cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sense of Community in Mixed-income Housing Project in China--Learning from a Case Study in Beijing
Creators: Li, Mengyao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: City planning
Mixed-income housing
Communities
Housing

description: This thesis is about sense of community in mixed-income housing project in China and uses a case study in Beijing for analysis. Sense of community in this thesis is defined as a feeling of people who feel they belong to their community, a feeling that they are attached with each other physiologically and would like to contribute to the community with their joint effort. The purpose of this research is to investigate how the sense of community is formed in mixed-income communities in China, to find a better way to strengthen the social cohesion in these types of communities, and to provide policy recommendations for the future mixed-income housing development. This research uses the Yupu community in Beijing as a case study. The research is designed in two parts, one is quantitative research using a survey conducted in the Yupu community, and the other is qualitative research by interviewing the local residents. The survey questionnaire is designed with the Sense of Community Index to measure the sense of community in the case study area.  This research finds that affordable housing residents in the case study value their sense of community at a high level. However, in practice, they experience a relatively low sense of community because of the physical barriers and economic segregation in their neighborhood. The sense of community is formed and continues to grow through community participation during the process of residents' right protection movement. The developer and the government should take the responsibility and better plan for the mixed-income communities in the future.
Sensing of Picornavirus Infections
Creators: Francisco, Esther
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The sensing of viral infection through pattern recognition receptors is necessary to trigger an immune response through the expression of interferons (IFNs) and cytokines.  For RNA viruses, which replicate in the cytoplasm, the cytoplasmic RIG-I like receptors are responsible for this sensing.  The contributions of these receptors to sensing viruses of the Picornaviridae family were investigated. Using bone marrow derived macrophages from MDA-5 and RIG-I null mice we showed that encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3), picornaviruses of the cardiovirus and the enterovirus genus respectively, are sensed by both MDA-5 and RIG-I.  Sensing of these viruses in macrophages leads to the expression of type I IFN early after infection with IFNβ expression reduced in the absence of each sensor, and IFNα; expression reduced in the absence of MDA-5. However, in macrophages EMCV and CVB3 do not grow and we find that the sensing of viruses differs in murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) and HeLa cells in which there is efficient replication. In MEFs RIG-I was found to be essential for the expression of type I IFNs but contribute to increases in viral titers in response to CVB3 infections.  MDA-5 inhibited CVB3 replication but in an IFN independent manner.  In HeLa cells MDA-5 was found to have no effect on the sensing of EMCV but to be important for the sensing of poliovirus. However mutants of these viruses changed the involvement of MDA-5 in sensing infection, indicating picornaviruses can evade sensing through different pathways.
Simplicial moves on complexes and manifolds
Creators: name: Lickorish, W. B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q15, 52B70

description: Here are versions of the proofs of two classic theorems of combinatorial topology. The first is the result that piecewise linearly homeomorphic simplicial complexes are related by stellar moves. This is used in the proof, modelled on that of Pachner, of the second theorem. This states that moves from only a finite collection are needed to relate two triangulations of a piecewise linear manifold.
description: 22 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper16.abs.html
Agelanthus elegantulus Polhill & Wiens
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Loranthaceae
Agelanthus
Agelanthus elegantulus

