cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Descriptive Epidemiology of Cervical Dystonia
Creators: name: Defazio, Giovanni
name: Jankovic, Joseph
name: Giel, Jennifer L.
name: Papapetropoulos, Spyridon
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2013

description: Background: Cervical dystonia (CD), the most common form of adult‐onset focal dystonia, has a heterogeneous clinical presentation with variable clinical features, leading to difficulties and delays in diagnosis. Owing to the lack of reviews specifically focusing on the frequency of primary CD in the general population, we performed a systematic literature search to examine its prevalence/incidence and analyze methodological differences among studies. Methods: We performed a systematic literature search to examine the prevalence data of primary focal CD. Sixteen articles met our methodological criteria. Because the reported prevalence estimates were found to vary widely across studies, we analyzed methodological differences and other factors to determine whether true differences exist in prevalence rates among geographic areas (and by gender and age distributions), as well as to facilitate recommendations for future studies. Results: Prevalence estimates ranged from 20–4,100 cases/million. Generally, studies that relied on service‐based and record‐linkage system data likely underestimated the prevalence of CD, whereas population‐based studies suffered from over‐ascertainment. The more methodologically robust studies yielded a range of estimates of 28–183 cases/million. Despite the varying prevalence estimates, an approximate 2:1 female:male ratio was consistent among many studies. Three studies estimated incidence, ranging from 8–12 cases/million person‐years. Discussion: Although several studies have attempted to estimate the prevalence and incidence of CD, there is a need for additional well‐designed epidemiological studies on primary CD that include large populations; use defined CD diagnostic criteria; and stratify for factors such as age, gender, and ethnicity.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
SigSpec - I. Frequency- and Phase-Resolved Significance in Fourier Space
Creators: name: Reegen, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Identifying frequencies with low signal-to-noise ratios in time series of stellar photometry and spectroscopy, and measuring their amplitude ratios and peak widths accurately, are critical goals for asteroseismology. These are also challenges for time series with gaps or whose data are not sampled at a constant rate, even with modern Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) software. Also the False-Alarm Probability introduced by Lomb and Scargle is an approximation which becomes less reliable in time series with longer data gaps. A rigorous statistical treatment of how to determine the significance of a peak in a DFT, called SigSpec, is presented here. SigSpec is based on an analytical solution of the probability that a DFT peak of a given amplitude does not arise from white noise in a non-equally spaced data set. The underlying Probability Density Function (PDF) of the amplitude spectrum generated by white noise can be derived explicitly if both frequency and phase are incorporated into the solution. In this paper, I define and evaluate an unbiased statistical estimator, the "spectral significance", which depends on frequency, amplitude, and phase in the DFT, and which takes into account the time-domain sampling. I also compare this estimator to results from other well established techniques and demonstrate the effectiveness of SigSpec with a few examples of ground- and space-based photometric data, illustratring how SigSpec deals with the effects of noise and time-domain sampling in determining significant frequencies.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures
Nonlinear spinor field in Bianchi type-I Universe filled with viscous fluid: numerical solutions
Creators: name: Saha, Bijan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system of nonlinear spinor and a Bianchi type I gravitational fields in presence of viscous fluid. The nonlinear term in the spinor field Lagrangian is chosen to be $λF$, with $λ$ being a self-coupling constant and $F$ being a function of the invariants $I$ an $J$ constructed from bilinear spinor forms $S$ and $P$. Self-consistent solutions to the spinor and BI gravitational field equations are obtained in terms of $τ$, where $τ$ is the volume scale of BI universe. System of equations for $τ$ and $\ve$, where $\ve$ is the energy of the viscous fluid, is deduced. This system is solved numerically for some special cases.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Φωτοκαταλυτικές μέθοδοι αποχρωματισμού και οξείδωσης χρωστικών ουσιών σε υδατικά διαλύματα
Creators: name: Κοσιτζή, Μαρία Κ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Εγχρωμα απόβλητα
Ηλιακή ακτινοβολία
Coloured wastewater
Photo-Fenton

description: Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή μελετήθηκε η οξείδωση και ο αποχρωματισμός χρωστικών και προσομοιωμένων αποβλήτων βαφείων που προκύπτουν απο τη βαθή βαμβακερών και νάιλον υφασμάτων. Για την αδρανοποίησή τους επιλέχθηκαν οι μέθοδοι της ετερογενούς φωτοκατάλυσης(TiO2/UV-A), της ομογενούς φωτοκατάλυσης (Fe3+/H2O2, άντιδραστήριο Photo-Fenton) καθώς και ο συνδυασμός των δύο. Στις περιπτώσεις των διαλυμάτων μεμονωμένων χρωστικών πραγματοποιήθηκαν πειράματα παρουσία τεχνητού φωτός σε εργαστηριακό επίπεδο, ενώ, στην περίπτωση προσομοιωμένων αποβλήτων βαφείων μελετήθηκε ο αποχρωματισμός τόσο σε εργαστηριακή κλίμακα παρουσία τεχνητού φωτός, όσο και σε πιλοτική μονάδα φωτοκαταλυτικής επεξεργασίας αποβλήτων με χρήση ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας. Μελετήθηκαν διάφορες παράμετροι που επηρεάζουν την αποτελεσματικότητα των μεθόδων, προκειμένου να επιτευχθεί ο βέλτιστος αποχρωματισμός, η μείωση του ολικού οργανικού φορτίου των διαλυμάτων και η μείωση της τοξικότητας των τελικών προϊόντων. Από τα πειραματικά αποτελέσματα της παρούσας διδακτορικής διατριβής προκύπτει ότι οι δύο μέθοδοι φωτοκαταλυτικής οξείδωσης αποτελούν μια αξιόλογη εναλλατκική λύση για τον αποχρωματισμό αλλά και τη μείωση του οργανικού φορτίου και της τοξικότητας, αποβλήτων βαφείων, ή έγχρωμων αποβλήτων άλλων δραστηριοτήτων. Η χρησιμοποίηση ενός φτηνού και βιολογικά αδρανούς καταλύτη όπως το TiO2, ή του αντιδραστηρίου Photo-Fenton, καθώς και η δυνατότητα αξιοποίησης της ηλιακής ακτινοβολίας, προσφέρει μία πρακτική και χαμηλού κόστους λύση, που μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί σε περιοχές με άφθονη ηλιοφάνεια
description: The photocatalytic oxidation of dyes and simulated wastewater from the dying processes of cotton and nylon fabrics were studied in this thesis. The suggested methods were the heterogeneous(TiO2/UV-A), the homogeneous(Fe3+/H2O2, Photo-Fenton reagent) photocatalytic oxidation and the combination of the two. For selected dyes, experiments were contacted in the laboratory, illumated by artificial light. The simulated wastewater, were tested both in the laboratory and in pilot scale with the use of solar radiation. Different parameters that influence the effectiveness of the methods, regarding their decolourization, the decrease of their total organic carbon and the toxicity of the final products, were tested. From the experimental results of this thesis it is clear that the heterogeneous and the homogeneous photocatalytic treatment appears as an interesting alternative, regarding the treatment of coloured wastewater. The use of a chip catalyst as TiO2 or the Photo-Fenton reagent and the possibility to activate them with solar energy, provide a practical solution of low cost, especially in areas with plenty solar radiation
Addressing Inherent Uncertainty: Risk-Sensitive Behavior Generation for Automated Driving using Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Bernhard, Julian
name: Pollok, Stefan
name: Knoll, Alois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For highly automated driving above SAE level~3, behavior generation algorithms must reliably consider the inherent uncertainties of the traffic environment, e.g. arising from the variety of human driving styles. Such uncertainties can generate ambiguous decisions, requiring the algorithm to appropriately balance low-probability hazardous events, e.g. collisions, and high-probability beneficial events, e.g. quickly crossing the intersection. State-of-the-art behavior generation algorithms lack a distributional treatment of decision outcome. This impedes a proper risk evaluation in ambiguous situations, often encouraging either unsafe or conservative behavior. Thus, we propose a two-step approach for risk-sensitive behavior generation combining offline distribution learning with online risk assessment. Specifically, we first learn an optimal policy in an uncertain environment with Deep Distributional Reinforcement Learning. During execution, the optimal risk-sensitive action is selected by applying established risk criteria, such as the Conditional Value at Risk, to the learned state-action return distributions. In intersection crossing scenarios, we evaluate different risk criteria and demonstrate that our approach increases safety, while maintaining an active driving style. Our approach shall encourage further studies about the benefits of risk-sensitive approaches for self-driving vehicles.
description: Published at IEEE IV 2019
The BABAR Muon System Upgrade
Creators: name: Menges, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) were used for the instrumentation of the iron flux return of the BABAR detector as a muon system. Unfortunately the efficiency of the original RPCs degraded rapidly with time. Limited Streamer Tubes (LSTs) were chosen for an upgrade of the barrel portion of the detector. The phased installation started in summer 2004 with replacing two sextants of the BABAR barrel muon system with LSTs. The modules for the remaining four sextants are under long-term test at SLAC and ready for installation, expected in 2006. The modules become inaccessible once installed in BABAR, so it is critical to select only perfectly working tubes. To accomplish this a strong QC system was established during the prototype phase, and fully implemented throughout pre-production and construction. To spot any damage during transport, the final modules are subjected to comprehensive tests at SLAC immediately after arrival and kept under long-term test till installation into BABAR. Details of these tests and results from long-term testing will be discussed. Since spring 2005 the PEP-II accelerator is running and BABAR is collecting data. First experience from data taking with the LSTs will be presented and the performance of the detector discussed.
description: 10 pages, 5 postscript figues, contributed to the Proceedings of IEEE2005
Il paesaggio montano dalle Alpi cuneesi ai Pirenei. Crocevia di culture, popoli e tradizioni (a cura di) Anna Ciotta
Creators: name: Ciaglia, Filiberto
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2023

description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2023)
Statistical Mechanics of Interacting Run-and-Tumble Bacteria
Creators: name: Tailleur, J.
name: Cates, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider self-propelled particles undergoing run-and-tumble dynamics (as exhibited by E. coli) in one dimension. Building on previous analyses at drift-diffusion level for the one-particle density, we add both interactions and noise, enabling discussion of domain formation by "self-trapping", and other collective phenomena. Mapping onto detailed-balance systems is possible in certain cases.
The hadronic models for cosmic ray physics: the FLUKA code solutions
Creators: name: Battistoni, G.
name: Garzelli, M. V.
name: Gadioli, E.
name: Muraro, S.
name: Sala, P. R.
name: Fassò, A.
name: Ferrari, A.
name: Roesler, S.
name: Cerutti, F.
name: Ranft, J.
name: Pinsky, L. S.
name: Empl, A.
name: Pelliccioni, M.
name: Villari, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FLUKA is a general purpose Monte Carlo transport and interaction code used for fundamental physics and for a wide range of applications. These include Cosmic Ray Physics (muons, neutrinos, EAS, underground physics), both for basic research and applied studies in space and atmospheric flight dosimetry and radiation damage. A review of the hadronic models available in FLUKA and relevant for the description of cosmic ray air showers is presented in this paper. Recent updates concerning these models are discussed. The FLUKA capabilities in the simulation of the formation and propagation of EM and hadronic showers in the Earth's atmosphere are shown.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures. Invited talk presented by M.V. Garzelli at ISVHECRI2006, International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Rays, Weihai, China, August 15 - 22 2006
Imunossenescência na COVID-19: uma revisão narrativa
Creators: name: COSTA, Ana Beatriz Tognotti
name: RAMOS, Camila Sacchelli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Resumo: Os dados epidemiológicos sobre a COVID-19 destacam a idade como um dos principais fatores de risco para desfechos clínicos graves, incluindo óbitos. A compreensão dos mecanismos patogênicos do SARS-CoV-2 indicam tratar-se de uma doença inflamatória e trombótica na qual o padrão de resposta imunológica desempenha um papel crucial no controle da carga viral e nos danos aos tecidos. Esta revisão narrativa tem como objetivo discutir a imunossenescência e seu impacto na patogênese da COVID-19, especialmente em idosos. O envelhecimento celular do sistema imunológico interfere tanto na imunidade inata quanto na adaptativa, seja por exposição crônica a mediadores inflamatórios e subsequente dessensibilização de receptores envolvidos no reconhecimento de patógenos e danos aos tecidos, ou pela redução da ativação de linfócitos e plasmócitos, essenciais para a produção de anticorpos e manutenção da memória imunológica.

Palavras-chave: COVID-19, imunossenescência, anticorpos.
description: Abstract: The epidemiological data on COVID-19 highlight age as one of the main risk factors for severe clinical outcomes, including fatalities. Understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 indicates that it is an inflammatory and thrombotic disease in which the pattern of immune response plays a crucial role in controlling viral load and tissue damage. This narrative review aims to discuss immunosenescence and its impact on the pathogenesis of COVID-19, especially in the elderly. Cellular aging of the immune system interferes with both innate and adaptive immunity, whether through chronic exposure to inflammatory mediators and subsequent desensitization of receptors involved in the recognition of pathogens and tissue damage, or through the reduction of the activation of lymphocytes and plasma cells, essential for antibody production and maintenance of immunological memory.

Keywords: COVID-19, antibodies, aging.
Hubble diagram at higher redshifts: Model independent calibration of quasars
Creators: name: Li, Xiaolei
name: Keeley, Ryan E.
name: Shafieloo, Arman
name: Zheng, Xiaogang
name: Cao, Shuo
name: Biesiada, Marek
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present a model-independent approach to calibrate the largest quasar sample. Calibrating quasar samples is essentially constraining the parameters of the linear relation between the $\log$ of the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray luminosities. This calibration allows quasars to be used as standardized candles. There is a strong correlation between the parameters characterizing the quasar luminosity relation and the cosmological distances inferred from using quasars as standardized candles. We break this degeneracy by using Gaussian process regression to model-independently reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe from the latest type Ia supernova observations. Using the calibrated quasar dataset, we further reconstruct the expansion history up to redshift of $z\sim 7.5$. Finally, we test the consistency between the calibrated quasar sample and the standard $\rmΛCDM$ model based on the posterior probability distribution of the GP hyperparameters. Our results show that the quasar sample is in good agreement with the standard $\rmΛCDM$ model in the redshift range of the supernova, despite of mildly significant deviations taking place at higher redshifts. Fitting the standard $\rmΛCDM$ model to the calibrated quasar sample, we obtain a high value of the matter density parameter $Ω_m = 0.382^{+0.045}_{-0.042}$, which is marginally consistent with the constraints from other cosmological observations.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Unusual Wrist Tremor: Unilateral Isometric Tremor?
