cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exome sequencing identifies variants in infants with sacral agenesis
Creators: name: McGoldrick, D.
name: Pangilinan, F.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Finnell, R.H.
name: Werler, M.
name: Moore, C.
name: Conway, K.M.
name: Nickerson, D.A.
name: Brody, L.C.
name: National Birth Defects Prevention Study
name: Reefhuis, J.
name: Romitti, P.A.
name: Shaw, G.M.
name: Kay, D.M.
name: NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
name: Mills, J.L.
name: Bamshad, M.J.
name: Cunniff, C.
name: Browne, M.L.
name: Feldkamp, M.L.
name: Pitsava, G.
name: Jenkins, M.M.
name: Lane, J.
name: Pankratz, N.
name: Mullikin, J.C.
name: Hobbs, C.
name: UW Center for Mendelian Genomics
name: Sicko, R.J.
name: Almli, L.M.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2022

description: Background: Sacral agenesis (SA) consists of partial or complete absence of the caudal end of the spine and often presents with additional birth defects. Several studies have examined gene variants for syndromic forms of SA, but only one has examined exomes of children with non-syndromic SA. Methods: Using buccal cell specimens from families of children with non-syndromic SA, exomes of 28 child–parent trios (eight with and 20 without a maternal diagnosis of pregestational diabetes) and two child–father duos (neither with diagnosis of maternal pregestational diabetes) were exome sequenced. Results: Three children had heterozygous missense variants in ID1 (Inhibitor of DNA Binding 1), with CADD scores >20 (top 1% of deleterious variants in the genome); two children inherited the variant from their fathers and one from the child's mother. Rare missense variants were also detected in PDZD2 (PDZ Domain Containing 2; N = 1) and SPTBN5 (Spectrin Beta, Non-erythrocytic 5; N = 2), two genes previously suggested to be associated with SA etiology. Examination of variants with autosomal recessive and X-linked recessive inheritance identified five and two missense variants, respectively. Compound heterozygous variants were identified in several genes. In addition, 12 de novo variants were identified, all in different genes in different children. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting a possible association between ID1 and non-syndromic SA. Although maternal pregestational diabetes has been strongly associated with SA, the missense variants in ID1 identified in two of three children were paternally inherited. These findings add to the knowledge of gene variants associated with non-syndromic SA and provide data for future studies.
Additional file 3 of Antimicrobial resistance in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis and bacterial infections in a tertiary center in Northern Germany
Creators: name: Hillert, Annika
name: Schultalbers, Marie
name: Tergast, Tammo L.
name: Vonberg, Ralf-Peter
name: Rademacher, Jessica
name: Wedemeyer, Heiner
name: Cornberg, Markus
name: Ziesing, Stefan
name: Maasoumy, Benjamin
name: Höner zu Siederdissen, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental table 3: Pathogens in polymicrobial infections.
Improving the Accuracy and Consistency of the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) Method with Relaxation
Creators: name: Jiang, Maosheng
name: Zhang, Zengyan
name: Zhao, Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method was introduced by Shen et al. and has been broadly used to solve thermodynamically consistent PDE problems. By utilizing scalar auxiliary variables, the original PDE problems are reformulated into equivalent PDE problems. The advantages of the SAV approach, such as linearity, unconditionally energy stability, and easy-to-implement, are prevalent. However, there is still an open issue unresolved, i.e., the numerical schemes resulted from the SAV method preserve a "modified" energy law according to the auxiliary variables instead of the original variables. Truncation errors are introduced during numerical calculations so that the numerical solutions of the auxiliary variables are no longer equivalent to their original continuous definitions. In other words, even though the SAV scheme satisfies a modified energy law, it does not necessarily satisfy the energy law of the original PDE models. This paper presents one essential relaxation technique to overcome this issue, which we named the relaxed-SAV (RSAV) method. Our RSAV method penalizes the numerical errors of the auxiliary variables by a relaxation technique. In general, the RSAV method keeps all the advantages of the baseline SAV method and improves its accuracy and consistency noticeably. Several examples have been presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the RSAV approach.
Ascidian embryonic cells with properties of neural-crest cells and neuromesodermal progenitors of vertebrates
Creators: name: Ishida, Tasuku
name: Satou, Yutaka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Expression matrices used for a cross-species comparison between zebrafish and Ciona transcriptomes, and R-markdowns for analyzes using Seurat.

