cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L^p change of variables inequalities on manifolds
Creators: name: Stern, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58C35 (Primary) 46B28, 58C40 (Secondary)

description: We prove two-sided inequalities for the $L^p$-norm of a pushforward or pullback (with respect to an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism) on oriented volume and Riemannian manifolds. For a function or density on a volume manifold, these bounds depend only on the Jacobian determinant, which arises through the change of variables theorem. For an arbitrary differential form on a Riemannian manifold, however, these bounds are shown to depend on more general "spectral" properties of the diffeomorphism, using an appropriately-defined notion of singular values. These spectral terms generalize the Jacobian determinant, which is recovered in the special cases of functions and densities (i.e., bottom and top forms).
description: 13 pages; v2: reformatting and some very minor revisions, as accepted for publication
A modified triple tibial osteotomy for management of canine cranial cruciate ligament disease: retrospective assessment of 309 procedures (2017–2020)
Creators: name: Wiseman, W
name: Wilson, L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Medical records from a single referral hospital (Animal Referral Hospital, Sinnamon Park, Australia) of dogs treated with modified triple tibial osteotomy (TTO) for management of cranial cruciate ligament (CrCL) disease from June 2017 to June 2020 were reviewed. Modifications to the originally described TTO procedure included a modified wedge angle calculation and performing the tibial osteotomies without the use of pre-drilled guide holes. A total of 253 dogs met the inclusion criteria. Two dogs were excluded, leaving 251 dogs that had undergone 309 procedures for assessment and data from these, including complications were reviewed. Complete, partial competent, and partial incompetent rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament was identified in 202/309 (65.4%), 79/309 (25.6%), and 28/309 (9.1%) stifles, respectively. Medial meniscal injury was identified in 207/309 (67.0%) stifles at the time of initial surgery. Fifty-eight dogs had bilateral procedures, including both single-session and staged surgeries, and 48 of these were available for analyses. The modifications to the TTO procedure described herein resulted in a median wedge angle of 21° and a median post-operative tibial plateau angle of 5.8°. Tibial compression testing following surgery indicated elimination of cranial tibial thrust in all stifles in this series. The most common intra-operative complication was tibial tuberosity fracture (15/309; 4.9%). Minor post-operative complications occurred in 37/309 (12.0%) procedures, with infection being the most common (27/309; 8.7%). Major post-operative complications occurred in 9/309 (2.9%) procedures. The intra- and post-operative complication rates for dogs undergoing bilateral single-session TTO were both 8.3% (2/24). The intra- and post-operative complications rates for dogs undergoing bilateral staged TTO were both 4.2% (1/24). The low number of complications for both the bilateral single-session and bilateral staged TTO groups precluded statistical analysis. All complications resolved uneventfully as determined by the attending surgeon. The modified TTO technique described here was safe and effective for the management of canine CrCL disease in the dogs included in the case series. Findings of this study suggest that, with careful case selection, the modified TTO may be performed as a bilateral single session procedure in dogs with concurrent bilateral cranial cruciate ligament disease. Future studies analysing the effects of these modifications on stifle biomechanics would be beneficial.
Essays in empirical corporate finance : the impact of economic uncertainty on the financial markets
Creators: name: Guan, Xuejing
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This thesis consists of three essays studying the impacts of economic uncertainty on the financial markets. The first essay examines the impact of economic uncertainty on firms’ decisions to go private. Using an instrumental variable approach, I show that firms are more likely to go private following economic uncertainty shocks. The effect is stronger for firms prone to severe agency conflicts. After going private, the cost of debt decreases. These results are consistent with uncertainty exacerbating agency frictions faced by public companies. Firms go private to alter their capital structures to be less prone to agency frictions: ones with a small number of dominant stakeholders with aligned interests. The agency frictions are mitigated through going private, resulting in a decrease in the cost of debt. The second essay examines how the money creation function of banks affects the relative cost of firm financing in the bank loan vs. bond market – the loan-bond spread. Using a sample of loans and bonds issued by the same firm, the essay finds a lower loan-bond spread for firms impacted by positive information cost shocks. We call this decline in the relative cost of bank credit induced by firm information cost shock the opacity discount and show that it is consistent with the “money creation” hypothesis in the financial intermediation theory, which suggests that banks need to keep information about their assets secret to produce private money. The third essay studies how firms use earnout, a contingent payment contract in M&A, to manage valuation risks under uncertainty. I find that the usage of earnouts positively correlates with target uncertainty. The likelihood of deal completion increases significantly with earnouts. Despite the benefits of bridging the valuation gap, an earnout can introduce incentive misalignment problems in the post-transaction period. After the transaction, the acquirer’s objective is to maximize firm value, while the target’s objective is to maximize earnout payments. Such incentive misalignments can destroy firm value. The essay documents a negative impact on acquirer wealth gains when earnouts are not used to manage valuation risks.
