cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"I know you want it": effects of music with sexually violent lyrics on men's sexually violent attitudes and behaviour
Creators: name: Wowk, Andrew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Music is one of the most widely consumed forms of media around the world, and recent improvements in technology have made it easier than ever for people to access an extremely wide range of music with ease. This includes music with antisocial content and themes, including songs with lyrics depicting or approving of sexually violent behaviour. However, despite the prevalence and ease of access of such music, its potential effects on listeners remains critically under studied, especially given that sexual violence is a widespread problem in society. A small base of experimental literature has started to examine this issue, but extant studies have numerous methodological issues, including lack of control over potentially confounding characteristics of the music stimuli used, outdated attitude measures that do not directly reflect approval of sexual violence, and using non-sexual measures of aggressive behaviour. The present study sought to address these issues by writing and recording stimulus music specifically for the research, creating a contemporarily relevant measure of men’s approval of sexual violence toward women, and a behavioural task that specifically measures sexually violent behaviour. Although the current study failed to provide evidence that music with sexually violent lyrics can influence sexually violent attitudes and sexually violent behaviour, there were methodological issues that can explain this null finding, meaning it is still unclear as to whether such effects occur or not. Given the social importance of identifying any factors that can be causally linked to sexual violence, further studies that can shed light on this issue are very much needed. Clear strategies for addressing the methodological issues encountered by this research in order to conduct future studies more rigorously are elucidated, leading to expectations that this important question can be answered more definitively in future.
Mirror Movements Identified in Patients with Moebius Syndrome
Creators: name: Webb, Bryn D.
name: Frempong, Tamiesha
name: Naidich, Thomas P.
name: Gaspar, Harald
name: Jabs, Ethylin Wang
name: Rucker, Janet C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Moebius syndrome is a rare disorder with minimum clinical criteria of congenital facial weakness in association with impairment in abduction of one or both eyes. Mirror movements are not known to be associated with Moebius syndrome.

Case Report: We present three patients who meet minimum criteria for a diagnosis of Moebius syndrome and who also display mirror movements.

Discussion: This case series suggests that Moebius syndrome may be associated with mirror movements. Further investigation to delineate the genetic etiologies of Moebius syndrome is ongoing. Patients with Moebius syndrome and mirror movements may represent a specific subclass of this disorder.
On the density of shear transformation zones in amorphous solids
Creators: name: Lin, Jie
name: Saade, Alaa
name: Lerner, Edan
name: Rosso, Alberto
name: Wyart, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stability of amorphous solids, focusing on the distribution P(x) of the local stress increase x that would lead to an instability. We argue that this distribution is singular P(x)x^θ, where the exponent θ is non-zero if the elastic interaction between rearranging regions is non-monotonic, and increases with the interaction range. For a class of finite dimensional models we show that stability implies a lower bound on θ, which is found to lie near saturation. For quadrupolar interactions these models yield θ ~ 0.6 for d=2 and θ~ 0.4 in d=3 where d is the spatial dimension, accurately capturing previously unresolved observations in atomistic models, both in quasi-static flow and after a fast quench.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Increased Prevalence of Non-Motor Symptoms in Essential Tremor
Creators: name: Chouinard, Sylvain
name: Lacerte, Annie
name: Jodoin, Nicolas
name: Bernard, Genevieve
name: Rouleau, Guy A.
name: Panisset, Michel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Cases with essential tremor (ET) have been described with Lewy body inclusions, the hallmark of Parkinson disease (PD). Patients with PD may suffer from anosmia, depression, constipation, and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), sometimes years before the appearance of their motor syndrome. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of these non‐motor Parkinson's associated symptoms in patients with ET.

Methods: Fifty ET subjects were contacted by phone and given questionnaires evaluating the presence or absence of anosmia, depression, constipation, and RBD. Frequencies of these symptoms were compared with their published prevalence in the general population.

Results: Of the patients with ET, 4.5% reported having anosmia or hyposmia and 21.7% reported being constipated, similar to what is observed in the general population. Using a screening questionnaire for RBD, 43.5% of ET patients are possibly suffering from RBD, whereas in the general population prevalence is estimated to be 0.5%. Finally, depression was detected in 21.7% of ET patients; in the general population, prevalence is 5%.

