cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transaction Costs and Market Institutions: Grain Brokers in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.
name: Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Grain
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Grain Prices
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Grain Trade
subject: East Africa

description: This paper examines the effect of transaction costs of search on the institution of grain brokers in Ethiopia. Primary data are used to derive traders’ shadow opportunity costs of labor and of capital from IV estimation of net profits. A twostep Tobit model is used in which traders first choose where to trade and then choose whether to use a broker to search on their behalf. The results confirm traders’ individual rationality in choosing brokerage, showing high transaction costs are linked to increased broker use while high social capital reduces broker use.
Über die Rekonstruktion der Handlung „Einkaufen im Bioladen“ – ein Beispiel für qualitative Sozialforschung nach der „Grounded Theory“
Creators: name: Helmle, Simone
name: Helmle, Simone
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: consumption
subject: organic food products
subject: narrative interview
subject: grounded theory

description: This article presents a study about the symbolic significance of shopping in the organic store. The data are based on autobiographic reports and analyzed using grounded theory. The result is a concept with finding of identity and well-being as the main categories. According to these categories, hypotheses about the structures of personal values were proposed. Such structures are the perception of an alternative lifestyle as something normal, sympathetic ideas towards farm production and ideas about selfsufficiency. A strong point of the analysis is the abundance of empirical material, but the small number of cases and the subjects strong philosophical nature are restrictive.
Voter Model on Heterogeneous Graphs
Creators: name: Sood, V.
name: Redner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the voter dynamics model on heterogeneous graphs. We exploit the non-conservation of the magnetization to characterize how consensus is reached on networks with different connectivity patterns. For a network of N sites with an arbitrary degree distribution, we show that the mean time to reach consensus T_N scales as N mu_1^2/mu_2, where mu_k is the kth moment of the degree distribution. For a power-law degree distribution n_k k^{-nu}, we thus find that T_N scales as N for nu>3, as N/ln N for nu=3, as N^{(2nu-4)/(nu-1)} for 2
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 2-column revtex4 format. Version 2 has been revised somewhat to account for referee comments. To appear in PRL
Additional file 3 of Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention: a secondary analysis
Creators: name: Heerman, William J.
name: Sommer, Evan C.
name: Qi, Ally
name: Burgess, Laura E.
name: Mitchell, Stephanie J.
name: Samuels, Lauren R.
name: Martin, Nina C.
name: Barkin, Shari L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Results predicting BMI-Z at 2- and 3-year follow-up in three separate adjusted linear regression models using 1) face-to-face intensive modality 2) maintenance phone call modality, and 3) modality main effects and interaction.
Harmonia octomaculata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia octomaculata

description: 64. octomaculata (Fabricius, 1781)
Distribution: Throughout India; Pakistan; Bhutan; Nepal; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka; Widespread in the Oriental and Australasian regions; Micronesia.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 3 of Results of a global, patient-based survey assessing the impact of psoriatic arthritis discussed in the context of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) questionnaire
Creators: name: Coates, L. C.
name: A.-M. Orbai
name: V. F. Azevedo
name: J. C. Cappelleri
name: K. Steinberg
name: R. Lippe
name: I. Lim
name: L. Eder
name: P. Richette
name: M. Y. Weng
name: R. Queiro Silva
name: L. Fallon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure 1. Patient-reported impact of PsA on work. Data represent the percentage of responders using the weighted base of each country in Table 1. Data are reported in response to the question, “Have you done any of the following as a result of psoriatic arthritis? Please select all that apply.” Countries are represented by colored data bars. Significant differences (p
Institutions and properties of the transaction: influences on land rental contract design in Poland
Creators: name: Hurrelmann, Annette
name: Hurrelmann, Annette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: institutions
subject: transaction costs
subject: contract choice
subject: Poland
subject: land market

description: The article analyses influences on the design of land rental contracts in Poland. Attention is paid to the effect of both the properties of the transaction as identified in Transaction Cost Economics (asset-specificity, uncertainty, frequency) and the features of the institutional environment (legal as well as customary rules) as studied by the Economics of Property Rights. The conclusion is that institutional influences have a very strong effect and should not be disregarded in the explanation of contract choice.
