cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Combination immunotherapy with ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with advanced adrenocortical carcinoma: a subgroup analysis of CA209-538
Creators: name: Klein, O
name: Senko, Clare
name: Carlino, MS
name: Markman, B
name: Jackett, L
name: Gao, B
name: Lum, C
name: Kee, D
name: Behren, Andreas
name: Palmer, J
name: Cebon, Jonathan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3204
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignancy, with poor prognosis and limited treatment options for patients with advanced disease. Chemotherapy is the current standard first-line treatment, providing only a modest survival benefit. There is only limited treatment experience with immunotherapy using single-agent anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. To date no clinical trials have been reported using combination immunotherapy with anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in this patient population. Methods: CA209-538 is a prospective multicentre clinical trial in patients with advanced rare cancers. Participants received the anti-PD-1 antibody nivolumab (3 mg/kg IV) and the anti-CTLA-4 antibody ipilimumab (1 mg/kg IV) every three weeks for four doses, followed by nivolumab (3 mg/kg IV) every two weeks and continued for up to 96 weeks, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Response was assessed every 12 weeks by RECIST version 1.1. Primary endpoint was clinical benefit rate (complete response, partial response, stable disease at 12 weeks). Results: Six patients with adrenocortical carcinoma were enrolled and received treatment. Two patients (33%) have an ongoing partial response (10 and 25 months +) and two patients (33%) stable disease leading to a disease control rate of 66%. Both responders had tumors with a microsatellite instable phenotype. One patient rapidly progressed shortly after enrollment into the trial and did not undergo restaging. Immunotherapy-related toxicity was reported in all patients, with four patients (67%) experiencing grade 3/4 hepatitis leading to discontinuation of treatment. Conclusions: This is the first treatment experience using ipilimumab and nivolumab combination immunotherapy in patients with advanced adrenocortical carcinoma. Durable responses have been observed in a subset of patients suggesting that this treatment regimen should be further investigated in this patient population.
Possible mechanism for high-Tc superconductivity
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Ingo
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Based on recent experiments and numerical simulations on the glass behaviour of the new high-T c superconductors, a microscopic mechanism is proposed. Disorder is found to play an important role. Pairing of holes and subsequent bose condensation on an antiferromagnetic background is proposed as a basic mechanism for high-T c superconductivity.
Bilgameš, Enkidu et le monde infernal (1.3.1)
Creators: name: Attinger, Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sumerian
Translation
Traduction

description: Traduction Bilgameš, Enkidu et le monde infernal (1.3.1) Pascal Attinger, 2008-2009, actualisé en 2019
Combination immunotherapy with ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with advanced adrenocortical carcinoma: a subgroup analysis of CA209-538
Creators: name: O Klein
name: C Senko
name: MS Carlino
name: B Markman
name: L Jackett
name: B Gao
name: C Lum
name: D Kee
name: Behren, Andreas
name: J Palmer
name: Cebon, Jonathan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignancy, with poor prognosis and limited treatment options for patients with advanced disease. Chemotherapy is the current standard first-line treatment, providing only a modest survival benefit. There is only limited treatment experience with immunotherapy using single-agent anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. To date no clinical trials have been reported using combination immunotherapy with anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in this patient population. Methods: CA209-538 is a prospective multicentre clinical trial in patients with advanced rare cancers. Participants received the anti-PD-1 antibody nivolumab (3 mg/kg IV) and the anti-CTLA-4 antibody ipilimumab (1 mg/kg IV) every three weeks for four doses, followed by nivolumab (3 mg/kg IV) every two weeks and continued for up to 96 weeks, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Response was assessed every 12 weeks by RECIST version 1.1. Primary endpoint was clinical benefit rate (complete response, partial response, stable disease at 12 weeks). Results: Six patients with adrenocortical carcinoma were enrolled and received treatment. Two patients (33%) have an ongoing partial response (10 and 25 months +) and two patients (33%) stable disease leading to a disease control rate of 66%. Both responders had tumors with a microsatellite instable phenotype. One patient rapidly progressed shortly after enrollment into the trial and did not undergo restaging. Immunotherapy-related toxicity was reported in all patients, with four patients (67%) experiencing grade 3/4 hepatitis leading to discontinuation of treatment. Conclusions: This is the first treatment experience using ipilimumab and nivolumab combination immunotherapy in patients with advanced adrenocortical carcinoma. Durable responses have been observed in a subset of patients suggesting that this treatment regimen should be further investigated in this patient population.
