cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gait sensing on smartphones to support mobile exercise applications and games
Creators: name: Schneider, Oliver Stirling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: To encourage and support physical activity in increasingly sedentary lifestyles, many are turning to mobile technology. Modern smartphones are equipped with a wealth of sensors, including Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and accelerometers, suggesting great potential to be integrated with fitness and exercise applications. So far, GPS-enabled devices have been used to support running, cycling, or even exercise games that encourage people to be physically active, but GPS- enabled devices lack fine-grained information about the user’s activity. Accelerometers have been used to some effect to detect step count and walking cadence (step rate), and even to classify activity (distinguishing walking from cycling, for example), but require a known carrying location and orientation. In this work, we examine the role of location in two application areas - real-time cadence estimation and gait classification - and develop algorithms to accommodate diverse carrying locations. In the first application area, real-time cadence estimation, our algorithm (Robust Real-time Algorithm for Cadence Estimation, or RRACE) uses a frequency- domain analysis to perform well without training or tuning, and is robust to changes in carrying locations. We demonstrate RRACE’s performance and robustness to be an improvement over existing algorithms with data collected from a user study. In the second application area, gait classification, we present a novel set of 15 gaits suitable for exercise games and other fitness applications. Using a minimal amount of training for participants, we can achieve a mean of 78.1% classification for all 15 gaits and all locations, an accuracy which may be usable now in some applications and warrants further investigation of this approach. We present findings of how our classification scheme confuses these gaits, and encapsulate insights in guidelines for designers. We also demonstrate that our classification performance varies dramatically for each individual even when trained and tested on that individual, suggesting strong individual differences in performing gaits. Our innovative methodology for simple and quick collection of accelerometer data is also described in detail. Future work includes planned improvements to both algorithms, further investigation of individual differences, and extension of this work to other application areas.
Additional file 2 of Experiences of renal healthcare practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-methods approach
Creators: name: Mc Keaveney, Clare
name: Reid, Joanne
name: Carswell, Claire
name: Bonner, Ann
name: de Barbieri, Ilaria
name: Johnston, William
name: Maxwell, Alexander P.
name: O’Riordan, Julien
name: Strini, Veronica
name: Walsh, Ian
name: Noble, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Self-Calibration Technique for 3-point Intrinsic Alignment Correlations in Weak Lensing Surveys
Creators: name: Troxel, M. A.
name: Ishak, Mustapha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies has been shown to be a significant barrier to precision cosmic shear measurements. (Zhang, 2010, ApJ, 720, 1090) proposed a self-calibration technique for the power spectrum to calculate the induced gravitational shear-galaxy intrinsic ellipticity correlation (GI) in weak lensing surveys with photo-z measurements which is expected to reduce the IA contamination by at least a factor of 10 for currently proposed surveys. We confirm this using an independent analysis and propose an expansion to the self-calibration technique for the bispectrum in order to calculate the dominant IA gravitational shear-gravitational shear-intrinsic ellipticity correlation (GGI) contamination. We first establish an estimator to extract the galaxy density-density-intrinsic ellipticity (ggI) correlation from the galaxy ellipticity-density-density measurement for a photo-z galaxy sample. We then develop a relation between the GGI and ggI bispectra, which allows for the estimation and removal of the GGI correlation from the cosmic shear signal. We explore the performance of these two methods, compare to other possible sources of error, and show that the GGI self-calibration technique can potentially reduce the IA contamination by up to a factor of 5-10 for all but a few bin choices, thus reducing the contamination to the percent level. The self-calibration is less accurate for adjacent bins, but still allows for a factor of three reduction in the IA contamination. The self-calibration thus promises to be an efficient technique to isolate both the 2-point and 3-point intrinsic alignment signals from weak lensing measurements.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, matches version published in MNRAS. Published online December 5, 2011
Minimal Flavour Violation with Strong Higgs Dynamics
Creators: name: Alonso, R.
name: Gavela, M. B.
name: Merlo, L.
name: Rigolin, S.