description: Agelanthus elegantulus (Engl.) Polhill& Wiens  —
Habit:Shrub.
Habitat:LMWF, LMDF; 1 400–2 400 m.Distribution: IIIa.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Polhill & Wiens (1999a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Effective Macroscopic Response of a Composite with Small Deviations from Periodicity: Application to Colloidal Crystals
Creators: name: Barabash, Sergey V.
name: Stroud, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the spectral approach, we analyze the effective properties of a composite which deviates slightly from periodicity. We find that, when the inclusions are randomly displaced from their equilibrium positions, the sharp resonances seen in the periodic case are broadened, and an additional branch cut appears. We use these results to analyze the effective dielectric constant of a colloidal crystal.
description: Presented at ETOPIM-6. latex file requires espcrc2.sty
Unfallverletzungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland – Querschnittergebnisse aus KiGGS Welle 2 und Trends
Creators: name: Saß, Anke-Christine
name: Kuhnert, Ronny
name: Gutsche, Johanna
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: UNFALL
subject: VERLETZUNG
subject: KINDER UND JUGENDLICHE
subject: Gesundheitsmonitoring
subject: KIGGS
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Unfälle stellen ein erhebliches Gesundheitsrisiko für Kinder und Jugendliche dar. In Deutschland sind Unfallverletzungen für Kinder ab einem Jahr trotz rückläufiger Sterberaten immer noch die häufigste Todesursache. Unfallverletzungen können die Gesundheit und Entwicklung erheblich und nachhaltig schädigen. Die teilweise weitreichenden Folgen von Unfallverletzungen und deren potenzielle Vermeidbarkeit unterstreichen die Bedeutung der Unfallverhütung. Die Studie zur Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland (KiGGS) erhebt in regelmäßigen Abständen Daten zu Kinderunfällen. Ergebnisse der zweiten Folgeerhebung (KiGGS Welle 2, 2014 – 2017) zeigen, dass von den 1- bis 17-Jährigen 17,4 % in den letzten zwölf Monaten wegen eines Unfalls ärztlich behandelt wurden. Jungen sind signifikant häufiger von Unfallverletzungen betroffen als Mädchen (19,4 % vs. 15,2 %). Ältere Kinder und Jugendliche waren tendenziell häufiger betroffen als jüngere, insgesamt sind die Altersunterschiede jedoch gering. Im Vergleich zu den vorherigen beiden KiGGSWellen hat sich die Verletzungsprävalenz nicht verändert.
Quanta Without Quantization
Creators: name: Wheeler, James T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dimensional properties of fields in classical general relativity lead to a tangent tower structure which gives rise directly to quantum mechanical and quantum field theory structures without quantization. We derive all of the fundamental elements of quantum mechanics from the tangent tower structure, including fundamental commutation relations, a Hilbert space of pure and mixed states, measurable expectation values, Schroedinger time evolution, collapse of a state and the probability interpretation. The most central elements of string theory also follow, including an operator valued mode expansion like that in string theory as well as the Virasoro algebra with central charges.
description: 8 pages, Latex, Honorable Mention 1997 GRG Essay
title: 7. Bioethik-Symposium : Medizin im Wandel – Individualisierte Medizin auf der Basis humangenetischer Diagnostik
Creators: name: Gahl, Klaus
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 17
subject: 61

description: Die rasant wachsenden Möglichkeiten der Gendiagnostik in der Klassifizierung, Therapie und Prognostik von Krankheiten bringen dem Grundlagenf
orscher und dem in der Versorgungsmedizin tätigen Arzt wie der nationalen und internationalen Jurisprudenz und dem Medizinethiker eine Fülle von Aufgaben, die nicht allein aus der je fachspezifischen Sicht sondern nur in interdisziplinärer Kooperation zu leisten sind. Auch bedarf es der kritischen Information und der wertorientierten Einbeziehung der Gesellschaft in die Reflexion der rasch fortschreitenden Entwicklung. Dem war das 7. Bioethik-Symposium der BWG in Kooperation mit der Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin, Göttingen, unter der Überschrift "Gen-diagnostisch gestützte individualisierte Medizin" im Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig gewidmet. Es knüpfte an der Thematik des Vorjahr-Symposiums an.
The Geometry of Metrical Multi-time Lagrange Spaces
Creators: name: Neagu, Mircea
name: Udriste, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 53C43, 53C99

description: A geometrization of a Kronecker $h$-regular multi-time Lagrangian function with partial derivatives of order one is described, in the sense of d-connections, d-torsions and d-curvatures.
description: 22 pages, Many thanks go to Prof. Dr. M. Matsumoto and Prof. Dr. D. Opris, the first readers who adviced us to distroy the initial version
Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
Creators: Annunziata, Alison Beth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavic literature
Romance literature
Comparative literature

description: This dissertation investigates the use of sentimentalist tropes in the work of Viktor Shklovsky, Nikolai Karamzin, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to draw conclusions regarding the overlaps between eighteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic imperatives. Specifically, it looks at love's literary forms--epistolary, triolet, conte--as models and spaces for autobiography, and compares love and self-expression as two literary phenomena that, for these three authors, demand the undoing of cultural mores as the means for their artistic portrayal. For the bulk of my analysis, I take the three authors' "Julie" texts--Rousseau's Julie, or The New Héloïse, Karamzin's "Julia," and Shklovsky's Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, a Third Eloise--in which love and self-expression meet to enact what I callSentimentalism made strange. Using estrangement (ostranenie), the literary device identified by Shklovsky, as an organizing principle, I investigate the cultural shift towards an underlying crude, elemental, and ultimately `savage' aesthetic that is treated in the work of the three authors I examine, and which sanctions a shift towards de-acculturation, de-institutionalization, and disarticulation that is seen in both sentimental and formalist fiction and criticism. While Rousseau factors into my analysis as the model sentimentalist, as the basis for Karamzin's and Shklovsky's own forays into Sentimentalism, in his effort to capture an authentic literary self he also estranges Sentimentalism's canonical forms, revealing, along with Karamzin, proto-formalist tendencies.
title: Carl Friedrich Gauß und seine Beschäftigung mit der russischen Sprache
Creators: name: Lehfeldt, Werner
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 40

