cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEATHSTAR – A new hope for accurate mass-loss-rate estimates for AGB stars
Creators: name: Andriantsaralaza, Miora
name: De Beck, Elvire
name: Vlemmings, Wouter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Mass loss via a stellar wind is a critical process that governs the later phases of stellar evolution. Through this wind, Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars are major contributors of newly synthesized elements and dust to their host galaxy. Accurate characterization of this phenomenon is therefore key to advancing our understanding of the Galactic chemical enrichment and evolution. The Deathstar project aims to provide a definitive description of AGB gas mass loss by mapping the winds of nearly 70  AGB stars in the southern hemisphere using ALMA observations of CO lines. Leveraging ALMA ACA's capabilities, we directly and systematically measured the sizes of the CO envelopes created by the winds, eliminating a major source of uncertainty from wind property estimates. By incorporating these size measurements and utilizing our newly-calibrated distance measurements from Gaia and VLBI parallaxes, we further refine our calculations of mass-loss rates for AGB stars. This poster shows the estimated sizes of the CO envelopes of these nearby AGB stars and their comparison with predictions from photodissociation theory. Additionally, it presents our current work on constraining mass-loss rates using the spatial information from our ALMA observations, showcasing the great value of ALMA for our understanding of AGB outflows.
Mary MacLane
Creators: name: Buck, Julie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: MacLane’s name was rarely out of the newspapers between 1902 and 1917, the publication dates of her first and last books. Particularly after the first book, newspapers tracked her movements as she traveled to Chicago, then eastward. She arrived in Boston, hoping to attend Radcliffe College, but was turned away for lack of scholarship, and finally moved on to New York, where she settled in Greenwich Village and, according to Western historian Cathryn Halverson, was finally able to live the bohemian life she had so craved (66). When public attention began to wane, MacLane would give interviews and write articles capturing the ennui of being a public figure, or, as in a 1910 Chicago Daily Tribune article, she might claim to be looking for a husband in order to create good copy (G3). After contracting scarlet fever in 1911, Mary returned to Butte to write her final novel, I, Mary MacLane, which was published in 1917 (Halverson 71). While this book did not approach the success of her first, it did catch the attention of George Spoor, who ran Essanay Studios in Chicago.
Typhinellus occlusus
Creators: name: Houart, Roland
name: Héros, Virginie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Typhinellus
Typhinellus occlusus

description: Typhinellus occlusus (Garrard, 1963) Fig. 7A Typhis occlusus Garrard, 1963: 46, pl. 7, figs 9-10. E FIG. 7. A, Typhinellus occlusus (Garrard, 1963), Fiji, MUSORSTOM 10 CP 1364, h 14.9 mm. B, D, Prototyphis gracilis n. sp., Fiji, BORDAU 1 CP 1394, holotype MNHN 20010, h 23.5 mm; C, protoconch. Scale bar 0.5 mm; E, adapertural side of wing. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. MUSORSTOM 10: stn CP 1364, 18°12’S, 178°35’E, 80-86 m, 1 lv. DISTRIBUTION. — Philippines (Springsteen & Leobrera 1986: 131), Queensland (type locality), live in 31-200 m, and Fiji (new record), live in 80-86 m. REMARKS. — The varices of Typhinellus are constricted above the aperture and flaring at the abapical end; the varical flange of the last teleoconch whorl extends to almost the tip of siphonal canal; the anal tubes are situated near the preceding varix, adpressed to the preceding partition. Typhinellus occlusus is easily distinguished by its narrow last teleoconch whorl, narrow aperture and very broad varical flange. FIG. 8. A -B, Pazinotus falcatiformis (Thiele,1925), North of Nias Island, 01°48’N, 97°6’E, 141 m, holotype ZMB,h 18 mm; C, Fiji, BORDAU 1 DW 1465,h 8.9 mm; D, Fiji,BORDAU 1 CP 1464, 7.3 mm. E -G, detail of the columellar lip from Houart (1995); E, Orania fischeriana, New Caledonia; F, O. adiastolos, New Caledonia; G, O. corallina, South Africa. Scale bars: 2 mm.
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 469-471
description: {"references": ["GARRARD T. A. 1963. - New species of Mollusca from eastern Australia."]}
Electron transport in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction based on the surface of a topological insulator
Creators: name: Yuan, Jian-Hui
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Zhang, Jian-Jun
name: Cheng, Ze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2
subject: 82C70

description: We theoretically study the electron transport properties in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction, which is deposited on the top of a topological surface. The conductance at the parallel (\textbf{P}) configuration can be much bigger than that at the antiparallel (\textbf{AP}) configuration. Compared \textbf{P} with \textbf{AP} configuration, there exists a shift of phase which can be tuned by gate voltage. We find that the exchange field weakly affects the conductance of carriers for \textbf{P} configuration but can dramatically suppress the conductance of carriers for \textbf{AP} configuration. This controllable electron transport implies anomalous magnetoresistance in this topological spin valve, which may contribute to the development of spintronics . In addition, we find that there is a Fabry-Perot-like electron interference.
description: 15 pages, 7 figure
Coralliophila fearnleyi
Creators: name: Oliverio, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila
Coralliophila fearnleyi