Single-cell transcriptome data for Ciona middle gastrula embryos to larvae, which were published previously (Cao, C. et al. 2019 Nature 571, 349-354. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1385-y), were used (SRA accession numbers: SRR9050988, SRR9050989, SRR9050992, SRR9050997, SRR9050998, SRR9051003, and SRR9051007). Data were mapped to the latest genome assembly (HT version) (Satou, Y. et al. 2019. Genome biology and evolution 11, 3144-3157. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz228) and the latest version of the gene model set (KY21 version) (Satou, Y. et al. 2022. Zool Sci 39, 253-260. doi: 10.2108/zs210102) using Cell Ranger software (version 6.12. 10xGenomics). For zebrafish 10- to 24-hr embryos, mapping data to gene models were downloaded from the GEO database (we used CSV files of UMI-filtered counts under accession numbers, GSM3067192 to GSM3067195; GSM3067192_10hpf.csv.gz, GSM3067193_14hpf.csv.gz, GSM3067194_18hpf.csv.gz, and GSM3067195_24hpf.csv.gz) (Wagner, D. E. et al. 2018. Science 360, 981-987. doi: 10.1126/science.aar4362). For comparisons between Ciona and zebrafish transcriptomes, we first compared proteomes of Ciona and zebrafish using OrthoFinder (Emms, D. M. & Kelly, S. 2015. Genome Biology 16. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0721-2). When multiple genes for one species were included in one ortholog group, all read counts in that group were summed in the expression matrices.

Data S1. The expression matrix for zebrafish embryos.

Data S2. The expression matrix for ascidian middle gastrula embryos. 

Data S3. The expression matrix for ascidian early neurula embryos. 

Data S4. The expression matrix for ascidian late neurula embryos. 

Data S5. The expression matrix for ascidian middle tailbud embryos (replica 1). 

Data S6. The expression matrix for ascidian middle tailbud embryos (replica 2). 

Data S7. The expression matrix for ascidian late tailbud embryos. 

Data S8. The expression matrix for ascidian larvae. 

Data S9. The R-markdown for a comparison of gene expression profiles among Ciona larval tissues.

Data S10. The R-markdown for a cross-species comparison between Ciona transcriptomes and zebrafish transcriptomes.
Gene-Level Germline Contributions to Clinical Risk of Recurrence Scores in Black and White Patients with Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Troester, M.A.
name: Patel, A.
name: Love, M.I.
name: Perou, C.M.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: García-Closas, M.
name: Bhattacharya, A.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Continuous risk of recurrence scores (CRS) based on tumor gene expression are vital prognostic tools for breast cancer. Studies have shown that Black women (BW) have higher CRS than White women (WW). Although systemic injustices contribute substantially to breast cancer disparities, evidence of biological and germline contributions is emerging. In this study, we investigated germline genetic associations with CRS and CRS disparity using approaches modeled after transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS). In the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, using race-specific predictive models of tumor expression from germline genetics, we performed race-stratified (N = 1,043 WW, 1,083 BW) linear regressions of three CRS (ROR-S: PAM50 subtype score; proliferation score; ROR-P: ROR-S plus proliferation score) on imputed tumor genetically regulated tumor expression (GReX). Bayesian multivariate regression and adaptive shrinkage tested GReXprioritized genes for associations with tumor PAM50 expression and subtype to elucidate patterns of germline regulation underlying GReX-CRS associations. At FDR-adjusted P < 0.10, 7 and 1 GReX prioritized genes among WW and BW, respectively. Among WW, CRS were positively associated with MCM10, FAM64A, CCNB2, and MMP1 GReX and negatively associated with VAV3, PCSK6, and GNG11 GReX. Among BW, higher MMP1 GReX predicted lower proliferation score and ROR-P. GReX-prioritized gene and PAM50 tumor expression associations highlighted potential mechanisms for GReX-prioritized gene to CRS associations. Among patients with breast cancer, differential germline associations with CRS were found by race, underscoring the need for larger, diverse datasets in molecular studies of breast cancer. These findings also suggest possible germline trans-regulation of PAM50 tumor expression, with potential implications for CRS interpretation in clinical settings.
In Search of a New Culture: The Sexual Violence Against U.S. Military Women By Their Fellow Soldiers, 1978-Present
Creators: name: Coletti, Leslie J.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: History

