cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Probabilistic Logic Programming Event Calculus
Creators: name: Skarlatidis, Anastasios
name: Artikis, Alexander
name: Filippou, Jason
name: Paliouras, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a system for recognising human activity given a symbolic representation of video content. The input of our system is a set of time-stamped short-term activities (STA) detected on video frames. The output is a set of recognised long-term activities (LTA), which are pre-defined temporal combinations of STA. The constraints on the STA that, if satisfied, lead to the recognition of a LTA, have been expressed using a dialect of the Event Calculus. In order to handle the uncertainty that naturally occurs in human activity recognition, we adapted this dialect to a state-of-the-art probabilistic logic programming framework. We present a detailed evaluation and comparison of the crisp and probabilistic approaches through experimentation on a benchmark dataset of human surveillance videos.
description: Accepted for publication in the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) journal
Pterynotus miyokoae Kosuge 1979
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Pterynotus
Pterynotus miyokoae

description: Pterynotus miyokoae Kosuge, 1979 Pterynotus miyokoae Kosuge, 1979: 1, pl. 1, figs 1-7. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. MUSORSTOM 10: stn CP 1389, 18°19’S, 178°05’E, 241-417 m, 1 dd juv (damaged); stn CP 1390, 18°19’S, 178°05’E, 234-361 m, 1 lv juv. DISTRIBUTION. — Southern Philippines and now Fiji (new record), shell in 241-417 m, live in 234-361 m. REMARKS. — Both specimens dredged off Fiji are juveniles but are readily identifiable by the protoconch, which has 1½ - 1¾ whorls, and by the morphology of the first teleoconch whorls, which have thin axial lamellae, webbed varices and broad spiral cords.
description: Published as part of Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, pp. 437-480 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 448
description: {"references": ["i-xviii, 1 - 653. SCHEPMAN M. M. 1913. - The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Pt 5. KIRA T. 1959. - Coloured illustrations of the shells of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka. Toxoglossa. Liv. 64, Monographie 49 - e, Brill, Leiden, 365 - 452. [7]: 1 - 239. SHIKAMA T. 1973. - Description of new marine Gastropoda from the KOSUGE S. 1979. - Descriptions of two new species of the family Muricidae East and South China Seas. Science Reports of the Yokohama National (Gastropoda, Mollusca). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology 1 (1): 1 - 2. University 20: 1 - 8."]}
Breaking the Rules for Topological Defects: Smectic Order on Conical Substrates
Creators: name: Mosna, Ricardo A.
name: Beller, Daniel A.
name: Kamien, Randall D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ordered phases on curved substrates experience a complex interplay of ordering and intrinsic curvature, commonly producing frustration and singularities. This is an especially important issue in crystals as ever-smaller scale materials are grown on real surfaces; eventually, surface imperfections are on the same scale as the lattice constant. Here, we gain insights into this general problem by studying two-dimensional smectic order on substrates with highly localized intrinsic curvature, constructed from cones and their intersections with planes. In doing so we take advantage of fully tractable "paper and tape" constructions, allowing us to understand, in detail, the induced cusps and singularities.
description: 7 pages, figures included
Poirieria (Actinotrophon) tenuis Houart 2001
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Poirieria
Poirieria tenuis