Internal magnetic fields in the high-Tc superconductors La1.8Sr0.2CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O7−δ from muon spin rotation experiments
Creators: name: Schneider, Johannes W.
name: Baumeler, H.
name: Keller, H.
name: Odermatt, W.
name: Patterson, B. D.
name: Müller, K.
name: Bednorz, J. G.
name: Blazey, K. W.
name: Morgenstern, Ingo
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Measurements of the internal magnetic field in the high-Tc superconductors La1.8Sr0.2CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O7−δ have been performed after zero-field cooling using the muon spin rotation (μSR) technique. Temperature-dependent changes are observed below Tc in both the magnitude of the internal field and the fraction of muons which experience this field.
The real radiation antenna function for $S \to Q {\bar Q} q {\bar q}$ at NNLO QCD
Creators: name: Bernreuther, Werner
name: Bogner, Christian
name: Dekkers, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a first step towards the application of the antenna subtraction formalism to NNLO QCD reactions with massive quarks, we determine the real radiation antenna function and its integrated counterpart for reactions of the type $S \to Q{\bar Q} q {\bar q}$, where $S$ denotes an uncolored initial state and $Q$, $q$ a massive and massless quark, respectively. We compute the corresponding integrated antenna function in terms of harmonic polylogarithms. As an application and check of our results we calculate the contribution proportional to $α_s^2 e^2_Q N_f$ to the inclusive heavy-quark pair production cross ection in $e^+e^-$ annihilation.
description: Latex, 32 pages
Enabling the Assimilation of CrIS Shortwave Infrared Observations in Global NWP at NOAA. Part II: OSEs and Results
Creators: name: Jones, Erin
name: Garrett, Kevin
name: Ide, Kayo
name: Karpowicz, Bryan M.
name: Barnet, Christopher
name: Ma, Yingtao
name: Boukabara, Sid
Publisher: name: AMS
Year: 2024

description: The assimilation of data from hyperspectral infrared sounders in global data assimilation systems has historically been focused on observations in the longwave infrared (LWIR) region of the spectrum (650-1100 cm⁻¹), despite the often concurrent availability of measurements from the shortwave infrared (SWIR) region of the spectrum (2150-2550 cm⁻¹), because issues (like solar effects) have generally prevented the assimilation of SWIR observations. Recent advances in radiative transfer models have worked to address some of the previous challenges in simulating SWIR observations, and the assimilation of SWIR data (e.g. from potential future small-satellites) is now a feasible prospect. Still, a better understanding of how these observations perform in a data assimilation system and impact resulting analyses and NWP forecasts is necessary. In this study, the value of SWIR observations in global NWP is assessed by assimilating SWIR observations from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) in NOAA’s Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS). The methodologies used to enable the assimilation of these observations, including the implementation of a scene-dependent observation error and the enhancement of quality control procedures, are discussed, as are the results of Observing System Experiments (OSEs) conducted to evaluate the impact of assimilating SWIR observations on forecast skill. The overall results show that SWIR assimilation produces similar forecast impacts to LWIR assimilation. The ability to demonstrate that the assimilation or SWIR observations in NWP is a realistic prospect may help to shape future constellations of small-satellites to serve as a beneficial complement to the current constellation if hyperspectral IR sounders.
Simulated Annealing for “spin-glass-like” optimization problems
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Ingo
name: Würtz, D.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: A general recipe for the use of ldquoSimulated Annealingrdquo for ldquospin-glass-likerdquoNP-complete problems is provided. The classification principles of ldquospin-glass-likerdquo problems are discussed. This class of problems is conjectured to incorporate a large variety of complex problems from economics and biology to ldquoevery day liferdquo. We particularly stress the importance for optimization problems in physics. The application to the placement of chip-design is discussed from the point of view of spin-glass research.
Transformation from spirals into S0s with bulge growth in groups of galaxies
Creators: name: Bekki, Kenji
name: Couch, Warrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations have revealed that the time evolution of the S0 number fraction at intermediate and high redshifts (0.2
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Halo Occupation Distribution of Massive Galaxies since z = 1
Creators: name: Matsuoka, Y.
name: Masaki, S.
name: Kawara, K.
name: Sugiyama, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a clustering analysis of ~60,000 massive (stellar mass Mstar > 10^{11} Msun) galaxies out to z = 1 drawn from 55.2 deg2 of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II Supernova Survey. Strong clustering is detected for all the subsamples of massive galaxies characterized by different stellar masses (Mstar = 10^{11.0-11.5} Msun, 10^{11.5-12.0} Msun) or rest-frame colors (blue: U - V < 1.0, red: U - V > 1.0). We find that more mature (more massive or redder) galaxies are more clustered, which implies that more mature galaxies have started stellar-mass assembly earlier within the highly-biased region where the structure formation has also started earlier. By means of halo occupation distribution (HOD) models fitted to the observed angular correlation function, we infer the properties of the underlying host dark halos. We find that the estimated bias factors and host halo masses are systematically larger for galaxies with larger stellar masses, which is consistent with the general agreement that the capability of hosting massive galaxies depends strongly on halo mass. The estimated effective halo masses are ~10^{14} Msun, which gives the stellar-mass to halo-mass ratios of ~0.003. The observed evolution of bias factors indicates rapid evolution of spatial distributions of cold dark matter relative to those traced by the massive galaxies, while the transition of host halo masses might imply that the fractional mass growth rate of halos is less than those of stellar systems. The inferred halo masses and high fractions of central galaxies indicate that the massive galaxies in the current sample are possibly equivalent to central galaxies of galaxy clusters.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Diodes with Breakdown Voltages Enhanced by the Metal-Insulator Transition of LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces
Creators: name: Jany, R.
