cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arthurian Literature
Creators: name: Curdy, A. E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: French literature
subject: Arthurian romances
subject: Romance literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans

description: From the beginnings of Arthurian romance there has apparently been no subsidence of interest in the stories, both principal and secondary, which are connected with the name and exploits of the main character and the satellites swinging around him as a center. The production has not always been constant, nor do we find in each century reproductions of the tales and versions of the preceding century. This may be indicative of the real situation, or it may be due to the fact that all the copies of a certain version have been lost, or, if extant, still lie undiscovered in some hidden recess. The whole corpus of the literature belonging to the Arthurian cycle, and to the still more extensive one, the Celtic or Breton, must have been enormous. What relation the entire number of versions we now possess bears to the whole production will never be known. We have knowledge of certain versions which have been lost, and, in some cases, also of the names of the authors. It is the purpose of this article to determine, as well as can be done with the material available, the condition and progress of the literature and its geographical distribution, to show its chronological development, and to present the names and titles belonging to each century. Only literature, as such, will be considered, and no account will be taken here of the progress of critical literature: studies, editions, and similar productions.
Comparison of tablet-based strategies for incision planning in laser microsurgery
Creators: name: Schoob, Andreas
name: Lekon, Stefan
name: Kundrat, Dennis
name: Kahrs, Lüder Alexander
name: Mattos, Leonardo S.
name: Ortmaier, Tobias
Publisher: name: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Laser surgery
subject: Performance assessment
subject: Surgeon interface
subject: Usability
subject: Drawing (graphics)
subject: End effectors
subject: Medical imaging
subject: Micromanipulators
subject: Motion planning
subject: Remote control
subject: Robotics
subject: Stereo image processing
subject: Surgery
subject: Accurate planning
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Completion time
subject: Hand eye coordination
subject: Recent researches
subject: State of the art
subject: Robot programming
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Recent research has revealed that incision planning in laser surgery deploying stylus and tablet outperforms stateof-the-art micro-manipulator-based laser control. Providing more detailed quantitation regarding that approach, a comparative study of six tablet-based strategies for laser path planning is presented. Reference strategy is defined by monoscopic visualization and continuous path drawing on a graphics tablet. Further concepts deploying stereoscopic or a synthesized laser view, point-based path definition, real-time teleoperation or a pen display are compared with the reference scenario. Volunteers were asked to redraw and ablate stamped lines on a sample. Performance is assessed by measuring planning accuracy, completion time and ease of use. Results demonstrate that significant differences exist between proposed concepts. The reference strategy provides more accurate incision planning than the stereo or laser view scenario. Real-time teleoperation performs best with respect to completion time without indicating any significant deviation in accuracy and usability. Point-based planning as well as the pen display provide most accurate planning and increased ease of use compared to the reference strategy. As a result, combining the pen display approach with point-based planning has potential to become a powerful strategy because of benefiting from improved hand-eye-coordination on the one hand and from a simple but accurate technique for path definition on the other hand. These findings as well as the overall usability scale indicating high acceptance and consistence of proposed strategies motivate further advanced tablet-based planning in laser microsurgery. © 2015 SPIE.
On the rank of the fibres of rational elliptic surfaces
Creators: name: Salgado, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J27, 11G05, 14D99