description: Poirieria (Actinotrophon) tenuis Houart, 2001 Fig. 2G Poirieria (Actinotrophon) tenuis Houart, 2001: 255, figs 20, 22-23. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. BORDAU 1: stn DW 1410, 19°01’S, 178°26’W, 395-540 m, 1 dd juv; stn DW 1488, 19°01’S, 16°06’S, 179°28’W, 400-410 m, 1 lv (Fig. 2G); stn DW 1432, 178°25’W, 500-516 m, 1 lv, 4 dd. — MUSORSTOM 10: stn CP 17°20’S, 178°44’W, 477-493 m, 1 dd juv; stn DW 1486, 1331, 17°02’S, 178°02’E, 694-703 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — SW Pacific, Waterwitch Bank (12°30’S, 176°41’W), Vanuatu and now Fiji, live in 410-500 m. REMARKS. — It is interesting to note the occurrence of both Pacific species of Poirieria, P. tenuis and P. fragilis, at station BORDAU 1 DW 1410. Examination of this new material supports their separation, proposed previously (Houart 2001: 256), on the basis of the broader siphonal canal relative to the shell height, and the broader, shorter and more broadly open, less acute, more backwardly recurved and more adapically bent carinal spine of P. tenuis. Moreover, on the last teleoconch whorl of P. tenuis, the preceding axial lamellae almost entirely cover the succeeding spine on the sutural ramp, while the lamellae of P. fragilis are narrower and less expanded.
description: Published as part of Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, pp. 437-480 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 450
description: {"references": ["HOUART R. 2001. - Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae Muricidae). Venus 42 (1): 26 - 33."]}
Conformal invariance: from Weyl to SO(2,d)
Creators: name: Faci, Sofiane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work deals with two different but subtilely related kinds of conformal mappings: Weyl rescaling in $d>2$ dimensional spaces and SO(2,d) transformations. We express how the difference between the two can be compensated by diffeomorphic transformations. This is well known in the framework of String Theory but in the particular case of $d=2$ spaces. Indeed, the Polyakov formalism describes world-sheets in terms of two-dimensional conformal field theory. On the other hand, B. Zumino had shown that a classical four-dimensional Weyl-invariant field theory restricted to live in Minkowski space leads to an SO(2,4)-invariant field theory. We extend Zumino's result to relate Weyl and SO(2,d) symmetries in arbitrary conformally flat spaces (CFS). This allows us to assert that a classical $SO(2,d)$-invariant field does not distinguish, at least locally, between two different $d$-dimensional CFSs.
description: 5 pages, no figures. There are slight modifications to match with the published version
Playing the market : contemporary Christian music and the theory of religious economy
Creators: name: Carrick, Jamie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Contemporary Christian music (CCM) is a fascinating and understudied part of the religious vitality of modern American religion. In this dissertation the theory of religious economy is proposed as a valuable and highly serviceable methodological approach for the scholarly study of CCM. The theory of religious economy, or the marketplace approach, incorporates economic concepts and terminology in order to better explain American religion in its distinctly American context. In this study, I propose three ways in which this method can be applied. Firstly, I propose that CCM artists can be identified as religious firms operating on the “supply-side” of the religio-economic dynamic; it is their music, specifically the diverse brands of Christianity espoused there within, that can allow CCM artists to be interpreted in such a way. Secondly, the diversity within the public religious expressions of CCM artists can be recognized as being comparable to religious pluralism in a free marketplace of religion. Finally, it is suggested that the relationship between supply-side firms is determined, primarily, by the competitive reality of a free market religious economy.
Self-reported use of novel psychoactive substances in a US nationally representative survey: Prevalence, correlates, and a call for new survey methods to prevent underreporting
Creators: name: Palamar, Joseph J.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Su, Mark K.
name: Ompad, Danielle C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Epidemiology
Psychotropic drugs
Drug abuse
Drug abuse--Epidemiology
Substance abuse
Substance abuse--Epidemiology

