cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Visual feedback during speech production
Creators: name: Stelle, Elizabeth Leigh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The visual speech signal has a well-established influence on speech perception, and there is growing consensus that visual speech also influences speech production. However, relatively little is known about the response to one's own visual speech; that is, when it is presented as speech feedback. Since visual feedback is generated by the same speaking event that generates auditory and somatosensory feedback, it is temporally compatible with these typical sources of feedback; as such, it is predicted to influence speech production in comparable ways. This dissertation uses a perturbation paradigm to test the effect visual feedback has on production. Two delayed auditory feedback experiments tested the effect of different types of visual feedback on two fluency measures: utterance duration and number of speech errors. Visual feedback was predicted to enhance fluency. When the presentation of static and dynamic visual feedback was randomized within a block, utterance duration increased with dynamic visual feedback but there was no change in speech errors. Speech errors were reduced, however, when the different types of visual feedback were presented in separate blocks. This reduction was only observed when dynamic visual feedback was paired with normal auditory feedback, and for those participants who were more verbally proficient. These results suggest that consistent exposure to visual feedback may be necessary for speech enhancement, and also that the time-varying properties of visual speech are important in eliciting changes in speech production. In the bite block experiment, participants produced monosyllabic words in conditions that differed in terms of the presence or absence of visual feedback and a bite block. Acoustic vowel contrast was enhanced and acoustic vowel dispersion was reduced with visual feedback. This effect was strongest at the beginning of the vowel and tended to be stronger during productions without the bite block. For a small subset of participants the magnitude of motion of the lower face increased in response to visual feedback, once again without the bite block. The results of this dissertation provide evidence that visual feedback can enhance speech production, and highlight the multimodal nature of speech processing.
Rapid Prototyping of a Frequency Hopping Ad Hoc Network System
Creators: name: Braun, Martin
name: Otterbach, Nico
name: Elsner, Jens
name: Jondral, Friedrich K.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Wireless networks in-the-loop is a method to develop
software radio systems which operate in networks. It eliminates the gap between simulations and live testing by allowing the developer to use the same code for both types of testing. This allows the parallel development of signal processing and protocols in a network context without having to use intermediary tools. We demonstrate this concept using the example of frequency hopping ad hoc networks, which are both challenging on the signal processing side as well as on the network side.
BASR Poll: Time College Graduate Survey
Creators: name: Bureau Of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Satisfaction with college choice (1); reasons for choosing schools (2); major choice satisfaction (1); purpose of education (2); job in college (1); paying for college (1); scholarship (2); extra-curricular activities (2); planned occupation (2); future occupation (1); course usefulness (1); male role models (1); comparative political ideology (1); 1944 presidential election (1); 1948 presidential election (1); voter participation (1); holding elected office (4); spare-time activities (2); feelings about various statements (7); books read (1); magazine readership (2); church attendance (3); divorces (1); amount of children (3).
Discreteness and the transmission of light from distant sources
Creators: name: Dowker, Fay
name: Henson, Joe
name: Sorkin, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the classical transmission of a massless scalar field from a source to a detector on a background causal set. The predictions do not differ significantly from those of the continuum. Thus, introducing an intrinsic inexactitude to lengths and durations - or more specifically, replacing the Lorentzian manifold with an underlying discrete structure - need not disrupt the usual dynamics of propagation.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure. Version 2: reference added
title: Crustal architecture of a metallogenic belt and ophiolite belt: implications for mineral genesis and emplacement from 3-D electrical resistivity models (Bayankhongor area, Mongolia)
Creators: name: Comeau, Matthew J.
name: Becken, Michael
name: Kuvshinov, Alexey V.
name: Demberel, Sodnomsambuu
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530 Physics