Creators: name: Zesiewicz, Theresa Ann
name: Vu, Tuan
name: Carranza, Michael
name: Appelbaum, Rachel
name: Snyder, Madeline
name: Staffetti, Joseph S
name: Allison, Kevin G
name: Shimberg, William R
name: Louis, Elan D
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: Background: Tremors may be difficult to classify. Case Report: An 83‐year‐old male presented with an unusual left wrist tremor. The tremor could be reproducibly elicited by making a fist or carrying a weighted object (e.g., a shopping bag, bottle of water) of approximately 1 lb or more, and it intensified with heavier weights. The tremor was difficult to classify, although it shared features with isometric tremor. Discussion: This specific presentation of tremor has not been reported previously. We hope that the detailed description we provide will aid other neurologists who encounter this or similar tremors in their clinics.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Uniform Poincaré inequalities on measured metric spaces
Creators: name: Memana, Gautam Neelakantan
name: Maity, Soma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C21, 53C23, 58J99

description: Consider a proper geodesic metric space $(X,d)$ equipped with a Borel measure $μ.$ We establish a family of uniform Poincaré inequalities on $(X,d,μ)$ if it satisfies a local Poincaré inequality ($P_{loc}$) and a condition on growth of volume. Consequently if $μ$ is doubling and supports $(P_{loc})$ then it satisfies a $(σ,β,σ)$-Poincaré inequality. If $(X,d,μ)$ is a $δ$-hyperbolic space then using the volume comparison theorem in \cite{BCS} we obtain a uniform Poincaré inequality with exponential growth of the Poincaré constant. If $X$ is the universal cover of a compact $CD(K,\infty)$ space then it supports a uniform Poincaré inequality and the Poincaré constant depends on the growth of the fundamental group.
description: 19 pages, revised version
Paths and tableaux descriptions of Jacobi-Trudi determinant associated with quantum affine algebra of type C_n
Creators: name: Nakai, Wakako
name: Nakanishi, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37 (Primary) 81R50, 82B23 (Secondary)

description: We study the Jacobi-Trudi-type determinant which is conjectured to be the q-character of a certain, in many cases irreducible, finite-dimensional representation of the quantum affine algebra of type C_n. Like the D_n case studied by the authors recently, applying the Gessel-Viennot path method with an additional involution and a deformation of paths, we obtain a positive sum expression over a set of tuples of paths, which is naturally translated into the one over a set of tableaux on a skew diagram.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, the final (journal) version published in SIGMA at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/
FaiR-IoT: Fairness-aware Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Harnessing Human Variability in Personalized IoT
Creators: name: Elmalaki, Salma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Thanks to the rapid growth in wearable technologies, monitoring complex human context becomes feasible, paving the way to develop human-in-the-loop IoT systems that naturally evolve to adapt to the human and environment state autonomously. Nevertheless, a central challenge in designing such personalized IoT applications arises from human variability. Such variability stems from the fact that different humans exhibit different behaviors when interacting with IoT applications (intra-human variability), the same human may change the behavior over time when interacting with the same IoT application (inter-human variability), and human behavior may be affected by the behaviors of other people in the same environment (multi-human variability). To that end, we propose FaiR-IoT, a general reinforcement learning-based framework for adaptive and fairness-aware human-in-the-loop IoT applications. In FaiR-IoT, three levels of reinforcement learning agents interact to continuously learn human preferences and maximize the system's performance and fairness while taking into account the intra-, inter-, and multi-human variability. We validate the proposed framework on two applications, namely (i) Human-in-the-Loop Automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and (ii) Human-in-the-Loop Smart House. Results obtained on these two applications validate the generality of FaiR-IoT and its ability to provide a personalized experience while enhancing the system's performance by 40%-60% compared to non-personalized systems and enhancing the fairness of the multi-human systems by 1.5 orders of magnitude.
description: 14 pages
On Exotic Consistent Anomalies in (1+1)$d$: A Ghost Story
Creators: name: Chang, Chi-Ming
name: Lin, Ying-Hsuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit 't Hooft anomalies in (1+1)$d$ non-spin quantum field theory, starting from the consistency and locality conditions, and find that consistent U(1) and gravitational anomalies cannot always be canceled by properly quantized (2+1)$d$ classical Chern-Simons actions. On the one hand, we prove that certain exotic anomalies can only be realized by non-reflection-positive or non-compact theories; on the other hand, without insisting on reflection-positivity, the exotic anomalies present a caveat to the inflow paradigm. For the mixed U(1) gravitational anomaly, we propose an inflow mechanism involving a mixed U(1)$\times$SO(2) classical Chern-Simons action with a boundary condition that matches the SO(2) gauge field with the (1+1)$d$ spin connection. Furthermore, we show that this mixed anomaly gives rise to an isotopy anomaly of U(1) topological defect lines. The isotopy anomaly can be canceled by an extrinsic curvature improvement term, but at the cost of creating a periodicity anomaly. We survey the holomorphic $bc$ ghost system which realizes all the exotic consistent anomalies, and end with comments on a subtlety regarding the anomalies of finite subgroups of U(1).
description: 25+8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. v2: minor corrections. v3, v4: improved discussion on periodicity anomaly and anomaly of finite subgroups
Clinical-Pathological Agreement in Dementing Disorders: Embracing the Complexity
Creators: name: Huey, Edward
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: This editorial was written in response to: Giorelli M, Losignore NA, Bagnoli J, et al. The progression of posterior cortical atrophy to corticobasal syndrome: Lumping or splitting neurodegenerative diseases? Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov. 2014; 4. doi: 10.7916/D81G0JCQ
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Tics and Shorter Stature: Should We Be Looking for an Association?