description: Surveying the news of the past fifteen years, you are bound to find numerous articles and television specials claiming to expose sexual assault and rape that occurs within the ranks of the U.S. military. After reading my first article on such a topic, I was startled. Over the next few months I continued to see snippets here and there on this same topic. However, the bits and pieces I read always seemed incomplete. The bits and pieces I read would usually reveal one woman's story, or a few women's stories, but I could never understand precisely why it happened. I wanted to understand how women who chose to risk their lives in such a noble career were also forced to protect themselves from their fellow soldiers. Was the military just a microcosm for all of society, making these women's stories just some newsworthy material? Or, did the military differ in its history and traditions, making it a unique setting for sexual assault and rape against women?
Finite $3π$ Cut Approximation for the $πN\bar{N}$ Form Factor
Creators: name: Bolokhov, A. A.
name: Zovko, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming the length of the $3π$ cut to be finite and approximating the integrated amplitude by a constant, we derive an expression for the $πN\bar{N}$ form factor which is very close to that given by a simple pole. The specific predictions of the obtained form factor for the region of small momentum transfer are discussed along the lines of the Goldberger-Treiman relation.
description: 17 pages, Latex
Dietary Vitamin A and Breast Cancer Risk in Black Women: The African American Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Risk (AMBER) Consortium
Creators: name: Yao, S.
name: Palmer, J.R.
name: Rosenberg, L.
name: Ambrosone, C.B.
name: Bandera, E.V.
name: McCann, S.E.
name: Bitsie, K.R.
name: Zirpoli, G.
name: Kolonel, L.N.
name: Cheng, T.-Y.D.
name: Olshan, A.F.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2021