description: We consider an elliptic surface $π: \mathcal{E}\rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ defined over a number field $k$ and study the problem of comparing the rank of the special fibres over $k$ with that of the generic fibre over $k(\mathbb{P}^1)$. We prove, for a large class of rational elliptic surfaces, the existence of infinitely many fibres with rank at least equal to the generic rank plus two.
description: 22 pages
title: The Impact of Dysphagia and Gastrostomy on Quality of Life in Caregivers of Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Creators: name: Goggin, Emily
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: There is little research studying the relationship between caregiver quality of life and gastrostomy, a palliative intervention recommended to manage dysphagia and malnutrition in patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). To facilitate a more comprehensive assessment of treatment effectiveness and to better guide patients and their families, this study investigated the relationship between gastrostomy, caregiver strain, and patient disease-related factors. Patients with bulbar-onset ALS and their caregivers were recruited regardless of their decision to accept or decline future gastrostomy. Caregivers completed the Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI) to assess levels of caregiver strain as an index of quality of life. Surveys were completed at 3-month intervals prior to gastrostomy and at a single time point following gastrostomy. Of 13 patient-caregiver dyads recruited, 1 dyad completed both phases of the study as of yet. This caregiver reported increased caregiver strain following gastrostomy. Medical interventions aimed at managing dysphagia, such as gastrostomy, may not have a predictable impact on caregiver strain, as indexed by the MCSI, or changes in caregiver strain may reflect characterological differences among patient-caregiver dyads. Other psychosocial factors within a given patient-caregiver dyad may be stronger predictors of caregiver strain, burden, and quality of life in caregivers.
description: Copyright © Emily Clare Sither Goggin 2019
A new investigation of oxygen flow influence on ITO thin films by magnetron sputtering
Creators: name: Chen, Aqing
name: Zhu, Kaigui
name: Zhong, Huicai
name: Sha, Qingyi
name: Ge, Guanglu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ITO thin films were deposited on glass substrates by d.c. magnetron sputtering with varied oxygen flow rates. It was found that the optical absorption decreases and optical absorption edge has blue shifts with the increasing oxygen flow rate. Oxygen vacancy concentration was characterized and analyzed by XPS. It is shown that the oxygen vacancy concentration increases with oxygen flow rates, which is a different observation from the current understanding. The energy band structures associated with different vacancy concentrations of ITO were calculated using the first-principle based on density functional theory. The calculation results show that the increase of oxygen vacancies induces the increase of bands below Fermi level as well as the presence of a second band gap, which accounts for effects of the oxygen vacancies on the blue shifts.
The Opening Diablerie of the Unpublished Mystere de Saint Martin, by Andrieu de la Vigne
Creators: name: Carnahan, David H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: French literature
subject: Mystery in literature
subject: Poetry
subject: Romance literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans

description: The fact that great pleasure experienced by of the writers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in evolving strange poetic combinations, appears clearly in even a cursory reading of the lyric collections of the period. Complicated and bizarre as some of these collections seem, none have surpassed in intricacy the peculiar inventions of Andrieu de la Vigne. The words of M. Anatole de Montaiglon, in his introduction to the poet's Complaintes et Epitaphes du Roy de la Basoche, may be well quoted in this connection.
Zinc Oxide - From Dilute Magnetic Doping to Spin Transport
Creators: name: Opel, Matthias
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Althammer, Matthias
name: Nielsen, Karl-Wilhelm
name: Karrer-Müller, Eva-Maria
name: Bauer, Sebastian
name: Senn, Konrad
name: Schwark, Christoph
name: Weier, Christian
name: Güntherodt, Gernot
name: Beschoten, Bernd
name: Gross, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the past years there has been renewed interest in the wide-bandgap II-VI semiconductor ZnO, triggered by promising prospects for spintronic applications. First, ferromagnetism was predicted for dilute magnetic doping. In comprehensive investigation of ZnO:Co thin films based on the combined measurement of macroscopic and microscopic properties, we find no evidence for carrier-mediated itinerant ferromagnetism. Phase-pure, crystallographically excellent ZnO:Co is uniformly paramagnetic. Superparamagnetism arises when phase separation or defect formation occurs, due to nanometer-sized metallic precipitates. Other compounds like ZnO:(Li,Ni) and ZnO:Cu do not exhibit indication of ferromagnetism. Second, its small spin-orbit coupling and correspondingly large spin coherence length makes ZnO suitable for transporting or manipulating spins in spintronic devices. From optical pump/optical probe experiments, we find a spin dephasing time of the order of 15 ns at low temperatures which we attribute to electrons bound to Al donors. In all-electrical magnetotransport measurements, we successfully create and detect a spin-polarized ensemble of electrons and transport this spin information across several nanometers. We derive a spin lifetime of 2.6 ns for these itinerant spins at low temperatures, corresponding well to results from an electrical pump/optical probe experiment.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 99 references
Herrn Carl Denina, Profess. emer. der Beredsamkeit und der griechischen Sprache auf der königlichen Universität zu Turin, jetzigen Mitglieds der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Bibliopoeie, oder: Anweisung für Schriftsteller; 1783
Creators: name: Denina, Carlo
name: Ulrich, Johann August Heinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Berlin und Stralsund, bey Gottlieb August Lange 1783. - In Fraktur
Twin paradox with macroscopic clocks in superconducting circuits
Creators: name: Lindkvist, Joel
name: Sabín, Carlos
name: Fuentes, Ivette
name: Dragan, Andrzej
name: Svensson, Ida-Maria
name: Delsing, Per
name: Johansson, Göran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an implementation of a twin paradox scenario in superconducting circuits, with velocities as large as a few percent of the speed of light. Ultrafast modulation of the boundary conditions for the electromagnetic field in a microwave cavity simulates a clock moving at relativistic speeds. Since our cavity has a finite length, the setup allows us to investigate the role of clock size as well as interesting quantum effects on time dilation. In particular, our theoretical results show that the time dilation increases for larger cavity lengths and is shifted due to quantum particle creation.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. I. F. previously published as I. Fuentes-Guridi and I. Fuentes-Schuller
On a bilateral birth-death process with alternating rates
Creators: name: Di Crescenzo, Antonio
name: Iuliano, Antonella
name: Martinucci, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80