name: Breitschaft, M.
name: Hammerl, G.
name: Horsche, A.
name: Richter, C.
name: Paetel, S.
name: Mannhart, J.
name: Stucki, N.
name: Reyren, N.
name: Gariglio, S.
name: Zubko, P.
name: Caviglia, A. D.
name: Triscone, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the metal-insulator transition that takes place as a function of carrier density at the LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interface, oxide diodes have been fabricated with room-temperature breakdown voltages of up to 200 V. With applied voltage, the capacitance of the diodes changes by a factor of 150. The diodes are robust and operate at temperatures up to 270 C.
Theory and Phenomenology of mu in M theory
Creators: name: Acharya, Bobby Samir
name: Kane, Gordon
name: Kuflik, Eric
name: Lu, Ran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a solution to the mu-problem within M theory on a G2-manifold. Our study is based upon the discrete symmetry proposed by Witten that forbids the mu-term and solves the doublet-triplet splitting problem. We point out that the symmetry must be broken by moduli stabilization, describing in detail how this can occur. The mu-term is generated via Kahler interactions after strong dynamics in the hidden sector generate a potential which stabilizes all moduli and breaks supersymmetry with m_{3/2} ~ 20 - 30 TeV. We show that mu is suppressed relative to the gravitino mass, by higher dimensional operators, mu ~ 0.1 m_{3/2} ~ 2-3 TeV. This necessarily gives a Higgsino component to the (mostly Wino) LSP, and a small but non-negligible LSP-nucleon scattering cross-section. The maximum, spin-independent cross-sections are not within reach of the current XENON100 experiment, but are within reach of upcoming runs and upgrades.
description: 34 pages, 3 figures
Comment on "Isoelectronic Ru substitution at Fe-site in Sm(Fe$_{1-x}$Ru$_x$)AsO$_{0.85}$F$_{0.15}$ compound and its effects on structural, superconducting and normal state properties" (arXiv:1004.1978)
Creators: name: Kontani, Hiroshi
name: Sato, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the five-orbital model, we derive the reduced impurity scattering rate $g=zγ/2πT_{c0}$ in Sm(Fe$_{1-x}$Ru$_{x}$)AsO$_{0.85}$F$_{0.15}$ from the residual resistivity. At $x=0$, the transition temperature is $T_{c0}=50$ K. For $0.05T_{c}/T_{c0}>0.3$) the obtained value of $g$ ranges from 1.5 to 2.9, which suggests that the $s_\pm$-wave state cannot survive. We point out that the magnetoresistance frequently gives an underestimated value of $g$ in correlated electron systems.
description: 2 pages
Cumulative effects of multiple agricultural stressors on freshwater ecosystems
Creators: name: Chará-Serna, Ana M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Agriculture is the primary cause of sedimentation, nutrient enrichment, and insecticide contamination of freshwater ecosystems. Despite the widespread co-occurrence of these ecological stressors, little is known about their potential interactive effects. I conducted three experiments manipulating combinations of these stressors in order to evaluate their cumulative effects on freshwater ecosystems at different scales of biological organization (community, ecosystem, meta-ecosystem). First, I evaluated stream invertebrate community responses to sedimentation, nutrient enrichment, and the insecticide chlorpyrifos using laboratory microcosms with distinct microhabitats. I demonstrated that chlorpyrifos can interact non-additively with fine sediment (reversal) and nutrients (antagonism), with potentially deleterious impacts on small-sized invertebrates. Furthermore, invertebrates in gravel microhabitats were more severely affected than those in leaf packs. Second, I manipulated levels of nutrients, sediment, and the insecticide imidacloprid in experimental pond ecosystems. I demonstrated these stressors had antagonistic effects on pelagic and benthic invertebrate diversity. Moreover, the results suggested imidacloprid increased ecosystem metabolism indirectly, through negative effects on invertebrate consumers. Finally, I explored processes at the scale of the river network meta-ecosystem. Using a network of experimental channels, I investigated how multiple-stressor interactions within tributaries affected downstream ecosystems. My results indicated that complex nutrient-sediment interactions within tributaries could strongly alter the flux of organisms from tributaries to downstream ecosystems. Furthermore, I observed that at small spatial scales, these alterations of within-network migration patterns could be more influential than the transport of the stressors from headwaters to recipient ecosystems. My research contributes novel evidence suggesting that complex interactions among nutrient enrichment, sedimentation, and insecticide contamination are frequent in freshwater ecosystems, and have distinct mechanisms operating at different scales. In particular, these findings underscore the importance of considering multiple-stressor interactions in insecticide environmental risk assessments; even at low concentrations, interactions with other stressors may result in unexpected negative effects for aquatic biota and ecosystem processes.
