cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Charged K* Photoproduction in a Regge model
Creators: name: Ozaki, S.
name: Nagahiro, H.
name: Hosaka, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate $γp \to K^{*+} Λ$ reaction within a Regge approach. For the gauge invariance of the scattering amplitude, we reggeize the s-channel and contact term amplitudes as well as the $t$-channel amplitude. We obtain the decreasing behavior of the total cross section as the CLAS's preliminary data show. We also calculate spin density matrices, and find clear differences between our Regge model and the previous Feynman (isobar) model.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
КОНСТИТУЦИОННО-ПРАВОВОЕ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЕ ПОЛУЧЕНИЯ РАЗРЕШЕНИЯ НА ПРОЖИВАНИЕ В ЭСТОНСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКЕ
Creators: name: ПРУДНИКОВ АНАТОЛИЙ СЕМЕНОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ЭСТОНСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА
ИНОСТРАННЫЙ ГРАЖДАНИН
РАЗРЕШЕНИЕ
ПРОЖИВАНИЕ
ПРОЦЕДУРА
ЗАКОН
ПРАВО
ИММИГРАЦИОННАЯ ПОЛИТИКА
ESTONIA
FOREIGN CITIZEN
PERMIT
RESIDENCE
PROCEDURE
LAW
IMMIGRATION POLICY

description: Раскрыты особенности иммиграционной политики Эстонской Республики, основы иммиграционного законодательства и процедуры получения разрешения на проживание в Эстонской Республике в соответствии с Законом «Об иностранцах».
title: Effect of Non-Metabolized Sweeteners on Health Parameters in Humans
Creators: name: Leonhardt, Matthew Alan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The demand for functional foods is on the rise. These are food products that, besides providing energy and nutrients for life, provide additional health benefits. Xylitol, a five-carbon sugar alcohol, is a possible functional food, as well as a sugar replacement. The cost of xylitol has led manufacturers to add inulin, a nondigestible oligosaccharide, as an extender. Both xylitol and inulin have been suggested to provide added health benefits beyond being a reduced calorie replacement for sugar. We tested their impact on several human health parameters (fecal weight, fecal pH, fecal% Ill moisture, blood lipids, blood glucose, and fecal micro flora) with two age groups, "older" (62.3 ± 9.63 y, n= 17) and "younger" (23.3 ± 2.02 y, n= 18). Participants were given two different treatments: A, 7.5 g xylitol and B, 7.5 g of xylitol in combination with 7.5 g of inulin. Treatment schedules were as follows: 2 weeks with one treatment, followed by a 2-week washout period, and 2 weeks with the treatment they had not previously taken. Comparisons were then made between each treatment and the washout period.
Due to the low number of participants, we were unable to obtain substantial significance on most observations, but important trends were detected. Treatment with xylitol by itself caused a decrease in stool mass compared to washout (control) values, while the addition of inulin reversed the decrease. This effect is important, as an increased stool mass is associated with a healthy gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Xylitol by itself or with added inulin provided for a more acidic colonic environment, which aids in mineral absorption and inhibition of pathogenic microbes. Both treatments were also noted to cause an increase the frequency of bowel movements compared to washout. As sugar replacements, it was observed that both treatments were associated with a decreased post-prandial blood sugar level from washout, indicating a benefit in blood glucose control. As for blood lipid values, xylitol caused a decrease, compared to washout, in triglycerides and VLDL levels while increasing HDL levels. However, the addition of inulin increased, from washout, the younger age group's serum triglycerides, but did not change xylitol 's effects on VLDL and HDL levels of either age group. In the fecal micro flora, it was seen that taking the xylitol treatment caused a decrease, from washout, in amounts of all microbes studied, while the addition of inulin increased the fecal Lactobacilli counts of the older age group. Interestingly, stool qualities responded differently by age. Both treatments made the older population's stool more firm, while the same treatments made the younger population's stool more loose. Despite the added benefits, there was an increase in flatulence-small with the xylitol treatment, but nearly a three-fold increase with the addition of inulin. In conclusion, xylitol alone or with the addition of inulin can be labeled as a functional food
An Experiment in Institutional Transformation: The NSF ADVANCE Program for Women at the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Creators: name: Bell, Robin E.
name: Laird, Jennifer D.
name: Pfirman, Stephanie L.
name: Mutter, John Colin
name: Balstad, Roberta G.
name: Cane, Mark A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Women's studies
Education, Higher

description: In response to demands for systemic change across academia, NSF developed the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Awards in 2001. The objective of these awards is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academia. Based on the brief experience of the ADVANCE Program at Columbia and the collective experiences of ADVANCE Programs at other universities, f ve universal strategies for institutional change seem to be emerging: (1) generate awareness of the problem, (2) develop a widespread understanding of the underlying behaviors, (3) create and codify strategies to recruit and retain more women into academia, (4) provide the tools that will enable women to succeed, and (5) institutionalize accountability.
