cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Normal life for a child in wartime
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: I was born at Minster Hospital, Isle of Sheppey, delivered by an army nurse, on 7th April, 1940. I just have a few memories of the war.Every evening, the black blinds that had to be used without fail before the lights were used.The siren sometimes used when my Mum took me out shopping and we all had to run to the shelters by the seawall.I remember seeing the searchlights that used to sweep across the Island when it got dark.In the garden I used to collect shrapnel in my little toy bucket.At weekends my parents sometime used to take me to the VC, a local social club. We would sit in the grounds in fine weather and, when I was old enough, I was taken into the hall for a dance around.Although I was very young, these memories are very clear in my mind, and I thought that was how the world was always.
Finding Radio Pulsars in and Beyond the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Cordes, James M.
name: Lazio, T. Joseph W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio-wave scattering is enhanced dramatically for Galactic center sources in a region with radius >~ 15 arc min. Using scattering from Sgr A* and other sources, we show that pulse broadening for pulsars in the Galactic center is {\em at least} 6.3 ν^{-4} seconds (ν= radio frequency in GHz) and is most likely 50--200 times larger because the relevant scattering screen appears to be within the Galactic center region itself. Pulsars beyond---but viewed through---the Galactic center suffer even greater pulse broadening and are angularly broadened by ~ 7 GHz and by testing for small numbers of harmonics in the power spectrum. The optimal frequency is $ν~ 7.3 GHz (Δ_{0.1}P\sqrtα)^{-1/4}$ where Δ_{0.1} is the distance of the scattering region from Sgr A* in units of 0.1 kpc, P is the period (seconds), and αis the spectral index. A search for compact sources using aperture synthesis may be far more successful than searches for periodicities because the angular broadening is not so large as to desensitize the survey. We estimate that the number of {\em detectable} pulsars in the Galactic center may range from <= 1 to 100, with the larger values resulting from recent, vigorous starbursts. Such pulsars provide unique opportunities for probing the ionized gas, gravitational potential, and stellar population near Sgr A*.
description: 13 pages, 4 PS figures, LaTeX and requires AASTeX macro aas2pp4, accepted by ApJ, also available as http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/SPIGOT/papers/pulsar/gc_psr.web/
A Comparative Study to illustrate the Effects of Beta-1 Adrenergic Receptor Allelic Polymorphism on Disease Outcome in Iraqi Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (on Metoprolol Therapy)
Creators: name: Swadi, AA
name: Mohammad, BI
name: Hadi, NR
name: Al-Aubaidy, Hayder
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Objective: The response to metoprolol therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is variable and a substantial element of this variability is linked to variation in CYP2D6 enzyme and adrenoreceptor (ADRB1) alleles, genotype polymorphism, affecting the phenotype in terms of both rate of metabolism of the active metoprolol (and hence its metabolic ratio) and the responsiveness of ADRB1 receptors to bound metoprolol. This study aims to investigate different clinically relevant allele variants (allele frequencies) of ADRB1 genes: (Arg389Gly: Gly/Gly, Gly/Arg, Arg/Gly) and to determine whether a specific genotype of Beta-1 adrenergic receptor genes (based on genetic polymorphism "allelic types" and combination) have impact on metoprolol effectiveness (clinical outcome) in Arabic Iraqi patients with ACS. Methods: Two-hundred and fifty patients with ACS were enrolled in this study and divided into 2 study groups: Group 1 (125 ACS patients receiving metoprolol) and Group 2 (125 ACS patients received no metoprolol therapy). Two millilitres of venous blood samples were collected and stored at -20 C for DNA extraction. Urine samples were also collected to assess the metabolic ratio using High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Results: There were significant variations in the distribution of the Iraqi patients with respect to CYP2D6 allelic polymorphism in comparison with nearby, Western and Eastern countries and that significant difference contributed to patients’ outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality in respect to variable genotypes and phenotypes. Conclusion: These findings suggest that individualization of metoprolol in patients with ACS is essential to improve patients’ outcome.
Computing the spectrum of non self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems with parameter dependent boundary conditions
Creators: name: Chanane, Bilal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34B24, 34L15, 34L16, 65L10, 65L15

description: This paper deals with the computation of the eigenvalues of non self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville problems with parameter dependent boundary conditions using the \textit{regularized sampling method}. A few numerical examples among which singular ones will be presented to illustrate the merit of the method and comparison made with the exact eigenvalues when they are available.