Transition to Synchrony in a Three-Dimensional Swarming Model with Helical Trajectories
Creators: name: Zheng, Chunming
name: Toenjes, Ralf
name: Pikovsky, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the transition from incoherence to global collective motion in a three-dimensional swarming model of agents with helical trajectories, subject to noise and global coupling. Without noise this model was recently proposed as a generalization of the Kuramoto model and it was found that alignment of the velocities occurs discontinuously for arbitrarily small attractive coupling. Adding noise to the system resolves this singular limit and leads to a continuous transition, either to a directed collective motion or to center-of-mass rotations.
description: 3 figures
Binary continuous random networks
Creators: name: Mousseau, Normand
name: Barkema, G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many properties of disordered materials can be understood by looking at idealized structural models, in which the strain is as small as is possible in the absence of long-range order. For covalent amorphous semiconductors and glasses, such an idealized structural model, the continuous-random network, was introduced 70 years ago by Zachariasen. In this model, each atom is placed in a crystal-like local environment, with perfect coordination and chemical ordering, yet longer-range order is nonexistent. Defects, such as missing or added bonds, or chemical mismatches, however, are not accounted for. In this paper we explore under which conditions the idealized CRN model without defects captures the properties of the material, and under which conditions defects are an inherent part of the idealized model. We find that the density of defects in tetrahedral networks does not vary smoothly with variations in the interaction strengths, but jumps from close-to-zero to a finite density. Consequently, in certain materials, defects do not play a role except for being thermodynamical excitations, whereas in others they are a fundamental ingredient of the ideal structure.
description: Article in honor of Mike Thorpe's 60th birthday (to appear in J. Phys: Cond Matt.)
The effects of in ovo and early post-hatch DDT expourse on American robins from the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Creators: name: Smith, Lori Kim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: American robin (Turdus migratorius) eggs from orchard areas of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia contain high levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolites. These contaminants are present in the soil as a result of heavy historical use. DDTs accumulate in the earthworms that live in the soil and are passed to the robins through their preference for earthworms as a food source during the breeding season. These chemicals are then passed to the offspring via the egg yolk and in the diet. Despite the high residue levels found in these robins, no impairments in their reproductive success have been found. In order to assess more subtle and/or long term effects of DDTs on a variety of parameters, ten-day old nestlings were collected from the Okanagan, along with controls from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and raised and bred in captivity. Eggs were collected in order to measure contaminant levels. Total DDTs in the Okanagan eggs ranged from 5.7 to 277.6 μ/g (mean 49.3 μ/g), whereas in the Lower Mainland eggs they ranged from 0.4 to 3.4 μ/g (mean 1.5 μ/g). Eggs collected from the Lower Mainland and Okanagan were of similar weights, lengths, and widths. Okanagan chicks collected in 1997 had significantly shorter middle toes than the other birds, and appeared to lag in their tarsus growth. As adults, these birds laid smaller eggs than the Lower Mainland controls, but showed no differences in the timing of their reproductive activities, their laying, hatching, and fledging success, or their reproductive behaviors. They demonstrated an increased susceptibility to infectious disease, lower corticosterone levels during the early phases of a restraint test, and enlarged hearts, livers, and kidneys. Although robins in the Okanagan continue to thrive and reproduce despite their high levels of contamination, DDT likely has the potential to influence several aspects of their lives, as evidenced by the many significant correlations with in ovo exposure. However, it remains that genetic differences between the Lower Mainland and Okanagan birds may account for many of the effects seen.
Charge transport through image charged stabilized states in a single molecule single electron transistor device
Creators: name: Hedegard, Per
name: Bjornholm, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present paper gives an elaborate theoretical description of a new molecular charge transport mechanism applying to a single molecule trapped between two macroscopic electrodes in a solid state device. It is shown by a Hubbard type model of the electronic and electrostatic interactions, that the close proximity of metal electrodes may allow electrons to tunnel from the electrode directly into a very localized image charge stabilized states on the molecule. Due to this mechanism, an exceptionally large number of redox states may be visited within an energy scale which would normally not allow the molecular HOMO-LUMO gap to be transversed. With a reasonable set of parameters, a good fit to recent experimental values may be obtained. The theoretical model is furthermore used to search for the physical boundaries of this effect, and it is found that a rather narrow geometrical space is available for the new mechanism to be effective: In the specific case of oligophenylenevinylene molecules recently explored in such devices several atoms in the terminal benzene rings need to be at van der Waal's distance to the electrode in order for the mechanism to be effective. The model predicts, that chemisorption of the terminal benzene rings too gold electrodes will impede the image charge effect very significantly because the molecule is pushed away from the electrode by the covalent thiol-gold bond.
