cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Slim Disk: Viscosity Prescriptions and Observational Implications
Creators: name: Watarai, Ken-ya
name: Mineshige, Shin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of the different viscosity prescriptions and the magnitude of the viscosity parameter, $α$, on the structure of the slim disk, and discuss the observational implications on accretion-flow into a stellar-mass black hole. For the range of $α= 10^{-2} \sim 10^{0}$ we calculate the disk spectra and from spectral fitting we derive $\Tin$, maximum temperature of the disk, $\Rin$, the size of the region emitting blackbody radiation with $\Tin$, and $p\equiv -{\rm dln} T_{\rm eff}/{\rm dln}~r$, the slope of the effective temperature distribution. It was founded that the estimated $\Tin$ slightly increases as $α$ increases. This is because the larger the magnitude of viscosity is, the larger becomes the accretion velocity and, hence, the more enhanced becomes advective energy transport, which means less efficient radiative cooling and thus higher temperatures. Furthermore we check different viscosity prescriptions with the form of the viscous stress tensor of $t_{r φ} = -αβ^μp_{\rm total}$, where $β$ is the ratio of gas pressure to total pressure, and $μ$ is a parameter ($0 \le μ\le 1$). For $μ=0$ we have previously found that as luminosity approaches the Eddington, $L_{\rm E$, $\Rin$ decreases below 3$\rg$ (with $r_{\rm g}$ being Schwarzschild radius) and the effective temperature becomes flatter, $T_{\rm eff} \propto r^{-1/2}$. Such a slim-disk nature does not appear when $μ$ is large, $μ\sim 0.5$, even at $L_{\rm E}$. Hence, the temperature of the innermost region of the disk sensitively depends on the $μ$ value. We can rule out the case with large $μ~(\sim 0.5)$, since it will not be able to produce a drop in $\Rin$ with an increase in luminosity as was observed in an ultraluminous X-ray source, IC~342, source 1.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for PASJ
SOME USES, UNDERUSES, AND MISUSES OF THE FINDINGS OF DISPARITIES BETWEEN PEOPLE’S VALUATIONS OF GAINS AND LOSSES
Creators: name: Knetsch, Jack L.
name: Knetsch, Jack L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: gain and losses
subject: well-being

description: The well-known behavioural finding that losses have a greater impact on people’s well-being than gains, has important implications for the study of individual and collective choices, as well as the ways in which analyses are carried out -- many more than have yet been seriously considered. It also has many for analysts’ use of such tools as price elasticities, discount rates, value of statistical lives, risk analysis, and the like. A greater recognition of the behavioral findings would likely lead to reductions of the biases in many present analyses.
Additional file 1 of Exosomes derived from human adipose mesenchymal stem cells attenuate hypertrophic scar fibrosis by miR-192-5p/IL-17RA/Smad axis
Creators: name: Li, Yan
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Shi, Jihong
name: Liu, Kaituo
name: Wang, Xujie
name: Jia, Yanhui
name: He, Ting
name: Shen, Kuo
name: Wang, Yunchuan
name: Liu, Jiaqi
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Wang, Hongtao
name: Zheng, Zhao
name: Hu, Dahai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Acrosternum heegeri Fieber 1861
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Acrosternum
Acrosternum heegeri

description: Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861
 Material examined. Several specimens: GILAN: Dasht-e-Veel, 20.-25.viii.1998, 27.-29.vii.2002; Seravan, 4.-6.ix.2000. GOLESTAN: Gorgan, Mian Dareh, 13.-14.vii.2003; Karim Eshan 35 km N of Kalaleh, 21.-22.vii.2005. MAZANDARAN: Chalus, 12.-13.vii.2003.