Ratio Estimators in Simple Random Sampling when Study Variable is an Attribute
Creators: name: Singh, Rajesh
name: Kumar, Mukesh
name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F03

description: In this paper we have suggested a family of estimators for the population mean when study variable itself is qualitative in nature. Expressions for the bias and mean square error (MSE) of the suggested family have been obtained. An empirical study has been carried out to show the superiority of the constructed estimator over others.
description: 9 pages
Where the granular flows bend
Creators: name: Khomenko, E.
name: Pillet, V. Martinez
name: Solanki, S. K.
name: Iniesta, J. C. del Toro
name: Gandorfer, A.
name: Bonet, J. A.
name: Domingo, V.
name: Schmidt, W.
name: Barthol, P.
name: Knoelker, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on IMaX/Sunrise data, we report on a previously undetected phenomenon in solar granulation. We show that in a very narrow region separating granules and intergranular lanes the spectral line width of the Fe I 5250.2 A line becomes extremely small. We offer an explanation of this observation with the help of magneto-convection simulations. These regions with extremely small line widths correspond to the places where the granular flows bend from mainly upflow in granules to downflow in intergranular lanes. We show that the resolution and image stability achieved by IMaX/Sunrise are important requisites to detect this interesting phenomenon.
description: Accepted for the Sunrise Special Issue of ApJL
gWaveNet: Classification of Gravity Waves from Noisy Satellite Data using Custom Kernel Integrated Deep Learning Method
Creators: name: Mostafa, Seraj Al Mahmud
name: Faruque, Omar
name: Wang, Chenxi
name: Yue, Jia
name: Purushotham, Sanjay
name: Wang, Jianwu
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: UMBC Big Data Analytics Lab
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
UMBC M

description: 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2024, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024
description: Atmospheric gravity waves occur in the Earths atmosphere caused by an interplay between gravity and buoyancy forces. These waves have profound impacts on various aspects of the atmosphere, including the patterns of precipitation, cloud formation, ozone distribution, aerosols, and pollutant dispersion. Therefore, understanding gravity waves is essential to comprehend and monitor changes in a wide range of atmospheric behaviors. Limited studies have been conducted to identify gravity waves from satellite data using machine learning techniques. Particularly, without applying noise removal techniques, it remains an underexplored area of research. This study presents a novel kernel design aimed at identifying gravity waves within satellite images. The proposed kernel is seamlessly integrated into a deep convolutional neural network, denoted as gWaveNet. Our proposed model exhibits impressive proficiency in detecting images containing gravity waves from noisy satellite data without any feature engineering. The empirical results show our model outperforms related approaches by achieving over 98% training accuracy and over 94% test accuracy which is known to be the best result for gravity waves detection up to the time of this work. We open sourced our code at https://rb.gy/qn68ku.
Boosted Semileptonic Tops in Stop Decays
Creators: name: Plehn, Tilman
name: Spannowsky, Michael
name: Takeuchi, Michihisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Top partner searches are one of the key aspects of new physics analyses at the LHC. We correct an earlier statement that supersymmetric top searches based on decays to semileptonic tops are not promising. Reconstructing the direction of the boosted leptonic top quark and correlating it with the measured missing transverse energy vector allows us to reduce the top pair background to an easily manageable level. In addition, reconstructing the full momentum of the leptonic top quark determines the stop mass based on an M_{T2} endpoint.
description: 14pages, 4 figues
A new species of Slender Stonebasher within the Hippopotamyrus ansorgii complex from the Cunene River in southern Africa (Teleostei: Mormyriformes)
Creators: name: Kramer, Bernd
name: Swartz, Ernst R.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mormyridae; allopatric speciation; electric organ discharge; molecular genetics; vicariance
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Previous work has revealed that Hippopotamyrus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905) is a species complex, with specimens from the Upper Zambezi system (Caprivi Strip in Namibia) that are well differentiated from the Angolan type specimens. Here, we sampled the Cunene River, one of several possible type rivers for H. ansorgii, on the border between Namibia and Angola. The specimens are morphologically differentiated from the six other known morphs within the H. ansorgii species complex, including the types and H. szaboi. The electric organ discharge of the Cunene specimens has a different pulse waveform and associated amplitude spectra to that of the three Upper Zambezi system morphs of the species complex. The Cunene specimens are genetically distinct, but relatively closely related to other taxa of the H. ansorgii complex, such as the Upper Zambezi system morphs. We recognize the Lower Cunene morph as the new species, Hippopotamyrus longilateralis sp. nov.