description: Crustal architecture strongly influences the development and emplacement of mineral zones. In this study, we image the crustal structure beneath a metallogenic belt and its surroundings in the Bayankhongor area of central Mongolia. In this region, an ophiolite belt marks the location of an ancient suture zone, which is presently associated with a reactivated fault system. Nearby, metamorphic and volcanic belts host important mineralization zones and constitute a significant metallogenic belt that includes sources of copper and gold. However, the crustal structure of these features, and their relationships, are poorly studied. We analyze magnetotelluric data acquired across this region and generate three-dimensional electrical resistivity models of the crustal structure, which is found to be locally highly heterogeneous. Because the upper crust (< 25 km) is found to be generally highly resistive (> 1000 Ωm), low-resistivity (< 50 Ωm) features are conspicuous. Anomalous low-resistivity zones are congruent with the suture zone, and ophiolite belt, which is revealed to be a major crustal-scale feature. Furthermore, broadening low-resistivity zones located down-dip from the suture zone suggest that the narrow deformation zone observed at the surface transforms to a wide area in the deeper crust. Other low-resistivity anomalies are spatially associated with the surface expressions of known mineralization zones; thus, their links to deeper crustal structures are imaged. Considering the available evidence, we determine that, in both cases, the low resistivity can be explained by hydrothermal alteration along fossil fluid pathways. This illustrates the pivotal role that crustal fluids play in diverse geological processes, and highlights their inherent link in a unified system, which has implications for models of mineral genesis and emplacement. The results demonstrate that the crustal architecture—including the major crustal boundary—acts as a first‐order control on the location of the metallogenic belt.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
Veech Groups and Translation Coverings
Creators: name: Finster, Myriam
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: Veech group
congruence subgroup
monodromy group
cyclic covering
regular polygons
translation covering

description: A translation surface is obtained by taking plane polygons and gluing their edges by translations.
We ask which subgroups of the Veech group of a primitive translation surface can be realised via a translation covering.
For many primitive surfaces we prove that partition stabilising congruence subgroups are the Veech group of a covering surface.
We also address the coverings via their monodromy groups and present examples of cyclic coverings in short orbits, i.e. with large Veech groups.
Novel Macromolecular Architectures via a Combination of Cyclodextrin Host/Guest Complexation and RAFT Polymerizatio
Creators: name: Schmidt, Bernhard Volkmar Konrad Jakob
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cyclodextrin
RAFT-Polymerization
Macromolecular-Architectures
Supramolecular

description: In the course of the current thesis the possibilities of the combination of CD based supramolecular chemistry and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization with regard to the preparation of new macromolecular architectures were investigated. With the synthesis of variable macromolecular building blocks a broad range of macromolecular architectures are accessible via CD host/guest chemistry, e.g. star polymers, miktoarm star polymers or block copolymers.
On the derivation algebra of the free Lie algebra and trace maps
Creators: name: Enomoto, Naoya
name: Satoh, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F28 (primary), 17B40 (secondly), 20G05

