cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reality of Gaza Health Sector During the 2023–2025 War
Creators: name: Migdad, Mohammed
name: El-Zenati, Amal
name: Buheji, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study examines the reality of the health sector in Gaza during the 2023–2025 Palestinian-Israeli war, shedding light on the devastating impact of the ongoing war and the prolonged blockade on healthcare services and infrastructure. The population of Gaza is suffering from a severe deterioration in health conditions due to the destruction of medical facilities, shortages of medicines and supplies, and lack of access to basic services.  

Before the war, Gaza's healthcare system was fragile due to the blockade and repeated wars, with heavy reliance on foreign aid. The situation worsened during the war, with the majority of hospitals and medical facilities destroyed and a large number of medical personnel killed. This has led to a significant increase in infectious diseases, such as acute diarrhea and respiratory illnesses, particularly among children. Patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, kidney failure, and diabetes faced severe shortages of medications, leading to serious complications and increased mortality rates.  

Gaza is also experiencing an unprecedented food crisis, with 93% of the population suffering from hunger, resulting in rising malnutrition rates among children and pregnant women. Additionally, the psychological consequences of the war are profound, with widespread mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the population, especially children and women.  

Therefore, the authors investigate the type of communicable and non-communicable diseases that are spreading in Gaza and with keeping what tackle to mitigate the risk of infections as priority. More precise recommendations are given,
Theoretical model for the Seebeck coefficient in superlattice materials with energy relaxation
Creators: name: Vargiamidis, Vassilios
name: Thesberg, Mischa
name: Neophytou, Neophytos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytical model for the Seebeck coefficient S of superlattice materials that explicitly takes into account the energy relaxation due to electron-optical phonon (e-ph) scattering. In such materials, the Seebeck coefficient is not only determined by the bulk Seebeck values of the materials but, in addition, is dependent on the energy relaxation process of charge carriers as they propagate from the less-conductive barrier region into the more-conductive well region. We calculate S as a function of the well size d, where carrier energy becomes increasingly relaxed within the well for d greater than l, where l is the energy relaxation length. We validate the model against more advanced quantum transport simulations based on the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method and also with an experiment, and we find very good agreement. In the case in which no energy relaxation is taken into account, the results deviate substantially from the NEGF results. The model also yields accurate results with only a small deviation (up to ~3%) when varying the optical phonon energy hw or the e-ph coupling strength D0, physical parameters that would determine l. As a first order approximation, the model is valid for nanocomposite materials, and it could prove useful in the identification of material combinations and in the estimation of ideal sizes in the design of nanoengineered thermoelectric materials with enhanced power factor performance.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Vokesimurex Petuch 1994
Creators: name: Roland, Houart
name: Virginie, Héros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Vokesimurex

description: Genus Vokesimurex Petuch, 1994
 TYPE SPECIES. — Murex messorius Sowerby II, 1841, Western Atlantic (by original designation).
description: Published as part of Roland, Houart & Virginie, Héros, 2015, New species of Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 481-503 in Zoosystema 37 (3) on page 483, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5156547
title: V3Geo: A platform for sharing virtual 3D geoscience models
Creators: name: Buckley, Simon John
name: Howell, John Anthony
name: Naumann, Nicole
name: Ringdal, Kari
name: Vanbiervliet, Joris
name: Tong, Bowei
name: Lewis, Conor
name: Maxwell, Gail
name: Chmielewska, Magda
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Norway (1); University of Aberdeen, UK (2)

 V3Geo is a new cloud-based repository for virtual 3D models in geoscience. It allows storage, search and viewing of 3D models commonly collected using photogrammetry, lidar or other laboratory-based 3D modelling techniques. The platform is developed for storing 3D models at the range of scales and applications required by geoscientists – from microscopic, hand samples and fossils through to outcrops covering tens of kilometres. A 3D viewer allows exploring of the models and simple measurement from within the web browser. V3Geo differs from other services in that it allows very large models (with multiple sections), is designed to include additional interpretations and focusses on geoscience through a tagging and metadata schema. Although planned for full release later in 2020, the first part of the project has been released in response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. Models in the database (currently c. 150) are given Creative Commons licences and can be utilised for virtual teaching and field experience as physical courses and excursions move to digital formats. V3Geo allows increased accessibility to field localities when travel or mobility is restricted, as well as providing the base models for virtual field trips. V3Geo is now accepting contributions from the geoscience community. Contributions are subject to a technical review to ensure underlying quality and reliability for scientific and professional usage. The database will continue to develop and grow, aiming to become a valuable resource for the geoscience community.
