cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Risk of Severe COVID-19-Related Outcomes among Patients with Cirrhosis: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Canada
Creators: name: Velásquez Garcia, Héctor Alexander
name: Adu, Prince A.
name: Okonkwo-Dappa, Ada
name: Makuza, Jean Damascene
name: Cua, Georgine
name: Binka, Mawuena
name: Wilton, James
name: Sbihi, Hind
name: Janjua, Naveed Z.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: We assessed the association between cirrhosis and severe COVID-19-related outcomes among people with laboratory-diagnosed COVID-19 infection in British Columbia, Canada. We used data from the British Columbia (BC) COVID-19 Cohort, a population-based cohort that integrates data on all individuals tested for COVID-19, with data on hospitalizations, medical visits, emergency room visits, prescription drugs, chronic conditions, and deaths in the Canadian province of BC. We included all individuals aged ≥18 who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to assess the associations of cirrhosis status with COVID-19-related hospitalization and with ICU admission. Of the 162,509 individuals who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were included in the analysis, 768 (0.5%) had cirrhosis. In the multivariable models, cirrhosis was associated with increased odds of hospitalization (aOR = 1.97, 95% CI: 1.58–2.47) and ICU admission (aOR = 3.33, 95% CI: 2.56–4.35). In the analyses stratified by age, we found that the increased odds of ICU admission among people with cirrhosis were present in all the assessed age-groups. Cirrhosis is associated with increased odds of hospitalization and ICU admission among COVID-19 patients.
Constraints on Interstellar Sovereignty
Creators: name: Haqq-Misra, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Human space exploration and settlement of other planets is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, while mission concepts for remote and crewed missions to nearby star systems continue to be developed. But the long-term success of space settlement also requires extensions and advances in models of governance. This paper provides a synthesis of the physical factors that will constrain the application of sovereignty in space as well as legal precedent on Earth that likely applies to any crewed or uncrewed missions to other stellar systems. The Outer Space Treaty limits the territorial expansion of states into space, but the requirements for oversight of nongovernmental agencies and retention of property ownership enable the extension of state jurisdiction into space. Pragmatic constraints from historical precedent on Earth suggest that new space treaties will be unlikely to succeed and new global space agencies may have limited jurisdiction over states, while hard constraints of the space environment require adherence to technical capabilities, political feasibility, and long-term sustainability. These factors form a three-prong test for assessing the viability of interstellar governance models. This discussion of interstellar governance is intended to further the conversation about sovereignty in space prior to the first intentional launch of any interstellar spacecraft.
description: Submitted to JBIS for the 8th Interstellar Symposium special issue
Artificial Protozoa Optimizer (APO): A novel bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for engineering optimization
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaopeng
name: Snasel, Vaclav
name: Mirjalili, Seyedali
name: Pan, Jeng-Shyang
name: Kong, Lingping
name: Shehadeh, Hisham A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study proposes a novel artificial protozoa optimizer (APO) that is inspired by protozoa in nature. The APO mimics the survival mechanisms of protozoa by simulating their foraging, dormancy, and reproductive behaviors. The APO was mathematically modeled and implemented to perform the optimization processes of metaheuristic algorithms. The performance of the APO was verified via experimental simulations and compared with 32 state-of-the-art algorithms. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed for pairwise comparisons of the proposed APO with the state-of-the-art algorithms, and Friedman test was used for multiple comparisons. First, the APO was tested using 12 functions of the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation benchmark. Considering practicality, the proposed APO was used to solve five popular engineering design problems in a continuous space with constraints. Moreover, the APO was applied to solve a multilevel image segmentation task in a discrete space with constraints. The experiments confirmed that the APO could provide highly competitive results for optimization problems. The source codes of Artificial Protozoa Optimizer are publicly available at https://seyedalimirjalili.com/projects and https://ww2.mathworks.cn/matlabcentral/fileexchange/162656-artificial-protozoa-optimizer.
