cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Altered cerebral hemodyamics and cortical thinning in asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
Creators: name: Marshall, Randolph S.
name: Asllani, Iris
name: Pavol, Marykay A.
name: Cheung, Ying Kuen
name: Lazar, Ronald M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cerebral circulation
Blood flow
Motor cortex
Carotid artery--Stenosis
Neurology

description: Cortical thinning is a potentially important biomarker, but the pathophysiology in cerebrovascular disease is unknown. We investigated the association between regional cortical blood flow and regional cortical thickness in patients with asymptomatic unilateral high-grade internal carotid artery disease without stroke. Twenty-nine patients underwent high resolution anatomical and single-delay, pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging with partial volume correction to assess gray matter baseline flow. Cortical thickness was estimated using Freesurfer software, followed by co-registration onto each patient’s cerebral blood flow image space. Paired t-tests assessed regional cerebral blood flow in motor cortex (supplied by the carotid artery) and visual cortex (indirectly supplied by the carotid) on the occluded and unoccluded side. Pearson correlations were calculated between cortical thickness and regional cerebral blood flow, along with age, hypertension, diabetes and white matter hyperintensity volume. Multiple regression and generalized estimating equation were used to predict cortical thickness bilaterally and in each hemisphere separately. Cortical blood flow correlated with thickness in motor cortex bilaterally (p = 0.0002), and in the occluded and unoccluded sides individually; age (p = 0.002) was also a predictor of cortical thickness in the motor cortex. None of the variables predicted cortical thickness in visual cortex. Blood flow was significantly lower on the occluded versus unoccluded side in the motor cortex (p<0.0001) and in the visual cortex (p = 0.018). On average, cortex was thinner on the side of occlusion in motor but not in visual cortex. The association between cortical blood flow and cortical thickness in carotid arterial territory with greater thinning on the side of the carotid occlusion suggests that altered cerebral hemodynamics is a factor in cortical thinning.
CKMfitter Report
Creators: name: Silva, Luiz Vale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: I discuss the combination and extraction in a global fit of the CKM matrix elements under the Standard Model framework performed by the CKMfitter Collaboration. I review briefly the experimental and theoretical inputs involved in our analysis, and stress the differences with respect to our previous results from 2016. More information relative to the 2018 edition discussed here is found at our website, http://ckmfitter.in2p3.fr/
A Happy Life
Creators: name: Mee, Charles L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Theater
Drama

description: A model, a dancer, a sculptor and a scattering of others come to The Therapist for help. The Therapist turns down those few who ask for financial advice or real estate wisdom or how to run a bookstore and ends up with just those patients he loves—the only ones he feels he can help. And, in the end, he does a group therapy session, which is the 30 minute wild dance theatre piece that ends the evening. [12 to 20 actors]
Field induced quantum-Hall ferromagnetism in suspended bilayer graphene
Creators: name: van Elferen, H. J.
name: Veligura, A.
name: Kurganova, E. V.
name: Zeitler, U.
name: Maan, J. C.
name: Tombros, N.
name: Vera-Marun, I. J.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the magneto-resistance of freely suspended high-mobility bilayer graphene. For magnetic fields $B>1$ T we observe the opening of a field induced gap at the charge neutrality point characterized by a diverging resistance. For higher fields the eight-fold degenerated lowest Landau level lifts completely. Both the sequence of this symmetry breaking and the strong transition of the gap-size point to a ferromagnetic nature of the insulating phase developing at the charge neutrality point.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
FSME: Risikogebiete in Deutschland (Stand: Januar 2019)
Creators: name: Koch-Institut, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: FSME
subject: Risikogebiet
subject: Zecken
subject: Impfung
subject: Naturherde
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Das Robert Koch-Institut hat die aktua­li­sierte Karte der FSME-Risiko­gebiete ver­öffent­licht. Es gibt fünf neue Risiko­gebiete, darunter ist mit dem Land­kreis Ems­land auch erst­mals Nieder­sachsen betroffen. Die anderen vier neuen FSME-Risiko­gebiete - ein Kreis in Sachsen und drei Kreise in Bayern - grenzen an be­stehen­de Risiko­gebiete. Die meisten Risiko­gebiete liegen in Bayern, Baden-Württem­berg, Süd­hessen, Süd­ost­thüringen und Sachsen. Je ein FSME-Risiko­gebiet gibt es seit Jahren in Mittel­hessen, im Saar­land und in Rhein­land-Pfalz. Ein­zelne FSME-Fälle sind in den ver­gan­genen Jahren in fast allen Bundes­ländern re­gis­triert worden, in den 1960er Jahren gab es z.B. in Mecklen­burg-Vor­pommern und in Branden­burg ver­mehrt FSME-Infektionen. Bei Aufenthalt in FSME-Risiko­ge­bieten und mögli­chem Kontakt zu Zecken empfiehlt die Ständige Impf­kommission am Robert Koch-Institut eine Schutz­impfung.
Adam and Evie
Creators: name: Mee, Charles L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Theater
Drama
Multiculturalism