Vaccinium ligustrinum Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Vaccinium
Vaccinium ligustrinum

description: Vaccinium ligustrinum, spec. nov.
8. Vaccinium racemis nudis, caule fruticoso, foliis crenulatis oblongis.
 Habitat in Pensylvania . Kalm. ♄
 Flores in Racemis alternis, numerosis, destitutis bracteis, δ. foliolis, qua nota facile distingvitur.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 351, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Cost-effectiveness analysis of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy for the treatment of metastatic, persistent, or recurrent cervical cancer (BEATcc)
Creators: name: Zhu, Yixiao
name: Shi, Fenghao
name: Lin, Huiting
name: Cao, Yingdan
name: Yi, Hongbin
name: Han, Sheng
name: Wei, Xiaoxia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The addition of atezolizumab to bevacizumab plus platinum regimen has demonstrated notable improvements in treating metastatic, persistent, or recurrent cervical cancer, but its cost-effectiveness requires further investigation. From a US payer perspective, we aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy vs. standard chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for metastatic, persistent, or recurrent cervical cancer. A partitioned survival model based on the data from the BEATcc trial was used to calculate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), using cost and health utility information obtained from literature and publicly accessible databases. One-way and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were performed to evaluate the model’s responsiveness to variations in parameters. The addition of atezolizumab resulted in an additional 0.839 quality-adjusted life years (QALY) at an additional cost of $458,237, leading to an ICER of $545,943/QALY. One-way sensitivity analysis indicated that the cost of atezolizumab had the greatest impact on the ICER, followed by the utility value of progression-free survival (PFS) and follow-up costs. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis showed a 0% cost-effectiveness probability at the current willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold of $150,000 per QALY. Adding atezolizumab to chemotherapy is cost-prohibitive in the US and may not be cost-effective for patients.
Minimal constrained superfields and the Fayet-Iliopoulos model
Creators: name: Benakli, Karim
name: Chen, Yifan
name: Goodsell, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the necessary constraints to project out all the components of a chiral superfield except for some scalar degrees of freedom originate from simple operators in the microscopic theory. This is in particular useful in constructing the simplest models of a goldstone boson/inflaton; or extracting the Standard Model Higgs doublet from a supersymmetric electroweak sector. We use the Fayet-Iliopoulos model as an example of the origin for the supersymmetry breaking. We consider the regime where both gauge symmetry and supersymmetry are spontaneously broken, leaving (in the decoupling limit) the goldstino as the only light mode in this sector. We show in three different ways, both in components and in superspace language, how the nilpotent goldstino superfield emerges. We then use it to write different effective operators and extract some of the consequences for the low energy spectrum.
description: 17 pages. References added. Published version
title: De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
title: La ténosynovite de De quervain
Creators: name: Ksir, Salma
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ténosynovite de De Quervain; Court extenseur du pouce; Long abducteur du pouce; infiltrations.

description: De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is an inadequacy between the abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons and the osteo-fibrous tunnel in the first extensor compartment of the wrist. The main clinical feature is pain around the radial styloid process, exacerbed by movements of the thumb and by passive ulnar deviation of the wrist with the thumb flexed maximally. The diagnosis is clinical. ultrasound aid to to confirm the suspected diagnosis , the presence of anatomic variants, provide guidance at the time of steroid injection and supply the follow-up of lesions. The treatment is essentially conservative and combined immobilization to symptomatic drugs. Corticoids infilrations are indicated in case of persistant pain or important inflammation. The surgical approach is considered with the recurrence of the painful symptoms in spite of a welldone medical management.
description: La ténosynovite de De Quervain résulte d’une inadéquation entre les tendons du long abducteur et du court extenseur du pouce et le tunnel ostéofibreux dans le premier compartiment dorsal du poignet. Elle se caractérise par une douleur sur le versant radial du poignet, accentuée par les mouvements du pouce lors de l’inclinaison ulnaire. Le diagnostic est clinique. L’échographie confirme le diagnostic clinique en cas de doute et à précise les variantes anatomiques. Elle guide les infiltrations de corticoïdes et permet le suivi lésionnel. Le traitement est avant tout conservateur consistant à une immobilisation et un traitement symptomatique. Les infiltrations de corticoïdes sont indiquées en cas d’échec ou composante inflammatoire majeure. L’indication chirurgicale est considérée lorsque les douleurs sont persistantes malgré un traitement médical bien conduit.
