cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of nature's contributions to people in sustaining international trade of agricultural products
Creators: name: Marques, Alexandra
name: Bonn, Aletta
name: Guerra, António José De Castro
name: Chaudhary, Abhishek
name: Felipe-Lucia, María R.
name: Kastner, Thomas
name: Koellner, Thomas
name: Lancker, Kira
name: López-Hoffman, Laura
name: Meyer, Carsten
name: Pfister, Stephan
name: Rabeschini, Gabriela
name: Willemen, Louise
name: Schulp, Catharina J. E.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 550

description: Nature's contributions to people (NCP) are essential for the production and trade of agricultural, forestry and fishery commodities. Often, there is a spatial disconnect between consumers and the natural systems where the commodities are produced. Traded agricultural products are therefore dependent on nature and NCP in their region of origin. The dependencies of agricultural products on NCP are, however, insufficiently recognised by consumers and are rarely considered in global environmental governance and trade policies along value chains. Here, we synthesise studies highlighting dependencies of agricultural products on NCP in their origin locations to identify opportunities and challenges in quantifying their contribution in sustaining trade flows. We suggest three methodological steps for quantifying NCP dependencies in international agricultural trade: spatial mapping of NCP supply and demand, linking NCP to agricultural trade flows, and tracing trade flows. Each methodological step requires further development and harmonisation to enable a complete accounting of how international agricultural trade depends on NCP. Given the lack of knowledge and data on how NCP support agricultural trade, social and environmental trade-offs of natural resource management are currently hard to quantify. Quantifying the role of NCP dependencies of traded agricultural products can support their sustainable management, contribute to supply chain accountability and serve as input to sustainable natural resource governance and foster responsibility and equity in supply chains.
Are we "RE"ady to help? Assessing the campus climate and faculty/staff's knowledge, confidence, and readiness to engage in campus efforts around sexual violence
Creators: name: Jacoby, Chelsea
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Campus climate surveys are an essential tool used by Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to prevent/respond to campus sexual violence. Rather than surveying all campus stakeholders, these assessments primarily target only students, which can limit the understanding around possible areas of improvement and the campus climate as a whole. The intent of this survey research was to explore faculty/staff perceptions of the campus climate and the extent to which they were: knowledgeable about Title IX and current structures/procedures to address/respond to incidents of sexual violence; confident in their ability to navigate disclosures; and willing to engage in campus change efforts surrounding sexual violence. Statistical analyses revealed that the majority of participants: performed well on all constructs relative to actual knowledge; felt comfortable navigating disclosures of sexual violence; and expressed both positive perceptions of the campus climate and interest in learning more about preventing/addressing sexual violence. Significant differences were found between Responsible Employees (RE) and Not Responsible Employees (Non-RE) on all constructs related to their perceptions of personal knowledge, awareness, confidence, and the overall campus climate, with REs generally responding with stronger agreement. No significant differences in actual knowledge were found between REs and Non-REs, despite most having received training on the topics and being responsible for properly handling these issues. The findings identified both strengths and potential gaps in institutional efforts and offered insight on how the IHE could improve the way it educates, engages with, and prepares faculty/staff to effectively navigate disclosures of sexual violence. The study’s original inventory also offers IHEs a comprehensive campus climate survey that supports data collection specifically from faculty/staff. This tool and the study’s overall findings may be of particular interest to those charged with overseeing the creation/implementation of institutional policy, and campus-wide training/education around TIX compliance and sexual violence prevention.
Additional file 9 of Wrist deformity, bother and function following wrist fracture in the elderly
Creators: name: Lawson, Andrew
name: Santhakumar, Partiban
name: Naylor, Justine M.
name: Churches, Tim
name: Frost, Steve
name: Harris, Ian A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 9. Reliability of bother question.