description: The cast for Adam and Evie is the most diverse cast ever seen on stage in terms of race, gender, age, ability and disability, and all other sorts of diversity. And the first couple we meet, Adam and Evie, will be on stage for the entire play, having a few scenes themselves, and, when they are not having a scene themselves, watching everyone and everything else that happens to see what they can learn from it. [10 to 30 or more actors depending on doubling and tripling]
The effects of elevated water temperature on adult Pacific salmon gene expression, blood physiology and mortality
Creators: name: Jeffries, Kenneth Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Many populations of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) now encounter warmer rivers during their once-in-a-lifetime spawning migrations, which can result in premature mortality and may have contributed to some of the population declines observed in recent decades. One objective of this thesis was to determine the effects of high water temperatures on wild caught adult sockeye (O. nerka) and pink (O. gorbuscha) salmon at the level of the individual, tissue and cell through a series of temperature exposure studies. Fish held at 19°C consistently had higher mortality compared with fish held at a cooler temperature (13°C or 14°C) for both species with sockeye salmon demonstrating sex-specific mortality patterns. Sockeye salmon had higher plasma chloride levels when held at 19°C and both sockeye and pink salmon had reduced levels of plasma sex steroids at 19°C compared with fish at 13°C, which suggests an osmoregulatory disturbance and a potential reproductive consequence, respectively. Sockeye and pink salmon held at 19°C showed evidence of a common cellular stress response in their gill transcriptome characterized by the upregulation of genes associated with heat shock, immune and oxidative stress responses, variable regulation of genes involved in protein biosynthesis and the downregulation of genes involved in ion transport. The second objective of this thesis was to characterize some of the physiological effects of senescence and mortality on Pacific salmon. I found dramatic declines in plasma osmolality, chloride and sodium levels that occur days in advance of a fish's death and determined that plasma chloride levels are strong predictors of longevity in maturing sockeye salmon. I also examined the effects of mortality on the transcriptome of sockeye salmon for the first time. Dying fish were characterized by an upregulation of several transcription factors associated with apoptosis and the downregulation of genes involved in immune function and antioxidant activity, consistent with immunosuppression. Many of these results, especially the gene expression results, are novel for Pacific salmon. This thesis greatly improves our knowledge of the physiological effects of high river water temperatures and senescence on adult Pacific salmon. Management implications of these results and future research directions are discussed.
Weyl Tensor Classification in Four-dimensional Manifolds of All Signatures
Creators: name: Batista, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is well known that the classification of the Weyl tensor in Lorentzian manifolds of dimension four, the so called Petrov classification, was a great tool to the development of general relativity. Using the bivector approach it is shown in this article a classification for the Weyl tensor in all four-dimensional manifolds, including all signatures and the complex case, in an unified and simple way. The important Petrov classification then emerges just as a particular case in this scheme. The boost weight classification is also extended here to all signatures as well to complex manifolds. For the Weyl tensor in four dimensions it is established that this last approach produces a classification equivalent to the one generated by the bivector method.
description: 10 pages. This version match the published one
Energy-dependent orbital modulation of X-rays and constraints on emission of the jet in Cyg X-3
Creators: name: Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
name: Maitra, Chandreyee
name: Frankowski, Adam
name: Skinner, Gerald K.
name: Misra, Ranjeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study orbital modulation of X-rays from Cyg X-3, using data from Swift, INTEGRAL and RXTE. Using the wealth of the presently available data and an improved averaging method, we obtain energy-dependent folded and averaged light curves with unprecedented accuracy. We find that above ~5 keV, the modulation depth decreases with the increasing energy, which is consistent with the modulation being caused by both bound-free absorption and Compton scattering in the stellar wind of the donor, with minima corresponding to the highest optical depth, which occurs around the superior conjunction. We find a decrease of the depth below ~3 keV, which appears to be due to re-emission of the absorbed continuum by the wind in soft X-ray lines. Based on the shape of the folded light curves, any X-ray contribution from the jet in Cyg X-3, which emits gamma-rays detected at energies >0.1 GeV in soft spectral states, is found to be minor up to ~100 keV. This implies the presence of a rather sharp low-energy break in the jet MeV-range spectrum. We also calculate phase-resolved RXTE X-ray spectra, and show the difference between the spectra corresponding to phases around the superior and inferior conjunctions can indeed be accounted for by a combined effect of bound-free absorption in an ionized medium and Compton scattering.
description: MNRAS, in press, 12 pages
Phenomenology of ageing in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Creators: name: Henkel, Malte
name: Noh, Jae Dong
name: Pleimling, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study ageing during surface growth processes described by the one-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. Starting from a flat initial state, the systems undergo simple ageing in both correlators and linear responses and its dynamical scaling is characterised by the ageing exponents a=-1/3, b=-2/3, lambda_C=lambda_R=1 and z=3/2. The form of the autoresponse scaling function is well described by the recently constructed logarithmic extension of local scale-invariance.
description: Latex2e, 5 pages, with 4 figures, final form
Measurements of phi_s & DGamma_s at LHCb
Creators: name: Batozskaya, Varvara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The most precise measurement of the mixing-induced CP-violating phase $\phi_s$ and difference decay width $\Delta\Gamma_s$ in the $B^{0}_{s}-\bar{B^{0}_{s}}$ meson system has been performed by the LHCb with Run1 data that corresponds to an integrated luminocity of 3 fb$^{-1}$. To increase accuracy of the measurement and to expand studies of the systematic effects, the $B^{0}_{s}$ meson decays beyond the "golden" $B^{0}_{s}\to J/\psi\phi$ mode have been explored. The recent measurement of the phase $\phi_s$ is consistent with the SM prediction but the global combination of all measurements is still a far from the SM uncertainties. The Run2 data will allow the inclusion for more decay modes and improves uncertainty on the once already measurement.
D1.1 Description of use cases
Creators: name: De Zegher, Isabelle
name: Lepik, Katrin
name: Lotman, Eno-Martin
name: Maasik, Mall
name: Norak, Kerli
name: Kannukene, Urmo
name: Plass, Markus
name: Kalendralis, Petros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Breast cancer use case
, Cardiovascular use case
patient engagement
evaluation criteria
data sources