description: 9 pages, 5 figues
Harmonia sedecimnotata
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Harmonia
Harmonia sedecimnotata

description: 65. sedecimnotata (Fabricius, 1801)
Distribution: India: Common in northeastern region (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; China; Taiwan; Indonesia; Malaysia; The Philippines.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Additional file 4 of Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention: a secondary analysis
Creators: name: Heerman, William J.
name: Sommer, Evan C.
name: Qi, Ally
name: Burgess, Laura E.
name: Mitchell, Stephanie J.
name: Samuels, Lauren R.
name: Martin, Nina C.
name: Barkin, Shari L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Model-based estimates for each specific combination of dose received, predicting child BMI-Z score immediately following the 1-year intervention and the probability of at least 0.1 probability of at least a 0.1 decrease in BMI-Z immediately following the 1-year intervention.
MA'RIFATCHILIKINING IJTIMОIY- SIYОSIY JIHATLARI (BUXORO JADIDLARI FAOLIYATI MISOLIDA)
Creators: name: Rizаyеv, Nоdir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu mаqоlаdа Buxoro jadidlari ijtimoiy-siyosiy qarashlari hamda amaliy faoliyatining ayrim jihatlari tahlil qilinib o’rganildi .  Jаdidlаrning qаrаshlаri, islоhоtlаri vа  biz  bu hаrаkаt duch kеlаyоtgаn muаmmоlаr hаmdа uning  о‘shа dаvr  Buxоrо ijtimоiy-siyоsiy mаnzаrаsigа tа’siri hаqidа tushunchаgа еgа bо‘lаmiz.
Rural Growth Linkages in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
Creators: name: Ngqangweni, Simphiwe
name: Ngqangweni, Simphiwe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Income
subject: Agricultural development
subject: Southern Africa
subject: Consumer behavior

description: This report addresses the impact of rising smallholder incomes on local nonagricultural development in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It determines how increased rural incomes are spent on a mix of goods and services, and debates the implications of these spending patterns for growth in rural areas through the alleviation of demand constraints. These results make it possible to identify areas of intervention necessary for sustaining growth originating from stimulus to tradable agriculture from economic reforms. This report thus contributes to an emerging literature on the possible impact of promoting smallholder agriculture in South Africa on rural livelihoods.
Neural Jump Ordinary Differential Equations: Consistent Continuous-Time Prediction and Filtering
Creators: name: Herrera, Calypso
name: Krach, Florian
name: Teichmann, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Combinations of neural ODEs with recurrent neural networks (RNN), like GRU-ODE-Bayes or ODE-RNN are well suited to model irregularly observed time series. While those models outperform existing discrete-time approaches, no theoretical guarantees for their predictive capabilities are available. Assuming that the irregularly-sampled time series data originates from a continuous stochastic process, the $L^2$-optimal online prediction is the conditional expectation given the currently available information. We introduce the Neural Jump ODE (NJ-ODE) that provides a data-driven approach to learn, continuously in time, the conditional expectation of a stochastic process. Our approach models the conditional expectation between two observations with a neural ODE and jumps whenever a new observation is made. We define a novel training framework, which allows us to prove theoretical guarantees for the first time. In particular, we show that the output of our model converges to the $L^2$-optimal prediction. This can be interpreted as solution to a special filtering problem. We provide experiments showing that the theoretical results also hold empirically. Moreover, we experimentally show that our model outperforms the baselines in more complex learning tasks and give comparisons on real-world datasets.