description: Background: Studies in women of European descent showed an inverse association of dietary vitamin A (retinol and carotenoids) intake with breast cancer risks, mainly in premenopausal women. Objectives: We examined whether higher compared with lower levels of dietary vitamin A are associated with reduced breast cancer risks among Black women by estrogen receptor (ER) and menopausal statuses. Methods: In this pooled analysis, data were from 3564 breast cancer cases and 11,843 controls (mean ages = 56.4 and 56.3 years, respectively) in the African American Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Risk (AMBER) Consortium. Dietary intake was assessed by FFQs. Multivariable logistic regressions were performed to estimate ORs and 95% CIs for study-specific quintiles of total vitamin A equivalents and individual carotenoids, and a pooled OR was estimated by a random-effect model. Results: We observed an inverse association of total vitamin A equivalents with ER-positive breast cancer (quintiles 5 compared with 1: pooled OR: 0.82; 95% CI: 0.67-1.00; P-trend = 0.045). The association was seen among premenopausal women (pooled OR: 0.60; 95% CI: 0.43-0.83; P-trend = 0.004), but not among postmenopausal women (pooled OR: 0.99; 95% CI: 0.77-1.28; P-trend = 0.78). Additionally, there were inverse associations of dietary β-carotene (quintiles 5 compared with 1: pooled OR: 0.70; 95% CI: 0.51-0.95; P-trend = 0.08) and lutein (pooled OR: 0.63; 95% CI: 0.45-0.87; P-trend = 0.020) with ER-positive breast cancer among premenopausal women. There was no evidence for an association of total vitamin A equivalents or individual carotenoids with ER-negative breast cancer, regardless of menopausal status. Conclusions: Our findings on dietary vitamin A and breast cancer risks in Black women are consistent with observations in women of European descent and advance the literature showing an inverse association for ER-positive disease.
title: Chandra Detection of Diffuse Hot Gas in and around the M31 Bulge
Creators: name: Li, Z
name: Wang, QD
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: galaxies: general; galaxies: individual (M31); galaxies: spiral; X-rays: general
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/668/1/L39/
description: We report the detection of diffuse hot gas in M31, using archival Chandra observations that allow us to map out a 30' × 30' field (covering a galactocentric radius up to 4.5 kpc) and to detect sources in the galaxy down to a 0.5-8 keV luminosity limit of ~1035 ergs s-1. We estimate the remaining stellar contribution from fainter X-ray sources (primarily cataclysmic variables and coronally active binaries), assuming that they spatially follow the stellar distribution. Indeed, the near-IR K-band light of the galaxy closely traces the 2-8 keV unresolved X-rays, indicating a collective stellar X-ray emissivity consistent with those determined for the Galactic ridge and M32, whereas the amount of the 0.5-2 keV unresolved emission is significantly greater than the expected stellar contribution, especially within a galactocentric radius of ~2 kpc. Morphologically, this soft X-ray excess appears substantially rounder than the bulge as seen in K band and is elongated approximately along the minor-axis at large radii. The excess thus most likely represents the emission of diffuse hot gas in and around the galactic bulge. Furthermore, the near side of the M31 disk casts an apparent shadow against the soft X-ray excess, indicating that the hot gas extends to at least 2.5 kpc from the galactic plane. We briefly discuss the implications of these results on the energy balance in the M31 bulge and on understanding the large-scale soft X-ray enhancement observed toward the inner region of our own Galaxy.
Additional file 4 of Antimicrobial resistance in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis and bacterial infections in a tertiary center in Northern Germany
Creators: name: Hillert, Annika
name: Schultalbers, Marie
name: Tergast, Tammo L.
name: Vonberg, Ralf-Peter
name: Rademacher, Jessica
name: Wedemeyer, Heiner
name: Cornberg, Markus
name: Ziesing, Stefan
name: Maasoumy, Benjamin
name: Höner zu Siederdissen, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4. Supplemental table 4: Overview of the frequency and locations of infections.
Moving Vehicle Detection Using AdaBoost and Haar-Like Feature in Surveillance Videos
Creators: name: Moghimi, Mohammad Mahdi
name: Nayeri, Maryam
name: Pourahmadi, Majid
name: Moghimi, Mohammad Kazem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vehicle detection is a technology which its aim is to locate and show the vehicle size in digital images. In this technology, vehicles are detected in presence of other things like trees and buildings. It has an important role in many computer vision applications such as vehicle tracking, analyzing the traffic scene and efficient traffic management. In this paper, vehicles detected based on the boosting technique by Viola Jones. Our proposed system is tested in some real scenes of surveillance videos with different light conditions. The experimental results show that the accuracy,completeness, and quality of the proposed vehicle detection method are better than the previous techniques (about 94%, 92%, and 87%, respectively). Thus, our proposed approach is robust and efficient to detect vehicles in surveillance videos and their applications.
description: 13 pages
On the newly discovered Canes Venatici II dSph galaxy
Creators: name: Greco, C.
name: Dall'Ora, M.
name: Clementini, G.
name: Ripepi, V.
name: Di Fabrizio, L.
name: Kinemuchi, K.
name: Marconi, M.
name: Musella, I.
name: Smith, H. A.
name: Rodgers, C. T.
name: Kuehn, C.
name: Beers, T. C.
name: Catelan, M.