Achieving the Rewards of Smart Agriculture
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian (Professor Of Biology)
name: Trautman, Dawn
name: Liu, Yingnan
name: Bi, Chunguang
name: Chen, Wei
name: Ou, Lijun
name: Goebel, Randy
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: From connected sensors in soils, on animals or crops, and on drones, to various software and services that are available, “smart” technologies are changing the way farming is carried out. These technologies allow producers to look beyond what the eye can see by collecting non-traditional data and then using analytics tools to improve both food sustainability and profitability. “Smart Agriculture/farming” (SA) or “Digital Agriculture” (DA), often used interchangeably, refer to precision agriculture that is thus connected in a network of sensing and acting. It is a concept that employs modern information technologies, precision climate information, and crop/livestock developmental information to connect production variables to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural and food products. This is achieved by measuring and analyzing variables accurately, feeding the information into the cloud from edge devices, extracting trends from the various data, and subsequently providing information back to the producer in a timely manner. Smart agriculture covers many disciplines, including biology, mechanical engineering, automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and information technology-digital platforms. Minimum standards have been proposed for stakeholders with the aim to move toward this highly anticipated and ever-changing revolution. These foundational standards encompass the following general categories, including precise articulation of objectives, and baseline standards for the Internet of Things (IoT), including network infrastructure (e.g., stable 4G or 5G networks or a wireless local area network (WLAN) are available to end users). To sum up, SA aims to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality and quantity of agricultural products, reduce costs, and improve the environmental footprint of the industry. SA’s ecosystem should be industry self-governed and collaboratively financed. SA stakeholders and end-users’ facilities should meet standard equipment requirements, such as sensor accuracy, end data collectors, relevant industry compliant software, and trusted data analytics. The SA user is willing to be part of the SA ecosystem. This short perspective aims to summarize digital/smart agriculture concept in plain language.
Clarification of the Spontaneous Polarization Direction in Crystals with Wurtzite Structure
Creators: name: Fichtner, Simon
name: Yassine, Mohamed
name: van de Walle, Chris
name: Ambacher, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The wurtzite structure is one of the most frequently found crystal structures in modern semiconductors and its inherent spontaneous polarization is a defining materials property. Despite this significance, confusion has been rampant in the literature with respect to the orientation of the spontaneous polarization inside the unit cell of the wurtzite structure, especially for the technologically very relevant III-N compounds (AlN, GaN, InN). In particular, the spontaneous polarization has been reported to either point up or down for the same unit cell orientation, depending on the literature source - with important implications for, e.g., the carrier type and density expected at interfaces of heterostructures involving materials with wurtzite-structure. This perspective aims to resolve this ambiguity by reviewing available reports on the direction of the energetically preferred polarization direction in the presence of external electric fields, as well as atomically resolved scanning transmission electron microscopy images. While we use ferroelectric wurtzite AlScN as a key example, our conclusions are generalizable to other compounds with the same crystal structure. We demonstrate that a metal-polar unit cell must be associated with an upward polarization vector - which is contrary to long-standing conventional wisdom.
Vivisection and Moral Introspection in Nietzsche
Creators: name: Hogan, Jacob
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Brian Leiter (2002) argues that Nietzsche's claims about value, such as his criticisms of conventional morality, are not objectively grounded but are matters of taste. However, this view (i) conflicts with Nietzsche's rhetoric and (ii) may fall into an unresolvable dilemma, as suggested by Ian Dunkle (2013). In response, I advance the claim that Nietzsche views moral value as being relationally, and thus objectively, grounded. For example, moral value claims can evaluated as prudentially good or bad for a person by appealing to the relationship between type-level facts about the person and the values they hold. This interpretation more clearly accounts for (i) the philosophical weight Nietzsche saw in his project, (ii) Nietzsche's task to 'revaluate all values,' (iii) his repeated attacks against dogmatism both in and outside philosophy, and (iv) his extensive use of vivisection as a morally significant term of art.
Saturday Evening Concert (1980-08-03)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Kyrie from Palestrina's Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat; excerpt from Chédeville's Quatrieme suite; Minuet in C, Mozart; Dance for the Slovaks, Bartók; Moldau, Smetana; How lovely is thy dwelling place, Brahms; When flowery meadows, Palestrina; Bonsoir, Debussy; and others
Nietzsche's Critique of "Absolute" Music
Creators: name: Swigart, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: In Human, All-Too-Human, Nietzsche initiates an unexpected criticism of art, specifically a criticism of its ability to help humans justify life in a world full of suffering. Nietzsche sets his sights on absolute music, music that perpetuates religious values inherited from Christianity and renders the modern listener unable to affirm life. Drawing from various sources in nineteenth-century Germany, including his former friend Richard Wagner, Nietzsche demonstrates that rather than relying on absolute music to help us come to terms with suffering, we must abandon it in order to overcome the life-negating values it perpetuates.