 Comments. In hilly forests and gardens. Holomediterranean, extending to the Middle East and tropical Africa.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
THE ROLE OF MENTAL BUDGETING IN HEALTHY FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR: A SURVEY AMONG SELF-EMPLOYED ENTREPRENEURS
Creators: name: De Groot, I. Manon
name: Van Raaij, W. Fred
name: De Groot, I. Manon
name: Van Raaij, W. Fred
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: financial behavior
subject: entrepreneurs

description: Self-employed entrepreneurs (without personnel) manage their business and household finances at the same time. Both domains tend to interact with each other. In this study, it is studied whether and how self-employed entrepreneurs manage their finances. More specifically, the role of mental budgeting and time orientation in healthy financial behavior is studied. Mental budgeting is a way to manage expenses. It entails setting budgets, making reservations on budgets, compensating after too much spending on a budget, and non-fungibility (treating money as earmarked and categorized). It can be expected that self-employed entrepreneurs using mental budgeting strategies behave in a more healthy financial manner. Survey data were collected among self-employed people without personnel in The Netherlands. The survey contained, among others, questions about the company, time orientation, financial management, tax attitude, reported tax compliance, and concern or worry about the future. Questions were factor analyzed using principal component analyses. The resulting scales were used for further analyses. Regression analyses were performed to predict concern or worry about finances, financially restricting to and exceeding budgets, and reporting tax compliance. In this paper, two components of time orientation are distinguished: awareness of consequences and carelessness about the future. From these components, four orientation types of self-employed people were obtained. The orientation type focusing on long-term consequences shows more healthy financial behavior, whereas the orientation type focusing on the present and less on consequences shows less healthy financial behavior. Responsible and healthy financial behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs is related to focusing on long-term consequences, using mental budgeting, and keeping one’s budgets. Aspects of mental budgeting are predicting worry about business finances. Differential effects of mental budgeting were found on restricting one’s budgets, and exceeding budgets, respectively. Of two measures of future circumstances (work disability, pension), only pension measures were predicting worrying about finances. Mental budgeting was not related to tax compliance, except for fungibility. Past tax behavior is predictive of other (past) tax behaviors. Fiscal history measures prove to be correlated with present measures.
Observational Evidence for Strong Disk Comptonization in GRO J1655-40
Creators: name: Kubota, Aya
name: Makishima, Kazuo
name: Ebisawa, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analysis was made of the multiple XTE/PCA data on the promised black hole candidate with superluminal jet, GRO J1655-40, acquired during its 1996--1997 outburst. The X-ray spectra can be adequately described by the sum of an optically thick disk spectrum and a power-law. When the estimated 1--100 keV power-law luminosity exceeds 1E37 erg/s (assuming a distance of 3.2 kpc), the inner disk radius and the maximum color temperature derived from a simple accretion disk model (a multi-color disk model) vary significantly with time. These results reconfirm the previous report by Sobczak et al. (1999). In this strong power-law state (once called ``very high state''), the disk luminosity decreases with temperature, in contradiction to the prediction of the standard Shakura-Sunyaev model. In the same state, the intensity of the power-law component correlates negatively with that of the disk component, and positively with the power-law photon index, suggesting that the strong power-law is simply the missing optically thick disk emission. One possible explanation for this behavior is inverse-Compton scattering in the disk. By re-fitting the same data incorporating a disk Comptonization, the inner radius and temperature of the underlying disk are found to become more constant. These results provide one of the first observational confirmations of the scenario of disk Comptonization in the strong power-law state. This strong power-law state seems to appear when color temperature of the disk exceeds the certain threshold, 1.2 -- 1.3 keV.
description: 10 pages 4 figures; submitted to ApJL
AN OVERVIEW OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS IN DUTCH POLICY MAKING. THE NEXT STEP: HOW TO NUDGE POLICY MAKERS
Creators: name: Stroeker, Natasha Els
name: Stroeker, Natasha Els
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: behavioral economics
subject: nudging
subject: government
subject: Netherlands
subject: policy making

description: This article describes the beginning of the influence of behavioral economics on the Dutch government. This started in the period that the UK started with its Behavioral Insights Team (BIT UK). The article presents explanation of the concept “nudging” and the way this is integrated in Dutch policy. Also leading publications and examples of how behavioral economics is used in policy making are presented. The advice of the government in 2014 on how to ensure a structural integration of behavioral science knowledge in policy is part of the next step. The next step contains two main parts: 1. How to nudge policy makers and 2. Embedding nudges in policy making on four aspects: positioning, projects, performance and professionality.
Acrosternum millierei
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Acrosternum
Acrosternum millierei

description: Acrosternum millierei (Mulsant & Rey, 1866)
 Material examined. KHORASAN: Feyzabad, 1 specimen, 16.v.1996.
