cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High field magnetic resonant properties of beta'-(ET)2SF5CF2SO3
Creators: name: Rutel, I. B.
name: Zvyagin, S. A.
name: Brooks, J. S.
name: Krzystek, J.
name: Kuhns, P.
name: Reyes, A. P.
name: Ward, B. H.
name: Schlueter, J. A.
name: Winter, R. W.
name: Gard, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic electron spin resonance (ESR) investigation of the low temperature regime for the (ET)2SF5CF2SO3 system was performed in the frequency range of ~200-700 GHz, using backward wave oscillator sources, and at fields up to 25 T. Newly acquired access to the high frequency and fields shows experimental ESR results in agreement with the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) investigation, revealing evidence that the transition seen at 20 K is not of conventional spin-Peierls order. A significant change of the spin resonance spectrum in beta'-(ET)2SF5CF2SO3 at low temperatures, indicates a transition into a three-dimensional-antiferromagnetic (3D AFM) phase.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures, minor grammatical changes
Conus violaceus Gmelin 1791
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus violaceus

description: 58. Conus violaceus Gmelin, 1791 (Figure 59)
 Conus violaceus Gmelin, 1791: 3391, no. 51 (representation of holotype, Martini 1777: pl. 2, figs. 18, 19 (50 x 17 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); locality unknown).
 Conus tendineus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792: 733–734, no. 127 (lectotype, MHNG (76 x 27 mm) (Walls 1979); "les mers d’ Afrique").
 Material examined: MBMCS 158, 1 specimen, SL 55 mm; SW 20 mm.
 Description. Shell medium sized, moderately solid, glossy. Body whorl narrowly cylindrical; outline convex over adapical third and straight below to almost uniformly straight and parallel-sided. Shoulder indistinct from spire. Spire of moderate height; outline convex, sutures narrowly channeled. Spire tip rounded and sharp. Body whorl with widely separated narrow spiral ribs from base to shoulder; weaker at shoulder. Aperture narrow, wider anteriorly; outer lip thick, straight, sloping below shoulder.
Ground colour white. Body whorl with light brown axial streaks and with three dark-brown spiral bands above centre, within basal third and at shoulder. Spire light-brown with early whorls white. Base violet. Aperture white; outer colour visible along the inner lip margin.
 Distribution. This species has not been previously reported from India.
The specimen described herein was collected from Pamban (Table 6) by trawling in 10–20 m, mainly on intertidal sandy-mud.
 Remarks. This study reports the occurrence of C. violaceus for the first time from India. It is a very rare species along the TamilNadu Coast.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on pages 50-51
Risk Factors of Intraoperative Dysglycemia in Elderly Surgical Patients
Creators: name: Knaak, Cornelia
name: Wollersheim, Tobias
name: Mörgeli, Rudolf
name: Spies, Claudia
name: Vorderwülbecke, Gerald
name: Windmann, Victoria
name: Kuenz, Sophia
name: Kurpanik, Maryam
name: Lachmann, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Intraoperative dysglycemia
subject: diabetes
subject: hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia
subject: risk factors
subject: time-in-target range
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUNDː Dysglycemia is associated with adverse outcome including increased morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. Acute insulin resistance due to the surgical stress response is seen as a major cause of so-called stress hyperglycemia. However, understanding of factors determining blood glucose (BG) during surgery is limited. Therefore, we investigated risk factors contributing to intraoperative dysglycemia. METHODSː In this subgroup investigation of the BIOCOG study, we analyzed 87 patients of ≥ 65 years with tight intraoperative BG measurement every 20 min during elective surgery. Dysglycemia was defined as at least one intraoperative BG measurement outside the recommended target range of 80-150 mg/dL. Additionally, all postoperative BG measurements in the ICU were obtained. Multivariable logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) status, diabetes, type and duration of surgery, minimum Hemoglobin (Hb) and mean intraoperative norepinephrine use was performed to identify risk factors of intraoperative dysglycemia. RESULTSː 46 (52.9%) out of 87 patients developed intraoperative dysglycemia. 31.8% of all intraoperative BG measurements were detected outside the target range. Diabetes [OR 9.263 (95% CI 2.492, 34.433); p=0.001] and duration of surgery [OR 1.005 (1.000, 1.010); p=0.036] were independently associated with the development of intraoperative dysglycemia. Patients who experienced intraoperative dysglycemia had significantly elevated postoperative mean (p<0.001) and maximum BG levels (p=0.001). Length of ICU (p=0.007) as well as hospital stay (p=0.012) were longer in patients with dysglycemia. CONCLUSIONSː Diabetes and duration of surgery were confirmed as independent risk factors for intraoperative dysglycemia, which was associated with adverse outcome. These patients, therefore, might require intensified glycemic control. Increased awareness and management of intraoperative dysglycemia is warranted.