Saturday Evening Concert (1981-01-31)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Alma redemptoris mater, Guillaume Du Fay; section from Calliope suite, Fischer; Native American chant; Concerto in B major, Telemann; Nymphs and shephards, Purcell; Psalm 74, Alan Hovhaness; Carry me home to the lone prairie; Third movement, Third violin sonata, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright; and others
The Dual-Process Model and Moral Dilemmas: Reflection Does Not Drive Self-Sacrifice
Creators: name: Simpson, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Greene uses evidence from psychology and neuroscience to argue that manual mode (slow, deliberative thinking) is conducive to utilitarian judgments. He further argues that these data, in conjunction with philosophical premises, lend normative support to utilitarianism. After defending Greene's philosophical premises against critics, I contend that the current state of the evidence suggests that manual mode does not drive utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas involving self-sacrifice. I performed an experiment which replicated the positive association between cognitive reflection test (CRT) scores (which measure reliance on manual mode) and utilitarian responses to dilemmas that involved sacrificing the interests of others. However, I did not find a positive association between CRT scores and self-sacrificial utilitarian responses. The lack of a connection between manual mode and self-sacrifice presents a problem for Greene's argument that manual mode drives utilitarianism in general. Prima facie, my results indicate that reflection only drives other-sacrificial utilitarian judgments, not self-sacrificial ones. Greene is left without a basis to say (as he does) that cognitive science lends support to the normative conclusion that we ought to engage in utilitarian self-sacrifice by, for example, giving more to charity. I conclude by discussing other implications of my data for Greene's argument, and outlining directions for future research.
Saturday Evening Concert (1981-01-24)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Alma redemptoris mater, Guillaume Du Fay; section from Calliope suite, Fischer; Native American chant; Concerto in B major, Telemann; Nymphs and shephards, Purcell; Psalm 71, Alan Hovhaness; The wayward wind
Aristotle on the Role of Practical Intellect in Determining the Ends
Creators: name: Gao, Kerong
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: In this thesis, I argue that an Aristotelian virtuous person not only reasons about the means of her action but also the ends of her action. A person who has been well habituated but never reflects on her ends is not yet virtuous. To be virtuous, the person needs to apprehend and may revise her apprehension of the ends that have been given to her in her habituation, such as apprehending what it is to be generous. I argue that to arrive at what it is to be generous, practical induction and reflective equilibrium are needed. Both practical induction and reflective equilibrium are exercises of practical intellect. Once the person apprehends what it is to be generous, she would be in a good position to determine a generous action as the appropriate end for a situation and justify why a particular action is generous.
Cohomology and Extensions of Relative Rota-Baxter groups
Creators: name: Belwal, Pragya
name: Rathee, Nishant
name: Singh, Mahender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B38, 16T25, 81R50

description: Relative Rota-Baxter groups are generalisations of Rota-Baxter groups and recently shown to be intimately related to skew left braces, which are well-known to yield bijective non-degenerate solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation. In this paper, we develop an extension theory of relative Rota-Baxter groups and introduce their low dimensional cohomology groups, which are distinct from the ones known in the context of Rota-Baxter operators on Lie groups. We establish an explicit bijection between the set of equivalence classes of extensions of relative Rota-Baxter groups and their second cohomology. Further, we delve into the connections between this cohomology and the cohomology of associated skew left braces. We prove that for bijective relative Rota-Baxter groups, the two cohomologies are isomorphic in dimension two.
description: 30 pages
Anaxita martha Dognin 1904
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Anaxita
Anaxita martha

description: Anaxita martha Dognin, 1904
Anaxita martha Dognin, 1904a: 55.
