cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Unusual mammary pathology: beyond classic breast cancer
Creators: name: Mostaza Sariñena, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Genetic defects
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Vacuum assisted biopsy
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Oncology
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Breast
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To know the rare benign and malignant pathology of the breast and describe the different radiological findings that these diseases present in the usual imaging tests (mammography, ultrasound and MR). To review these entities and to know their...
title: Chronic renal insufficiency: a spectrum of musculoskeletal manifestations
Creators: name: Antonakis, Sofoklis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: ·Our aim is to present a spectrum of musculoskeletal imaging abnormalities in plain film, CT and MRI and a basic pathophysiologic background regarding their cause, in patients with chronic renal...
Element orbitals for Kohn-Sham density functional theory
Creators: name: Lin, Lin
name: Ying, Lexing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to discretize the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian matrix in the pseudopotential framework by a small set of basis functions automatically contracted from a uniform basis set such as planewaves. Each basis function is localized around an element, which is a small part of the global domain containing multiple atoms. We demonstrate that the resulting basis set achieves meV accuracy for 3D densely packed systems with a small number of basis functions per atom. The procedure is applicable to insulating and metallic systems.
Examining the Administration of Work Sanctions on the Front lines of the Welfare System
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: Objectives. Financial penalties, or sanctions, are a core mechanism for enforcing the work requirements of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and helping clients achieve self-sufficiency. This study’s objective is to examine whether sanctions are being administered consistent with policy goals of encouraging work. Methods. This study uses administrative fair hearing decisions, which are the product of an adversarial-style procedure triggered when a client appeals an adverse decision by the agency, including work sanctions. Qualitative content analysis is used to analyze the decisions. Results. The study found that despite organizational reforms, local offices had created the welfare-to-work version of an eligibility-compliance culture, where sanctions were based primarily on attendance records and became a paper-processing function. Transactions between clients and workers were often routinized and mechanical, resulting in improper and arbitrary sanctions that were reversed by the hearing officers nearly 50 percent of the time. Conclusion. This study underscores the importance of scrutinizing and correcting agency errors that may undercut clients’ engagement in work activities.
Einführung in die Open-Access-Literatursuche z.B. für Fach- und Seminararbeiten
Creators: name: Putnings, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access
Literature search
Discovery
Searching strategies

description: Kurzbeschreibung (English below): Nie gab es mehr kostenfrei zugängliche wissenschaftliche Materialien als heute. Noch vor zehn Jahren konnte man bei Literaturrecherchen auf viele Inhalte nicht sofort zugreifen, sondern etwa nur über Fernleihe der örtlichen Bibliothek. Heute hat sich die Wissenschaft größtenteils dem Open-Science-Prinzip verschrieben: Dazu gehört, Publikationen und Lehrmaterialien als Teil der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis frei zugänglich zu machen. Entsprechend kann man auch mobil über das Smartphone und z.B. über Google Scholar oder BASE auf viele Artikel sofort zugreifen. Problematisch ist eher die Fülle an Informationen und auch die Auswahl. Was sind seriöse Quellen und was kennzeichnet eine legal nutzbare Open-Access-Publikation? Der Vortrag an der Stadtbibliothek Erlangen im Rahmen der Reihe „Digitaler Salon“ (Donnerstag, 19.01.2023, 17-18:00 Uhr) gibt einen Überblick und soll z.B. Oberstufenschüler*innen, Studierende aber auch Bürgerwissenschaftler*innen und interessierte Bürger*innen die Recherche und Nachnutzung entsprechender offener und qualitätsgesicherter wissenschaftlicher Materialien erleichtern. In der Agenda beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage „Was ist Open Access“, mit Suchmöglichkeiten nach Open-Access-Inhalten und rechtlichen Punkten der Nachnutzung. Die Folien sind auf Deutsch. English description: There has never been more scientific material available free of charge than today. Only ten years ago, many contents could not be accessed immediately during literature searches, but only via e.g. interlibrary loan from the local library. Today, science has largely embraced the open science principle: This includes making publications and teaching materials "Open Access" freely accessible as part of good scientific practice. Accordingly, many articles can also be accessed immediately on a mobile basis via smartphone and, for example, via Google Scholar or BASE. What is more problematic is the abundance of information and the selection. What are reputable sources and what characterizes a legally usable open access publication? The lecture at the Stadtbibliothek Erlangen as part of the series "Digital Salon" (Thursday, 19.01.2023, 5-6:00 p.m.) provides an overview and is intended to facilitate, for example, pupils, high school students, but also citizen scientists and interested people to search and re-use appropriate open and quality-assured scientific materials. In the agenda we will deal with the question "What is Open Access?", with search possibilities for Open Access content and legal points of re-use. The slides are in German.