Additional file 1 of Emergency medicine physicians’ knowledge and perceptions of training, education, and resources in eating disorders
Creators: name: Ma, Connie
name: Gonzales-Pacheco, Diana
name: Cerami, Jean
name: Coakley, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Self-similar solutions to the curve shortening flow
Creators: name: Halldorsson, Hoeskuldur P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44 (Primary)

description: We give a classification of all self-similar solutions to the curve shortening flow in the plane.
description: 25 pages, 19 figures, final version
A Striped Holographic Superconductor
Creators: name: Flauger, Raphael
name: Pajer, Enrico
name: Papanikolaou, Stefanos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study inhomogeneous solutions of a 3+1-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. Our results provide a holographic model of superconductivity in the presence of a charge density wave sourced by a modulated chemical potential. We find that below a critical temperature superconducting stripes develop. We show that they are thermodynamically favored over the normal state by computing the grand canonical potential. We investigate the dependence of the critical temperature on the modulation's wave vector, which characterizes the inhomogeneity. We find that it is qualitatively similar to that expected for a weakly coupled BCS theory, but we point out a quantitative difference. Finally, we use our solutions to compute the conductivity along the direction of the stripes.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures, v2: references added, figure 4 replaced
Supplementary materials; Data file used for analyses; Data file used for figure; Code file from Associations between faecal chemical pollutants and hormones in primates inhabiting kibale national park, Uganda
Creators: name: Steiniche, Tessa
name: Wang, Shaorui
name: Chester, Emily
name: Mutegeki, Richard
name: Rothman, Jessica M.
name: Wrangham, Richard W.
name: Chapman, Colin A.
name: Venier, Marta
name: Wasserman, Michael D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: While anthropogenic pollutants are known to be a threat to primates, our understanding of exposure to pollutants in situ and their sub-lethal effects is still limited. We used non-invasive biomonitoring to examine associations between faecal concentrations of 97 chemical pollutants and faecal hormone metabolites of cortisol and estradiol in four primate species inhabiting Kibale National Park, Uganda (chimpanzees—Pan troglodytes, olive baboons—Papio anubis, red colobus—Piliocolobus tephrosceles and red-tailed monkeys—Cercopithecus ascanius). Across all species (n = 71 samples), our results demonstrated positive associations of organochlorine pesticides (β = 0.139, p = 0.025) and organophosphate esters (β = 0.115, p = 0.003) with cortisol in adult females. Additionally, we observed positive associations of brominated flame retardants with cortisol (β = 0.141, p = 0.038) and negative associations with estradiol (β = −0.168, p = 0.039) in juveniles. Our results suggest that the accumulation of pesticides and flame retardants are disruptive to endocrine function in these populations, which could have implications for development, metabolism and reproduction. Our results further demonstrate that faeces can be an important, non-invasive matrix for examining pollutant-hormone associations in wild primates and other critical wildlife populations.
The effect of parenteral vitamin B12 on the growth rate of dairy calves over the summer and autumn on seven farms from the Central Plateau, New Zealand
Creators: name: Gibson, M
name: Lawrence, KE
name: Balcomb, C
name: Laven, RA
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: To investigate the effect of parenteral vitamin B12 supplementation on the growth rate of dairy heifer calves over the summer and autumn on seven farms from the Central Plateau of New Zealand, an area historically associated with low cobalt levels in grazing pasture. This was a controlled clinical trial conducted on a convenience sample of seven farms with young female calves randomly assigned to three vitamin B12 treatment groups and followed through a grazing season. Two treatment groups received either monthly SC injections of a short-acting (SA) B12 formulation or 3-monthly injections of a long-acting (LA) B12 formulation and the third group received no treatment (NT). No additional parenteral vitamin B12 was given; however, all calves received additional cobalt (0.04–0.4 mg Co/kg liveweight) in the mineralised anthelmintic drenches given orally every month. Liveweight was recorded in December/January and at the end of the trial in May/June/July depending on farm. Pasture cobalt concentrations (mg/kg DM) were measured every month using 500-g herbage samples from 100-m transects in the area about to be grazed by the trial groups. There was evidence for a difference in growth rate between groups with mean final weight of 228 (95% CI = 212–243) kg for the LA groups, 224 (95% CI = 209–239) kg for the SA groups and 226 (95% CI = 211–241) kg for the NT groups respectively, (global p-value = 0.014). Calves given SA vitamin B12 were 3.77 (95% CI = 0.71–6.82) kg lighter than calves given LA vitamin B12 (p = 0.011). There was no evidence for a change in pasture cobalt concentrations (p = 0.32). The results of this trial raise the question as to whether the routine use of vitamin B12 supplementation in young cattle from areas traditionally thought to be cobalt deficient is necessary, and further raise the possibility that vitamin B12 supplementation by repeated injection of SA products may negatively impact growth rates.
