cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identity or Condition: The Theory and Practice of Applying State Disability Laws to Transgender Individuals
Creators: name: Chung, Jeannie J.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: Jean Doe was a 17-year-old transgender youth when she brought suit against the New York City Administration for Children’s Services in New York Supreme Court. She had been in and out of foster homes since the age of nine, and had a troubled history of “violent altercations” in many of the foster homes in which she had been placed throughout these years. Her latest placement was in the Atlantic Transitional Foster Facility, an all-male facility for short-term placement of foster children who are in the care of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services. Upon her arrival at Atlantic Transitional, the director of the facility expressly prohibited her from expressing her gender identity by wearing “female attire,” although she still could wear “scarves, ‘nails,’ brassieres, and enhancers.” When Jean Doe moved for a preliminary injunction, Atlantic Transitional tried to avoid liability by broadening its policy’s reach to the rest of the facility, forbidding all residents from wearing skirts or dresses. Undeterred, Doe brought a lawsuit against the facility, alleging gender discrimination, violations of her First Amendment to free expression, and disability discrimination. The court ultimately found for Doe solely on the disability discrimination claim and mentioned nothing about the other two claims in its opinion. Doe v. Bell is illustrative of the difficulties transgender advocates have had in bringing gender discrimination claims on behalf of their clients, as well as their relative success in using state disability anti-discrimination laws to garner protection for their clients. Cases that recognize gender discrimination laws as inclusive of transgender individuals, have changed the legal landscape for transgender individuals, such as the recent D.C. Circuit case of Schroer v. Billington, which held that a transgender plaintiff had been discriminated against in employment on the basis of sex under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In many cases over the past two decades, advocates have demonstrated the efficacy of state disability anti- discrimination claims as applied to transgender individuals. Although federal law expressly excludes transgender individuals from the protected class of persons with disabilities, many states do not follow suit. Moreover, at least one State court used the federal exclusion to show that the absence of this exclusion in that State’s disability laws clearly demonstrated the State legislature’s intent to actively include transgender individuals under these laws.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
A Relationship between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Total Gravitational Mass of the Host Galaxy
Creators: name: Bandara, Kaushala
name: Crampton, David
name: Simard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the correlation between the mass of a central supermassive black hole and the total gravitational mass of the host galaxy (M_tot). The results are based on 43 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses from the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey whose black hole masses were estimated through two scaling relations: the relation between black hole mass and Sersic index (M_bh - n) and the relation between black hole mass and stellar velocity dispersion (M_bh - sigma). We use the enclosed mass within R_200, the radius within which the density profile of the early type galaxy exceeds the critical density of the Universe by a factor of 200, determined by gravitational lens models fitted to HST imaging data, as a tracer of the total gravitational mass. The best fit correlation, where M_bh is determined from M_bh - sigma relation, is log(M_bh) = (8.18 +/- 0.11) + (1.55 +/- 0.31) (log(M_tot) - 13.0) over 2 orders of magnitude in M_bh. From a variety of tests, we find that we cannot reliably infer a connection between M_bh and M_tot from the M_bh - n relation. The M_bh - M_tot relation provides some of the first, direct observational evidence to test the prediction that supermassive black hole properties are determined by the halo properties of the host galaxy.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Rules for Radical Lawyers: Advancing the Abortion Rights of Inmates
Creators: name: Egerman, Mark
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: William Lloyd Garrison famously declared that the Constitution was a covenant with the devil – and then proceeded to bum a copy. I For a radical abolitionist like Garrison, the statement was an accurate description of the Constitution’s origins because, as every civics student knows, the Constitution reflects a process of compromise between slave states and free states that affected multiple aspects of the document, most explicitly the three-fifths compromise. Garrison’s statement was more than a description of the process of compromise; he was also promulgating his view, one that distinguished him from other abolitionists of his era, on how slavery could be defeated. Garrison, like Wendell Phillips, saw the Constitution as part of the slavery problem and not as part of the abolitionist solution. Others, such as Frederick Douglass and Lysander Spooner, believed it possible to use constitutional arguments to eradicate slavery. To these constitutional abolitionists, the document could be read to support an abolitionist argument, and these abolitionists reasoned that it was a mistake to assume that the Founding Fathers had intended to institutionalize slavery forever. Putting aside the merits of the respective arguments, Garrison’s view would ultimately prevail. The legal and governmental structures founded on the Constitution were unable to peacefully abolish slavery and the country ultimately went to war to resolve the issue.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
A note on classical ground state energies
Creators: name: Kiessling, Michael K. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pair-specific ground state energy of Newtonian N-body systems grows monotonically in N. This furnishes a whole family of simple new tests for minimality of putative ground state energies obtained through computer experiments. Inspection of several publically available lists of such computer-experimentally obtained putative ground state energies has yielded several dozen instances which failed (at least) one of these tests. Although the correct ground state energy is not revealed by this method, it does yield a better upper bound on it than the experimentally found value whenever the latter fails a monotonicity test. The surveyed N-body systems include in particular N point charges with 2- or 3-dimensional Coulomb pair interactions, placed either on the unit 2-sphere or on a 2-torus (a.k.a. Thomson, Fekete, or Riesz problems).
description: 12 p., 2 fig., submitted for publication
Geometrical aspects of weak measurements and quantum erasers
Creators: name: Tamate, Shuhei
name: Kobayashi, Hirokazu
name: Nakanishi, Toshihiro
name: Sugiyama, Kazuhiko
name: Kitano, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mechanism of weak measurement by using an interferometric framework. In order to appropriately elucidate the interference effect that occurs in weak measurement, we introduce an interferometer for particles with internal degrees of freedom. It serves as a framework common to quantum eraser and weak measurement. We demonstrate that the geometric phase, particularly the Pancharatnam phase, results from the post-selection of the internal state, and thereby the interference pattern is changed. It is revealed that the extraordinary displacement of the probe wavepackets in weak measurement is achieved owing to the Pancharatnam phase associated with post-selection.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
The Implementation of the Quality of Life Development Plan for the Elderly in Bangkok Phase II (2018-2021) into Efficacy Implementation
Creators: name: Suksan Kittisupakorn
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: elderly
PMQA
the quality of life development plan
strategy
outcome
leadership