description: Hören oder lesen wir den Namen Carl Friedrich Gauß, so denken wir zuallererst an den schon zu Lebzeiten so genannten "princeps mathematicorum", einen der bedeutendsten Mathematiker aller Zeiten, dessen Namen in einer Reihe steht mit denjenigen von Euklid, Newton und Euler. Wir denken an den großen Astronomen, den Wiederentdecker der Ceres, den Autor der "Theoria motus corporum coelestium", wir denken an den bedeutenden Erforscher des Erdmagnetismus, an den – zusammen mit Wilhelm Weber – Miterfinder des elektrischen Telegraphen. Ich bin überzeugt, daß niemand in diesem Saal – abgesehen von mir, der ich dies selbst aber auch erst seit kurzem weiß – bei dem Namen Carl Friedrich Gauß an einen Forscher denken wird, der in der Russistik, der Wissenschaft von der russischen Sprache, als erster einen Weg beschritten hat, dessen Bedeutung für diese Disziplin erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts erkannt, d.h. wiedererkannt worden ist und auf dem die Russistik seitdem zu bedeutenden Werken und Einsichten gelangt ist.
Sensory, Motor and Process Skills as Compared to Symptom Severity in Adult Patients with Schizophrenia
Creators: Halperin, Lola
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Occupational therapy
Schizophrenics
Motor ability
Perception
Behavioral assessment

description: Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting millions of Americans. It is characterized by positive and negative symptoms; cognitive impairments; and sensory, motor, and process skill deficits; as well as compromised motor learning, functional difficulties, and diminished quality of life. Neuroscientists attribute the above deficits to abnormal brain development, exaggerated synaptic pruning, and neurodegenerative processes, causing disrupted connectivity and diminished plasticity in the brain, neurotransmitter dysfunction, and impaired sensory processing.
      Presently, there is no cure for schizophrenia. Numerous medications and rehabilitation modalities exist; however, many of the affected individuals continue to struggle daily. Recovery of these individuals implies symptom management and environmental supports to foster integration into the society and improved quality of life.
      Occupational therapists (OTs) utilize occupation-based assessments and interventions to evaluate and treat functional impairments in clients with various conditions, including schizophrenia, and provide their clients with environmental adaptations/modifications to enhance function. An improved understanding of the skill deficits and their relationship with schizophrenia symptomatology is necessary to refine treatment and rehabilitation for this client population, and so far, several OT scholars have attempted to research this topic.
      This study employed the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile (AASP), Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS), and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to examine the sensory, motor, and process skills of stabilized adult patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in relation to their symptoms. It was hypothesized that the participants would present with deficient sensory, motor, and process skills, and significant relationships would be revealed between these skill deficits and the severity of psychiatric symptoms.
      Analysis of the data confirmed sensory, motor, and process skill deficits in the participants. It discovered correlations between low registration and sensory sensitivity, and anxiety/depression. Relationships were also found between sensory avoidance and motor and process skill deficits. Additional findings included correlations between sensory sensitivity and sensory avoidance, between motor and process skill deficits, and between different categories of psychiatric symptoms.
      Study findings support the idea that schizophrenia rehabilitation necessitates addressing the skill deficits with which it comes. The concept of impaired sensory processing underlying schizophrenia symptomatology and skill deficits needs further investigation.
Model Order Reduction for Temperature-Dependent Nonlinear Mechanical Systems: A Multiple Scales Approach
Creators: name: Jain, Shobhit
name: Tiso, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The thermal dynamics in thermo-mechanical systems exhibits a much slower time scale compared to the structural dynamics. In this work, we use the method of multiple scales to reduce the thermo-mechanical structural models with a slowly-varying temperature distribution in a systematic manner. In the process, we construct a reduction basis that adapts according to the instantaneous temperature distribution of the structure, facilitating an efficient reduction in the number of unknown. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the method on a range of linear and nonlinear beam examples and obtain a consistently better accuracy and reduction in the number of unknowns than standard the Galerkin projection using a constant basis.
Sensored: The Quantified Self, Self-Tracking, and the Limits of  Digital Transparency
Creators: Grinberg, Yuliya
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ethnology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: User-generated content
subject: Technology
subject: Detectors
subject: Databases