name: Pritzl, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the detection of variable stars in the Canes Venatici II (CVn II) dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a new satellite of the Milky Way recently discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We also present a V, B-V color-magnitude diagram that reaches V = 25.5 mag, showing the galaxy's main sequence turn off at V = 24.5 mag and revealing several candidate blue straggler stars. Two RR Lyrae stars have been identified within the half-light radius of CVn II,a fundamental-mode variable (RRab) with period P_ab = 0.743 days, and a first-overtone (RRc) RR Lyrae star with P_c = 0.358 days. The rather long periods of these variables along with their position on the period-amplitude diagram support an Oosterhoff type II classification for CVn II. The average apparent magnitude of the RR Lyrae stars, = 21.48 +/- 0.02 mag, is used to obtain a precision distance modulus of mu_0 = 21.02 +/- 0.06 mag and a corresponding distance of 160(+4,-5} kpc, for an adopted reddening E(B-V) = 0.015 mag.
description: Submitted to ApJ Letters
In Our Father’s House -- A Novel
Creators: name: Roper, Caroline
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This undergraduate thesis in creative writing has been removed at the request of the author (2020_08_17)
Langevin Monte Carlo and JKO splitting
Creators: name: Bernton, Espen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Algorithms based on discretizing Langevin diffusion are popular tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions. We develop novel connections between such Monte Carlo algorithms, the theory of Wasserstein gradient flow, and the operator splitting approach to solving PDEs. In particular, we show that a proximal version of the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm corresponds to a scheme that alternates between solving the gradient flows of two specific functionals on the space of probability measures. Using this perspective, we derive some new non-asymptotic results on the convergence properties of this algorithm.
description: 24 pages. Similar to arxiv:1802.08089
title:  Promoting Complex Needs, Partnership and Parenting in Child Protection
Creators: name: Rácz, Andrea
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Lo studio esamina le tendenze nell'ambito della protezione dell'infanzia a partire dalla Convenzione sui diritti dell'infanzia del 1989, quali orientamenti in tal senso si possono distinguere. Le famiglie con minori a rischio fronteggiano contemporaneamente diversi problemi. La complessità del servizio richiede un approccio maggiormente incentrato sull'utenza e presuppone che i fornitori del servizio siano in grado di adattarsi al mutato ambiente socioeconomico. Lo studio attira l'attenzione sull'importanza di alcuni temi nel discorso internazionale, come i bisogni complessi dell'utenza, l'importanza della cooperazione, il supporto alla genitorialità.
description: Infanzia, arti, lavoro: confluenze educative
Improving Task Performance in an Affect-mediated Computing System
Creators: name: Pai, Vivek
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computing systems have traditionally relied on purely quantitative means of assessing users. Software may record facts about users such as their click behaviors, their accuracies, and their rates of recurrence, and may then use this acquired data to make predictions about their behaviors and preferences. However, users’ inputs into a machine, sequences of key presses and mouse movements, do not capture all of their desires and needs. The machine may never know that a particular user enjoys the glow of a button and its placement among others elements of an interface. Furthermore, it cannot perceive a user’s discomfort during accomplishing a task; it may simply translate the user’s high accuracy in hitting various steps of a process into a mastery of the task. The machine, which might be intelligent, may not sense the user’s uncertainty of his or her actions, expressed by widened eyes, a stutter in voice, and a hand clasped behind the neck. In this project, we explore how an affect-mediated system, a computing system that adapts its actions and behavior to the emotional state of its users, can improve their abilities to complete tasks and meet their goals. In particular, we apply facial expression recognition, one method for estimating a human’s emotional state, to a children’s game, giving it the ability to adjust its difficulty based on its player’s perceived unease. Through experimentation with this game, we determine whether affect-mediation helps users achieve their goal of winning the game, and whether in general affect-mediated systems can aid in user task completion. Our study consisted of two conditions: affect (the game would adjust its difficulty based on the player’s emotion) and control. Participants in the affect condition tended to have a higher catch/total ratio (the number of items caught by the participant divided by the total number of items spawned in the game). They also had less struggles (a catch followed by one or several misses) and these struggles were more spread out than in the control condition, suggesting a higher level of engagement.
Multi-Gap Superconductivity in MgB2: Magneto-Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Blumberg, G.
name: Mialitsin, A.
name: Dennis, B. S.
name: Zhigadlo, N. D.
name: Karpinski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic Raman scattering studies on MgB2 single crystals as a function of excitation and polarization have revealed three distinct superconducting features: a clean gap below 37 cm-1 and two coherence peaks at 109 cm-1 and 78 cm-1 which we identify as the superconducting gaps in π- and σ-bands and as the Leggett's collective mode arising from the fluctuation in the relative phase between two superconducting condensates residing on corresponding bands. The temperature and field dependencies of the superconducting features have been established. A phononic Raman scattering study of the E2g boron stretching mode anharmonicity and of superconductivity induced self-energy effects is presented. We show that anharmonic two phonon decay is mainly responsible for the unusually large linewidth of the E2g mode. We observe ~2.5% hardening of the E2g phonon frequency upon cooling into the superconducting state and estimate the electron-phonon coupling strength associated with this renormalization.
description: Invited review in a special issue "Superconductivity in MgB_2: Physics and Applications"
Additional file 5 of Antimicrobial resistance in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis and bacterial infections in a tertiary center in Northern Germany