name: Yepes, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a variant of the Minimal Flavour Violation ansatz for the case of a strongly interacting heavy-Higgs boson sector. The tower of effective operators differs from that for a Higgs system in the linear regime, and the new operators obtained at leading order include a CP-odd one. We investigate the impact of these operators on Delta F=1 and Delta F=2 observables, demonstrating that the non-linear scenario may have an interesting impact on the anomalies in present data.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures; version accepted for publication on JHEP
Modulation of the cellular redox state by distinct selenocompounds and their effects on cell signaling processes
Creators: name: Lennicke, Claudia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Das essentielle Spurenelement Selen (Se) ist als Bestandteil von Selenoproteinen an verschiedenen physiologischen Prozessen, wie beispielsweise der Aufrechterhaltung der zellulären Redox-Homöostase, beteiligt. In der Literatur wird die Rolle von Se in der Tumorprävention als auch bei metabolischen Erkrankungen kontrovers diskutiert. Die in dieser Arbeit gezeigten Originalartikel beschäftigen sich mit dem Einfluss verschiedener Se-Verbindungen und Konzentrationen auf den Energiemetabolismus sowie die antioxidative Kapazität in der murinen Leber (I), auf das murine Kolonproteom (II) und auf die Aufrechterhaltung des mukosalen Gleichgewichts am Beispiel der GPx2-KO-Maus (III). Zusätzlich wurden potentielle Mechanismen pro-oxidativer Se-Verbindungen bezüglich anti-kanzerogener Effekte in einer murinen Melanom-Zelllinie aufgezeigt (IV). Die Ergebnisse weisen insgesamt auf unterschiedliche Einflüsse verschiedener Se-Verbindungen als auch eingesetzter Se-Konzentrationen hin.
description: The essential trace element selenium (Se) is, as a component of selenoproteins, involved in various physiological processes, e.g. the maintenance of the cellular redox homeostasis. In the literature, the role of Se in the prevention of tumors and the development of metabolic diseases is controversially discussed. In this work the influence of different Se compounds and concentrations on energy metabolism and the antioxidative capacity in the murine liver (I), on the murine colon proteome (II) and on maintaining the mucosal balance using the example of GPx2 -KO mouse (III) was investigated. In addition, potential mechanisms of pro-oxidative Se compounds with regard to anti-carcinogenic effects in a murine melanoma cell line were shown (IV). Overall, the results indicate different influences of different Se compounds as well as Se concentrations used.
Final HealthyCloud Strategic Agenda for the Health Research Innovation Cloud
Creators: name: Canham, Steve
name: Ohman, Christian
name: Demotes-Mainard, Jacques
name: Panagiotopoulou, Maria
name: Rujano, Maria Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: health data, distributed computing, FAIR data,

description: This document is the First draft of the Final Strategic Agenda to towards the construction of the Health Research and Innovation Cloud (HRIC). The HRIC is intended to be one of the cornerstones of European Health Data Space, specifically on its incarnation devoted to secondary use of health data, building on top of existing initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) building blocks. NOTE: this draft has not been approved by the European Commision and reflects only the opinions of the HealthyCloud Consortium.
Quasi-conservation laws for compressible 3D Navier-Stokes flow
Creators: name: Gibbon, J. D.
name: Holm, D. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the quasi-Lagrangian fluid transport dynamics of mass density $ρ$ and the projection $q=\bom\cdot\nablaρ$ of the vorticity $\bom$ onto the density gradient, as determined by the 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations for an ideal gas, although the results apply for an arbitrary equation of state. It turns out that the quasi-Lagrangian transport of $q$ cannot cross a level set of $ρ$. That is, in this formulation, level sets of $ρ$ (isopychnals) are impermeable to the transport of the projection $q$.
description: 2 page note, to appear in Phys Rev E
An Investigation on Methane Flux in Landfills and Correlation with Surface Methane Concentration
Creators: name: Irandoost, Erfan
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: landfill gas, methane, flux, surface concentration
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: With growing concerns over greenhouse gas emissions increase on one hand, and methane’s high global warming potential on the other, direct methane emission measurement techniques from area sources such as landfills are receiving increased scrutiny. The static enclosure chamber method is the only technique that allows direct measurement of landfill gas fluxes. However, due to the large footprint of landfills, as well as the temporal and spatial variability of landfill methane emissions, the static enclosure method may not be the best option under some situations because it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Collecting surface methane concentration (SMC) data through the instantaneous emission measurement (IEM) technique is relatively easy and inexpensive, however it is merely a qualitative means of evaluating surface methane emissions. This study investigated the development of a relationship between SMCs and methane flux across the soil-atmosphere boundary in a small-scale test cell under a partially controlled environment, in an attempt to translate SMC data into quantitative estimates. In addition, the study investigated the effect of wind speed on surface and flux measurements and the correlation between the two. The results demonstrated a significant positive correlation between SMCs and surface flux measurements. However, a better correlation was achieved when the analysis was performed under calm wind conditions and mild-to-moderate wind conditions separately. Under calm wind conditions, a linear correlation was found between SMCs and flux measurements with a resulting R2 of 0.94 and 0.90 for regression through origin and regression with intercept, respectively. These findings were in agreement with those of various researchers who have suggested surface flux has a positive and, in some cases, strong relationship with methane concentrations. The results also suggested that the presence of wind caused a decrease in average measured flux for the majority of inlet flowrates. It also significantly decreased concentrations measured in the test cell, while shifting the gas to defuse from areas that are further away from the wind source. Under windy conditions, the results of statistical analysis showed that SMCs have a linear correlation with flux divided by wind speed with a resulting R2 of 0.88, and other independent variables were found to be statistically insignificant. This finding was in agreement with the findings of researchers who observed an inverse relationship between SMCs and wind speeds. It is also in line with the Gaussian steady-state dispersion model which shows a direct relationship between SMC and emission rate divided by wind velocity.
