cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cissidium dividuum Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium dividuum

description: Cissidium dividuum sp. nov.
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Fig. 91
Etymology
Johnson ms name, derivation not clear.
Material examined
Holotype PANAMA • ♀; Chiriqui Prov., Castita Alta, Finca Larida nr Boquete; 18 Mar. 1959; 6900 ft a.s.l.; berlese (543), cont. floor debris in deep ravine; H.S. Dybas leg.; FM(HD) #59.261; FMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 91A), length 0.72 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, shining, pubescence, antennae and legs paler, head darker.
HEAD. With a linear depression behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.19 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.32 mm, III–IX length 0.17 mm, X–XI length 0.15 mm; mentum and prementum obscured.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.20 mm, width 0.28 mm, pubescent, shallowly foveolate in basal half; lateral margins sharply angled and strongly bordered, the borders with prominent rounded angles at the anterior corners and running a short distance along the posterior margin, hind angles markedly acute, posterior margin with an emargination opposite the scutellum (Fig. 91B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.47 mm, width 0.41 mm, pubescent, setae same length as pronotum, without foveolae.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar without a medial extension; mid-keel narrow, posterior corners clearly joining mesocoxal anterior margins, sharply raised at junction with keel, with ± two setae; keel with ± four setae, parallel-sided to bluntly pointed termination below the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins almost obliterated, without serrations; humeri toothed (Fig. 91C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.17 mm sparsely pubescent, with shallow medial depression, disc simple, width across spines 0.11 mm, posterior margins of mesocoxal borders without serrations.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
One of the three Brazilian species in this group. Only likely to be confused with C. cryptophagoides sp. nov. if the mesoventral characters are studied, but unlike that species the pronotal lateral borders are concave and the hind angles sharply acute.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
title: Channel Response to Flow Augmentation: Diamond Fork River, UT
Creators: name: Wagner, Diane E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00h6set76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: A river’s physical features and channel dimensions are determined by the water and sediment supplied to it. The Diamond Fork River, located in central Utah—received large trans-basin diversion flows from 1915-2003, providing an exceptional opportunity to explore the response of a river to a large increase in flow.

Our project goals were to describe 1) channel response to this large and long artificial flow augmentation and 2) how the channel recovered after the removal of the diversion flows. The objective of this thesis is to document the channel condition throughout the 20th century to present day as a basis for describing the impact of flow augmentation on channel change and for guiding future river management.

This work builds on the findings of (Jones, 2018) by adding resolution to the 20th century changes with additional historic air photos. We also add information on historic river channel elevation by studying locations that the river abandoned in the 20th century. We find the extent and nature of channel adjustment depends on whether the valley is narrow or wide. Floods larger than the diversion flows produced channel change followed by a recovery period that allowed the channel to narrow. After diversion flows were removed from the river in 2004, the river channel continues to narrow, form meander bends, and riverbank vegetation has begun to hold the channel in place.
Automated Construction of Bounded-Loss Imperfect-Recall Abstractions in Extensive-Form Games
Creators: name: Cermak, Jiri
name: Lisy, Viliam
name: Bosansky, Branislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Extensive-form games (EFGs) model finite sequential interactions between players. The amount of memory required to represent these games is the main bottleneck of algorithms for computing optimal strategies and the size of these strategies is often impractical for real-world applications. A common approach to tackle the memory bottleneck is to use information abstraction that removes parts of information available to players thus reducing the number of decision points in the game. However, existing information-abstraction techniques are either specific for a particular domain, they do not provide any quality guarantees, or they are applicable to very small subclasses of EFGs. We present domain-independent abstraction methods for creating imperfect recall abstractions in extensive-form games that allow computing strategies that are (near) optimal in the original game. To this end, we introduce two novel algorithms, FPIRA and CFR+IRA, based on fictitious play and counterfactual regret minimization. These algorithms can start with an arbitrary domain specific, or the coarsest possible, abstraction of the original game. The algorithms iteratively detect the missing information they require for computing a strategy for the abstract game that is (near) optimal in the original game. This information is then included back into the abstract game. Moreover, our algorithms are able to exploit imperfect-recall abstractions that allow players to forget even history of their own actions. However, the algorithms require traversing the complete unabstracted game tree. We experimentally show that our algorithms can closely approximate Nash equilibrium of large games using abstraction with as little as 0.9% of information sets of the original game. Moreover, the results suggest that memory savings increase with the increasing size of the original games.
Cissidium dybasi Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium dybasi