Additional file 2 of Testing strategies for couple engagement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and family health in Kenya: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Kwena, Zachary
name: Kimbo, Liza
name: Darbes, Lynae A.
name: Hatcher, Abigail M.
name: Helova, Anna
name: Owino, George
name: Harsha Thirumurthy
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth A.
name: Braun, Thomas
name: Kilgore, Meredith
name: Pisu, Maria
name: Tamhane, Ashutosh
name: Nghiem, Van T.
name: Kawango Agot
name: Neilands, Torsten B.
name: Turan, Janet M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. HIV Test Informed Consent Form.
Fife's Theorem for (7/3)-Powers
Creators: name: Rampersad, Narad
name: Shallit, Jeffrey
name: Shur, Arseny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We prove a Fife-like characterization of the infinite binary (7/3)-power-free words, by giving a finite automaton of 15 states that encodes all such words. As a consequence, we characterize all such words that are 2-automatic.
description: In Proceedings WORDS 2011, arXiv:1108.3412
Enacting the NCLEX-RN® exam in a Canadian nursing context : a critical policy analysis
Creators: name: Rampersaud, Patricia Ratnee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: A major change in Canadian nursing educational policy occurred in 2015 with the adoption of the NCLEX-RN® exam as Canada’s new registration exam for baccalaureate nursing graduates. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the pressures the NCLEX-RN® exam exerted on Schools of Nursing, nursing educators, and nursing administrators, and how educational performance accountability changed the practice and values of the Canadian nursing profession. How did the NCLEX-RN® exam position and affect Canadian Schools of Nursing, nursing administrators, and educators? In what ways did participants adapt or resist these changes? Whose, or which, interests were served through the adoption of the exam? The research was conducted through the complementary qualitative research approaches of critical policy analysis and focused ethnography. Research methods included participant observations, interviews, and document analyses. Twelve educators and administrators from four Schools of Nursing in British Columbia participated in the study. Data were analyzed in relation to neo-liberalism, governmentality, power, and globalization. Data generation and findings were discussed through four major categories namely regulation, curriculum, performativity, and resistance. Findings supported arguments that nursing regulation was influenced by globalization and neo-liberalism, and that British Columbian nursing education was influenced by quasi-marketization. Many Schools of Nursing adopted curriculum products emanating from private-public sectors. Curriculums, evaluation assessments, and teacher content were being aligned to the NCLEX-RN® exam. Certain content, relevant to the Canadian nursing context, were less emphasized, or discussed as ‘subjugated’. Canadian nursing education was being retooled away from concerns for the public good and towards the production of human capital. Findings illustrated that Schools of Nursing, nursing educators, and administrators, were being reshaped toward the values and technologies of educational performativity. Participants described “teaching to the test”, decrease teaching autonomy, a range of emotions, and a sense of insecurity as they questioned the meaning and importance of their roles as educators or administrators. Resistance took many forms including the generation of organizational fabrications which portrayed a constructive view of their program or of themselves. Participants, through resistance and fabrications, exerted their own power to alter the power relations that were already at play.
Additional file 1 of Programmed cell death-1 blockade in kidney carcinoma may induce eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a case report
Creators: name: Harada, Masanori
name: Hyogo Naoi
name: Yasuda, Kazuyo
name: Yutaro Ito
name: Namio Kagoo
name: Kubota, Tsutomu
name: Koshiro Ichijo
name: Mochizuki, Eisuke
name: Uehara, Masahiro
name: Matsuura, Shun
name: Tsukui, Masaru
name: Koshimizu, Naoki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. A clinical coarse after initiation of nivolumab treatment. Treatment cycles of nivolumab shows on the upper black bar. Black triangle represents oral 30mg/day prednisolone treatments for bronchial asthma attacks. BA-AE: bronchial asthma attack, BUD/FP: budesonide/formoterol fumarate, Tio: Tiotropium bromide, solid line represents peripheral absolute eosinophil count (EOS). Tumor size of live metastasis was represented as maximum diameter in the bottom rectangle area.