Additional file 1 of ‘The best interest of patients, not self-interest’: how clinicians understand altruism
Creators: name: Sajjad, Madiha
name: Qayyum, Shazia
name: Iltaf, Samina
name: Khan, Rehan Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Interview guide.
title: The private and fiscal returns to higher education
title: a simulation approach for a young german cohort
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischer, Benjamin
name: Hügle, Dominik
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: higher education
subject: returns to education
subject: dynamic microsimulation
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::336 Öffentliche Finanzen

description: We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates individual life cycles of a young German cohort in terms of several key variables, such as employment, earnings, and household formation. To estimate the returns to higher education, we link our dynamic microsimulation model to a tax-benefit simulator that allows converting gross wages into disposable incomes. On average, we find private and fiscal returns that are substantially higher than current market interest rates. However, analyzing the distribution of returns we also find that there is a considerable share of young adults for whom we forecast vocational training, the alternative to higher education, to be financially more rewarding. We demonstrate how the taxtransfer system and income pooling within couple households affect private returns and decompose the fiscal returns into its major components.
Outward FDI from Portugal and its policy context, 2012
Creators: name: Simões, Vitor Corado
name: Cartaxo, Rui Manuel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Finance
International relations

description: In 2010, Portugal's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) was severely affected by the global economic and financial crisis, with flows recording a negative figure of -US$ 8.4 billion, the lowest in an ever-steeper declining trend exhibited since 2005. Nevertheless, Portugal's OFDI stock increased almost three-fold between 2000 and 2010. During this period, Portugal's OFDI annual growth rates were lower than those of comparator economies, such as Spain or Ireland, and only slightly above those of Italy. OFDI flows in the 2001-2010 period were concentrated in the services sector, particularly in real estate, followed by retail and manufacturing. In contrast, there has been a clear decline of investment in financial services (largely explaining the negative figures recorded in 2010) and in the construction industry. Excluding 2010, the Netherlands has attracted a significant share of Portugal's OFDI. Investment in non-traditional destinations has gained importance in recent years, both in Europe (Romania, Bulgaria) and outside Europe (the United States, India), but their weight remains limited. The crisis affected OFDI policy, leading to growing concern regarding the localization of value-added activities in Portugal. There has been a shift in government policy in the past three years, prioritizing exports over direct investment as a mode of entry into foreign markets.
Automatic basketball tracking in broadcast basketball video
Creators: name: Yu, Shuang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: We proposed and implemented an automatic basketball detection and tracking system for broadcast basketball video recorded with a single pan-tilt-zoom camera, using knowledge of player tracking information. The task is challenging because the basketball is blurred due to the camera and the ball's fast movements, and broadcast video compression; also the motion pattern of the basketball is complicated and the ball is hard to distinguish from the cluttered background region. We incorporated three independent detection approaches to detect the basketball and tracked the basketball using the Kalman Filter, and then we analyzed the tracklets and selected the passing / shooting tracklets and inferred the player possession information. We tested the system using 830 frames in broadcast basketball video, and our system demonstrated the ability to track some passing / shooting actions and then infer the player who controls the ball. The system is a first attempt to extend the intelligent basketball tracking system to include basketball tracking and player possession inference. Our proposed methodologies can be extended to other intelligent sports analysis systems, even when the ball movement in the sport is not constrained in two dimensional space.
Canonical tensor models with local time
Creators: name: Sasakura, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is an intriguing question how local time can be introduced in the emergent picture of spacetime. In this paper, this problem is discussed in the context of tensor models. To consistently incorporate local time into tensor models, a rank- three tensor model with first class constraints in Hamilton formalism is presented. In the limit of usual continuous spaces, the algebra of constraints reproduces that of general relativity in Hamilton formalism. While the momentum constraints can be realized rather easily by the symmetry of the tensor models, the form of the Hamiltonian constraints is strongly limited by the condition of the closure of the whole constraint algebra. Thus the Hamiltonian constraints have been determined on the assumption that they are local and at most cubic in canonical variables. The form of the Hamiltonian constraints has similarity with the Hamiltonian in the c < 1 string field theory, but it seems impossible to realize such a constraint algebras in the framework of vector or matrix models. Instead these models are rather useful as matter theories coupled with the tensor model. In this sense, a three-index tensor is the minimum-rank dynamical variable necessary to describe gravity in terms of tensor models.