Hard thermal loops in a magnetic field and the chiral anomaly
Creators: name: Elmfors, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fermionic dispersion relation in the presence of a background magnetic field and a high temperature QED plasma is calculated exactly in the external field, using the Hard Thermal Loop effective action. As the field strength increases there is a smooth transition from the weak-field ($qB\ll q^2T^2$) thermal dispersion relations to the vacuum Landau levels when the background field is much stronger than any thermal effects ($qB\gg q^2T^2$). The self-energy at finite field strength acquires an imaginary part. The spectral width becomes important for critical field strengths ($qB \sim q^2T^2$), necessitating the use of the full spectral function. It is shown that the spectral function satisfies the usual condition of normalization and causality. Using the exact spectral function I also show that the production of chirality in an external electromagnetic field at high temperature is unaffected by the presence of the thermal masses of the fermions.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures, latex
Vaccinium arctostaphylos Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Vaccinium
Vaccinium arctostaphylos

description: Vaccinium arctostaphylos, spec. nov.
9. Vaccinium floribus racemosis, foliis crenulatis ovatis acutis, caule arboreo.
 Vitis idaea orientalis maxima, cerasi folio, flore variegato. Tournef. cor. 42. it.2. p.223. t.223.
 β. Vitis idaea cappadocica maxima, mespili folio, flore variegato. Tournef. cor. 42.
 Habitat in Cappadocia . ♄
 Racemi foliis longiores, infra folia siti, foliolis ovatis instructi.    * Foliis sempervirentibus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 351, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Functional limit laws for the increments of the quantile process; with applications
Creators: name: Viallon, Vivian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15, 60F17 (Primary); 62G07 (Secondary)

description: We establish a functional limit law of the logarithm for the increments of the normed quantile process based upon a random sample of size $n\to\infty$. We extend a limit law obtained by Deheuvels and Mason (12), showing that their results hold uniformly over the bandwidth $h$, restricted to vary in $[h'_n,h''_n]$, where $\{h'_n\}_{n\geq1}$ and $\{h''_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ are appropriate non-random sequences. We treat the case where the sample observations follow possibly non-uniform distributions. As a consequence of our theorems, we provide uniform limit laws for nearest-neighbor density estimators, in the spirit of those given by Deheuvels and Mason (13) for kernel-type estimators.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-EJS099 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Supplemental Methods from To eat or not to eat: ontogeny of hypothalamic feeding controls and a role for leptin in modulating life-history transition in amphibian tadpoles
Creators: name: Bender, Melissa Cui
name: Hu, Caroline
name: Pelletier, Chris
name: Denver, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Many animal life histories entail changing feeding ecology, but the molecular bases for these transitions are poorly understood. The amphibian tadpole is typically a growth and dispersal life-history stage. Tadpoles are primarily herbivorous, and they capitalize on growth opportunities to reach a minimum body size to initiate metamorphosis. During metamorphic climax, feeding declines, at which time the gastrointestinal tract (GI) remodels to accommodate the carnivorous diet of the adult frog. Here we show that anorexigenic hypothalamic feeding controls are absent in the tadpole, but develop during metamorphosis concurrent with the production of the satiety signal leptin. Before metamorphosis there is a large increase in leptin mRNA in fat tissue. Leptin receptor mRNA increased during metamorphosis in the preoptic area/hypothalamus, the key brain region involved with the control of food intake and metabolism. This corresponded with an increase in functional leptin receptor, as evidenced by induction of socs3 mRNA and phosphorylated STAT3 immunoreactivity, and suppression of feeding behaviour after injection of recombinant frog leptin. Furthermore, we found that immunoneutralization of leptin in tadpoles at metamorphic climax caused them to resume feeding. The absence of negative regulation of food intake in the tadpole allows the animal to maximize growth prior to metamorphosis. Maturation of leptin-responsive neural circuits suppresses feeding during metamorphosis to facilitate remodelling of the GI.