description: Coralliophila fearnleyi (Emerson & D’Attilio, 1965) Fig. 6 Latiaxis (Babelomurex) fearnleyi Emerson & D’Attilio, 1965: 101-103, pl. 10, figs 1-8. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype AMNH 111976, figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985: pl. 31, fig. 7). TYPE LOCALITY. — Cooktown (1 nautical mile NW of Dawson’s Reef), Queensland, Australia. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia proper. LAGON: stn 561, Grand Récif Sud, 22°42’S, 166°59’E, 48 m, 1 dd (Fig. 6); stn 636, Secteur de Yaté, 21°59’S, 166°43’E, 34-40 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Western Pacific, from southern Japan (Kii Peninsula and southwards, in 20-100 m; Higo et al. 2001), Philippines (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985) and Australia, subtidal (Cernohorsky 1978). Now also New Caledonia, empty shells in 40- 48 m. REMARKS. — This species (and the next one) is often included in Babelomurex because of its keeled periphery with weakly pronounced spines, although others (e.g. Tsuchiya 2000) place them in Coralliophila s.l. It is provisionally included here in Coralliophila s.l. Specimens from the Philippines have a multispiral protoconch, indicating planktotrophic development.
description: Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, pp. 481-586 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on pages 492-493
description: {"references": ["EMERSON W. K. & D'ATTILIO A. 1965. - A new Latiaxis from the Western HIRASE Y. 1907. - On Japanese marine molluscs. The Conchological Magazine Pacific (Muricidae). The Nautilus 78: 101 - 103, pl. 10, figs 1 - 8. 1: 13 - 395, pls 1 - 22. [English captions: text in Japanese]", "DOCKERY D. T. 1980. - The invertebrate macropaleontology of the Clarke HIGO S., CALLOMON P. & GOTO Y. 2001. - Catalogue and bibliography County, Mississipi, Area. Bullettin of the Mississipi Department of Natural of the marine shell-bearing mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Resources Bureau of Geology 122: 1 - 387. Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. Type figures. Elle Scientific Publications, DUNKER W. 1847. - Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschift Osaka, Japan, 208 p.", "BARNARD K. H. 1959. - Contributions to the knowledge of South African CERNOHORSKY W. O. 1978. - Marine shells of the Pacific. 3. Pacific Publications, Mollusca. Part. 2: Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rachiglossa. Annals of the Sydney, 352 pp."]}
The Incompressible Rindler fluid versus the Schwarzschild-AdS fluid
Creators: name: Matsuo, Yoshinori
name: Natsuume, Makoto
name: Ohta, Masahiro
name: Okamura, Takashi
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: We study the proposal by Bredberg et al. (1006.1902), where the fluid is defined by the Brown-York tensor on a timelike surface at r=r_c in black hole backgrounds. We consider both Rindler space and the Schwarzschild-AdS (SAdS) black hole. The former describes an incompressible fluid, whereas the latter describes the vanishing bulk viscosity at arbitrary r_c, but these two results do not contradict with each other. We also find an interesting "coincidence" with the black hole membrane paradigm which gives a negative bulk viscosity. In order to show these results, we rewrite the hydrodynamic stress tensor via metric perturbations using the conservation equation. The resulting expressions are suitable to compare with the Brown-York tensor.
description: 18 pages, PTEPHY; v2: added discussion
ethical approval from PLGA scaffold carrying icariin to inhibit the progression of osteoarthritis in rabbits
Creators: name: Zhao, Chang Fu
name: Li, Zhen Hua
name: Li, Shao Jun
name: Li, Jian An
name: Hou, Ting Ting
name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019

description: ethical approval
Patterns of youth tobacco and polytobacco usage: The shift to alternative tobacco products
Creators: name: Harrell, Paul T.
name: Naqvi, Syeda Mahrukh H.
name: Plunk, Andrew D.
name: Ji, Ming
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Epidemiology
Tobacco
Youth--Tobacco use
Tobacco use
Teenagers--Tobacco use
Electronic cigarettes
Vaping

description: Background: Despite significant declines in youth cigarette smoking, overall tobacco usage remains over 20% as non-cigarette tobacco product usage is increasingly common and polytobacco use (using 1+ tobacco product) remains steady. Objectives: The present study was designed to identify patterns of youth tobacco use and examine associations with sociodemographic characteristics and tobacco dependence. Methods: The current analysis uses Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to examine the 6,958 tobacco users (n = 2,738 female) in the National Youth Tobacco Survey (2012 and 2013). We used as indicators past month use of tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookah, snus, pipes, bidis, and kreteks) and regressed resulting classes on sociodemographic characteristics and tobacco dependence. Results: Nine classes emerged: cigarette smokers (33.4% of sample, also included small probabilities for use of cigars and e-cigarettes), cigar smokers (16.8%, nearly exclusive), smokeless tobacco users (12.3%, also included small probabilities for cigarettes, cigars, snus), hookah smokers (11.8%), tobacco smokers/chewers (10.7%, variety of primarily traditional tobacco products), tobacco/hookah smokers (7.2%), tobacco/snus/e-cig users (3.3%), e-cigarette users (2.9%,), and polytobacco users (1.7%, high probabilities for all products). Compared to cigarette smokers, tobacco/hookah smokers and hookah smokers were more likely to report Hispanic ethnicity. Polytobacco users were more likely to report dependence (AOR:2.77, 95% CI:[1.49–5.18]), whereas e-cigarette users were less likely (AOR:0.49, 95% CI:[0.24–0.97]).Conclusion: Findings are consistent with other research demonstrating shifts in adolescent tobacco product usage towards non-cigarette tobacco products. Continuous monitoring of these patterns is needed to help predict if this shift will ultimately result in improved public health.
Coralliophila jeffreysi Smith 1879
Creators: name: Oliverio, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila
Coralliophila jeffreysi