Traditional Sports and Games among Central Asia’s  Turkic Muslim Peoples, 1400 to 1850 AD: Training,  Hunting, and Festivals
Creators: name: Akyildiz, Sevket
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sports
subject: Central Asia
subject: Eurasia
subject: Sports--Folklore
subject: Turkey
subject: Physical education and training
subject: Islamic Empire
subject: Muslims
subject: History

description: Traditional sports and recreation in Central Asia are deep-rooted and  ancient. The Central Asian Turkic people participated in physical culture for  different reasons; horse races, wrestling, archery, and hunting had combat  training elements—while fairs, circuses, and home entertainments allowed people to be distracted from everyday issues. Sports and leisure events helped  social interaction and family bonding during seasonal festivals and Islamic  holidays. Indeed, the following study shows that particular sports were  permissible in the Islamic tradition. This descriptive essay contains three parts: (i) concepts and definitions; (ii) traditional and folk sports, hunting, and  recreational pastimes; and (iii) traditional sites of sports places among the nomad and oasis societies. The focus is the majority-Muslim Turkic and Iranian￾Persian peoples of the lands and societies that modern-day scholars label as ‘Central Asia’. The historical sweep from 1400 to 1850AD covers the era when Muslim dynasties, tribal leaders, and communities had long-established  regional control, influencing cultural construction (despite an increasing Russian presence since 1731AD on the Kazakh and Kyrgyz steppe lands). The  paper will outline more than twenty-five different historic sports and leisure  pastimes among Turkic and Persian Central Asians.
Are You A Risk Taker? Adversarial Learning of Asymmetric Cross-Domain Alignment for Risk Tolerance Prediction
Creators: name: Liu, Zhe
name: Yao, Lina
name: Wang, Xianzhi
name: Bai, Lei
name: An, Jake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most current studies on survey analysis and risk tolerance modelling lack professional knowledge and domain-specific models. Given the effectiveness of generative adversarial learning in cross-domain information, we design an Asymmetric cross-Domain Generative Adversarial Network (ADGAN) for domain scale inequality. ADGAN utilizes the information-sufficient domain to provide extra information to improve the representation learning on the information-insufficient domain via domain alignment. We provide data analysis and user model on two data sources: Consumer Consumption Information and Survey Information. We further test ADGAN on a real-world dataset with view embedding structures and show ADGAN can better deal with the class imbalance and unqualified data space than state-of-the-art, demonstrating the effectiveness of leveraging asymmetrical domain information.
Majority-vote model on random graphs
Creators: name: Pereira, Luiz F. C.
name: Moreira, F. G. Brady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The majority-vote model with noise on random graphs has been studied. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to characterize the order-disorder phase transition appearing in the system. We found that the value of the critical noise parameter is an increasing function of the mean connectivity of the random graph. The critical exponents beta/nu, gamma/nu and 1/nu were calculated for several values of z, and our analysis yielded critical exponents satisfying the hyperscaling relation with effective dimensionality equal to unity.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Heteroneda billardieri Crotch 1874
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Heteroneda
Heteroneda billardieri

description: 66. billardieri Crotch, 1874
Distribution: India (Northeastern region); Myanmar; Indonesia; Singapore; Philippines; China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Entwicklung und Zukunft der EU – Agrarhandelspräferenzen für die südlichen und östlichen Mittelmeeranrainerstaaten
Creators: name: Grethe, Harald
name: Nolte, Stephan
name: Tangermann, Stefan
name: Grethe, Harald
name: Nolte, Stephan
name: Tangermann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: preferential trade
subject: preference margin
subject: mediterranean countries
subject: Euro-Mediterranean Agreements
subject: preference erosion

description: The EU has recently completed negotiating a series of association agreements with mediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods which are granted under these agreements as well as under former arrangements are analyzed by calculating the value of preference margins at several stages in the evolution of preferences. The total value of preference margins for all countries covered was about € 130 million under the agreements in the midseventies and increased by 48 per cent until 1995. It was eroded by about 14 per cent until 2000 due to the reduction of EU MFN tariffs. The extended preferences under the new agreements more than compensate for this erosion of preferences and result in a total value of preference margins of € 226 million once all agreements have entered into force.