description: This deliverable clarifies the problem to be solved in AIDAVA, i.e. (1) develop a "data cleaning" machine with maximum automation in curation and publishing of personal healthcare data and (2) maximise engagement with the patients in the curation process of these data when automation is not possible. 
The deliverable then describes the 2 use cases for testing the prototype: (1) the first use case is hospital centric and will demonstrate feasibility of a  federated "EU" breast cancer registry composed by interoperable extracts issued form multiples different sources from each of the evaluation sites;  (2) the second use case is patient-centric and will demonstrate how patient data curated into an individual longitudinal health record can be reused for visualising of the patient record and for computing a cardiac risk score supporting physicians in monitoring risk for their patients.  We will also explore the possibility of presenting the risk score to the patient.
Finally, the deliverable provides more information on the metrics that will support assessment of the prototype and identify key elements to be taken into account when deploying the prototype across sites.
Body size and hosts of Triatoma infestans populations affect the size of bloodmeal contents and female fecundity in rural northwestern Argentina
Creators: name: Gürtler, Ricardo E.
name: Del Pilar Fernández, María
name: Cecere, María C.
name: Cohen, Joel E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Triatoma
subject: Fertility
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Human sleeping quarters (domiciles) and chicken coops are key source habitats of Triatoma infestans—the principal vector of the infection that causes Chagas disease—in rural communities in northern Argentina. Here we investigated the links among individual bug bloodmeal contents (BMC, mg), female fecundity, body length (L, mm), host blood sources and habitats. We tested whether L, habitat and host blood conferred relative fitness advantages using generalized linear mixed-effects models and a multimodel inference approach with model averaging. The data analyzed include 769 late-stage triatomines collected in 120 sites from six habitats in 87 houses in Figueroa, Santiago del Estero, during austral spring. L correlated positively with other body-size surrogates and was modified by habitat type, bug stage and recent feeding. Bugs from chicken coops were significantly larger than pig-corral and kitchen bugs. The best-fitting model of log BMC included habitat, a recent feeding, bug stage, log Lc (mean-centered log L) and all two-way interactions including log Lc. Human- and chicken-fed bugs had significantly larger BMC than bugs fed on other hosts whereas goat-fed bugs ranked last, in consistency with average blood-feeding rates. Fecundity was maximal in chicken-fed bugs from chicken coops, submaximal in human- and pig-fed bugs, and minimal in goat-fed bugs. This study is the first to reveal the allometric effects of body-size surrogates on BMC and female fecundity in a large set of triatomine populations occupying multiple habitats, and discloses the links between body size, microsite temperatures and various fitness components that affect the risks of transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi.
Defining the effective temperature of a quantum driven system from current-current correlation functions
Creators: name: Caso, Alvaro
name: Arrachea, Liliana
name: Lozano, Gustavo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate current-current correlation functions and find an expression for the zero-frequency noise of multiterminal systems driven by harmonically time-dependent voltages within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism. We also propose a fluctuation-dissipation relation for current-current correlation functions to define an effective temperature. We discuss the behavior of this temperature and compare it with the local temperature determined by a thermometer and with the effective temperature defined from a single-particle fluctuation-dissipation relation. We show that for low frequencies all the definitions of the temperature coincide.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
ANALYSIS OF QUALITY PARAMETERS OF ADRAS TISSUE
Creators: name: Rajapova, U.B.
name: Isakova, G.A.
name: Farxiddinova, X.Sh.
name: Erkinov, A.O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In the article studies the physical and mechanical characteristics of the national fabric Adras.
A continuous morphological approach to study the evolution of pollen in a phylogenetic context: An example with the order Myrtales
Creators: name: Kriebel, Ricardo
name: Khabbazian, Mohammad Hassan
name: Sytsma, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Phylogeny
subject: Pollen--Morphology
subject: Myrtales
subject: Botany
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The study of pollen morphology has historically allowed evolutionary biologists to assess phylogenetic relationships among Angiosperms, as well as to better understand the fossil record. During this process, pollen has mainly been studied by discretizing some of its main characteristics such as size, shape, and exine ornamentation. One large plant clade in which pollen has been used this way for phylogenetic inference and character mapping is the order Myrtales, composed by the small families Alzateaceae, Crypteroniaceae, and Penaeaceae (collectively the “CAP clade”), as well as the large families Combretaceae, Lythraceae, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae, Onagraceae and Vochysiaceae. In this study, we present a novel way to study pollen evolution by using quantitative size and shape variables. We use morphometric and morphospace methods to evaluate pollen change in the order Myrtales using a time-calibrated, supermatrix phylogeny. We then test for conservatism, divergence, and morphological convergence of pollen and for correlation between the latitudinal gradient and pollen size and shape. To obtain an estimate of shape, Myrtales pollen images were extracted from the literature, and their outlines analyzed using elliptic Fourier methods. Shape and size variables were then analyzed in a phylogenetic framework under an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to test for shifts in size and shape during the evolutionary history of Myrtales. Few shifts in Myrtales pollen morphology were found which indicates morphological conservatism. Heterocolpate, small pollen is ancestral with largest pollen in Onagraceae. Convergent shifts in shape but not size occurred in Myrtaceae and Onagraceae and are correlated to shifts in latitude and biogeography. A quantitative approach was applied for the first time to examine pollen evolution across a large time scale. Using phylogenetic based morphometrics and an OU process, hypotheses of pollen size and shape were tested across Myrtales. Convergent pollen shifts and position in the latitudinal gradient support the selective role of harmomegathy, the mechanism by which pollen grains accommodate their volume in response to water loss.
Eicosanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamide (EHT) prevents Alzheimer’s disease-related cognitive and electrophysiological impairments in mice exposed to elevated concentrations of oligomeric beta-amyloid
Creators: name: Asam, Kesava
name: Staniszewski, Agnieszka
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Melideo, Scott L.
name: Mazzeo, Adolfo
name: Voronkov, Michael
name: Huber, Kristen L.
name: Perez, Eduardo
name: Stock, Maxwell
name: Stock, Jeffry B.
name: Arancio, Ottavio
name: Nicholls, Russell E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cognition in animals
Methylation
Alzheimer's disease
Amyloid beta-protein
Electrophysiology