An HST/WFC3-IR Morphological Survey of Galaxies at z = 1.5-3.6: II. The Relation between Morphology and Gas-Phase Kinematics
Creators: name: Law, David R.
name: Steidel, Charles C.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Nagy, Sarah R.
name: Reddy, Naveen A.
name: Erb, Dawn K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze rest-frame optical morphologies and gas-phase kinematics as traced by rest-frame far-UV and optical spectra for a sample of 204 star forming galaxies in the redshift range z ~ 2-3 drawn from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS). We find that spectroscopic properties and gas-phase kinematics are closely linked to morphology: compact galaxies with semi-major axis radii r 20 Angstroms have compact and/or multiple-component morphologies with r <= 2.5 kpc. The velocity structure of absorption lines in the galactic continuum spectra also varies as a function of morphology. Galaxies of all morphological types drive similarly strong outflows (as traced by the blue wing of interstellar absorption line features), but the outflows of larger galaxies are less highly ionized and exhibit larger optical depth at the systemic redshift that may correspond to a decreasing efficiency of feedback in evacuating gas from the galaxy. This v ~ 0 km/s gas is responsible both for shifting the mean absorption line redshift and attenuating W_LyA (via a longer resonant scattering path) in galaxies with larger rest-optical half light radii. In contrast to galaxies at lower redshifts, there is no evidence for a correlation between outflow velocity and inclination, suggesting that outflows from these puffy and irregular systems may be poorly collimated. (Abbrev.)
description: 18 pages, 11 figures. Revised version accepted for publication in ApJ. Version with full-resolution figures is available at http://di.utoronto.ca/~drlaw/Papers/wfc3_uvspec.pdf
The Resolved Radio--FIR Correlation in Nearby Galaxies with Herschel and Spitzer
Creators: name: Tabatabaei, Fatemeh S.
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Murphy, Eric
name: Beck, Rainer
name: Hughes, Annie
name: Groves, Brent
name: Team, the KINGFISH
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the correlation between the far-infrared (FIR) and radio continuum emission from NGC6946 on spatial scales between 0.9 and 17 kpc. We use the Herschel PACS (70, 100, 160$μ$m) and SPIRE (250$μ$m) data from the KINGFISH project. Separating the free-free and synchrotron components of the radio continuum emission, we find that FIR is better correlated with the free-free than the synchrotron emission. Compared to a similar study in M33 and M31, we find that the scale dependence of the synchrotron--FIR correlation in NGC6946 is more similar to M31 than M33. The scale dependence of the synchrotron--FIR correlation can be explained by the turbulent-to-ordered magnetic field ratio or, equivalently, the diffusion length of the cosmic ray electrons in these galaxies.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 284, 2011, R.J. Tuffs & C.C.Popescu, eds
When the Personal and the Political Collide
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Social service
Social workers--Professional ethics

description: A consistent theme within social work has been the exploration of the conflict between the personal and the political – especially how social workers resolve conflicts between their own personal values and their political views. This account explores the clash that occurred when a researcher’s findings about school vouchers conflicted with the personal experiences of those around her.
title: Inflammatory gallbladder disease
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GI Tract
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Complications
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Abscess
subject: Inflammation
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the pathophysiology and imaging findings of uncomplicated and complicated acute cholecystitis, as well as chronic cholecystitis, with an emphasis on ultrasound and...