description: We calculate the irreducible decomposition of the images of the Johnson homomorphisms of the automorphism group of a free group and a free metabelian group. We determine the abelianization of the derivation algebra of the Chen Lie algebra as a Lie algebra, and show that the abelianizaton is given by the degree one part and the Morita's trace maps. We also consider twisted cohomology groups of the automorphism group of a free nilpotent group. We show that the trace map for the exterior product defines a non-trivial twisted second cohomology class of it.
description: 40 pages. We add a link to our preprint in the reference [43]
Elucidating the mechanism of reading frame selection by a viral internal ribosome entry site
Creators: name: Au, Hilda Hiu Tung
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The Dicistroviridae intergenic region internal ribosome entry site (IGR IRES) exhibits the remarkable ability to bind the conserved core of the ribosome with high affinity. By mimicking the conformation of a tRNA, the IGR IRES can bypass the requirement for canonical initiation factors and Met-tRNAi, and initiate translation from a non-AUG start codon in the ribosomal A site. The pseudoknot (PKI) domain of the IRES engages the decoding center upon initial ribosome binding, and subsequently translocates into the P site to allow delivery of the incoming aminoacyl-tRNA. Within the P site, the IRES adopts a conformation that is reminiscent of a P/E hybrid state tRNA to effectively co-opt the canonical elongation cycle. How the IGR IRES establishes the translational reading frame in the absence of initiation factors remains an outstanding question. Here, we elucidate the mechanism of reading frame selection by performing mutagenesis and biochemical assays to explore the function of specific IRES structural elements. We demonstrate that constituents of the Cricket paralysis virus PKI domain, including the helical stem, anticodon:codon-like base-pairing, and the variable loop region are optimized for IRES-mediated translation. Additionally, we reveal through extensive structural and biochemical studies that stem-loop III of the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) IRES mimics the acceptor stem of tRNA and functions in supporting efficient 0 frame translation. Finally, we established an infectious chimeric clone to investigate how translational regulation by the IAPV IRES affects the viral life cycle. Studies using this chimera demonstrate that formation of stem-loop VI upstream of the IAPV IRES contributes to optimal IRES activity and viral yield. Our findings suggest that extensive and complete tRNA-mimicry by the IAPV IGR IRES facilitates IRES-mediated translation and reading frame selection.
Additional file 1 of Identification and characterization of a Babesia bigemina thrombospondin-related superfamily member, TRAP-1: a novel antigen containing neutralizing epitopes involved in merozoite invasion
Creators: name: Montenegro, Valeria Noely
name: Paoletta, Martina Soledad
name: Jaramillo Ortiz, José M.
name: Suarez, Carlos E.
name: Wilkowsky, Silvina Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Tables T1 and T2. Summary of relevant information of all TRAP (Table T1) and TRP (Table T2) family members. Accession numbers are from PiroplasmaDB database except those marked with a superscript a (a) which are NCBI accession numbers. bSee reference of TRAP-2 of B. orientalis [9]. cID obtained from genome annotation. Domains are: SP, vWFA, TSP-1, TM, and acidic CTD with a tryptophan residue close to the C-terminus (W). Orthology group is according to OrthoMCL database release 6.1. N/A Not available. Fig. S1 Hypothetical 3D structure of BbiTRAP-1-3 as cartoon and surface structures. Fig. S2 Analysis of samples from Babesia bigemina-infected bovines by the merozoite and BbiTRAP-1 ELISA tests. Fig. S3 a Flow cytometry dot plots associated to the neutralization assays. Hydroethidine-stained cultures were analyzed by flow cytometry and the number of gated events was recorded on a fluorescence (BluFL2) versus side scatter (SSC) dot plot. The assays were performed in triplicate and the experiment was repeated twice. To set up the thresholds of the gating strategy we used a non-infected control containing only RBC (a) and a control of iRBC without the addition of serum (b). Pre-immunization (c) and post-immunization serum (d) refer to the mice inoculation with BiTRAP-1. b Average parasitemias and standard deviations were calculated from triplicates, as described in a. Asterisks represent statistically significant differences according to Student’s t test (P
Additional file 10 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S8. Association between total disability status and demographic profile of the participants (N = 30).
Constraint on the early Universe by relic gravitational waves: From pulsar timing observations
Creators: name: Zhao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent pulsar timing observations by the Parkers Pulsar Timing Array and European Pulsar Timing Array teams obtained the constraint on the relic gravitational waves at the frequency $f_*=1/{\rm yr}$, which provides the opportunity to constrain $H_*$, the Hubble parameter when these waves crossed the horizon during inflation. In this paper, we investigate this constraint by considering the general scenario for the early Universe: we assume that the effective (average) equation-of-state $w$ before the big bang nucleosynthesis stage is a free parameter. In the standard hot big-bang scenario with $w=1/3$, we find that the current PPTA result follows a bound $H_*\leq 1.15\times10^{-1}\mpl$, and the EPTA result follows $H_*\leq 6.92\times10^{-2}\mpl$. We also find that these bounds become much tighter in the nonstandard scenarios with $w>1/3$. When $w=1$, the bounds become $H_*\leq5.89\times10^{-3}\mpl$ for the current PPTA and $H_*\leq3.39\times10^{-3}\mpl$ for the current EPTA. In contrast, in the nonstandard scenario with $w=0$, the bound becomes $H_*\leq7.76\mpl$ for the current PPTA.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, PRD in press
Goodness-of-Fit tests with Dependent Observations
Creators: name: Chicheportiche, Remy
name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91B84, 62P20, 62M10, 60F05

