cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role of Yemeni Women Translators in The Time of War
Creators: name: Moneus, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200302 English Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The study sheds light on the role of Yemeni women in the humanitarian action particularly in translation field, in an attempt to identify the role of female interpreters in crisis, and community perception of their translation work. The study follows a qualitative analysis method based on semi structure interview. 10 female interpreters have been interviewed. This study is limited to Yemen context with literature reference to female interpreters working in conflict zones. The findings of the study indicate that the female interpreters working in conflict zones in Yemen are rare, and that the humanitarian organizations, despite being aware of the importance of gender, do not hire women to work in conflict zones due to fact that the work demands negotiation skills and the ability to work in hostile environment. Moreover, the cultural norms impose restrictions on female movement prevent women to travel alone and to work in remote jeopardy areas. There is a need for having female interpreters particularly in humanitarian action and health care sectors. Therefore, female interpreters are looking for the opportunity for engagement and inclusion in the community. As a conclusion, specific recommendations were made to suggest a new feasible approach to grant female interpreters the opportunity to work particularly in the health care sector which would support women, especially those in IDPs camps.
Levels of strategies used by care managers to deal with health IT-related barriers
Creators: name: LI, Yaqiong
name: CARAYON, Pascale
name: HUNDT, Ann Schoofs
name: KIANFAR, Sarah
name: HOONAKKER, Peter
name: SALEK, Doreen
name: TOMCAVAGE, Janet
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: Care managers play an important role in coordinating care for chronically ill patients. They encounter various barriers related to the use of multiple health information technologies (IT) to access and process patient-related information and coordinate patient care. Using combined interviews and observations with 14 care managers in outpatient physician practices and hospitals, we identified different levels of strategies used by care managers in dealing with health IT-related barriers. These include individual (e.g., using a different system to find necessary information), team (e.g., getting help from other care managers) and organizational (e.g., reporting problems to their supervisor) strategies.
Effects of a health worker-led 3-month yoga intervention on blood pressure of hypertensive patients: a randomised controlled multicentre trial in the primary care setting
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Allied health and rehabilitation science not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Hypertension control remains a major challenge globally. A recent systematic review suggested that yoga has beneficial effects on reducing blood pressure. However, the role of yoga in hypertension management in primary health care has received little attention, and no studies have evaluated the impact of a yoga program fully delivered by health care staff on hypertension. This study, therefore, assessed the effects of a health worker-led yoga intervention on blood pressure reduction among hypertensives patients in the primary care setting. Methods: This was a multicentric, two-arm, randomised trial conducted among hypertensive patients in seven Ayurveda Health Centres in Nepal between March 2017 and June 2018. One hundred and twenty-one participants who were on or without medications were randomised to intervention (n = 61) and wait-list control (n = 60) groups using stratified block randomisation. Participants in the intervention arm received an intervention consisting of an initial five-day structured yoga training at the centres and then a further home-based practice of yoga for five days a week for the following 90 days. Both intervention and control groups also participated in a 2-h health education session. The primary outcome of this trial was systolic blood pressure at 90-day follow-up. Data were analysed on an intention-to-treat basis using linear mixed-effects regression models. Results: We included all 121 study participants (intervention/control = 61/60) in the primary analysis (52.1% males; mean ± SD age = 47.8 ± 10.8 years). The difference in systolic blood pressure between the intervention group and the control group was − 7.66 mmHg (95% CI: − 10.4, − 4.93). For diastolic blood pressure, the difference was − 3.86 mmHg (95% CI: − 6.65, − 1.06). No adverse events were reported by the participants. Conclusions: A yoga program for hypertensive patients consisting of a five-day training in health centres and 90 days of practice at home is effective for reducing blood pressure. Significant benefits for hypertensive patients could be expected if such programmes would become a part of the standard treatment practice. Trial registration: This trial was prospectively registered with the Clinical Trial Registry of India [CTRI/2017/02/007822] on 10/02/2017.
Motor and Non-motor Features: Differences between Patients with Isolated Essential Tremor and Patients with Both Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Ghika, Apostolia
name: Kyrozis, Andreas
name: Potagas, Constantinos
name: Louis, Elan D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences

description: Background: Patients with essential tremor (ET) who develop Parkinson’s disease (ET->PD) may differ with respect to motor features (MFs) and non-motor features (NMFs) from patients with isolated ET. Few studies have assessed this issue.

Methods: In this retrospective chart review, we analyzed data on MFs and NMFs of 175 patients, including 54 ET->PD and 121 ET, actively followed in the Athens University 1st Neurology Department.