The iImpact of predation losses on beef cattle in South Africa
Creators: name: Badenhorst, Conrad
name: Van Niekerk, Walter
name: Strydom, Dirkie
name: Jordaan, Henry
name: De Waal, HO
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: Predation losses on livestock farms and wildlife ranches in South Africa are poorly quantified. Recently predation losses on sheep and goats in five provinces were estimated at more than ZAR 1.39 thousand million annually. Predation losses were mostly ascribed to black-backed jackals Canis mesomelas and caracal Caracal caracal. In the present study predation losses for beef cattle in seven provinces were estimated at more than ZAR 383 million annually. The random sample of 1 344 beef cattle farmers ascribed predation losses mostly to black-backed jackals, followed (indifferent order of ranking for provinces) by leopard Panthera pardus, caracal, brown hyaena Parahyaena brunnea, cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and vagrant dogs Canis familiaris. Only in Limpopo Province leopards were implicated as the major predator, followed by black-backed jackals. Beef cattle farmers have fewer methods available to manage predators than small livestock farmers. Non-lethal methods used were herdsmen, electric fences, kraaling, and livestock guard animals. The lethal methods included hunting (farmers and specialist hunters), cage traps, foothold traps, and hound packs. No non-lethal or lethal method, used individually or combined with other methods, served as a magic general solution for predation on beef cattle. The total direct and indirect costs of predation varied between provinces; for South Africa it was: total cost for lethal control – ZAR 39.522 million; total cost for non-lethal control – ZAR 89.175 million; total cost of predation losses – ZAR 254.447 million. This information is now being used to inform the development of meaningful coordinated predation management strategies.
Multiple Superconducting Gaps, Anisotropic Spin Fluctuations and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Iron-Pnictides
Creators: name: Yang, Jie
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews the NMR and NQR studies on iron-based high-temperature superconductors by the IOP/Okayama group. It was found that the electron pairs in the superconducting state are in the spin-singlet state with multiple fully-opened energy gaps. The antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in the normal state are found to be closely correlated with the superconductivity. Also the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations are anisotropic in the spin space, which is different from the case in copper oxide superconductors. This anisotropy originates from the spin-orbit coupling and is an important reflection of the multiple-bands nature of this new class of superconductors.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures
Contesting the Bureaucracy: Examining Administrative Appeals
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: This article explores citizens’ use of administrative hearings to appeal adverse government decisions about their welfare benefits. It draws on interviews with 79 welfare participants and observations of hearings and interviews with administrative law judges in a state in the United States to understand what hearings, and the act of appealing, mean to citizens. I find that beyond individual redress, participants view appealing as an opportunity to expose and repair social injuries and to renegotiate social relationships, social identities and their status as citizens. Their ability to rehabilitate strained social identities and establish their deservingness as citizens is contingent and variable, with hearings sometimes reproducing appellants’ powerlessness and other times allowing for a more positive enactment of citizenship and social status. Over time, participants experience an increase in legal consciousness, using the knowledge of the law and bureaucratic practices they glean from hearings to better navigate the welfare bureaucracy. While this transformation of legal consciousness emphasizes individual gains rather than collective or systemic change, it cultivates a culture of complaining, rather than acquiescing, within the welfare bureaucracy.
Additional file 1 of The effectiveness of new urban trail infrastructure on physical activity and active transportation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of natural experiments
Creators: name: Fast, Isaak
name: Nashed, Christie
name: Lotscher, Jack
name: Askin, Nicole
name: De Visser, Hannah Steiman
name: McGavock, Jonathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Judge or Bureaucrat? How Administrative Law Judges Exercise Discretion in Welfare Bureaucracies
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: Administrative law judges are neglected but powerful actors in public welfare bureaucracies, presiding over quasi-judicial hearings triggered if participants challenge a bureaucratic decision on public welfare benefits. Drawing on ethnographic observations of fair hearings, as well as interviews with administrative law judges and appellants, this study seeks to understand the ways in which these judges exercise discretion and how it affects the adjudication of disputes. Findings suggest that disputes generated by poorly run bureaucracies provide judges with limited opportunity to use professional skills or discretion to scrutinize bureaucratic practices. When opportunities for such judgments do arise, judges take widely divergent paths. Some align themselves with the welfare agency, enforcing bureaucratic practices rather than scrutinizing them. Others emphasize their neutrality and judicial role, scrutinizing and aligning agency practices with the law’s underlying purposes.
title: Radiomics and pancreatic tumors: a new tool for old problems
Creators: name: Leone, Riccardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Computer applications
subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: -To present an overview of radiomics in the field of pancreatic neoplasms and discuss its main...