Mitigating the effect of COVID-19 in a postemergency phase: The role of sense of community and individual resilience
Creators: name: Rizzo, Marco
name: Fedi, Angela
name: Brodsky, Anne
name: Rochira, Alessia
name: Zhao, Jenny
name: Mannarini, Terri
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024
Subjects: individual resilience
psychological well-being
sense of community
COVID-19

description: To identify and confirm patterns of relationships connecting sense of community (SOC) and individual resilience with psychological well-being, via the mediation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacts on life domains. An online survey was conducted with a sample of adults (n = 650) 1 year after the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy and the United States (April–December 2021). Utilizing a Structural Equation Model, we tested a mediation model (n = 563) to identify the associations between SOC and individual resilience and the perceived impacts of the emergency situation and psychological well-being. Results revealed that during the crisis, SOC had an influence on psychological well-being, but only by mediating the effects of COVID-19 impacts on life domains. Independently, individual resilience had a direct influence on psychological well-being. The findings support the importance of the interaction of individual and collective variables that played different roles at different phases of the pandemic. The findings suggest for possible interventions to enhance well-being during crises.
Divergences in QFT on the Noncommutative Minkowski Space with Grosse-Wulkenhaar potential
Creators: name: Zahn, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum field theory on the two-dimensional Noncommutative Minkoswki space with a Grosse-Wulkenhaar potential. We explicitly construct the retarded propagator and show that it is not a tempered distribution. This leads to problems when trying to define planar products of such distributions, as they appear in the Yang-Feldman series. At and above the self-dual point, these can no longer be defined, not even at different points. This shows that we do not deal with an ordinary ultraviolet divergence.
description: 8 pages, Contribution to the proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particles and Physics 2010
A life cycle assessment of the environmental impacts of small to medium sports events
Creators: name: Dolf, Mathew (Matt)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: In the face of climate change and environmental concerns, sport event organizers have incorporated measures to improve environmental sustainability into their event planning. In 1994, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added the environment as the third pillar of the Olympic Movement, alongside sport and culture, to signal its importance. However, event organizers don’t have a clear picture of the impacts of their events and are only beginning to use quantitative data as part of their planning process. The scientific literature and the event industry have recognized the need for theoretical and methodological work to better assess and understand the pattern of environmental impacts of events. The need is greatest for small to medium sized events. The goal of this research was to analyze the explanatory power and use-value of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to examine the environmental impacts and inform planning of small to medium events. Two case studies were conducted: the UBC Athletics & Recreation varsity 2011–2012 athletic season (UBC Athletics) held at the University of British Columbia over a one-year period, and the Special Olympics Canada 2014 Summer Games (SOC 2014) held over five days in Vancouver, British Columbia. LCA methodology was used to quantify and compare the environmental impacts in key organizational areas. The findings show that LCA has the potential to identify environmental impacts within small to medium sport events. They also show that impacts related to venues dominated across all environmental impact categories for UBC Athletics due to energy consumption and construction materials. Travel was the dominant contributor for SOC 2014 and was a major contributor for UBC Athletics – largely due to people travelling from out of town. The activities related to accommodation, materials, waste, communication and food were significantly smaller contributors to the overall environmental footprint. Sport organizers would benefit from applying LCA as a quantitative tool to rigorously identify areas of significant impact and target planning efforts accordingly, particularly for long distance travel and activities with significant energy use. Finally, I conclude that organizers need to be more aspirational in how they design events and leverage societal change to become environmentally sustainable.
The $\bar{B}_d \to \bar{K}^{*0} μ^+ μ^-$ decay
Creators: name: Egede, U.
name: Hurth, T.
name: Matias, J.
name: Ramon, M.
name: Reece, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the potential for the discovery of new physics in the exclusive decay $\bar{B}_d \to \bar{K}^{*0} μ^+ μ^-$ is discussed. Attention is paid to constructing observables which are protected from uncertainties in QCD form factors and at the same time observe the symmetries of the angular distribution. We discuss the sensitivity to new physics in the observables including the effect of CP-violating phases.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, Third Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics, Capri 2010
Analytic solution of a new axial-next-nearest-neighbor model
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Ingo
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: We introduce a new axial-next-nearest-neighbor model that can be solved analytically. The model shows spatially modulated phases in Monte Carlo calculations. As only one critical temperature is found and in agreement with transfer-matrix results the modulated phases are found to be metastable. According to the results of this model we expect nonequilibrium effects in experiments with longer observation times similar to those in spin-glasses.