Is Site-Specific Nematode Management Profitable: Evidence from Spatial Econometric Analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Zheng
name: Monfort, Walter
name: Kirckpatrick, Terrance
name: Griffin, Terry
name: Liu, Zheng
name: Monfort, Walter
name: Kirckpatrick, Terrance
name: Griffin, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: spatial econometrics
subject: yield monitor
subject: nematodes
subject: site-specific application

description: Nematode management in cotton has eluded farmers and researchers for decades. Control strategies have typically relied upon highly toxic nematicide application. Site-specific management provides opportunity to improve profitability while maintaining environmental stewardship; and can be based on yield penalty functions estimated from empirical data. A 4-year field-scale experiment was implemented in a commercial Arkansas cotton field known to exhibit crop yield loss due to nematodes. Root-knot nematode population was measured at four times within each plot each year: 1) prior to nematicide application, 2) at planting, 3) at peak bloom, and 4) at harvest. Due to spatial effects, spatial econometric models were estimated to obtain reliable yield response coefficients. Site-specific cotton yield response to treatment, soil texture, and nematode population were evaluated using a spatial error process model. Specific objectives were to estimate cotton yield response to environmental and treatment factors then conduct profitability analyses for site-specific nematicide application. The results support the potential of site-specific nematicide application including management zone delineation. Profitability analysis of variable rate nematicide application provides an initial insight into the potential of site-specific nematode management.
Is Zero Tolerance an Optimal Weed Management Strategy? The Economic Threshold Revisited
Creators: name: Griffin, Terry
name: Griffin, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: economic threshold
subject: herbicide
subject: resistance
subject: weed
subject: zero tolerance

description: Economic thresholds (ET) were originally developed and applied to insect management during the 1970s. Traditional ET methodologies have sporadic success in weed management scenarios and are not globally appropriate for weed management especially in presence of herbicide resistant species. Historically, the economic threshold equation has been static and myopic, ignoring any multiple-period impact or the soil seed bank. The evolution of herbicide resistant weed species has prompted scientists to reconsider economic thresholds for weed management; and intuitively have chosen zero-tolerance for potentially herbicide-resistant weed species. The weed science and economics literature addressing resistant weed management supports zero-tolerance, especially when dynamic optimization techniques were applied to the problem. Although dynamic programming techniques do not equate to zero-tolerance recommendations, single-period static cost-benefit analyses tend to support non-zero economic thresholds in scenarios where zero-tolerance was the optimum strategy. The objectives were to present an ET model suitable for accurately modeling weed control strategies with herbicide resistant species. Preliminary results suggest the multiple-season dynamic framework is the best management practice for weed management.
Survey on the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation
Creators: name: Heinonen, Esko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a survey on the development of the study of the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. Part of this survey is based on the introductory part of the doctoral dissertation of the author. The paper is organised as follows. First we introduce Cartan-Hadamard manifolds and the concept of asymptotic Dirichlet problem, then discuss about the development of the results and describe the methods used in the proofs. In the end we mention some results about the nonsolvability of the asymptotic Dirichlet problem.
description: To appear in the conference proceedings of MI:V
Investigating the Light Scalar Mesons
Creators: name: Black, D.
name: Fariborz, A. H.
name: Moussa, S.
name: Nasri, S.
name: Schechter, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first briefly review a treatment of the scalars in meson meson scattering based on a non-linear chiral Lagrangian, with unitarity implemented by a "local" modification of the scalar propagators. It is shown that the main results are confirmed by a treatment in the SU(3) linear sigma model in which unitarity is implemented "globally". Some remarks are made on the speculative subject of the scalars' quark structure.
description: 9 pages,3 figures,talk at hadron2001, Protvino
Pion photoproduction on the nucleon in the quark model
Creators: name: Zhao, Q.
name: Al-Khalili, J. S.
name: Li, Z. -P.
name: Workman, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed quark-model study of pion photoproduction within the effective Lagrangian approach. Cross sections and single-polarization observables are investigated for the four charge channels, $γp\to π^+ n$, $γn\to π^- p$, $γp\to π^0 p$, and $γn\to π^0 n$. Leaving the $πNΔ$ coupling strength to be a free parameter, we obtain a reasonably consistent description of these four channels from threshold to the first resonance region. Within this effective Lagrangian approach, strongly constrainted by the quark model, we consider the issue of double-counting which may occur if additional {\it t}-channel contributions are included.