Strategy for an Autonomous Behavior that Guarantees a Qualitative Fine Adjustment at the Target Pose of a Collaborating Mobile Robot
Creators: name: Waelti, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: 2D Navigation
ROS
Target pose accuracy
Flexible automation technologies
Extensible software Architecture
Pose graph-based localization
ICP
Odometry-based method
move_base
DevOps

description: Flexible automation technologies often require an accuracy in the millimeter and milliradian range at different target positions. This thesis introduces a strategy that leverages a pose graph-based localization approach to reduce positioning errors at target poses of collaborating mobile robots. Using the precise localization from the pose graph we propose an odometry-based method to improve the accuracy at target locations, thus avoiding manual teach-in of reference scans for ICP that can degenerate in dynamic environments over time.
 As a basis for this strategy, an extensible software architecture for socially acceptable navigation of mobile robots is designed and implemented using ROS components. This architecture proposal includes a DevOps toolchain to automate the process of software testing, building and delivery to different robotic platforms or the cloud. Finally, we evaluate the proposed method in a industrial setting achieving a position error below 25 mm in 92.7% and a rotation error below 1.5° in 93.9% of the tests. Although the advances shown in this thesis couldn’t be statistically tested due to skewed data distributions and some possible outliers, the improvement in both trueness and precision underlines the gains in terms of accuracy positioning.
Amplitude control of quantum interference
Creators: name: Mullin, W. J.
name: Laloë, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Usually, the oscillations of interference effects are controlled by relative phases. We show that varying the amplitudes of quantum waves, for instance by changing the reflectivity of beam splitters, can also lead to quantum oscillations and even to Bell violations of local realism. We first study theoretically a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment to arbitrary source numbers and beam splitter transmittivity. We then consider a Bell type experiment with two independent sources, and find strong violations of local realism for arbitrarily large source number $N$; for small $N$, one operator measures essentially the relative phase of the sources and the other their intensities. Since, experimentally, one can measure the parity of the number of atoms in an optical lattice more easily than the number itself, we assume that the detectors measure parity.
description: 4 pages; 4 figures
Quantifying the coherent outflows of galaxies around voids in the SDSS DR7
Creators: name: Patiri, Santiago G.
name: Betancort-Rijo, Juan
name: Prada, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection, with a high level of confidence, of coherent outflows around voids found in the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR7). In particular, we developed a robust statistical test to quantify the strength of redshift-space distortions (RSD) associated with extended coherent velocity fields. We consistently find that the vector that joins void centers with galaxies that lie in shells around them is more likely to be perpendicular to the line-of-sight than parallel to it. This effect is clear evidence for the existence of outflows in the vicinity of voids. We show that the RSD exist for a wide range of void radius and shell thickness, but they are more evident in the largest voids in our sample. For instance, we find that the for galaxies located in shells within 2 h^-1 Mpc from the edge of voids larger than 15 h^-1 Mpc deviates 3.81sigma from uniformity. The measurements presented in this work provide useful information to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular Omega_m and Sigma_8.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in A&A Letters
Advocacy Be Not Forsaken! Retrospective Lessons from Welfare Reform
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
name: Gibelman, Margaret
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Social service
Social advocacy
Public welfare--Moral and ethical aspects
Aid to families with dependent children programs
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)

description: This article reviews the often uneven and sometimes peripheral role of advocacy as a social work function and explores its current relevancy in regard to agency practices, ethical mandates, and the "person-in-environment" orientation of social work practice. Welfare reform (in which Aid to Families with Dependent Children [AFDC] was abolished in 1996 and replaced with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]) is presented as a case example of both a failed opportunity to influence the course of public debate, and a means to provide the potential benefits of advocacy when it is systematically applied and integrated as part of an overall organizational approach to services. Generalized principles are then drawn from the case study as they apply to advocacy practice with vulnerable populations.