Fluctuations in the Statistical Model of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Mekjian, Aram Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuations in the statistical model of heavy ion collisions are studied. The role of statistics, relativity, constraints, decaying resonances and branching processes are investigated using this model. Also studied are thermodynamic properties related to these fluctuations with specific concerns centered around the behavior of the specific heat.
description: 17 pages
The Impact of Postharvest Research
Creators: name: Goletti, Francesco
name: Wolff, Christiane
name: Goletti, Francesco
name: Wolff, Christiane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Food Security
subject: Poverty alleviation. Research institutes
subject: Postharvest technology

description: While research on the improvement of agricultural production has received considerable attention and funding, until recently postharvest activities have not attracted much attention from international research organizations. However, there is an emerging consensus on the critical role that postharvest systems can play in meeting the overall goals of food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable agriculture particularly in developing countries. This study provides preliminary evidence on the impact of postharvest research on these goals; furthermore the study argues that postharvest research at international agricultural research organizations is justified by its international public good nature.
Additional file 1 of Development of a new gene expression vector for Thermus thermophilus using a silica-inducible promoter
Creators: name: Fujino, Yasuhiro
name: Goda, Shuichiro
name: Suematsu, Yuri
name: Doi, Katsumi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Plasmids used in this study. Table S2. Primers used in this study. Figure S1. Effect of silicic acid on the growth of Thermus thermophilus HB27 cells harboring the βgal/pSix1 plasmid. Table S3. β-Galactosidase activity after medium exchange. Figure S2. Comparison of putative sip promoter region between T. thermophilus HB8 and HB27 Figure S3. Homologous recombination between chromosomal DNA and plasmid DNA. Table S4. Sequence of pisGDH for expression in Thermus thermophilus.
Additional file 2 of Results of a global, patient-based survey assessing the impact of psoriatic arthritis discussed in the context of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) questionnaire
Creators: name: Coates, L. C.
name: A.-M. Orbai
name: V. F. Azevedo
name: J. C. Cappelleri
name: K. Steinberg
name: R. Lippe
name: I. Lim
name: L. Eder
name: P. Richette
name: M. Y. Weng
name: R. Queiro Silva
name: L. Fallon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Categorization of questions by domain of health.
Can Encrypted DNS Be Fast?
Creators: name: Hounsel, Austin
name: Schmitt, Paul
name: Borgolte, Kevin
name: Feamster, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the performance of encrypted DNS protocols and conventional DNS from thousands of home networks in the United States, over one month in 2020. We perform these measurements from the homes of 2,693 participating panelists in the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Measuring Broadband America program. We found that clients do not have to trade DNS performance for privacy. For certain resolvers, DoT was able to perform faster than DNS in median response times, even as latency increased. We also found significant variation in DoH performance across recursive resolvers. Based on these results, we recommend that DNS clients (e.g., web browsers) should periodically conduct simple latency and response time measurements to determine which protocol and resolver a client should use. No single DNS protocol nor resolver performed the best for all clients.
description: Presented at the Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2021. The final authenticated publication is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72582-2_26
Additional file 1 of Results of a global, patient-based survey assessing the impact of psoriatic arthritis discussed in the context of the Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) questionnaire
Creators: name: Coates, L. C.
name: A.-M. Orbai
name: V. F. Azevedo
name: J. C. Cappelleri
name: K. Steinberg
name: R. Lippe
name: I. Lim
name: L. Eder
name: P. Richette
name: M. Y. Weng
name: R. Queiro Silva
name: L. Fallon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Survey questions and responses.
Additional file 2 of Evaluating dose delivered of a behavioral intervention for childhood obesity prevention: a secondary analysis
Creators: name: Heerman, William J.
name: Sommer, Evan C.
name: Qi, Ally
name: Burgess, Laura E.
name: Mitchell, Stephanie J.
name: Samuels, Lauren R.
name: Martin, Nina C.
name: Barkin, Shari L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Predicting BMI-Z immediately following the 1-year intervention in using three separate adjusted linear regression models with the following predictors: Model 1) face-to-face intensive modality; Model 2) maintenance phone call modality; and Model 3) modality main effects and interaction. Each model controls for child age, child gender, parent race/ethnicity, and baseline child BMI-Z.