Creators: name: Kurlan, Roger
name: Holleb, Peter
name: Rabin, Marcie
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: Background: Tic disorders have commonly occurring and well recognized comorbidities including obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Shorter stature is not generally appreciated as an associated feature. Methods: Case reports and a literature review. Results: We describe four recently encountered patients with tics and shorter stature. The literature suggests that in addition to OCD and ADHD, shorter stature may also commonly accompany tic disorders. A variety of neuroendocrine mechanisms have been proposed. Discussion: The potential associations between shorter stature and tic disorders and the common comorbidities OCD and ADHD deserve more attention. More research is needed to establish the strength of these associations and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Τα ουσιαστικά σε -σις στο αριστοτελικό corpus: συμβολή στη μελέτη των μηχανισμών δημιουργίας φιλοσοφικών τεχνικών όρων
Creators: name: Βασιλειάδης, Αλέξανδρος Π.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Φιλοσοφικοί τεχνικοί όροι
Ανώνυμον, Ονοματοποιία
Ενέργεια, κίνηση, μεταβολή, γένεση, φορά
Σημασιακοί/λεκτικοί νεολογισμοί
Ονοματικοί τύποι σε -μα, μός, -τικός
Philosophical technical terms
Anonymon, Onomatopoeia
Actuality, motion, change, generation, local movement
Semantic/lexical neologisms
Nomical types in -μα, -μός, -τικός

description: Η εξέαση των ουσιαστικών σε -σις στο αριστοτελικό corpus έδειξε τον σπουδαίο ρόλο που είχαν στον λόγο του Αριστοτέλη, όμως παράλληλα φανέρωσε και τον μηχανισμό δημιουργίας των όρων στο έργο του. Το πρόβλημα της ορολογίας απασχολεί και τον ίδιο : η έλλειψη όρων(το ανώνυμον) επισημαίνεται συχνά κια η προσπάθεια να βρεθούν οι κατάλληλες λέξεις(το ονοματοποιείν) αποτελεί ιδιαίτερή του φροντίδα. Σε σχέση με τη σημασία και τη μορφή των όρων, μεγάλος αριθμός ονομάτων σε -σις φαίνεται να έχει σχέση με τις βασικές φιλοσοφικές αρχές, όπως ενέργεια, κίνησις, μεταβολή, γένεσις, ή με είδη των αρχών αυτών, όπως κίνησις-φορά, κίνησις-πορεία, μετάβασις, μετάστασις, αλλά χαρακτηρίζουν εσωτερικές διεργασίες και φυσικές λειτουργίες στα όντα, ενώ σημαντικός αριθμός τους είναι από περιοχές της αριστοτελικής έρευνας(Λογική, Ρητορική, Ηθική, Ποιητική, Πολιτική). Σε σχέση με το φιλοσοφικό τεχνικό λεξιλόγιο, έχουμε 1)λέξεις του κοινού λεξιλογίου με επέκταση της σημασίας τους(λεκτικοί νεολογισμοί) και 2)νέες λέξεις που επινοεί ο ίδιος(λεκτικοί νεολογισμοί). Πολλοί νέοι τολμηροί σχηματισμοί οφείλονται στον προφορικό χαρακτήρα των έργων τους. Το λεκτικό σχήμα "ρήμα-ουσιαστικό" καθορίζει συχνά τους νέους όρους. Η σχέση των σε -σις είναι εμφανής και με τους ονοματικούς τύπους σε -μα, -μός, -τικός
description: The examination of the nous in -σις in the Aristotelian corpus demonstrates the important role they paly in Aristoteles' diction, while at the same time reveals the process of term formation throughout his work. Aristoteles is deeply concerned with terminology : the lack of terms(το ανώνυμον) is often pointed out, and special attention is paid to the coinage or discovery of the proper term(το ονοματοποιείν). With regard to their meaning and form, a large number of nous in -σις has apparently to do with his fundamental philosophical principles, such as ενέργεια, κίνηση, μεταβολή, γένεσις, or with kindss of those principles, such as κίνησις-φορά, κίνησις-πορεία, μετάβασις, μετάστασις; some other nous describe internal laborations and natural functions in the things they exist (όντα), while a considerable number of them comes from different fields of Aristotelian inquiry(Logic, Rhetoric, Ethic, Poetics, Policy). As to the philosophical technical vocabulary, we find 1)common words used with a semantic extension(semantic neologisms) and 2)new words coined by himself(lexical neologisms). A lot of new bold formations are due to the oral character of Aristoteles' works. The combination "verb-noun" is often used to define the new terms. Nous in -σις have close relations with these in -μα, -μός, -τικός
Early Controversies Over Athetosis: II. Treatment
Creators: name: Lanska, Douglas John
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2013

description: Background: Since the description of athetosis in 1871 by American neurologist William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900) the disorder has been a source of controversy, as were many aspects of Hammond’s career. Methods: Review of treatment controversies in the semi-centennial since the description of athetosis. Results: The treatments used most commonly for athetosis employed available agents (e.g., bromides, arsenicals) and modalities (e.g., galvanism). Initial anecdotal reports of success were seldom confirmed with subsequent experience. Several novel invasive therapies were also developed and promoted, all of which damaged or destroyed either upper or lower motor neuron pathways. In general these therapies substituted paresis for abnormal spontaneous movements. These included peripheral nerve stretching (as promoted by William Morton and Graeme Monroe Hammond), excision of a portion of the precentral gyrus (by Victor Horsley), rhizotomy (by Charles Loomis Dana and Robert Abbe, and later William Spiller and Charles Frazier), nerve “transplantation” (i.e., nerve section and nerve-to-nerve anastomoses, by Spiller and Frazier), and “muscle group isolation” (i.e., alcohol neurolysis, by Sidney Schwab and Nathaniel Allison). Discussion: Available modalities employed in the treatment of athetosis had little a priori evidence-based justification and no biologically plausible theoretical framework to guide empiric treatment selection. With the later development of novel invasive therapies, several factors contributed to the disparity in outcomes between favorable initial reports and the often-disappointing results of later studies, including reliance on anecdotal reports or small uncontrolled case series, placebo effects, biased observation, misdiagnosis, and biased reporting.
