cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Work stress and alcohol consumption among adolescents: moderation by family and peer influences
Creators: name: Liu, Xianfang C.
name: Keyes, Katherine M.
name: Li, Guohua
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Public health
Epidemiology

description: Excessive alcohol use in adolescence can be detrimental to health and academic performance. Few studies consider the moderating effects of parental and peer influence within the context of adolescent work outside of the school environment. This study aims to examine work stress among adolescents and the association with alcohol use and drunkenness, in the context of parental and peer influences. Grade 12 students who participated in Monitoring the Future surveys between 2005 and 2009 (n = 12,341) were included in this study. Independent variables included work stress (job satisfaction, perceived safety, and perceived safety of possessions), self-reported perceptions towards academics and influence from parents and peers. Frequency of alcohol use and drunkenness were measured for lifetime, last 30 days and 12 months. The moderating effects of academic aspiration, parental, and peer influence were assessed on the relationship between work stress and alcohol use. Any work stress was positively associated with alcohol use over the past 12 months (odds ratio = 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02-1.23). Stratified analysis found that peer influence significantly moderated the relationship between work stress and alcohol use over the lifetime and past 12 months. Among adolescents with work stress, odds ratios of alcohol use over the lifetime was 0.83 (95% CI 0.71-0.97) for those with low negative peer influence and 1.09 (95% CI 0.97-1.22) for those with high negative peer influence. Problematic drinking patterns were more apparent among high school students who experienced stress at work. Positive peer influence, however, may buffer the adverse effect of work stress on alcohol use.
Commercial corridor improvements on Mays Street in Round Rock, Texas
Creators: name: Haggerty, Nicole Capri
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Urban planning
Planning
Commercial corridor
Corridor

description: Suburban cities across the United States are continuing to redevelop and revitalize neighborhoods and commercial areas to meet the changing needs of their communities. Commercial corridors, which can be characterized by retail strip centers, curb cuts and driveways, commercial signs, and sparse pedestrian infrastructure, have become a focus of revitalization efforts. In Round Rock, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the country with a population of approximately 120,000, the City Council has recently become interested in improvements to one of the city’s busiest commercial corridors. This report focuses on a one-mile segment of Mays Street, a north-south commercial corridor in Round Rock, Texas. A qualitative analysis of existing conditions provides an understanding of the physical conditions, regulatory structure, and the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the corridor. A study of current literature presents best practices for community engagement, as well as ideas from Complete Streets, Smart Growth, and Tactical Urbanism approaches as they relate to commercial corridors. Case studies from San Antonio, McAllen, and Pearland, Texas and Shoreline, Washington demonstrate best practices and lessons learned that could be applied to the Mays Street Corridor. Key findings show that there are both physical planning interventions and regulatory changes that cities can use to address commercial corridor concerns. Recommendations for the Mays Street Corridor are provided based on the existing conditions, literature review, and case studies. If improvements are successful along the Mays Street Corridor are considered to be successful, the same strategies can be applied to other commercial corridors in Round Rock. The report concludes with a summary lessons learned and next steps.
Elastic and quasi-elastic electron scattering on the N = 14, 20, and 28 isotonic chains
Creators: name: Meucci, Andrea
name: Vorabbi, Matteo
name: Giusti, Carlotta
name: Pacati, Franco Davide
name: Finelli, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical predictions for electron scattering on the N = 14, 20, and 28 isotonic chains from proton-deficient to proton-rich nuclei. The calculations are performed within the framework of the distorted-wave Born approximation and the proton and neutron density distributions are evaluated adopting a Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (RHB) approach with a density dependent meson-exchange interaction. We present results for the elastic and quasi-elastic cross sections and for the parity-violating asymmetry parameter. Owing to the correlations between the evolution of the electric charge form factors along each chain with the underlying proton shell structure of the isotones, elastic electron scattering experiments on isotones can provide useful informations about the occupation and filling of the single-particle levels of protons.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1302.3390
Supplementary material from Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas
Creators: name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Smith, Krister T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Additional information on the specimens studied, explanation of the age estimation for the Messel Formation, institutional abbreviations, specimens examined, list of characters and states with changes performed
Impact of adding a limitations section to abstracts of systematic reviews on readers’ interpretation: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Yavchitz, Amélie
name: Ravaud, Philippe
name: Hopewell, Sally
name: Baron, Gabriel
name: Boutron, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Epidemiology