Discussion: Patients with ET seem to have more RBD and more depression than found in the general population. Prospective studies with normal control groups are needed to confirm these findings.
A discussion of a geometric shape that became a symbol known as mandorla or vesica piscis, starting from a Pythagorean point of view
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: vesica piscis
mandorla
sacred geometry
arts
symbols
Giorgio Vasari
Florence Cathedral
pythagorean philosophy
freemasonry
Pythagoras
Oronce Finé
Sebastiano Serlio
Albrecht Dürer

description: Here we propose a discussion about the "mandorla" or "vesica piscis". It is a type of 2-dimensional lens, that is, a geometric shape formed by the intersection of two circles with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the centre of each circle lies on the perimeter of the other. The aim of the discussion is that of understanding when such a geometric shape became a symbol and when this symbol received a specific name. We will find that the name "mandorla" was used long before the term "vesica piscis", which is the Latin translation of the German "fischblosen" (fish-bladder) used by Albrecht Dürer in his book on geometry. Therefore, the name invented by Dürer was not used by the painter for a sacred form. However, after the middle of the nineteenth century the term "vesica piscis" exploded in literature. Its use was criticized and, at the same time, it was stressed that the proper term for the symbol is "mandorla". Nonetheless, the "vesica piscis" continues to be largely used in the sacred geometry, which ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and proportions. In the proposed discussion, we will also show that, recently, the 2-dimensional lenticular symbol has been related to the Pythagorean philosophy. It is told that the followers of this philosophy had the habit of using an apple for symbolic communications. Sliced across, the core of the apple is displaying a pentagram, but sliced lengthwise it forms two intersecting circles, that is a "mandorla". Then, the investigation about terms and related uses of this specific geometric shape is the core of the matter of our discussion or, let us tell, the "core of the apple", in a Pythagorean-like approach to find how a German "fischblosen" evolved into a sacred symbol, thanks to a translation into Latin.
Three-loop QCD corrections to B_s -> mu^+ mu^-
Creators: name: Hermann, Thomas
name: Misiak, Mikolaj
name: Steinhauser, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay B_s -> mu^+ mu^- in the Standard Model is generated by the well-known W-box and Z-penguin diagrams that give rise to an effective quark-lepton operator Q_A at low energies. We compute QCD corrections of order alpha_s^2 to its Wilson coefficient C_A. It requires performing three-loop matching between the full and effective theories. Including the new corrections makes C_A more stable with respect to the matching scale mu_0 at which the top-quark mass and alpha_s are renormalized. The corresponding uncertainty in |C_A|^2 gets reduced from around 1.8% to less than 0.2%. Our results are directly applicable to all the B_{s(d)} -> l^+ l^- decay modes.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures; v2: references updated
Robustness of the filamentation instability in arbitrarily oriented magnetic field: Full 3D calculation
Creators: name: Bret, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The filamentation (Weibel) instability plays a key role in the formation of collisionless shocks which are thought to produce Gamma-Ray-Bursts and High-Energy-Cosmic-Rays in astrophysical environments. While it has been known for long that a flow-aligned magnetic field can completely quench the instability, it was recently proved in 2D that in the cold regime, such cancelation is possible if and only if the field is perfectly aligned. Here, this result is finally extended to a 3D geometry. Calculations are conducted for symmetric and asymmetric counter-streaming relativistic plasma shells. 2D results are retrieved in 3D: the instability can never be completely canceled for an oblique magnetic field. In addition, the maximum growth-rate is always larger for wave vectors lying in the plan defined by the flow and the oblique field. On the one hand, this bears consequences on the orientation of the generated filaments. On the other hand, it certifies 2D simulations of the problem can be performed without missing the most unstable filamentation modes.
description: To appear in Physics of Plasmas
[Rechnungsbuch des Danziger Kaufmanns und Bankiers Hans Loitz d. J.]; 1567
Creators: name: Loitz, Hans IV.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Staatsarchiv Danzig, 300R/Vv, 201 https://doi.org/10.24344/GeldKunstNetz
Enhancing Template Security of Face Biometrics by Using Edge Detection and Hashing
Creators: name: Krishnaswamy, Manoj
name: Kumar, G. Hemantha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we address the issues of using edge detection techniques on facial images to produce cancellable biometric templates and a novel method for template verification against tampering. With increasing use of biometrics, there is a real threat for the conventional systems using face databases, which store images of users in raw and unaltered form. If compromised not only it is irrevocable, but can be misused for cross-matching across different databases. So it is desirable to generate and store revocable templates for the same user in different applications to prevent cross-matching and to enhance security, while maintaining privacy and ethics. By comparing different edge detection methods it has been observed that the edge detection based on the Roberts Cross operator performs consistently well across multiple face datasets, in which the face images have been taken under a variety of conditions. We have proposed a novel scheme using hashing, for extra verification, in order to harden the security of the stored biometric templates.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures, Journal. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.7474 by other authors
Bilateral Gluteal Dyskinesia: Discussion of a Rare Movement Disorder
Creators: name: Sorokin, Anna
name: Mittal, Shivam Om
name: DiCapua, Daniel
name: Jabbari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Involuntary movements of gluteal muscles have rarely been reported.