description: 25 pages, v3: misleading sentences concerning time reversal symmetry corrected, v2:minor corrections
Motorische und kognitive Fatigue bei Patienten mit Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis
Creators: name: Uer, Önör
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Das Phänomen der Fatigue als Maß physischer und mentaler Erschöpfung wurde häufig bei Patienten mit einer Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis beschrieben. Ziel dieser Studie war es, zu untersuchen, ob die häufig beschriebenen Symptome der verminderten Leistungsfähigkeit bzw. gesteigerten Ermüdung objektiv gemessen werden können und von den Ergebnissen einer gesunden Kontrollgruppe abweichen. Die Studienpopulation wurde prospektiv untersucht. Die Datenerhebung erfolgte mit motorischen und kognitiven Testverfahren. Der Leistungsverlauf wurde entsprechend des linearen Trends statistisch abgebildet und als Ausmaß der Fatigue interpretiert. Es konnte verstärkte motorische Fatigue bei Patienten mit Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis gegenüber Kontrollen im 6-Minuten-Gehtest nachgewiesen werden. Die kognitive Ermüdung beider Gruppen unterschied sich nicht. Es konnte weder eine Korrelation der motorischen noch der kognitiven Fatigue mit der subjektiv erlebten Fatigue nachgewiesen werden. Stimmung, Schmerz und Schlafqualität beeinflussten den Leistungsverlauf im 6-Minuten-Gehtest nicht, korrelierten jedoch stark mit der subjektiven Fatigue. Ein Erklärungsansatz für die motorische Belastungsintoleranz bei Patienten mit Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis könnte eine vermutete entzündlich-metabolisch vermittelte muskuläre Beteiligung sein. Objektive motorische Fatigue erweitert den Symptomkomplex der Hashimoto Thyreoiditis und sollte in Diagnostik und Therapie dieser Erkrankung vermehrt berücksichtigt werden.
description: The phenomenon of fatigue as a measure of physical and mental exhaustion has been widely described in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The purpose of this prospective case-controll study was to investigate whether the commonly described symptoms of diminished performance and increased fatigability can be objectively measured and deviate from the results of a healthy control group. Performance in physical and cognitive testing was assessed. Calculation of linear trend was used to reflect the dynamics of performance. Patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis showed increased levels of physical fatigue compared to healthy controls in the 6-minute walk test. There was no difference in the levels of cognitive fatigability in both groups. Neither physical nor cognitive fatigability correlated with the subjective perception of fatigue. Depression, pain and sleep disorders did not affect the performance in the 6-minute walk test, but showed strong correlation with subjective fatigue. Increased physical fatigability in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis might be due to a possible inflammatory mediated involvement of the muscles. Objective physical fatigability extends the symptom complex of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and should be taken more into account in diagnosis and treatment of this disease.
Performance Accountability Systems for Community Colleges
Creators: name: Dougherty, Kevin J.
name: Bork, Rachel Julia Hare
name: Natow, Rebecca Spiro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Education, Higher
Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Policymakers, higher education associations, blue-ribbon commissions, and researchers are calling for a greater focus on institutional accountability. Thus, the American Association of Community Colleges and the Association of Community College Trustees, in partnership with the College Board, have launched an effort to develop a Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA) for Community Colleges to ensure that the effectiveness and contributions of these colleges are properly measured. To develop the VFA, the College Board commissioned CCRC to undertake a study that would identify the performance measures states are already using, explore how well those measures articulate with the data demanded by IPEDS and the regional accrediting associations, and illuminate the experiences of state higher education officials and local community college leaders with the collection and use of state performance data. CCRC researchers conducted a survey of higher education! officials and community college leaders in 10 states, and reviewed publications by state agencies and national higher education policy organizations. This report discusses the study's findings and implications.
Dynamic Critical Behavior of the Heisenberg Model with Strong Easy Plane Anisotropy
Creators: name: Mutailamov, V. A.
name: Murtazaev, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamic critical behavior of the Heisenberg model with a strong anisotropy of the exchange constant in the z direction is investigated. The main features of the time evolution of this model are revealed. The static and dynamic critical behavior of planar magnetic models is shown to be described well by the Heisenberg model with strong easy plane anisotropy.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Research Data Strategies to Support Studies of Human Interactions in the Environment
Creators: name: Downs, Robert R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Information science
Information technology

description: When trying to use scientific data, members of the research community need to know how the data can be found, how the data have been reviewed, whether the data have been preserved for future use, how the data are managed throughout the data lifecycle, and how the data have been used. The presentation answers these questions by describing a strategic approach to managing the workflow for the stewardship and curation of scientific data.