 Comments. In a hilly forest. Holomediterranean, extending to the Middle East, Central Asia, and tropical Africa.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
DISTANCE MAKES THE MIND GROW BROADER: AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE STUDIES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH DOMAINS
Creators: name: Griffioen, Anouk M.
name: Van Beek, Jannette
name: N. Lindhout, Simone
name: J. J. Handgraaf, Michel
name: Griffioen, Anouk M.
name: Van Beek, Jannette
name: N. Lindhout, Simone
name: J. J. Handgraaf, Michel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: psychological distance
subject: environment
subject: health
subject: Construal Level Theory

description: Environmental and health issues are two of the most pressing issues society faces today. People often view both environmental and health issues as psychologically distant: they believe that the problems will occur in the future, to other people, in other places and that the exact outcomes are uncertain. This paper provides an overview of studies that have investigated how the different psychological distance dimensions (viz., temporal, spatial, social and hypothetical) influence perceptions, intentions, and decision making in the environmental and health domains. This overview suggests that psychological distance indeed matters in both domains. There are indications that threat perceptions are mostly heightened when communicated or perceived as being psychologically close. However, the studies also show that a mere increase in perceived threat does not necessarily alter intentions or behavior. Moreover, with regard to the effects of psychological distance, there are neither clear differences between the environmental and the health domain nor between the four psychological distance dimensions. We discuss possible moderators that may explain the range of findings. Finally, we conclude with discussing the current stance of the literature and discuss specific research topics that are yet to be studied. As environmental and health behavior involve more than just one decision or one behavior, we suggest, for example, that future studies should investigate how psychological distance influences not only the target behavior, but related behavior as well.
Cefoperazone-sulbactam and risk of coagulation disorders or bleeding: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Wang, Wen
name: Liu, Yanmei
name: Yu, Chuan
name: Tan, Jing
name: Xiong, Weiyi
name: Dong, Duo
name: Li, Sheyu
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Li, Jijie
name: Wu, Yu
name: Zong, Zhiyong
name: Su, Na
name: Zou, Kang
name: Wu, Guizhi
name: Sun, Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: Limited evidence has suggested that cefoperazone-sulbactam causes coagulation disorders and bleeding. Methods: The authors conducted a retrospective study to compare patients receiving cefoperazone-sulbactam versus those treated with cefoperazone-tazobactam or ceftazidime. Propensity-score matching was used to explore whether treatment with cefoperazone-sulbactam increased the risk of prothrombin time (PT) prolongation, coagulation disorders, and bleeding, or decreased platelets (PLT). Results: The cohort included 23,242 patients. Among patients receiving cefoperazone-sulbactam, the risk of PT prolongation, coagulation disorders, decreased PLT, and bleeding was 5.3%, 9.2%, 15.7%, and 4.2%, respectively. Propensity-score matching analyses suggested that cefoperazone-sulbactam increased the risk of PT prolongation (aOR 2.26, 95% CI 1.61–3.18), coagulation disorders (aOR 1.81, 95% CI 1.43–2.30), and decreased PLT (aOR 1.46, 95% CI 1.25–1.72), but not increase bleeding (aOR 1.05, 95% CI 0.79–1.40) compared with ceftazidime. Patients receiving cefoperazone-sulbactam had higher risk of PT prolongation (aOR 1.53, 95% CI 1.11–2.10), coagulation disorders (aOR 1.53, 95% CI 1.21–1.95), but not decreased PLT (aOR 0.93, 95% CI 0.81–1.07) or bleeding (aOR 1.11, 95% CI 0.87–1.42), compared with those receiving cefoperazone-tazobactam. Conclusion: Cefoperazone-sulbactam may be associated with a higher risk of PT prolongation and coagulation disorders compared with cefoperazone-tazobactam and ceftazidime.
Semiclassical Theory of Coherence and Decoherence
Creators: name: Fiete, Gregory A.
name: Heller, Eric J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general semiclassical approach to quantum systems with system-bath interactions is developed. We study system decoherence in detail using a coherent state semiclassical wavepacket method which avoids singularity issues arising in the usual Green's function approach. We discuss the general conditions under which it is approximately correct to discuss quantum decoherence in terms of a ``dephasing'' picture and we derive semiclassical expressions for the phase and phase distribution. Remarkably, an effective system wavefunction emerges whose norm measures the decoherence and is equivalent to a density matrix formulation.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Considerable restructuring of paper
ON THE ENDOWMENT EFFECT IN `APPLE-MARS’ EXPERIMENTS
Creators: name: Haagsma, R.
name: Mouche, P. V.
name: Haagsma, R.
name: Mouche, P. V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: endowment effect
subject: apple-mars

description: In this article we take a close look at a specific type of behavioural experiment that Antonides conducted to study the endowment effect. We argue that if such experiments ignore to test for the presence of persons in the sample who are indifferent between alternatives, the identification procedure for establishing an endowment effect is fallible.