description: Revtex, 35 pages, 16 eps figures; version to appear on PRC
Discerning the spatio-temporal disease patterns of surgically induced OA mouse models
Creators: name: Haase, Tobias
name: Sunkara, Vikram
name: Kohl, Benjamin
name: Meier, Carola
name: Bußmann, Patricia
name: Becker, Jessica
name: Jagielski, Michal
name: Kleist, Max Von
name: Ertel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of disability in ageing societies, with no effective therapies available to date. Two preclinical models are widely used to validate novel OA interventions (MCL-MM and DMM). Our aim is to discern disease dynamics in these models to provide a clear timeline in which various pathological changes occur. OA was surgically induced in mice by destabilisation of the medial meniscus. Analysis of OA progression revealed that the intensity and duration of chondrocyte loss and cartilage lesion formation were significantly different in MCL-MM vs DMM. Firstly, apoptosis was seen prior to week two and was narrowly restricted to the weight bearing area. Four weeks post injury the magnitude of apoptosis led to a 40–60% reduction of chondrocytes in the non-calcified zone. Secondly, the progression of cell loss preceded the structural changes of the cartilage spatio-temporally. Lastly, while proteoglycan loss was similar in both models, collagen type II degradation only occurred more prominently in MCL-MM. Dynamics of chondrocyte loss and lesion formation in preclinical models has important implications for validating new therapeutic strategies. Our work could be helpful in assessing the feasibility and expected response of the DMM- and the MCL-MM models to chondrocyte mediated therapies.
Weight Bearing Activities change the Pivot Position after Total Knee Arthroplasty
Creators: name: Moewis, Philippe
name: Hommel, Hagen
name: Trepczynski, Adam
name: Krahl, Leonie
name: Roth, Philipp Von
name: Duda, Georg N.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: total knee arthroplasties (TKA)
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The knee joint center of rotation is altered in the absence of the anterior cruciate ligament, which leads to substantially higher variance in kinematic patterns. To overcome this, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) designs with a high congruency in the lateral compartment have been proposed. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of a lateral pivot TKA-design on in-vivo knee joint kinematics. Tibiofemoral motion was retrospectively addressed in 10 patients during unloaded flexion-extension and loaded lunge using single plane fluoroscopy. During the unloaded flexion-extension movement, the lateral condyle remained almost stationary with little rollback at maximum flexion. The medial condyle exhibited anterior translation during the whole flexion cycle. During the loaded lunge movement, a higher degree of rollback compared to the unloaded activity was observed on the lateral condyle, whereas the medial condyle remained almost stationary. The results showed a clear lateral pivot during the unloaded activity, reflective of the implant's geometric characteristics, and a change to a medial pivot and a higher lateral rollback during the weight-bearing conditions, revealing the impact of load and muscle force. It remains unclear if the kinematics with a lateral TKA design could be considered as physiological, due to the limited knowledge available on native knee joint kinematics.
Manifestly Finite Derivation of the Quantum Kink Mass
Creators: name: Evslin, Jarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1974 Dashen, Hasslacher and Neveu calculated the leading quantum correction to the mass of the kink in the scalar $ϕ^4$ theory in 1+1 dimensions. The derivation relies on the identification of the perturbations about the kink as solutions of the Poschl-Teller (PT) theory. They regularize the theory by placing it in a periodic box, although the kink is not itself periodic. They also require an ad hoc identification of plane wave and PT states which is difficult to interpret in the decompactified limit. We rederive the mass using the kink operator to recast this problem in terms of the PT Hamiltonian which we explicitly diagonalize using its exact eigenstates. We normal order from the beginning, rendering our theory finite so that no compactification is necessary. In our final expression for the kink mass, the form of the PT potential disappears, suggesting that our mass formula applies to other quantum solitons.
description: 36 pages, no figures, v2: typos fixed
Supplementary document for Towards high-power-density laser-driven lightings: Enhancing heat dissipation in phoshor-in-glass film by introducing h-BN - 5854394.pdf
Creators: name: Sui, Ping
name: Lin, Hang
name: Lin, Yue
name: Lin, Shisheng
name: Huang, Jiajing
name: Xu, Ju
name: Cheng, Yao
name: Wang, Yuansheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supporting information
On the classification of type D spacetimes
Creators: name: Ferrando, J. J.
