cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary data for: Circulating miRNAs detect high versus low visceral adipose tissue inflammation in patients living with obesity.
Creators: name: Makarenkov, Nataly
name: Haim, Yulia
name: Yoel, Uri
name: Pincu, Yair
name: Tarnovscki, Tanya
name: Liberty, Idit F.
name: Kukeev, Ivan
name: Baraf, Lior
name: Dukhno, Oleg
name: Zilber, Oleg
name: Blüher, Matthias
name: Rudich, Assaf
name: Veksler-Lublinsky, Isana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: Background: The severity of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) inflammation in individuals with obesity is thought to signify obesity sub-phenotype(s) associated with higher cardiometabolic risk. Yet, this tissue is not accessible for direct sampling in the non-surgical patient. We hypothesized that circulating miRNAs (circ-miRs) could serve as biomarkers to distinguish human obesity subgroups with high or low extent of VAT-inflammation. Methods: Discovery and validation cohorts of patients living with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery (n=35 and 51, respectively) were included. VAT inflammation was classified into low/high based on an expression score derived from the mRNA levels of TNFA, IL6 and CCL2 (determined by rtPCR). Differentially-expressed circ-miRs were identified, and their discriminative power to detect low/high VAT inflammation was assessed by ROC-AUC analysis. Results: Fifty three out of 263 circ-miRs (20%) were associated with high VAT inflammation according to Mann-Whitney analysis in the discovery cohort. Of those, 12 (12/53=23%) were differentially expressed according to Deseq2, and 6 significantly discriminated between high and low VAT inflammation with ROC-AUC>0.8. Of the resulting 5 circ-miRs that were differentially abundant in all three statistical approaches, 3 were unaffected by hemolysis and validated in an independent cohort. Circ-miRs 181b-5p, 1306-3p, and 3138 combined with HOMA-IR exhibited ROC-AUC of 0.951 (95%CI:0.865-1) and 0.808 (95%CI:0.654-0.963) in the discovery and validation cohorts, respectively, providing strong discriminative power between participants with low versus high VAT inflammation. Predicted target genes of these miRNAs are enriched in pathways of insulin and inflammatory signaling, circadian entrainment, and cellular senescence. Conclusions: Circ-miRs that identify patients with low versus high VAT inflammation constitute a putative tool to improve personalized care of patients with obesity.
Ignoring Puff Counts: Another Shortcoming of the Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Testing Programme
Creators: name: Kozlowski, L. T.
name: Whetzel, C. A.
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: O'Connor, R. J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Public health
Medical sciences

description: OBJECTIVES; To examine reasons behind the failure of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to preserve puff count information from standard cigarette testing and to elucidate the importance of puff count to overall tar yields.METHODS; We reviewed industry documents on origins of the FTC test and data sets provided by the Tobacco Institute Testing Laboratory to the tobacco industry and FTC for reporting purposes.RESULTS; The majority of the tobacco industry argued for "dual reporting" of tar yields-both per cigarette and per puff. Despite a request from the Tobacco Institute in 1967 that puff count information be preserved, documents and recent communications with the FTC indicate that puff number data have not been maintained by the government. In contrast, for the cigarette industry, puff count data are a fundamental and routine part of testing and important to cigarette design. A sample of puff counts for cigarettes tested in 1996 (n = 471) shows that on average 100 mm cigarettes have 18% more puffs taken on them than do 85 mm cigarettes in standard tests (7.66 vs 9.03; p<0.01). The 10th percentile puff count is 6.8 and the 90th percentile is 8.8 for king size; the 10th percentile puff count is 8.2 and the 90th percentile is 10.0 for 100 mm cigarettes, indicating that puff counts can vary substantially among brands.CONCLUSIONS; The FTC has failed to seek or preserve puff count information that the industry finds important. Any standard test of tar and nicotine yields should at minimum preserve puff count information.
title: Vorstellung der Schiffsrheder und des Handelsstandes der Stadt Bremen an die hohe National-Versammlung; [1848]
title: [Bremen, den 10. September 1848]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Patterns in random permutations avoiding the pattern 132
Creators: name: Janson, Svante
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 05A05, 60F05