description: Cissidium dybasi sp. nov.
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Fig. 92
Etymology
Named after the late Henry Dybas who did so much to further our knowledge of the Ptiliidae through his work at the Field Museum, Chicago, and who was very encouraging to the present author.
Material examined
Holotype BRAZIL • ♂; Santa Catarinay, Chapesonisho; Jan. 1958; F. Plaumann leg.; H.F. Dybas #58-36; FMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 92A), length 0.66 mm.
COLOUR. Dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a clearly marked foveate depression between the eyes, width across eyes 0.18 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.36 mm; mentum and prementum obscured.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.20 mm, width 0.28 mm, shallowly foveolate in basal half, pubescent; lateral margins rounded, then concave to acute hind angles, bordered, border not extending onto the posterior margin which has a sinuous emargination opposite the scutellum (Fig. 92B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.41 mm, width 0.34 mm, pubescent, setae same length as pronotum, without foveolae.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar broad; mid-keel lateral margins widening anteriorly before joining collar and defining two large foveae, posterior corners not joining mesocoxal anterior borders, medially with a short, broad, posteriorly rounded, setose termination before the keel, the setae arising from well-marked elongate sculpture; keel tapering to blunt termination between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins acutely angled, without serrations; humeri bluntly toothed with strongly sloping posterior margins (Fig. 92C).
METAVENTRITE. Sparsely pubescent, with shallow medial depression; posterior margins of mesocoxal borders not serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 Fa–b. Females not known.
Remarks
One of the five Brazilian species in this group. Separable by the slightly acute angles of the mesoventrite lateral sides and the sharply sloping posterior borders of the humeri.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 146-147, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Bach Flow on Homogeneous Products
Creators: name: Helliwell, Dylan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 53C44, Secondary: 53C30, 34C40

description: Qualitative behavior of Bach flow is established on compact four-dimensional locally homogeneous product manifolds. This is achieved by lifting to the homogeneous universal cover and, in most cases, capitalizing on the resultant group structure. The resulting system of ordinary differential equations is carefully analyzed on a case-by-case basis, with explicit solutions found in some cases. Limiting behavior of the metric and the curvature are determined in all cases. The behavior on quotients of $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{S}^3$ proves to be the most challenging and interesting.
Lexically guided phonetic retuning of foreign-accented speech and its generalization.
Creators: name: Reinisch, Eva
name: Holt, Lori
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Listeners use lexical knowledge to retune phoneme categories. When hearing an ambiguous sound between /s/ and /f/ in lexically unambiguous contexts such as gira[s/f], listeners learn to interpret the sound as /f/ because gira[f] is a real word and gira[s] is not. Later, they apply this learning even in lexically ambiguous contexts (perceiving knife rather than nice). Although such retuning could help listeners adapt to foreign-accented speech, research has focused on single phonetic contrasts artificially manipulated to create ambiguous sounds; however, accented speech varies along many dimensions. It is therefore unclear whether analogies to adaptation to accented speech are warranted. In the present studies, the to-be-adapted ambiguous sound was embedded in a global foreign accent. In addition, conditions of cross-speaker generalization were tested with focus on the extent to which perceptual similarity between 2 speakers' fricatives is a condition for generalization to occur. Results showed that listeners retune phoneme categories manipulated within the context of a global foreign accent, and that they generalize this short-term learning to the perception of phonemes from previously unheard speakers. However, generalization was observed only when exposure and test speakers' fricatives were sampled across a similar perceptual space. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
CONTACTLESS ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD FOR MONITORING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN CYLINDRICAL PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Gorkunov, B.
name: Lvov, S.
name: Borysenko, Y.
name: Saliba Abdel Nour
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2021
Subjects: absolute and compensatory monitoring methods
magnetic permeability
electrical conductivity
mechanical stresses
parametric electromagnetic transducer

description: The paper considers methods for contactless mechanical stresses monitoring for cylindrical ferromagnetic products, absolute by amplitude and phase and compensatory by current and frequency. It is shown that compensatory monitoring methods using a parametric transducer significantly increase the sensitivity and can be used as the basis for constructing measuring instruments for load, forces, torsional shaft torque and other mechanical quantities.
FEATURES OF APPLICATION OF THRESHOLD METHODS AT A STAGE OF PRELIMINARY PROCESSING OF GRAPHIC DATA
Creators: name: Nedashkivskyi, S.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2021
Subjects: threshold method
processing
segmentation
pixel
graphic data
image
algorithm
automation.