description: The idea that daily life overflows with data has entered our common sense. Digital sensors placed in phones, clothing, or household appliances to track how we walk, how much we sleep, or where we travel have heightened the sense that everything about our lives is rapidly being translated into data. Theorists writing about data overload have largely converged around questions of privacy and agency, focusing on the feelings of impotence produced by large quantities of data that now let corporations effortlessly monitor and regulate people’s lives.
      By contrast, I am interested in moments of friction. Scholars point to real issues, but they overstate the efficacy of data gathering and discount the professional dynamics that motivate the proliferation of data. As I evaluate how data discourse operates and builds, I concentrate on the experiences of those involved in the business of self-tracking, and mainly on the work of U.S.-based developers of wearable computing and the technology professionals who participate in the international forum for data enthusiasts called the Quantified Self. As I analyze how digital entrepreneurialism configures notions of data and transforms digital self-monitoring into meaningful work, I examine how the relationship of technology professionals to data opens onto wider debates about the politics of digital representation. Ultimately, by applying an anthropological lens to explore how the practices, beliefs, and views of marketers, engineers, and developers of self-tracking tools shape digital knowledge, this research challenges accounts of data based purely on transparency, anxiety, and fear and reveals just how precarious the control exerted by digital companies and self-monitoring tools really is.
The notion of focus and its relation to contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Creators: name: Navarrete-González, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Sensos-e
Year: 2019

description: In this paper, we describe the different syntactic and prosodic manual and non-manual markers used in the expression of focus and contrast in LSC. Given that in LSC contrast markers may also be found in topics, we follow Vallduví & Vilkuna (1998) and analyse the notion of contrast as a different dimension, which may also overlap with topics, and we offer an analysis of the expression of contrast in LSC from a unifying semantic-pragmatic perspective. Moreover, following Umbach (2004), we identify three different subtypes of contrast expressed through different combinations of markers. Artigo Completo
description: Sensos-e, v. 6 n. 1 (2019): Morfossintaxe da Língua Gestual Portuguesa e outras Línguas Gestuais
Reduplication revisited: verbal plurality and exhaustivity in the visual-gestural modality
Creators: name: Quer, Josep
Publisher: name: Sensos-e
Year: 2019

description: From the very early stages of sign language research (Klima & Bellugi, 1979 for ASL) and in subsequent descriptions of unrelated sign languages, a reduplicative morpheme in verbal morphology has been identified as encoding exhaustive distribution over a plural argument in agreement verbs. It consists in a sideward reduplication of the verb sign on the horizontal plane, where the repeated endpoints match the referential locus of a plural argument. It is often labelled as [+distributive/exhaustive] and considered a mark of plural argument agreement. However, in Klima & Bellugi (1979, p. 284) it was called “distributional aspect”, highlighting the link to inflectional aspectual properties. On the basis of Catalan Sign Language (LSC) data, this paper reconsiders the status of the alleged [+distributive/exhaustive] morpheme under the light of verbal plurality marking and argues for a broader analysis of reduplication in the verbal domain built on the category of pluractionality, in line with Kuhn & Aristodemo (2017). This change in vantage point allows for a better understanding of reduplication in sign languages as a grammatical marker of plurality cutting across the parameters of event participants, event times and event locations. Artigo Completo
description: Sensos-e, v. 6 n. 1 (2019): Morfossintaxe da Língua Gestual Portuguesa e outras Línguas Gestuais
Agelanthus pennatulus Polhill & Wiens
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Loranthaceae
Agelanthus
Agelanthus pennatulus