Consistency Relation for multifield inflation scenario with all loop contributions
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Naonori S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The consistency relation between non-linear parameters $f_{NL}$ and $τ_{NL}$ characterizing Non-Gaussianity generated during the inflationary period have been emerged as a useful tool which have a possibility to rule out a large class of inflationary models all at once. In our previous work, we extended the Suyama-Yamaguchi inequality up to 1-loop corrections. In this paper, we derive an inequality extended up to {\it all} loop corrections which has the same expression with the original Suyama-Yamaguchi inequality, $τ_{NL} \geq (6/5f_{NL})^2$, where the equality is not satisfied in the case of single field models any more.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures
QCD equation of state at nonzero chemical potential: continuum results with physical quark masses at order mu^2
Creators: name: Borsanyi, Sz.
name: Endrodi, G.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Katz, S. D.
name: Krieg, S.
name: Ratti, C.
name: Szabo, K. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the equation of state of QCD for nonzero chemical potentials via a Taylor expansion of the pressure. The results are obtained for N_f=2+1 flavors of quarks with physical masses, on various lattice spacings. We present results for the pressure, interaction measure, energy density, entropy density, and the speed of sound for small chemical potentials. At low temperatures we compare our results with the Hadron Resonance Gas model. We also express our observables along trajectories of constant entropy over particle number. A simple parameterization is given (the Matlab/Octave script parameterization.m, submitted to the arXiv along with the paper), which can be used to reconstruct the observables as functions of T and mu, or as functions of T and S/N.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures, version accepted for publication in JHEP
Additional file 1 of Knowledge-seeking and knowledge sharing of health services across social networks and communities: a scoping review
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Anamitra
name: van der Zande, Marieke M.
name: Harris, Rebecca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1. Supplementary Tables 1, 2 and 3 and amendments to the search strategy.
Institutions, governance, and the economic performance of protected areas in southern Africa
Creators: name: Chidakel, Alex
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: Though wildlife enjoys an economic comparative advantage in dryland areas of southern Africa, public and private investment in this land use varies significantly. This variation exists both between countries with different institutional regimes for wildlife, and between land ownership categories within countries. From an institutional economic perspective, allocation of resources to wildlife-based land uses, and value generated inconsequence, is hypothesized to be in relation to the degree to which rights to own wildlife and responsibility for management are devolved to the scale at which wildlife is produced. Within and between country variation in tenurial and management arrangements therefore presents an opportunity to test predicted relationships with economic efficiency and to explore the implications of institutions on the equity of value distribution. Economic impact analyses, which measure local value in terms of production, income, jobs, and value added, are becoming increasingly common of national parks, though their application to non-public protected areas (PAs) is rare. In this study, impact analysis is applied to both sets of PAs through an ongoing cross-sectional comparison of the economic value of public, private, and communal protected areas of the Greater Kruger Area of South Africa, and of the southern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. It's hypothesized that the value of PAs to which resources are allocated by the state is greater than that of PAs on private and communal land where institutions for wildlife are centralized (Zambia), and vice versa where institutions are devolved (South Africa). Only results for the Luangwa system are here described.