Escape Rates and Physically Relevant Measures for Billiards with Small Holes
Creators: name: Demers, Mark
name: Wright, Paul
name: Young, Lai-Sang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37D50,

description: We study the billiard map corresponding to a periodic Lorentz gas in 2-dimensions in the presence of small holes in the table. We allow holes in the form of open sets away from the scatterers as well as segments on the boundaries of the scatterers. For a large class of smooth initial distributions, we establish the existence of a common escape rate and normalized limiting distribution. This limiting distribution is conditionally invariant and is the natural analogue of the SRB measure of a closed system. Finally, we prove that as the size of the hole tends to zero, the limiting distribution converges to the smooth invariant measure of the billiard map.
description: 39 pages, 4 figures
title: Prevention of Childhood Obesity among Low-Income Preschool-Aged Children
Creators: name: Romero, Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: To determine the effects of a targeted curriculum and dual program involvement on childhood overweight status among low-income preschool children, a nutrition curriculum was developed. Three Special Supplemental Food Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) clinics participated in the study: the control clinic, a clinic which received the targeted curriculum, and a third clinic which received the targeted curriculum and referred participant families to the Expanded Food and Nutrition lll Education Program (EFNEP). Participants were followed for six months. Data collected included anthropometrics, dietary intake, and parental behaviors.
Results showed a decrease in body-mass index percentile, slight improvements in dietary intakes, and increased prevalence of healthy parental behaviors for all three clinics. Overall no significant differences between clinics were noted. Surveys indicated a positive impact of the curriculum in meeting desired objectives and a positive change on parents' self-efficacy.
The Heemskirk granite massif, Western Tasmania : a study of chemical variability within plutonic rocks
Creators: name: Klominsky, J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Heemskirk granite massif was intruded as a diapir about 354 m.y. ago into Precambrian and Palaeozoic sediments, it fractionated into two types the red and white granites, which are distinguished by their colour and mineral and chemical composition. It is suggested that they also differed in volatile content and oxygen fugacity. The characteristic mineral assemblage of the red granite (hematite - magnetite - allanite) indicates a higher oxygen fugacity than the white type which is characterised by tourmaline. Both rock types are biotite or two mica granites sensu stricto (Hietanen, 1963). Differences between the granite types have developed during and after emplacement of the intrusion. The granite body has a generally stratiform structure with subhorizontal layering and the upper part of the intrusion is characterized by a very flat dome. Its internal structure consists of several layers of granites with slightly different mineralogical, textural and chemical properties. Within each layer cryptic layering can be defined by the behaviour of the trace elements. The red granite occupies the topmost part of the intrusion and forms a comparatively thin layer in the eastern part of the body; it acts as country rock, having been consolidated earlier than most of the white granites. Towards the west the red granite is laterally re-placed by the white granite, which probably represents the major pert of the Heemskirk granite at depth. The roof zone of the white granite (contact zone with the red granite) is enriched by tourmaline nodules, which are interpreted as originally volatile segregations in a crystallizing magma. The white granite shows a higher degree of geochemical and mineralogical homogeneity. Interpretation of the granite composition in the light of experimental data suggests that the Heemskirk massif was emplaced at shallow depths in the crust. A temperature of 650¬¨‚àûC is estimated for the crystallization of K-feldspars from the red granite. The surface of the body reflects on a subdued scale the anticlinorial structure of the original sedimentary cover. The existence of the ghost structure of the country rocks in the roof of the intrusion is also indicated by the distribution of the contaminates and positive anomalies of some trace elements (particularly within the red granite). The Heemskirk granite massif is characterized by very regular fracture systems. Extensive greisenisation and hydrothermal alteration follow the dominant cross joints. The filling of the fissures is quartz, tourmaline and commonly cassiterite in economic concentrations, and rare columbite. The majority of the tin deposits are found on the white/red granite contact. The abundance of Sn concentration at the present surface in the eastern part of the body is related to exposure of this contact and the depth of red granite cover. Where the red granite exceeds 600 feet in thickness tin mineralization is unlikely to be economic.
Non-Perturbative Effects on a Fractional D3-Brane
Creators: name: Ferretti, Gabriele
name: Petersson, Christoffer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we study the N=1 abelian gauge theory on the world volume of a single fractional D3-brane. In the limit where gravitational interactions are not completely decoupled we find that a superpotential and a fermionic bilinear condensate are generated by a D-brane instanton effect. A related situation arises for an isolated cycle invariant under an orientifold projection, even in the absence of any gauge theory brane. Moreover, in presence of supersymmetry breaking background fluxes, such instanton configurations induce new couplings in the 4-dimensional effective action, including non-perturbative contributions to the cosmological constant and non-supersymmetric mass terms.
description: 18 pages, v3: refs added
Comparison of AIRGrav and GT-1A airborne gravimeters for research applications
Creators: name: Studinger, Michael
name: Bell, Robin E.
name: Frearson, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Airborne gravimetry
Gravity--Measurement
Glaciology

description: Airborne gravimetry has played a vital role in contributing to our knowledge of the subglacial environment in polar regions. Previous programs have produced extensive gravity data sets in Antarctica, but the resolution and accuracy of the data have been limited. We have evaluated the relative performance and suitability of two different airborne gravimeters for research applications from flight tests over the Canadian Rocky Mountains near Calgary. Survey design, mission profiles, and demands on the performance of an airborne gravimeter are different for the remote polar environment than for most commercial exploration surveys. Both systems, the AIRGrav and GT-1A, can produce higher-resolution data with improved flight efficiency than can the BGM-3 and LaCoste & Romberg gravimeters used in Antarctica. The AIRGrav and GT-1A systems are capable of draped flying of airborne gravity, allowing new applications for polar use. Both systems could provide the academic community with a significant increase in accuracy and horizontal resolution to enable major advances in understanding the subglacial environment. Compared to the GT-1A system, the AIRGrav system has a lower noise level and higher accuracy, and it is less sensitive to changing flight conditions — in particular, vertical accelerations during turbulent flights.