Creators: name: Hillert, Annika
name: Schultalbers, Marie
name: Tergast, Tammo L.
name: Vonberg, Ralf-Peter
name: Rademacher, Jessica
name: Wedemeyer, Heiner
name: Cornberg, Markus
name: Ziesing, Stefan
name: Maasoumy, Benjamin
name: Höner zu Siederdissen, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5. Supplemental table 5: Susceptibility of pathogens in community-acquired vs. nosocomial infections.
Heavy Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets at Hadron Supercolliders
Creators: name: Duff, A.
name: Zeppenfeld, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the real emission QCD correction to heavy Higgs boson production via weak boson fusion in high energy $pp$ collisions. The ${\cal O}(α_s)$ corrections are determined for the complete electroweak $q q \rightarrow q q W^+ W^-$ process. The presence of a third parton in the final state affects the formation of rapidity gaps only slightly. In particular, soft emission into the gap region is severely suppressed. Also, we investigate how the additional hard emission affects forward-jet-tagging and central-jet-vetoing efficiencies in the search for $H \rightarrow W^+ W^- \rightarrow \ell^+ ν\ell^- \barν$ decays.
description: 29 pages, uses Revtex version 3. 12 postscript figures, uufiled and submitted to hep-ph. MAD/PH/800
Factorised spatial representation learning: application in semi-supervised myocardial segmentation
Creators: name: Chartsias, Agisilaos
name: Joyce, Thomas
name: Papanastasiou, Giorgos
name: Semple, Scott
name: Williams, Michelle
name: Newby, David
name: Dharmakumar, Rohan
name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The success and generalisation of deep learning algorithms heavily depend on learning good feature representations. In medical imaging this entails representing anatomical information, as well as properties related to the specific imaging setting. Anatomical information is required to perform further analysis, whereas imaging information is key to disentangle scanner variability and potential artefacts. The ability to factorise these would allow for training algorithms only on the relevant information according to the task. To date, such factorisation has not been attempted. In this paper, we propose a methodology of latent space factorisation relying on the cycle-consistency principle. As an example application, we consider cardiac MR segmentation, where we separate information related to the myocardium from other features related to imaging and surrounding substructures. We demonstrate the proposed method's utility in a semi-supervised setting: we use very few labelled images together with many unlabelled images to train a myocardium segmentation neural network. Specifically, we achieve comparable performance to fully supervised networks using a fraction of labelled images in experiments on ACDC and a dataset from Edinburgh Imaging Facility QMRI. Code will be made available at https://github.com/agis85/spatial_factorisation.
description: Accepted in MICCAI 2018
title:  La repubblica delle speculazioni
Creators: name: Fortunato  , Valentina
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (1799-1879), giornalista economista e romanziere, è conosciuto per un best seller ambientato e pubblicato negli anni della monarchia di luglio, Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale (1842), a cui sei anni dopo segue, Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques (1848). In entrambi, i temi economici e finanziari incidono sulla costruzione narrativa: è la traccia delle sventure finanziarie della coppia Paturot, dei délits d'initiés e del legame tra la politica e la Borsa a condizionare l'ordine dei capitoli e a decidere dell'epilogo dei due romanzi. L'approccio con il palais Brogniart cambia dal deputato al semplice impiegato, ma in entrambi i ruoli Jérôme ci introduce alle astuzie della speculazione, dalla monarchia di luglio alla neonata repubblica.
description: Infanzia, arti, lavoro: confluenze educative
title: 01_1455
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
[Canadian Army Solder's Service and Pay Book of Victor Wong]
[Victor Wong 的薪酬和服役記錄冊]
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Armed Forces
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Records of Victor Wong's wage payments from the army and details of his training, vaccination and other related records while in the army.
Missing some pages.
title: Chandra Detection of a Hot Gaseous Corona around the Edge-on Galaxy NGC 4631
Creators: name: Wang, QD
name: Immler, S
name: Walterbos, R
name: Lauroesch, JT
name: Breitschwerdt, D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: galaxies: individual (NGC 4631); galaxies: ISM; galaxies: spiral; X-rays: galaxies
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/555/2/L99/
description: We present a Chandra X-ray observation that shows, unambiguously for the first time, the presence of a giant diffuse X-ray-emitting corona around the edge-on disk galaxy NGC 4631. This corona, with a characteristic thermal temperature of × 106 K, extends as far as 8 kpc away from the galactic plane. The X-ray morphology resembles the radio halo of the galaxy, indicating a close connection between outflows of hot gas, cosmic rays, and the magnetic field from the galactic disk. Enhanced diffuse X-ray emission is apparently enclosed by numerous Hα-emitting loops blistered out from the central disk of the galaxy, as is evident in a comparison with our deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging.
Measurements of the Zodiacal Light Absolute Intensity through Fraunhofer Absorption Line Spectroscopy with CIBER
Creators: name: Korngut, Phillip
name: Kim, Min Gyu
name: Arai, Toshiaki
name: Bangale, Priyadarshini
name: Bock, James
name: Cooray, Asantha
name: Cheng, Yun Ting
name: Feder, Richard
name: Hristov, Viktor
name: Lanz, Alicia
name: Levenson, Louis
name: Matsumoto, Toshio
name: Matsuura, Shuji
name: Nguyen, Chi
name: Sano, Kei
name: Tsumura, Kohji