Protecting the Safety Net in Tough Times: Lessons from the States
Creators: name: Skinner, Curtis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Poor children--Services for
Poor children
Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Fiscal policy--U.S. states
Budget--U.S. states

description: Because of state balanced-budget requirements, policymakers are generally compelled to cut spending, seek new sources of revenue, or undertake both actions when revenues fall below projections. Even in a serious economic downturn, several states are finding ways to protect their safety nets for families and children. This report takes a look at states that have managed to do just that.
Rehearsal of tactile working memory: Premotor cortex recruits two dissociable neuronal content representations
Creators: name: Schmidt, Timo Torsten
name: Schröder, Pia
name: Reinhardt, Pablo
name: Blankenburg, Felix
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: attentional refreshing
subject: attentional refreshment
subject: attention-based refreshing
subject: fMRI
subject: frequency
subject: inferior frontal gyrus
subject: premotor cortex
subject: prioritizing
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Recent working memory (WM) research has focused on identifying brain regions that retain different types of mental content. Only few neuroimaging studies have explored the mechanism of attention‐based refreshing, which is a type of rehearsal and is thought to implement the dynamic components of WM allowing for update of WM contents. Here, we took advantage of the distinct coding properties of the superior parietal lobe (SPL), which retains spatial layout information, and the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which retains frequency information of vibrotactile stimuli during tactile WM. In an fMRI delayed match‐to‐sample task, participants had to internally rehearse sequences of spatial layouts or vibratory frequencies. Our results replicate the dissociation of SPL and IFG for the retention of layout and frequency information in terms of activation differences between conditions. Additionally, we found strong premotor cortex (PMC) activation during rehearsal of either stimulus type. To explore interactions between these regions we used dynamic causal modeling and found that activation within the network was best explained by a model that allows the PMC to drive activity in the SPL and IFG during rehearsal. This effect was content‐specific, meaning that the PMC showed stronger influence on the SPL during pattern rehearsal and stronger influence on the IFG during frequency rehearsal. In line with previously established PMC contributions to sequence processing, our results suggest that it acts as a content‐independent area that flexibly recruits content‐specific regions to bring a WM item into the focus of attention during the rehearsal of tactile stimulus sequences.
Building on Redundancy: Factoid Question Answering, Robust Retrieval and the “Other”
Creators: name: Roussinov, Dmitri
name: Chau, Micheal
name: Filatova, Elena
name: Robles-Flores, Jose Antonio
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Information technology
Computer science

description: We have explored how redundancy based techniques can be used in improving factoid question answering, definitional questions (“other”), and robust retrieval. For the factoids, we explored the meta approach: we submit the questions to the several open domain question answering systems available on the Web and applied our redundancy-based triangulation algorithm to analyze their outputs in order to identify the most promising answers. Our results support the added value of the meta approach: the performance of the combined system surpassed the underlying performances of its components. To answer definitional (“other”) questions, we were looking for the sentences containing re-occurring pairs of noun entities containing the elements of the target. For Robust retrieval, we applied our redundancy based Internet mining technique to identify the concepts (single word terms or phrases) that were highly related to the topic (query) and expanded the queries with them. All our results are above the mean performance in the categories in which we have participated, with one of our Robust runs being the best in its category among all 24 participants. Overall, our findings support the hypothesis that using as much as possible textual data, specifically such as mined from the World Wide Web, is extre mely promising and capable of achieving results comparable with more knowledge intensive techniques.