Rank-preserving geometric means of positive semi-definite matrices
Creators: name: Bonnabel, Silvere
name: Collard, Anne
name: Sepulchre, Rodolphe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The generalization of the geometric mean of positive scalars to positive definite matrices has attracted considerable attention since the seminal work of Ando. The paper generalizes this framework of matrix means by proposing the definition of a rank-preserving mean for two or an arbitrary number of positive semi-definite matrices of fixed rank. The proposed mean is shown to be geometric in that it satisfies all the expected properties of a rank-preserving geometric mean. The work is motivated by operations on low-rank approximations of positive definite matrices in high-dimensional spaces.
description: To appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications
Additional file 1 of Racial differences in lifestyle, demographic, and health factors associated with quality of life (QoL) in midlife women
Creators: name: Smith, Brandi Patrice
name: Cardoso-Mendoza, Esmeralda
name: Flaws, Jodi A.
name: Madak-Erdogan, Zeynep
name: Smith, Rebecca L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Percentage of Covariates Selected in Bootstrap Re-fitted Models
Additional file 1: of De novo transcriptome assembly and positive selection analysis of an individual deep-sea fish
Creators: name: Lan, Yi
name: Sun, Jin
name: Xu, Ting
name: Chen, Chong
name: Tian, Renmao
name: Qiu, Jian-Wen
name: Qian, Pei-Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Table S1. Codon usage among Aldrovandia affinis, Astyanax mexicanus, Gadus morhua and Xiphophorus maculatus. Table S2. A complete list of positively selected genes in Aldrovandia affinis. Figure S1. Statistics of assembly contigs length. (DOCX 68Â kb)
The underdoped cuprates as fractionalized Fermi liquids: transition to superconductivity
Creators: name: Moon, Eun Gook
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the underdoped cuprates using fermions moving in a background with local antiferromagnetic order. The antiferromagnetic order fluctuates in orientation, but not in magnitude, so that there is no long-range antiferromagnetism, but a 'topological' order survives. The normal state is described as a fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*), with electron-like quasiparticles coupled to the fractionalized excitations of the fluctuating antiferromagnet. The electronic quasiparticles reside near pocket Fermi surfaces enclosing total area x (the dopant density), centered away from the magnetic Brillouin zone boundary. The violation of the conventional Luttinger theorem is linked to a 'species doubling' of these quasiparticles. We describe phenomenological theories of the pairing of these quasiparticles, and show that a large class of mean-field theories generically displays a nodal-anti-nodal `dichotomy': the interplay of local antiferromagnetism and pairing leads to a small gap near the nodes of the d-wave pairing along the Brillouin zone diagonals, and a large gap in the anti-nodal region.
description: 27 pages, 8 figures; (v2) added refs; (v3) added refs
The effect of parenteral vitamin B12 on the growth rate of dairy calves over the summer and autumn on seven farms from the Central Plateau, New Zealand
Creators: name: Gibson, M
name: Lawrence, KE
name: Balcomb, C
name: Laven, RA
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: To investigate the effect of parenteral vitamin B12 supplementation on the growth rate of dairy heifer calves over the summer and autumn on seven farms from the Central Plateau of New Zealand, an area historically associated with low cobalt levels in grazing pasture. This was a controlled clinical trial conducted on a convenience sample of seven farms with young female calves randomly assigned to three vitamin B12 treatment groups and followed through a grazing season. Two treatment groups received either monthly SC injections of a short-acting (SA) B12 formulation or 3-monthly injections of a long-acting (LA) B12 formulation and the third group received no treatment (NT). No additional parenteral vitamin B12 was given; however, all calves received additional cobalt (0.04–0.4 mg Co/kg liveweight) in the mineralised anthelmintic drenches given orally every month. Liveweight was recorded in December/January and at the end of the trial in May/June/July depending on farm. Pasture cobalt concentrations (mg/kg DM) were measured every month using 500-g herbage samples from 100-m transects in the area about to be grazed by the trial groups. There was evidence for a difference in growth rate between groups with mean final weight of 228 (95% CI = 212–243) kg for the LA groups, 224 (95% CI = 209–239) kg for the SA groups and 226 ((95% CI = 211–241) kg for the NT groups respectively, (global p-value = 0.037). Calves given SA vitamin B12 were 3.76 (95% CI = 0.042–7.49) kg lighter than calves given LA vitamin B12 (p = 0.048). There was no evidence for a change in pasture cobalt concentrations (p = 0.32). The results of this trial raise the question as to whether the routine use of vitamin B12 supplementation in young cattle from areas traditionally thought to be cobalt deficient is necessary, and further raise the possibility that vitamin B12 supplementation by repeated injection of SA products may negatively impact growth rates. LA: Long-acting; LMER: Linear mixed effects regression; NT: No treatment; SA: Short-acting
Additional file 1: of High nutrient intake during the early postnatal period accelerates skeletal muscle fiber growth and maturity in intrauterine growth-restricted pigs
Creators: name: Hu, Liang
name: Han, Fei
name: Chen, Lin
name: Peng, Xie
name: Chen, Daiwen
name: Wu, De
name: Che, Lianqiang
name: Zhang, Keying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Table S1. Composition and nutrient level of the basal formula milk powder (87.5% DM basis, %). (DOCX 33 kb)
Kramers problem for nonequilibrium current-induced chemical reactions
Creators: name: Dzhioev, Alan A.