INTERVENTIONS TO ENCOURAGE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
Creators: name: Van Dam, Ynte K.
name: Van Trijp, Hans CM
name: Van Dam, Ynte K.
name: Van Trijp, Hans CM
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Sustainable Consumption
subject: Construal Level Theory
subject: Self-Determination Theory
subject: Intervention Studies
subject: Economic Psychology

description: Sustainable consumption is hampered by a discrepancy between consumers’ attitudes and their actual behaviour in the market place. Psychological construal level theory provides an explanation for the attitude to behaviour gap as a motivational conflict between high and low level of mental construal. Based on self-determination theory it is argued that this motivational conflict presupposes extrinsic motivation for sustainable behaviour. Based on self-regulatory styles, the present paper identifies and illustrates four types of intervention strategies that can cater for extrinsic motivation for sustainable development among light users. The underlying mechanisms of these interventions suggest that the transition from external to internal regulation is catalysed by social feedback.
GRB 000301C: a possible short/intermediate duration burst connected to a DLA system
Creators: name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Fynbo, J. U.
name: Jensen, B. L.
name: Moller, P.
name: Pedersen, H.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Andersen, M. I.
name: Hurley, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss two main aspects of the GRB 000301C afterglow (Fynbo et al. 2000, Jensen et al. 2000); its short duration and its possible connection with a Damped Ly-alpha Absorber (DLA). GRB 000301C falls in the short class of bursts, though it is consistent with belonging to the proposed intermediate class or the extreme short end of the distribution of long-duration GRBs. Based on two VLT spectra we estimate the HI column density to be Log(N(HI))=21.2+/-0.5. This is the first direct indication of a connection between GRB host galaxies and Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers.
description: 3 pages, 3 postscript figures. To appear in the proceedings of the October 2000 Rome Workshop on ``Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era''
Nezara viridula
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Nezara
Nezara viridula

description: Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Material examined. Many specimens: GILAN: Dasht-e-Veel, 20.-25.viii.1998; Deylaman, 16.viii.1998; Jafrud, 31.vii.-1.viii.2002; Fowman, 15.v.-6.vi.1995; Jafrud, 31.vii.-1.viii.2002; Lowshan, 18.-20.viii.2002; Nasir Mahaleh, 14.-15.viii.2002; Rasht, 2.-3.ix.1994, vi.-viii.1996, 4.iii.2000; Rustam Abad, 8.-10.ix.2002; Seravan, 4.-6.ix.2000; Zina Kenar, 4.-6.ix.2000. ARDABIL: Kivi, 9.-11.viii.2002. MAZANDARAN: Chalus, 12.-13.vii.2003; Hassan Abad, 15.- 16.vii.2003; Qaem Shahr, 1.-2.vii.2004. GOLESTAN: Gilankesh, 5.-6.vii.2004; Gorgan Mian Dareh, 13.-14.vii.2003.
 Comments. In hilly steppes, gardens, and forests. Cosmopolitan.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Additional file 1 of Multiple-kernel learning for genomic data mining and prediction
Creators: name: Wilson, Christopher
name: Li, Kaiqiao
name: Yu, Xiaoqing
name: Kuan, Pei-Fen
name: Wang, Xuefeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This file contains a brief summary of SVM and MKL, 3 tables, and 1 figure that better summarize the experiment with Hoadley data. (PDF 376 kb)
K-corrections and Extinction Corrections for Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Nugent, Peter
name: Kim, Alex
name: Perlmutter, Saul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the cosmological parameters from Type Ia supernovae hinges on our ability to compare nearby and distant supernovae accurately. Here we present an advance on a method for performing generalized K-corrections for Type Ia supernovae which allows us to compare these objects from the UV to near-IR over the redshift range 0
description: Accepted for the August issue of PASP. 39 pages, 15 figures
KRONECKER INNATISTIC MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Creators: name: Popov, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10101 Algebra and Number Theory
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Let us imagine a strange, counterintuitive and abolished World of Mathematics created by Leopold Kronecker - World of Integers created by God. Using Kronecker delta function for Kronecker "innate integers", I had found completely unknown and unexpected way of thinking on Riemann problem, it's counterexample and Periodic Table of the prime numbers. In some sense,it is attempt to consider a new mathematical objects - postcategories or whole numbers having inner structure.
Pentatoma (Pentatoma) rufipes
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma rufipes

description: Pentatoma (Pentatoma) rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Material examined. GILAN: 40-50 km E of Khalkhal, 1 specimen, 27.vi.1996.