Paleomagnetism of the Front Range (Colorado) Morrison Formation and an alternative model of Late Jurassic North American apparent polar wander
Creators: name: Van Fossen, Mickey C.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A paleomagnetic study of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in the Front Range of central Colorado yields high-unblocking-temperature, dual-polarity magnetizations. With respect to known paleohorizontal, the inclinations (absolute mean = 57.3°, 95% confidence interval = 52.3° to 63.1°, N = 8 sites) pass tilt and reversal tests, whereas the dispersion in declinations can be attributed to apparent or real tectonic rotations and sedimentary processes. The site-centered colatitudinal locus of possible Front Range Morrison poles partially overlaps the "upper" pole, but it excludes the "lower" pole from the Morrison Formation on the Colorado Plateau as well as the 151 Ma Glance conglomerate pole from the Basin and Range province of southeastern Arizona. We offer various explanations for these disparities and suggest an alternative model of Late Jurassic North American apparent polar wander through ~70°N which is supported by Late Jurassic European poles (with positive stability tests) transferred to North American coordinates.
title: Development and Evaluation of an Electronic Food Frequency Questionnaire for Estimating Calcium Intake among Multiethnic Youth
Creators: name: Wong, Siew Sun
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Youth consuming inadequate amounts of calcium are at risk of developing osteoporosis later in life. To better assess dietary calcium intakes and the efficacy of dietary intervention strategies to improve bone health among youth, it is important to develop calcium intake assessment tools that are reliable, accurate, and interactively engaging for a new generation of youth who have a higher computer literacy and are more technologically knowledgeable than preceding generations. The goal of this dissertation was to develop and evaluate an electronic food frequency questionnaire ( eFFQ) that measures calcium intake among 11-to 18-year-old Asian, Hispanic, and White youth. Enhancing this tool was the inclusion of 100 original digital color food photographs portraying the foods listed in the eFFQ. A formal evaluation study, as well as formative and summative evaluations of food photos and the eFFQ, was accomplished.
The Morphology of Urban Agglomerations for Developing Countries: A Case Study with China
Creators: name: Gangopadhyay, Kausik
name: Basu, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, the relationship between two well-accepted empirical propositions regarding the distribution of population in cities, namely, Gibrat's law and Zipf's law, are rigorously examined using the Chinese census data. Our findings are quite in contrast with the most of the previous studies performed exclusively for developed countries. This motivates us to build a general environment to explain the morphology of urban agglomerations both in developed and developing countries. A dynamic process of job creation generates a particular distribution for the urban agglomerations and introduction of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in this abstract environment shows that the empirical observations are in good agreement with the proposed model.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
Paleomagnetism of 122 Ma Plutons in New England and the Mid-Cretaceous Paleomagnetic Field in North America: True Polar Wander or Large-Scale Differential Mantle Motion?
Creators: name: Van Fossen, Mickey C.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous White Mountains plutonic complexes in New Hampshire and Vermont yields high unblocking temperature, dual polarity magnetizations in different types of igneous rocks. The resulting pole position for three plutons (71.9° N, 187.4° E, A_95 = 6.9°, age = 122.5 Ma) agrees with previously published mid-Cretaceous poles for North America, which together give a mid-Cretaceous standstill reference pole slightly revised from Globerman and Irving [1988] at 71.2° N, 194.1° E (A_95 = 3.7°, N = 5 studies). We argue on the basis of the wide geographic distribution of these studies, the variety in tectonic settings and rock types, positive reversal tests, and an overall reversal pattern consistent with geomagnetic polarity time scales, that this mean pole represents the North American mid-Cretaceous reference field for nominally 36 m.y. (124 to 88 Ma). The standstill pole limits to within ±4°, the motion of the North American plate relative to the Earth's spin axis. During the same mid-Cretaceous interval, the New England hotspot track (124 Ma Monteregian Hills, 122.5-Ma Cretaceous White Mountains, and 103- to 84-Ma New England seamounts) requires 11°±4° of north-poleward motion of North America, in direct conflict with the paleomagnetic standstill. A similar (~13°) discrepancy is independently demonstrated between the spin axis and the Tristan da Cunha hotspot track on the African plate during the mid-Cretaceous interval. The hotspot/spin axis discrepancies ended by ~90 Ma when it is shown that both Atlantic hotspots agree with North American and African dipole paleolatitudes and present-day locations. Nondipole fields are an unlikely explanation of the uniform motion of these two widely separated hotspots with respect to the spin axis, leaving as possible interpretations true polar wander and large-scale (but differential) mantle motion. The southerly motion of the mid-Cretaceous Louisville hotspot relative to the spin axis is ostensively at odds with what would be predicted under the true polar wander interpretation and points to differential mantle kinematics. The motions of the three widely separated mid-Cretaceous hotspots with respect to the spin axis may be related to the recently proposed increase in global oceanic lithosphere production rates which gave rise to the mid-Cretaceous "superplume."