name: Kosov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the use of tunneling electron current to control and catalyze chemical reactions. Assuming the separation of time scales for electronic and nuclear dynamics we employ the Langevin equation for the reaction coordinate. The Langevin equation contains current-induced forces and is used to define nonequilibrium, effective potential energy surface for current-carrying molecular systems. The current-induced forces are computed via Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's functions. Once the nonequilibrium, current-depended potential energy surface is defined, the chemical reaction is modeled as an escape of a Brownian particle from the potential well. We demonstrate that the barrier between the reactant and the product states can be controlled by the bias voltage. When the molecule is asymmetrically coupled to the electrodes, the reaction can be catalyzed or stopped depending on the polarity of the tunneling current.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Biomechanical comparison of titanium alloy additively manufactured and conventionally manufactured plate-screw constructs
Creators: name: Polak, S
name: Beever, L
name: Wade, A
name: Fukuoka, M
name: Worth, A.J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: To biomechanically compare the bending stiffness, strength and cyclic fatigue of titanium additively manufactured (AM) and conventionally manufactured (CM) limited contact plates (LCP) of equivalent dimensions using plate-screw constructs. Twenty-four 1.5/2.0-mm plate constructs (CM: n = 12; AM: n = 12) were placed under 4-point bending conditions. Data were collected during quasi-static single cycle to failure and cyclic fatigue testing until implants plastically deformed or failed. Bending stiffness, bending structural stiffness, and bending strength were determined from load displacement curves. Fatigue life was determined as number of cycles to failure. Median test variables for each method were compared using Wilcoxon rank sum test within each group with significance set at p < 0.05. Fatigue data was also analysed by the Kaplan–Meier estimator of survival function. There was no evidence for a difference in bending stiffness and bending structural stiffness between AM and CM constructs. However, AM constructs exhibited greater bending strength (median 3.07 (min 3.0, max 3.4) Nm) under quasi-static 4-point bending than the CM constructs (median 2.57 (min 2.5, max 2.6) Nm, p = 0.006). Number of cycles to failure under dynamic 4-point bending was higher for the CM constructs (median 164,272 (min 73,557, max 250,000) cycles) than the AM constructs (median 18,704 (min 14,427, max 33,228) cycles; p = 0.02). Survival analysis showed that 50% of AM plates failed -by 18,732 cycles, while 50% CM plates failed at 78,124 cycles. Additively manufactured titanium implants, printed to replicate a conventional titanium orthopaedic plate, were more prone to failure in a shorter fatigue period despite being stronger in single cycle to failure. Patient-specific implants made using this process may be brittle and therefore not comparable to conventionally manufactured orthopaedic implants. Careful selection of their use on a case/patient-specific basis is recommended.