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 343-356
Turbulence and Mixing in the Intracluster Medium
Creators: name: Sharma, P.
name: Chandran, B. D. G.
name: Quataert, E.
name: Parrish, I. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense with the entropy $s$ increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to the "heat-flux buoyancy instability" when $dT/dr>0$ and the "magnetothermal instability" when $dT/dr<0$. The ICM is thus buoyantly unstable regardless of the signs of $dT/dr$ and $ds/dr$. On the other hand, these temperature-gradient-driven instabilities saturate by reorienting the magnetic field (perpendicular to $\hat{\bf r}$ when $dT/dr>0$ and parallel to $\hat{\bf r}$ when $dT/dr<0$), without generating sustained convection. We show that after an anisotropically conducting plasma reaches this nonlinearly stable magnetic configuration, it experiences a buoyant restoring force that resists further distortions of the magnetic field. This restoring force is analogous to the buoyant restoring force experienced by a stably stratified adiabatic plasma. We argue that in order for a driving mechanism (e.g, galaxy motions or cosmic-ray buoyancy) to overcome this restoring force and generate turbulence in the ICM, the strength of the driving must exceed a threshold, corresponding to turbulent velocities $\gtrsim 10 -100 {km/s}$. For weaker driving, the ICM remains in its nonlinearly stable magnetic configuration, and turbulent mixing is effectively absent. We discuss the implications of these findings for the turbulent diffusion of metals and heat in the ICM.
description: 8 pages, 2 figs., submitted to the conference proceedings of "The Monster's Fiery Breath;" a follow up of arXiv:0901.4786 focusing on the general mixing properties of the ICM
The Prevalence and Correlation between Degenerative Change of Cervical and Lumbar Spine
Creators: name: Kitjapat Tirachanvut
name: Thipthara Tarathipayakul
name: Pumibal Wetpiriyakul
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: cervical spine
lumbar spine
magnetic resonance imaging
modic changes
correlation