ПРАВОВЫЕ ГАРАНТИИ КОНСТИТУЦИОННЫХ ПРАВ И СВОБОД ЧЕЛОВЕКА И ГРАЖДАНИНА В РОССИИ
Creators: name: ХАЗОВ ЕВГЕНИЙ НИКОЛАЕВИЧ
name: ХАЛИЛОВ РУФАТ МАРДАНОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: КОНСТИТУЦИЯ
КОНСТИТУЦИОННЫЕ НОРМЫ
ГОСУДАРСТВО
ПРАВОВОЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ
РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ
ПРАВОВЫЕ ГАРАНТИИ
КОНСТИТУЦИОННЫЕ ПРАВА И СВОБОДЫ ЧЕЛОВЕКА И ГРАЖДАНИНА
CONSTITUTION
CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS
STATE
LEGAL SUPPORT
IMPLEMENTATION
LEGAL GUARANTEES
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF MAN AND CITIZEN

description: Рассматриваются актуальные теоретические вопросы правовых гарантий конституционных прав и свобод человека и гражданина. Анализируются основные направления механизма реализации правовых гарантий прав и свобод человека на современном этапе развития России.
title: Diabetes, Cognitive Decline, and Alzheimer's Disease: The Cache County Study on Memory, Health, and Aging
Creators: name: Charoonruk, Gene
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Studies have reported mixed results for people with or without diabetes with cognitive decline or Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cognitive decline and AD among people with diabetes will be the focus of much discussion since results have been controversial.
The study examined whether diabetes is associated with cognitive decline and whether it is an independent risk factor for the development of AD among elderly residents of Cache County, Utah.
Results revealed an association between diabetes and a lower average Modified Mini Mental State Examination (3MS) score of nearly a point lower at baseline. Results also showed an association between diabetes and an increased risk of incident AD compared with non-diabetes for men but not for women. The interaction between diabetes, gender, and risk of AD should be explored further.
СУЩНОСТЬ ФРАНЧАЙЗИНГА И СПЕЦИФИКА ЕГО ПРАВОВОГО РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ В РОССИИ
Creators: name: АНОХИН СЕРГЕЙ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ФРАНЧАЙЗИНГ
ДОГОВОР КОММЕРЧЕСКОЙ КОНЦЕССИИ
ДОГОВОР ФРАНЧАЙЗИНГА
ФРАНШИЗА
ФРАНЧАЙЗЕР
ФРАНЧАЙЗИ
FRANCHISING
COMMERCIAL CONCESSION AGREEMENT
FRANCHISE AGREEMENT
FRANCHISE
FRANCHISOR
FRANCHISEE

description: Рассматриваются вопросы определения понятия «франчайзинг»; исследуется специфика его правового регулирования в России; проводится анализ элементов договора коммерческой концессии. По результатам исследования выявляются проблемные моменты правового регулирования франчайзинговых отношений; предлагаются меры по совершенствованию отечественного законодательства.
From Absences to Emergences: Foregrounding traditional and Indigenous climate change adaptation knowledges and practices from Fiji, Vietnam, and the Philippines
Creators: name: Cuaton, Ginbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 451902
subject: Global Indigenous studies environmental knowledges and management
classificationCode: 451904
subject: Global Indigenous studies peoples, society and community

description: The differential impacts of climate change have highlighted the need to implement fit-for-purpose interventions that are reflective of the needs of local communities. However, adaptation projects tend to favour technocratic, market-driven, and Eurocentric approaches that inadvertently disregard the place-based and contextual adaptation strategies of many communities in the Global South. The paper aims to decolonise climate change adaptation guided by the critical tenets of ‘Decolonising Climate Adaptation Scholarship’ (DCAS). It presents empirical case studies from Fiji, Vietnam, and the Philippines and reveals the different ways that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and strategies are devalued and suppressed by modernist and developmentalist approaches to climate adaptation. The paper then foregrounds some of the adaptive techniques that resist and remain, or have been re-worked in hybrid ways with ILK. Ultimately, this paper combats the delegitimisation of ILK by mainstream climate change adaptation scholarship and highlights the need for awareness and openness to other forms of knowing and being.
Maximizing Neumann fundamental tones of triangles
Creators: name: Laugesen, R.
name: Siudeja, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35P15; 35J20

description: We prove sharp isoperimetric inequalities for Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on triangular domains. The first nonzero Neumann eigenvalue is shown to be maximal for the equilateral triangle among all triangles of given perimeter, and hence among all triangles of given area. Similar results are proved for the harmonic and arithmetic means of the first two nonzero eigenvalues.