Anaxita lysandra Druce, 1904: 242. — Type locality: Peru, [Piura], Huancabamba. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Peru, [Piura], Huancabamba.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described on 2 male syntypes (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 314, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Moral Attitudes: Why Attitude Matters in Characterizing The Psychology of Moral Judgements
Creators: name: Krogstad, Tate
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Stephen Stich has recently claimed that moral judgements are not a distinct psychological natural kind from conventional judgements. He argues that our two best methods in philosophy and psychology fail to provide a characterization of moral judgements that is immune to counter arguments, and therefore, it is likely there is only the psychology of conventional judgements. I argue that Stich's arguments implicitly assume a mistaken assumption, that moral judgements are psychologically distinguished from conventional judgements only if they concern different kinds of content. This assumption is mistaken because moral judgements can be distinguished from conventional judgements in virtue of attitude type. I provide a theory of a moral attitude type to demonstrate the plausibility that moral judgements can be psychologically distinguished from conventional judgements in such a way. Furthermore, a large history of scholarship in philosophy and psychology on moral properties and content might have understandably lead Stich's argument astray.
Til Death (or Divorce) Do Us Part: A Defense of Divorce as a Morally Permissible Instance of Promise-Breaking
Creators: name: Landers, Katherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Elizabeth Brake presents a plausible contradiction: Promise breaking is regarded as impermissible, and marital promises are regarded as legitimate promises, however, we take divorce, which is a breaking of a marital promise, as generally permissible. Brake's response to the inconsistency of these beliefs is to assert that we misunderstand marital promises altogether. She argues that marital vows misfire (that is they do not come to enforce promissory obligation) because they attempt to make promises about what one cannot control, one's emotions'namely love. My project will be in response to this view. First, I contend that Brake is wrong to think that marriage vows are illegitimate promises and second, I offer what I take to be a stronger resolution to the divorce inconsistency posed by Brake.
Saturday Evening Concert (1981-02-07)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Passacaglia in G minor; Browning fantasy, Woodcock; Pavane venezienne, Claude Gervaise; Two Israeli melodies; vocal music by Giovanni Pergolesi; Waterboy; The wayward wind; Five selections from the Prologue and suite, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Habituation, Transformation, and Conflict: Hegel and Transformative Theories of Rationality
Creators: name: Drusda, Alexander
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: While the Hegelian struggle for recognition is often taken to be the systematic point at which rational humanity differentiates itself from mere animality, Hegel more thoroughly expounds on the relationship between rational and nonrational animals in his Encyclopedia: humans diverge from nonrational animals through a process of habituation. While one might assume that Hegel takes this power of habituation to be sufficient for rationality, this assumption is complicated by Hegel's attribution of habituation to non-human animals as well. Against readings of the Encyclopedia that separate human and non-human animal habituation, I argue that a coherent interpretation must treat habituation as the same power in human and non-human animal life. My interpretation demonstrates Hegel's proximity to Matthew Boyle's transformative conception of rationality, which portrays rationality as a unique realization of animality. Hegel takes the realization of rational animal life to be thoroughly habitual, contra the instinctual basis of nonrational animal life.
Saturday Evening Concert (1981-03-14)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Reading of a poem by Dylan Thomas; suite by Jos Wuytack; La follia, Corelli; Ehre sei dir Christe, Heinrich Schütz; Love has come again (French folk song); Pavane, Maurice Ravel; rock music, including Jethro Tull, Hymn 43
Finding a Balance: The Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings for Low-Income Housing
Creators: name: Bryant, Robert Tod
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- United States -- Finance
subject: Rehabilitation investment tax credit
subject: Low-income housing -- Finance -- Law and legislation -- United States
subject: Rehabilitation investment tax credit -- Law and legislation -- United States
subject: Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Taxation -- United States
subject: Historic buildings -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States
subject: Tax incentives -- Law and legislation -- United States
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: Historic buildings are being converted into low-income housing all over the United States. These projects serve two long-established public policy objectives at once since they provide needed low-income housing while at the same time they preserve historic buildings which contribute to a community’s sense of its past. Most projects which convert historic buildings into low-income housing take advantage of two Federal incentives: the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit (HRTC) and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). In order to be eligible for the HRTC, the rehabilitation work must meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation (the Standards). This thesis research explores the question: Which specific problems involving the cost of satisfying the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation most often arise in projects that use both the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and the Low-income Housing Tax Credits and how have they been solved? This research finds that the HRTC in combination with the LIHTC can provide the majority of the financial equity needed to fund a project. It also finds that historic rehabilitation can be accomplished within the budgetary restraints of the LIHTC process. The HRTC and the LIHTC and their history are described and the advantages and disadvantage of combining them are discussed. The Standards and their history and application are also discussed. Two case studies which combine the two tax credits are analyzed. Conclusions are reached based on the application of the Standards in the two case studies and recommendations for further study are made. This research finds that this process works. Historic buildings, provided that they can physically accommodate housing, can be converted to low-income housing while preserving most the building’s architectural integrity and historic significance. It finds that successfully combing the HRTC and the LIHTC is extremely complex process and that combining these programs requires a dedicated and experienced development team. This study also shows that the policy goals of historic preservation and an increased supply of low income housing could be better served if the HRTC and the LIHTC were redesigned to improve their compatibility.