 Comments. In a hilly forest. Euro-Siberian.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY AS GENDERED SOCIAL PRACTICE
Creators: name: Anke, Niehof
name: Anke, Niehof
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: household food security
subject: child nutrition
subject: gender
subject: social practices

description: In many parts of the world, the food security of households and the nutrition security of individual household members, in particular that of children, are still at risk, in spite of the progress made in combatting hunger at the global level. The prevailing opinion among scientists and development practioners alike is that women’s empowerment is the key to household food security and good nutrition of children. Similarly, it is thought that gender inequalities manifest themselves in dietary discrimination of women resulting in their lesser access to sufficient and nutritious food. To investigate the credibility of these ‘common truths’, empirical evidence on women’s roles in the social practices that aim at realizing household food security and good family nutrition was reviewed. It can be concluded that women definitely yield and wield power through their involvement in and responsibility for these practices, but that – at the same time – enhancing women’s capabilities by improved access to critical resources would benefit their household’s food security and their children’s nutrition. Furthermore, except for the region of South Asia, gender inequalities do not visibly result in a gender gap in nutrition, although women’s specific dietary needs in relation to pregnancy and motherhood are not always recognized.
Galactic Stellar Populations from Photometric Metallicity Distribution Functions
Creators: name: Gu, Jiayin
name: Du, Cuihua
name: Zuo, Wenbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric data, Gu developed a new Monte-Carlo-based method for estimating the stellar metallicity distribution functions (MDFs). This method enables a more reliable determination of MDFs compared with the conventional polynomial-based methods. In this work, MDF determined from the method are well fit by three-Gaussian model, with peaks at ${\rm [Fe/H]}$=$-0.68$, $-1.38$, and $-1.90$, associated with the thick disk, inner halo, and outer halo, respectively. The vertical metallicity gradient within $1
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Critical review on PFOA, kidney cancer, and testicular cancer
Creators: name: Bartell, Scott M.
name: Vieira, Verónica M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has been reviewed previously by several different regulatory agencies and researchers, with contradictory conclusions–especially regarding epidemiological findings on kidney cancer and testicular cancer. In addition, previous dose-response assessments have focused primarily on evidence from animal studies. This critical review summarizes peer reviewed epidemiological studies on PFOA and cancers of the kidneys and testes, using modified Hill’s criteria to assess the evidence for causation. We converted exposures to a common scale based on serum PFOA concentrations and applied meta-analysis to estimate the average increase in cancer risk reported by the studies with sufficient information to estimate serum PFOA. Using random effects meta-analysis, we found that the average relative increase in cancer risk per 10 ng/mL increase in serum PFOA for these studies is 16% (95% CI: 3%, 30%) for kidney cancer and 3% (95% CI: 2%, 4%) for testicular cancer. These associations are most likely causal, but results are limited by the small number of studies for testicular cancer, the overlapping study populations for several studies, and the lack of measured or modeled serum PFOA concentrations for several studies. Implications: Our review meta-analysis indicates an average increase in cancer risk per 10 ng/mL increase in serum PFOA for kidney and testicular cancers. These associations are most likely causal, but results are limited by the small number of studies for testicular cancer, the overlapping study populations for several studies, and the lack of measured or modeled serum PFOA concentrations for several studies. The weight of evidence could be even stronger with the addition of future studies conducted in large cohorts.
The gas content of peculiar galaxies: counterrotators and polar rings
Creators: name: Bettoni, D.
name: Galletta, G.
name: Garcia-Burillo, S.
name: Rodriguez-Franco, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies the global ISM content in a sample of 104 accreting galaxies, including counterrotators and polar rings, which spans the entire Hubble sequence. The molecular, atomic and hot gas content of accretors is compared to a newly compiled sample of normal galaxies. We present results of a small survey of the J=1--0 line of {12}CO with the 15m SEST telescope on a sample of 11 accretors (10 counterrotators and 1 polar ring). The SEST sample is enlarged with published data from 48 galaxies, for which observational evidence of counterrotation in the gas and/or the stars has been found. Furthermore, the available data on a sample of 46 polar ring galaxies has been compiled. It was found that the normalized content of cold gas (M_gas/L_B) in polar rings is ~1 order of magnitude higher than the reference value derived for normal galaxies. The inferred gas masses are sufficient to stabilize polar rings through self-gravity. In contrast, it was found that the cold gas content of counterrotators is close to normal for all galaxy types. Although counterrotators and polar rings probably share a common origin, the gas masses estimated here confirm that light gas rings accreted by future counterrotators may have evolved faster than the self-gravitating structures of polar rings. In this scenario, the transformation of atomic into molecular gas could be enhanced near the transition region between the prograde and the retrograde disks, especially in late-type accretors characterized by a high content of primordial gas. This is tentatively confirmed in this work: the measured H_2/HI ratio seems larger in counterrotators than in normal or polar ring galaxies for types later than S0s.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Mallinella scharffi Dankittipakul & Jocqué & Singtripop 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dankittipakul, Pakawin
name: Jocqué, Rudy
name: Singtripop, Tippawan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Mallinella
Mallinella scharffi

description: Mallinella scharffi sp. nov.