Case Report: This 46‐year‐old female with pelvic endometriosis developed involuntary rhythmic movements in the left gluteus maximus, which within a year became bilateral. The movements gradually increased in intensity and interfered with ambulation. Electromyography, at rest, demonstrated almost continuous periodic gluteal discharges, with left‐sided discharges seeming to lead to those on the right. OnabotulinumtoxinA injections into the gluteal muscles improved the movements.

Discussion: A rare and previously unreported form of gluteal involuntary movements with periodic electromyographic discharges is described. The cause is uncertain. The differential diagnosis of this unusual movement disorder is discussed, with the most likely diagnosis being myoclonus.
Slingshot Dynamics for Self Replicating Probes and the Effect on Exploration Timescales
Creators: name: Nicholson, Arwen
name: Forgan, Duncan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interstellar probes can carry out slingshot manoeuvres around the stars they visit, gaining a boost in velocity by extracting energy from the star's motion around the Galactic Centre. These maneouvres carry little to no extra energy cost, and in previous work it has been shown that a single Voyager-like probe exploring the galaxy does so 100 times faster when carrying out these slingshots than when navigating purely by powered flight (Forgan et al. 2012). We expand on these results by repeating the experiment with self-replicating probes. The probes explore a box of stars representative of the local Solar neighbourhood, to investigate how self-replication affects exploration timescales when compared with a single non-replicating probe. We explore three different scenarios of probe behaviour: i) standard powered flight to the nearest unvisited star (no slingshot techniques used), ii) flight to the nearest unvisited star using slingshot techniques, and iii) flight to the next unvisited star that will give the maximum velocity boost under a slingshot trajectory. In all three scenarios we find that as expected, using self-replicating probes greatly reduces the exploration time, by up to three orders of magnitude for scenario i) and iii) and two orders of magnitude for ii). The second case (i.e. nearest-star slingshots) remains the most time effective way to explore a population of stars. As the decision-making algorithms for the fleet are simple, unanticipated "race conditions" amongst probes are set up, causing the exploration time of the final stars to become much longer than necessary. From the scaling of the probes' performance with star number, we conclude that a fleet of self-replicating probes can indeed explore the Galaxy in a sufficiently short time to warrant the existence of the Fermi Paradox.
description: Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology, 13 pages, 7 figures
Laterally-confined two-dimensional electron gases in self-patterned LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces
Creators: name: Foerster, M.
name: Bachelet, R.
name: Laukhin, V.
name: Fontcuberta, J.
name: Herranz, G.
name: Sanchez, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A bottom-up process has been used to engineer the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface atomic composition and locally confine the two-dimensional electron gas to lateral sizes in the order of 100 nm. This is achieved by using SrTiO3(001) substrate surfaces with self-patterned chemical termination, which is replicated by the LaAlO3 layer, resulting in a modulated LaO/TiO2 and AlO2/SrO interface composition. We demonstrate the confinement of the conducting interface forming either long-range ordered nanometric stripes or isolated regions. Our results demonstrate that engineering the interface chemical termination is a suitable strategy towards nanoscale lateral confinement of two-dimensional high-mobility systems.
La identidad y la tarea de construir el absoluto
Creators: name: Duplancic, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Absolute
Hegel
construction
system