description: Soluble forms of oligomeric beta-amyloid (Aβ) are thought to play a central role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Transgenic manipulation of methylation of the serine/threonine protein phosphatase, PP2A, was recently shown to alter the sensitivity of mice to AD-related impairments resulting from acute exposure to elevated levels of Aβ. In addition, eicosanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamide (EHT), a naturally occurring component from coffee beans that modulates PP2A methylation, was shown to confer therapeutic benefits in rodent models of AD and Parkinson’s disease. Here, we tested the hypothesis that EHT protects animals from the pathological effects of exposure to elevated levels of soluble oligomeric Aβ. We treated mice with EHT-containing food at two different doses and assessed the sensitivity of these animals to Aβ-induced behavioral and electrophysiological impairments. We found that EHT administration protected animals from Aβ-induced cognitive impairments in both a radial-arm water maze and contextual fear conditioning task. We also found that both chronic and acute EHT administration prevented Aβ-induced impairments in long-term potentiation. These data add to the accumulating evidence suggesting that interventions with pharmacological agents, such as EHT, that target PP2A activity may be therapeutically beneficial for AD and other neurological conditions.
Measurement of direct CPV in charm decays at LHCb
Creators: name: Betti, Federico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: $C\!P$ violation has not been observed in the decays of the charmed mesons yet. $C\!P$ asymmetries ($A_{C\!P}$) in the decays of the $D^0$ meson are expected to be of the order of $10^{-3}-10^{-4}$, so a measured value of $A_{C\!P}$ of the order of 1% would be a hint of New Physics. In this talk the latest results from LHCb on measurement of direct $A_{C\!P}$ are reported, namely a new measurement of $A_{C\!P}$ in $D0 \to K_s^0 K_s^0$ decay and the first measurement of $A_{C\!P}$ in $D^0 \to h^+ h^- \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays.
New data strengthen the connection between Short Range Correlations and the EMC effect
Creators: name: Hen, O.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Weinstein, L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently published measurements of the two nucleon short range correlation ($NN$-SRC) scaling factors, $a_2(A/d)$, strengthen the previously observed correlation between the magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep inelastic scattering at $0.35\le x_B\le 0.7$ and the SRC scaling factor measured at $x_B \ge 1$. The new results have improved precision and include previously unmeasured nuclei. The measurements of $a_2(A/d)$ for $^9$Be and $^{197}$Au agree with published predictions based on the EMC-SRC correlation. This paper examines the effects of the new data and of different corrections to the data on the slope and quality of the EMC-SRC correlation, the size of the extracted deuteron IMC effect, and the free neutron structure function. The results show that the linear EMC-SRC correlation is robust and that the slope of the correlation is insensitive to most combinations of corrections examined in this work. This strengthens the interpretation that both $NN$-SRC and the EMC effect are related to high momentum nucleons in the nucleus.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. v3: minor changes to respond to PRC referee comments. v2: Minor errors in tabulated data corrected. No change to text or conclusions
Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration
Creators: name: Rigaud, Kanta Kumari
name: De Sherbinin, Alexander M.
name: Jones, Bryan
name: Bergmann, Jonas
name: Clement, Viviane
name: Ober, Kayly
name: Schewe, Jacob
name: Adamo, Susana Beatriz
name: McCusker, Brent
name: Heuser, Silke
name: Midgley, Amelia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Climatic changes
Climatic changes--Risk management
Climatic changes--Social aspects
Internally displaced persons
Migration, Internal
Poverty