A Reevaluation of Urban Renewal in San Francisco
Creators: name: Brandi, Richard
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco -- Case studies
subject: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Conservation and restoration -- California -- San Francisco
subject: Diamond Heights (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Golden Gateway (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: Scholars are reevaluating the legacy of post-war federal urban renewal (1949 to 1973) and the means to preserve it. Initial success gave way to growing angst and by the early 1970s, urban renewal was seen by many as a colossal mistake that destroyed hundreds of neighborhoods in an ill-fated attempt to rejuvenate American cities. This legacy inhibits the preservation of urban renewal projects. This thesis seeks to contribute to the understanding of the preservation of urban renewal by looking at two projects in San Francisco: Golden Gateway and Diamond Heights. These appear to have been successful without incurring the negative impacts associated with urban renewal. A fuller understanding of these projects will help flesh out the complex nature of urban renewal in San Francisco and present the threats to preserving urban renewal projects. Chapter I presents a brief introduction of the origins of urban renewal and the preservation issues associated with it. Chapter II describes the context of urban renewal in San Francisco in the post-war period. Chapter III presents the history and significance of the Diamond Heights project and Chapter IV, the history and significance of the Golden Gateway. The final chapter considers the threats posed by incremental changes to urban renewal projects and concludes that better understanding of their accomplishments may be the key to their preservation.
What Is Wrong With Self-effacing Ethical Theories?
Creators: name: Keefe, Austin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Self-effacing ethical theories are those that recommend their own erasure. Such theories are a controversial topic in contemporary moral philosophy. In this thesis, I shed light on what is and is not wrong with this type of theory. I examine two kinds of self-effacing ethical theories, a radical version of sophisticated consequentialism and developmental virtue ethics. I defend them against three common objections to self-effacing theories. I raise and develop two novel objections to self-effacing theories: a self-erasure objection and an incompleteness objection. I conclude by arguing that these two objections pose fewer challenges for developmental virtue ethics than radical sophisticated consequentialism.
The Development of an Introductory Preservation Masonry Training Program for High School Age Students
Creators: name: Russack, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Masonry -- Preservation -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
subject: Masonry -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
subject: Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Workmanship -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: The development of an introductory preservation masonry training program for high school age students.
Independent and Combined Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Prenatal Stress on Fetal HPA Axis Development
Creators: name: Bakhireva, Ludmila N.
name: Solomon, Elizabeth
name: Roberts, Melissa H.
name: Ma, Xingya
name: Rai, Rajani
name: Wiesel, Alexandria
name: Jacobson, Sandra W.
name: Weinberg, Joanne
name: Milligan, Erin D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and prenatal stress (PS) are highly prevalent conditions known to affect fetal programming of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The objectives of this study were to assess the effect of light PAE, PS, and PAE-PS interaction on fetal HPA axis activity assessed via placental and umbilical cord blood biomarkers. Participants of the ENRICH-2 cohort were recruited during the second trimester and classified into the PAE and unexposed control groups. PS was assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale. Placental tissue was collected promptly after delivery; gene and protein analysis for 11β-HSD1, 11β-HSD2, and pCRH were conducted by qPCR and ELISA, respectively. Umbilical cord blood was analyzed for cortisone and cortisol. Pearson correlation and multivariable linear regression examined the association of PAE and PS with HPA axis biomarkers. Mean alcohol consumption in the PAE group was ~2 drinks/week. Higher PS was observed in the PAE group (p < 0.01). In multivariable modeling, PS was associated with pCRH gene expression (β = 0.006, p < 0.01), while PAE was associated with 11β-HSD2 protein expression (β = 0.56, p < 0.01). A significant alcohol-by-stress interaction was observed with respect to 11β-HSD2 protein expression (p < 0.01). Results indicate that PAE and PS may independently and in combination affect fetal programming of the HPA axis.