Energetic model of tumor growth
Creators: name: Castorina, Paolo
name: Zappalá, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A macroscopic model of the tumor Gompertzian growth is proposed. This approach is based on the energetic balance among the different cell activities, described by methods of statistical mechanics and related to the growth inhibitor factors. The model is successfully applied to the multicellular tumor spheroid data.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, contribution to "Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity", Erice, July 2004
Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Effect on the Temporal Patterning of Neural Synchronization
Creators: name: Zirkle, Joel
name: Rubchinsky, Leonid L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neural synchrony in the brain at rest is usually variable and intermittent, thus intervals of predominantly synchronized activity are interrupted by intervals of desynchronized activity. Prior studies suggested that this temporal structure of the weakly synchronous activity might be functionally significant: many short desynchronizations may be functionally different from few long desynchronizations even if the average synchrony level is the same. In this study, we used computational neuroscience methods to investigate the effects of spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) on the temporal patterns of synchronization in a simple model. We employed a small network of conductance-based model neurons that were connected via excitatory plastic synapses. The dynamics of this network was subjected to the time-series analysis methods used in prior experimental studies. We found that STDP could alter the synchronized dynamics in the network in several ways, depending on the time scale that plasticity acts on. However, in general, the action of STDP in the simple network considered here is to promote dynamics with short desynchronizations (i.e. dynamics reminiscent of that observed in experimental studies). Complex interplay of the cellular and synaptic dynamics may lead to the activity-dependent adjustment of synaptic strength in such a way as to facilitate experimentally observed short desynchronizations in the intermittently synchronized neural activity.
AVTOMOBILLAR DVIGATELI CHIQINDI GAZLAR SARFINI KAMAYTIRISH VA CHIQARISH QUVURI SAMARADORLIGINI OSHIRISH
Creators: name: Fayziyev, Javohir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Avtomobillar tuzilishini takomillashtirish detallarni eyilishini kamaytiradi, ishonchliligini va uzoq ishlashini oshiradi. Masalan: dvigatelga inersion moy tozalagichining o’rnatilishi 98-99% changni ushlab qolishni ta’minnlaydi va xizmat muddatini 2 barobariga oshiradi. Ashyo sifati, unga mexanik va issiqlik ta’sirida ishlov berilishi eyilishning kamayishiga, avtomobildan foydalanish muddati va davrining uzayishiga sabab bo’ladi. Masalan: dvigatel tsilindri devorlarini eyilishga chidamliligini oshirish uchun ligerlangan cho’yandan tayyorlangan va yuqori darajadagi zanglashga chidamlilik xassasiga ega bo’lgan qisqa gilzalardan foydalanilganda, tsilindrlar devorini 2-2.5 barobarga kamayadi.
Non-Majorana states yield nearly quantized conductance in superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices
Creators: name: Yu, P.
name: Chen, J.
name: Gomanko, M.
name: Badawy, G.
name: Bakkers, E. P. A. M.
name: Zuo, K.
name: Mourik, V.
name: Frolov, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conductance at zero source-drain voltage bias in InSb nanowire/NbTiN superconductor devices exhibits peaks that are close to a quantized value of $2e^2/h$. The nearly quantized resonances evolve in the tunnel barrier strength, magnetic field and magnetic field orientation in a way consistent with Majorana zero modes. Our devices feature two tunnel probes on both ends of the nanowire separated by a 400 nm nanowire segment covered by the superconductor. We only find nearly quantized zero bias peaks localized to one end of the nanowire, while conductance dips are observed for the same parameters on the other end. This undermines the Majorana explanation as Majorana modes must come in pairs. We do identify states delocalized from end to end near zero magnetic field and at higher electron density, which is not in the basic Majorana regime. We lay out procedures for assessing the nonlocality of subgap wavefunctions and provide a classification of nanowire bound states based on their localization.
description: Figures can be interacted with via https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/frolovgroup/Quantized-Zero-Bias-Peaks-from-trivial-states-in-Majorana-nanowire-devices/329582d89729de51f7b0177d2774bd1bc3e75e53
The economics of reducing food-borne diseases in developing countries: the case of diarrhea in Rwanda
Creators: name: Von Witzke, Harald
name: Kirschke, Dieter
name: Lotze-Campen, Hermann
name: Noleppa, Steffen
name: Von Witzke, Harald
name: Kirschke, Dieter
name: Lotze-Campen, Hermann
name: Noleppa, Steffen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: public health
subject: consumer protection
subject: social cost
subject: economics of foodborne diseases

description: The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results suggest that both prevention and treatment are socially very profitable. However, simple treatments such as Oral Rehydration Therapy have a higher social rate of return than prevention.