description: Coralliophila jeffreysi Smith, 1879 Fig. 7 Coralliophila jeffreysi Smith, 1879: 213, pl. 20, fig. 48. Synonym: Coralliophila jeffreysi hiradoensis Pilsbry 1904: 16, pl. 3, fig. 27. TYPE MATERIAL. — Coralliophila jeffreysi: holotype BMNH 1878.10.16.19, figured by Kaicher (1985: 3992). — Coralliophila jeffreysi hiradoensis: 2 syntypes ANSP 85981 (“Types No. 85981”: Pilsbry 1904:16), 1 figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985: pl. 46, fig. 2); 1 syntype ANSP 398569. TYPE LOCALITY. — C. jeffreysi: Japan, Seto Inland Sea, 34°31’N, 133°40’E, 40 m [22 fms: HMS Sylvia expedition Station 22]. — C. jeffreysi hiradoensis: Hirado, Hizen, Japan. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. SUVA 4: stn DW 08, Viti Levu, Beqa Lagoon, 18°22.3’S, 178°02.4’E, 28-30 m, 1 lv (Fig. 7). DISTRIBUTION. — Western Pacific, from southern Japan (Kii Peninsula and Seto Inland Sea and southwards, subtidal to 50 m, on scleractininans and sea fans), Korea and Australia (Higo et al. 2001). Extended herein to Fiji, live in 28-30 m. REMARKS. — This species is not commonly reported and it is possible that specimens are mislabelled under C. fearnleyi, which is very similar in shape and sculpture. Coralliophila jeffreysi differs in its stronger spiny projections and the rather coarser spiral sculpture. This species is placed provisionally in Coralliophila s.l. pending more detailed study of its systematics.
description: Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, pp. 481-586 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 493
description: {"references": ["PILSBRY H. A. 1904. - New Japanese marine mollusca: Gastropoda. Proceedings prosobranch gastropods symbiotic with Indo-Pacific Palythoa (Coelenterata: of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 56: 3 - 37, pls 1 - 6. Zoanthidae). Pacific Science 34: 1 - 17.", "DOCKERY D. T. 1980. - The invertebrate macropaleontology of the Clarke HIGO S., CALLOMON P. & GOTO Y. 2001. - Catalogue and bibliography County, Mississipi, Area. Bullettin of the Mississipi Department of Natural of the marine shell-bearing mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Resources Bureau of Geology 122: 1 - 387. Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. Type figures. Elle Scientific Publications, DUNKER W. 1847. - Diagnoses Buccinorum quorundam novorum. Zeitschift Osaka, Japan, 208 p."]}
Lottie Lyell
Creators: name: Nash, Margot
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Lottie Lyell was a much-loved silent film star in Australia. She was also a scenario writer, director, editor, producer, and art director. Quietly working alongside director Raymond Longford, she had a significant influence on the twenty-eight films they made together. Lyell starred in nearly all the films, but it is now generally accepted that she contributed a great deal more than was officially acknowledged at the time (Wright 1986, 1-14; Pike and Cooper 1998, 19, 109; Dooley 2000, 4).
Cosmological tests of sudden future singularities
Creators: name: Denkiewicz, Tomasz
name: Dabrowski, Mariusz P.
name: Ghodsi, Hoda
name: Hendry, Martin A.
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 - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss combined constraints, coming from the cosmic microwave background shift parameter $\mathcal{R}$, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) distance parameter $\mathcal{A}$, and from the latest type Ia supernovae data, imposed on cosmological models which allow sudden future singularities of pressure. We show that due to their weakness such sudden singularities may happen in the very near future and that at present they can mimic standard dark energy models.
description: 8 pages, 2 references added
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs in adolescents and young adults: not just a Western phenomenon
Creators: name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Ghandour, Lilian A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse--Epidemiology
Medication abuse
Teenagers--Drug use
Youth--Drug use
Epidemiology

description: Nonmedical prescription drug use, generally defined as use without a prescription or use forreasons other than what the medication is intended for, is a global concern, primarily driven by the high and rising phenomenon of nonmedical use of prescription opioids in young populations. Prescription drugs are legal and hence tend to be more easily available than most illegal drugs.
title: Unmarried cohabitation and the constructive trust
title: an exercise in flawed equality
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Collins, Georgina May
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2018
Subjects: cohabitation
land law
unmarried
constructive trust
co-ownership
Socio-legal
gender
feminist legal theory
legal history

description: Cohabitation has become increasingly widespread, yet the law refuses to
      recognise the consequences of the breakdown of such relationships. The
      inaction of Parliament has left it to the courts to distribute proprietary
      rights based upon the law of trusts. However, the focus on purely
      financial contributions, penalises those who are most vulnerable. The most
      problematic consequence of this is that the approach taken to cohabitation
      replicates gender inequalities which are prevalent throughout society.
      Attempts to achieve formal equality and those discourses which indicate
      such an approach, have done nothing to achieve any form of ‘real’
      equality. Unmarried cohabitation serves as an example of the wider
      implications of inequality, and demonstrates the potential for an approach
      which recognises difference to change social reality both within the legal
      sphere and without.