(Figs 863, 919–922)
 Material examined. Holotype: ♀,  MALAYSIA, Borneo, Sabah State:  Mt. Kinabalu, Poring Hot Springs, 600 env., au-dessous de Bat on Kipugit cave, tamisage de débris végétaux dans le ravin, à proximité de la rivière, 10 May 1987, leg. D. Burckhardt & I. Löbl (MHNG, 19a).
 Diagnosis. The female of this new species is recognized by the triangular spermathecae provided with a small apical mound (Fig. 920). The pattern on the dorsum of the opisthosoma resembles that of M. microleuca sp. nov. and M. angoonae sp. nov. in having pairs of pale spots, but they are much smaller in this new species.
 Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronymn in honor of Dr. Nikolaj Scharff (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) as a token of appreciation for allowing us to examine specimens deposited in the collection of the ZMUC.
 Description. Female  (holotype). Total length 7.60; prosoma 4.58 long, 3.34 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.28, ALE 0.20, PME 0.20, PLE 0.20, AME–AME 0.12, AME–ALE 0.38, PME–PME 0.20, PME–PLE 0.40; MOQ: 0.60 long, 0.54 anterior width, 0.50 posterior width. Leg measurements: I 18.40 (4.40, 5.46, 4.62, 3.54), II 15.26 (3.84, 4.80, 3.84, 2.78), III 15.34 (4.02, 4.68, 4.16, 2.54), IV 21.20 (5.14, 6.26, 6.62, 3.20).
 Coloration. Carapace dark reddish brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Sternum orange-brown. Dorsum of opisthosoma dark sepia. Dorsal pattern: four pairs of pale round spots running longitudinally, first one largest.
 Genitalia (Figs 863, 919–922). Epigynal plate narrowed, wider than long, slightly excavated anteriorly. Lateral borders retracted. Spermathecae subtriangular, apically with small mound.
 Male. Unknown.
 Natural history. Mallinella scharffi sp. nov. was collected by means of sifting decomposed vegetation on the forest floor.
 Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Borneo.
description: Published as part of Dankittipakul, Pakawin, Jocqué, Rudy & Singtripop, Tippawan, 2012, Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae) 3369, pp. 1-327 in Zootaxa 3369 (1) on pages 203-205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5252563
Electronic supplementary material from Bee pollination outperforms pesticides for oilseed crop production and profitability
Creators: name: Catarino, Rui
name: Bretagnolle, Vincent
name: Perrot, Thomas
name: Vialloux, Fabien
name: Gaba, Sabrina
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This file contains supplementary methods and tables. Namely, the supplementary methods describes: i) the study area and field selection; ii) the pollinator surveys; iii) the modelling of the gross margin, and; iv) a description of the pest abundance surveys. And the supplementary table section contains: i) the descriptive statistics for the various pollinator groups obtained by the three trapping methods; ii) the descriptive statistics farming practices from questionnaires; iii) the full subset of models for tables 1 and 2, extracted from the model selection procedure, with AIC less than 2.0 greater than the best model; iv) the descriptive statistics for the four main OSR pests caught in pan traps; v) the statistical model of yield and gross margin as a function of farming practices, soil type, total bee abundance and interactions, and; vi) the selection of buffer width for the effects of OSR and SNH in the surrounding landscape on gross margins.
Molecular ions in L1544. I. Kinematics
Creators: name: Caselli, P.
name: Walmsley, C. M.
name: Zucconi, A.
name: Tafalla, M.
name: Dore, L.
name: Myers, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have mapped the dense dark core L1544 in H13CO+(1-0), DCO+(2-1), DCO+(3-2), N2H+(1-0), NTH+(3-2), N2D+(2-1), N2D+(3-2), C18O(1-0), and C17O(1-0) using the IRAM 30-m telescope. We have obtained supplementary observations of HC18O+(1-0), HC17O+(1-0), and D13CO+(2-1). Many of the observed maps show a general correlation with the distribution of dust continuum emission in contrast to C18O(1-0) and C17O(1-0) which give clear evidence for depletion of CO at positions close to the continuum peak. In particular N2D+(2-1) and (3-2) and to a lesser extent N2H+(1-0) appear to be excellent tracers of the dust continuum. We find that the tracers of high density gas (in particular N2D+) show a velocity gradient along the minor axis of the L1544 core and that there is evidence for larger linewidths close to the dust emission peak. We interpret this using the model of the L1544 proposed by Ciolek & Basu (2000) and by comparing the observed velocities with those expected on the basis of their model. The results show reasonable agreement between observations and model in that the velocity gradient along the minor axis and the line broadening toward the center of L1544 are predicted by the model. This is evidence in favour of the idea that amipolar diffusion across field lines is one of the basic processes leading to gravitational collapse. However, line widths are significantly narrower than observed and are better reproduced by the Myers & Zweibel (2001) model which considers the quasistatic vertical contraction of a layer due to dissipation of its Alfvenic turbulence, indicating the importance of this process for cores in the verge of forming a star.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures, to be published in ApJ
Trends in Particle Matter and its Elemental Composition in Santiago de Chile, 2011 – 2018
Creators: name: Gramsch, Ernesto
name: Oyola, Pedro
name: Reyes, Felipe
name: Rojas, Francisca
name: Henríquez, Andrés
name: Choong-Min Kang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Daily fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM10-2.5) particle matter samples collected at Parque O’Higgins station in downtown Santiago de Chile have been studied to find the trends in concentration from 1998 to 2018. Elemental concentration was obtained using X-ray fluorescence. Regression models from previous studies indicate that the PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 fractions have had a continuous decrease since 1988 mostly due to several policy control measures carried out over several decades. PM2.5 has decreased from 68.3 in 1988 to 27.6 μg/m3 in 2018 (60.4%). However, if only the last 8 years are considered (2011 – 2018), a leveling off can be observed in PM10-2.5 and PM2.5 which points to a change in the tendency. Cluster analysis of the elements in the fine and coarse fractions were identified to evaluate trends in the contributing sources. In the fine fraction, the mass contribution of crustal elements (Si, Al, Ca and Fe) has remain stable in the last 8 years, mass contribution of elements (Pb, Br and Cl) associated to anthropogenic sources (traffic, wood burning) has also remained stable in the same period. For the coarse fraction, the contribution of one group of elements associated to crustal or anthropogenic sources has remained stable and another group has decreased in the last 8 years. The leveling off can be ascribed to decreased rainfall during the last 8 years that have promoted soil dryness and re-suspension of dust facilitated by wind or vehicular traffic. Mean temperatures have increased in the last 30 years, but have not contributed directly to the leveling of the concentration.
Supplementary methods and results with figures and tables from Increases and decreases in marine disease reports in an era of global change
Creators: name: Tracy, Allison M.
name: Pielmeier, Madeline L.
name: Reyn M. Yoshioka
name: Heron, Scott F.
name: C. Drew Harvell
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental methods for literature searches and checking of potential biases; supplemental results of confidence intervals
title: Sensory processing, general health, and clinical outcomes in people with persistent shoulder pain who attend public hospital orthopaedic consultation
Creators: name: Hollis, Danielle L
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: persistent shoulder pain
subject: public hospitals
subject: orthopaedic consultation
subject: sensitisation

description: Background: Musculoskeletal conditions are a global public health concern. Shoulder pain is a common musculoskeletal condition that often becomes persistent, despite recommended primary care management. In Australia, the only fully funded healthcare pathway available to those who experience ongoing shoulder pain and dysfunction is referral to a public specialist orthopaedic clinic. This usually involves an extensive wait prior to consultation, yet evidence indicates that relatively few people undergo surgery. This treatment pathway is costly, time- and resource-consuming, and unsustainable. Developing models of care that can efficiently guide appropriate management for this population is suggested to be a priority. Objectives: The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate sensory processing, general health, and clinical outcomes in people with persistent shoulder pain who attend public hospital orthopaedic consultation. Specifically, this thesis sought to: i) investigate sensory processing in people with persistent shoulder pain compared with a pain-free control group; ii) evaluate between-group differences in sociodemographic, clinical, general health and lifestyle, and psychological characteristics; iii) identify the associations between sensory processing measures and self-reported shoulder pain and disability; iv) explore the potential mediating role of psychological factors in the relationships between measures of sensory processing and self-reported shoulder pain and disability; v) investigate the predictive capacity of sensory processing, psychological, and general health characteristics for 6-month clinical outcomes; and vi) evaluate long-term outcomes and baseline factors associated with outcomes. [...]
Magnetic fluctuations and resonant peak in cuprates: a microscopic theory
Creators: name: Sega, I.
name: Prelovsek, P.
name: Bonca, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory for the dynamical spin susceptibility within the t-J model is developed, as relevant for the resonant magnetic peak and normal-state magnetic response in superconducting (SC) cuprates. The analysis is based on the equations of motion for spins and the memory-function presentation of magnetic response where the main damping of the low-energy spin collective mode comes from the decay into fermionic degrees of freedom. It is shown that the damping function at low doping is closely related to the c-axis optical conductivity. The analysis reproduces doping-dependent features of the resonant magnetic scattering.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Critical Review on PFOA, Kidney Cancer, and Testicular Cancer
Creators: name: Bartell, Scott M.
name: Vieira, Verónica M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has been reviewed previously by several different regulatory agencies and researchers, with contradictory conclusions–especially regarding epidemiological findings on kidney cancer and testicular cancer. In addition, previous dose-response assessments have focused primarily on evidence from animal studies. This critical review summarizes peer reviewed epidemiological studies on PFOA and cancers of the kidneys and testes, using modified Hill’s criteria to assess the evidence for causation. We converted exposures to a common scale based on serum PFOA concentrations and applied meta-analysis to estimate the average increase in cancer risk reported by the studies with sufficient information to estimate serum PFOA. Using random effects meta-analysis, we found that the average relative increase in cancer risk per 10 ng/mL increase in serum PFOA for these studies is 16% (95% CI: 3%, 30%) for kidney cancer and 3% (95% CI: 2%, 4%) for testicular cancer. These associations are most likely causal, but results are limited by the small number of studies for testicular cancer, the overlapping study populations for several studies, and the lack of measured or modelled serum PFOA concentrations for several studies.
Rhaphigaster nebulosa
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Rhaphigaster
Rhaphigaster nebulosa

description: Rhaphigaster nebulosa (Poda, 1761)
 Material examined. GILAN: 10 km W of Asalem, 1 specimen, 5.-7.vii.2002; Dasht-e-Veel, 1 specimen, 10.-12.v.2001; Jahrud near Ziba Kenar, 1 specimen, 19.ii.-7.iii.2000; Lahijan, 2 specimens, 20.-21.v.1995; Rasht, 1 specimen, ix.2000; Rudbar – Tutkabon, 1 specimen, 2.ii.2000; Seravan, 1 specimen, 4.-6.ix.2000. ARDABIL: 10 km W of Khalkhal, 1 specimen, 8.-9.vii.2002; Majareh – Kolur, 1 specimen, 21.vii.1996. ZANJAN: Gilvan, 1 specimen, 30.-31.vii.2005. TEHRAN: Shahrestenak, 1 specimen, 10.-12.vii.1995.
 Comments. On deciduous trees and shrubs in hilly steppes and gardens. Holomediterranean, extending to Central Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Shear-induced contact area anisotropy explained by a fracture mechanics model
Creators: name: Papangelo, A.
name: Scheibert, J.
name: Sahli, R.
name: Pallares, G.
name: Ciavarella, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper gives a theoretical analysis for the fundamental problem of anisotropy induced by shear forces onan adhesive contact, discussing the experimental data of the companion Letter. We present a fracture mechanicsmodel where two phenomenological mode-mixity functions are introduced to describe the weak couplingbetween modes I and II or I and III, which changes the effective toughness of the interface. The mode-mixityfunctions have been interpolated using the data of a single experiment and then used to predict the behavior of thewhole set of experimental observations. The model extends an idea by Johnson and Greenwood, to solve purelymode I problems of adhesion in the presence of a nonaxisymmetric Hertzian geometry, to the case of ellipticalcontacts sheared along their major or minor axis. Equality between the stress intensity factors and their criticalvalues is imposed solely at the major and minor axes. We successfully validate our model against experimentaldata. The model predicts that the punch geometry will affect both the shape and the overall decay of the shearedcontact area.
Additional file 2 of Efficacy of the association liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy for the treatment of solitary huge hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective single-center study
Creators: name: Deng, Zhenfeng
name: Jin, Zongrui
name: Qin, Yonghui
name: Wei, Mingqi
name: Wang, Jilong
name: Lu, Tingting
name: Zhang, Ling
name: Zeng, Jingjing
name: Bao, Li
name: Guo, Ya
name: Peng, Minhao
name: Xu, Banghao
name: Wen, Zhang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Comparisons of baseline characteristics of patients with solitary huge HCC underwent ALPPS or one-stage resection before and after PSM.