cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Opilia amentacea Roxb.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Opiliaceae
Opilia
Opilia amentacea

description: Opilia amentacea Roxb.  —
Habit: Liana.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 1 900 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1924).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Spin Wave Response in the Dilute Quasi-one Dimensional Ising-like Antiferromagnet CsCo_{0.83}Mg_{0.17}Br_3
Creators: name: Yang, Y. S.
name: Marsiglio, F.
name: Madsen, M.
name: Gaulin, B. D.
name: Rogge, R. B.
name: Fernandez-Baca, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic neutron scattering profiles of spin waves in the dilute quasi-one-dimensional Ising-like antiferromagnet CsCo_{0.83}Mg_{0.17}Br_3 have been investigated. Calculations of S^{xx}(Q,omega), based on an effective spin Hamiltonian, accurately describe the experimental spin wave spectrum of the 2J mode. The Q dependence of the energy of this spin wave mode follows the analytical prediction omega_{xx}(Q)=(2J)(1-5epsilon^{2}cos^{2}Qa+2epsilon^{2})^{1/2}, calculated by Ishimura and Shiba using perturbation theory.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Selected Code-Related and Language- Related Factors of Reading Comprehension for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Creators: Falk, Jodi Lara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hearing impaired students
subject: Deaf children--Language
subject: Hearing impaired children--Language
subject: English language--Study and teaching
subject: Deaf students
subject: Special education
subject: Language arts
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This study examined the interrelationships among English language structures (phonological knowledge, morphological knowledge, silent word reading fluency) and reading comprehension in a group of 45 deaf and hard of hearing students in grades 3 to 8, taking into account their demographic characteristics.  Simple Pearson correlations, multiple regression analyses, and an independent samples t test were used in this study.  Results indicated that morphological knowledge was the significant variable positively associated with reading comprehension over and beyond the other predictors (phonological knowledge and silent word reading fluency) and the demographic covariates (home language, age, and gender).
Almost linear actions by finite groups on S^{2n-1}
Creators: name: Geiges, Hansjorg
name: Thomas, Charles B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57S17, 57S25, 57R65, 53C15, 57R85

description: A free action of a finite group on an odd-dimensional sphere is said to be almost linear if the action restricted to each cyclic or 2-hyperelementary subgroup is conjugate to a free linear action. We begin this survey paper by reviewing the status of almost linear actions on the 3-sphere. We then discuss almost linear actions on higher-dimensional spheres, paying special attention to the groups SL_2(p), and relate such actions to surgery invariants. Finally, we discuss geometric structures on space forms or, more generally, on manifolds whose fundamental group has periodic cohomology. The geometric structures considered here are contact structures and Riemannian metrics with certain curvature properties.
description: 22 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper8.abs.html
Additional file 1 of The DNA methylation of FOXO3 and TP53 as a blood biomarker of late-onset asthma
Creators: name: Yuan, Lin
name: Wang, Leyuan
name: Du, Xizi
name: Qin, Ling
name: Yang, Ming
name: Zhou, Kai
name: Wu, Mengping
name: Yang, Yu
name: Zheng, Zhiyuan
name: Xiang, Yang
name: Qu, Xiangping
name: Liu, Huijun
name: Qin, Xiaoqun
name: Liu, Chi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Details of CpG regions in the CpG islands of FOXO3 and TP53.
Arceuthobium juniperi-procerae Chiov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Viscaceae
Arceuthobium
Arceuthobium juniperi-Procerae

description: Arceuthobium juniperi-procerae Chiov.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; 1 900–3 000 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: North Mount Kenya, Alt. 2300– 2400 m, 1 Mar. 1981, Gilbert 6033 (EA).
References: Fries (1923b), Polhill & Wiens (1999b), Bussmann (1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title:  La badessa di Andoüillets, la novizia Margarita, le due mule e il diavolo
Creators: name: Ruggieri  ,  Franca
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Il filo rosso che lega la sperimentazione formale all’origine del nuovo genere del novel nel Settecento al nuovo romanzo dell’“opera aperta”, è proprio la presenza del lettore all’interno del testo narrativo e il rapporto di interazione tra narratore e lettore che ne deriva. Nel Tristram Shandy, il lettore assume molteplici e mutevoli maschere. L’episodio della “abess of Andoüillet” è una digressione nella digressione, che, fin dalle prime battute, mette in evidenza l’ipocrisia sottaciuta nell’ostentazione di innocenza e armonia della comunità religiosa della abbazia e soprattutto delle due suore, in viaggio verso le terme. Le “two sinful words”, che dovrebbero far procedere le mule e mettere in salvo le due religiose, vengono spezzate ognuna in due frammenti monosillabici per ridurne la carica trasgressiva, ma i quattro frammenti non sembrano comunicare il senso delle due parole intere. Il diavolo/lettore sarà il solo in grado di ricomporre e interpretare l’unità del senso dei quattro frammenti, nella loro naturale dimensione di fisicità.
description: Allegretto Vivace. Omaggio a Bruna Donatelli
Self-Locating Uncertainty, Subjective Probability and the Everett Interpretation
Creators: Fraser, Keith
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Science--Philosophy