description: Agelanthus pennatulus (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 1 600–2 400 m. Distribution: IIIa.
 Voucher: North Mount Kenya, Alt. 2 400 m, 6 Apr. 1979, Lavranos 17411 (EA).
References: Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1994), Polhill & Wiens (1999a).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Integrated mine waste storage concept, Krumovgrad Gold Project, Bulgaria
Creators: name: Eldridge, Terry
name: Wickland, Ben
name: Goldstone, Adrian
name: Kissiova, Mayana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This paper presents a case history of the development of an integrated mine waste management concept for the Krumovgrad Gold Project, Bulgaria. The project description in 2005 included extraction of gold and silver in a carbon-in-leach process with conventional disposal of thickened tailings behind a lined valley fill dam. To address community and environmental concerns, flotation was investigated as the primary recovery process, thereby eliminating the use of cyanide. This then allowed major changes to the tailings management strategy. A concept was developed for an integrated mine waste facility where tailings are dewatered to a paste consistency and then deposited into cells constructed within the mine waste rock facility. The mine rock promotes drainage and consolidation of the tailings. The resulting deposit uses the waste rock for stability and is fully drained, thereby allowing progressive reclamation during operations. The strategy eliminates the tailings dam and stores both tailings and waste rock within an area previously designated for mine waste rock. The project footprint is significantly reduced and the liabilities associated with management of cyanide tailings and a water retaining tailings dam are eliminated. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Sequence and Length Dependence of the Conductivity of Individual DNA Duplexes and Applications in Protein Detection
Creators: Wang, Hanfei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chemistry
Electrical engineering
Biomedical engineering

description: This thesis introduces a new type of DNA-based molecular electronics that is composed of an individual DNA duplex bridging a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) gap. Using this type of device, we have been able to measure the conductivity of DNA directly, and have successfully assessed its dependence on DNA sequence and length. Our approach to measuring DNA conductivity has a number of advantages over previous methods in that our devices possess single DNA duplex bridging the gap, well-defined DNA-electrode junctions, and preserve the DNA's native conformation. We apply this type of device to selectively and sensitively detect a methyltransferase, whose function is to catalyze the addition of a methyl group on the cytosine base of 5'-GC-3' sequences. This thesis is comprised of four chapters. Chapter 1 discusses previous research on DNA-mediated charge transport (CT) and its application to protein detection. This chapter also highlights the advantages of using our method to study DNA-medicated CT, and illustrates its potential in biosensing. Chapter 2 includes the details of the fabrication procedures of the single molecule DNA device. This fabrication procedure outlines concrete guidelines to manufacture single molecule electronics based on SWCNT electrodes. Chapter 3 details the studies on the conductivity of individual DNA duplexes using this type of DNA-SWCNT device. Sequence dependence and length dependence of DNA conductivity are specifically addressed in this chapter.  Chapter 4 reviews the application of this type of device to sensitively and selectively detect DNA-binding proteins such as methyltransferase M.SssI. This study presents a prototype of single-molecule-level electronic biosensors.
Supplementary Material from A fossil-informed pattern of body size increase and local extinction in Basiceros dirt ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Creators: name: Fiorentino, Gianpiero
name: Probst, Rodolfo
name: Richter, Adrian
name: Economo, Evan P
name: Barden, Phillip
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370506
subject: Palaeontology (incl. palynology)

description: rspb-2024-2171-File001.docx
Cusp equivalence between smooth embeddings of the 2-sphere in 4-space
Creators: name: Matumoto, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q45, 57R45