description: This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people—or around 2.8 percent of the population of these three regions—could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the slow-onset impacts of climate change. They will migrate from less viable areas with lower water availability and crop productivity and from areas affected by rising sea level and storm surges. The poorest and most climate vulnerable areas will be hardest hit. These trends, alongside the emergence of “hotspots” of climate in- and out-migration, will have major implications for climate-sensitive sectors and for the adequacy of infrastructure and social support systems. The report finds that internal climate migration will likely rise through 2050 and then accelerate unless there are significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and robust development action.
DIGITAL DECONSTRUCTION. VIBE CODING 2025
Creators: name: Di Feo, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: DIGITAL DECONSTRUCTION
VIBE CODING
process art
digital art
conceptual art
digital minimalism

description: DIGITAL DECONSTRUCTION

VIBE CODING 2025

Cyclic operation. Sequences of repeated actions without a visible outcome.

The digital deconstruction process takes shape as a cyclical operation, characterized by sequences of repeated actions that, apparently, do not produce a visible result. However, this practice allows for the deconstruction of the digital realm, eliminating automatisms and unveiling unprecedented configurations.Through this approach, alternative patterns emerge, detached from the logic imposed by software and platforms. Technology, rather than merely serving as a passive tool, takes on an active role, becoming an autonomous language capable of analyzing and reconfiguring innovation in a critical act.This methodology implies intentional interaction, redefining both the function and perception of technology. The analogy with a video game with fixed rules is effective: if such rules are deconstructed and rewritten, new possibilities of use and interpretation open up. In this sense, the digital realm becomes a fluid structure, a sort of modular system whose components can be reassembled to generate new expressive and operational configurations.Rather than passively adhering to technological dictates, the deconstructive approach suggests a critical and creative exploration: observing, modifying, and reconfiguring digital systems allows one to transcend their predefined functionalities, transforming them into tools for unconventional expression.Below is a sample code snippet that, when copied and pasted into a text editor, produces a gradually expanding blank screen, visually emphasizing the concept of redefined digital space.
Conventual Pottery in Sarzana (Eastern Liguria) Between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Creators: name: De Vingo, Paolo
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 29, 9-18
description: In Liguria, the archaeological methodology applied in the excavation of monastery sites, both male and female, poses significant problems involving integration and comparison within what is certainly a more complex framework that emerges from the documentary sources. Obviously these sources refer to specific meanings for particular objects and, at the same time, describe the presence of entire categories of products that, for preservation reasons, are rarely or never included in the excavation documentation. The analysis of objects providing evidence of the communal behaviour in relation to usage and individual ownership of the material culture, so elaborate within written sources, must be limited solely to ceramic pieces. In this paper the author intends on examining such materials in order to reconstruct the economic trends in the religious communities, to determine the supply sources and therefore, through the pottery objects, to propose a social and not just archaeological interpretation of the religious context.
Becoming indigenous : measurable and immeasurable values in ecosystem-based management