description: Background: In recent years, there has been an increase in emergence and use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in the US and worldwide. However, there is little published epidemiological survey data estimating the prevalence of use in the US. Method: Data on self-reported NPS use came from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (2009–2013), a national representative sample of non-institutionalized individuals in the US. Subjects were asked to provide names of (non-traditional) drugs they used that they were not specifically asked about. We examined lifetime prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of self-reported use of new and uncommon synthetic drugs (NPS) among subjects ages 12–34-years-old. Results: 1.2% of subjects self-reported any use of the 57 NPS we examined. Use of psychedelic tryptamines (primarily DMT) was most common, followed by psychedelic phenethylamines (e.g., 2C series) and synthetic cannabinoids. Prevalence of self-reported use of NPS increased from 2009 to 2013 and use was most common among males, whites, older subjects, those of lower income, and among those residing in cities. Lifetime use of various other illicit drugs (e.g., LSD, cocaine, ecstasy/MDMA) was highly prevalent among NPS users. Conclusion: This the first study reporting on use of a variety of NPS in a nationally representative US sample; however, use appears to be underreported as other national data suggest higher rates of NPS (e.g., synthetic cannabinoid) use. Developing more adaptable survey tools and systematically assessing NPS use would allow researchers to ask about hundreds of NPS and improve reporting as new drugs continue to rapidly emerge.
Derivation of Invariant Varieties of Periodic Points from Singularity Confinement in the case of Toda Map
Creators: name: Yumibayashi, Tsukasa
name: Saito, Satoru
name: Wakimoto, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous work we have shown that the invariant varieties of periodic points (IVPP) of all periods of the 3 dimensional Lotka-Volterra map can be derived, iteratively, from the singularity confinement (SC). The method developed there can be applied to any integrable maps of dimension $d$ only when the number of the invariants $p$ equals to $d-1$. We propose, in this note, a new algorithm of the derivation which can be used in the cases ${d\over 2}\le p\le d-2$. Applying this algorithm to the 3 point Toda map, we derive a series of its IVPP's.
description: 11pages
Irene Morra
Creators: name: Hatch, Kristen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Irene Morra worked as a negative cutter at D. W. Griffith’s Los Angeles studios before becoming a cutter for Jackie Coogan Productions and Fox Films. She worked as an editor until her retirement in 1958.
Combined cosmological and solar system constraints on chameleon mechanism
Creators: name: Hees, A.
name: Füzfa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chameleon mechanism appearing in massive tensor-scalar theory of gravity can effectively reduce locally the non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and matter. This mechanism is invoked to reconcile large-scale departures from general relativity (GR), supposedly accounting for cosmic acceleration, to small scales stringent constraints on GR. In this paper, we carefully investigate this framework on cosmological and solar system scales to derive combined constraints on model parameters, notably by performing a non-ambiguous derivation of observables like luminosity distance and local post-newtonian parameters. Likelihood analysis of type Ia Supernovae data and of admissible domain for the PPN parameters clearly demonstrates that chameleon mechanism cannot occur in the same region of parameters space than the one necessary to account for cosmic acceleration with the assumed Ratra-Peebles potential and exponential coupling function.
description: revised version, minor changes
An econometric analysis of global agricultural commodity prices
Creators: name: Spavound, Simon
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis analyses global agricultural commodity price dynamics, with an
      emphasis on the causal factors behind movements and their forecastability.
      The analysis builds upon recent developments in the areas of time series
      econometrics, agricultural economics and applied economics to provide an
      empirical examination of agricultural commodity price movements. The main
      research questions addressed are the following. First, recursive unit root
      tests are employed to examine whether global commodity prices experienced
      explosive sub-periods which cannot be explained by underlying economic
      fundamental movements. Second, a Bayesian Structural VAR is used to model
      global wheat prices and decompose the causal factors behind price
      movements. Finally, an examination of the forecastability of agricultural
      commodity price series is conducted using recently developed dynamic
      models.
General Relativistic Simulations of Magnetized Plasmas around Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Creators: name: Giacomazzo, Bruno
name: Baker, John G.
name: Miller, M. Coleman
name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
name: van Meter, James R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries are produced by the mergers of galaxies and are the most powerful sources of gravitational waves accessible to space-based gravitational observatories. Some such mergers may occur in the presence of matter and magnetic fields and hence generate an electromagnetic counterpart. In this Letter, we present the first general relativistic simulations of magnetized plasma around merging supermassive black holes using the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code Whisky. By considering different magnetic field strengths, going from non-magnetically dominated to magnetically dominated regimes, we explore how magnetic fields affect the dynamics of the plasma and the possible emission of electromagnetic signals. In particular we observe a total amplification of the magnetic field of ~2 orders of magnitude which is driven by the accretion onto the binary and that leads to much stronger electromagnetic signals, more than a factor of 10^4 larger than comparable calculations done in the force-free regime where such amplifications are not possible.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes to match version accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Bouchetia vaubanensis
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Bouchetia
Bouchetia vaubanensis

description: Bouchetia vaubanensis (Houart, 1986) Figs 3B-D Poirieria (Paziella) vaubanensis Houart, 1986: 427, figs 1-2. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. BORDAU 1: stn DW 1497, 18°44’ S, 178°25’ W, 335-350 m, 1 dd (damaged). DISTRIBUTION. — New Caledonia region, live in 314-516 m, and now Fiji, single shell in 335-350 m.
description: Published as part of Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, pp. 437-480 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 452
Overdensities of Y-dropout Galaxies from the Brightest-of-Reionizing Galaxies Survey: A Candidate Protocluster at Redshift z~8
Creators: name: Trenti, M.
name: Bradley, L. D.
name: Stiavelli, M.
name: Shull, J. M.
name: Oesch, P.
name: Bouwens, R. J.
name: Munoz, J. A.
name: Romano-Diaz, E.
name: Treu, T.
name: Shlosman, I.
name: Carollo, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical and numerical modeling of dark-matter halo assembly predicts that the most luminous galaxies at high redshift are surrounded by overdensities of fainter companions. We test this prediction with HST observations acquired by our Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) survey, which identified four very bright z~8 candidates as Y-dropout sources in four of the 23 non-contiguous WFC3 fields observed. We extend here the search for Y-dropouts to fainter luminosities (M_* galaxies with M_AB\sim-20), with detections at >5sigma confidence (compared to >8sigma confidence adopted earlier) identifying 17 new candidates. We demonstrate that there is a correlation between number counts of faint and bright Y-dropouts at >99.84% confidence. Field BoRG58, which contains the best bright z\sim8 candidate (M_AB=-21.3), has the most significant overdensity of faint Y-dropouts. Four new sources are located within 70arcsec (corresponding to 3.1 comoving Mpc at z=8) from the previously known brighter z\sim8 candidate. The overdensity of Y-dropouts in this field has a physical origin to high confidence (p>99.975%), independent of completeness and contamination rate of the Y-dropout selection. We modeled the overdensity by means of cosmological simulations and estimate that the principal dark matter halo has mass M_h\sim(4-7)x10^11Msun (\sim5sigma density peak) and is surrounded by several M_h\sim10^11Msun halos which could host the fainter dropouts. In this scenario, we predict that all halos will eventually merge into a M_h>2x10^14Msun galaxy cluster by z=0. Follow-up observations with ground and space based telescopes are required to secure the z\sim8 nature of the overdensity, discover new members, and measure their precise redshift.
description: Minor revision: ApJ accepted [17 pages (emulateapj style), 7 figures, 2 tables]
“Time for dabs”: Analyzing Twitter data on marijuana concentrates across the U.S.
Creators: name: Daniulaityte, Raminta
name: Nahhas, Ramzi W.
name: Wijeratne, Sanjaya
name: Carlson, Robert G.
name: Lamy, Francois R.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Boyer, Edward W.
name: Smith, G. Alan
name: Sheth, Amit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Epidemiology
Marijuana
Vaping
Electronic cigarettes
Drug abuse
Drug abuse--Epidemiology