К ВОПРОСУ О СТАТУСЕ ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫХ УЧАСТКОВ, ИЗЫМАЕМЫХ ДЛЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ И МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫХ НУЖД
Creators: name: ЖУРИЛО ПАВЕЛ ИГОРЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: РЕНОВАЦИЯ В МОСКВЕ
ПРАВО СОБСТВЕННОСТИ НА ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫЙ УЧАСТОК
ИЗЪЯТИЕ ДЛЯ МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫХ И ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ НУЖД
RENOVATION IN MOSCOW
OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND
EXEMPTION FOR MUNICIPAL AND STATE NEEDS

description: Рассматриваются тенденции развития законодательства о земле в свете обсуждения проблем, вызванных осуществлением реновации жилого фонда в городе Москве. Ключевым в исследовании ставится правовой вопрос о правовом статусе земель под многоквартирным домом, подлежащим изъятию для муниципальных и государственных нужд.
Contributions to radio astronomy
Creators: name: McCulloch, Peter Maxwell
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis includes contributions to radioastronomy in a number of areas including the development of instrumentation for and observations of the first binary pulsar, pulsar searches, pulsar polarisation, general pulsar observations and radio emission from Jupiter and the Sun. In addition I have contributed to the development of a number of novel observing techniques. Much of the work described here involved the use of non standard equipment configurations at national observatories such as ANRAO at Parkes and the NAIC at Arecibo. The success of these operations owes a great deal to the cooperation of the observatory staff and the help of my colleagues. The difficulties involved in these operations and the wide range of expertise needed to perform any individual experiment means that one must necessarily work as part of a team. Such collaboration has been vital in getting the experiments done and has resulted in joint authorship of many of the resulting publications. I have prefaced this thesis with a short review concentrating on my contribution to the material presented. 'This review only covers what I regard as the key papers and topics. The review is followed by a full list of the papers submitted, grouped together under topics rather than in chronological order. Each group is preceded by a brief comment on the major papers and my contribution where multiple authors are involved. I have included a number of unrefereed IAU circulars among the publications because they announce to the astronomical community Observations or discoveries of particular interest or short lifetime which need confirmation. All of the material presented here is original, I have submitted none of it for the degree of Doctor of Science.
The observed evolution of oceanic pCO2 and its drivers over the last two decades
Creators: name: Lenton, Andrew
name: Metzl, Nicolas
name: Takahashi, Taro
name: Kuchinke, Mareva
name: Matear, Richard J.
name: Roy, Tilla
name: Sutherland, Stewart C.
name: Sweeney, Colm
name: Tilbrook, Bronte
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: We use a database of more than 4.4 million observations of ocean pCO2 to investigate oceanic pCO2 growth rates. We use pCO2 measurements, with corresponding sea surface temperature and salinity measurements, to reconstruct alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon to understand what is driving these growth rates in different ocean regions. If the oceanic pCO2 growth rate is faster (slower) than the atmospheric CO2 growth rate, the region can be interpreted as having a decreasing (increasing) atmospheric CO2 uptake. Only the Western subpolar and subtropical North Pacific, and the Southern Ocean are found to have sufficient spatial and temporal observations to calculate the growth rates of oceanic pCO2 in different seasons. Based on these regions, we find the strength of the ocean carbon sink has declined over the last two decades due to a combination of regional drivers (physical and biological). In the subpolar North Pacific reduced atmospheric CO2 uptake in the summer is associated with changes in the biological production, while in the subtropical North Pacific enhanced uptake in winter is associated with enhanced biological production. In the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean a reduced winter atmospheric CO2 uptake is associated with a positive SAM response. Conversely in the more stratified Atlantic Ocean sector enhanced summer uptake is associated with increased biological production and reduced vertical supply. We are not able to separate climate variability and change as the calculated growth rates are at the limit of detection and are associated with large uncertainties. Ongoing sustained observations of global oceanic pCO2 and its drivers, including dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity, are key to detecting and understanding how the ocean carbon sink will evolve in future and what processes are driving this change.
Inclination anomalies from Indian Ocean sediments and the possibility of a standing non-dipole field
Creators: name: Schneider, David A.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: We report magnetic inclinations measured in deep-sea sediments of the equatorial Indian Ocean which record the behavior of a nondipole component of the timeaveraged geomagnetic field during the Plio-Pleistocene (0-5 Ma). The magnitude of the nondipole effect recorded in these sediments appears to depend on polarity state, with inclinations showing departures from geocentric axial dipole directions which are small (2°) during normal polarity and larger (5°) during reverse polarity times. The overall nondipole effect observed here is consistent with prior spherical harmonic estimates of the paleomagnetic field; the polarity bias found agrees, in both sense and magnitude, with earlier reports of polarity asymmetry in the low-degree zonal harmonic fields. The presence of this asymmetry supports previous suggestions of the existence of a standing component of the nondipole field which does not invert during reversals of the main field. We explore whether the standing field so indicated may have influenced paleomagnetic directions recorded during polarity transitions at other equatorial sites.
title: Nutrition Education for Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis : Assessment of Needs and Strategies for Improved Knowledge and Confidence in Self Care
Creators: name: McDonald, Catherine M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Suboptimal growth and nutritional status are problematic for children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Optimal nutrition predicts better lung function and longevity. Daily nutrition therapy for children with CF requires adequate food resources, knowledge of appropriate nutrition and behavior management skills, and confidence in one's ability to correctly apply the necessary skills. The Mountain West Cystic Fibrosis Consortium Questionnaire (MWCFC-Q) was designed as an educational needs assessment for parents of children with CF. The goal was to identify areas of concern that could be targeted for educational intervention to ultimately improve children's growth and nutritional status.
