cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-management Practices and Perspectives of Spanish-speaking Older Dominican Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: Diaz Roman, Yessica
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public health
Older people
Hispanic Americans
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes--Prevention
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes--Nutritional aspects

description: Background. Type 2 diabetes is the fifth-leading cause of death in Latinos in the United States. Diabetes is a commonly occurring health condition in older adults, leading to complications that can severely impact quality of life and hasten death. The burden of diabetes is considerable in the older adult population; almost four-fifths of adults with diabetes are older than 59 years. Diabetes mortality can be reduced or delayed with effective management of the illness. Older minority adults are more likely to have higher rates of adult-onset diabetes than non-Hispanic Whites, yet few studies have examined the diabetes self-management practices of this group. These issues are particularly important to investigate in older Dominican adults in Washington Heights/Inwood, New York City, because this group has unique cultural beliefs and practices, is rapidly increasing in population, and has a variety of unmet health-related needs. This study explored specific barriers encountered (cultural and structural) and the extent to which external factors are associated with self-management practices among older Dominican community residents living in mainland US with type 2 diabetes. After 20 years of health disparities research and intervention older adults continue to have problems accessing health care due to structural and socio-cultural barriers. Methods. This investigation utilized qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the cultural and structural barriers to health care and self-management practices existing in this group. Results. Thirty Dominicans 55 years and older were recruited through a community-based senior resource center from the mainland US. Self-management practices for type 2 diabetes vary and are represented by commonly known factors, including: 1) diet modifications; 2) glucose monitoring; 3) medication adherence; 4) exercise, and 5) diabetes classes. Findings from this study illustrate that male and female participants have mixed self-management practices that assist them in managing their diabetes. In addition, participants are interested in “learning” how to manage their diabetes through their participation in classes and diabetes-related workshops. Home remedies (remedies caseros) for type 2 diabetes were identified in this study. Conclusions. Programs and services that promote healthy self-management practices of older Latino adults need to include a focus on the unique cultural beliefs and behaviors of the individual as well as the broader situational context that impacts their diabetes self-management. Such information is invaluable for researchers and health practitioners interested in diabetes self-management practices of older minority adults.
Additional file 4 of The DNA methylation of FOXO3 and TP53 as a blood biomarker of late-onset asthma
Creators: name: Yuan, Lin
name: Wang, Leyuan
name: Du, Xizi
name: Qin, Ling
name: Yang, Ming
name: Zhou, Kai
name: Wu, Mengping
name: Yang, Yu
name: Zheng, Zhiyuan
name: Xiang, Yang
name: Qu, Xiangping
name: Liu, Huijun
name: Qin, Xiaoqun
name: Liu, Chi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Correlation between DNA methylation levels and clinical parameters in LOA patients.
Right integrals and invariants of three-manifolds
Creators: name: Kauffman, Louis H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N10, 57M50

description: This paper gives a summary of our approach to invariants of three manifolds via right integrals on finite dimensional Hopf algebras and their relation to the Kirby calculus.
description: 18 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper12.abs.html
What are the elementary excitations of the BCS model in the canonical ensemble?
Creators: name: Roman, J. M.
name: Sierra, G.
name: Dukelsky, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have found the elementary excitations of the exactly solvable BCS model for a fixed number of particles. These turn out to have a peculiar dispersion relation, some of them with no counterpart in the Bogoliubov picture, and unusual counting properties related to an old conjecture made by Gaudin. We give an algorithm to count the number of excitations for each excited state and a graphical interpretation in terms of paths and Young diagrams. For large systems the excitations are described by an effective Gaudin model, which accounts for the finite size corrections to BCS.
description: Revtex 4 file. 6 pages with 5 figures in text. Sectioning added, argumental line reordered
A Global Uniqueness Theorem for Stationary Black Holes
Creators: name: Etesi, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A global uniqueness theorem for stationary black holes is proved as a direct consequence of the Topological Censorship Theorem and the topological classification of compact, simply connected four-manifolds.
description: 9 pages, latex, journal reference added
Thesium kilimandscharicum Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Thesiaceae
Thesium
Thesium kilimandscharicum