description: Aims: Media reports suggest increasing popularity of marijuana concentrates (“dabs”; “earwax”; “budder”; “shatter; “butane hash oil”) that are typically vaporized and inhaled via a bong, vaporizer or electronic cigarette. However, data on the epidemiology of marijuana concentrate use remain limited. This study aims to explore Twitter data on marijuana concentrate use in the U.S. and identify differences across regions of the country with varying cannabis legalization policies. Methods: Tweets were collected between October 20 and December 20, 2014, using Twitter's streaming API. Twitter data filtering framework was available through the eDrugTrends platform. Raw and adjusted percentages of dabs-related tweets per state were calculated. A permutation test was used to examine differences in the adjusted percentages of dabs-related tweets among U.S. states with different cannabis legalization policies. Results: eDrugTrends collected a total of 125,255 tweets. Almost 22% (n = 27,018) of these tweets contained identifiable state-level geolocation information. Dabs-related tweet volume for each state was adjusted using a general sample of tweets to account for different levels of overall tweeting activity for each state. Adjusted percentages of dabs-related tweets were highest in states that allowed recreational and/or medicinal cannabis use and lowest in states that have not passed medical cannabis use laws. The differences were statistically significant. Conclusions: Twitter data suggest greater popularity of dabs in the states that legalized recreational and/or medical use of cannabis. The study provides new information on the epidemiology of marijuana concentrate use and contributes to the emerging field of social media analysis for drug abuse research.
Vera McCord
Creators: name: Lane, Christina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Theatrical actress Vera McCord wrote, produced, and directed her one and only independent feature motion picture, the semi-scandalous The Good-Bad Wife, in 1921. She had had a relatively short theatrical career between 1912 and 1914 in Oakland, California, after a seven-year stint on the stage in London before her one producing gamble. What else we know of McCord’s life is that she was born in 1872 in Marshalltown, Iowa. The daughter of the town’s deputy sheriff, she, her parents, and her two brothers eventually moved to central California, where her father took up real estate. As a young woman, she enrolled at Snell’s Women’s Seminary in Berkeley, and later took a single course at Emerson College in Boston. It was on a trip to England and Paris “under the chaperonage of [one] Lady Lewds,” according to an Oakland Tribune article in 1914, that she developed her theatrical skills (28).
Cosmological Constraint and Analysis on Holographic Dark Energy Model Characterized by the Conformal-age-like Length
Creators: name: Huang, Zhuo-Peng
name: Wu, Yue-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a best-fit analysis on the single-parameter holographic dark energy model characterized by the conformal-age-like length, $L=\frac{1}{a^4(t)}\int_0^tdt' a^3(t') $. Based on the Union2 compilation of 557 supernova Ia data, the baryon acoustic oscillation results from the SDSS DR7 and the cosmic microwave background radiation data from the WMAP7, we show that the model gives the minimal $χ^2_{min}=546.273$, which is comparable to $χ^2_{Λ{\rm CDM}}=544.616$ for the $Λ$CDM model. The single parameter $d$ concerned in the model is found to be $d=0.232\pm 0.006\pm 0.009$. Since the fractional density of dark energy $Ω_{de}\sim d^2a^2$ at $a \ll 1$, the fraction of dark energy is naturally negligible in the early universe, $Ω_{de} \ll 1$ at $a \ll 1$. The resulting constraints on the present fractional energy density of matter and the equation of state are $Ω_{m0}=0.286^{+0.019}_{-0.018}^{+0.032}_{-0.028}$ and $w_{de0}=-1.240^{+0.027}_{-0.027}^{+0.045}_{-0.044}$ respectively. The model leads to a slightly larger fraction of matter comparing to the $Λ$CDM model. We also provide a systematic analysis on the cosmic evolutions of the fractional energy density of dark energy, the equation of state of dark energy, the deceleration parameter and the statefinder. It is noticed that the equation of state crosses from $w_{de}>-1$ to $w_{de}0$) to accelerated expansion ($q<0$) recently, and the statefinder may serve as a sensitive diagnostic to distinguish the CHDE model with the $Λ$CDM model.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, minor changes for the fitting data, references added
Trends in alcohol and tobacco use among Brazilian students: 1989 to 2010
Creators: name: Sanchez, Zila M.
name: Prado, Mariangela Cainelli Oliveira
name: Sanudo, Adriana
name: Carlini, Elisaldo A.
name: Nappo, Solange A.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Epidemiology
Tobacco use
Teenagers--Tobacco use
Youth--Tobacco use
Teenagers--Alcohol use
Youth--Alcohol use
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Brazilian students

description: Objective: To analyze temporal trends of the prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use among Brazilian students. Methods: We analyzed data published between 1989 and 2010 from five epidemiological surveys on students from the 6th to the 12th grade of public schools from the ten largest state capitals of Brazil. The total sample consisted of 104,104 students and data were collected in classrooms. The same collection tool – a World Health Organization self-reporting questionnaire – and sampling and weighting procedures were used in the five surveys. The Chi-square test for trend was used to compare the prevalence from different years. Results: The prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use varied among the years and cities studied. Alcohol consumption decreased in the 10 state capitals (p < 0.001) throughout 21 years. Tobacco use also decreased significantly in eight cities (p < 0.001). The highest prevalence of alcohol use was found in the Southeast region in 1993 (72.8%, in Belo Horizonte) and the lowest one in Belem (30.6%) in 2010. The highest past-year prevalence of tobacco use was found in the South region in 1997 (28.0%, in Curitiba) and the lowest one in the Southeast in 2010 (7.8%, in Sao Paulo). Conclusions: The decreasing trend in the prevalence of tobacco and alcohol use among students detected all over the Country can be related to the successful and comprehensive Brazilian antitobacco and antialcohol policies. Despite these results, the past-year prevalence of alcohol consumption in the past year remained high in all Brazilian regions.
Attiliosa caledonica
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Attiliosa
Attiliosa caledonica

description: Attiliosa caledonica (Jousseaume, 1881) Fig. 2H Muricidea caledonica Jousseaume, 1881: 349. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. SUVA 4: stn DW 04, 18°12’S, 178°35’E, 100-122 m, 1 dd (Fig. 2H); stn DW 08, 18°22’S, 178°02 E, 28-30 m, 1 dd; stn DW 23, 18°28’S, 177°59’E, 31-32 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — The Philippines, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Fiji, Society and Tuamotu archipelagos. REMARKS. — Attiliosa caledonica was treated as a form of Attiliosa nodulifera (Sowerby, 1841) by Vokes & D’Attilio (1982) and as a subspecies of it by Tröndlé & Houart (1992: 82). One of the distinguishing characters is the spine morphology: in A. caledonica there are 4 or 5 distinct acute spinelets on the varices of the last teleoconch whorl, whereas in Attiliosa nodulifera these spines are less acute, broader and joined together, especially P1 and P2. We now consider A. caledonica to deserve full specific status, as both it and A. nodulifera are sympatric in the Philippines (R. Houart coll., unpublished) and even syntopic in Fiji, as both were found sharing the same habitat within the geographic range (SUVA 4 stn DW 08) with no intermediate forms.
description: Published as part of Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, pp. 437-480 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 452
description: {"references": ["JOUSSEAUME F. 1881. - Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste molluscous animals. Monograph of the genus Buccinum, L. Reeve, London, 44: 349 - 350. vol. 3: pls 1 - 14.", "HOUART R. 1992. - The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: D'ATTILIO A. 1982. - Convergence in typhine form. The Festivus 14 (8):"]}
Graphergia Hub Webinar #2 - Sustainability Assessment and Eco-Design  For Graphene-based Products
Creators: name: Maccanti, Matteo
name: Batsouli, Despoina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Graphene
subject: ecodesign
subject: Environmental sustainability
subject: Life-cycle management

description: Discover the slides for the presentation on eco-design and sustainability aspects implemented in the GRAPHERGIA project, which was the focus of the 2nd GRAPHERGIA Hub Webinar.

The second GRAPHERGIA Hub Webinar Series is dedicated to discussing sustainability principles to evaluate the environmental and socio-economic methodologies for products eco-design. It presents the eco-design principles for materials, process and development phases, and it shares insights from the key methodologies used for sustainability research, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA).

The session was hosted online on March, 28th, 2025 by two GRAPHERGIA project partners Matteo Maccanti (NTT, Italy) and Despoina Batsouli (Adamant, Greece).
Universal IMF vs dark halo response in early-type galaxies: breaking the degeneracy with the fundamental plane
Creators: name: Dutton, Aaron A.
name: Maccio', Andrea V.
name: Mendel, J. Trevor
name: Simard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the relations between aperture stellar velocity dispersion (σ_ap), stellar mass (M_sps), and galaxy size (R_e) for a sample of \sim 150,000 early-type galaxies from SDSS/DR7 to place constraints on the stellar initial mass function (IMF) and dark halo response to galaxy formation. We build LCDM based mass models that reproduce, by construction, the relations between galaxy size, light concentration and stellar mass, and use the spherical Jeans equations to predict σ_ap. Given our model assumptions (including those in the stellar population synthesis models), we find that reproducing the median σ_ap vs M_sps relation is not possible with {\it both} a universal IMF and a universal dark halo response. Significant departures from a universal IMF and/or dark halo response are required, but there is a degeneracy between these two solutions. We show that this degeneracy can be broken using the strength of the correlation between residuals of the velocity-mass (Δlog σ_ap) and size-mass (Δlog R_e) relations. The slope of this correlation, d_vr \equiv Δlog σ_ap/Δlog R_e, varies systematically with galaxy mass from d_vr \simeq -0.45 at M_sps \sim 10^{10}M_sun, to d_vr \simeq -0.15 at M_sps \sim 10^{11.6} M_sun. The virial fundamental plane (FP) has d_vr=-1/2, and thus we find the tilt of the observed FP is mass dependent. Reproducing this tilt requires {\it both} a non-universal IMF and a non-universal halo response. Our best model has mass-follows-light at low masses (Msps < 10^{11.2}M_sun) and unmodified NFW haloes at M_sps \sim 10^{11.5} M_sun. The stellar masses imply a mass dependent IMF which is "lighter" than Salpeter at low masses and "heavier" than Salpeter at high masses.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, accepted to MNRAS. More extensive discussion, 4 new figures, conclusions unchanged
Elizabeth McGaffey
Creators: name: Foote, Lisle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Elizabeth “Bessie” McGaffey founded the first studio research department in 1914 at the Lasky studio, where Cecil B. DeMille was the chief director. She was in charge of all research for his films until 1931, and then she became the head of R.K.O.’s research department. She also briefly tried scenario writing in 1916, writing the story for The Honorable Friend.
Fundamental study on extracting lead from cerussite concentrate in methane sulfonic acid based solution
Creators: name: Wu, Zheng-Hui
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Cerussite (PbCO₃) concentrates may be recovered from oxidized lead ores. These concentrates suffer from the intrinsic fuel shortage via traditional smelting route and may lead to widespread contamination in shipment. Therefore, a hydro-electrometallurgical process to treat cerussite concentrate by methane sulfonic acid (MSA) is proposed to solve the above problems. The leaching of cerussite concentrate by MSA was first studied. The parameters of stirring speed, temperature, acid concentration, particle sizes and solid concentration were considered. It was found that stirring speed, temperature, particle size and proton concentration had a significant influence on the kinetics while solid concentration showed no effect on the final lead extraction under the experimental conditions. The leaching results indicated that MSA is favourable to treat cerussite concentrate and the lead extraction could achieve the theoretical maximum in just 10 min at ambient conditions. The lead content in solution obtained at high solid concentration was sufficiently high, and easily met the concentration requirements for the subsequent electrolysis process. After leaching, the residue was subjected to a desulfurization treatment to recover the remaining lead in residue. Using desulfurization agent Na₂CO₃, the remaining lead, mainly in anglesite, was transformed to PbCO₃ that was followed by a re-leaching treatment with MSA. An overall lead recovery of 98% was finally obtained. In the electrowinning process from MSA based electrolyte, the individual and synergistic effects of two ligninsulfonate salts and two glycol-type agents on lead deposit quality were first investigated. Compared to the other three additives, the individual use of calcium ligninsulfonate most benefited the morphology of lead deposit. The operating parameters in the lead electrowinning process (i.e. temperature, current density, concentrations of lead ion and protons) had a widely acceptable range. The cathodic current efficiency and specific energy consumption in most tests were around 99% and 0.53Wh/kg, respectively. The SEM micrographs showed that the lead deposits obtained under the optimal conditions were compact and even. These results for leaching and electrolysis made the MSA system competitive to the comparable fluoborate and fluosilicate systems. Finally a simplified flowsheet to extract lead from cerussite concentrate in MSA based solution was proposed.
Constraining Sterile Neutrinos with AMANDA and IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
Creators: name: Esmaili, Arman
name: Halzen, Francis
name: Peres, O. L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that atmospheric neutrino data accumulated with the AMANDA and the partially deployed IceCube experiments constrain the allowed parameter space for a hypothesized fourth sterile neutrino beyond the reach of a combined analysis of all other experiments. We also illustrate the sensitivity of the completed IceCube detector, that is now taking data, to the parameter space of 3+1 model.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures; v2: discussion improved, matches the version published at JCAP
Trends in Marijuana Use Among Pregnant and Nonpregnant Reproductive-Aged Women, 2002-2014
Creators: name: Brown, Qiana
name: Shmulewitz, Dvora
name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Wall, Melanie M.
name: Hasin, Deborah S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Marijuana
Marijuana--Physiological effect
Epidemiology
Pregnancy
Pregnant women--Drug use
Pregnant women
Pregnant women--Health and hygiene

description: Between 2001 and 2013, marijuana use among US adults more than doubled, many states legalized marijuana use, and attitudes toward marijuana became more permissive. In aggregated 2007-2012 data, 3.9% of pregnant women and 7.6% of nonpregnant reproductive-aged women reported past-month marijuana use. Although the evidence is mixed, human and animal studies suggest that prenatal marijuana exposure may be associated with poor offspring outcomes (eg, low birth weight, impaired neurodevelopment). The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that pregnant women and women contemplating pregnancy be screened for and discouraged from using marijuana and other substances. Whether marijuana use has changed over time among pregnant and nonpregnant reproductive-aged women is unknown.
Attiliosa nodulifera
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Attiliosa
Attiliosa nodulifera

description: Attiliosa nodulifera (Sowerby, 1841) Fig. 2I Murex noduliferus Sowerby, 1841: pl. 194, fig. 94. FIG. 3. A, Poirieria (Paziella) pazi Crosse, 1869, Mer des Antilles, holotype MNHN 0956, h 35 mm. B, C, Bouchetia vaubanensis (Houart, 1986), southern New Caledonia, VAUBAN 1978-79 stn 1, holotype MNHN 0885, h 10.5 mm. D, B. vaubanensis (Houart, 1986), Norfolk Ridge, SMIB 8 DW 198, h 19.9 mm. E, F,? B. hystricina (Dall, 1889), Cuba, off Santiago, 19°56’66"N, 75°47’30"W, 465 m, paralectotype USNM 93959, h 16.2 mm. Other reference: Poirieria nodulifera - Cernohorsky 1967: 125, pl. 15, fig. 17. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. SUVA 4: stn DW 08, 18°22’S, 178°02’E, 28-30 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Central Indo-West Pacific: Australia (Northern Territory to north Queensland), Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and Fiji. Genus PHYLLOCOMA Tapparone Canefri, 1881
description: Published as part of Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, pp. 437-480 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on pages 452-453
description: {"references": ["DALL W. H. 1889. - Reports on the results of dredgings, under the supervision", "CERNOHORSKY W. O. 1967. - The Muricidae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda)."]}
Christiane Mendelys
Creators: name: Fee, Annie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Christiane Mendelys’ career as a mime, actress, film critic, and acting teacher mirrored the major developments in French cinema culture, from the early days of cinema as a music-hall attraction, through the first attempts at “theatrical cinema” for middle-class audiences in the mid-1900s and the emergence of newspaper film criticism in the mid-1910s, to, finally, the height of cinema popularity in 1920s Paris. However, unlike fellow critics such as Louis Delluc, Émile Vuillermoz, and Léon Moussinac, her contribution to the development of cinema culture in France has been all but overlooked. While their work circulates in edited volumes, accessing the film criticism of Mendelys requires entering the ornate corridors of the Palais Garnier Opera House, where newspaper clippings of her writings are archived.
Jackeydawra Melford
Creators: name: Terpstra, Mirte
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Jackeydawra Melford was really called Alice Bradshaw Jackeydora Melford. There are many ways to spell her name, but Melford herself wrote it as Jackeydawra. She was the daughter of theatre actor Mark Melford, who possibly named her after a popular comic opera that he wrote, and in an interview with Audrey Wadowska in 1963, Melford also claims that this opera was the basis of her father’s film The Herncrake Witch (1912). It is an extraordinary name for an extraordinary woman. An audiotape interview from 1975 focuses on her beginnings performing on stage in her father’s comedy sketches in music halls from the time she was very young. She may even have been born while his theatre company was on tour in Nottingham. Audrey Wadowska suggested to Tjitte de Vries that this videotaped interview was intended to be the start of a full autobiography, although there does not appear to be evidence of further work on such a project.
Proposed solid-state Faraday anomalous-dispersion optical filter
Creators: name: Lin, Wei-Bin
name: Zhou, Zong-Quan
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a Faraday anomalous dispersion optical filter (FADOF) based on a rare-earth ion doped crystal. We present theoretical analyses for the solid-state FADOF transmission. Our theoretical model predicts a maximum transmission efficiency of 71% and a double-peaked transmission spectrum with a bandwidth of 6 GHz under current experimental conditions. Our proposal may have important applications in optical communications.
description: 4 pages,3 figures
Metrics of antibiotic prescription or consumption to support antibiotic stewardship in the outpatient healthcare setting: A protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Habegger, Tamara
name: Dunaiceva, Jelena
name: Meyer-Massetti, Carla
name: Mueller, Yolanda
name: Plüss-Suard, Catherine
name: Kronenberg, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Anti-Bacterial Agents
subject: antibiotic consumption
subject: antibiotics
subject: antimicrobials
subject: antibiotic use
subject: antibiotic prescription
subject: Outpatients
subject: metrics
subject: antibiotic resistance
subject: Antimicrobial Stewardship
subject: antibiotic stewardship

description: Abstract

Introduction: Qualitative and quantitative metrics are needed to assess antibiotic consumption and prescription in the context of improving antibiotic stewardship programs in outpatient healthcare settings. This project aims to answer the research question "What metrics evaluate antibiotic prescription and consumption in the outpatient setting?" and to assemble an updated compilation of literature mentioning such metrics.

Methods: A scoping literature review will be conducted, following the PRISMA-guidelines and Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Inclusion criteria will be: Studies that are performed in the outpatient setting, addressing systemic antibacterials, and using quantitative or qualitative metrics or proxy indicators as an outcome. The search strategy will focus on the databases Medline and Embase (via Ovid). Consecutively, two independent reviewers will perform the two screening phases (title-abstract screening and full-text screening), before the metrics will be extracted.

Results: Eligible studies will be presented in a PRISMA flowchart, and the findings will be described narratively. The collected metrics will be clustered into suitable categories.

Discussion: This scoping review will synthetize metrics that assess antibiotic consumption and prescriptions in the outpatient setting, considering different levels of data aggregation such as healthcare provider level, regional and national trends. It will be the first stepping stone to develop a core outcome set of such metrics for the ambulatory care setting in Switzerland to support and improve antibiotic stewardship.
TO IMPROVE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC GENERALIZED PERIODONTITIS
Creators: name: Muratova, Saodat
name: Musirmanov, Abdusalim
name: Toshtemirov, Humoyun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article provides modern data on the problem of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture and treatment of generalized periodontitis. The authors came to the conclusion that treatment should be comprehensive and aimed at eliminating inflammation in the periodontal area, eliminating the periodontal pocket, stimulating reparative osteogenesis, restoring function, and preventing negative effects on the general health and quality of life of patients. The use of conductors in drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and destructive periodontal diseases is due to their ability to increase the transmucous conductivity of drugs to the inflammation focus, allowing you to create an effective concentration of the active drug component that is part of the composition in the entire volume of periodontal lesions and maintain it throughout the entire period of treatment.
US Traffic Fatalities, 1985–2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws
Creators: name: Santaella Tenorio, Julian
name: Mauro, Christine Marie
name: Wall, Melanie M.
name: Kim, June H.
name: Cerdá, Magdalena
name: Keyes, Katherine M.
name: Hasin, Deborah S.
name: Galea, Sandro
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Marijuana--Therapeutic use
Marijuana--Therapeutic use--Law and legislation
Traffic fatalities
Epidemiology

description: Objectives. To determine the association of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) with traffic fatality rates.

Methods. Using data from the 1985–2014 Fatality Analysis Reporting System, we examined the association between MMLs and traffic fatalities in multilevel regression models while controlling for contemporaneous secular trends. We examined this association separately for each state enacting MMLs. We also evaluated the association between marijuana dispensaries and traffic fatalities.

Results. On average, MML states had lower traffic fatality rates than non-MML states. Medical marijuana laws were associated with immediate reductions in traffic fatalities in those aged 15 to 24 and 25 to 44 years, and with additional yearly gradual reductions in those aged 25 to 44 years. However, state-specific results showed that only 7 states experienced post-MML reductions. Dispensaries were also associated with traffic fatality reductions in those aged 25 to 44 years.

Conclusions. Both MMLs and dispensaries were associated with reductions in traffic fatalities, especially among those aged 25 to 44 years. State-specific analysis showed heterogeneity of the MML–traffic fatalities association, suggesting moderation by other local factors. These findings could influence policy decisions on the enactment or repealing of MMLs and how they are implemented.