Data analyzed from 305 returned surveys included household food security, use of food assistance programs, knowledge of nutrition and general CF therapy, and self-confidence in ability to manage CF care. Questions regarding food security and knowledge of CF nutrition and general therapies were multiple choice. A ten point Likert-type scale was employed for determining confidence around management of CF related issues.
Respondents' median accuracy for questions regarding nutrient content of commonly used foods was 71.4% and 57.9% for CF nutrition therapy, respectively. Although overall confidence in CF management was high, scores for confidence in nutrition and behavioral management were significantly lower than for confidence in CF respiratory/medical management and CF Center recommendations.
In the second phase of this project, a pilot study using the chronic care model was developed for enhancement of nutrition and behavior management skills of parents of children with CF. Participants attended a series of four classes, each with a short didactic presentation, group activity, and discussion. Important features of this evidence-based educational program included nutrition and behavior management, self-efficacy, problem solving skills, and peer mentoring. A pre-, post-, follow-up, follow-up format was used to evaluate changes in participants' knowledge and self-confidence regarding nutrition and behavioral management. Comparisons were made with responses to the mailed survey using the same questionnaire. Secondary outcomes were changes in the rate of weight gain and growth for participants' children with CF. Participants showed statistically significant improvement in knowledge of nutrition therapy for CF at post-intervention compared with respondents to the mailed survey.
title: Identification of Factors Affecting Susceptibility to Depression and Influencing Quality of Life in Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patients Based on Age-At-Diagnosis
Creators: name: Israelsen, Marlene
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Approximately 10% of cystic fibrosis (CF) cases remain undiagnosed until age 18 or later and medical professionals are still unclear about the needs of these individuals. Adults with CF iii must either adapt to life with a chronic disease or transition into adulthood with CF. The purpose of this study was to address the impact of age-at-diagnosis on quality of life in a CF adult population.
The psychological functioning of 21 adult CF patients (seven adult-diagnosed (AD) and 14 pediatric-diagnosed (PD)) was assessed using the Beck Depression Index (BDI)-II. A descriptive review of demographic and clinical data, which included an assessment of the financial impact of active outpatient medications, was also conducted among patients in both groups.
The incidence of depression among participants was relatively low and appeared independent of age-at-diagnosis. Differences between AD and PD patients with CF in terms of demographic and clinical parameters were also minimal. (96 pages).
ГРАЖДАНСКО-ПРАВОВОЕ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЕ ЗАЩИТЫ ЖИЛИЩНЫХ ПРАВ ФИЗИЧЕСКИХ ЛИЦ ПРИ ОСУЩЕСТВЛЕНИИ РЕНОВАЦИИ
Creators: name: ИВАНОВ АЛЕКСАНДР ПАВЛОВИЧ
name: ИГНАТЬЕВА СВЕТЛАНА ВИКТОРОВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ГРАЖДАНСКО-ПРАВОВОЕ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЕ
ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЕ ТОЛКОВАНИЕ РЕНОВАЦИИ
ЖИЛИЩНЫЙ ФОНД
ПРАВО НА ЖИЛИЩЕ
ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВО РЕНОВАЦИИ
ЗАЩИТА ГРАЖДАНСКИХ ПРАВ
ЖИЛИЩНЫЕ ПРАВА ФИЗИЧЕСКИХ ЛИЦ
CIVIL LAW REGULATION
LEGAL INTERPRETATION OF RENOVATION
HOUSING FUND
RIGHT TO HOUSING
LEGISLATION ON RENOVATION
PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
HOUSING RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS

description: Рассматриваются актуальные вопросы гражданско-правового регулирования жилищных прав при осуществлении реновации. Анализируются вопросы юридического толкования понятия «реновация жилищного фонда» и содержания права на жилище. Раскрывается сущность гражданского права на жилище и его доктринальное обоснование. Анализируется законодательство реновации жилищного фонда г. Москвы и рассматривается существующая практика осуществления и защиты жилищных прав физических лиц в процессе реформирования правоотношений реновации в столице. На основе анализа судебной практики в области защиты гражданских прав при осуществлении реновации выявляются наиболее острые проблемы, требующие своего разрешения в данной сфере.
A MODERN VIEW OF THE PROBLEM OF BIRTH TRAUMA
Creators: name: Shavkatillayeva, Dilrukh
name: Khurramova, Nafosat
name: Nasimova, N.R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Birth trauma is a set of pathological conditions arising under the influence of mechanical factors during the labor process. This type of traumatism is an interdisciplinary problem covering such areas of medicine as obstetrics, pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and related sciences.