name: Zemcov, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattered sunlight from the interplanetary dust (IPD) cloud in our Solar system presents a serious foreground challenge for spectro-photometric measurements of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL). In this work, we report on measurements of the absolute intensity of the Zodiacal Light (ZL) using the novel technique of Fraunhofer line spectroscopy on the deepest 8542 Angstrom line of the near-infrared CaII absorption triplet. The measurements are performed with the Narrow Band Spectrometer (NBS) aboard the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) sounding rocket instrument. We use the NBS data to test the accuracy of two ZL models widely cited in the literature; the Kelsall and Wright models, which have been used in foreground removal analyses that produce high and low EBL results respectively. We find a mean reduced chi squared of 3.5 for the Kelsall model and a chi squared of 2.0 for the Wright model. The best description of our data is provided by a simple modification to the Kelsall model which includes a free ZL offset parameter. This adjusted model describes the data with a reduced chi squared of 1.5 and yields an inferred offset amplitude of 46 +- 19 nW m^-2 sr^-1 extrapolated to 12500 Angstroms. These measurements elude to the potential existence of a dust cloud component in the inner Solar system whose intensity does not strongly modulate with the Earth's motion around the Sun.
Improving Performance on a Creativity Task via Self-Affirmation
Creators: name: Dutcher, Janine M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Previous research has suggested that writing about an important person value, compared to writing about a value that is not important, can reduce defensive responding to threats to self, decrease ruminative behavior, and improve academic performance. The current study tests the effects of self-affirmation on a laboratory-based performance intelligence task in college students (N=51). After engaging in the writing task, participants were given the “intelligence test” (a Remote Associates Task) from a trained evaluator under time pressure and negative social evaluation. They were given failure feedback telling them they were below average among their peers. Following the test, participants filled out questionnaires to assess their acceptance of the news article (which described the RAT as a good predictor intelligence and one’s future success), how negatively they perceived the trained intelligence test evaluator, and rumination. Findings indicate that performing this self-affirmation writing activity can improve performance on the RAT. There were no effects of self-affirmation on defensiveness and rumination, and work is currently exploring the mechanisms of the self-affirmation and improved performance link in this study. The present study provides the first laboratory evidence for a performance effect of self-affirmation and provides opportunities to explore how self-affirmation improves academic performance in student populations.
On Signatures of Atmospheric Features in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
Creators: name: Rauscher, Emily
name: Menou, Kristen
name: Cho, James Y-K.
name: Seager, Sara
name: Hansen, Brad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence is ubiquitous in Solar System planetary atmospheres. In hot Jupiter atmospheres, the combination of moderately slow rotation and thick pressure scale height may result in dynamical weather structures with unusually large, planetary-size scales. Using equivalent-barotropic, turbulent circulation models, we illustrate how such structures can generate a variety of features in the thermal phase curves of hot Jupiters, including phase shifts and deviations from periodicity. Such features may have been spotted in the recent infrared phase curve of HD 189733b. Despite inherent difficulties with the interpretation of disk-integrated quantities, phase curves promise to offer unique constraints on the nature of the circulation regime present on hot Jupiters.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Αστικοί μετασχηματισμοί στη συνοικία του Λάκκου Ηρακλείου
title: Urban transformations in the district of Lakkos, Heraklion
Creators: name: Γερογιαννακη Μαρια
name: Στρατακη Ευγενια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μελετά την συνοικία του Λάκκου Ηρακλείου, εστιάζοντας στα οικοδομικά τετράγωνα  που στεγάζονταν το Πανάνειο Νοσοκομείο και  η Υγειονομική Υπηρεσία.
Η περιοχή του Λάκκου βρίσκεται στις νοτιοδυτικές παρυφές του ιστορικού κέντρου του Ηρακλείου.  Η συνοικία παρουσιάζει έντονο κοινωνικό και πολυπολιτισμικό ενδιαφέρον καθώς από τα τέλη  του 19ου  αι. φιλοξενούσε περιθωριακές κοινωνικές ομάδες, γεγονός που έχει καθορίσει την ταυτότητα της περιοχής. Όσον αφορά την πολεοδομική εξέλιξή της, εντός του παλιού ιστού της περιοχής εντοπίζονται νεωτερικές πολεοδομικές επεμβάσεις, αντιφατικές ως προς την προϋπάρχουσα δομή, δημιουργώντας αστικές ασυνέχειες.
Το χαρακτηρισμένο ως διατηρητέο μνημείο Πανάνειο Νοσοκομείο και η περιοχή της πρώην Υγειονομικής Υπηρεσίας, που εδράζονται ανάμεσα στα Ενετικά Τείχη του Ηρακλείου και την κλίμακα της γειτονιάς, εμφανίζονται ως απομεινάρια (θραύσματα) διαφορετικών χρονικοτήτων, ασύνδετα μεταξύ τους, που δεν καταφέρνουν να αφομοιωθούν στο αστικό τοπίο.
Στόχος της εργασίας αποτελεί η ένταξη των δύο αστικών κενών, στην μικροκλίμακα της περιοχής και την ευρύτερη κλίμακα της πόλης. Οι διαβαθμίσεις των κλιμάκων και η μετάβαση από το ιδιωτικό στο δημόσιο και αντίστροφα συγκροτούν το εργαλείο διαχείρισης του επικείμενου ζητήματος. Συγκεκριμένα, η εργασία προτείνει την ενεργοποίηση της περιοχής μέσα από την δημιουργία δημόσιων, ημιδημόσιων και ιδιωτικών χώρων (πλατείες, πάρκα, δίκτυο δημόσιων πορειών, δημόσια κτήρια, συλλογικές δομές για τους κατοίκους της περιοχής, συγκρότημα κατοικιών).
Additional file 1 of The causal influence of responsive parenting behaviour on academic readiness: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Prime, Heather
name: Andrews, Krysta
name: Gonzalez, Andrea
name: Janus, Magdalena
name: Tricco, Andrea C.
name: Bennett, Teresa
name: Atkinson, Leslie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Epidemiology of basal-like and luminal breast cancers among black women in the amber consortium
Creators: name: Troester, M.A.
name: Ambrosone, C.B.