name: Sáez, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a classification of the type D spacetimes based on the invariant differential properties of the Weyl principal structure. Our classification is established using tensorial invariants of the Weyl tensor and, consequently, besides its intrinsic nature, it is valid for the whole set of the type D metrics and it applies on both, vacuum and non-vacuum solutions. We consider the Cotton-zero type D metrics and we study the classes that are compatible with this condition. The subfamily of spacetimes with constant argument of the Weyl eigenvalue is analyzed in more detail by offering a canonical expression for the metric tensor and by giving a generalization of some results about the non-existence of purely magnetic solutions. The usefulness of these results is illustrated in characterizing and classifying a family of Einstein-Maxwell solutions. Our approach permits us to give intrinsic and explicit conditions that label every metric, obtaining in this way an operational algorithm to detect them. In particular a characterization of the Reissner-Nordström metric is accomplished.
description: 29 pages, 0 figures
Prevalence and associated factors of skin cancer in aged nursing home residents: A multicenter prevalence study
Creators: name: Akdeniz, Merve
name: Hahnel, Elisabeth
name: Ulrich, Claas
name: Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike
name: Kottner, Jan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: skin cancer
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Non-melanoma-skin cancer is an emerging clinical problem in the elderly, fair skinned population which predominantly affects patients aged older than 70 years. Its steady increase in incidence rates and morbidity is paralleled by related medical costs. Despite the fact that many elderly patients are in need of care and are living in nursing homes, specific data on the prevalence of skin cancer in home care and the institutional long-term care setting is currently lacking. A representative multicenter prevalence study was conducted in a random sample of ten institutional long-term care facilities in the federal state of Berlin, Germany. In total, n = 223 residents were included. Actinic keratoses, the precursor lesions of invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma were the most common epithelial skin lesions (21.1%, 95% CI 16.2 to 26.9). Non-melanoma skin cancer was diagnosed in 16 residents (7.2%, 95% CI 4.5 to 11.3). None of the residents had a malignant melanoma. Only few bivariate associations were detected between non-melanoma skin cancer and demographic, biographic and functional characteristics. Male sex was significantly associated with actinic keratosis whereas female sex was associated with non-melanoma skin cancer. Smoking was associated with an increased occurrence of non-melanoma skin cancer. Regular dermatology check-ups in nursing homes would be needed but already now due to financial limitations, lack of time in daily clinical practice and limited number of practising dermatologists, it is not the current standard. With respect to the worldwide growing aging population new programs and decisions are required. Overall, primary health care professionals should play a more active role in early diagnosis of skin cancer in nursing home residents. Dermoscopy courses, web-based or smartphone-based applications and teledermatology may support health care professionals to provide elderly nursing home residents an early diagnosis of skin cancer.
A robust entangling gate for polar molecules using magnetic and microwave fields
Creators: name: Hughes, Michael
name: Frye, Matthew D.
name: Sawant, Rahul
name: Bhole, Gaurav
name: Jones, Jonathan A.
name: Cornish, Simon L.
name: Tarbutt, M. R.
name: Hutson, Jeremy M.
name: Jaksch, Dieter
name: Mur-Petit, Jordi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar molecules are an emerging platform for quantum technologies based on their long-range electric dipole-dipole interactions, which open new possibilities for quantum information processing and the quantum simulation of strongly correlated systems. Here, we use magnetic and microwave fields to design a fast entangling gate with $>0.999$ fidelity and which is robust with respect to fluctuations in the trapping and control fields and to small thermal excitations. These results establish the feasibility to build a scalable quantum processor with a broad range of molecular species in optical-lattice and optical-tweezers setups.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
The impact of improved clean cookstoves on households in Southern Haiti
Creators: name: Sagbo, Nicaise S. M.
name: Kusunose, Yoko
name: Sagbo, Nicaise S. M.
name: Kusunose, Yoko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: technology adoption
subject: improved cookstoves
subject: propensity score matching

description: The present paper evaluates the effects of the use of improved cookstoves (ICSs) on household fuel expenditure in Southern Haiti. It takes advantage of the fact that approximately 80 households received ICSs, a novel technology, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Survey work in 2014 permits a comparison of fuel expenditures between ICS-using households and non-using households. The effect of ICS use on fuel expenditure is estimated using a simple t-test and propensity score matching methods. Ultimately, understanding the effect of ICS use on fuel expenditures will help promoters of ICSs to improve their marketing plans and increase adoption.
Conus arenatus Hwass
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus arenatus

description: 6. Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (Figure 7)
 Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792: 621–622, no. 16 (lectotype, MHNG (35.5 x 19.5 mm) (Kohn 1968); "des Isles Philippines ").