Creators: name: Haggan, Nigel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation follows the trajectory of fisheries management in British Columbia from a period prior to European contact when Aboriginal people encountered limits, learned to live within them and indeed enhance productivity of lands and waters. The diversity of ecological contexts and human experience created a rich diversity of eco-social-spiritual communities, sustained by the interweaving of scientific, economic, social, spiritual and aesthetic values. Since then, fisheries managed primarily for commodity value have depleted marine life, while the growth of other economic sectors has transformed ‘fisheries’ from a mainstay of culture and existence to a tiny fraction of BC’s economy as measured by GDP. Globally, depletion and chronic undervaluing have prompted leading marine scientists, conservationists and others to call for a sea or ocean ethic. A literature review reveals a strong public demand for inclusion of immeasurable values between the lines of the ecological economics literature and in declarations from leading scientists and world religions, but there is no coherent way to implement it. A research project using Q methodology indicates that the public demand for inclusion of a spiritual dimension holds for a wide cross-section of people engaged in the governance, management and use of BC’s marine environment. The dissertation outlines a concept of the secular sacred based on a spirituality of dedicated attention to relationships. Dedicated attention confers the knowledge to enhance relationships that contribute to flourishing and unravel those that are destructive. The secular sacred can draw on the moral authority of science to report objectively on large-scale relationships, the moral authority of Aboriginal and local people at local scale, the moral authority of ordinary people committed to flourishing of people, species and places, the moral authority of religion in terms of gratitude, generosity, compassion, love and justice and the moral authority of artists who can represent complexity and tension and point ways to sustainability which words cannot. Drawing on multiple sources of knowledge and authority without belonging to any of them, the secular sacred opens the door to transformative change in and beyond British Columbia.
Quantum logic gates for superconducting resonator qudits
Creators: name: Strauch, Frederick W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum information processing using superpositions of Fock states in superconducting resonators, as quantum $d$-level systems (qudits). A universal set of single and coupled logic gates is theoretically proposed for resonators coupled by superconducting circuits of Josephson juctions. These gates use experimentally demonstrated interactions, and provide an attractive route to quantum information processing using harmonic oscillator modes.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures, decoherence calculations added
Hysteresis and nonequilibrium work theorem for DNA unzipping
Creators: name: Kapri, Rajeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study by using Monte Carlo simulations the hysteresis in unzipping and rezipping of a double stranded DNA (dsDNA) by pulling its strands in opposite directions in the fixed force ensemble. The force is increased, at a constant rate from an initial value $g_0$ to some maximum value $g_m$ that lies above the phase boundary and then decreased back again to $g_{0}$. We observed hysteresis during a complete cycle of unzipping and rezipping. We obtained probability distributions of work performed over a cycle of unzipping and rezipping for various pulling rates. The mean of the distribution is found to be close (the difference being within 10%, except for very fast pulling) to the area of the hysteresis loop. We extract the equilibrium force versus separation isotherm by using the work theorem on repeated non-equilibrium force measurements. Our method is capable of reproducing the equilibrium and the non-equilibrium force-separation isotherms for the spontaneous rezipping of dsDNA.
description: 8 figures, Final version to appear in Physical Review E
The Congenital Heart Disease Genetic Network Study: Cohort description
Creators: name: Hoang, Thanh T.
name: Goldmuntz, Elizabeth
name: Roberts, Amy E.
name: Chung, Wendy K.
name: Kline, Jennie K
name: Deanfield, John E.
name: Giardini, Alessandro
name: Aleman, Adolfo
name: Gelb, Bruce D.
name: Neal, Meghan Mac
name: Porter, George A.
name: Kim, Richard
name: Brueckner, Martina
name: Lifton, Richard P.
name: Edman, Sharon
name: Woyciechowski, Stacy
name: Mitchel, Laura E.
name: Agopian, A. J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Congenital heart disease
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Epidemiology