description: This paper analyses an attempt to reintroduce the probabilistic predictions of quantum mechanics into the Everett interpretation. An overview of the measurement problem and the Everett interpretation are first given, with particular attention paid to the issue of probability within a deterministic theory. An argument is put forth that observers in an Everettian multiverse generically experience a period of post-measurement uncertainty in regards to their location. It is further argued that this uncertainty allows pre-measurement to observers to act as if they are uncertain about future outcomes. This is then the justification for attaching probabilities to the squared moduli of the wave function. It is also noted that there is an assumption of typicality present in discussions of probability within Everett and some arguments to justify this assumption are considered.
Distribution patterns and genetic diversity of Cedrela montana Moritz ex Turcz. in Ecuador.
Creators: name: Manchego, Carlos
name: Cueva-Agila, Augusta
name: Bastidas, Cristian
name: Hildebrant, Patrick
name: Stimm, Bernd
name: Gunter, Sven
name: Curto, Manuel
name: Meimberg, Harald
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Deforestation and climate change are two of the main threats to tropical forests. The first is largely caused by an unsustainable approach linked to resource acquisition and the second by uncertainty associated with future climate scenarios and their impact on forest dynamics. The problem increases if we take into account that Ecuador reached in 2014 one of the highest deforestation rates in all of South America and temperature increases > 1oC have already been detected in certain mountain range regions, which could directly impact mountain forests, especially if we talk about native timber species of high commercial value. One way to estimate the tolerance of species towards agents of change (resilience) is through the genetic structure of populations, assuming that the greater the genetic diversity in organisms, the greater the resilience of populations.

In this study we focus on the species Cedrela montana Moritz ex Turcz. and we ask ourselves how much genetic diversity exists between different populations of this species and what has been its evolutionary process. Three populations of Cedrela montana were selected from which young leaves were collected from about 30 individuals. DNA was extracted, and 14 microsatellite loci were amplified. The microsatellites were designed specifically for the species under study using sequences generated with next-generation sequencing (NGS). About 30 individuals were genotyped for each population and data on genetic diversity and differentiation between populations were analyzed. The poster presents the preliminary results of diversity of each one of the populations and the differentiation between them, related to their distribution patterns.
Self-Composed: The Narration of Nationality and Identity among Anatolian Kurds, 1908-1938
Creators: Wood, Anna
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: History