description: The work presents an interpretation of the idea, sense, and method of Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit (1807), from the notion of "construction of the absolute" as expressed by Hegel in "The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy" (1801). Through this, the idea of a "multi-dimensionality" of the Hegelian model of rationality towards 1805-1806 is exposed.
description: {"references": ["Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre (1794). Hamburg 1997.", "Hyppolite, Jean: Anmerkungen zur Vorrede der Ph\u00e4nomenologie des Geistes und zum Thema: das Absolut ist Subjekt. En: Materialen zu Hegels \"Ph\u00e4nomenologie des Geistes\". Hrsg: H. F. Fulda / D. Henrich. Frankfurt am Main 1998. 45-53.", "Jaeschke, Walter: Hegel-Handbuch. Leben - Werk - Schule. Stuttgart , Weimar 2003.", "Jaeschke, Walter: \"Wer denkt metaphysisch? Oder: \u00dcber das doppelte Ende der Metaphysik\". En: Hegels Aktualit\u00e4t. \u00dcber die Wirklichkeit der Vernunft in postmetaphysischer Zeit Hegel Forum. Ed: J. Kreuzer. M\u00fcnchen 2010, pp.151- 191."]}
Response of fish communities to eco-engineered seawalls in Sydney Harbour.
Creators: name: Bagala, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Urbanisation of coasts has replaced large amounts of complex near-shore habitat with relatively featureless structures such as piers, pontoons and seawalls, resulting in losses of marine biodiversity. Eco-engineering seeks to mitigate this ecological impact, by co-designing coastal structures for biodiversity. The “Living Seawalls” project is ecologically enhancing seawalls by retrofitting them with complex habitat panels. The panels have positive effects on invertebrate and algal communities, but their effects on fish communities are unknown. This study tested whether (1) fish communities differ between seawalls and a natural analogue, rocky shores; (2) adding complex habitat panels to seawalls results in fish communities more similar to rocky shores; and (3) at the patch-scale, fish communities vary with type of complexity added. Seawalls, at times, supported fewer observations of fewer species of fish than rocky shores, though this effect was temporally variable. When seawalls were eco-engineered with Living Seawalls panels, fish assemblages became more similar to rocky shores. At the patch-scale, however, fish utilization of panels did not significantly vary with the type of complexity provided. This study provides important information on how eco-engineering can mitigate effects of coastal urbanisation on fish communities.
Electrochemical Grafting of Naphthylmethyl Radicals to Epitaxial Graphene: A Versatile Platform to Reversibly Engineer the Band Structure and Transport Properties of Graphene
Creators: name: Sarkar, Santanu
name: Bekyarova, Elena
name: Haddon, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kolbe electrochemical oxidation strategy has been utilized to achieve an efficient quasireversible electrochemical grafting of the alpha-naphthylmethyl functional group to graphene. The method facilitates reversible bandgap engineering in graphene and preparation of electrochemically erasable organic dielectric films. The picture shows Raman D-band maps of both systems.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, Sarkar, S. Angew. Chem. Int. Edn. 2012, 51, 4901-4904
Identifying Motor, Emotional-Behavioral, and Cognitive Deficits that Comprise the Triad of HD Symptoms from Patient, Caregiver, and Provider Perspectives
Creators: name: Victorson, David
name: Carlozzi, Noelle E.
name: Frank, Samuel
name: Beaumont, Jennifer L.
name: Cheng, Wendy
name: Gorin, Brian
name: Duh, Mei Sheng
name: Samuelson, David
name: Tulsky, David
name: Gutierrez, Sandra
name: Nowinski, Cindy J.
name: Mueller, Allison
name: Shen, Vivienne
name: Sung, Victor
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The objective of this study was to identify important attributes associated with the triad of symptoms (cognition, emotional–behavioral, and motor) of Huntington's disease (HD) from patient, caregiver, and medical provider perspectives to facilitate development of a new disease‐specific, health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument.

Methods: We conducted a targeted literature review of HD and HRQOL instruments, expert surveys, and patient and caregiver phone‐based interviews to extract information on the symptoms and issues most relevant to the HD symptom triad (HD triad). The data collected from these sources were used to generate themes and subdomains and to develop an integrated schema that highlights the key dimensions of the triad.

Results: The search identified the following areas: emotional functioning/behavioral changes (e.g., positive emotions, sadness/depression); cognitive functioning (e.g., memory/learning, attention/comprehension); physical functioning (e.g., motor functioning, medication); social functioning (e.g., leisure, interpersonal relationships); end‐of‐life concerns/planning; and gene testing. Fifteen individuals diagnosed with HD and 16 HD caregivers, recruited from several Huntington's Disease Society of America support group networks, completed phone interviews. Nineteen US medical providers who specialize in HD completed the online survey. Twenty‐six subdomains of the HD symptom triad (seven cognition, 12 emotional–behavioral, and seven motor) emerged relatively consistently across patient, caregiver, and provider samples. These included movements/chorea, memory impairment, depression, and anxiety.

Discussion: Based on an integrated, mixed‐methods approach, important HD triad symptom were identified and organized into a guiding schema. These patient‐, caregiver‐, and provider‐triangulated data served as the basis for development of a HD‐specific HRQOL instrument, the HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™.
Focal Task-specific Dystonia—From Early Descriptions to a New, Modern Formulation
Creators: name: Frucht, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Vivid descriptions of the phenomenology of focal task‐specific dystonia (FTSD) date back to the late nineteenth century.

Methods: In this review, I summarize the natural history, phenomenology, and treatment of FTSD, focusing on nineteenth‐century neurologists' descriptions of the phenomenology, etiology, treatment, and mechanism.

Results: Examining these texts through a twenty‐first‐century lens, the “modern” ideas of a dystonic endophenotype, disordered physiology, and dystonic metabolic networks actually appeared in these texts more than a century ago.