The supernova rate per unit mass
Creators: name: Mannucci, F.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Panagia, N.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Cresci, G.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Petrosian, A.
name: Turatto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the rate of supernovae (SNe) of different types along the Hubble sequence normalized to the near-infrared luminosity and to the stellar mass of the parent galaxies. This is made possible by the new complete catalog of near-infrared galaxy magnitudes obtained by 2MASS. We find that the rates of all SN types, including Ia, Ib/c and II, show a sharp dependence on both the morphology and the (B-K) colors of the parent galaxies and, therefore, on the star formation activity. In particular we find, with a high statistical significance, that the type Ia rate in late type galaxies is a factor ~20 higher than in E/S0. Similarly, the type Ia rate in the galaxies bluer than B-K=2.6 is about a factor of 30 larger than in galaxies with B--K>4.1. These findings can be explained by assuming that a significant fraction of Ia events in late Spirals/Irregulars originates in a relatively young stellar component.
description: 10 pages, A&A, in press
HInet: Generating neutral hydrogen from dark matter with neural networks
Creators: name: Wadekar, Digvijay
name: Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over very large cosmological volumes. In order to maximize the scientific return of these surveys, accurate theoretical predictions are needed. Hydrodynamic simulations currently are the most accurate tool to provide those predictions in the mildly to non-linear regime. Unfortunately, their computational cost is very high: tens of millions of CPU hours. We use convolutional neural networks to find the mapping between the spatial distribution of matter from N-body simulations and HI from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulation IllustrisTNG. Our model performs better than the widely used theoretical model: Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) for all statistical properties up to the non-linear scales $k\lesssim1$ h/Mpc. Our method allows the generation of 21cm mocks over very big cosmological volumes with similar properties as hydrodynamic simulations.
description: 10+5 pages, 7+3 figures. Added supplementary figures and sections to the Appendix for clarification, conclusions unchanged. Version appearing in ApJ
Identification and characterization of proteins that interact with the NH2-Terminus of the Androgen Receptor
Creators: name: Rao, Mira A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The overall goal of the research described in this thesis is to gain a more comprehensive understanding of androgen receptor (AR) action in prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is among the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men. Although prostate cancer is often curable in its early stages, limited treatment options are available for men that present with advanced disease. Androgens are the male sex hormones that are essential for normal growth, development and maintenance of the prostate gland, and may have a role in prostate cancer progression. Androgens carry out their function through the AR and significant effort has been made to gain a better understanding of the accessory proteins that interact with AR to regulate and modify receptor responses. Our laboratory has used conventional and novel yeast two-hybrid assay systems to identify proteins that interact with regions of AR that have traditionally been hard to analyze. Essential elements of these assay systems are discussed in this thesis. Two proteins, RanBPM and cyclin G-associated kinase (GAK), were identified as AR-interacting proteins using these yeast two-hybrid systems and co-immunoprecipitation assays were used to confirm in vivo interactions. Interacting domains between these two proteins and AR were determined by in vitro GST and His-tag pull-down assays. Both RanBPM and GAK were found to interact with multiple domains of AR. Specific questions regarding the role of RanBPM and GAK in AR transactivation were addressed using transcription assays. Both proteins act as co-activators that enhance the NH2-terminal ligand-independent transactivation function of AR. Finally, involvement and prognostic value of RanBPM and GAK in advanced disease were assessed using two prostate cancer progression models. This research provides insight into the role of co-activator function in AR-mediated transcription and the possible role of co-activators in disease progression.