description: Thesium kilimandscharicum Engl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; 2 100–4 200 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 4044 m, 20 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001933 (HIB) & CPG 28465 (HIB, PE).
Reference: Polhill (2005).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Self-efficacy, Knowledge, and Implementation of Secondary Transition Evidence-based Practices: Transition Professionals’ Practices With Students With Severe and Multiple Disabilities
Creators: Andersen, Lauren Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Special education
Students with disabilities
Special education teachers
Postsecondary education

description: For students with severe and multiple disabilities who generally need support after high school culminates, the post-secondary transition is a critical time period in which transition professionals and parents/guardians must come together to plan for the child’s future. Researchers from the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) have identified secondary transition evidence-based practices (EBPs) that transition professionals can use to help students with severe and multiple disabilities develop critical skills that will enable them to be as successful as possible after high school. The present study utilized a mixed methods design to examine knowledge and implementation of secondary transition EBPs among transition professionals, including special education teachers and transition specialists. In the quantitative component of the study, a broad group of transition professionals who worked with students with severe and multiple disabilities reported on their levels of experience, professional development and training, university preparation, self-efficacy, and knowledge and implementation of transition EBPs. In the qualitative component of the study, semi-structured interviews were conducted among a smaller subset of special education teachers of students with severe and multiple disabilities to further understand their experiences and practices related to secondary transition EBPs and perceived barriers. Results of the quantitative component of the study revealed significant associations among professionals’ reports of self-efficacy and professional development and training, and their knowledge and implementation of transition EBPs. Findings from the qualitative component of the study revealed that special education teachers reported numerous responsibilities in their work with students with severe and multiple disabilities. Additionally, the following barriers were cited to implementing transition EBPs: priority given to academics, legal requirements, and lack of knowledge of transition and the adult service system. Together, both components of the study underscored the importance of continued work on this relatively under-studied population of students, those with severe and multiple disabilities, who are in need of effective post-secondary transition practices to improve their post-school outcomes.
title:  Interdiscours du mythe simiesque: Boubacar Boris Diop et La Planète des singes
Creators: name: Tarquini  ,  Valentina
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Lo studio propone una lettura intermediale dell’interdiscorso scimmiatico che trapela nei testi di Boubacar Boris Diop successivi all’esperienza di scrittura sul genocidio in Ruanda. La retorica della guerra fratricida tra etnie e le argomentazioni scientifiche risalenti al XIX secolo sulla vicinanza della razza nera alla scimmia rievocano un medesimo substrato razziologico, intriso di qualifiche morali. La tendenza a gerarchizzare razze e specie si trasforma in satira con Pierre Boulle, il quale, ne La Planète des singes (1963), prende di mira la vanità dell’uomo e la sua assurda vocazione belligerante. Dall’adattamento cinematografico che ne deriva nasce il primo sequel hollywoodiano, che riaccende regolarmente il dibattito sull’ideologia imperialista.
description: Allegretto Vivace. Omaggio a Bruna Donatelli
Self-duality and singularities in the Yang-Mills flow
Creators: Waldron, Alex
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the long-time behavior and smooth convergence properties of the Yang-Mills flow in dimension four. Two chapters are devoted to equivariant solutions and their precise blowup asymptotics at infinite time. The last chapter contains general results. We show that a singularity of pure + or - charge cannot form within finite time, in contrast to the analogous situation of harmonic maps between Riemann surfaces. This implies long-time existence given low initial self-dual energy. In this case we study convergence of the flow at infinite time: if a global weak Uhlenbeck limit is anti-self-dual and has vanishing self-dual second cohomology, then the limit exists smoothly and exponential convergence holds. We also recover the classical grafting theorem, and derive asymptotic stability of this class of instantons in the appropriate sense.
Anotación de corpus para o estudo da expresión gramatical de eventos: notas sobre o deseño do proxecto RADIS
Creators: name: Cabeza-Pereiro, Maruxa Carmen
name: Pérez Pérez, Ania
name: García-Miguel, José M.
Publisher: name: Sensos-e
Year: 2019