Cost-sharing in Parking Games
Creators: name: Elder, Jennifer
name: Harris, Pamela E.
name: Kretschmann, Jan
name: Mori, J. Carlos Martínez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05A05, 91A12, 91A46

description: In this paper, we study the total displacement statistic of parking functions from the perspective of cooperative game theory. We introduce parking games, which are coalitional cost-sharing games in characteristic function form derived from the total displacement statistic. We show that parking games are supermodular cost-sharing games, indicating that cooperation is difficult (i.e., their core is empty). Next, we study their Shapley value, which formalizes a notion of "fair" cost-sharing and amounts to charging each car for its expected marginal displacement under a random arrival order. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time algorithm to compute the Shapley value of parking games, in contrast with known hardness results on computing the Shapley value of arbitrary games. The algorithm leverages the permutation-invariance of total displacement, combinatorial enumeration, and dynamic programming. We conclude with open questions around an alternative solution concept for supermodular cost-sharing games and connections to other areas in combinatorics.
description: 16 pages
Reincarnation and Rehabilitation: the Theodicy of Plato's Timaeus
Creators: name: Garrett, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Plato wonders why a good God might allow the existence of evil. This problem is especially pertinent to his dialogue Timaeus, in which Plato describes the creation of the cosmos by a benevolent divine craftsman called the Demiurge. A justification for why God allows evil to exist is called a theodicy. Readers of the Timaeus have interpreted the theodicy of this dialogue in many ways. After showing the shortcomings of some common interpretations, I offer a largely original interpretation of the theodicy of the Timaeus. I claim that in the Timaeus evil is caused by conflict between souls, and this conflict is something that the good (but not omnipotent) Demiurge could not avoid. However, I think that Plato's Demiurge may have made the best of this imperfect situation by placing souls in a cycle of reincarnation that functions as a rehabilitative punishment, and thereby ordering the cosmos for their redemption.
Wright Renewed: Two Views Reconstructing the Architect's Buildings in American and Japan
Creators: name: Pickrel, Debra J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- United States
subject: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Japan
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: Frank Lloyd Wright, widely considered to be America's greatest architect, believed that spirituality was a quality inherent to his craft. As one of the few Western architects who practiced in Japan in the early twentieth century, his work provides a unique cross-cultural platform for study and comparison. This thesis explores the question: "How can we try to capture the spirit of the original in the reconstruction of an historic resource?" The concept of a building's spirit, aligned with that of authenticity, is first defined through a series of criteria. Then, the thesis question is explored across three seminal Wright case studies, presciently considered in light of divergent American and Japanese reconstruction philosophies and preservation practices, and a series of conclusions are drawn.
Challenges to Causal Classification in Psychiatry
Creators: name: Link, Richard
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Researchers attempting to explain and treat psychiatric disorders have long discussed the need for new disorder categories. A common proposal is to develop a causal classification system whereby psychiatric disorders are classified according to the causal processes that produce and sustain them. I evaluate the prospects for causal classification of psychiatric disorders. First, I motivate the need for a causal classification system of psychiatric disorders. Second, I introduce one framework for causal classification, the exemplar model. Third, I examine multiple forms of causal complexity that the exemplar model must successfully navigate if it is to be a viable classification model for psychiatry. I argue that the exemplar model can handle some issues of causal complexity but not others. I conclude that psychiatry should utilize two models of classification, the exemplar model and the network model, because each fulfills some, but not all, of the purposes of classification systems.