Knowledge Transfer for Melanoma Screening with Deep Learning
Creators: name: Menegola, Afonso
name: Fornaciali, Michel
name: Pires, Ramon
name: Bittencourt, Flávia Vasques
name: Avila, Sandra
name: Valle, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge transfer impacts the performance of deep learning -- the state of the art for image classification tasks, including automated melanoma screening. Deep learning's greed for large amounts of training data poses a challenge for medical tasks, which we can alleviate by recycling knowledge from models trained on different tasks, in a scheme called transfer learning. Although much of the best art on automated melanoma screening employs some form of transfer learning, a systematic evaluation was missing. Here we investigate the presence of transfer, from which task the transfer is sourced, and the application of fine tuning (i.e., retraining of the deep learning model after transfer). We also test the impact of picking deeper (and more expensive) models. Our results favor deeper models, pre-trained over ImageNet, with fine-tuning, reaching an AUC of 80.7% and 84.5% for the two skin-lesion datasets evaluated.
description: 4 pages
A Strongly Interacting Polaritonic Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Jia, Ningyuan
name: Schine, Nathan
name: Georgakopoulos, Alexandros
name: Ryou, Albert
name: Sommer, Ariel
name: Simon, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polaritons are an emerging platform for exploration of synthetic materials [1] and quantum information processing [2] that draw properties from two disparate particles: a photon and an atom. Cavity polaritons are particularly promising, as they are long-lived and their dispersion and mass are controllable through cavity geometry [3]. To date, studies of cavity polaritons have operated in the mean-field regime, using short-range interactions between their matter components [4]. Rydberg excitations have recently been demonstrated as a promising matter-component of polaritons [5], due to their strong interactions over distances large compared to an optical wavelength. In this work we explore, for the first time, the cavity quantum electrodynamics of Rydberg polaritons, combining the non-linearity of polaritonic quantum wires with the zero-dimensional strong coupling of an optical resonator. We assemble a quantum dot composed of $\sim 150$ strongly interacting, Rydberg-dressed $^{87}$Rb atoms in a cavity, and observe blockaded polariton transport as well as coherent quantum dynamics of a single polaritonic super-atom. This work establishes a new generation of photonic quantum information processors and quantum materials, along with a clear path to topological quantum matter [6].
description: 6 pages, 4 figues. SI: 11 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of China-UK partnership for global health: practices and implications of the Global Health Support Programme 2012–2019
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaohua
name: Liu, Peilong
name: Xu, Tongwu
name: Chen, Yan
name: Yu, Yang
name: Chen, Xun
name: Chen, Jingyi
name: Zhang, Zhaoyang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Chinese version of the full report
title: Painful end-neuromas of the upper limb treatment with fat graft. Evidences from an Italian multicentric study
Creators: name: Colonna, Michele
name: Bassetto, Franco
name: Pajardi, Giorgio
name: Battiston, Bruno
name: Vaienti, Luca
name: Riccio, Michele
name: Risitano, Giovanni
name: Perrotta, Rosario Emanuele
name: Cordova, Adriana
name: De Santis, Giorgio
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: fat grafting
subject: regenerative surgery
subject: pain
subject: peripheral nerve repair
subject: neuroma
subject: upper limb
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: A number of techniques have been proposed for treatment of painful neuromas, but the results still remain poor in up to 67-75 percent of cases. Fat grafting has proven to effectively contrast post-traumatic adherences and painful scars. In this multicentric Italian[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
title: Positive impact from fishing industry to stock assessment modelling
Creators: name: Vasilyev, Dmitri
Publisher: name: ASC 2005 - Y - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.It is a rather common view that deeper involvement of fishing industry into stock assessment and regulation procedures should require (and may lead to) significant simplification of scientific approaches, models and methodology. Such a simplification is considered to be important in order to allow science and managers to use common notions, more understandable for non-scientific world. Fortunately it is not always the case. Situation with stock assessment of some important species in North-East Atlantic may serve as a good example of the inverse process. For several years in Norwegian spring spawning herring stock assessment two different approaches were used. One of them (SeaStar model) was based on classic likelihood functions what insured proper mutual weighting of signals from all available sources of information incorporated into the model. The second one (ISVPA model) stressed the point of robustness of analysis and included a number of features aimed at consistent assessment using real (that is usually noisy) data which noise might be in fact very far from any classic distribution. Often these two approaches gave very different perceptions of the current state of the stock. These two approaches were discussed many times at forums with participation of fishing industry representatives, such as the Coastal States and NEAFC meetings. These forums made a number of requests to ICES to clarify which approach was better. Unfortunately all attempts to make choice failed. Finally, forced by fishing industry, it was recommended to elaborate a new joint model which would include best properties of the two above mentioned approaches. That is, fishing industry in fact put forward a very challenging scientific problem: to merge robustness, a non-classic branch of statistics, and classic statistics in terms of likelihoods, and to apply it to stock assessment modelling. Possible approach to such a merging which is planned to be investigated in frames of join Norwegian-Russian project is discussed.