description: To allow an accurate evaluation of abstracts of systematic reviews, the PRISMA Statement recommends that the limitations of the evidence (e.g., risk of bias, publication bias, inconsistency, imprecision) should be described in the abstract. We aimed to evaluate the impact of adding such limitations sections on reader’s interpretation. We performed a two-arm parallel group randomized controlled trial (RCT) using a sample of 30 abstracts of systematic reviews evaluating the effects of healthcare intervention with conclusions favoring the beneficial effect of the experimental treatments. Two formats of these abstracts were derived: one reported without and one with a standardized limitations section written according to the PRISMA statement for abstracts. The primary outcome was readers’ confidence in the results of the systematic review as stated in the abstract assessed by a Likert scale from 0, not at all confident, to 10, very confident. In total, 300 participants (corresponding authors of RCT reports indexed in PubMed) were randomized by a web-based randomization procedure to interpret one abstract with a limitations section (n = 150) or without a limitations section (n = 150). Participants were blinded to the study hypothesis. Adding a limitations section did not modify readers’ interpretation of findings in terms of confidence in the results (mean difference [95% confidence interval] 0.19 [−0.37–0.74], p = 0.50), confidence in the validity of the conclusions (0.07 [−0.49–0.62], p = 0.80), or benefit of the experimental intervention (0.12 [−0.42–0.44], p = 0.65). This study is limited because the participants were expert-readers and are not representative of all systematic review readers. Adding a limitations section to abstracts of systematic reviews did not affect readers’ interpretation of the abstract results. Other studies are needed to confirm the results and explore the impact of a limitations section on a less expert panel of participants. Trial registration: ClinicalTrial.gov (NCT01848782).
Alternativen: Zukunftswelten imaginieren und gestalten | Alternatives : imaginer et remodeler les mondes de demain
Creators: name: Schweizerische Akademie Der Geistes- Und Sozialwissenchaften
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geisteswissenschaften
Alternative
Szenario
Utopie
Literaturwissenschaften
Dystopie
Science-fiction
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Imagineering
Wachstumskritik

description: Menschen verfügen über ein ausgeprägtes Vermögen, Möglichkeiten zu sondieren und zu prüfen. Wir können uns überlegen, was in der Welt möglich ist und wozu wir imstande sind. Achten wir auf Mögliches, eröffnet sich ein weites Feld mit zahlreichen Szenarien. Die Figur der Alternative erleichtert die Übersicht. Etymologisch handelt es sich dabei um eine Entscheidung zwischen zwei Möglichkeiten, meistens im Sinne eines Entweder-oder. Im weiteren Sinn wird damit eine von zwei oder mehreren Optionen bezeichnet, die ungewöhnlich erscheinen mag.

 In der Zwischenkriegszeit beginnt Samuel Beckett einen Roman mit dem Satz: «The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.» Wenn wir nun aber nicht in Fatalismus verfallen wollen, sondern die Hoffnung auf Zukunftsgestaltung nicht aufgeben möchten, stellt sich uns die Frage: Wie sollen wir die Welt verstehen, um sie verändern zu können? Die im Themendossier gesammelten Beiträge illustrieren exemplarisch die Bedeutung der menschlichen Fähigkeit, in Alternativen zu denken und zukünftige Situationen zu antizipieren. Les êtres humains disposent d’une grande capacité à sonder et à examiner les possibilités. Nous pouvons réfléchir à ce qui est imaginable dans le monde et à ce dont nous sommes capables. Si nous sommes attentifs et attentives à ce qui relève du possible, un vaste champ s’ouvre à nous, avec de nombreux scénarios. La figure de l’alternative facilite la vue d’ensemble. Étymologiquement, il s’agit d’un choix entre deux possibilités, s’excluant l’une l’autre, dans le sens d’un «ou bien… ou bien…». Par extension une alternative sert aussi à désigner une option parmi deux ou plusieurs, qui semble parfois moins conventionnelle que l’autre ou les autres.

 Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, Samuel Beckett commence un roman par cette phrase: «The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.» Si nous ne voulons pas céder au fatalisme, mais garder l’espoir d’un avenir possible, la question qui se pose à nous est de savoir comment comprendre le monde pour pouvoir le changer. Les contributions rassemblées dans le dossier thématique du nouveau Bulletin illustrent de manière exemplaire l’importance de la capacité humaine à penser en termes d’alternatives et à anticiper les situations futures.
description: Cite as: SAGW (2022): Alternativen: Zukunftswelten imaginieren und gestalten | Alternatives : imaginer et remodeler les mondes de demain (Bulletin der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 28,2). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7104107
Planificación y diseño urbano y regional en Curitiba: el último medio siglo
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: City planning