Discussion: By incorporating these ideas with recent investigations, I present a new conceptual model for understanding this mysterious malady.
Brittle Dyskinesia Following STN but not GPi Deep Brain Stimulation
Creators: name: Sriram, Ashok
name: Foote, Kelly D.
name: Oyama, Genko
name: Kwak, Joshua
name: Zeilman, Pam R.
name: Okun, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The aim was to describe the prevalence and characteristics of difficult to manage dyskinesia associated with subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS). A small subset of STN DBS patients experience troublesome dyskinesia despite optimal programming and medication adjustments. This group of patients has been referred to by some practitioners as brittle STN DBS‐induced dyskinesia, drawing on comparisons with brittle diabetics experiencing severe blood sugar regulation issues and on a single description by McLellan in 1982. We sought to describe, and also to investigate how often the “brittle” phenomenon occurs in a relatively large DBS practice.

Methods: An Institutional Review Board‐approved patient database was reviewed, and all STN and globus pallidus internus (GPi) DBS patients who had surgery at the University of Florida from July 2002 to July 2012 were extracted for analysis.

Results: There were 179 total STN DBS patients and, of those, four STN DBS (2.2%) cases were identified as having dyskinesia that could not be managed without the induction of an “off state,” or by the precipitation of a severe dyskinesia despite vigorous stimulation and medication adjustments. Of 75 GPi DBS cases reviewed, none (0%) was identified as having brittle dyskinesia. One STN DBS patient was successfully rescued by bilateral GPi DBS.

Discussion: Understanding the potential risk factors for postoperative troublesome and brittle dyskinesia may have an impact on the initial surgical target selection (STN vs. GPI) in DBS therapy. Rescue GPi DBS therapy may be a viable treatment option, though more cases will be required to verify this observation.
Network-Level Cooperation in Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Pappas, Nikolaos
name: Kountouris, Marios
name: Jeon, Jeongho
name: Ephremides, Anthony
name: Traganitis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a two-hop communication network consisted of a source node, a relay and a destination node in which the source and the relay node have external traffic arrivals. The relay forwards a fraction of the source node's traffic to the destination and the cooperation is performed at the network level. In addition, both source and relay nodes have energy harvesting capabilities and an unlimited battery to store the harvested energy. We study the impact of the energy constraints on the stability region. Specifically, we provide inner and outer bounds on the stability region of the two-hop network with energy harvesting source and relay.
description: 1st IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) 2013, Symposium on Energy Harvesting and Green Wireless Communications. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1309.1338
Testing with C++
Creators: name: Dr Georg Hammerl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This is Episode 2a of the special series 'HiRSE Summer of Testing' and is given by Dr Georg Hammerl from Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institute of Material Systems Modeling titled 'Testing with C++'. The video that goes with these slides can be found on our youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@Helmholtz_Platform_for_RSE
Early-phase photometry and spectroscopy of transitional Type Ia SN 2012ht: Direct constraint on the rise time
Creators: name: Yamanaka, Masayuki
name: Maeda, Keiichi
name: Kawabata, Miho
name: Tanaka, Masaomi
name: Takaki, Katsutoshi
name: Ueno, Issei
name: Masumoto, Kazunari
name: Kawabata, Koji S.
name: Itoh, Ryosuke
name: Moritani, Yuki
name: Akitaya, Hiroshi
name: Arai, Akira
name: Honda, Satoshi
name: Nishiyama, Koichi
name: Kabashima, Fujio
name: Matsumoto, Katsura
name: Nogami, Daisaku
name: Yoshida, Michitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report photometric and spectroscopic observations of the nearby Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) 2012ht from $-15.8$ days to $+49.1$ days after $B$-band maximum. The decline rate of the light curve is $Δm_{15}$($B$)$=1.39~\pm~0.05$ mag, which is intermediate between normal and subluminous SNe Ia, and similar to that of the `transitional' Type Ia SN 2004eo. The spectral line profiles also closely resemble those of SN 2004eo. We were able to observe SN 2012ht at very early phase, when it was still rising and was about three magnitudes fainter than at the peak. The rise time to the $B$-band maximum is estimated to be $17.6 \pm 0.5$ days and the time of the explosion is MJD $56277.98 \pm 0.13$. SN 2012ht is the first transitional SN Ia whose rise time is directly measured without using light curve templates, and the fifth SN Ia overall. This rise time is consistent with those of the other four SNe within the measurement error, even including the extremely early detection of SN 2013dy. The rising part of the light curve can be fitted by a quadratic function, and shows no sign of a shock-heating component due to the interaction of the ejecta with a companion star. The rise time is significantly longer than that inferred for subluminous SNe such as SN 1991bg, which suggests that a progenitor and/or explosion mechanism of transitional SNe Ia are more similar to normal SNe Ia rather than subluminous SNe Ia.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; Accepted for Publication in ApJ Letters
REM Sleep Behavior and Motor Findings in Parkinson’s Disease: A Cross-sectional Analysis
Creators: name: Mahajan, Abhimanyu
name: Rosenthal, Liana S.
name: Gamaldo, Charlene
name: Salas, Rachel E.
name: Pontone, Gregory M.
name: McCoy, Arita
name: Umeh, Chizoba
name: Mari, Zoltan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) represents a major public health challenge that will only grow in our aging population. Understanding the connection between PD and associated prodromal conditions, such as rapid eye movement sleep behavioral disorder (RBD), is critical to identifying prevention strategies. However, the relationship between RBD and severity of motor findings in early PD is unknown. This study aims to examine this relationship.