Results: Significantly more ET->PD than ET patients reported asymmetric tremor at ET onset (68.5% vs. 14.9%, p<0.001).  Significantly more ET than ET->PD patients had head tremor (43.5% vs. 13.2%, p<0.001) and cerebellar signs (41.3% vs. 9.3%, p<0.001). More ET than ET->PD patients reported hearing impairment (65.3% vs. 28.3%, p<0.001) and restless legs syndrome (34.8% vs. 3.7%, p<0.001). Conversely, a larger proportion of ET->PD than ET patients reported rapid eye movement behavior disorder (51.9% vs. 10.0%, p<0.001), constipation (67.9% vs. 36.4%, p<0.001), and olfactory dysfunction (83.3% vs. 36.4%, p<0.001).

Discussion: The subset of ET->PD patients may have distinct MFs and NMFs that should be assessed further for the possible predictive value for the emergence of PD.
Revisiting the Spectral-Energy Correlations of GRBs with {\it Fermi} Data I: Model-wise Properties
Creators: name: Li, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit a diversity of spectra. Several spectral models (e.g., Band, cutoff power-law, and blackbody) and their hybrid versions (e.g., Band+blackbody) have been widely used to fit the observed GRB spectra. Here, we attempt to collect all the bursts detected by {\it Fermi}-GBM with known redshifts from July 2008 to May 2022, motivated to (i) provide a parameter catalog independent from the official \emph{Fermi}/GBM team and (ii) achieve a ``clean" model-based GRB spectral-energy correlation analysis. A nearly complete GRB sample was created, containing 153 such bursts (136 long gamma-ray bursts and 17 short gamma-ray bursts). Using the sample and by performing detailed spectral analysis and model comparisons, we investigate two GRB spectral-energy correlations: the cosmological rest-frame peak energy ($E_{\rm p,z}$) of the $νF_ν$ prompt emission spectrum correlated with (i) the isotropic-bolometric-equivalent emission energy $E_{γ, \rm iso}$ (the Amati relation), and (ii) the isotropic-bolometric-equivalent peak luminosity $L_{\rm p, iso}$ (the Yonetoku relation). From a linear regression analysis, a tight correlation between $E_{\rm p,z}$ and $E_{γ, \rm iso}$ (and $L_{γ,\rm iso}$) is found for both the Band-like and CPL-like bursts. More interestingly, the CPL-like bursts do not fall on the Band-like burst Amati and Yonetoku correlations, suggesting distinct radiation processes, and pointing towards the fact that these spectral-energy correlations are tightly reliant on the model-wise properties.
description: 35 pages, 7 figures including 24 panels, 7 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
HEVAL: Yet Another Human Evaluation Metric
Creators: name: Joshi, Nisheeth
name: Mathur, Iti
name: Darbari, Hemant
name: Kumar, Ajai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine translation evaluation is a very important activity in machine translation development. Automatic evaluation metrics proposed in literature are inadequate as they require one or more human reference translations to compare them with output produced by machine translation. This does not always give accurate results as a text can have several different translations. Human evaluation metrics, on the other hand, lacks inter-annotator agreement and repeatability. In this paper we have proposed a new human evaluation metric which addresses these issues. Moreover this metric also provides solid grounds for making sound assumptions on the quality of the text produced by a machine translation.
Quantum critical point and superconducting dome in the pressure phase diagram of o-TaS3
Creators: name: Monteverde, M.
name: Lorenzana, J.
name: Monceau, P.
name: Núñez-Regueiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the electrical resistance of o-TaS3 between 1K and 300K under pressures up to 20GPa. We observe a gradual decrease of the charge density wave transition temperature with increasing pressure P following a mean-field quantum fluctuation power law with a quantum critical point at a pressure Pc = 11.5GPa. Around the quantum critical point we observe a superconducting dome with a maximum superconducting transition temperature Tc = 3.1K. Such dome is similar to superconducting domes around other types of order suggesting that the QCP is directly responsible for the enhancement of superconductivity through a universal mechanism still not well understood.
description: To be published in PRB as a Rapid Communication. 11 pages with 4 figures
The $O(α_s^2)$ Heavy Quark Corrections to Charged Current Deep-Inelastic Scattering at large Virtualities
Creators: name: Blümlein, Johannes
name: Hasselhuhn, Alexander
name: Pfoh, Torsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the $O(α_s^2)$ heavy flavor corrections to charged current deep-inelastic scattering at large scales $Q^2 \gg m^2$. The contributing Wilson coefficient are given as convolutions between massive operator matrix elements and massless Wilson coefficients. Foregoing results in the literature are extended and corrected. Numerical results are presented for the kinematic region of the HERA data.
description: 41 pages latex, 7 figures, 2 style files
Self-reported pain and trunk posture during pruning activity among vineyard workers at the Château Larose-Trintaudon
Creators: name: BALAGUIER, Romain
name: MADELEINE, Pascal
name: HLAVACKOVA, Petra
name: ROSE-DULCINA, Kévin
name: DIOT, Bruno
name: VUILLERME, Nicolas
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: This paper presents the first stage of our project aiming at preventing workrelated
musculoskeletal disorders and improving work conditions for the Château Larose-
Trintaudon (Saint-Laurent Médoc, France) vineyard workers: an ergonomic assessment of vine pruning activity was conducted. Self-reported musculoskeletal pain increased throughout the working day in the lower back region. Furthermore, video analysis during real working conditions revealed that pruning activity exposed vineyard workers to a high risk of developing WMSD. The vineyard workers frequently adopted trunk-thigh postures considered ‘extreme’. The present ergonomic evaluation strongly suggests that back pain is an important health issue among the vineyard worker population.
Noncontact frictional force between surfaces by peristaltic permittivity modulation
Creators: name: Oue, Daigo
name: Ding, Kun
name: Pendry, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we reveal noncontact frictional forces between surfaces in the presence of peristaltic permittivity modulation. Our setup comprises a conducting medium, an air gap, and a dielectric substrate on which we have a space-time-modulated grating that emits electromagnetic radiation. The radiation receives energy and momentum from the grating, which is eventually absorbed by the conducting medium or propagates away from the grating on the dielectric side, resulting in electromagnetic power loss and lateral forces at the surfaces.
Classifying multi-level stress responses from brain cortical EEG in Nurses and Non-health professionals using Machine Learning Auto Encoder
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Nursing workforce