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 357-362
Suspension control performance improvement on a dipole interior permanent magnet bearingless slice motor
Creators: name: Chen, Ouyang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Bearingless motors, whose rotors are magnetically suspended without physical contact, show advantages in applications that require high speed and clean working environment. However, due to the natural instability of radial displacements, radial suspension control is essential for rotor operation. In this thesis, we improve the suspension control performance for our dipole interior permanent magnet bearingless slice motor by developing a new current-to-force model and re-designing suspension controller for eliminating self-excitation behaviour. The proposed suspension force model, derived using magnetic co-energy method and verified by finite element analysis, aims to reduce the radial displacements and increase stability of suspension comparing to the conventional model. Radial displacement measurements show that our proposed model significantly reduces radial displacements at high speed and increases the maximum speed of the rotor. We also investigate the undesired self-excitation behaviour that the rotor speed is maintained even if the torque command is zero. Stress tensor method and finite element analysis indicate that additional torque is generated due to rotor eccentricity. The self-excitation behaviour is eliminated by suppressing the peak of the suspension loop sensitivity function, so as to reduce the maximum rotor eccentricity during the rotation.
Taxing the Family Work: Aid for Affluent Husband Care
Creators: name: McCluskey, Martha T.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: The income of the classic breadwinner married to a homemaker receives a tax advantage under federal income tax law. The conventional wisdom holds that any resulting inequities to unmarried persons or dual-earning marriages cannot be corrected without producing similarly problematic inequities. This Article challenges that dilemma by analyzing the inequity of the marital tax system from a new perspective. This Article argues that the perceived “bonus” for breadwinner-homemaker marriages is best understood as an implicit policy of “aid for affluent husband care.” Recent tax reforms (up for renewal in 2010) that partly reduced the “marriage penalty” for some dual-earning couples are inequitable not simply because these reforms exclude upper-income and lower-income marriages while penalizing single persons. More fundamentally, this Article shows how these tax reforms increase a regressive system of support for the family caretaking labor on which income earning depends. This Article aims to show how a change to individualized, more progressive rates could more equitably treat income earning and informal caretaking labor regardless of family status.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
Pulse Dose versus Continuous Dose of Calciferol on Vascular Stiffness in Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Trial
Creators: name: Naphat Wutilertcharoenwong
name: Korrakot Pornchaichanakit
name: Tanun Ngamvichchukorn
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: calciferol
chronic kidney disease
pulse wave velocity

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 363-372
What is Driving the HI Velocity Dispersion?
Creators: name: Tamburro, D.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Leroy, A. K.
name: Mac Low, M. -M.
name: Walter, F.
name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Brinks, E.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore what dominant physical mechanism sets the kinetic energy contained in neutral, atomic (HI) gas. We compare the HI line widths predicted from turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and magneto-rotational instability (MRI) to direct observations in 11 disk galaxies. We use high-quality maps of the HI mass surface density and line width, obtained by the THINGS survey. We show that all sample galaxies exhibit a systematic radial decline in the HI line width, which appears to be a generic property of HI disks and also implies a radial decline in kinetic energy density of HI. At a galactocentric radius of r25 there is a characteristic value of the HI velocity dispersion of $10\pm2$ \kms. Inside this radius, galaxies show HI line widths above the thermal value expected from a warm HI component, implying that turbulence drivers must be responsible for maintaining this line width. Therefore, we compare maps of HI kinetic energy to maps of the star formation rate (SFR) and to predictions for energy generated by MRI. We find a positive correlation between kinetic energy of HI and SFR. For a given turbulence dissipation timescale we can estimate the energy input required to maintain the observed kinetic energy. The SN rate implied by the observed recent SFR is sufficient to maintain the observed velocity dispersion, if the SN feedback efficiency is at least ε_SN\simeq0.1. Beyond r25, this efficiency would have to increase to unrealistic values, $ε>1$, suggesting that mechanical energy from young stars does not supply most energy in outer disks. On the other hand, both thermal broadening and turbulence driven by MRI can produce the velocity dispersions and kinetic energies that we observe in this regime.
Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Heart failure at the Heart Failure Clinic, Sunpasitthiprasong Hospital
Creators: name: Waiyaporn Promwong
name: Jaroonsree Meenongwah
name: Sumitar Veerakul
name: Wilaiwan Plookcharoen
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: self-care behavior
quality of life
heart failure
heart failure clinic