description: We revisit the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Cramér-von Mises goodness-of-fit (GoF) tests and propose a generalisation to identically distributed, but dependent univariate random variables. We show that the dependence leads to a reduction of the "effective" number of independent observations. The generalised GoF tests are not distribution-free but rather depend on all the lagged bivariate copulas. These objects, that we call "self-copulas", encode all the non-linear temporal dependences. We introduce a specific, log-normal model for these self-copulas, for which a number of analytical results are derived. An application to financial time series is provided. As is well known, the dependence is to be long-ranged in this case, a finding that we confirm using self-copulas. As a consequence, the acceptance rates for GoF tests are substantially higher than if the returns were iid random variables.
description: 26 pages
Additional file 11 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Table S9. Association between total HRQoL and demographic profile of the participants (N = 30).
Some Field Theoretic Issues Regarding the Chiral Magnetic Effect
Creators: name: Hou, Defu
name: Liu, Hui
name: Ren, Hai-cang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact of the infrared divergence is examined. Some subtleties on the relation between the chiral magnetic effect and the axial anomaly are clarified through a careful examination of the infrared limit of the relevant thermal diagrams.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures in Latex. Typos fixed, version accepted to be published in JHEP
Additional file 12 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 12: Table S10. Changes in economic burden, disability status and quality of life of NTD and non-NTD patients who completed self-care.
CD44 as a Hematopoietic stem cell marker
Creators: name: Singh, Rahul
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2011
Subjects: CD44
Hematopoietic stem cell
Apoptosis
Quiescence
Mitochondrial depolarization

description: CD44 expression on hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) has been shown to be required for homing into the osteogenic niche. CD44 expression in HSC and bone marrow stroma contribute to the maintenance of quiescence and apoptosis resistance. A blockade of CD44 retarded growth and promoted apoptosis of leukemic cells via mitochondrial depolarization that is accompanied by caspase-9 cleavage. Apoptosis is initiated by activation of CD44 associated phosphatase 2A and proceeds via ERK1/2 dephosphorylation.
A Light impurity in an Equilibrium Gas
Creators: name: D'Alessio, L.
name: Krapivsky, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of a light impurity particle in a Lorentz gas where the background atoms are in thermal equilibrium. As in the standard Lorentz gas, we assume that the particle is negligibly light in comparison with the background atoms. The thermal motion of atoms causes the average particle speed to grow. In the case of the hard-sphere particle-atom interaction, the temporal growth is ballistic, while generally it is sub-linear. For the particle-atom potential that diverges as r^{-λ} in the small separation limit, the average particle speed grows as t^{λ/(2(d-1)+ λ)} in d dimensions. The particle displacement exhibits a universal growth, linear in time and the average (thermal) speed of the atoms. Surprisingly, the asymptotic growth is independent on the gas density and the particle-atom interaction. The velocity and position distributions approach universal scaling forms which are non-Gaussian. We determine the velocity distribution in arbitrary dimension and for arbitrary interaction exponent λ. For the hard-sphere particle-atom interaction, we compute the position distribution and the joint velocity-position distribution.
description: version 2, 22 pages, 9 figures
An analysis of the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
Creators: name: Tobayama, Shimpei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This thesis presents an analysis of the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos observed in Super-Kamiokande, a large underground water Cherenkov detector in Japan. The observed atmospheric neutrino events are reconstructed and selected using a newly developed maximum likelihood event reconstruction algorithm, and a Markov chain Monte Carlo technique is employed to present the results on neutrino oscillation parameters as marginalized Bayesian posterior probabilities. The result of analyzing the SK-IV data of 2520 days exposure shows a preference for normal mass hierarchy with the posterior probability of 85.9%, and the mode and the 68% credible interval of each oscillation parameter’s marginalized 1D posterior probability distribution for normal hierarchy are sin² θ₂₃=0.606⁺⁰·⁰⁴⁴₋₀.₁₁₈ and Δm²₃₂=2.13⁺⁰·¹⁷₋₀.₃₈ ×10-³ eV².
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Baseline Questionnaire: Assessment of Economic Burden, Disability and Quality of Life of Patients with NTDs in Rural Nigeria.
On the gauge-algebra dependence of Landau-gauge Yang-Mills propagators
Creators: name: Maas, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Yang-Mills theory can be formulated for any semi-simple Lie algebra, and thus any semi-simple Lie group. In principle, the dynamics could be different for each one. However, functional studies predict that the propagators in Landau gauge depend only quantitatively on the gauge algebra. In particular, genuine non-perturbative effects should be present even in the large N-limit for su(N) gauge algebras. Lattice gauge theory is used to investigate this in detail. The propagators are determined for the gauge groups SU(2), SU(3), SU(4), SU(5), SU(6) and G2, in two and three dimensions. In accordance with the prediction no qualitative dependence on the gauge group is found. In particular, no diminishing of non-perturbative contributions is found for N becoming large in the SU(N) case. Quantitative effects are found, and analyzed in detail.
description: 33 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables; v2: minor changes, version to appear in JHEP
Der Baustellenleitstand: Shop-Floor-Management im Bauwesen
Creators: name: Hofacker, Alexander
name: Hickethier, Gernot
name: Bregenhorn, Tobias
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2011