Gamma-Hadron Separation in Very-High-Energy gamma-ray astronomy using a multivariate analysis method
Creators: name: Ohm, Stefan
name: van Eldik, Christopher
name: Egberts, Kathrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have discovered a rich diversity of very high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters in the sky. These instruments image Cherenkov light emitted by gamma-ray induced particle cascades in the atmosphere. Background from the much more numerous cosmic-ray cascades is efficiently reduced by considering the shape of the shower images, and the capability to reduce this background is one of the key aspects that determine the sensitivity of a IACT. In this work we apply a tree classification method to data from the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). We show the stability of the method and its capabilities to yield an improved background reduction compared to the H.E.S.S. Standard Analysis.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
On the Sensitivity of Numerical Weather Prediction to Remotely Sensed Marine Surface Wind Data: A Simulation Study
Creators: name: Cane, Mark A.
name: Cardone, Vincent J.
name: Halem, Milton
name: Halberstam, Isidore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Atmosphere
subject: Weather forecasting
subject: Winds--Measurement
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A series of observing system simulation experiments has been performed to assess the potential impact of marine surface wind data on numerical weather prediction. Care was taken to duplicate the spatial coverage and error characteristics of conventional surface, radiosonde, ship, and aircraft reports. These observations, suitably degraded to account for instrument and sampling errors, were used in a conventional analysis-forecast cycle. A series of five 72-hour forecasts were then made by using the analyzed fields as initial conditions. The forecast error growth was found to be similar to that in operational numerical forecasts. Further experiments simulated the time-continuous assimilation of remotely sensed marine surface wind or temperature sounding data in addition to the conventional data. The wind data were fabricated directly for model grid points intercepted by a Seasat-1 scatterometer (SASS) swath and were placed in the lowest active level (945 mbar) of the model. The temperature sounding experiment assimilated error-free data fabricated along actual Nimbus orbits. Forecasts were made from the resulting analysis fields, and the impact of the simulated satellite data was assessed by comparing these forecast errors with those of the control forecasts. When error-free winds were assimilated by using a localized successive correction method (SCM), the impacts in extratropical regions proved to be substantial, especially in lower tropospheric quantities such as surface pressure. In contrast, a less sophisticated assimilation method resulted in negligible impact. The assimilation of error-free sounder data (again by the SCM) gave impacts comparable to the wind data, suggesting that surface wind data alone may be as valuable as temperature soundings for numerical weather prediction. The effects of nominal SASS errors (±2 m/s in magnitude, ±20° in direction) on the impacts derived from wind data were found to be small.
О ДОПУСТИМОСТИ ОГРАНИЧЕНИЙ СВОБОДЫ ЗАВЕЩАНИЯ НЕДВИЖИМОГО ИМУЩЕСТВА ДЕТЕЙ-СИРОТ И ДЕТЕЙ, ОСТАВШИХСЯ БЕЗ ПОПЕЧЕНИЯ РОДИТЕЛЕЙ, В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Creators: name: НИКИТИН МАМУКА ИВАНОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ
ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВО
НОРМАТИВНЫЙ ПРАВОВОЙ АКТ
КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РФ
ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ЗАКОН РФ
ГРАЖДАНСКОЕ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВО
ГРАЖДАНСКИЙ КОДЕКС РФ (Ч. 1; Ч. 2; Ч. 3; Ч. 4)
ГРАЖДАНСКОЕ ПРАВО
ИНСТИТУТ
НАСЛЕДОВАНИЕ НЕДВИЖИМОГО ИМУЩЕСТВА
ОГРАНИЧЕНИЯ СВОБОДЫ ЗАВЕЩАНИЯ НЕДВИЖИМОГО ИМУЩЕСТВА
НЕДВИЖИМОЕ ИМУЩЕСТВО
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
LEGISLATION
NORMATIVE LEGAL ACT
CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
CIVIL LEGISLATION
CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (PART 1; PART 2; PART 3; PART 4)
CIVIL LAW
INSTITUTE
INHERITANCE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
RESTRICTIONS ON THE FREEDOM OF WILL OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

description: На основе анализа юридической литературы и законодательства о допустимости ограничений свободы завещания недвижимого имущества в Российской Федерации высказано несколько суждений: правовой основной для института завещания недвижимого имущества являются положения ч. 3 Гражданского кодекса Российской Федерации; общие положения ч. 3 Гражданского кодекса РФ о завещании недвижимого имущества должны определяться не как принцип диспозитив-ности, а как общие правила наследования; ограничение свободы завещания, в том числе и недвижимого имущества, может рассматриваться как исключение из общих правил.
STRENGTHENING PREVENTIVE MEASURES AMONG YOUTH IN UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Turdiboeva, Gulmira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article, work with juvenile delinquents, prevention of crime among them, assistance in the adaptation of juveniles who have served their sentence to social life, prevention of their involvement in various currents, and coordination of the efforts of the bodies responsible for this area and the work of these bodies normative and legal documents serving to fully ensure its effectiveness are analytically described.
КВАЛИФИКАЦИЯ ДОГОВОРА: ПРАВО СТОРОН ИЛИ ОБЯЗАННОСТЬ СУДА?