description: The article considers the peculiarities of the application of threshold methods at the stage of preliminary data processing. The concept of "computer vision" is defined and the directions of application of the latter are formed. It is noted that the constraint methods are divided into six groups based on the information controlled by the algorithm, in this work the main attention is paid to the threshold methods at the stage of pre-processing of graphic data as the main stage in the processing. It is emphasized that the threshold constraint is the simplest method of image segmentation. The stages of graphic data processing are shown and each of them is described. It is noted that a threshold constraint is the process of creating a black-and-white image from a grayscale image by setting those pixels to white that exceed the specified threshold, other pixels to black, and grayscale images with a threshold value can be used to create binaries. images. A number of threshold methods used at the stage of pre-processing of graphic data are determined: the method of global threshold processing, the method of local threshold processing and the adaptive method of threshold processing. Each of the methods is described in detail and illustrated. The method of global threshold processing is based on the analysis of the image histogram. It is emphasized that the essence of global threshold processing is to divide the histogram of the image into two parts using a single global threshold. The method of local threshold processing is a logical continuation of the global threshold processing and is used mainly when the histogram is not amenable to separation within the application of the method of global threshold processing. It is emphasized that the adaptive algorithm of threshold processing is based on the idea of comparing the brightness levels of a pixel with the values of local averages calculated directly in its environment, ie in neighbors. The mathematical aspect of the methods implementation is given, their strengths and weaknesses are separated.
PRELIMINARY ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE FLOW VELOCITY IMPACT TO THE USAGE OF THE FILTERING APERTURES
Creators: name: Troshchiev Yu.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2021
Subjects: filtration
sedimentation.

description: Sedimentation changes processes of filtration in the membrane filters. There is a mathematical model that includes both filtration and sedimentation. The article represents some analytical formulas that are useful for the further investigation.
Tutte chromatic identities from the Temperley-Lieb algebra
Creators: name: Fendley, Paul
name: Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper introduces a conceptual framework, in the context of quantum topology and the algebras underlying it, for analyzing relations obeyed by the chromatic polynomial χ(Q) of planar graphs. Using it we give new proofs and substantially extend a number of classical results concerning the combinatorics of the chromatic polynomial. In particular, we show that Tutte's golden identity is a consequence of level-rank duality for SO(N) topological quantum field theories and Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebras. This identity is a remarkable feature of the chromatic polynomial relating χ({ϕ+2}) for any triangulation of the sphere to (χ({ϕ+1}))^2 for the same graph, where ϕdenotes the golden ratio. The new viewpoint presented here explains that Tutte's identity is special to these values of the parameter Q. A natural context for analyzing such properties of the chromatic polynomial is provided by the {\em chromatic algebra}, whose Markov trace is the chromatic polynomial of an associated graph. We use it to show that another identity of Tutte's for the chromatic polynomial at Q=ϕ+1 arises from a Jones-Wenzl projector in the Temperley-Lieb algebra. We generalize this identity to each value Q= 2+2\cos(2πj/(n+1)) for j< n positive integers. When j=1, these Q are the Beraha numbers, where the existence of such identities was conjectured by Tutte. We present a recursive formula for this sequence of chromatic polynomial relations.
description: 25 pages. v3: added section on level-rank duality
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF LABOR PROTECTION PROBLEMS OF TRAUTORISTMACHINISTS IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Shirokov Yu.
name: Tikhnenko, V.
name: Ivakina, E.
name: Imamzadeh, A.I.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2021
Subjects: agriculture
tractor driver
labor protection
occupational diseases
accidentsd.

description: The article shows the directions of improving the labor protection system of tractor drivers in agriculture and minimizing the risks of their occupational diseases and accidents. The methodological basis of the work is the study and generalization of research materials on the presence of harmful production factors at the workplaces of tractor drivers-agricultural machinists and their impact on health. In conclusion, recommendations are made to improve the organization and increase the efficiency of periodic medical examinations of tractor drivers, including: the labor protection services of agricultural enterprises require medical institutions to study in advance and timely identify early signs of occupational pathology, taking into account actual risk factors, actively introduce telemedicine technologies that can "bring" a highly qualified doctor closer to rural workers, switch to remote medical monitoring of the health of workers. to receive timely primary information about changes in the state of health and conduct periodic medical examinations already on the basis of primary data on changes in the state of health of employees, deepening already targeted studies for making a decision on diagnosis and preventive measures, etc. This will allow organizing timely anrational employment of employees with signs of the initial stage of diseases, in workplaces that exclude the risks of developing the disease.
Brief von Eduard Gans an Joel Abraham List an Unterrichtsanstalt des Vereins für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden, 17.10.1821
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1821
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Festsetzung eines Examens vor dem neuen Semester
MPEC 2024-E160 : 2024 EK3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EK3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Twist-minimal trace formulas and the Selberg eigenvalue conjecture
Creators: name: Booker, Andrew R.
name: Lee, Min
name: Strömbergsson, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive a fully explicit version of the Selberg trace formula for twist-minimal Maass forms of weight 0 and arbitrary conductor and nebentypus character, and apply it to prove two theorems. First, conditional on Artin's conjecture, we classify the even 2-dimensional Artin representations of small conductor; in particular, we show that the even icosahedral representation of smallest conductor is the one found by Doud and Moore, of conductor 1951. Second, we verify the Selberg eigenvalue conjecture for groups of small level, improving on a result of Huxley from 1985.
description: 64 pages, to appear in JLMS
When Your Software’s “Check Engine” Light Is On: Identifying Design Problems that Impact Software Failure.
Creators: name: Hwang, Judy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Software Engineering

description: In the fast-moving world of Agile and DevOps, neglecting fundamental maintenance activities will likely hinder  delivery of value in the long run. Although the cost of system maintenance represents a large proportion of the budget of most organizations that use software systems, insufficient maintenance may lead to various problems, including: a reduction in software quality as errors are inadvertently introduced during the development process the inability to deliver customer value if a repair or enhancement cannot be delivered on time
Insufficient maintenance can cause a software system’s code and its underlying design to decay over time. This decay can make system maintenance cumbersome or render a system that cannot adapt to new business needs.  Fortunately, there are proven approaches to identify and understand design problems and improve software performance. Just as even the most reliable car needs a routine oil change and tune-up to keep running efficiently, software development processes, design, and architecture should be routinely revisited and optimized to remain effective. The “squeaky parts” that we are looking to detect are design problems that may potentially decrease performance or hinder maintenance. This blog post summarizes an effective roadmap for detecting design problems that can be used to improve software development and performance.
Flux-dominated solar dynamo model with a thin shear layer
Creators: name: Guerrero, G. A.
name: Pino, E. M. de G. Dal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux-dominated solar dynamo models have demonstrated to reproduce the main features of the large scale solar magnetic cycle, however the use of a solar like differential rotation profile implies in the the formation of strong toroidal magnetic fields at high latitudes where they are not observed. In this work, we invoke the hypothesis of a thin-width tachocline in order to confine the high-latitude toroidal magnetic fields to a small area below the overshoot layer, thus avoiding its influence on a Babcock-Leighton type dynamo process. Our results favor a dynamo operating inside the convection zone with a tachocline that essentially works as a storage region when it coincides with the overshoot layer.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
title: When Your Software’s “Check Engine” Light Is On: Identifying Design Problems that Impact Software Failure
Creators: name: Hwang, Judy
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01xqjjn94
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: This blog post  by Judy Hwang, a senior software engineer at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute CERT Division, summarizes an effective roadmap for detecting design problems that can be used to improve software development and performance.
PERSONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH ACNE
Creators: name: Tlish, M.
name: Kuznetsova, T.
name: Naatyzh Zh.
name: Usikova, A.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2021
Subjects: acne
self-attitude questionnaire
teenagers.

description: Today, acne is one of the most common dermatological diseases, which mainly affects people of adolescent and adolescent age [1]. Clinical manifestations of this dermatosis violate the self-perception, intimate-personal and professional spheres of the patient's life, have a negative impact on the socio-psychological adaptation of the individual as a whole, and therefore determine the quality of life of a teenager [2].
Keller-Osserman estimates for some quasilinear elliptic systems
Creators: name: Bidaut-Véron, Marie-Françoise
name: Garcia-Huidobro, Marta
name: Yarur, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we study quasilinear multipower systems of two equations of two types, in a domain $Ω$ of R^{N} : with absorption terms, or mixed terms. Despite of the lack of comparison principle, we prove a priori estimates of Keller-Osserman type. Concerning the mixed system, we show that one of the solutions always satisfies Harnack inequality. In the case $Ω$=B(0,1)\{0}, we also study the behaviour near 0 of the solutions of more general weighted systems, giving a priori estimates and removability results. Finally we prove the sharpness of the results.
The collection of letters addressed to D.F.L. von Schlechtendal in the University herbarium in Halle (Saale), Germany (HAL)
Creators: name: Tkach, Natalia
name: Röser, Martin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570

description: D.F.L. von Schlechtendal (1794–1866) was one of the most important botanists of the 19th century. From 1833 to 1866 he was professor of botany at the University Halle-Wittenberg, where his collection of some 70 000 plant specimens is kept. Schlechtendal described more than 1600 new taxa, including 78 genera, mostly from the New World. Schlechtendal’s dense network of scientific contacts is documented by his correspondence, comprising some 5600 letters he received from about 500 persons, including many famous contemporary botanists, natural scientists, travelers and plant collectors. The letters mostly refer to publications and scientific questions concerning the journals ,Linnaea’ and ,Botanische Zeitung’ edited by Schlechtendal. In particular, the letters of scientists dealing with African, Central and South American, and Australian plants are an important source of taxonomic information. The letters are mostly written in the old German Kurrent script, the ink is fading and the paper is disintegrating. We therefore have started to transliterate all letters (54 % completed), index and digitize them and make them available online. Here we explain their importance, highlighting letters dealing with the plants from Humboldt’s and Bonpland’s travels and from the correspondence with R.A. Philippi
Left ventricular assist device-associated driveline infections as a specific form of complicated skin and soft tissue infection/acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection : issues and therapeutic options
Creators: name: Eckmann, Christian
name: Sunderkötter, Cord
name: Becker, Karsten
name: Grabein, Beatrice
name: Hagel, Stefan
name: Hanses, Frank
name: Wichmann, Dominic
name: Thalhammer, Florian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Purpose of review : This review comments on the current guidelines for the treatment of wound infections under definition of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). However, wound infections around a catheter, such as driveline infections of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) are not specifically listed under this definition in any of the existing guidelines. Recent findings : Definitions and classification of LVAD infections may vary across countries, and the existing guidelines and recommendations may not be equally interpreted among physicians, making it unclear if these infections can be considered as ABSSSI. Consequently, the use of certain antibiotics that are approved for ABSSSI may be considered as ‘off-label’ for LVAD infections, leading to rejection of reimbursement applications in some countries, affecting treatment strategies, and hence, patients’ outcomes. However, we believe driveline exit site infections related to LVAD can be included within the ABSSSI definition. Summary : We argue that driveline infections meet the criteria for ABSSSI which would enlarge the ‘on-label’ antibiotic armamentarium for treating these severe infections, thereby improving the patients’ quality of life.
Management's Perspective on Critical Success Factors Affecting Mobile Learning in Higher Education Institutions - An Empirical Study
Creators: name: Alrasheedi, Muasaad
name: Capretz, Luiz Fernando
name: Raza, Arif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile learning (m-Learning) is considered to be one of the fastest growing learning platforms. The immense interest in m-Learning is attributed to the incredible rate of growth of mobile technology and its proliferation into every aspect of modern life. Despite this, m-Learning has not experienced a similar adoption rate in the education sector, chiefly higher education. Researchers have attempted to explain this anomaly by conducting several studies in the area. However, mostly the research in m-Learning is examined from the perspective of the students and educators. In this research, it is contended that there is a third important stakeholder group whose opinion is equally important in determining the success of m-Learning: the university management. Although diversified by nature, heads of departments, deans, and IT system administrators are nevertheless considered members of any university management. The results of the research show that university commitment to m-Learning, university learning practices, and change management practices were the factors critical to the success of m-Learning, from the university management perspective.
X-ray properties of an Unbiased Hard X-ray Detected Sample of AGN
Creators: name: Winter, Lisa M.
name: Mushotzky, Richard F.
name: Tueller, Jack
name: Markwardt, Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SWIFT gamma ray observatory's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) has detected a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) based solely on their hard X-ray flux (14-195 keV). In this paper, we present for the first time {\it XMM-Newton} X-ray spectra for 22 BAT AGNs with no previously analyzed X-ray spectra. If our sources are a representative sample of the BAT AGN, as we claim, our results present for the first time global X-ray properties of an unbiased towards absorption (n$_H < 3 \times 10^{25}$ cm$^{-2}$), local ($ = 0.03$), AGN sample. We find 9/22 low absorption (n$_H < 10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$), simple power law model sources, where 4 of these sources have a statistically significant soft component. Among these sources, we find the presence of a warm absorber statistically significant for only one Seyfert 1 source, contrasting with the ASCA results of \citet{rey97} and \citet{geo98}, who find signatures of warm absorption in half or more of their Seyfert 1 samples at similar redshifts. Additionally, the remaining sources (14/22) have more complex spectra, well-fit by an absorbed power law at $E > 2.0$ keV. Five of the complex sources are classified as Compton-thick candidates. Further, we find four more sources with properties consistent with the hidden/buried AGN reported by Ueda {\it et al.} (2007). Finally, we include a comparison of the {\it XMM-Newton} EPIC spectra with available SWIFT X-ray Telescope (XRT) observations. From these comparisons, we find 6/16 sources with varying column densities, 6/16 sources with varying power law indices, and 13/16 sources with varying fluxes, over periods of hours to months. Flux and power law index are correlated for objects where both parameters vary.
description: 39 pages, 16 figures, accepted to ApJ
Inflammation in hypervolemic hemodialysis patients : the roles of RelB and Caspase-4
Creators: name: Ulrich, Christof
name: Canim, Zeynep
name: Herberger, Eva
name: Girndt, Matthias
name: Fiedler, Roman
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Hypervolemia is associated with inflammation in hemodialysis (HD) patients. How hypervolemia triggers inflammation is not entirely known. We initiated a cross-sectional study enrolling 40 hemodialysis patients who were categorized into normovolemic (N; 23) and hypervolemic (H; 17) groups by bioimpedance measurement. A caspase activity assay in combination with a specific caspase-4 inhibitor was used to detect caspase-4 activity in isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Transcription factors RelA (pS529) and RelB (pS552) were analyzed by phospho-flow cytometry. Serum endotoxins were detected by an amebocyte lysate-based assay, and IL-6 (interleukin-6) and TNF-α (Tumor necrosis factor-α) gene expression were detected using the ELISA technique. Hypervolemic patients were older, more frequently had diabetes and showed increased CRP and IL-6 levels. Caspase-4 activity, which is linked to intracellular endotoxin detection, was significantly elevated in H patients. While the frequency of RelA-expressing immune cells and the expression density in these cells did not differ, the monocytic frequency of cells positively stained for RelB (pS552) was significantly decreased in H patients. Increased caspase-4 activity in H patients may indicate a cause of inflammation in H patients. The post-translational modification of RelB (pS552) is linked to downregulation of NF-kB activity and may indicate the resolution of inflammation, which is more distinct in N patients compared to H patients. Therefore, both higher inflammatory loads and lower inflammatory resolution capacities are characteristics of H patients.
Additional file 2 of Androgen-induced gut dysbiosis disrupts glucolipid metabolism and endocrinal functions in polycystic ovary syndrome
Creators: name: Han, Qixin
name: Wang, Juan
name: Li, Weiping
name: Chen, Zi-Jiang
name: Du, Yanzhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Microbial characteristics of DHEA-induced PCOS-like rats.
Cissidium ibicarense Darby 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium ibicarense

description: Cissidium ibicarense sp. nov.
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Figs 3F, 93
Etymology
Johnson ms name, after Ibicare, a municipality in Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil, where the insect was found.
Material examined
Holotype BRAZIL • ♀; Ibicare; 600 m a.s.l.; Sep. 1960; F. Plaumann leg.; FMNH.
Paratypes BRAZIL • 10 ex.; same collection data as for holotype; one mounted verso; FMNH, MMUE, BMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 93A), length 0.78 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, shining, pubescence and antennae slightly paler.
HEAD. With a depression behind the eyes composed of foveae of different shapes, interrupted medially (Fig. 3F), width across eyes 0.22 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.38 mm, III–IX length 0.24 mm,
X–XI length 0.14 mm; mentum and prementum as Fig. 4B, base of mentum with a row of differently shaped foveolae interrupted by a narrow transverse depression.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.23 mm, width 0.34 mm, pubescent, without foveae, shallowly foveolate; lateral margins strongly bordered and sharply angled, concavely rounded to base, borders not continuing along posterior margin, hind angles sharply acute, posterior margin with emargination opposite the scutellum (Fig. 93B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.54 mm, width 0.40 mm, pubescent, setae same length as pronotum, foveolate the foveolae more strongly marked in basal half.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with a median parallel-sided extension; mid-keel widest anteriorly, posterior corners effaced before reaching mesocoxal anterior borders, sharply raised at junction with keel with ± three setae from concave foveolae; keel tapering to pointed termination between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins rectangular without serrations; humeri toothed, posterior margins long and sinuous (Fig. 93C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.16 mm, setose, disc simple, width across spines 0.11 mm, spines long, sharply pointed; posterior margins of mesocoxae serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
One of the five Brazilian species in this group. Distinguished by the anterior angles of the mesoventral mid-keel which do not fuse with the collar.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 147-149, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282
Emetic risk classification and evaluation of the emetogenicity of antineoplastic agents : updated MASCC/ESMO consensus recommendation
Creators: name: Jordan, Karin
name: Chan, Alexandre
name: Gralla, Richard J.
name: Jahn, Franziska
name: Rapoport, Bernardo L.
name: Ruhlmann, Christina H.
name: Sayegh, Paula
name: Hesketh, Paul
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Purpose: Our goal was to identify new anticancer agents approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medical Agency (EMA) since the 2016 MASCC/ESMO antiemetic update and classify their emetic potential. Methods: The MASCC/ESMO Expert Panel classified the emetogenicity of the identified new antineoplastic agents based on nonsystematic reviews of randomized controlled trials, analysis of product labeling, and evaluation of emetic classification in other international guidelines and informal consensus. The emetogenic classification system for oral anticancer agents was revised into two emetic risk categories (minimal–low; moderate–high) to be consistent with the system reported by ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) in their 2017 guideline update. The previously employed four emetic risk classification categories for intravenously administered antineoplastic agents were retained for this update. Results: From June 2015 to January 2023, 107 new antineoplastic agents (44 intravenously administered and 63 orally administered agents) were identified. The reported incidence of vomiting varied significantly across studies for many agents, especially for oral anticancer agents. Conclusion: The MASCC/ESMO Expert Panel acknowledges the limitations of our efforts to classify the emetic potential of anticancer agents, especially the imprecision associated with oral agents. However, we have attempted to provide a reasonable approximation of the emetic risk associated with new antineoplastic agents by searching the available literature and reviewing other available international antiemetic guidelines.
Levels of Learning: A Comparison of Concept Formation and Language Acquisition
Creators: name: McDonald, Janet L
name: Macwhinney, Brian
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The Competition Model of Bates and MacWhinney explains how multiple cues may be acquired and used in assigning linguistic roles in natural language sentences. This paper extends the domain of this model to the nonlinguistic realm by examining the acquisition of categories in a concept learning task. As in the linguistic domain, classification in this particular concept learning task is determined by multiple probabilistic cues. On any particular instance, a cue may or may not be present. Moreover, if a cue is in conflict with another, stronger cue, it may not indicate the correct classification. Error rates and reaction times on this type of concept learning task show a two stage pattern of development. People first rely on cues that most often give the correct classification over all the instances seen. When errors persist, people adjust the strengths of the cues to reflect the relative strengths cues have in conflict situations. The results from this laboratory concept learning task mirror those found in the natural language domain, underscoring the generality of the learning mechanism postulated in the Competition Model
Aspects of nonmetricity in gravity theories
Creators: name: Sobreiro, R. F.
name: Otoya, V. J. Vasquez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we show that a class of metric-affine gravities can be reduced to a Riemann-Cartan one. The reduction is based on the cancelation of the nonmetricity against the symmetric components of the spin connection. A heuristic proof, in the Einstein-Cartan formalism, is performed in the special case of diagonal unitary tangent metric tensor. The result is that the nonmetric degrees of freedom decouple from the geometry. Thus, from the point of view of isometries on the tangent manifold, the equivalence might be viewed as an isometry transition from the affine group to the Lorentz group, $A(d,\mathbb{R})\longmapsto SO(d)$. Furthermore, in this transition, depending on the form of the starting action, the nonmetricity degrees might present a dynamical matter field character, with no geometric interpretation in the Riemann-Cartan geometry.
description: 7 pages. Final version to appear in Brazilian Journal of Physics
Entwurf von Statuten des Vereins für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden (Einheitstitel von Bearbeiter/in)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1821
Subjects: subject: 090

description: Vgl. ARC 4˚ 792/B11-1, ARC 4˚ 792/B11-19, ARC 4˚ 792/B11-28, ARC 4˚ 792/B11-29, ARC 4˚ 792/B12-3.
Autoeroticism as writing the self: explorations of sadomasochism in texts by Victorian women
Creators: name: Rohrborn, Samantha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: The protagonists in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” rely on autoeroticism as an act of writing the self because it allows them to become the object of desire and the subject who experiences desire. Autoeroticism gives them moments of autonomy in curating, and experiencing, their desires without influence from an external source. These protagonists use sadomasochism as a tool to have autoerotic experiences and establish moments of self-sufficiency, though their methods are different. In Villette, Lucy Snowe employs the performativity of sadomasochism to create moments of erotic release while The Mill on the Floss’s Maggie Tulliver exploits her understanding of Christian mortification to achieve the same results. Finally, the sisters Laura and Lizzie in the poem “Goblin Market” explore the physicality of sadomasochism, using their bodies to create autoerotic experiences.
Bayesian Estimation of Attribute and Identification Disclosure Risks in Synthetic Data
Creators: name: Hu, Jingchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The synthetic data approach to data confidentiality has been actively researched on, and for the past decade or so, a good number of high quality work on developing innovative synthesizers, creating appropriate utility measures and risk measures, among others, have been published. Comparing to a large volume of work on synthesizers development and utility measures creation, measuring risks has overall received less attention. This paper focuses on the detailed construction of some Bayesian methods proposed for estimating disclosure risks in synthetic data. In the processes of presenting attribute and identification disclosure risks evaluation methods, we highlight key steps, emphasize Bayesian thinking, illustrate with real application examples, and discuss challenges and future research directions. We hope to give the readers a comprehensive view of the Bayesian estimation procedures, enable synthetic data researchers and producers to use these procedures to evaluate disclosure risks, and encourage more researchers to work in this important growing field.
Key Reduction of McEliece's Cryptosystem Using List Decoding
Creators: name: Barbier, Morgan
name: Paulo, Barreto S. L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Different variants of the code-based McEliece cryptosystem were pro- posed to reduce the size of the public key. All these variants use very structured codes, which open the door to new attacks exploiting the underlying structure. In this paper, we show that the dyadic variant can be designed to resist all known attacks. In light of a new study on list decoding algorithms for binary Goppa codes, we explain how to increase the security level for given public keysizes. Using the state-of-the-art list decoding algorithm instead of unique decoding, we exhibit a keysize gain of about 4% for the standard McEliece cryptosystem and up to 21% for the adjusted dyadic variant.
Cissidium lisae Darby 2015
Creators: name: Darby, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptiliidae
Cissidium
Cissidium lisae