Pathogenicity of Alternaria Species Causing Tomato Blight in Agro Ecological Zones of Kirinyaga County in Kenya
Creators: name: Ogolla, Fredrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) is a highly consumed and produced vegetable crop with an annual global production of over 185 million tonnes. High consumption and production are due to its nutritional and health benefits. However, tomato production is characterized by inconsistent quality and yields, partly emanating from biotic constraints attributed to fungal foliar diseases. In Kirinyaga County, where tomato production is a significant source of livelihood, knowledge gaps exist regarding the identity of Alternaria species causing tomato blight in different Agro-ecological zones (AEZs) and the susceptibility of locally grown tomato varieties to the Alternaria pathogens. To address these gaps, we conducted a study to determine the characteristics of an Alternaria pathogen isolated from tomato leaves from different AEZs and assess the susceptibility level of some tomato varieties grown in Kirinyaga County. Pathogen characterization was done using phenotypic and molecular approaches, and the susceptibility assay was evaluated by artificial inoculation. The molecular characterization involved BLASTIN analysis of Sanger sequenced DNA nucleotide amplicons, and the use of NCBI databases. The susceptibility assay was carried out in the greenhouse using a completely randomized design. Data on the fungal conidial lengths (µm) and the susceptibility (%) of tomato varieties to fungal isolates were subjected to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with significance means separated using LSD at α = 0.05. The morphologies of the pathogens differed significantly (p <0.05). Molecular characterization implicated Alternaria solani, Alternaria cerealis, Alternaria arborescens, and Alternaria alternate in causing tomato blight. Tomato varieties differed in their susceptibility to Alternaria pathogens (p < 0.05). Kilele F1 (73.84%), and Terminator F1 (56.48%) were the most and least susceptible tomato varieties, respectively. Thus, Terminator F1 can serve as a source for the genetic improvement of tomato varieties in the Kirinyaga patho-system. Our study provides valuable information on the identification of Alternaria species causing tomato blight in different AEZs in Kirinyaga County and the susceptibility of locally grown tomato varieties to infection by Alternaria pathogen isolates. The findings can aid in the development of effective disease management strategies and the genetic improvement of tomato varieties in the area.
title: Complications following lumbar discectomy: spectrum of MRI findings
Creators: name: Zdjelar, Adrian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: MR
subject: Complications
subject: Hernia
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the main complications following lumbar discectomy and the related imaging findings using...
Towards A Strategic EU-NATO Security Partnership in Africa
Creators: name: Marsili, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: European Union (EU)
Africa
Security
Defense (Defence)
Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
African Union (AU)
African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
African Peace Facility (APF)
International cooperation

description: Threats from Africa undermine the security of Europe. The European Union and NATO have 21 member countries in common, namely most of EU member states. The fundamental role of the Atlantic Alliance is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, non-state actors and hybrid threats emerged as the major challenges to international security. NATO is evolving in response to new strategic reality, and terrorism and weak states are among the most pressing challenges the Alliance faces. NATO is playing an increasingly important role in crisis management and peacekeeping. Since the African Union was established in 2001 as the successor to the Organization of African Unity, it faces difficulties in achieving the African ownership in peace and security. The chronic lack of funding and of appropriate military resources, makes the African Union depending on external aid – NATO provides military support, while the EU provides money. NATO cooperates with the AU since 2005, and all NATO-AU activities are coordinated with the EU. The NATO-EU partnership is complementar and mutual, and is based on common values and strategic interests, and should be strengthened to secure the European southern border, and to guarantee security in the Mediterranean region. Therefore, stronger and permanent NATO-EU partnership in Africa would be desirable. This brief paper investigates the ties between these three organizations, and suggests some recommendations to improve the 'trilateral' relationship to ensure security to their member states.
description: Presentation at the international online conference Thinking the European Security and Defense Identity, hosted by the Portuguese Military University Institute (IUM) on 6 May 2021. The author gratefully acknowledges the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for supporting this work through grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018.
Additional file 1 of Effects of cofD gene knock-out on the methanogenesis of Methanobrevibacter ruminantium
Creators: name: Ma, Jian
name: Wang, Xueying
name: Zhou, Ting
name: Hu, Rui
name: Zou, Huawei
name: Wang, Zhisheng
name: Tan, Cui
name: Zhang, Xiangfei
name: Peng, Quanhui
name: Xue, Bai
name: Wang, Lizhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Amplication of the cofD gene of M. ruminantium by using cofD primers. Fig. S2. The recombinant plasmid pEASY-T1-cofD was amplified using cofD-F and cofD-R as primers, and the transformants were identified by PCR. Fig. S3. PCR product sequencing of positive clones and comparison of similarities of cofD by Blast. Fig. S4. Identification of 9 monoclonal recombinant plasmids pUCl8-cofD-tet selected by PCR using tet specific primers. Fig. S5. Double digestion of pUCl8-cofD-tet recombinant plasmid DNA using EcoRI and HindIII, detection by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis. (DOCX 437 KB)
Impact of Dynamic Orbital Correlations on Magnetic Excitations in the Normal State of Iron-Based Superconductors
Creators: name: Lee, Wei-Cheng
name: Lv, Weicheng
name: Tranquada, J. M.