Methods: The study population consisted of 418 PD patients who completed the Movement Disorders Society‐United Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS‐UPDRS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) disorder questionnaires at the baseline visit of the Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI). Cross‐sectional analysis was carried out to assess the association between REM Sleep Behavior Screening Questionnaire score and MDS UPDRS‐3 (motor) score categories. Correlation with a higher score category was described as “worse motor findings”. A score of 5 on the REM disorder questionnaire was defined as predictive of RBD.

Results: Out of the 418 PD patients, 113 (27.0%) had RBD. With univariate logistic regression analysis, individuals with scores predictive of RBD were 1.66 times more likely to have worse motor findings (p = 0.028). Even with age, gender, and Geriatric Depression Scale scores taken into account, individuals with scores predictive of RBD were 1.69 times more likely to have worse motor findings (p = 0.025).

Discussion: PD patients with RBD symptoms had worse motor findings than those unlikely to have RBD. This association provides further evidence for the relationship between RBD and PD.
Intermittent dynamics and logarithmic domain growth during the spinodal decomposition of a glass-forming liquid
Creators: name: Testard, Vincent
name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Kob, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of a simple glass-forming system to investigate how its liquid-gas phase separation kinetics depends on temperature. A shallow quench leads to a fully demixed liquid-gas system whereas a deep quench makes the dense phase undergo a glass transition and become an amorphous solid. This glass has a gel-like bicontinuous structure that evolves very slowly with time and becomes fully arrested in the limit where thermal fluctuations become negligible. We show that the phase separation kinetics changes qualitatively with temperature, the microscopic dynamics evolving from a surface tension-driven diffusive motion at high temperature to a strongly intermittent, heterogeneous and thermally activated dynamics at low temperature, with a logarithmically slow growth of the typical domain size. These results shed light on recent experimental observations of various porous materials produced by arrested spinodal decomposition, such as nonequilibrium colloidal gels and bicontinuous polymeric structures, and they elucidate the microscopic mechanisms underlying a specific class of viscoelastic phase separation.
description: 18 pages
EDDi - Welcome Tutorial (Supplementary Material)
Creators: name: Boenecke, Juliane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epidemiology
Outbreak Investigation
Open Education
Game-based Learning

description: EDDi - Epidemic Disease Detective

Summary:
Building on a problem-based self-study approach, EDDi participants will be introduced to the principles and practices of infectious disease epidemiology as well as concepts related to the investigation of disease outbreaks, with particular focus on:

Describing infectious disease events and evaluating local outbreak scenarios

Learning about basic methods of epidemiological outbreak investigation, study designs, and tools of epidemiology (e.g., epidemiological curves, outbreak maps, technical terms)

Interpreting and recognizing associations between outbreak events and relevant influencing factors by applying basic techniques of infectious disease epidemiology (especially descriptive methods)

Making informed decisions in outbreak investigation based on epidemiological evidence

Extra: Getting to know the structure of the German disease surveillance and reporting system as well as background information on the Hanseatic city of Hamburg

Welcome Tutorial:
This Welcome Tutorial is an interactive PowerPoint presentation and offers an insight into the basics of epidemiology as well as the gameplay of the EDDi Serious Game. It can be used in the context of both the EDDi Paper Manual and the EDDi Serious Game.

Workflow
The presentation integrates an interactive design. Start the presentation on your computer and follow the instructions by clicking on buttons and materials.

Please note
The presentation contains embedded links to video-based learning materials on epidemiology. Clicking on the element will redirect you to the third-party provider (YouTube).

Extra: EDDi Artwork Table Top Exercise
Artwork by Annabell Koenen-Rindfrey, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The artwork was developed using Affinity Designer 1.9.9 (iPad version).