description: The RADIS project aims to approach the grammatical description of Spanish Sign Language (LSE) from contextualized uses. In particular, its main objective is to compile and analyse the LSE predications from a typological-comparative perspective. The process of annotating in ELAN is hereby briefly described. It consists of three phases or levels: primary annotation, annotation of non-manual components, and secondary or grammatical annotation. This method –in particular the grammatical annotation– allows us to analyse the main resources for expressing event participants in LSE. Verb arguments are categorised into external (pronouns or nominal phrases), internal (descriptive constructions with classifiers and locus) and those non-based on a specific manual articulation, as it is the case for constructed action, expressed by non-manual components, as well as other examples of referent maintenance throughout the discourse without any explicit mention. The use of quantitative methods enables the correlation of forms of expression with different types of discourse.
description: Sensos-e, v. 6 n. 1 (2019): Morfossintaxe da Língua Gestual Portuguesa e outras Línguas Gestuais
Self-organization in systems of anisotropic particles
Creators: Miller, William Leneal
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chemistry, Physical and theoretical

description: This dissertation presents studies on self-organization in soft matter systems. A wide variety of systems is studied, with the goal of understanding both the nonequilibrium and the equilibrium properties of this important process. In Chapter 2, we study the self-assembly of asymmetric Janus colloidal particles. We identify and systematically describe the effect of the ratio of hydrophobic to hydrophilic surface area on the nonequilibrium processes and structure formation. In Chapter 3, we examine systems of hard, aspherical particles. We demonstrate that the thermodynamics of self-organization of a system of these aspherical particle (either a system of identical particles or a polydisperse system of different-shaped particles) is well-predicted by a simple relationship between the crystallization pressure and two measures of particle asphericity borrowed from other fields. In Chapter 4, we shift focus to systems of soft particles in two dimensions and on the surface of a sphere. Soft particles are particles with a nite interaction potential at zero distance; such particles exhibit a surprisingly large variety of ordered structures at equilibrium. A similar phenomenon is seen when the study is extended to soft particles on the surface of a sphere.In Chapter 5, we study the free energy of two-component polymer brush systems in which polymers of different length are patterned in alternating stripes of specified widths on the surface of a cylinder. We present the dependence of the free energy on the polymer lengths and stripe width and a qualitative explanation of its functional form. Finally, in Chapter 6, we approach the reverse self-assembly problem. That is, we describe an algorithm for answering the reverse (and much more dicult) question, "Given a specic desired target self-assembled structure, what interparticle interactions will yield a system which will self-assemble into that structure?" We also describe a new model of interparticle interaction which should be able to generate interparticle interaction geometries with a high degree of flexibility.
The E_8-manifold, singular fibers and handlebody decompositions
Creators: name: Kirby, Robion
name: Melvin, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N13, 57R65, 14J27

description: The E_8-manifold has several natural framed link descriptions, and we give an efficient method (via `grapes') for showing that they are indeed the same 4-manifold. This leads to explicit handle pictures for the perturbation of singular fibers in an elliptic surface to a collection of fishtails. In the same vein, we show how the degeneration of a regular fiber to a singular fiber in an elliptic surface provides rich examples of Gromov's compactness theorem.
description: 26 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper13.abs.html
Semiempirical methods for excited states of nanomaterials
Creators: Cho, Yeongsu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational chemistry
Condensed matter
Nanocomposites (Materials)
Density functionals
Perovskite
Exciton theory

description: Density functional theory (DFT) provides an affordable computational tool to understand electronic structure of various molecules and solids. However, the use of DFT is still challenging to investigate nanomaterials of intermediate size that are too small to assume translational symmetry and too large to be considered as molecules. This thesis focuses on developing cost-effective but accurate computational methods for nanomaterials and using the methods to rationalize and predict experimental behaviors. A notable difference of a nanomaterial from its bulk counterpart is that its properties are exceptionally sensitive to the dielectric environment, requiring a proper treatment of the surrounding dielectrics for an accurate understanding. The consequences of heterogeneous dielectric screening on transition metal dichalcogenides are studied by developing a new theory based on classical electrostatics, which closely reproduced the band gaps and optical gaps calculated by the ab initio GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). The relative insensitivity of the first optical transition energy observed by experiments was explained for the first time in terms of the cancellation effect of changes of the band gap and the exciton binding energy. The theory of heterogeneous dielectric environments is further developed to be used in an atomistic calculation of layered hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites via a tight-binding GW-BSE method. The binding energies of trions and biexcitons were also calculated using the stochastic variational method to give spectrum peak energies that show a good agreement with reported experimental measurements. Lastly, the tight-binding GW-BSE method is generalized into an atomistic, semiempirical approach to calculate the electronic structure and optical spectra of arbitrary nanomaterials, termed semiempirical GW (sGW) and BSE (sBSE).
Thesium mukense A. W. Hill
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Thesiaceae
Thesium
Thesium mukense