title: Eliminating Opioid Use for Postoperative Pain Management following Soft Tissue Surgery Produces Acceptable Outcomes When Performed Using Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT)
Creators: name: Koehler, Steven
name: Choueka, David
name: Shah, Neil
name: Newman, Jared
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: opioids
subject: WALANT
subject: pain
subject: upper extremity
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in opioid prescriptions provided to patients, leading to the current "opioid epidemic." We have instituted opioid-restricting, postoperative analgesic measures. We hypothesized that patients' reported[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Orbital angular momentum modes of high-gain parametric down-conversion
Creators: name: Beltran, Lina
name: Frascella, Gaetano
name: Perez, Angela M.
name: Fickler, Robert
name: Sharapova, Polina R.
name: Tikhonova, Olga V.
name: Boyd, Robert W.
name: Leuchs, Gerd
name: Chekhova, Maria V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) are convenient carriers of quantum information. They can be also used for imparting rotational motion to particles and provide high resolution in imaging. Due to the conservation of OAM in parametric down-conversion (PDC), signal and idler photons generated at low gain have perfectly anti-correlated OAM values. It is interesting to study the OAM properties of high-gain PDC, where the same OAM modes can be populated with large, but correlated, numbers of photons. Here we investigate the OAM spectrum of high-gain PDC and show that the OAM mode content can be controlled by varying the pump power and the configuration of the source. In our experiment, we use a source consisting of two nonlinear crystals separated by an air gap. We discuss the OAM properties of PDC radiation emitted by this source and suggest possible modifications.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 2 of China-UK partnership for global health: practices and implications of the Global Health Support Programme 2012–2019
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaohua
name: Liu, Peilong
name: Xu, Tongwu
name: Chen, Yan
name: Yu, Yang
name: Chen, Xun
name: Chen, Jingyi
name: Zhang, Zhaoyang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. The Main Academic Outputs and Deliverables Produced by the GHSP.
title: The Opiod Epidemic in the US: A Method for Changing the Opioid Prescribing Habits of Surgeons
Creators: name: Nelson, David
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: opioid
subject: surgery
subject: post-op management
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: The United States represents 5% of the world's population yet accounts for 99% of the global hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco) production. Clearly, US physicians are overprescribing opioids. Orthopedic surgeons are the highest prescribing group of US physicians, and their habits[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Deformation of the Cubic Open String Field Theory
Creators: name: Lee, Taejin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a consistent deformation of the cubic open bosonic string theory in such a way that the non-planar world sheet diagrams of the perturbative string theory are mapped onto their equivalent planar diagrams of the light-cone string field theory with some length parameters fixed. An explicit evaluation of the cubic string vertex in the zero-slope limit yields the correct relationship between the string coupling constant and the Yang-Mills coupling constant. The deformed cubic open string field theory is shown to produce the non-Abelian Yang-Mills action in the zero-slope limit if it is defined on multiple D-branes. Applying the consistent deformation systematically to multi-string world sheet diagrams, we may be able to calculate scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external open strings.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Speech-language outcomes during COVID-19 (Kokotek et al., 2024)
Creators: name: Kokotek, Leslie E.
name: Washington, Karla N.
name: Cunningham, Barbara Jane
name: Acquavita, Shauna P.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 470101
subject: Communication studies
classificationCode: 420321
subject: Rural and remote health services

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility (i.e., how children use communication and how well they are understood across everyday life) of typically developing (TD) bilingual Jamaican preschoolers and those with functionally defined speech sound disorders (fSSDs) in the COVID-19 milieu. Findings were also compared to an existing corpus of baseline data to document and explore differences in children’s speech-language outcomes secondary to pandemic-related social restrictions.Method: Thirty bilingual Jamaican preschoolers, 21 TD and nine with fSSDs, were assessed during the pandemic via telepractice. Association and univariate mean testing were completed to characterize children’s communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility. Data were then compared to an existing corpus of baseline data (collected in person between 2013 and 2019), which included direct child assessment and parent reports and consisted of TD (n = 226) Jamaican Creole-English–speaking preschoolers and those with fSSDs (n = 39) to compare performance profiles across data sets. All participants attended schools in Kingston, Jamaica.Results: Measures of communicative participation remained stable in the context of the COVID-19 milieu for children in the TD and fSSD groups, but functional speech intelligibility outcomes for children with fSSDs deviated between in-person findings collected from children pre-pandemic. Between-groups differences were also found on measures of speech production accuracy but were no longer significant when considering telepractice as a covariate.Conclusions: Findings from this investigation serve to characterize the communicative participation and functional speech intelligibility of TD bilingual Jamaican preschoolers and those with fSSDs in the COVID-19 milieu. By extension, the results comparing data from preschoolers collected during the pandemic to an existing corpus of baseline data from a different group of preschoolers provide critical insights about multilingual children’s speech-language outcomes in the context of acutely changing environmental circumstances.Supplemental Material S1. Example of device type and Internet download speeds reported.Supplemental Material S2. Rationale and description for conducting a PCA.Kokotek, L. E., Washington, K. N., Cunningham, B. J., & Acquavita, S. P. (2024). Speech-language outcomes in the COVID-19 milieu for multilingual Jamaican preschoolers and considerations for telepractice assessments. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(4), 1698–1717. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00164
Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene
Creators: name: Reichardt, Sven
name: Wirtz, Ludger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman spectroscopy of graphene is reviewed from a theoretical perspective. After an introduction of the building blocks (electronic band structure, phonon dispersion, electron-phonon interaction, electron-light coupling), Raman intensities are calculated using time-dependent perturbation theory. The analysis of the contributing terms allows for an intuitive understanding of the Raman peak positions and intensities. The Raman spectrum of pure graphene only displays two principle peaks. Yet, their variation as a function of internal and external parameters and the occurrence of secondary, defect-related peaks, conveys a lot of information about the system. Thus, Raman spectroscopy is used routinely to analyze layer number, defects, doping and strain of graphene samples. At the same time, it is an intriguing playground to study the optical properties of graphene.
description: 25 pages; v2: fixed title and legal information
title: Fisheries Science Partnership programmes off the NE and SW coasts of England and in the Irish Sea: experiences gained and future directions
Creators: name: Armstrong, Mike
name: Beveridge, Doug
name: Cotter, John
name: Revill, Andrew
name: O’brien, Carl
name: Dann, John
Publisher: name: ASC 2005 - Y - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A Fisheries Science Partnership (FSP) between the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacuture Science (Cefas) was established in 2003 as part of a package of funding for the UK fishing industry announced after the December 2002 Council of Minister’s meeting. Its purpose is to build relationships between fishermen and scientists, and to involve fishermen in the co-commissioning of science funded by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Ten projects were carried out during 2003/04, and a further ten projects in 2004/05. These projects covered a diverse range of stocks and fisheries including the industrial fisheries for sandeel and Norway pout in the North Sea; the beam trawl fisheries for sole, plaice and anglerfish off SE England; and a number of different trawl fisheries for cod, flatfish, saithe, Nephrops and deep-water species. The programme has comprised a mixture of time-series surveys, fishing gear selectivity studies and examination of spatial patterns of catch compositions. The projects have provided useful information for ICES and for negotiations between the UK and the European Commission. A further three years of the FSP programme has now been funded. The FSP programme has evolved since 2003, and valuable lessons have been learned. This paper describes the FSP programme, its advantages and limitations, and future directions
Efficacy of the flipped classroom approach in a world language classroom
Creators: name: Ji, Eunjung
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This study assessed the feasibility and effectiveness of the “flipped classroom” instructional approach in a Korean language course. In this approach, the teacher provides video lectures for students to view outside of class and conducts student-centered active learning in the classroom. A mixed-methods design was used to investigate students’ perceptions of this approach in an intensive intermediate Korean language course at a private university in New Jersey. Outside of class, students watched instructor-created video lectures and took an online quiz. In class, students worked in pairs or small groups on content from the assigned videos, completed homework assignments, and engaged in other learning activities, while the teacher acted as facilitator. Data were collected through an online survey, semi-structured interviews, class observation, and the instructor’s daily journal. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis both revealed that the flipped classroom approach facilitated self-paced learning and increased active classroom learning time. This enhanced interactions between peers and with the instructor, and it provided more opportunities to practice the target language in a meaningful way. Qualitative analysis also showed that many students found that this approach increased their overall achievement by maximizing the quality time spent in the classroom. However, despite the students’ overall satisfaction, it was noted that students who are not self-motivated and not responsible for their own learning are more likely to struggle in a flipped classroom. Also, the findings suggested that the use of more interactive videos would increase students’ use of the videos and learning from them.
title: Validation of digital tourniquet pressures: T-Ring compared with conventional surgical glove
Creators: name: Kim, Byung Jun
name: Kim, Hyunwoo
name: Kim, Tae Un
name: Yoo, Hyokyung
name: Yu, Na Hee
name: Hu, Julong
name: Kwon, Sung Tack
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital tourniquet
subject: Finger tip injury
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: Digital tourniquets are used for undemanding hand surgeries due to its simplicity and efficacy. However, the pressure exerted by digital tourniquet has not precisely validated yet. In the present study, we investigated the digital pressures exerted by T-Ring and conventional[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Molecular Structure, Electrostatic Potential and HOMO, LUMO Studies of 4-Aminoan-iline, 4-Nitroaniline and 4-Isopropylaniline by DFT
Creators: name: Ouafy, Tarik EL
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2022
Subjects: 4-Aminoaniline
4-Nitroaniline
4-Isopropylaniline
DFT
Chemical descriptor
NLO
Electrostatic molecular potential

description: Science & Technology Asia, 27, 1, 9-19
MathConceptz: an experimental design to improve math performance
Creators: name: Afriyie-Adams, Madonna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Educational policymakers have been working to strengthen mathematics education by adopting rigorous mathematics standards that promote a conceptual understanding of math. Though this shift is nationwide, Black and Hispanic students in urban schools tend to be exposed to math instruction that emphasizes rote memorization and procedural knowledge of math. One reason attributed to the poor performance of students in math in urban schools is the lack of high quality instruction. The purpose of this dissertation was to test the impact of an intelligent tutoring system, MathConceptz, that aims to improve student performance in Algebra. Using pre- and post-test results, this study sought to demonstrate whether MathConceptz builds students’ conceptual understanding of Algebra topics, as well as provides a possible solution to the issue of poor teacher quality in urbans schools. The research questions that guided this study were: How do pre- and post-test results compare from the face-to-face instruction group and the blended learning (face-to-face and existing ITS) group? How do pre- and post-test results compare between the face-to-face instruction group and the MathConceptz group? How do pre- and post-test results compare between the blended learning (face-to-face and MathConceptz) group and the MathConceptz group? An experimental research design was employed to test the impact of MathConceptz on student pre- and post-test results. A sample of 79, 8th and 9th grade students were administered a pre-test and received face-to-face instruction, MathConceptz instruction, or a combination of both, followed by a post-test. An ANOVA was conducted on the data collected to show the impact of MathConceptz measured against several variables including teacher quality and student demographics.Findings from this study showed a significant difference in test scores between the face-to-face instruction group and the blended instruction group. These findings suggest that using intelligent tutoring systems, such as MathConceptz, to supplement instruction may be a viable solution to the issue of instructional quality in urban areas, while also building students’ conceptual understanding of math.
On Stackelberg Mixed Strategies
Creators: name: Conitzer, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is sometimes the case that one solution concept in game theory is equivalent to applying another solution concept to a modified version of the game. In such cases, does it make sense to study the former separately (as it applies to the original representation of the game), or should we entirely subordinate it to the latter? The answer probably depends on the particular circumstances, and indeed the literature takes different approaches in different cases. In this article, I consider the specific example of Stackelberg mixed strategies. I argue that, even though a Stackelberg mixed strategy can also be seen as a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium of a corresponding extensive-form game, there remains significant value in studying it separately. The analysis of this special case may have implications for other solution concepts.
description: This paper appears in Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 3, pp. 689-703, March 2016. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0927-6
title: Relationship between survey abundance and weight indices, survey design and wind conditions: the French groundfish survey in Bay of Biscay
Creators: name: Poulard, Jean-Charles
name: Trenkel, Verena M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2005 - Z - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Abundance indices derived from scientific trawl surveys are used to inform on population trends either directly, e.g. survey based assessment methods and the indicator approach, or indirectly for tuning stock assessment models. The implicit assumption of such use of survey indices is that they reflect true trends. Furthermore, inter-annual variability in survey indices is partly attributed to sampling variability and partly to yearly differences in recruitment or survey coverage of the stock. In certain cases indices for a given year might be qualified as outliers if they seem too variable to reflect true abundance changes. If the indices of several species appear to be outliers for the same year, the suspicion is raised that something happened during the survey of the given year. We refer to this effect as annual survey catchability effect whose main characteristics are that it affects many species simultaneously, appears on the scale of the whole survey and is not caused by technical problems. We studied annual survey catchability for the autumn Western IBTS groundfish survey in the Bay of Biscay for the period 1987 to 2003. For explaining annual survey catchability across species we derived several indicators for survey design and wind conditions. Survey starting dates had been gradually delayed by about one month which resulted in stronger westerly winds. Furthermore, gradually fewer hauls had been taken close to the coast. Using GAMs we found that a substantial part of interannual variation in abundance indices could be explained by those indicators, but not the overall time trend.
On Answer to Kirk-Shahzad's Question forStrong??-TVS Cone Metric Spaces
Creators: name: Poom Kumam
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fixed point? Completion? Neighborhood property? Strong??-TVS cone metricspace

description: Science & Technology Asia, 27, 1, 20-30
title: Making five fingered hand in Type III B thumb hypoplasia
Creators: name: Balakrishnan, Govindasamy
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: Pollicisation remains the gold standard of thumb reconstruction in Type III. IV & V thumb hypoplasia worldwide. Due to cultural differences, Asian parents prefer to have a five fingered hand in Type III B thumb hypoplasia. Methods: To satisfy these parents,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Quark and lepton masses and mixing from a gauged SU(3)_F family symmetry with a light O(eV) sterile Dirac neutrino
Creators: name: Hernandez-Galeana, Albino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of a complete vector-like and universal gauged SU(3)_F family symmetry, we report a global region in the parameter space where this approach can account for a realistic spectrum of quark masses and mixing in a 4 x 4 non-unitary V_{CKM}, as well as for the known charged lepton masses and the squared neutrino mass differences reported from neutrino oscillation experiments. The $SU(3)_F$ family symmetry is broken spontaneously in two stages by heavy SM singlet scalars, whose hierarchy of scales yield and approximate SU(2)_F global symmetry associated to the almost degenerate boson masses of the order of the lower scale of the SU(3)_F SSB. The gauge symmetry, the fermion content, and the transformation of the scalar fields, all together, avoid Yukawa couplings between SM fermions. Therefore, in this scenario ordinary heavy fermions, top and bottom quarks and tau lepton, become massive at tree level from Dirac See-saw mechanisms, while light fermions, including light neutrinos, obtain masses from radiative corrections mediated by the massive gauge bosons of the SU(3)_F family symmetry. The displayed fit parameter space region solution for fermion masses and mixing yield the vector-like fermion masses: M_D \approx 3.2 \,TeV, M_U \approx 6.9 \,TeV, M_E \approx 21.6 \,TeV, SU(2)_F family gauge boson masses of $\mathcal{O} (2 TeV)$, and the squared neutrino mass differences: m_2^2-m_1^2 \approx 7.5 x 10^{-5}\;eV^2, m_3^2-m_2^2 \approx 2.2 x 10^{-3}\;eV^2, m_4^2-m_1^2 \approx 0.82\;eV^2.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to Proceedings of the 19th Workshop "What Comes Beyond the Standard Models", July 11-19, Bled, Slovenia. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.08212, arXiv:1212.4571
Black students' perceptions of a Paul Robeson living-learning community
Creators: name: Leget, Ariel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Multiple studies have discussed how campus racial climate at predominantly White institutions can negatively affect the sense of belonging of students of color, as students perceive these environments to be unwelcoming and unsupportive due to factors such as racial and institutional microaggressions (González, 2002; Gusa, 2010; Harper et al., 2011; Hotchkins & Dancy, 2017; Kuh, 1991; Mallett et al., 2011; Solórzano, Ceja, & Yosso, 2000; Sue, Capodilupo & Holder 2008; Worthington, Navarro, Loewy, & Hart, 2008; Yosso, Smith, Ceja, & Solórzano, 2009). Universities can utilize Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) as an intentional tool to promote belonging and provide resources for students to explore and embrace their identity, while contributing to the greater university community. LLCs promote engagement in both a classroom and residential setting, creating a closer sense of community and interconnectedness, while allowing for the exploration of sociocultural issues with peers. With the interconnectedness of an LLC in mind, this study proposed that culturally based LLCs, particularly those with a course component, promote the exploration of one’s history and culture, and create a sense of belonging for students. This may help to counter negative feelings regarding existing in a space that is historically White, as the concept of one’s cultural perspective mattering, takes focus. Students also have the opportunity to feel academically and socially validated in and out of the classroom. Using a phenomenological method, this study explored the experiences of students within the Paul Robeson LLC, an LLC designed to explore the history and origins of the African diaspora as well as to assist in the transition of incoming students to the Rutgers University environment.
title: Statistical power in coastal fish monitoring with passive gears - effects ofsampling strategy
Creators: name: Appelberg, M.
name: Abrahamsson, I.
name: Andersson, J.
name: Bergström, U.
name: Fagerholm, B.
name: Florin, A.-B.
name: Franzén, F.
name: Lingman, A.
name: Söderberg, K.
Publisher: name: ASC 2005 - Z - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Development of the coastal fish fauna has been monitored for up to three decades in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak. Although aims of the monitoring programmes vary, all address changes in fish community and population characteristics over time. Programmes cover monitoring of fish resources, recipient studies and long-term studies of natural variation in undisturbed reference areas. Monitoring data provide the basis for developing indicators for assessing changes in coastal fish communities and populations, and is partly used within HELCOM for following up Ecological Quality Objectives. Sampling is performed using passive gears; small fyke nets and gillnet series are used along the Kattegat and Skagerrak coast, whereas multi mesh gillnets and gillnet series are used in the Baltic Sea. In the present paper we assess the statistical power of coastal fish sampling using catch per unit effort (CPUE) as test variable. The results show that statistical power (1-β) of the measured variables in time series monitoring based on gillnet and/or fyke net sampling may provide sufficiently high statistical power, at least when evaluating changes in CPUE for total fish community and dominating species. In Before After Control Impact (BACI) studies using passive gears for sampling, a randomised sampling design with sufficiently high number of samples might provide adequate results also in variable environments.
title: 10 years’ single center experience over different surgical techniques in treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
Creators: name: Athanaselis, Efstratios
name: Papageorgiou, Fotios
name: Fyllos, Apostolos
name: Deligeorgis, Dimitrios
name: Antoniou, Ioannis
name: Malizos, Konstantinos
name: Varitimidis, Sokratis
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: carpal tunnel syndrome
subject: nerve entrapment syndrome
subject: CT open release
subject: CT endoscopic release
subject: pilar pain
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), combined compression and traction on median nerve at wrist level, is the most common entrapment neuropathy in upper extremity and its decompression one of the most frequently performed procedures in hand surgery. We evaluated the effectiveness[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Occupational Stress And Management Strategies, Among Registered Nurses In Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah
Creators: name: Zaidah S
name: Azlina D
name: Norazilah A
name: Haslinah S
name: Noraihan K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Occupational Stress
Management Strategies
Registered Nurses
Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah

description: Introduction The causes of occupational stress among nurses are a common issue that leads to nurse healthcare problems and decreases their productivity at work. Objectives General Objective To determine the level of occupational stress among nurses in HPSF Specific Objective i. To identify the most common causes of the occupational stress among registered nurses in HPSF ii. To determine the highest of the stress management strategies identified among registered nurses in HPSF. Materials and Methods This descriptive study was conducted on 260 registered nurse in the HPSF by using stratifies random method. A self-administered questionnaire was developed based on the Weiman Occupational Stress Scale. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS. Results [Refer to Poster]. Conclusion Workplace is one of the most significant sources of occupational stress among nurses, it may affect in the form of physical, emotional and psychological health. Hence, nurse administration and hospital management should help create a stress-free work environment for nurses and others.