 Cucullus arenosus Röding, 1798: 40, no. 494 (representation of lectotype, Martini 1773: pl. 63, fig. 696 (Kohn 1975); locality unknown).
 Cucullus stercusmuscarum Röding, 1798: 40, no. 495 (representation of lectotype, Martini 1773: pl. 63, fig. 697 (25 x 13 mm) (Kohn 1975); locality unknown).
 Conus arenatus var. punctisminutissimus Lamarck, 1822: 452, no. 18b.
 Conus arenatus var. granulosa Lamarck, 1822: 452, no. 18c.
 Conus arenatus var. mesokatharos Tryon, 1883: 18, pl. 27, fig. 2 (holotype, NMWC (28 x 15 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); locality unknown).
 Conus aequipunctata Dautzenberg, 1937: 31, pl. 1, fig. 2 (holotype, IRSN (55 x 32 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); "the Red Sea coast at Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)").
 Conus arenatus var. undata Dautzenberg, 1937: 31, pl. 1, fig. 3 ("Amboine").
 Conus arenatus var. granulosa Dautzenberg, 1937: 32, pl. 1, fig. 4 ("Amboine").
 Conus arenatus bizona Coomans, 1981: 16–18, figs. 98, 131 (holotype, ZMA (35 x 20 mm) (Röckel et al. 1995); " Malindi, Kenya ").
 Material examined: MBMCS 106, 8 specimens, SL 25–42 mm; SW 12–18 mm.
 Description. Shell medium sized to large, moderately solid to moderately heavy. Body whorl ventricosely conical, outline convex. Siphonal fasciole distinct, occasionally separated from basal zone by an incision. Shoulder rounded, indistincty tuberculate. Spire low, outline moderately convex. Body whorl with weak spiral ribs at base, ribs granulose and extend to shoulder in small shells. Aperture narrow posteriorly, wide anteriorly; outer lip thick, convex.
Ground colour white. Body whorl with spiral rows of widely spaced brown dots, clustered in two interrupted spiral bands, and one above centre and the other near the base; dotted areas often with underlying grey shadows, most conspicuous within spiral bands. White dashes often irregularly alternating with brown dots. Early spire whorls white. Spire with radial clusters of brown dots. Aperture white.
 Distribution. Kohn (1978) reported two museum specimens of C. arenatus, one from Tuticorin (at BMNH) and another labeled “ Bombay ” (at NMW).
The specimens described herein were collected from Pamban (Table 6) by trawling in 10–40 m.
 Remarks. The last whorl has widely spaced dark brown dots, as opposed to narrowly spaced dots reported by Kohn (1978).
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on pages 19-20
Evaluation of Crop Insurance Choices for Cotton Producers under the 2014 Farm Bill
Creators: name: Luitel, Kishor
name: Knight, Thomas
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Luitel, Kishor
name: Knight, Thomas
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Farm Bill 2014
subject: cotton representative farm simulation
subject: crop insurance
subject: STAX
subject: SCO Endorsement.

description: New crop insurance coverage offered by the 2014 Farm Bill will be available to cotton farmers beginning in 2015. Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) and Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) are new crop insurance options, which are designed to protect farmers from shallow losses. STAX is only available for upland cotton producers, while SCO is available for all major farm program crops. The objective of this project is to assess the benefits of the new crop insurance offerings for cotton producers in the Texas High Plains. Representative dry land and mixed, irrigated and dry land farms were developed using consensus evaluations of panels of producers in two distinct areas of the High Plains. Our simulation analysis examined producer welfare benefits of alternative combinations of underlying yield or revenue insurance coverage and STAX or SCO. The results suggest that Revenue Protection combined with STAX is the optimal insurance selection for both risk neutral and risk averse producers.