description: Thesium mukense A.W.Hill  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1930b).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
The Camassa-Holm equations as a closure model for turbulent channel flow
Creators: name: Chen, Shiyi
name: Foias, Ciprian
name: Holm, Darryl D.
name: Olson, Eric
name: Titi, Edriss S.
name: Wynne, Shannon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the viscous Camassa-Holm equations as a closure approximation for the Reynolds-averaged equations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes fluid. This approximation is tested on turbulent channel flows with steady mean. Analytical solutions for the mean velocity and the Reynolds shear stress across the entire channel are obtained, showing good agreement with experimental measurements and direct numerical simulations. As Reynolds number varies, these analytical mean velocity profiles form a family of curves whose envelopes are shown to have either power law, or logarithmic behavior, depending on the choice of drag law.
description: 4 pages, 4 figs, revtex
Victoria Police Department charge book (April-November 1875)
Creators: name: Victoria (B.C.). Police Department
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Police administration
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1068547
subject: Police
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1068398
subject: Criminal records
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728221
subject: Records and correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423917
subject: Police--Records and correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1068498
subject: Crime
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/882984
subject: Law enforcement
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993931
subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Local history
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1001400

description: Police charge book, used to record the date, name and charge, remand, and conviction or order to trial of persons charged with a crime.
Ghost-free and Modular Invariant Spectra of a String in SL(2,R) and Three Dimensional Black Hole Geometry
Creators: name: Satoh, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra of a string in $ SL(2,R) $ and three dimensional (BTZ) black hole geometry are discussed. We consider a free field realization of ^sl (2,R) different from the standard ones in treatment of zero-modes. Applying this to the string model in SL(2,R), we show that the spectrum is ghost-free. The essence of the argument is the same as Bars' resolution to the ghost problem, but there are differences; for example, the currents do not contain logarithmic cuts. Moreover, we obtain a modular invariant partition function. This realization is also applicable to the analysis of the string in the three dimensional black hole geometry, the model of which is described by an orbifold of the SL(2,R) WZW model. We obtain ghost-free and modular invariant spectra for the black hole theory as well. These spectra provide examples of few sensible spectra of a string in non-trivial backgrounds with curved time and, in particular, in a black hole background with an infinite number of propagating modes.
description: 18 pages, Latex; typos and some terminology corrected
Viscum fischeri Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Viscaceae
Viscum
Viscum fischeri