On the evidence for discs around Blue Straggler stars
Creators: name: Porter, John M.
name: Townsend, R. H. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of blue stragglers by De Marco et al. (2004) have revealed continuum deficits on the blue side of the Balmer discontinuity, leading these authors to infer the presence of discs around the stars. This intriguing possibility may throw light on aspects of the mechanisms responsible for at least some of these objects; current theories of blue straggler formation invoke stellar collisions or interacting binaries, both of which appear capable of forming a circumstellar disc. However, by synthesizing photospheric spectra for models of rotating blue stragglers, we demonstrate that the Balmer jump enhancements can be wholly attributed to the influence of oblateness and gravity darkening on the formation of the continuum. Therefore, we are led to conclude that the observations of De Marco et al. can be ascribed a more prosaic explanation, that of rapid stellar rotation arising from the merger/interaction formation process.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Ap.J. Letters
Some new results on relative entropy production, time reversal, and optimal control of time-inhomogeneous diffusion processes
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J60, 93E20, 82C31

description: This paper studies time-inhomogeneous nonequilibrium diffusion processes, including both Brownian dynamics and Langevin dynamics. We derive upper bounds of the relative entropy production of the time-inhomogeneous process with respect to the transient invariant probability measures. We also study the time reversal of the reverse process in Crooks' fluctuation theorem. We show that the time reversal of the reverse process coincides with the optimally controlled forward process that leads to zero variance importance sampling estimator based on Jarzynski's equality.
description: accepted manuscript
A Note on kappa-Diagonal Surface States
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify all twist-even squeezed states in string field theory which are diagonal in the kappa-basis and simultaneously surface states. For this purpose, we derive a consistency condition for the maps defining kappa-diagonal surface states. It restricts these maps to a two-parameter family of Jacobi sine functions. Not all of them are admissible maps for surface states; standard requirements single out two one-parameter families containing the generalized butterfly states and the wedge states.
description: 1+18 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX
The Temperley-Lieb algebra and its generalizations in the Potts and XXZ models
Creators: name: Nichols, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss generalizations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra in the Potts and XXZ models. These can be used to describe the addition of different types of integrable boundary terms. We use the Temperley-Lieb algebra and its one-boundary, two-boundary, and periodic extensions to classify different integrable boundary terms in the 2, 3, and 4-state Potts models. The representations always lie at critical points where the algebras becomes non-semisimple and possess indecomposable representations. In the one-boundary case we show how to use representation theory to extract the Potts spectrum from an XXZ model with particular boundary terms and hence obtain the finite size scaling of the Potts models. In the two-boundary case we find that the Potts spectrum can be obtained by combining several XXZ models with different boundary terms. As in the Temperley-Lieb case there is a direct correspondence between representations of the lattice algebra and those in the continuum conformal field theory.
description: 49 pages
Landscape Perspectives for the Port-City Relationship. Reporting from the Workshops of Taranto, Brindisi and Bari
Creators: name: Chouairi, Amina
name: Sivo, Silvia
Publisher: name: European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes
Year: 2021

description: This article delivers the report of a cycle of three workshops dedicated to urban water and port city landscape, which took place in Taranto (2018), Brindisi (2019) and Bari (2021). These experiences, co-ordinated by Prof. Michael Jakob and Ing. Arch. Maria Cristina Petralla, aimed to analyse the current status and design the future of these territories, focusing on their landscape elements. The coexistence and overlapping of different spatial uses and conflicts have been investigated, between development and protection. Common elements and differences of each port city’s cultural heritage were evaluated, in order to develop a coherent landscape-oriented approach that can lay the foundations for an inclusive and resilient re-design process. After a short overview regarding the water culture and maritime mindset of each case studio and the specificities of each workshop, the article reflects on the role of participative workshops as practices enabling collaborative decision-making and fostering the recognition of the port cityscape as a driver of shared development perspective.
description: European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Port City Cultures, Values, or Maritime Mindsets, Part 2: Studying and Shaping Cultures in Port City Territories
Temporally stable video segmentation without video annotations
Creators: name: Azulay, Aharon
name: Halperin, Tavi
name: Vantzos, Orestis
name: Borenstein, Nadav
name: Bibi, Ofir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Temporally consistent dense video annotations are scarce and hard to collect. In contrast, image segmentation datasets (and pre-trained models) are ubiquitous, and easier to label for any novel task. In this paper, we introduce a method to adapt still image segmentation models to video in an unsupervised manner, by using an optical flow-based consistency measure. To ensure that the inferred segmented videos appear more stable in practice, we verify that the consistency measure is well correlated with human judgement via a user study. Training a new multi-input multi-output decoder using this measure as a loss, together with a technique for refining current image segmentation datasets and a temporal weighted-guided filter, we observe stability improvements in the generated segmented videos with minimal loss of accuracy.