Creators: name: ЧЕГОВАДЗЕ ЛЮДМИЛА АЛЕКСЕЕВНА
name: КУПРИЯНОВА АЛЕКСАНДРА АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ДОГОВОРНЫЕ СПОРЫ
ТОЛКОВАНИЕ
ЮРИДИЧЕСКАЯ КВАЛИФИКАЦИЯ
КРИТЕРИИ КВАЛИФИКАЦИИ
СПОСОБЫ ЗАЩИТЫ
CONTRACTUAL DISPUTES
INTERPRETATION
LEGAL QUALIFICATION
QUALIFICATION CRITERIA
METHODS OF PROTECTION

description: На основе материалов судебной практики обосновывается необходимость предоставления суду права на квалификацию (переквалификацию) договорных отношений и целесообразность нормативного закрепления такого способа защиты, как требование о квалификации договора.
title: Antimicrobial Properties of Syringopeptin 25A and Rhamnolipids
Creators: name: Desai, Prerak T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The increasing bacterial resistance to available antibiotics requires the search for new antibacterial compounds to be broadened. This study investigated the antimicrobial properties of two secondary metabolites from fluorescent pseudo monads -- syringopeptin 25A, a lipodepsipeptide produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, and a rhamnolipid mixture produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The rate of antimicrobial action was determined by monitoring the rate of uptake of propidium iodide during exposure to the compounds. Inhibition was also confirmed by the microbroth dilution method to determine the MI Cs. Both the compounds inhibited growth of Gram-positive organisms, including Mycobacterium smegmatis, staphylococci, and listeria. Inhibition of spore germination was also notable. SP 25A inhibited two multiple antibiotic strains of Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus and Enterococcus faecalis, while RLs failed to do so, even at 60 μg/ml. Addition of the compounds together showed a synergistic activity against Listeria monocytogenes. Neither compound was toxic to human cells in vitro at 8 μg/ml.
It is postulated that both compounds exert their antimicrobial effect by forming pores in the bacterial cell membrane, but we did not observe a relation between membrane permeabilization and inhibition of growth in each case. At sub-MIC concentrations RLs did cause pores in the membrane of L. monocytogenes, while SP 25A did not. However, RLs did not inhibit cell growth, while SP 25A completely inhibited cell growth.
To investigate these effects gene expression was monitored just before treating the cells with the antimicrobials, 30 min after treatment and 120 min after treatment. The gene expression profile was distinct when cells were treated with both the antimicrobials. SP 25A repressed genes related to cell division, intermediary metabolism, transcription, translation, and virulence genes. These effects were not produced when cells were treated with RLs, hence giving indications that even though both the antimicrobials may act on the same site (i.e. the cell membrane), the cellular response was different, which led to different phenotypes for growth.
This work indicates that SP 25A holds promise for further development as a therapeutic agent and provides evidence that the proposed pore-forming model alone does not suffice to explain the mode of action of SP 25A.
The impact of devegetated dune fields on North American climate during the late Medieval Climate Anomaly
Creators: name: Cook, Benjamin I.
name: Seager, Richard
name: Miller, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Climatic changes

description: During the Medieval Climate Anomaly, North America experienced severe droughts and widespread mobilization of dune fields that persisted for decades. We use an atmosphere general circulation model, forced by a tropical Pacific sea surface temperature reconstruction and changes in the land surface consistent with estimates of dune mobilization (conceptualized as partial devegetation), to investigate whether the devegetation could have exacerbated the medieval droughts. Presence of devegetated dunes in the model significantly increases surface temperatures, but has little impact on precipitation or drought severity, as defined by either the Palmer Drought Severity Index or the ratio of precipitation to potential evapotranspiration. Results are similar to recent studies of the 1930s Dust Bowl drought, suggesting bare soil associated with the dunes, in and of itself, is not sufficient to amplify droughts over North America.
Buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells with local imperfections
Creators: name: Krishnakumar, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Thin cylindrical shells in axial compression are known to be highly sensitive to geometric imperfections. Previous theoretical and experimental investigations have mostly concentrated on imperfections of small amplitude extending over the whole surface or at least over the whole circumference of the cylinder. Local imperfections occurring naturally are often found to be similar in form to the diamond-shaped facets of the buckle pattern of the collapsed cylinder. The current study is aimed at investigating experimentally the effect of such facet-shaped dimples on the load bearing capacity of the axially loaded circular cylindrical shell and evaluating the applicability of the space frame theory in predicting the same. The space frame theory predicts the secondary collapses observed in cylindrical shells under axial compression in terms of the buckling strengths of the diagonal members of an equivalent space frame having the geometry of the Yoshimura pattern. The proposed application of the space frame model to estimate the load carrying capacity of shells with diamond-shaped defects is based on the hypothesis that the effect of such a defect is similar to that of a facet of the same size in a buckled cylinder. Central to this model is the effective width of the flanges of the diagonal members of the space frame. In the present work modifications are introduced in the space frame theory to accommodate an analytical determination of the effective width of the flanges. Geometric constraints on the buckled configuration of the axially loaded cylinder are also investigated.