description: Objective: Mental stress is a major problem in our society and has become an area of interest for many psychiatric researchers. One primary research focus area is the identification of bio-markers that not only identify stress but also predict the conditions (or tasks) that cause stress. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) have been used for a long time to study and identify bio-markers. While these bio-markers have successfully predicted stress in EEG studies for binary conditions, their performance is suboptimal for multiple conditions of stress. Methods: To overcome this challenge, we propose using latent based representations of the bio-markers, which have been shown to significantly improve EEG performance compared to traditional bio-markers alone. We evaluated three commonly used EEG based bio-markers for stress, the brain load index (BLI), the spectral power values of EEG frequency bands (alpha, beta and theta), and the relative gamma (RG), with their respective latent representations using four commonly used classifiers. Results: The results show that spectral power value based bio-markers had a high performance with an accuracy of 83%, while the respective latent representations had an accuracy of 91%.
Creditor control and conflict in Chapter 11
Creators: name: Morrison, Edward R.
name: Ayotte, Kenneth M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Bankruptcy
subject: Debtor and creditor
subject: Federal rules of bankruptcy procedure (United States. Supreme Court)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: We analyze a sample of large privately and publicly held businesses that filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions during 2001. We find pervasive creditor control. In contrast to traditional views of Chapter 11, equity holders and managers exercise little or no leverage during the reorganization process. 70 percent of CEOs are replaced in the two years before a bankruptcy filing, and few reorganization plans (at most 12 percent) deviate from the absolute priority rule to distribute value to equity holders. Senior lenders exercise significant control through stringent covenants, such as line-item budgets, in loans extended to firms in bankruptcy. Unsecured creditors gain leverage through objections and other court motions. We also find that bargaining between secured and unsecured creditors can distort the reorganization process. A Chapter 11 case is significantly more likely to result in a sale if secured lenders are oversecured, consistent with a secured creditor-driven fire-sale bias. A sale is much less likely when these lenders are undersecured or when the firm has no secured debt at all. Our results suggest that the advent of creditor control has not eliminated the fundamental inefficiency of the bankruptcy process: resource allocation questions (whether to sell or reorganize a firm) are ultimately confounded with distributional questions (how much each creditor will receive) due to conflict among creditor classes.
Recombinant Melody: Ten Things to Love About Willaert's Music
Creators: name: Schubert, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Music

