's recent healthcare reforms
Creators: name: Kornreich, Yoel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In recent years, non-democratic regimes have introduced a host of participatory forums. This paper asks why, given the absence of binding constitutional or institutional designs, authoritarian governments introduce, at their own initiative, participatory forums? To respond to this question, the paper suggests three theoretical possibilities: fragmented authoritarianism, enhancing legitimacy and information-gathering. Looking at the drafting of China’s recent healthcare reforms--where the government enacted various forums of participation--the paper tests these theories. Its findings indicate that these theories are not mutually exclusive, as each could explain the causes for the introduction particular participatory forums. This paper argues that this analytical framework could extend beyond the scope of China’s healthcare reform, and be applied to other episodes of policymaking both in China, and other non-democratic regimes.
Additional file 1 of Competences to self-manage low back pain among care-seeking adolescents from general practice - a qualitative study
Creators: name: Straszek, Christian Lund
name: Skrubbeltrang, Lotte Stausgaard
name: O’Sullivan, Kieran
name: Thomsen, Janus Laust
name: Rathleff, Michael Skovdal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Nipple Discharge: What every radiologist should know?
Creators: name: Wassef, Shafik
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Pathology
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: After reviewing this education exhibit, the user will be familiar with: The types of nipple discharge How to evaluate and manage this common problem. Diagnosis and presentation of common underlying...
Intrinsic filtering errors of Lagrangian particle tracking in LES flow fields
Creators: name: Bianco, F.
name: Chibbaro, S.
name: Marchioli, C.
name: Salvetti, M. V.
name: Soldati, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of two-phase turbulent flows exhibit quantitative differences in particle statistics if compared to Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) which, in the context of the present study, is considered the exact reference case. Differences are primarily due to filtering, a fundamental intrinsic feature of LES. Filtering the fluid velocity field yields approximate computation of the forces acting on particles and, in turn, trajectories that are inaccurate when compared to those of DNS. In this paper, we focus precisely on the filtering error for which we quantify a lower bound. To this aim, we use a DNS database of inertial particle dispersion in turbulent channel flow and we perform a-priori tests in which the error purely due to filtering is singled out removing error accumulation effects, which would otherwise lead to progressive divergence between DNS and LES particle trajectories. By applying filters of different type and width at varying particle inertia, we characterize the statistical properties of the filtering error as a function of the wall distance. Results show that filtering error is stochastic and has a non-Gaussian distribution. In addition, the distribution of the filtering error depends strongly on the wall-normal coordinate being maximum in the buffer region. Our findings provide insight on the effect of subgrid-scale velocity field on the force driving the particles, and establish the requirements which a LES model must satisfy to predict correctly the velocity and the trajectory of inertial particles.
description: 39 pages, 1 table, 12 figures, submitted to Physics of Fluids
title: Pictorial Review of Intracranial Fat Containing Lesions
Creators: name: Gu, Tianyu Gary
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro
subject: Multicentre study

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the imaging characteristics of various intracranial fat-containing lesions on MRI and CT, including potential pitfalls and...
Procedure & Counterbalancing Table
Creators: name: Van Der Voort, Bram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A table detailing the procedure and counterbalancing for the project "Conditioned Compensation for the Anxiolytic Effect of Midazolam in Rats", registered on OSF (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/AB2NE).
Impact assessment tool to assess the resilience of farming systems and their delivery of private and public goods
Creators: name: Herrera, Hugo
name: Kopainsky, Birgit
name: Appel, Franziska
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Accatino, Francesco
name: Tichit, Muriel
name: Antonioli, Federico
name: Severini, Simone
name: Paas, Wim
name: Reidsma, Pytrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: An Integrated Assessment tool (IA) will be developed to operationalise the resilience framework. The IA tool will include both static and dynamic, and quantitative and qualitative models. The objective of this report is to describe tools proposed within SURE-Farm to assess resilience and to articulate the rationale for using them.
description: EU; en; contact: birgit.kopainsky@uib.no
Link between allosteric signal transduction and functional dynamics in a multi-subunit enzyme: S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase
Creators: name: Lee, Yoonji
name: Jeong, Lak Shin
name: Choi, Sun
name: Hyeon, Changbong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAHH), a cellular enzyme that plays a key role in methylation reactions including those required for maturation of viral mRNA, is an important drug target in the discovery of antiviral agents. While targeting the active site is a straightforward strategy of enzyme inhibition, evidences of allosteric modulation of active site in many enzymes underscore the molecular origin of signal transduction. Information of co-evolving sequences in SAHH family and the key residues for functional dynamics that can be identified using native topology of the enzyme provide glimpses into how the allosteric signaling network, dispersed over the molecular structure, coordinates intra- and inter-subunit conformational dynamics. To study the link between the allosteric communication and functional dynamics of SAHHs, we performed Brownian dynamics simulations by building a coarse-grained model based on the holo and ligand-bound structures. The simulations of ligand-induced transition revealed that the signal of intra-subunit closure dynamics is transmitted to form inter-subunit contacts, which in turn invoke a precise alignment of active site, followed by the dimer-dimer rotation that compacts the whole tetrameric structure. Further analyses of SAHH dynamics associated with ligand binding provided evidence of both induced fit and population shift mechanisms, and also showed that the transition state ensemble is akin to the ligand-bound state. Besides the formation of enzyme-ligand contacts at the active site, the allosteric couplings from the residues distal to the active site is vital to the enzymatic function.
description: 35 pages, 14 figures, 3 Tables
Toward Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles
Creators: name: Uhlir, Paul F.
name: Chen, Robert S.
name: Gabrynowicz, Joanne Irene
name: Janssen, Katleen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Information science
Communication of technical information
Intellectual property
Environmental sciences

description: This White Paper reviews the background issues for implementing the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles and recommends Implementation Guidelines to ensure the strongest possible framework for data sharing, consistent with both the spirit and the “letter” of the Principles. As recognized by the 10-Year Implementation Plan, “ensuring that such information is available to those who need it is a function of governments and institutions at all levels.” It is therefore incumbent on governments and institutions participating in GEOSS to continue to develop and implement appropriate policies and procedures that enable
and support the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles in fair and effective ways. The implementation approaches discussed here are intended to facilitate this process.
title: Splenosis: Consider the diagnosis if unusual abdominal mass and absent spleen.
Creators: name: Ali, Noor
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Spleen
subject: Trauma
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Trauma
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Recognise that splenosis can have unusual manifestations on imaging that can mimic malignant pathology. Consider the diagnosis of splenosis if there is an absent spleen, abdominal mass and supporting history of previous...
Review of Paul D. Spears and Steven R. Loomis, Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective, Christian Worldview Integration Series
Creators: name: Vaughan, Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Religion
Education--Philosophy
Religious education

description: This is a book review of Paul D. Spears and Steven R. Loomis, "Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective."
As a theologically trained educator working in the public school system, I often struggle to integrate my theological convictions into my professional life. It was, therefore, refreshing to see that Paul Spears and Steven Loomis have given Christian educators a framework within which to address that integration in their new Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective.Their goal was to articulate a robust and apologetically Christian philosophy of education that seeks to lay a foundation for teaching within the K-16 context. The book discusses both public and private academic institutions, but my review focuses mainly on its theses for public education.
Series editors Francis J. Beckwith and J.P. Moreland begin the volume with a preface to The Christian Worldview Integration Series (Education for Human Flourishing is the first volume in that series). In this provocative essay, they challenge some of the traditional methods by which faith interacts with varying academic contexts. The preface argues for a bold integration of religious ideals into academic enterprises, articulating seven "reasons why integration matters."
Structurally, the six chapters of Education for Human Flourishing are essentially divided into two major sections. In chapters 1-3, Spears and Loomis establish the ontological, historical, and epistemological framework upon which they build the theses of chapters 4-6. They devote these last chapters to the more tangible aspects of economics, ethics, and policy.
Model to investigate energy and greenhouse gas implications of refining petroleum
Creators: name: Abella, Jessica Patricia
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 150-156
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: A petroleum refinery model, PRELIM (Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model-PRELIM) which quantifies energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with the. detail and transparency sufficient to inform policy analysis is developed. PRELIM improves on prior models by representing a more comprehensive range of crude oil quality and refinery configuration, using publicly available information, and supported by confidential refinery operating data and experts input. The potential use of PRELIM is demonstrated through a scenario analysis to explore the implications of processing crudes of different qualities, with a focus on oil sands products, in different refinery configurations. The variability in GHG emissions estimates (comprising direct and indirect emissions) resulting from all cases considered in the model application shows differences of up to 14 g CO2eq/MJ of crude, or on a product basis up to 9 g CO2eq/MJ of gasoline and 16 CO2eq/MJ of diesel. The demonstration provides guidance about areas for further analysis in both mitigation of GHG and policy.
New Green Business Model for Sustainable Finance
Creators: name: Fusaro, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Finance
Power resources

description: Emerging markets for environmental financial investment and trading continue to attract significant global investment interest but little investment capital as yet. According to Cleantech Venture Network, $5.18 billion was deployed for clean-tech investment in global markets for 2007. For research and development in the same year, U.S. energy companies committed only $4 billion and the U.S. federal government spent $7.5 billion. It is now estimated that underinvestment in U.S. energy and water infrastructure is over $2 trillion. This underinvestment has been held up by regulatory uncertainty of the United States on federal climate change legislation as well as the lack of attention by politicians. That will now
change with the next U.S. administration. As markets change, so do investment models. The new business model that has emerged for investment in alternative energy and clean technology is a hybrid business model of venture capital, hedge funds, and private equity. Investment is locked up for shorter periods of time, from one to four years, rather than with traditional venture capital time spans of up to 10 years. Coupled with the project orientation of the investment, there also is a dimension of credit trading for emissions, carbon, and renewable energy included in this investment strategy. The blurring of the lines among hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital is being exacerbated by significant private equity participation in environmental finance. This new hybrid financial green investment model will be discussed and analyzed in this paper.
MPEC 2023-H134 : 2020 DC3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 1 of Rationale, design, and protocol for a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial of a proactive smoking cessation electronic visit for scalable delivery via primary care: the E-STOP trial
Creators: name: Fahey, Margaret C.
name: Wahlquist, Amy E.
name: Diaz, Vanessa A.
name: Player, Marty S.
name: Natale, Noelle
name: Sterba, Katherine R.
name: Chen, Brian K.
name: Hermes, Eric D. A.
name: Carpenter, Mathew J.
name: Dahne, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: Development of transition mat scour protection design methodology and comparison to the state-of-the-practice
title: Hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Turner, Michael D.
name: Cox, Amanda L.
name: Thornton, Christopher I.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2011

description: 2011 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 21 - March 23, 2011.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Culverts are designed to convey flow through or around obstructions such as roadway crossings, embankments, and riverine infrastructure. Flow exiting a culvert experiences an abrupt flow expansion generally resulting in flow regime changes and substantial energy dissipation. Such flow conditions can lead to bed scour, bank erosion, and local channel instability. Recent advancements in erosion control technology have resulted in the development of a class of products, termed transition mats (TM), designed to provide scour protection immediately downstream of culvert outlets. Colorado State University's Hydraulics Laboratory has conducted extensive testing of a transition mat under laboratory conditions to quantify system performance and develop a design methodology appropriate for implementing transition mats as scour protection. Prototype testing for both vegetated and unvegetated conditions has been coupled with Froude scale model data resulting in the development of an empirical method for determining an appropriate extent of culvert outfall protection and hydrodynamic design thresholds. Hydraulic conditions associated with flow in and around culverts have been well documented and the Federal Highway Administration has developed numerous tools designed to quantify flow conditions and implement scour mitigation designs. The purpose of this paper will be to quantify site hydraulics for three unique field conditions and then compare scour mitigation designs utilizing transition mats to accepted riprap design methodologies.
Fluctuations in finite density holographic quantum liquids
Creators: name: Goykhman, Mikhail
name: Parnachev, Andrei
name: Zaanen, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study correlators of the global U(1) currents in holographic models which involve N=4 SYM coupled to the finite density matter in the probe brane sector. We find the spectral density associated with the longitudinal response to be exhausted by the zero sound pole and argue that this could be consistent with the behavior of Fermi liquid with vanishing Fermi velocity. However the transversal response shows an unusual momentum independent behavior. Inclusion of magnetic field leads to a gap in the dispersion relation for the zero sound mode propagating in the plane of magnetic field. For small values of the magnetic field B the gap in the spectrum scales linearly with B, which is consistent with Kohn's theorem for nonrelativistic fermions with pairwise interaction. We do not find signatures of multiple Landau levels expected in Landau Fermi liquid theory. We also consider the influence of generic higher derivative corrections on the form of the spectral function.
Measuring Individual Disaster Recovery: A Socioecological Framework
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Stehling-Ariza, Tasha
name: Park, Yoon Soo
name: Walsh, Lauren
name: Culp, Derrin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Disasters
Disaster victims
Disaster relief--Social aspects
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: Background: Disaster recovery is a complex phenomenon. Too often, recovery is measured in singular fashion, such as quantifying rebuilt infrastructure or lifelines, without taking in to account the affected population's individual and community recovery. A comprehensive framework is needed that encompasses a much broader and far-reaching construct with multiple underlying dimensions and numerous causal pathways; without the consideration of a comprehensive framework that investigates relationships between these factors, an accurate measurement of recovery may not be valid. This study proposes a model that encapsulates these ideas into a single framework, the Socio-Ecological Model of Recovery. Methods: Using confirmatory factor analysis, an operational measure of recovery was developed and validated using the five measures of housing stability, economic stability, physical health, mental health, and social role adaptation. The data were drawn from a sample of displaced households following Hurricane Katrina. Measures of psychological strength, risk, disaster exposure, neighborhood contextual effects, and formal and informal help were modeled to examine their direct and indirect effects on recovery using a structural equation model. Findings: All five elements of the recovery measure were positively correlated with a latent measure of recovery, although mental health and social role adaptation displayed the strongest associations. An individual's psychological strength had the greatest association with positive recovery, followed by having a household income greater than $20 000 and having informal social support. Those factors most strongly associated with an absence of recovery included the time displaced since the hurricane, being disabled, and living in a community with substantial social disorder. Discussion: The socio-ecological framework provides a robust means for measuring recovery, and for testing those factors associated with the presence or absence of recovery.
Review of Robert W. Pazmiño, Foundational Issues in Christian Education: An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective, 3rd edition
Creators: name: Vaughan, Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Religion
Religion--Philosophy
Religious education

description: This is a book review of Robert W. Pazmiño, "Foundational Issues in Christian Education: An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective," 3rd edition.
Robert W. Pazmino's Foundational Issues in Christian Education: An Introduction in Evangelical Perspective was rereleased in 2008, twenty years after its original publication in 1988. Pazmino structures the book around seven "foundational issues" facing the modern American Christian educator. I follow Robert Drovdahl's lead in outlining the book: Drovdahl argues that the sections on Biblical, theological and philosophical considerations (chapters 1-3) offer "transcultural" insights informing Pazmino's view of education; the historical, sociological, and psychological chapters (4-6) offer "contextual/cultural insight into Christian education"; and Pazmino's section dealing with curriculum offers direction for the content of education. The whole book, therefore, is one large enumeration of "Points to Ponder" (which is the title he gives the discussion questions posed at the end of each chapter of the third edition). Of all of the foundations, questions regarding the primacy of the biblical text itself were most central to his overarching structure.
The 2008 edition is the third edition of this text, and some of the material has been updated. The main contribution of the third edition is the pair of short (about ten pages each) appendices that conclude the book. These appendices deal with the issue of postmodernism in the American church.
The electronic structure of GaN and Ga investigated by soft x-ray spectroscopy and first-principles methods
Creators: name: Magnuson, Martin
name: Mattesini, Maurizio
name: Höglund, Carina
name: Birch, Jens
name: Hultman, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure and chemical bonding of wurtzite-GaN investigated by N 1s soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy and N K, Ga M1, and Ga M2,3 emission spectroscopy is compared to that of pure Ga. The measurements are interpreted by calculated spectra using first-principles density-functional theory (DFT) including dipole transition matrix elements and additional on-site Coulomb interaction (WC-GGA+U). The Ga 4p - N 2p and Ga 4s - N 2p hybridization and chemical bond regions are identified at the top of the valence band between -1.0 and -2.0 and further down between -5.5 and -6.5 eV, respectively. In addition, N 2s - N 2p - Ga 4s and N 2s - N 2p - Ga 3d hybridization regions occur at the bottom of the valence band between -13 and -15 eV, and between -17.0 and -18.0 eV, respectively. A band-like satellite feature is also found around -10 eV in the Ga M1 and Ga M2,3 emission from GaN, but is absent in pure Ga and the calculated ground state spectra. The difference between the identified spectroscopic features of GaN and Ga are discussed in relation to the various hybridization regions calculated within band-structure methods.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
title: Systemic mastocytosis – a broad variety of imaging patterns
Creators: name: Beeskow, Anne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Bones
subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncologic Imaging
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: to describe the different appearances of systemic mastocytosis in adults on CT and MRI the aim is to be able to detect the different pattern of systemic...
title: Shareholders & Shareholder Activism
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2020

description: Shareholders exert influence over the corporation through the board of directors and the proxy voting process. While indirect, this influence can be powerful in shaping corporate policy. This Quick Guide examines the relation between institutional investors and the corporation. It answers the questions: What types of shareholders exist? What influence do shareholders have over companies? Does activism improve performance? What are proxy advisors? What role do proxy advisors play?
Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Autobiographical Travel Narratives of Hazin Lāhiji and 'Abd-al-Karim Kashmiri
Creators: name: Kia, Mana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: History

description: This paper examines the mid-eighteenth century historical memoir of Mohammad Ali Hazin Lāhiji and the auto-biographical travel narrative of 'Abd al-Karim Kashmiri as a way to understand a shared tradition of cultural conceptions and textual borrowing, even in the midst of different attributions of historical meaning and valuations within that culture. Hazin often serves as an iconic figure, representative of the changing relationship between Iran and Hindustan in the eighteenth century. Reading Hazin's memoir in relation to Kashmiri's travels with Nadir Shah's army from Delhi to Iran on his way to hajj problematizes this dominant reading. Underneath diverging and sometimes conflicting claims in these texts, history is represented in a way that evinces similar ideas of home, country, and ideal political rule in the context of travel and exile.
Tectonic evolution, paleogeography and paleoclimate of Pennsylvanian-Permain strata in east-central British Columbia: implications from conodont biostratigraphy and carbonate sedimentology
Creators: name: Zubin-Stathopoulos, Katharine
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 13-14, 84-88, 135-139, 145
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: A tectonically dynamic margin existed along northwestern Pangea during the Pennsylvanian-Permian where block faults influenced paleogeographic features. The distribution of temperature dependent carbonate secreting organisms and other constituents was in part controlled by the development of fault bounded sub-basins. The Pennsylvanian-Permian strata in east central British Columbia are punctuated by significant unconformities that were primarily the result of tectonic influences. The sequences between these unconformities are correlated using high-resolution conodont biostratigraphy. The two main tectonic events recognized are the C6 (Kasimovian), and the P4 (Kungurian). These events can be correlated to those already well described in the Canadian Arctic and Nevada. The C6 event initiated the uplift of a structure that was prevalent during the Early Permian. The distribution of types of sediment with respect to this paleogeographic high reflected a warm water sea inboard of the high, and cool water west of this high due to the influence of upwelling water at this paleolatitude (15-20° N).
Metabolomic study of volatile compounds in the pigmented fruit from Mexico Crataegus genotypes
Creators: name: Perez-Lainez, Maria Dolores
name: Corona-Torres, Tarsicio
name: García-Mateos, Maria Del Rosario
name: Winkler, Robert
name: Barrientos-Priego, Alejandro F.
name: Nieto-Ángel, Raul
name: Aguilar-Rincon, Victor Hebert
name: García-Velázquez, José Armando
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2019

description: Crataegus is distributed worldwide and presents a phenotypic diversity in size, shape, color and aroma of the fruit. The objective of this study was to identify genotypes of Crataegus with a similar profile of volatile compounds by means of a metabolomic study. In addition, the content of pigment was evaluated to contribute to the agronomic, medicinal and chemotaxonomic value. Color determination, total carotenoids (TC) and total anthocyanins (TA) were determined in the exocarp and mesocarp of fresh fruits by means of spectrophotometry. The volatile compounds were determined by Low Temperature Plasma coupled to Mass Spectrometry (LTP-MS). A total of 75 volatile compounds were detected, according to abundance and mass-to-charge ratio, which by means of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and selection of variables; genotypes were grouped according to size and origin. The pigment content was related to the physical color of the fruit. The highest concentration of carotenoids was 42.35 μg·g-1 FW. in the genotype PO5, and 992.34 μg·g-1 FW for anthocyanins in the genotype CH18, concentrations of both compounds found in the exocarp of the fruit.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 92 (2019): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Stochastic flights of propellers
Creators: name: Pan, Margaret
name: Rein, Hanno
name: Chiang, Eugene
name: Evans, Steven N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kilometer-sized moonlets in Saturn's A ring create S-shaped wakes called "propellers" in surrounding material. The Cassini spacecraft has tracked the motions of propellers for several years and finds that they deviate from Keplerian orbits having constant semimajor axes. The inferred orbital migration is known to switch sign. We show using a statistical test that the time series of orbital longitudes of the propeller Blériot is consistent with that of a time-integrated Gaussian random walk. That is, Blériot's observed migration pattern is consistent with being stochastic. We further show, using a combination of analytic estimates and collisional N-body simulations, that stochastic migration of the right magnitude to explain the Cassini observations can be driven by encounters with ring particles 10-20 m in radius. That the local ring mass is concentrated in decameter-sized particles is supported on independent grounds by occultation analyses.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table; accepted to MNRAS. v2: edited for mathematical and expositional clarity and completeness
Promoting Excellence: Good to Great, NYC’s District 2, and the Case of a High Performing School District
Creators: name: Bowers, Alex J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Education and state
School management and organization
Educational leadership

description: This paper compares two celebrated studies - New York City Community School District 2 (Elmore & Burney, 1999), and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) which examined sustained success in American corporations - to the case of a single high performing school district. The question of interest concerns how school districts achieve and maintain high performance. The study focuses on five central issues from a combined theory from District 2 and Good to Great: 1) An organization-wide disciplined system that provides boundaries for participants but allows for creativity and innovation within those boundaries. 2) A central defined organizational focus that drives day-to-day decisions and is separate from an organization’s vision and mission. 3) Getting the right people into the organization through innovative hiring and training practices. 4) Funneling budgetary resources to district priorities through multi-pocket budgeting. 5) And a long-term commitment to success through continuous improvement while maintaining a focus on the current challenges facing the organization.
Experiences of an expatriate academic chair in an Emirati college: an autoethnographic journey in educational administration across cultures
Creators: name: MacSween, Norma Mairi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 224-241
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: My study is an autoethnographic exploration of the challenges of being an academic chair of a teacher training program in a women's college in the United Arab Emirates. By documenting and analyzing my experiences, as well as those of other Education chairs in the other five Education departments across the Higher College of Technology system, I have highlighted the complexities facing educational administrators working across cultures. Two theoretical frameworks have guided the study: Hofstede's (1986) Four­Dimension Culture Theory; and Tajfel and Turner's (1979) Social Identity Theory. My study explores the many complex layers of experiences I have had at the college at the system level, the college level, the community level, and the classroom level. Because of these varied experiences, I have had the unique opportunity to observe the educational environment our students come from, what they learn throughout their four years of study, and the schools where they teach after graduation. These are the experiences I analyzed throughout my autoethnography. An understanding of who the students are is essential to an understanding of the cross-cultural challenges I and my colleagues experience in our role as program chair. This study identifies the challenges educational administrators face when managing across cultures and identify elements in teaching and learning that are not easily transported across cultures. It also examines the cross-cultural strategies academic chairs and faculty members adopt to successfully deliver a quality academic program. This research will be of interest to academic chairs across the Middle East who may face similar experiences and can provide them opportunities for self reflection and development practice.
Additional file 1 of Cannabis and pathologies in dogs and cats: first survey of phytocannabinoid use in veterinary medicine in Argentina
Creators: name: Banach, Diana
name: Ferrero, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1 : Supplemental Table 1. Doses of main cannabinoids of chemotypes 1 and 2 administered to dogs with pain. Supplemental Table 2. Doses of main cannabinoids of chemotype 3 administered to dogs with behavioral disorders. Supplemental Table 3. Doses of main cannabinoids of chemotypes 1, 2, and 3 administered to cats. Supplemental Table 4. Incidence of food on the response to cannabinoids treatment.
title: From Brainstem to Mediastinum: Common Pathologies Affecting the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
Creators: name: raofi, ahmad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: Head and Neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To provide a pictorial review of the course of the vagus & recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) Recognising key CT signs of vocal cord paralysis (VCP) To highlight the common pathologies that can occur along the course of RLN from the brainstem to the...
Ultimate limits to quantum metrology and the meaning of the Heisenberg limit
Creators: name: Zwierz, Marcin
name: Pérez-Delgado, Carlos A.
name: Kok, Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the last 20 years, the question of what are the fundamental capabilities of quantum precision measurements has sparked a lively debate throughout the scientific community. Typically, the ultimate limits in quantum metrology are associated with the notion of the Heisenberg limit expressed in terms of the physical resources used in the measurement procedure. Over the years, a variety of different physical resources were introduced, leading to a confusion about the meaning of the Heisenberg limit. Here, we review the mainstream definitions of the relevant resources and introduce the universal resource count, that is, the expectation value of the generator (above its ground state) of translations in the parameter we wish to estimate, that applies to all measurement strategies. This leads to the ultimate formulation of the Heisenberg limit for quantum metrology. We prove that the new limit holds for the generators of translations with an upper-bounded spectrum.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, Published version: some clarifications given on the applicability of the new limit