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Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia Caused by 16p11.2 Microdeletion
Creators: name: Termsarasab, Pichet
name: Yang, Amy C.
name: Reiner, Jennifer
name: Mei, Hui
name: Scott, Stuart A.
name: Frucht, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: Background: Four cases of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) have been reported in individuals with proximal 16p11.2 microdeletions that include PRRT2. Case Report: We describe a fifth patient with PKD, features of Asperger’s syndrome, and mild language delays. Sanger sequencing of the PRRT2 gene did not identify any mutations implicated in PKD. However, microarray‐based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) detected a 533.9‐kb deletion on chromosome 16, encompassing over 20 genes and transcripts. Discussion: This case underscores the importance of aCGH testing for individuals with PKD who do not have PRRT2 mutations, particularly when developmental delays, speech problems, intellectual disability, and/or autism spectrum disorder are present.
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The Many Facets of Unawareness in Huntington Disease
Creators: name: McCusker, Elizabeth
name: Loy, Clement T.
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: Background: Unawareness or diminished awareness is present when a patient's perception of obvious disease manifestations and impact differ from that of observers such as clinicians or family members. Methods: We examined studies that specifically investigate unawareness in Huntington disease (HD). Results: Unawareness of motor, cognitive, behavioral, and functional aspects of HD has been documented throughout the disease course. This can occur at motor and cognitive onset but is more pronounced as the disease progresses. Discussion: We discuss the implications for diagnosis, symptom report at presentation, timing of diagnosis, acceptance of symptomatic care strategies, and reporting in clinical trials. Assessments of work place competency, discrimination, driving, and the particular challenges of isolated patients without caregivers are described. Engaging with a person who is unaware of their disease or its impact presents a number of conflicts, including maintaining the right to autonomy, privacy, confidentiality, and independence while recognizing concerns for the wellbeing of the vulnerable person with HD and their caregiver when the unaware person refuses assistance. Unawareness is seen increasingly as neurologically based due to the impairment of functional networks, predominantly in nondominant frontostriatal pathways.
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Revisiting the Color-Color Selection: Submillimeter and AGN Properties of NUV-r-J Selected Quiescent Galaxies
Creators: name: Hwang, Yu-Hsuan
name: Wang, Wei-Hao
name: Chang, Yu-Yen
name: Lim, Chen-Fatt
name: Chen, Chian-Chou
name: Gao, Zhen-Kai
name: Dunlop, James S.
name: Gao, Yu
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
name: Koprowski, Maciej
name: Michałowski, Michał J.
name: Peng, Ying-jie
name: Shim, Hyunjin
name: Simpson, James M.
name: Toba, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the robustness of the color-color selection of quiescent galaxies (QGs) against contamination of dusty star-forming galaxies using the latest submillimeter data. We selected 18,304 QG candidates out to $z\sim$ 3 using the commonly adopted $NUV-r-J$ selection based on the high-quality multi-wavelength COSMOS2015 catalog. Using extremely deep 450 and 850 $μ$m catalogs from the latest JCMT SCUBA-2 Large Programs, S2COSMOS, and STUDIES, as well as ALMA submillimeter, VLA 3 GHz, and $Spitzer$ MIPS 24 $μ$m catalogs, we identified luminous dusty star-forming galaxies among the QG candidates. We also conducted stacking analyses in the SCUBA-2 450 and 850 $μ$m images to look for less-luminous dusty galaxies among the QG candidates. By cross-matching to the 24 $μ$m and 3 GHz data, we were able to identify a sub-group of "IR-radio-bright" QGs who possess a strong 450 and 850 $μ$m stacking signal. The potential contamination of these luminous and less-luminous dusty galaxies accounts for approximately 10% of the color-selected QG candidates. In addition, there exists a spatial correlation between the luminous star-forming galaxies and the QGs at a $\lesssim60$ kpc scale. Finally, we found a high QG fraction among radio AGNs at $z
description: This paper is accepted for publication on ApJ
An efficient Fredholm method for calculation of highly excited states of billiards
Creators: name: Tureci, Hakan E.