If you would like to revise, rewrite, or build a new narrative upon this case study, all materials are available under an open license.
description: This resource is published under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license's terms and conditions for further use and distribution apply. For further information on EDDi visit https://linktr.ee/e.d.d.i.
How Many People in the United States Have Essential Tremor? Deriving a Population Estimate Based on Epidemiological Data
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Ottman, Ruth
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Essential tremor (ET) is often reported to be among the most prevalent movement disorders, yet the precise number of cases in the USA is not known. The goal of the current analyses was to use published data from epidemiological studies to derive an estimate of the number of people currently residing in the USA who have ET.

Methods: A PubMed search was conducted to identify population-based prevalence studies of ET. The methodology of 34 identified studies was assessed. Then the three most methodologically rigorous studies were selected, and age-specific prevalence data were abstracted. US census data from 2012 were used to determine the population in the USA by 10-year age categories.

Results: Using data from three studies, estimates of the number of ET cases (2012) ranged from 6.38 to 7.63 million (mean = 7.01 million). This corresponds to approximately 2.2% of the US population.

Discussion: Knowing the number of ET cases in the USA is important in terms of estimating the medical burden on communities and society, and providing an objective metric on which to base health resource planning.
title: [Rechnungsbuch des Danziger Kaufmanns und Bankiers Hans Loitz d. J.]; 1566-1567
title: (2r) [1. September 1566 - 31. Dezember 1566]. (28r) [Besitzinventar der 1567 verstorbenen Margareta Tessen].
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Loitz, Hans IV.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Papier, Folio – Kanzleikurrent von einer Hand (Schreiber: Lukas Kleigen) – blauer Halbleinenband des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Staatsarchiv Danzig, 300R/Vv, 200 https://doi.org/10.24344/GeldKunstNetz
Opera at Columbia: A Shining Legacy
Creators: name: Griffel, Margaret Ross
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Music

description: Opera has always been central to my life. Listening to the
Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera was a ritual
in my parents' home, and we talked about our visits to the Met (albeit in
the "nosebleed" seats) for weeks afterward. My love for opera was further
nourished by my years at New York City's High School of Music and Art,
then some twenty blocks north of Columbia University, during which time
Handel oratorios were semistaged at the school's major concerts and Aaron
Copland's The Second Hurricane (1937) was revived at Carnegie Hall in a
1960 performance by M&A students conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
In the 1960s, it was my good fortune to attend Barnard College and
then do graduate studies in musicology at Columbia, where chances to
hear contemporary as well as older operas abounded and opera composers
such as Douglas Moore, Otto Luening, Henry Cowell, and Jack Beeson
were members of the faculty. Sadly, such opportunities diminished in the
following decades, breaking Columbia's tradition of being a major source
for the creation and performance of operas, which had reached its height in
the 1940s and 1950s-the heyday of the Columbia Opera Workshop.
After a brief history of the Workshop, the present article examines what
it was like to be an opera -loving student at Columbia in the mid -1960s when
Current Musicology was launched. Surrounded by the prominent composers
mentioned above and other former participants of the Workshop who
still taught courses in the Department of Music, including Willard Rhodes
and Howard Shanet, we students had the chance to hear new and rarely
performed works on campus or at nearby music conservatories and opera
houses. In addition, this essay explores the contributions of Columbia
graduates, particularly composers, to the world of opera.
The article's final two sections detail the operas given at various Columbia
locations from 1941 to 2004. The first lists operas presented by the
Music Department and the Workshop. It also includes those operas that were
put on independently during the same period at venues such as McMillin
Theatre (later renamed Miller Theatre), Barnard College's Minor Latham
Playhouse, and Brooks Hall, which featured Mozart operas in honor of his
bicentennial year of 1956. The second section describes operas that were
given at various Columbia locations after the Workshop closed.
Swift observations of 1FGL J1018.6-5856
Creators: name: An, Hongjun
name: Dufour, Francois
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Harrison, Fiona A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on X-ray properties of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 using observations obtained with the Swift X-ray telescope. Using 54 observations made between MJD 55575 and 55984, we find that the X-ray flux is modulated at a period of 16.57 +/- 0.11 days, consistent with previous reports based on gamma-ray data. We find that the X-ray maximum at phase 0 previously reported may not be a persistent feature of the source: the dramatic increases at phase 0 were detected only for ~100 days and not thereafter. Rather, the persistent sinusoidal maximum seems to be at phase 0.3--0.4, and is misaligned with the gamma-ray (GeV) peak. We also find evidence that the source's X-ray flux is correlated with the spectral hardness in the 0.5--10 keV band. Such a correlation has also been reported in the gamma-ray binaries LS 5039 and LS I+61d303 and can help us to understand the X-ray emission mechanisms of the sources.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Wearable Technologies to Support Lower Limb Rehabilitation and Clinical Practice: user requirements, design and evaluation
Creators: name: Islam, Riasat
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: The widespread adoption of wearable technologies in healthcare has the potential to bring about significant improvements. However, these technologies face design challenges when applied in real world settings and must be tailored to specific contexts of use and the needs of a diverse user base. This thesis investigates these issues in two distinct yet related areas of healthcare: neurorehabilitation and clinical movement analysis. In neurorehabilitation, the research builds on previous work that demonstrated the effectiveness of wearable rhythmic haptic metronomes in improving and measuring the gait of individuals with neurological conditions in laboratory settings. This study takes this approach into the community and care home settings, using a technology probe method to identify the real-life requirements and design considerations of potential end-users and clinicians. This process identified a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive issues that are relevant to the design of the haptic metronomes, including haptic perception ability, wearability, interaction techniques, and individual preferences for body placement. The second part of the thesis initially focused on the potential of active cueing for musculoskeletal conditions, but formative discussions with specialist physiotherapists and orthopaedic surgeons suggested that wearable clinical movement analysis would be a more suitable focus. Currently, proprietary systems for objectively assessing lower limb movements are either poorly suited or too expensive. To address this gap, non-proprietary software called MoJoXlab, paired with low-cost wearable inertial sensors was validated against high-end commercial software to perform clinical movement analysis. The results of these tests were compared across a range of activities, including walking, squatting, and jumping. MoJoXlab was further validated with a different sensor system, and limitations and nuances of supporting multiple sensor systems were identified. Overall, this thesis highlights the importance of considering the needs and preferences of diverse users and the specific conditions and contexts in which wearable technologies will be used to effectively design and implement these technologies in healthcare.
Chemical Recycling of Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets: A Sustainable Solution for the Nd2Fe14B Matrix Phase Recovery
Creators: name: Mishra, Amit
name: Khoshima, Sina
name: Tomse, Tomaz
name: Podmikjsak, Benjamin
name: Sturm, S.
name: Zuzek, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: NdFeB
Acid leaching
Hydrogen pretreatment
Matrix Phase Recovery

description: Objectives ❖ To Develop a cost-effective recycling method for Nd-Fe-B magnets with low environmental effects. ❖ Prepare the powder of individual Nd2Fe14B grains by acid leaching with the help of hydrogen pretreatment of Nd-Fe-B while retaining grain size and saturation magnetization.
Temporal Course of the Tourette Syndrome Clinical Triad
Creators: name: Shprecher, David R.
name: Rubenstein, Lindsay A.
name: Gannon, Keenan
name: Frank, Samuel A.
name: Kurlan, Roger
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a disorder characterized by childhood onset of motor and phonic tics, often with improvement of tic symptoms by young adult years. The temporal course of tics and commonly comorbid behavioral symptoms is still not well characterized.

Methods: In order to clarify the time course of tics and comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in TS, we administered a brief survey regarding the course of symptoms at a single point in time to 53 TS patients aged 13–31 years.

Results: Mean age (±SD) at symptom onset was 7.9 (±3.6) years for tics, 7.9 (±3.5) for ADHD, and 9.2 (±5.0) for OCD. Age at peak symptom severity was 12.3 (±4.6) years for tics, 10.8 (±3.8) for ADHD, and 12.6 (±5.5) for OCD. Tics, ADHD, and OCD were reported to be no longer present in 32.0%, 22.8%, and 21.0% of subjects, respectively. Decline in symptom severity began at age 14.7 (±3.7) years for tics, 13.9 (±2.9) for ADHD, and 15.1 (±5.0) for OCD. Remission of symptoms occurred at age 17.4 (±3.8) years for tics, 17.4 (±1.3) for ADHD, and 15.6 (±2.3) for OCD.

Discussion: Our data confirm and expand previously reported TS spectrum symptom milestones and may guide design of future research aimed at improving the course of TS.

Keywords: Tourette, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, tic

Citation: Shprecher DR, Rubenstein LA, Gannon K, et al. Temporal course of the Tourette syndrome clinical triad. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov. 2014; 4. doi: 10.7916/D8HD7SV6
Additional file 1 of Early child stimulation, linear growth and neurodevelopment in low birth weight infants
Creators: name: Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash
name: Taneja, Sunita
name: Strand, Tor A.
name: Sommerfelt, Halvor
name: Hysing, Mari
name: Mazumder, Sarmila
name: Bhandari, Nita
name: Martines, Jose
name: Dua, Tarun
name: Kariger, Patricia
name: Bahl, Rajiv
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Comparison of baseline characteristics of the infants with neurodevelopment data at 12 months (N = 516) and those that did not have (N = 36).