description: We consider a random permutation drawn from the set of 132-avoiding permutations of length $n$ and show that the number of occurrences of another pattern $σ$ has a limit distribution, after scaling by $n^{λ(σ)/2}$ where $λ(σ)$ is the length of $σ$ plus the number of descents. The limit is not normal, and can be expressed as a functional of a Brownian excursion. Moments can be found by recursion.
description: 32 pages
Simulation of wireless dynamic source routing protocol with IP traffic flow analysis, memory efficiency and increased throughput
Creators: name: Vadhwani, Diya Naresh
name: Singh, Megha
name: Kulhare, Deepak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today in fast technology development in wireless mobile adhoc network there is vast scope for research. As it is known that wireless communication for mobile network has many application areas like routing services, security services etc. The mobile adhoc network is the wireless network for communication in which the mobile nodes are organized without any centralized administrator. There are many Manet routing protocols like reactive, proactive, hybrid etc. In this paper the reactive Manet routing protocol like DSR is simulated for traffic analysis for 50 mobile nodes for IP traffic flows. Also throughput is analyzed for DSR and ER-DSR protocol. And finally the memory utilized during simulation of DSR and ER-DSR is evaluated in order to compare both.
description: 5 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables
A High-performance Controller Design Using EULERINT Criterion
Creators: name: Abolfazl Roostaeiparidari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91302 Automation and Control Engineering

description: Abstract: In this paper, a high-performance modern controller for a spacecraft is designed. Moreover, its performance is compared with a proportional-derivative (PD) controller using EULERINT criterion that shows the total angle path traversed by a spacecraft during the attitude maneuver in space. It is known that, there are many types of modern controllers but in this research Pole placement and Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) are used to design the attitude control system since they give us key design parameters to achieve the best performance based on the specification of our spacecraft. Quaternion error terminology in spacecraft dynamics and attitude control modeling is applied since it has a better substantial response than the other terminologies even without changing the controller. Simulation results for large angles as attitude commands, utilizing linearized spacecraft dynamics, demonstrate a higher performance in the controller.
A Many-Atom Cavity QED System with Homogeneous Atom-Cavity Coupling
Creators: name: Lee, Jongmin
name: Vrijsen, Geert
name: Teper, Igor
name: Hosten, Onur
name: Kasevich, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a many-atom-cavity system with a high-finesse dual-wavelength standing wave cavity in which all participating rubidium atoms are nearly identically coupled to a 780-nm cavity mode. This homogeneous coupling is enforced by a one-dimensional optical lattice formed by the field of a 1560-nm cavity mode.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Trends in 20th Century United States Government Ethics
Creators: name: Cohen, Steven Alan
name: Eimicke, William B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Public administration
Public policy (Law)