Saturday Evening Concert (1981-04-11)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Elizabethan trios, Purcell's Chaconne from the Fairy queen; Keyboard concert in D Major, J. S. Bach; Chorale by Bach; Ehre sei dir Christe, Heinrich Schütz; Love has come again (trad. French Easter carol); three songs from Brigadoon; The wayward wind
Can Transit-Oriented Development Accommodate Preservation Goals?: A Study of Historic Structures and Districts in the Vicinity of Washington's Metro Stations
Creators: name: Michailof, Sarah Grace
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Transit-oriented development -- Washington (D.C.) -- Planning
subject: Transit-oriented development -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies
subject: Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Washington (D.C.) -- Case studies
subject: Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Washington (D.C.) -- Citizen participation
subject: Historic preservation -- Washington (D.C.) -- Citizen participation
subject: Local transit -- Washington (D.C.) -- History
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis considers how private developers work with community stakeholders to accommodate preservation goals in transit-oriented development decisions. The District of Columbia's historic residential neighborhoods, particularly those with access to the Metro system, are growing. New development projects, generally consisting of mixed-use residential and commercial buildings, are encouraged by government policies that direct high- and moderate- density growth to Metro station areas. The pressure to accommodate density in the vicinity of Metro stations has the potential to positively or negatively affect the preservation of historic structures and the integrity of historic districts. It can result in the revitalization and economic rebirth of historic urban neighborhoods or in the destruction of historic structures and the construction of new structures that are incompatible with a surrounding historic district. The thesis explores the development and planning history of the District of Columbia, the development review process and the preservation regulations that guide it, and the opportunities that the process provides for stakeholder participation. Stakeholder groups are identified and their role in development review are described. Three case studies were undertaken to determine how stakeholders influence development decisions and preservation outcomes. Analysis of the case study outcomes indicates that stakeholders are influential in shaping design decisions and that project developers that understand stakeholder concerns, meet with groups early and often during the process, and incorporate stakeholder design suggestions are most successful in creating designs that meet developer goals to accommodate density and community goals to preserve historic landmarks and districts.
Anaxita vetusta Strand 1911
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Anaxita
Anaxita vetusta

description: Anaxita vetusta Strand, 1911
Anaxita vetusta Strand, 1911a: 477.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Peru, [Junin], Chanchamayo.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (?).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 314, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Importance of Sugar Estates to Sense of Place on Nevis, West Indies
Creators: name: Gordon, Suzanne C.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Sugar plantations -- Conservation and restoration -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis
subject: Historic preservation -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis
subject: Sugar trade -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis -- History
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: The Caribbean island of Nevis is small in size, but it was a mighty power in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the British became obsessed with sweetening their afternoon tea with sugar and the Caribbean was able to fill this need. For its size, Nevis was the most prolific of all of the sugar-producing islands with dozens of sugar estates producing volumes of sugar to send back to England. It also became the center of the distribution of slaves throughout the islands of the Lesser Antilles, bringing tens of thousands of black West Africans to the island's shores to build the sugar plantations, work the soil, and endure unthinkable hardships at the hands of their slave masters. As Nevis made sugar, sugar also made Nevis, and the sugar industry dictated the physical development of the island. The remnants of the sugar industry still populate the island with distinctive structures built from local volcanic stone. Today's population is comprised of descendants of the original black West Africans. The number, density, and condition of sugar estates on Nevis as compared to other islands might, in fact, qualify the island for designation on the World Heritage List. This thesis examines the sugar estates on Nevis, and considers how they are linked to the island's identity and character. The thesis considers whether the sugar estates should be preserved because they are central to the island's sense of place, which in turn is the basis for its tourism economy. The findings support the contention that the sugar estates provide the basis for the history, development, physical layout, and the demographics of the island. The research found that local citizens, expatriates, and visitors all believe that sugar estates are the most significant of its cultural heritage resources. Interviews with these stakeholders showed that they felt that sugar estates contribute to the island's special atmosphere and spirit. The thesis concluded that without sugar estates and the development connected to it, Nevis would be much the same as other tropical island. This thesis reviews the history of the island, the sugar industry, the conditions of the estates, and the factors that threaten their well-being. It explores the role of the estates in defining the sense of place of the island and argues that the estates are crucial to maintaining the sense of place of the island. The appendix describes strategies to preserve deteriorating estates, recommends various methods to use in preservation, and encourages the development and implementation of a preservation plan for the sugar estates.