name: Schwefel, Harald G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerically efficient Fredholm formulation of the billiard problem is presented. The standard solution in the framework of the boundary integral method in terms of a search for roots of a secular determinant is reviewed first. We next reformulate the singularity condition in terms of a flow in the space of an auxiliary one-parameter family of eigenproblems and argue that the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are analytic functions within a certain domain. Based on this analytic behavior we present a numerical algorithm to compute a range of billiard eigenvalues and associated eigenvectors by only two diagonalizations.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures; included systematic study of accuracy with 2 new figures, movie to Fig. 4, http://www.quantumchaos.de/Media/0703030media.avi
Vacuum Polarization Effects in Higher Dimensional Global Monopole Spacetime
Creators: name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyse the vacuum polarization effects associated with a massless scalar field in higher-dimensional global monopole spacetime. Specifically we calculate the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the field square, $_{Ren}$, induced by a global monopole. Two different spacetimes will be considered: $i)$ In the first, the global monopole lives in whole universe, and $ii)$ in the second, the global monopole lives in a $n=3$ dimensional sub-manifold of the higher-dimensional (bulk) spacetime in the "braneworld" scenario. In order to develop these analysis we calculate the general Euclidean scalar Green function for both spacetimes. Also a general curvature coupling parameter between the field and the geometry is admitted. We explicitly show that $_{Ren}$ depends crucially on the dimension of the spacetime and on the specific geometry adopted to describe the world. We also investigate the general structure of the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor, $_{Ren.}$.
description: Seminar presented at V International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics-IC2006, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, April 24-28, 2006
Στάσεις καταναλωτών ως προς το ελαιόλαδο στα πλαίσια της μεσογειακής δίαιτας
Creators: name: Γεροθανάση, Ελισάβετ Α.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Μεσογειακή δίαιτα
Μοντέλο κατανάλωσης
Mediterranean diet
Consumption's model

description: Το ελαιόλαδο αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό αγαθό για τον έλληνα καταναλωτή και είναι συνδεδεμένο εδώ και αιώνες με τη μεσογειακή δίαιτα. Με την παρούσα έρευνα γίνεται προσπάθεια να διερευνηθεί η συμπεριφορά των σύγχρονων καταναλωτών του πολεοδομικού συγκροτήματος Θεσσαλονίκης απέναντί του και να εντοπιστούν οι παράγοντες που καθορίζουν τη συμπεριφορά τους. Για το σκοπό αυτό συλλέχθηκαν πρωτογενή στοιχεία με τη χρήση ερωτηματολογίου και έγινε στατιστική ανάλυσή τους. Ακολούθησε παραγοντική ανάλυση ως προς τους άξονες της μεσογειακής δίαιτας και ως προς τους λόγους αγοράς ελαιόλαδου με τη μέθοδο της ανάλυσης σε κύριες συνιστώσες. Για την ανάπτυξη του μοντέλου εφαρμόστηκε ιεραρχική ανάλυση συστάδων και στη συνέχεια εφαρμόστηκε η μέθοδος της κατηγορικής παλινδρόμησης με βέλτιστη κλιμάκωση
description: Olive oil is one of the most essential substances in the greek diet. It has been related to the mediterranean diet for many centuries. Through this research project, an attempt has been made to discover the attitudes of the contemporary consumers of Thessaloniki and what factors influence an individual's overall behavior. It is for this purpose that the results of this study were initially acquired through a survey conducted of the local citizens, hence followed up by a study of the Principal Comporent Analysis. In addition to the above the K-Means Cluster Analysis followed, which thus enabled us to formulate a consumer model as to which category of individuals actually make the most use of olive oil.
Finite-Dimensional Representations of Hyper Loop Algebras
Creators: name: Jakelic, Dijana
name: Moura, Adriano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B65; 17B10; 20G42

description: We study finite-dimensional representations of hyper loop algebras, i.e., the hyperalgebras over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic associated to the loop algebra over a complex finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra. The main results are the classification of the irreducible modules, a version of Steinberg's Tensor Product Theorem, and the construction of positive characteristic analogues of the Weyl modules as defined by Chari and Pressley in the characteristic zero setting. Furthermore, we start the study of reduction modulo p and prove that every irreducible module of a hyper loop algebra can be constructed as a quotient of a module obtained by a certain reduction modulo p process applied to a suitable characteristic zero module. We conjecture that the Weyl modules are also obtained by reduction modulo p. The conjecture implies a tensor product decomposition for the Weyl modules which we use to describe the blocks of the underlying abelian category.
description: Final version to appear in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 24 pages
Botulinum Toxin Therapy for Cervical Dystonia: The Science of Dosing
Creators: name: Evidente, Virgilio Gerald H.