description: Viscum fischeri Engl.  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 1 400–2 300 m. Distribution: IIIb.
 Voucher: Lake Nkunga, Alt. 1 900 m, 19 Jan. 2001, Luke et al. 7232 (EA).
References: Fries (1923b), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Spin injection and spin accumulation in all-metal mesoscopic spin valves
Creators: name: Jedema, F. J.
name: Nijboer, M. S.
name: Filip, A. T.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electrical injection and detection of spin accumulation in lateral ferromagnetic metal-nonmagnetic metal-ferromagnetic metal (F/N/F) spin valve devices with transparent interfaces. Different ferromagnetic metals, permalloy (Py), cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni), are used as electrical spin injectors and detectors. For the nonmagnetic metal both aluminium (Al) and copper (Cu) are used. Our multi-terminal geometry allows us to experimentally separate the spin valve effect from other magneto resistance signals such as the anomalous magneto resistance (AMR) and Hall effects. We find that the AMR contribution of the ferromagnetic contacts can dominate the amplitude of the spin valve effect, making it impossible to observe the spin valve effect in a 'conventional' measurement geometry. In a 'non local' spin valve measurement we are able to completely isolate the spin valve signal and observe clear spin accumulation signals at T=4.2 K as well as at room temperature (RT). For aluminum we obtain spin relaxation lengths (lambda_{sf}) of 1.2 mu m and 600 nm at T=4.2 K and RT respectively, whereas for copper we obtain 1.0 mu m and 350 nm. The spin relaxation times tau_{sf} in Al and Cu are compared with theory and results obtained from giant magneto resistance (GMR), conduction electron spin resonance (CESR), anti-weak localization and superconducting tunneling experiments. The spin valve signals generated by the Py electrodes (alpha_F lambda_F=0.5 [1.2] nm at RT [T=4.2 K]) are larger than the Co electrodes (alpha_F lambda_F=0.3 [0.7] nm at RT [T=4.2 K]), whereas for Ni (alpha_F lambda_F<0.3 nm at RT and T=4.2 K) no spin signal is observed. These values are compared to the results obtained from GMR experiments.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRB
Sediment challenge to promising ultra-low fouling hydrophilic surfaces in the marine environment
Creators: name: Koc, Julian
name: Simovich, Tomer
name: Schönemann, Eric
name: Chilkoti, Ashutosh
name: Gardner, Harrison
name: Swain, Geoffrey W.
name: Hunsucker, Kelli
name: Laschewsky, André
name: Rosenhahn, Axel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Hydrophilic coatings exhibit ultra-low fouling properties in numerous laboratory experiments. In stark contrast, the antifouling effect of such coatings in vitro failed when performing field tests in the marine environment. The fouling release performance of nonionic and zwitterionic hydrophilic polymers was substantially reduced compared to the controlled laboratory environment. Microscopy and spectroscopy revealed that a large proportion of the accumulated material in field tests contains inorganic compounds and diatomaceous soil. Diatoms adhered to the accumulated material on the coating, but not to the pristine polymer. Simulating field tests in the laboratory using sediment samples collected from the test sites showed that incorporated sand and diatomaceous earth impairs the fouling release characteristics of the coatings. When exposed to marine sediment from multiple locations, particulate matter accumulated on these coatings and served as attachment points for diatom adhesion and enhanced fouling. Future developments of hydrophilic coatings should consider accumulated sediment and its potential impact on the antifouling performance.
A two-layer approach for tailings in open channels
Creators: name: Abulnaga, Baha E.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In a number of locations around the world the tailings storage area is sufficiently lower than the mineral processing plant to allow disposal by gravity. Most past efforts to represent open channel flows have been empirical and have focused on representing the solid phase as a viscosity problem for which the Manning equation could be used. Empirical equations developed for stormwater flows are difficult to use for tailings as they were often developed for cases of solids that do not exceed few thousand parts per million. As large tailings systems develop to transport solids with volumetric concentration in the range of 20% to 30% different forces interact. The coarsest particles move as a bed load in the bottom layer, while the fines move in a suspended mode in the upper layer. Bed forms develop at the interface between the two layers that include ripples, dunes, anti-dunes and flat planes. With large volumes of solids, a Coulombic force develops that is independent of speed but must be accounted for in friction losses while collisions between particles give rise to the Bagnold stress. The proposed two-layer approach provides a tool to examine the combination of these forces for design of long distance tailings transport in open channels. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Semiparametric Estimation of a Gaptime-Associated Hazard Function
Creators: Teravainen, Timothy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Proportional hazards models
subject: Survival analysis (Biometry)
subject: Bayesian statistical decision theory
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Electrical engineering

description: This dissertation proposes a suite of novel Bayesian semiparametric estimators for a proportional hazard function associated with the gaptimes, or inter-arrival times, of a counting process in survival analysis. The Cox model is applied and extended in order to identify the subsequent effect of an event on future events in a system with renewal. The estimators may also be applied, without changes, to model the effect of a point treatment on subsequent events, as well as the effect of an event on subsequent events in neighboring subjects.