description: Willaert's music was much celebrated in its own time. Today, however, musicologists find little to praise outside of its sonorous richness and sensitivity to text. Its seamlessness and contrapuntal density seem to be respected but not loved. In the following pages, I propose that the powerful expressive potential of this music lies beneath the apparently seamless surface in the details of its contrapuntal complexity. Singling out a handful of "especially tuneful pieces" is a dead end-most of Willaert's music is melodically very uniform. However, it is this very uniformity that permits the contrapuntal manipulations that are the basis for an expressiveness based not on melody alone, but on combinations of melodies. Performers willing to examine the details of its construction and draw conclusions about Willaert's intentions will discover a highly expressive music, leading to lively performance, filled with contrast.
Active commuting and leisure-time physical activity among adults in western Nepal: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Exercise physiology

description: Objective To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic factors associated with active commuting and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among adults in western Nepal. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Adults from semiurban areas in western Nepal. Participants 2815 adults aged 25-65 years who participated in the 'Community-Based Management of Hypertension in Nepal (COBIN)' Study. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify the sociodemographic factors associated with active commuting and LTPA. Outcome Self-reported participation in active commuting and LTPA. Results Most study participants (96%) commuted actively (walked or cycled) from one place to another. Our results showed that only a small proportion (3.7%) of participants engaged in moderate or vigorous LTPA. Compared with those in paid employment, the odds of commuting actively were higher among people working in agriculture or as labourers (OR: 4.57, 95% CI: 2.46 to 8.48), those retired/unemployed (OR: 2.98, 95% CI: 1.42 to 6.25) and those in unpaid employment (OR: 1.85, 95% CI: 1.06 to 3.22). Adults who were overweight or had obesity were less likely to commute actively. Compared with adults aged 25-34 years, older adults were less likely (OR: 0.35, 95% CI: 0.17 to 0.72) to engage in LTPA. Women were 0.46 times less likely to engage in LTPA compared with men. Conclusion Most adults engaged in active commuting for work or travel. Less than 5% participated in any form of moderate or vigorous LTPA. Longitudinal studies incorporating objective assessment of physical activity and a range of individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors will help understand how to promote active commuting and LTPA among Nepalese adults. Trial registration number: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02428075.
Stress Evolution in Composite Silicon Electrodes during Lithiation/Delithiation
Creators: name: Sethuraman, Vijay A.
name: Nguyen, Annam
name: Chon, Michael J.
name: Nadimpalli, Siva P. V.
name: Wang, Hailong
name: Abraham, Daniel P.
name: Bower, Allan F.
name: Shenoy, Vivek B.
name: Guduru, Pradeep R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report real-time average stress measurements on composite silicon electrodes made with two different binders [Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)] during electrochemical lithiation and delithiation. During galvanostatic lithiation at very slow rates, the stress in a CMC-based electrode becomes compressive and increases to 70 MPa, where it reaches a plateau and increases slowly thereafter with capacity. The PVDF-based electrode exhibits similar behavior, although with lower peak compressive stress of about 12 MPa. These initial experiments indicate that the stress evolution in a Si composite electrode depends strongly on the mechanical properties of the binder. Stress data obtained from a series of lithiation/delithiation cycles suggests plasticity induced irreversible shape changes in contacting Si particles, and as a result, the stress response of the system during any given lithiation/delithiation cycle depends on the cycling history of the electrode. While these results constitute the first in-situ stress measurements on composite Si electrodes during electrochemical cycling, the diagnostic technique described herein can be used to assess the mechanical response of a composite electrode made with other active material/binder combinations.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
The relationship between neurocognitive performance and HRV parameters in nurses and non-healthcare participants
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Community and primary care

description: Nurses represent the largest sector of the healthcare workforce, and it is established that they are faced with ongoing physical and mental demands that leave many continuously stressed. In turn, this chronic stress may affect cardiac autonomic activity, which can be non-invasively evaluated using heart rate variability (HRV). The association between neurocognitive parameters during acute stress situations and HRV has not been previously explored in nurses compared to non-nurses and such, our study aimed to assess these differences. Neurocognitive data were obtained using the Mini-Mental State Examination and Cognistat psychometric questionnaires. ECG-derived HRV parameters were acquired during the Trier Social Stress Test. Between-group differences were found in domain-specific cognitive performance for the similarities (p =.03), and judgment (p =.002) domains and in the following HRV parameters: SDNNbaseline, (p =.004), LFpreparation (p =.002), SDNNpreparation (p =.002), HFpreparation (p =.02), and TPpreparation (p =.003). Negative correlations were found between HF power and domain-specific cognitive performance in nurses. In contrast, both negative and positive correlations were found between HRV and domain-specific cognitive performance in the non-nurse group. The current findings highlight the prospective use of autonomic HRV markers in relation to cognitive performance while building a relationship between autonomic dysfunction and cognition.
Memantine-induced Myoclonus in a Patient with Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Murgai, Aditya A.
name: LeDoux, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences

description: Background: Myoclonus can be a clinical manifestation of numerous neurodegenerative disorders and an adverse drug reaction to medications used in their treatment.