Persistent subjective memory problems after concussion
Creators: name: Picon, Edwina Laure
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Subjective memory problems - forgetting names, leaving important objects at home - are a common post concussion symptom. Memory complaints after concussion are largely unrelated to injury severity, objective memory performance, or neuroimaging metrics of the brain’s structural integrity and may be a manifestation of a functional cognitive disorder (FCD). Several possible mechanisms for FCD have been proposed, including metacognitive bias or factors that interfere with attention, as well as anxiety-related explanations. This study aims to explore several theories as to why people develop persistent memory problems after concussion, despite having normal neuropsychological test scores. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 54 participants (n=34 with concussion and n=20 healthy controls). Subgroups were formed to compare participants suspected FCD after concussion (n=28) and healthy controls with no concerns about their memory (n=13). Independent sample t-tests compared these two subgroups on candidate predisposing/perpetuating factors in FCD theorical models. Simple linear regressions tested the relationship between these predisposing/perpetuating factors and FCD symptom severity in the full concussion sample. Results: Contrary to expectations, there was no evidence of a metacognitive deficit or bias associated with FCD symptoms after concussion. The healthy control group and suspected FCD after concussion subgroup differed on measures of somatization, depression, anxiety, memory perfectionism, and certain coping behaviours (checking to turn off electrical appliances and asking someone for reminders). However, within the full concussion sample, only asking for reminders, increased depression, and memory perfectionism, was significantly associated with FCD symptoms. Conclusions: The current study highlights some promising (e.g., memory perfectionism) and unlikely candidates (e.g., metacognitive bias towards underconfidence) to guide future research on the etiology of FCD after concussion, and possibly FCD in other clinical settings.
Additional file 1 of Assessing the reliability and validity of the ICECAP-A instrument in Chinese type 2 diabetes patients
Creators: name: Xiong, Yao
name: Wu, Hongyan
name: Xu, Judy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Table S1: Correlation between each item in ICECAP-A. Table S2: Correlation between each item in EQ-5D-3L.
Miniversal deformations of matrices of bilinear forms
Creators: name: Dmytryshyn, Andrii R.
name: Futorny, Vyacheslav
name: Sergeichuk, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 15A63

description: V.I. Arnold [Russian Math. Surveys 26 (2) (1971) 29-43] constructed a miniversal deformation of matrices under similarity; that is, a simple normal form to which not only a given square matrix A but all matrices B close to it can be reduced by similarity transformations that smoothly depend on the entries of B. We construct a miniversal deformation of matrices under congruence.
description: 39 pages. The first version of this paper was published as Preprint RT-MAT 2007-04, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2007, 34 p. The work was done while the second author was visiting the University of Sao Paulo supported by the Fapesp grants (05/59407-6 and 2010/07278-6). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.2160
Additional file 10 of Enhanced tyrosine sulfation is associated with chronic kidney disease-related atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Dai, Daopeng
name: Zhu, Zhengbin
name: Han, Hui
name: Xu, Tian
name: Feng, Shuo
name: Zhang, Wenli
name: Ding, Fenghua
name: Zhang, Ruiyan
name: Zhu, Jinzhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S3. Primers for verification of vector construction.
Additional file 1 of Personal social capital and self-rated health among middle-aged and older adults: a cross-sectional study exploring the roles of leisure-time physical activity and socioeconomic status
Creators: name: Kim, Youngdeok
name: Schneider, Tim
name: Faß, Eric
name: Lochbaum, Marc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplement Figure 1. Marginal effects on the probability of reporting “Good” self-rated health by bonding and bridging social capital across household income level. The figures present the corresponding results reported in Table 4. Supplement Table 1. The Results of Hierarchical Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting the Likelihood of Reporting ‘Good’ Self-rated Health Among Low Household Income Group (n = 200). Supplement Table 2. The Results of Hierarchical Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting the Likelihood of Reporting ‘Good’ Self-rated Health Among Middle Household Income Group (n = 252). Supplement Table 3. The Results of Hierarchical Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting the Likelihood of Reporting ‘Good’ Self-rated Health Among High Household Income Group (n = 210).
No to censorship! Comment on the Friedman-Schleich-Witt theorem
Creators: name: Krasnikov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show that there is a significant lacuna in the proof of the theorem known as "Topological Censorship" (a theorem forbidding a solution of Einstein's equations to have some topological features, such as traversable wormholes, without violating the averaged null energy condition). To fill the lacuna one would probably have to revise the class of spacetimes for which the theorem is formulated.
description: 6 negative reviews! Most idiotic ones may be sent upon request
Simple and robust method for search Dark Matter particles and measuring their properties at ILC in various models of DM
Creators: name: Ginzburg, I. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I suggest simple method for the search of Dark Matter particles and some related particles which allows to measure reliably their mass and spin in a wide class of models for Dark Matter.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide association study of circulating levels of glucagon during an oral glucose tolerance test
Creators: name: Jonsson, Anna
name: Stinson, Sara E.
name: Torekov, Signe S.
name: Clausen, Tine D.