description: We consider a bilateral birth-death process characterized by a constant transition rate $λ$ from even states and a possibly different transition rate $μ$ from odd states. We determine the probability generating functions of the even and odd states, the transition probabilities, mean and variance of the process for arbitrary initial state. Some features of the birth-death process confined to the non-negative integers by a reflecting boundary in the zero-state are also analyzed. In particular, making use of a Laplace transform approach we obtain a series form of the transition probability from state 1 to the zero-state.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Individual project on theme "Malus Mill." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Gunina Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Гуниной Юлии по теме " Malus Mill." в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
title: „Anständige“ Täter – „asoziale“ Opfer
title: Der Wiesbadener Juristenprozess 1951/52 und die Aufarbeitung des Mords an Strafgefangenen im Nationalsozialismus
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wiedemann, Felix
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Himmler
subject: Thierack
subject: justice
subject: crimes
subject: asocial
subject: war crimes trials
subject: past errors
subject: criminal
subject: decency
subject: moral
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::940 Geschichte Europas::943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Die Ermordung tausender „asozialer“ Justizgefangener zwischen 1942 und 1944 gehört zu den weniger bekannten NS-Verbrechen. Dabei war das Geschehen bereits in der Nachkriegszeit Gegenstand umfangreicher Ermittlungen, die 1951 im Wiesbadener Juristenprozess gegen führende Ministerialbeamte des ehemaligen Reichsjustizministeriums mündeten. Als unmittelbares Nachfolgeverfahren des Nürnberger Juristenprozesses markiert der mit Freisprüchen endende Wiesbadener Prozess den Übergang von der Besatzungsjustiz zur Justiz der frühen Bundesrepublik. Darüber hinaus reflektiert das Verfahren die spezifischen justiz- und vergangenheitspolitischen Entscheidungen, gesellschaftlichen Narrative und Moralvorstellungen der frühen 1950er Jahre.
Terracher, A. L., La Chevalerie Vivien (Book Review)
Creators: name: Weeks, Raymond
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Errata
subject: French poetry
subject: Romance literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans

description: The Chevalerie Vivien has waited many years for an adequate edition. Jonckbloet published the poem in his, at the time, valuable work: Guillaume d’Orange, La Haye, 1854, and included a relation of its events in his Guillaume d’Orange, Chanson de Geste XIIe Siècle, Amsterdam, 1867. His edition was unfortunate in being a composite based on two manuscripts not of the best. One result of the Jonckbloet edition was that the poem was not esteemed at its true value. This condition of affairs will be remedied by the excellent edition of Mr. Terracher.
The Cosmological Constant Constrained with Union2.1 Supernovae Type Ia Data. Derivation and evaluation of several FRW and Carmeli models presenting underwhelming support for the standard model
Creators: name: Öztaş, Ahmet M.
name: Smith, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive several, detailed relationships in terms of the Friedmann, Robertson, Walker (FRW) generalization which describe the Universe during both the radiation and matter dominated epochs. We explicitly provide for the influence of radiation, rather than burying this term within the matter term. Several models allow the cosmological constant (CC) to vary with universe expansion in differing manners. We evaluate these and other popular models including the $Λ$CDM({standard model}), quintessence as presented by Vishwakarma, Equation of State (EoS) and the Carmeli model with data from the 580 Union2.1 supernovae type Ia collection, using several minimization routines and find models built about the CC, the $Λ$CDM models, fare no better than those without.
description: 32 pages, 2 Figures Submitted to International Journal of Theoretical Physics
Mungotictis Pocock 1915
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Mungotictis