Strong Cosmic Censorship and the Universal Relaxation Bound
Creators: name: Hod, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, introduced by Penrose five decades ago, asserts that, in self-consistent theories of gravity, Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes should be unstable to remnant perturbation fields that fall into the newly born black holes. The question of the (in)validity of this intriguing conjecture in non-asymptotically flat charged black-hole spacetimes has recently attracted much attention from physicists and mathematicians. We here provide a general proof, which is based on Bekenstein's generalized second law of thermodynamics, for the validity of this fundamental conjecture in non-asymptotically flat de Sitter black-hole spacetimes.
description: 8 pages
title: Milankovitch-scale paleoclimatic variability recorded in Permian loessite (south-central France)
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Lily S.r
name: Hinnov, Linda
name: Zeeden, Christian
name: Rolf, Christian
name: Laag, Christian)
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: University of Oklahoma, USA (1); Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (2); Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hanover, Germany (3); Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France (4)

 We present the findings from our recent paper wherein rock magnetic data record discernible Milankovitch-scale paleoclimatic variability through the Permian Salagou Formation loessite (south-central France). Analysis and modeling of this stratigraphic series (~1000 m of magnetic susceptibility data measured with a portable magnetic susceptibility meter) shows a persistent 10-m-thick cyclicity inferred to represent orbital eccentricity-scale (~100 kyr) variability through the middle to late Cisuralian (ca. 285—275 Ma), and subordinate, higher-frequency cycles (3.3—3.5 and ~1.8 m-thick) that likely represent obliquity and precession-scale variability. Optimal sedimentation rates increase up-section, ranging between 9.4 cm/kyr and 13 cm/kyr. As evinced by laboratory rock magnetic data, the driver of the magnetic signal in the Salagou Formation is hematite, which has generally low magnetic enhancement compared to Eurasian Quaternary loess deposits. If the magnetic signal is pedogenic, then the ~10 m thick cyclicity may represent the thickness of loessite-paleosol couplets in the Salagou Formation. The predominance of hematite (as opposed to magnetite and maghemite) may be attributed to differing conditions of formation such as more arid and/or oxidizing climate conditions than in present Eurasia and/or post depositional oxidation of magnetite and maghemite. This work contributes to a growing evidence for astronomically-forced climate change in Permian loessite at low latitudes.
title: North Atlantic sea surface temperature evolution across the Eocene–Oligocene transition
Creators: name: Kocken, Ilja Japhir
name: van der Veen, Kasper
name: Müller, Inigo R.
name: Meckler, Anna Nele
name: Ziegler, Martin
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Utrecht University, The Netherlands (1); Unviersity of Bergen, Norway (2)

 The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT, ~34 Ma), is marked by the rapid development of semi-permanent Antarctic ice-sheet1. Foraminiferal stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) as well as Mg/Ca and other indicators (e.g. ice-rafted debris) indicate the development of permanent glaciation that potentially coincides with ~2.5 °Cdeep-sea cooling2. However, due to the nature of the δ18O proxy, uncertainties in the Mg/Ca concentrations of the palaeo-seawater, and calibration extrapolation/saturation to/at higher temperatures for organic proxies, it remains unclear how sea surface temperature (SST) changed across the EOT. In this study, we apply clumped-isotope palaeothermometry to well-preserved planktic foraminifera from the drift sediments of IODP Site 1411, Newfoundland, across four intervals bracketing the EOT. Initial findings indicate minor cooling across the interval, with absolute temperatures that are significantly lower than those reconstructed using other proxies3, a discrepancy that warrants further research. 1: Coxall, H. K., Pearson, P. N. (2007). The Eocene-Oligocene transition. Deep Time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal From Computer Models and Biological Proxies, p. 351-387. 2: Lear, C. H., Bailey, T. R., Pearson, P. N., Coxall, H. K. Rosenthal, Y. (2008) Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Geology 36, p. 251–254. 3: Liu, Z., He, Y., Jiang, Y., Wang, H., Liu, W., Bohaty, S. M., Wilson, P. A. (2018). Transient temperature asymmetry between hemispheres in the Palaeogene Atlantic Ocean. Nature Geoscience, 11(9), p. 656.
What is White Ignorance?