name: Færch, Kristine
name: Kelstrup, Louise
name: Grarup, Niels
name: Mathiesen, Elisabeth R.
name: Damm, Peter
name: Witte, Daniel R.
name: Jørgensen, Marit E.
name: Pedersen, Oluf
name: Holst, Jens Juul
name: Hansen, Torben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Title of data: QQ-plot of selected variants previously reported to associate with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Description of data: The figure shows the observed vs. the expected P-values of the selected variants for fasting glucagon (A), 30 min glucagon (B), 120 min glucagon (C), decremental area under the curve (dAUC) 0-30 minutes of glucagon (D) and dAUC 0-120 minutes of glucagon (E) during the OGTT. There was no obvious excess of genetic variants, previously associated with type 2 diabetes, associating with circulating glucagon during OGTT.
Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian languages and ethnolinguistics in honour of George W. Grace
Creators: name: Blust, R. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1991

description: C-117
description: Contents vContributors to this volume ix-xEditorial note xi{ROBERT BLUST} 1-4George W. Grace: an appreciation{ALBERT J. SCHÜTZ} 5-10The publications of George W. Grace{BYRON W. BENDER} 11-26On the category distributive{ROBERT BLUST} 27-42Sound change and migration distance{ANN CHOWNING} 43-75Proto Oceanic culture: the evidence from Melanesia{KENNETH WILLIAM COOK} 77-98The search for subject in Samoan{SAMUEL H. ELBERT} 99-102Shifting attitudes in Hawai'i 1920s to 1990{ELAINE M. GOOD} 103-116Determiner forms in Hote{RAY HARLOW} 117-128Consonant dissimilation in Maori{S.P. HARRISON} 129-144A reanalysis of Proto Polynesian noun phrase marking{K.J. HOLLYMAN} 145-154Personalised and non-personalised possession: final consonants in Kumak and other languages of Far Northern New Caledonia{PATRICIA A. LEE} 155-162Some practical factors in the early development of linguistics as a science{PAUL JEN-KUEI LI} 163-169Vowel deletion and vowel assimilation in Sediq{FRANTISEK LICHTENBERK} 171-183Reciprocals and depatientives in To'aba'ita{JOHN LYNCH} 185-195A century of linguistic change in Anejom{RICHARD McGINN} 197-221Pronouns, politeness and hierarchy in Malay{JEFF MARCK} 223-239Sixteen Nuclear Micronesian verbs{ROGER F. MILLS} 241-263Tanimbar-Kei: an Eastern Indonesian subgroup{MALCOLM W. MINTZ} 265-291The fossilised affixes of Bikol{ULRIKE MOSEL} 293-303The Samoan construction of reality{CLAIRE MOYSE-FAURIE} 305-320Relational morphemes and a transitivising suffix in Xârâcùù (New Caledonia){F. OZANNE-RIVIERRE} 321-338Incorporation of genitive relators in the languages of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands{ANDREW PAWLEY} 339-368How to talk cricket: on linguistic competence in a subject matter{SUSAN U. PHILIPS} 369-382Tongan speech levels: practice and talk about practice in the cultural construction of social hierarchy{KENNETH L. REHG} 383-401Final vowel lenition in Micronesian languages: an exploration of the dynamics of drift{KARL H. RENSCH} 403-414The language of the Noble Savage: early European perceptions of Tahitian{J.-C. RIVIERRE} 415-432Loss of final consonants in the north of New Caledonia{M.D. ROSS} 433-451How conservative are sedentary languages? Evidence from western Melanesia{ALBERT J. SCHÜTZ} 453-464William Anderson's Hawaiian word list{RON SCOLLON AND SUZIE SCOLLON} 465-475Mass and count nouns in Chinese and English: a few further Whorfian considerations{STANLEY STAROSTA} 477-500Grammar, perception and reality{CLAUDE TCHEKHOEF} 501-508Two symmetrical verbal aspects in Oceania{DARRELL TRYON} 509-519Wanem Bislama?{JOHN W.M. VERHAAR} 521-534Questions and answers in Tok Pisin{JOHN U. WOLFF} 535-549The Proto Austronesian phoneme *t and the grouping of the Austronesian languages{S.A. WURM} 551-560Language decay and revivalism: the Äŷiwo language of the Reef Islands, Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands
Additional file 2 of Supporting sexuality for people living with epidermolysis bullosa: clinical practice guidelines
Creators: name: King, Alex
name: Hanley, Humphrey
name: Popenhagen, Mark
name: Perez, Florencia
name: Thompson, Kerry
name: Purvis, Diana
name: Garcia, Nora
name: Steinlein, Ida
name: Werkentoft, Mia
name: Lightfoot, Matthew
name: Lahat, Michelle
name: Kalsoom Begum
name: Tanabe, Julio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2. DI Clinical Practice Guideline Development Standard.