K and evolutionary corrections from UV to IR
Creators: name: Poggianti, Bianca Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $K$ and evolutionary corrections are given for the E, Sa and Sc Hubble types for the $U, B, V, R, I, J, H, K$ filters of the Johnson -- Bessell \& Brett photometric system and the $gri$ filters of the modified Thuan \& Gunn system up to the redshift $z=3$. Their dependence on the time scale of star formation in ellipticals is investigated. The corrections are computed according to an evolutionary synthesis model that reproduces the integrated galaxy spectrum in the range 1000-25\,000 Å; such a model makes use of an infrared observed stellar library and its results are compared with nearby galaxies. Evolving spectral energy distributions of the various Hubble types, as well as optical-IR and IR-IR colour evolution and adopted filter response functions are also given.
description: 8 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series, LaTeX l-aa.sty. Tables 3-41 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html . Figures available on request at bianca@astro.rug.nl
Supplemental Table 1 from To eat or not to eat: ontogeny of hypothalamic feeding controls and a role for leptin in modulating life-history transition in amphibian tadpoles
Creators: name: Bender, Melissa Cui
name: Hu, Caroline
name: Pelletier, Chris
name: Denver, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Many animal life histories entail changing feeding ecology, but the molecular bases for these transitions are poorly understood. The amphibian tadpole is typically a growth and dispersal life-history stage. Tadpoles are primarily herbivorous, and they capitalize on growth opportunities to reach a minimum body size to initiate metamorphosis. During metamorphic climax, feeding declines, at which time the gastrointestinal tract (GI) remodels to accommodate the carnivorous diet of the adult frog. Here we show that anorexigenic hypothalamic feeding controls are absent in the tadpole, but develop during metamorphosis concurrent with the production of the satiety signal leptin. Before metamorphosis there is a large increase in leptin mRNA in fat tissue. Leptin receptor mRNA increased during metamorphosis in the preoptic area/hypothalamus, the key brain region involved with the control of food intake and metabolism. This corresponded with an increase in functional leptin receptor, as evidenced by induction of socs3 mRNA and phosphorylated STAT3 immunoreactivity, and suppression of feeding behaviour after injection of recombinant frog leptin. Furthermore, we found that immunoneutralization of leptin in tadpoles at metamorphic climax caused them to resume feeding. The absence of negative regulation of food intake in the tadpole allows the animal to maximize growth prior to metamorphosis. Maturation of leptin-responsive neural circuits suppresses feeding during metamorphosis to facilitate remodelling of the GI.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Vaccinium
Vaccinium vitis-Idaea

description: Vaccinium vitis-idaea, spec. nov.
10. Vaccinium racemis terminalibus nutantibus, foliis obovatis revolutis integerrimis subtus punctatis.
 Vaccinium foliis obverse ovatis perennantibus. Fl. lapp. 145. Fl. suec. 314. Mat. med. 185. Hort. cliff. 148. Roy. lugdb. 239. Hall. helv. 414. Gort. gelr. 81.
 Vitis idaea foliis subrotundis non crenatis, baccis rubris. Bauh. pin. 470.
 Habitat in Europae frigidioris sylvis macris. ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 351, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
The Electroweak Phase Transition through the Renormalization Group
Creators: name: Tetradis, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the high-temperature phase transitions for the Abelian and $SU(2)$ Higgs models, using the exact renormalization group. The evolution equation for a properly-defined coarse-grained free energy is solved. The phase diagram of the Abelian Higgs model has a region of second-order phase transitions governed by fixed points, for which we calculate critical exponents and crossover curves. It also has a region of first-order phase transitions, which we discuss in terms of the coarse-grained free energy. The $SU(2)$ Higgs model for small Higgs field masses has only first-order phase transitions. We derive their properties and compare with lattice and perturbative results. For larger Higgs field masses the strength of the first-order phase transitions diminishes. For masses larger than 80-100 GeV we find evidence that they are replaced by analytical crossovers.
description: 48 pages, 17 figures (some additions to the labels included in the captions), LaTeX file
The Nature of the X-Ray Emission and the Mass Distributions in Two Early-Type Galaxies
Creators: name: Buote, David A.
name: Canizares, Claude R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectral analysis of $ASCA$ observations of the early-type galaxies NGC 720 (E4) and NGC 1332 (E7/S0) with emphasis on constraining the relative contribution to the X-ray emission from hot gas and the integrated emission from X-ray binaries. Single-temperature spectral models yield poor fits to the spectrum ($χ^2_{red}\sim 3$) over the $\sim 0.5 - 5$ keV energy range. Two-temperature models significantly improve the spectral fits ($χ^2_{red}\sim 1.5$) and have soft-component temperatures and sub-solar abundances consistent with previous $ROSAT$ single-temperature models ($T_{soft}\sim 0.6$ keV, abundances $\sim 0.1$) and hard-component temperatures ($T_{hard}\gtrsim 3$ keV) consistent with those expected from a discrete component. The soft component dominates the emission in both galaxies, especially in the 0.4 - 2.4 keV band used in previous $ROSAT$ studies. Combining these spectral results with $ROSAT$ data we updated constraints on the mass distributions for NGC 720 and NGC 1332. For NGC 720, which yields the more precise constraints, the ellipticity of the intrinsic shape of the mass is slightly reduced $(Δε_{mass}\approx 0.05)$ when the discrete component is added, $ε_{mass}\sim 0.4-0.6$ $(90%)$. The estimates for the total mass increase with increasing discrete flux, and we find that models with $F_{hard}/F_{soft}=0.45$, the $2σ$ upper limit, have masses that exceed by $\sim 30% - 50%$ those where $F_{hard}/F_{soft}=0$.