description: This paper provides a broad overview of five perspectives on the public service ethics agenda, incorporating a current debate which may well emerge as the initial reform agenda of the new millennium. Perspectives explored include the politics/administration dichotomy, the New Public Administration's emphasis on individual responsibility in the context of strong organizational values and norms, the ethical risks of public entrepreneurship, and the recent emergence of spiritualism as a guide to public ethical decision-making. The authors conclude that we are entering a new era of public ethics where performance and morality will be accorded equal priority. They argue that public entrepreneurship is increasingly essential to meet the public's demands for government that works better and costs less. Most public officials will need on-the-job training and/or ethics courses in schools of public policy and administration to competently assess the ethical risks and dangers that a particular policy innovation may encompass.
title: Offenes Sendschreiben an den teutschen Reichsverweser; [1848]
title: Hanau, den 11. August 1848
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hertzog, Carl
name: Johann, Österreich, Erzherzog Österreich, Erzherzog
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
title: Muri come scaffali (aperti): un percorso di sensibilizzazione all'Open Access all'Università di Genova
title: Educare all'Open Access gli autori di domani: un progetto di advocacy
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Testoni, Laura
name: Michela, Fierro
name: Giorgia, Franchi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The presentation describes an advocacy project for Open access. Posters with QR codes were created to allow students to experience direct access to open access scientific ebooks
EVOLUCIÓN DE LA ENSEÑANZA DEL ÁLGEBRA A TRAVÉS DE LOS MANUALES ESCOLARES DE SECUNDARIA Y DEL PROFESORADO (1970 – 2013)
Creators: name: Cabrera Lozano, Rubén
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Aqúi pueden encontrar un TFM acerca de los manuales escolares desde 1950.
Becoming the Change: A Critical Evaluation of the Changing Face of Life Science, as Reflected in the NGSS
Creators: name: Bowman,, Larry L
name: Govett, Aimee L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tennessee is one of the 26 lead state partners that volunteered to provide leadership and guidance to states for the purpose of adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS. As stated in the Tennessee Vision for STEM Education (2009), "Tennessee recognizes the importance of science and aims to commit to this understanding by becoming involved in the development, and eventual adoption and implementation of NGSS." The present study correlates the Tennessee State Science Standards to the NGSS for High School Biology/ Life Sciences and examines the need for a dynamic set of standards that teach the technical skills and critical thinking needed in these scientific fields. The NGSS addresses a move from dated scientific quandaries and proposes standards supported by cutting edge scientific research and literature. Partnerships between scientists and educators allow for the information exchange necessary to implement the changes in scientific research in K-12 instruction. Professional development opportunities that include direct partnerships with scientists foster the continued understanding and skills required to teach science.
description: 35 pages (including 5 figures) followed by 19 pages of Guidemaps
Can the 62 day X-ray period of the Ultraluminous X-ray source M82 X-1 be due to a precessing accretion disk?
Creators: name: Pasham, Dheeraj R.
name: Strohmayer, Tod E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed all archival RXTE/PCA monitoring observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M82 X-1 in order to study the properties of its 62 day X-ray period (Kaaret & Feng 2007). Based on its high coherence it has been argued that the observed period is the orbital period of the binary. Utilizing a much longer data set than in previous studies we find: (1) The phase-resolved X-ray (3-15 keV) spectra -- modeled with a thermal accretion disk and a power-law -- suggest that the accretion disk's contribution to the total flux is strongly modulated with phase. (2) Suggestive evidence for a sudden phase shift--of approximately 0.4 in phase (25 days)-- between the first and the second halves of the light curve separated by roughly 1000 days. If confirmed, the implied timescale to change the period is ~ 10 yrs, which is exceptionally fast for an orbital phenomenon. These two independent pieces of evidence are consistent with the periodicity being due to a precessing accretion disk, similar to the super-orbital periods observed in systems like Her X-1, LMC X-4, and SS433. However, the timing evidence for a change in the period needs to be confirmed with additional observations. This should be possible with further monitoring of M82 with instruments such as the Swift X-ray telescope (XRT).
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
title: Understanding the data management needs for crowdsourcing New Zealand’s hazards
Creators: name: Harrison, Sara E.
name: Potter, Sally H.
name: Lawson, Rachel V.
name: Griffin, Angela G.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2022

description: There is an opportunity to use crowdsourcing and citizen science approaches to collect observations from the New Zealand public about geohazards and their impacts. Utilising crowdsourcing and citizen science to collect this hazard and impact information would lead to multiple benefits, including increasing public engagement in science and awareness of natural hazards, being able to rapidly collect and share information for response and scientific purposes, filling sensor gaps and building situational awareness. Implementing a crowdsourcing and citizen science project for these purposes requires developing an understanding of how best to collect, manage and share the data to ensure maximum usefulness to the various users. We conducted interviews, focus groups and guided discussions with 67 internal and external stakeholders in Aotearoa New Zealand to identify best practices for collecting, managing and sharing crowdsourced data for geohazards and their impacts. The individuals came from the fields of data science and management, hazard monitoring and research, citizen science, risk and impacts, volcano science, social science (specifically, public engagement and education and hazard and science advice communication), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and emergency and disaster response and management. Additionally, a public survey was distributed by GNS Science social scientists following the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcanic eruption on 15 January 2022 and the subsequent tsunami that impacted the New Zealand coastline to collect observations of tsunami activity and volcano ‘boom’ sounds. We used this event as a case study to identify the current process for collecting crowdsourced hazard reports and identify areas for improvement. We propose a GIS-based solution to efficiently collect crowdsourced geohazard observations. This solution allows for the reports to be rapidly collected and shared in geospatial formats that are compatible with the current systems in place with the various data users that we identified in this study. We also provide a plan for moving forward with this solution. (The authors)
To be or not to be intrusive? The solution of parametric and stochastic equations - the "plain vanilla" Galerkin case
Creators: name: Giraldi, Loïc
name: Litvinenko, Alexander
name: Liu, Dishi
name: Matthies, Hermann G.
name: Nouy, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M70, 65J15, 60H25, 65D30, 34B08, 35B30

description: In parametric equations - stochastic equations are a special case - one may want to approximate the solution such that it is easy to evaluate its dependence of the parameters. Interpolation in the parameters is an obvious possibility, in this context often labeled as a collocation method. In the frequent situation where one has a "solver" for the equation for a given parameter value - this may be a software component or a program - it is evident that this can independently solve for the parameter values to be interpolated. Such uncoupled methods which allow the use of the original solver are classed as "non-intrusive". By extension, all other methods which produce some kind of coupled system are often - in our view prematurely - classed as "intrusive". We show for simple Galerkin formulations of the parametric problem - which generally produce coupled systems - how one may compute the approximation in a non-intusive way.
Innovations in Online Education: What Works?
Creators: name: Linn, Marcia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education