Distinguishing Between Biological and Technical Replicates in Hypertension Research on Isolated Arteries
Creators: name: Tsvetkov, Dmitry
name: Kolpakov, Evgeniy
name: Kassmann, Mario
name: Schubert, Rudolf
name: Gollasch, Maik
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: adipocyte-derived relaxing factor (ADRF)
subject: perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT)
subject: biological replicates
subject: experimental study design
subject: sample size
subject: power of statistical analysis
subject: hierarchical model
subject: technical replicates
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is implicated in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, especially in obese individuals in which the quantity of renal and visceral PVAT is markedly increased. The control of arterial tone by PVAT has emerged as a relatively new field of experimental hypertension research. The discovery of this prototype of vasoregulation has been mostly inferred from data obtained using wire myography. Currently, there is a major discussion on distinguishing between biological vs. technical replicates in biomedical studies, which resulted in numerous guidelines being published on planning studies and publishing data by societies, journals, and associations. Experimental study designs are determined depending on how the experimentator distinguishes between biological vs. technical replicates. These definitions determine the ultimate standards required for making submissions to certain journals. In this article, we examine possible outcomes of different experimental study designs on PVAT control of arterial tone using isolated arteries. Based on experimental data, we determine the sample size and power of statistical analyses for such experiments. We discuss whether n-values should correspond to the number of arterial rings and analyze the resulting effects if those numbers are averaged to provide a single N-value per animal, or whether the hierarchical statistical method represents an alternative for analyzing such kind of data. Our analyses show that that the data (logEC50) from (+) PVAT to (–) PVAT arteries are clustered. Intraclass correlation (ICC) was 31.4%. Moreover, it appeared that the hierarchical approach was better than regular statistical tests as the analyses revealed by a better goodness of fit (v2-2LL test). Based on our results, we propose to use at least three independent arterial rings from each from three animals or at least seven arterial rings from each from two animals for each group, i.e., (+) PVAT vs. (–) PVAT. Finally, we discuss a clinical situation where distinguishing between biological vs. technical replicates can lead to absurd situations in clinical decision makings. We conclude that discrimination between biological vs. technical replicates is helpful in experimental studies but is difficult to implement in everyday’s clinical practice.
Inflaton Field and Primordial Blackhole
Creators: name: Paul, B. C.
name: Chakraborty, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial black hole formation has been studied using an inflaton field with a variable cosmological term as the potential.
description: 5 pages, LaTeX, Submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Combined Cyclosporin A and Hypothermia Treatment Inhibits Activation of BV-2 Microglia but Induces an Inflammatory Response in an Ischemia/Reperfusion Hippocampal Slice Culture Model
Creators: name: Wowro, Sylvia J.
name: Tong, Giang
name: Krech, Jana
name: Rolfs, Nele
name: Berger, Felix
name: Schmitt, Katharina R. L.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: BV-2 microglia
subject: DAMPs
subject: cyclosporin A
subject: hypothermia
subject: inflammation
subject: organotypic hippocampal slice culture
subject: oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion
subject: primary neuron
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction: Hypothermia attenuates cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal cell death associated with neuroinflammation. The calcineurin inhibitor cyclosporin A (CsA) has been shown to be neuroprotective by minimizing activation of inflammatory pathways. Therefore, we investigated whether the combination of hypothermia and treatment with CsA has neuroprotective effects in an oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R) injury model in neuronal and BV-2 microglia monocultures, as well as in an organotypic hippocampal slice culture (OHSC). Methods: Murine primary neurons, BV-2 microglia, and OHSC were pretreated with CsA and exposed to 1 h OGD (0.2% O2) followed by reperfusion at normothermia (37°C) or hypothermia (33.5°C). Cytotoxicity was measured by lactate dehydrogenase and glutamate releases. Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), and cold-inducible RNA-binding protein (CIRBP) were detected in cultured supernatant by western blot analysis. Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-1α and -1β (IL-1α/IL1-β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP1), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), glia activation factors ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1), and transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) gene expressions were analyzed by RT-qPCR. Results: Exposure to OGD plus 10 μM CsA was sufficient to induce necrotic cell death and subsequent release of DAMPs in neurons but not BV-2 microglia. Moreover, OGD/R-induced secondary injury was also observed only in the neurons, which was not attenuated by cooling and no increased toxicity by CsA was observed. BV-2 microglia were not sensitive to OGD/R-induced injury but were susceptible to CsA-induced toxicity in a dose dependent manner, which was minimized by hypothermia. CsA attenuated IL-1β and Iba1 expressions in BV-2 microglia exposed to OGD/R. Hypothermia reduced IL-1β and iNOS expressions but induced TNF-α and Iba1 expressions in the microglia. However, these observations did not translate to the ex vivo OHCS model, as general high expressions of most cytokines investigated were observed. Conclusion: Treatment with CsA has neurotoxic effects on primary neurons exposed to OGD but could inhibit BV-2 microglia activation. However, CsA and hypothermia treatment after ischemia/reperfusion injury results in cytotoxic neuroinflammation in the complex ex vivo OHSC.
Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for narrow and broad resonances with masses greater than 1.8 TeV decaying to a pair of jets is presented. The search uses proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV collected at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}$. The background arising from standard model processes is predicted with the fit method used in previous publications and with a new method. The dijet invariant mass spectrum is well described by both data-driven methods, and no significant evidence for the production of new particles is observed. Model independent upper limits are reported on the production cross sections of narrow resonances, and broad resonances with widths up to 55% of the resonance mass. Limits are presented on the masses of narrow resonances from various models: string resonances, scalar diquarks, axigluons, colorons, excited quarks, color-octet scalars, W' and Z' bosons, Randall-Sundrum gravitons, and dark matter mediators. The limits on narrow resonances are improved by 200 to 800 GeV relative to those reported in previous CMS dijet resonance searches. The limits on dark matter mediators are presented as a function of the resonance mass and width, and on the associated coupling strength as a function of the mediator mass. These limits exclude at 95% confidence level a dark matter mediator with a mass of 1.8 TeV and width 1% of its mass or higher, up to one with a mass of 4.8 TeV and a width 45% of its mass or higher.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables, included additional supplementary figures, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/EXO-19-012 (CMS Public Pages)
MOESM5 of Whole-genome sequencing of human Pegivirus variant from an Egyptian patient co-infected with hepatitis C virus: a case report
Creators: name: Soliman, Hany
name: Abouelhoda, Mohamed
name: Rouby, Mahmoud
name: Ahmed, Ola
name: G. Esmat
name: Hassan, Zeinab
name: Hafez, Mohammed
name: Mehaney, Dina
name: Manojkumar Selvaraju
name: Darwish, Rania
name: Osman, Yehia
name: Zekri, Abdel-Rahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5: Alignments of the NS5B protein structure of HCV and HPgV.
Predictive MGMT status in a homogeneous cohort of IDH wildtype glioblastoma patients
Creators: name: Radke, Josefine
name: Koch, Arend
name: Pritsch, Fabienne
name: Schumann, Elisa
name: Misch, Martin
name: Hempt, Claudia
name: Lenz, Klaus
name: Löbel, Franziska
name: Paschereit, Fabienne
name: Heppner, Frank L.
name: Vajkoczy, Peter
name: Koll, Randi
name: Onken, Julia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Glioblastoma
subject: IDH (isocitrate dehydrogenase)
subject: Methylation specific PCR (MSP)
subject: O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT)
subject: Pyrosequencing (PSQ)
subject: Temozolomide (TMZ)
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Methylation of the O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter is predictive for treatment response in glioblastoma patients. However, precise predictive cutoff values to distinguish "MGMT methylated" from "MGMT unmethylated" patients remain highly debated in terms of pyrosequencing (PSQ) analysis. We retrospectively analyzed a clinically and molecularly very well-characterized cohort of 111 IDH wildtype glioblastoma patients, who underwent gross total tumor resection and received standard Stupp treatment. Detailed clinical parameters were obtained. Predictive cutoff values for MGMT promoter methylation were determined using ROC curve analysis and survival curve comparison using Log-rank (Mantel-Cox) test. MGMT status was analyzed using pyrosequencing (PSQ), semi-quantitative methylation specific PCR (sqMSP) and direct bisulfite sequencing (dBiSeq). Highly methylated (> 20%) MGMT correlated with significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in our cohort. Median PFS was 7.2 months in the unmethylated group (UM, < 10% mean methylation), 10.4 months in the low methylated group (LM, 10-20% mean methylation) and 19.83 months in the highly methylated group (HM, > 20% mean methylation). Median OS was 13.4 months for UM, 17.9 months for LM and 29.93 months for HM. Within the LM group, correlation of PSQ and sqMSP or dBiSeq was only conclusive in 51.5% of our cases. ROC curve analysis revealed superior test precision for survival if additional sqMSP results were considered (AUC = 0.76) compared to PSQ (cutoff 10%) alone (AUC = 0.67). We therefore challenge the widely used, strict PSQ cutoff at 10% which might not fully reflect the clinical response to alkylating agents and suggest applying a second method for MGMT testing (e.g. MSP) to confirm PSQ results for patients with LM MGMT levels if therapeutically relevant.
MOESM4 of Whole-genome sequencing of human Pegivirus variant from an Egyptian patient co-infected with hepatitis C virus: a case report
Creators: name: Soliman, Hany
name: Abouelhoda, Mohamed
name: Rouby, Mahmoud
name: Ahmed, Ola
name: G. Esmat
name: Hassan, Zeinab
name: Hafez, Mohammed
name: Mehaney, Dina
name: Manojkumar Selvaraju
name: Darwish, Rania
name: Osman, Yehia
name: Zekri, Abdel-Rahman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Alignments of the NS5A protein structure of HCV and HPgV.