description: 20 pages (4 figures), AASTeX manuscript with postscript figures, To appear in ApJ on January 10, 1997
Vaccinium oxycoccos Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Vaccinium
Vaccinium oxycoccos

description: Vaccinium oxycoccos, spec. nov.
11. Vaccinium foliis integerrimis revolutis ovatis, caulibus repentibus filiformibus nudis.
 Vaccinium ramis filiformibus repentibus, foliis ovatis perennantibus. Fl. lapp. 145.
 Vaccinium ramis filiformibus, foliis ovatis perennantibus, pedunculis simplicibus stipula duplici. Fl. suec. 318. Mat. med. 186.
 Vitis idaea palustris. Bauh. pin. 471.
 Vaccinia palustria. Dod. pempt. 770. Lob. ic. 109.
 Habitat in Europae paludibus sphagnoque repletis. ♃
 Racemus brevissimus, pedunculis longissimis: bracteis 2 alternis; Corolla revoluta.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 351-352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Remote quantum entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators
Creators: name: Riedinger, Ralf
name: Wallucks, Andreas
name: Marinkovic, Igor
name: Löschnauer, Clemens
name: Aspelmeyer, Markus
name: Hong, Sungkun
name: Gröblacher, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement, an essential feature of quantum theory that allows for inseparable quantum correlations to be shared between distant parties, is a crucial resource for quantum networks. Of particular importance is the ability to distribute entanglement between remote objects that can also serve as quantum memories. This has been previously realized using systems such as warm and cold atomic vapours, individual atoms and ions, and defects in solid-state systems. Practical communication applications require a combination of several advantageous features, such as a particular operating wavelength, high bandwidth and long memory lifetimes. Here we introduce a purely micromachined solid-state platform in the form of chip-based optomechanical resonators made of nanostructured silicon beams. We create and demonstrate entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators across two chips that are separated by 20 centimetres. The entangled quantum state is distributed by an optical field at a designed wavelength near 1550 nanometres. Therefore, our system can be directly incorporated in a realistic fibre-optic quantum network operating in the conventional optical telecommunication band. Our results are an important step towards the development of large-area quantum networks based on silicon photonics.
Secondary healthcare resource utilization and related costs associated with influenza-related hospital admissions in adult patients, England 2016 – 2020
Creators: name: de Courville, Caroline
name: Bricout, Hélène
name: Alvarez, Fabián P.
name: Clouting, Jasper
name: Patel, Sonya
name: Mohamed, Hafsa
name: Giblin, Shreena
name: Coles, Briana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study aims to investigate healthcare resource utilization and related costs for influenza virus infections in adults admitted into secondary care in England across four influenza seasons. This study includes all influenza admissions from the Hospital Episode Statistics database (HES) across England, September 2016 to March 2020. Descriptive analyses and comparative modeling techniques were used to assess the impact of influenza on risk groups of interest. Influenza admissions were estimated to cost £401 M. Average admission costs were heavily impacted by age and comorbid status, with comorbid patients representing 91% of costs. Additionally, patients with comorbidities treated in secondary care cost twice as much as non-comorbid patients, after adjusting for age and gender. Comorbid patients also had increased length of stay (LOS) and admissions to ICU, with patients’ LOS being a core contributing factor to higher costs. The study documents the substantial burden of influenza in England, emphasizing the impact of age and comorbid status on healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and related costs. The data presented offers critical information to healthcare systems evaluating new strategies to alleviate the winter pressures on the NHS; highlighting the need to implement vaccination campaigns with enhanced vaccinations and increased vaccine coverage.
Edwin Howe in World War 2
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This record contains details of the wartime experiences of Edwin Howe.