Spider Optimization II: Optical, Magnetic and Foreground Effects
Creators: name: O'Dea, D. T.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Amiri, M.
name: Benton, S. J.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Bond, J. R.
name: Bonetti, J. A.
name: Bryan, S.
name: Burger, B.
name: Chiang, H. C.
name: Clark, C. N.
name: Contaldi, C. R.
name: Crill, B. P.
name: Davis, G.
name: Dore, O.
name: Farhang, M.
name: Filippini, J. P.
name: Fissel, L. M.
name: Fraisse, A. A.
name: Gandilo, N. N.
name: Golwala, S.
name: Gudmundsson, J. E.
name: Hasselfield, M.
name: Hilton, G.
name: Holmes, W.
name: Hristov, V. V.
name: Irwin, K.
name: Jones, W. C.
name: Kuo, C. L.
name: MacTavish, C. J.
name: Mason, P. V.
name: Montroy, T. E.
name: Morford, T. A.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Rahlin, A. S.
name: Reintsema, C.
name: Ruhl, J. E.
name: Runyan, M. C.
name: Schenker, M. A.
name: Shariff, J. A.
name: Soler, J. D.
name: Trangsrud, A.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Tucker, R. S.
name: Turner, A. D.
name: Wiebe, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spider is a balloon-borne instrument designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with degree-scale resolution over a large fraction of the sky. Spider's main goal is to measure the amplitude of primordial gravitational waves through their imprint on the polarization of the CMB if the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, is greater than 0.03. To achieve this goal, instrumental systematic errors must be controlled with unprecedented accuracy. Here, we build on previous work to use simulations of Spider observations to examine the impact of several systematic effects that have been characterized through testing and modeling of various instrument components. In particular, we investigate the impact of the non-ideal spectral response of the half-wave plates, coupling between focal plane components and the Earth's magnetic field, and beam mismatches and asymmetries. We also present a model of diffuse polarized foreground emission based on a three-dimensional model of the Galactic magnetic field and dust, and study the interaction of this foreground emission with our observation strategy and instrumental effects. We find that the expected level of foreground and systematic contamination is sufficiently low for Spider to achieve its science goals.
description: submitted to APJ, 15 pages, 12 figures
Internal magnetic fields in YBa2Cu3O7−δ from Muon spin rotation experiments: Discussion in terms of a glasslike superconducting state
Creators: name: Keller, H.-J.
name: Pümpin, B.
name: Kündig, W.
name: Odermatt, W.
name: Patterson, B. D.
name: Schneider, Johannes W.
name: Simmler, H.
name: Connell, S.
name: Müller, K. A.
name: Bednorz, J. G.
name: Blazey, K. W.
name: Morgenstern, Ingo
name: Rossel, C.
name: Savic, I. M.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Muon spin rotation (μSR) measurements of the internal magnetic fields in YBa2Cu3O7−δ are reported. Pronounced differences between field-cooled (FC) and zero-field-cooled (ZFC) μSR signals, hysteresis effects and flux trapping are observed. The μSR depolarization rate provides information regarding the local magnetic field distribution in the superconducting state. The present results show similarities to calculations that model a glasslike superconducting state.
SEpM 5: Lipit-Eštar-Nanna-ki'aĝ (3.2.4)
Creators: name: Attinger, Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: sumerian
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description: Traduction The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany 5: Lipit-Eštar-Nanna-ki'aĝ (3.2.4) Pascal Attinger, 2013, actualisé en 2019
Improving Genomic Prediction of Crossbred and Purebred Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Khansefid, Majid
name: Goddard, ME
name: Haile-Mariam, Mekonnen
name: Konstantinov, KV
name: Schrooten, C
name: de Jong, G
name: Jewell, EG
name: O’Connor, E
name: Pryce, Jennie
name: Daetwyler, Hans
name: MacLeod, Iona
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: © Copyright © 2020 Khansefid, Goddard, Haile-Mariam, Konstantinov, Schrooten, de Jong, Jewell, O’Connor, Pryce, Daetwyler and MacLeod. This study assessed the accuracy and bias of genomic prediction (GP) in purebred Holstein (H) and Jersey (J) as well as crossbred (H and J) validation cows using different reference sets and prediction strategies. The reference sets were made up of different combinations of 36,695 H and J purebreds and crossbreds. Additionally, the effect of using different sets of marker genotypes on GP was studied (conventional panel: 50k, custom panel enriched with, or close to, causal mutations: XT_50k, and conventional high-density with a limited custom set: pruned HDnGBS). We also compared the use of genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) and Bayesian (emBayesR) models, and the traits tested were milk, fat, and protein yields. On average, by including crossbred cows in the reference population, the prediction accuracies increased by 0.01–0.08 and were less biased (regression coefficient closer to 1 by 0.02–0.16), and the benefit was greater for crossbreds compared to purebreds. The accuracy of prediction increased by 0.02 using XT_50k compared to 50k genotypes without affecting the bias. Although using pruned HDnGBS instead of 50k also increased the prediction accuracy by about 0.02, it increased the bias for purebred predictions in emBayesR models. Generally, emBayesR outperformed GBLUP for prediction accuracy when using 50k or pruned HDnGBS genotypes, but the benefits diminished with XT_50k genotypes. Crossbred predictions derived from a joint pure H and J reference were similar in accuracy to crossbred predictions derived from the two separate purebred reference sets and combined proportional to breed composition. However, the latter approach was less biased by 0.13. Most interestingly, using an equalized breed reference instead of an H-dominated reference, on average, reduced the bias of prediction by 0.16–0.19 and increased the accuracy by 0.04 for crossbred and J cows, with a little change in the H accuracy. In conclusion, we observed improved genomic predictions for both crossbreds and purebreds by equalizing breed contributions in a mixed breed reference that included crossbred cows. Furthermore, we demonstrate, that compared to the conventional 50k or high-density panels, our customized set of 50k sequence markers improved or matched the prediction accuracy and reduced bias with both GBLUP and Bayesian models.