description: Cissidium lisae Darby, 2015
Figs 2F, 5F, 94
Material examined
Holotype BOLIVIA • ♀; Santa Cruz Dep., W Amboro NP, Siberia Pass env.; 17°50′12″ S, 64°42′08″ W; 2450 m a.s.l.; 28 Nov. 2013; sifting litter; Winkler app. extr.; P. Baňař leg.; UASC.
Paratypes BOLIVIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; MMBC • 1 ♀; Santa Cruz Dep., W of Amboro NP, Siberia Pass env., 17°50′25″ S, 64°41′58″ W; 2481 m a.s.l.; 2013; sifting litter; Winkler app. extr.; P. Baňař leg.; BMNH.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the type description of Darby (2015), by adding more details of the meso- and metaventral characters, in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 94A), length 0.80 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, antennae and legs dusky yellow.
HEAD. Width across eyes 0.22 mm; antennomeres 3–11 length 0.45 mm long (Fig. 2F); mentum as Fig. 4B.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.19 mm, width 0.28 mm, sparsely pubescent and foveolate; lateral margins sharply angled, strongly concave posteriad to rectangular hind angles, less markedly concave anteriorly to distinct obtusely rounded front angles (Fig. 94B).
ELYTRA. 0.55 mm long, 0.41 mm wide, pubescence a little shorter and more decumbent than on the pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Median process of the very narrow collar pointed; mid-keel strongly widened anteriorly, hind angles with carinae to mesocoxal anterior borders, bluntly raised medially before junction with keel; keel with ± five setae, parallel-sided to rounded termination at base of mesocoxae (Fig. 5F); humeri toothed with flat, sharply pointed carinae reaching posteriorly to mid-point of mesoventrite, mesoventral lateral margins entirely effaced, present as apodemes (Fig. 94C).
METAVENTRITE. Spines very small.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
Differs from the other Bolivian Cissidium, except C. sawadai Darby, 2015, by the long and narrow elytra and distinguishable from that species by the strongly tapering mid-keel.
description: Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, pp. 1-188 in European Journal of Taxonomy 622 on pages 149-150, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.622, http://zenodo.org/record/3777282