Conus virgo Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Franklin, J. Benjamin
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Fernando, S. Antony
name: Krishnan, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Conidae
Conus
Conus virgo

description: 59. Conus virgo Linnaeus, 1758 (Figure 60)
 Conus virgo Linnaeus, 1758: 713, no. 253 (representation of lectotype, Rumphius 1705: pl. 31, fig. E (63 x 30 mm) (Kohn 1963); locality unknown).
 Material examined: MBMCS 159, 48 specimens, SL 50–110 mm; SW 28–52 mm.
 Description. Shell moderately large, heavy with a low gloss. Body whorl conical, outline slightly convex over the adapical quarter, straight below. Shoulder broad, angulate. Spire low to flat, outline slightly concave to slightly convex. Aperture moderately narrow, posteriorly slightly wider anteriorly, outer lip sharp, straight or nearly so. Body whorl with weak or obsolete spiral ribs near base. Widely spaced fine ribs and wrinkled threads between extend to centre or beyond.
Ground colour white to yellow, with occasionally darker orange collabral lines marking growth cessations. Base broadly stained deep purple, visible both dorsally and ventrally. Spire same colour as body whorl, usually paler. Aperture glossy white, with a large, dark purple blotch at base. Periostracum thick, dark brown and opaque.
 Distribution. Early reports of C. virgo are by Melvill & Standen (1898) and by Sundaram (1969) from Mandapam along the east coast. Based on specimens deposited in museums, Kohn (1978) reported that this species is known to occur from Pondicherry (at MNHN) to Tuticorin (at ZSI, MGM) on the east coast and also from Bombay (at ZMUC) on the west coast.
The specimens reported herein were collected from various stations (Table 6) by trawling in 5–20 m around the coral reef islands of the Gulf of Mannar. However, at Vedhalai the specimens were collected by diving in 5 m, on the sand and coral rubble.
 Remarks. This species is confined to the Gulf of Mannar. Their prevalence at shallow depths around the coral islands indicates their preference for such habitat. They often occur with C. araneosus, C. leopardus and C. terebra.
description: Published as part of Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2250 on page 51
Simulating bosonic Chern insulators in one-dimensional optical superlattices
Creators: name: Chen, Yu-Lian
name: Zhang, Guo-Qing
name: Zhang, Dan-Wei
name: Zhu, Shi-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the topological properties of an extended Bose-Hubbard model with cyclically modulated hopping and on-site potential parameters, which can be realized with ultracold bosonic atoms in a one-dimensional optical superlattice. We show that the interacting bosonic chain at half filling and in the deep Mott insulating regime can simulate bosonic Chern insulators with a topological phase diagram similar to that of the Haldane model of noninteracting fermions. Furthermore, we explore the topological properties of the ground state by calculating the many-body Chern number, the quasiparticle energy spectrum with gapless edge modes, the topological pumping of the interacting bosons, and the topological phase transition from normal (trivial) to topological Mott insulators. We also present the global phase diagram of the many-body ground state, which contains a superfluid phase and two Mott insulating phases with trivial (a zero Chern number) and nontrivial topologies (a nonzero Chern number), respectively.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Single photon quantum cryptography
Creators: name: Beveratos, Alexios
name: Brouri, Rosa
name: Gacoin, Thierry
name: Villing, Andre
name: Poizat, Jean-Philippe
name: Grangier, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the full implementation of a quantum cryptography protocol using a stream of single photon pulses generated by a stable and efficient source operating at room temperature. The single photon pulses are emitted on demand by a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in a diamond nanocrystal. The quantum bit error rate is less that 4.6% and the secure bit rate is 9500 bits/s. The overall performances of our system reaches a domain where single photons have a measurable advantage over an equivalent system based on attenuated light pulses.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Electron Spin Relaxation in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
Creators: name: Puller, Vadim I.
name: Mourokh, Lev G.
name: Horing, Norman J. M.
name: Smirnov, Anatoly Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fully microscopic theory of electron spin relaxation by the D'yakonov-Perel' type spin-orbit coupling is developed for a semiconductor quantum well with a magnetic field applied in the growth direction of the well. We derive the Bloch equations for an electron spin in the well and define microscopic expressions for the spin relaxation times. The dependencies of the electron spin relaxation rate on the lowest quantum well subband energy, magnetic field and temperature are analyzed.
description: Revised version as will appear in Physical Review B