name: Phillips, Philip W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show here that orbital degrees of freedom produce a distinct signature in the magnetic excitation spectrum of iron-based superconductors above the magnetic ordering temperature. Because $d_{xz}$ and $d_{yz}$ orbitals are strongly connected with the Fermi surface topology, the nature of magnetic excitations can be modified significantly due to the presence of either static or fluctuating orbital correlations. Within a five-orbital itinerant model, we show that static orbital order generally leads to an enhancement of commensurate magnetic excitations even when the original Fermi surface lacks nesting at $(π,0)$ or $(0,π)$. When long-range orbital order is absent, Gaussian fluctuations beyond the standard random-phase approximation (RPA) capture the effects of fluctuating orbital correlations on the magnetic excitations. We find that commensurate magnetic excitations can also be enhanced if the orbital correlations are strong. Our results offer a natural explanation for the incommensurate-to-commensurate transformation observed in a recent neutron scattering measurement (Z. Xu, et. al., arXiv:1201.4404), and we propose that this unusual transformation is an important signature to distinguish orbital from spin physics in the normal state of the pnictides. Implications for the magnetic and superconducting states are discussed.
description: 7 pagers, 4 figures
Implementing Full and Partial Work Sanctions: The Case of Texas
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: This study examines the implementation of work sanctions in Texas, a state that switched from partial to full benefit sanctions. A qualitative research design is used consisting of 255 individual case studies obtained from administrative fair hearing data under Texas’s full and partial sanction regimes. Recipients’ explanations for not complying with the work rules and how workers assessed these explanations and whether sanctions were appropriate are examined. This study found that recipients’ reasons for not complying with work rules were similar for both full and partial sanctions. The primary reasons for their noncompliance were family obstacles and situational challenges or lack of notice. Workers responses under both regimes were also very similar, with workers using their discretion to apply sanctions punitively. Workers focused on the paper-processing tasks of sanctioning rather than the larger goal of encouraging self-sufficiency, with workers failing to distinguish between procedural and substantive violations of the work rules.
supplementary data
Creators: name: Sun, Yungang
name: Sun, Qiaoling
name: Tian, Jinyu
name: He, Xiaochuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Predictive and prognostic markers

description: Supplemental materials for "Impact of waiting time for radioactive iodine therapy on outcome in N1 stage papillary thyroid cancer"
Confronting Government After Welfare Reform: Moralists, Reformers, and Narratives of (Ir)responsibility at Administrative Fair Hearings
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the rights talk of Kelly was officially replaced with the discourse of individual responsibility. Using observational data of administrative hearings and interviews with administrative law judges and appellants, this study explores how fair hearings have been affected by this official re-conceptualization of rights. I find that hearings are not a panacea for challenging the more punitive aspects of welfare reform, but nor are they devoid of the possibility of justice. While hearings can replicate in style and substance the inequities, rigid adherence to rules, and moral judgments that characterize welfare relationships under the PRWORA, they can also be used as a mechanism for creating counter narratives to the dominant discourse about welfare. This study identifies two types of judges moralist judges and reformer judges and examines how their differing approaches determine which narrative emerges in the hearing room.
title: Rabies in kudus and eland?? Implications to the game industry in Namibia
title: Rabies in Kudu and Eland – its impact on game ranching in Namibia
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Tubbesing, Ulf
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
Additional file 1 of Unsupervised detection of coordinated information operations in the wild
Creators: name: Smith, D. Hudson
name: Ehrett, Carl
name: Warren, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Appendix (PDF 1.5 MB)
Determining Key Model Parameters of Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane Guillermo(1997) using the Ensemble Kalman Filter
Creators: name: Godinez, Humberto C.
name: Reisner, Jon M.
name: Fierro, Alexandre O.
name: Guimond, Stephen R.