description: The Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium (PCGC) designed the Congenital Heart Disease Genetic Network Study to provide phenotype and genotype data for a large congenital heart defects (CHDs) cohort. This article describes the PCGC cohort, overall and by major types of CHDs (e.g., conotruncal defects) and subtypes of conotrucal heart defects (e.g., tetralogy of Fallot) and left ventricular outflow tract obstructions (e.g., hypoplastic left heart syndrome). Cases with CHDs were recruited through ten sites, 2010–2014. Information on cases (N = 9,727) and their parents was collected through interviews and medical record abstraction. Four case characteristics, eleven parental characteristics, and thirteen parent-reported neurodevelopment outcomes were summarized using counts and frequencies and compared across CHD types and subtypes. Eleven percent of cases had a genetic diagnosis. Among cases without a genetic diagnosis, the majority had conotruncal heart defects (40%) or left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (21%). Across CHD types, there were significant differences (p<0.05) in the distribution of all four case characteristics (e.g., sex), four parental characteristics (e.g., maternal pregestational diabetes), and five neurodevelopmental outcomes (e.g., learning disabilities). Several characteristics (e.g., sex) were also significantly different across CHD subtypes. The PCGC cohort is one of the largest CHD cohorts available for the study of genetic determinants of risk and outcomes. The majority of cases do not have a genetic diagnosis. This description of the PCGC cohort, including differences across CHD types and subtypes, provides a reference work for investigators who are interested in collaborating with or using publically available resources from the PCGC.
New Constraint on Scalar Gauss-Bonnet Gravity and a Possible Explanation for the Excess of the Orbital Decay Rate in a Low-Mass X-ray Binary
Creators: name: Yagi, Kent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently shown that a black hole (BH) is the only compact object that can acquire a scalar charge in scalar Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) theory under the small coupling approximation. This leads to the fact that scalar radiation is emitted from a binary containing at least one BH. In this letter, we find the constraints on this theory from BH low-mass X-ray binaries (BH-LMXBs). The main result of this letter is that from the orbital decay rate of A0620-00, we obtained a conservative bound that is six orders of magnitude stronger than the solar system bound. In addition to this, we look at XTE J1118+480, whose orbital decay rate has been recently measured with an excess compared to the theoretical prediction in GR due to the radiation reaction. The cause of this excess is currently unknown. Although it is likely that the cause is of astrophysical origin, here we investigate the possibility of explaining this excess with the additional scalar radiation in sGB theory. We find that there still remains a parameter range where the excess can be explained while also satisfying the constraint obtained from A0620-00. The interesting point is that for most of other alternative theories of gravity, it seems difficult to explain this excess with the additional radiation. This is because it would be difficult to evade the constraints from binary pulsars or they have already been constrained rather strongly from other observations such as solar system experiments. We propose several ways to determine whether the excess is caused by the scalar radiation in sGB gravity including future gravitational wave observations with space-borne interferometers, which can give a constraint three orders of magnitude stronger than that from A0620-00.
description: 5 pages, no figures; Published version, typos corrected, references added
Recent Excavations of Pottery Kilns and Workshops at New Carron Road, Stenhousemuir 2007
Creators: name: Hall, Derek W
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 30, 1-20
description: Excavations in 2007 in advance of a housing development by Kier Homes Ltd in Stenhousemuir, near Falkirk, located further evidence for the late medieval pottery production centre previously located in this area. The remains of a Musty Type 2 kiln (Musty 1974), apparently unfired, the limited remains of workshops and tantalising glimpses of earlier pottery production were discovered.
Medieval Coastal Fishing Communities in Coastal Flanders (Belgium) and their Relation to Western Mediterranean Commodities
Creators: name: , Peters
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 30, 103-118
description: The paper offers a survey and assessment of the late medieval western Mediterranean commodities in the Belgian coastal area with particular emphasis on those coming from a number of fishing settlements. The bulk of the material is provided by the site of Raversijde. Special attention is paid to the Spanish maiolicas, the most prominent group among these finds, and their possible meanings (access and uses, selection, cost, social behaviour). The conclusions are, however, provisional.
THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTEGRATIVE APPROACH IN DEVELOPING THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
Creators: name: Yuldasheva, Nargiza
name: Djalalov, Bakhromjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article , integration, integration,  The etymology (origin) and content of the concepts of pedagogic integration are explained. Also, specific features of the integrative approach to the development of professional competence of physical education teachers are discussed in detail.
Increased prevalence of pregnancy and comparative risk of program attrition among individuals starting HIV treatment in East Africa
Creators: name: Holmes, Charles B.
name: Yiannoutsos, Constantin T.
name: Elul, Batya O.
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth
name: Ssali, John
name: Kambugu, Andrew
name: Musick, Beverly S.
name: Cohen, Craig R.
name: Williams, Carolyn
name: Diero, Lameck O.
name: Padian, Nancy S.
name: Wools-Kaloustian, Kara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: HIV infections--Treatment
Antiretroviral agents
Pregnant women
Public health
Epidemiology

description: Background
The World Health Organization now recommends initiating all pregnant women on life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART), yet there is limited information about the characteristics and program outcomes of pregnant women already on ART in Africa. Our hypothesis was that pregnant women comprised an increasing proportion of those starting ART, and that sub-groups of these women were at higher risk for program attrition.

Methods and findings
We used the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS- East Africa (IeDEA-EA) to conduct a retrospective cohort study including HIV care and treatment programs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The cohort consecutively included HIV-infected individuals 13 years or older starting ART 2004–2014. We examined trends over time in the proportion pregnant, their characteristics and program attrition rates compared to others initiating and already receiving ART. 156,474 HIV-infected individuals (67.0% women) started ART. The proportion of individuals starting ART who were pregnant women rose from 5.3% in 2004 to 12.2% in 2014. Mean CD4 cell counts at ART initiation, weighted for annual program size, increased from 2004 to 2014, led by non-pregnant women (annual increase 20 cells/mm3) and men (17 cells/mm3 annually), with lower rates of change in pregnant women (10 cells/mm3 per year) (p<0.0001). There was no significant difference in the cumulative incidence of program attrition at 6 months among pregnant women starting ART and non-pregnant women. However, healthy pregnant women starting ART (WHO stage 1/2) had a higher rate of attrition rate (9.6%), compared with healthy non-pregnant women (6.5%); in contrast among women with WHO stage 3/4 disease, pregnant women had lower attrition (8.4%) than non-pregnant women (14.4%). Among women who initiated ART when healthy and remained in care for six months, subsequent six-month attrition was slightly higher among pregnant women at ART start (3.5%) compared to those who were not pregnant (2.4%), (absolute difference 1.1%, 95% CI 0.7%-1.5%).

Conclusions
Pregnant women comprise an increasing proportion of those initiating ART in Africa, and pregnant women starting ART while healthy are at higher risk for program attrition than non-pregnant women. As ART programs further expand access to healthier pregnant women, further studies are needed to better understand the drivers of loss among this high risk group of women to optimize retention.
A Late 15th Century Household Pottery Group From Aveiro (Portugal)
Creators: name: Miguel Barbosa, Teresa
name: Manuel Casimiro, T�Nia
name: Manaia, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 30, 119-136
description: A small excavation in Homem de Christo Filho Street in Aveiro, an important medieval Atlantic maritime port, led to the discovery of a typical late 15th-century two compartment house. It was located in the city's centre where the merchants' houses were located. Hundreds of pottery vessels were recovered giving the insight to what type of pottery was being used on daily activities in late medieval times, from locally produced pottery to Spanish imports.
title: O ρόλος των οικονομικών διευθυντών στην εφαρμογή των αρχών ESG
Creators: name: Δημοπουλου Αικατερινη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2025

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια η βιωσιμότητα έχει γίνει πιο σημαντική για την κοινωνία μας. Στις μέρες μας, η πολιτική και τα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη των επιχειρήσεων απαιτούν μια βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη των επιχειρήσεων και την ένταξη των τριών κριτηρίων “ Ε, S , G’’ στα επιχειρηματικά μοντέλα. Καθοριστικό ρόλο έχει ο οικονομικός διευθυντής CFO για την ενσωμάτωση των παραπάνω κριτηρίων, όσο προετοιμασμένος είναι ο CFO για κινδύνους που απορρέουν από παράγοντες ESG , θα μπορεί εύκολα να ανταπεξέλθει στις εξωγενείς κρίσεις. Αυτή η ενσωμάτωση επηρεάζει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο ενεργούν οι εταιρείες λόγω ότι μια επιχείρηση δεν πρέπει μόνο να εξετάζει τη μεγιστοποίηση των κερδών αλλά και περιβαλλοντικές πτυχές όπως η κοινωνικότητα και η βιωσιμότητα. Τα κριτήρια ESG, παρέχουν σημαντικές πληροφορίες για την προσέλκυση κεφαλαίων αλλά και για το κόστος τους στις επιχειρήσεις. Τέλος, η βασική μελέτη της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η ανάμειξη του CFO στην εφαρμογή των αρχών του ESG, δίνοντας σημαντικά συμπεράσματα που θα λειτουργήσουν συμπληρωματικά στην ήδη υπάρχουσα βιβλιογραφία πάνω στη μελέτη των ESG κριτηρίων.
Two-Frequency Jahn-Teller Systems in Circuit QED
Creators: name: Dereli, Tekin
name: Gül, Yusuf
name: Forn-Díaz, Pol
name: Müstecaplioğlu, Özgür E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the simulation of Jahn-Teller models with two non-degenerate vibrational modes using a circuit QED architecture. Typical Jahn-Teller systems are anisotropic and require at least a two-frequency description. The proposed simulator consists of two superconducting lumped-element resonators interacting with a common flux qubit in the ultrastrong coupling regime. We translate the circuit QED model of the system to a two-frequency Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian and calculate its energy eigenvalues and the emission spectrum of the cavities. It is shown that the system can be systematically tuned to an effective single mode Hamiltonian from the two-mode model by varying the coupling strength between the resonators. The flexibility in manipulating the parameters of the circuit QED simulator permits isolating the effective single frequency and pure two-frequency effects in the spectral response of Jahn-Teller systems.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, figures revised
Position paper on policy development to foster the construction of PEBs
Creators: name: De Rosso, Larissa
name: Bollaert, Lukas
name: Belleri, Annamaria
name: Lollini, Roberto
name: Pozza, Cristian
name: Leis, Hermann
name: Büttner, Isabelle
name: Einar Thommesen, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document provides key recommendations for the policy development to foster the construction of PEB. The recommendations are drawn from the findings and results of the Cultural-E project, particularly the experiences gained from the four demonstrator cases. They are strongly supported by an analysis of relevant policy at the national level in France, Germany, Italy, Norway and at the European level.