Electric field induced thermal Hall effect of triplons in the quantum dimer magnets $X$CuCl$_{3}$ ($X =$ Tl, K)
Creators: name: Esaki, Nanse
name: Akagi, Yutaka
name: Katsura, Hosho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically propose the electric field induced thermal Hall effect of triplons in the quantum dimer magnets $X$CuCl$_{3}$ ($X =$ Tl, K), which exhibit ferroelectricity in the Bose-Einstein condensation phase of triplons. The interplay between ferroelectricity and magnetism in these materials leads to the magnetoelectric effect, i.e., an electric-field induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction between spins on the same dimer. We argue that this intradimer DM interaction breaks the symmetry of the system in the absence of an electric field and gives rise to the thermal Hall effect, which can be detected in experimentally accessible electric and magnetic fields. We also show that the thermal Hall effect can be controlled by changing the strength or direction of the electric field.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, 2tables
Religion and Two-Level Utilitarianism in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Creators: name: Falco, Steven
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: The questions concerning Adam Smith's religious views and his purported support for utilitarianism have each generated a substantial literature. In this thesis, I propose a response to the first of these problems which I believe also helps resolve the second one. First, I argue that Smith's references to God in The Theory of Moral Sentiments reflect his sincere theological commitments, not merely his account of the psychology of religious belief or his attempt to avoid charges of atheism. I then show that Smith conceives of God as a utilitarian creator who designed our moral sentiments so that they would most effectively promote the utility of humanity as a whole. I combine these two claims to develop an interpretation of Smith as a two-level utilitarian where the Impartial Spectator determines the morality of the lower level and God does so for the higher one.
Privatization of the Army's Historic Resources: An Examination of the Effects of Privatization at Fort Sam Houston, Texas on Historic Properties
Creators: name: Brigham, David Harold
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Military bases -- Conservation and restoration -- Case studies
subject: Fort Sam Houston (Tex.)
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis seeks to examine efforts the United States Army is utilizing to provide stewardship for its inventory of historic properties. The purpose is to determine if privatization of Army owned historic buildings, under the Enhanced Use Lease and Residential Initiatives programs, provides these resources with a level of maintenance and historic preservation not previously provided. This thesis is organized into four chapters. Chapter I is an overview of the evolution of the United States military and provides examples of changes in mission and priorities and how those changes impacted historic properties. This evolution and the military's changing priorities resulted in significant structures being abandoned or transferred from Army control. Chapter II examines the Army's use of changes to Title 10 United States Code 2667. These changes provide flexibility in the ability to grant long term leases for unused or underutilized properties. Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas has used this Enhanced Use Lease program to rehabilitate significant historic properties. Chapter III examines the Army's history of housing privatization and the current privatization program called the Residential Communities Initiative. Emphasizing the program at Fort Sam Houston, the chapter provides evidence indicating that housing privatization has improved preservation and maintenance of historic properties. Chapter IV culminates with the conclusion that Army historic properties can benefit from privatization partnerships such as Enhanced Use Lease and Residential Communities Initiative.
Colorectal Cancer Patients’ Reported Frequency, Content, and Satisfaction with Advance Care Planning Discussions
Creators: name: Hussein, Said
name: Lim, Chloe Ahryung
name: Manokaran, Thulasie
name: Kassam, Shireen
name: Earp, Madalene
name: Tang, Patricia A.
name: Karim, Safiya
name: Biondo, Patricia
name: Watanabe, Sharon M.
name: Sinnarajah, Aynharan
name: Tan, Amy
name: Simon, Jessica
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: (1) Background: This observational cohort study describes the frequency, content, and satisfaction with advance care planning (ACP) conversations with healthcare providers (HCPs), as reported by patients with advanced colorectal cancer. (2) Methods: The patients were recruited from two tertiary cancer centers in Alberta, Canada. Using the My Conversations survey with previously validated questions, the patients were asked about specific ACP elements discussed, with which HCPs these elements were discussed, their satisfaction with these conversations, and whether they had a goals of care designation (GCD) order. We surveyed and analyzed data from the following four time points: enrollment, months 1, 2, and 3. (3) Results: In total, 131 patients were recruited. At enrollment, 24% of patients reported discussing at least one ACP topic. From enrollment to month 3, patients reported a high frequency of discussions (80.2% discussed fears, 71.0% discussed prognosis, 54.2% discussed treatment preferences at least once); however, only 44.3% of patients reported discussing what is important to them in considering health care preferences. Patients reported having ACP conversations most often with their oncologists (84.7%) and cancer clinic nurses (61.8%). Patients reported a high level of satisfaction with their ACP conversations, with over 80% of patients reported feeling heard and understood. From enrollment to month 3, there was an increase in the number of patients with a GCD order from 53% to 74%. (4) Conclusions: Patients reported more frequent conversations compared to the literature and clinical documentation. While the satisfaction with these conversations is high, there is room for quality improvement, particularly in eliciting patients’ personal goals for their treatment.