description: A comienzos de la década de los 50, las ciudades de Brasil comenzaron un rápido proceso de urbanización. Curitiba comenzó su proceso de crecimiento en el decenio de los 60, y rápidamente alcanzó la mayor tasa de crecimiento en el país, en promedio 5% anual. Este índice de crecimiento, el cual se repitió en otras ciudades de Brasil y alrededor del mundo, causó numerosos problemas urbanos que llevaron a estado de crisis a muchas metrópolis. Dada la inminente necesidad de manejar este crecimiento, en 1965, se desarrolló un plan urbano preliminar para Curitiba: el Plan Maestro-Plano Diretor-aprobado en 1966, basado en un modelo axial y radial de expansión urbana que integraba el transporte público y usos de suelo mezclados. Con el proceso de creación del Plano Diretor, y en las siguientes décadas, Curitiba ha sido referenciada como ciudad modelo sostenible ambientalmente, y ejemplo remarcable de un proceso de planificación urbana exitoso y de una colección de proyectos de diseño urbano que son atractivos, innovadores, funcionales, efectivos en cuanto a costo, y replicables. Curitiba se ha destacado entre las ciudades del Tercer Mundo por la manera innovadora, eficiente y con bajo costo como ha tratado sus asuntos de transporte urbano, uso de suelo, y sustentabilidad. Este capítulo examina los proyectos de diseño y de planificación urbana en Curitiba desde la década de 1960, y muestra el porqué la ciudad merece sus elogios: un efectivo y continuo proceso de planificación que ha garantizado la eficiencia en el transporte público, la preservación cultural e histórica, un centro urbano revitalizado y amigable para los peatones, programas medioambientales efectivos, y una serie de diseños urbanos y proyectos de arquitectura sinérgicos, entre otros logros, han mejorado la calidad del medio ambiente construido en la ciudad.
Patient involvement in publications: Top 5 tips for Medical Affairs profdessionals
Creators: name: Woolley, Karen L.
name: Wadsworth, Anne Clare
name: Lobban, Dawn
name: Arnstein, Lauri
name: Kohles, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of this article is to help members of the Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS) "navigate the rewarding, but at times challenging, journey of involving patients in publications. We hope that by sharing our top 5 tips we can make that journey a faster, easier, and more rewarding one for our Medical Affairs colleagues and their patient partners."
Copyright 2018 MAPS
Previously online and open access at:
http://maps.instantmagazine.com/publications/elevate-magazine/patient-involvement-in-publications/
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title: AHEPA and Volvi ambient seismic noise experiments - Report
Creators: name: Manakou, Maria
name: Karapetrou, Sotiria
name: Bindi, Dino
name: Boxberger, Tobias
name: Roumelioti, Zafeiria
name: Raptakis, Dimitrios
name: Riga, Evlampia-Euterpi
name: Argyroudis, Sotiris
name: Fotopoulou, Stavroula
name: Karatzetzou, Anna
name: Tsinidis, Grigoris
name: Tsinaris, Aggelos
name: Pitilakis, Dimitris
name: Pistolas, Achilleas
Publisher: name: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Year: 2017

description: Scientific Technical Report STR; 17/10
description: GIPP Experiment and Data Archive
description: A temporary seismic array of short-period seismometers was installed in the 8-story AHEPA hospital, located in the city of Thessaloniki, N. Greece. The scope of the survey was to assess the dynamic characteristics of the RC-building by processing ambient vibration recordings of more than 40 seismic stations installed at different positions in the building. Part of the instruments was used in a soil experiment, outside of the hospital, to study possible Soil Structure Interaction phenomena. In addition to above experiments, a site-specific survey was performed in the Volvi basin, 30km ENE of the city of Thessaloniki. The scope of this experiment was to investigate the soil properties and the geometry of the subsurface geology.
Pandemic-Related Program Changes Continued to Shape the U.S. Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape in Fiscal Year 2021
Creators: name: Toossi, Saied
name: Jones, Jordan
name: Hodges, Leslie
name: Toossi, Saied
name: Jones, Jordan
name: Hodges, Leslie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022

description: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to an economic downturn and rising unemployment in fiscal year (FY) 2020 (October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020), resulting in an increased need for food and nutrition assistance. In response, the U.S. Government expanded USDA’s food and nutrition assistance programs, adjusted program operations, and created additional, temporary programs. Throughout FY 2021 (October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021), the Government continued to develop its food and nutrition assistance policy as the pandemic and its impacts persisted. Accordingly, annual USDA food and nutrition assistance spending nearly doubled from $92.5 billion in FY 2019 to a record $182.5 billion in FY 2021.
Horizon Run 3: Topology as a Standard Ruler
Creators: name: Speare, Robert
name: Gott, J. Richard
name: Kim, Juhan
name: Park, Changbom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Physically Self Bound Cold Dark Matter Halo distribution which we associate with the massive galaxies within the Horizon Run 3 to estimate the accuracy in determination of the cosmological distance scale measured by the topology analysis. We apply the routine "Contour 3D" to 108 Mock Survey of $π$ steradians out to redshift z = 0.6, which effectively correspond to the SDSS-III BOSS survey, and compare the topology with that of a Gaussian Random Phase Field. We find that given three separate smoothing lengths $λ=$ 15, 21, and 34 $h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, the least $χ^2$ fit genus per unit volume g yields a 1.7 % fractional uncertainty in smoothing length and angular diameter distance to $z = 0.6$. This is an improvement upon former calibrations of and presents a competitive error estimate with next BAO scale techniques. We also present three dimensional graphics of the Horizon Run 3 spherical mock survey to show a wealth of large-scale structures of the universe that are predicted in surveys like BOSS.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
Les vins légers : L'urgence du réchauffement climatique va-t-elle pousser le secteur vitivinicole européen à réduire le degré d'alcool du vin ?
Creators: name: CHIANG, Jane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: désalcoolisation
vin léger
faible teneur en alcool
qualité
santé
bien- être
innovation
réchauffement climatique
titre alcoométrique
technique œnologique
dégré d'alcool
réduction