Partition & dissociation of formic acid in 2-MTHF/H2O characterized by in-line Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Echtermeyer, Alexander Walter Wilhelm
name: Mitsos, Alexander
name: Viell, Jörn
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: 6. International Conference of the Excellence Cluster Tailor-made Fuels from Biomass, TMFB 2018, Aachen, Germany, 19 Jun 2018 - 21 Jun 2018
Elastic and vibrational properties of alpha and beta-PbO
Creators: name: Canepa, Pieremanuele
name: Ugliengo, Piero
name: Alfredsson, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure, electronic and dynamic properties of the two layered alpha (litharge) and beta (massicot) phases of PbO have been studied by density functional methods. The role of London dispersion interactions as leading component of the total interaction energy between layers has been addressed by using the Grimme's approach, in which new parameters for Pb and O atoms have been developed. Both gradient corrected and hybrid functionals have been adopted using Gaussian-type basis sets of polarized triple zeta quality for O atoms and small core pseudo-potential for the Pb atoms. Basis set superposition error (BSSE) has been accounted for by the Boys-Bernardi correction to compute the interlayer separation. Cross check with calculations adopting plane waves that are BSSE free have also been performed for both structures and vibrational frequencies. With the new set of proposed Grimme's type parameters structures and dynamical parameters for both PbO phases are in good agreement with experimental data.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Observation of a multiphase solvent system employing in-situ IR- and Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Echtermeyer, Alexander Walter Wilhelm
name: Aigner, Maximilian
name: Viell, Jörn
name: Jupke, Andreas
name: Mitsos, Alexander
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: 4. European Conference on Process Analytics and Control Technology, EuroPACT 2017, Potsdam, Germany, 10 May 2017 - 12 May 2017
William Lambarde's Eirenarcha and the Centralization of Local Government
Creators: name: LeClair, Stacey Crystal
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Economics--History
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: William Lambarde played a pivotal role in the centralization of local government in late Elizabethan England. Although he has been frequently referenced in history as a legal scholar and antiquarian, his widely read manual for the justices of the peace, Eirenarcha: Or, of the Office of the Justices of the Peace (1582), demonstrates that his knowledge of the history of the common law enabled him to critically analyze the operations of local government in an effort to reform the way judicial administration was conducted by lay justices of the peace. This thesis investigates the work of Lambarde and his contribution to law reform in late Elizabethan England, particularly as revealed through the Eirenarcha. One of the chief reasons for the publication of Eirenarcha was to provide a solution to the inefficiencies and inaccuracies that persisted in the administration of law and justice by lay JPs. At a time when the law was neither rigidly applied nor uniformly understood, Lambarde provided a comprehensive and consistent source of legal knowledge that acted as a bridge between the central government and the JPs in the localities, proving Lambarde to be a central figure in the process of criminal justice reform in late Elizabethan England. Lambarde’s legal reforms put forth through his Eirenarcha ultimately brought about tangible changes to the commission and made a lasting impression on legal scholars well into the seventeenth century.
A spectral characterization of skeletal maps
Creators: name: Banakh, Taras
name: Kucharski, Andrzej
name: Martynenko, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54B35, 54C10

description: We prove that a map between two realcompact spaces is skeletal if and only if it is homeomorphic to the limit map of a skeletal morphism between w-spectra with surjective limit projections.
description: 8 pages
Socio-economic implications of bovine liver rejection in a major abattoir in south-western Nigeria
Creators: name: Ibironke, Ademola Adeshupo
name: Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo
Publisher: name: Revista de Ciências Agrárias
Year: 2018

description: This study considered the common causes of liver rejection in an abattoir in Nigeria. It was estimated and compared mathematically the lead causes of rejection of bovine liver. Fascioliasis was the main cause of liver condemnation and its social and economic implications were studied. A total of Nigerian Naira 15,772,200 [US$134,000] was lost directly due to this disease condition in a three-year period and in a single abattoir.  Finally, advice was proffered to minimize the problems associated with liver rejection in Nigeria and to improve public health and animal welfare.
description: Revista de Ciências Agrárias, vol. 33 n.º 2 (2010)
Testing General Relativity at Cosmological Scales: Implementation and Parameter Correlations
Creators: name: Dossett, Jason
name: Ishak, Mustapha
name: Moldenhauer, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The testing of general relativity at cosmological scales has become a possible and timely endeavor that is not only motivated by the pressing question of cosmic acceleration but also by the proposals of some extensions to general relativity that would manifest themselves at large scales of distance. We analyze here correlations between modified gravity growth parameters and some core cosmological parameters using the latest cosmological data sets including the refined Cosmic Evolution Survey 3D weak lensing. We provide parametrized modified growth equations and their evolution. We implement known functional and binning approaches, and propose a new hybrid approach to evolve modified gravity parameters in redshift (time) and scale. The hybrid parametrization combines a binned redshift dependence and a smooth evolution in scale avoiding a jump in the matter power spectrum. The formalism developed to