Case report: Herein, we report memantine-induced myoclonus in a patient with Alzheimer disease. The myoclonus seen in our patient was generalized (proximal limbs and trunk), present at rest and with action, and stimulus sensitive. A structured evaluation with the Unified Myoclonus Rating Scale showed that that myoclonus had no significant effect on functional capacity. After discontinuation of memantine, myoclonus slowly resolved over the course of several weeks.

Discussion: Memantine may cause myoclonus in susceptible individuals.
Two-loop QCD corrections to the $V\to q\bar{q}g$ helicity amplitudes with axial-vector couplings
Creators: name: Gehrmann, Thomas
name: Peraro, Tiziano
name: Tancredi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the two-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the coupling of a massive vector boson to a massless quark-antiquark pair and a gluon, accounting for vector and axial-vector couplings of the vector boson and distinguishing isospin non-singlet and singlet contributions. A new four-dimensional basis for the decomposition of the amplitudes into 12 invariant tensor structures is introduced. The associated form factors are then computed up to two loops in QCD using dimensional regularization. After performing renormalization and infrared subtraction, the finite parts of the renormalized non-singlet vector and axial-vector form factors are shown agree with each other, and to reproduce the previously known two-loop amplitudes. The singlet axial-vector amplitude receives a contribution from the axial anomaly from two loops onwards. This amplitude is computed for massless and massive internal quarks. Our results provide the last missing two-loop amplitudes entering the NNLO QCD corrections of vector-boson-plus-jet production at hadron colliders.
description: version 3: added missing term in the renormalization of the pure-singlet axial contribution, eq (4.13) and updated ancillary files
Kinetic study of a single and binary biosorption of cadmium and lead onto the dead acquatic plant Lemna Gibba. Biosorption of heavy metals by a dead aquatic plant
Creators: name: Aggoun, A.
name: Meddour, R.
name: Benmaamar, Z.
name: Boutoumi, Y.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2023

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 13 (2023)
description: Cadmium and lead are recognized as toxic heavy metals even at low concentrations. Thus, their removal is required. The present paper deals with the use of a natural low-cost and environmentally friendly material as a bioadsorbent obtained from a dead aquatic plant (Lemna gibba). The biosorption of Cd and Pb individually or in combination was studies under different experimental conditions such as time effect (0-240 min), concentration of metal ion (0.1 and 1 mg/L), adsorbent dose (0.10, 0.25 and 0.50 g) to examine the operational factors impact on heavy metals removal effectiveness. The dead biomass was characterized by FTIR to provide information about the functional groups responsible of biosorption. Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy was employed to perform quantitative measurement of Cd and Pb (ICP-OES). For the kinetic investigation, pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order, models were used. The experimental results demonstrated that lead and cadmium adsorption onto Lemna gibba powder occurred quickly, with equilibrium being reached in 120 minutes and 30 minutes, respectively. At 0.1, the greatest removal efficiencies were 84.01% of Pb and 93% of Cd . At 1 mg/L, 73.82%, and 88% of Pb and Cd were removed respectively. After 180 minutes, both metals were effectively eliminated (90%) from the binary system that was contaminated with 0.1 mg/L of each metal. At 1 mg/L for each element, Pb was removed 86% after 90 minutes, and Cd clearance was less (54%).
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 13 (2023)
Untersuchungen zur Wirkung von vier verschiedenen Lignanen auf humane Mammaepithelzellen
Creators: name: Solf, Friederike Christiane
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Die Lignane Secoisolariciresinol, Matairesinol, Enterodiol und Enterolacton zeigten eine konzentrationsabhängige antiproliferative Wirkung auf humane Mammaepithelzellen mit unterschiedlicher Dignität und Rezeptorstatus in-vitro. Der Einfluss auf unveränderte Mammazellen war dabei gering, ohne signifikanten proliferationssteigernden oder zytotoxischen Effekt. Mit der Expression des Estrogenrezeptor β bietet insbesondere die in der Klinik als triple-negative klassifizierte, mit schlechter Prognose assoziierte Mammakarzinomzelllinie Hs 578T das Potenzial eines zusätzlichen Therapieansatzes.
The plants of Jericho. The earliest cultivars between symbiosis and domestication
Creators: name: Nigro, L.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2023