Black hole solutions in string theory
Creators: name: Maeda, Kei-ichi
name: Nozawa, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity have been of particular importance in the advances of string theory. This article reviews the current status of black hole solutions in higher-dimensional supergravity theories. We discuss primarily the gravitational aspects of supersymmetric black holes and their relatives in various dimensions. Supersymmetric solutions and their systematic derivation are reviewed with prime examples. We also study the stationary or dynamically intersecting branes in ten and eleven-dimensions, which provide a number of interesting black objects via the dimensional reduction and duality transformations.
description: Invited review for Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl, 41 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; v2: typos corrected, references added
Sex differences in the risk of heart disease among individuals with spinal cord injury
Creators: name: Jia, Beiqi (Analisa)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological condition for which there is not yet a cure. In the SCI population, the sex distribution is disproportional with a male-to-female ratio of approximately 3:1. In addition to motor paralysis and sensory dysfunction, SCI causes significant autonomic dysregulation of the heart and vasculature. There is an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among individuals with SCI compared with the general population, though there is a paucity of evidence on sex differences. Utilizing three databases, this thesis contributes to the field of knowledge by examining sex differences in the risk of heart disease among individuals with SCI and examining if sex differences are amplified by SCI, lesion level, or completeness of injury. First, population-level data from the cross-sectional Canadian Community Health Survey were examined through multivariable logistic regression models. Among the SCI population, male sex conferred a significantly increased odds of heart disease than female sex. Relative to the general population, SCI significantly amplified the sex-related differences in heart disease. Second, sex differences in the prevalence of recent heart disease among individuals with SCI, and its association with lesion level and completeness, were examined, utilizing the cross-sectional SCI Community Survey. Among this SCI population, male sex conferred a significantly increased odds of heart disease than female sex, though the association was not significant. Further, no significant sex-by-lesion level or sex-by-completeness interactions were found. Third, inpatient readmissions data from the Nationwide Readmissions Database with a prospective 1-year follow-up period were examined through survival analysis. Among patients admitted for SCI, male sex conferred an increased risk of ischemic heart disease readmission after adjusting for age and potential confounders, though the difference was not significant. Overall, there appears to be an association between sex and heart disease among individuals with SCI. These findings offer insight into the knowledge gap concerning sex-specific risk estimates of heart disease among individuals with SCI. Specifically, these results may reveal the need for sex-specific targeted CVD prevention strategies and may also inform a better understanding of CVD progression in both individuals with SCI and the general population.
Noise Correlations in Three-Terminal Diffusive Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Nanostructures
Creators: name: Kaviraj, B.
name: Coupiac, O.
name: Courtois, H.
name: Lefloch, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of current noise and cross-correlations in three-terminal Superconductor-Normal metal-Superconductor (S-N-S) nanostructures that are potential solid-state entanglers thanks to Andreev reflections at the N-S interfaces. The noise correlation measurements spanned from the regime where electron-electron interactions are relevant to the regime of Incoherent Multiple Andreev Reflection (IMAR). In the latter regime, negative cross-correlations are observed in samples with closely-spaced junctions.
description: Include Supplemental Material
Additional file 1: of Synthesis and Supercapacitor Performance of Polyaniline/Nitrogen-Doped Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Composites
Creators: name: Xie, Kangjun
name: Zhang, Manman
name: Yang, Yang
name: Zhao, Long
name: Qi, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. FT-IR spectra of PANI/NOMC-x materials. Figure S2. CV curves of PANI/NOMC-0.2 (a), PANI/NOMC-1 (c), PANI/NOMC-2 (e), and PANI/NOMC-4 (g) at different scan rates; galvanostatic charge/discharge curves of PANI/NOMC-0.2 (b), PANI/NOMC-1 (d), PANI/NOMC-2 (f), and PANI/NOMC-4 (h) at different current densities. Figure S3. N2 adsorptionâ desorption isotherms of NOMC, PANI/NOMC-0.2, PANI/NOMC-0.5, PANI/NOMC-1, PANI/NOMC-2, and PANI/NOMC-4 (a); pore size distribution of PANI/NOMC-0.2, PANI/NOMC-1, and PANI/NOMC-2. (DOCX 3025Â kb)