      Engaging in a desk-based inquiry which analyses case law and legislative
      proposals through a socio-historical lens allows for differing approaches
      to equality to be identified. Through this process, connections are drawn
      between the socio-legal construction of women, the rhetoric of the
      judiciary, and the equality approach adopted and implemented. This piece
      aims to demonstrate that formal equality is flawed. The law’s continued
      focus on the concept merely replicates the gendered nature of resolving
      cohabitation disputes, thus undermining equality in practice. What is
      necessary is for difference to be recognised, adopting an approach which
      lies between substantive and formal equality. This would allow for the
      recognition and alleviation of the gender bias inherent in both society
      and the CICT regime.
title: Безопасность жизнедеятельности
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: В практикуме приводится описание практических занятий, содержащих общие (теоретические) сведения, примеры расчетов и перечни заданий к занятиям по темам: генетическая природа человека и физиология жизнедеятельности, комфортные условия жизнедеятельности, здоровый образ жизни как необходимое условие сохранения и укрепления здоровья человека и общества, организационные основы по защите населения от чрезвычайных ситуаций мирного и военного времени, чрезвычайные ситуации природного, техногенного и военного характера, обеспечение устойчивости функционирования объектов экономики в чрезвычайных ситуациях. Подготовлен в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначен для студентов всех профессий и специальностей, учебными планами которых предусмотрено изучение дисциплины «Безопасность жизнедеятельности».
Enid Lorimer
Creators: name: Terpstra, Mirte
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Enid Lorimer was born in London in 1887 as Enid Bosworth Nunn. She eventually became an Australian citizen, however, and died in Sydney on July 15, 1982, a month after she received a Medal of the Order of Australia for the Performing Arts. Lorimer was a theatre actress almost all her life, but also participated in many radio plays and television series in both Britain and Australia. Much less is known about her involvement as a scenarist in the early British film industry. As a result only one confirmed writing credit exists for Lorimer. Although Lorimer was asked about her involvement in early film as part of an interview for the Australia Film Council On Stage! series in 1979, by that time she was ninety-one and not surprisingly did not recall the full details. Another factor in our limited knowledge of Lorimer’s early film career is the lack of attributed credits for early British films. Few extant film prints survive, and as a rule, the trade press did not mention either scenarists or other production staff (Wolstencroft 2009).
Model-based Utility Functions
Creators: name: Hibbard, Bill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Orseau and Ring, as well as Dewey, have recently described problems, including self-delusion, with the behavior of agents using various definitions of utility functions. An agent's utility function is defined in terms of the agent's history of interactions with its environment. This paper argues, via two examples, that the behavior problems can be avoided by formulating the utility function in two steps: 1) inferring a model of the environment from interactions, and 2) computing utility as a function of the environment model. Basing a utility function on a model that the agent must learn implies that the utility function must initially be expressed in terms of specifications to be matched to structures in the learned model. These specifications constitute prior assumptions about the environment so this approach will not work with arbitrary environments. But the approach should work for agents designed by humans to act in the physical world. The paper also addresses the issue of self-modifying agents and shows that if provided with the possibility to modify their utility functions agents will not choose to do so, under some usual assumptions.
description: 24 pages, extensive revisions
Study of the time and space distribution of beta+ emitters from 80 MeV/u carbon ion beam irradiation on PMMA
Creators: name: Agodi, C.
name: Bellini, F.
name: Cirrone, G. A. P.
name: Collamati, F.
name: Cuttone, G.
name: De Lucia, E.
name: De Napoli, M.
name: Di Domenico, A.
name: Faccini, R.
name: Ferroni, F.
name: Fiore, S.
name: Gauzzi, P.
name: Iarocci, E.
name: Marafini, M.
name: Mattei, I.
name: Paoloni, A.
name: Patera, V.
name: Piersanti, L.
name: Romano, F.
name: Sarti, A.
name: Sciubba, A.
name: Voena, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proton and carbon ion therapy is an emerging technique used for the treatment of solid cancers. The monitoring of the dose delivered during such treatments and the on-line knowledge of the Bragg peak position is still a matter of research. A possible technique exploits the collinear $511\ \kilo\electronvolt$ photons produced by positrons annihilation from $β^+$ emitters created by the beam. This paper reports rate measurements of the $511\ \kilo\electronvolt$ photons emitted after the interactions of a $80\ \mega\electronvolt / u$ fully stripped carbon ion beam at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) of INFN, with a Poly-methyl methacrylate target. The time evolution of the $β^+$ rate was parametrized and the dominance of $^{11}C$ emitters over the other species ($^{13}N$, $^{15}O$, $^{14}O$) was observed, measuring the fraction of carbon ions activating $β^+$ emitters $A_0=(10.3\pm0.7)\cdot10^{-3}$. The average depth in the PMMA of the positron annihilation from $β^+$ emitters was also measured, $D_{β^+}=5.3\pm1.1\ \milli\meter$, to be compared to the expected Bragg peak depth $D_{Bragg}=11.0\pm 0.5\ \milli\meter$ obtained from simulations.
Microfluidic cell culture arrays for clonal expansion and characterization of mammalian cells
Creators: name: Lecault, Véronique
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Single-cell culture provides a unique means to reveal the heterogeneity within mammalian cell populations. Advances in multilayer soft lithography have enabled the development of high-throughput nanoliter-volume cell culture platforms with integrated and programmable fluidic control to precisely modulate the microenvironment. Coupled with time-lapse imaging, these microfluidic systems allow hundreds of single cells to be monitored simultaneously while providing analytical advantages to characterize each clone. However, there are many challenges associated with the miniaturization of mammalian cell cultures and even greater difficulties for non-adherent cell types. This work shows how microfluidic devices and their control system can be designed to gently trap suspension cells and enable robust clonal expansion. Mouse hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) populations were chosen for their sensitivity and stringent cell culture requirements to demonstrate that normal cell growth and function could be sustained in the microfluidic system. Using microfluidic clonal analysis and image processing it was observed that cells from HSC-enriched populations had highly heterogeneous growth profiles. Automated medium exchange and temporal stimulation were then exploited to show that a high Steel factor (SF) concentration was needed for survival of primary HSCs specifically at the time of exit from quiescence. The ability to perform live immunostaining was combined with genealogical tracing to identify distinct characteristics, such as long cell cycle times and frequent asynchrony of daughter cells, associated with HSC clones exhibiting persistent endothelial protein C receptor expression (EPCR) after in vitro culture. Finally, the flexibility of this microfluidic system was demonstrated with the culture of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, the most widely used suspension-adapted mammalian cell type for the production of therapeutic recombinant proteins. In this system, the high cell density and the rapid concentration of cell-secreted products in nanoliter-volume chambers were exploited to measure the amount of secreted monoclonal antibodies from single cells and to increase their cloning efficiency. The ability to recover clones from the microfluidic system has allowed the selection and expansion of high-producing cell lines. This thesis demonstrates the potential and adaptability of high-throughput microfluidic single-cell culture systems for both research and therapeutic applications.
Is employment status in adults over 25 years old associated with nonmedical prescription opioid and stimulant use?
Creators: name: Perlmutter, Alexander S.
name: Conner, Sarah C.
name: Savone, Mirko
name: Kim, June H.
name: Segura, Luis Esteban
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Epidemiology
Drug abuse
Opioid abuse
Drug abuse--Epidemiology
Drugs and employment
Medication abuse