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 13 (2023)
description: The central core of this article is to testify through the exemplary case study, for antiquity and complexity, of Tell es-Sultan/ ancient Jericho in Palestine, how archaeology and archaeobotany can help us to understand the peculiar relationship developed between a human community and specific plants, the cultivation of which blossomed over the centuries. If we put emphasis on human initiative we talk about domestication, however if we want to have a look from the perspective of reciprocal adaptability of plants and humans we could perhaps speak of symbiosis. The excavations conducted for more than a century at Tell es-Sultan by four archaeological expeditions have returned a large collection of archaeobotanical finds (Hopf, 1969; 1983; 2008; Moricca et al., 2020), that have been retrieved thanks to the abilities of the archaeologists, but above all thanks to the extraordinary climatic conditions of the site, that allowed to preserve them for millennia. This is due to the geological characteristics of the Jericho soil, to the morphology of the archaeological site, and to its paleoclimatic conditions (Mimi Jamous, 2010; Ighbareyeh, 2019). However, this significant amount of botanical data has been only partially studied, focusing on specific periods of the ancient settlement. In the present contribution, I intend to offer a sketch summary of some salient historical-archaeological themes, with respect to which the archaeobotanical data known so far either provides curious and stimulating indications or suggests the need to further deepen the research. In this preliminary work, I focus on Pre-Pottery Neolithic, the period of the first great cultural flourish of Jericho, roughly between 11,000 and 6,000 BC, hoping that the readers of this journal will be inspired to study more in depth and extensively what the excavations of Jericho have made available, contributing to the knowledge of the site.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 13 (2023)
Extended string field theory for massless higher-spin fields
Creators: name: Asano, Masako
name: Kato, Mitsuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new gauge field theory which is an extension of ordinary string field theory by assembling multiple state spaces of the bosonic string. The theory includes higher spin fields in its massless spectrum together with the infinite tower of massive fields. From the theory, we can easily extract the minimal gauge invariant quadratic action for tensor fields with any symmetry. As examples, we explicitly derive the gauge invariant actions for some simple mixed symmetric tensor fields. We also construct covariantly gauge-fixed action by extending the method developed for string field theory.
description: 29 pages
Bargaining around Bankruptcy: Small Business Workouts and State Law
Creators: name: Morrison, Edward R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Bankruptcy
subject: Federal aid to small business
subject: Federal rules of bankruptcy procedure (United States. Supreme Court)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Federal bankruptcy law is rarely used by distressed small businesses. For every 100 that suspend operations, at most 20 file for bankruptcy. The rest use state law procedures to liquidate or reorganize. This paper documents the importance of these procedures and the conditions under which they are chosen using firm‐level data on Chicago‐area small businesses. I show that business owners bargain with senior lenders over the resolution of financial distress. Federal bankruptcy law is invoked only when bargaining fails. This tends to occur when there is more than one senior lender or when the debtor has defaulted on senior debt (harming trust‐based relationships with lenders). These findings raise questions about the design of and need for federal bankruptcy law.
Stress watch: The use of heart rate and heart rate variability to detect stress: A pilot study using smart watch wearables
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Health informatics and information systems

description: Stress is an inherent part of the normal human experience. Although, for the most part, this stress response is advantageous, chronic, heightened, or inappropriate stress responses can have deleterious effects on the human body. It has been suggested that individuals who experience repeated or prolonged stress exhibit blunted biological stress responses when compared to the general population. Thus, when assessing whether a ubiquitous stress response exists, it is important to stratify based on resting levels in the absence of stress. Research has shown that stress that causes symptomatic responses requires early intervention in order to mitigate possible associated mental health decline and personal risks. Given this, real-time monitoring of stress may provide immediate biofeedback to the individual and allow for early self-intervention. This study aimed to determine if the change in heart rate variability could predict, in two different cohorts, the quality of response to acute stress when exposed to an acute stressor and, in turn, contribute to the development of a physiological algorithm for stress which could be utilized in future smartwatch technologies. This study also aimed to assess whether baseline stress levels may affect the changes seen in heart rate variability at baseline and following stress tasks. A total of 30 student doctor participants and 30 participants from the general population were recruited for the study. The Trier Stress Test was utilized to induce stress, with resting and stress phase ECGs recorded, as well as inter-second heart rate (recorded using a FitBit). Although the present study failed to identify ubiquitous patterns of HRV and HR changes during stress, it did identify novel changes in these parameters between resting and stress states. This study has shown that the utilization of HRV as a measure of stress should be calculated with consideration of resting (baseline) anxiety and stress states in order to ensure an accurate measure of the effects of additive acute stress.
Making Something out of Nothing: The Law of Takings and Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation
Creators: name: Heller, Michael A.
name: Krier, James E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Right of property
subject: IOLTA programs
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation held that interest on principal amounts deposited into IOLTA accounts is the property of the various clients who handed over the money but expressed no view as to whether the Texas IOLTA program worked a taking, or, if it did, whether any compensation was due. The debates among the justices about the meaning of private property, argued in terms of contextual and conceptual severance, are unlikely to prove fruitful. We elaborate a better approach in terms of the underlying purposes of just compensation. We conclude that efficiency and justice are best served by uncoupling matters and methods of deterrence from matters and methods of distribution.
Microbiome Changes in Humans with Parkinson’s Disease after Photobiomodulation Therapy: A retrospective study
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Clinical microbiology