description: If the fundamental group of the complement of a smooth embedding f: S^2 \subset R^4 is a cyclic group, the map can be deformed to the standard embedding by a generic one-parameter family with at most cusp singularities. If two smooth embeddings are connected by such a deformation, they will be called cusp equivalent. We will discuss the relation of three equivalences of smooth 2-knots S^2 \subset R^4; cusp equivalence, stable equivalence and weakly stable equivalence.
description: 6 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper19.abs.html
A Renormalization Group for Hamiltonians: Numerical Results
Creators: name: Abad, Juan J.
name: Koch, Hans
name: Wittwer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a renormalization group transformation that is related to the breakup of golden invariant tori in Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. This transformation applies to a large class of Hamiltonians, is conceptually simple, and allows for accurate numerical computations. In a numerical implementation, we find a nontrivial fixed point and determine the corresponding critical index and scaling. Our computed values for various universal constants are in good agreement with existing data for area-preserving maps. We also discuss the flow associated with the nontrivial fixed point.
description: 11 Pages, 2 Figures. For future updates, check ftp://ftp.ma.utexas.edu/pub/papers/koch/
Speech network regional involvement in bulbar ALS: a multimodal structural MRI study
Creators: name: Sanjana Shellikeri
name: Myers, Matthew
name: Black, Sandra E.
name: Agessandro Abrahao
name: Zinman, Lorne
name: Yunusova, Yana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: To examine gray (GM) and white matter (WM) structural changes in regions of the speech network (SpN) in ALS patients with varying degree of bulbar disease. Methods: T1 and DTI images were obtained for 19 ALS participants and 13 neurologically-intact controls. Surface-based, volumetric, and DTI metrics were obtained for 6 regions-of-interest (ROIs) including the primary motor cortex (PMC), pars triangularis (parsT), pars opercularis (ParsO), posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG), and transverse temporal (TT). Disease-effects and brain-behavioral correlates between neuroanatomy and clinical measures of bulbar, limb, and overall disability were examined using linear models. Results: Structural changes were observed in the right oral and limb PMC and left ParsT, TT, and pSTG in ALS. Bulbar motor dysfunction was associated with WM abnormalities in the right oral PMC and left pSTG, and GM changes in bilateral TT. In contrast, symptom progression rate predicted GM and WM changes in bilateral pars opercularis (part of Broca’s area). Grip strength and disease duration models were non-significant. Conclusions: The findings suggested that regions of the left-dominant SpN may be implicated in ALS and degeneration of these areas are related to bulbar disease severity. Involvement of regions that overlap across multiple connectomes such as Broca’s area, however, may be dependent on the rate of disease progression. The work contributes to our understanding of bulbar ALS subtype, which is crucial for predicting disease progression, delivering targeted clinical care, and appropriate recruitment into clinical trials.
Separating Law-Making from Sausage-Making: The Case for Judicial Review of the Legislative Process
Creators: Bar-Siman-Tov, Ittai
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Legislation
subject: Comparative law
subject: Jurisprudence
subject: Constitutional law
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Judicial review
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Inspired, perhaps, by the old adage that "people who like sausages and respect the law should never watch either being made," there is significant resistance among judges and scholars alike to the idea that courts should review the lawmaking process. This doctoral dissertation challenges this prevalent position, and establishes the case for judicial review of the legislative process. The dissertation develops the arguments for the authority of courts to review the legislative process; the legitimacy and theoretical justifications of such judicial review; and the practical and normative importance of such judicial involvement. It also challenges the resistance to judicial review of the legislative process by scrutinizing, and seeking to rebut, the major arguments underlying this resistance, and revealing this position's doctrinal and theoretical incoherence, and its negative consequences. In an effort to provide a multifaceted exploration of the issue, the dissertation combines multiple approaches of legal scholarship, including a legal-doctrinal approach, a comparative law approach, a jurisprudential and constitutional theory approach, and an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon political science research and several other disciplines.
Superfluid Inhomogeneity and Microwave Absorption in Model High-T_c Superconductors
Creators: name: Barabash, Sergey V.
name: Stroud, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the microwave absorption arising from inhomogeneity in the superfluid density of a model high-T_c superconductor. Such inhomogeneities may arise from a wide variety of sources, including quenched random disorder and static charge density waves such as stripes. We show that both mechanisms will inevitably produce additional absorption at finite frequencies. We present simple model calculations for this extra absorption, and discuss applications to other transport properties in high-T_c materials. Finally, we discuss the connection of these predictions to recent measurements by Corson et al. of absorption by the high-temperature superconductor BSCCO in the THz frequency regime.
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Sequential Decision Making with Combinatorial Actions and High-Dimensional Contexts
Creators: Oh, Min-hwan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operations research
subject: Reinforcement learning
subject: Machine learning
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Decision making

description: In interactive sequential decision-making systems, the learning agent needs to react to new information both in the short term and in the long term, and learn to generalize through repeated interactions with the environment. Unlike in offline learning environments, the new data that arrives is typically a function of previous actions taken by the agent. One of the key challenges is to efficiently use and generalize from data that may never reappear. Furthermore, in many real-world applications, the agent only receives partial feedback on the decisions it makes. This necessitates a balanced exploration-exploitation approach, where the agent needs to both efficiently collect relevant information in order to prepare for future arrivals of feedback, and produce the desired outcome in the current periods by exploiting the already collected information. In this thesis, we focus on two classes of fundamental sequential learning problems: Contextual bandits with combinatorial actions and user choice (Chapter 2 and Chapter 3): We investigate the dynamic assortment selection problem by combining statistical estimation of choice models and generalization using contextual information. For this problem, we design and analyze both UCB and Thomson sampling algorithms with rigorous performance guarantees and tractability. High-dimensional contextual bandits (Chapter 4): We investigate policies that can efficiently exploit the structure in high-dimensional data, e.g., sparsity. We design and analyze an efficient sparse contextual bandit algorithm that does not require to know the sparsity of the underlying parameter -- information that essentially all existing sparse bandit algorithms to date require.
Englerina woodfordioides Balle
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Loranthaceae
Englerina
Englerina woodfordioides

description: Englerina woodfordioides (Schweinf.) Balle  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 1 300–3 100 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 2 667 m, 17 Jul. 2014, CPG 28338 (EA).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Polhill & Wiens (1999a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Questa Mine regulatory process (Superfund) overview
Creators: name: Sharrer, William
name: Coats, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) or “Superfund” cleanup process at the Questa Mine Site (Site) began in 1999 when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified possible past releases of hazardous substances. On September 27, 2001, Molycorp, Inc. (now Chevron Mining Inc.) and EPA signed an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) to conduct a Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) for the Site. The RI/FS and existing state and federal permits required numerous investigations and studies. The Final RI/FS was completed in 2009 and in December 2010, EPA issued its Record of Decision (ROD) for the Site. The next step in the Superfund process will be for Chevron to work with federal and state agencies to prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) for the cleanup. Pursuant to the SOW, Chevron will complete preparation and implementation of plans for applying the Site remedies. In the case of the Questa Site, the remediation and reclamation will take at least twenty-five years. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Trace Anomaly of Dilaton Coupled Scalars in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Bousso, Raphael
name: Hawking, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conformal scalar fields coupled to the dilaton appear naturally in two-dimensional models of black hole evaporation. We calculate their trace anomaly. It follows that an RST-type counterterm appears naturally in the one-loop effective action.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX2e; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., minor changes
Accident injuries of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study and trends
Creators: name: Saß, Anke-Christine
name: Kuhnert, Ronny
name: Gutsche, Johanna
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: ACCIDENT
subject: INJURY
subject: CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
subject: HEALTH MONITORING
subject: KIGGS
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: For children and adolescents, accidents represent an important health risk. Despite decreasing mortality rates, accidental (unintended) injuries remain the most common cause of death for children over the age of one in Germany. Accident injuries can cause considerable and lasting damage on health and development. The possible major implications as well as the potential to prevent accident injuries underline the importance of accident prevention. The German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) collects data on unintentional child injuries at regular intervals. Results of the second follow-up survey (KiGGS Wave 2, 2014-2017) show that during the past twelve months 17.4% of children and adolescents aged between 1 and 17 received medical treatment following an accident. Boys suffer injuries from accidents significantly more often than girls (19.4% vs. 15.2%). While the prevalences for older children and adolescents tend to be higher, age generally has little impact on accident rates. Compared to the two previous waves of KiGGS, the prevalences of accident injuries have remained stable.
Structure of the mapping class groups of surfaces: a survey and a prospect
Creators: name: Morita, Shigeyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R20, 32G15, 14H10, 57N05, 55R40, 57M99

description: In this paper, we survey recent works on the structure of the mapping class groups of surfaces mainly from the point of view of topology. We then discuss several possible directions for future research. These include the relation between the structure of the mapping class group and invariants of 3-manifolds, the unstable cohomology of the moduli space of curves and Faber's conjecture, cokernel of the Johnson homomorphisms and the Galois as well as other new obstructions, cohomology of certain infinite dimensional Lie algebra and characteristic classes of outer automorphism groups of free groups and the secondary characteristic classes of surface bundles. We give some experimental results concerning each of them and, partly based on them, we formulate several conjectures and problems.
description: 58 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper20.abs.html
Panicum calvum Stapf
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Panicum
Panicum calvum

description: Panicum calvum Stapf  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 900 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Fries & Fries (1928), Bussmann (1993, 1994, 2006), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1995c, 1998, 1999).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Sequential Designs for Individualized Dosing in Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials
Creators: Mao, Xuezhou
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Drugs--Dose-response relationship
Cancer--Treatment--Research
Pharmacokinetics
Biometry

description: This dissertation presents novel sequential dose-finding designs that adjust for inter-individual pharmacokinetic variability in phase I cancer clinical trials. Unlike most traditional dose-finding designs whose primary goals are the determination of a maximum safe dose, the goal of our proposed designs is to estimate a patient-specific dosing function such that the responses of patients can achieve a target safety level.
      Extending from a single compartment model in the pharmacokinetic theory, we first postulate a linear model to describe the relationship between the area under concentration-time curve, dose and predicted clearance. We propose a repeated least squares procedure that aims to sequentially determine dose according to individual ability of metabolizing the drug. To guarantee consistent estimation of the individualized dosing function at the end of a trial, we apply repeated least squares subject to a consistency constraint based on an eigenvalue theory for stochastic linear regression. We empirically determine the convergence rate of the eigenvalue constraint using a real data set from an irinotecan study in colorectal carcinoma patients, and calibrate the procedure to minimize a loss function that accounts for the dosing costs of study subjects and future patients. When compared to the traditional body surface area and an equation based dosing methods, the simulation results demonstrate that the repeated least squares procedure control the dosing cost and allow for precise estimation of the dosing function.
      Furthermore, in order to enhance the generality and robustness of the dose-finding designs, we generalize the linear association to a nonlinear relationship between the response and a linear combination of dose and predicted clearance. We propose a two-stage sequential design, the semiparametric link-adapted recursion, which targets at individualizing dose assignments meanwhile adapting for an unknown nonlinear link function connecting the response and dose along with predicted clearance. The repeat least squares with eigenvalue constraint design is utilized as the first stage, and the second stage recursively applies an iterative semiparametric least squares approach to estimate the dosing function and determine dosage for next patient. The simulation results demonstrate that: at first, the performance of repeated least squares with eigenvalue constraint design is acceptably robust to model misspecifications; at second, as its performance is close to that of repeated least squares procedure under parametric models, the semiparametric link-adapted recursion does not sacrifice much estimation accuracy to gain robustness against model misspecifications; at last, compared to the repeated least squares procedure, the semiparametric link-adapted recursion can significantly improve the dosing costs and estimation precision under the semiparametric models.
On the convergence of the spectral viscosity method for the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with rough initial data
Creators: name: Lanthaler, Samuel
name: Mishra, Siddhartha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a spectral viscosity method to approximate the two-dimensional Euler equations with rough initial data and prove that the method converges to a weak solution for a large class of initial data, including when the initial vorticity is in the so-called Delort class i.e. it is a sum of a signed measure and an integrable function. This provides the first convergence proof for a numerical method approximating the Euler equations with such rough initial data and closes the gap between the available existence theory and rigorous convergence results for numerical methods. We also present numerical experiments, including computations of vortex sheets and confined eddies, to illustrate the proposed method.
title: Die Geschichte vom „Fliegenden Geld“. Von der Festigkeit der Währung in China : Dem Andenken Herbert Frankes (Köln 1914 – Gauting 2011) gewidmet
Creators: name: Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 3
subject: 33

description: Die Geschichte vom Fliegenden Geld ist die Geschichte vom ältesten Papiergeld und sie ist mit China verknüpft und mit Marco Polo, dem großen Reisenden, der in Europa als einer der ersten vom Papiergeld in China berichtete. Tatsächlich war die Emission von Papiergeld in großem Stil durch die Mongolen, namentlich durch den im Jahre 1260 gewählten Großkhan Khubilai (1215–1294), eine Innovation für das System von Zahlungsmitteln in China, wo man seit der ersten Reichseinigung im dritten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert über Jahrhunderte lediglich Metallwährungen, vor allem Bronzemünzen kannte. Zeitgleich mit der Einführung von Papiergeld in großem Stil unter der Mongolenherrschaft kam es zur Einführung von Silber als Zahlungsmittel. Es sollten alle diese Währungsmetalle mit Papiergeld konvertibel sein.
Zur Stabilisierung diente, dass der Handel mit Münzmetall verboten wurde, so dass allein das limitiert ausgegebene Papiergeld als Währung dienen sollte. Davon soll zunächst die Rede sein. Bekanntlich ist Geld, vor allem aber Papiergeld nur so fest wie das Vertrauen, das Menschen darein setzen. Von solchem Vertrauen und von der Festigkeit der Währung soll daher in einem zweiten Schritt die Rede sein. In diesem Zusammenhang erfordert allein schon die Frage, warum Papiergeld und ein entsprechendes Bankensystem in unserem modernen Sinne in China erst viel später als in Europa flächendeckend eingeführt wurde, das Thema in eine allgemeinere Betrachtung einzubetten. In einem dritten Schritt werde ich dann noch einmal auf Marco Polo und die Frage der Globalisierung aus heutiger Perspektive zurückkommen.
Additional file 1: of Nurses and midwivesâ experiences of using non-pharmacological interventions for labour pain management: a qualitative study in Ghana
Creators: name: Boateng, Edward
name: Kumi, Linda
name: Diji, Abigail
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Interview Guide (Labour Pain Management): Interview Guide: This guided data collection for this study. (DOCX 16 kb)