name: Kao, Jim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 86A10, 86A22, 35R30

description: In this work we determine key model parameters for rapidly intensifying Hurricane Guillermo (1997) using the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF). The approach is to utilize the EnKF as a tool to only estimate the parameter values of the model for a particular data set. The assimilation is performed using dual-Doppler radar observations obtained during the period of rapid intensification of Hurricane Guillermo. A unique aspect of Guillermo was that during the period of radar observations strong convective bursts, attributable to wind shear, formed primarily within the eastern semicircle of the eyewall. To reproduce this observed structure within a hurricane model, background wind shear of some magnitude must be specified; as well as turbulence and surface parameters appropriately specified so that the impact of the shear on the simulated hurricane vortex can be realized. To identify the complex nonlinear interactions induced by changes in these parameters, an ensemble of model simulations have been conducted in which individual members were formulated by sampling the parameters within a certain range via a Latin hypercube approach. The ensemble and the data, derived latent heat and horizontal winds from the dual-Doppler radar observations, are utilized in the EnKF to obtain varying estimates of the model parameters. The parameters are estimated at each time instance, and a final parameter value is obtained by computing the average over time. Individual simulations were conducted using the estimates, with the simulation using latent heat parameter estimates producing the lowest overall model forecast error.
description: 35 pages, 15 figures in draft mode using the American Meteorological Society package. Submitted to Journal of Atmospheric Sciences for publication
Reading between the Lines: Analyzing the Supreme Court's Views on Gender Discrimination in Employment, 1971-1982
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Equality before the law
Sex discrimination
Sex discrimination in employment

description: Supreme Court decisions can be read on two levels: as prescriptive statements of what legally can or cannot be done and as discourses that define the Court's view of social problems. This article explores this latter role through a content analysis of Court decisions that directly address the struggle for women's equality in the workplace during the 1970s. As it formulated the legal rules applicable to gender discrimination, the Court also gave social and political meaning to the concept of equality. Examining this process of problem definition in the judicial arena provides a different perspective for viewing Supreme Court decisions.
Magnetic Linear Birefringence Measurements Using Pulsed Fields
Creators: name: Berceau, Paul
name: Fouché, Mathilde
name: Battesti, Remy
name: Rizzo, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the realization of further steps towards the measurement of the magnetic birefringence of the vacuum using pulsed fields. After describing our experiment, we report the calibration of our apparatus using nitrogen gas and we discuss the precision of our measurement giving a detailed error budget. Our best present vacuum upper limit is Dn < 5.0x10^(-20) T^-2 per 4 ms acquisition time. We finally discuss the improvements necessary to reach our final goal.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. A
In the Fair Hearing Room: Resistance and Confrontation in the Welfare Bureaucracy
Creators: name: Lens, Vicki A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Public administration
Social service

description: This article explores how welfare clients use and experience the fair hearing system, the administrative mechanism for challenging denials or reductions of aid in public welfare bureaucracies. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with clients, it explores how old-style procedural protections like fair hearings are being used to challenge new-style welfare reforms. This research found that clients use fair hearings as a form of resistance and self-assertion, hoping that it will protect them from a bureaucracy perceived as arbitrary and capricious. Like many citizens, they are as concerned with being heard by their governmental institutions as they are with the outcome of their case and want to find within the machinery of government a forum where they can obtain recompense and respect. However, the legalistic and rule-bound nature of hearings makes it difficult for clients to present their claims, and meaningful participation is often denied them.
title: Foreign Body Imaging in the Operating Room using Digital Tomosynthesis
Creators: name: anwari, vahid
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Projection Radiography
subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Radiographers
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Surgery
subject: Artifacts
subject: Education and training
subject: Trauma
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To introduce digital tomosynthesis (DT) as a potential problem-solving tool for improved detection of foreign bodies in the surgical operating room. To understand the value of 3D printing in simulating realistic clinical scenarios for investigation...
Relativistic Mean Field in $A\approx$80 nuclei and low energy proton reactions
Creators: name: Lahiri, Chirashree
name: Gangopadhyay, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic Mean Field calculations have been performed for a number of nuclei in mass $A\approx$80 region. Ground state binding energy, charge radius and charge density values have been compared with experiment. Optical potential have been generated folding the nuclear density with the microscopic nuclear interaction DDM3Y. S-factors for low energy ($p,γ$) and ($p,n$) reactions have been calculated and compared with experiment.
description: To appear in Physical Review C