description: There is a paucity of information on the effect of photobiomodulation therapy on gut micro-biome composition. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder with few management options, although the gut microbiome has been suggested as a potential avenue of treatment. We retrospectively analysed the microbiome from human stool samples from a previously published study, which had demonstrated the efficacy of photobiomodulation to treat Parkinson’s patients’ symptoms. Specifically, we have observed changes in the microbiome of Parkinson’s patients after a 12-week treatment regimen with photobiomodulation to the abdomen, neck, head and nose. Noted were positive changes in the Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes (F:B) ratio, which is often interpreted as a proxy for gut health.
Revaluing Restitution: From the Talmud to Postsocialism
Creators: name: Heller, Michael A.
name: Serkin, Christopher
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Unjust enrichment (International law)
subject: Law--Study and teaching
subject: Restitution
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Whatever happened to the study of restitution? Once a core private law subject along with property, torts, and contracts, restitution has receded from American legal scholarship. Few law professors teach the material, fewer still write in the area, and no one even agrees what the field comprises anymore. Hanoch Dagan's Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values threatens to reverse the tide and make restitution interesting again. The book takes commonplace words such as "value" and "gain" and shows how they embody a society's underlying normative principles. Variations across cultures in the law of unjust enrichment reflect differences in national understandings of sharing, property, and even personhood.
Trace-anomaly driven inflation in $f(T)$ gravity and in minimal massive bigravity
Creators: name: Bamba, Kazuharu
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore trace-anomaly driven inflation in modified gravity. It is explicitly shown that in $T^2$ teleparallel gravity, the de Sitter inflation can occur, although quasi de Sitter inflation happens in $R^2$ gravity. Furthermore, we investigate the influence of the trace anomaly on inflation. It is found that in $f(T)$ gravity, the de Sitter inflation can end because it becomes unstable due to the trace anomaly, whereas also in higher derivative gravity, the de Sitter inflation can be realized and it will be over thanks to the trace anomaly for smaller parameter regions in comparison with those in teleparallelism. The instability of the de Sitter inflation in $T^2$ gravity and $R^2$ gravity (both with taking account of the trace anomaly) is examined. In addition, we study trace-anomaly driven inflation in minimal massive bigravity, where the contribution from the massive graviton acts as negative cosmological constant. It is demonstrated that the de Sitter inflation can occur and continue for long enough duration.
description: 13 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets
Creators: name: Heller, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Russians--Legal status, laws, etc.
subject: Russian property
subject: Right of property--Government policy
subject: Commons
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Why are many storefronts in Moscow empty, while street kiosks in front are full of goods? In this Article, Professor Heller develops a theory of anticommons property to help explain the puzzle of empty storefronts and full kiosks. Anticommons property can be understood as the mirror image of commons property. By definition, in a commons, multiple owners are each endowed with the privilege to use a given resource, and 110 one has the right to exclude another. When too many owners hold such privileges of use, the resource is prone to overuse - a tragedy of the commons. Depleted fisheries and overgrazed fields are canonical examples of this familiar tragedy. In an anticommons, according to this Article, multiple owners are each endowed with the right to exclude others from a scarce resource, and no one has an effective privilege of use. When too many owners hold such rights of exclusion, the resource is prone to underuse - a tragedy of the anticommons. Empty Moscow storefronts are a canonical example of the tragedy of underuse. Anticommons property may appear whenever governments define new property rights in both post-socialist and developed market economies. Once an anticommons emerges, collecting rights into usable private property bundles can be brutal and slow. The difficulties of overcoming a tragedy of the anticommons suggest that policymakers should pay more attention to the content of property bundles, rather than focusing just on the clarity of rights.
Helicity conservation in perfect electromagnetic and chiral fluids
Creators: name: Manuel, Cristina
name: Torres-Rincon, Juan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
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: We derive the total helicity conservation law for a perfect electromagnetic relativistic fluid. As the conservation equation contains the derivative of the magnetic helicity, it can be reshaped as having the same form as the chiral anomaly equation if the fluid is isentropic. We also take the non-relativistic limit of the helicity conservation law, and check the agreement with the Abanov-Wiegmann equation at zero temperature, but we provide further corrections in the more general case. We then consider chiral fluids, when the chiral anomaly equation has to be incorporated in the hydrodynamical equations, together with other chiral transport effects which exist in the presence of a chiral imbalance. We finally study how the chiral imbalance modifies the helicity conservation law.
description: v2: 17 pages, with additional explanations and an updated reference list. Version to be published in Phys.Rev.D journal
The Reflection Component from Cygnus X-1 in the Soft State Measured by NuSTAR and Suzaku
Creators: name: Tomsick, John A.
name: Nowak, Michael A.
name: Parker, Michael
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Fabian, Andy C.
name: Harrison, Fiona A.
name: Bachetti, Matteo
name: Barret, Didier
name: Boggs, Steven E.
name: Christensen, Finn E.
name: Craig, William W.
name: Forster, Karl
name: Fuerst, Felix
name: Grefenstette, Brian W.
name: Hailey, Charles J.
name: King, Ashley L.
name: Madsen, Kristin K.
name: Natalucci, Lorenzo
name: Pottschmidt, Katja
name: Ross, Randy R.
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Walton, Dominic J.
name: Wilms, Joern
name: Zhang, William W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The black hole binary Cygnus X-1 was observed in late-2012 with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and Suzaku, providing spectral coverage over the ~1-300 keV range. The source was in the soft state with a multi-temperature blackbody, power-law, and reflection components along with absorption from highly ionized material in the system. The high throughput of NuSTAR allows for a very high quality measurement of the complex iron line region as well as the rest of the reflection component. The iron line is clearly broadened and is well-described by a relativistic blurring model, providing an opportunity to constrain the black hole spin. Although the spin constraint depends somewhat on which continuum model is used, we obtain a*>0.83 for all models that provide a good description of the spectrum. However, none of our spectral fits give a disk inclination that is consistent with the most recently reported binary values for Cyg X-1. This may indicate that there is a >13 degree misalignment between the orbital plane and the inner accretion disk (i.e., a warped accretion disk) or that there is missing physics in the spectral models.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 10 pages, 6 figures
Associations between Sleep Quality and Heart Rate Variability; Implications for a Biological Model of Stress Detection Using Wearable Technology
Creators: name: McLachlan, Craig
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Preventative health care