description: Marcia C. Linn presents “Innovations in Online Education: What Works?” Marcia C. Linn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading researcher in the use of technology for teaching mathematics and science. Linn's talk on "Innovations in Online Education: What Works?", part of the Conversations on Online Learning series sponsored by the Office of the Provost and CCNMTL, led the audience in an exploration of how online methods and resources can support more effective face-to-face pedagogy.
The Role of Quantum Fluctuations in the Hexatic Phase of Cold Polar Molecules
Creators: name: Lechner, Wolfgang
name: Büchler, Hans-Peter
name: Zoller, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two dimensional crystals melt via an intermediate \textit{hexatic} phase which is characterized by an anomalous scaling of spatial and orientational correlation functions and the absence of an attraction between dislocations. We propose a protocol to study the role of quantum fluctuations on the nature of this phase with a system of strongly correlated polar molecules in a parameter regime where thermal and quantum fluctuations are of the same order of magnitude. The dislocations can be located in experiment from local energy differences which induce internal stark shifts in dislocation molecules. We present a criterium to identify the hexatic phase from the statistics of the end points of topological defect strings and find a hexatic phase, which is dominated by quantum fluctuations, between crystal and superfluid phase.
World Science U
Creators: name: Greene, Brian
name: Dreifus, Claudia
name: Matiz, A. Mauricio
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Science--Study and teaching

description: Brian Greene discusses his latest project, World Science U, with writer Claudia Dreifus. Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is widely recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory, including the co-discoveries of mirror symmetry and topology change. His first book for general audiences, The Elegant Universe, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has sold more than a million copies worldwide. His more recent books, The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Hidden Reality, were both New York Times bestsellers, and inspired the Washington Post to call him "the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today." Greene's latest project, World Science U, brings science education online with innovative digital courses available to anyone with an interest in science. Greene makes frequent media appearances on programs such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and David Letterman. He has hosted two NOVA specials, based on The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, which were nominated for four Emmy Awards and won a George Foster Peabody Award. Professor Greene is co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, and with producer Tracy Day, he is co-founder of the World Science Festival. Claudia Dreifus, a journalist and adjunct professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, is well known for her interviews in the New York Times with leading figures in world politics and science. Maurice Matiz, CCNMTL's acting executive director, moderates the discussion on World Science U, online learning, and the changing role of the university professor.
What’s Ahead for Power Plants and Industry? Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Building on Existing Regional Programs
Creators: name: Litz, Franz T.
name: Bianco, Nicholas M.
name: Gerrard, Michael
name: Wannier, Gregory E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Climatic changes
Greenhouse gases
Power-plants
Environmental law

description: Written jointly with the World Resources Institute, this report asserts that cap and trade regulations are legally defensible under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act, and details options for implementing potential cap and trade regimes through federal-state partnerships. It particularly examines the legal viability of certain existing flexibility mechanisms that enable states and regions to achieve carbon reductions in a more efficient manner than is possible through standard-based EPA regulations. Issues discussed include: how categories are defined and whether emissions could be netted across multiple infrastructure types; whether the Act allows offsets (credits for emission reductions achieved outside of the regulated category); whether regional programs allowing for international allowance trading could survive; whether allowances could be borrowed and/or banked across multiple compliance periods (a common mechanism in carbon markets today); and what degree of cost-containment mechanisms such as caps on carbon prices would be valid.
Conformal symmetry classes for pp-wave spacetimes
Creators: name: Keane, Aidan J
name: Tupper, Brian O J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine conformal symmetry classes for the pp-wave spacetimes. This refines the isometry classification scheme given by Sippel and Goenner (1986 {\it Gen. Rel. Grav.} {\bf 18} 1229). It is shown that every conformal Killing vector for the null fluid type $N$ pp-wave spacetimes is a conformal Ricci collineation. The maximum number of proper non-special conformal Killing vectors in a type $N$ pp-wave spacetime is shown to be three, and we determine the form of a particular set of type $N$ pp-wave spacetimes admitting such conformal Killing vectors. We determine the conformal symmetries of each type $N$ isometry class of Sippel and Goenner and present new isometry classes.
description: Equation (10) corrected. Table 2, Class Div, orbit dimension corrected
PLANNING TOOLS AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN REACHING ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS: A STUDY OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA
Creators: name: Nnenna, Ruth Okonkwo
name: Samuel, Chinedu Ijeoma
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Strategic, Planning, Organization, Objective, Achievement.