name: Omilian, A.R.
name: Palmer, J.R.
name: Hurson, A.N.
name: Zirpoli, G.R.
name: Benefield, H.C.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Hong, C.-C.
name: Allott, E.H.
name: Khoury, T.
name: Bandera, E.V.
name: Shan, Y.
name: Bethea, T.N.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Background: Evidence suggests etiologic heterogeneity among breast cancer subtypes. Previous studies with six-marker IHC classification of intrinsic subtypes included small numbers of black women. Methods: Using centralized laboratory results for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor, HER2, proliferation marker, Ki-67, EGFR, and cytokeratin (CK)5/6, we estimated case-only and case. control ORs for established breast cancer risk factors among cases (n.2,354) and controls (n.2,932) in the African American Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Risk (AMBER) consortium. ORs were estimated by ER status and intrinsic subtype using adjusted logistic regression. Results: Case-only analyses by ER status showed etiologic heterogeneity by age at menarche, parity (vs. nulliparity), and age at first birth. In case.control analyses for intrinsic subtype, increased body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were associated with increased risk of luminal A subtype, whereas older age at menarche and parity, regardless of breastfeeding, were associated with reduced risk. For basal-like cancers, parity without breastfeeding and increasing WHR were associated with increased risk, whereas breastfeeding and age ≥25 years at first birth were associated with reduced risk among parous women. Basal-like and ER-/ HER2+ subtypes had earlier age-at-incidence distribution relative to luminal subtypes. Conclusions: Breast cancer subtypes showed distinct etiologic profiles in theAMBERconsortium, a study of more than 5,000 black women with centrally assessed tumor biospecimens. Impact: Among black women, high WHR and parity without breastfeeding are emerging as important intervention points to reduce the incidence of basal-like breast cancer.
Additional file 1 of Early results from an Egyptian transcatheter aortic valve registry (Egy-TVR)
Creators: name: Bahaa, Hesham
name: Sadek, Yasser
name: Mostafa, Ahmad E.
name: Kamal, Diaa
name: Baraka, Mahmoud
name: Abdelghani, Mohammad
name: Hassan, Ahmed
name: Shehata, Ahmed
name: Abdelhamid, Magdy
name: Elguindy, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Electronic Case Report Form (eCRF).
Implications of the Patient-Physician Relationship for People with Diabetes
Creators: name: Charles, Shaquille
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this study was to assess race differences (African Americans and Caucasians) in aspects of the patient-physician relationship, and then determine how the patientphysician relationship influences patient satisfaction, diabetes self-care behaviors and diabetes knowledge among adults with diabetes. Participants consisted of 99 adults with diabetes who were currently receiving treatment for their diabetes. Participants were asked to complete a 15- minute questionnaire that assessed aspects of the patient-physician relationship, including patient’s expectations of physician, actual patient-physician interactions, patient’s desire for involvement in the health care process, and collaboration between the patient and physician regarding the patient’s treatment plan. We expected lower expectation scores and less involvement in the health care process for African Americans than for Caucasians. We predicted that higher expectation scores would be associated with lower levels of patient satisfaction with their physician. We also predicted that a greater desire for involvement and a more collaborative health care situation would be correlated with greater diabetes knowledge and better self-care behaviors. Results indicate few race differences in the patient-physician relationship. Patient expectation was not significantly associated with patient satisfaction but the discrepancy between expectations and actual receipt was associated with satisfaction. There were trends indicating that patient desire for involvement and collaborative care were associated with better self-care behaviors. Only one aspect of desire for involvement was related to diabetes knowledge. Although few race differences in the patient-physician relationship appeared, aspects of that relationship were associated with patient satisfaction and diabetes management and those relations may vary by race.
E+ E- -> Tau+ Tau- at the Threshold and Beyond
Creators: name: Smith, Brian H.
name: Voloshin, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation curve for the $τ^+ \, τ^-$ production in electron positron annihilation near the threshold is revisited with the aim of updating and extending a previous work. We find that the corrections of the relative magnitude $O(α)$ near the threshold are significantly contributed by the radiative modification of the Coulomb interaction between the $τ$ leptons. The interpolation between the Coulomb effects at the threshold and the relativistic effects at higher energies is considered and the resulting formula is argued to have relative accuracy up to, but not including, terms of the order of $α^2$ at any velocity of the $τ$ leptons.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure (LaTeX, figure appended in PostScript), UMN-TH-1232/93, TPI-MINN-93/61-T
Varieties of Signature Tensors
Creators: name: Améndola, Carlos
name: Friz, Peter
name: Sturmfels, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14Q15, 60H99

description: The signature of a parametric curve is a sequence of tensors whose entries are iterated integrals. This construction is central to the theory of rough paths in stochastic analysis. It is here examined through the lens of algebraic geometry. We introduce varieties of signature tensors for both deterministic paths and random paths. For the former, we focus on piecewise linear paths, on polynomial paths, and on varieties derived from free nilpotent Lie groups. For the latter, we focus on Brownian motion and its mixtures.
description: 52 pages, 1 figure, 6 tables; to appear in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma