cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Laser-induced plasmonic colours on metals
Creators: name: Guay, Jean-Michel
name: Calà Lesina, Antonino
name: Côté, Guillaume
name: Charron, Martin
name: Poitras, Daniel
name: Ramunno, Lora
name: Berini, Pierre
name: Weck, Arnaud
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: Plasmonic resonances in metallic nanoparticles have been used since antiquity to colour glasses. The use of metal nanostructures for surface colourization has attracted considerable interest following recent developments in plasmonics. However, current top-down colourization methods are not ideally suited to large-scale industrial applications. Here we use a bottom-up approach where picosecond laser pulses can produce a full palette of non-iridescent colours on silver, gold, copper and aluminium. We demonstrate the process on silver coins weighing up to 5 kg and bearing large topographic variations (∼1.5 cm). We find that colours are related to a single parameter, the total accumulated fluence, making the process suitable for high-throughput industrial applications. Statistical image analyses of laser-irradiated surfaces reveal various nanoparticle size distributions. Large-scale finite-difference time-domain computations based on these nanoparticle distributions reproduce trends seen in reflectance measurements, and demonstrate the key role of plasmonic resonances in colour formation.
Dysfunction of Small-Conductance Ca2+-Activated Potassium (SK) Channels Drives Amygdala Hyperexcitability and Neuropathic Pain Behaviors: Involvement of Epigenetic Mechanisms
Creators: name: Thompson, Jeremy
name: Molehin, Deborah
name: Ji, Guangchen
name: Kiritoshi, Takaki
name: Neugebauer, Volker
name: Pruitt, Kevin
name: Yakhnitsa, Vadim
name: Mahimainathan, Lenin
name: Ponomareva, Olga
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Neuroplasticity in the amygdala and its central nucleus (CeA) is linked to pain modulation and pain behaviors, but cellular mechanisms are not well understood. Here, we addressed the role of small-conductance Ca2+-activated potassium (SK) channels in pain-related amygdala plasticity. The facilitatory effects of the intra-CeA application of an SK channel blocker (apamin) on the pain behaviors of control rats were lost in a neuropathic pain model, whereas an SK channel activator (NS309) inhibited pain behaviors in neuropathic rats but not in sham controls, suggesting the loss of the inhibitory behavioral effects of amygdala SK channels. Brain slice electrophysiology found hyperexcitability of CeA neurons in the neuropathic pain condition due to the loss of SK channel-mediated medium afterhyperpolarization (mAHP), which was accompanied by decreased SK2 channel protein and mRNA expression, consistent with a pretranscriptional mechanisms. The underlying mechanisms involved the epigenetic silencing of the SK2 gene due to the increased DNA methylation of the CpG island of the SK2 promoter region and the change in methylated CpG sites in the CeA in neuropathic pain. This study identified the epigenetic dysregulation of SK channels in the amygdala (CeA) as a novel mechanism of neuropathic pain-related plasticity and behavior that could be targeted to control abnormally enhanced amygdala activity and chronic neuropathic pain.
Additional file 8 of Breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy in women with ductal carcinoma in situ: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
Creators: name: Viani, Gustavo A
name: Stefano, Eduardo J
name: Afonso, Sérgio L
name: De Fendi, Lígia I
name: Soares, Francisco V
name: Leon, Paola G
name: Guimarães, Flavio S
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Authors’ original file for figure 8
Lattice points in Minkowski sums
Creators: name: Haase, Christian
name: Nill, Benjamin
name: Paffenholz, Andreas
name: Santos, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B20, 14M25

description: Fakhruddin has proved that for two lattice polygons P and Q any lattice point in their Minkowski sum can be written as a sum of a lattice point in P and one in Q, provided P is smooth and the normal fan of P is a subdivision of the normal fan of Q. We give a shorter combinatorial proof of this fact that does not need the smoothness assumption on P.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Conformal Properties of All-Plus Scattering Amplitudes
Creators: name: Wang, Edward
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019

description: Symmetry properties of scattering amplitudes often lead to simplifications in their computation and in their final expression. Gluonic scattering amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory in the all-plus helicity configuration exhibit remarkable signs of conformal symmetry. At one-loop order they are found to be conformally invariant, but this observation still lacks an explanation. In the present thesis we analyze the conformal properties of all-plus gluon scattering amplitudes at one-loop order and present an attempt to rewrite them in terms of manifestly conformally invariant objects. This might lead to a better understanding of the origin of this symmetry for these amplitudes.
Additional file 9 of Breast-conserving surgery with or without radiotherapy in women with ductal carcinoma in situ: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
Creators: name: Viani, Gustavo A
name: Stefano, Eduardo J
name: Afonso, Sérgio L
name: De Fendi, Lígia I
name: Soares, Francisco V
name: Leon, Paola G
name: Guimarães, Flavio S
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Authors’ original file for figure 9
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios, f. 045r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios, f. 045r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119679755
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/7874015
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/027691802/id
description: Provenance: abbaye de Fontenay
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q464918
Effect of Water-Soluble Polymers on the Rheology and Microstructure of Polymer-Modified Geopolymer Glass-Ceramics
Creators: name: Simone, Davide L.
name: Dingemans, Theo J.
name: Hewitt, Patrick
name: Migliore, John M.
name: Monzel, William Jacob
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: This work explores the effects of rigid (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 wt. %) and semi-flexible (0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 wt. %) all-aromatic polyelectrolyte reinforcements as rheological and morphological modifiers for preparing phosphate geopolymer glass–ceramic composites. Polymer-modified aluminosilicate–phosphate geopolymer resins were prepared by high-shear mixing of a metakaolin powder with 9M phosphoric acid and two all-aromatic, sulfonated polyamides. Polymer loadings between 0.5–2.5 wt. % exhibited gel-like behavior and an increase in the modulus of the geopolymer resin as a function of polymer concentration. The incorporation of a 0.5 wt. % rigid polymer resulted in a three-fold increase in viscosity relative to the control phosphate geopolymer resin. Hardening, dehydration, and crystallization of the geopolymer resins to glass-ceramics was achieved through mold casting, curing at 80 °C for 24 h, and a final heat treatment up to 260 °C. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a decrease in microstructure porosity in the range of 0.78 m to 0.31 m for geopolymer plaques containing loadings of 0.5 wt. % rigid polymer. Nano-porosity values of the composites were measured between 10–40 nm using nitrogen adsorption (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller method) and transmission electron microscopy. Nanoindentation studies revealed geopolymer composites with Young’s modulus values of 15–24 GPa and hardness values of 1–2 GPa, suggesting an increase in modulus and hardness with polymer incorporation. Additional structural and chemical analyses were performed via thermal gravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared radiation, X-ray diffraction, and energy dispersive spectroscopy. This work provides a fundamental understanding of the processing, microstructure, and mechanical behavior of water-soluble, high-performance polyelectrolyte-reinforced geopolymer composites.
Foundations for Survivable System Development: Service Traces, Intrusion Traces, and Evaluation Models
Creators: name: Linger, Richard C.
name: Moore, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Survivability is a new branch of dependability. It addresses explicit requirements for restricted modes of operation that preserve mission-critical essential services in adverse operational environments. A survivable system is one that satisfies its survivability specification of essential services and adverse environments. On the system side, survivability specifications can be defined by essential-service traces that map essential-service workflows, derived from user requirements, into system component dependencies and required survivability attributes. On the environment side, survivability specifications can be defined by intrusion traces that map intruder workflows, derived from attack patterns, into compromisable system components. Survivability design applies resistance, recognition, and recovery strategies to maintain essential-service workflows where possible despite compromised components. Test environments for survivable system implementations can be defined by survivability evaluation models that merge essential-service and intruder workflows into usage-based, statistically valid test suites. This paper describes the initial results of research in these areas.
Additional file 1 of Can antibiotic prescriptions in respiratory tract infections be improved? A cluster-randomized educational intervention in general practice – The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study [NCT00272155]
Creators: name: Gjelstad, Svein
name: Fetveit, Arne
name: Straand, Jørund
name: Dalen, Ingvild
name: Rognstad, Sture
name: Lindbaek, Morten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
La crisis del secreto profesional del abogado in-house en Colombia: Hacia una propuesta de interpretación a partir de un estudio de derecho comparado
Creators: name: Orduz Salazar, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Jurisdicción
subject: Poder del abogado
subject: Derecho administrativo
subject: Secreto profesional
subject: Abogado in-house
subject: Abogado interno
subject: Reserva
subject: Relación abogado-cliente
subject: Acceso a la justicia

description: El presente trabajo tiene como propósito exponer las limitaciones que ciertas autoridades en Colombia han puesto al secreto profesional de los abogados internos o in-house, esto es, aquellos que se encuentran vinculados con su cliente mediante un contrato de trabajo, y los riesgos que dichas limitaciones suponen. Lo anterior, a partir de las interpretaciones que las autoridades colombianas han adoptado de otras jurisdicciones, principalmente europeas. Por su parte, este escrito pretende abogar por la protección del secreto profesional del abogado in-house, aduciendo criterios históricos sobre la relación abogado-cliente, la independencia del abogado interno, y la importancia de la protección de la reserva profesional en miras a promover el acceso a la justicia, utilizando la jurisprudencia constitucional y el ejemplo estadounidense como guía. Finalmente, se busca proponer una solución al problema planteado, mediante el fortalecimiento de los estatutos disciplinarios de los abogados, la producción legislativa para cubrir los vacíos normativos sobre la materia, y el establecimiento de controles de tipo procesal que permitan armonizar el secreto profesional con la búsqueda de la verdad.
description: The purpose of this paper is to expose the limitations that certain authorities in Colombia have placed on the attorney-client privilege of internal or in-house lawyers (those who are linked to their client through a labor contract), and the risks that such limitations suppose. This analysis is based on the interpretations that the Colombian authorities have adopted from other jurisdictions, mainly European ones. This paper also aims to advocate for the protection of the attorney-client privilege of in-house lawyers, citing historical criteria on the attorney-client relationship, the independence of in-house lawyers, and the importance of protecting the privilege in order to promote access to justice, using constitutional case law and the American example as guidance. Finally, it seeks to propose a solution to the problem raised, by strengthening the disciplinary statutes of lawyers, the production of legislation to cover the regulatory gaps on the matter, and the establishment of procedural controls in order to create balance and harmony between attorney-client privilege and the search for the truth.
Electronic structure, magnetism and exchange integrals in transition metal oxides: role of the spin polarization of the functional in DFT+$U$ calculations
Creators: name: Keshavarz, Samara
name: Schött, Johan
name: Millis, Andrew J.
name: Kvashnin, Yaroslav O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density functional theory augmented with Hubbard-$U$ corrections (DFT+$U$) is currently one of the widely used methods for first-principles electronic structure modeling of insulating transition metal oxides (TMOs). Since $U$ is relatively large compared to band widths, the magnetic excitations in TMOs are expected to be well described by a Heisenberg model. However, in practice the calculated exchange parameters $J_{ij}$ depend on the magnetic configuration from which they are extracted and on the functional used to compute them. In this work we investigate how the spin polarization dependence of the underlying exchange-correlation functional influences the calculated magnetic exchange constants of TMOs. We perform a systematic study of the predictions of calculations based on the local density approximation plus $U$ (LDA+$U$) and the local spin density approximation plus $U$ (LSDA+$U$) for the electronic structures, total energies and magnetic exchange interactions $J_{ij}$'s extracted from ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) configurations of several transition metal oxide materials. We report that, for realistic choices of Hubbard $U$ and Hund's $J$ parameters, LSDA+$U$ and LDA+$U$ calculations result in different values of the magnetic exchange constants and band gap. The dependence of the band gap on the magnetic configuration is stronger in LDA+$U$ than in LSDA+$U$ and we argue that this is the main reason why the configuration dependence of the $J_{ij}$'s is found to be systematically more pronounced in LDA+$U$ than in LSDA+$U$ calculations. We report a very good correspondence between the computed total energies and the parameterized Heisenberg model for LDA+$U$ calculations, but not for LSDA+$U$, suggesting that LDA+$U$ is a more appropriate method for estimating exchange interactions.
Flow-Service-Quality (FSQ) Engineering: Foundations for Network System Analysis and Development
Creators: name: Linger, Richard C.
name: Pleszkoch, Mark G
name: Walton, Gwendolyn H.
name: Hevner, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern society could hardly function without the large-scale, network-centric information systems that pervade government, defense, and industry. As a result, serious failures or compromises carry far-reaching consequences. These systems are characterized by changing and often unknown boundaries and components, constantly varying function and usage, and complexities of pervasive asynchronous operations. Their complexity challenges human intellectual control, and their survivability has become an urgent priority. Engineering methods based on solid foundations and the realities of network systems are required to manage complexity and ensure survivability. Flow-Service-Quality (FSQ) engineering is an emerging technology for management, acquisition, analysis, development, evolution, and operation of large-scale, network-centric systems. FSQ engineering is based on Flow Structures, Computational Quality Attributes, and Flow Management Architectures. These technologies can help provide stable engineering foundations for the dynamic and often unpredictable world of large-scale, network-centric systems. Flow Structures define enterprise mission task flows and their refinements into uses of system services in network traversals. Flows are deterministic for human understanding, despite the underlying asynchronism of network operations. They can be refined, abstracted, and verified with precision, and deal explicitly with Uncertainty Factors, including uncertain commercial off-the-shelf functionality and system failures and compromises. Computational Quality Attributes go beyond static, a priori estimates to treat quality attributes such as reliability and survivability as dynamic functions to be computed in system operation. Computational Quality Attribute requirements are associated with flows and can be dynamically reconciled with network service attributes in execution. Flow Management Architectures include design and implementation frameworks for dynamically managing flows and attribute requirements, as well as processes for their development. FSQ foundations are defined by theorems that illuminate engineering practices and automation opportunities.
On a Bogomolov type vanishing theorem
Creators: name: Li, Zhi
name: Meng, Xiangkui
name: Ning, Jiafu
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Zhou, Xiangyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold and $(L,h)\rightarrow X$ be a pseudoeffective line bundle, such that the curvature $iΘ_{L,h}\geq 0$ in the sense of currents. The main result of the present paper is that $H^n(X,\mathcal{O}(Ω^p_X\otimes L)\otimes \mathcal{I}(h))=0$ for $p\geq n-nd(L,h)+1$. This is a generalization of Bogomolov's vanishing theorem.
description: 14 pages. Comments welcome
Effects of the Menstrual Cycle and Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Metabolic Outcomes, Strength Performance, and Recovery: A Narrative Review
Creators: name: Cabre, Hannah E.
name: Gould, Lacey M.
name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie E.
name: Redman, Leanne M.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The effects of female sex hormones on optimal performance have been increasingly recognized as an important consideration in exercise and sport science research. This narrative review explores the findings of studies evaluating the effects of menstrual cycle phase in eumenorrheic women and the use of hormonal contraception (oral contraceptives and hormonal intrauterine devices) on metabolism, muscular strength, and recovery in active females. Ovarian hormones are known to influence metabolism because estrogen is a master regulator of bioenergetics. Importantly, the menstrual cycle may impact protein synthesis, impacting skeletal muscle quality and strength. Studies investigating muscular strength in eumenorrheic women report equivocal findings between the follicular phase and luteal phase with no differences compared to oral contraceptive users. Studies examining recovery measures (using biomarkers, blood lactate, and blood flow) do not report clear or consistent effects of the impact of the menstrual cycle or hormonal contraception use on recovery. Overall, the current literature may be limited by the evaluation of only one menstrual cycle and the use of group means for statistical significance. Hence, to optimize training and performance in females, regardless of hormonal contraception use, there is a need for future research to quantify the intra-individual impact of the menstrual cycle phases and hormonal contraceptive use in active females.
Black, White, and Re(a)d: How to Tell Real News from Malarkey
Creators: name: Kingsland, Emily
name: Hanz, Katherine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Have you ever fallen for a fake news story? Don’t be fooled again! Two librarians developed workshops to teach students and members of the community skills to critically analyse news and become savvy information consumers. Attendees will test their own fake news detection skills in a live demonstration.
Flow Latency Analysis with the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL)
Creators: name: Feiler, Peter H.
name: Jorgen  Hansson
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Control system components are sensitive to the end-to-end latency and age of signal data. They are also affected by variation (jitter) in latency and age values due to different runtime configurations (i.e., sampling or data-driven signal processing pipelines, dissimilar communication mechanisms, partitioned architectures, and globally synchronous versus asynchronous hardware). This technical note introduces an analysis framework designed to calculate the end-to-end latency and age of signal stream data as well as their jitter. The latency analysis framework and calculations are illustrated in the context of an example model that uses the flow specification notation of the Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL). The report describes how this latency analysis capability can be used to determine worst-case end-to-end latency on system models of different fidelity and how it accounts for partitioned architectures. It also summarizes the worst-case end-to-end flow latency analysis capability provided by the Open Source AADL Tool Environment (OSATE) flow latency analysis plug-in.
Additional file 2 of Can antibiotic prescriptions in respiratory tract infections be improved? A cluster-randomized educational intervention in general practice – The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study [NCT00272155]
Creators: name: Gjelstad, Svein
name: Fetveit, Arne
name: Straand, Jørund
name: Dalen, Ingvild
name: Rognstad, Sture
name: Lindbaek, Morten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Painting galaxies into dark matter halos using machine learning
Creators: name: Agarwal, Shankar
name: Davé, Romeel
name: Bassett, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a machine learning (ML) framework to populate large dark matter-only simulations with baryonic galaxies. Our ML framework takes input halo properties including halo mass, environment, spin, and recent growth history, and outputs central galaxy and halo baryonic properties including stellar mass ($M_*$), star formation rate (SFR), metallicity ($Z$), neutral ($\rm HI$) and molecular ($\rm H_2$) hydrogen mass. We apply this to the MUFASA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, and show that it recovers the mean trends of output quantities with halo mass highly accurately, including following the sharp drop in SFR and gas in quenched massive galaxies. However, the scatter around the mean relations is under-predicted. Examining galaxies individually, at $z=0$ the stellar mass and metallicity are accurately recovered ($σ\lesssim 0.2$~dex), but SFR and $\rm HI$ show larger scatter ($σ\gtrsim 0.3$~dex); these values improve somewhat at $z=1,2$. Remarkably, ML quantitatively recovers second parameter trends in galaxy properties, e.g. that galaxies with higher gas content and lower metallicity have higher SFR at a given $M_*$. Testing various ML algorithms, we find that none perform significantly better than the others, nor does ensembling improve performance, likely because none of the algorithms reproduce the large observed scatter around the mean properties. For the random forest algorithm, we find that halo mass and nearby ($\sim 200$~kpc) environment are the most important predictive variables followed by growth history, while halo spin and $\sim$Mpc scale environment are not important. Finally we study the impact of additionally inputting key baryonic properties $M_*$, SFR and $Z$, as would be available e.g. from an equilibrium model, and show that particularly providing the SFR enables $\rm HI$ to be recovered substantially more accurately.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, accepted version from MNRAS
title: Pathways to poverty
title: Theoretical and empirical analyses
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Embrey, Iain
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education
Human Capital
Poverty
Social Exclusion
Unemployment
Cognitive Development
Noncognitive Skills
Dynamic factor model
Participation Game
Decision Theory
Dual Self

description: The prevalence of poverty in advanced economies represents a challenge, both to economic theory and to society. We know that poverty is perpetuated by low levels of educational investment amongst disadvantaged children, but we have no credible theoretical explanation for the observed degree of that apparent underinvestment, and we have not yet developed sufficient policy tools to break the intergenerational cycle of deprivation. In response, this thesis undertakes theoretical and empirical analyses of the pathways that perpetuate poverty. I demonstrate that divergently low educational investment could arise as an equilibrium response to a grades-focussed educational system; I develop the existing state-of-the-art technique in econometric estimation of the educational production function; and I apply that technique to find strong empirical support for my theoretical model. In addition my results show that the average child’s propensity to think analytically has a substantial influence over their developmental pathway, which suggests that models of educational investment should adopt a generalisation of Expected Utility Theory that allows agents to maximise one of two possible objective functions.
Analyse et étude du problème de l'inflation dans le contexte du Maroc
Creators: name: CHOUKAR Elhoussain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: L'inflation suscite de plus en plus l'intérêt des spécialistes et du grand public, en ce qui concerne ses causes et ses conséquences économiques et sociales. A cette fin, l'objectif de cet article est d'appréhender de manière approfondie la régression, la corrélation et l'analyse descriptive des tendances de l'inflation au Maroc au cours des treize dernières années, et d'identifier les relations potentielles entre l'inflation, les indicateurs monétaires et la croissance économique.

La méthodologie envisagée dans ce travail concerne l'exploitation des données statistiques macroéconomiques sur le taux d'inflation de 2010 à 2023, le taux directeur, le niveau de croissance des crédits bancaires et le taux de croissance économique. Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous procédons à une méthode de régression linéaire simple et à une analyse statistique afin d'identifier la nature des liens entre l'inflation et les autres indicateurs.

Cette analyse met en évidence que l'inflation au Maroc a connu une période de quasi-stabilité, avec un taux ne dépassant pas 2%, et même de déflation pendant la crise de covid-19, à une période post-covid-19 où le taux devient préoccupant, atteignant un chiffre de 6,7% en 2022 et une légère baisse en 2023 (6,3%).Les résultats de la régression linéaire simple entre, d'une part, le taux d'inflation et les indicateurs monétaires, et entre le taux d'inflation et le taux de croissance économique, montrent que l'inflation est dépendante du niveau du crédit bancaire alors que pour les autres indicateurs l'interdépendance reste très faible.   

Il faut cependant souligner que l'inflation et ces ont une relation opaque et cachée, particulièrement avec les variables monétaires, et qu'il existe d'autres paramètres qui influencent l'évolution de l'inflation comme le mécanisme de l'offre et de la demande, le financement du budget de l’Etat et ses dépenses, la sécheresse, les coûts de production et d'importation des biens et services, la diversité des chaînes de distribution, l'émergence de micro-capitalistes dans le secteur agricole, etc.
title: Structure and Evolution of the Opacity of Spiral Disks
Creators: name: Holwerda, B
name: González, R
name: Keel, W
name: Calzetti, D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: The opacity of a spiral disk due to dust absorption influences every measurement we make of it in the UV and optical. Two separate techniques directly measure the total absorption by dust in the disk: calibrated distant galaxy counts and overlapping galaxy pairs. The main results from both so far are a semi-transparent disk with more opaque arms and a relation between surface brightness and disk opacity. In the Spitzer era, spectral energy distribution models of spiral disks add a new perspective on the role of dust in spiral disks. Combined with the overall opacity from galaxy counts, we can derive a typical optical depth of the dusty interstellar medium clouds: 0.4 which implies a size of ∼ 60 pc. Current work on galaxy counts is in the ACS fields of M 51, M 101 and M 81. Occulting galaxies offer the possibility of probing the history of disk opacity from higher redshift occulting pairs. Evolution in disk opacity could influence distance measurements (SN1a, Tully-Fisher relation). Here, we present first results from spectroscopically selected occulting pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The redshift range for this sample is limited but does offer a first insight into disk opacity evolution as well as a reference for higher redshift measurements.
Programa de reconocimiento laboral a escala humana para los servidores de la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión Pensional y Contribuciones Parafiscales de la Protección Social – UGPP
Creators: name: Torres Ramírez, Nohora Fernanda
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Economía
subject: Adaptación social
subject: Integridad
subject: Teoría de desarrollo a escala humana
subject: Reconocimiento
subject: Motivación laboral
subject: Satisfacción laboral
subject: Necesidades humanas
subject: Necesidades axiológicas

description: El proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo diseñar un programa de reconocimiento laboral para que sea implementado en la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión Pensional y Contribuciones Parafiscales de la Protección Social UGPP el cual permita fortalecer el clima laboral e incrementar la productividad. Se lleva a cabo un estudio de caso con alcance descriptivo y enfoque propositivo mixto (cualitativo y cuantitativo) con paradigma de investigación positivista. Se tiene una muestra de 128 colaboradores de Carrera Administrativa de la UGPP a quienes se les aplica una encuesta semiestructurada validada mediante juicio de expertos y prueba piloto, la cual incluye 12 ítems que apuntan a las dimensiones de la Teoría de Desarrollo a Escala Humana: Necesidades de subsistencia, protección, afecto, entendimiento, ocio, participación, creación, identidad y, libertad. Se puedo definir que las dimensiones con menor cobertura por parte de la Entidad y que requieren un redireccionamiento propositivo fueron: Participación, creación e identidad, por lo que el Programa de Reconocimiento Laboral a Escala Humana para los Servidores de la UGPP involucra estrategias que fortalecen el clima laboral actual en aras de robustecer la productividad de la Entidad y favorecer la calidad de vida laboral de sus colaboradores
description: The objective of the research project is to design a labor recognition program to be implemented in the Special Administrative Unit for Pension Management and Parafiscal Contributions of the UGPP Social Protection, which allows strengthening the work environment and increasing productivity. A case study with a descriptive scope and a mixed propositional approach (qualitative and quantitative) with a positivist research paradigm is carried out. There is a sample of 128 employees of the Administrative Career of the UGPP who are applied a semi-structured survey validated by expert judgment and pilot test, which includes 12 items that point to the dimensions of the Theory of Development on a Human Scale: Needs subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, leisure, participation, creation, identity and freedom. It can be defined that the dimensions with the least coverage by the Entity and that require a purposeful redirection were Participation, creation and identity, so the Human Scale Labor Recognition Program for UGPP Servers involves strategies that strengthen the current working environment in order to strengthen the Entity's productivity and favor the quality of working life of its collaborators.
Effects of Weight Loss on Key Obesity-Related Biomarkers Linked to the Risk of Endometrial Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Bae-Jump, Victoria L.
name: Hursting, Stephen D.
name: Gan, Emma
name: Clontz, Angela D.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Endometrial cancer (EC) includes various histologic types, with estrogen-dependent endometrioid carcinoma being the most common. Obesity significantly increases the risk of developing this type, especially in postmenopausal women, due to elevated estrogen production by adipocytes. This review examines the impact of weight loss from different interventions on reducing obesity-related risk factors for endometrioid EC. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted on three weight loss interventions: bariatric surgery, pharmacotherapy, and lifestyle changes. The effects of these interventions on inflammatory biomarkers (CRP, TNF-α, IL-6) and hormones (leptin, estrogen) were analyzed. Data from controlled studies were pooled to assess the significance of weight loss in reducing these biomarkers. Despite heterogeneity, bariatric surgery resulted in an overall 25.8% weight reduction, outperforming lifestyle and pharmacotherapy interventions. Weight loss reduced CRP levels by 33.5% and IL-6 levels by 41.9%. TNF-α levels decreased by 13% with percent weight loss over 7%. Leptin levels also decreased significantly, although the exact weight loss percentage was not statistically significant. Weight loss effectively reduces proinflammatory markers and hormones associated with increased risk of endometrioid EC. The strengths of this review include a comprehensive examination of different weight-loss interventions and a large pool of participants. However, limitations include high heterogeneity among studies and only 43% of the participants being postmenopausal. Limited data on sex hormones and racial disparities underscore the need for further research.
Additional file 3 of Can antibiotic prescriptions in respiratory tract infections be improved? A cluster-randomized educational intervention in general practice – The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study [NCT00272155]
Creators: name: Gjelstad, Svein
name: Fetveit, Arne
name: Straand, Jørund
name: Dalen, Ingvild
name: Rognstad, Sture
name: Lindbaek, Morten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
Methodology for Developing Deprescribing Guidelines: Using Evidence and GRADE to Guide Recommendations for Deprescribing
Creators: name: Farrell, Barbara
name: Pottie, Kevin
name: Rojas-Fernandez, Carlos H.
name: Bjerre, Lise M.
name: Thompson, Wade
name: Welch, Vivian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Drug Prescriptions
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Deprescriptions
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Services Needs and Demand

description: Class specific deprescribing guidelines could help clinicians taper and stop medications no longer needed or which may be causing more harm than benefit. We set out to develop methodology to create such guidelines using evidence-based methods for guideline development, evidence synthesis and recommendation rating.
First Responders Guide to Computer Forensics: Advanced Topics
Creators: name: Nolan, Richard A.
name: Baker, Marie
name: Branson, Jake
name: Hammerstein, Joshua
name: Rush, Kristopher
name: Waits, Cal
name: Schweinsberg, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This handbook expands on the technical material presented in SEI handbook CMU/SEI-2005-HB-001, First Responders Guide to Computer Forensics. While the latter presented techniques for forensically sound collection of data and explained the fundamentals of admissibility pertaining to electronic files, this handbook covers more advanced technical operations such as process characterization and spoofed email. It describes advanced methodologies, tools, and procedures for applying computer forensics when performing routine log file reviews, network alert verifications, and other routine interactions with systems and networks. The material will help system and network professionals to safely preserve technical information related to network alerts and other security issues.
Evaluation of Three Different Selective Media for Enumeration of Clostridium perfringens in Untreated and Treated Wastewater
Creators: name: Karon, A. J.
name: Sobsey, Mark D.
name: Bailey, Emily S.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Current and emerging legislation in North Carolina and other regions calls for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens as a surrogate indicator for protozoan parasites in various types of waters. Past studies that have evaluated selective media for the detection of this bacterium have provided limited, conflicting, and inconclusive results. In this study, membrane filtration was used to enumerate C. perfringens as culturable spores or total culturable cells in 19 samples of untreated and 25 samples of partially treated wastewaters on 3 candidate media, Tryptose Sulfite Cycloserine Agar (TSC), CP ChromoSelect Agar (CPCS), and membrane Clostridium perfringens Agar (m-CP) in parallel, and the results were compared. Presumptive isolates from each agar were further subjected to phenotypic confirmation tests for acid phosphatase production and stormy fermentation to further determine the performance of each agar. The CPCS agar was determined to have the highest enumerative capacity of total C. perfringens cells when compared to both TSC agar and m-CP agar (p-value < 0.05), but there was no significant difference in its ability to detect spores when compared to TSC agar (p-value > 0.05). The overall specificity of CPCS agar as determined by agreement of results from both confirmation tests was 0.81, while the specificity of TSC agar was only 0.28. Based on its performance, ease of preparation and use and consistency of colony characteristics, CPCS agar is recommended as the preferred medium for C. perfringens enumeration in wastewater.
On a new type of divergence for spiky Wilson loops and related entanglement entropies
Creators: name: Dorn, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the divergences of Wilson loops for a contour with a cusp of zero opening angle, combined with a nonzero discontinuity of its curvature. The analysis is performed in lowest order, both for weak and strong coupling. Such a spike contributes a leading divergent term proportional to the inverse of the square root of the cutoff times the jump of the curvature. As nextleading term appears a logarithmic one in the supersymmetric case, but it is absent in QCD. The strong coupling result, obtained from minimal surfaces in AdS via holography, can be used also for applications to entanglement entropy in (2+1)-dimensional CFT's.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, Correction of the prefactor of the leading divergence, appendix B rewritten and related changes in the main text
First Responders Guide to Computer Forensics
Creators: name: Nolan, Richard A.
name: O'Sullivan, Colin J.
name: Branson, Jake
name: Waits, Cal
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This handbook is for technical staff members charged with administering and securing information systems and networks. It targets a critical training gap in the fields of information security, computer forensics, and incident response: performing basic forensic data collection. The first module describes cyber laws and their impact on incident response. The second module builds understanding of file systems and outlines a best practice methodology for creating a trusted first responder tool kit for investigating potential incidents. The third module reviews some best practices, techniques, and tools for collecting volatile data from live Windows and Linux systems. It also explains the importance of collecting volatile data before it is lost or changed. The fourth module reviews techniques for capturing persistent data in a forensically sound manner and describes the location of common persistent data types. Each module ends with a summary and a set of review questions to help clarify understanding. This handbook was developed as part of a larger project. The incorporated slides are from the five day hands-on course Forensics Guide to Incident Response for Technical Staff developed at the SEI. The focus is on providing system and network administrators with methodologies, tools, and procedures for applying fundamental computer forensics when collecting data on both a live and a powered off machine. A live machine is a machine that is currently running and could be connected to the network. The target audience includes system and network administrators, law enforcement, and any information security practitioners who may find themselves in the role of first responder. The handbook should help the target audience to * understand the essential laws that govern their actions * understand key data types residing on live machines * evaluate and create a trusted set of tools for the collection of data * collect, preserve, and protect data from live and powered off machines * learn methodologies for collecting information that are forensically sound (i.e., able to withstand the scrutiny of the courts)
Leader’s Survey: Polarization and energy policy
Creators: name: Positive Energy
name: Nanos Research
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Surveys
Canada
Leaders
energy policy
Climate change
political polarization
public confidence

description: Nanos Research conducted a third panel survey, gathering views of energy and environmental leaders in Canada. Results show a majority of leaders supportive of carbon tax, and warning about increasing polarization in the policy of space affecting energy and climate change.
Additional file 2 of Swiss residents' speciality choices – impact of gender, personality traits, career motivation and life goals
Creators: name: Buddeberg-Fischer, Barbara
name: Klaghofer, Richard
name: Abel, Thomas
name: Buddeberg, Claus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Exposure of Young Children to Permethrin and Cypermethrin Insecticides in the Residential Environment
Creators: name: Nankongnab, Noppanun
name: Siri, Sukhontha
name: Kongtip, Pornpimol
name: Suk, William Alfred
name: Sirikanyaporn, Siriporn
name: Woskie, Susan Renee
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The aims of this study were to evaluate the exposure to permethrin and cypermethrin of young children aged between 2 and 5 years in Nakhon Pathom and Sing Buri provinces, Thailand. A questionnaire that included general demographic information, household characteristics, insecticide usage and exposure-related behavior in children was used to interview parents or family caregivers. Permethrin and cypermethrin concentrations on floor surfaces and children’s hands, as well as their urinary metabolites, were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The results showed that permethrin and cypermethrin were detected in 62% and 83% of the children’s hand wipe samples, with geometric mean (GM) levels of 0.02 µg and 0.04 µg, respectively. Permethrin and cypermethrin were detected in 79% and 93% of floor surface wipe samples, with GM levels of 0.90 µg/m2, and 1.49 µg/m2, respectively. For children’s urine, the GM concentrations of cis- and trans-DCCA, 3-PBA, and total pyrethroid metabolites were 0.84, 0.31 and 1.23 nmol/g creatinine, respectively. This study found that household insecticide product usage and having a tile floor were associated with increased permethrin concentrations on the children’s hands and floor surfaces. However, cypermethrin concentrations on floor surfaces were significantly higher in families using aerosol insecticide sprays and insecticide products in the living room and bedroom. The predictors of the total pyrethroid, DCCA and 3-PBA metabolites are permethrin on children’s hands or floor surfaces and cypermethrin on floor surfaces.