cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-Communicable Disease Mortality and Risk Factors in Formal and Informal Neighborhoods, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Evidence from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System
Creators: name: Rossier, Clementine
name: Soura, Abdramane Bassiahi
name: Duthe, Geraldine
name: Findley, Sally E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Demographic surveys
Mortality--Regional disparities
Chronic diseases--Risk factors
Epidemiology
Public health

description: The expected growth in NCDs in cities is one of the most important health challenges of the coming decades in Sub-Saharan countries. This paper aims to fill the gap in our understanding of socio-economic differentials in NCD mortality and risk in low and middle income neighborhoods in urban Africa. We use data collected in the Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System. 409 deaths were recorded between 2009–2011 among 20,836 individuals aged 35 years and older; verbal autopsies and the InterVA program were used to determine the probable cause of death. A random survey asked in 2011 1,039 adults aged 35 and over about tobacco use, heavy alcohol consumption, lack of physical activity and measured their weight, height, and blood pressure. These data reveal a high level of premature mortality due to NCDs in all neighborhoods: NCD mortality increases substantially by age 50. NCD mortality is greater in formal neighborhoods, while adult communicable disease mortality remains high, especially in informal neighborhoods. There is a high prevalence of risk factors for NCDs in the studied neighborhoods, with over one-fourth of the adults being overweight and over one-fourth having hypertension. Better-off residents are more prone to physical inactivity and excessive weight, while vulnerable populations such as widows/divorced individuals and migrants suffer more from higher blood pressure. Females have a significantly lower risk of being smokers or heavy drinkers, while they are more likely to be physically inactive or overweight, especially when married. Muslim individuals are less likely to be smokers or heavy drinkers, but have a higher blood pressure. Everything else being constant, individuals living in formal neighborhoods are more often overweight. The data presented make clear the pressing need to develop effective programs to reduce NCD risk across all types of neighborhoods in African cities, and suggest several entry points for community-based prevention programs.
Constraining the mass and width of the $N^*(1685)$ resonance
Creators: name: Mart, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have examined the existence of the $N^*(1685)$ resonance, which is recently listed by the Particle Data Group as a one-star nucleon resonance, by using a covariant isobar model for kaon photoproduction and assuming that the resonance has $J^p=1/2^+$, in accordance with our previous finding. After the inclusion of this resonance the changes in the total $χ^2$ show two clear minima at $M_{N^*}=1650$ and 1696 MeV, which correspond to two different resonance states. The former corresponds to the narrow nucleon resonance found in our previous investigation, whereas the latter corresponds to a new resonance found as we increase the resonance width. From the latter we derive the mass and width relation of the $N^*(1685)$ resonance. We observe that the properties of both the $N^*(1685)$ and $N^*(1710)P_{11}$ resonances are strongly correlated. Although the best fit of the present work yields $M_{N^*}=1696$ MeV and $Γ_{N^*}=76$ MeV, the apparently small $N^*(1710)P_{11}$ coupling constant to the $K^+Λ$ channel found in previous investigations suggests that $Γ_{N^*}\lesssim 35$ MeV, which, according to the mass and width relation, corresponds to $M_{N^*}\lesssim 1680$ MeV.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
title: Teachers vs. the Uniqueness of Their Occupational Role. On the Need for Supervision in Educational Work
Creators: name: Żłobicki, Wiktor
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2019

description: The issues of the specificity of the teacher’s professional role and the various strategies for implementing this role are important issues of pedeutology. Often, the teacher’s role is unclear, internally incoherent, psychologically difficult and inconsistent with other important social roles to must carried out by a given person, which creates conditions conducive to professional burnout. One of the ways to prevent professional burnout is the possibility of a teacher using supervision, that is, using the consultation regarding their own professional work with a specialist supervisor. The purpose of such supervision may be not only the teacher’s relationship with the students, but in general the whole of teacher’s professional and personal development.
title: Instruktion oder Staat des Engern und Grossen Landschaftlichen Ausschusses in Wirtemberg; 1797
title: nebst den dahin einschlagenden neuesten Grundgesezen und einigen Bemerkungen für die neue Abfassung des Ausschußstaats
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: 1797.
Carterodon Waterhouse 1848
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Echimyidae
Carterodon

description: Carterodon Waterhouse, 1848. Nat. Hist. Mammal., 2:351. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410029001000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 586, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Electrochemical Regulation of Budding Yeast Polarity
Creators: name: Haupt, Armin
name: Campetelli, Alexis
name: Bonazzi, Daria
name: Piel, Matthieu
name: Chang, Fred
name: Minc, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Polarization (Electricity)
Organic electrochemistry
Cytochemistry
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Cytology
Microchemistry

description: Cells are naturally surrounded by organized electrical signals in the form of local ion fluxes, membrane potential, and electric fields (EFs) at their surface. Although the contribution of electrochemical elements to cell polarity and migration is beginning to be appreciated, underlying mechanisms are not known. Here we show that an exogenous EF can orient cell polarization in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cells, directing the growth of mating projections towards sites of hyperpolarized membrane potential, while directing bud emergence in the opposite direction, towards sites of depolarized potential. Using an optogenetic approach, we demonstrate that a local change in membrane potential triggered by light is sufficient to direct cell polarization. Screens for mutants with altered EF responses identify genes involved in transducing electrochemical signals to the polarity machinery. Membrane potential, which is regulated by the potassium transporter Trk1p, is required for polarity orientation during mating and EF response. Membrane potential may regulate membrane charges through negatively charged phosphatidylserines (PSs), which act to position the Cdc42p-based polarity machinery. These studies thus define an electrochemical pathway that directs the orientation of cell polarization.
A new scheme for matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics to its force-free limit
Creators: name: Paschalidis, Vasileios
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector potential formulation for the induction equation to maintain the zero divergence constraint for the magnetic field. The force-free formulation we adopt evolves the magnetic field and the Poynting vector, instead of the magnetic and electric fields. We show that our force-free code passes a robust suite of tests, performed both in 1D flat spacetime and in 3D black hole spacetimes. We also demonstrate that our matching technique successfully reproduces the aligned rotator force-free solution. Our new techniques are suitable for studying electromagnetic effects and predicting electromagnetic signals arising in many different curved spacetime scenarios. For example, we can treat spinning neutron stars, either in isolation or in compact binaries, that have MHD interiors and force-free magnetospheres.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRD, added references, corrected typos
Achievable Information-Energy Exchange in a Brownian Information Engine through Potential Profiling
Creators: name: Rafeek, Rafna
name: Mondal, Debasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The information engine extracts work from a single heat bath using mutual information obtained during the operation cycle. This study investigates the influence of the potential shaping in a Brownian information engine (BIE) in harnessing the information from thermal fluctuations. We have designed a BIE by considering an overdamped Brownian particle inside a confined potential and introducing an appropriate symmetric feedback cycle. We find that the upper bound of the extractable work for a BIE with a monostable centrosymmetric confining potential, with a stable state at the potential centre, depends on the bath temperature and the convexity of the confinement. A concave confinement is more efficient for an information-energy exchange. For a bistable confinement with an unstable centre and two symmetric stable basins, one can find an engine-to-refrigeration transition beyond a certain barrier height related to the energy difference between the energy barrier and the stable basins. Finally, we use the concavity-induced gain in information harnessing to device a BIE in the presence of a multistable potential that can harvest even more energy than monostable confinement.
Identification of Rare Causal Variants in Sequence-Based Studies: Methods and Applications to VPS13B, a Gene Involved in Cohen Syndrome and Autism
Creators: name: Ionita-Laza, Iuliana
name: Capanu, Marinela
name: De Rubeis, Silvia
name: McCallum, Kenneth
name: Buxbaum, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genetic disorders
subject: Human genetics--Variation
subject: Autism
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biometry

description: Pinpointing the small number of causal variants among the abundant naturally occurring genetic variation is a difficult challenge, but a crucial one for understanding precise molecular mechanisms of disease and follow-up functional studies. We propose and investigate two complementary statistical approaches for identification of rare causal variants in sequencing studies: a backward elimination procedure based on groupwise association tests, and a hierarchical approach that can integrate sequencing data with diverse functional and evolutionary conservation annotations for individual variants. Using simulations, we show that incorporation of multiple bioinformatic predictors of deleteriousness, such as PolyPhen-2, SIFT and GERP++ scores, can improve the power to discover truly causal variants. As proof of principle, we apply the proposed methods to VPS13B, a gene mutated in the rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Cohen syndrome, and recently reported with recessive variants in autism. We identify a small set of promising candidates for causal variants, including two loss-of-function variants and a rare, homozygous probably-damaging variant that could contribute to autism risk.
Developmental Pathway of the MPER-Directed HIV-1-Neutralizing Antibody 10E8
Creators: name: Soto, Cinque
name: Ofek, Gilad
name: Joyce, M. Gordon
name: Zhang, Baoshan
name: McKee, Krisha
name: Longo, Nancy S.
name: Yang, Yongping
name: Huang, Jinghe
name: Parks, Robert
name: Eudailey, Joshua
name: Lloyd, Krissey E.
name: Alam, S. Munir
name: Haynes, Barton F.
name: Mullikin, James C.
name: Connors, Mark
name: Mascola, John R.
name: Shapiro, Lawrence S.
name: Kwong, Peter D.
name: NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Neutralization (Chemistry)
Immunoglobulins
Phylogeny
HIV infections
Biochemistry
Biology

description: Antibody 10E8 targets the membrane-proximal external region (MPER) of HIV-1 gp41, neutralizes >97% of HIV-1 isolates, and lacks the auto-reactivity often associated with MPER-directed antibodies. The developmental pathway of 10E8 might therefore serve as a promising template for vaccine design, but samples from time-of-infection—often used to infer the B cell record—are unavailable. In this study, we used crystallography, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and functional assessments to infer the 10E8 developmental pathway from a single time point. Mutational analysis indicated somatic hypermutation of the 2nd-heavy chain-complementarity determining region (CDR H2) to be critical for neutralization, and structures of 10E8 variants with V-gene regions reverted to genomic origin for heavy-and-light chains or heavy chain-only showed structural differences >2 Å relative to mature 10E8 in the CDR H2 and H3. To understand these developmental changes, we used bioinformatic sieving, maximum likelihood, and parsimony analyses of immunoglobulin transcripts to identify 10E8-lineage members, to infer the 10E8-unmutated common ancestor (UCA), and to calculate 10E8-developmental intermediates. We were assisted in this analysis by the preservation of a critical D-gene segment, which was unmutated in most 10E8-lineage sequences. UCA and early intermediates weakly bound a 26-residue-MPER peptide, whereas HIV-1 neutralization and epitope recognition in liposomes were only observed with late intermediates. Antibody 10E8 thus develops from a UCA with weak MPER affinity and substantial differences in CDR H2 and H3 from the mature 10E8; only after extensive somatic hypermutation do 10E8-lineage members gain recognition in the context of membrane and HIV-1 neutralization.
Calibration of RAVE distances to a large sample of Hipparcos stars
Creators: name: Francis, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnitude limited population of 18 808 Hipparcos stars is used to calibrate distances for 52 794 RAVE stars, including dwarfs, giants, and pre-main sequence stars. I give treatments for a number of types of bias affecting calculation, including bias from the non-linear relationship between the quantity of interest (e.g., distance or distance modulus) and the measured quantity (parallax or visual magnitude), the Lutz-Kelker bias, and bias due to variation in density of the stellar population. The use of a magnitude bound minimises the Malmquist and the Lutz-Kelker bias, and avoids a measurement bias resulting from the greater accuracy of Hipparcos parallaxes for brighter stars. The calibration is applicable to stars in 2MASS when there is some way to determine stellar class with reasonable confidence. For RAVE this is possible for hot dwarfs and using $\log g $. The accuracy of the calibration is tested against Hipparcos stars with better than 2% parallax errors, and by comparison of the RAVE velocity distribution with that of Hipparcos, and is found to improve upon previous estimates of luminosity distance. An estimate of the LSR from RAVE data, (U_{0}, V_{0}, W_{0}) = (14.9 \pm 1.7, 15.3 \pm 0.4, 6.9 \pm 0.1) km\,s^{-1} shows excellent agreement with the current best estimate from XHIP. The RAVE velocity distribution confirms the alignment of stellar motions with spiral structure.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
Antifibrotic Effects of the Dual CCR2/CCR5 Antagonist Cenicriviroc in Animal Models of Liver and Kidney Fibrosis
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Eric
name: Moyle, Graeme
name: Reshef, Ran
name: Richman, Lee P.
name: Thompson, Melanie
name: Hong, Feng
name: Chou, Hsin-L
name: Hashiguchi, Taishi
name: Plato, Craig
name: Poulin, Dominic
name: Richards, Toni
name: Yoneyama, Hiroyuki
name: Jenkins, Helen
name: Wolfgang, Grushenka
name: Friedman, Scott L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine, Experimental
Collagen
Liver--Fibrosis
Medicine

description: Background & Aims

Interactions between C-C chemokine receptor types 2 (CCR2) and 5 (CCR5) and their ligands, including CCL2 and CCL5, mediate fibrogenesis by promoting monocyte/macrophage recruitment and tissue infiltration, as well as hepatic stellate cell activation. Cenicriviroc (CVC) is an oral, dual CCR2/CCR5 antagonist with nanomolar potency against both receptors. CVC’s anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic effects were evaluated in a range of preclinical models of inflammation and fibrosis.

Methods

Monocyte/macrophage recruitment was assessed in vivo in a mouse model of thioglycollate-induced peritonitis. CCL2-induced chemotaxis was evaluated ex vivo on mouse monocytes. CVC’s antifibrotic effects were evaluated in a thioacetamide-induced rat model of liver fibrosis and mouse models of diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and renal fibrosis. Study assessments included body and liver/kidney weight, liver function test, liver/kidney morphology and collagen deposition, fibrogenic gene and protein expression, and pharmacokinetic analyses.

Results

CVC significantly reduced monocyte/macrophage recruitment in vivo at doses ≥20 mg/kg/day (p < 0.05). At these doses, CVC showed antifibrotic effects, with significant reductions in collagen deposition (p < 0.05), and collagen type 1 protein and mRNA expression across the three animal models of fibrosis. In the NASH model, CVC significantly reduced the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease activity score (p < 0.05 vs. controls). CVC treatment had no notable effect on body or liver/kidney weight.

Conclusions

CVC displayed potent anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic activity in a range of animal fibrosis models, supporting human testing for fibrotic diseases. Further experimental studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms of CVC’s antifibrotic effects. A Phase 2b study in adults with NASH and liver fibrosis is fully enrolled (CENTAUR Study 652-2-203; NCT02217475).
Nuclear charge radii of potassium isotopes beyond N=28
Creators: name: Kreim, K.
name: Bissell, M. L.
name: Papuga, J.
name: Blaum, K.
name: De Rydt, M.
name: Ruiz, R. F. Garcia
name: Goriely, S.
name: Heylen, H.
name: Kowalska, M.
name: Neugart, R.
name: Neyens, G.
name: Nörtershäuser, W.
name: Rajabali, M. M.
name: Alarcón, R. Sánchez
name: Stroke, H. H.
name: Yordanov, D. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the measurement of optical isotope shifts for $^{38,39,42,44,46\text{-}51}$K relative to $^{47}$K from which changes in the nuclear mean square charge radii across the N=28 shell closure are deduced. The investigation was carried out by bunched-beam collinear laser spectroscopy at the CERN-ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility. Mean square charge radii are now known from $^{37}$K to $^{51}$K, covering all $νf_{7/2}$-shell as well as all $νp_{3/2}$-shell nuclei. These measurements, in conjunction with those of Ca, Cr, Mn and Fe, provide a first insight into the $Z$ dependence of the evolution of nuclear size above the shell closure at N=28.
Gedanken über die Wahl der Abgeordneten zum Wirtembergischen Landtage; 1796
Creators: name: Märklin, Jakob Friedrich
name: Bunz, Georg Christian Heinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: In Fraktur. - Mutmaßl. Verf.: Jacob Friedrich Märklin oder Georg Christian Heinrich Bunz
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1915-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Temporal Changes in Post-Infectious Glomerulonephritis in Japan (1976-2009)
Creators: name: Usui, Joichi
name: Tawara-Iida, Takashi
name: Takada, Kenji
name: Ebihara, Itaru
name: Ueda, Atsushi
name: Iwabuchi, Satoshi
name: Ishizu, Takashi
name: Iitsuka, Tadashi
name: Takemura, Katsumi
name: Kawamura, Tetsuya
name: Kaneko, Shuzo
name: Sakai, Kentaro
name: Kai, Hirayasu
name: Gomibuchi, Tomoka
name: Nagata, Michio
name: Kobayashi, Masaki
name: Koyama, Akio
name: Suka, Machi
name: Radhakrishnan, Jai
name: Yamagata, Kunihiro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Glomerulonephritis
Kidneys--Biopsy
Streptococcal infections
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Background

The incidence of post-infectious glomerulonephritis (PIGN) in developed countries has decreased over the last 50 years. Here we identified the trends of the incidence of PIGN in Japan during the past four decades.

Methods

We explored the frequency, clinicopathological findings, and prognosis of PIGN based on 6,369 cases from the Renal Biopsy Database of our institute in the Kanto region of Japan, diagnosed histologically from 1976 to 2009.

Results

The numbers of PIGN cases were 131 (2.1%) in total, and 2.4%, 1.1%, 2.6% and 2.1% identified in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, respectively. Acute glomerulonephritis (AGN), including post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN), accounted for almost all of the PIGN cases in the 1970s, but decreased to approx. 40%–50% since the 1990s. In the 1990s, Staphylococcus aureus infection-related nephritis (SARN) showed a rapid increase in rate, reaching 30%. The incidence of hepatitis C virus infection-associated GN (HCVGN) has increased since the 1990s. The average age at onset rose from 33 to 51 years over the study period. These transitions can be summarized as increases in SARN and HCVGN and decreases in PSGN and other types of AGN, since SARN and HCVGN have older onsets compared to PSGN and other AGN types. The clinicopathological features were marked for each PIGN. Regarding the prognosis, the renal death rates of both the SARN and HCVGN groups were significantly higher than those of other PIGN.

Conclusion

Based on our analysis of the Renal Biopsy Database, the incidence of PIGN in Japan reached its peak in the 1990s. The temporal changes in the incidence of PIGN reflected the trends in infectious diseases of each decade and the continual aging of the population, with a related higher susceptibility to infections.
The Evolving Demographic and Health Transition in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Four Sites in the INDEPTH Network of Longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
Creators: name: Bawah, Ayaga A.
name: Houle, Brian
name: Alam, Nurul
name: Razzaque, Abdur
name: Streatfield, Peter Kim
name: Debpuur, Cornelius
name: Welaga, Paul
name: Oduro, Abraham
name: Hodgson, Abraham
name: Tollman, Stephen
name: Collinson, Mark
name: Kahn, Kathleen
name: Toan, Tran Khan
name: Phuc, Ho Dang
name: Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
name: Sankoh, Osman
name: Clark, Samuel J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Demographic surveys
Mortality
Epidemiology
Public health

description: This paper contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four demographic surveillance sites: Agincourt (South Africa), Navrongo (Ghana) in Africa; Filabavi (Vietnam), Matlab (Bangladesh) in Asia. We model mortality using discrete time event history analysis. This study illustrates how data from INDEPTH Network centers can provide a comparative, longitudinal examination of mortality patterns and the epidemiological transition. Health care systems need to be reconfigured to deal simultaneously with continuing challenges of communicable disease and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases that require long-term care. In populations with endemic HIV, long-term care of HIV patients on ART will add to the chronic care needs of the community.
Carterodon sulcidens
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Echimyidae
Carterodon
Carterodon sulcidens

description: Carterodon sulcidens (Lund, 1839). Afh. Kongl. Danske Vid. Selsk., p. 39. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Lagoa Santa. DISTRIBUTION: E. Brazil. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410029001001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 586, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
The missing GeV γ-ray binary: Searching for HESS J0632+057 with Fermi-LAT
Creators: name: Caliandro, G. A.
name: Hill, A. B.
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Hadasch, D.
name: Ray, P.
name: Abdo, A.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Ridolfi, A.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Rea, N.
name: Tam, P. H. T.
name: Dubois, R.
name: Dubus, G.
name: Glanzman, T.
name: Jogler, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The very high energy (VHE; >100 GeV) source HESS J0632+057 has been recently confirmed as a γ-ray binary, a subclass of the high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) population, through the detection of an orbital period of 321 days. We performed a deep search for the emission of HESS J0632+057 in the GeV energy range using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The analysis was challenging due to the source being located in close proximity to the bright γ-ray pulsar PSR J0633+0632 and lying in a crowded region of the Galactic plane where there is prominent diffuse emission. We formulated a Bayesian block algorithm adapted to work with weighted photon counts, in order to define the off-pulse phases of PSR J0633+0632. A detailed spectral-spatial model of a 5 deg circular region centred on the known location of HESS J0632+057 was generated to accurately model the LAT data. No significant emission from the location of HESS J0632+057 was detected in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range integrating over ~3.5 years of data; with a 95% flux upper limit of F_{0.1-100 GeV} < 3 x 10-8 ph cm-2 s-1. A search for emission over different phases of the orbit also yielded no significant detection. A search for source emission on shorter timescales (days--months) did not yield any significant detections. We also report the results of a search for radio pulsations using the 100-m Green Bank Telescope (GBT). No periodic signals or individual dispersed bursts of a likely astronomical origin were detected. We estimated the flux density limit of < 90/40 μJy at 2/9 GHz. The LAT flux upper limits combined with the detection of HESS J0632+057 in the 136-400 TeV energy band by the MAGIC collaboration imply that the VHE spectrum must turn over at energies <136 GeV placing constraints on any theoretical models invoked to explain the γ-ray emission.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) Main Journal
The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City
Creators: name: MacDonald, John
name: Fagan, Jeffrey A.
name: Geller, Amanda
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Crime prevention--Evaluation
subject: Police
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Law

description: The New York Police Department (NYPD) under Operation Impact deployed extra police officers to high crime areas designated as impact zones. Officers were encouraged to conduct investigative stops in these areas. City officials credited the program as one of the leading causes of New York City’s low crime rate. We tested the effects of Operation Impact on reported crimes and arrests from 2004 to 2012 using a difference-in-differences approach. We used Poisson regression models to compare differences in crime and arrest counts before and after census block groups were designated as impact zones compared to census block groups in the same NYPD precincts but outside impact zones. Impact zones were significantly associated with reductions in total reported crimes, assaults, burglaries, drug violations, misdemeanor crimes, felony property crimes, robberies, and felony violent crimes. Impact zones were significantly associated with increases in total reported arrests, arrests for burglary, arrests for weapons, arrests for misdemeanor crimes, and arrests for property felony crimes. Impact zones were also significantly associated with increases in investigative stops for suspected crimes, but only the increase in stops made based on probable cause indicators of criminal behaviors were associated with crime reductions. The largest increase in investigative stops in impact zones was based on indicators of suspicious behavior that had no measurable effect on crime. The findings suggest that saturating high crime blocks with police helped reduce crime in New York City, but that the bulk of the investigative stops did not play an important role in the crime reductions. The findings indicate that crime reduction can be achieved with more focused investigative stops.
Madrigalische Trauer-Schrifft Über Die Beysetzung deß Käyserl: Leichnams Leopoldi I.; 1705
Creators: name: Haake, Johann Jacob
name: Leopold I., Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser
name: Colerus, Friedrich
name: Haake, Johann Jacob
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: Kopftitel. - Enth. außerdem: In Successorem Leopoldi M. Cabbala / f. Colerus. In Imperatorem Josephum I. ... / f. J. J. Haake de Bopfing.
MRSA Causing Infections in Hospitals in Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift in the Dominant Clonal Type between 1996 and 2014
Creators: name: De La Gandara, Maria Pardos
name: Curry, Marie
name: Berger, Judith
name: Burstein, David
name: Della-Latta, Phyllis
name: Kopetz, Virgina
name: Quale, John
name: Spitzer, Eric
name: Tan, Rexie
name: Urban, Carl
name: Wang, Guiqing
name: Whittier, Susan
name: De Lencastre, Herminia
name: Tomasz, Alexander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Methicillin resistance
Staphylococcus aureus infections
Pathology
Epidemiology

description: A surveillance study in 1996 identified the USA100 clone (ST5/SCCmecII)–also known as the “New York/Japan” clone—as the most prevalent MRSA causing infections in 12 New York City hospitals. Here we update the epidemiology of MRSA in seven of the same hospitals eighteen years later in 2013/14. Most of the current MRSA isolates (78 of 121) belonged to the MRSA clone USA300 (CC8/SCCmecIV) but the USA100 clone–dominant in the 1996 survey–still remained the second most frequent MRSA (25 of the 121 isolates) causing 32% of blood stream infections. The USA300 clone was most common in skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and was associated with 84.5% of SSTIs compared to 5% caused by the USA100 clone. Our data indicate that by 2013/14, the USA300 clone replaced the New York/Japan clone as the most frequent cause of MRSA infections in hospitals in Metropolitan New York. In parallel with this shift in the clonal type of MRSA, there was also a striking change in the types of MRSA infections from 1996 to 2014.
Quality Improvement for Cardiovascular Disease Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Lee, Edward S.
name: Vedanthan, Rajesh
name: Jeemon, Panniyammakal
name: Kamano, Jemima H.
name: Kudesia, Preeti
name: Rajan, Vikram
name: Engelgau, Michael
name: Moran, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Treatment
Medical care
Health services administration
Medical sciences

description: Background

The majority of global cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden falls on people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In order to reduce preventable CVD mortality and morbidity, LMIC health systems and health care providers need to improve the delivery and quality of CVD care.

Objectives

As part of the Disease Control Priorities Three (DCP3) Study efforts addressing quality improvement, we reviewed and summarized currently available evidence on interventions to improve quality of clinic-based CVD prevention and management in LMICs.

Methods

We conducted a narrative review of published comparative clinical trials that evaluated efficacy or effectiveness of clinic-based CVD prevention and management quality improvement interventions in LMICs. Conditions selected a priori included hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, stroke, rheumatic heart disease, and congestive heart failure. MEDLINE and EMBASE electronic databases were systematically searched. Studies were categorized as occurring at the system or patient/provider level and as treating the acute or chronic phase of CVD.

Results

From 847 articles identified in the electronic search, 49 met full inclusion criteria and were selected for review. Selected studies were performed in 19 different LMICs. There were 10 studies of system level quality improvement interventions, 38 studies of patient/provider interventions, and one study that fit both criteria. At the patient/provider level, regardless of the specific intervention, intensified, team-based care generally led to improved medication adherence and hypertension control. At the system level, studies provided evidence that introduction of universal health insurance coverage improved hypertension and diabetes control. Studies of system and patient/provider level acute coronary syndrome quality improvement interventions yielded inconclusive results. The duration of most studies was less than 12 months.

Conclusions

The results of this review suggest that CVD care quality improvement can be successfully implemented in LMICs. Most studies focused on chronic CVD conditions; more acute CVD care quality improvement studies are needed. Longer term interventions and follow-up will be needed in order to assess the sustainability of quality improvement efforts in LMICs.
Interpersonal Trust in OSS: Exploring Dimensions of Trust in GitHub Pull Requests
Creators: name: Sajadi, Amirali
name: Damevski, Kostadin
name: Chatterjee, Preetha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interpersonal trust plays a crucial role in facilitating collaborative tasks, such as software development. While previous research recognizes the significance of trust in an organizational setting, there is a lack of understanding in how trust is exhibited in OSS distributed teams, where there is an absence of direct, in-person communications. To foster trust and collaboration in OSS teams, we need to understand what trust is and how it is exhibited in written developer communications (e.g., pull requests, chats). In this paper, we first investigate various dimensions of trust to identify the ways trusting behavior can be observed in OSS. Next, we sample a set of 100 GitHub pull requests from Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects, to analyze and demonstrate how each dimension of trust can be exhibited. Our findings provide preliminary insights into cues that might be helpful to automatically assess team dynamics and establish interpersonal trust in OSS teams, leading to successful and sustainable OSS.
Clinical Pathology Reference Intervals for an In-Water Population of Juvenile Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in Core Sound, North Carolina, USA
Creators: name: Kelly, Terra R.
name: Braun McNeill, Joanne
name: Avens, Larisa
name: Goodman Hall, April
name: Goshe, Lisa R.
name: Hohn, Aleta A.
name: Godfrey, Matthew H.
name: Cluse, Wendy M.
name: Harms, Craig A.
name: Mihnovets, Alicia Nicole
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management
subject: Veterinary clinical pathology
subject: Loggerhead turtle
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Conservation biology
subject: Wildlife conservation

description: The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is found throughout the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It is a protected species throughout much of its range due to threats such as habitat loss, fisheries interactions, hatchling predation, and marine debris. Loggerheads that occur in the southeastern U.S. are listed as “threatened” on the U.S. Endangered Species List, and receive state and federal protection. As part of an on-going population assessment conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service, samples were collected from juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in Core Sound, North Carolina, between 2004 and 2007 to gain insight on the baseline health of the threatened Northwest Atlantic Ocean population. The aims of the current study were to establish hematologic and biochemical reference intervals for this population, and to assess variation of the hematologic and plasma biochemical analytes by season, water temperature, and sex and size of the turtles. Reference intervals for the clinical pathology parameters were estimated following Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines. Season, water temperature, sex, and size of the turtles were found to be significant factors of variation for parameter values. Seasonal variation could be attributed to physiological effects of decreasing photoperiod, cooler water temperature, and migration during the fall months. Packed cell volume, total protein, and albumin increased with increasing size of the turtles. The size-related differences in analytes documented in the present study are consistent with other reports of variation in clinical pathology parameters by size and age in sea turtles. As a component of a health assessment of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in North Carolina, this study will serve as a baseline aiding in evaluation of trends for this population and as a diagnostic tool for assessing the health and prognosis for loggerhead sea turtles undergoing rehabilitation.
"MD5.tar" of "Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2019

description: The MadGraph5_aMC@NLO configuration used to generate signal events
description: A search for a narrow resonance with a mass between 350 and 700 GeV, and decaying into a pair of jets, is performed using proton-proton collision events containing at least three jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $18.3 ~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ recorded at $\sqrt{s}=13~\mathrm{TeV}$ with the CMS detector. Data are collected with a technique known as "data scouting", in which the events are reconstructed, selected, and recorded at a high rate in a compact form by the high-level trigger. The three-jet final state provides sensitivity to lower resonance masses than in previous searches using the data scouting technique. The spectrum of the dijet invariant mass, calculated from the two jets with the largest transverse momenta in the event, is used to search for a resonance. No significant excess over a smoothly falling background is found. Limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a narrow dijet resonance. The corresponding upper limits on the coupling of a narrow vector resonance interacting only with quarks are between 0.10 and 0.15, depending on the resonance mass.These results represent the most stringent upper limits in the mass range between 350 and 450 GeV obtained with a search that is sensitive to the decay of the resonance into light-flavor quarks.
Texture descriptor combining fractal dimension and artificial crawlers
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Wesley Nunes
name: Machado, Bruno Brandoli
name: Bruno, Odemir Martinez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Texture is an important visual attribute used to describe images. There are many methods available for texture analysis. However, they do not capture the details richness of the image surface. In this paper, we propose a new method to describe textures using the artificial crawler model. This model assumes that each agent can interact with the environment and each other. Since this swarm system alone does not achieve a good discrimination, we developed a new method to increase the discriminatory power of artificial crawlers, together with the fractal dimension theory. Here, we estimated the fractal dimension by the Bouligand-Minkowski method due to its precision in quantifying structural properties of images. We validate our method on two texture datasets and the experimental results reveal that our method leads to highly discriminative textural features. The results indicate that our method can be used in different texture applications.
description: 12 pages 9 figures. Paper in press: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Maternal Early Pregnancy Serum Metabolomics Profile and Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding as Predictors of Placental Abruption: A Prospective Study
Creators: name: Gelaye, Bizu
name: Sumner, Susan J.
name: McRitchie, Susan
name: Carlson, James E.
name: Ananth, Cande V.
name: Enquobahrie, Daniel A.
name: Qiu, Chunfang
name: Sorensen, Tanya K.
name: Williams, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pregnancy--Complications--Prevention
Metabolites
Placenta
Obstetrics
Gynecology

description: Background & Objective

Placental abruption, an ischemic placental disorder, complicates about 1 in 100 pregnancies, and is an important cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Metabolomics holds promise for improving the phenotyping, prediction and understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms of complex clinical disorders including abruption. We sought to evaluate maternal early pregnancy pre-diagnostic serum metabolic profiles and abnormal vaginal bleeding as predictors of abruption later in pregnancy.

Methods

Maternal serum was collected in early pregnancy (mean 16 weeks, range 15 to 22 weeks) from 51 abruption cases and 51 controls. Quantitative targeted metabolic profiles of serum were acquired using electrospray ionization liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (ESI-LC-MS/MS) and the Absolute IDQ® p180 kit. Maternal sociodemographic characteristics and reproductive history were abstracted from medical records. Stepwise logistic regression models were developed to evaluate the extent to which metabolites aid in the prediction of abruption. We evaluated the predictive performance of the set of selected metabolites using a receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis and area under the curve (AUC).

Results

Early pregnancy vaginal bleeding, dodecanoylcarnitine/dodecenoylcarnitine (C12 / C12:1), and phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C 38:1 (PC ae C38:1) strongly predict abruption risk. The AUC for these metabolites alone was 0.68, for early pregnancy vaginal bleeding alone was 0.65, and combined the AUC improved to 0.75 with the addition of quantitative metabolite data (P = 0.003).

Conclusion

Metabolomic profiles of early pregnancy maternal serum samples in addition to the clinical symptom, vaginal bleeding, may serve as important markers for the prediction of abruption. Larger studies are necessary to corroborate and validate these findings in other cohorts.
Influence of Jail Incarceration and Homelessness Patterns on Engagement in HIV Care and HIV Viral Suppression among New York City Adults Living with HIV/AIDS
Creators: name: Lim, Sungwoo
name: Nash, Denis
name: Hollod, Laura
name: Harris, Tiffany G.
name: Lennon, Mary Clare
name: Thorpe, Lorna E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Homelessness
subject: Imprisonment
subject: HIV infections--Epidemiology
subject: HIV-positive persons--Medical care
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Public health
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Objectives
Both homelessness and incarceration are associated with housing instability, which in turn can disrupt continuity of HIV medical care. Yet, their impacts have not been systematically assessed among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
Methods
We studied a retrospective cohort of 1,698 New York City PLWHA with both jail incarceration and homelessness during 2001–05 to evaluate whether frequent transitions between jail incarceration and homelessness were associated with a lower likelihood of continuity of HIV care during a subsequent one-year follow-up period. Using matched jail, single-adult homeless shelter, and HIV registry data, we performed sequence analysis to identify trajectories of these events and assessed their influence on engagement in HIV care and HIV viral suppression via marginal structural modeling.
Results
Sequence analysis identified four trajectories; 72% of the cohort had sporadic experiences of both brief incarceration and homelessness, whereas others experienced more consistent incarceration or homelessness during early or late months. Trajectories were not associated with differential engagement in HIV care during follow-up. However, compared with PLWHA experiencing early bouts of homelessness and later minimal incarceration/homelessness events, we observed a lower prevalence of viral suppression among PLWHA with two other trajectories: those with sporadic, brief occurrences of incarceration/homelessness (0.67, 95% CI = 0.50,0.90) and those with extensive incarceration experiences (0.62, 95% CI = 0.43,0.88).
Conclusions
Housing instability due to frequent jail incarceration and homelessness or extensive incarceration may exert negative influences on viral suppression. Policies and services that support housing stability should be strengthened among incarcerated and sheltered PLWHA to reduce risk of adverse health conditions.