description: The study examined the relationship between planning and achievement of organizational goal. This correlational study was conducted as a cross-sectional survey. The population size of this study is one hundred (3,000) staff members of three (3) functional and service delivery government owned institutions in South-South, Nigeria. The study therefore shows that there is a significant relationship between effective planning and achievement of organizational objective. It was concluded that planning is necessary for the survival of an organization. This study however, recommends that organizations should accord priority to planning, set realistic goals, establishment of long term objective, this has to be measurable and specific, the development of strategic plans and its implementation, making adequate environmental analysis , suitable organizational structure and a host of other measures for effective strategic planning kin to organizations
Justifying Definitions in Mathematics---Going Beyond Lakatos
Creators: name: Werndl, Charlotte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper addresses the actual practice of justifying definitions in mathematics. First, I introduce the main account of this issue, namely Lakatos's proof-generated definitions. Based on a case study of definitions of randomness in ergodic theory, I identify three other common ways of justifying definitions: natural-world-justification, condition-justification and redundancy-justification. Also, I clarify the interrelationships between the different kinds of justification. Finally, I point out how Lakatos's ideas are limited: they fail to show that various kinds of justification can be found and can be reasonable, and they fail to acknowledge the interplay between the different kinds of justification.
Measurement of the dispersion of radiation from a steady cosmological source
Creators: name: Lieu, Richard
name: Duan, Lingze
name: Kibble, T. W. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The `missing baryons' of the near universe are believed to be principally in a partially ionized state. Although passing electromagnetic waves are dispersed by the plasma, the effect has hitherto not been utilized as a means of detection because it is generally believed that a successful observation requires the background source to be highly variable, \ie~the class of sources that could potentially deliver a verdict is limited. We argue in two stages that this condition is not necessary. First, by modeling the fluctuations on macroscopic scales as interference between wave packets we show that, in accordance with the ideas advanced by Einstein in 1917, both the behavior of photons as bosons (\ie~the intensity variance has contributions from Poisson and phase noise) and the van-Cittert-Zernike theorem are a consequence of wave-particle duality. Nevertheless, we then point out that in general the variance on some macroscopic timescale $τ$ consists of (a) a main contributing term $\propto 1/τ$, plus (b) a small negative term $\propto 1/τ^2$ due to the finite size of the wave packets. If the radiation passes through a dispersive medium, this size will be enlarged well beyond its vacuum minimum value of $Δt \approx 1/Δν$, leading to a more negative (b) term (while (a) remains unchanged) and hence a suppression of the variance w.r.t. the vacuum scenario. The phenomenon, which is typically at the few parts in 10$^5$ level, enables one to measure cosmological dispersion in principle. Signal-to-noise estimates, along with systematic issues and how to overcome them, will be presented.
description: 22 pages, 1 table, 1 appendix, ApJ in press
Function & data management of central pollution control board (CPCB), India
Creators: name: Hossain, Sajjad
Publisher: name: AAS Open Research
Year: 2020

description: Indian Central Pollution Control Board plays a very vital role to mitigate and control various environmental degradation. Earlier the organization only deals with the Air pollution but with phase of time and rapid urban growth the CPCB becomes multidimensional and it is one of the major governing body of pollution. In this poster the functions of CPCB as well as it's various other pollution related data has been covered sot hat, academician and researchers have an idea about how much or what kind of data and function CPCB plays which will help them in the particular field of interest.
Lung Cancer Risk in White and Black Americans
Creators: name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Chen, Yu
name: Muscat, Joshua E.
name: Djordjevic, Mirjana V.
name: Richie, John P.
name: Lazarus, Philip
name: Thompson, Seth
name: Altorki, Nasser
name: Berwick, Marianne
name: Citron, Marc L.
name: Harlap, Susan
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Kaur, Tajinder B.
name: Olson, Sara
name: Travaline, John M.
name: Witorsch, Philip
name: Zhang, Zuo-Feng
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Oncology
Public health
Epidemiology