Entanglement between random and clean quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Juhász, Robert
name: Kovács, István A.
name: Roósz, Gergő
name: Iglói, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy in clean, as well as in random quantum spin chains has a logarithmic size-dependence at the critical point. Here, we study the entanglement of composite systems that consist of a clean and a random part, both being critical. In the composite, antiferromagnetic XX-chain with a sharp interface, the entropy is found to grow in a double-logarithmic fashion ${\cal S}\sim \ln\ln(L)$, where $L$ is the length of the chain. We have also considered an extended defect at the interface, where the disorder penetrates into the homogeneous region in such a way that the strength of disorder decays with the distance $l$ from the contact point as $\sim l^{-κ}$. For $κ<1/2$, the entropy scales as ${\cal S}(κ) \simeq (1-2κ){\cal S}(κ=0)$, while for $κ\ge 1/2$, when the extended interface defect is an irrelevant perturbation, we recover the double-logarithmic scaling. These results are explained through strong-disorder RG arguments.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Invited contribution to the Festschrift of John Cardy's 70th birthday
Additional file 5 of Comparative transcriptome analysis provides insights into the molecular mechanisms of high-frequency hearing differences between the sexes of Odorrana tormota
Creators: name: Chen, Zhuo
name: Liu, Yao
name: Liang, Rui
name: Cui, Chong
name: Zhu, Yanjun
name: Zhang, Fang
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Chen, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Species distribution based on the best hit of NR blast result. Different species are represented in different colors, and the size of the pie region represents the proportion of unigenes which were annotated to different species.
title: Comparing Functional Outcomes of Endoscopic and Open Carpal Tunnel Release from the Patient’s Perspective
Creators: name: Low, Suleen
name: Tan, Mark C. H.
name: Tong, Pei Yein
name: Rajaratnam, Vaikunthan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Carpal tunnel syndrome
subject: carpal tunnel release
subject: endoscopic surgery
subject: open surgery
subject: wrist
subject: functional outcome
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: Endoscopic carpal tunnel release (CTR) is an established and popular treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), however there remains little patient reported experience comparing the post-operative outcome of the endoscopic approach with that of the open approach. Based[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Constructing solutions for a kinetic model of angiogenesis in annular domains
Creators: name: Carpio, Ana
name: Duro, Gema
name: Negreanu, Mihaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove existence and stability of solutions for a model of angiogenesis set in an annular region. Branching, anastomosis and extension of blood vessel tips are described by an integrodifferential kinetic equation of Fokker-Planck type supplemented with nonlocal boundary conditions and coupled to a diffusion problem with Neumann boundary conditions through the force field created by the tumor induced angiogenic factor and the flux of vessel tips. Our technique exploits balance equations, estimates of velocity decay and compactness results for kinetic operators, combined with gradient estimates of heat kernels for Neumann problems in non convex domains.
description: to appear in Applied Mathematical Modelling
title: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Should we treat it mini-open or endoscopic?
Creators: name: Cruz, Fernando
name: Silverio, Silvia
name: Fernandes, Leonor
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objectives/Interrogation: CTS affects an important part of active population, and leads to impairment in hand function, leading to surgical treatment when conservative measures fail. There is still controversy regarding which technique would be more appropriate to treat this pathology. In[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Near-field heat transfer between multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials
Creators: name: Biehs, Svend-Age
name: Ben-Abdallah, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the near-field radiative heat flux between hyperbolic materials focusing on multilayer hyperbolic meta-materials. We discuss the formation of the hyperbolic bands, the impact of ordering of the multilayer slabs, as well as the impact of the first single layer on the heat transfer. Furthermore, we compare the contribution of surface modes to that of hyperbolic modes. Finally, we also compare the exact results with predictions from effective medium theory.
description: Special Issue: Heat Transfer and Heat Conduction on the Nanoscale / Guest Editors: Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Achim Kittel