These Bayesian semiparametric estimators are used to analyze the survival and reliability of the New York City electric grid. In particular, the phenomenon of "infant mortality," whereby electrical supply units are prone to immediate recurrence of failure, is flexibly quantified as a period of increased risk. In this setting, the Cox model removes the significant confounding effect of seasonality. Without this correction, infant mortality would be misestimated due to the exogenously increased failure rate during summer months and times of high demand. The structural assumptions of the Bayesian estimators allow the use and interpretation of sparse event data without the rigid constraints of standard parametric models used in reliability studies.
Semiparametric inference with shape constraints
Creators: Patra, Rohit Kumar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Regression analysis
subject: Mathematical statistics
subject: Probabilities
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This thesis deals with estimation and inference in two semiparametric problems: a two-component mixture model and a single index regression model.
      For the two-component mixture model, we assume that the distribution of one component is known and develop  methods for estimating the mixing proportion and the unknown distribution using  ideas from shape restricted function estimation. We establish the consistency of our estimators. We find the rate of convergence and the asymptotic limit of our estimator for the mixing proportion. Furthermore, we develop a completely automated distribution-free honest finite sample lower confidence bound for the mixing proportion. We compare the proposed estimators, which are easily implementable, with some of the existing procedures through simulation studies and analyse two data sets, one arising from an application in astronomy and the other from a microarray experiment.
      For the single index model, we consider estimation of the unknown link function and the finite dimensional index parameter. We study the problem when the true link function is assumed to be: (1) smooth or (2) convex. When the link function is just assumed to be smooth, in contrast to  standard kernel based methods, we use smoothing splines to estimate the link function. We prove the consistency and find the rates of convergence of the proposed estimators. We establish root-n-rate of convergence and the semiparametric efficiency of the parametric component under mild assumptions. When the link function is assumed to be convex, we propose a shape constrained penalized least squares estimator and a Lipschitz constrained least squares estimator for the unknown quantities.  We prove the consistency and find the rates of convergence for both estimators. For the shape constrained penalized least squares estimator, we establish root-n-rate of convergence and the semiparametric efficiency of the parametric component under mild assumptions and conjecture that the parametric component of the Lipschitz constrained least squares estimator is semiparametrically efficient. We develop the R package "simest'' that can be used (to compute the proposed estimators) even for moderately large dimensions.
Classification of unknotting tunnels for two bridge knots
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M05

description: In this paper, we show that any unknotting tunnel for a two bridge knot is isotopic to either one of known ones. This together with Morimoto-Sakuma's result gives the complete classification of unknotting tunnels for two bridge knots up to isotopies and homeomorphisms.
description: 32 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper14.abs.html
Viscum schimperi Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Viscaceae
Viscum
Viscum schimperi

description: Viscum schimperi Engl.  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
AC losses in Bi,Pb(2223) multifilamentary wires with square cross-section
Creators: name: Witz, G.
name: Su, X. -D
name: Kwasnitza, K.
name: Flukiger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have fabricated prototype Bi,Pb(2223)/Ag superconduting multifilamentary wires with a square cross-section. The AC losses of these wires were measured, compared with those of tapes and also compared with the theory. Wires show largely reduced AC magnetic field losses at 47 Hz, compared to those of tapes in a perpendicular magnetic field. The effects of the twist pitch and of the use of the high resisitive barriers were also investigated. The results show that the use of a twist pitch of about 10 mm is sufficient for decoupling the filaments, and that the use of very short twist pitches does not further reduce the absolute value of the AC losses. The losses in the wires are still higher than those of tapes in a parallel magnetic field, but the results show that the square or round configurations are interesting for applications where a perpendicular component of the magnetic field cannot be avoided, or for applications in rotating magnetic fields.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Physica C
Torsions and Curvatures on Jet Fibre Bundle J^1(T,M)
Creators: name: Neagu, Mircea
name: Udriste, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 53C43, 53C99

description: The paper introduces the notion of Γ-linear connection \nabla on the 1-jet fibre bundle J^1(T,M), and presents its local components. We also describe the local Ricci and Bianchi identities of $\nabla$.
description: 16 pages
title: Faszination Kommunikationstechnik: Digitalübertragung – Nanoelektronik – Photonik
Creators: name: Ebeling, Karl
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 62

description: Die Fortschritte der Kommunikationstechnik in den letzten 20 Jahren sind durchaus als revolutionär zu bezeichnen. Das klassische analoge Festnetztelephon ist längst vom multifunktionalen Mobiltelephon abgelöst. Jedermann ist immer und überall, zu jeder Zeit an jedem Ort der Erde per Handy erreichbar. Das Internet-Lexikon Wikipedia hat den Großen Brockhaus verdrängt, der inzwischen nur noch antiquarisch zu erhalten ist, da Neuauflagen nicht mehr gedruckt werden. Der gesamte Informationsgehalt des 14-bändigen Großen Brockhaus von etwa 50 Megabyte lässt sich bequem digital auf einem winzigen USB-Stick speichern, der kleiner ist als eine 1 Euro-Münze. Voluminöse, Platz raubende Röhrenfernseher werden durch Flachbildschirmgeräte ersetzt, die höhere Auflösung, brillantere Farbwiedergabe und geringeren Energieverbrauch aufweisen. Dank moderner Digitaltechnik beobachten wir eine zunehmende Konversion von Hörfunk, Fernsehen, Telephonie und Internet zu einem umfassenden individuellen Multimediainformationsangebot. Die Übertragung der anfallenden riesigen Datenmengen gelingt letztlich nur optisch über ausgeklügelte Glasfasersysteme, die hoch gezüchtete Laserdioden als Photonenquelle nutzen. Die Verarbeitung der Daten erfolgt mit Mikroprozessoren, die mehrere 100 Millionen CMOSTransistoren enthalten und deren Leistungsfähigkeit gemäß dem Mooreschen Gesetz ständig ansteigt. Die folgenden Ausführungen geben einen Einblick in Grundlagen, Leistungsmerkmale und Anwendungsbeispiele moderner Kommunikationssysteme.
On regularly fibered complex surfaces
Creators: name: Kotschick, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H15, 14J29, 20F34, 32L30, 57M50

description: We show that a compact complex surface which fibers smoothly over a curve of genus >1 with fibers of genus >1 fibers holomorphically. We deduce an improvement of a result in [D Kotschick, Math. Research Letters, 5 (1998) 227-234], and a characterisation of fibered surfaces with zero signature.
description: 8 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper15.abs.html
Spatial correlations of singularity strengths in multifractal branching processes
Creators: name: Greiner, Martin
name: Schmiegel, Juergen
name: Eickemeyer, Felix
name: Lipa, Peter
name: Eggers, Hans C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The n-point statistics of singularity strength variables for multiplicative branching processes is calculated from an analytic expression of the corresponding multivariate generating function. The key ingredient is a branching generating function which can be understood as a natural generalisation of the multifractal mass exponents. Various random multiplicative cascade processes pertaining to fully developed turbulence are discussed.
description: REVTeX, 18 pages, 5 PS figs, submitted to PRE
Dynamic correlations in symmetric electron-electron and electron-hole bilayers
Creators: name: Moudgil, R. K.
name: Saini, L. K.
name: Senatore, Gaetano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground-state behavior of the symmetric electron-electron and electron-hole bilayers is studied by including dynamic correlation effects within the quantum version of Singwi, Tosi, Land, and Sjolander (qSTLS) theory. The static pair-correlation functions, the local-field correction factors, and the ground-state energy are calculated over a wide range of carrier density and layer spacing. The possibility of a phase transition into a density-modulated ground state is also investigated. Results for both the electron-electron and electron-hole bilayers are compared with those of recent diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulation studies. We find that the qSTLS results differ markedly from those of the conventional STLS approach and compare in the overall more favorably with the DMC predictions. An important result is that the qSTLS theory signals a phase transition from the liquid to the coupled Wigner crystal ground state, in both the electron-electron and electron-hole bilayers, below a critical density and in the close proximity of layers (d
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
Technology development
Creators: name: Wells, Patrick Sean
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Technological innovation has been a primary factor in the successes achieved in tailings handling within the oil sands industry in north-eastern Alberta. As a key driver of innovation for Suncor Energy, Inc., The author has been part of the team that stewarded several developments from conception through to full-scale implementation. This paper will present the conceptual shift in thinking which allowed for the introduction of key technologies including Tailings Reduction Operations (TRO).[All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Kaluza-Klein Dyons in String Theory
Creators: name: Sen, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: S-duality of hetertotic / type II string theory compactified on a six dimensional torus requires the existence of Kaluza-Klein dyons, carrying winding charge. We identify the zero modes of the Kaluza-Klein monopole solution which are responsible for these dyonic excitations, and show that we get the correct degeneracy of dyons as predicted by S-duality. The self-dual harmonic two form on the Euclidean Taub-NUT space plays a crucial role in this construction.
description: LaTeX file, 7 pages, reference added
Additional file 1 of Engineering Lactococcus lactis as a multi-stress tolerant biosynthetic chassis by deleting the prophage-related fragment
Creators: name: Qiao, Wanjin
name: Qiao, Yu
name: Liu, Fulu
name: Zhang, Yating
name: Li, Ran
name: Wu, Zhenzhou
name: Xu, Haijin
name: Saris, Per Erik Joakim
name: Qiao, Mingqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. KEGG functional enrichment (L. lactis N8-1 vs L. lactis N8). a Upregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05); b downregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05). Fig. S2. Gene Ontology (GO) function annotations. a all proteins; b upregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05); c downregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05). Fig. S3. Diagram of protein subcellular localization. Red bars indicate upregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05), green bars indicate downregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05). Fig. S4. RT-qPCR analysis of genes with higher and lower expression level. rpsN, rplR: ribosomal protein; csc2B, csc2C: cell surface protein; pi339, pp423: bacteriophage protein; butA, butB: butanoate metabolism protein; arcA, arcB: arginine biosynthesis protein; galM, galK: galactose metabolism protein: lacZ; beta-galactosidase. Fig. S5. PCR verification of the knockout vector construction. Table S1. Gene content of deleted PRF. Table S2. Substrate consumption ratio. Table S3. Nisin-immunity of engineered strains. Table S4. Upregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05). Table S5. Downregulated proteins (> 1.2-fold change with P < 0.05).
$X(3872)$ as virtual companion pole of the charm-anticharm state $χ_{c1}(2P)$
Creators: name: Giacosa, Francesco
name: Piotrowska, Milena
name: Coito, Susana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral function of the axial-vector charmonium state $χ_{c1}(2P)$ coupled to $DD^{\ast}$ mesons, by employing a quantum field theoretical approach: a pronounced enhancement close to the $D^{0}% D^{\ast0}$ threshold, to be identified with the $X(3872)$, emerges. In the complex plane we find two poles: a pole for the broad seed state $χ_{c1}(2P)$, and -- in the easiest scenario -- a virtual pole for the $X(3872)$. Thus, our approach describes both the seed state and the dynamically generated $X(3872)$ simultaneously. In particular, it explains the most prominent, both molecular-like and quarkonium-like, features of the $X(3872)$: its very small width (the decay into $D^{0}D^{\ast0}$ is predicted to be about 0.5 MeV), the enhanced radiative decay into $ψ(2S)γ$ w.r.t. $ψ(1S)γ$, and the isospin breaking decay into $J/ψρ$ (thanks to $DD^{\ast}$ loops mediating this decay channel). At the same time, we aim to determine the pole position and the properties of the charmonium seed state: quite interestingly, even if a pole is always present, it is possible that there is no peak corresponding to this state in the spectral function, thus potentially explaining why the corresponding resonance could not yet be seen in experiments.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication in IJMPA
Viscum tuberculatum A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Viscaceae
Viscum
Viscum tuberculatum