A Global $χ^2$ Analysis of Electroweak Data (including Fermion Masses and Mixing Angles) in SO(10) SUSY GUTs
Creators: name: Blazek, Tomas
name: Carena, Marcela
name: Raby, Stuart
name: Wagner, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a global $χ^2$ analysis of electroweak data, including fermion masses and mixing angles, in SO(10) SUSY GUTs. Just as precision electroweak data is used to test the Standard Model, the well determined Standard Model parameters are the precision electroweak data for testing theories beyond the Standard Model. In this talk we use the latest experimentally measured values for these parameters. We study several models discussed in the literature. One of these models provides an excellent fit to the low energy data with $χ^2 \sim 1$ for 3 degrees of freedom. We present our predictions for a few selected points in parameter space.
description: 8 pages, LateX type, talk presented by S. Raby at the Fourth International Conference on Supersymmetry (SUSY96), College Park, MD, May 29,1996
Behavioural Ecology: Sleeping Safely Carries Energetic Costs
Creators: name: Tworkowski, Lauren
name: Lesku, John
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Trade-offs shape animal behaviour. For decades, the study of trade-offs has provided insight into how animals make decisions, but they have rarely been explored in relation to sleep. A new study reveals a role for sleep in saving energy in garden warblers on a stopover during a northward migration, but with ecological costs.
On Mixing and Ergodicity in Locally Compact Motion Groups
Creators: name: Anoussis, M.
name: Gatzouras, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be a semi-direct product $G=A\times_ϕK$ with $A$ Abelian and $K$ compact. We characterize spread-out probability measures on $G$ that are mixing by convolutions by means of their Fourier transforms. A key tool is a spectral radius formula for the Fourier transform of a regular Borel measure on $G$ that we develop, and which is analogous to the well-known Beurling--Gelfand spectral radius formula. For spread-out probability measures on $G$, we also characterize ergodicity by means of the Fourier transform of the measure. Finally, we show that spread-out probability measures on such groups are mixing if and only if they are weakly mixing.
Neoperla sexlobata Chen & Du, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Zhi-Teng
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Neoperla
Neoperla sexlobata

description: Neoperla sexlobata Chen & Du, sp. nov. Figs. 12–17. Adult habitus. General color pale brown patterned with dark brown. Head as wide as pronotum, with a distinct dark stigma covering ocelli and anterior frons; compound eyes dark and antennae dark brown (Fig. 12). Pronotum disc pale brown with brown rugosities and dark brown posterior and lateral margins (Fig. 12). Wing membrane subhyaline, veins dark; legs brownish to dark brown. Cerci pale (Fig. 17). Male (Figs. 12–17). Forewing length 13.0– 13.5 mm, hindwing length 11.5–12.0 mm. The posteromedial margin of tergum 7 with paired subtriangular processes, the processes each with blunt tip and margined by sparse spines. Terga 8–9 each with two small sensilla basiconica patches medially, tergum 9 bearing long hairs. Hemitergal processes slender with sharp apex (Fig. 13). Aedeagal tube sclerotized at base with a rectangular sclerite ventrobasally. Aedeagal sac as long as tube, ventrally with a pair of small, lateral, spinous lobes and two large, mesal, spherical lobes, the large lobes one spinous and another membranous; dorsobasally with two small, lateral, spinous lobes; dorsal and ventroapical surface of sac bearing large spines except for the membranous apex (Figs. 14–16). Female. Unknown. Type material. Holotype: male, China: Hainan Province, Mt. Wuzhishan, 18.4645 N, 109.3811 E, 17 May, 2012, Hai-Yan Wu, Ji-Rui Wang (Insect Collection of Yangzhou University, China). Distribution. China (Hainan). Etymology. The species epithet refers to the six lobes of the aedeagus. Diagnosis. The aedeagal sac of this species has four small, spinous lobes and two large, spherical lobes; dorsal and ventroapical surface of sac have large spines except for the membranous apex Remarks. The new species is a member of the N. montivaga group. Aedeagal tube and sac of the new species is most similar to that of N. baisha Kong & Li, 2014. However in N. baisha, the aedeagal sac has only one large, mesoventral lobe, and the relative location of the four small lobes differs from those of N. sexlobata (see figs. 1–2 in Kong et al. 2014). In addition, the new species can be distinguished by the distinct head pattern and the distinctive process on tergum 7.
description: Published as part of Chen, Zhi-Teng & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Neoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Hainan Province of China, pp. 243-252 in Zootaxa 4144 (2) on page 251, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/264488
description: {"references": ["Kong, F. B., L. V., Junfeng. & Li, W. H. (2014) Three new species of Neoperla in the montivaga group (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from China. Zootaxa, 3841 (3), 429 - 438. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3841.3.7"]}
The Brauer-Manin obstruction for subvarieties of abelian varieties over function fields
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
name: Voloch, Jose Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G35, 14G25, 14K12

description: We prove that for a large class of subvarieties of abelian varieties over global function fields, the Brauer-Manin condition on adelic points cuts out exactly the rational points. This result is obtained from more general results concerning the intersection of the adelic points of a subvariety with the adelic closure of the group of rational points of the abelian variety.
description: 17 pages
Vaccinium hispidulum Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Vaccinium
Vaccinium hispidulum

description: Vaccinium hispidulum, spec. nov.
12. Vaccinium foliis integerrimis revolutis ovatis, caulibus repentibus filiformibus hispidis.
 Vitis idaea palustris americana, oblongis splendentibus foliis, fructu grandiore rubro plurimis intus acinis referto. Pluk. alm. 392. t.320. f.6.
 Vitis idaea palustris virginiana, fructu majore. Raj. hist. 685.
 Habitat in Virginiae paludosis.
 Structura antecedentis, sed majora omnia, & Caulis squamis setaceis imbricatus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
How does plant hydraulicsgovern the soil-vegetation-atmosphere transport of water?
Creators: name: Krieger, Louis
name: Schymanski, Stanislaus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: xylem
hydraulic conductivity
plant
water
transport

description: Recent initiatives to improve global land surface models have focused on including understanding about plant hydraulics to better represent stress-induced reductions in transpiration during drought. It is assumed that plant hydraulic processes may also have a profound impact on the catchment water balance during water stress. A common factor that is known to inhibit the water transport in plants is cavitation. The latter occurs in two instances. The first being air entry through the pit valves on the walls of the xylem. The second is that at the very low pressures of transport, water can change from a liquid to a gaseous state, breaking the continuous flow of liquid. Various physical characteristics of the xylem influence the efficiency of transport and the vulnerability to cavitation. Here we present some experiments designed to illustrate the principles of plant water transport and its failure using plant parts and plant replica under well-controlled but close to natural conditions. Preliminary results are quite surprising and display phenomena that are not easily reconciled with standard understanding of water flow through plants. Further targeted experiments to shed more light onto the subject and its implications for hydrological processes will be discussed.
description: Funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund, ATTRACT programme (A16/SR/11254288)
Additional Analyses and experiments from Norm compliance affects perceptual decisions through modulation of a starting point bias
Creators: name: Toelch, Ulf
name: Panizza, Folco
name: Heekeren, Hauke R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Materials including Figure S1-6 and Table S1-7.
Do current economic evaluations fully capture vaccine value: a review of evidence from India.
Creators: name: Kaur, Navneet
name: Mathew, Joseph L
name: Gupta, Madhu
name: John, Jacob
name: Prinja, Shankar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Traditional economic evaluations typically focus on direct health effects and costs offset to the healthcare system. However, vaccines offer significant indirect benefits beyond direct health effects, such as herd immunity, reduced force of infection, reduction in antimicrobial resistance, and others. Failure to consider these benefits while evaluating vaccines may undervalue vaccines. Therefore, it is argued that the full value of vaccines should be estimated by incorporating these broader benefits. This review presents the broader value domains proposed in literature by various frameworks, and their definitions. The review of economic evidence of vaccine use in India to discuss to what extent these broader value domains have been considered in economic evaluations in India has been presented. We also discuss specific considerations that need to be taken care of while developing value frameworks or guidelines for the economic evaluation of vaccines. To develop a comprehensive framework tailored to the country needs, prioritize relevant value domains and optimal methodologies based on the country’s healthcare context, and data availability. These value domains must align with people’s as well as decision-makers preferences to ensure economic assessments are relevant and actionable.
Erica vulgaris Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica vulgaris

description: Erica vulgaris, spec. nov.
1. Erica antheris bicornibus inclusis, corollis inaequalibus campanulatis mediocribus, foliis oppositis sagittatis.
 Erica foliis quadrifariam imbricatis triquetris glabris erectis, corollis inaequalibus calyce brevioribus. Hort. cliff. 146. Fl. suec. 309. Roy. lugdb. 442.
 Erica vulgaris glabra. Bauh. pin. 485. Fl. lapp. 141.
 Habitat in Europae campestribus sterilibus frequens. ♄
 Comparativa mediocris , longior , brevior corollae respicit proportionem ad calycem.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Fast linear algebra is stable
Creators: name: Demmel, James
name: Dumitriu, Ioana
name: Holtz, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65Y20, 65F30, 65G50, 68Q17, 68Q25

description: In an earlier paper, we showed that a large class of fast recursive matrix multiplication algorithms is stable in a normwise sense, and that in fact if multiplication of $n$-by-$n$ matrices can be done by any algorithm in $O(n^{ω+ η})$ operations for any $η> 0$, then it can be done stably in $O(n^{ω+ η})$ operations for any $η> 0$. Here we extend this result to show that essentially all standard linear algebra operations, including LU decomposition, QR decomposition, linear equation solving, matrix inversion, solving least squares problems, (generalized) eigenvalue problems and the singular value decomposition can also be done stably (in a normwise sense) in $O(n^{ω+ η})$ operations.
description: 26 pages; final version; to appear in Numerische Mathematik
Mapping of the health of the Nation Outcomes Scale (HoNOS) and Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) to the EQ-5D-3L in psychosis patients using the PHAMOUS study
Creators: name: Kleijburg, Anne
name: Wijnen, Ben
name: Hollander, Wouter den
name: Evers, Silvia
name: Kroon, Hans
name: Lokkerbol, Joran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: When health outcomes relevant for economic evaluations are unavailable, algorithms can be developed to map utilities using available clinical outcome measures. This study aims to develop two mapping algorithms estimating EuroQol-5 dimension-3 level (EQ-5D-3 L) utilities using the clinician-rated Health of the Nation Outcome Scores (HoNOS) and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANNS). A dataset with 2,029 observations of patients with psychotic disorders included EQ-5D-3 L, HoNOS, PANSS item scores, and demographics. Correlations between instruments were evaluated. Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression and random forest (RF) algorithms with various predictor variable sets were applied. Model performance was cross-validated using R-squared and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). High ceiling effects were observed for EQ-5D-3 L, with weak to moderate negative correlations between EQ-5D and HoNOS (r = -0.34) and PANSS (r = -0.27). Overall, LASSO models outperformed RF models, with individual item models performing best for the HoNOS and PANSS, with the best observed RMSEs of 0.241 and 0.231, respectively. The HoNOS and PANSS could be mapped onto EQ-5D-3 L utilities but lack accuracy for individual patient predictions. However, in the absence of alternatives, they could adequately predict population-based utility score differences for health economic evaluations.
Standard and Enhanced Cooling of Neutron Stars with Superfluid Cores
Creators: name: Levenfish, K. P.
name: Yakovlev, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculations are performed of the cooling of neutron stars with standard and enhanced neutrino energy losses in the presence of neutron and proton superfluidities in the stellar cores. The effects of superfluidity on the heat capacity and the neutrino luminosity produced by the direct and modified Urca processes and by the neutrino bremsstrahlung emission in nucleon-nucleon collisions are taken into account. The constraints are analyzed on the critical temperatures $\tn$ and $\tp$ of the transition of neutrons and protons to the superfluid state, which can be obtained from a comparison of observational data on thermal radiation from neutron stars with theoretical cooling curves for the standard and enhanced neutrino energy losses. Possible ranges of $\tn$ and $\tp$ for the pulsar Geminga are discussed.
description: 16 pages, 5 ps-files of figures, LaTex format
Letter and Japanese money from a Service Man
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My father, John Martin Trimmer, was called up for National Service while the Second World War was still ongoing. He was an apprentice coppersmith at the time, and so put his skills to use by joining the Fleet Air Arm as an Air Fitter. He went out to the Far East on an aircraft carrier, and I have a photo of one that he was on board; I'm not sure if this was the only one. My research to date has left me unsure as to the name of the carrier, but the one in the photo with my dad among the ship's company was taken in Sydney Harbour in 1945. I believe it was taken in September, as I have a receipt for the photo dated 5-10-45. My research suggests that this was one of the carriers that then went on to pick up Japanese prisoners of war and return them to Sydney.Upon my dad's passing in 1981, I also found among his belongings a letter from a mate in the services, also serving in the Far East. In the envelope with the letter were a number of Japanese notes (money). Although the letter was written after the end of the war in the Far East, I believe the story of the loan in the letter and why these notes were sent began before the final surrender. Also discovered were his discharge papers and a 'Neptune' certificate.