description: Le réchauffement climatique a modifié les comportements de consommation des consommateurs, qui préfèrent des aliments et des boissons en adéquation avec leur mode de vie écologique et soucieux de leur santé. Les fabricants de boissons alcoolisées et les vignobles du Nouveau Monde ont exploité les technologies de désalcoolisation pour créer des produits à faible teneur en alcool afin de répondre à la demande des consommateurs. Cependant, le secteur vitivinicole européen s'est montré prudent dans l'adoption de produits à faible teneur en alcool en raison de son souci de protéger la qualité de ses vins et son cadre de qualité. Ce mémoire examine dans quelle mesure la crise du réchauffement climatique et l'évolution des attitudes en matière de santé et de bien-être peuvent déclencher une réforme du cadre juridique de l'Union européenne régissant la qualité des vins. Il se concentre en particulier sur les relations entre le titre alcoométrique, les techniques œnologiques et la qualité du vin avant de passer en revue leurs manifestations dans les institutions juridiques européennes.
Oeditorial Repression: The Case Histories of Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds
Creators: name: Vandenburg, Margaret
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Literature
Gender identity
Sex role

description: With the persistence of repetition compulsion, Modernists define their movement vis- 	à-vis the classic Freudian assumption that sexuality is the mainspring of virtually everything, including literary merit. The most libidinous of their aesthetic manifestos is Ezra Pound's characterization of creativity as a “phallus or spermatozoid charging, head-on, the female chaos … driving a new idea into the great passive vulva of London.” Though C. G. Jung is far less enamored of the phallus, he endows masculinity with the “creative and procreative” power of Logos, which, echoing Pound, he calls the “spermatic word.” As if to fend off “scribbling women,” Jung warns that “mental masculinization of the woman has unwelcome results,” most notably frigidity, homosexuality, and “a deadly boring kind of sophistry.” Gertrude Stein's iconoclasm notwithstanding, her paradoxical assertion that her genius is masculine simultaneously reifies and defies this theory that biology determines literary destiny. In the Modernist canon, the pen is a penis, even when a cigar is just a cigar. The most influential of the movement's manifestos, T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” codifies aesthetic essentialism, positing an Oedipal model of canonicity contingent on the authority of literary fathers. Even Virginia Woolf's rejection of gendered canonicity in A Room of One's Own assumes its tenacity, as if she were protesting too much against the inevitable.
Short-range disorder effects on electronic transport in 2D semiconductor structures
Creators: name: Sarma, S. Das
name: Hwang, E. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the relative importance of short-range disorder in determining the low-temperature 2D mobility in GaAs-based structures with respect to Coulomb disorder which is known to be the dominant disorder in semiconductor systems. We give results for unscreened and screened short-range disorder effects on 2D mobility in quantum wells and heterostructures, comparing with the results for Coulomb disorder and finding that the asymptotic high-density mobility is always limited by short-range disorder which, in general, becomes effectively stronger with increasing `carrier density' in contrast to Coulomb disorder. We also predict an intriguing re-entrant metal-insulator transition at very high carrier densities in Si-MOSFETs driven by the short-range disorder associated with surface roughness scattering.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Howsam, George Roberts: my armed forces recollections (June 2, 1972)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Military history
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021222
subject: Personal narratives--Canadian
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1424090
subject: Pearkes, G. R. (George Randolph), 1888-1984
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1970190

description: Interviewee: Howsam, George Roberts, 1895-1988
description: ABSTRACT: Air Vice-Marshall G.R. Howsam, 11 May 1966. 12pp. and 2 June 1972. 20pp. (With Auger. See Reel #48.) Experiences with Pearkes in the 1920/30's. Planning at National Defence Headquarters in the 1930's. Howsam's early service life. Joined the army in 1916, then the Royal Flying Corps. Training in Toronto.
description: Interviewer: Roy, Reginald H.
description: Rank: Air Vice-Marshal. Medals and Honours: Companion of the Bath (CB); Military Cross (MC)
description: An interview/narrative of George Roberts Howsam's recollections of Major-General Pearkes. Air Vice-Marshal Howsam served with Pearkes in the inter-war years. Interview took place on June 2, 1972.
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Stevens, Irene
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2011

description: As this issue of the Journal goes to press, the work of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) has been incorporated within a new Centre for excellence for looked after children in Scotland (CELCIS). The new Centre will continue to support the residential child care sector but its remit covers all looked after children, including those in foster care, kinship care and looked after at home. The new Centre aspires to support practitioners, parents and carers to provide the best possible outcomes for children and young people who are looked after at home and away from home and those who have left care. The Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care has played an important function in reporting on research and practice developments and providing a forum for articulating ideas and debate about residential child care, in Scotland and beyond. The Journal will continue to provide an important service to the residential child care community. We are committed to seeking articles which emphasise good practice in residential care. So please continue to send papers for publication.
Bimodal switching field distributions in all-perpendicular spin-valve nanopillars
Creators: name: Gopman, Daniel B.
name: Bedau, Daniel
name: Mangin, Stéphane
name: Fullerton, Eric E.
name: Katine, Jordan A.
name: Kent, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Switching field measurements of the free layer element of 75 nm diameter spin-valve nanopillars reveal a bimodal distribution of switching fields at low temperatures (below 100 K). This result is inconsistent with a model of thermal activation over a single perpendicular anisotropy barrier. The correlation between antiparallel to parallel and parallel to antiparallel switching fields increases to nearly 50% at low temperatures. This reflects random fluctuation of the shift of the free layer hysteresis loop between two different magnitudes, which may originate from changes in the dipole field from the polarizing layer. The magnitude of the loop shift changes by 25% and is correlated to transitions of the spin-valve into an antiparallel configuration.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to JAP for 58th MMM Proceedings
Book Review: Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: City planning

description: Book Review of "Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes" edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew.
Selective Inference for Hierarchical Clustering
Creators: name: Gao, Lucy L.
name: Bien, Jacob
name: Witten, Daniela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Classical tests for a difference in means control the Type I error rate when the groups are defined a priori. However, when the groups are instead defined via clustering, then applying a classical test yields an extremely inflated Type I error rate. Notably, this problem persists even if two separate and independent datasets are used to define the groups and to test for a difference in their means. To address this problem, in this article, we propose a selective inference approach to test for a difference in means between two clusters. Our procedure controls the selective Type I error rate by accounting for the fact that the choice of null hypothesis was made based on the data. We describe how to efficiently compute exact p-values for clusters obtained using agglomerative hierarchical clustering with many commonly used linkages. We apply our method to simulated data and to single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Learning to Let Go
Creators: name: Foster, Jacob
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kung Fu
subject: Wing Chun
subject: Habitus
subject: Martial Arts
subject: Chronotope
subject: Semiotics
subject: Ego Ideal
subject: Charisma
subject: Tradition
subject: Transregionalism
subject: Ethnography
subject: Language
subject: Bodily Practice

description: An exploration of the construction of a semiotic battery at a Chicago Kung Fu school, how it comes to be and to what ends the practitioners turn it. This essay argues that a charismatic-traditional mode of attraction has helped a community form and sustain itself at the cruces of individualism and community, past and present, Hong Kong and Chicago.
Prologue: Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Public spaces
Public spaces--Political aspects
Citizenship
Democracy

description: Scholars have argued that public space is a prerequisite for the expression, representation, preservation, and/or enhancement of democracy (Sassen, 1996; Holston, 1989, 1999; Caldeira, 2000; Low, 2000; Low and Smith, 2006). However, this optimistic outlook is betrayed in reality by the many examples in recent history when public spaces have been used for the deployment and reproduction of totalitarian regimes. In the Americas, we can recount the experiences of Pinochet’s Santiago, Videla’s Buenos Aires, Strossner’s Asuncion, and Pérez Jiménez’s Caracas, among others. Yet, even in those cases, political demonstrations in public spaces conversely played a critical role in the eventual revocation of those regimes, and/or in the subsequent reestablishment of democracy. In both the past and the present, public spaces have been privileged sites for the enactment and contestation of various stances on democracy and citizenship in the public sphere. Indeed, the public sphere, as the intangible realm for the expression, reproduction, and/or recreation of a society’s culture and polity, usually encompasses divergent political visions and nurtures acute social confrontations which are played out in the more tangible public space. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of citizenship and democracy encompassing both the notion of the public sphere and its spatiality – i.e., its re-presentation in space. Our aim is to redress an imbalance in the literature which has tended to focus on a socio-political approach at the expense of a literally more ‘grounded’ perspective. Thus, the case studies here help to expand and literally to ground the notion of the public sphere in the realm of physical public spaces. The uses and meanings given to and derived from public spaces in the processes of making life and making history (Flacks, 1988) have traditionally been centrepieces of both conceptual and empirical analyses of democracy and citizenship. Public space dynamics also provide ways in which to gauge, analyse, and document the value structures that lie at the core of particular societies and cultures. The selection of case studies from Latin America provides an unprecedented opportunity to look at cities with comparable cultural and political trajectories to investigate the use and meaning of particular urban spaces by ordinary people in extraordinary, history-making events. The collection encompasses multidisciplinary studies of nine Latin American major cities: Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotá, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires.
Conceptual Foundations of Diffusion in Magnetic Resonance
Creators: name: Koay, Cheng Guan
name: Özarslan, Evren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thorough review of the q-space technique is presented starting from a discussion of Fick's laws. The work presented here is primarily conceptual, theoretical and hopefully pedagogical. We offered the notion of molecular concentration to unify Fick's laws and diffusion MRI within a coherent conceptual framework. The fundamental relationship between diffusion MRI and the Fick's laws are carefully established. The conceptual and theoretical basis of the q-space technique is investigated from first principles.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures
Urban Design, Planning, and the Politics of Development in Curitiba
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: City planning

description: Over the past several decades, Curitiba, Brazil has been referred to as an environmentally sustainable ¨model city¨and as a remarkable example of both a succesful urban planning process and a large array of urban design projects that are attractive, innovative, functional, cost'effective, and replicable. This chapter examines urban design and planning projects and processes in Curitiba since the 1960s, and shows many reasons why the city deserves praiseÑ an effective and continuous planning process has guaranteed efficiency in public transit, historic andcultural preservation, a revitalized and pedestrian'friendly downtown, effective environmental programs, and a series of urban design and architectural catalyst projects.
This chapter also discusses some political and isntitutional factors that have facilitated the development of Curitiba´s planning process has been shaped by the accommodation of diverse interests around a political project, the media disseemination of a particular city image, and the permeation of material gains to the lower income classes. Conversely, some factors that are challenging the city´s governance model and threaten to subvert the future of planning processes include icnreases in urban problems and inequalities across the municipalities of the metropolitan region, deficiencies of institutional structure and coordination at the level of metropolitan planning and governance, and inadquate responses to the increasing challenges to government and planning institutions from citizens demanding greater accountability and participation. I argue that the institution of more effective citizen involvement in Curitiba´s decision making is the way to relegitimize and continue the processes of urban design and planning that had such a brilliant start in the 1960s and a commendable implementation record from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Challenging the utility of third-order azimuth harmonics in the description of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Ray, R. L.
name: Prindle, D. J.
name: Trainor, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years it has become conventional practice to include higher-order cylindrical harmonics in the phenomenological description of two-particle angular correlations from ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These model elements, whose dependence on relative azimuth angle has the form $\cos[m(ϕ_1-ϕ_2)]$ where $m > 2$, were introduced to support a hydrodynamic flow interpretation of the same-side ($|ϕ_1-ϕ_2| < π/2$) 2D peak in the correlations. Previous studies have shown that the $m > 2$ harmonics are not required by the data, that they destabilize the fitting models, and that their net effect is to decompose the same-side peak into two components, one being dependent on and the other being independent of relative pseudorapidity. Thus we are lead to question whether descriptions of angular correlation data including higher-order harmonics inform our understanding of the same-side peak or heavy-ion collisions in general. Results from analysis of two-dimensional angular correlation data from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) show that the RHIC data do not exclude a single-Gaussian hypothesis for the same-side peak. We find that the net effect of including the $m = 3$ harmonic or azimuth sextupole in the fitting model is the inclusion of small non-Gaussian dependence in the mathematical description of the same-side peak. Those non-Gaussian effects are systematically insignificant and can be accommodated by minor perturbations to the same-side 2D Gaussian peak model, which act locally at small relative azimuth. We also demonstrate that the 0-1% 2D angular correlation data for 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions from ATLAS, which display an away-side double peak on azimuth, do not require a sextupole and exclude a positive same-side sextupole.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Major Sites in the Kingdom of Kroraina (3rd–4th century) and its Principal Neighbours
Creators: name: Rutishauser, Susanne
name: Høisæter, Tomas Larsen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology
map
central asia
Kroraina