description: PURPOSE; To test whether differences in smoking-related lung cancer risks in blacks and whites can explain why lung cancer incidence is greater in black males than in white males but about equal in black and white females, given that a greater proportion of blacks are smokers, but smoke far fewer cigarettes per day than do whites.
METHODS; A hospital-based case-control study was conducted between 1984 and 1998 that included interviews with 1,710 white male and 1,321 white female cases of histologically confirmed lung cancer, 254 black male and 163 black female cases, and 8,151 controls. Relative risks were estimated via odds ratios using logistic regression, adjusted for age, education, and body mass index.
RESULTS; We confirmed prior reports that smoking prevalence is higher but overall dosage is lower among blacks. Overall ORs were similar for blacks and whites, except among the heaviest smoking males (21+ cigarettes per day or 37.5 pack-years), in whom ORs for blacks were considerably greater than for whites. Long-term benefits of cessation were similar for white and black ex-smokers. Smokers of menthol flavored cigarettes were at no greater risk for lung cancer than were smokers of unflavored brands.
CONCLUSIONS; Lung cancer risks were similar for whites and blacks with similar smoking habits, except possibly for blacks who were very heavy smokers; this sub-group is unusual in the general population of African American smokers. Explanations of racial disparities in lung cancer risk may need to account for modifying factors including type of cigarette (yield, mentholation), diet, occupation, and host factors such as ability to metabolize mainstream smoke carcinogens.
Genetic counselling requirements for reproductive genetic carrier screening
Creators: name: Edwards, Samantha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medical Genetics
subject: Family Medicine
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: Counseling
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Carrier screening
subject: education
subject: Genetic counselling
subject: reproductive behaviour
subject: reproductive health

description: A scoping review of existing literature on the genetic counselling needs for reproductive genetic carrier screening. This scoping review will inform recommendations for genetic counselling considerations for implementing reproductive genetic carrier screening programs at population scale. This scoping review will also inform gaps in the current literature and areas for further research.
Symmetric periodic orbits and uniruled real Liouville domains
Creators: name: Frauenfelder, Urs
name: van Koert, Otto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A real Liouville domain is a Liouville domain together with an exact anti-symplectic involution. We call a real Liouville domain uniruled if there exists an invariant finite energy plane through every real point. Asymptotically an invariant finite energy plane converges to a symmetric periodic orbit. In this note we work out a criterion which guarantees uniruledness for real Liouville domains.
description: Corrected the definition of real uniruled Liouville domain
The power of cloth : the textile trade of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1600-1780
Creators: name: Ruurdje, Laarhoven
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1994

description: This study is concerned with the trade in textiles from India to Indonesia by the VOC (Dutch East India Company) from 1600 to 1780. A major objective was to establish the boundaries and dynamics of this trade and the impact it had on Indonesian textile production. I used the richness of the quantitative data in the account books of the Company to analyse trends, variations, and changing frequencies of more than two hundred types and varieties of textiles. In order to analyze the long term import and distribution trends it was necessary to classify and categorize the more than two hundred textiles into clusters. The clusters revealed the association and predominance of specific types within certain geographic locations. The peak of the overall import trend occurred during the second and third quarter of the 17th century after which a definite decrease in the volume of trade was revealed. The declining trend is explained in the thesis on three levels of generality. Firstly, the decline of the VOC as a trading institution. Secondly, the decline of the textile trade, Indian cloths being the second most important commodity the Company traded. And thirdly, the particular decline of clusters within the overall volume of the textile trade. The Indonesians produced large volumes of spices and other raw materials, and in exchange consumed hundreds of thousands of imported Indian textiles. The Indonesians could also produce their own cloth, but had coveted the foreign Indian cloths for their attractiveness and the affordable price. Monopolistic policies of the VOC on the production of spices, trade in Indian textiles and in other spheres of Indonesians' productive capacity elicited indigenous responses that incorporated the increased production of local cloths in imitation of the Indian cloths. The residual power of the Indonesian women to produce cloths and the political organi.iation to produce them in sufficient quantities and quality began to compete in the third quarter of the 17th century with the cloth the VOC imported from India. In that lies the foundation of import-substitution as the one key argument to explain the decline in the VOC cloth import trade, more specifically the chintz tapis (batik) produced, sold and exported from Java and the cloth production in southern Sulawesi and the lesser Sunda islands.
Time to First Cigarette after Waking Predicts Cotinine Levels
Creators: name: Muscat, Joshua E.
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Caraballo, Ralph S.
name: Richie, John P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Epidemiology

description: There is wide variability in cotinine levels per cigarette smoked. We hypothesized that in addition to smoking frequency, other behavioral measures of nicotine dependence, such as the time to first cigarette after waking, are associated with cotinine levels. To test this hypothesis, we measured plasma and urinary cotinine in a community-based study of 252 black and white daily cigarette smokers. Among one pack per day smokers, plasma cotinine levels varied from 16 to 1,180 ng/mL, a 74-fold difference. Two nicotine dependence phenotypes were discerned by time after waking. Subjects in the “low” dependent phenotype smoked > 30 minutes after waking and nearly all smoked ≤20 cigarettes per day. Cotinine levels increased linearly with cigarette consumption in this group. Subjects in the “high” dependent phenotype smoked ≤30 minutes after waking but had a wide range in the frequency of daily cigarettes (6-70). Compared with the low dependent phenotype, there were relatively small differences in cotinine by cigarette frequency with evidence of a plateau effect in heavy smokers (∼30). After adjusting for cigarette frequency, the levels of cotinine by time to first cigarette were as follows: ≤5 minutes, 437 [95% confidence limits (CL), 380-494]; 6 to 30 minutes, 352 (95% CL, 291-413), 31 to 60 minutes, 229 (95% CL, 140-317), and > 60 minutes, 215 (95% CL, 110-321). Similar findings were observed for urinary cotinine. These findings suggest that the time to first cigarette is a strong predictor of nicotine uptake and should be considered in the design of smoking interventions. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(12):3415–20)
Opportunities for and Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York City
Creators: name: Saba, Alexis
name: Howard, Bianca Nichole
name: Gerrard, Michael
name: Modi, Vijay
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cogeneration of electric power and heat
subject: Environmental law
subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Climatic changes

description: Combined heat and power (CHP or cogeneration) is the simultaneous production of electricity and thermal energy from a single fuel source.  In many ways, New York City is a hospitable environment for CHP development. Nonetheless, there are also many characteristics of New York that make it a difficult place to advance CHP. The utility infrastructure is dense and complex--and largely underneath a dense and complex built environment. This paper first seeks to quantify the potential for CHP development in New York City and describe the primary hurdles to optimal deployment in Parts I and II. Part III provides policy solutions for overcoming these hurdles and recommendations for how stakeholders can use information and analysis to maximize the opportunities for CHP.
Triggering Deep Convection with a Probabilistic Plume Model
Creators: name: D'Andrea, Fabio
name: Gentine, Pierre
name: Betts, Alan K.
name: Lintner, Benjamin R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Atmosphere
Environmental sciences

description: A model unifying the representation of the planetary boundary layer and dry, shallow and deep convection, the Probabilistic Plume Model (PPM), is presented. Its capacity to reproduce the triggering of deep convection over land is analysed in detail. The model accurately reproduces the timing of shallow convection and of deep convection onset over land, which is a major issue in many current general climate models.

The PPM is based on a distribution of plumes with varying thermodynamic states (potential temperature and specific humidity) induced by surface layer turbulence. Precipitation is computed by a simple ice microphysics, and with the onset of precipitation, downdrafts are initiated and lateral entrainment of environmental air into updrafts is reduced.

The most buoyant updrafts are responsible for the triggering of moist convection, causing the rapid growth of clouds and precipitation. Organization of turbulence in the subcloud layer is induced by unsaturated downdrafts, and the effect of density currents is modeled through a reduction of the lateral entrainment. The reduction of entrainment induces further development from the precipitating congestus phase to full deep cumulonimbus.

Model validation is performed by comparing cloud base, cloud top heights, timing of precipitation and environmental profiles against cloud resolving models and large-eddy simulations for two test cases. These comparisons demonstrate that PPM triggers deep convection at the proper time in the diurnal cycle, and produces reasonable precipitation. On the other hand, PPM underestimates cloud top height.
Neural Network–Based Sensitivity Analysis of Summertime Convection over the Continental United States
Creators: name: Aires, Filipe
name: Gentine, Pierre
name: Findell, Kirsten L.
name: Lintner, Benjamin R.
name: Kerr, Christopher
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Climatic changes
Atmosphere

description: Although land–atmosphere coupling is thought to play a role in shaping the mean climate and its variability, it remains difficult to quantify precisely. The present study aims to isolate relationships between early morning surface turbulent fluxes partitioning [i.e., evaporative fraction (EF)] and subsequent afternoon convective precipitation frequency and intensity. A general approach involving statistical relationships among input and output variables, known as sensitivity analysis (SA), is used to develop a reduced complexity metamodel of the linkage between EF and convective precipitation. Two additional quantities characterizing the early morning convective environment, convective triggering potential (CTP) and low-level humidity (HIlow) deficit, are included. The SA approach is applied to the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) for June–August (JJA) conditions over the entire continental United States, Mexico, and Central America domain. Five land–atmosphere coupling regimes are objectively characterized based on CTP, HIlow, and EF. Two western regimes are largely atmospherically controlled, with a positive link to CTP and a negative link to HIlow. The other three regimes occupy Mexico and the eastern half of the domain and show positive links to EF and negative links to HIlow, suggesting that both surface fluxes and atmospheric humidity play a role in the triggering of rainfall in these regions. The regimes associated with high mean EF also tend to have high sensitivity of rainfall frequency to variations in EF. While these results may be sensitive to the choice of dataset, the approach can be applied across observational, reanalysis, and model datasets and thus represents a potentially powerful tool for intercomparison and validation as well as for characterizing land–atmosphere interaction regimes.
On the asymptotics of the scenery flow
Creators: name: Aspenberg, Magnus
name: Ekström, Fredrik
name: Persson, Tomas
name: Schmeling, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80, 37C45

description: Various notions of "zooming in" on measures exist in the literature and the scenery flow is one of them. It is of interest to describe the joint asymptotics of the scenery flows generated by a measure and the measure transported by a local diffeomorphism. We give both sufficient and necessary conditions for the scenery distributions to be asymptotic and provide some examples.
description: 19 pages
Variable fidelity expected improvement for Cokriging
Creators: name: Crowley, Duncan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores multi-fidelity, surrogate-based, Bayesian optimisation. These are a series of techniques that solve optimisation problems with a high cost for evaluating the objective function. A multi-fidelity approach allows for the incorporation of cheap approximations of the objective function. The multi-fidelity data allows us to fit a Cokriging surrogate model, this is a type of surrogate model designed for multi-fidelity data. A Cokriging model is a more accurate model than one that is fitted with only a small amount of high-fidelity data. A more accurate surrogate model allows for better points to be acquired by the Bayesian optimisation algorithm's acquisition function. In this regard, we have developed a variable fidelity acquisition function that works with the Cokriging model based on a similar approach developed for a hierarchical Kriging model. This new approach performs mor efficiently when compared with the traditional single fidelity acquisition function. Further, we demonstrated viable stopping criteria for a Bayesian optimisation algorithm, an area that is lacking in the literature. Finally, we derived a parallel variable fidelity acquisition function that performed as well as a sequential variable fidelity acquisition function allowing for the use of parallel computing.
title: Die Candidaten der deutschen Kaiserkrone; [1849?]
title: Dem deutschen Volke zur gefälligen Ansicht
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stern, S.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Flugblatt mit Karikatur zu den Kandidaten für die deutsche Kaiserkrone
Evolution of the distribution of wealth in an economic environment driven by local Nash equilibria
Creators: name: Degond, Pierre
name: Liu, Jian-Guo
name: Ringhofer, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present and analyze a model for the evolution of the wealth distribution within a heterogeneous economic environment. The model considers a system of rational agents interacting in a game theoretical framework, through fairly general assumptions on the cost function. This evolution drives the dynamic of the agents in both wealth and economic configuration variables. We consider a regime of scale separation where the large scale dynamics is given by a hydrodynamic closure with a Nash equilibrium serving as the local thermodynamic equilibrium. The result is a system of gas dynamics-type equations for the density and average wealth of the agents on large scales. We recover the inverse gamma distribution as an equilibrium in the particular case of quadratic cost functions which has been previously considered in the literature.
Hydrodynamics of compressible superfluids in confined geometries
Creators: name: Malmi-Kakkada, Abdul N
name: Valls, Oriol T
name: Dasgupta, Chandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the hydrodynamics of compressible superfluids in confined geometries. We use a perturbative procedure in terms of the dimensionless expansion parameter $(v/v_s)^2$ where $v$ is the typical speed of the flow and $v_s$ the speed of sound. A zero value of this parameter corresponds to the incompressible limit. We apply the procedure to two specific problems: the case of a trapped superfluid with a gaussian profile of the local density, and that of a superfluid confined in a rotating obstructed cylinder. We find that the corrections due to finite compressibility which are, as expected, negligible for liquid He, are important but amenable to the perturbative treatment for typical ultracold atomic systems.
description: 17 pages, including 7 figures. To appear in Journ. Phys. B