description: Purpose: Nonmedical use of prescription opioid and stimulants (NMUPO and NMUPS, respectively) has declined in recent years, but remains an important public health problem. Evidence regarding their relationships with employment status remains unclear. We determined the relationship between employment status and NMUPO and NMUPS. Methods: We analyzed a cross-sectional, nationally representative, weighted sample of 58,486 adults, ages 26 years and older, using combined 2011–2013 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). We fit two crude and two adjusted multivariable logistic regression models to assess the relationship between our two different outcomes of interest: (1) past-year NMUPO and (2) past-year NMUPS, and our exposure of interest: employment status, categorized as (1) full time, (2) part time, (3) unemployed, and (4) not in the workforce. Our adjusted models featured the following covariates: sex, race, age, marital status, and psychological distress, and other nonmedical use. Results: Prevalence of NMUPO was higher than NMUPS (3.48 vs. 0.72%). Unemployed participants had the highest odds of NMUPO [aOR 1.45, 95% CI (1.15–1.82)], while those not in the workforce had the highest odds of NMUPS [aOR 1.71, 95% CI (1.22–2.37)]. Additionally, part-time and unemployed individuals had increased odds of NMUPS [aORs, 95% CI 1.59 (1.09–2.31) and 1.67 (1.11–2.37) respectively], while those not in the workforce had decreased odds of NMUPO [aOR 0.82, 95% CI (0.68–0.99)] relative to full-time participants. Conclusions: There is a need for adult prevention and deterrence programs that target nonmedical prescription drug use, especially among those unemployed or not in the workforce.
Hope Loring
Creators: name: Berke, Annie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: The life and times of Hope Loring, scenarist and wife of her collaborator, writer-producer Louis “Buddy” Lighton, are mentioned in the margins of Hollywood history. Loring, however, cuts a colorful, memorable figure in the few texts that mention her. Elia Kazan, in his autobiography, deems her petite and asexual (252), and W. C. Fields reportedly did not like this “fast-talking” woman (Curtis 199). However, in her autobiography, screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas gives us more insight into the couple’s marriage and working relationship than gossip columnists would dare. But while some, like Maas, could not abide her, Loring had allies in the film community. One was Mary Pickford, who in 1937 married Buddy Rogers (Carey 217), at what as one society page referred to as “Hope Loring’s home” (Kendall A7). Loring not only wrote for some of the top stars in Hollywood, such as Pickford, Clara Bow, even Gary Cooper, but was written about along with them.
Older, Less Regulated Medical Marijuana Programs Have Much Greater Enrollment Rates Than Newer ‘Medicalized’ Programs
Creators: name: Williams, Arthur
name: Olfson, Mark
name: Kim, June H.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Kleber, Herbert D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Epidemiology
Marijuana
Marijuana--Therapeutic use
Marijuana--Therapeutic use--Law and legislation
Cannabis

description: Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed laws implementing medical marijuana programs. The nineteen programs that were in operation as of October 2014 collectively had over one million participants. All states (including D.C.) with medical marijuana laws require physicians directly or indirectly to authorize the use of marijuana at their discretion, yet little is known about how medical marijuana programs vary regarding adherence to basic principles of medical practice and associated rates of enrollment. To explore this, we analyzed marijuana programs according to seven components of traditional medical care and pharmaceutical regulation. We then examined enrollment rates, while controlling for potentially confounding state characteristics. We found that fourteen of the twenty-four programs were nonmedical and collectively enrolled 99.4 percent of participants nationwide, with enrollment rates twenty times greater than programs deemed to be “medicalized.” Policy makers implementing or amending medical marijuana programs should consider the powerful relationship between less regulation and greater enrollment. Researchers should consider variations across programs when assessing programs’ population-level effects.
Louise Lovely
Creators: name: Delamoir, Jeannette
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Louise Lovely was an Australian actress who worked in early Hollywood between 1915 and 1922. Although she made ten verified films in Australia and fifty in the United States, few are extant. With scant surviving personal papers, research into Lovely’s oeuvre depends largely on trade journals and star publicity—materials that have limitations as sources. Furthermore, while Australia’s Film and Sound Archive has important collections of Louise Lovely photographs and scrapbooks, trade journals or Hollywood studio records have been difficult to access in Australia. Nevertheless, the available materials reveal Lovely’s struggle to expand her filmmaking beyond performing and to exert control over her career.
Asymptotic Theory of Eigenvectors for Random Matrices with Diverging Spikes*
Creators: name: Fan, Jianqing
name: Fan, Yingying
name: Han, Xiao
name: Lv, Jinchi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Characterizing the asymptotic distributions of eigenvectors for large random matrices poses important challenges yet can provide useful insights into a range of statistical applications. To this end, in this paper we introduce a general framework of asymptotic theory of eigenvectors (ATE) for large spiked random matrices with diverging spikes and heterogeneous variances, and establish the asymptotic properties of the spiked eigenvectors and eigenvalues for the scenario of the generalized Wigner matrix noise. Under some mild regularity conditions, we provide the asymptotic expansions for the spiked eigenvalues and show that they are asymptotically normal after some normalization. For the spiked eigenvectors, we establish asymptotic expansions for the general linear combination and further show that it is asymptotically normal after some normalization, where the weight vector can be arbitrary. We also provide a more general asymptotic theory for the spiked eigenvectors using the bilinear form. Simulation studies verify the validity of our new theoretical results. Our family of models encompasses many popularly used ones such as the stochastic block models with or without overlapping communities for network analysis and the topic models for text analysis, and our general theory can be exploited for statistical inference in these large-scale applications.
Coralliophila persica Melvill 1897
Creators: name: Oliverio, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila
Coralliophila persica

description: Coralliophila persica Melvill, 1897 Fig. 12 Coralliophila persica Melvill, 1897: 6, pl. 6, fig. 4. Synonym: Coralliophila emimarumai Kosuge, 1981 a: 61, pl. 15, figs 8-9. TYPE MATERIAL. — Coralliophila persica: holotype BMNH 1879.7.30.115, figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985, pl. 49, fig. 3). — Coralliophila emimarumai: holotype IMT 8061 [not seen], figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985: pl. 7, fig. 2 and pl.39, fig. 4), “transferred to the collection of Mr Masaji Suzuki” (Kosuge 1992: 158). TYPE LOCALITY. — C. persica: Persian Gulf. — C. emimarumai: South China Sea, about 150 m. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia proper. LAGON: 12); stn 216, 21°53’S, 165°49’E, 14 m, 1 dd; stn 1023, Secteur stn 152, Ile Ouen-Baie du Prony 22°32’S, 166°43’E, 23 m, 2 dd; de Poum, 20°04’S, 163°52’E, 27 m, 1 dd; stn 1214, Secteur des stn 175, Baie de St Vincent, 22°06’S, 166°06’E, 17 m, 1 dd (Fig. Belep, 19°50’S, 163°37’E, 29 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Indian Ocean, from South Africa (Kosuge 2008), Somalia (Kosuge 1993) and eastern Arabia “offshore” (Bosch et al. 1995). From Kii Peninsula (Japan), southward to China Sea, the Philippines (Tsuchiya 2000). New Caledonia, empty shells in 14- 29 m. REMARKS. — Specimens from near the type locality (Somalia, MO) have a protoconch of 1.8 whorls, with shape and sculpture possibly indicating a prolonged intracapsular phase.
description: Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, pp. 481-586 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 496
description: {"references": ["Vexillum and Demoulia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21: 391 - 437. KOSUGE S. 1992. - Description of a new species of the family Coralliophilidae KILBURN R. N. 1973. - Notes on some benthic Mollusca from Natal and from South Africa (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology MoCambique, with descriptions of new species and subspecies of Calliostoma, of Tokyo 2 (10): 157 - 158, 171 [including a part entitled \" transfer of the Solariella, Latiaxis, Babylonia, Fusinus, Bathytoma and Conus. Annals of holotypes (No. 1) \", pp. 158, 171].", "the Natal Museum 21: 557 - 578. KOSUGE S. 1993. - Notes on the coralliophilid species from Somalia, East Africa KILBURN R. N. 1974. - Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo 3 (1): 9.", "Regia Accademia di Scienze di Torino 25: 180 - 229, pl. 5 [1820]; 26: 297 - COEN G. 1922. - Del genere Pseudomurex, (Monterosato 1872). Atti della 364, pls 5 - 6 [1821]; 29: 251 - 318, pl. 19 [1825]. Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale BOSCH D. T., DANCE S. P., MOOLENBEEK R. G. & OLIVER P. G. 1995. - 61: 68 - 71."]}
Exploring the latent trait of opioid use disorder criteria among frequent nonmedical prescription opioid users
Creators: name: Castaldelli-Maia, Joao Mauricio
name: Andrade, Laura H.
name: Keyes, Katherine M.
name: Cerdá, Magdalena
name: Pilowsky, Daniel J.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Opioids
Opioid abuse
Epidemiology
Medication abuse
Drug abuse
Drug abuse--Epidemiology
Substance abuse
Substance abuse--Epidemiology

description: Background: There is a need to explore the dimensional and categorical phenotypes of criteria of opioid use disorder among frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids (NMUPO) users. Methods: We used pooled data of 2011–2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to examine reliability and phenotypic variability in the diagnosis of OUD secondary to NMUPO in a nationally-representative sample of 18+ years-old frequent past-year NMUPO users (120+ days, n = 806). Through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and latent class analysis (LCA), we examined 10 past-year OUD criteria. We examined associations between the latent classes and sociodemographic/psychiatric/NMUPO correlates. Results: OUD criteria were unidimensional, and a three-class model was the overall best fitting solution for characterizing individuals into phenotypes along this unidimensional continuum: a “non-symptomatic class” (40.7%), “Tolerance-Time spent class” (29.0%) with high probability of endorsing Tolerance/Time Spent criteria, and a “High-moderate symptomatic class” (30.1%). The last class was significantly associated with being male, having insurance and obtaining prescription opioids (PO) nonmedically via “doctor shopping” as compared to the non-symptomatic class. “Tolerance-Time spent class” was significantly associated with being younger (18–25 years) and obtaining PO nonmedically from family/friends as compared to the non-symptomatic class. Conclusion: This study revealed the different characteristics and routes of access to PO of different classes of frequent NMUPO users. It is possible that these groups may respond to different interventions, however such conclusions would require a clinical study.
Non-medical use of prescription opioids is associated with heroin initiation among US veterans: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Banerjee, Geetanjoli
name: Edelman, E. Jennifer
name: Barry, Declan T.
name: Becker, William C.
name: Cerdá, Magdalena
name: Crystal, Stephen
name: Gaither, Julie R.
name: Gordon, Adam J.
name: Gordon, Kirsha S.
name: Kerns, Robert D.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
name: Fiellin, David A.
name: Marshall, Brandon D. L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Epidemiology
Medication abuse
Opioids
Opioid abuse
Drug abuse
Veterans
Drug abuse--Epidemiology
Heroin
Heroin abuse

description: Aims: To estimate the influence of non-medical use of prescription opioids (NMUPO) on heroin initiation among US veterans receiving medical care. Design: Using a multivariable Cox regression model, we analyzed data from a prospective, multi-site, observational study of HIV-infected and an age/race/site-matched control group of HIV-uninfected veterans in care in the United States. Approximately annual behavioral assessments were conducted and contained self-reported measures of NMUPO and heroin use. Setting: Veterans Health Administration (VHA) infectious disease and primary care clinics in Atlanta, Baltimore, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. Participants: A total of 3396 HIV-infected and uninfected patients enrolled into the Veterans Aging Cohort Study who reported no life-time NMUPO or heroin use, had no opioid use disorder diagnoses at baseline and who were followed between 2002 and 2012. Measurements: The primary outcome measure was self-reported incident heroin use and the primary exposure of interest was new-onset NMUPO. Our final model was adjusted for socio-demographics, pain interference, prior diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder and/or depression and self-reported other substance use. Findings: Using a multivariable Cox regression model, we found that non-medical use of prescription opioids NMUPO was associated positively and independently with heroin initiation [adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) = 5.43, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 4.01, 7.35]. Conclusions: New-onset non-medical use of prescription opioids (NMUPO) is a strong risk factor for heroin initiation among HIV-infected and uninfected veterans in the United States who reported no previous history of NMUPO or illicit opioid use.
Jane Loring
Creators: name: Hatch, Kristen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: A Denver native, Loring edited movie trailers before becoming a film cutter for Paramount-Famous Players Lasky in 1927. She would remain with Paramount until the early 1930s, when she moved to RKO as an assistant director.
Josephine Lovett
Creators: name: Salerno, Abigail
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films

description: Reviews of Lovett’s films repeatedly emphasized her ability to create heroines who could both please censors and appeal to female fans. Lovett’s greatest success was probably the story and scenario for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production Our Dancing Daughters (1928), a film promoted as featuring the new “sound,” but for all intents and purposes still a silent motion picture. In June 1928, as Don Crafton tells us, MGM followed Warner Brothers in announcing that it would begin to use talking sequences, but their facilities for recording synchronized sound had not yet been built (206). In this transitional period, while MGM was still producing silent films, Our Dancing Daughters attempted sound effects and a music track, but dialogue was still “seen” on screen in intertitles not heard as the lip-synchronized speech that defined the new rage, the “Talkies.” For Our Dancing Daughters, Lovett was nominated for the first Academy Award in writing achievement. Alexander Walker’s popular biography claims that Joan Crawford lobbied for the role of Diana after reading Lovett’s story in a newspaper serial (42).
Coralliophila nukuhiva : Oliverio 2008
Creators: name: Oliverio, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila
Coralliophila nukuhiva

description: Coralliophila nukuhiva Oliverio, 2008 Fig. 16 Coralliophila nukuhiva Oliverio, 2008: 575, figs 8-10. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (lv) MNHN 20896 and 8 paratypes (lv and dd) MNHN 20897-29001. TYPE LOCALITY. — Marquesas, Nuku Hiva Is., 8°45’S, 140°15’W, 260 m, [MUSORSTOM 9: stn CP 1176]. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — North of New Caledonia. BATHUS 1198, Hiva Oa Is., 9°50’S, 139°09’W, 290-320 m, 1 lv (paratype 4: stn DW 927, Grand Passage, 18°56’S, 163°22’E, 444-452 m, 1 MNHN 20899); stn DW 1201, 9°51’S, 139°09’W, 275-300 m, 3 lv, dd; stn CP 928, 18°55’S, 163°24’E, 420-452 m, 1 dd (Fig. 16). 1 dd (paratypes MNHN 20900); stn DW 1287, Hatutaa Is., 7°55’S, Norfolk Ridge. BATHUS 3: stn CP 811, Banc Jumeau Ouest, 140°40’W, 163-245 m, lv (paratype MNHN 20901); stn DW 1288, 23°41’S, 168°15’E, 383-408 m, 2 dd. Ua Huka Is., 8°54’S, 139°38’W, 200-220 m, 1 lv (paratype MNHN Marquesas Islands. MUSORSTOM 9: stn CP 1176, Nuku Hiva Is., 20897) and 1 dd; stn CP 1300, 8°49.’S, 140°17’W, 416-430 m, 1 8°45’S, 140°15’W, 260 m, 1 lv (holotype MNHN 20896); stn DR dd (paratype MNHN 20898). DISTRIBUTION. — Marquesas Islands, live in 220-416 m, and New Caledonia and Norfolk Ridge, empty shells in 408-444 m. REMARKS. — Planktotrophic development was assumed based on traces of the protoconch of one paratype (Oliverio 2008). It is similar to C. fritschi (Martens, 1874) in the pattern of teleoconch sculpture and the general shell outline, but differs in its less slender outline, in having coarser sculpture and a less constricted base. From C. roseocephala Kosuge, 1986, it differs in its less slender spire with more convex whorls. From C. nivea (A. Adams, 1853) it differs in its coarser spiral sculpture of more closely set cords and its less slender spire with a more pronounced shoulder and incised suture.
description: Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, pp. 481-586 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 on page 499
description: {"references": ["OLIVERIO M. 2008. - Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from date 1833 [\" MDCCCLXXXIII \"]. An advice printed on page 8, dated Marquesas Islands. Journal of Conchology 39: 569 - 584. \" 30 Decembre 1834 \", by Quoy & Gaimard to consult the \" Table", "ABBOTT R. T. & DANCE S. P. 1990. - Compendium of Seashells. Fourth edition, BROOK F. J. 1999. - The coastal scleractinian coral fauna of the Kermadec Madison Publishing Associates, Singapore, 413 p. Islands, southwestern Pacific. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ADAMS A. 1853. - Descriptions of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, 29: 435 - 460."]}
Maximal antichains of minimum size
Creators: name: Kalinowski, Thomas
name: Leck, Uwe
name: Roberts, Ian T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D05

description: Let $n\geqslant 4$ be a natural number, and let $K$ be a set $K\subseteq [n]:={1,2,...,n}$. We study the problem to find the smallest possible size of a maximal family $\mathcal{A}$ of subsets of $[n]$ such that $\mathcal{A}$ contains only sets whose size is in $K$, and $A\not\subseteq B$ for all ${A,B}\subseteq\mathcal{A}$, i.e. $\mathcal{A}$ is an antichain. We present a general construction of such antichains for sets $K$ containing 2, but not 1. If $3\in K$ our construction asymptotically yields the smallest possible size of such a family, up to an $o(n^2)$ error. We conjecture our construction to be asymptotically optimal also for $3\not\in K$, and we prove a weaker bound for the case $K={2,4}$. Our asymptotic results are straightforward applications of the graph removal lemma to an equivalent reformulation of the problem in extremal graph theory which is interesting in its own right.
description: fixed faulty argument in Section 2, added references