test the consistency of current and future data with general relativity is implemented in a package that we make publicly available and call ISiTGR (Integrated Software in Testing General Relativity), an integrated set of modified modules for the publicly available packages CosmoMC and CAMB, including a modified version of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe-galaxy cross correlation module of Ho et al and a new weak-lensing likelihood module for the refined HST-COSMOS weak lensing tomography data. We obtain parameter constraints and correlation coefficients finding that modified gravity parameters are significantly correlated with σ_8 and mildly correlated with Ω_m, for all evolution methods. The degeneracies between σ_8 and modified gravity parameters are found to be substantial for the functional form and also for some specific bins in the hybrid and binned methods indicating that these degeneracies will need to be taken into consideration when using future high precision data.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, matches version published in PRD. The software package ISiTGR used in this paper is available at http://www.utdallas.edu/~jdossett/isitgr
Erkenntnisse über die operative Therapie des primären Ovarialkarzinoms. Eine Abhandlung über die Fortschritte und Limitationen sowie die sich daraus ableitenden Implikationen für die Selektion von Patientinnen für die Primäroperation
Creators: name: Heitz, Florian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Primary OP for OvCa
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In der vorgelegten Arbeit wurden verschiedene wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur operativen Therapie des Ovarialkarzinoms zusammengefasst und deren Wertigkeit in Bezug zur konkreten Therapieplanung und -durchführung dargelegt. Generell sind diese wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten aus dem Klinikkontext entstanden und helfen zuerst dabei, die Qualität der eigenen klinischen Arbeit zu dokumentieren und evaluieren. In einem zweiten Schritt können die Erkenntnisse aus diesen Untersuchungen dabei helfen, eine Optimierung der Diagnostik und Therapie herbeizuführen, im eigenen Zentrum, bei publizierten Schriften, auch darüber hinaus. Konkret konnte bestätigt werden, dass die Komplettresektion beim fortgeschrittenen Ovarialkarzinom eine bedeutsame Rolle spielt, denn die Prognose von Patientinnen, bei welchen eine Komplettresektion erreicht wird ist deutlich besser, als bei Patientinnen, bei welchen dies nicht der Fall ist. Darüber hinaus konnte gezeigt werden, dass der überwiegende Teil von Patientinnen mit fortgeschrittenem Ovarialkarzinom, welche in einem Zentrum behandelt wurden, von der Strategie der Primär-OP gefolgt von der Chemotherapie profitieren. Ein Anteil von ca. 20% aller Patientinnen mit fortgeschrittenem Ovarialkarzinom profitiert jedoch nicht von diesem Ansatz. Diese Patientinnen vor der Indikation zu einer großen Operation bzw. zu Beginn einer großen Operation zu identifizieren ist von großer Wichtigkeit, um dem Grundsatz primum non nocere soweit wie möglich zu entsprechen. Patientinnen, die nicht der Primäroperation zugeführt werden können, bzw. die mit hoher Sicherheit nicht von der Primäroperation profitieren, sollten einer neoadjuvanten Chemotherapie zugeführt werden. Nach 3 Zyklen der Therapie sollte reevaluiert werden, ob eine operative Intervention in Frage kommt. Unter dem Grundsatz primum non nocere sollten auch spezifische operative Prozeduren kritisch betrachtet werden, auch wenn unerwünschte Implikationen nicht immer fatale Konsequenzen haben müssen. Eine zur Diagnosesicherung eingesetzte Laparoskopie kann im Zweifelsfall eine erhöhte postoperative Morbidität mit sich bringen, genau wie eine unnötig durchgeführte Lymphadenektomie. Andererseits müssen auch die alternativen Szenarien gut begründet sein, um die Gefahr einer protrahierten/ insuffizienten Diagnostik oder einer Untertherapie zu begegnen. Die weitere Identifikation von Patientinnen, die nicht von der radikalen Primäroperation profitieren muss weiter vorangetrieben werden, um unnötig radikale Operationen zu vermeiden, und eine Balance zwischen der Lebensqualität der Patientinnen und der Aggressivität der Tumoren zu finden.
Selective Morality in Legal Discourse: Child Prostitution and the Reinforcement of Cultural Bias in Bahia, Brazil
Creators: name: Jenkins, Brittany Michelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Latin Americans

description: In response to a 2012 controversial ruling by Brazil’s highest criminal court, the Superior Tribunal de Justiça, the UN Human Rights Office for South America released the following statement: “According to international jurisprudence, cases of sexual abuse should not consider the sexual life of the victim in order to determine the existence of an offense.” Considering the victim’s sexual life suggests that child prostitutes have control over their decisions, an assertion that ignores the repressive violence used by pimps and customers. However, even in cases where a court rules in favor of the victim, if their legal rhetoric denigrates the child on the basis of gender and/or class, the court overtly reinforces prejudices that imply some degree of guilt. In contributing to literature analyzing the power of legal discourse, the main purpose of this work is to show how Brazilian cultural norms of sex, gender, and class directly influence the way in which the Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia engages with child prostitution cases in its quest to uphold morality. Chapter one introduces the topic and contextualizes child prostitution in Bahia. Chapter two reviews child prostitution cases from 2005-present, analyzing the court’s self-projected role as the protector of social order. Chapter three shows that in their quest to uphold morality, the court unequally characterizes child prostitutes by invoking cultural stereotypes that perpetuate gender inequality in the legal system. The conclusion discusses how the power of jurisgenesis impacts selective morality, changing the way we as scholars should study the relationship between social inequality and the law.
Hepatocyte-specific role of the deubiquitinating enzyme OTUB1 during inflammatory liver diseases
Creators: name: Koschel, Josephin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiologie der Enzyme
subject: Hormone
subject: Sekrete
subject: 572.7

description: Both infectious and sterile liver inflammation may trigger death of the hepatocytes. In particular, in acute hepatitis, liver failure may develop due to an excessive hepatocellular death as a consequence of an imbalanced survival and death signaling. Both survival and death signaling are tightly regulated by post-translational modifications, including ubiquitination and deubiquitination. Here, we investigated the hepatocyte-specific function of the deubiquitinating enzyme OTUB1 during infection with the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes and acute liver injury induced by DGal/TNF using conditional OTUB1 knockout mice (OTUB1LPC - KO). Upon both Listeria infection and DGal/TNF challenge, the OTUB1LPC-KO mice developed severe liver damage and synthetized increased TNF levels in the liver as compared to the OTUB1FL control mice. The aggravated liver damage resulted in liver failure and ultimately in death of OTUB1LPC-KO mice. The enhanced liver damage in the absence of OTUB1 expression in hepatocytes was a consequence of an augmented TNF-driven necroptotic hepatocellular death which was further amplified by the enhanced hepatocyte-intrinsic production of TNF. Death of OTUB1-deficient hepatocytes could be prevented by Necrostatin-1s treatment and genetic ablation of MLKL, the executioner of necroptosis, respectively. Consequently, Listeria-infected OTUB1LPC-KO mice treated with Necrostatin-1s or deficient for MLKL survived listeriosis with minimal liver damage equivalent to OTUB1FL control mice. Mechanistically, hepatocyte-specific OTUB1 prevented cell death by protecting c-IAP1 from proteasomal degradation by reducing its K48-linked polyubiquitination. This stabilized c-IAP1 in turn conjugated K63-linked polyubiquitin chains RIPK1, thereby acting as scaffold for survival NF-kappaB activation while inhibiting its kinase activity required for the induction of necroptosis. In the absence of OTUB1, the kinase active RIPK1 further amplified the hepatocyte-intrinsic TNF production in a RIPK1/ERK-dependent manner which augmented the hepatocellular death in these mice. Taken together, our studies identified OTUB1 as a hepatocyte-intrinsic inhibitor of necroptosis and TNF-production in both bacterial- and TNF-induced inflammation.
title: แนวคิดอหลักฐานนิยมของ วิลเลียม เจมส์ : ข้อวิพากษ์ทางปรัชญา
Creators: name: พิพัฒน์ สุยะ
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: แนวคิดอหลักฐานนิยม
การอ้างเหตุผลสนับสนุนความเชื่อ
วิลเลียม เจมส์

description: Silpakorn University e-Journal (Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts), 44, 5, 90-98
The Imaginary Image: Representations of Race, Color, and Culture in Contemporary Brazilian Magazines
Creators: name: Jenkins, Brittany Michelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women's studies
Latin Americans

description: The purpose of this research study is to extend the discussion on the production of culture in Brazil to include an examination of major Brazilian magazines geared at women and discuss their representations of race, color, and culture. The key questions for analysis include: In popular contemporary magazines geared toward women, what racial, color, and cultural messages are portrayed in regards to women? What do these messages reveal about the discourse of women in Brazil? And, what do these messages and the discourse of women reveal about the woman of color’s identity in Brazil? Utilizing these questions, this study analyzes the following magazines: Hope(2011), Lola(July 2011), UMA(June 2011),Claudia(July 2011), Corpo a Corpo(July 2011), Nova(2011), Le Lis(May 2009), and Caras(2011). The first section of this study discusses how images reemphasize in Brazilian identity the need to mimic a white, Western ideal and claim it as Brazilian in order to help resolve cultural anxieties about blackness and its influence on Brazil’s world image. Furthermore, this section addresses a common theme within contemporary Brazilian women’s magazines, which is the promotion of an icon or famous Brazilian woman as an idol to emulate who represents the universal Brazilian woman and hope for Brazilian beauty. The second section of this study examines how these images affect the identity of women of color in Brazil. More specifically, it discusses how the creation of a binary opposition between a white ideal and the woman of color creates a subordinate femininity within Brazilian identity. Also, this section analyzes how women of color are represented when they do appear within contemporary magazines. Ultimately, this research study contributes to scholarship analyzing contemporary Brazilian culture, identity, gender, and representations of blackness.