description: Map with major sites in the Kingdom of Kroraina (3rd-4th century) and its principal neighbours.
Observation of the Dyakonov-Tamm Wave
Creators: name: Pulsifer, Drew Patrick
name: Faryad, Muhammad
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A surface electromagnetic wave called the Dyakonov-Tamm wave has been theoretically predicted to exist at the interface of two dielectric materials at least one of which is both anisotropic and periodically nonhomogeneous. For experimental confirmation, a prism-coupled configuration was used to excite the Dyakonov-Tamm wave guided by the interface of a dense thin film of magnesium fluoride and a chiral sculptured thin film of zinc selenide. The excitation was indicated by a reflection dip (with respect to the angle of incidence in the prism-coupled configuration) that is independent of the polarization state of the incident light as well as the thicknesses of both partnering materials beyond some thresholds. Applications to optical sensing and long-range on-chip communication are expected.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Dixon, C. Garfield: my recollections (November 6, 1969 - February 9, 1970)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personal narratives--Canadian
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1424090
subject: Pearkes, G. R. (George Randolph), 1888-1984
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1970190
subject: Military history
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021222

description: ABSTRACT: Commander C. Garfield Dixon, 6 Nov. 1969. 8 pp. Comments on previous Lt.-Governors. Pearkes' office arrangements ruffled feathers. Disagreement with former Lt.-Gov. Frank Ross. Commander C. Garfield Dixon, December 1969. 16 pp. The appointment of the Lt.-Governor. Servant problems. Government House finances. Staff. Cmdr. Dixon's attitude. Commander C. Garfield Dixon, 9 February 1970. 11pp. Selection of A.D.C.'s. Official visits, protocol. Visits to Indian villages. The official round of ceremonies, visitations, etc. Honourary appointments. Guests at Government House.
description: Interviewee: Dixon, C. Garfield, b. 1921
description: An interview/narrative of Commander C. Garfield Dixon's recollections of Major-General Pearkes and previous Lieutenant-Governors. Interview took place on November 6, 1969, December 1969, and February 9, 1970.
description: Rank: Commander.
description: Interviewer: Roy, Reginald H.
Positive predictive value of a case definition for diabetes mellitus using automated administrative health data in children and youth exposed to antipsychotic drugs or control medications.
Creators: name: Bobo, William
name: Cooper, William
name: Stein, C
name: Olfson, Mark
name: Mounsey, Jackie
name: Daugherty, James
name: Ray, Wayne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pharmacology
Epidemiology

description: We developed and validated an automated database case definition for diabetes in children and youth to facilitate pharmacoepidemiologic investigations of medications and the risk of diabetes. The present study was part of an in-progress retrospective cohort study of antipsychotics and diabetes in Tennessee Medicaid enrollees aged 6–24 years. Diabetes was identified from diabetes-related medical care encounters: hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and filled prescriptions. The definition required either a primary inpatient diagnosis or at least two other encounters of different types, most commonly an outpatient diagnosis with a prescription. Type 1 diabetes was defined by insulin prescriptions with at most one oral hypoglycemic prescription; other cases were considered type 2 diabetes. The definition was validated for cohort members in the 15 county region geographically proximate to the investigators. Medical records were reviewed and adjudicated for cases that met the automated database definition as well as for a sample of persons with other diabetes-related medical care encounters. The study included 64 cases that met the automated database definition. Records were adjudicated for 46 (71.9%), of which 41 (89.1%) met clinical criteria for newly diagnosed diabetes. The positive predictive value for type 1 diabetes was 80.0%. For type 2 and unspecified diabetes combined, the positive predictive value was 83.9%. The estimated sensitivity of the definition, based on adjudication for a sample of 30 cases not meeting the automated database definition, was 64.8%. These results suggest that the automated database case definition for diabetes may be useful for pharmacoepidemiologic studies of medications and diabetes.
Reeb dynamics detects odd balls
Creators: name: Geiges, Hansjörg
name: Zehmisch, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D35, 37C27, 37J55, 57R17

description: We give a dynamical characterisation of odd-dimensional balls within the class of all contact manifolds whose boundary is a standard even-dimensional sphere. The characterisation is in terms of the non-existence of short periodic Reeb orbits.
description: 15 pages. The proof of the energy estimate in v1 (Lemma 4) is incomplete. In v2 we circumvent this by working with a model involving Lagrangian boundary conditions instead of totally real ones. Parts of the holomorphic analysis in v1 for the case of totally real boundary conditions may be of independent interest
Targeting filamin A reduces K-RAS–induced lung adenocarcinomas and endothelial response to tumor growth in mice
Creators: name: Nallapalli, Rajesh
name: Ibrahim, Mohamed
name: Zhou, Alex
name: Bandaru, Sashidar
name: Sunkara, Sai Naresh
name: Redfors, Björn
name: Pazooki, David
name: Zhang, Yin
name: Borén, Jan
name: Cao, Yihai
name: Bergo, Martin
name: Akyürek, Levent
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Oncology
Medicine