name: Pappert, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: The first‐line treatment for cervical dystonia (CD) is botulinum toxin type A (BoNT‐A), which has been established as a highly effective and well‐tolerated therapy. However, this treatment is also complex and challenging to apply in clinical practice. Approximately 20% of patients discontinue therapy due to treatment failure, adverse effects, and other reasons. In addition, expert consensus recommendations are lacking to guide physicians in the optimal use of BoNT‐A for CD. Among the issues still to be clarified is the optimal dosing frequency. The generally accepted standard for intervals between BoNT‐A injections is ≥12 weeks; however, this standard is based primarily on the methodology of pivotal trials for the BoNT‐A products, rather than on evidence that it is optimal in comparison to other intervals. While some retrospective, observational studies of BoNT‐A used in clinical practice appear to support the use of ≥12‐week dosing intervals, it is often unclear in these studies how the need for reinjection was determined. In contrast, a prospective dose‐ranging trial in which patients were allowed to request reinjection as early as 8 weeks showed that about half of patients receiving abobotulinumtoxinA, at the currently recommended initial dose of 500 U, requested reinjection at 8 weeks. Moreover, results from an open‐label, 68‐week extension phase of the pivotal trial of incobotulinumtoxinA showed that 47.1% of patients had received reinjection at ≤12 weeks. Ongoing studies, such as the Cervical Dystonia Patient Registry for Observation of BOTOX® Efficacy (CD PROBE), may help clarify this question of optimal dosing intervals for BoNT‐A in CD.
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Entanglement and its dynamics in open, dissipative systems
Creators: name: Hartmann, L.
name: Dür, W.
name: Briegel, H. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanical entanglement can exist in noisy open quantum systems at high temperature. A simple mechanism, where system particles are randomly reset to some standard initial state, can counteract the deteriorating effect of decoherence, resulting in an entangled steady state far from thermodynamical equilibrium. We present models for both gas-type systems and for strongly coupled systems. We point out in which way the entanglement resulting from such a reset mechanism is different from the entanglement that one can find in thermal states. We develop master equations to describe the system and its interaction with an environment, study toy models with two particles (qubits), where the master equation can often be solved analytically, and finally examine larger systems with possibly fluctuating particle numbers. We find that in gas-type systems, the reset mechanism can produce an entangled steady state for an arbitrary temperature of the environment, while this is not true in strongly coupled systems. But even then, the temperature range where one can find entangled steady states is typically much higher with the reset mechanism.
description: 30 pages, 15 figures
Εγχρωμα σχέδια του Ιβάν Κλιουν σε χάρτινο υπόστρωμα
Creators: name: Φώτα, Ολγα Ι.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Ρωσική πρωτοπορία
Russian avantgarde
Σουπρεματισμός
Χημικές αναλύσεις χρωστικών
Chemical analysis of the pigments

description: Τεχνική μελέτη επιλεγμένων έργων, έγχρωμων σχεδίων σε χάρτινο υπόστρωμα, του Ιβαν Κλιουν, σημαντικού εκπροσώπου του κινήματος της ρώσσικης πρωτοπορίας. Εγιναν χημικές αναλύσεις χρωστικών που ελήφθησαν από έργα του Ιβαν Κλιουν, τα οποία ανήκουν στη συλλογή Γ. Κωστάκη, του Κ.Μ.Ι.Τ. και μελετήθηκε η σύστασή τους, η αντοχή τους, η σύνθεση, η υφή τους και η συμπερισφορά τους σε εξωγενείς παράγοντες φθοράς και αλλοίωσης
description: It is a project for a chemical and technical approach of pigments, which have been used by the artist of Russian avantgarde, Ivan Kliun. These pigments have been used by the artist on colored sketches on paper, we tried to find the composition, the quality, the strength and the characteristics of these pigments and also their behaviour to the environmental elements
Neuroacanthocytosis in China: A Review of Published Reports
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
name: Bader, Benedikt
name: Danek, Adrian
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2014

description: Background: Neuroacanthocytosis (NA) syndromes are a group of rare diseases characterized by the presence of acanthocytes and neuronal multisystem pathology, including chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc), McLeod syndrome (MLS), Huntington's disease-like 2 (HDL-2), and pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN). China has the largest population in the world, which makes it a good location for investigating rare diseases like NA. Methods: We searched Medline, ISI Proceedings, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang Data for literature published through December 31, 2013 for all the published Chinese NA case reports and extracted the clinical and laboratory findings. Results: A total of 42 studies describing 66 cases were found to be eligible for inclusion. Age of symptom onset ranged from 5 to 74 years. The most common findings included hyperkinetic movements (88%), orofacial dyskinesia (80%), dystonia (67%), and dysarthria (68%), as well as caudate atrophy or enlarged lateral ventricles on neuroimaging (64%), and elevated creatine kinase (52%). Most cases were not confirmed by any specific molecular tests. Only two cases were genetically studied and diagnosed as ChAc or MLS. Discussion: In view of the prevalence of NA syndromes in other countries, the number of patients in China appears to be underestimated. Chinese NA patients may benefit from the establishment of networks that offer specific diagnoses and care for rare diseases.
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