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 373-386
Full Quantum Analysis of Two-Photon Absorption Using Two-Photon Wavefunction: Comparison with One-Photon Absorption
Creators: name: Nakanishi, Toshihiro
name: Kobayashi, Hirokazu
name: Sugiyama, Kazuhiko
name: Kitano, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For dissipation-free photon-photon interaction at the single photon level, we analyze one-photon transition and two-photon transition induced by photon pairs in three-level atoms using two-photon wavefunctions. We show that the two-photon absorption can be substantially enhanced by adjusting the time correlation of photon pairs. We study two typical cases: Gaussian wavefunction and rectangular wavefunction. In the latter, we find that under special conditions one-photon transition is completely suppressed while the high probability of two-photon transition is maintained.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Correcting Myopia in Domestic Violence Advocacy: Moving Forward in Lawyering and Law School Clinics
Creators: name: Carey, Camille
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: Lawyers and law school clinics have become myopic in their approach to civil domestic violence lawyering. This article argues that domestic violence lawyering should expand beyond its current focus on family law to move domestic violence law and practice forward. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from criminal law and feminist legal theory, this article proposes a lawyering model that expands individual representation across a wide spectrum of case types while also challenging systems that enable battering or do not support victims in their efforts to secure safety. Holistic representation in family law, public benefits, immigration, housing, mortgage foreclosure, tort, and financial matters, among other substantive areas, better serves domestic violence victims and reveals systemic problems facing victims. By taking a dual approach—broad holistic representation of individual victims combined with law reform efforts directed at systemic issues revealed through broad direct representation—lawyers and law school clinics can move domestic violence advocacy forward.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
The UKIDSS-2MASS Proper Motion Survey I: Ultracool dwarfs from UKIDSS DR4
Creators: name: Deacon, N. R.
name: Hambly, N. C.
name: King, R. R.
name: McCaughrean, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) is the first of a new generation of infrared surveys. Here we combine the data from two UKIDSS components, the Large Area Survey (LAS) and the Galactic Cluster Survey (GCS), with 2MASS data to produce an infrared proper motion survey for low mass stars and brown dwarfs. In total we detect 267 low mass stars and brown dwarfs with significant proper motions. We recover all ten known single L dwarfs and the one known T dwarf above the 2MASS detection limit in our LAS survey area and identify eight additional new candidate L dwarfs. We also find one new candidate L dwarf in our GCS sample. Our sample also contains objects from eleven potential common proper motion binaries. Finally we test our proper motions and find that while the LAS objects have proper motions consistent with absolute proper motions, the GCS stars may have proper motions which are significantly under-estimated. This is due possibly to the bulk motion of some of the local astrometric reference stars used in the proper motion determination.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Provider Satisfaction with the VJR-NMU-N99 Half-Piece Respirator to Prevent Coronavirus Disease-2019
Creators: name: Patiporn Bunyaphatkun
name: Manomaipiboon, Anan
name: Thananda Trakarnvanich
name: Sujaree Pupipatpab
name: Pongsathorn Chomdee
name: Anusang Chitsomkasem
name: Yutthana Apichatbutr
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: personal satisfaction
respiratory protective device
invention
SARS Coronavirus-2

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 387-398
Axial Nucleon to Delta transition form factors on 2+1 flavor hybrid lattices
Creators: name: Alexandrou, C.
name: Koutsou, G.
name: Leontiou, Th.
name: Negele, J. W.
name: Tsapalis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We correct the values of the dominant nucleon to Delta axial transition form factors CA_5 and CA_6 published in C. Alexandrou et.al., Phys. Rev. D 76,094511 (2007). The analysis error affects only the values obtained when using the hybrid action in the low Q^2 regime bringing them into agreement with those obtained with Wilson fermions.
description: 1+2 pages, 2 figures, 1 Table, Erratum to C. Alexandrou et.al., Phys. Rev. D 76, 094511 (2007)
Necessary Third Parties: Multidisciplinary Collaboration and Inadequate Professional Privileges in Domestic Violence Practice
Creators: name: Baker, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: The rise of multidisciplinary practices among public- interest lawyers and other professionals promotes more effective and thorough services for vulnerable clients. Attorneys, counselors, social workers and others are recognizing that clients may present issues that transcend the scope and purpose of a single profession. In various forms, these professionals create formal or ad hoc partnerships as they minster to whole clients, not just to a client’s peculiar, momentary problem. For victims of domestic violence, these collaborations can yield more successful outcomes and fruitful service, can be necessary for competent representation, and may even be critical to her very survival. As the client works to escape a violent and oppressive relationship, her diverse professional servants must address the acute conflation of legal, medical, psychological, emotional and financial crises that beset her.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
An ultra-massive fast-spinning white dwarf in a peculiar binary system
Creators: name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Tiengo, A.
name: Esposito, P.
name: La Palombara, N.
name: Israel, G. L.
name: Stella, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: White dwarfs typically have masses in a narrow range centered at about 0.6 solar masses (Msun). Only a few ultra-massive white dwarfs (M>1.2 Msun) are known. Those in binary systems are of particular interest because a small amount of accreted mass could drive them above the Chandrasekhar limit, beyond which they become gravitationally unstable. Using data from the XMM-Newton satellite, we show that the X-ray pulsator RX J0648.0-4418 is a white dwarf with mass > 1.2 Msun, based only on dynamical measurements. This ultra-massive white dwarf in a post-common envelope binary with a hot subdwarf can reach the Chandrasekhar limit, and possibly explode as a Type Ia supernova, when its helium-rich companion will transfer mass at an increased rate through Roche lobe overflow.
description: Science article and Supporting Online Material are available at http://www.sciencemag.org/ Submitted 13 May 2009; accepted 23 July 2009
SU(5) orientifolds, Yukawa couplings, Stringy Instantons and Proton Decay
Creators: name: Kiritsis, Elias
name: Lennek, Michael
name: Schellekens, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a large class of SU(5) orientifold vacua with tadpole cancellation both for the standard and the flipped case. We give a general analysis of superpotential couplings up to quartic order in orientifold vacua and identify the properties of needed Yukawa couplings as well as the baryon number violating couplings. We point out that successful generation of the perturbatively forbidden Yukawa couplings entails a generically disastrous rate for proton decay from an associated quartic term in the superpotential, generated from the same instanton effects. We search for the appropriate instanton effects that generate the missing Yukawa couplings in the SU(5) vacua we constructed and find them in a small subset of them.
description: 37 pages (v2) References added. Brief discussion of F-theory refined
Raising the Standard of Abortion Informed Consent: Lessons to be Learned from the Ethical and Legal Requirements for Consent to Medical Experimentation
Creators: name: Seo, Jennifer Y.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2011