description: Viscum tuberculatum A.Rich.  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 700 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 2 667 m, 17 Jul. 2014, CPG 28340 (HIB, PE).
References: Fries (1923b), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Quorum sensing: an emerging link between temperature and membrane biofouling in membrane bioreactors
Creators: name: Nahm, Chang Hyun
name: Keehong Kim
name: Sojin Min
name: Hosung Lee
name: Dowon Chae
name: Kibaek Lee
name: Choo, Kwang-Ho
name: Chung-Hak Lee
name: Koyuncu, Ismail
name: Pyung-Kyu Park
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: Lab-scale membrane bioreactors (MBRs) were investigated at 12, 18, and 25 °C to identify the correlation between quorum sensing (QS) and biofouling at different temperatures. The lower the reactor temperature, the more severe the membrane biofouling measured in terms of the transmembrane pressure (TMP) during filtration. More extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) that cause biofouling were produced at 18 °C than at 25 °C, particularly polysaccharides, closely associated with QS via the production of N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL). However, at 12 °C, AHL production decreased, but the release of EPSs due to deflocculation increased the soluble EPS concentration. To confirm the temperature effect related to QS, bacteria producing AHL were isolated from MBR sludge and identified as Aeromonas sp., Leclercia sp., and Enterobacter sp. through a 16S rDNA sequencing analysis. Batch assays at 18 and 25 °C showed that there was a positive correlation between QS through AHL and biofilm formation in that temperature range.
Upon h-normal Γ-linear connections on J^1(T,M)
Creators: name: Neagu, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 53C43, 53C99

description: The paper introduces the notion of h-normal Γ-linear connection \nabla on 1-jet fibre bundle J^1(T,M), and studies its local d-torsions and d-curvatures togheter with theirs Bianchi identities. Also, it presents the important deflection d-tensors identities attached to \nabla.
description: 13 pages, The author would like to thank to Prof. Dr. C. Udriste for his interest in this work and useful suggestions