Waiting room time : an opportunity for caregiver oral health education
Creators: name: Soussou, Randa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The UBC Children’s Dental Program (CDP) has provided free basic dental treatment for high caries risk children, from marginalized populations, since the mid-1970s. Children are referred to the program by Health Authority Staff in metro Vancouver. Treatment is provided by senior dental students under the supervision of UBC Pediatric Dentistry instructors. However, the students have limited time to provide health education to the accompanying caregivers. Therefore, this project developed a ʺwaiting-room basedʺ dental health education program (DHEP) to engage the caregivers of participating children. Our main objectives were to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the DHEP and its short term effectiveness in changing parental dental health related behaviours. A situational analysis using structured interviews was performed with the caregivers and other stakeholders of the CDP: Health Authority Staff, UBC Pediatric Dentistry instructors and participating dental students. After the assessment of caregivers’ dental knowledge, dental behaviours, attitudes as well as preferences about a dental educational program, the DHEP was developed and implemented in the waiting rooms at UBC’s two children’s dental clinics. Follow-up phone calls with the caregivers assessed their short term self-reports of changes in dental health related behaviours. Comparisons before and after being exposed to our DHEP were made using Chi-square tests; significance was set at P<0.05. Of the 80 caregivers who received the DHEP, the follow-up rate was 81% (67/80). Significant increases in proportions (from 12% to 79%) of caregivers brushing their children’s teeth and brushing before bed (54% to 85%) were self-reported. An improvement in caregiver-reported child’s snacking habits was also observed. Decreases (from 93% to 69%) in giving children sugar- iii containing beverages and in consuming sugar-containing foods as snacks (from 94% to 31%) were also noted. A caregiver-centred DHEP implemented in the waiting rooms of UBC’s dental clinics proved to be a feasible strategy for oral health education. The program was well-accepted by the caregivers, who reported significant short-term improvements in their children’s dental health behaviours. Therefore, appropriate oral health education provided to caregivers in the waiting room is a recommendation for the CDP.
An Efficient Vein Pattern-based Recognition System
Creators: name: Soni, Mohit
name: Gupta, Sandesh
name: Rao, M. S.
name: Gupta, Phalguni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an efficient human recognition system based on vein pattern from the palma dorsa. A new absorption based technique has been proposed to collect good quality images with the help of a low cost camera and light source. The system automatically detects the region of interest from the image and does the necessary preprocessing to extract features. A Euclidean Distance based matching technique has been used for making the decision. It has been tested on a data set of 1750 image samples collected from 341 individuals. The accuracy of the verification system is found to be 99.26% with false rejection rate (FRR) of 0.03%.
description: IEEE Publication format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS, Vol. 8 No. 1, April 2010, USA. ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Improving Genomic Prediction of Crossbred and Purebred Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: M Khansefid
name: ME Goddard
name: M Haile-Mariam
name: KV Konstantinov
name: C Schrooten
name: G De Jong
name: EG Jewell
name: E O’Connor
name: Pryce, Jennie
name: Daetwyler, Hans
name: IM MacLeod
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © Copyright © 2020 Khansefid, Goddard, Haile-Mariam, Konstantinov, Schrooten, de Jong, Jewell, O’Connor, Pryce, Daetwyler and MacLeod. This study assessed the accuracy and bias of genomic prediction (GP) in purebred Holstein (H) and Jersey (J) as well as crossbred (H and J) validation cows using different reference sets and prediction strategies. The reference sets were made up of different combinations of 36,695 H and J purebreds and crossbreds. Additionally, the effect of using different sets of marker genotypes on GP was studied (conventional panel: 50k, custom panel enriched with, or close to, causal mutations: XT_50k, and conventional high-density with a limited custom set: pruned HDnGBS). We also compared the use of genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) and Bayesian (emBayesR) models, and the traits tested were milk, fat, and protein yields. On average, by including crossbred cows in the reference population, the prediction accuracies increased by 0.01–0.08 and were less biased (regression coefficient closer to 1 by 0.02–0.16), and the benefit was greater for crossbreds compared to purebreds. The accuracy of prediction increased by 0.02 using XT_50k compared to 50k genotypes without affecting the bias. Although using pruned HDnGBS instead of 50k also increased the prediction accuracy by about 0.02, it increased the bias for purebred predictions in emBayesR models. Generally, emBayesR outperformed GBLUP for prediction accuracy when using 50k or pruned HDnGBS genotypes, but the benefits diminished with XT_50k genotypes. Crossbred predictions derived from a joint pure H and J reference were similar in accuracy to crossbred predictions derived from the two separate purebred reference sets and combined proportional to breed composition. However, the latter approach was less biased by 0.13. Most interestingly, using an equalized breed reference instead of an H-dominated reference, on average, reduced the bias of prediction by 0.16–0.19 and increased the accuracy by 0.04 for crossbred and J cows, with a little change in the H accuracy. In conclusion, we observed improved genomic predictions for both crossbreds and purebreds by equalizing breed contributions in a mixed breed reference that included crossbred cows. Furthermore, we demonstrate, that compared to the conventional 50k or high-density panels, our customized set of 50k sequence markers improved or matched the prediction accuracy and reduced bias with both GBLUP and Bayesian models.
Monte Carlo study of superconductivity in the three-band Emery model
Creators: name: Frick, M.
name: Pattnaik, P. C.
name: Morgenstern, Ingo
name: Newns, D. M
name: Von der Linden, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: 74.70.Vy, 71.10.+x

description: We have examined the three-band Hubbard model for the copper oxide planes in high-temperature superconductors using the projector quantum Monte Carlo method. We find no evidence for s-wave superconductivity.
Production and Processing of Millets in Mizoram, North East India
Creators: name: Rahul Sadhukhan, L. Devarishi Sharma and Lalhmingsanga
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2023

description: Millets are known as coarse grain cereal crops and having wider adaptability to various biotic and abiotic stresses. Millets, which are commonly known as nutri-cereals, have the adaptive capability to grow in adverse climatic condition where no other cereals like rice, wheat and maize can grow under harsh environmental condition. Millets can be used as food cum fodder crops for the livestock of tribal communities in Mizoram. Major millets (like Pearlmillet and Sorghum) and minor millets (like Finger millets, Kodo millets, Barnyard millets and Proso millets) are the principal source of energy, vitamin, protein and minerals for the 10 lakhs of the poorest people (including tribal communities) in North-East India. Developing technology that makes millet value added products available as convenient to make and easy access at reasonable prices will find a great demand and market particularly in urban places where there is growing conscious for nutritive intake of foods and interest for ready to cook and ready to eat foods in particular. All the products are nutritionally rich and proved to be benefiting for all the age groups. With this backdrop, the successful story on "Production, Processing and Entrepreneurship development of Millet" has been revealed to bring out millets production, processing and value addition as successful and profitable venture. There is an increased response on various aspects of millets and queries to commercialize millet value added products. The programme might be helpful for developing the various entrepreneurship development opportunities in the millet sectors in North-East India including Mizoram.
Non-existence of toroidal cohomogeneity-1 near horizon geometries
Creators: name: Holland, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that $D\geq 5$ dimensional stationary, non-static near horizon geometries with (D-3) rotational symmetries subject to the vacuum Einstein equations including a cosmological constant cannot have toroidal horizon topology. In D=4 dimensions the same result is obtained under the assumption of a non-negative cosmological constant.
description: 8 pages
GSH 91.5+2-114: A large HI shell in the outer part of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Cichowolski, Silvina
name: Pineault, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GSH91.5+2-114 is a large HI shell located in the outer Galaxy at a kinematic distance of about 15 kpc. It was first identified in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) by Pineault et al. (2002) as being possibly associated with objects possessing infrared colors which indicates strong stellar winds. The HI shell has no obvious continuum counterpart in the CGPS radio images at 408 and 1420 MHz or in the IRAS images. We found no evidence for early-type massive stars, most likely as a result of the large extinction that is expected for this large distance. An analysis of the energetics and of the main physical parameters of the HI shell shows that this shell is likely the result of the combined action of the stellar winds and supernova explosions of many stars. We investigate whether a number of slightly extended regions characterized by a thermal radio continuum and located near the periphery of the HI shell could be the result of star formation triggered by the expanding shell.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, October 2010. Some figures were degraded to reduce file size