description: Der Baustellenleitstand stellt eine Methodik des Shop-Floor-Managementsystems für Baustellen dar. Das Konzept beruht auf SFM-Ansätzen aus der Automobilindustrie, die mit Methoden der Prozessvisualisierung und Steuerung aus der Bauindustrie in Japan und Brasilien gekoppelt sind, sodass ein für deutsche Baustellen anwendbares Kennzahlen- und Kommunikationskonzept entsteht.
Simulation der Teilkörperdosis bei Bewegungsabläufen in inhomogenen zeitvarianten Beta-/Photonen-Strahlungsfeldern
Creators: name: Blunck, Christoph
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Strahlenschutz
Nuklearmedizin
Exposition der Hände
Simulationen

description: Beim Umgang mit offenen Radionukliden, zum Beispiel in der Nuklearmedizin, sind erhebliche lokale, inhomogen verteilte Dosen an den Händen möglich, die nur schwer quantifizierbar sind. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurde ein Verfahren entwickelt, Handhabungen mit Strahlenquellen anhand der Informationen aus den Bildern eines Multikamerasystems zu modellieren und die Dosis mit dem Monte-Carlo-Code MCNPX zu simulieren.
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Endline Questionnaire: Assessment of Economic Burden, Disability and Quality of Life of Patients with NTDs in Rural Nigeria.
Quality Assurance in Corporate Financial Planning - A Process- and Data-Driven Perspective
Creators: name: Martin, Jochen
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Corporate Financial Planning
Data Quality
Business Process Redesign
Data Analyses
Benford's Law

description: This thesis addresses process and data related challenges and contains two parts: the first process-driven part evaluates the effect of corporate financial planning redesign based on a business process redesign model for multinational enterprises. The second data-driven research part comes up with new quality metrics for financial planning data and their benchmarking against the quality dimension accuracy. Both research parts are investigated through evaluation studies based on empirical data.
title: MNHN-HA-4314 (N° SV: 4314b) Left Os coxae
Creators: name: Adrien Thibeault
name: Villotte, Sébastien
name: PACEA
name: Université de Bordeaux
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2021

description: Adult CM1 - Note : Same MNHN number for several fragments
Reasoning-Supported Quality Assurance for Knowledge Bases
Creators: name: Nikitina, Nadeschda
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012

description: The increasing application of ontology reuse and automated knowledge acquisition tools in ontology engineering brings about a shift of development efforts from knowledge modeling towards quality assurance. Despite the high practical importance, there has been a substantial lack of support for ensuring semantic accuracy and conciseness. In this thesis, we make a significant step forward in ontology engineering by developing a support for two such essential quality assurance activities.
Non-extremal Kerr black holes as particle accelerators
Creators: name: Gao, Sijie
name: Zhong, Changchun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown that extremal Kerr black holes can be used as particle accelerators and arbitrarily high energy may be obtained near the event horizon. We study particle collisions near the event horizon (outer horizon) and Cauchy horizon (inner horizon) of a non-extremal Kerr black hole. Firstly, we provide a general proof showing that particles cannot collide with arbitrarily high energies at the outter horizon. Secondly, we show that ultraenergetic collisions can occur near the inner horizon of a Kerr black hole with any spin parameter $a$.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. A few minor changes
Additional file 3 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Access to water supply and environmental sanitation at baseline.
Design for Customer - Methodik für nachhaltige Kundenlösungen unter Zuhilfenahme eines bedürfnisorientierten Leistungskonfigurators
Creators: name: Burger, Alexander
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: Kundenlösungen
Anforderungsmanagement
Konfiguration
Design for Customer
Hybride Wertschöpfung

description: Die im Rahmen des Forschungsvorhabens entwickelte Methodik ?Design for Customer?stellt einen Ansatz zur Integration des Kunden in die Prozesse von Lösungsanbietern bereit, auf Basis dessen die Anforderungen und Wünsche des Kunden kontinuierlich erfasst und in die Entwicklungsprozesse integriert werden können. Die Kundenintegration erfolgt aus Grundlage eines bedürfnisorientierten Lösungskonfigurators, der eine Konfiguration über Kundennutzen und Kundenbedürfnissen erlaubt.
Thermodynamische Eigenschaften von K- und Co-substituierten BaFe2As2-Supraleitern in magnetischen Feldern
Creators: name: Burger, Philipp
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Der supraleitende Übergang in verschiedenen Systemen der Eisen-basierten Supraleiter wurde mittels thermodynamischer Messmethoden, wie thermischer Ausdehnung, spezifischer Wärme, Magnetisierung und Magnetostriktion untersucht. Dabei stand die thermische Ausdehnung im Mittelpunkt und es konnte eine Vielfalt an unterschiedlichen Effekten beobachtet werden.
Modell für das nachhaltige Immobilien-Portfoliomanagement betrieblicher Büro-Bestandsbauten
Creators: name: Schneider, Daniela
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: Nachhaltigkeit
Immobilien
Portfoliomanagement
Büro
Bestandsbauten

description: Als einer der größten Ressourcenverbraucher und Schadstoffemittenten rückt der Gebäudesektor verstärkt ins Interesse der Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussion. Informationen zur ökologischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Qualität von Gebäuden werden unablässig. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es deshalb, ein Modell für das nachhaltige Immobilien-Portfoliomanagement international tätiger Großkonzerne mit einem entsprechend umfassenden und heterogenen Büro-Bestandsbautenportfolio zu entwickeln.
Prime numbers and spontaneous neuron activity
Creators: name: Bershadskii, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Logarithmic gaps have been used in order to find a periodic component of the sequence of prime numbers, hidden by a random noise (stochastic or chaotic). It is shown that multiplicative nature of the noise is the main reason for the successful application of the logarithmic gaps transforming the multiplicative noise into an additive one. A relation of this phenomenon to spontaneous neuron activity and to chaotic brain computations has been discussed.
description: extended
Mechanismen der Korrosion bei ultrahochfestem Beton
Creators: name: Scheydt, Jennifer Christine
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: ultrahochfester Beton
Korrosion
Dauerhaftigkeit
Langzeitverhalten
Widerstand

description: Innerhalb eines umfassenden experimentellen Programms wurde das Langzeitverhalten insbesondere ultrahochfester Betone beim korrosiven Angriff untersucht und in dieser Dissertation dargelegt. Es wurden diejenigen Mechanismen identifiziert, von denen der Korrosionswiderstand des Betons maßgebend abhängt. Auf Basis der Erkenntnisse erfolgte die Herleitung eines Modells zur rechnerischen Abschätzung des Korrosionswiderstands von Beton am Beispiel des Widerstands gegenüber dem chemischen Angriff.
Historical Perspective on Computational Star Formation
Creators: name: Larson, Richard B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This contribution contains the introductory historical remarks that I presented at IAU Symposium 270 on "Computational Star Formation" held in Barcelona, Spain, May 31 - June 4, 2010. I give a personal view of some of the early histoy of the subject and I comment on some of the important things that were learned from numerical work on star formation.
description: 5 pages, text only, to be published by Cambridge University Press in proceedings of IAU Symposium 270
Additional file 4 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. Baseline economic cost and burden to participants/family with NTDs and related impairments.
Spin dependent electron-phonon interaction in SmFeAsO by low-temperature Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Zhang, L.
name: Guan, P. F.
name: Feng, D. L.
name: Chen, X. H.
name: Xie, S. S.
name: Chen, M. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between spin dynamics and lattice vibration has been suggested as an important part of the puzzle of high-temperature superconductivity. Here we report the strong interaction between spin fluctuation and phonon in SmFeAsO, a parent compound of the iron arsenide family of superconductors, revealed by low-temperature Raman spectroscopy. Anomalous zone-boundary-phonon Raman scattering from spin superstructure was observed at temperatures below the antiferromagnetic ordering point, which offers compelling evidence on spin dependent electron-phonon coupling in pnictides.
Depletion of carriers and negative differential conductivity in an intrinsic graphene under a dc electric field
Creators: name: Romanets, P. N.
name: Vasko, F. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heating of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under an abrupt switching off a dc electric field is examined taking into account both the energy relaxation via acoustic and optic phonons and the interband generation-recombination processes. The later are caused by the interband transitions due to optical phonon modes and thermal radiation. Description of the temporal and steady-state responses, including the nonequilibrium concentration and energy as well as the current-voltage characteristics, is performed. At room temperature, a nearly-linear current-voltage characteristic and a slowly-varied concentration take place for fields up to -- 20 kV/cm. Since a predominant recombination of high-energy carriers due to optical phonon emission at low temperatures, a depletion of concentration takes place below -- 250 K. For lower temperatures the current tends to be saturated and a negative differential conductivity appears below -- 170 K in the region of fields -- 10 V/cm.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, extended version
Additional file 5 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Baseline disability quality-of-life (transformed to WHOQOL-BREF 100 Scale) status of the study participants according to gender (N = 48).
Pre-clinical targeting of enzalutamide-resistant prostate cancer
Creators: name: Toren, Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Prostate cancer causes morbidity and mortality for thousands of Canadian men each year. Castration remains the primary treatment for recurrent or metastatic prostate cancer. However, castration is never curative, and the cancer inevitably recurs as castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Newer androgen receptor (AR) antagonists such as enzalutamide(ENZ) demonstrate significant benefit in CRPC patients, but these agents remain non-curative. Therefore, the goal of this thesis was to explore novel strategies to target ENZ-resistant prostate cancer using previously developed models of resistance. Our models suggest that similar resistance patterns to CRPC may be found in ENZ-resistance, including the upregulation of steroidogenesis and activation of survival pathways such as the PI3K/Akt pathway. Unlike inhibition of the AR pathway, we found that inhibition of different nodes of the PI3K/Akt pathway had limited efficacy as monotherapy and we therefore focused on combination strategies to target this prominent survival pathway. We found that combined Akt and MEK pathway inhibition demonstrates only moderate synergy in AR-positive models of prostate cancer, and this did not appear significantly greater in ENZ-resistant than ENZ-sensitive prostate cancer. However, we did find that blockade of Akt signaling in combination with ENZ significantly delays the development of resistance to ENZ through a very significant induction of apoptosis and cell cycle arrest. Further, co-targeting of the Akt and AR pathways appears more effective at earlier stages of prostate cancer progression, when the tumours are still castrate-sensitive. Finally, to further evaluate the combination of PI3K/Akt pathway and AR blockade, we investigated the pre-clinical rationale for the use of bromodomain inhibitors, which indirectly targets both the AR and myc transcription factors. Upregulation of myc was observed following PI3K/Akt inhibition, but overall our studies did not support the combination of bromodomain inhibitors in combination with PI3K/Akt inhibition in prostate cancer models. Taken together, our pre-clinical results highlight several treatment strategies and pitfalls in targeting ENZ-resistant prostate cancer. These studies enhance our understanding of therapeutic approaches to target resistant prostate cancer with several novel agents and combination strategies. Further evaluation in clinical trials is warranted and ongoing.
Infancias vulneradas: violencia infantil, irrepresentabilidad y normalización en Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, Marina Herrera y Emiliano Monge
Creators: name: García Peña, Lilia Leticia
Publisher: name: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Year: 2021

description: Una condición relevante en el México de hoy es el incremento de los índices de violencia. Paralelamente se ha gestado la proliferación y generalización de una normalización cotidiana de la violencia como una realidad colateral emergente. Una de las aristas más lacerantes de la violencia social es la que vulnera a niñas, niños y adolescentes, no solo como seres que la sufren sino también como sujetos que la ejercen, un ángulo irrepresentable y ominoso de la niñez. Nos centraremos en el estudio de la representación de la normalización cotidiana de la violencia social infantil en tres escritores mexicanos actuales: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny, Marina Herrera y Emiliano Monge.
description: Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021): Childhood(s) in Latin America: diversities in tension
Constraints of dark matter direct detection experiments on the MSSM and implications for LHC Higgs searches
Creators: name: Cao, Junjie
name: Hikasa, Ken-ichi
name: Wang, Wenyu
name: Yang, Jin Min
name: Yu, Li-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming the lightest neutralino solely composes the cosmic dark matter, we examine the constraints of the CDMS-II and XENON100 dark matter direct searches on the parameter space of the MSSM Higgs sector. We find that the current CDMS-II/XENON100 limits can exclude some of the parameter space which survive the constraints from the dark matter relic density and various collider experiments. We also find that in the currently allowed parameter space, the charged Higgs boson is hardly accessible at the LHC for an integrated luminosity of 30 fb^{-1}, while the neutral non-SM Higgs bosons (H,A) may be accessible in some allowed region characterized by a large μ. The future XENON100 (6000 kg-days exposure) will significantly tighten the parameter space in case of nonobservation of dark matter, further shrinking the likelihood of discovering the non-SM Higgs bosons at the LHC.
description: Version in PRD (Rapid Communication) (figs, refs and discussions added)
BASR Poll: Radio Listening in America
Creators: name: Bureau Of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Radio (12); newspaper (3); magazine (1); school approval (1); newspaper approval (1); radio station approval (1); local government approval (1); church approval (1); certain things better if run by government or private business (6); daily news (1); both sides of public questions (2); radio time to certain news (3); newspaper space to certain news (3); advertising on radio (10); license fee for no advertising (1); radio regulation by Federal government or radio industry itself (5); movies (1); book reading (2); "The Hucksters" (2); when things don't go right (1). record production (3).
Additional file 6 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S4. Differences in baseline economic burden, disability status and quality of life of participants who maintained and did not maintain self-care.
Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Modified Gravity Spacetimes
Creators: name: Gair, Jonathan R.
name: Yunes, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole, are prime candidates for detection with space-borne milliHertz gravitational wave detectors, similar to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. The gravitational waves generated during such inspirals encode information about the background in which the small object is moving, providing a tracer of the spacetime geometry and a probe of strong-field physics. In this paper, we construct approximate, "analytic-kludge" waveforms for such inspirals with parameterized post-Einsteinian corrections that allow for generic, model-independent deformations of the supermassive black hole background away from the Kerr metric. These approximate waveforms include all of the qualitative features of true waveforms for generic inspirals, including orbital eccentricity and relativistic precession. The deformations of the Kerr metric are modeled using a recently proposed, modified gravity bumpy metric, which parametrically deforms the Kerr spacetime while ensuring that three approximate constants of the motion remain for geodesic orbits: a conserved energy, azimuthal angular momentum and Carter constant. The deformations represent modified gravity effects and have been analytically mapped to several modified gravity black hole solutions in four dimensions. In the analytic kludge waveforms, the conservative motion is modeled by a post-Newtonian expansion of the geodesic equations in the deformed spacetimes, which in turn induce modifications to the radiation-reaction force. These analytic-kludge waveforms serve as a first step toward complete and model-independent tests of General Relativity with extreme mass-ratio inspirals.
description: v1: 28 pages, no figures; v2: minor changes for consistency with accepted version, 2 figures added showing sample waveforms; accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 7 of Effectiveness of self-care interventions for integrated morbidity management of skin neglected tropical diseases in Anambra State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Eze, Chinwe C.
name: Ekeke, Ngozi
name: Alphonsus, Chukwuka
name: Lehman, Linda
name: Chukwu, Joseph N.
name: Nwafor, Charles C.
name: Stillwaggon, Eileen
name: Meka, Anthony O.
name: Sawers, Larry
name: Ikebudu, Joy
name: Anyim, Moses C.
name: Ukwaja, Kingsley N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. Morbidity burden of the participants before and after self-care programme, Anambra State (N = 30).