description: Many human cancer cells express filamin A (FLNA), an actin-binding structural protein that interacts with a diverse set of cell signaling proteins, but little is known about the biological importance of FLNA in tumor development. FLNA is also expressed in endothelial cells, which may be important for tumor angiogenesis. In this study, we defined the impact of targeting Flna in cancer and endothelial cells on the development of tumors in vivo and on the proliferation of fibroblasts in vitro. First, we used a Cre-adenovirus to simultaneously activate the expression of oncogenic K-RAS and inactivate the expression of Flna in the lung and in fibroblasts. Second, we subcutaneously injected mouse fibrosarcoma cells into mice lacking Flna in endothelial cells. Knockout of Flna significantly reduced K-RAS–induced lung tumor formation and the proliferation of oncogenic K-RAS–expressing fibroblasts, and attenuated the activation of the downstream signaling molecules ERK and AKT. Genetic deletion of endothelial FLNA in mice did not impact cardiovascular development; however, knockout of Flna in endothelial cells reduced subcutaneous fibrosarcoma growth and vascularity within tumors. We conclude that FLNA is important for lung tumor growth and that endothelial Flna impacts local tumor growth. The data shed new light on the biological importance of FLNA and suggest that targeting this protein might be useful in cancer therapeutics.
Leveraging Mining Demand for Internet and Telecommunications Infrastructure for Broad Economic Development: Models, Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Toledano, Perrine
name: Roorda, Clara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Regional planning

description: Access to broadband infrastructure is fundamental to lift developing countries out of poverty and an estimated 1.1 billion households are still unconnected to the Internet. Mining companies are increasingly installing fiber optic networks along their grids, railroad tracks and pipelines to improve monitoring of their infrastructure and ensure greater reliability and safety. If mining-related Internet and Telecommunications (ICT) investments are designed to contribute to the development of public infrastructure, the incremental capital cost of building additional ICT capacity to extend the networks to nearby communities will generally be lower than the cost of building a new network from scratch; and the economic and social spillover effects can extend far beyond the mine. Several barriers hindering shared use of mining – related ICT infrastructure could be levied by better planning and coordination between mines, telecommunications companies and the government as well as more forward- looking regulations governing the ICT sector.
Modelling Point Referenced Spatial Count Data: A Poisson Process Approach
Creators: name: Morales-Navarrete, Diego
name: Bevilacqua, Moreno
name: Caamaño-Carrillo, Christian
name: Castro, Luis M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Random fields are useful mathematical tools for representing natural phenomena with complex dependence structures in space and/or time. In particular, the Gaussian random field is commonly used due to its attractive properties and mathematical tractability. However, this assumption seems to be restrictive when dealing with counting data. To deal with this situation, we propose a random field with a Poisson marginal distribution considering a sequence of independent copies of a random field with an exponential marginal distribution as “inter-arrival times” in the counting renewal processes framework. Our proposal can be viewed as a spatial generalization of the Poisson counting process. Unlike the classical hierarchical Poisson Log-Gaussian model, our proposal generates a (non)-stationary random field that is mean square continuous and with Poisson marginal distributions. For the proposed Poisson spatial random field, analytic expressions for the covariance function and the bivariate distribution are provided. In an extensive simulation study, we investigate the weighted pairwise likelihood as a method for estimating the Poisson random field parameters. Finally, the effectiveness of our methodology is illustrated by an analysis of reindeer pellet-group survey data, where a zero-inflated version of the proposed model is compared with zero-inflated Poisson Log-Gaussian and Poisson Gaussian copula models. Supplementary materials for this article, including technical proofs and R code for reproducing the work, are available as an online supplement.
Evidence of reduced surface electron-phonon scattering in the conduction band of Bi_{2}Se_{3} by non-equilibrium ARPES
Creators: name: Crepaldi, A.
name: Cilento, F.
name: Ressel, B.
name: Cacho, C.
name: Johannsen, J. C.
name: Zacchigna, M.
name: Berger, H.
name: Bugnon, Ph.
name: Grazioli, C.
name: Turcu, I. C. E.
name: Springate, E.
name: Kern, K.
name: Grioni, M.
name: Parmigiani, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the Dirac quasiparticles in topological insulators calls for a direct investigation of the electron-phonon scattering at the \emph{surface}. By comparing time-resolved ARPES measurements of the TI Bi_{2}Se_{3} with different probing depths we show that the relaxation dynamics of the electronic temperature of the conduction band is much slower at the surface than in the bulk. This observation suggests that surface phonons are less effective in cooling the electron gas in the conduction band.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures