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Astrology and Race: Aspects of Equality After Critical Race Theory
Creators: name: Zanetti, Gianfrancesco
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Critical theory
subject: Equality
subject: Racism
subject: Post-racialism
subject: Race discrimination
subject: Human rights
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Historically, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been neglected in European legal scholarship. CRT approaches promise to be a useful avenue for European jurisprudence, however, as European nations rapidly become more multiracial. The focus of this Essay is on the theoretical value that radiates from some Critical Race Theory lines of thought, written from the perspective of an Italian legal scholar engaging in CRT. In particular, there are some aspects of CRT jurisprudence that are valuable from a general, legal-philosophical, point of view. In this vein, CRT scholars have authored scholarship that has had an impact on the traditional, liberal notion of equality. An apparently reasonable jurisprudence has been seen to revolve around a pseudo-scientific array of notions (―neutral‖ races, conceived as zodiac signs) that are lacking any sound epistemic ground: therefore, a form of astrology.
Befragung zu Sicherheit und Kriminalität: Kernbefunde der Dunkelfeldstudie 2017 des Landeskriminalamtes Schleswig-Holstein
Creators: name: Dreißigacker, Arne
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kriminalitätsfurcht , Polizei , Schleswig-Holstein
subject: 360

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title: Venous mesenteric ischaemia. Principal CT features and differential diagnosis with arterial mesenteric ischaemia
Creators: name: González-Carrero Sixto, Carmen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Education and training
subject: GI Tract
subject: Small bowel
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the possible causes of mesenteric vein thrombosis (MVT). To depict the principal CT features of bowel ischemia and mesenteric vein thrombosis. To make a differential diagnosis with other causes of bowel...
Dual Punishment: Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children
Creators: name: Smyth, Julie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social service
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Families

description: Children with incarcerated parents are among the most at-risk populations in the United States. The recent trend toward mass incarceration in the United States, especially of women, has harmful implications for children because often their primary caregiver becomes incarcerated. Research indicates that children with incarcerated mothers are at heightened risk for attachment disturbance, leading to depression, anxiety, and other trauma-related stress. Such children are often subject to frequent changing of caregivers within the foster care system, which exacerbates these problems. Child welfare legislation is becoming more sensitive to the needs of children of incarcerated parents, but less reliance on prisons and more alternatives to incarceration are needed in order to mitigate the harmful impact of maternal incarceration on children. This review will focus on the following: (1) a history of the mass incarceration of women; (2) emotional, psychological, and social risk factors for the children of incarcerated women; (3) the intended and unintended repercussions of child welfare legislation; and (4) a case study of an alternative to incarceration program.
Quenching across quantum critical points in periodic systems: dependence of scaling laws on periodicity
Creators: name: Thakurathi, Manisha
name: DeGottardi, Wade
name: Sen, Diptiman
name: Vishveshwara, Smitha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quenching dynamics of a many-body system in one dimension described by a Hamiltonian that has spatial periodicity. Specifically, we consider a spin-1/2 chain with equal xx and yy couplings and subject to a periodically varying magnetic field in the z direction or, equivalently, a tight-binding model of spinless fermions with a periodic local chemical potential, having period 2q, where q is a natural number. For a linear quench of the magnetic field strength (or potential strength) at rate 1/τacross a quantum critical point, we find that the density of defects thereby produced scales as 1/τ^{q/(q+1)}, deviating from the 1/\sqrtτ scaling that is ubiquitous to a range of systems. We analyze this behavior by mapping the low-energy physics of the system to a set of fermionic two-level systems labeled by the lattice momentum k undergoing a non-linear quench as well as by performing numerical simulations. We also find that if the magnetic field is a superposition of different periods, the power law depends only on the smallest period for very large values of τalthough it may exhibit a cross-over at intermediate values of τ. Finally, for the case where a zz coupling is also present in the spin chain, or equivalently, where interactions are present in the fermionic system, we argue that the power associated with the scaling law depends on a combination of q and interaction strength.
description: 13 pages including 11 figures
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Loigolactobacillus
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis

description: DESCRIPTIONOF LOIGOLACTOBACILLUS CORYNIFORMIS COMB. NOV.
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis (co.ry.ni.for ′ mis. Gr. fem. n. coryne a club; L. fem. n. forma shape; N.L. masc. adj. coryniformis club-shaped).
Basonym: Lactobacilluscoryniformis Abo-Elnagaand Kandler 1965, 18 (Approved Lists)
L. coryniformis cells are short, coccoid rods, frequently pear-shaped. Pantothenic acid, niacin, riboflavin, biotin and p-aminobenzoic acid are essential for the growth of all or the majority of the strains tested [170].
Two subspecies are recognized: Loigolactobacillus coryniformis subsp. coryniformis and Loigolactobacillus coryniformis subsp. torquens.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 on page 2816, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536
Ergebnisse der Evaluation der polizeilichen Videobeobachtung in Nordrhein-Westfalen gemäß § 15a PolG NRW
Creators: name: Glaubitz, Christoffer
name: Kudlacek, Dominic
name: Neumann, Merten
name: Fleischer, Stephanie
name: Bliesener, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Videoüberwachung , Sicherheit , Akzeptanz
subject: 360

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Preparation of organorhodium complexes for water activation
Creators: name: Riegel, Susanne Dorthea
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 210-218
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: Solar-driven water-splitting has the potential to revolutionize the global energy landscape and could usher in an unprecedented era of socio-economic equality currently unattainable by disproportionate distribution of fossil fuels worldwide. To drive hydrogen and oxygen formation from water, a suitable catalyst must be realized. To this end, we proposed a water-splitting cycle driven by an organorhodium catalyst that invoked a metal-hydroxy-hydride as the active intermediate. This thesis looked to expand upon prior learnings regarding this complex cycle by screening several ancillary ligands with the goal of identifying scaffolds capable of facilitating the desired reactivity. In contrast to the wealth of bond activation chemistry developed for iridium, there are fewer reports describing well-defined rhodium complexes capable of analogous transformations. Rhodium's propensity to form weaker bonds, which should favour catalytically relevant processes, prompted us to explore Rh(I)/Rh(III) redox couples to observe Rh hydroxy-hydrides. Initial attempts with the monoanionic bidentate, ??-diketiminato (nacnac) framework led to rapid degradation both in protic media and in the presence of in situ generated Rh­H moieties. Thus, tridentate 2,6-bis(imino )benzene (NCN) pincers were explored. The resultant NCN-rhodium(JII) complexes were treated with various hydride and hydroxide sources to yield the desired hydroxy-hydride species. However, the unsaturated and electrophilic imine arms were susceptible to nucleophilic attack, ultimately affording a number of inseparable and unidentifiable products. Thus, rhodium complexes supported by 2,6-bis( di-tert-butylphosphinomethyl)benzene (PCP) pincer were examined. Generation of an active 14-electron PCP-Rh precursor, did show activity towards 0-H bonds of alcohols and water, but the organometallic framework lacked sufficient electron density to stabilize Rh(III) oxidative addition products relative to square planar Rh(I) coordination complexes. Transient interactions between cationic PCP-Rh complexes and water were observed, though ligand !ability precluded isolation and characterization. To encourage the formation of Rh(III) species, modification of the PCP architecture was made through inclusion of a para-methoxy substitution (MeO-PCP). It was rationalized that the increased electron density should aid oxidative addition of this unique substrate. Indeed, water 0-H bond activation by MeO-PCP-Rh(I) complexes was observed to be facile at under mild conditions, representing a rare example of this reactivity. The MeO-PCP-Rh(OH)(H) was characterized by IR and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Marketplace of Ideas: A View from the Founding
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: I welcome the opportunity to join in the celebration of the twenty-fifth birthday of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It is wonderful to see how this 'baby,' which I, along with Carl Shapiro and Timothy Taylor, nurtured through its formative years-from 1984 (three years before the first issue in 1987) until I left in 1993-has grown up and become an established part of the economics profession. In founding the journal, we had many objectives, hopes, and ambitions. We were concerned about the increasing specialization within the economics profession. We sought to have complex and sometimes arcane or highly mathematical ideas translated into plain English, or at least that dialect of the language known as 'Economese'-and in a way that was not only informative but engaging. We were worried too about a growing distance between economics and policy. At least a portion of economic research should be related to ideas that were, or should or would be, part of the national and global policy debates. We began with an explicit commitment to present a diversity of viewpoints, hence the word 'perspectives' in the title. One of the goals we set out for ourselves was to disseminate developments within economics more rapidly. We never shied away from controversy at the journal, but we tried to ensure that the discussion was balanced.
Simulation of static and dynamic properties of edge-emitting multi quantum well lasers
Creators: name: Bandelow, Uwe
name: Hünlich, Rolf
name: Koprucki, Thomas
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: semiconductor lasers
subject: quantum wells
subject: device simulation
subject: multi section lasers
subject: 78A60
subject: 68U20
subject: 42.55.Px
subject: 73.20.Dx
subject: 85.60.Bt
subject: 78.66.Fd

description: This paper demonstrates simulation tools for edge-emitting multi quantum well (MQW) lasers. Properties of the strained MQW active region are simulated by eight-band kp calculations. Then, a 2D simulation along the transverse cross section of the device is performed based on a drift-diffusion model, which is self-consistently coupled to heat transport and equations for the optical field. Furthermore, a method is described, which allows for an efficient quasi 3D simulation of dynamic properties of multi-section edge-emitting lasers.
Constraints on Non-Commutative Physics Scale with Neutrino-Electron Scattering
Creators: name: Bilmis, S.
name: Deniz, M.
name: Li, H. B.
name: Li, J.
name: Liao, H. Y.
name: Lin, S. T.
name: Singh, V.
name: Wong, H. T.
name: Yildirim, I. O.
name: Yue, Q.
name: Zeyrek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino-electron scatterings ($ν- e$) are purely leptonic processes with robust Standard Model (SM) predictions. Their measurements can therefore provide constraints to physics beyond SM. Non-commutative (NC) field theories modify space-time commutation relations, and allow neutrino electromagnetic couplings at the tree level. Their contribution to neutrino-electron scattering cross-section was derived. Constraints were placed on the NC scale parameter $Λ_{NC}$ from $ν- e$ experiments with reactor and accelerator neutrinos. The most stringent limit of $Λ_{NC} > 3.3 TeV$ at 95% confidence level improves over the direct bounds from collider experiments.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, V2: minor revisions to match published version
title: MOYA MOYA Disease imaging: about 7 cases and literature review
Creators: name: safae, lahgazi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Arthrography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To reveal the subtle signs in MRI evoking this pathology. To illustrate the different aspects of the disease in...
Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Inequality, and Human Development
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper examines the two-way relationship between inequality and economic fluctuations, and the implications for human development. For years, the dominant paradigm in macroeconomics, which assumed that income distribution did not matter, at least for macroeconomic behavior, ignored inequality--both its role in causing crises and the effect of fluctuations in general, and crises in particular, on inequality. But the most recent financial crisis has shown the errors in this thinking, and these views are finally beginning to be questioned. Economists who had looked at the average equity of a homeowner--ignoring the distribution--felt comfortable that the economy could easily withstand a large fall in housing prices. When such a fall occurred, however, it had disastrous effects, because a large fraction of homeowners owed more on their homes than the value of the home, leading to waves of foreclosure and economic stress. Policy-makers and economists alike have begun to take note: inequality can contribute to volatility and the creation of crises, and volatility can contribute to inequality. Here, we explore the variety of channels through which inequality affects fluctuations and fluctuations affect inequality, and explore how some of the changes in our economy may have contributed to increased inequality and volatility both directly and indirectly. After describing the two-way relationship, the paper discusses hysteresis--the fact that the consequences of an economic downturn can be long-lived. Then, it examines how policy can either mitigate or exacerbate the inequality consequences of economic downturns, and shows how well-intentioned policies can sometimes be counterproductive. Finally, it links these issues to human development, especially in developing countries.
Building a statewide network of MOUD expertise using tiered ECHO® mentoring opportunities
Creators: name: Smithenry, Dennis W
name: Besante, James
name: Hopping, David
name: Patterson, Kamaria
name: Pickerl, Paige
name: Gastala, Nicole
name: Sorrell, Tanya
name: Karnik, Niranjan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: BACKGROUND: Expanding access to workforce training for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment continues to be a priority. This study explored the use of tiered mentoring opportunities within an ECHO® model to expand treatment capacity and develop a statewide network of medications for OUD (MOUD) expertise. ECHO® engages participants in a virtual community to learn best practices through case-based learning and interactions with experts. METHODS: We studied two incentivized Illinois MOUD ECHO® training programs by examining aggregate demographic and prescribing data across eight training cohorts (n = 199 participants). Participants (n = 51) in the last two cohorts were evaluated with expanded pre- and post-training surveys. Qualitative interviews were completed with a subset (n = 13) to examine effects observed in the survey data. RESULTS: For the whole group, we found a geographic expansion of the participants' prescribing capacity that reached into rural and other underserved areas in Illinois. Participants in the last two cohorts reported both increased self-efficacy for OUD treatment and increased connectedness to the addiction treatment community in Illinois. Participants who progressed through the tiered mentorship roles were found to exhibit stepwise increases in reported self-efficacy and connectedness measures. CONCLUSION: An incentivized ECHO® program yielded substantive outcomes in terms of increased prescribing capacity across the state. The use of tiered mentoring opportunities enabled participants to develop MOUD expertise and support novice providers in a growing statewide network. There is potential to train professionals to a high level of expertise when the ECHO® model is combined with a mentorship pathway.
Mobility Constraints, Productivity Trends, and Extended Crises
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Greenwald, Bruce C.
name: Russo, Alberto
name: Delli Gatti, Domenico
name: Gallegati, Mauro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: In this paper we propose an interpretation of the current Global Financial Crisis which emphasizes sectoral dislocation following localized technical change in the presence of barriers to labor mobility. This tale is reminiscent of a similar tale concerning the Great Depression. In the 30s technical change was localized in agriculture, where income fell because rising productivity could not be offset by a shrinking labor force due to the costs of moving out of agriculture for unemployed workers, inelastic demand for agricultural output meant that as output increased income declined. As individual incomes fell below the level necessary to finance the transition to manufacturing, excess labor became trapped in agriculture, reducing wages and exacerbating the rise in output. Shrinking incomes in agriculture reverberated on the other sectors, mainly manufacturing causing a large depression. Nowadays, it is manufacturing that plays the role of epicenter of technical change. Falling incomes in manufacturing yield a lack of demand for goods produced in the rest of the economy, namely the service sector. This may be the deep rooted cause of the long lasting slump and the painfully slow recovery.
Finite Element Convergence for the Joule Heating Problem with Mixed Boundary Conditions
Creators: name: Jensen, Max
name: Målqvist, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N30, 35J60

description: We prove strong convergence of conforming finite element approximations to the stationary Joule heating problem with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains in three spatial dimensions. We show optimal global regularity estimates on creased domains and prove a priori and a posteriori bounds for shape regular meshes.
description: Keywords: Joule heating problem, thermistors, a posteriori error analysis, a priori error analysis, finite element method
Liaisons Dangereuses: Increasing Connectivity, Risk Sharing, and Systemic Risk
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Greenwald, Bruce C.
name: Battiston, Stefano
name: Delli Gatti, Domenico
name: Gallegati, Mauro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: The recent financial crisis poses the challenge to understand how systemic risk arises endogenously and what architecture can make the financial system more resilient to global crises. This paper shows that a financial network can be most resilient for intermediate levels of risk diversification, and not when this is maximal, as generally thought so far. This finding holds in the presence of the financial accelerator, i.e. when negative variations in the financial robustness of an agent tend to persist in time because they have adverse effects on the agent's subsequent performance through the reaction of the agent's counterparties.
Isolation and characterization of rhizobium leguminosarum phages from western Canadian soils
Creators: name: Restrepo, Marcela
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 116-130
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: Rhizobiophages are bacteriophages that infect members of the Rhizobia, a bacterial group that nodulates and fixes nitrogen inside the nodules of legume plants. Rhizobiophages have been used for phage typing of rhizobial populations and as tools for molecular genetics due to their transduction abilities, but their diversity remains largely uncharacterized. At the start of this study very little was known about Rhizobium leguminosarum rhizobiophages. Isolation of phages from soil samples in Alberta and Saskatchewan was performed. Thirty rhizobiophages were trapped from these soils using strains of R. leguminosarum (3841 or VF39SM) and R. gallicum. Optimal storage conditions, classification based on: host range, TEM and RAPD-PCR, and phage transduction abilities were determined. Two phages were selected for detailed study and genome sequencing: L338C, a Siphoviridae and Pl0VF, a Myoviridae. Finally qPCR was demonstrated to be a viable tool for the detection of Pl0VF in the soil.
Default Cascades: When Does Risk Diversification Increase Stability?
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Greenwald, Bruce C.
name: Battiston, Stefano
name: Delli Gatti, Domenico
name: Gallegati, Mauro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: We explore the dynamics of default cascades in a network of credit interlink-ages in which each agent is at the same time a borrower and a lender. When some counterparties of an agent default, the loss she experiences amounts to her total exposure to those counterparties. A possible conjecture in this context is that individual risk diversification across more numerous counterparties should make also systemic defaults less likely. We show that this view is not always true. In particular, the diversification of credit risk across many borrowers has ambiguous effects on systemic risk in the presence of mechanisms of loss amplifications such as in the presence of potential runs among the short-term lenders of the agents in the network.
title: Liver cystic lesions: beyond the abscess
Creators: name: Pérez Del Barrio , Amaia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Drainage
subject: Abscess
subject: Cysts
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the epidemiology, pathogenesis and main imaging features of the pyogenic hepatic abscess, as well as its updated treatment. To recognize the spectrum of cystic hepatic lesions that may mimic liver abscesses. To describe imaging findings...
Jed's corner with Delwin Benson
Creators: name: Johnston, Jedediah (Puppet), Interviewer
name: Benson, Delwin
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Correction - the first IWRS was in New Mexico, not Colorado.
description: Jedediah Johnston (puppet) interviews Delwin Benson.
First-principles study for the adsorption of segments of BPA-PC on alpha-Al2O3(0001)
Creators: name: Blomqvist, Janne
name: Salo, Petri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the adsorption of bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (BPA-PC) on the alpha-Al2O3(0001) surface using density-functional theory (DFT) with van der Waals (vdW) corrections. The BPA-PC polymer can be divided into its chemical fragments which are phenylene, carbonate and isopropylidene groups. We have calculated the adsorption energy and geometry of the BPA-PC segments that consist of two to three adjacent groups of the polymer. Our DFT results show that the adsorption is dominated by the vdW interaction. It is also important to include the interaction of nearest-neighbor groups in order to provide a realistic environment for the adsorption of the polymer onto the surface. Our results also show that the BPA-PC molecule attaches to the alumina surface via the carbonate group located in the middle of the molecule chain.
Diurnal Cycle in Different Weather Regimes and Rainfall Variability over Borneo Associated with ENSO
Creators: name: Qian, Jianhua
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Moron, Vincent
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Southern oscillation
Climatic changes
Meteorology

description: The interannual variability of precipitation over the island of Borneo in association with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been studied by using the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) gridded rain gauge precipitation, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Morphing Technique (CMORPH) satellite estimated precipitation, the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite estimated sea winds, and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)–National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) reanalysis data. Analysis of the GPCC precipitation shows a dipolar structure of wet southwest versus dry central and northeast in precipitation anomalies associated with El Niño over Borneo Island during the austral summer [December–February (DJF)]. By using the 0.25° and 3-hourly CMORPH precipitation, it is found that rainfall over Borneo is strongly affected by the diurnal cycle of land–sea breezes. The spatial distribution of rainfall over Borneo depends on the direction of monsoonal winds. Weather typing analysis indicates that the dipolar structure of rainfall anomalies associated with ENSO is caused by the variability in the frequency of occurrence of different weather types. Rainfall is enhanced in the coastal region where sea breezes head against off-shore synoptic-scale low-level winds (i.e., in the lee side or wake area of the island), which is referred to here as the “wake effect.” In DJF of El Niño years, the northwesterly austral summer monsoon in southern Borneo is weaker than normal over the Maritime Continent and easterly winds are more frequent than normal over Borneo, acting to enhance rainfall over the southwest coast of the island. This coastal rainfall generation mechanism in different weather types explains the dipole pattern of a wet southwest versus dry northeast in the rainfall anomalies over Borneo Island in the El Niño years.
title: Vascularization in the liver transplant: normal findings and principal complications
Creators: name: González-Carrero Sixto, Carmen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Transplantation
subject: Grafts
subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the surgical techniques used in liver transplantation for vascular anastomosis. Describe the normal findings immediately after the procedure. Expose the most frequent acute postoperative vascular...
title: Mimickers of "The Great Mimicker" : Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Based Upon Imaging Findings
Creators: name: Önder, Ömer
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To remind well-known radiological manifestations of pulmonary sarcoidosis. To review diseases that may imitate findings of pulmonary sarcoidosis. To emphasize importance of clinico-radio-pathological correlation for differential...
Unmoored interpretations : the consequences of (mis)reading in Emaré
Creators: name: Sadowski, Kaja Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This project examines how one fourteenth-century popular romance, Emaré, responds to contemporary concerns about interpretation and misreading through a close analysis of how correct and incorrect textual interpretation and its consequences are portrayed within the text. I am most interested in how the reading environment and reading practices of the fourteenth century, most especially the rapid increase in lay literacy and the inclusion of women in romance readership, turned popular romance in particular into a locus for concerns about (in)correct interpretation, and in the effect of these concerns on the romance texts themselves. How did romance writers respond to the charges being laid against their texts by contemporary critics? To what extent did they attempt to direct their readers' interpretation of these texts and prevent misreading? And how did the gender of both reader and writer affect how the text was perceived and utilized? In order to address these questions, I have performed close, historicized readings of three key episodes in Emaré: the Emperor’s misreading of Emaré’s wondrous robe, a female-authored text that makes use of a particularly feminine mode of production and is not easily readable by men such as the Emperor; Emaré’s mother-in-law’s deliberate misreading of her son’s letters; and Emaré’s final use of her son—a jointly-authored text produced by herself and her husband—to facilitate both understanding and reconciliation between herself and the two men most heavily implicated in the earlier episodes of misreading. By examining these moments within the broader context of cultural fears around the rise of female literacy and the popularity of vernacular romance, I have mapped how one such work presents a rehabilitative model of female and lay literacy. Emaré demonstrates, via the exemplary format favoured by texts of its genre, the dangers posed by disunity among female writers and male readers, and male writers and female readers, and the power that lies in an approach to reading that acknowledges both gendered lenses, and ultimately provides the sole means of correct interpretation and the moral redemption that comes with it.
Quasiclassical and ultraquantum decay of superfluid turbulence
Creators: name: Baggaley, Andrew W.
name: Barenghi, Carlo F.
name: Sergeev, Yuri A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter addresses the question which, after a decade-long discussion, still remains open: what is the nature of the ultraquantum regime of decay of quantum turbulence? The model developed in this work reproduces both the ultraquantum and the quasiclassical decay regimes and explains their hydrodynamical natures. In the case where turbulence is generated by forcing at some intermediate lengthscale, e.g. by the beam of vortex rings in the experiment of Walmsley and Golov [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 245301 (2008)], we explained the mechanisms of generation of both ultraquantum and quasiclassical regimes. We also found that the anisotropy of the beam is important for generating the large scale motion associated with the quasiclassical regime.
With the Best Intentions: Lead Research and the Challenge to Public Health
Creators: name: Rosner, David K.
name: Markowitz, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public health
Ethics

description: In 2001, Maryland’s court of appeals was asked to decide whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University had engaged in unethical research on children. During the 1990s, Johns Hopkins’s Kennedy Krieger Institute had studied 108 African American children, aged 6 months to 6 years, to find an inexpensive and “practical” means to ameliorate lead poisoning. We have outlined the arguments in the case and the conundrum faced by public health researchers as they confront new threats to our health from environmental and industrial insults. We examined the case in light of contemporary public health ideology, which prioritizes harm reduction over the historical goals of prevention. As new synthetic toxins—such as bisphenyl A, polychlorinated biphenyls, other chlorinated hydrocarbons, tobacco, vinyl, and asbestos—are discovered to be biologically disruptive and disease producing at low levels, lead provides a window into the troubling dilemmas public health will have to confront in the future.
Gender and the division of household labour: an analysis of the implications for mental and physical health
Creators: name: Polachek, Alicia Joyelle
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 115-136
description: This thesis examines the relationships between the division of household labour and mental and physical health using survey data from 1,193 male and female lawyers in Canada. Household labour is examined in terms of time spent in housework on work days and non-work days, relative contribution to housework, and perceptions of fairness about the division of household tasks. The results indicate that housework time and relative contributions are not particularly detrimental to mental and physical health. Rather, time spent in housework only appears to be harmful when it interferes with weekends or when individuals feel that the division of housework is unfair, particularly if it is unfair to one's spouse. Interestingly, these relationships do not differ for men and women. The results also suggest that work demands mediate the relationships between gender and health, as well as housework and health. Several avenues for further research are discussed.
Prediction of Rice Production in the Philippines Using Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Creators: name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Ines, Amor Valeriano M.
name: Qian, Jianhua
name: DeWitt, David G.
name: Lucero, Anthony
name: Koide, Naohisa
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Rice--Climatic factors
Climatic changes
Agriculture

description: Predictive skills of retrospective seasonal climate forecasts (hindcasts) tailored to Philippine rice production data at national, regional, and provincial levels are investigated using precipitation hindcasts from one uncoupled general circulation model (GCM) and two coupled GCMs, as well as using antecedent observations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures, warm water volumes (WWV), and zonal winds (ZW). Contrasting cross-validated predictive skills are found between the “dry” January–June and “rainy” July–December crop-production seasons. For the dry season, both irrigated and rain-fed rice production are shown to depend strongly on rainfall in the previous October–December. Furthermore, rice-crop hindcasts based on the two coupled GCMs, or on the observed WWV and ZW, are each able to account for more than half of the total variance of the dry-season national detrended rice production with about a 6-month lead time prior to the beginning of the harvest season. At regional and provincial levels, predictive skills are generally low. The relationships are found to be more complex for rainy-season rice production. Area harvested correlates positively with rainfall during the preceding dry season, whereas the yield has positive and negative correlations with rainfall in June–September and in October–December of the harvested year, respectively. Tropical cyclone activity is also shown to be a contributing factor in the latter 3-month season. Hindcasts based on the WWV and ZW are able to account for almost half of the variance of the detrended rice production data in Luzon with a few months’ lead time prior to the beginning of the rainy season.
Consensus and objectivity in science
Creators: name: Pham, Michelle Trang Thu
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 91-93
description: his is an essay about scientific consensus. Two claims are made. Scientific consensus is a crucial social mechanism, facilitating science's future prospects and research projects. But not only this, scientific consensus holds implications for a key success designator in science: scientific objectivity. More specifically, scientific consensus and scientific objectivity can be at odds. Yet both are commonly seen as crucial for science. I suggest that consensus can hinder scientific objectivity.
Findings From the Step Up, Test Up Study of an Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Adolescents and Young Adults Presenting for HIV Testing: Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial
Creators: name: Karnik, Niranjan
name: Kuhns, Lisa M
name: Hotton, Anna L
name: Del Vecchio, Natascha
name: McNulty, Moira
name: Schneider, John
name: Donenberg, Geri
name: Baker, Kristin Keglovitz
name: Diskin, Rose
name: Muldoon, Abigail
name: Rivera, Juan
name: Williams, Faith Summersett
name: Garofalo, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: BACKGROUND: Substance use, particularly binge drinking of alcohol and noninjection substance use, is associated with increased risk for HIV infection among youth, but structured substance use screening and brief intervention are not often provided as part of HIV risk reduction. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to test the efficacy of a fully automated electronic screening and brief intervention, called Step Up, Test Up, to reduce alcohol misuse among adolescents and young adults presenting for HIV testing. Secondary objectives were reduction in sexual risk and uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention. METHODS: Youth aged 16 years to 25 years who presented for HIV testing at community-based locations were recruited for study participation. Those who screened at moderate to high risk on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test were randomized (1:1) to either an electronic brief intervention or a time-attention control. The primary outcome was change in alcohol use at 1, 3, 6, and 12-month follow-ups. Negative binomial and log binomial regression analyses with generalized estimating equations were conducted to evaluate the intervention efficacy. RESULTS: Among a sample of 329 youth, there were no significant differences in alcohol use outcomes between conditions over time or at the 1, 3, 6, or 12-month time points. In terms of secondary outcomes, there was evidence of reduction in condomless insertive anal sex under the influence of alcohol and drugs at 12 months compared with 3 months in the intervention versus the attention control condition (incidence rate ratio=0.15, 95% CI 0.05-0.44); however, there were no other significant differences in sexual risk and no difference in PrEP engagement. CONCLUSIONS: We found no effect of electronic brief intervention to reduce alcohol use and some effect on sexual risk among youth aged 16 years to 25 years who present for HIV testing. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT02703116; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02703116. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR2-10.1186/s12889-020-8154-6.
Solvable K-essence Cosmologies and Modified Chaplygin Gas Unified Models of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Yesmakhanova, K. R.
name: Rani, S.
name: Myrzakulov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the investigation of modified Chaplygin gas model in the context of solvable k-essence cosmologies. For this purpose, we construct equations of state parameter of this model for some particular values of the parameter $n$. The graphical behavior of these equations are also discussed by using power law form of potential. The relationship between k-essence and modified Chaplygin gas model shows viable results in the dark energy scenario. We conclude that the universe behaves as a cosmological constant, quintessence phase or phantom phase depending upon $n$.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Isotope effect for associative detachment: H(D)−+H(D)→H2(D2)+e
Creators: name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
name: Bruhns, H.
name: Kreckel, H.
name: Miller, Kenneth
name: Urbain, X.
name: Eliasek, J.
name: Cizek, M.
name: Cabrera-Trujillo, R.
name: O'Connor, Aodh
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Astrophysics
Microphysics

description: We report experimental and theoretical results for associative detachment (AD) of D−+D→D2+e−. We compare these data to our previously published results for H−+H→H2+e−. The measurements show no significant isotope effect in the total cross section. This is to be contrasted with previously published experimental and theoretical work which has found a significant isotope effect in diatomic systems for partial AD cross sections, i.e., as a function of the rotational and vibrational levels of the final molecule formed. Our work implies that though the rovibrational distribution of flux is different for AD of H− + H and D− + D, the total flux for these two systems is essentially the same when summed over all possible final channels.
Jed's corner with Mark Jones
Creators: name: Johnston, Jedediah (Puppet), Interviewer
name: Jones, Mark
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Jedediah Johnston (puppet) interviews Mark Jones.
title: Secondary puerperal and postabortion hemorrhage: findings in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Creators: name: Saidman, Julia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Embolisation
subject: Complications
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: MR physics
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To analyze different causes of secondary puerperal (postpartum or postcesarean delivery) or postabortion hemorrhage (PPH). To discuss the diagnostic value of Contrast-enhanced Dynamic and Angiographic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)...
Stable bounce and inflation in non-local higher derivative cosmology
Creators: name: Biswas, Tirthabir
name: Koshelev, Alexey S.
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Vernov, Sergey Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the greatest problems of primordial inflation is that the inflationary space-time is past-incomplete. This is mainly because Einstein's GR suffers from a space-like Big Bang singularity. It has recently been shown that ghost-free, non-local higher-derivative ultra-violet modifications of Einstein's gravity may be able to resolve the cosmological Big Bang singularity via a non-singular bounce. Within the framework of such non-local cosmological models, we are going to study both sub- and super-Hubble perturbations around an inflationary trajectory which is preceded by the Big Bounce in the past, and demonstrate that the inflationary trajectory has an ultra-violet completion and that perturbations do not suffer from any pathologies.
description: 24 pages, uses jcappub.sty; v2: version matching the one published in JCAP, some clarifications added
title: Small bowel MRI: existing and new techniques
Creators: name: Dedelaite, Milda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Motility
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Enterography
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Small bowel
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the indications and clinical use for small bowel MRI. To discuss the requirements for small bowel MRI protocol for routine clinical use. To describe the potential use of new MRI techniques for small bowel...