description: This study is an exploration of the written conceptualizations of individual and national identity of Anatolian Kurds in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the narratives of self and nation constructed in the letters, memoirs, journals and academic texts of four Anatolian Kurdish men, this work engages with the issues they found pertinent in the articulation of new national identities. These issues include the struggle to define and legitimize the nation-space, the experience of exile and its effects on self-definition, and the mutual engagement between Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian nationalisms in these decades. Through this process of seeking out the personal in the political, common historiographical renderings of nationalist developments in Anatolia in general, as well as the figure of Ziya Gökalp in particular, are challenged, and an innovative reading of the era and some of its many actors/authors is presented.
Efficiently Reusing Natural Language Processing Models for Phenotype-Mention Identification in Free-text Electronic Medical Records: Methodology Study
Creators: name: Wu, Honghan
name: Hodgson, Karen
name: Dyson, Sue
name: Morley, Katherine I.
name: Ibrahim, Zina M.
name: Iqbal, Ehtesham
name: Stewart, Robert
name: Dobson, Richard JB
name: Sudlow, Cathie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Many efforts have been put into the use of automated approaches, such as natural language processing (NLP), to mine or extract data from free-text medical records to construct comprehensive patient profiles for delivering better health-care. Reusing NLP models in new settings, however, remains cumbersome - requiring validation and/or retraining on new data iteratively to achieve convergent results. Objective: The aim of this work is to minimize the effort involved in reusing NLP models on free-text medical records. Methods: We formally define and analyse the model adaptation problem in phenotype-mention identification tasks. We identify "duplicate waste" and "imbalance waste", which collectively impede efficient model reuse. We propose a phenotype embedding based approach to minimize these sources of waste without the need for labelled data from new settings. Results: We conduct experiments on data from a large mental health registry to reuse NLP models in four phenotype-mention identification tasks. The proposed approach can choose the best model for a new task, identifying up to 76% (duplicate waste), i.e. phenotype mentions without the need for validation and model retraining, and with very good performance (93-97% accuracy). It can also provide guidance for validating and retraining the selected model for novel language patterns in new tasks, saving around 80% (imbalance waste), i.e. the effort required in "blind" model-adaptation approaches. Conclusions: Adapting pre-trained NLP models for new tasks can be more efficient and effective if the language pattern landscapes of old settings and new settings can be made explicit and comparable. Our experiments show that the phenotype-mention embedding approach is an effective way to model language patterns for phenotype-mention identification tasks and that its use can guide efficient NLP model reuse.
Thesium radicans A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Thesiaceae
Thesium
Thesium radicans

description: Thesium radicans Hochst. ex A.Rich.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF; 1 300–2 700 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1930b).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Self-Modeling Neural Systems
Creators: Wayne, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computer science

description: Goal-directedness is a fundamental property of all living things, but it is perhaps most easily identified in the movement patterns of animals. Ethologists have divided the basic forms of animal behavior into three categories: reproductive, defensive, and ingestive, all of which depend on the complex orchestration of motor control. In this dissertation, we use the framework of optimal control theory to model goal-directed behavior and repurpose it in new ways. We demonstrate a method for creating a hierarchical control network in which higher levels of the control hierarchy deal with tasks of increased abstractness. In a two-level system, the lower-level deals with short time-scale, low-dimensional motor control, and the higher-level is charged with longer time-scale, higher-dimensional planning. Central to our approach to joining the levels is the construction of a forward model of the behavior of the lower-level by the higher-level. Thus, we extend ideas of optimal control theory from controlling a "plant" to controlling a controller. We apply our method to the example problem of guiding a semi-truck in reverse around a field of obstacles. The lower-level controller drives the truck, and the higher-level detects obstacles and plans routes around them. In other work, we consider whether it is possible for a neural system that obeys certain biological constraints to solve optimal control problems. We exhibit a simple method to train a different kind of internal model, a neural network model of the Jacobian of the plant, and we integrate the internal model in a forward-in-time computation that produces an optimal feedback controller. We apply our method to two well-known model problems in optimal control, the torque-limited pendulum and cart-pole swing-up problems.
Methods for removing selenium from aqueous systems
Creators: name: Moore, Lucas
name: Mahmoudkhani, Amir
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Selenium is among the list of oxyanions that lead to contamination in mining aqueous waste streams. Though the elemental forms are toxic, the aqueous oxyanions are more so. The most common forms of selenium released during mining processes are the aqueous forms, selenite and selenates. The common treatment technologies to date can be summed up in these major categories: media filtration, chemical treatment, and biomediated removal. These methods can often involve many expensive processing steps that may also be limited by variables such as total dissolved solids, presence of other ions, and ability to maintain microbial growth. We have developed an innovative chemical technology that can successfully reduce selenates to a level below the EPA recommendations. This new technology offers a unique and viable solution which is transparent to the above mentioned limitations. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
General Rotating Black Holes in String Theory: Greybody Factors and Event Horizons
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Larsen, Finn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the wave equation for a minimally coupled scalar field in the background of a general rotating five-dimensional black hole. It is written in a form that involves two types of thermodynamic variables, defined at the inner and outer event horizon, respectively. We model the microscopic structure as an effective string theory, with the thermodynamic properties of the left and right moving excitations related to those of the horizons. Previously known solutions to the wave equation are generalized to the rotating case, and their regime of validity is sharpened. We calculate the greybody factors and interpret the resulting Hawking emission spectrum microscopically in several limits. We find a U-duality invariant expression for the effective string length that does not assume a hierarchy between the charges. It accounts for the universal low-energy absorption cross-section in the general non-extremal case.
description: 33 pages, latex; minor typos corrected; version to appear in PRD
Thesium schweinfurthii Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Thesiaceae
Thesium
Thesium schweinfurthii

description: Thesium schweinfurthii Engl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 3 000 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Naro Moru Road, near Forest Station, 3 Dec. 1966, Agnew et al. 98913 (EA).
References: Fries & Fries (1930b), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Analytic multivariate generating function for random multiplicative cascade processes
Creators: name: Greiner, Martin
name: Eggers, Hans C.
name: Lipa, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have found an analytic expression for the multivariate generating function governing all n-point statistics of random multiplicative cascade processes. The variable appropriate for this generating function is the logarithm of the energy density, ln epsilon, rather than epsilon itself. All cumulant statistics become sums over derivatives of ``branching generating functions'' which are Laplace transforms of the splitting functions and completely determine the cascade process. We show that the branching generating function is a generalization of the multifractal mass exponents. Two simple models from fully developed turbulence illustrate the new formalism.
description: REVTeX, 4 pages, 2 PostScript figs, submitted to PRL
Self-Rewards and Cash (Dis)Incentives: Consequences for Effort, Integrity, and Habit Formation
Creators: Meng, Rachel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Incentive (Psychology)
subject: Decision making
subject: Motivation (Psychology)

description: Incentives are fundamental and often powerful motivators of human behavior. Considerable research has focused on financial rewards as a tool to encourage “good” decisions. This dissertation examines the psychology and efficacy of monetary incentives—compared to multiple nonmonetary incentives—with respect to individuals’ choices, performance, and habits. I document and explore a variety of interrelated effects that cash, relative to noncash, incentives can incur in four major areas of behavior: habit formation, choice (specifically, tradeoffs involving risk and delay), goal setting, and integrity. In three longitudinal field experiments, I devise and empirically test a novel incentive program based on self-reward, where individuals defined and administered their own rewards for reaching a goal. I find that this system outperforms cash on several consequential metrics, including task engagement and longer-term persistence. I further place these behaviors in the context of a greater focus on compensation when incentivized with cash: People become fixated on attaining the reward over the process of expending effort. Although this mentality fuels efficient goal attainment, it can also lead to—as I show using a series of online studies—distortionary effects on other aspects of goal pursuit, such as the tendency to choose easier effort streams and the willingness to forgo a reward’s magnitude for its certainty or immediacy. Combined, these findings suggest that practitioners seeking to motivate their constituents may do well to reconsider the use of cash incentives.
Small surfaces and Dehn filling
Creators: name: Gordon, Cameron McA.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M50

description: We give a summary of known results on the maximal distances between Dehn fillings on a hyperbolic 3-manifold that yield 3-manifolds containing a surface of non-negative Euler characteristic that is either essential or Heegaard.
description: 23 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon2/paper10.abs.html
Duality Beyond the First Loop
Creators: name: Kaloper, Nemanja
name: Meissner, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we give a calculation of the two-loop $σ$-model corrections to the T-duality map in string theory. We use the effective action approach, and analyze two-loop corrections in a specific subtraction scheme. Focusing on backgrounds which have a single Abelian isometry, we find the explicit form for the $O(α')$ modifications of the lowest order duality transformations. Rather surprisingly, the manifest two-loop duality depends crucially on the torsion field. In contrast to the dilaton and metric fields, which are merely passive spectators, the torsion plays a more active role, because of the anomalous couplings to the gauge fields that arise via dimensional reduction. Our results support the interpretation of T-duality as an expansion in the inverse string tension $α'$, and its order-by-order realization as a manifest symmetry of the full string theory.
description: 26 pages, latex, no figures. Several typos corrected, and references to Nucl. Phys. B405 (1993) 109 by E. Kiritsis and Nucl. Phys. B411 (1994) 487 by A. Giveon and E. Kiritsis added
Cold dilute nuclear matter with $α$-particle condensation in a generalized nonlinear relativistic mean-field model
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao-Wen
name: Chen, Lie-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the thermodynamic properties of homogeneous cold (zero-temperature) nuclear matter including nucleons and $α$-particle condensation at low densities by using a generalized nonlinear relativistic mean-field (gNL-RMF) model. In the gNL-RMF model, the $α$-particle is included as explicit degree of freedom and treated as point-like particle with its interaction described by meson exchanges and the in-medium effects on the $α$ binding energy is described by density- and temperature-dependent energy shift with the parameters obtained by fitting the experimental Mott density. We find that below the dropping density $n_{\rm{drop}}$ ($\sim 3\times 10^{-3}$ fm$^{-3}$), the zero-temperature symmetric nuclear matter is in the state of pure Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of $α$ particles while the neutron-rich nuclear matter is composed of $α$-BEC and neutrons. Above the $n_{\rm{drop}}$, the fraction of $α$-BEC decreases with density and vanishes at the transition density $n_t$ ($\sim 8\times 10^{-3}$ fm$^{-3}$). Above the $n_t$, the nuclear matter becomes pure nucleonic matter. Our results indicate that the empirical parabolic law for the isospin asymmetry dependence of nuclear matter equation of state is heavily violated by the $α$-particle condensation in the zero-temperature dilute nuclear matter, making the conventional definition of the symmetry energy meaningless. We investigate the symmetry energy defined under parabolic approximation for the zero-temperature dilute nuclear matter with $α$-particle condensation, and find it is significantly enhanced compared to the case without clusters and becomes saturated at about $7$ MeV at very low densities ($\lesssim 10^{-3}$ fm$^{-3}$). The critical temperature for $α$-condensation in homogeneous dilute nuclear matter is also discussed.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Effects of resonance and continuum states considered effectively, the symmetry energy defined under parabolic approximation investigated, and presentation improved. Accepted version to appear in PRC
Self-concealment, Psychological Flexibility, and Severity of Eating Disorders
Creators: White, Zoe Louise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Clinical psychology
Eating disorders
Adaptability (Psychology)
Secrecy--Psychological aspects

description: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological flexibility, self-concealment, and eating disorder severity. This study also sought to explore the relationship between these variables in a clinical sample. Existing literature has demonstrated that diminished psychological flexibility is likely to play a key role in eating pathology. Additionally, self-concealment has been found to be a common and treatment-interfering aspect of the clinical presentation of eating-disordered individuals. Preliminary evidence has been found linking these variables to severity of eating-disorder pathology. However, this relationship needs further clarification to understand fully the implications for treatment and relapse prevention, for these often treatment-resistant disorders.
      Participants were 182 respondents to an online survey including demographic information, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-16), and the Self-Concealment Scale (SCS). Data were collected via Qualtrics software and analyzed in SPSS using Hayes PROCESS models.
      Findings included the following. Among a sample of eating-disordered individuals, the less (more diminished) psychological flexibility they reported, the more severe the reported eating-disorder symptoms; in other words, an inverse relationship was found. Additionally, the greater self-concealment participants reported, the more severe were their reported eating-disorder symptoms. These findings held up for overall severity of reported symptoms and also for subscale severity for eating restraint, eating concern, weight concern, and shape concern. Additionally, a moderated mediation model found that greater self-concealment, diminished psychological flexibility, and no treatment were all significantly related to increases in eating-disorder severity. This model also found a significant interaction between psychological flexibility and eating-disorder severity moderated by treatment condition. That is, the extent to which someone self-conceals helps to explain the relationship between psychological flexibility and severity. Furthermore, whether a patient has been in treatment significantly relates to the relationship between psychological flexibility and severity.
      Implications of these findings are discussed, including a focus on emotion-regulation models of eating disorders and the rationale for adopting a transdiagnostic understanding of eating pathology. Recommendations are proposed for clinical practice, including expanding the utilization of therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for eating disorders, which specifically target psychological flexibility and self-concealment in the hope of preventing future relapse.
Displacement And Angle Of Progression Calculations And Visualizations from Novel simulations to determine the impact of superficial perineal structures on vaginal delivery
Creators: name: Routzong, Megan R.
name: Moalli, Pamela A.
name: Spandan Maiti
name: Vita, Raffaella De
name: Abramowitch, Steven D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: This study's aim was to determine whether the inclusion of superficial perineal structures in a finite-element simulation of vaginal delivery impacts the pubovisceral muscle and perineal body, two common sites of birth-related injury. The hypothesis, inferred from prevailing literature, was that these structures would have minimal influence (differences less than ±10%). Methods: Two models were made using the Visible Human Project's female cadaver to create a rigid, fixed pelvis, musculature held by spring attachments to that pelvis, and a rigid, ellipsoidal fetal head prescribed with an inferior displacement to simulate delivery. Injury site stretch ratios and fetal head and perineal body displacements and angles of progression were compared between the Omitted Model (which excluded the superficial perineal structures as is common practice) and the Included Model (which included them). Results: Included Model stretch ratios were +107%, −9.84% and −14.6% compared to Omitted Model perineal body and right and left pubovisceral muscles, respectively. Included Model peak perineal body inferior displacement was +72.5% greater while similar anterior–posterior displacements took longer to reach. Conclusion: These results refute our hypothesis, suggesting superficial perineal structures impact simulations of vaginal delivery by inhibiting perineal body anterior–posterior displacement, which stretches and inferiorly displaces the perineal body.
Self-assembly of Nanoparticles on Fluid and Elastic Membranes
Creators: Saric, Andela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Chemistry, Physical and theoretical

description: This dissertation presents studies on self-assembly of nanoparticles adsorbed onto fluid and elastic membranes. It focuses on particles that are at least one order of magnitude larger than the surface thickness, in which case all chemical details of the surface can be ignored in favor of a coarse-grained representation, and the collective behavior of many particles can be analyzed. We use Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations to study the phase behavior of these systems, and its dependence on the mechanical and geometrical properties of the surface, the strength of the particle-surface interaction and the size and the concentration of the nanoparticles. We present scaling laws and accurate free-enegy calculations to understand the occurrence of the phases of interest, and discuss the implications of our results. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with fluid membranes. We show how fluid membranes can mediate linear aggregation of spherical nanoparticles binding to them for a wide range of biologically relevant bending rigidities. This result is in net contrast with the isotropic aggregation of nanoparticles on fluid interfaces or the expected clustering of isotropic insertions in biological membranes. We find that the key to understanding the stability of linear aggregates resides in the interplay between bending and binding energies of the nanoparticles. Furthermore, we demonstrate how linear aggregation can lead to membrane tubulation and determine how tube formation compares with the competing budding process. The development of tubular structures requires less adhesion energy than budding, pointing to a potentially unexplored route of viral infection and nanoparticle internalization in cells. In Chapters 5 - 8, we shift focus to elastic membranes and study self-assembly of nanoparticles mediated by elastic surfaces of different geometries, namely planar, cylindrical and spherical. Again, a variety of linear aggregates are obtained, but their spatial organization can be controlled by changing the stretching rigidity of the elastic membrane, the strength of the particle adhesion, the curvature of the surface, as well as by introducing surface defects. Furthermore, we show how a fully flexible filament binding to a cylindrical elastic membrane may acquire a macroscopic persistence length and a helical conformation. We find that the filaments helical pitch is completely determined by the mechanical properties of the surface, and can be easiliy tuned. Moreover, we study the collapse of unstretchable (thin) hollow nanotube due to the collective behavior of nanoparticles assembling on its surface, resulting in an ordered nanoparticle engulfment inside the collapsed structure. Our hope is that the results presented in this Dissertation will stimulate further experimental studies of the mechanical properties of fluid and cross-linked membranes, in particular the long range correlations arising due to the particle binding.
Osyridicarpos schimperianus A. DC.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Thesiaceae
Osyridicarpos
Osyridicarpos schimperianus

description: Osyridicarpos schimperianus (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) A.DC.  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Mount Kenya, Liki River, Fries & Fries 1473 (UPS, K).
References: Fries (1923b), Polhill (2005), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: Der Zionismus – Entstehung, Grundgedanken, Gegenwartsbedeutung –
Creators: name: Kühne, Gunther
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 20
subject: 320

description: Am 02. Mai des Jahres 1860, also vor 150 Jahren, wurde in Pest, einem Teil des heutigen Budapest, ein Junge mit dem ungarischen Namen Herzl Tivadar als Sohn assimilierter deutschsprachiger jüdischer Eltern geboren. Dieser Junge, der sich später Theodor Herzl nannte, sollte gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts die Gründerfigur des Zionismus und damit einer Bewegung werden, die in direktem ursächlichem Zusammenhang mit dem wohl kompliziertesten weltpolitischen Konflikt steht, der uns heute tagtäglich in den Medien begegnet und beschäftigt – dem Nahost-Konflikt oder – genauer – dem Verhältnis des Staates Israel zu seinen arabischen Nachbarn. Unter den vielen Ismen, die das 19. und das frühe 20. Jahrhundert hervorgebracht haben, fällt der Zionismus, also die Bewegung zur Wiederbegründung eines völkerrechtlich anerkannten jüdischen Gemeinwesens nach zweitausendjähriger Zerstreuung, u.a. dadurch auf, daß ihm mit der Gründung des Staates Israel im Jahre 1948 ein welthistorisch wohl einmaliger Erfolg beschieden wurde.
Im Gegensatz zu dieser positiven Besetzung des Begriffes "Zionismus" steht jedoch die Tatsache, daß er in der weltpolitischen Auseinandersetzung der letzten Jahrzehnte überwiegend für einen Inbegriff des Bösen steht. Zu erinnern ist in diesem Zusammenhang an den Beschluß der UN-Generalversammlung von November 1975, in der der Zionismus als eine Form des Rassismus gebrandmarkt wurde. Die Beschlußlage wurde allerdings durch Rücknahme dieser Aussage im Jahre 1991 wieder geändert. Seit einigen Jahren haben die Drohungen des iranischen Staatschefs Ahmadinejad, Israel als Hort des Zionismus zu vernichten, dessen Existenz und politischen Gehalt international erneut an den Pranger gestellt. Ganz unabhängig von solch einseitiger Polemik liefern der Zionismus und die Beschäftigung mit ihm über die sich in der Entstehung Israels dokumentierende historische Wirkmächtigkeit hinaus auch Elemente der Erklärung für die Einordnung des gegenwärtigen Nahostkonflikts. Was hat es also – 150 Jahre nach der Geburt und gut 100 Jahre nach dem Tode seines Begründers – mit dem Zionismus auf sich?
Osyris lanceolata Hochst. & Steud.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Santalaceae
Osyris
Osyris lanceolata

description: Osyris lanceolata Hochst. & Steud.  —
Habit: Shrub or small tree.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 700 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Mutamayu Farm on Burguret River, Alt. 1 950 m, 3 Jan. 2009, Robertson 7675 & 7676 (EA, K).
References: Fries (1923b), Bussmann (1993, 1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Semiclassical Spectra and Diagonal Matrix Elements by Harmonic Inversion of Cross-Correlated Periodic Orbit Sums
Creators: name: Main, J.
name: Weibert, K.
name: Mandelshtam, V. A.
name: Wunner, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiclassical spectra weighted with products of diagonal matrix elements of operators A_{alpha}, i.e., g_{alpha alpha'}(E) = sum_n /(E-E_n) are obtained by harmonic inversion of a cross-correlation signal constructed of classical periodic orbits. The method provides highly resolved semiclassical spectra even in situations of nearly degenerate states, and opens the way to reducing the required signal lengths to shorter than the Heisenberg time. This implies a significant reduction of the number of orbits required for periodic orbit quantization by harmonic inversion.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, REVTEX, revised manuscript submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Determination of consolidation properties, selection of computational methods, and estimation of potential error in Mine Tailings settlement calculations
Creators: name: Geier, David
name: Gjerapic, Gordan
name: Morrison, Kimberly
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Accurate estimates of tailings density and settlement are critical for successful design, operation, and closure of tailings storage facilities (TSFs). Limitations of the computational methods employed to determine these quantities are often overlooked, leading to inaccurate results and potentially inadequate engineering designs. This paper provides a brief discussion of the methods that are commonly used to model tailings consolidation, discusses relative accuracy of these methods, and outlines common pitfalls encountered in their use. Engineering estimates of the commonly encountered errors are presented for selected methods. Applicability of various methods and specific recommendations are discussed with regard to TSF geometries, tailings properties, filling rates, and the calculation accuracy requirements. The present study compares traditional small strain and large-strain consolidation analyses, and evaluates differences between one-dimensional and three-dimensional calculation approaches. Also, a comparison between estimated (calculated) and actual tailings densities (based on mill production data and bathymetric surveys) is provided for an existing operational tailings facility.[All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
title: Katastrophen – Wahn und Wirklichkeit
Creators: name: Peil, Udo
Publisher: name: Cramer
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 62

description: Gefahren und Katastrophen sind offenbar allgegenwärtig: Fabriken, Hochspannungsleitungen, Mobiltelefonsender, Gentechnik, Blitzschlag, zerborstene Öltanker, Atomkraftwerke, Holzschutzmittel, Ozonloch, Waldsterben, Tsunamis, Erdbeben, Stürme, Klimakatastrophe, Killerzwiback, Dioxin, DDT, SARS, Hühner- und Schweinegrippe, aber auch Hühnereier – sie könnten Salmonellen enthalten – werden deutlich als Risiken wahrgenommen. Doch wie die Risiken bewertet werden, ist ganz unterschiedlich und steht oft im krassen Gegensatz zum objektiven Größe des Risikos.
Die Abwägung von Risiken hängt ab von der persönlichen Kenntnis der Gefahr und der Einschätzung der eigenen Fähigkeiten, mit dieser Gefahr umzugehen. Eine der wesentlichen Ursachen für die starke Ablehnung der Kernenergie ist das Gefühl, etwas gänzlich Unbekanntem und Unbeeinflussbarem ausgeliefert zu sein.
"Wir stören uns an der Mücke auf der Haut, während wir von einem Elefanten totgetrampelt werden", sagte Rolf Großklaus vom Fachgebiet Ernährungsepidemiologie des (inzwischen aufgelösten) Bundesgesundheitsamtes (BGA) in Berlin. "Es ist sehr schwer, der Bevölkerung ein Risikobewusstsein beizubringen."
Vielen Experten machen deshalb nicht die Risiken in der Bundesrepublik, sondern die übertriebene Angst vor Risiken Sorgen. Vor einer falschen Gewichtung von Gesundheitsgefahren, einer "gefährlichen Hysterie", warnten Wissenschaftler auf einem Treffen des baden-württembergischen Hartmannbundes Ende August 1992 in Schwäbisch Gmünd. (Tagesspiegel Berlin, 31.08.1992)
Die Umweltangst stellt nach Ansicht von Prof. Hans Hoffmeister, Leiter des Instituts für Sozialmedizin des Bundesgesundheitsamtes Berlin, inzwischen ein "eigenständiges Gesundheitsrisiko" dar. Bei einem rationalen Umgang mit dem Thema Umwelt und unter Verzicht auf unnötige Umweltängste wäre der Gesundheitszustand der Deutschen noch besser als ohnehin schon, sagte Hoffmeister in einem Vortrag. Für die Wissenschaft seien die Umweltängste der Bevölkerung "weitgehend irrational". Objektiv gehe es den Deutschen so gut wie nie.
Aber wie groß sind die Gefahren denn nun objektiv? Dies wird deutlich an der Tabelle der sog. Sterbewahrscheinlichkeit, die in [Peil 2008] dargestellt und aus [Proske 2004] entnommen ist.
Self-controlled methods for postmarketing drug safety surveillance in large-scale longitudinal data
Creators: Simpson, Shawn E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A primary objective in postmarketing drug safety surveillance is to ascertain the relationship between time-varying drug exposures and adverse events (AEs) related to health outcomes. Surveillance can be based on longitudinal observational databases (LODs), which contain time-stamped patient-level medical information including periods of drug exposure and dates of diagnoses. Due to its desirable properties, we focus on the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method for analysis in this context. SCCS implicitly controls for fixed multiplicative baseline covariates since each individual acts as their own control. In addition, only exposed cases are required for the analysis, which is computationally advantageous. In the first part of this work we present how the simple SCCS model can be applied to the surveillance problem, and compare the results of simple SCCS to those of existing methods. Many current surveillance methods are based on marginal associations between drug exposures and AEs. Such analyses ignore confounding drugs and interactions and have the potential to give misleading results. In order to avoid these difficulties, it is desirable for an analysis strategy to incorporate large numbers of time-varying potential confounders such as other drugs. In the second part of this work we propose the Bayesian multiple SCCS approach, which deals with high dimensionality and can provide a sparse solution via a Laplacian prior. We present details of the model and optimization procedure, as well as results of empirical investigations. SCCS is based on a conditional Poisson regression model, which assumes that events at different time points are conditionally independent given the covariate process. This requirement is problematic when the occurrence of an event can alter the future event risk. In a clinical setting, for example, patients who have a first myocardial infarction (MI) may be at higher subsequent risk for a second. In the third part of this work we propose the positive dependence self-controlled case series (PD-SCCS) method: a generalization of SCCS that allows the occurrence of an event to increase the future event risk, yet maintains the advantages of the original by controlling for fixed baseline covariates and relying solely on data from cases. We develop the model and compare the results of PD-SCCS and SCCS on example drug-AE pairs.