Creators: name: Martín, Annette
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In this paper, I identify a theoretical and political role for ‘white ignorance’, present three alternative accounts of white ignorance, and assess how well each fulfils this role. On the Willful Ignorance View, white ignorance refers to white individuals’ willful ignorance about racial injustice. On the Cognitivist View, white ignorance refers to ignorance resulting from social practices that distribute faulty cognitive resources. On the Structuralist View, white ignorance refers to ignorance that (1) results as part of a social process that systematically gives rise to racial injustice, and (2) is an active player in the process. I argue that, because of its greater power and flexibility, the Structuralist View better explains the patterns of ignorance that we observe, better illuminates the connection to white racial domination, and is overall better suited to the project of ameliorating racial injustice. As such, the Structuralist View should be preferred.
The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project: I. USNO objects missing in modern sky surveys and follow-up observations of a "missing star"
Creators: name: Villarroel, Beatriz
name: Soodla, Johan
name: Comerón, Sébastien
name: Mattsson, Lars
name: Pelckmans, Kristiaan
name: López-Corredoira, Martín
name: Krisciunas, Kevin
name: Guerras, Eduardo
name: Kochukhov, Oleg
name: Bergstedt, Josefine
name: Buelens, Bart
name: Bär, Rudolf E.
name: Cubo, Rubén
name: Enriquez, J. Emilio
name: Gupta, Alok C.
name: Imaz, Iñigo
name: Karlsson, Torgny
name: Prieto, M. Almudena
name: Shlyapnikov, Aleksey A.
name: de Souza, Rafael S.
name: Vavilova, Irina B.
name: Ward, Martin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we report the current status of a new research program. The primary goal of the "Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" (VASCO) project is to search for vanishing and appearing sources using existing survey data to find examples of exceptional astrophysical transients. The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations. In this first paper we present new, deeper observations of the tentative candidate discovered by Villarroel et al. (2016). We then perform the first searches for vanishing objects throughout the sky by comparing 600 million objects from the US Naval Observatory Catalogue (USNO) B1.0 down to a limiting magnitude of $\sim 20 - 21$ with the recent Pan-STARRS Data Release-1 (DR1) with a limiting magnitude of $\sim$ 23.4. We find about 150,000 preliminary candidates that do not have any Pan-STARRS counterpart within a 30 arcsec radius. We show that these objects are redder and have larger proper motions than typical USNO objects. We visually examine the images for a subset of about 24,000 candidates, superseding the 2016 study with a sample ten times larger. We find about $\sim$ 100 point sources visible in only one epoch in the red band of the USNO which may be of interest in searches for strong M dwarf flares, high-redshift supernovae or other catagories of unidentified red transients.
description: SETI meets time domain astronomy. Accepted into the Astronomical Journal
Torsion growth over cubic fields of rational elliptic curves with complex multiplication
Creators: name: González-Jiménez, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article is a contribution to the project of classifying the torsion growth of elliptic curve upon base-change. In this article we treat the case of elliptic curve defined over the rationals with complex multiplication. For this particular case, we give a description of the possible torsion growth over cubic fields and a completely explicit description of this growth in terms of some invariants attached to a given elliptic curve.
title: Tourism at Historic Mining Sites in Europe
Creators: name: McGrath, Eoin
name: Workman, Tim
name: Johnston, Des
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Geological Survey Ireland, Ireland

 Europe has a long mining history dating back to the Bronze Age (3300 - 1200 BC). Early mining activity was carried out in a primitive manner and only relatively high grade mineralization was worked. Many developments have taken place since then up to the present day. In addition, the range of commodities mined has greatly expanded over this time period and include ornamental stone, industrial minerals, fuel minerals as well as metal mines. Several of these sites have had over 1,000 years of continuous mining activity while others measure their life in decades or less. The mining activity has altered the landscape and many mining regions have a unique environment and built heritage. Mintell4EU is currently documenting those mining areas which have developed tourist attractions or amenities following the closure of the mines. The final product will provide a brief overview of the mine site, including the history of extraction and the current condition and attractions or facilities present. This will be a valuable resource both for geologists interested in the history of mining within Europe and the tourism sector, providing a single location where the broad range of mining related tourist activities can be viewed. Progress to date is presented including methodology, mine sited collated and elaboration of sample sites. The activities described above are implemented within the GeoERA ERA-NET Co-Fund Action in Mintell4EU. GeoERA has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731166.
Patterns of Use: Foreign Cases in High Court Judicial Review Judgments from 1980 to 2018
Creators: name: Ferguson, Alexander
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Judicial review judgments of the High Court of Australia have made frequent use of foreign cases. Looking at 246 of those judgments since 1980 reveals that four in every ten have used a foreign case. Looking more closely, three patterns are identifiable. The first pattern is the frequent use of a foreign case without providing a reason. The second pattern is the common use of certain foreign courts, most notably from the United Kingdom. The third pattern is the increased use of foreign cases when the disposition is against the governor. Broad structures and underlying approaches in judicial review and Australian law explain these patterns. These include a High Court statement on the use of foreign cases, the openness of Australian law, the normative foundations of judicial review, the quilt of legalities and legitimising judicial review.
3\%-accurate predictions for the clustering of dark matter, haloes and subhaloes, over a wide range of cosmologies and scales
Creators: name: Contreras, S.
name: Angulo, R. E.
name: Zennaro, M.
name: Aricó, G.
name: Pellejero-Ibañez, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predicting the spatial distribution of objects as a function of cosmology is an essential ingredient for the exploitation of future galaxy surveys. In this paper we show that a specially-designed suite of gravity-only simulations together with cosmology-rescaling algorithms can provide the clustering of dark matter, haloes, and subhaloes with high precision. Specifically, with only 3 $N$-body simulations we obtain the power spectrum of dark matter at $z=0$ and $z=1$ to better than 3\% precision for essentially all currently viable values of 8 cosmological parameters, including massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy, and over the whole range of scales explored, 0.03 < $k/h^{-1}Mpc$ < 5. This precision holds at the same level for mass-selected haloes and for subhaloes selected according to their peak maximum circular velocity. As an initial application of these predictions, we successfully constrain $Ω_{\rm m}$, $σ_8$, and the scatter in subhalo-abundance-matching employing the projected correlation function of mock SDSS galaxies.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures. Submitted. Comments are welcome
Application of an extended Kalman filter traffic estimation scheme to microsimulation
Creators: name: Kouvelas, Anastasios
name: Saeedmanesh, Mohammadreza
name: Geroliminis, Nikolas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: In this work we study the problem of traffic state estimation for large-scale urban networks. Given a network that is partitioned in a number of regions, the aggregated traffic dynamics describe the vehicle accumulations in each region, as well as the transferring flows among neighbouring regions. Considering the fact that many such models have been extensively used for control in the literature recently, this work tackles the real-time estimation problem when limited data are available. Recently, there has been a lot of development with respect to methodologies for perimeter control that utilize the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) for multi-region urban networks. All these controllers are based on aggregated state-space modelling for the dynamics of the system. Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of field implementations of such approaches, there is a missing part (i.e. online state estimation) that is crucial to fill the gap between available data and the controller input requirements in order to close the real-time control loop.
'Best for the Protagonists Involved': Views from Senior Tort Lawyers on the Value of Mediation in Victorian Medical Negligence Disputes
Creators: name: Popa, Tina
name: Douglas, Kathy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Mediation is a dispute resolution process that is more informal and less expensive than litigation, offering confidentiality and encouraging party voice. In medical negligence, parties can experience the benefits that arise in the discourse of mediation, including an explanation about the medical error, or an expression of an apology. In this study, 24 senior tort lawyers were interviewed to explore the use of mediation in medical negligence. Data analysis shows that the participants valued mediation in medical negligence disputes as a case management tool that assisted clients to avoid the stress of litigation. Some lawyers specifically referred to the Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic) as promoting mediation. As repeat players and advocates, the participants shielded their client from the legal system and dominated the mediation process. The majority of participants discouraged their client from speaking and prevented emotional engagement and dialogue with the tortfeasor. This research found that the model adopted by the senior tort lawyers resembles an evaluative or settlement style of mediation. The lawyers stymied the full potential of the process and diminished opportunities for party voice. The authors argue that better education for tort lawyers regarding the benefits of mediation would better meet the non-legal and emotional needs of disputants.
The Journal of Agricultural Economics Research: A Complete Bibliography: 1949-1994
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Gene
name: Wunderlich, Gene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The Journal of Agricultural Economics Research was initiated by O.V. Wells in 1949 as "a medium for the publication of technical articles." In more than four decades of articles and reviews can be seen the change and progress in research by USDA social scientists. Our purpose here is to provide an easily accessible archive of that change and progress. Two previous bibliographies were prepared and published in 1979 and 1988. This version of the bibliography contains a complete listing of all articles and reviews published in JAER during the entire life of the Journal, 1949-94. Each entry has been placed in chronological order as it appears in Journal issues. Following each volume and issue number, the entries are listed under articles and reviews. The "Reviews" section includes comments, research reports, and reviews. Each entry carries a unique number. Following the listing of entries is an index of all authors and reviewers, each containing their entry numbers. The "Author" index reflects only the reviewers, not authors of the books reviewed. The introduction provides a brief history of this unique professional journal and, at its end, lists the Journal editors and the dates of their service.
The Geometry of SUSY Enhancement
Creators: name: Carta, Federico
name: Giacomelli, Simone
name: Hayashi, Hirotaka
name: Savelli, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a precise geometric picture that demystifies the phenomenon of supersymmetry enhancement along certain RG flows of four-dimensional field theories, recently discovered by Maruyoshi and Song. It applies to theories of arbitrary rank and it is based on a hyperkähler-structure restoration on the moduli space of solutions of (twisted) Hitchin systems, which underly the class-S construction we use as an engineering tool. Along the way, we formulate a necessary algebraic condition for supersymmetry enhancement, and, when enhancement occurs, we are able to derive the Seiberg-Witten geometry and all conformal dimensions of Coulomb-branch operators for the infrared theory, without using a-maximization.
description: 40 pages, 4 figures
microRNA200 family members rescue alveolar type 2 epithelial cells ability to transdifferentiate into type 1 cells in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Confalonieri, Marco
name: GJ Criner
name: Giacca, Mauro
name: Zacchigna, Serena
name: Kosmider, Beata
name: Salton, Francesco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110299 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Diseases
subject: 111207 Molecular Targets
subject: 60103 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60404 Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics)
subject: Medicine

description: Rationale: Alveolar type II (ATII) cells act as adult stem cells contributing to alveolar type I (ATI) cell renewal and play a major role in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), as supported by familial cases harbouring mutations in genes specifically expressed by these cells. During IPF, ATII cells lose their regenerative potential and aberrantly express pathways contributing to epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT). The microRNA miR-200 family is downregulated in IPF, but its effect on human IPF ATII cells remains unproven. We wanted to 1) evaluate the characteristics and transdifferentiating ability of IPF ATII cells, and 2) test whether miR-200 family members can rescue the regenerative potential of fibrotic ATII cells. Methods: ATII cells were isolated from control or IPF lungs and cultured in conditions promoting their transdifferentiation into ATI cells. Cells were either phenotypically monitored over time or transfected with miR-200 family members to evaluate the microRNA effect on the expression of transdifferentiation, senescence and EMT markers. Results: IPF ATII cells show a senescent phenotype ( p16 and p21), overexpression of EMT (ZEB1/2) and impaired expression of ATI cell markers (AQP5 and HOPX) after 6 days of culture in differentiating medium. Transfection with certain miR-200 family members (particularly miR-200b-3p and miR-200c-3p) reduced senescence marker expression and restored the ability to transdifferentiate into ATI cells. Conclusions: We demonstrated that ATII cells from IPF patients express senescence and EMT markers, and display a reduced ability to transdifferentiate into ATI cells. Transfection with certain miR-200 family members rescues this phenotype, reducing senescence and restoring transdifferentiation marker expression.
title: Unusual suspect: Distal tibial osteochondroma causing extensor digitorum longus tenosynovitis
Creators: name: Sharma, Shaurya
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 32-year-old male, presented with pain and swelling along the anterior aspect of the distal left leg for the past 4 months. On examination, a fluctuant swelling was palpated with a deep-seated hard projection. The patient underwent an X-ray of the left leg as well as a local site ultrasound for the swelling.

description: 32 years, male
Repeated prolonged moderate-intensity walking exercise does not appear to have harmful effects on inflammatory markers in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Lamers, Carlijn R.
name: De Roos, Nicole M.
name: Bongers, Coen C. W. G.
name: Haaf, Dominique S. M. Ten
name: Hartman, Yvonne A. W.
name: Witteman, Ben J. M.
name: Hopman, Maria T. E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The role of exercise in the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is inconclusive as most research focused on short or low-intensity exercise bouts and subjective outcomes. We assessed the effects of repeated prolonged moderate-intensity exercise on objective inflammatory markers in IBD patients. In this study, IBD patients (IBD walkers, n = 18), and a control group (non-IBD walkers, n = 19), completed a 30, 40 or 50 km walking exercise on four consecutive days. Blood samples were taken at baseline and every day post-exercise to test for the effect of disease on exercise-induced changes in cytokine concentrations. A second control group of IBD patients who did not take part in the exercise, IBD non-walkers (n = 19), was used to test for the effect of exercise on faecal calprotectin. Both IBD groups also completed a clinical disease activity questionnaire. Changes in cytokine concentrations were similar for IBD walkers and non-IBD walkers (IL-6 p = .95; IL-8 p = .07; IL-10 p = .40; IL-1β p = .28; TNF-α p = .45), with a temporary significant increase in IL-6 (p p = .006) from baseline to post-exercise day 1. Faecal calprotectin was not affected by exercise (p = .48). Clinical disease activity did not change in the IBD walkers with ulcerative colitis (p = .92), but did increase in the IBD walkers with Crohn’s disease (p = .024). Repeated prolonged moderate-intensity walking exercise led to similar cytokine responses in participants with or without IBD, and it did not affect faecal calprotectin concentrations, suggesting that IBD patients can safely perform this type of exercise.
CTC Online Meeting, Negative effects resulting from online learning, 2021
Creators: name: Walkowiak, Radoslaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Andrej Paška, Radosław Walkowiak, Peter Danko, Marek Nowicki; Negative effects resulting from online learning. CTC Online Meeting, Prague, Czechia, 2021
Stochastic nodal surfaces in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
Creators: name: Hutcheon, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Treating the fermionic ground state problem as a constrained stochastic optimization problem, a formalism for fermionic quantum Monte Carlo is developed that makes no reference to a trial wavefunction. Exchange symmetry is enforced by nonlocal terms appearing in the Green's function corresponding to a new kind of walker propagation. Complemented by a treatment of diffusion that encourages the formation of a stochastic nodal surface, we find that an approximate long-range extension of walker cancellations can be employed without introducing significant bias, reducing the number of walkers required for a stable calculation. A proof-of-concept implementation is shown to give a stable fermionic ground state for simple harmonic and atomic systems.
Machine-learning based three-qubit gate for realization of a Toffoli gate with cQED-based transmon systems
Creators: name: Daraeizadeh, Sahar
name: Premaratne, Shavindra P.
name: Song, Xiaoyu
name: Perkowski, Marek
name: Matsuura, Anne Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We use machine learning techniques to design a 50 ns three-qubit flux-tunable controlled-controlled-phase gate with fidelity of >99.99% for nearest-neighbor coupled transmons in circuit quantum electrodynamics architectures. We explain our gate design procedure where we enforce realistic constraints, and analyze the new gate's robustness under decoherence, distortion, and random noise. Our controlled-controlled-phase gate in combination with two single-qubit gates realizes a Toffoli gate which is widely used in quantum circuits, logic synthesis, quantum error correction, and quantum games.
Food Store Density, Nutrition Education, Eating Habits and Obesity
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Bonanno, Alessandro
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: food store density
subject: fruits and vegetables consumption
subject: adult obesity
subject: nutrition education
subject: endogeneity bias
subject: omitted variables bias

description: Food retailers and restaurants are under scrutiny for their alleged effects on diets and obesity, although no clear evidence of a causal relationship exists. Furthermore, because no prior study controls for nutrition education and the dynamic nature of the underlying phenomena, existing estimates quantifying these relationships could be biased. Using state-level data for the continental U.S. we evaluate how the density of different food stores and per-capita expenditures on SNAP (nutrition) Education impact eating habits and (indirectly) adult obesity, controlling for endogeneity of store locations and consumption dynamics. Our results caution against using large-scale policies regulating the food environment and highlight the need to control for nutrition education and process dynamics to obtain unbiased estimates. Implications for the agribusiness sector are discussed.
description: The IFAMR is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org
International Sports Regulation: An Evolving Private-Public Partnership
Creators: name: Windholz, Eric Larry
name: Hodge, Graeme A
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Globalisation has seen regulation move beyond the state. International sports offer a strong example, with the evolution of an extensive system of global regulation and law. The creation of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the development of the world anti-doping regime, and more recent efforts to battle corruption, are but a few of its more prominent elements. A significant feature of this system is the international partnering of private and government bodies. However, this partnership is not without its challenges. Its evolution reveals inherent tensions between international and national regulatory regimes, as international sporting organisations challenge the sovereignty of the nation-state. This article critically examines the evolving private-public partnership that is international sports regulation. In particular, it investigates two case studies: the International Olympic Committee and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association. The intellectual lenses of public-private partnership and of power are adopted to analyse these cases. The social, cultural, political and economic importance of sport makes examining the evolution of international sports regulation an interesting and valuable exercise. Studying it also potentially offers valuable insights and lessons for the development of international regulatory systems and global law-making more broadly.
Sustained Competitive Advantage in Agribusiness: Applying the Resource-Based Theory to Human Resources
Creators: name: Mugera, Amin W.
name: Mugera, Amin W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: human resource management
subject: resource-based view
subject: agribusiness
subject: sustained competitive advantage

description: Employees are a strategic resource for agribusiness firms to achieve sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The resource-based theory (RBT) has emerged as a useful framework to analyze the significance of the human resource system in achieving SCA. However, few empirical studies in agribusiness provide evidence of a relationship between human resource system and SCA. This paper builds off our 2005 case study exploring human resource management and sustained competitive advantage. It provides an in depth review of the RBT and develops a framework by which agribusiness scholars might operationalize the RBT for both applied research and guidance for managers.
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H$_2$O$_2$ within chaos terrain on Europa's leading hemisphere
Creators: name: Trumbo, Samantha K.
name: Brown, Michael E.
name: Hand, Kevin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen peroxide is part of an important radiolytic cycle on Europa and may be a critical source of oxidants to the putative subsurface ocean. The surface geographic distribution of hydrogen peroxide may constrain the processes governing its abundance as well as its potential relevance to the subsurface chemistry. However, maps of Europa's hydrogen peroxide beyond hemispherical averages have never been published. Here, we present spatially resolved L-band (3.16 - 4 $μ$m) observations of Europa's 3.5 $μ$m hydrogen peroxide absorption, which we obtained using the near-infrared spectrometer NIRSPEC and the adaptive optics system on the Keck II telescope. Using these data, we map the strength of the 3.5 $μ$m absorption across the surface at a nominal spatial resolution of $\sim$300 km. Though previous disk-integrated data seemed consistent with the laboratory expectation that Europa's hydrogen peroxide exists primarily in its coldest and iciest regions, we find nearly the exact opposite at this finer spatial scale. Instead, we observe the largest hydrogen peroxide absorptions at low latitudes on the leading and anti-Jovian hemispheres, correlated with chaos terrain, and relative depletions toward the cold, icy high latitudes. This distribution may reflect the effects of decreased hydrogen peroxide destruction due to efficient electron scavenging by CO$_2$ within chaos terrain.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
title: Quantification of geogenic arsenic in clay-plug sediment of Holocene floodplains
Creators: name: Kumar, Santosh
name: Ghosh, Devanita
name: Donselaar, Marinus Eric
name: Burgers, Floortje
name: Ghosh, Ashok Kumar
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Department of Applied Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (1); Laboratory of Biogeochem-mystry, Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka India (2); Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division of Geology, Leuven, Belgium (3); Mahavir Cancer Sansthan and Research Centre, Patna, India (4)

 Shallow aquifers in Holocene flood basins around the world are loci for the pollution of arsenic, which poses a severe health threat to millions of people. Groundwater is the prime source of water for consumption and irrigation in densely-populated areas of developing countries. Arsenic concentrations are conditioned by the meandering-river geomorphology of the Holocene flood basins, and show a high spatial variability. The combination of high organic carbon deposition rates and the presence of solid-state arsenic constitutes a potential locus for pollution in clay-filled clay plugs. After the reductive dissolution in anoxic conditions, the mobilized arsenic migrates to adjacent sandy point-bar aquifers, and accumulates in high concentrations by stratigraphic entrapment. In this paper the pollution threat is quantified through the calculation and analysis of solid-state arsenic in clay plug sediment. To assess the arsenic volume in clay-plug sediment, the bulk sediment volume of twenty clay plugs on the Middle Ganges Plain of Bihar (India) was calculated by combining surface area analysis of Sentinel-2 satellite data with side-scan sonar depth profiling of oxbow lakes, and with sedimentological data from four cored shallow wells. Arsenic concentrations in the clay-plug sediment, obtained elemental analysis (ICP-MS based) of 18 core sub-samples and complemented with published concentration data, yielded an average arsenic content of 28.75 mg/kg sediment in the 12 m thick clay plugs, and a total arsenic weight of 0.07 – 3.13 . 106 kg per clay plug. Arsenic and iron concentrations in the sediment decrease with depth, and this testifies to the increased dissolution.
Lifetime Risk Factors for Pre- and Post-Bronchodilator Lung Function Decline: A Population-based Study
Creators: name: Bui, Dinh S.
name: Perret, Jennifer L
name: Walters, Eugene Haydn
name: Abramson, Michael J.
name: Burgess, John A.
name: Bui Q. Minh
name: GAYAN BOWATTE
name: Lowe, Adrian J
name: Russell, Melissa A.
name: Alif, Sheikh
name: BRUCE THOMPSON
name: Garner, Marc Hamilton
name: Graham, Giles
name: Morrison, Stephen D.
name: Johns, David P
name: Knibbs, Luke D.
name: Jan-Paul Zock
name: Marconi, Alessandro
name: Garcia-Aymerich, Judith
name: BIRCAN ERBAS
name: Jarvis, Deborah
name: CECILIE SVANES
name: Lodge, Caroline J.
name: Shyamali C Dharmage
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: RATIONALE: Interactions between early life and adult insults on lung function decline are not well understood, with most studies investigating pre-bronchodilator (BD) FEV1 decline. OBJECTIVE: To investigate relationships between adult risk factors and pre- and post-BD lung function decline and their potential effect modification by early life and genetic factors. METHODS: Multiple regression was used to examine associations between adult exposures (asthma, smoking, occupational exposures, traffic pollution and obesity) and decline in both pre- and post-BD spirometry (FEV1, FVC and FEV1/FVC) between ages 45 to 53 years in the Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study (n=857). Effect modification of these relationships by childhood respiratory risk factors including low childhood lung function, and glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene polymorphisms was investigated. RESULTS: Baseline asthma, smoking, occupational exposure to vapours/gases/dusts/fumes (VGDF) and living close to traffic were associated with accelerated decline in both pre- and post-BD FEV1. These factors were also associated with FEV1/FVC decline. Occupational exposure to aromatic solvents was associated with pre-BD but not post-BD FEV1 decline. Maternal smoking accentuated the effect of personal smoking on pre- and post-BD FEV1 decline. Lower childhood lung function and having the GSTM1 null allele accentuated the effect of occupational exposure to VGDF and personal smoking on post-BD FEV1 decline. Incident obesity was associated with accelerated decline in FEV1 and more pronounced in FVC. CONCLUSION: This study provides new evidence for accentuation of individual susceptibility to adult risk factors by low childhood lung function, GSTM1 genotype and maternal smoking.
Competitiveness, Efficiency and Environmental Impact of Protected Agriculture in Zacatecas, Mexico
Creators: name: Padilla-Bernal, Luz E.
name: Lara-Herrera, Alfredo
name: Reyes-Rivas, Elivier
name: Perez-Veyna, Oscar
name: Padilla-Bernal, Luz E.
name: Lara-Herrera, Alfredo
name: Reyes-Rivas, Elivier
name: Perez-Veyna, Oscar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: greenhouses
subject: agricultural production systems
subject: comparative advantage

description: In Zacatecas, agriculture consumes 77% of the underground water; 44% of the aquifers are over extracted. All protected agriculture production systems pump water from the aquifers for irrigation, and 96% of the production units were constructed with government support. They also receive support for inputs and domestic production factors. This paper analyzes the impact of agricultural policy on protected tomato production in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, by examining competitive and efficient technologies and considering alternative sustainable production practices. The Extended Policy Analysis Matrix was applied. The analysis included four technologies under current conditions and two scenarios: a) adoption of sustainable production practices and b) unsustainable practices, at economic and private prices. The sustainable project paid for itself under both private and economic prices.
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${\bf 2k_F}$ Density Wave Instability of Composite Fermi Liquid
Creators: name: Jian, Shao-Kai
name: Zhu, Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the $2k_F$ density-wave instability of non-Fermi liquid states by combining exact diagonalization with renormalization group analysis. At the half-filled zeroth Landau level, we study the fate of the composite Fermi liquid in the presence of the mass anisotropy and mixed Landau level form factors. These two experimentally accessible knobs trigger a phase transition towards a unidirectional charge-density-wave state with a wavevector equal to $2k_F$ of the composite Fermi liquid. Based on exact diagonalization, we identify such a transition by examining both the energy spectra and the static structure factor of charge density-density correlations. Moreover, the renormalization group analysis reveals that gauge fluctuations render the non-Fermi liquid state unstable against density-wave orders, consistent with numerical observations. Possible experimental probes of the density-wave instability are also discussed.
description: 10 pages,8 figures