description: Introduction: The autonomic nervous system plays a vital role in the modulation of many vital bodily functions, one of which is sleep and wakefulness. Many studies have investigated the link between autonomic dysfunction and sleep cycles; however, few studies have investigated the links between short-term sleep health, as determined by the Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep Index (PSQI), such as subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction, and autonomic functioning in healthy individuals. Aim: In this cross-sectional study, the aim was to investigate the links between short-term sleep quality and duration, and heart rate variability in 60 healthy individuals, in order to provide useful information about the effects of stress and sleep on heart rate variability (HRV) indices, which in turn could be integrated into biological models for wearable devices. Methods: Sleep parameters were collected from participants on commencement of the study, and HRV was derived using an electrocardiogram (ECG) during a resting and stress task (Trier Stress Test). Result: Low-frequency to high-frequency (LF:HF) ratio was significantly higher during the stress task than during the baseline resting phase, and very-low-frequency and high-frequency HRV were inversely related to impaired sleep during stress tasks. Conclusion: Given the ubiquitous nature of wearable technologies for monitoring health states, in particular HRV, it is important to consider the impacts of sleep states when using these technologies to interpret data. Very-low-frequency HRV during the stress task was found to be inversely related to three negative sleep indices: sleep quality, daytime dysfunction, and global sleep score.
Identifikatoren für Organisationen aus Sicht der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
Creators: name: Güdler, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
ORCID DE
Autorenidentifikation
PID
Persistent Identifier
Open Science
Organization Identifier

description: Die Präsentation arbeitet zunächst den hohen Stellenwert von Organisations-Identifikatoren für Forschungsförderer heraus. Im Schwerpunkt wir dann der DFG-Standard GERiT vorgestellt (vgl. www.gerit.org). Dabei wird auch der Bezug zum „Kerndatensatz Forschung – Standard für Forschungsinformationen in Deutschland“ sowie zur ROR-Initiative herausgearbeitet. Der Vortrag schließt mit einem Exkurs zu IDs für historische Forschungsstätten und dem hohen Stellenwert von Konkordanzen.