description: In the aftermath of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey,’ state legislatures have restricted access to abortions by regulating the informed consent process. Taking as an invitation the Court’s holding that a state is permitted “to further its legitimate goal of protecting the life of the unborn by enacting legislation aimed at ensuring a decision that is mature and informed, even when in so doing the State expresses a preference for childbirth over abortion,”2 states began to legally mandate specific required disclosures, language, or procedures for obtaining informed consent to abortions. While all states require informed consent before medical procedures either by statute or by case law, the details of the process have .traditionally been self-regulated by the medical profession through medical ethics.3 Currently, thirty-four states have abortion-specific informed consent statutes.4 However, these statutes mandate disclosures of information that not only go beyond what is required for other medical procedures, but also include information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant to the particular abortion procedure to be performed. Thus, states, under the shield of the Casey decision, have used abortion informed consent statutes to express their preference for childbirth over abortion in a way that serves to unduly influence a woman’s choice, in violation of the ethical boundaries of medical informed consent.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2011)
Hypoxia-Inducible Factors as Key Players in the Pathogenesis of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis
Creators: name: Holzner, Lorenz M. W.
name: Murray, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)
chronic intermittent hypoxia
obstructive sleep apnea
fibrosis
metabolism
inflammation

description: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its more severe form non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are a major public health concern with high and increasing global prevalence, and a significant disease burden owing to its progression to more severe forms of liver disease and the associated risk of cardiovascular disease. Treatment options, however, remain scarce, and a better understanding of the pathological and physiological processes involved could enable the development of new therapeutic strategies. One process implicated in the pathology of NAFLD and NASH is cellular oxygen sensing, coordinated largely by the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) family of transcription factors. Activation of HIFs has been demonstrated in patients and mouse models of NAFLD and NASH and studies of activation and inhibition of HIFs using pharmacological and genetic tools point toward important roles for these transcription factors in modulating central aspects of the disease. HIFs appear to act in several cell types in the liver to worsen steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis, but may nevertheless improve insulin sensitivity. Moreover, in liver and other tissues, HIF activation alters mitochondrial respiratory function and metabolism, having an impact on energetic and redox homeostasis. This article aims to provide an overview of current understanding of the roles of HIFs in NAFLD, highlighting areas where further research is needed.
Nutritional Status in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Exacerbation of COPD
Creators: name: Sunisa Khamharn
name: Silairatana, Santi
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: nutrition
malnutrition
COPD
COPD with acute exacerbation
nutrition status in COPD with acute exacerbation

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 399-414
PARTHENOS D8.5 Third Year Communication Report, and Updated Communication Plan
Creators: name: Uiterwaal, Frank
name: Drenth, Petra
name: Sbarbati, Stefano
name: Bassett, Sheena
name: Spiecker, Claus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: This deliverable presents the work of PARTHENOS WP8 “Communication, dissemination and outreach” during the second year of the project (May 2017-April 2018). The present deliverable evaluates project’s communication activities up until the end of year two, and proposes a plan of action for year three.

All PARTHENOS deliverables are available at: http://www.parthenos-project.eu/resources/projects-deliverables
Development and Phenotypic Characterisation of a CRISPR/Cas9 Model of Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency in Zebrafish
Creators: name: Choueiri, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neurodegenerative disease
Riboflavin transporter deficiency
Zebrafish
CRISPR/Cas9
Probenecid
Morpholino

description: Riboflavin transport is mediated, in part, by riboflavin transporter proteins 2 and 3, encoded by SLC52A2 and SLC52A3, respectively. Biallelic mutations in SLC52A2 and SLC52A3 impair riboflavin transporter protein function and riboflavin transport, causing disruptions to mitochondrial metabolism which result in sensory and motor neurodegeneration and give rise to riboflavin transporter deficiency (RTD) in humans. RTD is a rare neurodegenerative disease characterised by respiratory compromise, muscle and limb weakness, and vision and hearing impairments. RTD patients are treated with high-dose riboflavin supplementation which is effective in over 70% of cases but can be ineffective due to rapid excretion of riboflavin when its plasma concentration exceeds 0.5 μM. To address the need for alternative or supplemental RTD treatment, this study generated morpholino-mediated knockdown and CRISPR/Cas9 models of RTD in zebrafish. An RTD-like phenotype is observed in these RTD models including hearing loss, decreased motor axon length, and impaired locomotor activity. The slc52a3 morphant phenotype was found to be specific via coinjection of slc52a3 morpholino/human SLC52A3 mRNA, which achieved effective rescue of the morphant phenotype, as well as slc52a3 morpholino/p53 morpholino coinjection, which maintains the slc52a3 morphant phenotype. In line with clinical findings, riboflavin supplementation resulted in some improvement of the morphant phenotype. Probenecid was selected as a candidate drug due to its inhibitory effect on OAT-3, which mediates riboflavin excretion. However, supplementing riboflavin treatment with probenecid provided no additional benefit to the slc52a3 knockdown model. Further development of CRISPR/Cas9-knockout lines of slc52a2 and slc52a3, as well continued therapeutic screening of riboflavin and probenecid and consideration of alternative therapeutics will provide more opportunities to uncover novel therapeutic strategies to improve RTD treatment.
Enhancing Celestial Imaging: High Dynamic Range with Neuromorphic Cameras
Creators: name: Yadav, Satyapreet Singh
name: Roy, Nirupam
name: Thakur, Chetan Singh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conventional frame-based cameras often struggle with limited dynamic range, leading to saturation and loss of detail when capturing scenes with significant brightness variations. Neuromorphic cameras, inspired by human retina, offer a solution by providing an inherently high dynamic range. This capability enables them to capture both bright and faint celestial objects without saturation effects, preserving details across a wide range of luminosities. This paper investigates the application of neuromorphic imaging technology for capturing celestial bodies across a wide range of flux levels. Its advantages are demonstrated through examples such as the bright planet Saturn with its faint moons and the bright star Sirius A alongside its faint companion, Sirius B.
Analysis of algebraic flux correction schemes for semi-discrete advection problems
Creators: name: Hajduk, Hennes
name: Rupp, Andreas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic flux correction
subject: Time-dependent advection equation
subject: Stability and a priori error estimates
subject: Monolithic limiting
subject: Semi-discrete analysis
subject: 510

description: Based on recent developments regarding the analysis of algebraic flux correction schemes, we consider a locally bound-preserving discretization of the time-dependent advection equation. Specifically, we analyze a monolithic convex limiting scheme based on piecewise (multi-)linear continuous finite elements in the semi-discrete formulation. To stabilize the discretization, we use low order time derivatives in the definition of raw antidiffusive fluxes. Our analytical investigation reveals that their limited counterparts should satisfy a certain compatibility condition. The conducted numerical experiments suggest that this prerequisite is satisfied unless the size of mesh elements is vastly different.We prove global-in-time existence of semi-discrete approximations and derive an a priori error estimate for finite time intervals with a worst-case convergence rate of 1 2 w. r. t. the L2 error. This rate is optimal in the setting under consideration because we allow all correction factors of the flux-corrected scheme to become zero. In this case, the algorithm reduces to the bound-preserving discrete upwinding method but the limited counterpart of this scheme converges much faster, in practice. Additional numerical experiments are performed to verify the provable convergence rate for a few variants of the scheme.
description: BIT : numerical mathematics; 63(1)
Mercenaries and Mayhem: The World of Private Military Corporations and the Need for Regulations
Creators: name: Valdez, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Pericles Institute
Year: 2025

description: Private Military Companies, PMCs, specialize in a variety of activities including combat operations, strategic planning, intelligence collection, and training. Among the largest are Academi of the United States and, most famously, Wagner used by Russia, both having major influence around the world, including in Sudan, the Central African Republic, Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, and Venezuela. Because two global powerhouses are using these PMCs, the lack of regulation and supervisory laws allows them to act with impunity, jeopardizing the security of millions. To protect the lives of citizens around the world, the international community needs to implement globally accepted agreements, training programs, citizen protection programs, data analysis, and administrative frameworks.
Triggered Star Formation in a Double Shell near W51A
Creators: name: Kang, Miju
name: Bieging, John H.
name: Kulesa, Craig A.
name: Lee, Youngung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Heinrich Hertz Telescope CO observations of the shell structure near the active star-forming complex W51A to investigate the process of star formation triggered by the expansion of an HII region. The CO observations confirm that dense molecular material has been collected along the shell detected in Spitzer IRAC images. The CO distribution shows that the shell is blown out toward a lower density region to the northwest. Total hydrogen column density around the shell is high enough to form new stars. We find two CO condensations with the same central velocity of 59 km/s to the east and north along the edge of the IRAC shell. We identify two YSOs in early evolutionary stages (Stage 0/I) within the densest molecular condensation. From the CO kinematics, we find that the HII region is currently expanding with a velocity of 3.4 km/s, implying that the shell's expansion age is ~1 Myr. This timescale is in good agreement with numerical simulations of the expansion of the HII region (Hosokawa et al. 2006). We conclude that the star formation on the border of the shell is triggered by the expansion of the HII region.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
The Effect of Nursing Process with Abdominal Massage on Constipation in Stroke Patients
Creators: name: Wanwisa Pattamawilai
name: Jiraporn Kespichayawattana
name: Pachanut Nunthaitaweekul
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2021
Subjects: nursing process
abdominal massage
constipation
stroke patients

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 65, 5, 415-424
Factor complexity of infinite words associated with non-simple Parry numbers
Creators: name: Klouda, Karel
name: Pelantová, Edita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68R15

description: The factor complexity of the infinite word $\ubeta$ canonically associated to a non-simple Parry number $β$ is studied. Our approach is based on the notion of special factors introduced by Berstel and Cassaigne. At first, we give a handy method for determining infinite left special branches; this method is applicable to a broad class of infinite words which are fixed points of a primitive substitution. In the second part of the article, we focus on infinite words $\ubeta$ only. To complete the description of its special factors, we define and study $(a,b)$-maximal left special factors. This enables us to characterize non-simple Parry numbers $β$ for which the word $\ubeta$ has affine complexity.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Exceptives Questionnaire - Tok Pisin
Creators: name: Lennox, Luané
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: exceptives, ellipsis, syntax, semantics, Tok Pisin

description: This file contains data on the exceptive construction in the Germanic creole Tok Pisin. It was collected under NSF projects BCS2116343 and BCS2116344, "Collaborative Research: Variation in Exceptive Structures."
Structural Parameters of the M87 Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Madrid, Juan P.
name: Harris, William E.
name: Blakeslee, John P.
name: Gomez, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive structural parameters for ~2000 globular clusters in the giant Virgo elliptical M87 using extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope images in F606W (V) and F814W (I) taken with the ACS/WFC. The cluster scale sizes (half-light radii r_h) and ellipticities are determined from PSF-convolved King-model profile fitting. We find that the r_h distribution closely resembles the inner Milky Way clusters, peaking at r_h~2.5 pc and with virtually no clusters more compact than r_h ~ 1 pc. The metal-poor clusters have on average an r_h 24% larger than the metal-rich ones. The cluster scale size shows a gradual and noticeable increase with galactocentric distance. Clusters are very slightly larger in the bluer waveband V a possible hint that we may be beginning to see the effects of mass segregation within the clusters. We also derived a color magnitude diagram for the M87 globular cluster system which show a striking bimodal distribution.
description: ApJ accepted
Liasis maculosus Pet.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Pythonidae
Liasis
Liasis maculosus

description: * Liasis maculosus Pet.
Australia v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 677, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
PARTHENOS D6.1 PARTHENOS Cloud Infrastructure
Creators: name: Pagano, Pasquale
name: Candela, Leonardo
name: Assante, Massimiliano
name: Frosini, Luca
name: Manghi, Paolo
name: Bardi, Alessia
name: Sinibaldi, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: This report describes the PARTHENOS e-infrastructure architecture: the hardware and the services. Hardware is organized as a dynamic cloud of virtual machines, supporting computation and storage, while the services are organized into e-infrastructure middleware, storage, and end user services.

All PARTHENOS deliverables are available at: http://www.parthenos-project.eu/resources/projects-deliverables
THE EMPIRE AT HOME: SURVEILLANCE, POLICING, AND THE RECIPROCAL NATURE OF U.S. EMPIRE
Creators: name: Sanford, Melissa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: U.S. empire
imperialism
surveillance
policing
foreign policy
national security

description: This study examines the ways in which U.S. imperialism manifests domestically during the period of late U.S. imperial hegemony through its decline (1990-2023) with an emphasis on overlapping elements of the national security state, domestic surveillance, and policing. Through the textual analysis of relevant legislation, Congressional investigations, and declassified documents the relationship between the U.S. empire abroad and the “empire” at home is established. The study challenges commonly held understandings regarding the impact of U.S. foreign policy domestically and illuminates the dialectical relationship between national security and American ideals of liberal democracy.
Reproductive outcomes in women and men using complementary and alternative medicine treatment and not receiving artificial reproductive technology: a systematic review
Creators: name: Yogasundram, Hannah M.
name: Hui, Andrew J. O.
name: Sia, Clifford Y. S.
name: Chui, Anthea C.
name: Waldock, William J.
name: Quenby, Siobhan
name: Brown, Elizabeth
name: Oliver-Williams, Clare
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Gynecologic Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine
Pregnancy
Conception
Live births
Miscarriage
Complementary medicine
Alternative medicine

description: Funder: Medical Research Council (GB)
description: Funder: British Heart Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000274
description: Funder: Homerton College, University of Cambridge; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008420
description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: Purpose: Infertility is a global problem, but only a minority of couples access assisted reproductive technologies due to financial and sociocultural barriers. Complementary and alternative medicine are seen as another option. We aimed to determine the impact of complementary and alternative medicine on conception, miscarriage and live birth rates in couples not receiving assisted reproductive technology treatments. Methods: The electronic databases EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science and the Allied and Complementary Medicine Database were systematically searched before March 24th 2020. Reference lists of eligible studies were searched for relevant studies. Eligible studies included trials and observational studies that assessed a complementary or alternative medicine and conception, miscarriage or live births in men or women not undergoing fertility treatment. Data were extracted by two independent reviewers using a pre-designed data collection form. The study protocol was published in the PROSPERO database (CRD42018086980). Results: Twenty randomized controlled trials were identified, including 2748 individuals. Most studies did not demonstrate any effect of a complementary or alternative medicine on pregnancy, live birth or miscarriage rates. Limited evidence was found for a positive effect of herbal therapies taken by women on conception rates. There was substantial diversity in quality across the studies. Conclusion: There is limited evidence of the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine on improving the chances of conception and live births, or increasing miscarriage risk. Owing to the generally sub-optimal quality and heterogeneous nature of the evidence, rigorous studies are needed to determine the impact of complementary and alternative medicine on fertility.
Radically art historical : Attila Richard Lukacs and the weight of history
Creators: name: Willis V, John (Johnny)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: “Radically Art Historical” presents a critical overview of the first decade of the Canadian painter Attila Richard Lukacs’s infamous career as Canada’s “bad boy artist” in the 1980s and 1990s. Produced in direct collaboration with the artist, the thesis underscores the degree to which Lukacs’s appropriation of art history, and Caravaggio in particular, enabled his monumental scenes of queer male sexuality to enter into the spaces and collections of major international museums at the height of the AIDS crisis. I demonstrate that, passed through the art historical sieve of respectability, Lukacs’s work enabled gay sex to finally have a place on the wall of museums. Lukacs’s objectives, however, were much too deconstructive to be summarized as mere identity politics. Throughout the thesis, I demonstrate that Lukacs was engaged in a Derridean campaign of deconstruction, simultaneously citing and undercutting binary oppositions such as East and West, gay and straight, and past and present. Through careful examinations of his massive tableaux featuring hyper-eroticized skinheads as historical actants, I clarify Lukacs’s thematization of German division, reunification, and historical memory in relationship to both deconstruction and the fall of the Berlin Wall. I illustrate the degree to which Lukacs’s antibinaristic epistemology forms a distinctly queer ethos that harks back to a long lineage of transgressive queer thought from Genet to Foucault, and further, how it evinces a “criminal” strategy that corresponds with the history of art and homosexuality. The thesis also interrogates Lukacs’s deconstructive treatment of masculinity, revealing a parallel between the imitative nature of masculinity and Lukacs’s imitative yet parodic approach to art history. Lastly, the thesis investigates the relationship of Lukacs’s work to the transformations and devastations of the queer body politic during the 1980s and 1990s, elucidating the artist’s antibinaristic, horizontal ontology through his use of paint as a metaphor for flesh. At its core, “Radically Art Historical” works to recuperate Lukacs’s defining work that has since receded from public attention as one of Canada’s most significant living artists, underscoring the degree to which the work unravels the often neglected relationship between sex, art history, and politics.