description: Mungotictis Pocock, 1915. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 16: 120. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005020000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 275, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
title: PNRA: the South-Pole directory: User's manual
Creators: name: Biagioni, Stefania
name: Carlesi, Carlo
name: Romano, Giuseppe
name: Rossi, Lucio
name: Vannozzi, Daniele
Publisher: name: GreyNet International, Grey Literature Network Service
Year: 1992

description: In 1989, a working group was constituted at the "Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione" of the Italian National Research Council (IEI-CNR), within the framework of the National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), with the scope of providing ENEA with consulting services and technical support in information processing. The primary objective was to design and implement an integrated information system which would be based on the Antarctic Data Bank. Antarctic Data concerns research in Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Physics of the Atmosphere, Cosmophysics, Biology and Environmental studies and Medical Sciences. The South-Pole Directory is the first multidisciplinary Antarctic directory which is accessible on-line on international network, via ASTRA system and via ESA-PID system. The implementation of the Directory has required more than 1 year with several readjustments to the original objective; at present, the Directory provides the user with a description of the research and the available data as well as the procedures to obtain data. Data can also be requested directly from the individual research-groups.
Unbiased non-orthogonal bases for tomographic reconstruction
Creators: name: Sainz, Isabel
name: Roa, Luis
name: Klimov, Andrei B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a general method for constructing a set of non-orthogonal bases with equal separations between all different basis' states in prime dimensions.It results that the corresponding bi-orthogonal counterparts are pairwise unbiased with the components of the original bases. Using these bases we derive an explicit expression for the optimal tomography in non-orthogonal bases. Special two dimensional case is analyzed separately.
Mungotictis decemlineata
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Mungotictis
Mungotictis decemlineata

description: Mungotictis decemlineata (A. Grandidier, 1867). Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 19:85. TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, W. coast. DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar. COMMENT: Includes lineata and substriatus; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:35. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005020001001 as M. decemlineata. 5301412005020002001 as M. substriatus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 275, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Paracynictis Pocock 1916
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Paracynictis

description: Paracynictis Pocock, 1916. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 17, 8:177. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005031000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Balcony of Europe 07
Creators: name: Higgins, Aidan, 1927-2015
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: English literature--Irish authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/912074
subject: Authorship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822442
subject: English literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/911989
subject: Literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/999953
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Authors, Irish
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822116
subject: Fiction
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/923709

description: Notebook with notes on characters, parts of scenes, recasts, descriptions of place for Higgin's novel "Balcony of Europe". Opening:"I am struck by the high value for a man or a simple permanent fact like...".
Mantua = Madrid
Creators: name: Buchanan, Milton A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Spanish literature
subject: Spanish poetry
subject: Language acquisition
subject: Romance literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans

description: This article is about the meaning of the word 'Mantua' an its historical importance in Juan Nicasio Gallego's ode, El dos de Mayo.
Quantum spread spectrum multiple access
Creators: name: Garcia-Escartin, Juan Carlos
name: Chamorro-Posada, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a quantum multiple access scheme that can take separate single photon channels and combine them in the same path. We propose an add-drop multiplexer that can insert or extract a single photon into an optical fibre carrying the qubits of all the other users. The system follows the principle of code division multiple access, a spread spectrum technique widely used in cellular networks.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. 3 tables. Revised version (v2) with simulation results. Comments welcome
Paracynictis selousi
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Paracynictis
Paracynictis selousi

description: Paracynictis selousi (De Winton, 1896). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 18, 6:469. TYPE LOCALITY: Zimbabwe, near Bulawayo, Essex Vale. DISTRIBUTION: Southern Africa. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005031001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
title: Posttraumatic Stress and Risky Sex in Trauma-Exposed College Students
title: The Role of Personality Dispositions Toward Impulsive Behavior
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Flores, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been linked to heightened engagement in risky sexual behavior (RSB) across diverse samples, and impulsivity has been postulated as a potential linkage (Weiss et al., 2012). Limited information has been published on the role that impulsivity can play in strengthening the relationship between PTSD and RSB in college students. The current study examined the moderating role of impulsivity dispositions: negative/positive urgency, (lack of) perseverance, sensation seeking, and (lack of) premeditation on the association between PTSD symptoms and past-year RSB among a sample of 221 undergraduate students (77.4% female) with at least one DSM-5 defined traumatic event. Negative binomial regression models were conducted to explore each impulsivity disposition’s moderating effect on the relationship between PTSD symptoms and RSB. PTSD symptoms and positive urgency, (lack of) perseverance, and sensation seeking were independently associated with RSB. Significant interactions were found between negative urgency and PTSD symptoms, and (lack of) premeditation and PTSD symptoms, such that PTSD symptoms were more strongly linked to RSB among individuals high in these impulsivity dispositions. The present study expands on the limited literature on the role specific impulsivity dispositions can have in the relationship between PTSD and RSB in trauma-exposed college students.
description: Copyright © Jessica Flores 2019
Lessons from Epidemiologic Research about Risk Factors, Modifiers, and Progression of Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease in New York City at Columbia University Medical Center
Creators: name: Devanand, Devangere P.
name: Lee, Joseph H.
name: Luchsinger, Jose A.
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Marder, Karen
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Schupf, Nicole
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cognition
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Cooking, Mediterranean
subject: Mild cognitive impairment
subject: Dementia
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Prevention
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gerontology
subject: Epidemiology

description: This review summarizes the findings and importance of 12 articles from research at Columbia University in New York City that were among the most cited in the literature between 2006 and 2011. The 12 articles summarized in this review made important contributions to the field of Alzheimer's disease in the last 5 years. Four of the articles established the Mediterranean diet as a food consumption pattern that may prevent Alzheimer's disease in addition to physical activity. Two of the articles advanced our knowledge of predictors of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia. Four of the articles provided important knowledge of risk factors for the progression of Alzheimer's disease and its complications. Lastly, one of the articles laid the theoretical framework for the study of cognitive reserve, an important modifier of the manifestation of Alzheimer's disease. These studies have advanced our knowledge about risk factors, modifiers, and progression of late onset Alzheimer's disease.
Thermal Generation of Spin Current in a Quantum Dot Coupled to Magnetic Insulators
Creators: name: Siuda, Emil
name: Trocha, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study thermally-generated spin current in the system consisting of a quantum dot connected to two magnetic insulators. The external leads are kept at different temperatures which leads to an imbalance of magnon populations in two magnetic insulators resulting in the flow of the magnon (spin) current. We take into account many-body magnon interactions and incorporate energy-dependent density of states of the magnetic insulators. Both features can strongly affect magnon distribution in the magnetic insulators and the coupling strengths between the leads and the dot, and thus, the thermally generated spin current. All the calculations are carried out in the weak coupling regime. We show, that results obtained with a density of states being a function of energy differ significantly from the ones obtained with a density of states taken as a constant. In turn, magnon interactions in the leads proved to be important at high temperatures and large values of energy of transported spin waves.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, published in the Journal of Magnetic Materials with open access
A Novel Methodology to Estimate Metabolic Flux Distributions in Constraint-Based Models
Creators: name: Massucci, Francesco Alessandro
name: Font-Clos, Francesc
name: De Martino, Andrea
name: Castillo, Isaac Pérez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quite generally, constraint-based metabolic flux analysis describes the space of viable flux configurations for a metabolic network as a high-dimensional polytope defined by the linear constraints that enforce the balancing of production and consumption fluxes for each chemical species in the system. In some cases, the complexity of the solution space can be reduced by performing an additional optimization, while in other cases, knowing the range of variability of fluxes over the polytope provides a sufficient characterization of the allowed configurations. There are cases, however, in which the thorough information encoded in the individual distributions of viable fluxes over the polytope is required. Obtaining such distributions is known to be a highly challenging computational task when the dimensionality of the polytope is sufficiently large, and the problem of developing cost-effective {\it ad hoc} algorithms has recently seen a major surge of interest. Here, we propose a method that allows us to perform the required computation heuristically in a time scaling {\it linearly} with the number of reactions in the network, overcoming some limitations of similar techniques employed in recent years. As a case study, we apply it to the analysis of the human red blood cell metabolic network, whose solution space can be sampled by different exact techniques, like Hit-and-Run Monte Carlo (scaling roughly like the third power of the system size). Remarkably accurate estimates for the true distributions of viable reaction fluxes are obtained, suggesting that, although further improvements are desirable, our method enhances our ability to analyze the space of allowed configurations for large biochemical reaction networks.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
GoFFish: A Sub-Graph Centric Framework for Large-Scale Graph Analytics
Creators: name: Simmhan, Yogesh
name: Kumbhare, Alok
name: Wickramaarachchi, Charith
name: Nagarkar, Soonil
name: Ravi, Santosh
name: Raghavendra, Cauligi
name: Prasanna, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large scale graph processing is a major research area for Big Data exploration. Vertex centric programming models like Pregel are gaining traction due to their simple abstraction that allows for scalable execution on distributed systems naturally. However, there are limitations to this approach which cause vertex centric algorithms to under-perform due to poor compute to communication overhead ratio and slow convergence of iterative superstep. In this paper we introduce GoFFish a scalable sub-graph centric framework co-designed with a distributed persistent graph storage for large scale graph analytics on commodity clusters. We introduce a sub-graph centric programming abstraction that combines the scalability of a vertex centric approach with the flexibility of shared memory sub-graph computation. We map Connected Components, SSSP and PageRank algorithms to this model to illustrate its flexibility. Further, we empirically analyze GoFFish using several real world graphs and demonstrate its significant performance improvement, orders of magnitude in some cases, compared to Apache Giraph, the leading open source vertex centric implementation.
description: Under review by a conference, 2014
Rhynchogale Thomas 1894
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Rhynchogale

description: Rhynchogale Thomas, 1894. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1894:139. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005032000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Geotrypetes seraphini subsp. occidentalis Parker 1936
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Gymnophiona
Caeciliidae
Geotrypetes
Geotrypetes seraphini
Geotrypetes seraphini occidentalis parker, 1936

description: Geotrypetes seraphini occidentalis Parker, 1936
Parker, 1936. Zool. Meded. Leiden, 19: 99.
Syntypes: RMNH 6527, 1 Ψ. Loc.: “Grand Cape Mount, Liberia ”. Leg.: A.F. Demery.
RMNH 6528, 2 ɗɗ, 1 Ψ. Loc.: Liberia. Leg.: J. Demery.
 Remarks. RMNH 6527 was identified as a specimen of Schistometopum gregorii (Boulenger, 1895) by E. Taylor. According to Taylor (1968: 725) syntypes are in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (MNHNP 20.188-189) and the Natural History Museum in London (BM 1930.11.19.50, 1935.9.2.67 [ex RMNH], BM 1935.9.2.68 [ex RMNH], 1934.6.6.8, 1907, 10.25.10, 1917.4.13.33-35 and 1927.9.27.164).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
Whole-genome association studies on alcoholism comparing different phenotypes using single-nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites
Creators: name: Chen, Liang
name: Liu, Nianjun
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Oh, Cheongeun
name: Carriero, Nicholas
name: Zhao, Hongyu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Microsatellites (Genetics)
subject: Alcoholism--Genetic aspects
subject: Genetic polymorphisms
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biometry
subject: Medicine

description: Alcoholism is a complex disease. As with other common diseases, genetic variants underlying alcoholism have been illusive, possibly due to the small effect from each individual susceptible variant, gene × environment and gene × gene interactions and complications in phenotype definition. We conducted association tests, the family-based association tests (FBAT) and the backward haplotype transmission association (BHTA), on the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) data provided by Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) 14. Efron's local false discovery rate method was applied to control the proportion of false discoveries. For FBAT, we compared the results based on different types of genetic markers (single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) versus microsatellites) and different phenotype definitions (clinical diagnoses versus electrophysiological phenotypes). Significant association results were found only between SNPs and clinical diagnoses. In contrast, significant results were found only between microsatellites and electrophysiological phenotypes. In addition, we obtained the association results for SNPs and microsatellites using COGA diagnosis as phenotype based on BHTA. In this case, the results for SNPs and microsatellites are more consistent. Compared to FBAT, more significant markers are detected with BHTA.
Itô's theorem and metabelian Leibniz algebras
Creators: name: Agore, A. L.
name: Militaru, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the celebrated Itô's theorem for groups remains valid at the level of Leibniz algebras: if $\mathfrak{g}$ is a Leibniz algebra such that $\mathfrak{g} = A + B$, for two abelian subalgebras $A$ and $B$, then $\mathfrak{g}$ is metabelian, i.e. $[ \, [\mathfrak{g}, \, \mathfrak{g}], \, [ \mathfrak{g}, \, \mathfrak{g} ] \, ] = 0$. A structure type theorem for metabelian Leibniz/Lie algebras is proved. All metabelian Leibniz algebras having the derived algebra of dimension $1$ are described, classified and their automorphisms groups are explicitly determined as subgroups of a semidirect product of groups $P^* \ltimes \bigl(k^* \times {\rm Aut}_{k} (P) \bigl)$ associated to any vector space $P$.
description: Final version; to appear in Linear Multilinear Algebra
Sources of Disability in Tourette Syndrome: Children vs. Adults
Creators: name: Kompoliti, Katie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quality of life--Measurement
subject: Tourette syndrome in children
subject: People with disabilities
subject: Tourette syndrome
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics and neuropsychiatric co-morbidities like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), among others. In many instances tics get better with age but this is not always true regarding the psychiatric co-morbidities.

Methods: This manuscript reviews the disease-specific Quality of Life (QOL) instruments used to measure disability in TS and the existing literature on sources of functional impairment in children and adults with TS.

Results: Traditionally, disability in TS has been recorded using objective measures. In recent years there has been a development of disease-specific instruments to measure subjectively the impact of the different aspects of TS on the patient's daily function. The differential impact of tics vs. the psychiatric co-morbidities in children with TS is an issue of debate in the existing literature. In adults with TS, the literature is scant, therefore the sources of disability in this group are even less defined compared to children.

Discussion: As clinicians, we need to focus on determining the sources of disability in children and adults with TS so we can target our interventions successfully.
Quasinormal modes of a two-dimensional black hole
Creators: name: Estrada-Jimenez, S.
name: Gomez-Diaz, J. R.
name: Lopez-Ortega, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a two-dimensional black hole we determine the quasinormal frequencies of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac fields. In contrast to the well known examples whose spectrum of quasinormal frequencies is discrete, for this black hole we find a continuous spectrum of quasinormal frequencies, but there are unstable quasinormal modes. In the framework of the Hod and Maggiore proposals we also discuss the consequences of these results on the form of the entropy spectrum for the two-dimensional black hole.
description: 9 pages. Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
Rhynchogale melleri
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Rhynchogale
Rhynchogale melleri

description: Rhynchogale melleri (Gray, 1865). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864:575. TYPE LOCALITY: Malawi, Zomba. DISTRIBUTION: S. Zaire; Tanzania; Malawi; C. and N. Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe, N. South Africa. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005032001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Cognitive Declines Precede and Predict Functional Declines in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Zahodne, Laura B.
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Mackay-Brandt, Anna
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mild cognitive impairment
subject: Dementia
subject: Cognition
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Neuropsychology
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aging
subject: Gerontology

description: Objective: To investigate the temporal ordering of cognitive and functional declines separately in older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Design and Setting: A community-based longitudinal study of aging and dementia in Northern Manhattan (Washington Heights/Hamilton Heights Inwood Columbia Aging Project) and a multicenter, clinic-based longitudinal study of prevalent AD at Columbia University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris, France (the Predictors Study). Participants: 3,443 initially non-demented older adults (612 with eventual incident dementia) and 517 patients with AD. Main Outcome Measures: Cognitive measures included the modified Mini-Mental State Exam and composite scores of memory and language derived from a standardized neuropsychological battery. Function was measured with the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale, completed by the participant (in the sample of non-demented older adults) or an informant (in the sample of prevalent AD patients). Data were analyzed with autoregressive cross-lagged panel analysis. Results: Cognitive scores more consistently predicted subsequent functional abilities than vice versa in non-demented older adults, participants with eventual incident dementia, and patients with prevalent AD. Conclusions: Cognitive declines appear to precede and cause functional declines prior to and following dementia diagnosis. Standardized neuropsychological tests are valid predictors of later functional changes in both non-demented and demented older adults.
title: Vocal Function Exercises for Normal Voice
title: The Effects of Maximally Sustained Phonation
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Morton, Mariah Elaine
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Vocal Function Exercises (VFEs) is a well-known treatment program that consists of four exercises, in which the first and fourth tasks require maximally sustained phonation. However, the active ingredients responsible for treatment efficacy are still unknown. The primary purpose of this investigation was the explore the effects of maximally sustained phonation on the VFE outcome measure of maximum phonation time (MPT) in individuals between the ages of 18-40 with normal voice. Participants were randomized into three experimental groups that completed VFEs for six weeks. The baseline group sustained tasks one and four for as long as was achieved at the baseline session; The three-week group sustained the exercises for as long as possible the first three weeks, then to their three-week MPT average for the remaining three weeks of the program; The standard group maximally sustained phonation for all six weeks. Results indicated significant improvement in percent to MPT goal attainment in the standard group and three-week group. The baseline group did not result in significant change. Including maximally sustained phonation throughout the course of VFEs is essential to producing substantial improvements in voice production, in terms of percent to MPT goal.
description: Copyright © Mariah Elaine Morton 2019
Hyla (Litoria) arfakiana Peters & Doria 1878
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylidae
Hyla
Hyla arfakiana

description: Hyla (Litoria) arfakiana Peters & Doria, 1878
 Peters & Doria, 1878. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat., 13: 421; tab. VI, fig. 2. Current name: Litoria arfakiana (Peters & Doria, 1878)
Paralectotypes: RMNH 4241, 4 spec. Loc.: “Hatam” [Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: O. Beccari. Received: 1875.
 Remarks. The lectotype (MSNG 29723 A) was selected by Capocaccia (1957: 213) and is in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria in Genova. The paralectotypes are in the Natural History Museum in London (BM 82.10.3.3-5), the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB 9756, 3 spec.), the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria in Genova (MSNG 29723, 9 spec.) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels (ex RMNH).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
Impurity Effect on the Local Density of States around a Vortex in Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors
Creators: name: Higashi, Yoichi
name: Nagai, Yuki
name: Hayashi, Nobuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study the effect of non-magnetic impurities on the vortex bound states in noncentrosymmetric systems. The local density of states (LDOS) around a vortex is calculated by means of the quasiclassical Green's function method. We find that the zero energy peak of the LDOS splits off with increasing the impurity scattering rate.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; Proc. of SCES2013
Salanoia Gray 1865
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Salanoia

description: Salanoia Gray, 1865. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864:523. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005021000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Alcohol-responsive Action Myoclonus of the Leg in Prostate Cancer: A Novel Paraneoplastic Syndrome?
Creators: name: Termsarasab, Pichet
name: Frucht, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Prostate--Cancer
subject: Myoclonus
subject: Paraneoplastic syndromes
subject: Movement disorders
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Paraneoplastic movement disorders in prostate cancer are rare, and to our knowledge paraneoplastic myoclonus has not previously been reported.

Case Report: We report two men with adenocarcinoma of the prostate who developed isolated alcohol-responsive action myoclonus of one leg. Myoclonus was absent at rest but triggered by movement, standing, or walking. Evaluations excluded malignant invasion of the nervous system, and testing for commercial paraneoplastic antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were unrevealing. Both patients experienced significant improvement with alcohol, and sodium oxybate was used in one patient with good initial benefit.

Discussion: Alcohol-responsive leg myoclonus might be a novel paraneoplastic syndrome associated with prostate cancer. The nature of the syndrome and the source of the myoclonus are currently unknown.